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A Gift of Love	By : Nekedo Category: +S to Z > Shaman King Views: 12621 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: I do not own the anime/manga Shaman King. The story and its characters were created by Hiroyuki Takei. All original characters made specifically for this fanfiction and any tie-in/spinoff pieces were created by Jezebel Parks.
A Gift of Love – Chapter Thirty-Three: Die Die My Darling
"NO! STOP IT! DON'T TOUCH ME! IT'S NOT YOURS! MY BODY ISN'T YOURS! JUST STOP TOUCHING ME! STOP IT! JUST STOP IT AND GET AWAY FROM ME!"
Screams like this could be heard echoing inside the Xu-Fan Castle. Pin-Mei, her wrists chained with her arms spread on either side of her, continued to cry out with closed eyes and a flood of tears falling down her face. Blood ran down her arms from her constant struggling against the iron restraints.
"Oh Mother," Kai said in faux concern, "don't you think Pin-Mei has had enough? She's screaming in her sleep."
"Maybe you're right," Suo said in the same fashion. "The poor dear."
She looked over at her granddaughter. Pin-Mei's wounds had healed and she had been dressed in her mother's battle garb- a black orient halter, bracers on her wrists, a long black skirt with slits up the side, and black pants underneath. Her body twitched and her face was creased with agony as she tried yet again to free herself from the nightmare she had been thrust into.
Kai looked also, genuinely interested. "What is she dreaming about?"
"Many things…" Suo studied the tormented face before her. "Right now I'd say she's reliving her last night with that Tao boy…with a few changes I put in." She sneered.
He faked a look of shock. "Mother! You didn't!"
She laughed. "I would have never imagined how valuable that boy would be to us. Pin-Mei's fragile spirit and naïve heart will soon be broken – shattered into a million pieces. So broken that she will be an empty shell. She'll barely have a soul. It will be the perfect opportunity to fill that shell with another spirit, and it's all thanks to him. Without even knowing it, he's destroyed her. His past alone is going to crush her."
Pin-Mei screamed again before her body went limp. Her breathing staggered, and her eyes were wide open and staring at the ground. Sweat ran down her face as they wandered about the room, as if possessed by paranoia. Suo walked over and touched her cheek. She flinched.
"Oh my darling…my poor little girl…you were having a nightmare about that night again. Those horrible memories won't leave you alone, will they? I'll never forgive that wretched boy for defiling you," she said in a soothing voice.
A few more tears fell from Pin-Mei's eyes. "But…he…he didn't…he didn't do it…Jun came in…he didn't even get to start…I…I'm still clean…I'm still clean…"
Her grandmother shook her head sadly. "It's only natural that your mind is trying to block that awful incident from your memory. When we found you, my dear child, he'd thrown you out into the rain, left you to die. Your whole body was swollen and bleeding, child. He had his fun with you, and when he was bored, he decided to get rid of you. If we hadn't found you…" She fake-cried into her sleeve. Pin-Mei looked at her with her now large and hollow eyes.
"Grandmother…"
Suo finished her act and touched her face again. "Rest now, dear. Your body still hasn't recovered. We have to prepare for the aftermath of his actions."
She placed a tag on her forehead and whispered a word into her ear. Pin-Mei's eyes closed again, another nightmare spell being put into effect.
Kai smirked. "You're sending her to meet with his past self, aren't you?"
She gave a malicious smile. "Clever boy."
"Will he notice her?"
"She has to call out to him by name five times. The fifth time she calls out to him, he'll become aware of her and react as his past self would." She opened her fan and attempted to stifle a laugh. "This is what will make her snap. Once she experiences all the pain and bloodshed he caused, she'll have no choice but to denounce her love for the scion of Tao. Then everything will be ready."
Pin-Mei opened her eyes and looked down at herself. She felt different. Her body seemed smaller. She touched her chest.
'Even less than I had before…if that was even possible.'
One of her long ponytails came in front of her. 'This is supposed to be braided…I haven't worn my hair like this since…I was eleven…'
She heard the honking of a car horn and looked to her left. Her eyes widened.
She looked just in time to see a short boy use his Kwan Dao to slice the car into two equal halves. They exploded behind him. The three-quarter length pants she wore allowed the heat of the fire to burn on her skin. Despite the heat, she was frozen.
A shiver went up her spine as she watched him turn to the driver of the car and get ready to kill him. Foolishly, she started running toward the scene.
'There must be some sort of mistake…Ren wouldn't do this…'
She skidded to a stop when she saw Yoh grab the end of the boy's weapon. She smiled. 'Yeah, Yoh will talk some sense into him.'
But she watched in horror as they soon fought and Ren nearly sliced his arm off. She could do nothing but fall to the ground and watch. It was only some time later that she realized she was shaking.
"Ren! Why are you doing this? Isn't Yoh your friend?" she called out in earnest.
He didn't seem to hear her; he was occupied with wiping the blood off of his face. She looked down at the ground, lost in both thought and heart. Nothing was making sense to her.
"Have I been sent back in time? Is that why they're fighting?" She looked down at herself again. "And why I have even less boobs than usual?" She sighed, then looked up again. "I don't know why I'm here or what I'm supposed to be doing, since they can't hear me, but I guess I'm stuck here for the time being. I mean…I shouldn't get too worked up, right? This is all in the past, so nothing bad is going to happen to them."
No sooner had she spoken was Ren hit by Amidamaru's attack. He hit the ground, his clothes torn, and now his own blood on him instead of Yoh's. She stood up immediately and ran to him.
"Ren! Wake up!" she cried as she went to nudge him. Her hand went right through him. "But he'll die if I don't do something!"
Before she could come up with an idea, everything went black, as if the lights had been shut off. When they were turned on again, she found herself in hotel. She blinked.
"Why would I be here? At least put me in a place where I know people, sheesh."
She jumped as she heard glass shatter on the floor.
"Jun! I'm out of the bath! I need a towel! AND WHERE'S MY MILK?"
She nodded, acknowledging that she was at fault. "Yup, I know that."
Without thinking about what he had just said, she turned to walk into the bathroom. She froze, stared involuntarily for a few seconds, then left again to hide somewhere (not that he could see her anyway). In another room, she sat down and tried to stop acting like a giggling schoolgirl.
"Okay, just calm down. There's nothing odd about what you just saw. Nothing at all. Fact of life." She thought about it again, and blushed, hiding her face in her hands. "Naked boys are a part of life. Nothing wrong. Absolutely, positively, one hundred percent, perfectly normal." She kept repeating similar statements until she had gathered herself enough to stand up and walk back toward the room.
When she was about to look into the room, Ren exited it, walking through her. As his body touched hers, she felt an icy pain. It left when he was away from her.
"What was that?" she said shivering. "It was so cold…Hey Ren! Are you cold? Maybe you should put a coat on or something."
Again he ignored her. She followed him and watched as he sat in a throne-like chair. She squinted at his back.
"It's still there…" she whispered, referring to his emblem.
While she was lost in thought, Ren and Bason had been carrying on a conversation. Pin-Mei snapped back to attention at his next sentence.
"I hate my family…I was born to exact their vengeance. But "revenge and restoration" will only beget more hatred, and the cycle of bloodshed will continue forever."
She sat down on the floor in front of his chair. "That was deep, Niisama." She figured she could call him that since it was before he had told her use his name. "He always was good at making speeches and things like that." She gave a little giggle and a blush as she watched him put on his shirt.
"But I will put an end to the cycle of hatred…Even if I have to destroy the Tao family to do it."
Pin-Mei, who had been rocking back and forth in a cross-legged position, froze. She wanted to rewind and play that last sentence back. Kill his family? He wouldn't do that…He loved his sister, and she was included in that. She determined that he was just having a "day" and that he didn't mean it. At least…that's what she kept telling herself.
It went black again. When she could see once more, she was back outside. It was nighttime, and the moon hung over what seemed to be a park. Pin-Mei looked around and spotted a vending machine. She hopped over to it.
"This is the hot cocoa machine!" she said excitedly. Then she heard a yell of agony and turned around.
By the light of the moon, she could see Ren standing over the body of a Shaman Fight competitor. It was chopped up, almost seemingly empty of blood. With wide eyes she slowly walked over to him. As she got closer, she could hear his laughter and his little murmurings to himself.
"AH HAHAHA HAH! What a laugh that you even believed that you would stand a chance against me! This is what you get for going up against the future Shaman King!"
She just stared at him. He was covered in blood again. At least when he fought the syndicate, he didn't seem to be enjoying himself. Right now, it was almost as if this was all a game, that the person he just killed was fake and meaningless instead of innocent and undeserving of such a gruesome fate.
"Ren…You obviously won…why did you have to go so far as to mutilate the body?" she whispered, still aware that he couldn't hear her.
After another laugh, he raised his Kwan Dao again. Scared, but still having enough courage to know she had to stop this senseless act, she sprinted over to him.
"Ren! Stop it! That's enough!" she cried wrapping her arms around him, her head on his chest.
There was a flash of light. Ren stopped and looked down at her, then harshly pushed her away.
"Who the hell do you think you are, touching me?" he yelled at her with a disgusted look on his face. "A vermin like you shouldn't even have the right to look at me, let alone touch me!"
She just blinked at him. "You can see me?"
"What did you think you were invisible or something? YES I CAN SEE YOU."
She looked momentarily pleased, then remembered what was going on. Rather timidly, she stepped in front of the bloody body. She was visibly shaking.
"No more. Just stop and go home. He's…" she looked behind her. "He's dead, alright?" She turned back to him. "Ren, isn't that enough?"
He laughed. "You expect me to follow the orders of a complete stranger? How do you even know me anyhow?"
She looked at the ground. She couldn't tell him the truth. He'd never believe her.
"I…I…"
She couldn't come up with anything plausible.
"I…I just do, okay?"
He frowned at her. "Hmph. Impudent bitch." He noticed her ever-visible shaking, which had gotten worse when she had looked back at the body. He smirked. "Scared, little girl?"
After a moment of hesitation, she gave a slight nod. "I…I'm afraid of blood…"
"Oh I see…well then maybe you should close your eyes so you don't have to look at it."
"What?"
She blinked and he thrust the blade into her chest. Looking down, she could see the blood starting to pour out. She could swear she felt the pain. Whether it was from being impaled or of a broken heart, she didn't know.
The last thing she saw before things went hazy and finally black was the malicious smile on the face of Tao Ren.
Suo and Kai turned as they heard Pin-Mei begin to choke behind them. The chains had been rattling due to her shaking for the last five minutes. Her grandmother raised her eyebrows with an apathetic expression as her granddaughter began coughing up blood.
Kai walked over to the chained maiden and wiped a bit of blood off her chin with his fingers, licking them. He looked back at his mother.
"I'd say Pin-Mei is ready for a little revenge."
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