InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Demons in Disguise ❯ Two Choices, One Life ( Chapter 5 )

As soon as Sesshou had hung up the phone he rushed out of the booth, leaving Relena there to awaken in her own time. Sesshou rushed back to the alley even though his side felt like it was about to explode. He skidded on the wet ground as he slid into the alley.

Sesshou walked up to Fred the bus driver and felt his breathing. It was labored and his heartbeat was hardly existent. Sesshou knew there was nothing he could do for the man until Wufei came. So Sesshou hurried to the back of the bus where Lin still lay. He bent down next to her and listened to her slow and heavy breathing.

The remorse he felt was eating away at him. He slipped off his dark purple overcoat and laid it across Lin's legs which were barely covered. He leaned back against the seat and sighed quietly. The scent of Lin's hair hanging over the edge of the seat was pungent and filled Sesshou's nostrils with the aromatic smell of fresh moist dandelions.

"Lin, I'm sorry," Sesshou apologized to deaf ears. "I know you didn't see what happened, and I don't want to go into details, but I just want to say that what I did only made things worse. It's my fault. I'm sorry."

Without warning, a new thought poisoned Sesshou's already troubled mind: what happens now? If the driver lived then he would surely squeal like a boar and tell the authorities that Sesshou was the one who almost killed him. When he assaulted the driver he no doubt left some sort of DNA that the police could use against him. And what would Wufei say when he got here?

"I'm a murderer," Sesshou whispered quivering. He gripped his head, brought his knees to his chest, and clenched his teeth and eyes shut. "My life is ruined. What the hell came over me? What will the authorities do to me? Condemn me to jail, life in solitary confinement, or even death?"

Sesshou's trembling increased for a second when that thought entered his mind. Even if Fred lived, he could still press charges against Sesshou for attempting to kill him. How could his life spiral into oblivion all in the same day?

There has to be something I could do! Sesshou thought, his mind scrambling. Anything! I can't let this happen! There is too much time left in my life. I can't let one incident ruin it all. That moronic, worthless, infernal, bus driver will shred my life to pieces when he tells the police what I did! He will tell the court everything they need to knock to lock me up for life! HE WILL…he will…

A new perception crossed Sesshou's mind. A dark thought brought on by the same force that had controlled him when he first attacked Fred.

"If he lives," Sesshou said aloud in a mumble. His eyes were large and his mouth hanging open slightly as the words left his mouth. He lifted his head from his hands and glimpsed at the motionless man in the front of the bus. One part of Sesshou was completely repulsed and sickened by the very idea of it. Another part of Sesshou, the part that controls the will to live and be free, was very keen to leaping on the opportunity. The will to live and be free was immensely strong in all human beings and overcame all common sense. Sesshou was no exception.

"The driver was already old and sick," Sesshou whispered as if he was trying to convince himself what he was doing was the right thing. He walked in a daze toward the dying man like a pre-programmed machine. "He…he was going nowhere in his life anyway. He was probably just some drop-out. I have much more potential than he ever did. I can't let it end like this."

As Sesshou continued down the aisle, he began to shift again. The changes were slow at first but became more apparent as he moved on. Flecks of gold began appearing in his eyes, hardly noticeable magenta stripes on his cheeks became bolder, his ears changed so they were pointed and flattened, his hair shimmered with a silver sheen, his nails began to grow and sharpen, and a crescent blue moon appeared on his forehead.

"I won't let it end like this," he growled. A green aura began to glow around his fisted right hand.

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Wufei was speeding down the streets in his dark blue Corvette. He rarely traveled to the broken down neighborhoods his was driving to. The streets were practically vacant. Anyone living in this neighborhood probably couldn't afford a car anyway. Wufei looked up at the street sign when he stopped for a red light.

"Hmm," Wufei watched the vacant street like a lion watches a pack of zebra. If the constantly placid and collected Sesshou was worried, then Wufei knew it had to be an emergency. He decided not to wait for the light. Wufei slammed his foot down on the acceleration. Smoke rose from the back tires as they screeched on the frigid asphalt. With a slight stall from the sudden movement, the car sped down the street its engine roaring. At that speed, it would be only about sixty seconds before Wufei would reach Sesshou.

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The green aura around Sesshou's hand glowed brighter. Sesshou stopped when he was staring directly down at the driver sprawled across the front seat. His eyes narrowed and, for a moment, he relaxed his glowing hand. A look of doubt spread across his face. If he did this, what was next? Where would this lead him? Can this only end in death for himself and those close to him?

The thought of himself locked away in a silent metal cell wiped away these doubts. It was his life; or the pathetic driver's. The choice was obvious. Sesshou stiffened and bents his clawed fingers.

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0:52 seconds

Wufei was less than a minute away. He bent over his steering wheel, face set in a determined expression. The Corvette was zooming down the street at amazing speeds. Wufei was probably the only being in the entire city that could manage speeds like that with out fish-tailing or wiping out.

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Sesshou cracked the joints in his clawed fingers. He lifted his hand so that it was pointing precisely at Fred. The green aura around his hand began to give off steam. The steam swirled and grew in power.

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"Not too much longer," Wufei urged through his teeth.

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"Die, filthy human."

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Wufei slowed down only for a moment to turn a corner. The back of his car fish-tailed a bit and sent up smoke, but he soon straightened it once more.

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The green energy swirled once more. Then Sesshou stretched his eyes and stiffened his hand. A flash of bright teal light shout out of his palm engulfing the doomed man. The energy ate away at Fred's flesh melting it into nothing more than dripping mass of blue gunk, it went deeper melting his veins, boiling his blood, and grinding his bones. Within moments, when Sesshou lowered and relaxed his hand, the former bus driver named Fred was nothing more than a puddle of cobalt mud.

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Wufei could see the edge of an alley just a few blocks down. He let some slack on the accelerator and leaned back.

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Sesshou took a few steps back from the lump of gunk that used to be the dying body of Fred. His physical abnormalities faded away and left a very usual, very horrified, Sesshou standing there. He began walking backward down the aisle of the bus. His breathing was fast and teemed with distress.

Sesshou tripped and landed right next to Lin. It then dawned on him that he wasn't the only one breathing heavily and acting jumpy. He inhaled sharply when he noticed Lin next to him. She was twitching and convulsing making gurgling and shouts between. Her eyelids fluttered, the actual iris and pupils had slipped up into her head. Sesshou leaned over her, speaking frantically not even noticing the hum of engines just outside the alley.

"What's wrong!? Lin! Wake up, stay still! Don't die! You can't die!"