Kouken

Chapter 2- Help

                "Meow” Paws yawns as she wakes up. Looking around the room, she takes a step towards Kensuke’s face and licks him, waking him from his nap. Kensuke groans opening his eyes to see his loving cat that interrupted his slumber. “Paws, when I said to wake me up in an hour I didn’t really mean it.” He looks towards a dark grey digital clock that lies on his desk. “Oh I see it is your dinner time.” He looks over to see her sitting on the rug in front of him and imagines a smile on her face. “Alright alright you damn adorable cat, let me see what we got here.” He gets up from his bed and stumbles towards his desk. He looks through the grocery bag he got earlier that day. “Ugh,” he sighs passing his fingers through his messy hair, “looks like I got you the wrong food again paws.” He stares at her for a minute then after being done in, he grabs the bag. “I will be right back then,” he says while opening the door to his apartment. It takes a while to reach the pet shop by foot and the way Kensuke walks doesn’t help. Watchfully choosing his path he reaches the shop. He quickly goes in and looks for the canned food isle. He attentively looks for the can he needs, “Sorry Paws,” he says reading a label of a can he picked, “but I got it this time.” He places the can in his bag after paying and walks out the door. Walking out he notices that it is getting dark and somewhat breezy. All that can be seen is an empty street where garbage is blown around by the slightly strong wind. All you hear is the wind whistling and a TV that was left on in an apartment. In this silence, a slightly weak pattern of footsteps is heard. This pattern is coming from the far right side of him. The more he pays attention the quicker the footsteps sound, as if someone is running.

                ” Help help!” The owner of the footsteps yells as she keeps running without a clue of where she is headed. “Help Help!” she keeps yelling while tripping and stumbling on pavement. She looks up and sees Kensuke in front of her. With relief she looks at him with tears in her eyes, sucks in air and weeps “help!” tackling Kensuke down to the ground.  “Please help me, please,” she cries out to him immediately. He looks at her scared to death. “Umm it’s ok… what is going on?” He responds as he gets up and catches his breath after getting surprised and tackled by this random girl. “I’m not sure but I think that someone is following me and I’m scared” she explains to him. As he gets up, he looks around to see if anyone is there. He sees a gloomy young man which seems to be wearing some kind of black costume close to them. “One of them?” Kensuke thinks to himself as the man looks back at him as if he can’t be seen. Kensuke takes a step back after noticing that the man got closer to the girl. “Hey! Why are you bothering this girl” Kensuke says while thinking to himself, “Damn, what am I doing here, I am a little agile and I know how to fight a little because of those kung-fu classes that I dropped last year, but still.” As he gets ready for anything that might happen, he inspects his rival. “Wait a minute, what is that?” he points out the ominous scythe that the man is holding, “damn! What kind of person carries a scythe around here?”

                The man notices Kensuke’s actions and with a confused expression thinks to himself, “What is up with this kid… can he see me… but how, no human should be able to see me.”

Kensuke notices the confused expression the man has. “Hey, is this the guy that was following you?” he asks the girl.

“Huh? What do you mean? There is no one here” The girls answers as she looks around in all directions.

“Right I almost forgot about them.” He thought looking towards his rival.  He then notices that his rival had changed his expression to a slightly surprised one.

“Impossible how can you see me!” The rival asks.

“Wait what.” Kensuke conveyed with shock.

                Without letting any more words out, the man grips his scythe and charges towards Kensuke, swinging the scythe towards the sky. “Damn he is running towards me with the scythe!!! Am I going to die here?” Kensuke thinks to himself and freezes scared to death. As the man dashes towards him a loud shout comes from the top of a building next to the girl. “Grrrahhh!!”