Chapter 25: The Dead(?) Twin
Kat jogged forward with Shizuka in her arms hardly noticing the increased weight when after about 30 minutes of running a coppery red started to bleed into Shizuka's fur. *Um, is this a good thing? Shizuka seed to think she had red hair, but she was also concerned she looked nothing like her mother… Is this an improvent or not?* Kat sighed as she jogged.
*Honestly when I promised to protect Shizuka I didn't think I'd need to protect her from herself. Or maybe I'm the one going crazy… I wonder how the contract factors into that, like if soone tries to compel to hurt her. No matter just keep running Kat, you can get your answers once she wakes up.*
And so Kat continued her jogging unaware of the passage of ti until her passenger stirred in her hands. Carefully placing her off to the side Kat watched as Shizuka slowly woke herself up when suddenly Shizuka's eyes snapped open and she stood up.
"Finally, I'm no longer trapped in her head" shouted Shizuka? with her hands on her hips staring at the ceiling.
"Um, what are you talking about?" asked Kat. Shizuka?'s eyes flashed to Kat before she let out a long sigh.
"It's complicated Kat, really complicated" said Shizuka?
"Soo, are you the sa person or not? And am I supposed to be protecting you or is this a problem" said Kat sowhat confused
"Well, it's a bit of a long story, I am Shizuka and she is Shizuka but we are not the sa person, or maybe we are? I'm not sure anymore, this wasn't supposed to happen, and it really screwed with her head. Hmmm, ok for simplicity let's call the other one Major and myself Minor, that sounds fun and will help you understand things as I explain them" said Minor
Kat simply watched Minor expectantly.
"Right, right, further explanation. Ok so I died, or maybe she did? Hmm let's start from the beginning. Originally there were two of us, twins, mum had two daughters Shizuru and Haruka. I was one of the two, um I think I was Haruka, I'm not quite sure it's hard to explain.
"Anyway that's not the point. There were two of us until we were attacked, assassins were sent to the palace with orders to kill my sister and . At the ti we shared a room, so they only had one place to sneak into. I'm not quite sure how the snuck in even to this day but clearly sothing went wrong and my grandmother burst into the room before they could finish us off, so they just used their mana to combust themselves on the spot. The explosion nocked , or Haruka out and pretty much killed Shizuru" said Minor
"Right, but that doesn't explain" Kat gestured vaguely in Minor's direction "this whole thing"
Laughing Minor continued "Right, so well, sorry I get a bit scatterbrained, it's really hard to hold my thoughts together now that they are so much more free. Sidetracking right never mind. So my Grandmother was already there and she quickly picked us both up and rushed us sowhere deep in the castle and began to set up a strange formation. I woke up, or Haruka did, still complicated, and I an I am getting there, it's just… right so Haruka woke up and Grandmother explained that she could save us, one of us, and I, I think, decided to save my sister. It was explained that everything that I was would be used in the formula to heal Shizuru's body and soul and that I'd die, but the choice had to be made willing or we'd both die instead"
"Anyway sothing went wrong, Major, or Shizuru, maybe I think… woke up but she knew sothing was wrong, she could feel Haruka dying and decided to try and keep around. Well…. That didn't work quite as well as one might hope, when Shizuru decided to hang on to both of us, we sort of combined a bit but we also split? It's really hard to understand Kat. Anyway, Major seed to get the biggest parts of both our personalities, sadly I was a bundle of worry and insecurities so Major got most of those, and I seed to be scraped together from what's left" said Minor. Kat stared at Minor unsure of what to say, mind reeling with the implications of the story.
*What am I even supposed to think about that. What the hell am I supposed to do? Anything? Nothing?*
"What happens now?" said Kat
"Well I didn't quite finish my story Kat, see Major had a few problems, well more than a few problems. Because she took so much of myself with her I was very tiny at the start, hardly a fragnt of what once was, and so I couldn't do much at the ti, that ca later. Major on the other hand was freaking out because she felt like she was responsible for her sisters death, but also that she was dead, and then she had all of Haruka's petty childhood insecurities suddenly thrust upon her and she snapped a little. Just a wee bit.
"Anyway one of the major sticking points causing these issues was my insecurity regarding the fact that I didn't think mum was my mum you know? I looked so different and she always seed so much cooler than . Silly in hindsight but it was my deepest rooted fear that all others stemd from but obviously Shizuru actually looked exactly like her, so one of the major things that was breaking her mind was that inconsistency, so Grandma placed a really powerful illusion on her to make her appear to be . Plus sohow, we decided to take both nas, because using one or the other felt so fundantally wrong because neither of them were her nas" said Minor.
"Right, but your hair appears to be red again now? I thought you said that was an illusion" said Kat
"Well, my hair, Minor's and Haruka's is red, when Major is in control it will go back to being blue. I guess you have true sight or sothing because nobody else noticed" said Minor
Kat felt a powerful headache coming on pressing against her skull. "So what am I supposed to do in this situation?" said Kat
"Well good question dear, Major's not dead, you've just taking a sledge hamr to the little box she keeps all the nasty mories in when you told her that she looks like her mother. Honestly, I'm just as stumped as you are in regard to what we should do. Honestly, I don't really want to be in charge. It's weird. I an sure being in control is kinda nice but I really hope this ans she will talk to and besides, Kitsune have a pretty simple cloning technique we can learn off Grandmother and that should let us have a proper conversation, until then I'm really not sure…
I also don't know how long I'll be in control for. See I call her Major for a reason, this is still her body not mine, just at the mont she's in a few too many pieces so I'm the more put together one at the mont, I expect that to end sowhat eventually… hopefully" said Minor
"Right… soo should I tell Major about what's going on when she wakes up? Will you still be around?" asked Kat
"Um, hmm, well depends? I an, in the ideal scenario when she wakes up Major will be in control, but she can still hear . If that isn't the case then I don't know if it's best to tell her or not, our minds are already really fragile as they are and I'm not sure if taking another hamr to Major's would be ideal, especially considering the stress she's been under" said Minor
"Ok. What do we do now?" asked Kat
"Well, in the long term we continue on to et Grandmother, we need her for a few things now, sanctuary from the Beast King, the cloning technique and maybe a little bit to stop our combined minds falling apart rendering us comatose and unable to think. But I an no rush" said Mino
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