WORDS OF AKIRA:BECOMING AN ECHOE,GO NOT FAR EVEN IN PASSING

I wake to the sounds of chaos,I see as I peer out of the lab fire and blood like smoke rising as I watch over eighty of the HUNDRED FOLD DEATH walking as if being pulled towards that spot,all of them moaning in pain.
My pain is intense,I didn't realize I actually had  HOLE in my cheek for a few moments and now it is so intense a pain I think I might pass out again until I catch sight of her running like a hare towards me.
The Warrior Woman is by me in the few seconds I catch sight of her and I pull backwards from her,she doesn't give me a chance to step back a second time and she takes hold of me and I have no idea why that hurts so much more than earlier.
I was punched and kicked not stabbed that I am aware of.

"I thought there was some form of no touching agreement between us,you always running far ahead and I can't keep up."
I hear her only sniffle and squeezing me tighter.
She pulls back, not realizing to half my pleasure and half my intensely worsening pain and her eyes are like small orbs of pain,just like when I attempted to kill myself just...however long ago it was.
My eyes seem to ask before my lips get a chance to and she beats me to the answer before I can ask the question.

Such a rush this one is.

"I need this,you need this.Shut up and take it while I can still give it Akira....."

I think I must have been unconscious too long or something or have brain damage.
Did she actually SAY my name?

"We cannot stay here,please just come with me and maybe I can find a way out of this....I can't do this...i-i-i can't...."
"What are you talking about?"
My hands I allow briefly to touch her shoulders,she seems to nustle in deeper towards my chest that is beginning to actually pound due to the throbbing of whatever is causing this terrible pain.She will not release me either but she makes her face seen again and I look on at those eyes and see a truth I can not quite grasp though I should be able to.

"I am bleeding out?"
She nods hard and holds even tighter,I can not seem to register that.My eyes look over and beyond her to see the fray far ahead and see giant after giant former heroes and samurai fall down flat and the screams of my father like a horn of destruction blaring it's final song of death.

"And what is going on over there?"I ask this and start to truly feel the effect of the blood loss now,I feel a bit unsteady and blurriness is setting in and I can't see the smoke from the battle,right now all I clearly see is this mess of silky black hair and deep eyes that have vexed and tempted me for months now.

"Someone from the past...someone that has to stop an evil that has caused such a change in world by affecting the past that she is forced to stop it,by any means necessary.I vowed I would assist her in it when she told me the future truth but I had not expected that this would happen."

I quirk a brow,trying vainly to defy the blood loss from keeping me unable to be charming and grumpy to her.

"That you would fall in love with me,become a hero slayer to save them,beautiful...."
I really feel the wooziness barreling into me now,but she holds me up.

"Exactly,I truly had not believed that I would,falling in love with you she knew it,she knew I would and not by seeing but just by her gut instinct she said.I was supposed to stop you the moment you followed me to where I would be captured by your father,I was supposed to keep you from setting off the event but I couldn't resist another moment to see you and it lead to this.You were only supposed to find our bodies and pass away a natural way but she knew I wouldn't let it happen and she could not interfere except in that battle."

She explains it to me,about her,
My great grand mother,how my fathers work assisted in the creation of such a vicious mixture to be created that it would leave the world in ruins and help the person who created this whole false history(FALSE HISTORY????)to live on happily with death beneath there feet and little remaining.

All of this due to one person,all of THIS due to a wartime funtime my father wanted to create?

"But I can't do it Akira..."
The rush when she says my name has the blood slowly escaping me,pump my heart faster making me even more dizzy and I fall."Aoi-San...."
She smiles when I say her name even if the fall scared her.

"I can't do what she told me to,no I will find a way to prevent the calamity.I think she has stopped him now maybe without him it will not be able to be and we can have now safely and save the world."

Her eyes are so beautifully hopefully but I see why my great grand mother is doing this now,vividly.

I am the only other soul who knows the formulas.
The right person and the right method and any evil person,perhaps worse than my war craving father could get this information and have the world not just here,the world.
Gone.

I try to push her off of me but she will not release me,I see a beautiful woman with long brown hair and soft eyes walking up towards us,she has blood all over her person and holds two items in her hands.
One is the locket from before and the other is a small photograph,I barely see it as she nears us.

"You must be brave Aoi-San.This is making my very soul die doing this...I just stopped my own grandson.I have no other choice here child."
The woman speaks to Aoi who holds me barely upright now,the woman looks to me and kneels down wiping the blood from my face and she cries.
Cries like a woman who has indeed lost a child..

"I hope you can forgive me.....I never got to know or protect you,if I had been in your life it would have made it so much worse because I tried many times and each time was worse my dear darling.You deserve better and I can't give that to you.All I can do is love you from afar."

The woman leans forward and places a kiss on my cheek,putting the photograph in my hand.

Aoi watches her walk away,her eyes brimming with tears like a tsunami lives behind her eyes.

"What is the photo,Aoi-San?"
I can see her face still but the photo is old,browning and worn and my vision is clouding quickly.She chokes on my question but answers.
"A beautiful woman with short hair and a sunrise for a smile with a man who somehow appears to be your father,I never could have believed he could look kind and handsome,they are by a sakura tree holding a smiling baby."
I finger the photo and I hold it with my free hand,GOD showed me that even now at the brink of death and seeing smoke,blood and misery I get to have something I never knew I had,neither even did my great grand mother.
My family had once loved me,now I am being loved,this tight hold on my chest is proof of it.
Thank GOD.

"Let me go,Aoi-San."
She pushes her head into my chest hard,moving it in defiant motions not realizing at all even though I see blood spilling on her now,I do not want to see that.

"I love you too,even if mornings where I would be cursed for having marks in the wall from your shurikens.I love you too,even when I could not run after you and you would mock me.I love you too,even when I lay here dying knowing I will be the cause of some much heartache,you still choose me.I love you too,but let me go."

She pulls her head out from where she hides it in my chest and looks at me like a doe who stares at the barrel of a gun but refuses to leave.

"If I let you go,I go too.I have been dying since this whole HUNDRED FOLD DEATH matter began,recall I was dead?I don't want to let you go at all because I honestly care little for the world save for the young ones.I love you too,even if you are slow of foot and of mind because you had no idea I would have just stayed by you if you would have but spoken to me.I love you too,even when you appeared you would thrash me for waking you at all hours.I love you too,enough I am tempted to let the world burn....."

Moments in life it is better not to think.

When you first learn to walk.
Ride a bike.
Dance.
Write.
Or when you kiss ,probably ,the only one you could ever love.

Don't think about.
I kiss her,her lips are soft as I have always wanted them to be but wondered if they actually were and I find myself wanting to put my fingers through her hair but the moment I release that hand I will bleed too much and I want a moment to span an hour if even in my mind.
She reciprocates in kind,she has no desire to pull away and i feel the smile on her lips as the kiss deepens,she is truly breathtaking not only in her beauty,her ferocity and her strength but also in the sheer fire of her emotion,that fuels an intense feeling of longing in me that I feel even more so intensify as I use this moment of bliss,
Of distraction.

To push her away and off of me.