FIC: Amaryllis - Chapter 19: Fight
Title: Amaryllis - Chapter 19 - Fight
Author: Anae
Beta: Tegthe
Fandom: Uragiri wa boku no namae wo shitteiru - Betrayal knows my name
Characters/pairing: Shusei/Hotsuma
Rating: eventual M/NC-17 (because it's gonna take while - boys need to grow up, plus well, manga wasn't too helpful for hot scenes)
Spoilers: overall thorough the manga/anime
Disclaimer: After finishing and re-working with this, I would deserve the boys, but no. Not mine. The song used belongs to Shinedown.
Summary: Both Shusei and Hotsuma struggled with their fates, with themselves ever since they were kids. This is how it happened - how two children grew up to be Zweilts, partners, and eventually, grew to understand and love each other.
A/N: DUMB GIRL FORGOT ALL ABOUT LJ AGAIN. I'M SO SORRY. SO HAVE MANY CHAPTERS AT ONCE AND DON'T BE MAD AT ME, OKAY?
Ps. Do you know the symbolic meaning of Amaryllis? "Success won after a struggle."
Chapter 19 - Fight
Red nights, white knights, marching into the fight
Drink me, shrink me, fill me to sink me
Shusei hopped backwards, barely dodging a blow that was aimed at him. A sideways glance told him that Hotsuma had done the same.
A glance cost him though - he had to block the next blow with his paired swords, and the power of that blow sent him flying backwards. Nevertheless, Shusei managed to keep his balance.
The Zweilt pair was fighting against the Duras Shusei had found using his crystal ball - Tsukumo’s ears had been a great, helpful asset as well. Takashiro had told the pair to go and find this Duras and defeat it - after all, the Duras was possessing a human body, causing ruckus around him, and that wasn’t something they wanted.
The pair had found the Duras indeed - a bare mid villain - but what they hadn’t expected was that the mid villain wasn’t alone. The Duras had three friends - same level as it itself was. The mid villains weren’t something to worry about, not when the Zweilt fought together as partners, one looking out for the other and filling each other’s attacks - but four Duras, never mind the level, was starting to be a little too much.
“Burn!” Hotsuma yelled, calling forth the flames he had been so afraid of to use before. But the situation was getting more serious and worrisome as the seconds ticked by, and if they didn’t do their best, they might as well lose. And losing here and now meant death for the both of them - it was something Hotsuma wasn’t ready for.
However, the mid villains were good at working together - which was rare, the Duras usually preferred to work alone - and by working together, the four managed to dodge and nullify Hotsuma’s powerful attack, even if only barely.
This meant they needed to use their weapons to finish these monsters off.
Hotsuma leaped to an attack as Shusei supported him - Hotsuma was the one with more offensive power, and Shusei’s role as his partner was to fill in the gaps and protect his partner the best he could. The brunette boy hasn’t been made for offense - he specialized in defense, which, at the moment, wasn’t an option.
If he could just get time, a short opening, he could use his spheres to make a cage for the Duras - that way he could exorcise and bind the monster, force it out of the human’s body. But no, the Duras weren’t going to let him do that - they seemed to be fully aware of what the Zweilts were capable of.
Not that it really was a problem - according to Takashiro, Toko and Tsukumo should arrive as assistance in any second. The only reason Hotsuma and Shusei had to take the offensive already was to make sure that the Duras wouldn’t escape again - this bunch had been pretty secretive, giving trouble to the police and Takashiro, even to Shusei and Tsukumo, for quite a while now.
“Hotsuma, don’t take any unnecessary risks”, Shusei told him as he dodged yet another blow, only to be forced to block another mid villain’s attack with his swords.
The Duras had to hop back within seconds though, as Hotsuma’s Master Stroke cut the air in the space where the demon had just been.
“I know!” Hotsuma growled. He wanted to finish these monsters as soon as possible - even if it meant taking risks. Shusei didn’t agree on that though - with taking risks, they probably could have finished all four mid villains, but since the other Zweilt pair was on their way, there was no reason to take the unnecessary wounds. Even more so because Yuki wasn’t yet with them, and there would be no one to heal those wounds - of course, the Giou physician could take care of the wounds after the Duras would be finished, but not before that. So it was better to play with care, to be sure.
Number of bullets ran through the air with incredible speed, taking one of the mid villain’s by surprise. The bullets threw the Duras out of its human host, binding it to the air with holy powers. “Exorcise and bind!”
Before the Duras could do a thing, a huge sword slashed through it, killing the monster. Its body disappeared with a loud scream.
Toko landed on the ground, looking at the three remaining Duras’ with despising gaze - these monsters had no right to take a human body as their own, manipulate and force the poor human to do unthinkable, cruel things.
Tsukumo stood a bit further away from the Zweilts and the Duras’, metallic gun glistening in his hand - the boy used a gun as his weapon, and like Shusei, he was specialized in defense. Thus, he was able to exorcise and bind the Duras, forcing them out of the human bodies - in their partnership, Toko was the one with more power.
“Took you long enough!” Hotsuma growled at the pair - he didn’t mean any harm, not really, but he was still annoyed by the situation.
The Duras’ weren’t too pleased of how things were turning out - especially the one who had just lost his fighting partner - they might’ve stood a chance against one Zweilt pair, but two… The tables were turned, and the odds weren’t exactly in their favor.
One of the three took his chance, launching an attack towards Tsukumo. The silver haired boy had no option but to dodge - he wouldn’t have been able to fire in time.
That created a path for the demon, an opportunity to escape - which the monster took willingly, disappearing into the night.
Tsukumo froze for a second, mind whirling. He wanted to chase after the Duras - an enemy he had allowed to flee - but his heart didn’t want to leave the other Zweilt pair.
“You take care of that one!” Hotsuma yelled, attacking the nearest Duras with his Master Stroke, making sure that not yet another enemy would be able to escape. “We’ll handle these two!”
“But…” Toko started, more than a little worried about the two boys - she didn’t want to leave them alone, to fight against two Duras’. Not that it should be a problem, but still…
“Don’t worry, we can handle this”, Shusei said, giving her a small, reassuring smile. “We can’t let any Duras escape, can we?”
The brunette Zweilt was right - they all knew it. Takashiro wouldn’t be pleased if they’d go back, telling that they let even one mid villain escape. Surely, the man wouldn’t yell at them - it just wasn’t his style - but there were more ways to break a person, to know that they had let him down.
The Zweilt knew Takashiro had a wicked way with words - even if most of them had never experienced it, not in this life at least - and that he could easily make you shrink, feel like the biggest failure in the world.
Besides, none of them wanted the Duras freely running in this world - the less demons there were, the better.
“Fine”, Toko finally agreed, turning her back on the Zweilt pair, running after the Duras that was making an escape. If they were quick enough, they’d be able to trace the monster down. It was easier for the Murasame siblings than for the other Zweilt’s - after all, both of them heard what the others did not.
Tsukumo didn’t follow his sister immediately. Instead, he looked at Shusei. The ‘Ear of God’ was sharp - he could tell that not everything was okay between the pair, even if things had seemed to get better lately.
More than that, he worried about Shusei - Shusei hadn’t been engaged in the battle with the Duras yet, meaning that none of the Zweilt had seen how well he was able to use his powers. Tsukumo did trust his friend - he was simply worried whether the two could actually make it without driving themselves to the brink of exhaustion.
It was easy to notice the Zweilt’s worry, especially since he didn’t make it any secret. Shusei let out a small chuckle, looking at the younger boy with reassuring eyes and a small fake smile. “Just go.”
Tsukumo nodded, finally turning his back on the pair - he wasn’t fond of leaving them, but if he didn’t trust his companions, what in the world could he trust in? Nevertheless, Toko was already on the move, looking for the runaway Duras. She didn’t possess exorcising powers, meaning she would have to fight the Duras without exorcising it, meaning that either she would let herself to be hurt or to kill the Duras and the human host along with it.
It was something Tsukumo couldn’t allow - she was his beloved sister and partner as well.
As the silver haired boy left, Shusei let out a breath, focusing on the matter at hand. Hotsuma was effectively taking care of the two mid villains. He could only use his weapon against the demons though - flames would burn the human as well.
Shusei jumped to the midst of the battle as well - even he couldn’t exorcise and bind two targets at the same time, not with the way he was now. Letting one escape wouldn’t be acceptable, not by any means.
So they would just need to be quick and precise.
Shusei extended his hand forward, letting the paired swords disappear. He was counting on Hotsuma to keep both demons at bay - without his weapons Shusei wasn’t much of a threat. Of course, he could still make a barrier to protect himself, but that would prevent the binding spell, since all his magic used the light blue spheres.
“Exorcise and bind.”
Light blue spheres with a black cross in the middle appeared, shooting themselves to the ground beneath the mid villains Hotsuma was fighting against. In seconds, the Duras was forced to leave its host, the human body slumping to the ground. The Duras on the other hand was floating in the air, caught in the cage.
Naturally, the demon tried to get out of the cage, hitting the bars. But that was to no avail - this magic was holy, made especially for fighting Duras, to bind them in one place so that they could be finished.
Hotsuma hopped backwards, taking a stance close to Shusei, making sure that the other Duras wasn’t going to attack his partner. “Say your prayers”, he taunted the monster, cruel smile appearing on his handsome face. The blonde youth lifted his Master Stroke high in the air behind him, calling forth the highly destructive powers he had. “Burn in the flames of hell, you monster!”
The Duras’ scream cut through the night air as the scorching flames hit it, burning it to ashes, making sure that the demon would never rise again.
Shusei let the cage disappear, turning his attention to the other Duras, who had smartly decided that defending his fighting partner wasn’t worth it. Instead, the monster had found its feet, and was running away from the battle, as quick as possible.
Both Hotsuma and Shusei realized that the distance between them and their target was too big to be cut short by feet - there was just no way they could catch the monster by running after it.
“Shit!” Hotsuma cursed, running after the mid villain, not caring how pointless it may be - they had to at least try, right?
Shusei extended his hand, considering using another spell. From this distance, there was no way he could use the exorcism, the target was too far away, but he could use the only offensive spell he had - Cry Crow Diomedes.
But because it was an offensive spell, it would stop the target, alright, but it would also not only hurt the Duras, but also the human. There was a high possibility that the spell would kill the human.
It might not have been as powerful as Hotsuma’s flames, but the black needles would shoot through the body. Unlike the flames from hell, they wouldn’t kill immediately. The Duras would be stopped and harmed, but so would the human - the needles might kill the human, might not.
Did they want to take such a risk?
Shusei considered it. Finally, he lowered his hand. Their aim was to stop the Duras, all right, but they were doing that in order to save lives. Human lives.
They weren’t doing this in order to take them.
Even if Shusei didn’t possess much love towards the humankind - not towards anyone but Hotsuma in general - but it didn’t mean he wanted to kill anyone. So he didn’t shoot.
Instead he ran after his partner, only to find an exasperated Hotsuma in the nearest crossroad, cursing. “Shit!” he yelled, hands closing to fists as the weapon disappeared.
Shusei didn’t say anything about the matter - it was clear what had happened. They had failed to fulfill their duty, letting the Duras - a bare mid villain - escape.
“Let’s go home”, Shusei simply told Hotsuma.
They started to walk towards the mansion in silence - despite the drizzle of rain, the younger boy wanted to walk. Shusei didn’t have any objections - not that he ever did - and set on following his partner.
They had failed. It would mean more work for him, more work for everyone. More than anything, it would mean meeting an unhappy Takashiro.
It was something Shusei wasn’t looking forward to.
Author: Anae
Beta: Tegthe
Fandom: Uragiri wa boku no namae wo shitteiru - Betrayal knows my name
Characters/pairing: Shusei/Hotsuma
Rating: eventual M/NC-17 (because it's gonna take while - boys need to grow up, plus well, manga wasn't too helpful for hot scenes)
Spoilers: overall thorough the manga/anime
Disclaimer: After finishing and re-working with this, I would deserve the boys, but no. Not mine. The song used belongs to Shinedown.
Summary: Both Shusei and Hotsuma struggled with their fates, with themselves ever since they were kids. This is how it happened - how two children grew up to be Zweilts, partners, and eventually, grew to understand and love each other.
A/N: DUMB GIRL FORGOT ALL ABOUT LJ AGAIN. I'M SO SORRY. SO HAVE MANY CHAPTERS AT ONCE AND DON'T BE MAD AT ME, OKAY?
Ps. Do you know the symbolic meaning of Amaryllis? "Success won after a struggle."
Chapter 19 - Fight
Red nights, white knights, marching into the fight
Drink me, shrink me, fill me to sink me
Shusei hopped backwards, barely dodging a blow that was aimed at him. A sideways glance told him that Hotsuma had done the same.
A glance cost him though - he had to block the next blow with his paired swords, and the power of that blow sent him flying backwards. Nevertheless, Shusei managed to keep his balance.
The Zweilt pair was fighting against the Duras Shusei had found using his crystal ball - Tsukumo’s ears had been a great, helpful asset as well. Takashiro had told the pair to go and find this Duras and defeat it - after all, the Duras was possessing a human body, causing ruckus around him, and that wasn’t something they wanted.
The pair had found the Duras indeed - a bare mid villain - but what they hadn’t expected was that the mid villain wasn’t alone. The Duras had three friends - same level as it itself was. The mid villains weren’t something to worry about, not when the Zweilt fought together as partners, one looking out for the other and filling each other’s attacks - but four Duras, never mind the level, was starting to be a little too much.
“Burn!” Hotsuma yelled, calling forth the flames he had been so afraid of to use before. But the situation was getting more serious and worrisome as the seconds ticked by, and if they didn’t do their best, they might as well lose. And losing here and now meant death for the both of them - it was something Hotsuma wasn’t ready for.
However, the mid villains were good at working together - which was rare, the Duras usually preferred to work alone - and by working together, the four managed to dodge and nullify Hotsuma’s powerful attack, even if only barely.
This meant they needed to use their weapons to finish these monsters off.
Hotsuma leaped to an attack as Shusei supported him - Hotsuma was the one with more offensive power, and Shusei’s role as his partner was to fill in the gaps and protect his partner the best he could. The brunette boy hasn’t been made for offense - he specialized in defense, which, at the moment, wasn’t an option.
If he could just get time, a short opening, he could use his spheres to make a cage for the Duras - that way he could exorcise and bind the monster, force it out of the human’s body. But no, the Duras weren’t going to let him do that - they seemed to be fully aware of what the Zweilts were capable of.
Not that it really was a problem - according to Takashiro, Toko and Tsukumo should arrive as assistance in any second. The only reason Hotsuma and Shusei had to take the offensive already was to make sure that the Duras wouldn’t escape again - this bunch had been pretty secretive, giving trouble to the police and Takashiro, even to Shusei and Tsukumo, for quite a while now.
“Hotsuma, don’t take any unnecessary risks”, Shusei told him as he dodged yet another blow, only to be forced to block another mid villain’s attack with his swords.
The Duras had to hop back within seconds though, as Hotsuma’s Master Stroke cut the air in the space where the demon had just been.
“I know!” Hotsuma growled. He wanted to finish these monsters as soon as possible - even if it meant taking risks. Shusei didn’t agree on that though - with taking risks, they probably could have finished all four mid villains, but since the other Zweilt pair was on their way, there was no reason to take the unnecessary wounds. Even more so because Yuki wasn’t yet with them, and there would be no one to heal those wounds - of course, the Giou physician could take care of the wounds after the Duras would be finished, but not before that. So it was better to play with care, to be sure.
Number of bullets ran through the air with incredible speed, taking one of the mid villain’s by surprise. The bullets threw the Duras out of its human host, binding it to the air with holy powers. “Exorcise and bind!”
Before the Duras could do a thing, a huge sword slashed through it, killing the monster. Its body disappeared with a loud scream.
Toko landed on the ground, looking at the three remaining Duras’ with despising gaze - these monsters had no right to take a human body as their own, manipulate and force the poor human to do unthinkable, cruel things.
Tsukumo stood a bit further away from the Zweilts and the Duras’, metallic gun glistening in his hand - the boy used a gun as his weapon, and like Shusei, he was specialized in defense. Thus, he was able to exorcise and bind the Duras, forcing them out of the human bodies - in their partnership, Toko was the one with more power.
“Took you long enough!” Hotsuma growled at the pair - he didn’t mean any harm, not really, but he was still annoyed by the situation.
The Duras’ weren’t too pleased of how things were turning out - especially the one who had just lost his fighting partner - they might’ve stood a chance against one Zweilt pair, but two… The tables were turned, and the odds weren’t exactly in their favor.
One of the three took his chance, launching an attack towards Tsukumo. The silver haired boy had no option but to dodge - he wouldn’t have been able to fire in time.
That created a path for the demon, an opportunity to escape - which the monster took willingly, disappearing into the night.
Tsukumo froze for a second, mind whirling. He wanted to chase after the Duras - an enemy he had allowed to flee - but his heart didn’t want to leave the other Zweilt pair.
“You take care of that one!” Hotsuma yelled, attacking the nearest Duras with his Master Stroke, making sure that not yet another enemy would be able to escape. “We’ll handle these two!”
“But…” Toko started, more than a little worried about the two boys - she didn’t want to leave them alone, to fight against two Duras’. Not that it should be a problem, but still…
“Don’t worry, we can handle this”, Shusei said, giving her a small, reassuring smile. “We can’t let any Duras escape, can we?”
The brunette Zweilt was right - they all knew it. Takashiro wouldn’t be pleased if they’d go back, telling that they let even one mid villain escape. Surely, the man wouldn’t yell at them - it just wasn’t his style - but there were more ways to break a person, to know that they had let him down.
The Zweilt knew Takashiro had a wicked way with words - even if most of them had never experienced it, not in this life at least - and that he could easily make you shrink, feel like the biggest failure in the world.
Besides, none of them wanted the Duras freely running in this world - the less demons there were, the better.
“Fine”, Toko finally agreed, turning her back on the Zweilt pair, running after the Duras that was making an escape. If they were quick enough, they’d be able to trace the monster down. It was easier for the Murasame siblings than for the other Zweilt’s - after all, both of them heard what the others did not.
Tsukumo didn’t follow his sister immediately. Instead, he looked at Shusei. The ‘Ear of God’ was sharp - he could tell that not everything was okay between the pair, even if things had seemed to get better lately.
More than that, he worried about Shusei - Shusei hadn’t been engaged in the battle with the Duras yet, meaning that none of the Zweilt had seen how well he was able to use his powers. Tsukumo did trust his friend - he was simply worried whether the two could actually make it without driving themselves to the brink of exhaustion.
It was easy to notice the Zweilt’s worry, especially since he didn’t make it any secret. Shusei let out a small chuckle, looking at the younger boy with reassuring eyes and a small fake smile. “Just go.”
Tsukumo nodded, finally turning his back on the pair - he wasn’t fond of leaving them, but if he didn’t trust his companions, what in the world could he trust in? Nevertheless, Toko was already on the move, looking for the runaway Duras. She didn’t possess exorcising powers, meaning she would have to fight the Duras without exorcising it, meaning that either she would let herself to be hurt or to kill the Duras and the human host along with it.
It was something Tsukumo couldn’t allow - she was his beloved sister and partner as well.
As the silver haired boy left, Shusei let out a breath, focusing on the matter at hand. Hotsuma was effectively taking care of the two mid villains. He could only use his weapon against the demons though - flames would burn the human as well.
Shusei jumped to the midst of the battle as well - even he couldn’t exorcise and bind two targets at the same time, not with the way he was now. Letting one escape wouldn’t be acceptable, not by any means.
So they would just need to be quick and precise.
Shusei extended his hand forward, letting the paired swords disappear. He was counting on Hotsuma to keep both demons at bay - without his weapons Shusei wasn’t much of a threat. Of course, he could still make a barrier to protect himself, but that would prevent the binding spell, since all his magic used the light blue spheres.
“Exorcise and bind.”
Light blue spheres with a black cross in the middle appeared, shooting themselves to the ground beneath the mid villains Hotsuma was fighting against. In seconds, the Duras was forced to leave its host, the human body slumping to the ground. The Duras on the other hand was floating in the air, caught in the cage.
Naturally, the demon tried to get out of the cage, hitting the bars. But that was to no avail - this magic was holy, made especially for fighting Duras, to bind them in one place so that they could be finished.
Hotsuma hopped backwards, taking a stance close to Shusei, making sure that the other Duras wasn’t going to attack his partner. “Say your prayers”, he taunted the monster, cruel smile appearing on his handsome face. The blonde youth lifted his Master Stroke high in the air behind him, calling forth the highly destructive powers he had. “Burn in the flames of hell, you monster!”
The Duras’ scream cut through the night air as the scorching flames hit it, burning it to ashes, making sure that the demon would never rise again.
Shusei let the cage disappear, turning his attention to the other Duras, who had smartly decided that defending his fighting partner wasn’t worth it. Instead, the monster had found its feet, and was running away from the battle, as quick as possible.
Both Hotsuma and Shusei realized that the distance between them and their target was too big to be cut short by feet - there was just no way they could catch the monster by running after it.
“Shit!” Hotsuma cursed, running after the mid villain, not caring how pointless it may be - they had to at least try, right?
Shusei extended his hand, considering using another spell. From this distance, there was no way he could use the exorcism, the target was too far away, but he could use the only offensive spell he had - Cry Crow Diomedes.
But because it was an offensive spell, it would stop the target, alright, but it would also not only hurt the Duras, but also the human. There was a high possibility that the spell would kill the human.
It might not have been as powerful as Hotsuma’s flames, but the black needles would shoot through the body. Unlike the flames from hell, they wouldn’t kill immediately. The Duras would be stopped and harmed, but so would the human - the needles might kill the human, might not.
Did they want to take such a risk?
Shusei considered it. Finally, he lowered his hand. Their aim was to stop the Duras, all right, but they were doing that in order to save lives. Human lives.
They weren’t doing this in order to take them.
Even if Shusei didn’t possess much love towards the humankind - not towards anyone but Hotsuma in general - but it didn’t mean he wanted to kill anyone. So he didn’t shoot.
Instead he ran after his partner, only to find an exasperated Hotsuma in the nearest crossroad, cursing. “Shit!” he yelled, hands closing to fists as the weapon disappeared.
Shusei didn’t say anything about the matter - it was clear what had happened. They had failed to fulfill their duty, letting the Duras - a bare mid villain - escape.
“Let’s go home”, Shusei simply told Hotsuma.
They started to walk towards the mansion in silence - despite the drizzle of rain, the younger boy wanted to walk. Shusei didn’t have any objections - not that he ever did - and set on following his partner.
They had failed. It would mean more work for him, more work for everyone. More than anything, it would mean meeting an unhappy Takashiro.
It was something Shusei wasn’t looking forward to.