Chapter 17!
Hell YEA!
Ikuto: ….
Akki: Way too much free time
Zane: Yep
Me: Your killing my buzz
Ikuto: sorry
Me: …whatever just do the disclaimer
Zane: Kara does not own Shugo Chara
Me: On with the story!
(Warning: POV changes to Zane's for a while
But it starts out in Akki's)
And srry it took sooooo
Long school started and ive been busy!
Chapter 17
Past Feelings Reveled
Zane wasn't following.
I guess that arrow to the shoulder slowed him down. I shake my head. My visions getting fuzzy. Ikuto's refusal to leave wasn't helping. He's still here. Even though he was in danger I couldn't help the tiny smile. I sigh and lean on him. He looks over surprised. I yawn.
"I'm tired. You woke me up. You owe me"
He laughs.
I smile. It didn't hurt. Nothing was hurting. I was going numb. Usually that would mean death but for me it meant sleep. I yawn again. Black dots dance in the corner of my eyes. I prop myself up on Ikuto's shoulder. He says nothing. I can feel myself slipping into unconsciousness.
"Ikuto"
"What?"
"Don't wake me when I fall asleep"
He looks over alarmed. I repress the urge to laugh... I smile again and close my eyes.
"I'm sleeping, not dying"
He sighs.
"Why not open with that?"
"You always did startle easily" I say with a small grin.
He snorts.
"Coming from the girl who was scared of her own shadow, that means little"
I laugh.
"I wasn't…scared of…my…shadow." I yawn again.
"Akki"
I open my eyes and promptly roll them.
"I'm…fine"
He dodges my gaze.
"Ikuto?"
He says nothing. He's looking down the path. I hear faint footsteps. Zane's presence hits me. My senses are dull from blood loss, but I can still feel him coming. I try to stand. Ikuto pulls me down.
"…no fighting."
I lean against him and don't reply. The black dots dance faster and I feel myself slipping. The last thing I remember is Ikuto putting his arm around me. That was when everything went black.
(Zane's POV from here on out)
"She's out yet?" I call from my hiding place.
After a minute he responds.
"Yea"
I sigh and come out from behind the tree. Ikuto and Akki were sitting under a huge oak. She was passed out on his shoulder, and he even had his arm on her. I smile. Bet he didn't pull that till after she passed out. The smile fades when I see Akki's blood on the ground. I shake my head.
"This shouldn't have happened." I mumble.
He doesn't reply. I roll my eyes and stroll over to them. He tenses up but doesn't move. Akki dozes on oblivious.
"This is your fault"
He looks away.
"If she'd never run into you, this wouldn't of happened. You brought this on her"
"Trying to guilt me?"
I laugh.
"Don't have to. She's half dead in your arms. If that doesn't make you fell guilty then nothing I can say will"
He smiles.
"True"
A silence falls. I kept a close eye on Akki. When she got to bad, I was taking her whether he liked it or not. She'd bleed to death at this rate.
I sigh and scratch my head.
"I don't understand why she's so devoted to you"
He glances up at me.
"She hated you growing up"
That surprises him.
"You knew her before me?"
"Yea…we were both born to families that were vying for Easter's support. So we were raised competing with you."
"What?"
I sigh. What an idiot.
"Akki's father ditched her for higher ranking women. So Akki was raised to compete with you so her mom could got noticed, that's why she had to play piano. It was the only instrument her mother would approve of. And when Akki failed to become a favored child her mother ditched her too. She gave custody of Akki to the doctor. And she did it because in her mind…Akki was a failure. And it was because she just couldn't compete with you."
Ikuto was speechless.
"Making you and Akki friends was a way to get on your step dad's good side. She used to tell me how much she hated being forced to be around you. She said it made her sick."
"Then why does she care now?"
I shake my head.
"Couldn't tell you. Ask her"
He seemed alarmed by the last part.
I turn and walk away.
After a second he picks Akki up and follows. I walk slowly so he can catch up.
"You do realize that she'll hate you right?"
"…yea"