SAIGO NO SHUNKAN,DAI ICHI BU./ONES LAST MOMENT PART 1.

The thought of taking my method of getting to Kiko proved to be much to loathsome to my love,Noroi within seconds of being in the air with me did not take to it well at all so he moves on foot as fast if not faster than he normally runs.

Like he were not even wounded even though his back...
His back was a mess and I could barely cleanse the wounds when he slept without stifling the urge so much to sob.

I can not afford to think about that now,no.
One of three things I need to do and do quickly before my Grandmother returns again.

The forest is vast but not that vast,not too much so where I can not feel her as I near as well as in her pain Kiko has done a wildly different redecorating of this once lively place.

Just hours ago when I left it was covered in the bodies of ronin,a broken camp soaked to becoming a mud river by torrential rain that is now absolute snow and trees with bodies of those with my similtude hanging on them.
Blood tripping in slow motion in a way so as to make there screams like long wailings similar to the banshee of lore.

Noroi though is not in the slightest put off,he always transforms when a darkness is present,that is how he earned his moniker by my Grandmothers actions though to the full extent of why I do not know nor who he really was if...
I look at him as I think this and feel so deeply pained by it.

If he really existed at all,I heard he had but is it this him?
Or just another tale to keep me alive and wanting to live.

The screams though are distracting me quickly from that.
He inspects the sights around them more than the bodies themselves,noting quicker than I had  that each one is how I either died or how every child I had by him or Tennami died as well.

His body language is at war with him,like it wants to rage and vomit all at once but being a man of war since he could barely have enough strength to lift a sword can not be in such a state long.

No,nor can I either.
I use being up in the air to search for any more ronin,praying I do not have to stop anymore of them the taking or even the wounding of a life is revolting to me so deeply.

"Nothing...."

The thought sounds like my voice,almost bewildered but perhaps it shouldn't be.
She wants to make sure I know why she is doing this to me and she wants to make Noroi to see,what she can not bet on is how he will react.

I am hoping she does not tell him for his sake,we share an awful truth but he does not deserve more to suffer about.

"Why do you take an age to settle accounts?Why can't you just do your bidding and be done rather than leave me constantly alive and knowing,remembering everything....You are no better than I you know that.Our only difference is my resolve."
"I did not choose any of this Kiko-chan,I am sorry beyond any words over what happened but I am able to undo all of this now.I can finally put a stop to this..."

She laughs,I can not see her yet and it does not matter.
She sees Noroi though,suddenly I see this images playing in the snow I can see from above that he can't.

Memories of her one brief life where she was an adult,my mind with hers in her body and the moment where she and I met Noroi.
All the moments afterward of talking,intimacies,birth.

Feelings and profoundly intense moments she would have to relive over and over in a childs body as punishment for my murders by her.
Grandmother had a steep price for harming one of her four beloveds.

Noroi,my beloved.

He is appearing to be lost in some other type of misery at present that Kiko is doing to him now.

"Can we at least see each other.I truly do not want to hurt you I just want to set things right."

Before my eyes she appears,I land on the ground softly by a tree that she had shaped to look like my red hell,the well that is our place I suppose.
I glance at Noroi who is fighting what I can see nothing,he is doing combat forms I find stunning in delivery but painful in that I see how much pain it is causing him but he loses not a moment in speed or power.

"He can not hear us,not where I have him."
"Which hell did you choose?"
"The night his parents were slain by that crimson witchs actions,I have him in that vision as an adult fighting them and trying to save you from Tennami-san over and over.I really did not want to watch him like that again but to have him....guard over his little dog is sickening."

I look at her.
She grew beautifully like I knew she would,she even used her dreamlike power to artifically age herself to look around nineteen or so.

She could easily have any man,she remembers her original life and what was to be until I came into it.
Until she felt all of it first hand with me what a real love is to feel like.
We shared that feeling and that is what has destroyed her.

"I am truly sorry Kiko."
"For being a devil?Be honest,you never even once tried to save me,never tried to make me an adult again,even let me have a chance because it was always about you and him.What if he would have chosen me?What if your life stealing over and over was how I became like this?Do you think I wanted this fate!?"

I don't know really know why I do this,but I have seen her life and though part of me wants to hate her.
I can't.

I take her in my arms and hold her.

She fights me so hard at first but she never the once tried to strenghen her body at all,just her mind.


NOROI.

The blood,it just will not stop.