Shanks for the memories
¨I love you Yuki.¨
Those were the last words I would ever hear from his ruby red lips that sat so strikingly upon his pale, nearly translucent face. As I stood there with my loves now lifeless body draped across mine, watching the psychotic girl who called herself my guardian slowly creep towards me, like a monster from a nightmare, I found myself thinking back, wondering how it all fell apart so completely.
It all began while I was on a date with Akise, my lover and best friend since we had entered high school together. At the time, contentedly munching on chilli-fries and vainly attempting to commit Akise's beautiful white hair and red eyes to memory, I was blissfully unaware of the Pandora's Box full of destruction that was following me, waiting for its chance to strike.
But Akise knew.
As we went through our date, I remained unaware of the looming threat, and was quite content. Akise however was not. ¨Yuki, dear, could you please buy some crepes at that stand over there?¨ he whispered down my neck. I eagerly ran off down the alleyway we had meandered into, all too ready to please my love. Checking to make sure I was gone, he turned to face a particularly dark shadow. ¨Why are you following us?¨
¨Oh, I'm not following you,¨ replied the shadow, with a deceptively sweet giggle, ¨I'm only here for my sweet Yuki!" Suddenly, the shadow stepped into the light, revealing itself to be a sickeningly cute girl with pink twintails… And a knife. ¨And you will not keep him from me.¨
Akise stepped forward, assuming a fighting pose, ¨And how would you know MY Yuki?¨ he growled.
¨We're fated to be together! My diary says so!¨ the psychopath exclaimed, and thrust her phone forward so that Akise could read the final lines typed in, which read: Yuki and Yuno come together as one. HAPPY END
I had just finished paying for the crepes when Akise came rushing from the alleyway, quickly grabbing my hand and pulling me in the opposite direction as fast as he could run.
¨Aki, what's wrong? Why are we running?¨ I queried as he drug me along.
"Nothing Yuki, I just wanted to go back to my house," he replied breathlessly as we barreled down the street, neither of us having noticed the shadow that somehow kept pace with us.
The rest of the day had proceeded rather uneventfully, with my guardian on the constant lookout for a threat I did not know existed. But then it finally happened. The stormclouds that had been gathering finally broke.
Yuno found me.
"YUKI RUN!" I was awoken by the panicked scream of Akise, and I looked up to behold a sight I will never forget. Akise was looming over the bed we shared, clutching his chest where an ever growing patch of scarlet spread across his white shirt from a knife wound.
"What happened? Why are you-" I began, but I was cut off by Akise falling on me, unable to hold himself up any longer.
"I love you Yuki," He choked out, then drew his final breath. Then, as I dropped his body in shock, I finally noticed the source of all my horror slowly advancing down the dark hallway towards me, soaked in Akise's blood, clutching a knife.
"Yuno! You were supposed to be dead! This wasn't supposed to happen!" I shrieked, recognition finally clicking in my head.
She giggled as she brought the knife to her throat. "Silly Yuki, you know that I love you too much to leave you. And besides, Deus will never allow this cycle of games to end." And with those parting words, she slit her throat.
And everything began again.
¨I love you Yuno.¨
Those were the last words I would ever hear from his ruby red lips that sat so strikingly upon his pale, nearly translucent face. As I stood there with my loves now lifeless body draped across mine, watching the psychotic boy who called himself my guardian slowly creep towards me, like a monster from a nightmare, I found myself thinking back, wondering how it all fell apart so completely.
DEAD END