Only You... (君だけを…)
by deina-kun

Disclaimer: Characters are the creation of Akiyoshi Hongo.

Prologue

"Where is everyone..?" A chestnut brown haired girl found herself standing in the middle of a desolate battle field. The only things within sight were the neverending shades of gray that she hated. She groaned at the pain that came from her arm, but brushed it off as she continued to call out the names of her comrades.

The scene was devoid of all life and gave off a relentless aura. Swirls of black and white data bits flew suspended in midair. The data bits that circled around the suspended ground area she stood on were the only things that were animated. It was probably around a mile long either way. It was as if she stood on a large rock suspended in midair inside of a tornado, but the surrounding sky was the same mess of gray. Streaks of lightning flashed all around, as if the place itself was short circuiting.

A sound rang through the darkness that caught her attention, "Ugh.."

The blonde hairs of a boy were unmistakeable even if they were sooted with the damages of the attack. She ran to him on impulse and tried her best to help him to his feet. "Are you all right?"

"It's shameful," he chuckled dejectly as he got to his feet. He brushed himself off of the dirt as best he could. Turning to her, he looked her in the eyes and smiled weakly, "letting you see me this way."

"No," a frown spread across her face as she stared into his eyes. His azure blue eyes pierced her heart with the sadness and defeat he felt. "Don't say that kind of thing!"

"I'm sorry for not being able to protect you." his smile didn't waver, and neither did the sadness in his eyes. He hesistated shortly as their hands held tightly together, but the grasp weakened and he began to walk to where four dark shadows stood standing above the sky.

"No, don't! Please!"

"Don't come after me!"

His words made her stop in her tracks. "But.."

"I'll do this," he turned to look into her eyes one last time and smiled, "for the sake of both worlds."

"Wrong move!" the shadows cackled at the blonde haired boy's advance and shot a thick black bolt of lightning at him. He took his stance and summoned a blue silhouette of a wolf to him. In a quick motion, the blue light charged at the black lightning bolt, causing a tremor and large airwaves to erupt from the collision. The ground began to break up beneath the guy and the girl as the airwaves pushed them back. Strings of data were dematerializing from the ground they stood on and the deafening noise of crumbling stone and electricity sparks collided with one another leaving the two in a daze from the tremors.

The girl opened her eyes to a blinding white light surrounding her. "What's going on?!"

Every direction she looked, she was surrounded by a bright white light with a radius of around 25 feet. Everything that had been happening around her--the crumbling rocks, the strings of data--all seemed to freeze as if time had been suspended.

The boy gained consciousness and was blinded by the pillar of light that stood, connecting the two worlds. Through instict, he began running toward the stream of light as he saw a figure being engulfed by it.

She turned to see his familiar face running toward her, but his expression had changed, and it stirred an unsettling emotion inside of her. His eyes spoke of fear and his frown complimented his confusion. With her first step toward him, the pillar of light erupted inside with the same effect as the attack's collision before they regained consciousness. His eyes widened and she felt herself losing her footing as the ground gave way underneath her, detaching her from the ground she stood on. Everything was being pulled upward.

He sprinted faster even though his energy was giving way and he stretched out his arm to reach her. She, too, stretched out her arm to reach his. By this time, she was already suspended upside down in the pillar of light around five feet in the air. The boy finally got directly underneath where she was suspended in mid-air. Their fingers touched and tried to grasp one another's but the anti-gravitational pull had defeated their attempt and she was quickly pulled upward, as if no matter if he'd made it in time, she would have been taken away right before his eyes. Time seemed to be suspended.

He paused at the shock of seeing what was behind her--the other world. There were buildings and cars, the large ferris wheel and the tall building, but he couldn't understand why he felt the shock, the nostalgia. He stood wide-eyed, but his attention was returned to her hurt eyes and the lips that shouted to him. There was no sound, but he knew it was his name she called out. It was always three syllables.

His attention was so fixed on her, but he could only look up and do nothing. The pillar of light lifted slowly. A trickle of blood fell from his lip. She was disappearing, and he could do nothing about it. His hands made their way up to his hair as he pulled at them in frustration. She was so far that he couldn't even see her face anymore. Rage and despair were consuming his very soul. And then, cold, sad teardrops fell onto his face. His grip on his hair loosened. He fell to his knees and cried, "Mimi!!"