I CAN FINALLY UPDATE
Jul. 22nd, 2008 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spottoAnyway, I was supposed to upload THIS yesterday but LJ was being a bitch...SO HERE IT IS NAO!
PART NINE
A menacing shadow lurked throughout the halls of the Kanto Region Prison. The outstretched arm gripped the air, as if attempting to strangle an invisible inmate. It approached slowly, yet in some way bellowing out for the apocalypse to arrive. The cry echoed into every cell almost like a warning…that something was going to come to take them all, and to give them their final judgment of fire.
Ako stared out the door’s window of her cell, uneasily anxious, yet at the same time curious. She felt as if she was the only person within the prison besides this mysterious visitor. Gulping, she stepped back from the window as she saw the everlasting light last no more, as if the shadow was negating the light away, the hope. She felt her back hit the wall, and watched as the claw reached through the door, telling her that it must’ve been some angry demon ghost raging back from hell for its undisputable revenge. It was almost there.
…and then she saw her face.
“Y-Y-Y-Yuuna…?”
Her cellmate smiled, but in a grin that most certainly did not accent the girl well, “Hello Ako.”
“How…where…what?” Ako could only mutter, still fearing as even seeing the monster revealed as her friend did not calm her. Yuuna took several baby steps towards Ako, pushing her own face ever-so-closer to the innocent at hand.
“I heard that conversation,” she started, her canines were much, much, much more sharper than it had appeared to be before, “Your little friend was right. You trust people far too easily…”
Ako shook her head, almost violently, with a tear trailing down her eye, “That’s not true!”
“Just like that, see? Naïve little Ako, thinking that evil can be friends. I’m a killer, Ako. Who says I won’t kill again? In fact, I believe I will right now…”
Ako continued to shake her head, this time several drops of water slid down her skin, but most of them were of sweat, and she edged towards the window, her eyes not dropping Yuuna from sight, “You…y-you wouldn’t do that! Y-you would never!”
“I love it when they deny. You really need to realize how many times I have lied to you. Don’t you see? You’ve been tricked by the devil himself. I’m no friend of yours, and nobody around here is either. It’s every girl for herself, after all.”
The trembling small inmate lowered to the ground, almost feeling crushed in some way, “I…but…what about…w-what about O-Oukouchi!? Isn’t s-she your…friend?”
“Oh, she was, but she cannot be forgiven for joining the enemy. You must understand why I had to do away with her first. By the way, thanks for saving Master Ku. She told me to stab you an extra time for her. How delightful!” She grinned, raising a butcher knife, and drawing a trail of blood on Ako’s chest, looking just like a target.
Ako could say no more. Her eyes were widened so much it rivalled the grin of Sakurako. She was cornered, and the only person she had trusted was about to do her in. This looked like the end of her, and she regretted not listening to Madoka.
Yuuna raised the butcher knife, about to thrust it into Ako’s already-bleeding heart, “Let’s see…that disappointment of a gang leader was stabbed about fifty-two times. Let’s make this one over a hundred!”
Ako tried to scream as she watched the knife dive into her chest cavity, but sound did not form. She could only hear Yuuna’s maniacal laughter as she was gutting the defenceless girl again and again and again. Her vision faded and blurred, and as her surroundings started to black out, she could see the faint outline of Yuuna Akashi strangely turn into that of an angel. The shape of wings stretched out from side-to-side, and a halo formed neatly over top the still laughing murderer. Heaven looked to be rewarding Yuuna for this horrible unspeakable deed…
“Nooooooooooooooooo!!!” Ako sat up so dramatically that she could have been mistaken for an actress in a soap opera. The silhouette of her cellmate holding what looked to be a butcher knife reappeared on the wall.
“KYAAAH!” Ako screamed, slamming her face down onto her pillow, while holding her head. Her sobbing could’ve been heard for several miles, but the somewhat soundproof walls made sure it wasn’t.
Yuuna looked at her strangely, while holding a banana in her hand. She unpeeled it slowly and took a bite, while trying to nudge Ako back to normal, “Ako! Are you alright!?”
“D-don’t…” Ako could only murmur through her uncontrollable crying. Yuuna stepped onto the bed, trying to console her. She attempted to bring the girl into an embrace, but was surprised as her arms were slapped back by the inmate.
Yuuna scratched her head, “Ako…it was just a nightmare!”
“N-no! It’s r-real! Y-you have a b-butcher knife in your hands!” Ako pointed at Yuuna, but did not raise her head to look at her at all.
“Um, I’m holding a banana…” Yuuna said, taking another bite of her banana.
“IT WAS THE SHAPE OF A BUTCHER KNIFE! NOT A BANANA!” Ako yelled, still refusing to turn around.
Yuuna looked at her other hand, “I’m also holding a pencil stuck to a piece of cardboard that has tinfoil wrapped around it.”
“…w-why are you h-holding something l-like that…?” Ako sniffed as she started to lift her head from the completely damp pillow.
“Well we’re on lockdown so I thought I’d steal tinfoil from the kitchen and create a little toy boat to pass the time! Damn, so it doesn’t look like a boat!? No wonder I failed art class…”
Ako finally somewhat settled down and faced her cellmate. She really was holding a pencil stuck to a piece of cardboard wrapped with tinfoil. Ako stared at it for a minute, and it looked ridiculous. She felt completely embarrassed, “Uhm…eh…sorry about that…?”
“That must’ve been some nightmare. You were being stabbed hm?”
Ako nodded, “Y-yeah…”
“With a butcher knife…?”
“Uh…yeah…”
“By me…?”
Ako was mortified, “What!? How did you know!?!”
“Didn’t look very hard to put two and two together!” Yuuna lifted her tinfoil boat thingy, “Also because that dream was not a dream!”
“WHAT!?” Ako literally jumped into the wall behind her, slamming her head.
“No! It was a nightmare! Ahahahahaha!” Yuuna felt very proud of her joke.
Ako slid back down the wall in comical fashion, her eyes narrowed in annoyance, “Yuuna…”
“I know; I’m sorry,” Yuuna started, “Just that these past few days have been so depressing, I felt the urge to lighten it up!”
The not-as-terrified-as-before inmate sighed, “That dream was so…realistic…” After that experience, Ako didn’t feel like even looking at her cellmate, speaking of which, why was she here?
“So I’m assuming I probably scare you right now because of that dream, right?”
Ako replied, “I think the fact that you keep reading my mind is scarier.”
“Oh really? By the way, the reason I’m here and not at the hole is because Akira said she had no time to take me back to the other building, and just put me in here! How nice is that?” Yuuna explained, smiling.
Ako raised her eyebrow, “Uh…Ako, wake up…you’re still dreaming.”
“I read your mind again?”
“STOP IT PLEASE…”
Yuuna raised and lowered her eyebrows several times, “And if I don’t…?”
“I’ll probably die of fright,” Ako replied.
“Oh. Well, I’ll jump on your bed and not bother you then!” Yuuna turned around and grabbed a book on the desk, “Let’s see, ‘Escaping Prison for Dummies’, ooh! I love this book!”
She climbed onto the ladder and sat on the bed in comfort, while opening her rather peculiar book. Ako could hear her intervals of laughter as she lay down on Yuuna’s bed. The clock was nearing the
“OH! By the way!”
“DAAAH!” Ako jumped up and grabbed her chest, breathing quick and heavily.
Yuuna had poked her head into Ako’s view, hanging on the top bunk, “Oops, did I scare you?”
“Oh gee, I wonder if you did,” Ako took a deep breath and leaned on the wall, “What was it you were going to say?”
“…uhm…uh…” Yuuna stroked her chin as if there was a nonexistent beard and she was some old wise master, “Hmm…I forgot.”
Ako sighed. She started to wonder if Yuuna coming back so quick was a good thing. She yawned again, resting her head onto her pillow once again, and closed her eyes. This time she felt that she wouldn’t dream again like she had before, but something was nagging her, as if she was forgetting something really important.
“OH!”
“DWAHH!?”
Yuuna chuckled, “I remember!”
“…Okay, what do you remember?” Ako asked.
“Hmm…uhmmm…no…wait…uhhmm…I think I forgot it again. Damn, Makie is contagious,” Yuuna scratched her head, “Geh…”
Ako fell back onto the bed, yawning, “Next time you remember, write it down or something…” She covered her mouth as she yawned a second time, and turned to her side to sleep once again. Her head sunk into her pillow, which was oddly comfortable this afternoon. The pillows usually felt like rocks otherwise.
“No…that’s not it. Damn, I have it on the tip of my tongue…uhm…uhh…OF COURSE!” Yuuna yelled in triumph, and leapt from her bed to find a piece of paper and pen to write it down. Her landing was not soft.
CRASH!
Ako sat up, seeing her cellmate on the ground facedown, “Uh…are you okay?”
“…I will be eventually.” She raised her left arm up, with a thumbs-up signalling that she would be okay…eventually.
The inmate got up slowly, rubbing her head. She reached for a small sheet of paper and grabbed a pen that was sitting on the top of the locker. Sitting down nicely on the ground, Yuuna started writing, “Yep. And that, and that. Of course that. Aha! Ako! I wrote it down!”
“Okay, so what were you going to tell me?” Ako asked, rearranging her position on the bed to that of sitting.
Yuuna flashed her sheet of paper, “Look! I drew Officer Iincho in a noose!” She noted the x marks that replaced the officer’s eyes, and the flames under the body.
“…looks like a palm tree.”
“Damnit!” Yuuna cursed.
Ako raised her eyebrow, “…so what were you going to tell me anyway?”
“Oh yeah. They found a head in the pipes! Isn’t that awesome?”
“…”
Her cellmate grinned, “Okay. So you don’t agree with me, but they said that someone in here did it. And the head belonged to an inmate! Isn’t that crazy? I heard it was that weird monster-woman’s head…who on earth would do that? Someone must have the guts and lacks the sanity!”
“…wait, what?” Ako felt she was hearing things, “It isn’t…that big…uh…”
“She was the leader to that gang allied with the Black Lilies! For our sake that’s good, though the amount of leaders going down lately might be worrying…” Yuuna stared at a little fissure in the ceiling, “What if Asakura is next? Who would be leader then!?”
Ako’s eyes widened. She remembered a bold threat she had heard before on the yard, “No…it couldn’t be…”
“What?” Yuuna asked, scratching her head.
“I…I think Asakura did it…”
Yuuna suddenly covered Ako’s mouth, “Quiet!”
They both heard footsteps drawing ever nearer to their cell, and they both witnessed the officer peering into their cell for a quick check. The officer then continue trotting off, checking up on other cells. Yuuna kept Ako quiet and also stayed quiet for a full five minutes, just to be sure. After they heard nothing but silence from the outside, she took her hand off Ako’s mouth.
“…w-what was that for?”
“If they find out you might know something they’re going to interrogate you until you’re dead. So I would keep quiet about your suspicions…besides, what makes you think our gang leader did it?” Yuuna whispered.
Ako frowned, trying to figure out how to explain, “She threatened to do what exactly happened to that inmate if she or her gang came after me…”
“And they did!?” Yuuna was almost shocked.
“No…but…it seems too much to just be a coincidence…”
Yuuna rubbed her forehead off the sweat, “That’s a relief. I thought for a moment Asakura didn’t keep the favour…”
“You don’t think she did it?”
“I don’t think she would do that, but if I know what gang leaders do around here, is that they find any way they can to be feared. Gang leaders would pay others to do their dirty work for them, so the people they pay get caught instead, and others would fear them…but I don’t think Asakura would do that,” Yuuna stroked her chin.
Ako pointed out, “But what if the person doing the dirty work tells them what happened?”
“Nah. Most don’t have the guts to if they know what’s good for them, ‘cause if they do, they become known as a snitch. Nobody likes snitchers, so they usually end up getting killed or beaten up pretty badly. Besides, what evidence do they have to support that someone paid them to do it?” Yuuna stroked her chin further, “Couldn’t be.”
“You two are so naïve,” a voiced echoed from the vent. Yuuna and Ako whipped their heads around, surprised.
Yuuna gritted her teeth, “What the hell is that supposed to mean, Chisame!?”
“Before you two came back here, they already took Asakura away for questioning. She hasn’t been back since. Pretty good sense that they caught her for it,” Chisame said, with a delicious touch of grumpiness in her tone.
“So she really did it?”
Chisame paused for a moment, but continued, “Do I look like a judge to you? I have no idea. She’s been acting stupid lately…maybe she finally lost it and went ahead with it, but who knows?”
“But Asakura wouldn’t do that! I mean if she would, she would have done it already. That’s how she plays!” Yuuna reasoned.
Their neighbour shrugged, though they couldn’t see it, “Oh well? Who cares, she’s been screwing us over lately anyway. I say we find a new leader.”
“Like who? Who would do better than her?” Yuuna narrowed her eyes questionably as she nagged Chisame further.
“I’m rather fond of people following my orders, actually,” Chisame said, smiling, though the other two obviously could not see her smirk.
Yuuna shook her head slowly, “Heh. Yeah, we’ll all be in graves if you take over. I’ll laugh if you become the leader.”
“Just for that, I’m going to order you killed once I become leader. You better watch it,
“I’ll probably be laughing too much to notice! The thought of Chiu being leader is so…hahahaha!” Yuuna couldn’t stop herself, “Besides, who says Asakura’s reign is over? She’s too clever for that…hahaha…Chiu leader…god. I’m completely…hahahaha!”
Chisame growled, “If we were in the same room I’d be choking you right about now.”
Ako saw her cellmate pounding the ground, still crying in a fit of laughter, “Oh man. You’ll probably kill me of laughter before you become leader! Hahaha! Damn that’s rich, Chiu as leader…hahahaha…Ako would become leader before you! Hahahaha!”
“If you don’t shut up I’m going to wring your neck once lockdown is over!” Chisame threatened, shaking her fist, but again the other two obviously wouldn’t be able to see it.
“Ako, kick me or something! I can’t sto—hahahaha!”
The quieter of the inmates looked hesitant, “Uh. Are you sure about that?”
“Pfft…hahahaha! I don’t care! Kick me as hard as you can! Hahaha! Damn, I can’t stop! Chisame…leader!? Bahahahaha!”
Ako shrugged and delivered the mightiest kick she could, for it was Yuuna’s rather foolish orders. The result was not as pretty or soft as Yuuna had expected. There echoed yet another crash in cell number 25.
CRASH!
Her kick sent Yuuna right into the door, almost knocking her out. Ako covered her mouth in fear, and quickly ran to her cellmate’s side. She was in quite a slump, almost as if her neck had been broken. Ako feared the worst. What if Yuuna was dead? She would’ve committed such a horrendous crime. Even if she were innocent of what she was in for, something like this would send her into the pit of guilt. She would have to end her own life before facing friends or families for what she had done. She gulped as she checked on her ‘victim’.
Of course, Ako didn’t need to overreact.
“Woah, Ako…that is some kick you have!” Yuuna said as she rubbed her head, sitting up, “The last time I was hit that hard was when Chisame hit me with the lunch tray, hoping I’d die!”
Chisame felt pleased, however, “Glad someone around here knows how to shut you up.”
“Ah! I’m sorry! You just told me to kick with all my power and I didn’t realize…I thought you were tougher than that and…ack! You don’t have a concussion or something do you!?” Ako was still panicking, though.
Yuuna laughed, though this time a humble laugh more than anything, “Don’t worry about it Ako. I’ll be fine. But if you show that powerful kick to the others, you’ll probably be a lot more respected ‘round here! How’d you develop such a kick anyway?”
“Oh, well I was kind of the star soccer player at my uh…school…”
She shot up, pointing her finger at Ako, “AHA! Another interesting fact about Ako Izumi! Your life doesn’t sound boring at all!”
“It’s just an everyday life, really. There are lots of people who play soccer…nothing special…”
Yuuna crossed her arms, standing up and looking quite dominant, “LIES!”
Ako fell to the bed, feeling the aftershock of such a powerful voice. She was almost bewildered, while Yuuna continued.
“You can play the bass guitar and you’re a soccer champion! And Master Ku told me you’re also some sort of nurse! You are very talented, Ako Izumi!” She sounded like a motivational counsellor, “That is the complete opposite of boring!”
“Of course you should be proud! Most people in jail have little talents or use their talent doing the wrong thing! They end up giving up, and end up robbing a bank for money or selling drugs down the street! That’s why they live here, Ako! You obviously don’t belong here because you could be a famous rock-star someday, or a successful professional soccer athlete, or even a doctor, saving lives! It’s every kid’s dream to go into the music business, or become a pro in a sport, or to go into the field of medicine to make every parent full of pride and joy!” Yuuna was standing on the rim of the toilet seat now, pointing at the air, “You have much potential, Ako Izumi!”
Ako’s attention looked to be focused on how ridiculous Yuuna looked rather than her inspiring words of wisdom, but she knew from the things she caught that Yuuna was making a point in at least one thing.
“So, does that mean you don’t have many talents, or you used them doing the wrong thing, as a result landing here?” She was more curious at Yuuna’s mysterious outside life.
Yuuna smirked, “Heh. All I ever did as a routine was spray-paint ‘YOU SUCK’ all over the mayor’s house, and then head to IHOP for some delicious pancakes the morning after.”
“Oh, so you were the one who did that…” Ako then remembered her field trip to the mayor’s office, and they had walked by the mayor’s house as a part of a strange tour. They discovered that vandals had ruined his house once again, “That was pretty bad penmanship though…”
Yuuna turned her head, grumbling, “Everyone’s a critic.”
BAMM!
The door slid open in an erratic fashion, and a swarm of men in what looked like S.W.A.T. gear pummelled the two inmates, slamming them to the ground, and yelling like madmen as if they were accused terrorists about to bomb a highly-populated area. Both were easily taken by surprise, and Ako almost fainted on the spot from the sudden takedown. She felt like an American football player who was flattened in a dog pile. They held onto her arms tightly, almost as if they were trying to rip her arms off. Ako virtually screamed.
“WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON!?” Yuuna yelled, struggling under the mess of testosterone. She felt the officers kicking her in the ribs, attempting to get her to stop struggling, but it was quite a natural reaction from her for everything she’s been through. She growled in confusion, trying in vain to escape out of the pile.
A powerful-looking man entered the cell, standing akimbo, “Was it really necessary to throw them on the ground like this? They’re only teenage girls after all…”
“Sir! We had to be prepared for anything at all, sir! That was why we took the extreme precautions, sir!” One of the officers said, saluting to the powerful-looking man, “Were we mistaken to do this, Sergeant Takahata!?”
“No, no. It is good to take precautions,” He said, staring down at them, particularly at Ako, “Bring that one with us. Keep the other pinned down.” He gestured for some of his men to leave the cell, and Ako was pulled up from the ground violently. She was quickly slammed in cuffs, but it felt like a super-maximum security area with the way all the other men were handling her. What did she do…again!?
Yuuna was furious, “NO ONE ANSWERED MY DAMN QUESTION!”
“We were about to answer, now shut the hell up or you can bond with my baton,” one of them said, raising his evil stick of doom just slightly above the helpless inmate.
Sergeant Takahata boldly stated, “Ako Izumi, you are under arrest for accessory to murder. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you…”
“ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?” It was Yuuna, not Ako, who was more shocked from what she heard. Her utter anger boosted her adrenaline levels to an all-time-high, allowing her to throw the man on top of her off to the side. She attempted to run out the door, to chase Ako. She was quickly tackled to the ground by a few more officers right outside the door, but Yuuna was not one to give up easily.
She stood up, treating the officers who were attempting to overpower her like squirrels latched to her limbs, “AKO! YOU’RE INNOCENT! FOR EVERYTHING! THESE IDIOTS CAN’T TAKE A CLUE! DON’T YOU TELL THEM EVEN ONE WORD, AKO!!!”
“Tase her!” An order was given out by one of the officers.
The sound of the excruciating electric shock was what made Ako swing her head around, seeing her cellmate cry out from the volts, “Yuuna!”
Ako was suddenly shoved by the officer behind her, who had a gruff and tough-sounding voice, “Look straight ahead, and no talking! You better not whine or cry or anything either! Do you understand!?”
“Y-yes sir…” Ako managed to say. She felt extremely worried about Yuuna who she knew was still flailing about behind her, and what of the current situation? What exactly happened now that Ako was being blamed for again?
Yuuna, amazingly enough, was still managing to stand. She was being jumped from every direction, but she still found the strength to stand up, maybe even walk for a few steps. Her left eye was closed, still cringing from the painful shock, and she knew there was more to come, but she was far too outraged to just quickly calm down. She braced for impact as she saw that black device close in again…
Ako, meanwhile, saw herself returning to that same room once again, the interrogation room. This time, as the ominous door slowly swung open, she could see every officer she had heard of in the building, and then some, all standing around solemnly, even Officer Oukouchi was there, her expression not a positive one.
The most compelling sight in the room was not of an officer at all, but of a certain redheaded gang leader leaning on the furthest corner from the door, her hands locked in handcuffs and her ankles chained in leg irons. She was not conscious, perhaps not even alive…
Ako felt her legs weaken.
END OF PART NINE
Anyway, some catching up:
1) I have beautiful new printer.
2) I also have a webcam. AKIRA! GET ONLINE! O:
3) I have been extremely clumsy lately. Bashed my shoulder, thigh at the same area TWICE, my knee, stubbed my toe...;__;
4) Mah watch be fixed.
Here's my room now, what with me having a new printer and so I print like crazy. I need to purchase some good quality paper later to make more big posters like my KazuSayo ones. So expect more pictures later!
What's so different about this, you ask? Well...nothing...except for a 25% increase in KazuSayo! Yes, this wall has become entirely Kazumi, Sayo, and KazuSayo. Rather than the "Negima wall" it's become the "OTP" wall. ;)
When you look up above the nonexistent TV, above my picture and some certificates, you get this. My six favourite characters lined up as if they are my trophies, LOL. Yes, there's a reason why Kazumi is situated a little higher than the others. ;)
These are my homeless figures. ):
They will yuri (Or Yaoi in Reno's case) for food...and shelter!
Ku Fei shall soon join their hoboness.
And the most changed wall, at least to me, is this! I now call it "The Negima Corner". On one side is a nice looking poster of Nodoka and Negi who I don't really care about but eh, and above and below are the fine arts of Ku Fei and Chisame. This is where Chisame relocated. I also added in Chibisame because she pwns. And on the other side of the corner is obviously my Yuuna, Ako, and Yuuko...Akuna....uh, YuunaxAko side! If you have good eyes, you will notice that every fanart of Yuuna comes from the same artist. XD
The room will be complete once I print three giant posters. Whatever they may be, you ask? You will soon see...
And that's my update. I probably wanted to put more but I obviously forgot due to LJ issues. >>;
Until next time!
This has been Spotto.
