One book in one year, written about your partner. Game on. Oh wait, they're writing about you too. [SoMa, TsuStar, KidLiz]
Rated M for Mature content
Genre: Romance, Suspense
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Fiction
SunshinGirl09
Maka
Perhaps I would've displayed a better reaction had I not been shot. Kyou stared at me for a few seconds, observing my body. Seriously though, it felt like my leg was about to fall off. Could he not see that I was soaking everything within a two foot radius in blood. Our eyes met and I narrowed mine. Surprisingly, I wasn't frightened of him. He did set my senses on fire but I didn't take off running, not like I could. But his face did make me flashback like crazy.
Soul was in front of me now, but I craned my neck to see my ex-boyfriend. I didn't really miss him at all. I used to have my hormones ignited at the sight of his face and beautiful muscles but they were more like a beautiful nightmare now. The teenager in front of Soul and me was pure evil at heart.
"Likewise." I told Kyou. "It has been a while, hasn't it?"
Kyou smirked and folded his arms, droplets of rain falling down his bare skin. He wore plain jeans and a wife beater, not even looking cold. On his head he had a sideways Yankee's cap. I was reminded of the baseball cap Soul gave to me that was rested in my room.
I felt my body tremble in pain as I tried to stand, balancing myself by clutching Soul's shoulder. He returned the clutch. I wasn't eager to show Kyou that Soul and I were pretty friendly. It would only make Soul a target. However, I needed him right now.
"What brings you to this...vicinity?" I wondered, sweat beading down my neck, mixing with the rain.
Kyou raised his eyebrows as if wondering if I was joking.
"Well, you're not supposed to be here, young lady." I cringed at what he referred to me as. "But I'm just here to punish a naughty girl."
Soul was still remaining silent. He really had nothing to say. He didn't know Kyou. He didn't knew what Kyou could do. He was just my boyfriend who knew the story but not anyone in it. And I was perfectly fine with that.
"Oh yeah?" I challenged. "What did I do?"
The pain was becoming unbearable though. I was getting out of shock because I knew I couldn't die but if I didn't get to a hospital quickly, it'd get infected and I really was not interested in amputation.
I felt the tension in the air rise. Kyou hated to be tested. He hated resistance. Maybe that was why he dated me. Because I was the only one who did resist him. The only one that he actually had to try to control. I was a one man army. However, you don't put people in the hospital for someone you don't care about.
"What did you do?" Kyou laughed, a cold drawling laugh. "What I told you exactly not to do!"
I looked at him, confused, the rain blinding me.
"I don't know what you're talking about." I informed him, glaring daggers, still clutching my throbbing calf.
"Oh?" Kyou wondered. "Maybe this will refresh your memory, clear your mind."
He pulled out a gun and my gut seemed to tighten, my grip on Soul increasing. We were both shaking again. Another gun. This time it was in the hands of someone who never hesitated to pull the trigger.
"It doesn't necessarily matter if you remember what you did." Kyou said. "As long as I kill you."
My body trembled as I attempted to search my memory for something that I did, recently, to possibly piss Kyou off. Nothing was coming to mind. I was in too much shock to remember. A gun in my face. You think it'd clear your mind but it was only jamming it.
"Does it matter?" Soul spoke up. "You don't know her anymore or interact with her so what she does doesn't affect you."
"Oh shut up," Kyou cut in. "You're dying too." He waved the gun as if showing how much he didn't care killing people. "Your life is mine to take."
Tears cut down my cheeks, blending with the rain like my sweat.
I was in so much pain with a shot to the leg. I couldn't imagine what getting shot in a vital organ felt like.
"This is why I hate you." I mumbled, annoyed.
"Still can't remember?" Kyou questioned.
I shook my head.
"I haven't done anything wrong." I remarked.
"Eh," He said. "Too bad. I was going to let you live for a few more minutes too."
As he said that, Soul was covering my body with his just as we heard the click of the gun and I shrieked loudly. But it was a click. There was no shot. Soul moved off of me shaking, as we heard another click. Then another.
The gun wasn't loaded.
"Dammit!" Kyou cursed, chucking the weapon of destruction at the ground.
But before I knew it, I was on Soul's back as he darted down the alley as fast as he could away from Soul. We just narrowly avoided being killed there. I felt the life return to my lungs as I could breathe again.
"Where are we going?" I breathed through the water hitting my face.
Soul shook his head.
"Somewhere with a lot of people." He replied, unsure of his answer.
"The music convention?" I offered, figuring a club wasn't going to help us. Besides, there was more security by the theaters so they would surely help break up a fight. Plus it was close. By the time we got to the police station it'd be already over.
"Remember, Soul," I continued. "Kyou has his gang by his side. They could-" Suddenly a body slammed into us, sending our bodies rolling.
I tried to scramble back up, Soul helping. But he quickly dropped me and sent a punch forward into someone's jaw. Whoever just knocked us over nearly got knocked out right then but he was on his feet again.
Soul scuffled with him more, another punch to the gut.
"Maka, go!" Soul demanded.
Like a could run. Or leave him. I wasn't going to.
"I swear to god if you don't get going, he's going to get you!" Soul's words brought my mind back again and I started limping as fast as I could.
What if Kyou stopped by Soul? What if Kyou attacked him? What if Soul would be double teamed? I tried to reassure myself by reminding my brain that Kyou was after me. But he wanted both of us dead. Shit.
His footsteps were growing closer which let me know that he hadn't attacked Soul...yet...so I picked up the pace. There was only a block and a half more to go. Instinctively, I limped to the back of the building to the window.
I wished someone would just keep Kyou separated from me. I really didn't want to come out and play with him. Not with his fist at least.
It took all my efforts just to climb through the window. I ended up hitting my leg on the way down and screeched loudly, allowing Kyou to know my presence. I tried to search for the stairs in the dark but I figured it'd be impossible to climb them.
"Oh, Maka?" Kyou called, causing my heart to skip a beat and not in a good way. "Where are you?"
Shit. I was trapped. I should've thought before I jumped that I wouldn't have been able to climb up the stairs. Not with this searing pain in my calf.
I silently crept back into the shadows. I heard something crunch under Kyou's feet as he landed inside the basement. Then I heard him drum his fingers against a harp. Oh fuck. We were in a room of musical instruments. I forgot. Okay. They didn't seem so beautiful to me now.
This was why I hated Kyou.
"Mmm...what a nice sound." Kyou said as if he was pondering. "Almost like your singing. Would you sing for me again Maka, like you used to?"
That fucking liar. I was an awful singer but he liked to sit there and play with my hair while he made fun of my singing. Shivers went through my body as I was reminded of our days when we dated. They were all a beautiful lie.
I stepped backwards, trying to avoiding him, but of course I stepped on a pair of cymbals. Dammit.
Clash.
Kyou immediately started to stalk towards me and I stepped back again. The sound of a flute being crushed filled the room also and Kyou followed the sounds. I thanked god for the darkness but it only made the fear in my heart more clear. Where was Kyou? Where was my enemy?
Harassing people like this couldn't have been legal.
Kyou was meant to live for so much more than hunting down ex-girlfriends and killing them for unexplained reasons. I thought he was bad before but now had definitely lost himself.
I was starting to wonder what I even liked about him before.
"Come on, darling." Kyou cooed. "Get your ass over here."
I tripped over a string bass that was lying down and deepened the crack that already ran across right under the bridge. A/N: I'm in orchestra lol that's why I know all about the stringed instruments.
I was so scared that for a moment I thought I was more scared than when I got shot. Then I remembered my leg was still throbbing anxiously and thought against that. I was mostly afraid of my calf getting infected and having to get it amputated because it sure felt like it wasn't very clean. Acidic rainwater probably wasn't the best for it.
Suddenly lightning light filled the room, thunder clapped and the sound of crashing cymbals blared. The flickers of light revealed Kyou too close for comfort and I shrieked as he leaped at me. I rolled to the side, letting him crash into the piano while he gripped my ankle. Thankfully it was my other leg but I was still freaking out. He had me.
His fist struck me in the side and I doubled over in pain.
"There you are, beautiful!"
I felt blood stream from my mouth uncontrollably and for a second I thought I was drowning in it, though it was so little. Tears followed and I got up and dashed, kicking away his hand from my ankle.
He scrambled after me and tackled me down, breaking the scroll of a violin.
I tried to break free from him. There were so many tears that I cried for him and I didn't want that to continue six feet under. If it was continuing, it was definitely not going to be in the ground. I wasn't about to go under.
I hit his head with mine and immediately it throbbed in pain. Definitely a fucking lie in the movies. That shit hurt.
In panic, I rose to my feet, feeling my calf burn as I reached the steps. But Kyou was faster and soon enough his strong arms were around my neck, choking me and I gasped for air.
"Not...going...under..." I breathed, not wanting to die. Not yet. Living just sounded like such a better idea.
"Really? I'm going to kill you!" Kyou threatened, causing more panic in my heart. I didn't want to be killed here. There was so much more that I had to do in life. There was so much that I needed to do.
I squirmed around so I was facing him, dangerously close to his lips. His grip loosened slightly as if this was bringing back memories. Tears in my eyes, blood everywhere. And so close we could kiss.
But then I kneed him in the balls and made a run for it as he crumpled on the floor in pain.
"Maka!" he growled in pain.
I stumbled up the steps, screaming in pain as I walked with both legs all the way up. I broke through the door at the top, dripping with rainwater and sweat. Kyou fumbled after me and I crawled forward, getting up.
I didn't care about the pain in my leg, though it was searing. I was running for my life. This was no game. Kyou had almost choked me to death and he didn't hesitate to shoot me back in the alley. He wasn't messing around. He wanted to kill me.
I didn't have a choice in this either. I didn't know what I did to piss him off so much he'd come to kill me.
"Why me?" I gasped, limping past people and running into someone from security. "Please!" I begged. "You have to help me! This guy is after me!"
I pointed at Kyou who was tearing through the crowd.
"Hey you're the girl from before!" He grabbed my arm angrily.
"No!" I argued. "I'm not the one that you want!"
We glared at each other.
"I am shot." I hissed, furiously. "Go get him!"
"You're not the boss around here, miss!" He retorted, squeezing my arm.
I was suddenly yanked aside by the charging Kyou. I screeched loudly, trying to get the guard to do something about this but Kyou dragged me away while I screamed.
"Don't worry," Kyou told the man. "I'll take her to the police. She's making a disturbance here."
"Finally," the man breathed. "Thank you."
"This isn't fair!" I cried, kicking and punching at random, nearly killing some little boy who almost skipped into my fist. Other people around me seemed to just be staring but not doing anything. What would you do in this situation? Would you help?
The hunter had his kill.
And now Kyou was taking me outside.
This was the kill.
I shook in his grip, aching to squeeze my leg which was set ablaze from running on it.
Rain greeted my soaking head again and I was suddenly freezing.
"Kyou..." I dangerously murmured. "Would you care to explain what I did before you take my life?"
Kyou just chuckled and looked at me, pushing my head aside so our eyes met.
"Oh babe," He said. "You don't really know, do you?"
I bit my lip, biting back anger. How was I supposed to know. I hadn't had contact with him.
He suddenly pushed me down on the ground so I was there kneeling. He put his hand around my neck and put his other in his pocket, pulling out a cell phone. I hoped that the rain would render it useless. But the only thing rendered useless was my idea.
"Yeah...would you please bring a gun. I don't think choking her is going to work." I crinkled my nose at this. Instead of being more afraid, I was only angered. This wasn't even fair. None of this. I hadn't done anything to him.
I wanted Soul.
"Maka." Kyou said when he hung up the phone. "You brought this upon yourself. You d-"
"Let her go!" A nasally voice rang above the pounding rain.
Ox Ford came into my view. I had seen him before but I had thought nothing of it. I totally forgot that he was here.
"Shut up you little worm." Kyou snarled at him. "This is all your fault anyway, that she's dying."
Ox stepped forward more, causing Kyou to release my neck and get closer to the spikey haired boy. Ox, who had once been a mere stranger to me when it came to a level of friendliness, was looking pretty brave right now, considering he was standing up to a buff guy that just ordered his friend to bring a gun.
But why? What the FUCK did Ox have to do with this? Honestly! I was starting to pick out the pieces, though I couldn't put them together, but now Ox was thrown in there and the whole puzzle just went up a level. It went from a hundred piece puzzle to a thousand piece one in a matter of seconds.
God dammit. Why did this shit have to be so confusing?
Where was Soul? I needed him. I had to have his presence. I had to have my regulation.
Kyou's phone started to ring. Without taking his eyes from Ox, he tossed me the phone and ordered me to put in on speaker.
"Don't even think about trying to call anyone." He added.
I clicked it on speaker phone.
"What?" Kyou snapped, still facing Ox, as if the skinny nerd was a threat to him.
"Yeah um," a familiar voice rang through, that broke a smile through my face. "I don't think that gun's coming to you any time soon."
"Soul..." I whispered.
"The fuck...?" Kyou wondered.
We sat on the sidewalk in silence waiting for something.
Click.
And there it was.
Soul stood there with the cocked gun pressed to Kyou's temple, disguised by the rain.
"You can't pull the trigger." Kyou told him.
"You don't know me." Soul remarked, coolly. His voice was frighteningly calm and I was glad I wasn't in Kyou's position. Soul looked so dangerous.
"Oh but I know him." Another voice joined in.
I tried to see through the blinding rain and another cloudy figure came into view. And it was Wes. That fucking little-
"After all, he is my brother."
Author's Note: OH I AM EVIL! Ahaha. Sorry I couldn't update cuz I was hanging out with people having a life lol. Triple sleepovers. Went to an amusement park yesterday. Valleyfair for those of you that live in MN (if there are any -_-) And boy...it is fun. Went on all the crazy roller coasters. My friend and I went on the steepest one 13 times. Came home with a headache. Gee. Imagine that. Well. Review. Because reviews make everything better. Did it turn to comment or something? changed the format again. I hate modern-ish formats now. Well not really that much lol. So anyway ... review ... comment ... feedback ... you know the usual :D