"I'm a captain. Whenever I look at myself, I always remember that my mission is to protect my fellow teammates. At all costs. Even at the cost of my life. Well, I never knew that it would have to come up now. I'll protect him, even if it costs me my life!"- Kasamatsu Yukio
Chapter 16: The Power of Love Protects (filler chapter)
"Huh… where am… I?"
Kise's eyes began to open slowly. They were watery, so his vision was a bit ripply. He attempted to sit up, but something painful in his stomach shot him back down.
"Oh, yeah… I remember seeing Akashicchi… what happened after that? I don't remember anymore…"
"Ryota," said a cold voice.
Kise looked around, but he couldn't see anyone there. He clenched his fists and sucked his teeth. "Who's there?! Show yourself!"
There was a slight chuckle. "Ah, I see. You don't even remember my voice. The only person who calls you by your first name. So it is true, as I suspected."
"Akashicchi! C-Come out!"
"Was that an order? You've changed, Ryota."
The blonde struggled to stand on both feet, but he finally succeeded, his left arm clutched tightly to his hurting abdomen.
Out of the shadows came a silhouette. A small one, to be exact. Finally, there appeared Akashi Seijuuro, captain of Rakuzan and the silent murderer of Seirin. The blood tainted son of a bitch.
Kise managed to put on a troubled smile. "Wh-What are you doing here?"
"To finish you off, of course. Can you not process the details?"
The latter gasped as he figured out the answer to his own question. "No way! You're the one who killed all my friends?! What the fuck, man?! Just why?!"
Akashi grinned evilly. "Sorry, but I can't tell you why; you needn't know that. And, if you hadn't noticed, Tetsuya was the blame of everything. Poor boy, he didn't do anything, but he's still gets placed behind bars. Oh, my."
"So you're telling me… that Kurokocchi was framed because of your evil ass?! You dirty son of a bitch! I'm going to bring you to justice!"
"That is… if you can."
At the park, Kasamatsu was sitting at a chess table. Waiting. "Where is Kise? He knows better to not be late; I'm going to hit him when he comes."
'Speaking of which, I do feel sort of… off today. Something keeps on chipping at my head. It's annoying.'
An old man with a small ice-cream truck came over to the young captain and smiled. "Would you like some, young man? I just added some new flavors to the menu this morning."
"Oh, thank you very much. I'll take… the lemonade sherbet with cream wafers and… rainbow swirl with sprinkles."
The old man began scooping and placing the desired flavors in two wafer cones and handed them to Kasamatsu. "That'll be 500 yen please." He extended his hand as the latter dug into his wallet and gave him several gold coins. "Thanks, young man. May god bless your soul."
"Anytime. See you around!" Kasamatsu got up and began to head in the direction of Kise's house. 'Strange, I've never seen that old geezer around here before. Besides that… that blonde bastard! How dare he keep me waiting!'
The sun beat against him without anymore, as it was the arrival of Spring. Kise's lemonade sherbet began to melt, and Kasamatsu grew irritated. He began to sprint a bit faster, and then a sharp pang entered his brain. He fell down to one knee, resulting in both treats splattering on the pavement. 'Crap!'
His brain was pounding like a hammer and nail, and he screamed. Luckily no one was around him to hear. Then he went unconscious for a few seconds.
A voice resounded within Kasamatsu's head, saying, 'Come, come. Forget everything that's just occurred and come! He's waiting for you. He's about to die at my hands. You love him, don't you? Take a look for yourself.'
A picture flashed. A disturbing one. Blood on the ground. The picture was flickering as if it was an old film playing. Kise was sitting on the floor with one arm on his knee, blood drooling from the corner of his mouth.
In the background, someone short was laughing and grinning, but Kasamatsu's subconscious couldn't recognize it. That pissed him off.
The mind event passed away, and the captain's eyes flew open once again. He clenched his fists as he tried to sit up, resulting in him breathing harder than usual. "K-Kise… I'll… be right there!"
Kise struggled to stand up. He coughed up blood in the prices. At least his legs were functioning; his final escape tool. His clothing was almost shredded into nothing, and the corners of his body were leaking with blood. He gritted his teeth in pain.
Akashi couldn't stop chuckling. "Fun, this is so fun, Ryota! Do you not agree?! Your life is hanging on nothing but a mere thread! Two more strikes and you'll be dead like nothing." He extended his arm in front of his face, the soaked-in-blood army of red-scissors hovering in midair. The red head hesitated for a while, then commanded, "Go!"
The scissors flew straight for Kise in a flash at an utterly surprising fast speed; faster than the other times.
Luckily, the blonde was a bit faster this time. He built momentum on his feet, grunted, and sprang to the left, evading the attack. Suddenly, the scissors changed their course, and went to the left. Kise ran for the right, then to the left again, right, left, foward, rolled on the ground, ran diagonally, and the such, breathing heavily. His wounds were opening by the second, and he couldn't stay conscious for much longer.
A scissor slashed him by the leg out of nowhere. He sank to one knee and looked up from his tangled hair that was hanging in the front of his face.
Akashi had retreated his army and made them disappear. "It seems that it'll take more than that to defeat you, huh, Ryota? You're one strong little bitch."
"Th-Thanks for… the compliment, asshole," Kise remarked between breaths.
The latter sucked his teeth. "Excuse me? What did you just say to me? My words are absolute; do not use the same tone against me for that is disrespectful."
"No… you are n-not…"
"Huh?"
The blonde struggled to get up once more, his legs shaking and pulling him back down with every attempt, but he finally did it. "You won't be able to kill me… until the fire in me goes out. Plus, I can't die, at least not y-yet," he said, sweat dripping from his forehead.
Akashi snorted. "Why do you say such things? You're almost dead."
"I- I still have hope. In myself, and right here." He pointed to his chest. "I have a very strong love for someone, Akashicchi. That's why… that's why you won't be able to succeed in killing me! I can't leave this world, because if I do… it'll make him sad and I don't want that to happen. I want, no. I yearn for the both of us to get married and die together in happiness! In that case, I… won't be the first one to go down." Kise made a serious expression, his eyebrows narrowed.
Akashi turned around and shrugged his shoulders. "What do you know about love? You're just a brat who thinks that they have the best of what this filthy has to offer," he stated. He turned back around. A heavy, dark, musky red aura surrounded him as he spread his legs far from each other and opened both of his fists. His eyes glowed brightly with the red and gold heterochromatic forms, resulting in Kise squinting in the brightness.
"Now, Ryota, taste the true wrath of my raging anger in this one final attack!" The scissors gathered before him once more, but there were ten thousand more than before. The aura enveloped all of them, and it slowed Kise's movements down by a tenth of it's original speed. His breathing grew heavier, and his wounds were spouting blood. Blood that burned.
Kise's vision grew hazy, and his staggering legs were losing balance. He dropped to the ground with a thud, crying. He cursed internally and laughed with agony.
'So, it was Akashicchi who put Kurokocchi behind bars, huh? How did I not notice that any sooner? We would have stopped him dead in his tracks and brung him to justice. Well, I- I guess that's… not gonna be h-happening…'
His eyes were flickering, fighting to stay open. Before him, the army of scissors were spinning clockwise at super high speed which was creating a strong wind, blowing Akashi's jacket behind him boss-like. "It's the end of the line, Ryota!" Akashi clenched his fists in front of him and the scissors sprang into motion with a deafening noise, causing their sharp points to unite as one and cut through the air, faster than the speed of sound.
Suddenly, the scissors stopped. A soft yellow aura spread throughout the room, creating a calm serene atmosphere.
The redhead turned around and shouted, "Who's there?! Show yourself!" He resumed his attack immediately.
The blonde realized this and grimaced tightly, preparing for the worst.
"As long as there's hope, we must never give up," said a voice. "As humans, we must continue to live to see the future and our future generation succeed."
'This voice,' Kise thought.
"That's why," the voice continued, "that's why… we have to get rid of you first, you SON OF A BITCH!" There was a shattering of glass, and the person with the voice came in swinging through the window, landing on both feet.
"Keishiki: Shouji Kin Barrier!"
A yellow stream of light shot from his body, halting the attack dead in it's tracks. The scissor tried to break through the barrier but failed. Akashi sucked his teeth and brung it back to his side, folding his arms in surprise and agitation.
"Oh, I'm surprised to see you here, whoever you are. To think that you would have the resolve and strength to withstand my wrath… you're quite the big-shot."
Kise smiled and breathed out a breath of relief, clinging on to dear life before going out cold. He spared a bit of his time crying tears of joy. He almost evaded death by the person he loved the most.
"That's right, Akashi-san. I'm Kasamatsu. Kasamatsu Yukio!"
Yay! Sorry that I took a long time to update! The following chapters (that will be fillers also) will probably include fighting with magical powers like Naruto and DBZ, which you had a glimpse at today. Yeah, yeah, Keishiki: Shouji Kin Barrier is a made up defense attack that I made. Besides all the nonsense I just said, please RnR! :()