Galatea

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Chapter 8
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A/N: So finally we are here, the final chapter of my little story. Replies to all reviews posted as of when this chapter was put up can be found at the bottom of the page. I would just like to add that my pen name is Shinju; Galatea really is is the title of my story. If you have questions as to why the story is called Galetea, when you finish reading this fic see my reply to the post made by Hot Gimmick Fan 007.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the characters Hatsumi, Ryoki, Shinogu, Yuka, or my special surprise guest for this chapter, Azusa. Damn, I guess its not a surprise anymore, is it?

It has been really fun writing this story. This will be my first compleated fanfiction.
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Sadness washed over Hatsumi throughout the night. She hadn\'t wanted to believe it before, hadn\'t wanted to see. Ryoki was . . . . . heartless. She\'d wanted to love him, she\'d wanted to love everyone. He\'d rescued her once, it seemed so long ago. But why had he saved her, only to subject her to this?

She heard his familiar steps coming down the stairs.

He\'d told her that he loved her. Hatsumi now realized that Ryoki didn\'t know how to love, or even what it was.

The lights flicked on.

\"Hatsumi?\"

What was that feeling running through her veins? Hate? No, she didn\'t hate him. Disgust, maybe. Fear? Definitely.

He kneeled down next to the bed she was laying on, unlocking the device around her neck. It had left an angry, irritated red mark. He reached out a hand to caress the curve of her waist. Hatsumi jumped up and off the bed.

\"What\'s wrong with you?\" Ryoki barked. He took a step forward. Hatsumi stepped back until she felt the touch of the cool wall against her naked spine. He\'d backed her into a corner.

\"Answer me!\" A cruel hand slammed one of her shoulders against the wall, pinning her.

\"Get away from me!\" she yelled, roughly shoving his hand away.

He stared at her, his face paled with shock. Then he reddened. She\'d never seen that much rage in his eyes before. He grabbed at her. She fought back this time, biting his hand and raking her nails against his face. They struggled. Hatsumi was under the delusion that she would be able to get away, kick him, maybe, giving her just enough time for her to dart up the stairs. She would free herself, and this nightmare would end. But he was too strong, far superior to her slight, unmuscular frame. She knew this but she didn\'t stop fighting. She couldn\'t. Finally one of his hands had wrapped around her slender neck. Hatsumi squeaked, gasping for air. Hatsumi had never been strangled before. She and her siblings play fought sometimes, choking each other in mock anger. But this . . . . for the first time she became afraid that Ryoki might kill her. No matter how hard she tried to breathe, the hand around her neck wouldn\'t let the much needed air into her lungs. Her eyes turned red and watered over.

\"Why,\" he spat out. His voice was hoarse, an anguished whisper. \"Why don\'t you love me? Why!\"

He relaxed the squeeze of his hand just enough for her to choke out an answer. \"Be . . . *cough* because there\'s a black hole, *gasp* where your heart should be!\" In a final, supreme effort, the last of her strength, she shoved his hands away, the force making him spin backwards. She fell to the floor gasping for air.

Hatsumi could hardly see anything, black splotches darkened her vision. Ryoki didn\'t see him until it was too late, until he heard the trigger click. So quiet, a black shadow against the wall. Neither of them had noticed that someone else had slipped into the basement to witness their fiasco. Ryoki saw his doom down the barrel of Azusa\'s gun. Indisputable. Final.

Hatsumi only heard a bang, the loudest she\'d ever heard in her life. She didn\'t remember much after that, only some sort of frenzy, and her hands trying to stem the gushing rush of crimson coming from a hole in Ryoki\'s head.

She fought as strong arms encircled her, frantic, dazed. Her assailant whirled her around. He punched her, then slung her over his shoulder. She had lost all consciousness by the time they exited the house, leaving Ryoki to drown in a sea of crimson-red.

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\"Your family is very worried about you, you know\"

Hatsumi stared at Azusa\'s worried face blankly. What was he saying? She hadn\'t been able to think clearly ever since . . . .

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She\'d woken up completely in the dark, thinking she was still at Ryoki\'s cabin. But something was wrong. She ran around the room, screaming and throwing herself against the walls. Suddenly, a door opened and she felt cool air coming from a breeze outside. Azusa flicked on the lights, dropping his plastic grocery bags all over the floor. He stared at her in horror. Hatsumi was actually a little offended until she realized she was naked and bleeding from several different places due to her her mad galavant around the room.

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\"Hatsumi, did you hear me?\"\"

. . . . \"Huh?\"

\"I said your family is worried.\"

Hatsumi looked down at her hands. After Azusa had cleaned the blood coming from her scratches, (no band aides because he did not want to leave her alone again) she\'d realized that she still had blood under her fingernails. Not her blood. Azusa had cleaned her wile she\'d been asleep, but apparently not good enough. She spent hours in the shower/bath trying to scrub it out. She still believed she could see some pink, even now.

\"I need to wash my hands.\"

Azusa looked pained. \"I think I should call your mom now.\"

\"No. I\'m not ready to see them yet. Can we stay here at the hotel a couple of more days?\"

\" . . . . Sure. Would you like to go out and buy some decent clothes tomorrow?\" He\'d bought her some sweats from the drugstore so she\'d have something to cover herself with in the mean time.

\"No. I don\'t want to go out.\"

\"Alright, we won\'t go out.\"

\" . . . . Azusa?\"

\"Yes?\"

\"How did you know where I was?\"

He was definitely uncomfortable now. He couldn\'t even look her in the eyes. \"Shinogu told me.\"

\"Oh. Shinogu.\"

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They stayed in the room for two days, Azusa occasionally going out for food. The watched a lot of television. A LOT of television.

On the second day, and about their fifth movie, Hatsumi spilled Coke all over the sweatpants Azusa had bought her. She rinsed them off in the tub and hung them on the coat rack to dry. She felt uncomfortable because she was laying stomach down on one of the double beds and Azusa, who was on the second bed, was looking at her legs. She felt like crawling under the covers, but decided that doing that would make her look stupid, so she didn\'t do anything.

\"What exactly did Ryoki do to you while you were down there?\" He was still looking at her legs.

\" . . . . Things.\" Hatsumi knew what was going on and her heart started to hurt. Why did it always have to be this way?

\"What kind of things?\" He continued to stare. He couldn\'t help it, they were just there.

She had on no underwear, only a very large, very long sweatshirt that covered her down to her knees. She abruptly sat up, pulling the sweatshirt to her waist and spreading her legs. \"Why, would you like to find out?\" She glared at him.

\"I . . . uh . . . I didn\'t mean-\"

\"Don\'t try to tell me you don\'t want to. Fuck, Azusa, even my own brother wanted to.\"

He was as wide eyed with shock as a man could look. \"Jesus, Hatsumi, cover yourself!\" She did, embarrassed. She started to cry. Azusa wasn\'t quite sure what to do. Finally, he sat next to her and awkwardly put his arm around her, letting her cry into his shoulder. Her body was wracked by sobs.

\"Oh God Azusa! I don\'t know what to do!\"

He gently stroked her hair. \"Its going to be okay, Hatsumi. Its all over now.\"

\"You don\'t understand, its not over! Its not ever going to be over.\" She closed her eyes and buried her head deeper into his warm shoulder.

\"He can\'t hurt you anymore, its over.\"

\"You don\'t understand. My own brother! And I . . . . oh God!\"

Azusa\'s face also contorted in pain. \"I knew he had feelings for you, but I never thought . . . I never thought he\'d hurt you like this.\"

\"How am I evergoing to face him? How am I going to face the rest of my family for that matter? And what happens when they find Ryoki\'s body, my finger prints are all over that basement!\"

Azusa once again looked uncomfortable. \"You don\'t have to worry about that, I burnt the Tachebana\'s cabin to the ground, starting with that wretched basement.\"

Hatsumi gasped.

Azusa continued, \"Nobody knows that you were there with him. After you went missing, Ryoki told his parents he was so distraught that he needed some time away from school. Everyone thinks he was at that cabin alone. I\'ve destroyed the gun too, no one will ever suspect what happened, Hatsumi.\" He held her closer and continued, \"I\'ll call Shinogu and make sure he\'s gone before you go see your family. You never have to see him again.\"

\"But I can\'t tell my family what happened, especially what Shinogu did to me!. And they\'ll always talk about him like he\'s my brother, like he never did anything bad to me. I\'m also going to have to lie about where I\'ve been and what happened to me. I can\'t face that Azusa, I can\'t!\"

Azusa thought about this for a few seconds. He sighed. \"We\'ll have to tell them you ran away. You were so worried about school you just snapped. I seriously doubt Shinogu will ever show his face to you again. And afterwards . . . . afterwards if you don\'t want to live with your family anymore, you can live with me. I\'m making enough money now to afford a place of my own.\"

Hatsumi shoved him away. \"Yeah right, like that would be any better! You tired to have me gang raped, remember?\"

Azusa flinched. \"I\'m sorry, Hatsumi. I am so sorry.\"

\"I think you\'re full of shit.\"

Azusa gawked at her. She picked up the hotel phone and started dialing. \"Who are you calling?\"

\"My mom and dad.\"

\"What are you going to tell them?\"

\"Its none of your business , whatever I choose to say. I never want to see you again, ever.\"

Azusa started to leave.

\"Oh, Azusa,\"

He turned.

\"Tell Shinogu that if he ever tries to see me or my family ever again, I\'ll tell everyone what he did to me.\"

Azusa nodded and left.

Hatsumi\'s mother answered the phone.

\"Hello, mom?\"

The End

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A/N:

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SPOILERS - this author\'s note contains MAJOR SPOILERS to my story. Please read story first!
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Okay, I know a lot of you, especially Ryoki fans, probably hated the ending. *** Prepares self for the flames *** I know most of you wanted a happy ending, but trust me, this was happier than I was going to make it.

I was going to have going to have the whole thing end by Azusa fucking Hatsumi and leaving her at the hotel without a word, and/or Hatsumi killing herself, but I figured that would have been, judging by the way I\'ve written the rest of the story, predictable. Besides, I had a rare moment of sympathy for poor Hatsumi. Plus, I think I\'m all out of lemons for the time being. I mean I seriously couldn\'t think of anything else to do to her, really. Sorry to all those fans who were expecting one last lemon. Well here are my answers to all the reviewers I haven\'t yet answered by the review board.
Ryoki luver -
Sorry you didn\'t like the Shinogu/Hatsumi paring! Seeing as you are a big Ryoki fan, you probably liked the ending to the story even less. I\'m sorry! Blame my muse, my muse told me to do it, honest! Oh well, remember it is just a story. I actually hope Ryoki and Hatsumi end up together in the real comic. Not really sure why I think that, he is really mean to her. But he\'s so hot though!

Hanoi -
Oh my God, when I read your review I was SO tempted to add a chapter featuring Ryoki\'s maid! But I just couldn\'t make it fit, since she\'s so nice and this is such a mean hearted story. I\'d actually like to do a short fic with her playing a major role, I think she is a very interesting character and the only one in the entire story with any sense.

Kinnara -
I\'m glad you read it! I\'m always happy to shock my readers. Thank you so much!

Hot Gimmick Fan 007 -
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SPOILERS - this review reply contains MAJOR SPOILERS to my story. Please read story first!
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I\'m always delighted to have a fellow Hot Gimmick author review my work. I read your story, I thought it was great! I wrote a review, hope you read it! About the title, the title really is Galatea. My user name is Shinju. In Greek mythology, there was a sculptor named Pygmalion. One day he sculpted his fantasy woman out of ivory (or was it marble?) and she was so perfect that he fell in love with his own work. He named her Galatea. One day the goddess Aphrodite granted life to the beautiful ivory carving, and Pygmalion and Galatea lived happily ever after. I think, anyways. I don\'t really remember. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called Pygmalion, about a phonetics professor who tutors a Cockney woman in speech and manners in order to pass her off as a member of the aristocracy to win a bet. This was later the basis for the musical My Fair Lady, staring the lovely Audrey Hepburn. Anyways, I named the story Galatea, because Ryoki, like Pygmalion, tries to sculpt Hatsumi. But instead of sculpting her out of ivory, he tries to sculpt her sexually. But alas, like in the play (not in the musical), it doesn\'t work out because \"Pygmalion,\" the phonetics professor, is too controlling, and \"Galatea,\" the flower girl, doesn\'t want to be controlled. Only in this story \"Pygmalion\" and \"Galatea\" didn\'t get together because Ryoki gets shot in the head. I\'m not really sure where I\'m going with this, so let me get to my point. In short, I thought it would be funny to name a trashy, filthy porn story after a classic Greek myth.

Veronica -
Thanks for reviewing my story! For some sick reason, I\'m glad I wrote it!

TwistedFun -
Thanks for loving my story and giving me a good review! Don\'t worry, I get the point, ; )

Asia -
Thanks a lot, for some reason, I\'m not sure if most people got that a lot of the lines were meant to be funny . . . .

blueiris345 -
It makes me happy to know that people are sharing my story with other people. I\'m really glad you and your b/f like it.

Chickennugget -
Thanks! I\'m glad somebody enjoys my twistedness!

saphirejade -
Happy you like the story, sorry I didn\'t really deliver a happy ending. Actually, I\'m kind of happy she got away from the one torturing her. Kind of, I guess.

devindoo -
Thanks!

DarkDemonicDevil -
Thank you so much, at least somebody appreciates my lemon-y-ness.

Kita
I hope I effectively inserted a backbone into her in this last chapter. Well, a little bit of a backbone. Perhaps it was too little too late for her to save herself. Thanks for reading and reviewing!

internalfugue -
Thanks. Yeah, some of the stuff here is kind of soft.

lonelygirl -
Thank you for reading, I\'m glad you like.

Kitten -
Thanks to so many reviews like you, I decided to post my final chapter!

Ice -
I know its ooc, thanks!

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Wow, its been a trip, and I think this author\'s note is longer than the story! Let me cut it short, thanks to all you guys for reading! G\'bye!