Disclaimer: I don't own Weiss or Schwarz or any of that but Lorelei is mine ya har!
Warnings: Violence, language, death, perhaps severe confusion of readers...if that does happen feel free to ask any questions, such as "what the hell is going on here?" he he!
Chapter 41
Brave and Stupid Things
"This is taking far too long."
That angelic little face, speaking the words of my Lord Uesugi, sometimes made me think of times gone past.
"My Lord, I swear to you that I will have the information to you within the hour..."
"No! Do not make promises you know you cannot keep Yusuke!"
"My Lord...my name is Lorelei now."
Thinking back to that long ago, sometimes things turn a little fuzzy around the edges, but I still remember one thing as clear as day about my past. Running my sword through that damned Yoshitsuna and laughing. I remember it well, almost as well as my own death no long after at the hands of the demon Yamamoto. Yes, I remember it all as if it were yesterday, not five hundred years in the past.
"You are what I call you! Now listen to me and listen well! I want that information and your mind tricks don't seem to be working on this 'brother' of yours. I want you to take any measures needed, any measures, to open his mind. Use shock, pain, anything! I need that information!"
"Yes my Lord."
My long blonde hair fell over my shoulder as I rose from my bow and gave my Lord a final look before exiting the small room. I still could not get used to his form, hidden inside the body of this fragile young girl, but was still too happy to have him back in this world to worry about it. We would find him a new body, a better body, and he would rule Japan once more, and perhaps even more...
Of course it was hard to come to terms with taking this body too. I had been born a man, and each consecutive body I had taken had been male. However circumstances had forced me to take the next available form and it had been this one. It wasn't the fact that it was a weak body, she was a strong female, or that her abilities were in question. I just couldn't get used to the chest, it bothered me, I mean really they just get in the way. I had no conception of how women coped with it.
"Back to the torture chamber?"
The deep baritone voice stopped me in my tracks and I turned to look at the dark figure reclining against a low futon. His startling red hair still made me frown, reminding me of my 'current task', my 'brother', and I turned my nose up in a haughty expression before replying.
"Well Fujimiya, call me a workaholic," I smirked, "but I do so love my job."
"Aa, that I can see Lorelei-san," he replied, his violet eyes dancing in the lamplight, "perhaps you could use some help?"
I stalled, wondering at the look of wild passion in his eyes as he spoke of torture. It seemed to drive him wild, and yet he contained it all do expertly inside of him. The thought of what he had done to my 'brother' made me smile a small cruel smile and I nodded slowly.
"Hai Fujimiya-san, you can assist again if you want," I said, as I turned back down the corridor in an invitation to follow, "I could use your creative tactics."
She had gone, left, just like that! I thought...I thought she would never go, stupid witch!
Dammit, these ropes are too tight! I can't loose them!
"Nagi," I croaked out, struggling futilely against my bonds as I tried to twist my numb writs, "Nagi please you have to wake up! Please, help me get out we have to go!"
His eyes blinked and he nodded slowly but didn't move from his slumped position against the wall. I growled in frustration at this bout of really bad timing. I had actually gone unconscious at some point from, well hell, could have been anything, pain, lack of food or water, sheer exhaustion, take your pick. When I woke up, she was gone, my sister was gone and I was alone.
My mind had raced and I had thought -this is what I was waiting for!- before going completely blank. Yes I had been waiting for her to leave, underestimate me by leaving me on my own, but so that I could do...what?
What the fuck was I supposed to do!?
"Nagi! Please-get-up," I said in a measured tone, "please Nagi, get up and get your ass over here now and get me out of this!"
His fingers twitched and something stirred in his eyes. I blinked, holding my breath and waiting for him to respond. The wind howled outside as the dawn light started to peak in at the windows and hurt my eyes. I was just about to scream at him when he suddenly blinked and pushed up from the wall. I watched in shock as he got shakily to his feet and then looked down at me, life slowly draining into his lifeless eyes.
"Schu," he said weakly, "what..?"
"Shit Nagi I thought I'd lost you for a minute there kid," I said with a strained laugh, "no time to explain, just get me out of these ropes, we have to hurry!"
"R-right," he nodded, stepping up beside me to fumble with the ropes at my hands.
They had been pulled tight by my struggling but Nagi's fingers were small and nimble and I suspected that the ropes were still slick with blood. He grunted with the effort while I threw extremely worried glances at the door and listened intently for noises from the corridor. The storm outside seemed to worsen and I coughed roughly, forcing myself to stay conscious as I felt my lungs burn in agony at the action.
Then I saw it. Through the thin walls, a light silhouetting their forms...she was coming back, and there was someone else with her. Shit!
"Nagi get back, sit back down quickly!"
"I'm almost there, just give me a minute," he said sleepily, his eyes blinking owlishly as if he were only partly awake.
"No, no sit down now! Hurry, do it now! Nagi!"
"Just another minute now..." he sighed out slowly, as if he had not a care in the world.
Then the door slid open and pale blue eyes looked over in momentary shock at the vision before them. I forgot how to breathe, and Nagi turned slowly, languorously to look at his captor and the other man in the doorway. Fujimiya Ran, or what was left of his sanity anyway.
"No, wait..." was all I could get out of my throat it was so tight, I was so tired and I just wanted to get the fuck out of here and what the hell do you WANT FROM ME..!?
"My, my," she said cruelly as Ran walked purposefully into the room towards Nagi, "how very spirited of you, and what a touching display of friendship."
"No wait, stop..!"
Nagi cringed back from the advancing figure of Ran but he wasn't fast enough to escape, his mind obviously still hurting from whatever they did to him. Large hands grabbed him by the shoulders and I could only watch helplessly, still shouting over and over...
"Wait stop, I'll tell you what you need just stop..! Stop! STOP IT..!"
...as Ran settled Nagi before him, took his head in his hands...
"You really should have co-operated Schuldich-san," he said in the silence that preceded his action, my eyes glued to his vicious smile.
...and slickly snapped it to the left, effectively severing his spine.
And as Nagi's lifeless corpse fell to the floor and I screamed because I just couldn't take it anymore, and this was all my fault dammit I'll kill you, you bitch, I'll fucking kill you do you hear me, I told you I'd kill you if you touched him, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you..!
When his body hit the tatami mats, that was when the first explosion sounded from the lower levels of our prison, and also when I managed to finally slip my hands free of my bonds, nothing but murder in my eyes.
AN: I am a bad person, I know, how could I do such a thing? Because I'm evil and stressed out and I had to take it out on someone no? Well, that's partly the reason, but it's also just what happens in the story, please don't blame me to harshly! I hope this story is moving on a lot faster than it has been for a while, and you can expect it to come to a head pretty soon! I hope everyone's still enjoying it and please leave a review!
To HeatherR: Oh yay you're still reading! This isn't the last chapter as you can tell but I'm not that far from it now! I'm so glad you still like it! I hope you're still enjoying it and thank you for all you reviews! Was this update fast enough for you he he? Oh and I hope this explains the scream that Ken heard at the end of chapter 40, because you were right, it was Schu, and Ken could only hear it because Ran was there when Schu did it, etc, etc, god my stories are so complicated!
Right, and of course to everyone else who has reviewed my story or just read it THANK YOU!
Maiko x