Chapter 5
Kei let go of Cassandra's shirt. He looked away from her to his left. He let his purple hair cover his face. She started to shake. Cassandra saw tears start to slide down his chin and hit the floor. She stood up and pulled Kei into a tight hug. Kei instantly wrapped his arms around her. He shook as he cried on her shoulder.
"It was all my fault." Kei's voice shook as he spoke.
"How was it your fault?" Kei sniffed then lifted his head and looked at Cassandra. His eyes were red. He turned his head and looked at the wall. He let go of Cassandra and sat down with his back to the wall. Cassandra sat next to him. Kei never looked at her as she did so. He stared at the ground in front of him. Cassandra watched him. She could see him letting his memories flood over him like a river. Finally after what seem like forever Kei spoke.
"Remember when I told you that the only pleasure I got in life was exercising?" Cassandra nodded her head. It was when Cassandra accidently killed herself. "Well the reason why was because I had to exercise in order to help my dad. My dad was a miner. I was a week kid when I was little, so in order to help him my dad told me I had to get stronger. Well the more I exercised the more I found out that I loved it. Finally after years and years of exercising I was able to help my dad in the mines."
"Why did you want to help your dad so much?" Kei got a sad smile on his face.
"My mother died when I was five. It was hard on all of us. I think it was harder on Kazuya than anyone else. He was closer to her even at a young age." Kei shook his head. "Anyways, my father was an alcoholic but after my mother died he stopped drinking and looked for a job. The only job he could get was a mining job. I always felt like a burden to him so one day when I was ten I ask if I could go to work and help him. He told me flat out no because I was too little and week. If I wanted to help him I needed to get stronger." Kei gave a little laugh.
"I remember asking if Kazuya wanted to get stronger with me to help dad and he said that he had his own plans. I still don't know what those plans were. I'm guessing they have something to do with his love for the old ways. He started to become obsessed with that stuff a few years after Mother died." Kei gave another little laugh. Cassandra smiled imaging all of this happening.
"What did Kazuya think about you wanting to help your dad?" Kei got a smile on his face.
"Nothing really. He always told me to be careful when I exercised though. But besides that nothing even when I got hurt the only scolding I got was that I should be more careful. " Cassandra was surprised to hear this. She would have thought that Kazuya would have tried everything to stop Kei from doing something dangerous of stupid.
"But when my dad finally said I could go to work and help him I was so happy." Kei smiled again. "Funny Kazuya told me to be extremely careful at the mines." The smiled turned in to a frown. "I should have listened."
"When we got to the mines I got suited up and went with my dad down. He showed me how to mine. I felt like I could finally be useful. My dad had to go off somewhere farther down the mine. He told me not do anything, but I felt so useless just standing there. I started to mine. Just picked up a pickaxe and started to mine away. And then," Kei clenched his teeth together and tears started to form in his eyes that had started to narrow. "I must have hit the wrong spot. The top of the mine started to shake and at that moment my dad came back. He knew that I had done it. He started yelling for everyone to get out. Everyone started to leave but me. I was just frozen there because I knew it was my fault."
"My dad ran over to my telling me run, but for some reason I didn't. I started to tell him I was sorry and that it was all my fault, but he just told me to shut up and run. Then the ceiling started to come down on top of us and he pushed me out of the way. I saw the rocks fall on him, and could hear them crush him. After they had stopped falling I ran over to the rocks and started trying to dig him out. I uncovered his face. He looked at me and..." Tears stared to stream down Kei's face. "And said for me to tell Kazuya to scold me. A-an-and that it wasn't my fault. It was a beginner's mistake." Kei reached up and whipped with eyes viciously, his teeth still clenched. "Bull! I should have listened to him! But I didn't want to feel useless!" The tears started to fall down faster. Kei had to put both of his arms to his eyes to even get the tears to slow down. "Now any time something falls and builds a wall I freak out!" The tears started to come out faster and wouldn't slow down.
"Kei..." Cassandra reached out and touched Kei's shoulder. He jerked it away. "I'm sorry Kei." Kei jerked his head and looked at her.
"Why are you sorry! I wouldn't even be crying now if it wasn't for you!"
"I was... just trying to... help." Kei started to glared at her.
"Help! How can you help me! You don't know what I'm going through!" Cassandra snapped. Anger rushed threw her. She put her hands on Kei's shoulders and pushed him to the ground. Kei started to fight her. They started to wrestle. Kei would push Cassandra to the ground then she would flip him and push him to the ground. Finally Cassandra had Kei pinned under her. She had her hands firmly wrapped around Kei's wrist keeping them pinned to the ground. She had her knees on each side of Kei's hips holding them in place. She had her legs pointed inward to where she held his legs down.
"How do you know what I've gone through or not!" Cassandra could feel the back of her eyes burning. Kei was still trying to get free. "No one knows my story! I bet none of ya'll could guess it either!" A tear broke free from Cassandra's eyes and ran down her face as fast as a cheetah. When it hit Kei's face he stopped struggling and looked at her. "I do know how you feel! I know how it feels to watch someone you love die right in front of you!" Her vision stated to blur as the tears ran out of her eyes, but she didn't dare wipe them away.
"You were lucky to only have one die in front of you! I had THREE!" Cassandra closed her eyes. "I had three family members die right in front of me, and I couldn't do anything." Cassandra left go of Kei's arms and started to wipe her eyes. She sat up and started trying to make the tears stop. "What am I doing! I'm being selfish! This is supposed to be about you! I'm supposed to be allowing you to get your feeling out and here I am crying on you! God! I couldn't be more shallower!"
At that moment Cassandra felt arms wrap around her. She knew it was Kei. He was trying to comfort her. Part of her didn't want it, but the rest of her was thankful for it. She wrapped her arms around his back and cried into his shoulder. After a while Cassandra removed her head from his shoulder, not looking at him.
"I'm sorry Kei. I shouldn't have pushed you. I just wanted to help."
"I understand. I feel much better now thanks to you, so thank you." He reached up and petted her head. "Looks like you need someone to listen to you too." He looked at the wall. "How about you get off me and tell me everything." Cassandra nodded her head slowly. God! I'm still not over this! Why can't I just suck it up and forget this!
"Cassandra. Something tells me that you told someone your story before... Not here but somewhere else, but you didn't tell the whole story. You probably need to tell the whole story so you can get it off your chest." Cassandra looked up at Kei in shock. It was true. Even though she told Hinata and felt ten times better she still felt guilty in a way. Is that the answer God? Do I need to tell EVERY thing that happened? Cassandra shook her head and slowly got off of Kei. She crawled over to the wall and cleaned up against it. Kei sat down on her right. He grabbed her head and placed in on his shoulder. Cassandra glanced at him. He saw the glance and smiled. "It's to help support you." Cassandra frowned then sighed.
"I guess I should start from the beginning… From when it all started."
I had just found out that my father was going to come back from his trip. The company he worked for sent him to America for a few months. I was so happy to hear about this. My younger brother and sister were happy along with me. For the whole day we decorated the house for his arrival. My brother was only five so he just colored the banner we hung up in the living room, and helped mom with the cake. My sister, who was seven helped me put up the decorations. I was thirteen at the time. Ha. Funny. I always hated the number thirteen. Always thought that it was unlucky.
After all the decorations were up I went up to my room to start on my present for my dad. It was my personal present. My sister had come in after a while to help me. I was making a card for him. A personal card. She was drawing a cute little picture of a bunny when I heard the door bell ring. We both looked at each other with excited smiles. I ran out of my room with her behind me.
I got to the stairs first. Before I ran down them I made sure my sister was behind me. When I got halfway down the stairs I saw my mom backing up. The stairs were in the same hallway as the door. It struck me odd that she'd be backing up if Father was home. She had a frightened look on her face… No I take that back. It was a look of pure terror.
"Mather?" I called her name with so many questions carried on that one word. She looked at me and I saw fear cover her face.
"C-Cassandra." She looked back at the door and took another step back. "Go back up stairs, Cassandra."
"Who are you talking to?" That when I heard the voice of death. A man stepped into the doorway of the stairs, and I could see him clearly. He was a buff man. Lots and lots of muscles. He was kind of chubby to. He had a scar on his left cheek. His scruffy short black hair just added to the effect of the kind of evil he was. He stepped closer to my mother and grabbed her left arm. He pulled her close to him as she turned her head away from him. "My my. Aren't you a pretty little thing?"
"Mother!" Before I knew it I was running down the stairs at the man. He turned his head and looked at me as I slammed into him.
"Ah!" I knocked the man to the ground and he hit it with such force. I quickly got off of him and stood in front of my mother, to protect her. As he slowly stood up I saw two other buff guys at the door. They started to advance toward me when the guy I knocked down put up a hand to stop them. They stopped and looked at the guy. When the guy was on his feet he smiled an evil smile at me.
"Hmm interesting. If you had been smart you wouldn't have done that." He gave an evil laugh. "I like that."
"Who are you!" He could tell the anger in my voice, but I guess he also detected the fear in it too.
"Hmm. You can call me Darknight." He took a step toward me. "Now why not help me find what I'm looking for?" I shook my head at him while glaring.
"I'll never help you!" He made a tisking noise.
"That's not smart. See we would hate for it to get ugly." He snapped his fingers and the guns behind him pulled out guns. I felt my mother jump behind me. "Now girly, why not help me. See, your father has some research paper that we need." He looked up the stairs. "If you don't then-"He reached up the stairs and I heard a scream. My heart sank. He came out of the stairs holding my younger sister by the wrist.
"Onee-chan!" She fought desperately as she yelled what she called me. I could see tears forming in her eyes.
"TAMA!" Fear rushed trough me like a river flowing threw a newly opened dam. Darknight lifted my sister up my her arm.
"My my. Such a pretty girl. I'd hate to have to-" He pulled out his own gun and stuck it to Tama's temple."-have to kill her." I stared at Tama wide eyed. I gritted my teeth together. Iran toward Darknight. He was surprised I did so. I pulled back my arm and punched him in the face. He let go of my sister and she ran toward my mother. The guy looked at me while holding his face. "Why you!" He pointed his gun at my sister. Before I could do anything he pulled the trigger. The bullet went straight for my sister. I thought it had hit her until I saw which body had hit the floor. It was my mother on the floor.
"Mother!" My sister yelled her name. She fell to her knees and shook my mother. A puddle of blood started to cover the floor in an instant. I could feel many feelings rush threw my body in an instant. Anger wa- no it was rage. Rage was the strongest of all the feelings. I whipped around and stared at the man who just shot my mother.
"You Bastard!" He just gave and evil little laugh.
"Now you know these aren't just toys." Now go find me what I want." He pointed the gun at Tama. She flinched. "Or I'll shoot her, and not miss." I glared at him, but ran up the stairs. As I did he called after me. "Oh, and you have thirty minutes. I don't like waiting. In thirty minutes I'm gonna shoot her." I ran up the stairs faster and ran into my dad's office.
When I opened the door I cursed my dad under my breath. Heh. My dad was never organized, and yet he was supposed to take over the company he worked for because he did such a good job. I started to rummage threw the piles and piles of papers in that office. I must have gone through several hundred stacks of papers before I looked at the clock. I saw that the thirty minutes were almost up. I didn't even know what exactly they wanted so I grabbed a stack of papers and ran out of the office. I ran down the stairs then gave the papers at Darknight. He took them as I ran over to my sister. I pulled her into a hug as he read the papers. I silently prayed for them to be the right ones.
I don't know why but I decided to look to my left behind the couch. Maybe something caught my eye... I don't know but I still looked. I saw my brother hiding behind the couch. I could feel my eyes grow as I realized he saw everything from that spot. He was shaking slightly. I wanted to so badly go over and hug him and tell him everything was going to be ok, but I wasn't for sure. At that moment a arm came into my vision. It grabbed my brother's arm and jerked his arm up. I looked at where the arm came from and saw Darknight. My brother let out a squeal of pain. Darknight just smiled evilly.
"Oh, so there was another one."
"Don't touch Yuta." I basically growled at him when I said this. He just laughed.
"You're too cheeky." He took his gun and pointed it at Yuta. As I jumped at Darknight he pulled the trigger. As I pushed him down my brother hit the floor, lifeless. My sister ran over to him as I wrestled with Darknight. Just when I was about to pin him he slammed me into the wall. I felt so much pain in my back that I let go of him. When I did he stood up and pulled out the papers I gave him. He threw them at me.
"Do you think I'm stupid?" I saw anger find its way to his face. "That's not what I wanted." He pointed his gun at me. "I would hate to shoot such a pretty face. Especially when you could please the boss." He pointed the gun at my sister who was still by Yuta, getting covered in his blood. "So I'll do this instead. I'll give you one more chance. Get me those papers or else." I glared at him put still got up and ran toward the stairs.
I started throwing papers everywhere. I looked on all the shelves and couldn't find anything that looked like what they wanted. Just when I was about to except defeat I saw my father's desk. I just knew that the paper's that they wanted were in there. I ran behind it and saw a drawer with a lock on it. I was happy to it. I started to look around for a key. When I couldn't find on I remembered what my father taught me. He taught me how to brake a lock with a bobby pin. I ran to my room and quickly grabbed on. As I left I saw the time. I only had three minutes left before he would shot Tama. I ran to my father's office and quickly opened the drawer. I saw a folder and knew that had to be it. I grabbed them and left the room.
As I got to the stairs I heard a gunshot. My heart hit rock bottom and died at that moment. I ran down the stairs as fast as light it's self. When I got to the bottom and ran to the spot my sister was I froze. Lying on the floor was Tama. Her eyes were still open. They showed no life. I fell to my knees not feeling my legs. So many things rushed through my mind. I couldn't process much so I didn't see Darknight take the folder. It wasn't until he spoke did I come back to my senses.
"Ahh. Looks like you found i-" He cut himself off after her opened the folder. His face dropped in shock then it quickly turned to anger. "What is this!" He threw the folder on the ground in front of me. When it landed on the ground it was opened. On the inside of the folder said inspiration. I looked at the papers that flew out of it and saw that they were pictures. They were pictures of my family. I silently cursed my dad and myself as I stared at the pictures. I heard Darknight growl. I looked up at him as the tears slid down my face. Anger was twisted in his face. If I wasn't so upset I would have been terrified. He took his gun and pointed it at me.
"You're dead now. I'm tired of you pulling my leg. I'm gonna kill you.
"Fine. Go ahead." I could feel anger rise within me. "I'm ready to die! I couldn't protect my family! I'm ready to die!" He took a step back in shock. I jumped at him and slammed him into the ground. I started to punch him. After a while the two guys that came with him pulled me off of him. I fought them as Darknight stood up. He wiped his mouth which was covered in blood from his nose. He glared at me.
"You cheeky little bitch!" He pointed his gun at me. "Get ready to die!" I closed my eyes ready when I heard it. Sirens. They all looked around panicked. "Damn! Let's get out of here!" They quickly left the house through the back door. When the police busted though the door I was in a ball on the floor crying my family's name out loud.
Kei looked at Cassandra with sadness. She knew he was because everyone did after they heard her story. That's why she didn't tell many people. She looked at the ground beside her. She didn't' want to make eye contact with him.
"What happened after the police came?"
"They took me to the hospital then questioned me. Before I would answer anything I wanted to know where my father was. They told me with sad faces that the plane he was on had technical difficulties and fell in the Pacific Ocean. Many lives were saved by a passing boat, but his wasn't. They said he died trying to save a little girl." Cassandra gave a small little laugh. "Funny. I'm not mad at my dad for doing that. The little girl was safe and that's all I cared really about after I found out this." Cassandra frowned. "After they concluded that I didn't kill my family they went after the real killers but could never find them." She fell silent. Kei pulled her into a tight hug.
"Looks like I was wrong. You do know how I feel… Well now let's help each other." Cassandra slowly nodded her head and silently cried into his shoulder.
"Ah! Cassandra and Kei!" Atsuo climbed down the wall of rocks and ran over to them. He looked at them worried. "Are you two ok?" Cassandra smiled at him.
"We're fine now." Atsuo looked at Kei.
"Are you ok?"
"Yea. I think I'll be ok for now on." Atsuo smiled at him.
"Good." He looked at the wall. "We've been trying to remove the rocks and almost have a hole made. As soon as we do we'll squeeze though it and get to the other side." Atsuo looked at them and smiled. "Care to help?" Cassandra and Kei nodded their heads and they all set to work on the wall. After several minutes a hole big enough for them to crawl through was made. Cassandra was commanded to through first. She nodded thanks and started to climb through the hole. When she reached the other side she heard her name said several times in several different voices. One stood out above the others because it was closest to her ear.
"Cassandra!" She felt arms wrap around her. She looked to her left and saw that Chioukichi was hugging her. "Thank god! I thought you were dead!" He looked at her. "You are ok?"
"Yea, nothing but a few scratches." She looked at Chioukichi and was surprised by the state he was in. He had a cut across his cheek and forehead. The one on his forehead was shallow. Both his cheeks were covered him dirt. His usually pale blue uniform had dirt all over it. His right arm sleeve was ripped. His pants were covered in dirt too. That's when Cassandra realized that Chioukichi was putting most of his weight on his left foot instead of his right. "Chioukichi!"
"Yes?" He looked at her with question on his face.
"Is your leg ok!" Chioukichi let go of Cassandra and looked at his leg. He smiled when he did.
"This is nothing." Chioukichi looked at her still smiling. "I was almost crushed by all the rocks. But because I have lasting luck I only got this."
"No you have bad luck that is countered by your good luck when it matters. But only slightly." Everyone turned and looked at Souta. Chioukichi glared at him.
"Thanks Souta." Chioukichi said with a flat tone. Souta nodded his head. Chioukichi looked at Cassandra and smiled again.
"Let's get out of the way so the others can get through." Cassandra nodded her head and walked over to Kuya, who was a few yards away from her. He smiled at her. She smiled back and turned back to the wall. She saw Atsuo crawling through the hole. Everyone was happy to see few scratches on him. Next came Kei. When Kei was through the whole Kazuya ran up to him and hugged him.
"Damn you Kei." Kazuya hugged Kei tightly. "You idiot! Why did you go back?" Kazuya pulled back from Kei and looked at him. Kei looked at Cassandra.
"I went back because Cassandra did." They all looked at Cassandra.
"As did it." Atsuo took a step toward Cassandra. "Why did you go back Cassandra?" Cassandra could feel panic set in her, but she kept a calm face. I can't tell them that I went back for a sheet of paper that Hinata gave me. They would start suspecting things. I don't have enough trust in them yet to tell them. Cassandra stuck her hand in the pocket the put the note in, as if to find something to help her.
"Uh. As we were running for some reason I felt something in my pocket. When I put my hand in it to get the item I knocked it out. I looked behind me to see a picture from when I was alive. It was of my family. I was so shocked to see it that I went back to get it."
"Your family?" Akira looked at her with curiosity.
"Yes my family." At that moment Cassandra felt something else in her pocket beside dirt and the paper Hinata gave her. She pulled it out and looked at it. She had to fight to hold in a gasp. What she pulled out was the picture she was talking about. The picture of her family at the park. Cassandra wanted a picture of them all so she told them to group up and she took the picture. How did this happen? I was just remembering it, down to the last detail, and now I have it. Kuya took a step closer to her and looked at the picture.
"Is that your family?" Cassandra nodded her head as a sad smile found its way to her face. Everyone started to come closer to have a look at the picture. Cassandra looked up at them.
"How did it get in my pocket though?"
"It's simple." Cassandra looked at Fusao. "You can make anything in this world. As long as you know its properties, and what it is made of then you can create anything, even from dirt." Cassandra felt her eyes widened.
"How do you know this Fusao?" Fusao smiled at her.
"Every book music device cell phone and regular clothes we have we each created ourselves." Cassandra looked back down at the picture amazed that she created it from dirt. She smiled as she looked at it. Her mother with was holding her brother. Her long hair brown hair with a red tint to it fall all the way down to her waist. She was wearing a short sleeve shirt. Her skirt fell just slightly past her knees. She had Cassandra's brother almost sitting on her hip. He had his arms wrapped around her mother's neck. They both had their eyes closed at they smiled. Her father stood to the right of her mother. His brown short hair was almost black. His eyes were opened as he looked through his glasses at the camera. He had a gentle smile on his face. He was wearing a regular button down shirt and a nice pair of brown pants. He had his left hand on Tama's head. She was smiling from ear to ear with her blue eyes opened. Her eyes complemented her brown hair. Her brown bangs just stopped above her eyes. Her hair went slightly past her chin. She had two thin ribbons in her hair on both side of her head that made bows. She was wearing a little bale blue sundress that fell just ever so slightly past her knees.
"Cassandra?" Cassandra looked at Kuya. He had concern on his face. "Are you ok?" When he asked that Cassandra realized that she was crying. She lifted up a hand and wiped her tears away.
"Yea I'm fine." She smiled at them all. She looked at the picture. "I just miss them so much." The tears started to come out of her eyes and down her face. She lifted her hands to her face and started to cry. She felt arms wrap around her as she heard someone speak.
"It's ok Cassandra. We're all here for you when your week." Cassandra looked at Fusao through bury eyes surprised. She wrapped her arms around him and cried into his shoulder. Man, I'm being really week today. I promise you guys now. I'll be stronger from this day forward.
Cassandra followed behind everyone as they walked farther down the hallway. They had started off again after Cassandra stopped crying and said she was fine. She watched them all and smile. I may have lost my family all in one day, but I found a new one in about an hour. Cassandra put her hand in her pocket and felt the note. Well, I have a chance now. Might as well as take it. She pulled the note out and read it. Careful when you reach the end of the course. Their gonna try to tick you. Be extremely careful. Well, I guess I'm glad I read it now. I guess I'll be extremely careful now.
Cassandra put the note up and looked up at everyone. She realized that they had gotten father ahead of her. She jogged up and reached them in a matter of seconds. She jogged until she stood next to the person farthest in the back. When she reached them she smiled at them.
"Hey Kazuya." Kazuya smiled at her.
"Hello Cassandra. You ok?" Cassandra nodded her head.
"Yep yep!" Kazuya let out a little chuckle answer to her response.
"Hmm. Hey, was Kei ok after the wall fell?" Cassandra looked at him for a while before she answered.
"Well he started to act strange..." Kazuya frowned at this information.
"Thought he would. Did he explain to you why?" Cassandra nodded her head. "Ever since our father died he'll act like that when a wall is formed." He got a sad look.
"How often does a wall form from fallen objects?"Kazuya looked at Cassandra.
"More often than you would think." Kazuya looked ahead at Kei. Cassandra did the same. She saw Kei and Chioukichi, with their arms thrown over each others shoulders, singing random songs that they knew. They both had big smile on their faces and were swaying slightly side to side. Cassandra giggled when she saw the look Souta was giving them. Glad to see that he's ok.
"After the incident with our father it seemed like walls would happen all the time. Our book shelves would fall and the books formed walls. Once at school the ceiling fell and cut off half the classroom from the other half."
"Really!" Cassandra looked at Kazuya shocked. He nodded his head.
"Yep. Many more incidents like that happened, and each time Kei would go in a sort of lock down state. The relatives that became our guardians were going to send him off somewhere to get fixed, but I wouldn't allow it. I fought them tooth and nail to keep them from sending him off. I don't think Kei knew about it though, and I'm happy for that." Kazuya looked at Cassandra. "You know, I think it's my fault on why he blames himself for our fathers death." Cassandra looked at him.
"How could it be your fault?" Kazuya looked back at Kei.
"You know how the older brother is supposed to be like a bully sort of?" Cassandra nodded her head. "Well I'm the older one out of the two of us. My mother told me this, and asked I not pull it over Kei's head. I never did. I especially didn't do it after my mother died. Whenever Kei did something stupid I never nagged him or encouraged him to do it again. When he told me he wanted to help our dad in the mines I didn't try to stop him. I bet if I had tried t stop him then he wouldn't blame himself for our fathers death. If I had just tried to stop him and told him how stupid it was to even think of helping him; then maybe he wouldn't feel such guilt."
"But wait Kazuya. Don't you feel guilt for what your brother feels guilt for?" Kazuya smiled at Cassandra.
"Yea... Kind of confusing isn't it?" Kazuya was quiet for a moment. "But I just feel like If I had done something then none of this would have happened. Or maybe the reason why I feel like this is because I lost my honor as an older brother." Kazuya smiled. "All I know is that I want to protect him from danger. From stupid things. From-" Kazuya was interrupted by Kei and Chioukichi's singing.
"TOOOOODDDDDDAAAAYYY!" They sang that one word as off key as it could get. Cassandra could have sworn that she lost her hearing for a moment. As Chioukichi and Kei were laughing Souta punched them both in the face. The force of his punch knocked them both down to the floor. They both held their cheeks in their hands as they looked up at Souta. Souta still had his hands in fists as he looked at them. As Cassandra got closer she could has sworn that there was a dark shadow on his face, and an irritated mark on his head. He basically glared at the two.
"You guys are going to make us all go death with your singing!" Chioukichi smiled at him.
"So sorry prince Souta. I'll never disgrace your presence with our lovely singing ever again." Souta took a step toward Chioukichi, who was smiling. Souta grabbed his shirt.
"You want to die now?" Souta basically growled this. He pulled back his arm ready to punch him when Fusao stopped him.
"Souta! Don't." Souta looked at Fusao.
"Fine," He grumbled. He let go of Chioukichi and stood up. Fusao looked at Chioukichi.
"Chioukichi you need to watch it. Sometimes you take it too far." Chioukichi stood up and dusted himself off.
"Your right." He looked at Souta. He held out his hand. "Sorry Souta. Everyone's been on edge in this new course so I was just trying to lighten up the mood. I went too far. Sorry?" Souta looked at Chioukichi's hand, sighed, then grabbed Chioukichi's hand.
"I forgive you." Chioukichi smiled at Souta then looked at everyone.
"Well come on everyone let's get going!" Chioukichi turned around and ran down the tunnel.
"Hey don't get ahead of me Chioukichi!" Kei ran after Chioukichi. Cassandra heard Kazuya sigh and turned to look at him.
"I swear. Kei and Chioukichi are more like brothers than me and him are." Cassandra giggled. Her giggling was cut off my a scream. Cassandra could tell it came from Kei.
"Kei!" Kazuya ran off after the two. They all followed him. God please don't let them be hurt. Please don't. Please don't! Cassandra kept canting these two words as she rounded a corner. When she did she froze. She saw Kei flat on the ground and Chioukichi's back across his stomach. Chioukichi's face was red as if he had run into something. When Cassandra looked up she saw that he did run into something. A dead end. Cassandra stared at the dead end as Chioukichi and Kei got a lecture from Kazuya and Fusao.
"Chioukichi!"
Kei!"
"Your both Idiots!" Cassandra laughed as laughed as Fusao and Kazuya yelled at the same time. "Only you two could run into a dead end!" As the two got yelled at Akira walked around them and looked at the wall. He started to run his hands along the wall. After a while of him doing that Akira found what he was looking for.
"Hey guys. I think this is the end." Everyone got quiet and he looked at them with a smile. "I think were done with this tunnel." He pushed on the wall and it started to turn. Behind the turning door was a white room. Just like the last course Cassandra did. Everyone started to walk into the room. Cassandra smiled as she walked toward the door when she remembered what the note said. Wait they'll try to trick us... Wait!
"Wait! Don't go in there!" Several of them stopped before they went into the room. only Akira, Kuya, Souta, and Akio were in the room. I have to get them out! "Guys! Get out of there!" Akira looked at her with question. He walked over to the door and looked at Cassandra.
"What do you mean? This is the end." At that moment the floor started shaking. The four that were in the room looked around. Akira looked at them then at Cassandra. Panic quickly covered his face. He looked at the other three in the room. "Guys! Come on!" Right then the floor gave out from under them. Cassandra jumped forward and grabbed Akira's hands. Souta grabbed Akira's foot and used his other hand to grab Kuya. Akio grabbed Kuya's legs by wrapping his arms around Kuya's legs. Cassandra could fell herself slipping across the ground. Oh no!
"Cassandra!" Fusao grabbed Cassandra by her waist. Cassandra didn't once turn her head to see if he had a good hold of her. She focused everything on her grip on Akira's hands. I can't let them fall!
"Akio!" Cassandra could hear Chioukichi's voice behind her. After he spoke he laid down next Cassandra and looked over the edge. Cassandra saw Akio look up at him.
"Yea?" When Akio spoke his voice sounded like it had strain on it.
"Think you can climb up?" Akio stared at Chioukichi before he spoke again.
"Where's that rope you always have with you?" Cassandra glanced at Chioukichi and saw the seriousness on his face. Cassandra glanced again and saw a look that showed he was going to talk about a fail.
"I left it there on accident."
"Chioukichi!" Cassandra heard Fusao bark at Chioukichi.
"Well, don't you remember what happened last night? Cassandra threw Kei and me into the bathroom." Wait that was last night! Cassandra was shocked that so much had happened since she threw them in the bathroom. Wow... That seemed like it had happened a week ago... Wait... I haven't even been here a week.
"I think I might be able to climb up." Akio interrupted Cassandra's thoughts. Cassandra looked down at him. "Think you guys can hold on at I climb up?"
"I think I can hang onto Akira's leg and hold onto Kuya." Souta informed them all. "But only way to find out is if you try. Come on Akio." Akio nodded his head and sung his legs up. Souta took in a gasp of air. Akio stopped for a moment then continues. Akio grabbed Kuya's knees and pulled himself up slightly. He reached a hand up and grabbed Kuya's waist. He pulled himself up and wrapped his lags around Kuya's. He reached forward and grabbed Kuya's shoulders. He slowly worked his way up until he was standing on Kuya's shoulders.
"Ready Souta? I don't know how much more strain your body can hold, but hold on a for a little longer." Souta smiled a pained smile at Akio.
"Just hurry up you dumbass." Akio smirked and reached up. He grabbed Souta's side and pulled himself up. Cassandra could fell strain on her body when he did so.
"Hold on Cassandra." Cassandra smiled at Chioukichi's reassurance.
"Don't worry," She told him. "I'm stronger now." Cassandra could feel determination cover her face. Akio climbed Souta's side and grabbed Akira's knees.
"Get ready Akira." All Akira could do was smile. Akio grabbed Akira's pants line and pull himself up. He used the same method he use to climb up Kuya to climb up Akira. When Akio stood on Akira's shoulders he looked up.
"Here, grab my hand." Kazuya reached down. Akio reached up and grabbed his hand. Kazuya slowly started to pull Akio up. When Akio was off Akira's shoulders Cassandra could feel weight disappear. When Akio got closer to the top of the ledge Kei reached forward and help pulled him up. Akio leaned up against the wall tired.
"Alright. It's your turn Kuya." Kuya looked up at Chioukichi.
"That's what I'm afraid of." Kuya reached up and grabbed Souta's forearm. Cassandra saw a slight pink tent to his face when he did. He then reached up and grabbed Souta's side. When Kuya's head went by Souta's face Cassandra saw Souta's mouth move. Kuya nodded his head and grabbed Akira's knees. Kuya slowly climbed up Akira. When he stood on Akira's shoulders Kazuya offered his hand. As he helped Kuya up Souta started to pull himself up. He slowly climbed up Akira, and reached his shoulders. When he stood on Akira shoulders Akira spoke.
"Hurry up! Cassandra can't hold us up much longer!" Souta looked down at him.
"I know that!" Souta reached up and grabbed Kazuya's hand. After Souta was firmly on the ground of the tunnel Akira looked up at Cassandra.
"Cassandra. You ready?" Cassandra slowly nodded her head. Akira reached up with one hand and grabbed Cassandra's forearm. He slowly reached up with the other one. He then reached up and grabbed her shoulder. Cassandra made her shoulders stiff to hole him up. When he had pulled himself up some Atsuo walked over to him and helped him up. After he was safely on the ground Cassandra rolled over and sat up. Fusao sat up too. She looked around,
Akio was quickly checking everyone. Kuya, Souta, and Akira sat against the wall. Akio would reach in his pocket and pull out bandages. Kei, Kazuya, Atsuo helped him with bandaging them all. Cassandra then turned and looked at Chioukichi. He had his legs crossed. Cassandra could tell that he was feeling pain from his right leg from the look on his face. His face showed pain and question. He had a hand over his mouth and his elbow rested on his knee. He was looking out at where a room was that was replaced with an endless abyss. Slowly the question turned into concern on his face. He tried to stand up, but when he did his right leg gave out. He started to fall down into the abyss.
Cassandra quickly stood up and caught him. Cassandra had to dig her feet into the ground so she wouldn't lose her balance. Chioukichi looked up at her. He smiled a weak smile.
"Thanks. Owe you one." Cassandra helped him lean up against the wall. He slowly slid down the wall and sat. He looked at the abyss. "How did they do it?" Cassandra looked at him.
"Do what?"
"They tricked Akira's sense's... He didn't know it was coming until it was too late. How did they do it..."
"Maybe their trying to test him?" Chioukichi looked at her.
"No... It's more like... Their trying to brake him. Like if they brake him then we'll quickly follow..." fear rushed through Cassandra in an instant. Their testing him... To see how far they need to go to brake him... Chioukichi might be right. If it wasn't for Akira we'd most likely still be in the beginning... Cassandra saw the shock in Akira's face. As if he couldn't believe they he didn't know the accident was going to happen. Hinata and I need to hurry. They've almost broke Akira, and judging by the looks on everyone's faces they'll soon follow.
Oh snap! I love this ending! I finally got to show Cassadnra's backstory and as a backflash to! =3 then you find out about the lovely Twin who are the coolest! So I think I showed a diffrent side of Cassandra in all of this. I hope you enjoyed the eneding. I just added more to the plot with out meaning too! Anyways thanks for reading please leave a review becuase it shows if I fail or not. Thaks for reading! *bows* Oh and what did you guys think of the light description of Chioukichi's uniform for the guys? All the guy's uniforms are slightly diffrent but still the same color.