A/N YESS My Open Office program works again! I no longer have to work on notepad and that means MUCH less spelling errors! Anyways thanks to my reviews I felt the urge to update! So here's chapter 9!
Chapter 9: Why?
Silence...only the soft patter of blood hitting the concrete could be heard as a soft breeze blew.
Kazuma's mouth turned into a smirk as he held the sword in his victim's stomach.
"Heh." he smirked in a sense of victory.
The bathhouse workers stood wide eyed as they looked at the sword turning inside making the wound larger allowing more blood to fall.
Haku could only stare in front of him...there before him he looked at the back of a woman, her blood staining her white shirt, the tip of the sword sticking out through her back. Her arms lay limp at her sides and she remained silent.
Kazuma turned the blade once more, causing her to cough up blood that dripped down either corner of her mouth down to her chin.
"Victory is mine." Kazuma stated quietly, but his smirk was quickly removed when he saw Lucifer's hand reach up and grab the blade.
"Not...quite." using her right hand, gripping the blade tightly drawing blood from her palm, she began to push the blade back towards Kazuma slowly pulling out of her stomach.
'What! How can this be...she's able to overpower me even in this state!?' Kazuma though as he struggled to push the blade against her to keep it in her stomach.
'I have to do something...at this rate this'll have been pointless!'
The blade was almost out, only a few inches remained in her body. As the blade was removed each part it had passed through healed nearly instantly, the hole in her back was now gone and soon her front would be able to heal.
'Almost there...' Lucifer thought as she struggled.
The tip of the blade only remained now.
"NO!" Kazuma yelled. He pushed the handle of the blade down as hard as he could and the tip of the blade broke off within Lucifer's body.
"Mmph" she felt the pull of the blade as the tip broke off inside her, but her regeneration was not under her control and before she could stop herself from healing the hole in her stomach had closed trapping the tip of the blade inside her.
Though she ignored it for the moment pushing past the immense burning sensation. Her pentagram visibly glowed through her shirt, she clenched her teeth barring her fangs. Haku saw the veins in her arm rise before she gripped Kazuma's throat throwing him across the bridge.
He skidded on his back to a stop just before he could fall down the stairs. He had flown across the entire town!
Lucifer soon stood above him, staring down at him with a glare that no one would ever wish to see.
"How? HOW DO YOU STILL HAVE THIS MUCH POWER!?" He hollered, he was very aware that he was about to lose this battle and the war. "But I won You're supposed to let me kill you!"
"Tck, do I look like a man of my word?" she bent over grabbing his broken blade. "Now would you rather I stab you with this, burn you, crush your head...what?"
He only trembled in reply.
"Alright then whatever you say." She flipped the blade around in her hand so she was now holding the handle, with one strong motion she brought the blade up the thrust it into his chest.
She saw a tear run down the side of his face from the corner of his eye before he turned to ashes and the wind carried him away.
"Weakling..." she said to herself as she looked off in the direction the wind had carried his ashes.
She felt a sudden pressure in her head allowing her to hear her heart thump and echo. Her vision went in and out of focus as she felt the unbearable pain in her stomach. She fell forward only to be caught by Sebastian who's face was filled with worry.
"Lucifer!" he said as he turned her over and laid her on her back.
Soon Haku was also by her side and the rest of the bathhouse.
She clenched her teeth and her eyes were shut tightly and shaking. She was in pain and a lot of it.
She began to pant a bit before struggling to say, "The blade...it's just like...Pops' whip."
"Another enchanted weapon?! But how could HE have gotten one?" Sebastian seemed panicked.
"How the Hell should I know...but if I had to guess I'd say the Council's been providing them to the others as well."
"The others?" Haku questioned.
"The other children of the 5 the others in line to the thrown if Lucifer were to die." Sebastian took the liberty of answering.
"Which...probably means...this won't be the last one I've gotta...take down." Lucifer said as a bead of sweat ran down her face.
"Mmmph...damn this hurts." Lucifer said as she clenched her shirt above her stomach.
"Well what do we do?!" Haku cried out.
"A piece of the blade's inside me...I can't get it out...or rather no one can unless I'm torn back open...and kept from healing until we can tear it out." she struggled in pain once more. "I can feel it...moving towards my heart."
"You have one of those?" Sebastian joked.
"Well mentally speaking no." she chuckled weakly.
"Wait why can't you just keep healing? If whatever the blade damages just heals why not leave it inside?" Haku suggested.
"Because Stupid...regenerating constantly 24-7 takes a lot of energy and magic. My body does it instinctively...meaning my body will continue to try and heal even if I'm completely out of power or magic or dead! Eventually I would die of exhaustion and over exertion. My body would where itself out." Lucifer responded with a bit of insult in her tone.
"If you knew all this then why did you shield me in the first place!?"
"HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW! My body just moved OK?!"
"Can we talk about this later After we've gotten the blade out?" Sebastian yelled catching both of their attention.
"Now why don't we try using Haku's water magic to keep you from healing while I tear the blade out?" Sebastian suggested.
"I could probably do it but won't that hurt her even more?"
"Do I look like the person who cared about pain? Just hurry up so I can get to ordering you around." Lucifer retorted while desperately trying to sit up.
Turning around so her back was facing them she pulled off her shirt.
"Here use this to tear it open." she handed Sebastian the broken sword.
"Alright Haku you ready?"
Haku nodded.
"Alright this is gonna hurt you way more than me." Sebastian joked.
"Yeah yeah just do it!" Lucifer said as she pulled out her toothpick and stuck in her mouth lighting the end.
Sebastian hesitated nut quickly plunged the blade into her back resulting in a...growl...to Haku's surprise. Cutting a large gash in her back it was Haku's turn. He coated the two walls of the wound with water holding them apart.
Grunting a bit struggling against her body's natural power, Lucifer's hand was balled into a tight fist while the others claws dug into the stone of the path. She clenched her teeth tightly onto the toothpick while her eyes seemed to light on fire desperately resisting her instincts to not only heal but attack whoever prevented her from doing so.
'Stupid defense mechanism' she grumble in her head.
"Here goes nothing." Sebastian reached inside the wound resulting in the glowing of Lucifer's pentagram.
"What is that a warning sign?" Haku asked jokingly.
"Haha very funny."
Those who were squeamish in the crowd looked away while other stared seemingly fascinated.
"Now how to go about retrieving it..." Sebastian pondered about the best and most efficient way he could retrieve the blade.
"Just reach your god damn hand in and rip it out!" Lucifer yelled growing impatient.
"Alright jeez...here goes nothin." Sebastian made a pointed shape with his hand and plunged it into her back. A few gasps were made by the crowd, some fainting while others stared.
Lucifer could feel his hand feeling his way around her insides and her body twitched a bit.
"Just a little bit longer bare with me." Sebastian had found the blade and was just able to touch it with the tips of his fingers.
"Almost...there..." Lucifer felt his hand grab hold of the blade.
"Got It! He yanked his hand out holding a bloody blade in his hand.
"Ahhhh Son Of A BITCH!" Lucifer cried out once he had quite forcefully pulled his hand out.
Her body relaxed a bit and her back sealed closed after Haku released his water. She rolled over onto her back panting a bit.
"Well that was easy." Sebastian said as he examined the blade.
"For Who?" Lucifer retorted.
"From the looks of the blade there are probably still a few microscopic shards in your body but nothing that will cause any trouble. Now that the main source of the enchantment is gone they shouldn't hurt you at all.
"Well then that's fantastic."
"You should still rest, constantly regenerating for the past 10 minutes along with the intensity of the spell your body needs time to rest."
"But I don't wanna "rest" I wanna train, boss scaly around and kill the rest of those losers who threaten me with those stupid weapons. We should go to the palace rather than wait for them here."
"Nope not right now we're not. Please at least rest for ONE day? If you push yourself too hard then you won't be able to kill anyone."
"Tck...FINE."
Haku joined in on the conversation, "So how many more of these kids are there to defeat?"
"Around , I just killed the son of the Air point of the pentagram so I've got...Light, Earth, Water...so 3 to go." Lucifer responded still laying on the ground.
"Let's get you inside before you pass out right here." Haku said as he crouched beside Lucifer placing one are over his shoulder across his neck and helping her stand. Her body was pretty limp and her head hung down staring at the ground.
"Freak..." she mumbled just loud enough for him to here.
"Well I may be a freak but now I suppose you're up by one point."
"Huh?..." She was still talking rather quietly.
"Whether you were faking it or not you still saved my life back then and you've saved me now. So on the point scale your winning."
"Oh...yeah..."
He began helping her across the town back to the bathhouse , the workers and crowds stood on either side of the path as if they were watching a parade go by. Some Yunas were giving glares of jealousy and hatred while others watched in confusion or Aw.
"You're probably gonna be interrogated to the bone by everyone later."
"Probably...but I'll just make my pretty eyes glow and scare um off."
Haku chuckled at the comment to Lucifer's surprise, 'He's actually pretty cute when he smiles...' She thought as she looked at him from the corner of her eye.
"You know there are a lot of holes in your story about faking it when you came here the last time...why did you bother to save me then...why give my name back...huh?" He was teasing her and to her dismay she had no answer.
With a sigh she replied, "How the hell am I supposed to know?..."
Haku chuckled ever so slightly...'Well I would like to know...your little diabolical mask is slowly breaking. And as I crack it peace by peace I'll finally get to know the real you. Wonder what face I'll find underneath?' Haku thought with a smile.
"You may not be as bad as you seem..." He mumbled to himself as they reached the bridge.
"Hmph..." Lucifer hated the fact that he was getting closer to her...'Whatever happened to the cold blooded killer?' she thought remembering what he had said the night before.
They reached the top floor of the empty bathhouse, all the workers had just now started heading back in. They reached the door of her bedroom and Haku shook her a bit...'Is she asleep?...'
"Well in that case lets have a little fun..." Haku dragged her to the next room over aka HIS room.
Opening the door quietly he gently placed her onto his larger than king sized bed.
She was breathing slowly and steadily out of her mouth and nose. He brushed a peace of her swooped bangs out of her eyes before placing a large comforter on her up to her shoulders and quietly exiting the room.
"Being a little mischievous I see?... Sebastian asked leaning on the banister outside his room.
"Yeah well she messes with us it's only fair to retaliate and might as well have some fun in the process." Haku responded after a moment of thinking about his answer.
"Uh huh sure..." Sebastian stood up straight and walked off down the hall into their room closing the door behind him. The bathhouse was full of it's workers once again and the sun would be setting soon.
Haku looked at Sebastian with a confused glare, he leaned over the banister to see workers hustling and bustling preparing for the sure to be busy night.
He turned around and walked towards Yubaba's office.
"Yees? Come in..." Her scratchy voice called from the other side of the large doors.
Haku entered and stood a distance from the front of her desk.
"Kazuma had been taken care of." He stated plainly.
"Oh? Well then where's our little troublemaker?"
"We...had a bit of a situation...but she's fine and resting now."
"Situation...Fine...was her life in danger? May I ask how it happened?"
"Well...she was stabbed by an enchanted weapon I assume you already know about them...and a piece was broken off inside her and we had to retrieve it before it killed her."
"Really? Lucifer isn't the type to get hurt by a weakling such as Kazuma...How did That happen."
"..." Haku was nervously looking around, he could feel his face heat up slightly, 'What why am I blushing? It's a simple question she saved me that's it...right?' He thought panicking slightly.
"Well by the look on your face I'd say she did something rather surprising...only way she would get stabbed is if she stepped in the way of the sword so...if I had to Guess...Id say that little brat saved you."
Haku went wide eyed...'she's that intuitive?!'
"Bulls eye!" She began cackling."To think that you two may just fall in love a SECOND TIME!" she began laughing so hard she nearly fell from her chair. After god knows how long she began catching her breath.
"Well when she's up and running call her in here."
Haku kept a straight face, bowing, then leaving and heading back to his room.
When he entered he could here her soft breath.
Walking over to the side of the bed he pulled up a chair and sat beside her, 'She looks so..."non threatening" when she sleeps.' he thought as he watched her peaceful face.
Then he heard a voice echo in his head, "...fall in love a SECOND TIME!" Haku blushed ever so faintly remember the old hags comment.
"Pfft no way...I'd never fall for her..." he was seemingly trying to convince himself that that was true but the more he watched her the more he admired her beauty, her strength...he thought more deeply about the reasons for her actions, killing workers...threatening and making trouble...
'All in all she's just like a kid trying to get attention, but one that's also afraid to appear weak in front of others...'
"What do you see when you look at her?" the question played back in his mind.
"Well for right now...a child a guess." he said to himself.
He sat for hours by her side until it was nearly sunrise, his eyelids were growing heavier, he would have to go find an empty guest room to sleep in...but his body felt heavy and that bed looked REALLY comfortable.
'No...I shouldn't...but it is a really big bed...as long as there's a fair distance between us it should be fine.' he slowly stood from the chair and walked to the other side of the bed where he climbed in under the cover and glancing at her one more time before his eyes drifted closed and he fell into a peaceful sleep.
A/N BAM! End of chapter and next one should be VERY entertaining hehehe. Let's just say Lucifer's gonna have some fun teasing time with Haku and the workers are gonna be acting REALLY weird...well weird from Lucifer's perspective at least! PLEASE R AND R and patiently await chapter 10! Of anyone wants a sneak peak just let me know and I'll PM you cause I've got a bit typed up!