A cool, gentle breeze blew throughout the True Cross Academy campus grounds. Fall was approaching, and a certain blue and gray haired girl was happy about that.
Speaking of which, Jay took a deep breath of the cold air, relishing the way it made her nose slightly burn yet refresh her senses. Jay blinked and shook her head, remembering she had a task to do.
It was finally time for her to make her move and take the demon sword from Rin.
Jay stared up at the creepy, worn down building, looking for any sign of life through the windows. When she found none, she slowly opened the door, trying to be silent. Once she was safely inside, she tiptoed up the stairs and headed towards Rin's room. She desperately hoped he or his little wimpy brother wouldn't be awake so her job can be a lot easier.
Jay stopped dead in her tracks when she realized something.
Shit! Which room is his?! She thought. She wasn't about to go and open every door throughout this dormitory and hope it was his.
Panic began to rise in her throat. Don't panic! You're a demon, you can sense other demons, dumbass! Jay took a deep breath to calm her nerves and slowly exhaled. She opened her eyes and let her senses reach out down the hall. Nothing there. She concentrated harder and tried the floor above her.
She felt a chill go up her spine and shivered. Yup, there he was.
Thankfully for her, the two of them were fast asleep.
Laughter echoed in the air as two young demons ran up a hill. However, this hill wasn't the one you'd imagine with a bright blue sky and soft, green grass with flowers of all different colors scattered around. This was a barren hill with red dirt and the sky above them was blood red and got darker and darker the higher up it got.
"Jay, Kuro, come back here!" A rather annoyed voice shouted. A demon that had a host that looked around 20 was standing with his arms crossed, his purple eyes narrowed. This only fueled the young Jay and Kuro to run faster to escape whoever the voice belonged to. The other demon that was calling them sighed and ran as fast as he could after them.
Jay turned around and stuck out her snake-like tongue in mockery. Kuro giggled and grabbed her wrist, willing her to continue on. Jay laughed loudly and followed Kuro.
"I'm serious, you two! You don't know what's out there! There's a reason we're far from the City of Hell!" The other demon was shouting desperately now.
"No way! You're just way too protective, Ushiro!" Kuro yelled back. He turned back to see how close Ushiro was to catching them, but quickly learned that was not his best move. Kuro didn't see a hole that was in front of him and yelped in pain, tripping and falling, also knocking Jay over in the process. Jay lost her balance and the two of them tumbled down the hill at an incredible speed.
"Jay! Kuro!" Ushiro's slowly fading voice called out. Jay couldn't make sense of what her surroundings were. Her head was spinning and making her sick and Kuro was no better. After a while of tumbling, Jay felt a sharp pain in her back and head as she hit the rock that initially stopped them. Before she could even understand she was in pain, Kuro flew up and smashed right into her. That last blow caused Jay to see a bunch of dots slowly cloud her vision. She felt this dizziness slowly force her eyes shut and allowed the darkness to take over her mind.
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When Jay awoke next, she saw Ushiro staring down at her in worry. When he realized she was awake, he immediately narrowed his eyes and clenched his teeth together in fury. He couldn't help himself and brought his hand up, then slapped her.
He hit her hard enough for an outline of his hand to appear on her cheek and for her to be staring at the wall to her side in shock.
"You idiot! I told you to come back and you didn't fucking listen! Do you realize what you did?!" He screamed, but tears were slowly building up. She narrowed her eyes and stared up at him.
Usually she would feel hurt that he yelled at her, but right now, she could care less.
If anything, she found it funny.
"Oh well. We fell. What's the big deal?" She shrugged and turned over, wanting to go back to sleep. Ushiro kinda stared at her angrily and sighed in frustration, excusing himself from the room before he beat her half to death.
Jay closed her eyes in hopes that she would fall back asleep, but her mind just wouldn't rest. She turned to her other side and saw Kuro sound asleep on the other bed. At first everything seemed fine. Almost like nothing happened.
Then she saw it.
The thing that would end up changing her forever.
When Kuro turned to face her (still asleep I might add), she widened her eyes in shock. Half of his face was pitch black and one eye was opened lazily. That one black eye stared into her soul, it's red pupil seeming to glow when it sensed her fear. She stared back, getting lost in it's dark abyss. Jay sat up and crossed her legs, now looking in wonder at Kuro's other half.
She let her eyes glance over his body, the fear settling in again. Half of his body looked to be consumed by this darkness. He had even sprout a little devil's tail and a single horn. The darker half of Kuro widened it's eye creepily and slowly, an evil smile began to form. Jay scoot back a little, willing the monster to go away.
It worked.
Footsteps could be heard down the hall. When the dark half of Kuro noticed, it quickly closed it's eye and gradually Kuro's body started to transform back to the way it was. Jay stared at him in shock and quickly turned toward Ushiro, who was now standing at the door.
Ushiro glanced to Kuro and looked back at Jay sadly. All of his previous anger had dissolved. "You saw it, right?" He didn't wait for an answer. Her frightened expression said it all. "You see, Kuro got his name for a reason. When his mother gave birth to him, half of him looked to be this happy demon, then the other half of him, the dark half, looked evil and terrifying. It appeared that Kuro was born with half a human host and half of his inner demon on the outside. The doctors said that eventually, his demon side would take him over completely. When Satan got a hold of this information, he had thought about killing him off, but Samael suggested that they wait and see how he would turn out. Satan accepted his proposal, and here he is now." Ushiro explained.
"But why is he like this now?! He's never shown any sign of this before..." Jay whispered the last part, horror slowly settling in when she realized that one day, Kuro would no longer be Kuro anymore.
"... I believe the fall had something to do with it. You both hit your heads very hard. Maybe the hit triggered something in his brain to release this side of him..." Ushiro sighed in frustration and crossed his arms. "I don't know. I don't know! I don't know anything about him or this kind of demon so I can't say for sure why this is happening now."
Jay slowly looked over to Kuro and suddenly, her mind went blank. The part of her that felt emotion suddenly left and she narrowed her eyes in boredom. Ushiro noticed and stared at her for a second before leaving the room again.
At the time, Jay didn't even care if that evil half of Kuro came to gobble her up.
All she wanted to do was sleep.
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Over time, what Ushiro told Jay was true. Kuro gradually became distant and more cruel, not the happy and funny demon he was as a kid.
The same went for Jay.
Ever since that day, it was like she hit the feeling part of her brain out of her body. When she inflicted pain, she would just laugh. She would even laugh at inflicting pain to herself. She truly felt like a demon after she came to her senses, but what can she do? She is a demon.
It was just like any other day in the world of Gehenna. Jay was out enforcing her newly discovered ice powers when suddenly she heard roaring and the sounds of battle from the city below. She quickly killed off one of the ghoul's she was fighting then glanced to the world below her.
She didn't run.
She didn't scream.
She didn't even feel horrified.
However, she was in shock and a tiny bit of her felt some pain at the sight she saw below.
There was Kuro's other half, which Jay nicknamed Yami, fighting some of the local demons. Jay couldn't even see Kuro anymore. Yami had taken complete control of her friend.
She just stared at the darkness as it slowly glanced to her. It smiled in a sick way before leaping up and flying forward towards Jay, evil, chaotic laughter echoing in the air.
Then, she snapped
OH MY GOD IT HAS BEEN FORREEEEVVVEERRR SINCE I UPDATED THIS STORY! I AM SO, SO SORRY! But I have excuses :P I have not had any computer access in quite some time and I had writers block.
This is going to be split into two chapters, by the way. Just a forewarning, the next chapter may be shorter. I'm not too sure yet
Anyways! Even though I've been gone for a long time, will you still review~?
~Jay