A Love That Kills

Karasu and Bui were very excited about the tournament. Training every day and every free time, actually not because they really wanted to, but because they "had to".

They were exhausted and fell down under the tree, laying on the grass. Karasu softly dragged to Bui's side, and then he could also enjoy the shadow of the tree.

Bui said nothing. He just looked at Karasu, thinking why he had that puzzled expression in his pretty and delicate face. But Karasu answered, as reading his thoughts:

"I don't even want to know what will happen to us if we win the tournament."

"Toguro will kill us for sure" - Buy thought, and said, and then regretted after seeing Karasu's eyes closing slowly.

"I think he should have killed us before, when he had the chance. I-"

He stopped suddenly. An awful scream and then a loud noise of explosion came closer enough to threat their peace moment. Bui jumped down on his knees, and Karasu sat down immediately, leaning in his hands.

"What the hell-"

"Look out!!" - she screamed, a second before an Ice brick hit Karasu's head and another one hit Bui's face.

Karasu became a bit dizzy, but got ready to send his bombs to explode the whole forest if he had to. Bui rose up. Then Karasu. They looked around, looking for the owner of the voice.

Silence. No sound at all. Even the wind seemed to stop.

They stayed there for several moments, immobile, quiet. But then the wind came back, and then the little animals of the forest started to sing again. And again they sat down in the grass. And Karasu leaned his head on the tree and closed his eyes. Bui laid again.

Then, they heard a loud noise. "Vuuuuch!!". When Karasu opened his violet eyes he saw the fire coming right to his direction. He had no time to act, he thrown himself over Bui and the fire burned all the tree and in seconds the tree has gone.

"Oi!! Karasu!! What was it???"-Bui asked while raising, and pulling Karasu with him by the arm.

"Holocaust!" - said Karasu, ready to react. "It was a direct and offensive attack!", he tought.

But the enemy kept out of their sight.

"Go to this side, Bui, and I'll go to this side" - Karasu walked in the direction of the attack, to see who was being attacked. He thought, "Probably he'll return the attack, if it's not me.". Bui walked to the direction where the attack came from, wondering who...

Karasu was walking, when he felt the wind stronger, and just around him, as forming an circle, a cord. His long black hair started dancing around his face, and then messing and messing. He turn when he heard a whisper coming from nowhere, "nooo..." and then the loud and wild scream. The wind stopped around and he almost had no time enough to see over his shoulder the shower of fire coming into his direction...

"Ice Barrier!!"

The flames hit something far two centimeters of his eyes. Something he just could see when the fire sprawled around the... ice barrier.

He prepared to explode everything who moves, but again the wind blown strong enough around him to keep his arms glued on his body and even raise him a bit of the ground.

"No" - he heard the voice whispering soft from nowhere - "the fight is all mine."

"Where the HELL are you?"

"In the Dimension."

"Put me in the ground!!"

"Not now."

Karasu saw himself flying while the flames almost burned him again. And suddenly, he fell down almost two meters in the ground. The wind has gone all of sudden.

"Baka!!!" - he cursed.

Bui heard a loud noise and, from nothing, tree pieces of someone fell from the sky. The head, the thorax with arms and the waist and legs.

"Nice job" - he thought.

Karasu appeared then, in time to see the pieces burning in the ground. Behind the flames they saw the opponent for the first time. And they didn't believed their eyes.

It was a little girl. Very well formed, pretty, dark red hair in a pony tail, Samurai pants, a very sexy blouse, that left half of her breasts almost exposed, and a big sword, too big to her.

"My apologies" - she smiled, bowing a bit her head, and with a pretty half smile. "The war wasn't against you. I know you are powerful warriors, but this fight was mine."

"You... " - Karasu was furious.

"I'm Poison." - she crossed the fire and rose her hand, with a weird lace glove.

Bui took her hand, whispering his name. Karasu looked at him disgusted. He wondered how she could fight with a sword, bigger than her, with a lace glove. He slapped Bui's head.

"Are you nuts? She almost killed us!"

"I didn't throw any fire on you guys" - she smiled. - "Anyway, he wasn't that good..."

"How could you fight out of our sight?"

"My secret, Mister..."

"Karasu. And this is Bui. Nice to meet you. Prepare to die."

She wide her pretty brown eyes. And saw Karasu flying in her direction.

"Oscilate Wind!!" - she yelled strong, and a strong wind thrown Karasu right back. He rose his hand, but she yelled, "Ice Barrier!" and the bombs exploded on the Ice barrier, making pieces of Ice flying all around the place. And suddenly, she has just disappeared again, to reappear grabbing Karasu's hair, and a sharp blade cutting his neck, a drop of blood running... and she freed him.

"You're a way too strong, Karasu. I don't wanna mess with this bombs of yours."

He turned at her, his purple eyes in fury.

"Who in Makai can kill someone who hides nowhere?"

He was caught by surprise when she simply answered the question looking inside his eyes.

"I'm vulnerable, Karasu. It's a way too easy. The way to defeat me is NOT coming to the dimension to find me. Is to find me where you're never expect me to be."

"So you're not an immortal ghost..." - he smiled an evil smile, but she couldn't see it.

She smiled a sweet smile back at him, put the finger on the ground, and then in the wound her sword had made in his neck. Karasu looked at her, a finger dirty of grass and dust...

"Heal him, Mother Earth, I beg you!!" - she whispered softly... and the wound started to close. Karasu looked at her surprised.

"Why are you healing me?"

"Because I feel you like me somehow."

"Too bad. You signed your death sentence."

"Could you please take this mask away? I want to see your face."

He said "no", but was too late. She gently but fast as the wind thrown away his mask. Her eyes wide even more when she saw him that way.

"Oh Gods!! You're pretty!!!!"

Karasu took his mask from her hand and put it back fast, before she realized he was smiling.

"I gotta go" - she said. "I have some other forests and youkos to protect."

"I shall fight with a Youko soon, will you watch me to kill him with my bombs and my bare hands?"

He saw her shock, but suddenly a big strength thrown him over her and both fell in the ground, his black hair covering her face and shoulders. He rose his head, and she saw the panic in his eyes. He looked over his shoulders.

"Karasu, what is it? What's the matter?'

"Don't move" - he whispered to her. - "don't you dare even to breath. If possible, go back to the dimension and leave NOW."

"When I see you again?" - she was fading away under him, he could feel the wet grass...

"Tomorrow I'll be here training..."

"I'll train with you then..."

"Karasu, still in the ground?" - the mean voice came from nowhere.

"Go, Poison!!"

Poison disappeared in the ground and he rose up to face Ani Toguro. He laughed his evil laugh and asked, "why were you kissing the ground?"

"I WASN'T kissing the ground, Toguro."

"Raise this skinny butt now and come, I'll train you a little more."

"Humpf... do I have choice, by any chance?"

Toguro Ani didn't even low his eyes at Karasu.

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Karasu fell down, his mask far from his reach, his blood gluing his hair on his face. Toguro Ani laughed with cruelty. Karasu moved hard his head to look at Bui.

"At least he's better than me... "

"Had enough, Karasu?" - the soft voice whispered.

"I'm so tired to be his puppet."

"I'll give a way" - he heard the whisper again. "Just call him 'mother fucker' or something and say you'll curse him..."

"Are you crazy, he will smash us in two... even knowing..." - Karasu smiled an evil smile under the hair curtain and blood dry drops. "...how funny would be to see his face."

Karasu couldn't resist... It was too much temptation. He looked deep at Toguro Any's eyes and opened his little mouth to call him the worst names and curse him. But, for his surprise, Toguro Ani didn't move even the lips to say, "Talk less and fight more. You'll have much more to win them."

Karasu swallowed hard. And then he lifted a bomb in Toguro Ani's hair, saying, "If you touch me again you are dead."

"Are you crazy...?!" - Buy whispered.

Then Toguro Ani projected tem tentacles in Karasu's direction.

At two centimeters of touching Karasu's face, suddenly and for everyone's surprise, a slash came from nowhere cutting the tentacles tips.

Toguro Ani, shocked and in pain, fell down on his knees, with several cuts all over his body.

"What the hell..."

Karasu couldn't help but laugh. Bui looked at him, raising in his elbows, with a very surprised expression in his face behind the mask.

"Damn you, Karasu!! It'll have a return soon!!" - cursed Toguro Ani, and then he left.

"What WAS that?" - asked Bui, concerned. Karasu pointed a finger to the empty space and Bui saw Poison's forms coming until she reached them out. she kept her bloody sword back in the place, and smiled.

"Can you defeat Toguro Ani?" - asked her Bui, somewhat happy.

"Yes, Bui, I can. But right now, I have to go. The animals of the forest are needing care and I need to repair the tree Honi burned behind Karasu.

"See ya then..." - said Bui.

Poison came closer to Karasu and asked, "will you be all right?"

"I hope so."

"Where it bellds the most?"

She reached out his thighs and healed his wounds, then did the same with his shoulder and chest. And then, gently, with his face.

"See ya, Karasu. Have some rest."

Before he could answer, she disappeared back in the air.

Bui rose up and helped Karasu. He was exhaust and he noticed that she has just drained all his energies to heal him. Karasu held his mask in his hand.

"Why I feel so tired...?"

"The cure comes to the inner to the outer side" - Bui said, helping Karasu with an arm.

"And so?"

"It means that: the healer will heal your wounds, but just YOU can decide if you can be CURED or not, if you will die anyway or not. Of course, without closing your wounds, you will die even wanting to survive. The bleeding needs to stop."

"I see..."

"She is pretty strong, ne?"

Karasu smiled, holding his mask close to his face. "You seem to be very enthusiastic about her, don't you? Do you think she could stay with you?"

"No, she likes YOU... But still she can bring us a new life..."

"Uh?"

"Did you ever thought about our future? What will happen to us if Toguro win?"

"I bet he will kill us..."

"I don't know about you, but I don't want to die. She could kill Toguro for us."

Karasu looked at him, leaning in his arm. His leg was aching. He looked down his leg and smiled.

"Actually she could kill Toguro now and we don't need to be in the tournament for him. And if I could have a choice, I wouldn't be in the tournament in the first place. It sounds great."

"Don't you have a date with her tomorrow? You could ask her if she-"

"I DON'T have a date, you baka! I don't appreciate this things as well. It sounds too "sweet", too "sugar" to my stomach. I think I'm a wilder type. But I'll see what I can do.

"Very nice then."

But, a pair of mean eyes were over them all the time...

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Poison was sitting in the grass, leaned on the tree, waiting for him. But he was delaying and she started to worry, when he finally came.

He opened his mouth and dropped a rose on her lap, then he laid down by her left side.

"Hello!!"

"Hello, Kurama. Thanks for the rose, you're so kind..."

"You're welcome..."

"Do you have some news to tell me today?"

"Hummmm... actually not. The boys have been training, and I saw you training as well. Are you going to be there?"

"I'm intending to watch my beloved one to fight."

Kurama rose his eyes to her.

"You really love that guy, don't you?"

She sighed deeply, and smiled with dream eyes.

"Yes, Kurama, I do."

Kurama laid down his head, sadly.

"You'll end up dying, Poison. He kills who he loves."

"I think I know why..."

Kurama was curious.

"Eh? Why, then?"

"Love is a mean thing" - she said, leaning her head on the three and closing his eyes. - "After a while in love the person you love start to seems less interesting. Usually disappoints you. Or so something you'll hate. So, Karasu may kill the person he loves before he got very disappointed with them. So he fells depressed, but then relief, and the person will keep untouchable forever inside of him."

"To me it sounds like cruelty..."

"Oh? I do think a bit different of him, but I think I must agree with him."

"He may kill you later."

"I don't want to die if not by his hands."

Kurama looked at her.

"Your love sounds so pathetic..."

"I know" - she smiled.

"What is your point of view, Poison?"

She sighed again.

"After live so many times and fell all the pain over and over again I still believe love can last forever and we don't need to die. To never get hurt, I never put expectations over Karasu. I don't expect him to behave this or that way. Our love can last forever."

Kurama smiled, but he was a kitsune...

"How many lovers you ever had?

"This life?"

"All of them..."

"Hummm... I lived four times, in Planet Earth. Some more in the dimension. I think I had two for each life... not much."

"Why you can't die?"

"I was cursed. I die and I leave my body... it comes back to mother Earth and feed my brothers. Till I finally find a new witch or wizard to make me a new body... and leave again. And again." - she sighed again. - "I wish I could rest in the Death's Dimension... I can enter there but actually I can't neither stay there or bring anyone who wants to stay there, back to this world..."

"You are really invincible?"

She smiled at Kurama.

"No, silly. I'm a bit fast, a bit wise. Everything in the planet is limited. So are my summons. All of them, except "Dimension", because I'm more like a dead one, living there more than here, and "Oscillate Wind", because the Air is my elemental. But "Mother's Womb", "Land Wound", "Hands of Gods", "Holy Fire", "Ice Barrier", "Bitter Kiss"... I just can wear a certain number of times... "

"But, you have your sword and sometimes your whip, and the "Holy Chains"...

"The secret is to wear all of them fast and kill the enemy on the dimension."

"Why the people call you Poison?"

Poison leaned her lips on a small flower. "I shouldn't do this, but I want to show you, so I'll sacrifice this life."

Poison kissed the flower, licking softly. The flower disappeared as melted by acid.

"Hummm, now I just can wear this kiss tomorrow..."

"Ops, don't kiss me!!"

She laughed. "Don't worry, it just happens when I want... besides, you're the only one who has the only barrier I can't cross...

Kurama rose up, and stretched.

"How can a Nature defender sweet as you can kill someone... and still be with Karasu?!"

She smiled a sad but shining proudly smile.

"I have my mean side too. I can't hurt an innocent and if I ever do it, I'll heal him. But I don't tolerate injustice and I got really mad and sadistic about unfair people. Besides, after so many cycles, even not much as you, I can really tell ya: 'Love IS blind'... then..."

"But, Karasu?!"

"He can be really sweet sometimes... and I can bet he loves me too..."

"You'll die soon, then..."

"If so, may be by Karasu's hands."

Kurama said nothing. Just watched as she took the rose and smelled, bringing it to her breasts, and sigh tenderly. Kurama felt sad. He knew she was lost.

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Bui flew, and his axe flew with him. And from the air he saw her screaming, "Holy Flame!!" and Karasu's bombs exploding before reaching her. Then Karasu was the next to fly, and Bui fell down and turned fast, because his axe fell after him and almost made a cut on his neck.

Karasu thought, "she can't wear the same attack in more than an enemy by time... but she can wear all the elemental together... and why the bombs never touches her?"

Bui reacted and walked over her, and she summoned "Land Wound". Bui was drained into the ground and Demi lost the effect, throwing Karasu back in the ground.

"Both Demi and Land Wound are from the elemental Earth" - he thought. - "The solution is to force her to wear two attacks of the same elemental at once, and one will fail..."

Karasu, fast as the wind, came closer behind her and touched her shoulder softly. She almost had time to summon "Ice Barrier" and the bomb exploded.

She screamed in pain. Karasu smiled, but when he looked, her arm was still there...

"Weird..."

She fell down on her knees, and became pale and pale. Bui left the wound in the earth and saw her laid in the ground, refusing to cry. But pale, as missing blood. He run after her and held her hand.

"Heal yourself, Poison..." - Bui said. He felt her holding his hand stronger and almost collapsing, she answered to him:

"I can't heal myself, Bui. Just the others and the nature. But, there's no physical damage, because I'm not on my body."

Karasu smiled. So it was her secret... she was fighting as a spirit, her body was hidden somewhere else, well protected...

"But, here in the dimension, all the feelings and sensations, both the love and the pain, are at least three times stronger and more intense than in a physical way..."

"It means that..."

"People who can walk into the dimension fell the feelings and everything else too much stronger than who can't. And, I'm one of those."

She glanced over Karasu, and he rose her head, and then her chest, to lean in his legs. He held her in his arms, his soft black hair falling on her face.

"You became faster than a kiss, Karasu. You're very good."

He smiled, but under the mask, so, she couldn't see.

"How can I ease your pain?" - Bui asked. - "There's no wound to heal..."

"Bring me some Ice, I don't have strength to summon it anymore."

Bui disappeared as fast as he could.

Karasu saw he had the chance he wanted. He rose her and sat down over a tree with her in his arms.

"There's something I want to ask you, Poison..."

"What is it?"

"Kill Toguro Ani for me."

"Then you come to kill me?"

"Probably... I really love you."

"You are two days far of the semi finals... we were training for at least fifteen days... can't you kill him yourself?"

"You can hide better. You are the only one who can kill him fast enough. I never asked it to anyone... but... here it goes... " - Karasu swallowed hard and said the word. - "Please..."

"What? Are you really asking me this??"

Karasu swallowed hard, and said again, - "Please kill him... or it won't have any future for us."

"You and Bui...? Toguro Ani won't allow you to survive?"

"Probably not..." - Karasu lowed her violet eyes for her eyes. - "And about you and I..."

Karasu removed a mask. The Ice barrier was fading away as the ice melted, wetting both of them, and bringing her pain back. Karasu noticed and smiled, amused. And rose her close and kissed her softly in the lips.

She reached his face with her good hand, caressing Karasu's face gently, and then reaching his nape and burying her fingers in his dark strands, kissing him back deeply and passionately.

"Please" - he whispered, his little mouth close to hers - "Or it won't have any future for us."

"Yes, Karasu, I kill Toguro Ani for us. Tell me when, and it'll be done."

"Tomorrow after the train, and then I'll keep your body safe myself."

"Tomorrow after the train, so. My body will be where it always have been... laid down in a crystal dome in a glade that's in the middle of this forest."

"But wait for the end of the train..."

"Why?"

"Just because I want to do the things as we did in the first day... take him by surprise..."

"So it'll be done."

Karasu smiled again and kissed her once more, and then they felt something freezing them.

"I'll help to keep your body safe" - said Bui, leaving the ton of Ice he had brought around her arm. - "And thank you very much." - Bui looked at Karasu a bit worried - he knew how his friend could easily betray and kill someone he loved - and said, "I hope you can be happy and REALLY have a future together."

Karasu smiled.

But, he wasn't the only one smiling. Another shadow thing was smiling as well.

"Ahaaaa... and I want to see how deep is your love..."

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Toguro Ani was just pushing them to the deepest part of the forest. Karasu with his bombs and Bui with his axe were causing a massive destruction as they walked, facing Toguro Any.

"Enough!!" - said Karasu, - "If we keep on we'll be so tired that we won't be able to fight tomorrow..."

"Enough" - asked Bui, agreeing with Karasu.

"Just a bit more, a bit more..." - said Toguro Ani, with the most nasty and evil grin he could find.

Then the small glade showed up, and the cristal box in the middle of it.

Bui froze in his place.

Karasu wided his eyes, a chill running up and down his spine, the fear freezing him in an endless cold.

Toguro knew!! He knew it somehow! Bui felt his blood going down. Karasu almost collapsed. They had signed their death sentence.

Bui ran to the glade and stayed in front of the dome, trying to protect and to keep is out of Toguro's sight. Karasu faced Ani and flew over him, but Ani's tentacles threw him away.

"And what in the hell may be that?"

Toguro Ani came walking. Bui danced in front of him, but he also flew. Ani felt a real hot presence around the dome, as a holy fire...

"Holy Fire!!" - she screamed while the fire barrier flew in Ani's face, burning a bit his hair. And again, all that Toguro Ani did was reach his hand and break the dome.

"No!!" - whispered Karasu, more to himself.

Bui attacked Ani for behind, in a blind attempt to protect that body. Ani's tentacles wrapped around Bui's big body and again he fell far. Ani took that body on his arms.

"Holly Wind!!" - Ani flew away and dropped the body in the ground.

"Such a power..." - he thought.

"Why she delayed so much to attack?" - asked Karasu, with the voice almost trembling. "Why she allowed it to happen?"

"Because you told her to wait you finish the train first, remember?"

"Why, we are all dead now..."

"I know..."

"Land's Wound!" - she summoned, but her body reached the ground and not the wound, as she wanted. The pain made her loose Ani, and he fell down too.

Bui took the body, but Ani reached him and he threw Poison's body to Karasu before falling down.

"So the boys want to play a little more, uh? But..." - Karasu hated deeply that laugh - "Im already tired of it."

Ani's tentacles reached her body in Karasu's hand, making endless wounds on it. Karasu wide his violet eyes. They heard her screaming loud in pain, and her blood flowed in strong jets. Karasu's face were totally covered of her blood, and then he felt her soul coming back and reentering her body. And then, he held her tight.

Toguro Ani's laugh never seemed so mean, so disgusting. With another hand, Karasu took of his mask, his hair turning blonde.

"No!!" - She found strength to say. "My animals, my trees... Kurama... don't kill them..."

"What?!" - Karasu was shocked with her request.

"Protect... the life... of the forest... Protect the life... I'm within... within me..."

Bui ran to reach them and heal her, but Toguro Ani threw him really far this time, hitting him in the leg. Bui broke his leg, and then he couldn't heal and rise up so easily.

Any set fire in the forest, separating Karasu and Poison of Bui, by the fire Barrier. And went to the nowhere to keep watching the rest.

"Nooo!!! My Forest!!" - she yelled. The pain was becoming intolerable and she allowed the tears to fall down this time.

Karasu held her against his chest, trying a way to reach Bui.

"Karasu... I can't take it any longer..."

"Poison, hang on, we'll do it together... hang on..."

But he knew the blood and the pain were killing her too fast for something be done. Suddenly he felt bad... in a way he never had feeling before. Depression of killing beloved ones was a bit different of that feeling... he didn't want Poison to die. But he felt he was loosing the only person one day he wished alive, fighting by his side... sadistic and mean, but also so sweet and able to protect those who she loved.

"No... no... don't die, Poison... don't..."

"Karasu... let me at least... save those who I love..."

Karasu moved trying to jump the fire, to cross the fire, to find Bui. In vain. He held her strong and she said:

"Please... touch my hand in the ground...I need to feel it... I need to fell Mother Earth..."

Karasu leaned her body, and she touched the grass and the dust, then, she rose her hand to the sky, the head leaned in Karasu's chest.

"Mother Earth, I give you my life in name of those who I love..." - she summoned.

Touching Karasu, his body regained strength and the wounds sealed. Then she rose her hand to the fire and a wind blown, and at the same time, Ice Barrier stopped the fire to go on. The fire melted and vanished in the Ice and Wind.

But it was too late for her. All the pain and had missed all her summons - each summon left her exhaust - was killing her slowly and painlessly.

"The pain..." - she whispered - "Karasu, the pain... is what I fear... the most... please... kill me."

Karasu looked at her sadly, his lips met once again.

"Kill me... Free me..."

"What about our future?"

"Maybe... in the next life... I'll wait for you."

Karasu felt the tears falling, tears of sadness and hate. He held her, she moaned and then yelled in pain. Karasu looked at her again.

"To die... hurts. To born hurts as well... free me... have mercy."

Mercy... she was telling him to have mercy? He never had mercy...

"You kill... those you love... Am I so... unworthy?"

"You're the first person who I really loved and don't want to let go."

In her pain, she found strength to smile.

"I love you, Karasu..." - she leaned his hand over her head. He knew what she wanted. - "Aishiteru."

He left a small bomb inside of her. Really small, enough to blow up her brain but keep the body intact. And he closed his eyes and said whispering, "Aishiteru..." and kissed her lips again.

Karasu felt the bomb exploding, and saw the blood coming out for her ears and nose and mouth.

Bui appeared pulling his broken head.

"Karasu... you did..."

Bui almost couldn't believe when Karasu faced him. The tears ( Karasu crying?) and the fury, the anger in his eyes.

Karasu laid softly her body in the wound of the ground. He thought,

"If I don't kill Toguro myself, I hope someone, anyone, does."

"Kurama"... he whispered the name. The name was familiar. He started to love the person she loved besides him, before to die. And, was one more person to kill. One more reason to kill those who he loved as well.

But she wanted him to protect the life within her... Which life?? He looked around. The forest seemed to cry. The animals seemed to cry.

He rose up furious, just to see... Any Toguro.

He couldn't even say a word, and he hoped his eyes could say something.

"Don't be so mad, Karasu" - Ani scarned. - "She was too bad company for you. Ah, ah!! I hope you liked the game. Now you'll be able to fight against everyone..."

Karasu couldn't even breath. He was holding on to don't blow everything and for guarantee he put the mask back in his face.

How could Any see that like just a good train? But, Any was like that...

Ani left, and Bui leaned his hand on Karasu's shoulder for three seconds.

"We got to go now."

"I know."

The two walked out of the forest slowly.

Kurama and some other residents of the forest gave her body back to the Earth she loved so much.

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Karasu was feeling the pain and the blood out of his heart. He still glanced at Kurama for the last time.

"I won, Kurama..."

"I know... are you happy?"

"Actually yes. Are you?"

"I'll see you again in the death place..."

"I won't be in the death place. I'll be back to hunt Toguro."

Kurama smiled inside, because he knew why.

Karasu left his body, hoping to see her... maybe she could teach him how to find an end for the pain.

He looked for Poison, and all he saw was deformed and weird pictures, grotesque forms of life.

The time seemed an eternity. He was walking and walking in what seemed hours, in a place that seemed the most dirty - and endless - alley. He felt a light touch over his shoulder and turned to see who it was.

Bui.

"Karasu, in the dimension she is known as "The Sin"...

"Where is she?"

"On the planet, I think."

"Why 'The Sin', Bui?"

"Because she breaks rules... protect lovers... and induce people to make bot good or bad things. And, to command the free wish of someone IS a sin."

"Where is she?"

"Toguro..."

"What?!" - Karasu was shocked.

"Toguro came back to earth. She didn't meet you at time, so she went down to hunt him. To revenge your love."

"She left too long ago?"

"Right before I meet you."

"Shit!! And what about Kurama?"

"He survived. He must be about 20 years old now."

"But I just arrived a while..."

"Time here flies..."

"How can we be back?"

"Do you want to meet her?"

"Of course I want. And I want to get Toguro as well."

Bui took Karasu to a stair down. Karasu and Bui went down. Bui showed him a body:

"You'll be reincarnated there... make your job. I'll be seeing you again."

"We'll meet."

Karasu entered the body.

Special Thanks to Karasu, for your endless love - I love you as well.