CHAPTER 4- Takashi's Awakening

2. Now two years later, as Takashi is now thirteen years old, training since his youngest age, he comes home after training on a secluded mountain, walking in the large home with nobody but himself to see a crying Anorishi being comforted by Shima, seeing Anorishi was for the first time exciting for Takashi, and making it easier for him to see what she truly is as a supposed human being. He puts his sword down and says, "Shima, why is Anorishi crying?"

As Shima is about to speak, Tanado shows up looking down and filled with gloom saying, "Hanoko, Anorishi's father, has passed away this morning while you were gone somewhere, he meant everything to her." "I bet he did..." He turns to Anorishi, bowing and saying, "may he rest..."

Anorishi just lifts her head up, giving Takashi a snarky look as he says after, "was Hanoko very sick..?" 

"No, not at all, he was a healthy old man, and then he just died. I guess being sick or not doesn't matter, the Creator will take your life away if he says so." 

"I'm glad you know that..." Takashi casually says to her.

"Anorishi, honey, the funeral should be sometime this weekend." "Yes, make the arrangements now." She says in tears to Tanado. 

...

That very weekend, a funeral was in place for Anorishi's father. Everyone was in tears, and Takashi just smirks throughout the entire funeral causing Shima to notice saying, "Takashi? How foolish of you to smile during a funeral!? Mind your manners?" 

"Shut up, Shima." He says sternly causing some people to notice. "Takashi..??" She whispers to him, "I'm just trying to be polite."

Takashi looks at her making the hand sign to be quiet, understanding why, Shima just sits back, daintly again, trying to not get in trouble while Takashi shows no care in the world for this.

...

Later that night, as Hanoko was put by a river, where a cemetery was, was Anorishi, laughing her head off at something with Tanado while smirking at Hanoko in his casket. 

Takashi sneaks up to where he secretly watches them speak, listening to what they're saying. 

"Sorry papa, but mama needs you, and I know for a fact I don't need your old wrinkled self in my business anymore, so Tanado had to kill you this morning to let you know, hopefully it didn't hurt too bad," she fakes cries while continuing on, "I'm so sorry, but not sorry..." She says then continues to laugh like an evil witch as Tanado buries him in the ground saying, "say hi to Takashi's parents for me, I'm pretty sure Nia's body is lying around here somewhere, dead like a run over animal by a chariot." 

They still laugh on together after this.

Then immediately, Takashi realizes his extreme hate for his foster parents, and anger builds so far in his body, that it is almost like you can see his eyes on fire. 

They finally leave, and from a small distance, start yelling at Shima who must have been standing there watching them, not as good of a hider she must be then. 

As they are finally gone and mad at Shima, Takashi who is still angry about the horrible news he just heard and the despicable actions of Anorishi and Tanado, he wanders around the river bed, looking for his mother's body - and then he finds it - bashed by a bush, unkept and rotting, getting into Takashi was the horrific smell, but he didn't care as he saw it was his face, as a woman, dead and covered in old dried blood, and his father nowhere to be seen. 

He kneels down and starts crying at the sight of his mothers body, then finally he becomes so angry that he digs out Hanako's casket, takes him out of it with all his strength, putting his mother in the casket instead, and burying her peacefully, while throwing Hanako into the river and then finally leaving. 

...

That very morning, Takashi gets called down for breakfast, he comes down and sees everyone at the dining table, he looks at them in a saddened manner and sits with them as they begin to eat their food, and as they begin eating, Tanado starts saying, "oh right? Shima, I made you some tea this morning, for all your hard work with the funeral and all, it surely is still hot, the tea is of ginger, just make sure you add honey to it, please, it brings more taste."

"Thank you, sir." Shima smiles while gently taking the tea.

"My pleasure." 

Anorishi walks over to him saying, "that is very nice of you, Tanado, Takashi deserves something too then." 

"No need." Takashi quickly adds. 

"Are you sure?" Anorishi questions. 

"Yes." Twilight quickly answers back, going back to reading one of his books about Naminek history.

"Okay then, you deserve nothing for your attitude." Anorishi turns away from him, walking into the dining area where her and Tanado are about to eat.

"That means peace for me!" Takashi shouts at her as she walks away. 

"Well..." Anorishi starts, with her and Tanado going on about how much they love their jobs.

As they continue to eat, suddenly, they hear Shima coughing violently in the kitchen area, they immediately run to help her, and in a panic, they call some people to help them until they can get actual help, sending Takashi to get the doctors or nurses to help them. 

Even though he knows they're up to something, he goes anyway for Shima's sake. 

He makes it back with people, and they help Shima as she lays on the floor, not being able to move as if she is paralyzed, causing a frightening scene for Takashi to see. 

Then he starts to realize that Shima was poisoned by Tanado, over something at the funeral maybe. They take Shima to the infirmary clinic, and they go to check up on her as she is there. 

Before Takashi leaves with them, he looks around the kitchen for evidence, and sees a bottle of foreign poison replaced by the honey in the tea, making sure she drinks it, so she can be poisoned. 

This makes Takashi very mad as Shima is still his friend, now debating on to tell the cops or leave it be, meaning them by himself, he smirks to himself and leaves. 

Later on as Tanado and Anorishi come back, at the start of night, again they start talking to themselves and laughing in a wicked manner as they walk inside their home, and Takashi sits by the stairs leaning against the wall, listening to their wicked words. 

"Oh Tanado, what a wonderful plan is such, once the poisons reach into her liver, she'll die immediately, hahaha!" 

"That poison is from that Southern Island, handed down for the evil in the city, and now, we kill them." 

"Like so, Takashi is next, we shall have him dead by tonight, we'll get much praise from the Emperor if we do so, haha, that boy doesn't know what's coming for him!" 

"He will tonight, I'll poison him, like I did Shima, I'll figure it out." 

"Actually...Have him die by his own sword, the one you gave him, for a reference to his parents." 

"Where is he anyways? I'll have him make dinner." Tanado says after, excited.

"Ah...I should take a lovely bath tonight to enjoy the thoughts of you killing Takashi, but after dinner of course." 

"I'll go get him." 

Takashi walks back to his room, and starts to smirk again, reimagining the vision from before, and saying, "got it." To keep himself from being killed.

Then Tanado walks in his room saying, "time to make dinner, we can talk about Shima as we eat." 

Takashi makes dinner for them and they sit down and eat together, then Anorishi starts saying, "some sad news, Shima might not make it, the doctors said if the poison gets in her liver it will...Kill her." 

"What? How did poison get in her body anyways?" Takashi plays along.

"They are trying to figure out what happened." Tanado answers him sternly. 

"I believe there was something wrong with the tea..." Anorishi adds in. "Like what?" Takashi asks. 

"That's the problem, that tea may have been bad." 

"Bad?"

"Yes, bad..." Anorishi says back before changing to the topic, letting the doctors and nurses 'handle' it.

They eventually finish eating and Takashi starts cleaning everything, when Anorishi says, "I'm going to take a bath, I'll be in the bathroom if you need me." Then she winks at Tanado and walks away. 

Takashi walks up to Tanado when he starts saying, "oh, how has your training been, bring down your sword and show me some of what you learned." 

"Of course." 

Takashi brings out his sword, and in the foyer, he starts showing Tanado of what he learned. "Very nice, now you would not mind if you got me a glass of water, right?" 

"Not at all." 

Takashi puts his sword down and gets him a glass of water, but...He walks over to him with his poison filled water that is highly obviously poisoned. 

"Takashi, the water? Why is it...?" 

"Poisoned? Oh yes, why is it poisoned, nauseatingly green, the same poison that you poisoned Shima with to kill her!! Just like how you guys are trying to kill me! And all the good villagers! And tonight...Tonight is your last night, your last everything...Your filthy bodies will be ravaged in the river once I throw you in it, by the Eneki creatures!" 

Takashi slowly walks towards him while he has his sword. Takashi strikes at him as Tanado backs up, being beaten by Takashi, eventually as they are fighting, Takashi knocks him against the dining room chair, strapping him to it, 

"Any last words..." 

"You..will...die..Takashi..." Tanado's voice, rough and evil in difference.

"You should know by now, why I'm about to kill you." 

Takashi stabs him with his sword, then he shoves the poison down his throat, he takes the sword out of him laughing at his now nearly dead body, and stabs him three more times, immediately killing him. 

Takashi laughs his way upstairs with his sword as he grips it in his hands. 

He knocks on the bathroom door, multiple times causing Anorishi to say, "come in! Good grief, Tanado, you wished to bed me that bad again? Hm." 

Takashi bust open the door, walking in slowly while ignoring every word she says as she keeps calling his name in a worried voice when she sees how he looks, his sword filled with blood, dripping on the bathroom floor, his long hair showing only some of his face, and his happily vicious smirk. 

"Hello... " He says calmly. 

Anorishi backs against the wall in the tub, trying to cover herself from a kid, her face shows nothing but worry when she realizes that Tanado has been murdered by Takashi. 

"Takashi!?!? What are you doing!? You're only a kid!?!?" 

"Oh...Anorishi, you sound pathetic, asking mercy from a child, when in reality I know everything you guys have done, you have murdered people in so many ways, and so many different times, like my parents, remember that!!" 

"Takashi I...!?!?" 

"Shut it!! Shut it like it will be forever once I dump your body into the river, to be ravaged some more by the creatures!!" 

"How do you know this! Hahaha!" Anorishi starts laughing saying, "not if I kill you first." 

She wraps a towel around herself and tries to protect herself and fight, but Takashi has learned, he blocks her every move, and she keeps talking to him saying, "I killed your parents because they were criminals, in this city it is the law, they have been punished, punished with death." 

Takashi and Anorishi keep fighting, then he eventually pushes her with his sword, knocking her in the tub into the water. Takashi keeps his hands on her head, drowning her in the water. She keeps fighting it while he talks to her softly saying, "finally..I have my hands on you especially, you murderer, homewrecker, just for fun!!! Huh? Well guess what I do for fun! I get rid of these evil doers, and I show them the fire on which they will go too!!"

 Takashi lifts up Anorishi from the water, almost seeing death, she tries to lift up her eyes, "any last words??" 

Choking and coughing, Anorishi lets out, "no...nothing...but..." 

Takashi takes her by her head and slams her in the water, then he takes his sword and stabs her with it like he did Tanado, killing her as it happened, now her body lays in the bloody water.

As dead as objects unless moved is Tanado and Anorishi now. 

Takashi washes himself clean, and takes wood from the back of the house, to throw it inside, and make a fire of which he did. Then he watches it burn and leaves as the place engulfs in flames. 

Burning everything of them.