SAIGO NO SHUNKAN,NI BU./ONES LAST MOMENT PART 2.

Her mental strength is in indeed incredible,the way she artfully creates little thin razor sharp vines that are sharp as any sword to push and cut me away which to her dismay does nothing but merely release her from my grasp.

"When will you ever realize Kiko-chan?Your power plays on the mind but not on reality in the same manner.You still think like a child in that respect.I truly wanted to spare you from your hell,and mine if i'm honest."
"Why you fool?You haven't cared for a moment in any life we have shared so why now?I would happily gut you and stomp your baby into the ground,you know that.So why even show me a mercy you do not feel."

My laugh is strong and loud which angers her enough to create a myriad of bloody ronin,trees that have sword branches and the only unbearable part of her attack was when she would have in every whistle of wind would be the cries of each child i had.

She has every single child crawling on the ground and bleeding from the many ways that they died.Natural and murderous.

"Enough Kiko...."

I warn with a hiss,little much was she going to do to make me take the rage action of ending her story.

Noroi,my love.

He screams now,the names of his father,mother now our lost children.
She is making him see it now,what she is playing so foolishly with.

"Enough!"

My shout startles her,even makes Noroi to pause as though she lost hold of his illusion now.

The surrounds around us become even more bleak as she collects herself.

The blood from the trees becomes a firey mist that feels much to comfortable than frightening to me now while Noroi becomes a fury i had only ever seen when he first found out by the guards at Tennamis home what he was doing to me.

That was the day he killed me,when i was saving my love i thought at that time.

He still can not forgive himself for that day even knowing now i put myself before his sword not any other way like Kiko tried to make him think.

"I loved you like MY OWN DAUGHTER!How can you even think to do all of this!ANSWER ME USAGI!"

Wow.
The way she suddenly seems to split apart at his shout.

He is not given to yelling,Noroi even in battle rarely raises his voice and not even the once to her,in any life we all shared except the original and the first she was akin to a child to him.
He treated her with the care of a father he only briefly had.

I truly did not think she would do this to him.

Kiko is afraid and crawling backwards now while i am standing before Noroi keeping them apart with a hand to his heart barely and i truly mean barely keeping him back.

"She...she is a devil Itoshi...a devil....she has to be stopped..."


NOROI

The visions will not stop in my head.
Over and over watching my family,my love,my little ones bleed and die and cry relentlessly making me feel rage fit only for villains that i never wanted to be but for now i am tempted to dive into my darkness for this.

This...thing of a girl needs to die.

Devil girl...little Usagi...

"What do you want from me Noroi-san?!What!I can't keep this up forever...Do you realize that your dog never even tried to save me?Not even once but merely would try to save you which i could have lived with if she gave a choice...About..us Noroi.I love you,i always have from the moment you saved me i have and still do.Choose me for once,you deserve only constant unchanging that thinks of nothing else.That is me."

I can not even think straight.

"You..."

My words are somehow more seething out loud than my heart feels them.

"You...took my children from me.....you took my wife from me.....AND YOU THINK THAT CAN BE LET GO OF?THAT I CAN LOVE YOU LIKE A WOMAN THAT IS A CHILD TO ME!?A DEVIL I NEVER KNEW YOU WERE BUT YOU ARE...."
"You did love me once,as a woman, your wife and a mother to your child..Of course you still do not remember that."

I feel like I am going to cut apart this whole forrest in moments when I pick up speed catching up to her retreating form.

"Noroi stop!I have to stop her,or else all of our suffering will grow!Stop...pleaase."

I look at her,not stopping for a second but Itoshi Hito is adamantly keeping pace with me.

"I would have never,ever thought you capable of this Usagi..."
"WHY COULDN'T I BE?I HAVE NOTHING NOW AND NO ONE!IT IS ALWAYS HER AND THAT CRIMSON WITCH WILL NOT LET ME DIE OR FORGET WHAT YOU AND THAT LIFE FELT LIKE....I can't...oh I just want..."

I hear her crying not really caring about it now,hearing the dying screams of your children over and over before your eyes will make a gentle soul wicked in moments.

"I will tell you all of it later but I my love.I must stop her by returning her to her place again.Please stop it.She can't do anything anymore now thanks to you my love."

Her eyes.
Those soft eyes that are the closest to any angel I will ever see are somehow stopping me.
She warned me last earlier that I would be on the verge of a rampage by being here but I must refrain for her sake,which in turn would be for my sake as well.

I did not expect this.
Not all of this.

I pull back and turn around for now,the last glimpse of Kiko I see is like I ripped her heart out and now I think I understand why she did what she did for the last three years.

All the moments that she would enter my cell very late,bring me food only to haunt my mind with the memories of Sakura and Tennami,visions of the terrible things he did to her body and mind let alone the children.....

Kiko only kept one positive moment replaying over and over in my mind of Sakura in a gold and cherry blossom kimono holding a little girl.
The pure happiness that she seemed to have when our daughter would laugh at seeing me soaked from trying to fish and ending up with more in my hair or hakama than in my net.

"I will be at the camp...."

I cannot say anything else now.
Kiko starts to scream at me now,assailing my mind with images of my Father bleeding out and cursing my birth or my Mother slowing bleeding and being stripped to nothing by warriors that were sent,watching Sakura being cut open....

I look back at her once.

Never has a forest been so quiet.