Akuma(Last part)

The next day was like I forgot him, I continued my everyday activities as usual but with the feeling that I was forgetting something important.

The festival was coming and the village was getting ready, this festival was not like every summer festival was a special one that was for celebrate yookais, was the only moment where yookai were able to mix with humans and celebrate with them, sometimes people were missing, no one will know about it, for some reason I was anticipating this festival, like I was going to meet something important.

The days passed by and the dreams started, the dreams with that melody, that singing voice, was familiar but I couldn’t remember.

This festival day finally came and everyone was wearing masks, faces of animals, gods, monsters ,etc…if a yookai was already here it was very easy for it to be mistaken for a human.

As any festival it has games, food and music. Walking through the stands my eyes stopped o someone who has the mask of a demon, was quite a scary mask but made me feel incredible attracted to it and like a mouse goes to its cheese, I was walking towards the person with the demon mask. I stopped he was no longer there, I don’t know in what moment he disappeared. Without realizing I was standing where there was no lights of the lanterns and on my back I could feel the breathing of something, I thought was a yookai an already gave up, it was the end.

-You’re such a boring pray- a voice said- you don’t move, don’t run or scream you just can give up to your life so easily-

I didn’t answer or turned around to see whose voice was, I felt familiar.

-You have such a lazy attitude- he said again-you don’t answer either or move to see me, what a boring girl you’re-

I slowly turned around, but actually his hands turned me around and I met his red eyes –I have seen you before, haven’t I?-

-So you can talk- he said – don’t you remember me?-

-I don’t know…I feel like I have seen you before but…-

-But...-

-Your eyes are not the same from the one in my dreams-

-Dreams?-

-Yes I dream with someone with golden eyes-

-I see…maybe you should ream with someone with red eyes-

I smiled – maybe the person with golden yes and red eyes re the same, right?-

The laughs, songs of people from the people of the festival became louder we looked at them, the smiles how they enjoyed

I held my hand towards him – shall we? - I asked

He just smiled with irony and held me hand, so we walked together toward the festival.

We spent the time together, like everyone else, playing some games, trying the food stands and dancing around with all the other people who were dancing too.

I did have no notion of time anymore, his hand held mine and we walked inside the forest, where the festival kept going but was different.

-I didn’t know the festival was held inside here too- I commented

-is not- he replied – this is the festival of the yookais, humans come here as well is the same as your festival but this one is a yookai festival. Will be better for you not to try the foo here- he said and I laughed when hear that.

Inside that festival yookai walked freely with their true forms, some were magnificent, some scary but everything was spectacular and magical, without realizing the sun was making presence and I realize while I was admiring my companion that his eyes were changing color, from red they became golden, then I remembered he was the demon I met by the lake.

-You…-

-Now you remember- he said with a sad smile.

He let go of my hand and started to walk, I followed him.

-It is better for you to go back to your village- he said

-Why? - I asked

-Now you talk normally, where is your lazy attitude?-

-I cannot be like that anymore, not with you-

He gave a sigh – don’t tell me now; you have fallen in love with me?-

-I do not know but if you want it to call it love, and then call it love-

-Are you leaving everything up to me?-

I didn’t answer just smiled to him while coming closer and kissed him.

-Now you confuse me-

-Do I?-

-You know you destiny, don’t you? If you choose me you will end up dead-

-Then let it be-

Why was I like that, I don’t know but I actually didn’t care is like I always knew that my destiny was to die in the hands of a demon, while hearing his song, maybe is what my dreams were about.

He walked towards the lake getting inside the water giving me his back, then he turned around and looked at me with a sad expression and the it became serious, attractive and scary, I slowly walked towards him, getting wet by the water, until his arms reached me and held me strong, he started to sing.

-I know… - I said – I have met you before when I was a child, every festival I used to see you until my parents died I stopped see you but I always felt you guarding me in my sleep, that why your song is so familiar.

He smiles and embraced me, kissed my lips for a last time while he kept singing the water got deeper and deeper,until everything became dark and I was not able to listen his song anymore.

 ps. yookai, refers to supernatural creatures, that usually are in mythology,actully i am not sure if I wrote the word correctly, my apologies if I did not.

akuma refers to a devil and demons are referred as oni.