- The both of you were. Clutched around her, all you could do was press the blood-soaked & crimson-dampened haori into her shattered ribs, & murmur a prayer.
"Kanao, stay with me--keep your god damn eyes open, fuck!"
The wagon rocked relentlessly below the bleeding, teenage bodies of the two slayers. Kanao draped pathetically, & near lifelessly in your arms. Her head bobbing with a fracture to her neck, & her eyes fluttering as a dazed, & waxy gloss pierced over them.
The one mission Shinobu had trusted her on, unaccompanied, & simply with the capacities of the two of you,
An uppermoon struck. Talons pierced relentlessly through the ladder-like frame of Kanao's ribs. Flesh mangled & ripped below the shredded cover of Kanao's once-firm, & in-tact uniform. Her boot missing from one of her feet, & her other mangled at the seams. The heel destroyed, & the laces snagged.
Her hair had been ripped relentlessly from its ribbon. Her thick, jet-black bangs stuck to her forehead with a gummy bout of blood, & feverish sweat. Her side was bleeding in a river-like rampage. Different streams, all colliding into one, as you used your pale haori to constrict, & absorb the substances.
The rocking wasn't handling her state. With every bump in the road, Kanao let out a weak cry of pain. Strained croaks breaking from her lips in shuddered cries of fear, & agony,
"It hurts.." She weakly called out. Her splintered, & dislocated wrist, limp against the bout of your lap,
You didnt know what to do. Besides pressing the haori deeper into her side, her beautiful, fuscia eyes, once so full of light & kindness, bleeding back into the runt of her head, as the irises were replaced by a foggy, & glazed white.
"I know, i know--i know, i know, i know, I'm so sorry--" You beckoned. Lifting her head, & torso, at an angle, so that her weak, & throbbing head was placed against your shoulder.
Agonizing pain riveted through her with a splintering sob,
"We'll be there soon, i promise--" You nodded, & patted her cheek to wake her.