WARNING: There will be a couple of scenes that could be possibly scarring for some people, if you would like to skip that part them just scroll down to the part of the story where it says 'present day'. ENJOY!
10 years ago|
Honoka sighed heavily and stretched out her arms. She looked around at all her fellow idol members and smiled. "i cant believe we're gonna be doing our last live in just a couple of weeks...we've been waiting for so long for this moment."
Kotori smiled and nodded "mhm.. we sure have.."
Nico crossed her arms and grumbled "well it's not like it'll be the last day we'll see each other. We will be friends forever right?"
Rin nodded and reached out to Maki and hugged her tightly "YEAH!NYA!"
Maki groaned and tried to push the short orange haired girl away "rin stop it! "
Eli smiled and glanced at Nozomi who just watched all the fellow muse girls enjoying themselves with each others company. The blond narrowed her eyes and gently reached for her hand and quietly whispered into her ear. "is there something wrong dear..?"
Nozomi shook her head and gently squeezed Eli's hand looking up at everyone. "Everyone, i would like to tell you all that i love you all so very much.. and without you here...well.. i wouldnt be possibly me that i am now."
Everyone looked at Nozomi and smiled. They all quickly tackled Nozomi in a huge bear hug "oophf!"
Everyone started to giggle and laugh, ending their night in happiness. Eli escorted everyone to the door and smiled peacefully as the last one has left, now leaving just Eli and Nozomi alone.
The two shared loving looks and Nozomi was the first to end the stares as she wrapped her arms around her lover's neck and planted a gentle kiss to her lips. Eli returned the kiss and smiled swaying the both of them around romantically.
"you know im so excited to go into college with you... After the last live we'll be able to move in with each other and possibly cuddle every night..." Eli placed her forehead on Nozomi's and smiled looking at her lover in the eyes.
Nozomi blushed faintly and nodded "mhm..i bet that could be arranged.."
Eli smirked but notice Nozomi glance at the clock knowing that she had to leave. Nozomi giggled at Eli's reaction and gently planted a kiss on her cheek "ill be back tomorrow dummy.."
The blond smiled and helped walk out her girlfriend "are you sure you dont need any help walking home? It's pretty late you know..."
Nozomi wagged her finger in the air and giggled "Im old enough to walk home by myself.. dont worry Elichi~ See you tomorrow! Love you!" She waved goodbye as she walked away.
Eli faintly waved back and smiled happily "love you too..."
As Nozomi was walking back to her apartment she smiled happily to herself thinking about her friends and her lover. Halfway to her apartment,however, she noticed three men behind her looking quite weird.
Nozomi quickly quickened her steps and tried to ignore them as they continued walking behind her. Soon after she quickened her steps she noticed the men quicken their steps as well. She soon found herself running and then even sprinting. The men behind her were chasing after her!
Her hands quickly started to ravage through her bag to look for her phone. As she found it and dialed 9-1-1 as she ran she suddenly ran into another man infront of her. She stumbled backwards and looked shocked as all of them started to surround her. Nozomi screamed as the men all reached down to grab her. She tried to crawl back but only ended up pressing enter on her phone for 911.
As Nozomi started to resist their hands one of the big men started slamming his fist into Nozomi's face, causing blood to come out of both her mouth and nose. She screamed in pain but one final blow to the face made her pass out unconscious. The four men then smirked and pointed at the her apartment complex.
"yeah it should be up there on the third floor. Saw her key was in a flower pot too!"
"well lets hurry up and get to the room or else we wont have much time to have fun"
The four men quickly went to Nozomi's apartment and broke in using her emergency house key that was in the flower pot. The biggest man that carried Nozomi tossed her body uncaringly onto her bed and smirked. "i get the first go at her~"
"No i do! this was my plan to do this anyways!"
"oh come one Benson me first! "
As the three men argued their fellow partner went over to Nozomi without their consent and started to undress her and soon started having his way with her unconscious body.
The three quickly looked back at him realizing he already started and just decided to take turns. As each of them had their way with her Nozomi slowly woke up and as she did she screamed at the top of her lungs "AHHHHHHHHHA GET OFF OF ME!"
The man ontop of her smirked as he finished inside of her causing Nozomi to scream even louder knowing her body was used by such disgusting men. The man slid off of her and smirked looking at his men. "its time to take care of this mess buddies.. ready~?"
All the men stood up and rolled up their sleeves, taking out carving knives from their pockets "oh were ready sir~"
All four of the men started to walk towards Nozomi looking quite determined to get her. She screamed and quickly ran out of the room, barely being missed by one of the men's slashes. She quickly tried to run out of the house but ended up being jabbed into the back by one of the men's knives
"sh shhhh we cant let a mess like you live now..." He twisted his knife as it was still in Nozomi's back and laughed as Nozomi started to scream in pain and agony.
The four men started to surround her and smirked as they watched Nozomi's shivering from just one jab.
Soon all the men started slashing all through the back of her body. Nozomi cried through every slash they did on her. One of the men then turned her over and that was where she found herself knowing this was the end. The man who turned her over cut open her stomach and started to ripped out her organs and laughed evily "AHHH! SO MUCH BLOOD! I LOVE IT!"
The other three men started to back away as they watched their fellow man just go stir crazy with his knife on Nozomi.
Nozomi sudden started to go quiet and her vision started to become blurry.
Im dying... im moments from dying..
The man continued cutting and ripping out her intestines and laughed out in ecstasy "oh yes~!"
These men defiled my body and now they are killing me..
As the man notice she became quiet and barely even alive now he smirks and leans over to look into her eyes. "my my are you nearly gone? do you need that one last edge.."
I wont be able...to say goodbye to my elichi...and say..
The man smirked crazily and aimed his knife at Nozomi's chest "this edge will be the last of your pain.."
that i...
He smiled and started to plunge it directly at her heart.
love her...
SPLAT.
That night only about an hour later policemen discovered Nozomi's body thanks to one of the neighbors claiming they heard screaming from one of the rooms. In that time frame Eli and the other muse girls pulled up to the apartment complex once messaged by Eli.
Eli quickly pushed through the crowd outside the apartment complex and tried to cross the police lines as she became fully scarred for Nozomi. Before she could get any further from the police lines she stopped staring at a paramedics that were caring out someone that had a white sheet over them.
Eli's eyes shrunk knowing it was Nozomi. Nozomi was dead. The Nozomi she wanted to marry and start a future with was death. The Nozomi that made her happy.
The Nozomi who made her,her had died.
The blond fell to her knees and behind her faint cries were heard from her muse members but she muted them out. She starred blankly at the sheet and her eyes started to water. Her fingers turned into a fist and slam into the ground, causing them to be scrapped roughly and for blood and skin to smear all over the pavement.
"NOZOMI!"
Present Day |
"oophf!... are you sure you need ALL of these boxes here? I thought we were just gonna live here for a couple of months? Why does it seem like you packed everything you own." The blue ponytailed haired girl asked sounding annoyed. Her roommate quietly giggled and stopped unpacking her stuff.
"i sure do, you don't know what could happen! You need to be prepared for anything! And i mean A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G!" Kanan narrowed her eyes at her and lifted up glow in the dark high heels.
" so you need these?!"
Mari gasped and reached for them quickly "YES! Now give them to me!" She eagerly tried to grab the shoes but Kanan put her hand up and lifted the shoes over her head "Nope! Admit these have no purpose first!" Mari smirked seeing that the shoes were still in her reach "NEVER!" She quickly lunged at her but Kanan quickly moved away before Mari could get them which led Mari to fall to the ground. Kanan giggled and looked down at her roommate. "Aw nice try!"
Mari frowned but smirked grabbing Kanan's legs and pulling them to make her trip. Kanan cried out in surprise and tripped back onto the ground. Her cheeks lit up a dark red shade as Mari climbed ontop of her. Mari gave an innocent smile and placed her hand on the shoes and one on Kanan's cheek. "very nice try.."
Kanan blushed heavily as the blond started to lean in close to her face. She gripped tightly onto the heels as she felt herself becoming nervous. All of a sudden a loud bang came from the hall causing both Mari and Kanan to go silent. The two quickly got up and Kanan took the lead to see what had happened and as she looked over the corner...
"WHY IS YOUR DOOR UNLOCKED?!" Dia said staring at Kanan fully enflamed. She chuckled nervously seeing Dia and waved awkwardly "h-hey dia! we um.. just forgot it's fine ... just relax"
Dia's eye twitched and groaned "its bad enough that i agreed with everyone that you two should share a room... please dont make me have to take drastic measures"
Mari appeared from behind the hallway corner and her eyes lit up as she notice it was Dia. She quickly ran over to her and hugged her tightly "Oh Dia-san! Its so good to see you! "
Dia closed her eyes in annoyance and huffed "was i disturbing something?"
yes.
"no absolutely nothing! Why?"
Dia opened her eyes slowly and started to talk all quiet but then..
"well... IT'S BECAUSE SOMEONE DIDNT LOCK THE DOOR!"
"Oh that? It's because i forgot too! Sorry Dia-san!" Dia pushed Mari off of her and faced Kanan ignoring Maris sad facial expression, "so are you almost done unpacking?"
"No. and we arent even half way done because SOMEONE had to bring their whole house with them."
Mari chuckled and awkwardly and moved a strand of her hair behind her ear trying to look innocent. Dia glared at Mari and groaned " i thought i told you not to pack so much!"
"mari can't help it!' Mari yelled back.
Dia rubbed her face tiredly and took out her phone "well its getting late so i think we should call it a day and you two should get some rest."
"but there's no futons here yet! where am i supposed to sleep?" Kanan whined
"just sleep in the bed with Mari for a night. It wont kill you." Kanan looked at Dia and then back at Mari, who was grinning very cutely at her. "fine. fine. Just don't do anything to me while i'm asleep."
Mari smiled in awe and quickly hugged Kanan's arm "don't worry! i wont! I promise!"
Dia looked at the arm hug and turned around not wanting to look "well ill be heading off to bed as well... Goodnight you two." Mari and kanan waved at their friend as she left and once she was out of sight Kanan yawned out loud causing mari to giggle.
"you really are tired... what s shame.." Mari let go of Kanan's arm and headed off to the bed and kanan followed weakly behind her. Without changing her pajamas, Kanan slipped into bed and rolled onto her side. Mari smiled playfully and once she was changed into her pjs she crawled next to Kanan on the bed and gently ran her hand on along Kanan's sides. "i thought the first night alone.. we could...maybe cuddle together..." Kanan stayed quiet causing mari to pout
"hmp...lame..." She noticed soon enough Kanan had already fell asleep and with her open chance, she leaned down and kissed her cheek. "Goodnight kanan.."
2:00 am |
Kanan woke up for some odd reason. She sat up and got out of bed rubbing her head tiredly. She ran her hand over her forehead and realised she's actually been sweating. The room however seemed to be cool, which gave her the realization she had a nightmare. She left the room to go get a glass of water and yawned tiredly as she walked in the hallway. She grabbed a glass from the kitchens cabinet and started to fill it with water. Once again she yawned tiredly and turned off the water as it got filled up. As she started to drink her water she jolted up a little feeling,from what she felt, arms being wrapped around her. She ignored it however thinking it was her roommate.
"mari... its late.. go back to bed... i'll be back in bed in a bit too.."
Kanan felt the arms slowly slide under her shirt and run along her stomach making a very cold chill go through her entire body, as if her body temperature went down drastically in a small amount of time. "m-mari are you cold...? g-go back to bed dummy.." With still no response the hands stayed around Kanan's bare stomach and soon Kanan felt cold frost bites along her neck, as if someone was kissing it. Kanan breathed out from the chill and noticed her breath as she breathed out showing that either she herself was cold or the room. She glanced over at the a/c monitor in the living room and froze as she noticed something in the tvs reflection in the corner of her eye. It showed a purple haired girl behind her.
Kanan's full body went to shock and she quickly turned around to see who was there and as she did, nothing. Nothing was there and she could no longer see her breath either. She breathed out heavily and gripped onto her chest, feeling as if she just had a heart attack.
"s-someone was just here!" Kanan quickly looked around the whole room and still found nothing. She scratched her head awkwardly and chuckled awkwardly "maybe it was just my imagination...probably should go back to bed... my head just isnt with me tonight..." As she headed back to the bedroom, a twin-ponytailed girl stayed standing at the end of the hallway. Her stone expression lightening up a little and said out loud "Elichi.."
Kanan stopped at the bedroom door thinking she heard something but shrugged it off and went back to bed.
7 am|
Mari slowly opened her eyes and stretched "mm... did i wake up before Kanan..?"
As she reached over to her side thinking she did, Kanan wasn't in bed. Mari groaned and tiredly got out of bed. Finally reaching the kitchen/living room, Mari still didn't notice kanan around. "a morning jog...that's so like her."
With Kanan|
Kanan kept at her jogging pace all around tokyo's jogging areas and as she got close to the big shopping center, in the far distance she noticed a long stairway that looked as if it headed to a shrine. Kanan quickly jogged over and since the stairs were way shorter compared to the ones at her home town, she fully sprints up the steps. Once reaching the top, barely panting, admiring the shrine "wow... this place is so big.. and pretty spiritual.."
Kanan looked out to the city of Tokyo and admired the sight. She took a deep breath and sighed happily, but in the corner of her eye she noticed a long red haired girl putting a wish on the wish board. Multiple papers were everywhere and her paper went to a specific spot where the other papers had different colored writing. After she put hers up the woman stood there staring at the board for about 10 minutes! Now being concerned Kanan walked over to the woman and gently tapped her shoulder causing the girl to turn around.
"huh?"
"im sorry! but i wanted to make sure you're okay...you've been starring at that board for almost 15 minutes..."
The girl blushed and moved one of her long hair strands behind her shoulder, exposing a name tag that had the name 'Doctor nishikino'. "im sorry i just got stuck on reading a wish ... one of my dear friends passed and in a couple days it will be the 10th anniversary of her death..."
Kanan frowned "im so sorry for your loss.."
The woman smiled kindly and looked at Kanan differently as she looked at her features but her expression lightened, her smile went away as she she felt her pocket start to buzz "crap, i have to go to work..." She sighed and put her hair into a side ponytail and bowed to Kanan "thanks but i have to go back to my hospital...Nice to meet you!" She waved goodbye and Kanan did as well before she went out of her sight.
"Nishikino... That name seems so familiar..oh well.. i bet Mari is getting worried... better hurry up and get back to her!" Kanan quickly started to jog back down the steps and as she went down a long haired blond woman walked up the steps. The two not acknowledging each others presence or that their worlds crossed paths in only a millisecond. The blond woman walked over to the same wish board the red haired woman was at and before she was gonna put her own wish up she read the wishes that were around the area she wanted to put hers.
Her lips curled up into a smile and put her wish in the middle of the 7 other ones in the same area. "you guys... this is going to be the roughest week for me... please... take care of me while i'm in your care..." The woman looked at her wish one more time and then turned away leaving her wish on the wish board stating 'I wish that my Nozomi Toujou knows i lover her with all my heart...'
That Evening |
"come one guys! lets go get some desserts!" Chika cheered aloud and pointed at an ice cream parlor.
Riko and You sighed tiredly "chika-chan we've been to so many places today...can't we all just go back to the apartment complex..."
Ruby gasped and made an 'X' with her arms "no! not without dessert!"
"i agree Zura!"
Dia's brow started to twitch and she clapped her hands together loudly causing all the girls to look at her.
"How about the people who want ice cream can go get some and whoever doesnt can just go back home. i for one want to go home so who's coming with me?"
You,riko, and Yohane raised their hands, leaving Kanan, Mari,Chika,Ruby, and Hanamaru.
"that settles it then. Lets go get ice cream!" Mari smiled grabbing Kanan's hand and running inside.
The girls giggled and followed behind. As they all got seated at a booth the 5 girls smiled at eachother and started to talk about love live, in the same ice cream parlor on the other side...
"you know i bought this for you to eat it." A girl with half up half down black hair stated angrily.
The woman across from her put her hand through her hair and sighed " i told you i didn't want it Nico..."
"too bad eat it!"
The blond pushed the big delicious treat away towards Nico and sighed "im sorry but my appetite isnt here right now. "
Nico sighed and pushed the desert to the side "Eli...its been 10 years... you've gotten an amazing job offer, and you have very supportive friends...i know you loved her...but there's nothing you can do.."
Eli chuckled darkly and looked up at her friend "there was something i could have done... i could have walked her home that night...instead of asking if she wanted me to..."
Nico reached for Eli's hand but she quickly moved her hand before she could " you know its true too... and i will try to get passed through this week but once it's up, i will be going back to Russia. I am declining Kotori's job offer and i will go back to my job with the law."
Nico's hands slowly transformed into a fist as Eli talked and once hearing about her declining her offer, she slammed her hand onto the table taking Eli's attention and the people around them.
"do you not remember what happened to you through those cases?! You went into a mental break down! Eli you were in the goddamn hospital for 3 months for what you did to YOURSELF. All the murder cases, every serial killer case images you always went back to the pictures of Nozomi. Those cases arent helping you one goddamn bit and you know it. You cant stay in that job nor be away from friends. You need to socialize. For god sakes i haven't even talked to you till last night! "
Eli sat up and closed her eyes "im gonna go to the restroom." She then left from the booth.
Nico watched the blond walked away and sighed heavily taking out her phone and reading a text "did she say yes?" - Kotori
Back with the five other girls; they all received their ice cream and laughed happily as chika made a mess of herself with the ice cream. Ruby politely helped whip it off and giggled "hehe! You're so messy chika-chan!"
Chika winked and stuck out her tongue "cant help it!"
Kanan smiled enjoying her ice cream and Mari glanced at her noticing a speck of chocolate on her cheek. Without hesitation Mari grabbed a napkin and helped whip it off "i say.. Kanan's as messy..."
Kanan blushed and becoming nervous, her hand shook and spilled a spoon full of ice cream on her pants.
Mari gasped and tried to help get it off "kanan! look what you did!"
Hanamaru glanced at the kanan and giggled "do you want me to go get more napkins zura?"
Kanan chuckled awkwardly as Mari continued to rub on her pants and gently started to push her away "no no its okay.. im just gonna go to the bathroom.." She got up and quickly walked into the bathroom, and thinking no one else was in the bathroom she started to speak aloud as she tried to get the ice cream off with water.
"crap its gonna stain my pants fully! This isn't good! oh please come off!"
A blond smoking in one of the stalls stopped, hearing a voice sounding so similar to someone else's.
Kanan, oblivious to the smoke smell right now, tried harder to get the stain out "oh please ! Just go away!"
The blond giggled and flushed the toilet , causing Kanan to become embarrassed hearing that someone was in one of the stalls.
Eli walked out from one of the stalls and looked at Kanan a little surprised to see The girls face fully engulfed by red.
The blond giggled and walked over to one of the sinks and started to wash her hands with soap to try and disguise the smoke smell.
"im sorry if i scared you...i didn't mean too.."
Kanan blushed and turned away still embarrassed "n-no it's okay.. just didnt know someone was in here.."
"why dont you check the stalls some time maybe?"
"...okay true i will eventually though.. thanks for the tip.."
The blond looked at Kanan as she continued scrubbing at her pants and smiled playfully "you know.. you're pretty cute...how old are you.."
Kanan glanced at the older woman and said out loud "18 1/2."
Eli smirked and finished up washing her hands "fresh outta high school.. barely legal.. say would you like to come home with me?"
Kanan looked up and glared at the woman but as she did she notice amazingly attractive features from the girl causing her body to freeze "u-uh..."
She quickly shook her head getting conscious again and narrowed her eyes at Eli "No. i'm sorry but i have someone in my life that's amazing and i don't go for strangers."
Eli smirked and pushed Kanan to the wall biting her lip "saying no to me... wow you must have some big ovaries..listen here .. that man you have will never be as good as women."
Kanan looked Eli in the eyes and tensed up not knowing what to say.
The blond leaned forward and whispered hotly only inches away from her "do i need to show you what i mean..?"
As the blond's lips barely pressed against Kanan's she let her go as the door was pushed open by someone.
Another blond looking inside the bathroom, lightened up seeing kanan "there you are! we've been looking for you! were going back to the apartment com-" Mari was cut off by seeing a blond move away from Kanan.
She grabbed Kanan's hand and quickly pulled her to her and glared at the other woman "what do you think you are doing with my Kanan."
Eli chuckled and fixed her professional skirt and put a hand through her luscious blond hair "oh? yours? didn't see a collar on her."
Mari narrowed her eyes at the blond and put Kanan behind her "you leave my kanan behind or your breast will get the manhandling of a fucking lifetime."
The blond starred blankly at the girl a little shocked to hear that come from her lips. Her eyes looked up at her features and giggled "what an odd thing to say coming from you..." Eli looked at the two and put her hands up showing she surrendered "alright alright... i give up i'll leave you two be."
Eli walked out of the restroom leaving the two girls to themselves "m-mari im sorry ! and thank you for helping me by the way..."
Mari smiled and pecked her cheek "what are friends for..."
friends
Kanan's heart stung from the terrible word but kept a smile to stay calm. she grabbed Mari's hand and headed out of the bathroom and for the exit of the building. Eli watched the two storm out of the building from her booth and then glanced back at Nico. "thanks for bringing me out tonight its been fun.. but i better get back to my hotel.."
Nico narrowed her eyes "you are moving into kotori's house after tonight. nobody wants you to be by yourself."
Eli waved at Nico's words and placed a 1000 yen bill down "fine. thanks again and goodnight nico."
She quickly walked outside becoming impatient and finally reaching outside. She took out a cigarette and put it in between her lips, and looked through her purse for her lighter. Sadly her phone started ringing, delaying her smoking break a little more. The blond took out her phone and noticed the caller ID. A few seconds later she answers.
"Anju please stop calling me."
With Kanan and Mari|
Kanan walked into the apartment quickly and sighed "im gonna sleep on the couch tonight Mari.. you can have the bed to yourself tonight"
Mari frowned but nodded knowing Kanan wouldn't go back on her offer. The two went to their separate sleeping areas leaving the two left alone to sleep.
2 am|
Once again waking up for an odd reason Kanan felt her body heavier than usual. Her breathing was also rough for some reason, and that's when it hit her. Someone was kissing her! Her tired eyes opened wide noticing a very faint blurry vision of the same purple haired girl she's seen before.
She quickly turned her head enabling her to breath and as she looked back to see if the girl was there. She was not. Scratching on the window made Kanan jolt in fear, but it turns out it wasn't the window it was the tv screen. The words "i love you" being engraved into the tv screen. From that moment on, Kanan finally figured out; she and mari weren't the only ones living in that apartment.