Touya and Keikou, Act V Scene 3

Act V, Scene 3

Jin and his servant, Chuu, were walking outside of the Capulet vault when Jin looked at Chu.

"Give me th’ torch, Chuu." Jin said to him. Chuu quickly handed it to him. "Go an’ stand aloof. If anyone comes, whistle to me." Chuu nodded and ran off. Jin looked back to the vault, spreading flowers around the door, as it was locked. "Keikou..." He sighed, with a few tears in his eyes. "I’ll come here every night I can fer ya. I only wish I could do more." he looked up as he heard a whistle. "Someone’s comin’, I’d better hide." He then ran into the forest surrounding the vault, hiding his torch low.

Touya walked up with Kurama then. Touya stared as the vault. "Hand me that crowbar, Kurama." he said, holding out his hand. Kurama gave it to him. Then, Touya pulled out a letter and handed it to Kurama. "Tomorrow morning, give this letter to my father. And go, for if you hear any of what I do in the tomb, then I will kill you." Touya said coldly.

Kurama sweat dropped. ‘Like you could kill me.’ he thought to himself. "I will go, sire, and not trouble you." he said out loud.

Touya smiled. "You area good friend, here," he handed Kurama money, "live and be prosperous. And farewell."

Kurama took the money and put it in his hair, then walked off. ‘All the same, I fear his intentions.’ he inner monologued. ‘I’ll hide here and see what he does.’ He then dashed behind a tree and watched Touya.

Touya took the crowbar and started to force open the tomb. "Damned tomb, you have eaten the dearest being on Earth, so I will open your jaws and cram them with more food."

Jin glared over at Touya. "That is that banished Montague that killed m’ love’s cousin, and cursed ‘er the grief that killed ‘er. And now ‘e’s here to do naughty things to dead bodies!" He stepped out of the shadow, his torch illuminating his face. "What’re ya doin’ here, stupid Montague?!" he demanded of Touya. "Villain, ya must die!!!"

Touya looked over at him. "I must indeed, and so I came here. Go, leave me. Please, do not make me angry. Live, and just say a madman drove you away."

Jin narrowed his eyes. "I think I’ll defy your offer, and call ya for a crime ‘ere." he replied coldly.

Touya glared at him. "You provoke me? Then have a thee, boy!" he exclaimed as he swung around and slashed the crowbar as Jin’s head. Jin ducked and unsheathed his sword, and jabbed at Touya’s stomach.

Touya diverted the blow with his crowbar and attacked Jin again.

Kurama stared at the fight. "Ah, crap." he muttered. " I need to go find help..." He then fan off quickly.

Jin was swiftly dodging all of Touya’s thrusts because he was using a heavy object. He got a smirk and darted around Touya, and attempted to stab him from behind, but Touya spun around and used the momentum of his swing to catch Jin in the side with the hook of the crowbar. Jin quickly fell over, blood gushing out of his side.

"Damn..." Jin mumbled. "I suck at fights with weapons." He looked weakly up at Touya. "Please... if ya be kind, lay me in the tomb with me almost wife... Keikou..." he then fell limp on the ground in a pool of his own blood.

Touya nodded. "Oh god, this is Kensei’s kinsman, the County Jin. I think Kurama told me he was to marry keikou as we rode over here." He clenched his fist. " I am sorry." He picked up his bloody crowbar and pried the tomb open. Then he pulled Jin inside and laid him there. He slowly walked through the tomb to where keikou was lying. "And here lies Plush. I am so sorry, forgive me, cousin." he passed Plush’s resting place and walked up to keikou. "Keikou..." He touched her cold cheek. "My love, I will stay with you forever. My lips shall take their last breath, and seal with a righteous kiss..." He leaned down slowly and kissed Keikou’s cold lips. He then pulled out the vial of poison. "Here’s to my love." He tilted his head back and quickly drank the poison. "True apothecary, your drugs are quick. And with a kiss," he leaned over shakily and kissed her again. "I die..." He fell to the floor, and moved no more.

Some time later, Friar Aohiki rushed in carrying a lantern with Kurama silently following. "Who’s there?!" she quickly yelled as she heard Kurama stumble.

"Just me, a friend, one you know well," Kurama answered, still in shadow.

"What are you doing here...?" she asked in surprise.

"I’m here with my master, one whom you love," Kurama replied.

"W-who?"

"Touya."

"How long has he been here?"

"Half an hour..."

"Kurama, please come with me inside."

"I cannot," Kurama replied nervously. "Touya does not know I am still here, and threatened me with death if I followed him."

"It’s-it’s okay. Though I am fearful, I’ll just go alone." Kurama nodded, and watched her walk away before he quickly hurried off.

Aohiki jogged through the vault, calling for Touya. She suddenly stopped dead. Her hand clasped over her mouth. "Blood... It’s everywhere." Aohiki looked around. "Oh god, Touya. A-and Jin, covered in quarts of blood."

Something behind Friar Aohiki moved and groaned. She quickly turned around and ran in that direction. "Lady Keikou!"

Keikou opened her eyes and sat up. "Friar Aohiki? Where is Touya?" she asked a little sleepily.

There were footsteps behind them. "We have to go," Aohiki said hastily. "Come out of the tomb. Touya is dead- so is Jin. I will train you to become a Jewish Friar. We can’t stay. Please, Keikou!"

Keikou had gotten down and was sitting on her knees, staring at Touya. Silent tears stained her face. "You go... I will not." Aohiki jumped at a noise and she quickly hurried out of the tomb.

Keikou slowly raised her hand to Touya’s face, and ran her hand down his arm."A vial?" She pulled the vial out of his dead grasp. "Poison... Oh Touya, you drank it all and left none to help me after." She fingered his lips. "Maybe some lingers on your lips, my dear love." She bent over and kissed him. "Your lips are warm."

Off in the distance, a male voice was heard. "Lead boy, which way?"

Keikou glanced in the direction of the noise, then back at Touya. "Someone is here, so I’ll be brief." She pulled Touya’s light blue dagger out of his belt and held it up to her chest. "O happy dagger, this is your sheath. There rust, and let me die." And with that she stabbed herself and fell over on top of Touya, dead.

"Over here, where the torches burn." Chuu directed, with two watch people following.

Koto looked around. "The ground is bloody." She looked at her two partners, Juri, and the DBZ announcer dude. "Look around, and arrest whoever you find." The two nodded and hurried off. Koto turned back. "Pitiful sight. Jin slain, Keikou bleeding and newly dead after being dead for two days." She turned to a couple of other random watchmen. "Go alert the Capulets and Montagues."

Juri came back then with Kurama. "Here’s Touya’s servant. Found him outside."

Koto nodded. "Just keep him here until the Prince gets here."

The DBZ announcer then arrived, dragging Friar Aohiki along. "Here’s a friar who trembles and weeps." Friar Aohiki looked up at them with teary eyes after seeing Keikou dead.

"Interesting." Koto murmured. "Keep her here too."

Prince Hiei then walked in, wearing only dark red pajama pants and a matching nightcap over his hair. "What the hell happened here that got me up this early?" he grumbled.

"What’s all the ruckus here?" Kazuma asked as he and his wife came into the vault.

"People in the streets are in chaos." Lady Nekoko said worriedly. "Some cry ‘Touya’, some ‘Keikou’, and some ‘Jin’."

Prince Hiei glared at Koto. "What happened here?" he repeated.

"Sir, here lies Jin slain, Touya dead, and Keikou, dead before warm and newly killed." she replied, cowering a bit.

Prince Hiei continued glaring. "Then find out how."

"S-sir, here is a friar, and Touya’s servant." Koto shuttered. "They should know why."

Kazuma spotted Keikou on the floor and stepped back a bit. "Wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This daggers is mistaken, for its sheath is on the back of Montague, and the dagger in her chest!"

Lady Nekoko stepped back and collapsed into Kazuma’s arms, still staring at keikou. "This sight of death is a sign of my close death..." she whispered.

Prince Hiei looked over at the entrance to see Yusuke come in alone. "Come Montague, for you’re up early to see your son and heir down."

Yusuke had an extremely sad look on his face as he came over. "Alas, my Prince, my wife is dead..." he managed to say. "Grief of my son’s exile has killed her. What else has happened to fight against my old age?"

Prince Hiei pointed to Touya’s body. "Look."

Yusuke looked over and jumped back. "What the hell, to see my son dead?!" he yelled.

"Calm down a minute while we hear what happened here." Prince Hiei looked at Friar Aohiki, who jumped and turned a bit red.

"Hi- I mean, Prince. I-I accuse myself. I know everything."

Prince Hiei glared at her. "Then tell us."

Aohiki’s face reddened more. "What happened was this: I wed Touya and Keikou, for they were madly in love. Later that day, Plush was killed by Touya’s hands, who was banished to Mantua. Keikou was crying for her husband, not her cousin. Keikou came to me in desperation. She did not want to marry Jin."

Aohiki took a nervous breath. "I gave her a potion which would give her the illusion of death. In two days, Touya and I were to fetch her. But, I got there and-" She choked. "Jin lay in a pool of blood, and Touya next to Keikou’s tomb, both dead. I tried to get Keikou out of there, but she refused. I fled in fright. Keikou stayed... and killed herself."

Aohiki threw her hands to her face and cried into them uncontrollably.

Prince Hiei nodded. "You are an honest woman. Where is Touya’s man?" he continued. "What can he say?"

"It seems true." Kurama agreed. "Touya gave me a letter to his father before he died."

"Give me it, I’ll look at it." Kurama nodded and pulled the letter out of his hair, handing it to his prince. Prince Hiei read through it quickly, and then looked up. "All are punished, I too have lost two kinsmen."

Kazuma looked at Yusuke, teary-eyed. "Oh brother Montague, give me your hand." he said, taking Yusuke’s hand in his own. "This is my wedding gift. No more can I demand."

Yusuke smiled at him. "But I can give you more. I will put up a statue of your daughter in gold."

"And a statue of Touya shall be at her side." Kazuma replied with a smile. "The poor sacrifices of our haste!"

Prince Hiei sighed. "A glooming peace this morning brings. The sun, through its sorrow, will not show his head. Go there to talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was there a story of more woe than this of Touya and his beloved Keikou."