Fan Fiction ❯ Destinys Call ❯ Mistaken Identity ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three: Mistaken Identity

Kasumi could not stay her trembling hand. Her throat had gone dry as the realization struck her allowing no sound to escape. In the distance she could hear them still gaining ground, thier footsteps echoing across her mind like brilliant flashes of lightening . Everything seemed to be happening almost in slow motion now. Through all her thoughts that were threatening to jumble together one word stood out from all the others.

Poison

This had been exactly the situation she'd been prepared for. In her mind it had been inevitable possiblity eventually one of them would get too close or catch her off guard no matter how carefull she was. It was for that reason that she had coated her tanto with the same poison as the shuriken, as a matter of insurance. Now she was forced to wonder how long it would take the poison to take hold. She had seen how quickly it had fallen the men she had thrown her small weapons at... and that had been only a small amount compaired to what she had used on her sword.

Kasumi felt his arms tighten once more and she tried to forced her voice to work for her and once again it denied her. In her mind she cursed the fact that she had been forced into this position.. having to push back finer sences to merely survive. Her eyes fell closed as her mind gave one last try at denying the situation she was in ..perhaps she was mistaken...but even as she thought this she could feel the wind gently brushing her face, the sound of rustling leaves grew in her ears and she knew for certain .......

She didn't have to open her eyes to know that she was no longer being pursued. The whole atmosphere had changed. She could feel the last of the twilight warmth on her face even though the breeze was cool . In the distance she could hear running of water , the ground beneath her feet felt slightly more uneven like grass growing over rocky ground . This time she forced her voice to work against its will the single word escaping more like a whisper.

"Ryu".......... She recieved no reply.

She could feel his breath near her ear, it was slightly uneven as if he were forcing the air out. She felt his arms beinning to tremble slightly and her eyes flew open she didn't even have enough time to take in where she was before she felt his weight begin pressing against her back and she knew his legs were giving out under him....... Kasumi moved as quickly as she could turning to face him as his arms fell. She wrapped her arms around his upper body in an effort to at least slow his fall. As she lowered him to the ground as slowly as she could she noted what he was wearing. A simple outfit consisting of a dark green muscle shirt and loose fitting brown pants, hiking boots... the type of thing worn on a vacation or a fishing trip. This brought more questions competing for her attention but she pushed them back. Deciding instead to focus on the situation at hand.

Ryu's eyes had fallen closed and sweat was running in small rivlets from beneath the camoflauge bandana that was tied around his forehead, his breathing was still emerging unevenly. She knew it would only get worse though the poison she had used on the weapon had not been a fatal one it was strong and caused severe illness. It attacked the nervous system often times making controlled movement difficult it sometimes when used in a great enough quanity made breathing itself a near impossible task.....

For the first time since the ordeal began she slowly took in the scenery around her and she realized she knew this place though she had never been here herself. Ryu had described it to her once in great detail. She remembered thinking it had indeed sounded like the perfect place to go to escape everything even if it were only for a short time. Behind her Kasumi could still hear the soft sound of running water and knew for certain now it was a waterfall. She glanced over her shoulder , briefly she felt cheated to be seeing such a beautiful place under such circumstances but she shrugged it away, trying to sum up the distance between her position now and that of the waterfall . She remembered Ryu saying that when he came to this place he would sleep in the cave behind it....

She didn't know if she could pull off what she had to do but she knew she had to try. She put her arms around Ryu slowly cradling his head against her as she closed her eyes. She released a short prayer to whatever diety present that she be able to accomplish what she set out to do . She focused all her concentration and slowly where they had been only a storm of cherry blossoms remained.

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Kasumi's amber colored eyes opened slowly. It was cooler within the cave than it had been outside and her eyes slowly focused in on her surroundings in the minimal lighting. She placed Ryu's upper body slowly on the ground , resting his head as gently as possible. She then moved to the right feeling around untill she felt something brush her hand. Running her hands over it she easily identified it as a lantern. Her hands skimmed over the ground nearby a few moments before coming across a small box. Although she couldn't see all that well in the dim light she got it open fairly easily and set about the task of lighting a match. She struck the first against the side of the box and nothing happened.... the second the same......the third finally gave birth to a small flame and she quickly placed against the wick in the small green lantern closing the top.

The light from the lantern cast a golden orange hue dancing over everything in its path. The water rushing over head echoed softly in her ears. She could now make out a brown mat with a few blankets tossed over it , a small makeshift table and a small pit inside a ring of stones where a fire had burned recently. She returned to his side then and slowly examined the area of the wound. She could see blood still coming from the area, grasping both sides of the rip the weapon had caused in his pants she pulled so that she could get a better view of it.

It wasn't quite as deep as she had previously imagined and was thankfull she hadn't brought the blade back with anymore force. The edges of the wound were reddining though and bubbling up slighly looking almost like a chemical burn... there was no question of what she had to do. She couldn't leave him here. Not like this when she had no idea how far this poison she had administered would go... once again she cursed sharply beneath her breath for being forced to rely only on the most base of instincts to surivive. She pushed the anger that was rising up within her back as far as she could and she rose from her postion almost forcefully.

She then took one of the nearby blankets and folded it then leaning to place it beneath his head incase his breathing became more labored . A small almost raspy sound escaped his lips as she did so and her eyes fell closed a moment. She squeezed them shut tightly once before opening them her eyes focusing once again on his face that was looking more and more pained....

She had reached a place where once again there was no decision to her there was only one choice, she turned walking tword the entrance of the cave. She watched the water spill over the opening in its rythmic flow before she turned her back facing it once more. A soft sigh escaped her as she began to turn in the soft light. The thought that she could be found while doing what she needed to do to never even crossed her mind as she diappeared leaving a cherry blossoms in the water behind her....





Authors note: things are getting interesting now eh? ^___~ I hope the chapter was ok I rewrote it a few times and this was the best version I came up with . As I said with the pervious one there may be a rewrite of this one someday I dont know but for now this will have to do. I will try to have chapter four up as soon as I can this story is flowing along pretty well for me.

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