Death Becomes Me by Tsuki Chidarake (suggested reading .txt) 📕

My name is not known to anyone but myself.
And even to you I will not give it. But I would like to be called Akitachi. If you haven't guessed this name is japanese, but it is an uncomman name in Japan. But i'll tell you what im means; Aki (is Autumn), ta (eru, it's Die out, End), and last chi (it means blood). Well, my name tells some of my story. But i'll tell i'll tell the rest.


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It was on an autumn day. The breeze was not to hot but not cold. It was just right, my favorite kind of weather. I was waiting outside my house, 300,000 years ago. I can hear you now, "How could it be 300,000 years?" Well i'm not a 'normal' human. You smart people have already figured it out, or maybe you have posobilities. Like, i'm a demon on one of those anime shows. I guess you could call me a type of demon. But if you haven't guessed it. I'm... a...Vampire! And this is my story.


I was waiting for a friend. His name was Doku. I had been waiting for him to return from a long trip. He had went on a trip with all the men in the village. The woman were cooking dinner waiting for the men. "Why is she not cooking with the woman?" you ask. Why do you automaticly think I am a woman? I could be a man with a broken arm, not able to hold a spear or a bow.But you are right I am a girl. Not a woman, a man, or even a boy. I am just a girl, my age is 156 new moons (13 years old). Thats how we did age in our town.

After an hour I decided to go back inside, when I heard horses. No wait! Only one horse. So I ran to the gate as fast as I could. The breeze was blowing my long black hair every way. As I got to the gate. There was Doku, lying on his horse with cuts and bruises. His body as almost completly covered in blood. As I ran over to Doku I noticed that no one heard the horse, but me.
"Doku! Doku! Are you alright?" I asked as I took him off the horse. As I checked his heart beat the horse ran towards the stable whinning like a new born. I looked for his heart
beat. Doku grabbed my hand really firm but not to hard.
I opened my mouth to scream but he stopped me with his sweet, calm voice.
"Aki," was what he called me,"I want you to help me back to
the stables. Ok?" I nodded my head. He put his arm around my neck, he was half walked and was half dragged to the nearest stable. We entered. As I layed him on a pile of hey, I looked around. The door we just came in, there was more piles of hay. No horses in the stable. It was so quiet. I thought to quiet. But I ignored that feeling.

"Doku, what happened where's father and the others?" I said as I looked into his eye's. There was something diffrent about him something very diffrent. He looked at me with sad eye's. And I knew somethink bad happened.

"Doku! What happened?" He just shook his head. My eye's
filled with tears.
"Doku... please...please tell me what happened."

"Aki! Please stop crying. I'll tell you."
"Ok." I said.
"Ok. Yesterday we were traviling the west path when
all of a sudden we where attacked." He looked at me.

"Aki I really don't know what attacked us but everyone
was killed. For some reason I was left alive. But I was
knocked out. And when I woke I found you taking me
off my horse. And yelling at me."

I blushed. "I'm sorry."
"No need to apoligize Aki." He smiled to me.
I jump up and hug him. As I do so something makes him
move violently.
"Hey Doku are yo-" a sharp pain enters my right side of my neck. scream,
or at lease try to. But I stop. Curious why he was
on my neck.
"Doku what are you doing? I'm not feeling so well Doku.
Ahhuch! I... Doku stop It hurts." Fear sturs up in me. but
then I went numb.


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I wake inside a dark room, lying on a hay bed.
"Hello?" I said in a shaky voice.
"Good morning Aki. Nice to see you awake."
"Uh, who are you?
"Do you not reconize my voice?" I though for a second.
"No I do not."
" Ahh Aki, that hurt that really hurt."
"Oh. Ah. Sorry. But who are you?"
" I am Doku."
"Doku? Then what is my real name?" I asked.
"You never told me your real name." He was celebrating
inside himself, I guessed.
"Fine than," my confedence and curiousity had grown stronger
than fear. "Tell me how old I am, Sir." I smirked
in the darkness. Only I and Doku knows how old I am.
My father nor mother knew.
"You are 156 new moons."
"Oh!! You really are Doku" I jump up to give him a hug but
I soon felt weak.
"Calm down Aki, Your not completly healed yet. Your body still
needs to get used to-."
"Used to what?" I was dieing to know.."
"Your body needs to get use to being dead."
"How can I be dead if i'm talking to you right now? Your not
making any seance." He only nodded.
"I didn't tell you the whole story.
After we were attacked a boy about the age of 18 came to me as
I laid distressed, he asked me a very important question, which you
had no choice over Aki. And that is death or life. He asked me
if I wanted to live and I said yes. And then everything went black."
"Oh really?"
"Please do not do that Aki. I only did it because I..."
"Because what Doku?" I smiled.
"Because I, because your my best friend. And I love you as a sister." I doubt that much Doku.
"So what's with the dark room?"
"It's so we do not burn." He sighed.
"Because if the sunlight touches our skin we would turn to ashes
within minutes." He sighed again but louder.
"Do we not have any candles Doku?" I stood up and walked around. I heard Doku shuffle around. And then a candle was lit.
"Thats better Doku, Thank you." I smiled.
"Your welcome Aki." He smiled.
"Hey Doku whats with all the those smiles?"
"I don't know I guess i'm just happy."
"Why?" I asked.
"I don't know. Why don't you lie down and get some sleep."
"Ok." As I laid down on the bed I feel a
tinge of regret and a tinge on love. But I didn't not know
what was to come that night.
"Doku?" He turn his head to me.
"Yes?"
"I can't sleep." He got up and came over to the bed. He sat up next
to me. I put my head on his lap and was begining to fall asleep.
Doku pushed a pieace of hair out my face and kissed me on
my forehead.
And said,"Sleep well Aki. I love you."
I only nodded. And went to sleep.

~****~

As I slept I drempt. The dead do dream or
the undead does, which ever. I drempt of my mom and my dad. Those years
of family fun, watching the sakura tree lose and regain it's peddles. And I remember
the first day me and Doku first meet.
I was running into the forest beacuse my mom and dad where fighting, I got
so mad that I screamed my head off. As I ran into the forest I ran everywhere.
Left, and right. And when I stopped my vision was all blurred.
"Hello?" A boy's voice said. I wiped franticly
at my eye's.
"Who are you?" When my vision was clear enough, I looked
over the boy. He had dark black hair like me, his eye's where a green
just like mine, and his skin was pale just like mine.

"My name is... I don't know what my name is." He looked really
confused, so I knew he didn't really know.
" Well my name is Akitachi, it means Autumn, Die out, End, and blood.
And I think i'll name you Doku which means Heartbeat. Do you like it?"
"Yes," he said with a smile. "I like that name alot."
"Good are you lost?"
"I think so." Doku said.
"Where's your mommy?" I asked.
"I don't think I have one." Was his answer. I thought
this boy has no mommy so he proboly doesn't have a daddy either. So maybe I should invite him to come and live with me.
"Doku would you like to live with me and my family?"
"Uh... would I be a burden?" He looked sad as if to cry.
I walked over to him and hugged him.
"Don't worry you won't be a burden."
"Really?" His face lit up.
"Yup and you could de my best friend." I smiled.
"Ok!" I grabbed his hand and smiled.
"Promise me Doku that we will always be best friends."
"Yes, Forever and always." He smiled back and we went home.
The next few years were the best. We went exploring,and played games. But
I noticed that we never confersated with other children, we would complete ignore them.
And over the years my family grew apart until it was only me and Doku.
My parents did not die I just didn't want to be with them anymore. They just
argued to much. One day when the woman went looking for fruits and the men went
quick hunting(Finding prey fast). When Doku wasn't around I decided to start
making a plan to kill myself. And then I started, I went to the great pond of kitakoru and jumped in. I had not yet learned how to swim so I started drowning. At first it
didn't hurt but after a couple of seconds my mouth open and water rushed
in. My lungs where burning, I tried to scream for help but nothing bot grugaly
sounds came out.
'Help Doku! I can't breath!' I tried to struggle to the top but
My body started going limp.
Then I heard Doku's voice in my head,
'I'm coming, where are you?' I gave it a try and
replied.
'I'm at the great pond of kitakoru. Please hurry, i don't
think I can survive anymore.'
'I'll hurry' then silence. For the next minute I spent struggling for my life.
The next I heard someone jumping into the water. I tried screaming again but nothing came out again. I felt someone grab my hand and start tugging me up. I gave in and feel unconsiouse.

~****~

When I woke I was in the arms of my best friend, and life saver Doku.
But it wasn't a dream, it was the present. And as I lied back down on Doku's lap
I though of the end of my dream and tried to remember what happend. After he rescued
me from death.
I woke, my surronding's where the woods. And Doku
was running with me in his arms baby style. I looked
up at him and I saw tears. I reached up and wiped away a tear. He looked down.