Toya would fight all odds to stay by Kyoko’s side. His heart and his daggers are hers to take. He only asks that she accept them. Even when the darkness of their enemy threatens what they have fought so hard for, Toya would die for her honor and her love. In a moment of bliss, he finally gains the courage to open his hidden heart and confess the true emotions he keeps within. That moment is forever changed when Kyoko is taken from his world by the heartless fates above. Believing he is cursed, Toya gives up, falsely accepting that his reason to live has forsaken him. Now, Toya must defend her against the worst enemy of all…himself.
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Once within the small patch of trees, she stumbled to a stop; feeling something nearby. She furrowed her brow in concentration as she reached for the crossbow on her back and notched a spirit dart against its taunt string. All she could hear was her own breath in the night air around her.
Kyoko stood her ground as she turned in a circle trying to find her target. The shallow moonlight played silently through the leaves of the trees, making everything within look eerie. Still, she would not back down. She tried to hide the shudder that ran through her body at the amount of evil she felt surrounding her.
Toya stood motionless deep within the shadows as he watched her raise her bow. She slowly turned, facing him but he didn't even flinch, as she kept rotating not seeing him. The memory of another spirit dart being pointed at him once before seemed to ricochet through his mind.
The difference in the memory was that now he was not looking through the eyes of a watch-ling. His eyes trailed her body, her skin so pale against the short dark skirt and her face glowing against the backdrop of her dark auburn hair.
His eyes began to glow golden with the sight of her as he whispered. "You would shoot me, Kyoko?"
Kyoko heard the whisper from the darkness and spun around trying to find it, still not liking the vibes she was getting from the unseen evil with the soft voice. This feeling she had was like a nightmare from not so long ago, seemingly to equal the same vibes as Hyakuhei… but altered in some way.
Her back straightened and her chin lifted, as she seemed to hone in on the source and point the spirit dart directly into the darkness. "Show yourself coward!"
Toya smirked under the cloak seeing her defiance. She would not shoot until she knew what she was shooting at. He knew this much even as he watched indecision flicker across her emerald orbs.
His eyes narrowed as he watched the bow string grow tight against the back of the spirit dart. Had she really changed that much? Had she changed enough to shoot into the darkness not knowing the target? The wind came from behind her, blowing her scent to him and his eyes darkened. He could smell his brother on her.
Kyoko felt a shift in the wind then a movement of the evil. She twisted around feeling it circling her. She felt the hair on the back of her neck start to stand on end as she heard her name whispered from the right. "Kyoko." As she twisted to the right, ready to shoot, the voice came from the left.
"Kyoko." The sound kept switching sides leaving her confused.
"Who are you?" Kyoko cried out, becoming a little frightened. The voice sounded like the whispers of a hundred demons all at once but within it, something seemed familiar. She felt arms go around her waist, pulling her back tightly against a firm chest and she froze.
The hands felt sensual splayed across her ribs, as if… she knew this touch.
Toya kept her from turning around as he held her tight only to whisper in her ear. "You smell like him, you know." Then he disappeared again.
Kyoko swung around trying to see whom the arms had belonged to but could only see the forest around her. Her eyes widened at the words she had heard. The voice that had been in her ear, she knew that voice.
"Toy…ya?" She mouthed the word with almost no sound. Her heart thumping so hard she could barely hear the name as it left her lips. She felt a pain slice through her heart at the memory of him still so fresh in her mind.
"Tell me, Kyoko!" The voice screamed in rage from one side, only to whisper from the other. "Why are you with him?" The last voice had sounded so sad. Kyoko's crossbow started shaking and she slowly lowered it. Why did it have his voice? Her body jerked as the voice shouted at her again. "Why did you forsake me!"