364 days without you - chapter 14
KoKame
mrs_koki's request
Multichapter!Rating: PG
Warning: Blood, (implied) violence, death
Summary: Every year a secret masked halloween ball takes place underground. Little do people know that this is actually the hunting grounds for a few creatures of the underworld. On Kame's first time there he meets Koki, who is not what he seems...
Notes: Unbeted, I suck at summaries.... for the Trick or Treat challenge. The end is coming up soon :) late again, but I've been busy sorting out my job, and moving and everything.
And if you didn't see this already. I set up a KameDa community!! So if you write any KameDa stuff, please feel free to post them there (it would make me happy)
Kame blinked his eyes slowly. Everything seemed so blurry; flashes of various situations came to him. The green forest, the clear stream, his own face staring back at him before launching into battle against Koyama. None of it made sense.
Kame blinked again, the fuzzy shapes slowly making more sense to him. He could make out Koki’s eyes staring down at him in concern, worry, and astonishment.
“I’m not dead?” Kame croaked out quietly, his voice felt different. In reply to his question, Koki just hugged him tighter into his chest. Kame was relieved for the sudden affection, and the ability to once again snuggle in under Koki’s chin, but something at the back of his mind was telling him that this was not the time or place to be cherishing the moment.
A clearing of a throat caught their attention, Kame tried to pull back, away from Koki’s warm embrace to see a new person standing and staring down at them. As Kame stared at the new arrival, who seemed rather calm, if not slightly annoyed at all the chaos. The other simply stared back, raising one eyebrow as he examined the other. Quickly he turned his attention away and looked down at Tegoshi who was kneeling down on the floor nearby.
“Tegoshi, I hope that you are able to explain how you let the current situation get to this level and explain how you did not do anything to prevent it. You know the paperwork for the emergency backup dispatch is going to be chaotic, and I will not be doing it for you this time. Though I have to say, this is a lot worse than a misplaced protection charm.”
“Shige this is seriously not the time! And this was no way near anything I could control, so don’t you dare blame this on me, it’s a real emergency this time!” Tegoshi quickly jumped up, confronting the other, which Kame now assumed was also an angel.
“Well I can see why you got assigned to this kid, his aura is rather special”
“Smart arse, this was my mission, so don’t you dare start criticizing it all, no one can do this all perfectly like you can!!”
“Tegoshi…”
“Oh shut up! I tried my best; I just didn’t expect my charge to be stuck between two demons. Who can save a human from such high level demons huh? I’ve only been doing this for a short amount of time”, Tegoshi sniffed, “I did all I could, and it wasn’t enough” slowly the tears dripped down Tegoshi’s face. It finally got too much for him. Shige gently placed a hand on his head.
“Tegoshi, I wasn’t going to criticize, and from what I can see, this is definitely an unusual situation, but I still say that you should have noticed the clues in the aura” Tegoshi looked up at Shige, confusion in his eyes, before glancing at Kame. That’s when he realised what Shige was talking about… Kame had changed.
“Guys I don’t mean to interrupt, but we have to leave” All eyes turned towards Massu, who was currently being held up by Yamapi. His eyes portrayed fear while Yamapi looked around in disinterest.
“Massu’s right, we have to get out of here”
“And seal the Sub Mundo demons inside, we can’t let them filter out into the human world” Shige added, quickly shooing everyone towards the door. Tegoshi lead the way, while the others followed, Koki pulled on Kame’s hand when the other wouldn’t let him carry him. “I can walk” Kame pointed out.
Running through the hall while avoiding others seemed to make the hall appear larger, Kame never remembered the exit being this far away. He glanced behind them; he wasn’t sure why at first, but as his eyes rested on Koyama’s body lying on the floor motionless, slowly things made a little more sense.
“I did that didn’t I?” Kame muttered, catching Koki’s attention. They slowly stopped and Koki looked at what Kame was staring at.
“I think you did, though I’m not sure how” Koki answered, slowly Kame retracted his hands, folding his arms over his chest and curling in just a little.
“I thought I died” Kame whispered, the whole feeling was still there, the peacefulness, the freedom yet the hopelessness remained… “and then I killed him to live.” Kame shuddered, taking the life of another is a scarring event, he’d always heard how you lose a part of yourself if it happened, and how your humanity just slips away when it happens… but what if you killed a demon? How could that even happen in the first place? There were just too many things that didn’t make sense, and here he stood, at the end of a miracle with no clue where to go.
“Kitten, I promise I’ll listen to everything you have to say, and I’ll be there through it all, I won’t leave you, but I need you to move now, we can’t stay here.” With that, Koki took Kame’s hand again, pulling him towards the exit.
Just as they got closer, another person crashed into Koki. The two fell to the ground, leaving Kame to stand behind them and stare at the two on the ground. Koki growled, who on earth had knocked him down.
“Sorry Koki, I didn’t mean to do that, I was just trying to get out of here” Okura quickly got to his feet and pulled Koki up with him.
“Glad to see that you aren’t going crazy as well” Koki dusted himself down.
“Well I’m not really from Sub Mundo so I don’t see the point in it.”
“That’s a fair point” Koki turned to take Kame’s hand again, but found him face to face with another demon. Just before he was to step in and safe Kame again, an unexpected thing happened.
“Leave me alone” Kame muttered, and the demon paused, mesmerised by his eyes. Kame slowly blinked and the demon blinked in reply. “Go away” Kame tried again, cautiously taking a step closer to Koki without taking his eyes off the other. The demon slowly turned and then left. Leaving both Kame and Koki confused. Koki quickly returned to Kame’s side, grabbing his hand. Their eyes met and Koki was slightly taken aback by the slight glow in them. He frowned.
“What’s wrong?” Kame asked.
“It’s like you aren’t human anymore” Kame froze at Koki’s words. He would have stayed there lost in Koki’s words if Okura hadn’t kindly reminded them they needed to get out.
“So is there a plan to stop all this?” Okura asked as they made their way through the crowd.
“Seems like the Angels have stepped in and are thinking of a way to keep the demons in, we’ll just have to join them when we get out” Koki lead them down the corridor to the exit as he explained.
“Kame!” Tegoshi squealed as they ran through the door into the parking lot, “come help us, we’re trying to set up a barrier to stop non-humans from leaving the hall.” Kame stared wide eyed at that.
“How am I supposed to help?” But no one answered him verbally; instead Tegoshi took his hand which wasn’t being held by Koki’s. Kame could see Okura holding onto Koki’s other hand. Within moments a strange yellow light floated around, quickly covering the entrance to the underground hall. The energy that flowed through Kame felt warm and comforting.
A few moment’s passed and a couple of people managed to get through the strange yellow barrier, another moment passed and another ran head first into it, confused about being unable to pass. Koki went up to them and growled, scaring the other demon back into the hall to send the message to the rest.
It’s useless to get out now
Kame walked to stand next to Koki to get the other away from the barrier, he suddenly realised that the other couldn’t cross back into the hall, and therefore couldn’t return from where he came from. Kame wondered how much Koki was giving up to be standing this side of the barrier with him.
As he slowly pulled Koki away from the barrier, the frantic scream of a person caught his attention. As he turned back to see what was going on, he saw Ueda running down the corridor towards the exit.
“Ueda!” Kame called, causing the other to look up before glancing behind him again. Kame couldn’t see what Ueda was running from but he knew it had to be a demon. Ueda knew the reality behind the ball, and still came with Kame. He felt guilty for getting Ueda involved in such a thing. If there was any way he could have prevented it…
Ueda tripped, falling ungracefully to the floor. Kame ran forwards in hopes of helping his friend up. He could see that whoever was chasing Ueda was quickly approaching. Ueda looked behind him again, sensing the approach of his hunter.
Kame crashed with the barrier just as Ueda started screaming again. Kame couldn’t understand what was going on, he put his hands on the barrier and pushed again. But it would not relent.
He slowly started to panic as he watched Ueda trying to crawl to the exit, as a flash of red eyes appeared behind him. Could Kame really do nothing but watch?
If I can’t pass, does that mean I’m not human…?