Shattered soul

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style='font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Well, this is one
of my darker fics. When I first wrote it down I was in a bad mood but it turned
out better as I thought it would.

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confuse you first to no end, but it will make sense later and is important for
the rest of the story.

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like this one and tell me what you think.

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English,

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Chapter 4, Runaway

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What will you do, when you find out pieces from a true
what isn’t anything you thought it would be?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Will you accept it?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What will you say, if you
find yourself suddenly on top of the most wanted list?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Will you try to get away or will you stay?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What will you think when you see suddenly the dark
side of your soul and find out that you like it?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Will you be terrified and scared?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What will you do, after the truth behind the façade of
lies is out and you have to make up your own decisions?

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Will make it, or will you run away from it in order to
keep your own little world in place?

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Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Sometimes it is harder to be a coward as to be a
brave.)

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Unknown person, translated from a German phrase,

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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Around 1867

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Keiko closed the door behind
her and Hinagiku.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They had sitting there a long
time and spoke in low tunes about everything they heard.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hinagiku seemed suddenly
older as herself so much more; it was frightening the human woman a little.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But what frightened Keiko
more then anything was that she had no way to escape their former friends in
time!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She had wanted answers, yes.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But after this, Keiko
suddenly wished she would have never gotten some!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>No, that was not right; it
was good she thought to know some of the real true.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But what nagged onto her
inner thoughts was a tiny voice who told her constantly that this could not be
all!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>And Keiko had the impression
that she was on the best way to find more as she bargained for!

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>So,

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Yusuke had a wife, err, mate,
she thought. And he seemed to be happy with her.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But inside her she felt no
happiness for him…

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Keiko simply could not bring
herself to do that, not after she found out that he was it truly who broke the
barrier and so the one who broke the death upon her beloved parents!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>And friends!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>And all the other people into
her school and the rest of the world!!

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Keiko wished him nothing bad,
but she could not bring herself to think something good about her former friend
and lover!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It had happened too much!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But when the woman tried to
think about her new behave more deeply she found….

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Nothing as empty darkness
where once had been love.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The places into her heard
where empty and barren, nothing inside was left.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It made her frantic, to find
anything, some little of her old self left inside her soul, but instead she
found only sorrow and hurt!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Nothing from the old Keiko
was left to be finding, and that was what brought her back into the present.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She sat down after she took a
shower, onto her futon.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>In her lap laid a box she had
not opened over the last years for one time.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Inside the simple brown paper
box she hided her former life…

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Where she was happy…

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Right under the lid, there
she found the same picture album she had left there.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It was filled with pictures
from her friends and Yusuke.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But she throws it away from
her like it was poisoned or dirty after she took every picture out of it where
Kazuma and Shizuru or she was in.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Then Keiko cut them out of
the pictures and took the rest back into the book.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hinagiku sat all the time quietly
next to her friend.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She said nothing because it
gave nothing more to say.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>All the time of her live she
had known the girl named Keiko Yukimura, Keiko was the stronger one in mind and
soul from the two.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But after the first days
right after the destruction of their both homes and lives, she had found out
that the strongest people could be broken!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>After that all, her former
friend was nothing more as a shadow, and so the two had found some peace into
the presence of each other.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But since the accident into
the school, Keiko had begun to change.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hinagiku could clearly see it;
it was into her eyes and the way Keiko spoke.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Her friend seemed suddenly so
much harder as ever before… and so much colder.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Not against her, but against
the world and the ones who ruled it!

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>After this day, when they had
gone home, Keiko walked with an aura around her that scared the few people into
their way home away from her path.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Not that Hinagiku had ever
seen Keiko angry before, but she seemed not really angry, it was more that her
livelong friend was showing the world a side of her, she never did before.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>A stronger side,

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>A colder side!

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Her friend was not the same
she was before, but was that such a wonder?

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hinagiku had talked with her
a long time, it was near midnight now and she wasn’t tired at all.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>She knew what was going
through the mind of her friend now;

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Keiko set out, her new
priorities in live!

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>What was important for her
and what not?

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>And, her friend began late
but not too late to clear her inner soul from the past that hunted her more
then anything!

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The first thing it seems that
had to go was Keikos believe into the wrongness of the past, means her fake
dream of hope that nothing of this all had happened really and that none of her
friends had done anything wrong.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>This was a different Keiko,
indeed.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Suddenly Keiko seemed to
hesitate on one single picture to cut it into half.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It shows two people.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>One was into black clothes
and one, into a blue kimono. Both of them, where looking at each other and away
from the watcher.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Keiko could not bring herself
to cut the twins into half; after all she had going through, the twins never
hurt her.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It was the only picture from
the two alone, Keiko has and they both had done nothing to harm her in any way,
ever.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They where not her friends
any longer in her opinion, but they where some rare people she surprisingly
hold dear after this all.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Quietly she folded the
picture and laid it onto a pile of pics to her side, then she took some other
things out of the box and begun to take them into a back.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>After she was ready, the two
went to sleep.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>In the next early morning,
some Reikei warriors opened quietly the door to their apartment, not to wake
the occupants inside.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They planed to bring them quietly
as they could to their destination.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>With them was a single
inhuman figure who remembered to a child but it wasn’t one.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>He looked around in the rooms
of the two women with a thoughtful look.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They found nothing inside the
flat as empty air.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They where gone.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The childlike figure turned
around and walked out of the deserted place.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>So, he thought, she had
decided to vanish from the world.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>He had seen what the other
people had not seen, the rest of the pictures inside a half open box along with
some other stuff of her past.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>But what had gathered his
interest was one single picture he had silently taken into one of his pockets…

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>He looked at it for a long
time, his features softer as before.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>It had lain onto the kitchen
table, with a single note onto it;

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>`Don’t follow me, Hiei…`

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>When the Reikei members came
out, he had already left them.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Fare away from there
position, two lonely woman where walking onto a deserted old path into the mountain
side outside out of the town.

style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>They had nothing other with
them as two backpacks and walked quietly to a destination, unknown.

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Leaving only dusty trails of
dirt behind them…

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style='font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Suryallee

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