XXXHolic Fan Fiction ❯ Bento Box Boys ❯ Hide And Seek ( Chapter 10 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: narinari
Watanuki goes after Kei.

Anime/Manga: XXXHolic Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Comedy / Supernatural | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.21.2007 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 318 | Status: Work In Progress

A/N: I don't own xxxHolic
MATA!!!: Don't you guys just love my 'MATA!!!' section? Yea that's what I thought, so this chapter is pretty intense, yo. Oh so I have decied to extend the life of this fic a little longer I'm going to post the original ending right after the new ending. Yea so here we go!
 
"Italics with speech marks"- Kaiya talking
Italics- Thinking
 
It was a few hours later, around 1 in the morning when Watanuki was sure Dômeki was deep in sleep did he dare move. He got off the bed quietly and dressed quickly, he was at the door when something made him stop. Looking back at the sleeping Dômeki something tugged at Watanuki's heart. He made his way slowly over to the bed and kissed Dômeki ever so softly on the lips then whispered, "Good bye, love." With tears streaming down his face Watanuki picked up the Bento Box and left the room.
 
It was time to meet Kei.
 
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Watanuki already knew where Kei was. For some reason he could now feel his presence, it was like he had a G.P.S. system in his head with a small red dot blinking 'Kei, Kei, Kei.' This was good at least it would be easier to catch him now.
 
Watanuki knew what he had to do, and he knew it was the right thing to do as well. Yet that didn't change the fact that he wanted to turn around run into Dômeki's arms and stay there forever. But sacrifices must be made, sacrifice like his life. All too soon was his impending doom coming up and as Watanuki rounded the corner he saw Kei standing at Kaiya's grave, completely unaware to the fact that Kaiya was right there.
 
Kei didn't turn when Watanuki approached, he simply stared at the headstone before him. "So it ends tonight." It wasn't a question and Watanuki didn't feel the need to answer. "I've waited along time for this. Finally my spirit can rest, and you are the reason."
 
"Kei-san," Watanuki started looking at Kaiya, "Kei-san are you going to run from me?"
 
"Yes." Kei answered turning towards him, "Even if you are the key to my eternal rest, I have my reasons to run from you."
 
"Reasons like Kaiya-san?" Kei flinched a little, "She's here you know, standing behind you, I can see her." Kei's eyes got big, and then narrowed. It all happened too quick for Watanuki to process, he knew that Kei looked angry and then he was being slammed against the ground.
 
"I could kill you right now you know, I could make you feel more pain than anyone's ever heard of." Kei hissed in his ear. His fangs were bared and his eyes were blazing making them look like flowing blood. The air was seeping from Watanuki's chest as Kei crushed him. "I know more than one way to skin a cat."
 
"Skin me then." Watanuki replied defiant. Kei smirked and leaned down to his ear.
 
"I don't think you'd like that very much," Kei said licking the shell of Watanuki's ear, "After all, I'm no Dômeki-kun." He purred the name and Watanuki's eyes hardened. How dare he speak that name now?
 
"You know nothing." Watanuki replied, then looked over Kei's shoulder and spoke to Kaiya. "I'm fine don't worry."
 
"Are you sure? You look pale." Kaiya didn't look convinced.
 
"I'm always pale."
 
"Paler than normal then."
 
"Who are you talking to?" Kei looked bewildered.
 
"I told you Kaiya-san's here."
 
"Bastard!" Kei roared, choking Watanuki, "Don't lie to me! Why would she see you and not me?! No! She would see me! Why should you be able to see her?!"
 
"Tell him I forgive him!" Kaiya yelled.
 
"K..Kei-san..."Watanuki choked out, "She...She forgives you..." Kei's hand fell away some.
 
"Always."
 
"Always." Watanuki repeated, Kei let go then and jumped back.
 
"She's....She's here?" He looked around wildly like a child looking for his mother, "Oh Kami, she, she saw me, she saw me hurting you! She knows! She knows what I've done."
 
Watanuki got up from the ground slowly so he wouldn't frighten the shocked spirit. "Kei-san, this still needs to be done. She can't leave this world unless you do."
 
"N...No! I won't hurt her anymore!" Kei seemed to stare at where Kaiya was, for a second Watanuki thought he could see her, but then he turned and disappeared.
 
Watanuki sighed this would not be easy, then again he had always been pretty good at Hide and Seek.
 
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Despite Watanuki being able to tell when Kei was close by now it was still difficult to find him. First off Kei was a spirit and second off he was a vampire spirit. And what was Watanuki? Just a lowly little not dead human. He was going to have to lure Kei to him, the question was how to do it?
 
Watanuki sat down on a bench off a sidewalk. He didn't have much time, he needed to do this before Dômeki came to look for him. He stared at the ground in contempt, why did he always have to be the hero? Why now? He sighed, it didn't matter why or how at the moment, what matter was the fact that it was happening and if he didn't do something about it he would never forgive himself.
 
Besides now was more than a perfect time to prove to Dômeki that he wasn't defenseless.
 
Or stupid.
 
Or reckless.
 
Well maybe not that last part, he was going to meet his death after all. Or undeath...his damnation maybe?...Hmm...
 
Suddenly Yûko's words hit him,
 
Kei is in the city of Wakkanai, he will not leave that city so you need not worry about him running very far from you.
 
Come to think of it Watanuki had no idea how big this city was. He should have gotten a map. That's when he noticed a piece of paper tapped to the bottom of the box.
 
A map and a note. Watanuki smirked, how unlike his boss this was. Maybe she felt bad for making him turn himself into a vampire. No maybe not. Watanuki opened the note it only had three words on it.
 
Don't be rash.
 
Too late for that, Watanuki thought bitterly. He opened the map next. Thankfully Wakkanai was fairly small, everything was within walking distance. Looking back at it again he noticed that there was a star near where supposed was the Yami, and had a note next to it, He is here. It was in black ink and looked like it had been written with a quill.
 
Well might as well try there.
 
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Watanuki rounded the corner near the Yami, he followed the map as far as he could tell. It seemed the star was behind the Yami, but there was no road.
 
Watanuki was never brave. And big dark old style hotels with questionable content behind them were not on the top of his 'Places to Visit' list. Yet he found himself cautiously inching his way behind the old hotel.
 
What he saw when he got behind there scared him even more, there was nothing but trees, trees as far as he could see. Hell he didn't go into forests in the day time why the Hell would he go in one now? It wasn't that it was just dark, there was a morbid presence surrounding this forest.
 
"I guess I'll have to go in, I can feel something in there." Watanuki told himself in effort to pretend he was not afraid. Ha, if he had had anything to drink in the last 3 hours he probably would have wet himself!
 
He took a deep breath and started in.
 
And wished he hadn't.
 
That presence he felt was growing stronger by the second. The further back he went the harder ti was for him to breathe. The trees seemed to be decaying further in. Watanuki was admittedly scared out of his fucking mind.
 
Then he tripped. He tripped, he fell, he screamed. Ah, the story of his life. It wasn't so much that he fell. I mean he falls all the time, but it was when he fell that he noticed that the ground was wet. Strangely wet and sticky too. What was this, mud? No mud's not sticky. Watanuki lifted his hand to examine the contents of the ground attached to it. There was a streak of moon light the illuminated his hand perfectly, like a photograph. It was strangely beautiful, yet horrific. There was something comforting in the thought that this was what he was mad of.
 
You see Watanuki's hand was covered in blood. The whole forest floor was covered in blood. Of what Watanuki did not know nor did he want to.
 
He stared a few moments more at the sereness of his hand covered in blood when,
 
"Like what you see?" Kei's face was centimeters from Watanuki's. Watanuki screamed at the new appearance, and fell backwards. He scrambled to his feet running farther and farther into the dense dead woods. He heard Kei's laughter fill the air and start to die down. But he could still hear screaming.
 
It was only when he came to a stop in a clearing that he noticed it was his screams. It was a large clearing and there was a house in the center of it.
 
This was where the presence was coming from. Despite the danger it posed Watanuki felt himself being pulled towards the house and even more freighting he was going inside.
 
The door creaked when he opened it and a wave of dust hit his face. He coughed lightly and took off his glasses to clean them. He walked warily in the rest of the way, not wanting to upset the presence. Inside it was usually clean, for a place that hadn't been inhabited for decades it seemed.
The house was still set up Meji era style, with sliding rice doors and no actual furniture, someone must have been cleaning this place. But why was there so much dust when he opened the door? Watanuki didn't dwell on it, there were more important things to worry about now.
 
He made his way over to the staircase without fault, but when the actual climbing came into place he stumbled most of the way up.
 
Upstairs there were two rooms, one on the left and one on the right. Watanuki chose the door on the left and stepped in.
 
There was nothing much to this room it seemed to be a bathroom of sorts. Considering the time from of when it was last occupied whoever lived here must have been very rich. Watanuki turned and left the room nothing there holding his attention.
 
Once he was in the other room, he felt the immediate need to stay and leave all at once. This seemed to be a bedroom. There was a mat on the floor near the corner, and paper fans decorated the walls.
 
A girls room. There was a pair of shoes thrown about, but they were old looking Geisha shoes. Like the owner had come back from a festival and just taken them off.
 
Then Watanuki noticed something, over in the corner of the room, on a small table, rested a hairpin. Hairpins didn't normally strike his interest it was just that he'd seen this hairpin before, somewhere but he couldn't remember where.
 
He didn't have to think long for as soon as he touched the pin he heard creaking coming from the stairs, there was someone in the house.
 
Oh Kami he was going to die! It was when the second stair creaked that Kaiya's face flashed through Watanuki's mind. This was her hairpin, this was her room. Oh sweet magic Kei was coming for him! He was really going to die!
 
It was when the person was on the 5th step that Watanuki realized he was being a hypocrite, he was planning on dying tonight anyway!
 
7th step. That didn't make any less scary!
 
The door knob was turning, Watanuki knew he should run but he didn't instead he faced the door, mock courage on his face.
 
And then the door opened and the person spoke, "I've finally found you."
 
A/N: BOHAHAHAHAHA. I love cliff hangers. Yea that had to be one of my more poorly written chapters...sorry....I think this is longer than most of my chapters...I'm not sure...