IC: And We Ran...

[Karate McNaughty]

Once the pair arrived at the manor, holding the body of The Dog, Reita felt as though a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. The weight of the body, now that was another story. He would go where Adio would take them.

Reita rose an eyebrow. "Adio, are you all right?" He finally asked.

This was the third time he noticed Adio pausing or faltering. Maybe not the third time. He really wasn't keeping track. Reita thought to himself..he didn't have these problems. What was wrong with Adio?

Reita figured that The Dog would be content to be buried at any point on the property where Reita could give him respect. Then again, Reita was afraid, and perhaps foolishly, that the spirit of The Dog would haunt him for the death that Reita unwittingly caused. Was it a crime to be so attractive to people?

[Aoi]

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"Im fine.''


A rather quick and abrupt answer in an almost overly-tired or irritated tone.
He set the stretcher down and looked around sighing as if (literally) a weight had been dropped from his back and he could smell the wonderful aroma of his precious flowers again.


"Where do you want to bury him.''


Adio looked back at Reita eyes dropped low staring blankly from under them with a rather solom,grimly sad look.[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

He shook his head, sighing. "Somewhere. Over there." He pointed. A tree grew almost solitary against the other grasses and shrubs. "Under the tree." He said softly. Reita felt almost like a chastised child.

Reita had started to practically drag the body towards the tree. He felt almost like he didn't want to bother Adio. He finally turned back, folding his arms across his chest.

"You don't have to lie to me, Adio. I know when something is wrong. Especially when it is with you. I can tell. Contrary to what others believe, I'm not stupid or oblivious." He said solemnly. He almost wanted to tell Adio to cut the crap. But those words never left his mouth.

It almost became something that was implied. "I've searched far and wide for Enlightenment and to be honest, I'm probably not going to find it going the way that I am going. Doing the things I'm doing." Reita grunted, then stopped dragging the body. He was near the spot where he wanted to bury The Dog.

[Aoi]

[align=center]"Bad things.''

Was all that left his mouth as he walked over hoisting the body up so Reita didn't have to drag it...When they stopped Adio set the body down.


"Things I Didn't want to remember.''


The death of his parents,his own brother had killed them in their sleep and posed them in cold blood on the floor laying there in each others arms like they would any night they slept.


"...All that blood..soaked the carpet to the core it was like hell wad bubbling up from under my feet that night..no matter how bad i scrubbed after they took my parent's bodies out,the blood just pooled there...''

Why couldn't it have been something else instead of that night..That night that made him who he was he didn't want to be who he had been! He wanted to be oblivious..Unknown to the horror that infected his very self.


''Do you want me to help dig the hole.''


He asked his eyes cast down at the earth.[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

Reita was quiet. He looked down at the concealed body of The Dog and sighed. "I'm sorry." He said softly. Even though he didn't know Adio when Adio was younger, he still felt bad for Adio. For him to hide something like that from Reita, then to reveal it, was a big step towards Reita's favor.

Looks weren't everything.

He motioned for Adio to hand him a shovel. Once he recieved the shovel, he began to dig, his mind mulling over what Adio had just told him. He was silent for most of the time, until the hole was of the correct depth and Reita could climb out.

He stood at the edge of the grave, brushing a hand across his face. He stared down into the empty hole and took a deep breath that caught in his throat.

[Aoi]

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He squatted down next to the large deep chasm that was to be the man's final resting place.

"Funny,I thought you knew about my parent's being murdered by their own child..my brother was in his teens when he did it...I guess they blamed it on a mental break down,I don't know never believed a word of it exactly I just knew he was raving mad..he tryed to kill me the same night too but I got away after I had injured him,I was only six or nine when it happened if im wrong I know im right about the age difference I was very young when it happened...Walking into your parents room like any small child would to find them dead upon the floor still holding each other like they did every night..Almost suspended animation..that's how demented my brother was..Then the week after their death the villagers tryed to rob the manor here of the valuables my parents left behind..I ended up killing all of them..it was just a group of six teenaged guys and girls..three guys two girls..they told me before I crushed their throats that their parent's actually loved to help with what had happened,to make sure the teens wouldn't be punished serverly for desecrating the manor...After that I..I blacked out and woke up with only half the villagers left..50 out of a hundred..some left and from what I was told I either killed or injured the others after hearing what the parents had said like I told you...''


"No regrets.''

The first few words that feel from his lips after a long moment of silence.

"..The dog wouldn't want you to be sad it wasn't your fault,people are very obsessive now-adays...willing to do whatever they can to reach what they cant.''


He fell quiet for several more minutes a soft sniff heard from him.


"....You have to rember the good things about the person or people no matter who they were it's just that whole foundation of knowing they did good in their life,they were good people..''


Adio swallowed ruffly.


"...Even if you miss them.''


A shaky breath left his lips as a blood tainted tear ran down the side of his face shadowed by his dark hair.[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

Reita's arm slid around Adio's waist. He leaned up and in a very odd and probably forward gesture, he kissed the blood tear on Adio's cheek. He then turned towards The Dog's grave.

"The Dog, I had always taken for granted." He said softly. He hoisted The Dog's body over his shoulder and put him in the grave.

"I'd always thought that he was some..bum off the street. I didn't realize it. He was faithful to me. He knew love, I guess. I know that he loved my work, and he loved to listen to the band's music. He let me know of the news, daily events. I think that I should have been less harsh to The Dog."

For Reita to realize that he'd been an ass to The Dog, perhaps one of the most faithful companions he'd ever met, was a big step.

"Adio, this is a lesson. I can't take the people that love me for granted."

The first shovelful of dirt fell onto The Dog's body.

[Aoi]

[align=center]Adio lent against the sweet gesture of Reita's kiss almost begging for it not to end as he opened his eyes as Reita moved away to start putting the dirt on the grave..Adio stood up slowly grabbing a shovel from a nearby fencing area where new plants had been put in just days before he helped put the dirt into the hole with Reita,when they'd finish the flower from before pushed through the soil and sat as a normal flower would..Adio set the shovel aside.


"Never take anything for granted,it's just that easily taken away.''


Adio said gently his eyes still watery his expression still quite sad as he motioned for a servant,the servant himself was akward looking very stone-faced dead brained look.


Yes master Adio.


"Have one of the garden tenders make up a grave-mark.''



Yes master Adio.


Nothing different came from the young male slave's mouth as he walked off disappearing inside the lower level of the house...Adio turned back to Reita.


"...Wanna go inside.''


He asked.[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

Reita watched the exchange between Adio and the braindead slave. His mind began to wander. How did they get so...whatever it was that they were? Reita bit down on his lower lip and his face had grown thoughtful. He was wondering about how they seemed to have no mind of their own. He knew people like that.

It was strange. The people, though, actually did have a mind of their own. He glanced at Adio, knowing that he was waiting and then knowing that Adio had asked a question.

"Oh, let's go inside." He said softly, hoping that it would at least sound like an answer.

Reita glanced at the braindead servant, watching him like a hawk.

This servant..slave..was nothing like The Dog. He was loyal for a different reason. The Dog showed that he had actually cared for Reita.

[Aoi]

[align=center]Adio nodded and lead Reita inside of the massive manor.


"Their called Eejits.''


He said motioning to one of the slaves standing guard.


"Servants I've had a hard time with due to the lack of their respect or responsibility..they are the work of the Violin's music..The eejits do nothing unless told to..they will stand there untill they keel over if that was to happen.''


he said as they walked into a slightly larger room with a glass dome ceiling..Adio layed halfly on the overstuffed couch sighing in relief.


"Im known as a slave trader I remember that much,my father was in the same proffession but Im the only one in the family that can control my violin.''



his head rested against the soft arm-rest his eyes dazed and lost.


"I even commited suicide with it once.''[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

"...Wait. You're telling me you killed yourself? Why?" He paused. "I mean..you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I can understand that." Reita had a second thought about asking Adio why he had killed himself. Why make him relive whatever happened in the first place?

Reita, who was normally selfish and snobby, had an obvious soft spot for Adio and the other members..with the exception of Gabriel. For whatever reason, when Reita had an idea, it was Gabriel who shot it down. Reita owed it all to being a polar opposite of Gabriel. Everyone was different.

"I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have left. Gods..I didn't think that all this would happen because we split apart." He lifted a palm to his forehead, then smoothed back his hair.

"Do you think it would have changed had we all stayed together?"

[Aoi]

[align=center]Adio looked back at Reita stopping he seemed to go silent staring up at the rooftop he saw a statue of himself there crying in silence the violin clutched to his beatless heart.


"..Why?''


He shot the question back at Reita without the slightest knowledge of it at the moment..
His face grew dead,lifeless as he lingered there in silence staring at the vision he only saw...He had killed himself with Sonata 13.


"I killed myself with Sonata 13 that night,you have the sonata attached with your instrument to,it's a self redeemer a last resort...I believe I killed myself that night because i thought I had done something i swore to the very folk-tale induced angels above us that I'd never do..and I broke that vow that night...So I committed suicide...Sonata 13 encases the instruments host and the instrument in stone from the inside out...a very painful process.''



He seemed so listless about it.



"I broke my soul redeemer that night,the thing that kept me sane the only promise I made to whatever or whoever that night.''


More silence before he looked  back to Reita the vision of a young boy standing next to him Adio's eyes narrowed.


"...A young boy from the village...he was just an orphan..my father's spirit had possessed me that day and caused me to commit such a Hannis crime..I killed the remaining parents off in the village and made them lead each other on a death march out of the village..each of them dying one by one..by one...All the children came to me to seek help they saught me as a child would a guardian angel...They loved me that night but the young boy loved me beyond there words and mortal affection..He took it upon himself to title himself with my last name..Viora and o watch over the manor untill I awoke from my restless hell..He called me father...He killed him though..the man..the man I have no face too...He killed my son..the boy whom never knew of me untill that day...Realization came to me then...before I committed suicide..I cut the finger of my hand off that held the ring which my father's spirit dwelled and spoke to me from....The man I attacked I once called friend..the other whom tagged along with him I believe i held a strong connection to...I attacked that person too before I started the sonata..everything stiffened..I choked on the very dust of the stone..my eyes darknened..that boy stood looking as I died from the inside out...Adriano...Adriano was lost to me that night.''



Obviously Adriano hadn't been killed but Adio believe he had been..He looked at Reita with listless features and swimming amber eyes.



"Perhaps,but even we would never have known that.''[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

Reita was taken off-guard by that question. He sighed, then listened to Adio. For once, he had decided to shut up and listen. Reita bowed his head for a moment, then took a deep breath.

"I don't know why I asked. I guess I was just curious. I'm sorry." He frowned. "While we were apart, I fell in love with a girl and for a while, we exchanged letters and photographs. I wrote a song about her and sent it to her. I didn't hear from her. I was distraught for a while. I couldn't do anything, but later, I found out that she had gotten into an accident. I am not entirely convinced that this was an accident. I think it was done on purpose, but I've got nothing to prove it. At my apartment, I saved all the articles I could. The pieces didn't add up. Then I started to get the letters. Or I'd get packages with pictures of myself coming and leaving my apartment. I even got pictures of myself in hotel rooms and inside of my apartment. As you could see, I was and still am paranoid."

[Aoi]

[align=center]Adio shrugged.


"It was just your curiosity you worried about me,there's nothing to be sorry about.''


he said and smiled faintly before he turned going into the manor waving for Reita to follow..When they entered Adio turned around and handed him a small peice of parchment.


"It makes sure the Eejits obey you,otherwise they just stand there..it has your room number on it too.''






Room:13


When Reita took the scrap of paper Adio lowered his hand.


"If there's anything you need just tell me alright?..it's usually alittle quicker then the Eejits but that's to your own opinion...Im going to go straighten my room out there's tons of stuff scattered around and boxed up in there for some reason.''


Honestly,He didn't know even if his memory wasn't messed up.



"You can come along and help if you'd like,I dont promise it to be anything exciting but its up to you.''


A low whirl noise would be heard as shadows encased Adio for a brief moment before he appeared on the top balcony walking down the hallway toward his room..His footsteps soon died off as he opened his door walking in navigating through the small maze of boxes to his bed he flopped down onto it sighing looking up at the decorated ceiling of different key events of mythological times and things about music and such..He sat back up and grabbed the first box sorting through the things.



"Wardrobe open,closet open,chest open..''


The things mentioned would swing open without the slightest of hesitation as Adio set the different things into piles he touched the first pile and snapped his fingers toward the closet,those things moved and folded or set themselves up neatly in the closet and then he'd repeat the process with the things for the wardrobe and so on..
5 minutes later.

Master A--DIO.


Adio's eyes snapped to the side as a young female eejit collided with the largest stack of boxes sending them falling back toward him,scrambling out of the way he'd fall back off the bed and slam into another box a small picture frame would fall off and into his lap,there seemed to be a cardboard flap in the front to protect the picture and offer as a stand..Adio blinked rubbing his shoulder some.


''Get out please,go back to your station reorganize anything out of place or dusty.''

Yes master Adio.


Adio looked back down at the picture frame.


"Wonder what this is from..?''

He opened it up the picture started moving a young woman dancing with a rather gleeful Adio at what seemed to be a mascaraed..


"...?!"

Adio lurched holding his hand to his mouth the woman he had killed was that girl..!..That woman...who.


The figure of the woman turned Adio saw the face fully.



"Am--INA?!"


he blurted out with a moan sadly.


"...No Why?!"


He snarled in a rather sorrowful manner and tossed the photo against the wall,the thin bit of glass protecting the front of the picture would shatter with a loud crashing crunching noise..Adio covered his face with his hands shaking and sobbing violently..Two of his household eejits came in trying to console Adio but they where launched from the room into the banister of the stairs,one falling to the floor below dying.


"No,get away from me--NO!'


He was absolutely consumed in this sudden wave of grief that only heightened when the memory of having heard Amina had married the very man that had tryed to kill Adio came back to him..






[glow=red:15635864cb]"I'll k--ILL HIM!"[/glow:15635864cb]


Adio roared still shaking he now against the corner of the room off to the right,the windows rattled with a crackling noise one would hear while crunching a piece of paper..Adio caught himself not believing what he had heard himself say..His lowered his head his wide eyes quivering with tears still as he covered his head with his arms/hands.


'she couldn't of ever loved me.'


He whispered softly under his breath an awkward silence falling over the manor now..the dead slave laid in his own blood eyes wide staring off to the right possibly straight at Reita.[/align]

[Karate McNaughty]

Reita stood for a while, thinking to himself about that number. Room 13. He smirked, until he just watched Adio for a moment. The paper that Adio gave him was slid into a pocket. He nodded to Adio, then went off to find the room. Some moments later, he found himself wandering back to Adio with a question. What to do with the guitars back at his apartment. Surely, he wasn't going to just leave them there.

He had heard a comotion coming from the hallway. Reita hurried to Adio's room. He paused, watching two men fall from the stairs. His eyes widened.

"Oh, Gods!" He gasped. Both his hands pressed against his chest. Were those people looking at him?

He hurried up the stairs and spotted Adio. He heard what he had said, then pressed his lips together.

"Adio?" He asked in a soft voice.