Caught By Flames (Kyojuro Rengoku x Reader)

34 : A Gruesome Night

Your body immediately tensed when you felt soft kisses on your neck, realizing Kyojuro had bent down. You let out soft moans, placing your hands on either side of his cheeks, pulling his face to meet yours. Meeting you gaze, he relented and laid on his side, pulling you close to him and refusing to let go. "Sleep well, dear." He whispered into your hair, tightening the grip he had around your waist.

"Goodnight..." you kissed his collarbone and closed your eyes to sleep, falling into an unconscious state.

Waking up in an unfamiliar bed, you look around wondering where you are. With no one in sight, you stood up and walked around the place to scout the area and know your surroundings better. It was dark and quiet, not even the bugs outside were making noise. It gave off an eerie feeling as you tried to move past it and find out more about what was going on. You walked outside and still didn't recognize anything. It was a heavily wooded area with a small wooden house.

'The hell?' You thought and started walking away from the home, rubbing your arms up and down to keep warm. 'Where did Kyojuro go? Surely he wouldn't leave me.'

You felt your foot slip and fell off a small cliff, the snow cushioning your fall. 'Snow? But it isn't even winter...' your gaze danced around the trees as you stood back up and began walking once again. 'I'm not even that cold... what the hell is going on here?!' You felt a creepy presence and looked around at the dark trees that covered the moon. It was sinister and chilled you to the bone. Whatever it was, it didn't want to just talk and hang out as friends.

Your feet began carrying you faster, even though you had no clue where you were going or why. You just somehow had a feeling something was watching, waiting for you to lower your guard. You reached another cliff, but this one had no trees blocking your view so you easily saw the lights of a village down below, as well as the full moon above you.

*Crack*

'A branch?!' You thought and moved slightly, dodging the hands of a creepy looking demon. 'Did it just try to skewer my head?!' You thought remembering the night on the mountain. 'What's going on?!' You touched the area your sword was supposed to be, but the sheath was empty.

Your eyes glanced around, looking for the weapon, but you just couldn't see in the darkness.

Suddenly, your feet stumbled on something sharp, cutting the pad of your foot just slightly. You felt the ground and found your sword just lying there in the bed of snow. Picking it up, you cut the creepy demon into three different pieces, cutting his neck and abdomen.

A loud scream made it into your ears, then several other screams. 'What's going on here?!' You thought as you prepared to jump off the cliff, despite the height. Hearing yet another plea for help, courage flows through your veins as your feet fly off the edge. 'This is the fastest way, maybe I can get there before everyone is dead-' you grab onto the branch of a tree and hit the snow, surprisingly unharmed. Immediately, you got up and ran towards the endless screams.

When you got to the village, blood was splattered over all the buildings, and seeped into the snow as some people were seemingly drug out from their houses, bleeding.

Another scream, you stopped looking into the houses. 'You can't save the dead, (Y/N), focus on the living!' You convinced yourself, leaving the house with a woman and two kids, one of them sliced completely in half while the other had blood leaking from their eyes and mouth, as well as several broken bones poking out of the skin. It was brutal.