Manacled Desire

12. A self prisoned man

Sakura dropped Takao's bag beside his lazy ass over the couch as he kept glaring at her. "So, how was Kyosuke?"
"What?" She turned back to him to clarify.
"I asked. How was that asshole in your bed?".
Her eyes widen a bit "What do you mean?".
He chuckled in menacing  "You think I don't know that you two had a fucking relation before the marriage? I knew everything"

She clutched her fists after getting to acknowledge. "And you still forced to marry me?"
"Of course you bitch. I never wanted you, I wanted to make him realize what I can do with his worthless life" his eyes glared from pure hatred and despise.
"You scoundrel. Now, I think I should've taken the decision way earlier. I shouldn't have waited" his filthy words only did enrage her.
"What decision?" He narrowed his eyes.
"Filing a divorce" She made it clear. 

His eyes widen in its limit of rage and dashed out from the couch. She couldn't even move away, he shove her to the ground and the wall behind. Her back slammed hard making her groan in pain.
"You think I will simply let you go"   he scurried closer and grabbed her hands.
Hatred and anger overtook his control already. She squealed out from sudden pain.
"Let me go" she used her legs to push him away from her. His drunk body made him fall on his face.
Gasping in fear, she ran away from the living room. He wasn't human anymore.
She went for her cell left at her room. Kyosuke promised to come soon but now it became the very emergency.

Kyosuke left the room scurrying down by the stairs. "Why was she so fixated about it? But if its so serious, it must have truth to it. Does the curse really pull the strings of mishap?" he exited the hospital, questioning.

"LET ME GO!!" She cried her heart out trying to get his hands off her legs as she struggled to climb the stairs and reach a room to escape. Kyosuke was absent, nobody would be saving her.

"I won't let that boy have you" His remaining firm strength pulled her down like a beast to its prey.

He threw her across the living room and rushed to his bag. 

It was her chance, the only chance she  would get.
She gave it all to stand up while he was distracted searching inside his bag. She attempts a last escape.

"Sakura" Kyosuke finally appeared pushing the front door open. Sakura escaped from the living room and heard his call.
There he was, finally. A huge relief dropped to her heart as she immediately ran to him. Her savior had arrived. Everything would be settled now.
Kyosuke walked in too towards her, oblivious to anything.What was happening?. Still, he made the pace to swift in and grab her into his arms. Rescue her but as soon as they barely came close.
Three gunshots fired from behind. One after another continuously.

Sakura finally reached her savior and dropped over his wrapping arms.

His eyes widen from the sight of his father holding a smoking gun, which he dropped after realization.

Time stopped. "No it can't be" His hands ran over her upper back and it felt wet, warm. He raised his palm to see and there was blood, red blood coating his palms. "No! Please not this"
"Kyosuke" she tighten her hug around his back and eyes shut tight from pain. She was dropping from balance, they kneeled down still hugging each other.
"No! It can't be" tears rolled down slowly from his cheeks. Time was turning back  but he wanted it to stop, at any cost. 
"We need to get you to the hospital right away" his arms trembled, still trying to pick her up.
"N...no...k-kyosuke" it took her everything to struggle out the words, her remaining. "Don't worry...I am saved" she lift her body up somehow and touched his cheek for the last timd. She smiled with wet eyes looking at his his for the last time and dropped over his chest, for eternity.

"Sakura-san?....Hey! WAKE UP! please"
He kept hugging her tight. "Please wake up"

The police appeared and took Takao to apprehend. Sakura was taken away by the ambulance. Shin and Mayuko appeared too but what's the point now? The chain moved so quick there was no stopping.

For Kyosuke, he wouldn't make a single word or drop a single tear anymore. His soul was shackled now, into darkness. He lost. The chain ends.

Long ago into an unknown period, lived a man slayed by the reality and time shackled himself into a prison, a prison of darkness with endurance of a few roles.

An evil smirk, an urging companion, a broken heart.

A self prisoned man at last, because his soul was too feeble to end itself. His shackles gave birth to a curse, a curse in search for a same feeble soul so the shackles can pass down and end what it began.
A soul who lost everything.

A soul who lost his love. Sakura.

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