Bloodbath
Chapter 28
After the string of murders, Kurama had finally given in and took the job at the research center, though he was still uneasy about it. Another girl with horns had been discovered a week earlier and captured.
Yu Kakuzawa led Kurama down the hallway of the facility. "We're experimenting on her right now. You know, find out what she's capable of doing."
He entered his password into a metal door, then backed up as it slowly ascended into the ceiling. Kakuzawa then entered the room, Kurama close behind. Kurama looked through a pane of glass, allowing him to see what was going on in the next room.
A young girl with light brown hair was chained to the wall, naked. Scientists were using a device that was shooting heavy balls at her, barely missing her.
"Stop it! I don't want to be hit!" She cried, tears streaming down her face.
"What are you doing to her?" Kurama asked in disgust.
"We want to see what she's capable of doing," Kakuzawa repeated. "If she concentrates hard enough, she should be able to deflect them."
One of the balls hit the girl in the leg, causing her to cry out in pain. "Please stop hurting me!"
Kurama shook his head unbelievingly and walked away.
His friend followed him. "Are you okay?"
"I'm regretting that I ever came here," Kurama muttered.
"What we're doing will benefit mankind," Kakuzawa told him.
Kurama glared at him. "Why do you have to do such inhuman things to them? Huh? Tell me the reason for that."
Kakuzawa sighed. "A Diclonius will kill anyone in their path. They are the enemies of humanity."
"It still doesn't give you the right to torture them that way," he shot back.
There was suddenly a crash and the two men rushed back over to look into the other room. The girl had broken free of her chains and was standing there as a security guard began to shoot at her. The bullets were bouncing off of her, however.
"I'm going to treat you the way you treated me," she growled.
As soon as those words left her mouth, the guard's head was viciously ripped off and thrown across the room.
Kakazawa went up to a speaker. "Seal off all of the security doors," he commanded.
The glass shattered and Kakuzawa was hurled into the wall. Kurama froze as the girl slowly walked over to him. She stopped a few feet away.
"You're not like them," she said, looking into his eyes. "You don't enjoy tormenting others. I'd like to thank you for your sympathy..."
He gasped as he felt something slip into his head. The girl was using one of her vectors to penetrate into his brain, passing on the virus. Kurama felt light-headed and fell to his knees. The Diclonius retracted it a moment later.
"What did you just do?" He asked, panting.
Before she could answer, she was shot in the head. The girl collapsed, a pool of blood puddling around her body. Kurama turned around, surprised. Kakazawa was sitting on the floor, a gun pointed out.
"Don't worry, she's dead now. I was lucky enough to catch her off guard....." Kakuzawa stood up, brushing himself off. "We better go tell my father about this."
Inside Director Kakuzawa's office, the man was pacing around restlessly. "The number of Dicloniuses are increasing at an alarming rate. I want every single one of them killed immediately. We can't take any more risks like that."
Over the next week, Kurama tracked down a few and killed them. He went to the hospital to see if any Diclonius children had been born. There was one. Kurama, along with Yu Kakuzawa, walked up to father of the baby.
"You want to do what?!" The man yelled.
Kakuzawa sighed. "Sir, you must kill your daughter. We've been given orders to to eliminate any children born with horns."
The man violently shook his head. "No! I don't care if she has horns. She's my daughter and I refuse to do that to her."
"If you'd like, I can do it for you. I've already killed ten of them, so I might as well. There's no need for anyone else to get their hands dirty," Kurama said.
The child's father fell to his knees, crying. "But she's my baby......"
Kurama put his hand on the the man's shoulder. "I know that it is hard. But it has to be done now. Just think about the horrible childhood she will experience. People will stare at her and tease her. You don't want that, do you?"
"Well, no.....But-"
"It has to be done," Kakuzawa said. "I'm sorry, but it is for the best."
Kurama entered the nursery, then emerged about two minutes later.
"It's been done." He looked at the grieving father. "I can assure you, she did not feel any pain. She was sleeping and I injected her with a chemical that killed her. She died peacefully."
They left the sobbing man and walked out of the hospital. That same night, Kurama's wife announced that she was pregnant.
Nine months later, Kurama got a call at work from the hospital telling him that she had given birth.
Before he entered her hospital room, the nurse stopped him.
"I needed to let you know something," she said gravely. "After the delivery, we ran a test on your wife. We discovered that she has cancer all throughout her body."
"WHAT?!" Kurama sank to his knees. "Cancer? This can't be right!"
The nurse looked down at him sadly. "I'm sad to say, but it is true. We even gave her the test a second time, but the results were the same."
Kurama sat there in shock, his heart nearly stopping. "The baby?"
"The baby is fine. She and your wife are both stable. There were some complications with the delivery, so your wife was given a C-section. She needs to be very careful, as she is very weak from the surgery."
Kurama numbly stood up and walked into the room, ignoring anything else the nurse had to say. His wife, Hiromi, was dozing in her bed. He made his way over to small cradle where the baby slept. What he saw made his breath caught in his throat. The baby had two horns on her head.
"I have to kill her," he quietly said to himself, gripping the sides of the cradle. "I have to kill my own daughter..."
"What?"
Kurama turned around to see Hiromi painfully get out of bed. She quickly walked over and gathered the sleeping baby in her arms.
"What do you mean?" She cried. Her hospital gown was soaked with blood, and her body was shaky.
Her husband took the baby and put it back in the cradle. "Honey, she has horns. It has to be done."
"Don't say that!" She screamed. "Not my baby! Please, don't do this...."
Hiromi collapsed, Kurama catching her in his arms. "You need to rest, and you shouldn't even be standing."
Tears were running down her face. "Please, honey. Don't do that to her. Promise me that you'll take care of her. She'll need you now more than ever."
She sank to the ground slowly, her husband still holding onto her.
Kurama began to cry. "What do you mean? You're going to get through this."
Hiromi gave him a weak smile. "Please promise you you'll protect her. Just because she has horns, it doesn't make her any different than us. Pleas save her, for me...."
Kurama nodded. "I promise I will. But please......don't leave me...."
His wife kissed him, then slowly closed her eyes. "Take good care of her....."
The man held onto the body of his deceased wife, sobbing. "I promise I'll try...."
Kurama was in Director Kakuzawa's office once again.
"The virus is transferred to men by the vectors," his boss was explaining. "The men then get their wives pregnant and that is how the Dicloniuses are born. Zoe is an exception. She is the only Diclonius to be able to simply reproduce like an ordinary woman. We think she might be the start of the disease, seeing how she is the only one capable of that type of reproduction."
"I understand," Kurama said in a monotone voice.
"I don't want any more disobedience from you. Do I make myself clear?" Kakuzawa glared at him. "You should be grateful that I let your daughter survive when you were supposed to dispose of her as an infant."
Kurama looked down. "Yes, sir."
Meanwhile, Miss Shirakawa, along with another scientist, were walking up to a large metal door. The door was almost as big as the wall itself.
"This is the only other Diclonius we've kept alive in the facility," Miss Shirakawa explained, although the man already knew. "The director would like to use her to retrieve the escaped subjects."
The scientist nodded. "Number Thirty-Five is the strongest Diclonius of all. Compared to the others, this one has twenty-six vectors. She is the monster of the bunch and the ultimate killing machine...."
dun dun dun! damn 26 vectors compared to 4. i would NOT wanna fuck with that thing. hell i wouldn't fuck with the others, but you know what i mean. so now you know about kurama's past, how his daughter was born a diclonius, how the director is a douchbag (oh, wait we already knew that) and that's about it. chapter 29 is coming out soon. ^_^
