Week 32, Day 1 || Dream ||
Warnings: Massive tl;dr, angsty things, etc..
“Come on, Yukio. Hurry up or yer gonna be left behind!”
“I-I’m sorry...”
“Don’t be sorry, ’s okay. I’ll help~!” A small hand tugs on a sleeve, the hand belonging to a small child no older than six, with jet-black, messy hair and bright blue eyes, wearing a big, wide smile. The other boy looks similar to him with slightly lighter colored, neater hair, glasses and little moles on his face; he looks to be a bit younger than the first boy.
There’s clear apprehension on the latter’s face before he slowly manages a smile, the first boy pulling him forward a bit before he moves on his own. The pair of them look so happy together as they run outside, the scenery lush, bright and colourful with the sky blue and cloudless above. At the gate ahead of them, leading outside of what looks like a well-kept yard, is a single man.
He’s much older than them, with greying hair and tinted glasses, dressed in a priest’s outfit, wearing quite an affectionate smile as the two boys approach at last. “There you two are. I was starting to wonder if we were going or not” he teased lightly, ruffling the hair of both boys who grinned right back up at him quite happily.
“I was helpin’ Yukio catch up, dad!”
“Being the big brother as you should be, Rin. Good boy~” A chuckle escaped his lips at the small pout that formed on Rin’s small face, moving to stand up, a soft familiarity and happiness in his weary face. “Now let’s go. It’s a big day for us and we don’t want to be late, do we?” To that, he turned and headed out of the gate, the two twin boys following after happily.
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The scene there fades out and when it reappears, Rin looks as he does within Kannagara but... he’s surrounded by a group of people. Three boys and two girls. The two girls are entirely different in appearance, with one girl petite, having dark purple hair in pigtails and red eyes, while the other is a bit similar in frame but has a rounder face, lovely green eyes and short, blonde hair. In terms of the boys, they’re quite different in appearance as well. Ranging from a short, quiet boy with glasses, a taller, slim one with pink hair and the last with dark brown and blond hair. He’s got piercings and a rather scowly expression on his face as he argues with the two boys about something or another.
All of them seem to be sitting around a campfire of sorts and it’s nighttime by the looks of it, the entirety of them wearing their school’s uniform to some extent.
“...You don’t get it, idiot. Miss that one damn verse and you’d screw it up. It’s like this...” The gruffier of the boys starts up, holding up a piece of paper at the pink-haired boy who just holds up his hands with a sheepish look on his face. “Got it, Bon. No need to show me. I know it’s like that with a verse changed around for that demon...” his voice trailed off as the quiet boy with glasses adds in his agreement to the two. “...Don’t expect me to save you if you get lost, got it?” Now it’s the girl with the darker hair, arms crossed as she glowers at the blond one, who simply just gives the other a reassured nod with a determined expression on her face.
“Of course! I understand, Kamiki-san.”
“You could have said that with a little less enthusiasm there, Shiemi...” Rin sighed, shaking his head but content with watching his friends all talk about their different things in their own way. This was so nice. It was warm here with all of his friends and they would back him up on things, no matter what happened. Being here was so comfortable and he kinda didn’t want all of it to end.
“...R-Rin?!“ It’s Shiemi’s voice all of a sudden, ringing out and snapping Rin back to attention. When he looks back to her, there’s this absolute look of horror on her face. But it’s not the only one. That look on some level mirror everyone else’s, while Bon seems to be scowling at him over anything else, and he doesn’t even understand why. “...Hey... what’s with those looks? Is there somethin’ on my face?” He reaches a hand up to touch his face in confusion, trying to laugh it off. It might have worked if not for the fact that with such a simple movement, it became apparent why they were all looking at him like that.
Rin’s entire body was alight with blue flames, two flames atop his head burning like a set of horns and a smaller burst of flame alighting the end of his tail. Instantly, the world came to a screeching halt and he backpedalled away from them, heart racing a mile a minute, Bon coming to the front and glaring even more hatefully at him with a hiss of “You fucking bastard!” snapping into the quiet air around them.
He didn’t understand. How did he... lose so much control? Not now...
“...You weren’t careful, brother. I told you. This is your own fault.”
The voice is sudden, suddenly loud and evident over anything else. It belongs to Yukio, looking older than Rin and standing behind his friends, a dark look in his eyes and his gun pointed at his brother’s chest. “Yukio... damn it you don’t get it.. I...” Shifting to stand as quickly as he could, he barely dodged a bullet that grazed his shoulder, narrowly missing him and causing him to step back out of instinct. However, as Yukio prepared to shoot again, the world seemed to shift and turn almost dizzying; this being a result of the ground shifting and then abruptly dissolving into nothing but darkness that swallowed him up. No matter how he fought, the darkness was beyond suffocating.
Breathing took twice the effort than it had before.
“My... dear.... son..”
Rin’s whole body froze up, that disjointed, twisted mess of a voice... he couldn’t forget it. The feel of arms placing themselves around his middle as blood dripped onto Rin’s shoulder from the man’s face; the one he refused to look at because it hurt so damned much. It was a Horrific mangling of the man whom he’d grown up calling father but... the man speaking... wasn’t him. “...Together we will go to Gehenna!” The man’s twisted voice was immediately followed with manic laughter afterward, spurring Rin to start struggling madly and thrashing against the man, a look of sheer hate, sadness and hurt on his face the entire time..
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[When Rin finally wakes up, he immediately sits upright, limbs tangled in the blankets and what’s visible of his skin is covered in cold sweat, a look of terror visible from where the hitomi’s sitting next to him, not even aware the hitomi is even recording...]
“Come on, Yukio. Hurry up or yer gonna be left behind!”
“I-I’m sorry...”
“Don’t be sorry, ’s okay. I’ll help~!” A small hand tugs on a sleeve, the hand belonging to a small child no older than six, with jet-black, messy hair and bright blue eyes, wearing a big, wide smile. The other boy looks similar to him with slightly lighter colored, neater hair, glasses and little moles on his face; he looks to be a bit younger than the first boy.
There’s clear apprehension on the latter’s face before he slowly manages a smile, the first boy pulling him forward a bit before he moves on his own. The pair of them look so happy together as they run outside, the scenery lush, bright and colourful with the sky blue and cloudless above. At the gate ahead of them, leading outside of what looks like a well-kept yard, is a single man.
He’s much older than them, with greying hair and tinted glasses, dressed in a priest’s outfit, wearing quite an affectionate smile as the two boys approach at last. “There you two are. I was starting to wonder if we were going or not” he teased lightly, ruffling the hair of both boys who grinned right back up at him quite happily.
“I was helpin’ Yukio catch up, dad!”
“Being the big brother as you should be, Rin. Good boy~” A chuckle escaped his lips at the small pout that formed on Rin’s small face, moving to stand up, a soft familiarity and happiness in his weary face. “Now let’s go. It’s a big day for us and we don’t want to be late, do we?” To that, he turned and headed out of the gate, the two twin boys following after happily.
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The scene there fades out and when it reappears, Rin looks as he does within Kannagara but... he’s surrounded by a group of people. Three boys and two girls. The two girls are entirely different in appearance, with one girl petite, having dark purple hair in pigtails and red eyes, while the other is a bit similar in frame but has a rounder face, lovely green eyes and short, blonde hair. In terms of the boys, they’re quite different in appearance as well. Ranging from a short, quiet boy with glasses, a taller, slim one with pink hair and the last with dark brown and blond hair. He’s got piercings and a rather scowly expression on his face as he argues with the two boys about something or another.
All of them seem to be sitting around a campfire of sorts and it’s nighttime by the looks of it, the entirety of them wearing their school’s uniform to some extent.
“...You don’t get it, idiot. Miss that one damn verse and you’d screw it up. It’s like this...” The gruffier of the boys starts up, holding up a piece of paper at the pink-haired boy who just holds up his hands with a sheepish look on his face. “Got it, Bon. No need to show me. I know it’s like that with a verse changed around for that demon...” his voice trailed off as the quiet boy with glasses adds in his agreement to the two. “...Don’t expect me to save you if you get lost, got it?” Now it’s the girl with the darker hair, arms crossed as she glowers at the blond one, who simply just gives the other a reassured nod with a determined expression on her face.
“Of course! I understand, Kamiki-san.”
“You could have said that with a little less enthusiasm there, Shiemi...” Rin sighed, shaking his head but content with watching his friends all talk about their different things in their own way. This was so nice. It was warm here with all of his friends and they would back him up on things, no matter what happened. Being here was so comfortable and he kinda didn’t want all of it to end.
“...R-Rin?!“ It’s Shiemi’s voice all of a sudden, ringing out and snapping Rin back to attention. When he looks back to her, there’s this absolute look of horror on her face. But it’s not the only one. That look on some level mirror everyone else’s, while Bon seems to be scowling at him over anything else, and he doesn’t even understand why. “...Hey... what’s with those looks? Is there somethin’ on my face?” He reaches a hand up to touch his face in confusion, trying to laugh it off. It might have worked if not for the fact that with such a simple movement, it became apparent why they were all looking at him like that.
Rin’s entire body was alight with blue flames, two flames atop his head burning like a set of horns and a smaller burst of flame alighting the end of his tail. Instantly, the world came to a screeching halt and he backpedalled away from them, heart racing a mile a minute, Bon coming to the front and glaring even more hatefully at him with a hiss of “You fucking bastard!” snapping into the quiet air around them.
He didn’t understand. How did he... lose so much control? Not now...
“...You weren’t careful, brother. I told you. This is your own fault.”
The voice is sudden, suddenly loud and evident over anything else. It belongs to Yukio, looking older than Rin and standing behind his friends, a dark look in his eyes and his gun pointed at his brother’s chest. “Yukio... damn it you don’t get it.. I...” Shifting to stand as quickly as he could, he barely dodged a bullet that grazed his shoulder, narrowly missing him and causing him to step back out of instinct. However, as Yukio prepared to shoot again, the world seemed to shift and turn almost dizzying; this being a result of the ground shifting and then abruptly dissolving into nothing but darkness that swallowed him up. No matter how he fought, the darkness was beyond suffocating.
Breathing took twice the effort than it had before.
“My... dear.... son..”
Rin’s whole body froze up, that disjointed, twisted mess of a voice... he couldn’t forget it. The feel of arms placing themselves around his middle as blood dripped onto Rin’s shoulder from the man’s face; the one he refused to look at because it hurt so damned much. It was a Horrific mangling of the man whom he’d grown up calling father but... the man speaking... wasn’t him. “...Together we will go to Gehenna!” The man’s twisted voice was immediately followed with manic laughter afterward, spurring Rin to start struggling madly and thrashing against the man, a look of sheer hate, sadness and hurt on his face the entire time..
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[When Rin finally wakes up, he immediately sits upright, limbs tangled in the blankets and what’s visible of his skin is covered in cold sweat, a look of terror visible from where the hitomi’s sitting next to him, not even aware the hitomi is even recording...]