Constant Denial? [Soukuko]

Chapter 9: Push Through Pain to Keep a Swear

— Dazai's POV—

Shit...

I lifted my head back from a tree and tried to move forward. I saw Chuuya throwing punches at its arms while going around in the air. Like a little fairy. I kept trying to move forward but my vision started to turn to static. Eventually my body moved back to the tree and bent over. whatever was in my stomach from the night before left. Before I could turn around to see the fight again I felt a hand push me down into a bush not far from the tree I'd been smashed into.

Shhhh.

I leaned back on the ground till my eyes adjusted to the darkness of the bush. "Chuuya, what are we doing? Why'd you—" I asked as I sat up.

A hand covered my mouth before I could continue my question. "Hush for a second, I don't know how good it's hearing is." Chuuya said while facing outside the bush. Chuuya had distracted NL for long enough to get away and come to get a new plan. "The glass didn't do anything, and we don't have a bomb. What are we gonna do now?" Chuuya's voice never reached too far over a whisper as he asked, he let his hand go back down by his side. Everything was still blurry as I tried to speak.

"We could tr-". I raised my hand to may head as I felt a pounding from it. It took a minute for it to stop.

My head and hand felt warm, and wet. My left hand was covered in blood as I pulled myself up to continue what I was saying. "We could try to bury it deep in the ground and crush it down. It could work with enough force.". Chuuya looked halfway back at me with a confused gaze.

"What about the area around here, the street. That much force would cause an earthquake around this area for... Hell knows how far it'd go.". I closed my eyes trying to think of a better plan to go with but the thumping in my head just keeps getting worse as I try piecing together a new plan. I hear a sigh from Chuuys before he yanks my arm towards him and unwraps my bandages from my wrist. Under the old bandages there are some marks from the past that I prefer to stay hidden. Chuuya ties a bandage tightly over where my head is thought to be bleeding from. It made my head thump worse, but it stopped soon after. Chuuya looked at me with both hands still tying the now spotted red bandages. After he finished he peaked out from the bush. NL was still there but it wasn't moving around too much, it looked like it was heading in a specific direction. "Dazai." Chuuya said as he made direct eye contact with me. "Can you move?".

The question was mostly easy to answer, yes. But I knew why he was asking. Chuuya plans to use corruption, but if I can't move then he'd be dead by the end.

"Yeah, I can move. Maybe not run, but I can walk.". That was all Chuuya needed for him to stand up and walk out of the bush toward NL.

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—Chuuya's POV—

As I heard those words I had a thought ring though my head for a few seconds.

—3d POV—(flashback)

"Are you kidding me, you damn Mackerel. Do you have any idea what hell you've just started! What makes you think I'd want to work with you again, after everything!" Chuuya's eyes begin to shake slightly, either from stress or trying to hold back his anger. Instead he closes them and begins to speak. A hand goes over his mouth, stopping whatever was about to exit. At the moment the hand hit his mouth his eyes reopen in slight shock but otherwise stay irritated. Dazai gives a grin of reassurance towards him.

"Relax Slug, I have a plan. Have I ever been wrong in my plans?" An agitated sigh leaves from underneath his hand. "I've never left you for dead, have I?".

—Chuuya's POV—

"Damn you.". I walked out of the bush that I had pushed Dazai and I into. We needed more time to come up with a plan but we're out of time. We have no bomb, glass isn't ending this, and I've been tossed around enough by this thing.

I'm finishing this. "Granters of dark discrace-", I stopped when I stepped on what sounded like a stick. I looked down, it was my communicator. Damn it I just got that fixed! Ugh! I wanna go home already. I looked back up at NL and finished.

"You need not wake me again." I felt a flare of warmth go down my body before I wasn't moving under my own strength anymore.

—Dazai's POV—

Once I pulled myself back up from the bush I saw him. His skin shining with a red glow and markings appearing on his face and arms. He jumped into the air throwing a black and red mixed spheres that were glowing from the moonlight.

I stood by the tree as I watched. He would stay his fifty feet away in the air but it didn't take away from the view. The view of a person fighting with his full force to end something that was irritating him. Something so simple but so beautiful.

Chuuya threw smaller black holes at NL trying to break it down slowly. But by the time NL had fully pulled itself together a hand raised itself. A small hand went over his head and pulled the atoms from around into a large ball. The sound of laughing was all that I could hear from above. The laughing was deadly no matter how much joy filled it.

The black and red hole hit the new Lovecraft with so much force that he was pushed into the ground by about three feet. It was enough for me to be unable to see who the large creature turned into outside of their ability form. but from the hole a tentacle came up and hit Chuuya in the gut. He didn't have enough time to respond to the hit so he was sent back down into the thick forest behind us.

The person we were fighting sat up from the crater they had been in.

The whole fight felt the same, the ability was the same... the person was the same. The bomb hadn't killed Lovecraft, he had to have regenerated the bits of him that were blown away from the impact of the bomb. The new Lovecraft was the old Lovecraft but covered in so much dirt and grime that he was unable to be identified properly by drones.

"I'm so tired, I want sleep. I can sleep once they are gone." Lovecraft said as he raised himself.

I felt my legs move without my control into the woods. I ran as fast as I could to the area that I saw Chuuya was thrown. I knew I was close when I heard a laughing that grew louder by each passing second.

My legs didn't stop even when I thought I saw him. Chuuya was on his feet, his body was almost fully covered in blood. It wasn't as mesmerizing as it was a minute before, Chuuya's skin was stained by lines of blood seeping from his head. I couldn't tell if it had been from corruption or from being forced through the ground.

My vision began to go blurry again as I saw him get his hand ready for another throw. Instead of closing them and stopping like I had before in the bush I continued to jump at Chuuya. Both of us fell to the ground as My head slammed into his front. I felt my ability's chill leave my fingertips. I heard Chuuya's laughing stop before everything went black.

IM BACK AND READY TO ANNOY YOU ALL WITH THE FACT THAT I HAVE NO POSTING SCHEDULE!! And yes, I did leave y'all on a cliff to hang out on together until I desire to post again. You're gonna have to fight me to stop these cliff hangers from happening, but alas! Thy can not! Thus I am on the other end of this screen, watching over as thy suffer in waiting.

Anyways! hope you enjoy reading and have a good time until we meet again

(Addition note!!! I had a alert on this chapter before I posted it saying there was something about it matching something else on another device. However as you and I all know this is a original (at least I hope so). If anything is or sounds wrong in the reading please contact me)

There is a flash back here, so I hoping it just read the flashback wrong and said chapter four was a different thing.