Blood Moon

Quatre (edited)

Edited: 04/19/23. There were so many plot holes guys, omg, im so sorry. I actually added detail this time around

TW: referenced torture, ptsd, canon-typical violence, slight derealization, suicidal thoughts, depersonalization 

Where am I? He wasn't at his estate, or at Urokodaki's home. This was unfamiliar territory. The cold harsh rock ground crushing against his back was unfamiliar. The damp atmosphere tickled the back of his throat, his sweat causing his body to become sticky. His hair scratched at his face. Chirps of animals nearby sent a jolt of fear down his spine. 

What am I doing here? He wasn't supposed to be here. He remembered nothing. He was just trying to go home. Home. He wanted to go home. He had a difficult mission. A child turned demon. He had to kill her. He went home. He was supposed to have gone home. He didn't know what happened. 

What's going on? He was so confused. He couldn't remember a time when he was this confused, this hazy with fear and pain. Even when his sister died, when Sabito died, he wasn't confused. He knew what it happened. Knew why it happened. They died because he wasn't strong enough. He was strong now though. He was so confused.

Why does everything hurt? His entire body ached. A different kind of ache from fighting demons all night. His muscles burned, his fingers twitching uselessly. Blood was sticking to his forehead, the back of his neck damp and sticky. He couldn't move his legs. His ribs ached. There was something in his stomach, something that shouldn't be there. His body burned. He wanted to shut his eyes and go away, far, far away. He wanted to leave his body and never return. 

How can I make it stop? He was so tired. The minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years that he had spent fighting made him so tired. He was exhausted. He couldn't even fathom being able to get up, to fight, to make it out of where ever he was. He just wanted the pain to stop. He nearly cried out for his sister to help him, for Sabito, for Urokodaki...

Please, make it stop. Make everything stop.

Tomioka opened his eyes, faced with the darkness. He couldn't see anything. He blinked uselessly, trying to make the dark liquid in his eyes go away. He tried to bring up a hand to rub it away, but his hand refused to move. He blinked repeatedly, waiting for his eyes to adjust futiley. 

He heard the telltale sound of dripping water, not enough to drink, just falling from a leak on the ceiling. The steady drip, drip, drip nearly lulled him back to sleep. It plopped onto the stone ground, the splash the only sound in the cave aside from his raggedy wheezing. 

There was no light, there never was. His eyes wouldn't adjust because there was nothing to see. No moonlight shone in. Everything was dark. He couldn't tell where the cave ended and where it began. Darkness covered him on all sides. There was nothing he could see. There was no light.

Of course there wasn't. He nearly groaned at his own stupidity. His thoughts were spiraling, his mind grabbing onto anything he could think of, anything he could use to keep himself awake. 

It was a cave. A dark, empty, huge cave. One where only he was in. One where nobody would find him, if they even bother to go looking for him. 

A demon's cave. A demon had been the one to take him here. The memories came back in a blur, so painful and fast that he passed out. He was tired, distracted, walking home mere minutes before sunrise when he sensed a presence. He was caught off guard, not expecting a demon to attack him so close to sunrise. There was a smell, one that instantly made him want to curl up and sleep. There was a sharp, stinging pain at the back of his head. From there, it only got worse.