The Pink Jackal : I'll Make You Sing! [Yuri/Kas]

Awful? That was the word she had chosen to describe years of torment and pain? A decade of her life lost, stolen from her for the advancement of research. It was all to make an immortality drug, and anti-aging serum, at least that's what she had uncovered. But she would soon learn that it was all for a father's love for his kin. To toss away the lives of others to better his own offspring. Kasey understood he loved Sashi, but she did not understand how he did not know of the truths. But she knew he would not die for his crimes. No, he was going to suffer and pain, just like Kasey did. Just like everyone else.

Setsuna would peer in, only for his gaze to fall upon his master, and his master's idol. It was a strange thing to observe, and was nothing he understood. Neither of them could process the concept of love beyond feeling for someone so strong, you would die for them. To be embraced... like this, was foreign to the both of them. From licking cheeks to... laying lips upon each other. Setsuna bowed his head and turned away from the both of them. "How strange." he would think to himself.

As their faces met, Kasey did not move or pull away from her. It was warm, comforting, and much more private than the feeling of someone's tongue on the side of your face. Yes, it was pleasant, but what did it mean? She would hold it, unsure of what to do, and when it was over, she would begin to stir the words spoken to her. She would put it together, trying to make sense of her ever changing world.

"Everyone should hate me." She would begin to say, "I'm someone drunk on the blood that sets on my lips. But, it is you who is important. And I will help make your world a bit more pleasant, so you can enjoy it." To pain for her to indulge in the good life. To suffer so she can have happiness around her. To be willing to die for her joy. Ah, yes, those words, what were they?

"Even if you hated me, I would still love you." She spoke out, words that held a different meaning to her, than anyone else. Or perhaps, for once, she was the same with the world. "I'm happy, for the little moments I'm with you, or hear your voice.

I'm happy."

Perhaps someone was able to understand her pain. Maybe she wasn't as different as she thought. Maybe someone would learn to understand the suffering of the experiments. Maybe they could feel her hurt from a decade lost to scientists and mercenaries to detain her and them. Maybe they could understand. But to see the world through her eyes, would be impossible. Well, at least for anyone that wasn't her sister.

But Cherry was dead. No matter how much Kasey wanted to hold onto her hope and faith, she knew deep down, she was dead. There was no one else like them. They would always be alone in this world. Blood was all she had, but even so, blood was meaningless compared to the bonds hat formed. Some organically, others forced by some unseen hand by life. No, that unseen hand had a name. His name was Majinoki. He was a god. He allowed them to meet. And it was by her deeds, she was presented with a wonderful bride.

Yuri set to the ground, taking Kasey's hands and placing them over her breast, to allow a heartbeat to be felt. While it would fill anyone with joy, happiness, or some feeling of content, Kasey felt alone. Yuri's heart was her own. It was the organ she was born with. Kasey? her body was artificial, replaced, repaired, regenerated. Nothing of her, was her anymore. She was a copy of herself. She was Kasey. She was no longer known as the girl Rena Mi-

Yuri opened her mouth to speak to her. Crazy girls finding love? To be hated by the world but to love each other? To be used as a tool by her father, Thundershock? The power of feelings to stop them? Before she would put her thoughts into words, her touch would break her thought, and again their lips would lock. Another moment lost in an embrace, as Kasey's eyes bgun to pour tears, while her expression remained the same. She pained, but she no longer reacted to her hurt.

"I am Ketsujo's Lapdog. I consume the dead to remove all traces. Sato is connected to your father. I believe... That perhaps I can take over, and take down Thunder from the inside." she would tell her, a plan coming together. "To destroy a Zaibatsu is going to send Japan into chaos as the underlings fight for a new ruler among them. I'll lead them. When I do, you will defeat me, and the public will hate me, and love you. But behind the curtain... we will have each other. And none will know the truth."

The truth, that Ketsujo Corp had always fed the Hero's public perception from the start.

Only this time, the Kobayashi Clan was going to fall too.