I want to thank silvergoldmoonlight again for being my beta! Damn she is so good and fast _ with a snap of my fingers she's done reading and editing an entire chapter. Makes me wonder if I'm the only slow reader here XD
Chapter 5
"WHAT? What do you mean she escaped?"Kei slammed his fist on the table in front of him.
"Well... ummm." The guy fumbled with words.
"HOW?" Kei demanded. "Weren't you keeping guard at her cell?"
The guy cringed in fear. How should he say this to him? Rei was flirting with him and asking him to help her change her clothes. He, of course, agreed lustfully and neglected his duty. At the end he found himself doing laundry and not what he hoped to do.
Kei noticed that the guy won't speak anytime soon so he just gave another order.
"Capture her immediately!"
"H-Hai!"
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Kana breathed in and out, scared so much at what she was doing. She, right now, was planning to escape and the anxiety she was feeling at that moment was killing her. Her legs were barely holding her weight. It felt like they wanted to give in at any minute now.
She took a peek at her escape route. There were guards there patrolling, or should she say, playing cards right in front of the only exit. It was the final stage and after that, she will be out of this hell hole. She remembered her talk with Rei.
"Kana! Are you crazy!" Rei exclaimed loudly. "If you were ever captured..." She left the words hanging.
"I know but if I didn't save myself, no one will." Kana argued back. Rei stayed silent for a few minutes before she sighed.
"Okay, fine!" She reluctantly agreed. It must have taken a lot of courage for Kana to attempt an escape, knowing that a great punishment she would receive if she failed.
"Thank you, Rei-san," Her answer made Kana feel at ease.
"We just have to make the escape plan a success." Rei winked at her.
Rei showed her the shorts cuts and where the exit was, she also helped in luring the guards away. She was truly grateful with the amount of help she got and now she was in the last stage of their plan.
She took a peak at the guards again. There were three paths to choose for those who come from the outside to inside. The front, the left and the right path. Kana was sneaking glances from the right path.
She needed to avert their attention somewhere else. She looked at the small rocks on her hand. She was planning to use them.
You can do this Kana!She cheered herself on before she swiftly threw the rock in front of her and made a dash back, rounded the empty corner and used the wall as a shield.
"Did you hear that?" One of the two guards said.
"Yes, I did." The other replied.
"I'll go check it out." The first one walked and looked left to where he heard the noise.
"I can't find anything." He shouted from a far.
"Look deeper." His friend shouted back. YES! So far, so good. Now she would use her other rock to get the other guy away. I'll finally escape.Just when she was about to throw the rock, the emergency alarm went on.
"Danger! Danger!" A robotic voice rang through the entire place. Kana almost got a heart attack from it.
"What? Are we under attack?" She heard the chair creak from the sudden movement.
Oh no!This was bad. The fact the emergency alarm rang sooner than expected was not part of the plan. She heard hurried footsteps which made her heart and body stopped for a second. He will see her at this rate.
He turned the right corner in a rush and ran after that.
Kana breathed a sigh in relief as she managed to react fast and opened the first door in her sight. She pressed her ears on the door to hear any movement but there was none. Her legs gave away from all the nervousness she was feeling. She felt like she was acting in a Mission: Impossible movie. Now that the guards were gone, she could finally escape. She opened the door slightly and sneaked a look outside.
Good, no one is there. Just when she was about to open the door, she heard someone speak, startling her.
"What are you doing?" Her heart almost dropped to her abdomen. She turned her head around, just to see Beyond, laying on his stomach, resting his chin on his palm while his other hand was holding a laboratory flask, full of some strange liquid, rotating it while looking bored as hell.
It was the end. Her escape plan was thrown out of the window. She got caught.
"I said, what are you doing here?" He looked at her.
She could still lie her way through. "I was just cleaning."
She laughed nervously. "I'll get going." She pointed at the door and slowly turned the knob.
"Okay then, good luck." He waved her goodbye and Kana quickly got out, closing the door when she was out. After that she ran at full speed towards the exit, her salvation.
She was suddenly pulled backwards harshly, causing her to fall down.
"I found you." Kei eyes narrowed unpleasantly, his hands hold her collar chain.
No, no, no!"Let go!" She shouted. Her hopes had been crushed into millions of pieces now.
He ignored her and started walking back, pulling her chain with him. Kana didn't struggle, knowing if she gave up now, she won't survive, but she couldn't do this anymore. She was only hurting herself, especially when he was pulling her collar: it was another way to choke someone to death. She had difficulty standing up because of his pulling but she managed to stand and follow him, feeling the pain in her neck.
They reached back to her nightmare. She wondered what they would do to her since they found out she planned to escape..
"Oi, blackie-Chan!" Beyond waved happily. "Oh, I see... she failed in escaping. You gotta cut her some slack, blackie."
He knew?Kana then remembered that he could dictate lies. She completely forgot with the stress she was and still is feeling.
Kei glared at him. "If you knew she was planning to escape, why didn't you stop her?" Beyond just shrugged.
Kei rolled his eyes at him and pointed at her. "You are granted to torture her as much as you want. Make it terrible to the point she won't ever dare to escape again. Just don't kill her."
Kana eyes widen in horror.
"Yay! I get to play with Kana-chan again." A sinister smiled crepted up his face.
"NO!" Kana shouted. "Please! I swear I won't ever try to escape again. I'm really sorry." She pleaded.
"That what you get for trying to escape." He pushed her towards Beyond and closed the door.
"Don't leave me with him!" She banged her fist on the door repeatedly. "Someone, anyone, SAVE ME."
"Don't worry Kana, I'll be real gentle with you." His eyes shone maliciously.
She screamed with fright before her torture started. Even the guards backed away and started to leave the place. They didn't want to hear the screams of a defenseless girl all night and they didn't want to hear the merciless laugh all night either.
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A week after the escape. (2 weeks after the kidnap)
Kana never thought she would say this but she was crazy. No, scratch that, she was insane. Attempting a second escape? Yes, she definitely, had lost her mind. Maybe the torture she had been through made her brain fall and sprouted two legs to run away. She couldn't believe she could actually do it, especially after literally dying from torture. Was she not scared? No, she was terrified so much that she lived a week flinching, and looking around paranoid. She almost attempted suicide a couple of times if Rei wasn't there to stop her every time.
Now, what made her attempt a second escape? She didn't know herself. She was just cleaning the hallway when she saw the exit door. No one was guarding it. Kei and Beyond were out, doing who knows what. Nobody... was there to stop her... but her fright won over her again and for some reason, her legs started to walk towards it as if they had a mind of their own. Her walking turned into a jog and from a jog it turned into a sprint.
The thing that bewildered her the most, was the fact that her escape was a success. She was here, outside, with fresh air and the sun hitting her flesh. It brought tears to finally see some light. She lived the past two weeks in a place with barely any light. Even relief made its way through her veins but the emotion that conquered all, is happiness. She was happy... an emotion she had lost and had replaced by fear, fright, and loathing. She missed this feeling the most. For a moment, she truly believed she would live a happy life until a thought crossed her mind.
Now that she have escaped... where should she go? She had no home to go too. No family to greet her happily and lastly, no hope. She thought of going to the hospital but the thought itself was ludicrous. She could have her wounds attended to but questions will raise themselves as to what happened to her. The police would get involved and when they ask her, 'who did this to you?' what would she answer? A yokai did this to me? They wouldn't believe her and on top of it, she might find herself in the mental hospital because her story was plain absurd. They would think she was scarred enough to make up some nonsense. Besides, those two might want her back if they found out she escaped. They may slaughter the police officers and doctors - God knows how much she didn't want that.
Her friends? She was afraid they would find her and kill them but it is the place theywon't think of. She could stay there for a few days and then be on the run again. She liked this idea and she would do it, that is, if she survived with this open wound. Ever since she got out, she had never stopped running until now and that opened the wound in her abdomen. Whose house was closer, she wondered.
Rikuo-kun...
She no longer ran. She was dragging her feet with the support of the wall towards Rikuo's house. Every step she took, she felt like she was being stabbed repeatedly. Her huff stopped abruptly when she noticed a snowflake fall down within her eyesight. Eventually, more started to fall making Kana admire the beautiful scene. She held out a hand and watched as a snowflake danced its way through to her palm. She stared at the snowflake in awe. For the first time, Kana accepted death. She will at least die happy that the one who got tortured was her and not her friends.
She looked in front of her just to find herself near his house. She walked slowly and dropped down in pain and exhaustion. She won't make it. She will die here, outside of his house, happily. The snow, dancing, made her heart brim with happiness. She would only have one regret, and that is, not seeing her friends one last time. She closed her eyes tiredly as she let darkness take her away.
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Rikuo closed the door in relief. He was happy that Kana woke up, even though she cried till she fell asleep. He wondered what happened to her.
He walked towards his room direction, feeling like all the energy in him got drained from being with her. He rounded a corner and came to a stop when he saw Zen. He remembered that he wanted to talk to him.
"Zen-san." He greeted.
"I told you to drop the formalities." Zen shook his head. It seems like he never listened to him. Rikuo just laughed it off.
"You came to me to ask about her condition, right?" Zen said, straight to the point. Rikuo nodded.
"She seems to have various wounds all over her body and some may take months to heal." Zen started to explain her condition.
"She is fine now but I still need to get a blood test." Zen narrowed his eyes at this. Rikuo noticed it.
"Why? Is something wrong?" When his clan was injured, Zen would just heal them and never seem to run any blood test.
"She wasn't supposed to wake up now..." He trailed off.
"What you mean?"
"I don't understand it myself, but for some reason, her wounds are healing faster than a normal human's rate." Zen found it very suspicious."I'm running a test to find out."
Rikuo nodded his head in understanding. "Anything else?"
Zen hesitated at whether he should tell him or not but figured that if Rikuo didn't find out now, he would find out later anyway.
"Yes... There is one more thing you should know." Rikuo stayed silent for him to continue. "She's... she's m-" He was cut off his sentence when a loud "Zen-sama!Zen-sama!" Was heard.
"What now?" He growled, frustrated.
A yellow bird came, flying to his shoulders and had a collar that had a small camera on it. He recognized that bird as their emergency alarm.
The camera lenses projected a magnified image onto the wall next to him.
"Zen!" A woman with a light brown hair screamed on the images. "Y-your grandfather..." Tears leaked from her eyes.
"He is dying! I can't save him! Zen, if you ever get this message, come here as soon as possible! We need your help." She looked at someone that cannot be seen from the camera position.
"Send this to him using the emergency bird!" She ordered and quickly closed her camera.
Rikuo was also watching with him, noticed the crisis.
"Go Zen!" He pushed him, which made Zen get back to his senses.
"I need to get there now!" Zen said, completely forgetting what he wanted to tell Rikuo.
The carriage that carried him became visible and Zen entered rashly. He was ready to leave when he remembered what he wanted to tell Rikuo.
"Wait! Rikuo I needed to-" He was cut off again, this time by Rikuo.
"You can tell me another time! Just go."
"It is really," The carriage moved. "... important..." Zen finished his sentence quietly as he watch the old-style Japanese mansion gets farther away.
He fall down in exasperation. Nothing seems to go right. He wanted to tell him that Kana Ienaga, his friend... she is...
Kana... is mute.
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... *Runs for her life*
Rose: Wait... I can explain! *Looks at the rabid fangirls with guns, swords, knives and bombs"
Leader of the Kana fanclub: Nothing you will say will save your life.
Rose: ... *runs for her life*
Leader: Get her! *Throws knives at Rose*
Rose: *Uses Kubinashi as a shield.* Sorry my husband! XD *Continues running*
Kubinashi: Why d-did you do t-this? *Looks hurt*
Rose: Stop being a drama queen you ain't dying! *Gets cornered* Woah girls... Calm down...
Vice-leader: Explain yourself!
Rose: I dropped hints! I swear! In the first chapter I gave a hint where Zen thought something strange on Kana's neck... Remember? Or in the second chapter I wrote 'She sobbed quietly.' Nobody sobs quietly after being tortured!
Leader: Save us your lame excuses.
Rose: *sulk in a corner*
Leader: KILL HER!
Rose: Wait! Don't you want to read chapter 6? Spare my life... At least kill me after I finish the story.
Vice-leader: Group meeting! *fangirls get together and whispers really loudly*.
Leader: We have decided to spare your life, in return, you better finish this story!
Rose: O-okay...
xNightDreamerx:YES! Finally! I feel bad though since I ruined it lol. Well you now know xD God, so many sadist fangirls LOL.
XxThe-Crest-Of-AnubisxX: Yeah! More will come :3 I think it goes back when Rikuo went to train in Tono Village and then went to Kyoto to battle. You could say Kana didn't go with her friends to Kyoto at that moment. At least that's the excuse I'm making lol.
silvergoldmoonlight: It doesn't contribute xD but you did give me work to do. It is awesome though. *sulk in a corner* It is a good punishment _ I'll never do it again.
Rei did suffer too so you can't expect her to be completely sane lol.
If the last line DOES qualify as a cliffhanger then this chapter is a cliffhanger + a plot twist xD?
Yeah she is! Poor girl! It is okay Kana *pats her head* you are safe... for now.
Rikuo! Damn... You better take good care of her now and yes, they aren't worth mentioning xD
Awesome D.T:As usually, aggressive XD and LMAO you troll! You will get that Ton dude dead XD
What can we do? He is an asshole! Poor all those he tortured. Of course Rikuo have to do all that. Also I wonder if you still like Kei after this lol.
Goodbye~ See you next Tuesday! *wiggles my eyebrows* Don't die on me yet.