Meet the Rebellious Girl (Hallelujah)

[aoko]

Aoko began to take off through the mall's floors. She ran into many people but didn't even care to say sorry. She chuckled to herself as though she was having the time of her life. "Hey! Stop right there! Stop girl!" She paid no attention and kept running. "If you don't stop right there! Then I will report you to the police now stop and return that magazine!" She turned around to face him and ran backward. "Hahaha! If you can't catch me than you don't deserve for me to stop! Besides it's pretty stupid you get all worked up over a stupid magazine!!" She continued to run and turned a corner and ran down the next flight of stairs. He can't catch me! There's no way that fat man can catch me!

She jumped over the railing and took a sharp turn and darted down the floors between the stores on either side. She was just chuckling to herself the whole time. Finally she found an unpopulated part of the mall and sat on the bench. It will take that man about a half hour before he reaches me. Might as well put on my disguise. My casual look. She took out the contacts she had in and pulled out her glasses and put them on and also took out her hat and put it on. She took out her hair that was up in a pin and let her hair flow back down to her back. She wiped off the little make-up she had on and rolled back up her socks. Ugh I hate make-up, but it does hide my real face. She looked over at a trash can that had a bag thrown in it. She walked over and picked it up. "Well at least this can be used to hide the Shonen Jump magazine." Aoko loved to read Shonen Jump magazine each month but likes to take it for herself so this is usually a monthly process, but in different stores.

She ripped out the price tags and threw them in the trash so the alarms wouldn't go off anywhere else. She put the magazine into the bag and began to wonder around the mall. "Where did that slut go? COME BACK HERE YOU GIRL!!" The man ran right past her and she laughed to herself quietly. Her stomach growled a bit but she realized she had no change on her. "I'm hungry.." She looked around for a place to eat. She found an Italian food restaurant and looked at the menu to see how much everything costs. "Hm...that pizza and bread stick meal looks really good... but come on, it has to cost $17.21!" She checked her pockets but only found 30 cents. "Okay this enough to get me a breath ment and a tooth pick. Yeah, that's a filling meal!" She turned and looked around at everyone. One man had a wallet half out of his back pocket. "Hm.. I wonder if he could make a friendly lend." She put her hair up in her hat and took her glasses off to put her contacts in. Then she slowly made her way toward him and reached for his wallet pretending to be looking the other way.

She grabbed it and slowly lifted it up but lost her good grip on it and he felt it. She grabbed it and took off not letting him see her face and took off. "Hey come back here!" She laughed to herself and ran even faster. The same thing all over again. She got a good distance from him so he could never catch back up to her. She smirked and then saw a turn-off into another area of the mall. I'll just circle around this block of the stores and then after I circle I should be back at the restaurant and get me some chow. She turned the corner and ran into someone. She tripped and hit the ground and quickly looked behind her to make sure that the man didn't catch her while she was thinking. "Hey watch where you're going man!" She jumped back up and took off again down the hallway.

[loon]

Another normal day or so he thought. The mall was a nice place to start his search for his lost brother, Praise. People his age loved coming to the mall so why not try here first. He was sure he would be able to pinpoint his brother if he was actually here. Instead, he found himself looking at the lovely eye candy walking around the mall. They would smile and he wouldn't even acknowledge it. That was just how cold he was. Still, he did long for that feeling of having a companion. He just thought it wouldn't be fair to live a normal life without finding his brother first.

After hours of searching throughout the mall Hallelujah Haptism decided that it would be best to feed himself. That's when he saw her for the first time. He had to admit she was fairly attractive. It was something about he that drawn him to her. But what he saw next was a bit of a turn off. Hallelujah had a keen sense and great eyes so of course she saw her when she pickpocket the man. Now she was running his way. He stepped directly in her path, allowing her to bump into her. As she exchanged what she thought was her parting words, Hallelujah smirked. When she bumped into her he had use that moment to take the wallet back from her. He walked up to the man she stole it from and returned it. "You dropped this." The man made sure all his money and belongings was there before he thanked Hallelujah.

[aoko]

Aoko worn out from running put her hands on her knees and took a few minutes to breathe. Finally she lifted herself back up and decided to look and make sure all of the change she needed was in the wallet. She looked down at her hands and realized nothing was there. "Wha!!!! HUH!!!?" She remembered she ran into that guy back there. "GRRR!!! So you wanna play dirty huh!?" She ran and turned the corner and saw him. She sped up and put a lot of force into hitting him. She glared at him when she came back up. "DUDE NOT COOL!! Who in hell's name thought you could have the right to steal that from me huh!? You took away my only chance at having some lunch!!" She got off of him and walked over to a bench then sat down. She crossed her arms across her chest and looked the other direction. Her stomach growled and each time it did she got even more frustrated and angrier.

She looked around for another person to get a wallet from. Then again, Mr. Hero here will probably "accidentally" run into me again. She stood up and walked over to they guy again and glared at him. "Okay Mr. I wanna save the world, pay up! You're gonna buy me some lunch since you took away what I had worked for! I wanna eat there!" She pointed at the restaurant that she had stolen the money for to go to.

[loon]

Another good dead. That made Hallelujah feel slightly better about himself. But he was surprised though he didn't show it on his face to see that the girl had came back, running into him with some force. Now she was going on about him stealing when she was the one stealing to begin with. If she needed money then get a job or something. Well, Hallelujah couldn't talk. He was basically a rich, spoiled kid. His adoptive parents were dead, but they left him with a pretty good lump sum.

Finally, the girl had left. Though he had to say there was something about her that pulled at him. But then she came back! Claiming that he had to buy her food. "Alright." Yes, he wasn't a boy of many words. He placed his hands in his pockets and started to walk toward the resturant she pointed at, hoping she would follow. Well, this is nice. I'm feeding a theif.

[aoko]

As she looked for a place to sit she decided to sit in one of the corner booths so that way it would be harder for anyone to find her. She sat down and began to eat the pizza. She looked up at Hallelujah who seemed to be watching her. "What? I told you I was hungry. Why didn't you buy yourself anything, you look hungry yourself?" She nibbled a bit on her bread stick while looking to the side. "Oh yeah, it's probably rude to be dining with someone other than the actual Aoko Asasaru. Sorry about that." She reached for eyes and took out her contacts and put on her glasses. She then took off her hat and her hair flowed back down to reach the end of her back. She put her hat back on and smiled at the boy. "In case you didn't know, hi my name is Aoko. Nice to meet you. Even if you are rude enough to run into me and take that wallet out of my hand. You do realize that if you let me have that wallet I could have come here myself and you wouldn't be caught up in all of this." She smirked a bit when she said that. "Sixteen by the way."

After she took one more bite and finished her pizza she leaned back against the booth and held her stomach. She sighed out up toward the ceiling. "Man, I'm fat and full now. I haven't eaten like this in forever." She sat back up and looked at the boy. She moved her head back down and looked at the remaining bread stick that wasn't eaten. "Here take it. AND DON'T YOU REFUSE I WON'T EAT IT AND YOU LOOK HUNGRY SO SHOVE IT IN YOUR MOUTH! Besides you look like you could gain a couple of pounds." She looked him over again. "More like a couple hundred pounds, you know I've never met an anorexic boy before." She walked out of the restaurant. She sniffed the air around her. "Man I may be so full I'm gonna blow up but that sure does smell good." She looked around a bit to make sure the man with the wallet or the store manager wasn't around the area. "Oh I know! Have you ever heard of Shonen Jump magazine?" Not waiting for him to answer she began to run over toward a bench. "Come here with me!" She began to show him the magazine not waiting for him to react to anything. "Cool isn't it!? I can get you one too. I know ways.." She smirked and chuckled to herself a bit when she said that.

She sat down on the bench resting her feet and looked over at the boy. She patted the bench on a spot next to her. "Come and sit next to me! Get off your feet for a minute or too. You look as though you could use the rest." She began to people watch not paying attention to the boy. She began to hear people start talking about the teen titans and how good they were. She tried to block them out but wasn't successful. They finally got her to the limit. She stood up glared at the two people and scared them a bit. "Yeah that's right! GET OUTA HERE LOSERS!" She turned around and began to walk the other way. I didn't mean to leave that guys alone.. well maybe he'll catch up to me.

[loon]

He sat down also in this booth, trying to ignore the fact that he was chilling with a theif. He didn't like her action. No, not at all. She was extremely hungry. Which made Hallelujah fell sorry for her. "I'm fine. I do not desire to eat at this time," He responded, "You can eat until your heart's content." Yes, that was the most Hallelujah had said all week. He preffered not to talk to people because you would eventually get close to them, only for them to be taken away. When she pulled out her hat he just sat there, staring. To him she didn't look any different. Guess that's because his eyes were so trained. "Hallelujah. Hallelujah Haptism. Sixteen." He always told people his full name just in case they may know his last name. Give him any hints of where his brother could be. Little did he know that his brother went by a completely different name now.

"He worked hard for that money. You have no right to take that man's money." He clearly didn't like the fact that she was a theif. He didn't understand why she would call herself fat when she clearly wasn't. Must have been one of those figures of speech. Then she went on about how he could gain more weight. He still had that blank expression on his face. And she calls me rude.... Woman. He looked at the bread stick and didn't take it. No one was going to force him to eat anything. If only she knew what he was truly capable of. He followed her for to where the magazine were. "I rather not take something that's been stolen," He said bluntly, "You should get a job instead of stooping so low to get things."

He sat down on the bench, keeping space between them. She was quick to make assumptions and jump the gun. She had a serious issue. He couldn't help, but hope that his brother didn't turn out this way. If so, he would have to set him straight quickly. "Do you intent to scare me away also?" As she turned to walk away Halleujah continued to sit on the bench. She was through with him and he with her. It seemed that Hallelujah was losing his interest in this girl.

[aoko]

"Do you intent to scare me away also?"
When he said that she just stopped in her tracks. She turned to look at him. She was frozen and couldn't move an inch when he said that. "I..uh.." There was no way that she wanted to scare someone like him. He was the nicest person to her that she had ever met. Yes if Hallelujah seemed rude or mean to her she's had much much worse. She looked to the ground at her feet. "No...I could never do..." She turned away from him with tears in her eyes that she was fighting back. She took off before she could finish that sentence.

She was walking down the floor without paying any attention to her surroundings. She looked back behind to see the guy not following her. Hmpf! Guess he isn't following me. I guess I really did scare him off. I don't blame him though. Ugh! I hate myself! What was I thinking being so rude like that! I'm so stupid! She continued walking down the wing of the mall. She had forgotten the bag back there because of the anger and sadness she felt. She didn't care, she didn't want to go back that way though. I might as well just go home and maybe get hit by a car on the way back. The world can still rotate when I'm gone anyway. Suddenly a voice stopped her. "Hey! There you are!" She stopped and looked up to see who it was. She thought it was the store manager from the magazine shop earlier but it wasn't. She widened her eyes and stepped back a bit. "N..No! It can't be you!" The man standing there was her magic teacher and trainer. They had been searching for her ever since she left. She was valued by them and hunted down ever since. She didn't want to go back though. Not to that place at least. She turned as fast as she could and took off in the other direction. "Come back Aoko! You can't run forever!"

She kept running down all the hallways trying to get away from them. They were fast though and she couldn't lose them at all. She would keep running into people and they only slowed her down. She didn't know where to go. She was going to be blocked off soon enough as it was. Then she remembered Hallelujah. I don't think he could do much but maybe at least he could help me somehow. She almost stopped but remembered they were there and sped back up faster than she had before. Then again, he probably wouldn't do anything for me. He'd probably just laugh at me and leave me right out in the open for them to capture me, like everyone else always does. She felt a leg hit her and fell to the ground. She turned to see one of the sparring partners from the tribe had tripped her and was coming at her. "Hey there Aoko. It's been quite some time hasn't it? Well now then, how about we go back now shall we?" He extended his hand out to her and she slapped it getting back up to run again. She couldn't get away. They were going to catch her. They were going to force her to kill like her father. Tears came to her eyes and she began crying. No! I don't want go back to learn how to kill. I don't want to be like my father and don't care who I kill, nor do I want to relive that moment again.

She turned a corner almost sliding and falling but regained her balance. She looked up from her the ground watching her feet and saw a blur. Over the blur though she saw Hallelujah. "HALLELUJAH!!" She ran over to him and grabbed onto his shirt. "Hallelujah...I'm so glad to see you again." She said between gasps and her crying. "That's as far as you go Aoko." She gasped and ran behind Hallelujah. "Hallelujah please! Please help me! I can't get away from them. Please help me, please!"

[loon]

She was crying? Hallelujah had never seen anyone cry before. He remembered when he was always in tears. Sorrow? She was feeling sorrow. It had been so long, but he could never forget that feeling. That feeling of solitude, the feeling of not belonging anywhere in the world. Smooth Halle. Real Smooth. Now he was feeling horrible. He didn't want to become the same person as those two scientist... Heartless.

Maybe all she needed was a friend. Someone she could actually rely on. He stood up and was getting ready to leave. Another lost cause or so he thought. Aoko had came back yet again. This was getting a bit ridiculous. Still, he had that blank expression on his face. As she ran behind him Hallelujah tilted his head to the side. She needed help. More than likely she had finally got caught for her stealing crimes. Then again, the guy seemed to have known Aoko's name. "Whatever it is she stole i'll gladly pay for. I'll pay for it three fold," He said, "Let me handle Ms. Aoko." He was sure this guy wouldn't attack in the middle of the mall.

[aoko]

"Whatever it is she stole i'll gladly pay for. I'll pay for it three fold,"
They stared at him for a few minutes and blinked. Then the taller younger guy smiled and laughed a bit. "Heh..I see Aoko. You've put your skills to work and went on a shopping spree I see. Quite useful aren't they. If you come back, we can improve those skills." He laughed evilly to himself. Then looked up at her and grinned showing his teeth. She gasped and then grabbed Hallelujah's shirt sleeve. "Hallelujah, please be careful with them. They aren't what they seem. Especially the older one. They show no mercy, they'll kill everyone in here. They're trained assassins." The older man shot a glare at her and she gasped and hid behind Hallelujah again. She leaned against his back and breathed heavily. She closed her eyes and clutched her shirt. Please Hallelujah, don't let them kill you!

"Aoko, enough of this child's play. You must finish you're training. You're needed for many jobs, but not until you have completed your training." She opened her eyes and jumped around him. "FORGET IT! There's no way in hell that I'm going back! I'm not going to train to kill people! I'm not going to become more cold-hearted than I already am..I know that from today...for sure." She turned to look at Hallelujah a bit. "I'm not going to kill any innocent people because we were hired too! No way am I going to involve people li.." With a flip of his hand she seemed to be unable to talk. She felt frozen too. "N..no! Th....this....is.......a.....bin....ding sp..ell!" He looked over and glared at her. "Silence you. You don't deserve to talk, Aoko." He said her name with disgust. She stiffened a bit. The younger one came forward and smiled at Aoko. "I've really missed you, now I'll show you my present to you." He turned to face Hallelujah and smiled. He reached for his side and grabbed something. She widened her eyes and gathered as much strength as she could. "HALLELUJAH! RUN AWAY!" She said as he pulled out a gun to point at him.

[loon]

Improve on skills? So she was an assassin. Well, I guess that explains why she stole. Never judge a book by it's cover. Hallelujah felt like slapping himself across the face, but instead he kept that same blank expression on his face as he stared the guy down. He hated when people try to hurt other people in anyway. Hallelujah felt as if it was his rightful place to stop these people. Assassins... They got us out numbered. As Aoko grabbed on to his shirt. He could feel her breathe as she leaned on his back. She was scared of course. He gently pushed her back a few feet behind him. "It's okay. Stand back Ms. Aoko. I may look frigile, but i'm far from it," He said, "You ran to me because you believe I can help you. So let me."

He turned his head a little and wink, but not only winked. He smiled at her. It had been the first time he smiled in a long time, but it he had a feeling it wouldn't be the last. "It's clear that she doesn't want to go back with you gentlemen so it's in everyone's best interest if you leave and forget she ever existed." As she started to talk Hallelujah looked around. There was a lot of people here. Innocent people that could get hurt. How was he going to handle this without his powers? They were trained assassins so he was sure they could fight way better than him. Then something happen. Aoko seemed to stutter some words before she stopped talking. Oh... these guys are 'talented.' I was hoping for an easy win. As the guy smiled at him and pulled out a gun, Hallelujah sighed. Then again, this is what he needed. "AHHHH! HE HAS A GUN!!!" People stopped for a second to catch a glance and then started to scream as they all ran from the mall. Now that the people were leaving Hallelujah could transform and not worry about hurting anyone nor them knowing who he was. As black aura surrounded Hallelujah's body for a moment before disappearing. His whole body had became jet black except his eyes. They were a yellowish-orange. A smirked came across his face as the kirby dots around the boy's body slowly slowly danced around his body. Hallelujah reached out for the guns and crushed it with his bare hand. Yeah, he was that strong. He turned to look at Aoko, hoping she wouldn't be scared by his new appearance. "You can call me Halle or Hal if you like. Hallelujah's a mouth full." He was sure the police would arrive soon so he would have to make this quick.

[aoko]

As she stood there paralyzed she listened to Hallelujah speaking to the men. He speaks tough, but I hope he doesn't get himself into trouble with them. They are a lot more cold-hearted and stronger than they act and look. She stood there glaring at them as the taller one turned his eyes to look at her for a second. She froze and felt her heart skip a beat. She didn't like him, certainly not, but she was scared of him. He was the worst of anyone she met. He liked her, a lot, and his idea as a gift to her was the flesh of the victim he sliced in cubes.
"It's clear that she doesn't want to go back with you gentlemen so it's in everyone's best interest if you leave and forget she ever existed."
They stood there and stared at him for a minute and then the younger one smiled and chuckled to himself as the older one began laughing so loudly that some people turned to look at him. He glared back at Hallelujah. "You really think that we can forget her when we obviously came this far out in the open to get her back!?" He turned to smile and glare at Aoko as she glared back. "She's a treasure to our tribe. She was one of the greatest and still is. Her fighting technique and speed is unlike any other. With the proper training she could assassinate the dictator of the world within seconds. We need that, we have a good group right now, but she'd make it all the better!" The younger one turned to look at her and smiled. "When we go back sweetheart, I'll be sure to have his head mounted for you!" He smiled a warm smile at her. She flinched a bit at that. No matter how warm he tries to make his smiles, I can still feel his cold-blooded heart. Even his compliments send chills down my spine. She looked over at Hallelujah realizing that the spell was starting to wear off a bit, since all their focus was mainly on him at the moment.

"AHHHH! HE HAS A GUN!!!"
They widened their eyes as everyone began to run around like it was the end of the world. She closed her eyes hoping she wouldn't get hit by anyone running, not watching where they were going. They glared at Hallelujah. "YOU IDIOT! DO YOU REALLY THINK WE'D LET THIS BOTHER US!?" He turned toward the running crowd and aimed. Aoko gasped as he took aim. "IZONA PLEASE NO, DON'T!" He shot off the gun hitting a woman in the leg, killing her instantly. She gasped as she watched the woman fall down and hit the ground. Tears began to form in her eyes. "Izona....why...?" He turned to look at her and saw her cry. "Aoko please don't cry dear. It is just the cycle of life." She turned to look at him. "But you didn't have to kill her! She was just an innocent person who was trying to get out of here. You treated her like she was one of the tribe's targets!" His face blanked a second and then he smiled a bit. "You haven't changed a bit. Not killing anyone still I see. You have to remember that if anyone gets in the way of our work we have to finish them off." He looked at her waiting for an answer. "But she wasn't in the way....she was running away from you!" She looked over at Hallelujah as he began to speak.
"You can call me Halle or Hal if you like. Hallelujah's a mouth full."
She hadn't realized he had turned into a different form. "Hallelujah? Oh I mean Halle? That's you?" Izona turned to look at Hallelujah. "What the..." The older man looked at Izona. "You mean you didn't notice? He turned into that form quite some time ago. You should pay more attention, Izona. Pulling off stunts like that could result into an execution." Izona turned to face him. "Yeah I know, but you know how I am when it comes to Aoko. Everything in the world is flooded out and she becomes my center piece. My idol of worship. I'd kill anyone for her." She knew that he was trying to flirt and compliment her. Uh....some pick-up line.. she looked at Hallelujah. Please Hallelujah, be careful. You just saw right there what they're like. They're dangerou.. She was cut off by a young kid's voice. "Mommy! Mommy please wake up!" Tears were in the girl's eyes and tears formed in Aoko's eyes. That child is in danger here!

[loon]

"I see. Well, let's get this over with," Hallelujah responded, "Ms. Aoko and I have dinner reservations that we can't be late for." That wasn't true. Hallelujah was just saying that to piss them off. He really didn't care who these guys were nor did he care what they was capable of. All that matter was that Aoko didn't want to go with these people. As Izona shot the lady Hallelujah's blank expression quickly turn to anger. "Do you believe you are big and tough because you shot some innocent person?" He asked, "That only shows how weak you and your friends are. Shooting an innocent person won't go unanswered."

This really wasn't about Aoko anymore. These people had to be punished and brought to justice. As he saw the little girl crying and telling her mother to get up it only filled Hallelujah's rage even more. Hallelujah tossed the crashed gun to the side. He reached beside him to the bench that was bolted down and easily ripped it from the ground. He then attempted to slammed the entire bench down upon Izona repeatedly. He then turned his attention to the other one who was talking and a smile came across Hallelujah's face. He spinned for a moment then launch the bench at the guy.

[aoko]

"Ms. Aoko and I have dinner reservations that we can't be late for."
When he said that she widened her eyes. "HUH!?" You have to remember that Aoko is gullible and in a way thought he was telling the truth. "Uh...." Izona turned to look at Aoko. "WHAT!? You've chosen someone else over me!?" Tears came to his eyes. "WHA...WAIT WHAT!? I never made reservations with him. This is news to me!" He looked at her with a sad face and then turned to Hallelujah with a sharp glare. "Well it doesn't matter. I'm not mad at you Aoko, I just won't let you take her away from me! SHE'S MINE SO STAY AWAY!" She stood there with a blank face. "...." She turned to look at Hallelujah to see how he was taking this. "Halle.." She didn't know what to say to him.

She watched as he pulled the bench off of it's foundation and began repeatedly hitting Izona. She finally got her strength back and crawled over to the little girl crying for her mother to wake up. "Hey sweetie." She looked at the cold motionless body of the woman. She was very pretty and young. It was a shame she was killed. "Listen to me! You're going to have to get out of here! You can't stay here, or you'll get hurt." "But, my mommy isn't coming with me. I'm not supposed to leave her side, no matter what." Tears began to form in Aoko's eyes again. "Listen, I'm sorry sweetheart, but your mother can't tell you to that anymore. I'm sure she wanted you to get away and to live. If you stay here, you can't do that for her!" She heard the last crash from the bench hitting the ground and looked over to see what was happening. The older man just stood there as Hallelujah launched the bench toward him. "HALLE!!! He'll deflect it! Be careful!" She wasn't lying. He used his magic abilities to create a shield and made it bendy. The bench came right back at Hallelujah. "HALLELUJAH!!! GET OUT OF THE WAY!"

The older man smiled and turned to look at Aoko. "I see you remember my techniques and how I like to fight. I'm very proud. Have you been working on your magic skills?" She turned to him and glared. "You know I was never good at it and that I hated it! It's just the cheater's way out!" He laughed at her and then she heard Izona speak. "DAMN!! That almost got my whole arm. Luckily it just got my finger. I mean how could I not put my arm around Aoko if I don't have one?" He smiled at her. "That wouldn't be any good wouldn't it Aoko?" She glared at him. He doesn't have his gun, but his martial arts is even more deadly than the gun. Please Hallelujah, don't get too carried away.. She looked over at the older man who was preforming a spell. "What spell is that!?" I SHOULD HAVE STUDIED MORE! Suddenly the girl next to her seemed to be frozen. She seemed like she had suddenly grasped everything that was going on. "Izona, will you do the honors?" He smiled and nodded. "I'd be delighted." He walked over to the little girl and Aoko. "WAIT NO IZONA!!" She jumped up and grabbed his arm, put it around his back and jumped on his back. "YOU CAN'T KILL ANOTHER PERSON!" He turned his head a bit at her. "I can't let anyone get in between us. Anyone who takes a liking to you, or you like them, must be killed immediately." He tried to shake her off. "You've always been the only person who I could never beat." She bit him on the neck trying to make him weaken. The older man walked over to the child and pulled out his sword. "NOO YOU CAN'T DO IT!!" He brought the sword down and stole the child's life. "Children are different then adults. They tell everything that's been said or seen. Besides, she didn't have her mommy so I decided to save her the suffering." She gritted her teeth and ran over to punch him in the face, only to miss. "That wasn't showing mercy! All you did was take her life out of enjoyment!" With a flick of his hand a force sent her flying back into Izona. "You're coming with us now. You made the mistake getting too close to me. You've just made my liking of you all the greater." She tried to break free, but was unsuccessful. "NO!! I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK! I DON'T WANT TO KILL! LET GO! LET GO!!!!!!!!!!!!! HALLELUJAH!!"

[loon]

"Of course she choose someone else over you," Hallelujah said truthfully, "Try Match.com. I'm sure they could find someone for you." Hallelujah chuckled at the Izona as he went off in his little tantrum. This guy was truly a nutcase. "I get it now. You're just a little boy in a big boys body," Hallelujah teased, "Ms. Aoko isn't yours nor is she anybody else's. She's her own person and has made her own choice of not to go with you."

As the bench flew back at him, Hallelujah caught it with his hands and a slight smirk came across his face. So these guys weren't excatly human. Hallelujah was sure slamming a bench on someone repeatedly would break a few bones. Unless this was like Superman. When the little girl was shot, Hallelujah snapped. The kirby dots seemed to grow larger as he stared at Izona with his completely yellowish-orange eyes. He dash foward and stopped in front of this Izona guy who was being held by Aoko. "You like Ms. Aoko so much why haven't you gave her your heart yet!?" Hallelujah spoke, "I'm such a nice guy that I'll lend you a hand in doing so." Hallelujah smalled his hand forward at the guys chest in an attempt to rip his beat heart from his chest. With Hallelujah's super strength he was easily capable of ripping through anyone's chest. He then turned around, letting the blood drip from his hand. He turned to the guy who seemed to be good at magic. "Would you like to give your heart to Ms. Aoko too?"

[aoko]

"Of course she choose someone else over you,"
Aoko gasped a bit at that. I can't believe he would say something like that to Izona. Sure Izona isn't exactly all together...but he hasn't seen him while he's angry. Suddenly Izona seemed to black out a bit. He turned to face Hallelujah with his eyes blacked out.
"Ms. Aoko isn't yours nor is she anybody else's. She's her own person and has made her own choice of not to go with you."
He looked up at Hallelujah with black eyes, which made Aoko freeze up for a second. He seemed to have red and orange fire in his eyes as he began to speak."That's Aoko's fault for getting her into that. She should have thought about that before she made the mistake of devoting herself eternally to the tribe's leader. Her heart, along with everyone else's, is his. She has no control over her own life anymore." The older man turned to face Izona hastily. "No Izona! You can't tell the secrets of the tribe to an outsider! It's not permitted! It's restricted!!" Aoko looked over in Izona's direction as well. "He's right Izona! Even I haven't told anyone the secrets of the tribe!!" He ignored them both and continued. "Everyone's fate is in his hands. Once you devote yourself, you can no longer leave. You are eternally linked to him and the tribe. Immortal. He teaches only the most skilled of the tribe to be immortal. Immortally eternal vow. Everyone has made that vow till the day they die. No one can wonder away from it. With a squeeze of his hand, he can kill anyone within a setsuna. (1/75th of a second) That's how powerful he is. A true assassin. His magic, martial arts, and skills in general are unimaginable. He is a true GOD!! So you better be careful with what you do. If you keep Aoko away from us, or cause us any trouble, you will be an enemy of our tribe!!" He turned to look at Aoko.

He saw the expression her eyes. He saw anger and sadness in her eyes. She was sad for him. She knew his history, what he's gone through. But she was also angry at him for fighting with Hallelujah and killing an innocent woman. He growled and starred at her. Suddenly something happened that you would've never expected from him. His breathing sped up and intensified. He widened his eyes up. A sloppy smile came to his face and he began to laugh. His laugh echoed throughout the whole mall. "DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT AOKO!!!" His face straightened after that. "Do you wish to go to hell with him? Well I can't allow that. I won't let you die and leave with him. Is the reason you don't want to go back because you don't want to stress yourself out learning how to kill and with your martial arts? Well I can change that for you. I'm pretty sure that if I talk to the leader of the tribe, I can get us a different "activity" for us to do together. We can play some special games together. Or I can just come back home each day to see you tied up to the bed all cut up and bruised. You know I love the sight of blood and pain. That's what I love next to you. I especially love to see pain. I think it's so seductive to see a woman in pain, don't you? Just imagining you all tied up, suffering, all cut up and bleeding......hehehe........." He looked down and smiled. He looked back up at her with a wide smile and crooked eyes. "It's almost unbearable!!!!!" He began to walk toward her and pulled out a dagger from his belt. "I wanna see it now!!! I wanna see your blood, and taste it!! I might as well take your clothes as well while I'm at it!!" She slowly stood up and wobbled. She was going to take off running in the other direction, but one she didn't want to leave Hallelujah all alone with them. Two, she couldn't take off running in her condition. I can't just leave Hallelujah with them.

He is standing there making sure Izona doesn't get in too much trouble, and Izona's attention is distracted with me here. If not for me, Hallelujah would experience Izona's anger......Izona is the one who taught me martial arts. He is the greatest leader ever to take over martial arts in out tribe. He told Hallelujah about living immortally, he is almost there. Once I'm back and he teaches me his last techniques, he'll be immortal. I've experienced his attacks first hand. I am better than him though, that's why if I was forced back he would be claimed a higher power over me being defeated. He says that the leader is like a god, with god-like speed. Well when he's in the right mood, such as now, he is just like that god-like speed. Maybe not as fast, but it's terrifying to see him fighting. I was almost killed once and he was angered. One-thousand men were killed within 30 seconds while he was in that state. I still remember that thought. She stood there remembering his face. It was raining that night when the bloodied blade was held above me, threatening my life with one swing down. Izona became angered and took out each and every single man with his blade. Each one within to time to finish the first start of the eye lid closing into a blink. When he killed the last man, he made sure it was the leader, and that there was no way he could survive. Blood was on my face and all over his body. He was smiling and chuckling to himself. Those eyes......they were wide open with anger and excitement. "You see Aoko, I told you...whoever tries to threaten your life, I will kill them!" "Yes, but Izona....you didn't have to kill every single one of them! Just the leader and then they'd all scram like rats.!" He chuckled and turned to look her direction. "The more they run, the more of a chance he would've had to kill you. I can't give him any credit to say he touched one strand of hair on your head!" He walked over toward her with the blade. "You deserve the victory too Aoko." He took his fingers and wiped some of the blood off of his blade and smeared it on her face. "You see! You look beautiful!" He hugged her and held her tight. She was shivering with the thought of having that blood on her face. That face that he had when he killed them, and that blood on my face....... When she snapped back he was right in front of her holding the dagger above her. She gasped and jumped to the side landing on her side wrong. It knocked the breath out of her. She was vulnerable now.

"You like Ms. Aoko so much why haven't you gave her your heart yet!?"
As he felt the sharp pain of Hallelujah's hand was in his chest. The feeling of his heart being touched was almost scary to him. It shook him though. As his heart was pulled out he was coughing up blood. Aoko being right there got some of his blood on her. "Izona!" He coughed and tried to breathe only finding it too difficult since he had no heart. "Izona...." She looked down a bit. You had really no heart to begin with. This is best for you. If you would've stayed in this world with every thought of me, you would've suffered all of your life.. He was trying to get a sound out of his mouth and was barley doing it. "A....Aoko..........pl....please let me.......see one last thing........before I pass........" He held up his dagger and aimed it at her throat. She swallowed a bit tensing up leaning a bit away from him. "Just...a sl.....it......nothing more.....let me see..your blood....one last time..." She leaned in a bit closer to him. It's the least I can do for him, considering it was him who taught me how to fight.....despite him being insane, he was a good man. He had a gentle heart toward certain things. He did whatever he could to protect me, this is the last thing I can do to pay him back. He shook a bit as he lifted up the dagger toward her throat. He made a cut across her neck, only enough to be considered a flesh wound. He chuckled a bit and breathed harder. "Aoko.........don't follow me.....to hell..." With that last word his life left him. She felt all of it leave him and shivered feeling what was inside of him. The older man began to tense up and began growling. "IZONA!!!! YOU IDIOT!! WHY DID YOU GET YOURSELF KILLED!!" Aoko stood up and faced him. "Izona always was like a son to you.......Jurari.." He glared at her. "I thought I told you never to call me that!!!"

He turned at Hallelujah. "YOU!! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS BOY!!! YOU ARE NOW AND WILL FOREVER BE A FIRST RANKING ENEMY OF THE AKU-KETSUEKI OOKAMI TRIBE!!! I WILL BE SURE TO SEE IT TO THE LEADER!!!" He formed a barrier around him and smoke appeared within it. "And don't you forget Aoko!! You are still needed. You are as well a target!!" She stood there and stared out at the space where he disappeared. "Now do you see Hallelujah? That is where I'm from. Those are the people who raised me.........so, now what do you think of me? Do I scare you now?"