Death's Stain 死の染み

Chapter 3: No Shadows and All Sunshine

Seiji's eyes narrow, staring at the group in a fighting stance with one foot forward, holding the pitch-black shadow blade. "I've watched enough Naruto, come on and try me!" Seiji says defiantly, holding the blade tighter with both hands by the handle with his red gaze locked on them.

The second after Seiji says that, one of the shadow people dash off towards him, unsheathing a long shadow blade like his. Seiji's eyes widen, not expecting it to be that fast.

Seiji would hold up his blade, the two blades making a sudden CLINK as they collide. Four of the others dash from both sides, two on the left and two on the right, which causes Seiji to become overwhelmed.

He puts all his strength into pushing the shadow person's blade away from his. When he finally does, he tries jumping backwards but instead feels a cold, chilling hand on his shoulder. He looks back and sees its a tall shadow person there and his eyes widen. 

Before Seiji knows it, he's stabbed through the shoulder, causing him to cry out in pain and shake his head relentlessly.

"N-No!! Stop!" He screams out in horror and pain. He then cocks his right leg forward, then slam it back into the shadow persons heel that is behind him, releasing Seiji from its grasp. Seiji looks up at the shadow person that stabbed him through the shoulder, but then in the corner of his eye, he sees another one coming down on him with its blade.

He thinks fast and parries the shadow person's blade with another louder CLAANK and shoves the shadow person away, then with some more quick thinking, he slashes the other one that stabbed him in the shoulder's arm off in a swift motion.

The arm of the shadow enemy falls off from the elbow and he tries taking the blade out of himself, his hand trembling almost more than ever, causing him to collapse nearly from the sheer pain. He finally gets it out and it would fade into mist.

Seiji looks back over to the six shadow people and yells at the top of his lungs over at them as tears of pain run down each side of his face, "What the hell are you freaks anyways?! Where am I?" He pants quickly, his eyes still widened while staring at all of them.

"We are [][][][][]'[] [][][][], your friends. We don't have a clue why you're attacking us," says one of the shadow people in an eerie, echoing voice which sounds distorted and wobbly, two of the words unintelligible to Seiji. The voice is not like a humans, it lacks the warmth and depth. Seiji's eyebrows furrow slightly from confusion—they're not my friends—or maybe-

His thought process is then suddenly cut off as he feels a sharp, aching pain in his abdominal area, so he looks down. After looking down, his legs go limp and he falls to his knees, what he sees is a long, pitch-black shadow blade that has been stabbed through him from behind.

He would cough up blood as he begins to scream in even more pain, he looks up and sees the shadowy group of people wearing the dark grey coat walking towards him. His eyes widen in absolute terror as blood trickles down his shirt and mouth.

"I don't... wanna die," he gurgles out as blood fills his mouth. Seiji's labored breath begins to pick up pace as the group stands infront of him and the other one stands behind him.

Bloody tears began to well up in his eyes, his mouth floods with blood and it pours out like a violent water fall. It falls from his eyes just like his mouth, causing him to panic, glancing around frantically as the landscape fills up with blood.

Now the sound of malicious laughter echoes throughout the vicinity, Seiji's body trembles on high gear as he is now submerged up to his neck in a rising ocean of blood, and it just keeps on rising.

Bloody hands come out of the ocean of blood and begins to shake him violently. "Hwa-hu-hel..." he tries saying, his words drowned out by the gurgling blood, that is until his eyes roll back.