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Animes in this Chapter: Descendants of Darkness

Chapter 4: Shopping Disaster

"So that was boring!!!!" My strange, long-haired, blond companion nearly sang as we stepped out of the Hotel.

"You are aware, Yutaka, that that sound's soooo wrong to anyone with a slightly perverted mind, you pervert, especially since we just walked out of a hotel. Besides, this is serious. Failure could mean the destruction of the –" Yutaka clamped his hand over my mouth.

"Ah, ah, ah, my darling. Not in such a public place!" I licked his palm and he immediately removed his hand with a disgusted look. I swear it works every time.

"I'm not stupid! So where are we going now?" His whole face lit up and I got a sinking feeling in my gut.

"We are going SHOPPING!!!" He started twirling around singing. I decided to ignore him and attempted to hail a taxi. It wasn't hard; the hard part was getting the dead geezer's attention.

"Yutaka! Come on!" no response. "YUTAKA!!!" still nothing. "Yo, Nutcase, come on! You're not really going to let me go shopping by myself? I might buy the wrong color blouse to go with hideous pair of pants!" That is what got his attention.

"Oh, have no fear, my darling! I would never allow you to do such a terrible thing!"

"I didn't think you would, and would you stop calling me darling!?!"

"Uh, where too?" The driver looked at us though the rearview mirror suspiciously.

"To the mall on the East side! Chop, chop! There are clothes to buy!!!" I groaned. He was way too excited for this time of day. "Now darling, what should we get you? More dresses, definitely-"

"NO!!! No dresses Yutaka, the one I'm wearing is bad enough, I will not conform to the trends of the rest of the world. If I wear a dress, it's usually because I made it myself and only on special occasions." I looked at him, uh-oh.

"You… you don't like it do you…" He was about to start crying!!! He's and adult, for crying out loud! A very old and very dead (hence the old) adult!

"Oh no, Yutaka, I like the dress!" The tears are starting to fall. What the hell did I do to deserve this?

"I had the *sniffle, sniffle* pattern *sniffle* specially made*sob* for yoooouuuuuu!!!!" The man, my associate, my colleague, my really old, dead friend started all out bawling.

"Yutaka! I love the dress! And-and you can buy me as many dresses as you want! I promise! Just please stop crying, please!!!" What the hell am I going to do now!?!

"*sniffle* Promise? *sniffle sniffle*" I nodded vigorously. He instantly smiled and hugged me. "In that case we are going to this new shop I found! You're going to look absolutely adorable!!!" *

"Y-you tr-tricked me!" Now I thought I was going to cry. He winked at me as we got out of the car. "I hate you." I grumbled as he led me by the hand into the mall. Oh, have I mentioned I HATE shopping? This is all Ti's fault, he is so dead next time we spar. Ti = Dead Vampire. I sighed, I could not actually kill him, as much as I would like… that would make the girls sad… but I could break his ribs again… that sounds like fun!!!

This thought made me perk up a bit as we entered the first store.

What little perkiness the thought of breaking all of Ti's ribs was quickly diminished as he immediately led me to the dress section. After about three hours 15 dresses and two cloaks later we went to the food court to get something to eat. We found a table and I set everything down. We had a brief argument about what we would be eating. We were laughing at each other over some trivial thing when I heard someone yell my name. I turned. The last thing I saw was Yutakas face, eyes wide with surprise, reaching out toward me.

Everything was black. It felt like there was cotton between my ears and in my mouth. There was no pain. No memories. Nothing. No name, no life. I was just there. Floating. I was no one and no one was me. A gate with a huge eye on it flashed before me as a light came through the darkness with a whisper. 'Your life has been spared.' **

I drifted toward into the light, toward the sound of voices.

*the shop he refers to is Ayame's from Fruits Basket, I meant to do more with it but it just didn't work out that way.

**Full Metal Alchemist reference there…