It'll Be Alright (Discontinued)

Chapter 7: The True Nature of the Situation

A/N: Does anyone even read this? Also, how do you dedicate chapters to people?? I can't find it on the website. I'm hopeless...

What?! I don't know why I'd... Never mind. I need some bandages, but short of mutilating my jumper (which wouldn't please The Bat, not that I care) there is nothing to use.

"Why... what did he do?" I'm dissolving in a puddle of tears.

"He disobeyed me. He's lucky though. I could have done much, much worse."

"Apart from killing him, what could you do to him?"

"I can shatter him... emotionally."

"How?"

"Kill his sister." Logan smiles, a mischievous smirk. He claps his hands and a girl, no older than twelve, walks in. She is almost a female, no, wait, she is a female Akashi.

"Logan-sama, what do you need of me?" asks the girl in a monotone.

"Ah, Nanase, I wanted to show Rose here what she could potentially kill."

"Please, don't kill me. Onii-chan will hate you." She sounds like she's in a trance. Like she's. .. a broken radio. You know the way people sound on the radio sometimes. She sounds like that, only repeating the sentences over and over.

"How... would... why would I... kill you?"

"Actions. Every breath,  every word can cause my death." So now I can't breathe without knowing it can cause death.

I pull off my jumper and proceed to rip it into strips. I set aside three quarters of it to  tie around Akashi. Using the remaining quarter, I apply pressure to the cuts. I contemplate asking for antiseptic, but decide against it. They'd probably give me bleach. Maybe, I could ask Nanase...

"Anata... wa b-bofu motte... imasu ka?" I did take some Japanese lessons. I'm not sure what possessed the teacher to make her teach us how to ask for antiseptic, but it came in handy.

"Hai, watashi wa anata ni sore o ataeru koto wa dekimasen." E-eh? What does that mean? Somewhere, a chicken clucked and a dog barked. [A/N: Balamory was on my TV cause we had my baby cousin over and they were making animal noises, so I took the clucking and barking for no reason.]

"Shun! Check on the chickens!"

"You guys have chickens?!" I'd applied pressure to Akashi's wounds and had begun to bandage them. Someone has come over and whispers, "Don't try to heal hiim. I also know you were trying to get antiseptic."

Suddenly, I feel the sting of a whip on my back. My attacker cracks the whip twice before whipping my right hip. It stings but I won't cry out. I'm not weak.
You, strong? Pah, I don't believe it.

No! I'm not going to be weak. I won't listen to that side of my mind. I can endure the abuse at home, so I'll endure this. The whip wraps around my neck. I manage to turn around and see... Nanase?

"Na... na... se... I... c-can't... breathe..." I choke out.

"Don't hurt onii-chan!"

"Nanase... she's. .. helping me..." It's too late. I can't breathe. My brain is de-oxygenated and I pass out.