An Angelic Love- Prologue Okaa-san's Death and Otou-san's Madness

Kira Arimi was in a deep sleep. Her chest rose and fell quickly. In which, led to her ragged breathing. Sweat slowly made its way down her sickly pale face. Unconsciously, she gripped the sheets tightly as she found it harder and harder to breathe. Her throat was on fire and she pried her eyes shut, while her mind ventured deeper into the frightening dream that haunted her.

-----Dream State------

A six-year-old Arimi sat by her father who was holding her mother's unmoving hand. The hospital room they were in was dark and cold as they both watched Kira Mitsuki's chest slowly rise and fall. Soon her long-time doctor Wakaouji-sensei entered the room with a grim look on his face. His green-hazel eyes lowered as he too, watched the pale-faced Mitsuki struggle to breathe.

Arimi's father Kira Takuto had immediately rose from his seat next to Mitsuki when he noticed his friend. Takuto's eyes turned into deep slits of anger as he practically shouted,

"Keiichi! What is wrong with Mitsuki! Will she be alright!"

Wakaouji Keiichi's eyes slowly lifted from Mitsuki to meet Takuto's unwavering gaze. Keiichi's slightly tanned face lost a little color as he focused on the reason he had come in the first place. Ruefully, he opened his mouth to speak,

"Well I has just checked Mitsuki's x-ray. It seem that the cancer she had once had as a child has come back at full force."

Takuto's tanned face drained completely out of whatever color was in it, as his steely blue silver eyes widened. Turning to Mitsuki, he felt that as if his already weakened heart would completely shatter. He finally managed to breathe out, eyes never leaving Mitsuki,

"C-cancer? As a child?"

Yes dear reader, Takuto Kira had long lost all memories of his shinigami days. Which now leads to his confusion on Mitsuki's sudden illness. Keiichi, who also knew of Takuto's lost memory, figured he should shed some light on his confusion.

"Hai, when Mitsuki was twelve she had developed a serious cancer in her throat. We managed to give her surgery to reverse this problem…but-"

Takuto who was steadily getting more angrier and desperate by the moment had cut of Keiichi's unfinished sentence to yell," But what! What has it returned Keiichi!"

"I-it seems that when we had performed surgery on her, we had managed to get rid of the cancer. However now it seems that it didn't get it all out of her system. Over the years the remaining cells grew and grew until it seems it is out of our control."

Takuto who was now gazing at Keiichi in disbelief, turned to Mitsuki before lowering his gaze to his six-year-old daughter who seemed pretty oblivious to the whole ordeal they were facing. Her silver-cerulean eyes that matched his own, was gazing at her mother with a sort of far off look…

Shifting his gaze back to Keiichi's olive-green eyes, Takuto noted that by Keiichi's look he wanted them to talk privately outside. Sighing, Takuto used his left hand to wipe the tears that were about to freely roam down his face before following his friend out of the room.

Arimi sat in an eerie silence as she took the place of her father in holding her mother's hand. She stared at her mother in an utter daze. Her silver-blue eyes brightened up a bit when they gazed at an angel-like being. Snapping quickly out of her daze, Arimi allowed her tiny fist to rub against her eyes to prove that her six-year-old mind wasn't tricking her.

Upon finding it didn't she was compelled to gaze at the approaching, now visible figure. On closer inspection Arimi saw that the being she thought was an angel was actually quite the opposite. In fact it was a shinigami. She vaguely remembered her mother telling her such stories of shinigami's and of how they take away souls.

Stiff as a board, Arimi watched as the shinigami closed in on her mother not really noticing Arimi. She quickly took a moment to examine his features. He had elegant long silver hair that was pulled back tightly in a low ponytail. His chilling icy blue depths shone emotionless as his right arm reached behind him to pull a rather large sword from its sheath.

Dark onyx wings fluttered on his back as he lifted the sword easily over Mitsuki's fragile shaken body. Arimi's eyes rolled over to her mother's whose eyes were just opening to meet hers weakly. Arimi turned her gaze back to the shinigami with worried a worried look. Mitsuki, who was utterly confused at her daughter's look, followed Arimi's gaze to she saw a faint outline of a…shinigami!

Mitsuki hadn't been able to see a shinigami ever since the day she found that Takuto was alive and Meroko was an angel. (EUL- The last episode you know what I mean.) Her eyes widened but the softly dulled to let her features form a smile. Arimi figured it was directed to her since she felt a weak but loving squeeze to her hand from her mother.

Mitsuki turned her head to look at her daughter one last time and gave her the same smile that made many people love her including Takuto. The same grip was held onto the Arimi's hand as Mitsuki managed enough air to say her final words.

"Y-you can see the shinigami Rimi-san. Please, d-do your Okaa-san a favor…t-try to make your Otou-san remember."

For the first time that morning Arimi spoke, "Otou-san? Remember what Okaa-san?"

Her questions went unanswered as Mitsuki kept her smile and said, "Aishiteru…"

With that the sword the shinigami held plummeted rapidly towards Mitsuki and plunged through her sharply. Arimi's eyes widened at the horrible sight as a bright pink orb rose from where the sword lied deep in Mitsuki's heart. The orb floated through the air until it was locked into a small cage that the shinigami held with his left hand.

Pulling the sword from Mitsuki's spirit-less body, he let his eyes shift to the pale-faced daughter of his current victim. Her pain staked orbs raised up to his emotionless ones that silently read: "We will meet again." Then the pink orb in the cage, the sword and he himself disappeared from sight leaving the already dark and cold room even darker and colder in more ways than one.

The six-year-old held on tighter to her mother's limp freezing hand as the loud BEEP that came from the pulse monitor that showed a straight blue line echoed throughout the silent room.

----- End of Dream State -----

The now fourteen year old Arimi awoken startled, cold sweat etched its way down her face as she remembered that devastating day. She recalled every event that took place that morning, as if it had happened yesterday. She it was to her father, she could remember every inch of his horrified face when he entered the room and saw the straight blue line and Mitsuki's cold life-less body.

-Flashback Starts-

The loud BEEP echoed its way throughout the silent room. Within a moment's notice Keiichi and Takuto raced into the room. Keiichi's face paled considerably as his worst fear was realized. He immediately ran out of the room and yelled,

"CODE: BLUE! CODE: BLUE!"

Soon many doctors and nurses entered the room and ushered Takuto and Arimi out of the room. In the waiting room Takuto paced anxiously with fresh tears falling every second. 'Mitsuki…Mitsuki…' On the other side of the room Arimi who sat in one of the chairs watched her father in sorrow. She wanted to comfort him, to cry with him. But, she couldn't do it.

She didn't know how, the last time she did was when she was a baby. She felt miserable and hated how she couldn't express it. Minutes went by until a manner of eight hours passed by. Even after all this time Takuto never once stopped his crying. Instead of watching her father nearly drown in his hot mass of tears Arimi decided to ponder on what her Okaa-san requested for her to do only hours ago.

"-try to make your Otou-san remember."

'But remember what? Okaa-san why didn't you tell me what you meant. How am I sup-" her thoughts ended short as she recalled what her mother said before that,

"You can see the shinigami Rimi-san"

"Try to make your Otou-san remember."

'Did Okaa-san want Otou-san to remember something about shinigami's?' She concluded her thoughts when her father's familiar voice broke her reverie.

"Well Keiichi? Will she b-be al-right?" Takuto had a feeling that she didn't make it, but he still had hope…

Keiichi lowered his head so that his light auburn tresses covered his eyes and darkened his face. He shook his head ruefully before he began to speak while fighting back tears,

"We've done all we could. Even more than that…She didn't make it g-gomen nassai Takuto."

Takuto's bright deep pools of blue and silver eyes dulled at the horrific news. He could just feel the tears that were about to fall. Angry, and pain stricken Takuto punched a hard fist into the wall, which sent a rather large dent in it. Takuto fell to his knees in pain. Not so much in physical terms but more so in emotional.

Through his hot tears of sorrow Takuto glanced at his only child and his face burned red in anger. Jumping up Takuto grabbed her by her shoulders and shook her hard.

"WHT DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER? WHY DIDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING? YOU COULD'VE HELPED HER!

He was in hysterics, and his now confused mind forced him to put his hands around Arimi's neck and clasp it hard. Instantly choking her. The oxygen quickly left her needing lungs at his mad grip. Before too long Keiichi and a few doctors roughly pulled him off the choking girl. Takuto, while yelling madly was rushed from Arimi's sight.

The girl in question instantaneously fell to the rough ground of the waiting room in which getting painful carpet burn. However the girl paid no attention to that as she tried to bring the oxygen to her suffocating lungs.

Her coughs echoed down the halls and through the rooms. She was alone in the waiting room, with batted breath she ceased her coughing fit only to have a sharp pain in her throat. However it disappeared as soon as it arrived.

'Otou-san..'

Arimi hadn't seen her father since the devastating day…

-Flashback Ends-


(A/N- Well how was that? Not too terrible I hope. I know Takuto is out of charcter but it has to be this way so please forgive me. Anyways stay tuned for the next chapter which will come as soon as I get a review. NO FLAMES THOUGH! I however, LOVE constructive critism. Ja and thanks for reading! EiriUesugiLover