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Chapter 9
When he let his guard down
She took out the knife and dived into the face. Rikuo, out of reflex managed to block the attack, losing his balance while he was it. He fell down on the floor with a thud following Kana, who pushed her weight on him with her knife blocked by his hand. Not only did she have an advantage by being on top of him, she also easily overpowered him because of the injured arm and the fresh wound he just got.
Kill him
He gritted his teeth in pain and tried his best to push the knife away from him. Beads of sweat trickled down the side of his face from the amount of energy he was using.
"Why are you doing this?" He choked the words out. She responded by letting one of her hands clench into a fist and punched him really hard on his new wound. He let out a cry of pain and loosened his grip on her hand letting her strike immediately to his face with her knife. He managed to dodge the attack by changing his head position in time just to receive only a cut on his cheek. The strike was enough to create a small crater on the ground. He didn't give her enough time to recover her knife back by rolling her aside and got himself on top of her instead.
"I said why are you doing this?" He demanded while he held both of her hand down. She head butt him across his face and reversed them back to where they were. She tried to get her knife back but found out it was stuck to the ground. That didn't stop her from forcefully sliding the knife across the dirt, displaying her inhuman strength. The knife went out enough for her to swiftly target his throat with the resolve to slit his throat open.
Someone... SAVE HIM!
She was punched in the head aggressively sending her flying into a wall, breaking it. The hit knocked all the air in Kana's lungs. She stood up shakily with an unsteady position. The sound of water dropping caught her attention. Her eyes fell upon the small hole that the water seemed to leak from and looked at the large water storage tank. She felt herself walk again with no control at all toward the large tank and smashed her leg at it, creating a dent on it. Even though she didn't know why she was moving against her own will that didn't mean she didn't feel the pain that shot through her. Was she controlled by someone? She was shocked when she found herself attacking Rikuo and couldn't understand what was going on.
She continued smashing her leg against the water tank with no explanation on why she was doing it. She, herself wondered what she would do next. With one last kick she created a massive hole in it. She jumped out of the away in time before the water fled out madly to her like it did to the hot spring like a waterfall. She walked slowly and watched the hot spring they were in yesterday flood quickly. What was she trying to gain from this? She spread her arms as wide as she could and slowly fell forward to the flooded water.
If you fail
She regained control of her body again and tried to get out of the irrepressible amount of water that kept on pouring. Just when she was about to get out she felt her head get shoved back inside the water.
Kill yourself
She looked at the intruder who did that to her just to be surprised by someone that look exactly like her. The only difference was that she had a black sclera and red iris.
"Now, now, Kana-chan. Don't resist." She smiled in a disturbing manner before she shoved her head back inside. Kana tried to struggle by risking her flutter kick and get her lookalike's hand out of her head. It was proved futile when she just sank deeper and deeper with her look alike pushing her down. Why! Kana thought furiously as she tried to push her away from her. As if she read her mind she gave her an answer.
"We were meant to die." She whispered, causing bubbles to float upward. She gave her a serene smile and then disappeared.
She tried to swim out with the short amount of time she had with her breath lasting but she stood frozen to her place. She couldn't move! Her paralyzed body was making it hard for her to move or even struggle. Panic coursed her way to her body as she realized that she would die.
She tried to not breathe in the water but out of her own free will she inhaled it. The burning sensation made its way to her chest. She wanted to use her strength to swim her way out but her body gave up on her and just made her sink further. She wanted to scream for help but no sound came out. Darkness evolved her vision and soon her body shut itself down to unconsciousness.
"Kana-chan!" Rikuo searched the area where he saw the pile of wood scattered around. He looked around frantically on a rock for the brunette but he couldn't find her. He continued to look just to see a body deep inside the water. He rashly jumped down and made his way through the water, leaving dispersal of ripples behind him. Blood tainted the water in a swirl motion while he dived inside and swim toward her. He encircled his arm around her and swam to the surface of the water. He trudged out the water breathing heavily and lay her down gently on a flat surface. He put his ear over her mouth to feel or hear if she was breathing but it was no use.
"Someone call 119!" He ordered the nearby yokai. Out of reflex, Tsurara was the first to move fast and ran inside to find a phone.
He elevated her feet above her body and waited 6 seconds to see if she will wake up but she didn't. He laid her feet back down and with two fingers he carefully lifted her chin and in preparation for CPR. He took a breath in and out to prepare himself first before he held his breath and compressed her lips. He blew air in her two times before he let go and had his hands in a pumping position with one of his hands on top of the other. He started pressing down hard and repeatedly underneath her chest thirty times while grimacing in pain. He repeated the cycle several times until she gagged the water out. He let out a sigh in relief before he crashed to the ground in agony.
After Kana regained consciousness from the terrible experience of drowning, it made her feel nauseous. She would never wish drowning on even her worst enemies. Hearing Rikuo cries jerked her back to reality. Her eyes widen in remembrance that she stabbed him. She wanted to explain to him that she didn't do it but all that managed to get out of her mouth was nothing. She probably looked like a dying fish that was thrown on a dry surface, struggling to breathe. She noticed his pained eyes that made her realize that she should help him first. She held his hand and thought of wrapping his arm around her shoulder just retreat it back because of a scary glare toward her from Ao.
Ao carried Rikuo bridal style making him let out another cry in pain.
"I'm sorry Rikuo-sama" He gave a quick apology and ran inside in hopes of finding someone that will help him. Everyone who woke up from the smell of blood followed Ao worriedly. He found a worried looking Tsurara biting her bottom lips helplessly.
"Yuki-Onna." Ao greeted in hopes of hearing some good news but instead he got bad news.
"I tried calling Zen-sama but he isn't answering." The person they needed the most wasn't here which only led panic to everyone in the room.
"Should I freeze his wounds?" She suggested to reduce the risk. They discussed among themselves over whether they should go with what she said or not and in the end they decided to go with it. Ao lay the passed out boy down in his room and let Tsurara do her job . There was a thick moment of silence between them until someone decided to bring the subject they all were curious about.
"About Rikuo-sama friend... Do you think she wants to kill him?" Natto asked, hiding behind Kejoro, afraid from their reaction.
"I say she is innocent! Awashima slammed his hand down on the wooden floor. "I bet someone was controlling her into killing Rikuo and wants us to blame her." He crossed his arms and huffed at what kind of bastard would do that.
"I'm on team Rikuo." He declared already knowing that Rikuo would be thinking the same thing. Kejoro, Reira and Yukari exchanged looks before they changed their position by sitting on the left side which meant they were on Rikuo's team.
"We are going to be on team Rikuo." Kejoro hide her smile behind her sleeves. Awashima gave a grin in victory and looked expectantly at the others especially Kurotabou. He let out a heavy sigh before he joined them. "The Nura clan have way too many enemies that want to kill the head of the clan for centuries now. It makes sense if she was controlled to do that." All the weaker yokai joined them after seeing Kurotabou there.
"YES! Our Kana-chan won't do anything to harm Rikuo-sama." They agreed loudly while high fiving each other over their choice. Kubinashi shook his head at what was going on and went to sit on the right side. They all raised their eyebrow at him.
"We deduced that she was tortured before she came here which led me to think that she could be mentally sick causing her to attack Rikuo-sama from the hostile feeling she have for him for what happened to her." He explained on why he didn't pick their side. "We might have to get her a psychiatrist or send her to a mental hospital."
Awashima couldn't help heave a sigh in disbelief. "Are you telling me that you think she is one of those people who are at risk of hurting themselves or others due to mental instability?"
Kubinashi nodded his head in a yes manner. It made sense as to why he thought that. He pieced the puzzle together from her past behaviour which led him to this choice. Ao went and sit next to Kubinashi, clearly declaring that he was in team Kubinashi.
Awashima gave a glare at the other team before he looked at Itaku in confidence. Waiting for him to pick their side but much to his dismay he picked the other side.
"I think both side have made good arguments but if I had to pick it would be this team." He leaned on the wall with his arm crossed.
Reira had a doubtful look on her face and wondered why they would think that.
"I don't like how the situation is working on her favor. It just too suspicious how almost everyone is siding that she is innocent. She could have planned this from the very beginning by wanting people to think that she was being controlled into doing that just so we won't suspect her but someone else." Everyone listened intently to his theory with interest.
"That is when we would be busy trying to find out who the culprit is giving her the chance to attack Rikuo again but unlike this time, she might actually kill him next time. She would use being controlled as an excuse an-" He was cut off by Awashima shouting at him to shut up. Both side were glaring at each other now. They looked at the remaining three innocent bystanders who didn't choose which team they were in with overwhelming aura.
"You are taking our side, right?" Kejoro targeted her question to Tsurara who cowered in fear toward Amezo and Dohiko. In their eyes it was just baseless theory vs theory.
"They will be in our side." Ao argued with her. Tsurara, Dohiko, and Amezo sweatdropped at the scene. It looked like world war 3 would happen any second.
"I forgot to go to the bathroom." Amezo pointed his thump behind him to emphasize the fact he need to leave.
"Look at the time." Tsurara looked at her imaginary watch. "I need to go cook."
"I'm going to help her cook." Dohiko turned around, ready to leave sneakily with the other two.
They managed to escape in time between the argument that they knew was going to come. They let out a sigh in relief in union and just walked the hallway together in thought.
"If we had to choose... Which would you have picked?" Dohiko asked the two beside him.
"To be honest both side made some valid points but," Amezo continued. "I just don't know..."
"I don't know either." Tsurara admit it.
If anyone saw them, they would think they were staring at each other but they were actually in deep thought.
"I'm going to check on Ienaga-san." Tsurara excused herself and changed her direction.
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Kana paced back and forth in anxiousness. Did they blame her? She wanted to explain herself. She wanted to tell them that she didn't attack him but was controlled to do so. She bit her thump in nervously. Did Rikuo think she wanted to kill him? She would never do that! She continued her pacing feeling very restless.
She ruffled her hair angrily at the amount of unexplained things that were happening to her. Who was her lookalike? Can a yokai copy people's looks too? No, that wasn't it. She knew who that person was and as much as she hated to admit it that person was definitely her. She didn't understand how there could be two of her. It was one of the many questions that lingered in the back of her head.
There was another question that was in her mind too. Who controlled her? She took a glance at the most suspicious and probably the culprit of what going on. The pumpkin just looked at her emotionless. There was a high chance that it could be it but what if it wasn't? No, it was just trying to make her doubt herself by looking at her like that. That was right, that was what it was trying to do. It was all a trick. The other her was probably his doing too. Trying to make her deceived into thinking it could be someone else. She assured herself into thinking it was him even if she doubted herself at the back of her head.
The sound of the door opening had Kana snap her head toward it. She expected to see Rikuo but to her disappointment it was Tsurara. She hung her head, expecting Tsurara's accusation at her for what happened but it never came. She took a peak and saw Tsurara putting down her sketchbook and her pencil. She immediately opened the sketchbook and held the pencil to explain herself. Her hand froze just when she was about to write down what happened. She tried so hard to write but couldn't. From the immobilization, the pencil dropped. A terrible realization came to her but she told herself not to give up yet. She managed to move her hand down to pick up the pencil but when she was about to write, the same thing happened again.
I can't write. She looked at the pumpkin with accusation. They would blame me for it..
She felt like she was hit with a brick. It wants everyone to blame me for what happened.She dropped the pencil and stared in shock. She stood up with her hair shadowing her eyes and sat in a corner, rocking herself back and forth while biting her thumb. The plan was perfect especially if she won't deny the fact she attacked him. Scratch that. She can't deny the fact she attacked him.
Tsurara looked at the girl's odd behaviour in confusion. She thought she would get a reason behind her actions but instead she didn't. Why won't she write it down? Did she really attack him out because she wanted to kill him? Or was there a reason behind that? She knew she won't get any answers after she was ignored so she left quietly.
Few hours later everyone decided to go back home and paid for the damage they have caused. The ride home was quiet but Kana didn't feel lonely especially when Awashima and Kejoro sat next to her, giving her assuring smiles. There were still some people who trusted her and that was what mattered to her.
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Blood stained the hand of a murder as the guilt of committing a crime broke them apart. Oh guilt, oh guilt. Did you know that you are an entity that feed off people's soul and live to break them? You made it your goal to eat humans heart and evenutally, kill them. I pity your victims. I really do. Why? Because I died... from guilt.
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Phew! DONE! I want to get rid of this XD I wonder if the ending was dramatic. LOL
Nayrael: I honestly don't know why we have disclaimers xD but I got used to seeing them so I just can't let them go.
Let it flow~ You should say he should grow a neck XD
It is alone Awashima who wants that lol.
Good people cookies? Is cake a good thing? XD It better be or I'll kill you. My lovely cheesecakes *watery eye* I'll forever love you.
Lmao! :3
xNightDreamerx: *chokes on her own spit* We should definitely have that as our logo! Genius! XD My partner in crime! Now, let go stalk him.
Fede194:It was cute :3 and yeah... Count me in XD I almost decided to take out that part.
Exactly! That is what I want :3 Accusing Kana for everything! Muhahhahah And wow you actually noticed an important part of the story.
Awesome D.T:*dances* Come at me bro! OMFG! How dare you! Leave Kubinashi alone! Yeah die. XD Wait... No! DON'T! First get me out of this freaking room before you die!
Bye guys~ Sorry for the late update.