EPISODE 20: THE REUNION
OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST-NIGHT
(Hibana responds to yūto by telling him)
HIBANA
Hello yūto, long time no see.
(Yūto suddenly starts yelling at hibana telling her)
YŪTO
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! ARE YOU IN YOUR RIGHT MIND, YOU CRAZY DEMON?! I MIGHT HAVE KILLED YOU, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?! TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND, TELL ME!?
(Hibana with a smile on her lips says to yūto)
HIBANA
Sorry, sorry hehe. I didn't know I'd scare you so much.
(After yūto has unfastened his katana from the trunk of the tree and has put it into its black case he turns towards hibana and looks at her clothes. Then he thinks)
YŪTO
Her clothes are soiled and torn, blood flows from her hands and feet as if she were in some kind of battle. I wonder what happened? There's something wrong with me here.
(Then he says to hibana)
YŪTO
I see, you look tired and soiled. Come with me, there's a river down the street where you can wash your clothes and relax a little bit.
(Hibana with a smile and a drop of sweat flowing from her face tells yūto)
HIBANA
Really! Thank you yūto.
(They begin to advance toward the river. On the way hibana looks at yūto's blouse from the back of which hunter writes " 猟師 " in Japanese in purple letters, so with a smile she walks beside him saying)
HIBANA
You finally made your dream come true.
(And smiling sweetly, yūto looks beside hibana saying to her)
YŪTO
What do you mean by that?
(Hibana looks ahead at the beautiful path with the tall trees saying)
HIBANA
You finally kept your promise, became a demon hunter like that time on the mountain you mentioned to me, do you remember?
(And he looks at yūto in Wonder. Yūto looking forward says he too)
YŪTO
Yeah, I finally made it.
HIBANA
I'm so happy for you. You'll get a lot of revenge on your family. The Demons must be afraid of you now, heheehee.
(But yūto bends his head without saying anything. Hibana looks at him and a smile disappears from her face and a look of anxiety appears in its place. Then he goes on saying with concern:)
HIBANA
Yūto, why are you like this?
(Her voice gets a little louder while she's stressed out)
HIBANA
Did I say something I shouldn't have?! Forgive me if-
(But yūto keeps walking interrupting hibana)
YŪTO
No, you didn't say anything wrong, you don't have to apologize unfairly.
(Hibana is surprised and says in a low voice looking at yūto)
HIBANA
Yūto?
(Yūto continues to speak saying)
YŪTO
I don't want to take revenge anymore, I just want to help the people who need our help. In this way I will justify the death of my family. The death of my teachers and my family is past, that doesn't mean I'll forget them or abandon them forever, but I think. I think about what will happen to the other families in this horrible world. I don't want them to lose their loved one like me. I don't want this war, but I can't help it.
(Yūto clenches his fist)
YŪTO
That's why I fight and will fight on every side in this world. So far you've met a revenge-seeking kid, spoiled, whining, and most of all selfish. It's time to meet a new child who has accepted the past but it still hurts, because the deep wound of the past doesn't heal so easily as it seems. But this child with this deep wound will continue to walk without hesitation, without fear, only having dreams and hopes, because ... because that's what counts in the end. It does not matter the beginning, the path or the end. What's important is that you enjoy it. Happy birthday.
(In yūto's mind come all the images of what he went through, and with a smile as he rolls a tear from his cheek he continues to walk looking ahead. Hibana stops walking, is amazed by yūto and thinks)
HIBANA
I've never seen him like this. Last time he was different, he was violent and full of hate. But ... but now, now like his soul calmed down, it's like he found the real reason he became demon hunter. And that makes me happy, it makes me happy.
(Hibana smiles proudly saying)
HIBANA
Good for you, yūto. Honestly, good for you.
(Yūto's voice is heard shouting with a smile on his lips hibana because he is left behind)
YŪTO
Demon, are you coming?
(Hibana is startled, at once raises her head from the ground and with a smile answers)
HIBANA
Sorry, I'll be right there.
(Then after they have reached the river, yūto says to hibana)
OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST BY THE RIVER-NIGHT
YŪTO
Here we are.
(Hibana as soon as she sees the river and above her the clear sky her eyes shine and she says Happy)
HIBANA
They are, they are beautiful.
(Yūto with a smile says)
YŪTO
It is, it reminds me of something, something old. You may remember better than I do, demon.
(And he turns his head to look hibana in the eye, then yūto says, turning his back to the demon)
YŪTO
You can wash up here, we're camping down the street, so ... -
(But before he completes his sentence, hibana grabs his hand by telling him red-faced shyly)
HIBANA
Yūto, can you sit with me, Please very much.
(Yūto looks at her curiously, saying in Wonder)
YŪTO
Why, is there any significant reason?
(Hibana leaving yūto's hand shyly starts up and plays with her fingers while saying)
HIBANA
It's because, because, because I'm afraid!
(Yūto suffers shok. Next scene hibana takes out the yukata she wears and throws it into the river, then she goes into the river. Meanwhile yūto sits with his back turned towards hibana, and so does hibana towards yūto. For a few minutes no speech was heard. Then yūto draws a long breath saying)
YŪTO
And what's the reason you're scared? You're a demon, no one's gonna hurt you. Believe.
(Hibana who has blushed from her shame replies)
HIBANA
I'm sorry, yūto.
(Yūto turns his head towards hibana saying to her)
YŪTO
No need to apologize, even the bravest are afraid of hehe.
(Hibana clenching her fist says)
HIBANA
I watched you in your battle with that female demon in the city. That female demon was-she was my sister, if you know.
(Yūto terrified gets up, lights his fire and says)
YŪTO
I knew something was wrong in the first place. As I was fighting her, the description you had told me came into my mind. So what do you want, revenge?! You want to kill me for losing your sister?! What do you want from me?!
(Hibana turns to yūto and sees him ready for battle, so she tells him to reassure him)
HIBANA
No! no, no, misunderstanding has happened yūto. I don't want to fight you, sit down and I'll explain everything to you as it is. Trust me.
(Yūto looks at hibana for a while without saying anything, blushes and turns his head to the right and up while hibana looks at her body, blushes and sharply turns her back to yūto and at the same time cries)
HIBANA
AND DON'T LOOK, YOU IDIOT!
(Yūto also turns his back towards hibana and says)
YŪTO
Sorry!
(After yūto has sat down on the ground, hibana continues)
HIBANA
I watched you fight my sister, the whole time I watched you on the roof of a house. When you killed her, I tried to leave, but... but a demon stopped me. He wasn't like the other demons we know, he was different and the smell he carried on him was intense.
(Yūto wonders and asks hibana with curiosity)
YŪTO
From the smell he was carrying?
HIBANA
Mmm, we demons are more aware of the smell of blood than you are. But apart from us, blind hunters can also perceive it.
(Yūto thinks for a moment and says surprised while at the same time anxious)
YŪTO
SORA!
HIBANA
Very likely your friend will also be able to perceive that smell.
(So yūto with terror in his eyes asks hibana)
YŪTO
So sora will be able to figure out that I was with you?! This is bad, bad, bad! If he finds out, he'll want to hunt you down and kill you! Things are getting worse!
(Hibana laughs saying)
HIBANA
Hehehehehehee. Don't worry yūto. Your friend can only recognize the smell of blood in demons who have attacked people. Human blood stays on them no matter how long. But don't forget that I am clean, so you need not fear unjustly, hechehee.
(Yūto thinks)
YŪTO
Right! As long as she hasn't killed any humans, it means she won't have that smell on her. I'm saved, what a relief.
(Hibana goes on to tell her story by saying)
HIBANA
As I ran over the roofs of the houses I met him suddenly. It was a demon wearing a strange mask. His mask was white and in some places there were red lines, he held out his hand and told me.
(Hibana tells the story to yūto)
THE FLASHBACK BEGINS:
OUTSIDE, INSIDE THE CITY ON THE ROOFS OF OLD JAPANESE HOUSES-NIGHT
(Hibana runs over the tiles of the houses, and in some gaps that were there jumps over them. Suddenly the Demon makes a leap and appears in front of her. Hibana stops short while the demon stretches out his hand telling her)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
Where are you off to?
(Hibana with sweat flowing from her face does not answer, only breathes quickly and strongly)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
Go, fight, kill this last demi man and I will give you what you desire.
(Hibana interrupts the demon by telling him)
HIBANA
No, no way I will.
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
Mmm, I see. You're sad, you choose to help our enemy instead of your family. We're all demons fighting for tomorrow, for a better world for us.
HIBANA
You're wrong! You don't want a better world for us, you want a better world for you.
(Hibana's voice starts and gets louder as she clenches her fists)
HIBANA
Why kill these innocent people? They haven't done anything to us! Then why? Not everyone is the same!
(The demon starts laughing saying)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
Hahahahahahahaha! Nothing, nothing! They didn't do anything to us, do you think?! They think us evil creatures, that we have no heart or feelings. You know how this started? Do you know what horrors we have been through?!
(Then the demon starts approaching hibana telling her)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
Mmm, it seems to me you don't know what they really did to us, or you wouldn't object. But that's why I'm here, to explain and help you. This story I'm about to tell you happened many years ago. Because of a group of demons who massacred an entire village, they have been pursuing us unfairly ever since. Stupid CHC people, they all put them in the same bag.
(The Demon has got too close to hibana and grabs her shoulder telling her as he leaves her and continues to move on)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
We can't help it. help your family, please. I will not stand in your way, but you will see, sooner or later with the decision you have made you will be pursued by the other demons who fight for you and for me. Who sacrifice themselves for the freedom and diversity of all of us. So decide with determination and fortitude who you want to be with, it's never too late to change, you know. But the question you have to ask yourself should be " how much do you want to change?".
(Leaving the demon says waving his hand)
DEMON WITH MASK, BLOOD MOON LEVEL 6
I hope to see you alive again the next time we meet.
(Hibana looks back at her saying)
HIBANA
CHK, I don't care. Nothing matters to me anymore.
(And he starts running. When she entered the forest she looks behind her and sees some demons chasing her. She ponders with a smile on her lips and with her eyes closed)
HIBANA
Not a few minutes did he keep our secret, Good Grief.
(Demons try to kill her but do not succeed. Hibana ran through the forest with her arms backward and her body forward. In a moment she makes a jump and hides in a tree, the Demons stop and start looking for her under the tree. Then hibana ponders)
HIBANA
My time has come.
(And with a leap he falls on the head of a demon, causing him to fall to the ground and melt it. Then with one movement she spreads her two hands right and left taking out her claws and decapitating two other demons. Then he starts running, and so do the Demons. She looks back at the demons that follow her and thinks)
HIBANA
Mmm, they don't give up that easily. Battle time! POWER ART!
(She stops abruptly, turns to the Demons in a resolute tone, and with one step hurls herself with speed towards him, at the same time her hands seem as if they have a red power. Then she runs her claws through the head of a demon killing him. The rest of the Demons are scared, but they're thirsty for blood and attack. Hibana in amazing fashion and amazing kolotubes over demons beheads them. She repels and performs impressive attacks as if her hands are blades of katana. it's time to give up the fight and start running again in the forest, but before she has time to run a demon nails her with his claws on her shoulder. Hibana looks at him and with one movement breaks his arm. But another demon stabs her in the ribs, hibana spits blood from her mouth and with bowed head ponders)
HIBANA
I don't, I don't, I don't want to die. I don't want to die, I'm afraid of the dark. I ... I don't want to die.
(Tears flow from her eyes, then yūto's sweet smile comes to her mind. Hibana raises her head, and the veins become much more visible to the naked eye upon her body than before, her eyes being filled with red arteries. Then he shouts)
HIBANA
DEMON TAILS!
(Behind her back come out two Big Red Tails and with these she starts to kill any demon that is in her passage without fear. Heads of Demons start flying up into the sky and their blood fills the ground. after this quick but localized battle he looks at a dying Demon, goes to eat him but then he wakes up, startled, jumps back and continues to walk through the forest)
RETURN FROM FLASHBACK:
(Hibana does not narrate the moment from when she became a demon until the end)
HIBANA
And so I found myself a few feet away from you.
(Hibana comes out of the river and wears her kimono. Yūto meanwhile thinks. Then hibana sits next to him and lies down looking at the stars, then continues saying)
HIBANA
By the way, you did very well in the fight with my sister. I have never seen such power possessed by a warrior.
(Yūto also lies down on the grass and looks at the stars along with hibana saying)
YŪTO
I didn't expect it either, I thought I was going to die, but I was wrong. Eventually you have to believe in yourself no matter what.
(For a few minutes silence. Yūto and hibana look at the stars up in the sky. Then in yūto's mind comes a question, so he says)
YŪTO
Demon?
HIBANA
What is yūto?
YŪTO
Why did you come down from the mountain?
(Hibana smiles and says)
HIBANA
To be with you, of course.
(Yūto blushes and startled says)
YŪTO
WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT?!
(Hibana smiles while also blushing)
HIBANA
For many years I lived on that mountain until, until you came and taught me that we can change. We can change everything and everything is possible to happen in this life. We can change this world and create something more beautiful than we do now. As we fight to create something we will all lose. Someone will lose their eyes, someone will shed blood and someone else will lose their memories, you know that it is not so easy to make something from scratch if you do not give something valuable first. That's why... that's why I decided to follow you on this journey and become a demon hunter too! I want to sacrifice myself, to give generously my blood, my eyes, my body and my soul. For a better future, for the future of our children!
(Yūto is amazed, looks at hibana and cries)
YŪTO
HUH?! A demon wants to become a demon hunter?!
(Then hibana affirmatively shakes her head with a smile on her lips)
YŪTO
So you're saying that, that a demon wants to kill demons?
(Yūto doesn't believe it and starts thinking)
YŪTO
A demon in our team. I don't know if the others agree. Unless, unless he doesn't really want to be part of the team and in the end he destroys us all. I don't know, I don't know! Get thoughts out of my mind, get lost!
(And he starts off with his eyes closed shaking his head. Hibana looks at him and asks him)
HIBANA
Yūto, are you okay?
(Yūto stops shaking his head and rubs the back of his head saying with a fake smile)
YŪTO
Hechehee, nothing's wrong. What's the matter, hechehee?
(Yūto lowers his head while simultaneously thinking)
YŪTO
I don't know what to do. With a demon in the team everything will change and sora will want to kill her. As for aiko, I hope she will accept and understand, but she is still a demon. I have to protect her, both her and US.
(Hibana rises from her seat saying to yūto while the sun rises slowly)
OUTSIDE, IN THE FOREST BY THE RIVER-IT DAWNS SLOWLY
HIBANA
I have to go, unfortunately. Forgive me and thank you so much for keeping me company.
(Hibana makes an elegant bow, yūto raises his head and faces hibana. Then hibana puts her hands inside the long sleeves of the kimono she is wearing and starts to move away and enter the forest. Yūto also rises from the ground and with a loud voice says:)
YŪTO
Wait, Where Are you going?
(Hibana stops walking, does not turn her head to look at yūto, and in a hushed voice answers him)
HIBANA
Watch…
(Then at once she turns her whole body and her head towards yūto, saying:)
HIBANA
I see you are afraid of me, yūto. You're still afraid of demons, aren't you? When I first met you on the mountain, you were different. You weren't afraid of anything, you didn't care whether you died or not. But now, what has changed? You've become more protective and more attentive to your movements, to what you say. What changed in you, what made you change?
(Yūto with bowed head approaches hibana saying to her)
YŪTO
I'm sorry, you're not responsible for my behavior, but ... …
HIBANA
But who is to blame, yūto? Look at me, I'm a demon! I know your answer, I'm never going to join the team and you know why?! Because I'm different!
(Yūto raises his head sharply and cries out angrily)
YŪTO
Shut up!
(Hibana is startled)
YŪTO
I said it's not your fault! I just, I just made an oath that I can't break. Sora and aiko are the only ones in the world I have, for now at least. They're my family and I'm their keeper! I have to be on their side and not let anyone hurt them! Because if that happens I will lose ... lose my hopes, lose myself, lose the ground under my feet, lose ... lose everything and fall into the black darkness. I have a responsibility for their lives, please understand me! I have to protect them!
(From yūto's eyes roll tears, and he has bowed his head that hibana may not see his tears. Hibana approaches him, raises his head and as he wipes the tears from his cheeks tells him with a sweet smile on her lips)
HIBANA
Now I understand you, you're thinking beyond yourself. You're scared, you're anxious and you're upset, so it's time for these terrible feelings to be wiped out from inside you, because... because I'm here to help you, to protect you in my turn. You taught me that life is out there and we have to live it at all costs. To fight for our freedom, for the freedom of all of us but also to enjoy every day that passes, every moment that we will all spend together. For this, for this…
HIBANA
That's why I want to follow you and learn other valuable things from you! Teach me and get us out of this hell together. I want to be with you too, because, because…
(And she hugs him while the red, yellow, brown leaves from the Japanese maples fall down to the ground)
HIBANA
Because you were the only person who trusted me! You trusted me and sat next to me, that's what I want to do now. I want to be by Your Side! I don't care what the end of this story is... but please yūto, please! Let me Be Beside You Again! Because I love you, I love you very much.
("Because I love you, I love you very much," he said in a very low voice so yūto did not hear it. From hibana's eyes begin to flow tears as she continues to have that sweet smile on her lips. Yūto stands still, and then he too embraces hibana with slow movements. Then begins a gentle breeze to blow and wind the hair and robes of yūto and hibana. At the end yūto looks at hibana and another tear rolls down his cheek telling her with a smile and stroking her)
YŪTO
Thank you, thank you, Demon.
(The sun rises slowly and hibana moves away from yūto's embrace)
HIBANA
I'll always be by Your Side when you need me, remember that.
(Yūto smiles)
YŪTO
I hope-
(Before yūto completes his sentence, hibana gets up on tiptoe to reach yuto and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Yūto is left stunned without doing anything, while hibana runs a little away from him, then raises her hand aloft and greets him looking behind her. When yūto is "awakened" by hibana's enchanting kiss, he cries)
YŪTO
Demon!
(Hibana stops and looks behind yūto)
YŪTO
YOU HAVEN'T TOLD ME YOUR NAME YET. WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!
(Hibana with a smile on her lips yells by putting her hands in front of her mouth to be heard louder)
HIBANA
HIBANA!
(The yellow, red, and brown leaves fall from the Japanese maples to the ground, at the same time the sun rises and yūto watches hibana disappear into the forest. Yūto with a smile on his lips twists his body and with his hands behind his head takes his way. When he has reached that point where sora and aiko are, he hears screams)
OUTDOORS, IN THE FOREST BY THE RIVER-DAY
SORA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
(Sora circles his broken arm while with his other hand he grasps his cracked shoulder. Aiko yells and chases him)
AIKO
YOU'RE NOT DONE WELL! DON'T TAKE THE BANDAGE OFF YET, SORA~! LISTEN TO ME, YOU BLOODY PIG!
(Sora runs and jumps from branch to branch on the trees as he does and kolotubes over aiko to not catch him, at the same time he shouts at her)
SORA
Shut up! STOP YELLING AT ME, YOU IDIOT! YOU DON'T KNOW, LEAVE ME ALONE! I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING BETTER THAN YOU, YOU USELESS CREATURE!
(Aiko after she has caught sora tries to put the bandage back on his arm. Sora is blocking her. As they fight and are beaten sora sees yūto. At once he leaves aiko and starts running towards yūto yelling at him while Aiko behind sora runs to catch him)
SORA
YŪTO~! LOOK, LOOK! I CAN TWIST MY ARM, SO I CAN FIGHT HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I WILL DESTROY THESE DEMONS, I WILL NOT ESCAPE ANYONE!
AIKO
COME BACK SORA~! YOU'RE NOT WELL YET, IT'LL BREAK AGAIN IF YOU DON'T PUT THE BANDAGE ON! COME BACK!
(Aiko jumps up and catches sora by throwing him down on the ground. Screams are heard from the two children. Yūto draws a long breath, then an idea comes to his mind and in a loud voice raises his finger to heaven)
YŪTO
I got it!
(Sora and aiko stop and look at yūto)
YŪTO
We'll make a deal, sora.
(Sora looks at him curiously)
SORA
Deal huh? What kind of deal?
(Yūto takes the bandage from aiko's hands and shows it to sora telling him)
YŪTO
You'll only wear it to-night, at least.
(Sora screams angry)
SORA
HUH?! NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! No way, I won't wear that thing on my arm anymore! This is for the weak! I never wore such pathetic trash in my life! Why wear it now?! Say what you want yūto trash, this thing I'M not wearing!
(And he turns his head to the other side deprecatingly. Aiko outraged yells)
AIKO
SORA! IT'S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, DAMN YOU!
(Sora angry looks at aiko)
SORA
AND HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR ME AND WHAT'S NOT?! I DON'T REMEMBER YOU BEING MY MOTHER AND I NEVER ASKED YOU TO BE! SO STAY OUT OF THIS!
(Yūto with his eyes closed and waving his hands calmly up and down to calm them says)
YŪTO
Guys, let's calm down now, it's okay.
(But sora and aiko don't calm down, they just contradict each other. Yūto ponders)
YŪTO
It's hard to be on a team. I'd better go for a walk.
(Yūto looks at aiko and sora for a while, sees that they pay no attention to him, and enters the forest again. While walking in the forest yūto thinks at the same time looking around at the trees and the beautiful forest)
INDOORS, IN THE FOREST-DAY
YŪTO
How do we manage to defeat the Demons, after we have not been able to communicate as a team?
(He lowers his head and sighs)
YŪTO
It's very difficult to see things. This is not for me to impose, they have this stupid problem, to reconcile with each other I don't care how! And now that I'm gone, I imagine they don't even realize it, but they keep fighting like babies. I'm not here to babysit them. We're supposed to have a common purpose!
(As yūto walks through the forest he appears in a clearing, there he sees a tree that on its branches hang juicy apples. Think)
OUTDOOR SPACE, IN THE FOREST IN A CLEARING-DAY
YŪTO
I've been through this before, I think? This place looks very familiar.
(In his mind appear images of the black-eyed child who wounded sora. After this brief recollection of approaching the tree and looking at its branches, yūto's belly begins to make strange noises from hunger. So with a smile yūto says)
YŪTO
I'm hungry, let's get some for the others, they're probably hungry too.
(At the moment when yūto ascends the tree, itachi appears through the forest. Yūto looks frightened behind him and sees the child=(itachi) with speed running towards him. Yūto suffers shock and thinks)
YŪTO
This kid can't.…
(Itachi grasps with his left hand the black case and with his right hand the handle of his katana, takes it out and goes to nail yūto killing him. But yūto avoids Itachi's moves. While he avoids the movements of itachi he thinks at the same time)
YŪTO
How did he understand me? How did he know that I was in this part of the forest, what is this child really?
(Itachi quickly changes his katana to his left hand, and in a surprising manner stoops low to cut off yūto's legs. Then yūto turns upside down and stands with his left hand on the ground while his whole body and legs look at the sky. The blade from the katana of itachi passes under him and with a kolotuba yūto is removed a little from itachi. Yūto sweaty again ponders)
YŪTO
He's good, very good. I wonder if it's demon hunter? Tsk, it doesn't matter, now I have to survive, and then I'll find out.
(Yūto pushes with the thumb of his left hand the kataba to get a little out of its holster. The similar sound is heard from the blade when it comes out a little from the sheath. Then he says in an ironic tone to itachi)
YŪTO
Now let's see who wins. FIRE FLASH!
(Yūto paws the ground and hurls himself towards itachi making a huge puddle while behind him appears the purple fire that follows his foot at the same time the blade from the katana of yūto is filled with MoS lines. Itachi looks at him, makes no move against him. When yūto has approached him too much he starts to execute quick and impressive attacks trying to kill him, but itachi is much faster and repels with incredible speed the attacks of yuto. An impressive battle ensues as the two children have almost equal strength. In a moment itachi repels yuto's attack and throws him to the ground by tripping him. Yūto falls to the ground and looks at itachi. Itachi is expressionless, he lifts his katana aloft ready to behead yūto. Yūto closes his eyes. He thinks as sweat drips from his forehead and fear and anxiety appear in his gaze)
YŪTO
You're human, because he wants to kill me, why?!
(Itachi having black eyes brings down katana to kill yūto. Yūto cries with hatred in his gaze)
YŪTO
WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME?! MISERABLE ANIMAL!
(Itachi stops his katana at a very short distance from yūto's neck. Then yuto finds the occasion and thinks)
YŪTO
This is my chance to survive, now or never.
(And yells)
YŪTO
FIRE CYCLE!
(Yūto puts his hands down on the ground, and raising his feet, makes one turn of his hands, thus twisting his legs. From his feet comes the purple fire. Itachi backs off but yūto catches up and burns his Black already torn blouse. A part of the blouse is burned and a huge scratch appears on his chest, while on the chest at the point where his heart is located a pink dried flower is visible inside his skin. Yūto does not see the scratch and continues the battle. With skill he stands up and again steps on the ground, brings his whole body forward, his left leg is stretched backwards ready to take momentum and hurl forward again, he has his head lowered and says to itachi)
YŪTO
Stop, I don't want to kill you! Surrender, and nothing bad will happen to either of us.
(Itachi takes a sudden, sharp breath. In his mind there is nothing but black, darkness. Then a light appears, it is yūto when he was a little child. Itachi thinks)
ITACHI
I remember that strange boy somewhere. Something, something reminds me and fills my heart with rich emotions. His face, his smile, it all seems so familiar to my eyes. It's like, like I met him somewhere, once. Tsk, it's not going to be him! It's probably some demon trying to trick me with his cheap tricks, but. But I'm not as dumb as he thinks. He doesn't know what power I possess. My brother, you miserable demons.
(Itachi attacks yūto, yūto raises his head and with a smile says in a hushed voice)
YŪTO
You may want to kill me, but I don't. It's time to change your mind. IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP! FIRE FLASH!
(Like lightning yūto hurls himself upon a trunk of a tree, and from that trunk of the tree he hurls himself without losing a moment into another trunk of a tree, and from thence to another and to another and to another and to another. At the same time behind his foot comes out the purple fire and follows him in semicircle shapes where his foot goes. Itachi stands in the middle and looks right-left, up and down yūto moving from trunk to trunk confusing him. Itachi looks lost with his unique power, the hearing. Yūto like lightning hurls himself from the trunk of the tree towards itachi and tears his blouse. Itachi turns but yūto has already climbed the tree trunks and again moves from trunk to trunk. Yūto makes attacks from different points on itachi making him many scratches. Itachi can't defend himself. In a moment itachi hears the air beating upon yūto who comes from behind him. Itachi turns and brings his katana from right to left to cut off yūto's head. He shudders as sweat rolls from his forehead. At that moment we do not see faces or who won, only the katana with the black blade={will help us later} falls down to the ground and this metallic sound of the blade is heard. Yuto has repulsed itachi's attack and has caught him by the blouse and raised him above the ground while with his other hand holding katana he is ready to kill him. Itachi thinks)
ITACHI
I'll probably die. The end of my poor life has come, and I thought it would not come soon, heheehee. I didn't, I didn't, aiko, forgive me. I'm coming to you, soon I'll be with you again. But I want to see him face to face with the demon warrior who managed to throw my katana down on the ground and tear with his katana the dreams and hopes I had.
(Then slowly he opens his eyes and sees yūto's face with those beautiful purple eyes and the purple gorgeous hair caught backward. Yūto's hair is blown by the wind)
YŪTO
I don't want to kill you, I don't like killing people like you. But why you?! Why do you want to kill me?! We can be friends and I can help you with whatever difficulty you have in you! Because, because I can't watch you suffer, I want to stand by you, and to fight me you have no clear mind! Let me drive away this demon that is choking you inside. In your soul, in the soul of all of us.
(Itachi does not believe it, the pupils of his eyes are twinkling. Then a tear comes out of itachi's eye, with a quiet voice while he has at the same time a smile on his lips says moved reaching out his hand to catch yūto's face)
ITACHI
Yūto, yūto you, you really are. Tell me I'm not having some kind of Dream. Tell me I'm not dead, tell me it's you.
(Yūto is frightened and with Wonder in his look says)
YŪTO
You know my name. WHO ARE YOU TO KNOW MY NAME, STRANGER?! ANSWER ME AT ONCE, ANSWER ME!
(Yūto looks at itachi's thorax and sees the big scratch as well as the pink flower that aiko had given him being inside his skin. Then yūto remembers the movement made by itachi and placed the flower over his heart through the bandage. Then she looks itachi in the eyes again, thinking)
YŪTO
This, this scratch reminds me of something, and this flower too. It must be aiko's there is no doubt in that. The flower and the scratch are very much at home in the memories of my mind, and remind me then, at that time, of the past of my childhood.…
(Yūto's eyes twinkled, and images filled his mind. Images: itachi little child fighting the demon and the demon giving him this scratch, aiko who put the bandage on his chest, but also when the three children were watching the sun rise, he still remembers how itachi fought those children in the river and helped him. Katana falls rolls out of yuto's arms and falls down to the ground, then anxiously asks itachi)
YŪTO
This scratch, when and who made it, Stranger?! Answer Me Please, Please I really want to know, I want to know! I need to know, I demand to know! Please, I'm falling at your feet, stranger! Confess!
(Itachi with a touching smile on his lips says)
ITACHI
Yūto. It's me, your old childhood friend. Do you remember me at all, hehe? It wasn't so many years before I became unrecognizable and you couldn't remember me at all. Don't you, yūto.
(As he says all this tears flow from his eyes and he has a sweet smile with his eyes closed)
YŪTO
You are... You are...
ITACHI
I'm... I'm itachi, yūto.
(Yūto is startled and slowly leaves itachi on the ground. You can only hear the birds chirping and a light breeze waving the costume and hair of the two children as yellow, red and brown leaves fall from the trees down to the ground. Then from yūto's cheek roll tears and he says)
YŪTO
Itachi?
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