Author's Notes: *Yawn* Um, yeah. I have this big ass headache. As if you wanted to know. Chapter 3 was more of a teaser I suppose. *Shrugs* Whatever. Again, starred crap is explained at the bottom. Hiroko is Yaten's little sister in this fic, though she's only mentioned for a sec. ^_^;;; And I mentioned Taiki once. She had her moment of fame in this fic.
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'I think god is moving its tongue,
There are no crowds in the streets,
And no sun in my own summer.
The shade is a tool, a device, a savior,
See, I try and look up to the sky,
But my eyes burn.'
~Deftones, "My Own Summer (Shove It)"
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Of Crows and Doves
Chapter 4: Blood, Numbness, and the Rush
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Yaten sat up in bed, and glanced at her clock. 6 o'clock in the morning. "Oh Kami-sama� My head� I feel like a truck just hit me�" She glanced over and eyed the empty whippet cartridges next to her bed. Yaten shook her head and sighed. "What am I doing?" She picked up the cartridges gingerly, opening her nightstand drawer and placing them there. She glanced at the other unused cartridge. "Not now�" Yaten stood up from her bed, wobbling a bit. She opened the door and walked out of her room numbly. "Okaasan�" Yaten mother looked up from where she was making breakfast.
"Kou-chan, you look horrible." She gave her daughter a concerned look. "Do you want to stay home today, you look really bad�" Yaten smiled weakly.
"I'm fine, Okaasan. Really. I need to see� someone" Yaten walked into the kitchen and plopped into one of the chairs. Yaten's mother handed her a cup of tea and glanced at the clock.
"Sweetie, you need to hurry up and get ready or else you'll be late for school, and I need to leave a little early to drop off Hiroko at daycare because her babysitter can't make it today." Yaten sighed, downed the rest of her tea, and grumbled a quick 'okay'. She stood up from her seat, and walked to the bathroom. She stared at her reflection for a moment.
"I'm such a fuck up."
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"Look, you asshole, I need more fuckin' heroin! I don't have enough for two people!"
"G-Gomen n-n-nasai, Lady C-Caine� I don't have anymore�!" The tall, pale, violet eyed, auburn-haired girl was pressed against a brick wall. Seiya chuckled evilly.
"I'll ask you one more time, Crystal Meth*, give me heroin." Seiya was smirking, and at that moment, the girl knew she was going to do something. "Give me heroin or I have two options for you�"
"W-What are those options, Lady Caine?" Crystal Meth raised a slender hand and used her long fingers to push back her long bangs. Seiya smirked and pulled out a gun from the inside of her trench coat.
"I could kill you. Because after all, Crystal Meth, you are useless. Or since I know your real name, Taiki Kou, I could report you to the police." Crystal Meth's breath hitched in her throat. "Make your choice."
"I meant it, Lady Caine! I don't have any he-!" Seiya growled and pulled the trigger, alarming several people around her. Seiya stepped to the side, as Crystal Meth fell to her knees and began coughing up blood.
"And to think you were a highly respected drug dealer." Seiya smirked coldly. "I enjoyed that beautiful moment of cheap sex, what was it? Two nights ago?" She chuckled low in her throat. "You've disappointed me for the last time, Crystal Meth. Taiki Kou. Sayonara." She lowered her gun to the back of Crystal Meth's head. "See you in hell." Seiya pulled the trigger one more time. Gangsters and several drug addicts were staring at her, and slightly shrunken back. Seiya gave them all an icy glare, and they went back to what they were doing. She picked up the bloody, limp body and put it down in a dark alley corner. She walked away leaving bloody footprints behind.
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The day seemed longer than usual. Everybody seemed to be going in slow motion. At least for Yaten Kou. People were flooding the halls in a rush to get home, but it all seemed so dull. So plain. So slow. Yaten walked out of the school, only to be greeted by midnight blue eyes starring into her pale green eyes. "Seiya!" Seiya lifted an eyebrow.
"I'm going to give you a street name. And you are to call me 'Lady Caine'. Understood?" Seiya waited for Yaten to nod. She smirked. "Here, kitty. I have lots to show you." Seiya watched as Yaten hesitated for a moment before walking toward her. "I will call you Lime Acid*." Seiya turned and began walking up the street with Yaten walking beside her. "Feel privileged, man, I'm letting you in my house." Yaten lifted her eyes.
"I thought you simply live on the streets."
"When you're a drug dealer and a babysitter*, you're far from poor, my friend. Except I share the place with two other junkies." Seiya grabbed Yaten's arm and turned onto a street. "You are to tell NOBODY about this place, understand?" Yaten nodded quickly, as Seiya practically dragged Yaten up the front steps. "And if you do, I will have your head hanging off of a string." Seiya swung the front door open, and the first thing Yaten noticed was the stench. Hey eyes stung for a moment.
"What is that smell�?" Seiya smirked, but Yaten was holding her hands over her nose.
"Crack cocaine*" Seiya muttered it, more than she said it straight out loud. Yaten was staring at the two druggies that were seated on the couch. She recognized one, but the other looked stern and deadpan. "You've seen X* before� But the other guy is referred to as Dragon Tears*." Seiya didn't take the time to talk to them nor allow Yaten to say a word. She grabbed Yaten's arm and began walking up the stairs. "And for the sake of my utter paranoia, I'll say this again. Nobody is to know about this place." Yaten nodded and Seiya opened the door to one of the bedrooms.
"�It's clean�" Yaten didn't know drug addicts had civil cleaning abilities. Seiya shoved Yaten into her room, walked in, and shut the door behind her.
"Sit." Yaten sat on Seiya's bed, looking up at the raven-haired beauty searching through her drawers. "You have three choices�" Yaten nodded, although she wasn't quite sure of what she was talking about. "Inject it, smoke it, or snort it?" Yaten blinked.
"What exactly would I be taking�?"
"Well� I would give you morphine* or methadone*, but heroin is just so much more entertaining." Seiya took out two syringes, a razor, a straw*, and a glass pipe, along with a bottle of liquid, a bag of powder. Yaten stared for a moment, not quite sure of what she was getting herself into. She swallowed hard, trying to force the rising curiosity down. Though she failed.
"I-Injection�" Seiya smirked and picked up one of the syringes she had filled while Yaten was making her decision.
"Injection. You will feel something called a 'rush'*. Since it's your first time, you will feel tipsy afterwards. However, by tomorrow it's likely you will be suffering of withdrawal*" Yaten nodded numbly as she held her arm out. Seiya tenderly pressed down on her inner elbow for a moment. Yaten took in a sharp breath as Seiya quickly took her fingers away and injected the needle into Yaten's vein. "Have fun." Seiya pressed down on the syringe, injecting the heroin into Yaten's vein. She quickly retracted the needle, stood up and watched Yaten. Any second now.
Only 3 seconds later did Yaten bend over, repeating that she was numb. Seiya smirked. Yaten smiled weakly, not sure why. Maybe it was the numbness, maybe it was the adrenaline surging through her blood. Yaten sat up and leaned against Seiya's wall, gasping for air and holding her hand over her heart. "I've never felt such things before� Oh good lord� I feel like I'm sitting on air�" Seiya lifted an eyebrow.
"Sitting on air�? Is that a purpose spin off of 'walking on air'?" Seiya chuckled. This was humorous. Yaten smiled lazy, still shakily taking in large breaths of air. Seiya blinked when Yaten got up and started pacing, babbling something.
"Lady Caine, why don't you follow me to the planet with liquid skies?* We can do so many things there that we can't do here!"
Seiya shook her head and laughed and she dug through her pocket and pulled out a pill with an imprint of smiley face on it. She put it in her mouth and swallowed it. MDMA* simply drown out the pointless chattering, as Seiya lazily eyed Yaten.
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1.) 'Crystal Meth' is slang for methamphetamine.
2.) 'Lime Acid' is slang for LSD.
3.) In a drug sense, to be a 'babysitter' means you teach people how to use a drug and get paid for it.
4.) Crack cocaine is chemically altered cocaine. It's very potent and is in the form of a pellet, that people call 'rocks' or 'stones'. Crack is smoked in a glass pipe, and the reason people call it 'crack' is because of the cracking sounds it makes while being smoked. It's very potent and very addictive.
5.) Ah, yes. 'X'. One of Seiya's druggy pals. I forgot to mention 'X' in the last fic. Look at note #13 and you'll know the slang for 'X'.
6.) 'Dragon Tears' is slang for LSD.
7.) I'm sure you've all heard of morphine. Morphine consists of 5%-25% of opium, and it's a bitter crystalline alkaloid. The color ranges from white to dark brown in powder form. Being it is a narcotic it IS addictive, and tolerance can build up. Heroin is derived from morphine, and morphine was originally created to treat opium addiction. It is now used as an anesthetic or sedative. Though it is used illegally.
8.) Methadone is not chemically alike to morphine or heroin. German scientists in WW2 created it due to the shortage of morphine. However, it is still used today to treat narcotic (mainly heroin) addiction. But since it is a narcotic itself in nature, addiction and tolerance can build up, causes the narcotic abuser to go from opium/morphine/heroin/dilaudid/codeine addiction to simply methadone addiction.
9.) Why a straw you ask? Because snorting a powdered drug with simply your nose can get messy. So, they shove a straw up their nose and sniff the drug through the straw instead.
10.) A 'rush' is created by how fast the heroin goes into your brain. A heroin rush can happen within seconds of taking it. You get a stronger rush by injection, though snorting it is just as good. Smoking the heroin takes minutes to feel a rush.
11.) Heroin withdrawal isn't� fun. Withdrawal symptoms include tearing, runny nose, sweating, dilated pupils, loss of appetite, gooseflesh, restlessness, muscle tremors, weakness, insomnia, nausea, vomiting, cramps, and diarrhea. The symptoms appear within 24 to 36 hours of the dosage.
12.) That line was taken from one of my favorite trance songs. Tee hee.
13.) And last but not least, MDMA. MDMA is an acronym for methyldioxymethamphetamine. Or, as drug abusers call it 'ecstasy', 'XTC', or 'X'. MDMA is chemically related to amphetamine and mescaline (peyote), and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects. It has been banned in the U.S., and it commonly used at raves to keep the dancers up all night.
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