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Chapter 20
Ryouko lay awake in her bed, unable to fall asleep. She ached all over from her fight with Haru, and her mind still wandered to after school that day, when she had broken down and cried in front of Kyo. Her black hair lay tasseled around her head, framing her pale face. A sigh escaped her lips, her eye wandering throughout the room.
She didn't know why she couldn't sleep. Maybe it was her mind wandering between memories of the distant past, or her dread to wake up in the morning, probably sore. She shut her eye forcefully, willing sleep to calm her restlessness. Finnally, sleep came, but it wasn't a pleasant sleep, Ryouko tossed and turned, moaning softly.
Dream
Ryouko was in the hallway of her highschool. Students rushed by, not noticing her at all. She noticed that she was in her uniform, but it was the uniform from her new school, not her old one. It felt strange, and unfamiliar. After standing there, blinking for a moment, she also realized that her scar was gone. She was overjoyed to the fact that she could see out of both her eyes, not just her left one. Raising a hand to her face, she felt around the area that the scar had been, it was flawless, no cuts, bruises, and no scar.
She stepped into the stream of students, to ask where in the school she was. "Excuse me." She said. No answer. She tapped a passing by student, but her hand just went through them. She made her way into the hearts of the stream, but the teens just passed through her, as if she didn't even exist.
Catching a glimpse of Kyo, she ran to him. "What's happening?" She asked desperately. But he didn't reply, just walked through her.
Ryouko shot up out of bed with a start, breathing heavily. She had no idea why she was so scared, but for some strange reason, she just was. Checking her watch, she noticed that she had an hour before she had to leave for school. About to lie back down to sleep, she realized that she only had and hour. She jumped out of bed, took the fastest shower ever recorded, and threw on her uniform.
A disheveled looking Ryouko clunked down the stairs of Shigure's house. She passed up an offer for breakfast, and slid out the door.
LATER
Ryouko entered her last class of the day, or some reason, today was very tiring. She slumped in her desk, about to fall asleep, when someone poked her arm. She looked over at the person, eye lid half closed.
"What?" She muttered to Kyo.
"Just a warning, but since you beat up Haru yesterday, someone might come after you." He whispered.
Ryouko grunted half heartedly. "I doubt it." And fell asleep.
End of class
Ryouko woke up when the bell rang, surprised by the loud noise. Kyo was waiting at her desk. "Come on, get up." He said, almost urgently.
"What's the rush?" Ryouko muttered, dragging herself out of her seat. She wobbled to her feet and stood next to Kyo. Together, they headed out the classroom door, and towards the exit of the school.
Their last class was near the exit, so they were outside the doors in a minuet. The fresh air woke Ryouko up all the way, so her senses were fully functioning. She was about halfway across the grass in the front of the building, when someone tackled her.
Ryouko hit the ground with a thud, caught completely off guard. The impact loosened the clasp of her necklace, but Ryouko didn't notice. She caught a slight glimpse of her attacker, it was a woman, with back hair.
"Why!" She yelled. "Why did you hurt Haru!?" Obviously, this was the attack Kyo had warned her about.
Ryouko struggled to get out of her grasp. "Get off of me!" The woman didn't give her any slack.
"Why did you hurt him!" She yelled again. Ryouko assumed this was a friend of Haru's, or maybe even his girlfriend.
"Get off!!" Ryouko cried again, this time, getting slightly agitated. Ryouko attempted to kick her, but to no avail.
A fist hit the side of her face, but just in time, she moved, so the fist only grazed her cheek, and the momentum made it keep going, to hit her necklace. Ryouko squired harder, as to protect the necklace from being removed.
"GET OFF!" She snarled, obviously very angry. By now, a small crowd had formed, to see the two girls fight.
Ryouko managed to roll onto her chest, although she didn't know why she did. It proved to be a mistake, as the woman aimed a blow at the base of her skull. Ryouko rolled just fast enough, but, to the wrong direction. The blow hit the side of her necklace, breaking the clasp, and sending it feet away.
After that, time seemed to go in slow motion. Ryouko reached her arm after the necklace, silently screaming. She knew that this was the end. All the people around her would see her terrible monster form, and things would never be the same. She would be forced to move far, far away, and never see her friends again. She would never see Kyo again, or Tohru. Silent tears bubbled up in her eyes, spilling over and streaming down her face.
She waited or the searing pain of her wings ripping through her back, and the horror of seeing through her eye again. She waited for the scales to burst from her skin, and for her grotesque shape to be revealed.
But it never came.
Just beyond her outstretched fingertips, she watched, at the beads that made up her necklace, shattered. For some reason, the beads that had been on Kyo's wrist, had fallen off, and the fragments of them laid next to hers.
Ryouko was very confused, why hadn't she transformed? Why had her beads shattered? And why, wasn't the woman pummeling Ryouko with her fists anymore?
Ryouko looked up; the woman was no longer on top of her. Kyo was standing over her, glaring at someone that Ryouko couldn't see. She slowly pulled herself up into a sitting position when a fact suddenly dawned on her.
Their beads had shattered.
And their curse, had been lifted.
Author's note:
And that's the end of the story. I hope you liked it! And yes, that was Rin. And if you want to read more stuf by me, just send suggestins to me for what catagory my next FanFiction should be in!
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