I Don't Want To Leave You
Summary: As Mio's world begins to fall apart, she begins to face another difficult choice. MioXItsuki.
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Chapter 2 :o)
The sun had dawned on All God's Village once more. The twisted, maliced spirits had been put to rest. As Mio wiped her leaking eyes, she looked up at the rising sun. "I..I n-need to get out of h-here.." she said to herself, quietly between small sobs.
As she got to her feet, she saw there were what looked like two figures approaching her. One was a teenage boy, not much older than her, in a grey yukata with a matching obi. His hair was white, though, whiter than the purest snow of winter. The other, a child, supposedly his sister, hiding behind him shyly, wearing a vibrant crimson kimono with gold butterfly prints and a brown, plump obi.
"Yae-chan..you saved us." The boy looked confused. He told her to leave, yet she had gone through the ritual she didn't want to perform.
"Huh..?" Mio blinked at the two. She recognised them both. The first was Tachibana Itsuki, the white-haired boy locked in the back of the storehouse that had helped her find "Sae." Because Itsuki thought Mio was Sae's twin, Kurosawa Yae, he had her that the ritual was about to start and that she had to go. His soul was unaffected by the malice that spilled out of the Abyss after the Repentance.
The second was Tachibana Chitose. Unlike her brother, the malice toyed with her poor soul and possessed her to attack Mio, for what Yae had done a century ago. Now the repentance had gone, and the Abyss was appeased, Chitose's soul turned pure again, because Mio, the counter-part of Yae, had saved the village by sacrificing the one she loved most, Mayu. This meant Chitose beared no grudge towards Yae anymore; She had forgiven her.
"Yae-chan.." Itsuki moved closer to Mio. "I thought you had ran away with Sae-chan, but you completed the... ritual.."
Mio hesitated to answer. "I-Itsuki-kun...er, thank you, but I am not who you think I am."
"Huh?" Itsuki looked confused. "Then...then who are you?"
"I am Amakura Mio..." Mio's eyes trailed to the ground.
"But what about Sae? You...you just performed the ritual with her.."
"...It wasn't Sae..." Mio's eyes welled up with tears again. By now her eyes painfully stung from all of her sobbing. "..No..it wasn't Sae.." A tear rolled down her burning cheek. Mio could feel herself choking up. "No..I-it was m-my...my twin s-sister..Amakura Mayu!" Tears ran down her cheeks. She turned her head so Itsuki couldn't see her in such a state. She turned fully around, so that Itsuki and Chitose were behind her. She dropped to her knees, not feeling the ragged ground graze her knee slightly. With her adventures in the village, her clothes were dirty and the dark leggings under her white miniskirt were ripped.
"It was my sister!" Mio exclaimed angrily between sobs. "I..I killed her!" Mio looked up at the clouds above, tears still escaping her almond eyes and running down her cheeks. She felt like screaming at the sky and the clouds, so loud that Mayu's butterfly would hear. Without thinking, Mio inhaled as much air as she could and tried to channel her angst into a scream so loud at the gathering clouds in the sky that Itsuki and Chitose could've sworn the Earth around them moved. Exhuasted from crying so much and screaming, Mio collapsed onto the ground, in quiet sobs.
"Ya- Mio-chan, I'm so sorry.." Itsuki ran over to the exhausted, traumatised girl. He hesitated for a while, then kneeled down to her and rested his hand lightly on her shoulder. "..You know...I had to..kill my brother, too..." His icy blue eyes came into contact with her own brown orbs. "There's no doubt that I don't feel the same as you.." he whispered gently to her.
"Itsuki-kun..." Mio whispered back. "You're...You're the only one who understands..." Mio put on a small, brave smile.
Itsuki smiled back, and noticed a particular rip in her clothing. It was around her hip. The black camisole top underneath covered her skin, so Itsuki saw nothing of her or her wound. Dried blood stained the copper-coloured top she wore.
"You're wounded, Mio-chan. I can see the blood stains."
"Oh...that happened when...when I fought the...the maliced spirit of the Kusabi.." Mio said, hoping Itsuki would understand.
"You...you fought the Kusabi?" Itsuki questioned. "With what?"
"The Camera Obscura.." Mio replied.
"The Camera Obscura! Isn't that the picture box Makabe-san bought with him when he visited our village?"
"Yes...it is, Itsuki-kun..but..I will explain..later.." Mio knew there was no point explaining now- she had realised that she had left the Camera Obscura back at the Abyss..
After she spoke, Mio felt a warm, liquidy substance spreading through her clothes and onto the ground where she lay. Mio knew the smell all too well; her experiances with Sae in the great hall with the rotting, bloody bodies, and the stench of rotting flesh and blood. It meant one thing. She was wounded and bleeding, but she didn't notice- her body felt numb.
"No!" Mio exclaimed. "I..I need bandages.."
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