Save Me (Illumi Zoldyck x Oc)

Chapter 8

  She flinched to the miserable thought . The last thing she wanted was her friend stolen away from her with all the memories , love and care in a split second . Negative thoughts rushed through her fragile mind like a waterfall , things like "it's too late , anyway ." , "You're never gonna do it ." , "there's no escape ." , "you lost him!" and so much more . Illumi noticed her expression changes from time to time as they sat together , and patted her shoulders with an awkward nod . However , another part of her was fighting . Thinking so hard of an escaping pkan that she felt so mentally exhausted .

  A few minutes later , his watch's alarm went off . He wasn't sure what was that he had to do but both of them knew he bad to rush back in . Nakume , even though she knew more than him it was best to get back immediately , clutched onto the hem of his shirt , tears threatening to run down her cheeks .

"Please , don't hate me. " She said . The words left Illumi so confused yet he didn't dare utter a word for the girl in front of him looked so lost at that moment . Nakume was afraid she'd lose to the battle awaiting her , of saving him and getting him out of there . Would he hate her if she couldn't ? Would he blame her for it ?
Even if he wouldn't , she'd resent herself , blame herself , push herself to the ugly limits of feeling guilty .

"Will I see you tomorrow then ?" He whispered smiling trying to show her how eager he was to see her .
"Only if you want me to come.." She shyly mumbled and Illumi repled with ease an "of course ." She guarded him insisting on crawling to the tunnel's opening behind him till she was sure he was safe reminding him to be careful and wishing him a good night's sleep .

She didn't sleep that night , not because of her insomnia , but simply because she went on finishing stacks of paper scribbling notes and marking points for her plan .

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  The morning chirping birds .
For some reason , Illumi remembered them when he woke up . He tried to recall when he last heard or saw them . They weren't there to wake him up , the enormous mansion sadly blocked that beauty but it felt like he had seen them , listened to them carefully as if they were some sort of music . However , interrupting his little thoughts , his raging mother stormed inside her room . Her face had tears running down and her cheeks and eyes were swollen from crying .

"How could you , how could you!" She roughly pulled his hair causing him to wince giggling in between tears in a lutnatic way .
"You actually met up with her! Is that ugly girl the reason you're so disobedient?!" She screamed , her voice sending pain in his ears . She's talking about Nakume ?

"You must've been meeting for years . I.." she leaned in , her mouth just beside his ear and whispered innocently chuckling as if a child had admitted doing something sneaky , "put a monitoring device on you . Be careful what you do ."

Kikyo , then , dragged him out of his bedroom like an animal . Illumi didn't really understand what was going on so he didn't try to resist till he knew what's happening . When they were out into the main hall , he saw the worst surprise of all . The girl called Nakume was there lying on the floor , her face swollen and smudged with blood , what seemed like her nightgown was torn to her knees .

"What..." Illumi breathed out unable to form a complete sentence .

"Oh , she ? That's just a piece of worthless shit . Know what your parents said when I called them ? To take you as a servant for money? They said "Gladly ." "

Nakume didn't feel any hatred , betrayal or sadness at that moment for she knew exactly that would be her parents' response . They've always thought she was unworthy of anything , simply a nuisance .

"Only then you won't be my servant , you'll be my precious toy! " 

Nakume held her head up as she looked straight into her best friend . She partly didn't want him to see her that way and partly wanted to see him the most . In such a horrible shock , at dawn , she was taken into the zoldyck's house interrogated about her relationship with the eldest son and threatened by him getting hurt any time .

"Illumi..."
Illumi's expression was terrified . He shivered , trembled , shook in fear and his eyes stared to what was happening to someone who was supposedly important to him . Even if he still hadn't remembered her , even if something had changed in him , that didn't deny that the person lying there was fighting for him .

Kikyo was having fun watching both of them .

"I'm okay ." Nakume simply said smiling . What angered Kikyo the most was the sight of not crying of Nakume . She wanted her to suffer in just all the possible ways .

"You're not ." Illumi whispered loud enough for them to hear . "You're not! You are not okay! I hate this , I hate seeing this , I hate it!" He was so so confused . It's my fault , isn't it ? That she's been hurt ? I am the one to blame . I met her in the first place .

He searched his memory for their first meeting ending up receiving only fragments and faceless figures and a throbbing headache .

"She deserves it , ha!" Kikyo kicked her with all her might into her stomach sending her to fall backwards coughing blood .

"Just stop!" Illumi yelled angering his mother trying to push her away from Nakume's weak body . Something odd inside him kept manipulating him , controlling him into doing this he didn't want . Something made the terrible things seem nice and the more he fought it , the more he fept his body getting weaker , his consciousness slipping away...

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