Give Me Your Soul

[Shadow-Love]

Indeed, but now we know how Taruke and Murai came to be inhabitants of Shou's body. It's so sad about what happened.

[Silent Avera]

;-;


Very tragic, I felt Shou as a self-destructing character and now he's a trapped one. For him to want to overcome his kindness to kill has all kinds of literature curses, I wish him well~ ;-;

(And SQUEE! Demon TWINS! ^0^ )

[Cef]

DEMON TWINSIES OMFG YAY!

Fawk, I suddenly feel like posting my stories nao >.>

[Shadow-Love]

Wow, Cef and Avera, you two seem to go gaga over demon twins. But I'm looking forward to the next chapter.

[Cef]

HELLS YES I DO. DEMONS ARE ALREADY BADASS, DEMON TWINS ARE TWICE AS BADASS. I know, I played DMC >X3

[Lectori Salutem]

I feel sorry for Shou... But it was a great chapter, good job!

[Shadow-Love]

Well Shou is a sympathetic character I guess. But he did invite them in and thus led to the life he currently has. But lets see what he makes of it.

[Coldman9]

Well ladies and gentlemen, after much patient waiting on your part, for which I greatly thank you, I present to you all, Another chapter. Let's see where Shou's soul hunting takes him this time.

Chapter 4
"No matter where you run, I'll chase you. No matter where you hide, I'll find you. No matter how hard you try, I can see your tears. Why? Because we're one and the same."-quote by IDK

"Okay, and that finishes up the mythology surrounding gods. Now we'll start the section about their opposites, demons and devils." the teacher said writing the page number for the next secion on the board. Riiiiiiing "Oh, well class is over for today, we'll start the next section Monday. Have a nice weekend everyone." and the teacher quickly packed up his materials and left.

After he closed the door the students started doing the same, most went over to their friends and started talking about weekend plans. Shou just sighed and packed his things then left and headed to the roof. After asking about another day off he had decided he had to get a lot of souls, quickly. He had managed to grab six before school started, some guys who held knifes at peoples throats to take their wallets and purses. Luckily it had been in the back alleys and the victims just ran off when he gave them the opening to run, no witnesses no problems.

As he stepped out onto the roof he grabbed a pipe lying by the door and jammed it through the handle and against an old lock on the frame. He dropped his book bag and took off his jacket. The black mist sprouted from his feet and tranformed him. After he was done he spread out his sense and locked onto all the darkened souls throughout the entire city.

Oh, it's like an all I can eat buffet. Now, who to kill first?- Taruke said feeling the different souls.

You're certainly working hard Shou. You must really want that day off next week.- Murai said

“Will you two just shut up so I can hunt.” Shou said agitated and started jumping from building to building through the city.

As he stopped he looked down onto a crowded street. His eyes quickly found the ones whose souls were black, it wasn’t just his sense, when he was close enough the person or people became like walking shadows. As he focused on them their sins seemed to pop into his head, one beat his wife and child, another murdered his parents, rapist, thief, thief, blackmailer. He watched carefully as one went inside a building then quickly ran up to the abandoned third floor. Shou’s eyes began to glow red and he jumped into the building and stood in the shadows as a woman entered the room. It was large and open, pillars held up the roof above them and were spaced evenly on the wooden floor, dust had settled in everywhere but as she made her way through much of it was kicked up. She made her way over to a doorway with a brand new lock on it and unlocked it then stepped inside. Shou followed her and found three children all tied up and gagged. Their clothes where dirty and stained with food, they were bloody from mysterious cuts, and they smelled badly. As the woman entered the room the children looked up at her with a mix of fear and hatred.

“I'm sorry children.” The woman said in a mocking sympathetic tone “But it seems each of your parents can’t afford your ransoms.” She reached in her purse and pulled out a large knife “I don’t need you anymore. I guess it’s not your lucky day.”

The children stared yelling as best they could but the gags muffled a lot of it. They started moving but their hands and feet were bound, severely limiting their movement too. As the woman stepped into the room Shou quickly and quietly walked up behind her, his eyes stopped glowing, drew his gun, and held it to the back of her head.

“It’s not your lucky day.” He said before he pulled the trigger. Bang!

The woman fell face forward, dead. The wall in front of her was splattered with her blood, and some had gotten on the children as they watched, horror struck. Shou put away his gun and stepped over the womans body. He looked at the children then reached down and picked up the knife. The children began yelling and tried moving again as he walked over. Two watched as he reached for the one in between them and cut the rags binding her hands. He left her alone as she undid the one around her feet and took the gag out and cut the rags on the other two.

“Th-thank you mister.” One of the children said as they stood up and moved towards the door. They turned around as they heard someone rushing up the stairs then looked back and Shou was gone. A man came up and looked around the room then saw the open door, the dead woman, and the children.

“What the hell!” the man said rushing over to the children and dead woman.

Shou had jumped onto the roof of the building and was putting as much distance as he could between him and it. As he jumped to another building he shot down and killed a man holding a knife to another mans throat who was holding out his wallet and watch. The victim looked confused as his attacker fell to the ground but then quickly put his items in his pocket and ran out of the alley.

Well that sure was nice Shou, untying those kids and all.- Taruke said.

It wouldn’t have made a difference if you left them or not.- Murai said

“Then why are you bringing it up?” Shou asked

It’s just strange to see you acting so nice. Especially since you’re out tonight to kill people.- Taruke answered.

Shou kept quiet and moved on to another part of the city. He had a lot of hunting to do tonight.

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“Hey Tatsumi.” Sakura asked as the two walked home “Doesn’t Shou seem really different to you?”

“Different?” Tatsumi shrugged “ I dunno, he seems like the usual stuck up Shou.”

“Shou isn’t stuck up! I’m being serious, he seems distant and cold.”

Tatsumi kept quiet and kept walking. He didn’t look it but he was thinking about his answer.

“Tatsumi?”

“Yeah, he does seem different.” He finally answered “But he’s probably dealing with something he wants to handle alone.”

“He doesn’t have to handle it alone.” Sakura sulked as she walked

“Maybe not, but if he needs help or wants to talk then he’ll come to us. He knows we’re his friends.”

“I hope so.”

“But I wouldn’t count on him coming to us. You keep scaring him off.”

Wack! Sakura hit Tatsumi upside the head with her bag, knocking him over into a set of trash cans. As he crawled out and followed Sakura threw an empty can and hit him in the head.

“Ow! That hurts you know!”

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“Gah!” a gang member let out a cry as Shou ran him through with his sword. The gem in the sword was glowing brightly as the gang member fell and Shou looked around at the other nine bodies lying throughout the alley.

That makes fifteen tonight. You’re on a role.- Taruke commented as Shou sheathed his sword.

“Fifteen should be enough for one night.” Shou said as he looked up at the darkened sky “I gotta get home and sleep.”

Stop!- Murai said as Shou moved to leave.

“What is it now!?”

Can you sense it? The gathering.

“Gathering?” Shou stopped and let his sense reach out throughout the city again. In a second he felt it, a large gathering of people with dark souls “Well that’s unusual.”

Who cares, they’re gathering together in one place. This is a golden opportunity.- Taruke said

With a sigh Shou jumped up onto the building beside him and started heading over to the gathering. It wasn’t too far away luckily. After jumping across a few buildings he came to a large, elegant building. A large parking lot was set up in front of it where many different cars were parked and their occupants were heading inside. As he watched Shou found it strange that the people walking into the building were from different social groups and positions, and also had a variety of different sins.

“This doesn’t make much sense.” Shou said as he watched the last of them walk in

It doesn’t have to make sense, just kill them and take their souls!- Taruke yelled at him

“Okay, okay. Geez you get grouchy when you’re greedy.”

Shou jumped down to the parking lot and made his way through. No one was around so he had no need to use his powers. As he got to the door he saw the entire front of the building was glass and through it he could see all the people gathered there drinking and dancing. There was a good mix of men and women, some paired off and were spending time in dark corners.

“They got invited to a party?”

And a nice party at that.- Taruke said

Shou tried to open the door but found it was locked. With a sigh he stepped back and his eyes started to glow. He jumped up and went through the wall, landing at the end of a second story balcony overlooking the main hall of the building. Not too far to his left in a corner was a man and a woman getting to know each other very well. With one move Shou drew his sword and stabbed them both through the head. When he pulled out the sword they fell against the corner still standing then he made his way down the balcony to the staircase, passing by several other people.

“I'm telling you, little kids bleed more than you think.” one man said as Shou passed “You gotta be careful with them, make sure you don’t hit any important veins or arteries when your cutting them up.”

“You’re one sick bastard, all I do is rob people.” The other man with him said.

In one slash both men fell back to the ground, their heads rolling back against the wall. As he passed by more Shou quickly took them out with well placed stabs and slices, luckily they all went down quietly.

Hey Murai, what’s up? You’ve been way too quiet since we got here. Lighten up, it’s a party.- Taruke said as Shou finished up on the balcony.

Don’t you both think it’s strange that a party is being held filled with the very people we’re looking for? This is too good.- Murai said and Shou picked up on a suspicious vibe from him.

“AAAAGGGH!” a woman yelled from the ground floor.

Shou looked over and saw that one of the bodies had rolled over and was now dripping onto the crowd below. People rushed up and over to check out what was happening and reeled in horror from his mini massacre.

“They’re dead, they’re all dead!” a man yelled down to the crowd.

With a sigh Shou’s eyes stopped glowing and he ran forward and separated the man’s head from his body. As the head was still in the air he jumped over the railing and brought his sword down, cutting the first woman who had yelled in half. In no time the crowd began panicking and ran to doors, desperate to get out and away. As they ran Shou pulled out his gun and took out the few smart enough to bring guns themselves then slashed at those who passed by him and chased them out. A majority of the people had managed to escape and the doors quickly closed behind them. Shou’s eyes started to glow as he followed them and ran at the door.

Zzzzzztttshshs!

The second he touched the doors he was engulfed in a painful force that sent him flying back, smoking a little. As he stood up he looked and saw symbols glowing on the door that spread out and covered all the walls and the ceiling.

Repelling runes!?[/I}- Taruke asked surprised

This was a trap. A well placed one too.- Murai said

“Repelling runes? Mind explaining some of this?” Shou asked annoyed, the effect of the symbols made it hard for him to move his body, although the effects were wearing off.

Oh c’mon kid, even you should know this.- Taruke said –Ancient human cultures knew about demons and what we do, so it’d make sense if they came up with a way to fight against us. You used spells and other various magic’s to do it. Runes are symbols you drew into buildings to either trap us or make sure we couldn’t enter, and we’re obviously trapped.

“Okay, so who’d want to trap us?” Shou asked looking around for an opening to get out of. He didn’t notice the figure walking up quietly behind him with a large knife. It raised the knife and brought it down, poised to stab Shou in the back. As the blade touched him Shou spun around and shot an entire round of bullets into the figure. “Damn.” He hissed as he looked over his shoulder to the small rip with a little blood pouring out of it.

He was taken by surprise as the figure once again came at him with the knife. Shou dodged around the attacks and put several more shots into him but he just kept coming. After he put some distance between them he saw the figure was the body of someone he’d already killed.

Didn’t we already kill that guy?- Taruke asked as he charged again.

Suddenly Shou was grabbed from behind and held in place. He looked over to see one of the headless bodies had grabbed him. He pulled free from it’s grasp as the first man reached him and stabbed, missing and stabbing the headless body. The second after it was stabbed Shou holstered his gun and slashed at them with his sword, cutting off their arms, legs, and their bodies in half. As he stepped back to take a breath all the other bodies he had killed sprung up and started moving. They all grabbed whatever they could hold in their hands and went at Shou.

“This is like some bad horror movie!” Shou yelled as he dodged and cut through the crowd of dead after him “What the hell is doing this!?”

“That’d be me.” Came a eerie voice from behind Shou just before something sharp was stabbed into his right shoulder.

“AGH!” Shou yelled in pain and dropped his sword then turned around, drew his gun, and fired. The person behind him dodged the shots and stepped back allowing Shou to see him clearly. He had long black, shaggy hair, empty brown eyes, and dirty raggedy clothes. But what caught Shou’s attention more than anything was the two holes in the palms of his hands and the six spider-like legs sprouting from his back, the end of each one like a blade.

“My my my, what do we have here now?” he asked as he watched Shou “A pathetic demon wanna be.”

A spider demon!? It makes sense now.- Murai said

“Oh does it now?” the man asked as Shou dodged the attacks of more bodies, getting farther and farther away from his sword.

“You . . . you can hear Murai!?” Shou asked surprised.

“Of course, demons can always hear one another. Even if their voices aren’t directly coming from the mouth of the human they possess.” The spider demon said.

“What’s going on? Who the hell are you!?”

“Hmhmhm, my name is Phoneutra. And I'm here to kill you Shou Ichijo.”

[I}Spider demons are the hit men of the demon world.- Taruke said –For a price they kill anyone for their client, even if it’s someone higher up in power than them.

They’re adept at controlling dead bodies with their webs, like puppet masters. They also come with a variety of poisons if push comes to shove.- Murai added.

As he finished Shou noticed that as the bodies moved the demon was moving his fingers and hands around, not much but enough to be noticeable. As he dodged more and more he unloaded as many bullets as possible but it didn’t do much, to add to the problem his right arm was pretty much dead weight and bleeding badly. Suddenly he found himself back against a wall. As a body came to attack he jumped up and stepped on it’s head then jumped over to another’s, then another’s, and another’s heading straight for the spider demon.

What the hell are you doing?- Taruke asked

“The bodies are like arms, I can’t take them out with just the gun and taking them out is pointless. I gotta kill the head to stop them all.” Shou answered as he landed infront of the spider demon, his gun pointed right at him.

As Shou shot at him the demon moved back and dodged, sending out it’s six insect legs to strike at him. He managed to dodge the legs but the bodies quickly came up from behind and attacked again. He jumped back over them, away from the demon and spotted his sword lying on the ground. He holstered his gun, landed in the crowd, and grabbed his sword with his left hand. As the bodies began to converge on his he spun around, cutting the ones directly around him in half. As a space opened up he charged through the crowd, cutting and slicing at the bodies that got in his way as he headed for the demon. When he reached him the demon extended his insect legs and attacked, Shou blocked and dodged them as he tried to get closer. Suddenly he jumped into the air and over to the other side of the demon.

“What!?” the demon yelled just before Shou cut off it’s legs “Agh!” he yelled out in pain. As he spun around to hit Shou cut off his hands, the bodies fell to the ground, limp. As he fell back Shou put a foot on his chest and raised his blade up.

Wait Shou!- Murai said quickly –Spider demons don’t attack for no reason. If he’s after us then someone hired him. It’d be beneficial to know who.

“Hehehehehehe. You want to know who?” the demon asked looking up at Shou “Think very carefully now. What enemies could the demon lords of the South Region have? I wonder?” sarcasm dripping from his words.

You need to be more specific, we got a lot of enemies.- Taruke said –Shou, if he doesn’t tell us take off an ear.

“You’re forgetting the one important thing about the Spider Clan.” The demon said as Shou placed his sword on his ear “We take our clients identities to our graves, and our poison isn’t just for our targets.” He then brought up his arm and bit it.

“Hey, wait damnit!” Shou yelled as the demon began to convulse “I want my answers!” he grabbed the demons body and began to shake it.

Hey hey hey, stop it Shou. He’s dead now, besides we gotta go.- Taruke said and Shou heard police sirens in the distance

Regardless of what happened we now know something at least.- Murai said as they escaped, the runes had disappeared with the spider demon –It appears some old enemies of ours are after us.

“What was he talking about?” Shou asked suddenly as he jumped over some buildings on his way back home for the night “He called you two ‘The demon lords of the South Region.’”

Oh, didn’t we tell you kid.- Taruke said –[i]Murai and I are two of the six Demon Lords that rule over the world of demons. We rule the South Region.”

“You gotta be kidding me!” Shou said surprised

You should consider yourself quite lucky Shou.- Murai said –We’re among the strongest of demons, and you’re using our powers.

“Hmm. Well I'm assuming we got a good haul tonight. Better than usual anyway,”

Shou decided to just let the subject drop. Apparently things just got much more complicated. Taruke and Murai had an old enemy that wanted them anything but alive. And that meant Shou’s life was on the line too. Demons were just troublesome creatures.

End

Oh, jsut a little fun fact. I chose the demons name because it's the first name of the Latin name for the Brazilian Wandering Spider, known to be the most poiisonous spider in the world.

[Cef]

That reminded me of Chrono Crusade. Loooooooooool!!!!!!!!

Butsrsly, that was cool!

[khfreak17]

woah........ that.... was.... AWESOME!!!!!!

[Shadow-Love]

Wow, good chapter man. Keep it up. I'm looking forward to the next one.

[Coldman9]

Thanks for the support guys. I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.

[Shadow-Love]

Well I hope it's soon. I really wanna know who's trying to kill them now.

[Lectori Salutem]

Oh, very nice, Coldy! I like it! Lots of nice fighting and the beginning of an interesting adventure for poor Shou... Very good!

[KH!]

WOW!! u are a really good writer! the only thing that bothers me is the demons and dark stuff but keep it up u've got a gift!