Title: For the best
Author: tanteikitty
Characters/Pairings: Mayura x Loki
Fandom: Matantei Loki Ragnarok
Disclaimer: I don't own Matantei Loki Characters, I just use them without proper permission, frankly because they're cute and hard to resist. They're practically telling me to write a story about them!
Note/s: Just so you'd know, before you start reading this story and tell me I'm an idea theif...I know there's already a story with this kind of theme recently posted here. But I assure you I made this a long time before, I was just too lazy to post it and well, I've made corrections and all those stuff. Anyways, please don't get mad if you think I took your story or anything. Oh, and you have to know the 26th episode of the Anime show of Matantei Loki Ragnarok...since this is sort of a summary of it with a different ending. XP
"Loki-kun!" a pink-haired, crimson-eyed girl shouted as she closed the door behind her.
"Mayura-san…"
"Yamino-san, where is Loki-kun?"
Yamino sighed softly as he stared at the pink-haired girl before him. "He's gone out…"
"When will he get back?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean?" Mayura asked, worry lacing her voice.
"Well, he disappeared…"
"Disappeared?" Mayura voiced out. "Then why aren't you looking for him?"
And just upstairs, Loki, who was back in his real form, stood by the open door of his study, his face expressionless. He listened silently to Yamino and Mayura's conversation. Mayura spoke again.
"What's going on here? Yamino-san, explain it to me."
Mayura stared at the calm unfazed Yamino, the feeling of dread started to overwhelm her.
"Yamino-san why are you so calm? Loki-kun has disappeared hasn't he?!" Mayura was edging towards being hysterical; Yamino wasn't a least bit worried about Loki. It wasn't right.
It was just…
"We have to look for him!" Mayura waited for Yamino to answer, she was so sure that Yamino was going to agree. After all whenever they were together before Yamino was always worried about Loki's well being. She was hopeful that maybe Yamino was only hiding his own worry…
"No."
It was just one word. It was one word with just two letters.
But it was enough to send Mayura over the edge. So many questions popped in her head. And none had answers.
"What is this? I don't understand!" Mayura yelled. And back upstairs the subject of their conversation closed his eyes. He felt horrible but it was the right thing to do, wasn't it? Mayura would forget about him once he was back to Asgard, might as well start now. Loki heard Yamino answer Mayura.
"He might comeback…someday?" Yamino couldn't hide the uncertainty of the sentence. Will they ever go back to Midgard after they went back to Asgard? He wasn't sure.
Mayura snapped.
"Someday? When is someday?! Today, tomorrow? Yamino-san, tell me!" Yamino bowed his head, his bangs covered his guilt filled eyes. Only silence met the pink haired girl's demand.
"Fine! I'll go find him myself!" And with that Mayura felt everyone in the house.
Yamino looked up just to hear the door of the study close.
"Loki-tama?"
"Daddy."
"Is there a place for Loki-sama in the world of the gods, even if he does return?" Yamino questioned.
"Idiot! What are you saying? Daddy's going to beat that Odin and he'll become the new king of the world of the gods" Fenrir snapped back.
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"The new king of the world of the gods, huh?" Loki whispered to himself as he watched the small figure of Mayura in the distance through the window.
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"Memories?"
Loki nodded. "Verdandi, can you do it with your alchemy skills?"
"It is possible…but" Verdandi hesitated, "whose memories do you want to erase?"
Loki looked directly into Verdandi's eyes, "Mayura's memories."
Verdandi was shocked. "I want you to erase the memories she has of us. It is for her own good."
The long-haired Norn stared at the trickster god, he was truly serious about it. But she saw, deep in those forest green eyes, the pain. He didn't want this. He definitely didn't want to leave her…but it was for the best, wasn't it.
"Loki-sama…"
"Can you do it, Verdandi?" Loki asked. Verdandi was silent for a moment before she responded.
"Yes, I understand. I will do it." The amber eyes of the Norn of the present looked at the restored trickster god, she showed no expression in the twin orbs but inside she was sad and worried. But she has affirmed that she would do his request. There was no turning back.
"Thank you."
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"Loki-kun, where are you…" A young pink haired, crimson-eyed girl whispered. She walked aimlessly under the setting sky. She felt hopeless and a tad bit guilty.
"I haven't apologized to you yet…"
"Oro? Oi, Daidouji." A young boy greeted as he pulled along his Kimchee cart.
"Narugami-kun…"
"What's wrong? It's really rare to see you sad…" Mayura couldn't stand it, the day was passing and she still had no sign of Loki. Tears began to well at the corners of her eyes.
"Uh…Daidouji? Ah, do you want some Spicy Bamboo Kimchee? It's free…" Narugami stuttered as he caught sight of Mayura's tears.
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"Thank you…" Loki said in a low voice.
"Are you really sure about this," Verdandi questioned, "Loki-sama?"
Loki faced the large window in his study as he examined the pin that Verdandi made. It shone under the light the setting sun gave off outside; this was supposed to erase her memories, huh? His eyes showed unhappiness, hesitance, but…
"It's better this way." He answered.
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The next day after school…
"This is no good…" Narugami told himself as he accompanied a gloomy Mayura in her search for her chibi detective. "I told her I'd help her look for Loki yesterday, but, the Loki she knows is already…"
"Huh? Ah, Daidouji…did you remember some place we can look for Loki?" Narugami said happily when Mayura stopped a little behind him.
"I…don't." Mayura hung her head. "I…I don't have any idea where he would be."
Mayura closed her eyes. Sadly a picture of Loki appeared, there he was smiling aloofly at her. He was so near and yet she couldn't touch him.
"Now that I think about it…" Mayura continued her head bowed and eyes closed. "I don't know anything about Loki-kun…" Inside her head she could see Loki turning away from her. "So, even if I do want to look for him, I don't know where to even start." Now Loki's back was facing her. Mayura opened her eyes and stared blankly forward.
Her usual bright crimson eyes were dull and lifeless.
"Daidouji…"
"It's just like the story of Alice in Wonderland. I wake up one morning and everything that's wonderful and mysterious disappears. Even Loki-kun is gone and…I start thinking that I'll never see him again."
Narugami stared at his pink haired classmate. He had never seen her this sad, this confused. She was hopeless and yet she still kept on trying.
"This feeling…" Mayura whispered as her eyes widened in realization, what she had been feeling. The desperation, she was trying with all she could to grasp Loki because… "I felt like this a long time ago." She prayed…but she was crushed. Right now, it was the same, the feeling. Someone precious to her was going to leave her.
Again.
"I'm sorry, Narugami-kun," Mayura's bangs shaded her eyes as she started to run, but she stopped just a few feet away and turned back to Narugami, a smile plastered on her face. "I'm sorry for bothering you when you should be working…And thank you. I'll look for Loki by myself."
"Ah, Okay." Narugami was doubtful about letting Mayura look for Loki alone but he supposed it was for the best. Mayura bid goodbye before she continued her search by herself.
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Mayura stood right in front of the Enjyaku Detective Agency's gate.
"In the end, I have nowhere to look but here." Mayura entered the large house.
"Hello?" Mayura bellowed as she walked inside Loki's home. "Is no one home?" she asked herself. The young girl continued up the stairs and stopped in front of Loki's study. Her hand reached to grasp the doorknob only to retract before even touching it. Her mind replayed the last time she went inside without permission.
"He might get mad at me again…" she said hesitantly and she was about to forget the idea of going inside the study until she heard a noise. She barged in without any second thought.
"Loki-kun?"
Only…it wasn't the ten-year old detective she saw but an older man. He was smiling at her.
He asked her if she'd like to go for a walk because she looked troubled. He said he would like to know what was wrong. And she knew she shouldn't talk to strangers, her father said so himself, but that was how she met Loki. Maybe she should just go with him, she was at a dead end anyways.
"I'm so lost as to where to find him…" Mayura said thoughtfully. She was so bewildered on where to look for her friend ignorant to the fact that the person she was looking for was seating right beside her, only in a different form.
"Is that so…" Loki said, acting the part of a friend of the chibi detective. He stared at the hair pin in his hand. He had to give it to Mayura.
"Once Mayura-san places this hair pin in her hair, she will lose all the memories she had about the times she spend with us gods."
Loki remembered what Verdandi said when she gave him her little creation. He enclosed the pin in his hand.
"Excuse me?" Mayura spoke up.
"Yes?"
"What is your relationship with Loki-kun?" Mayura asked a small smile on her face. "Are you one of his relatives?"
"Uh, no. We're just friends." Loki answered.
"Friends…I see." Mayura felt a sudden sadness swept over her. "Ok, then." Mayura stood up. "I will go look for Loki-kun again." Mayura smiled, determination filled her voice, "I have no idea where to look for Loki-kun but I'll look anyways."
"I see."
"Well, I have to go. Goodbye then."
"Ah, wait!" Loki stood up, clutching the hair pin in one hand. "Is there anything I can do to help? You seem really listless."
Mayura stared at her new acquaintance, "Oh, thank you but your thoughts are enough." She turned away, ready to leave only to be stopped by her companion the second time.
"Hey…"
"I'm a god." Loki said smugly. A smirk was on his face. For a few moments both stood there, silent. For a moment there Mayura thought she saw her little detective instead of the young man in front of her. Mayura stared at her companion. He had just proclaimed himself as god. "So, I'll grant you one wish." He approached her reaching out his hand to show her a lovely hair pin. Mayura couldn't help but giggle a little.
"You sound so much like Loki-kun." Mayura smiled, this time it was genuine. But the smile faded immediately, "I do believe in mysteries and the occult but believing in God is where I draw the line."
Mayura told Loki about when her mother was sick, she was just a young girl and she faithfully prayed to God everyday to not take her away. But he didn't listen.
Loki sighed. "Well, will you at least give it a try?" He urged her to take the hair pin, Mayura reluctantly took it. She gazed at it with her eyes, tracing every detail and contour of the shiny pin.
"Make your wish then put it on." Loki instructed. Mayura nodded, she took a deep breathe and began to say her wish.
"I wish Loki-kun would come back."
Mayura placed the hair pin in her hair. And in an instance flashes about Loki, Yamino, Fenrir, Narugami, Freyr, Freya(Reiya), Heimdall, Hel and the Three Norn Sisters had appeared but as quickly as it had appeared it disappeared.
Loki watched as Mayura's eyes went blank when she put the hair pin on. Slowly she fell and Loki's strong arms caught her then he lowered her to the ground with so much care as if she was fragile glass.
He cradled her head in his lap for a while.
"I'll grant you your wish Mayura-chan." The God of Mischief whispered as a blue light engulfed him and he returned to his chibified form. "But only for a little while."
Loki brushed the strands of pink hair away from her angelic face. She looked heavenly with her eyes closed like that. And without warning Loki brushed his lips across hers. A short peck but lovely nonetheless. Mayura tasted sweet, was what Loki thought as he licked his lips, savoring the feel and taste of her lips.
"Goodbye Mayura-chan…This is for the best."
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Mayura blinked. She sat up straight as she surveyed her surroundings. She was in her room, in her pajamas, on her bed.
"Mou…I had the weirdest dream." She scratched her head and got off her bed. Then she noticed the picture frame on her desk. She took it and was surprised. She was alone in the picture, but there was so much space? It looked like the picture was taken with someone, like she had people with her in the picture.
Mayura closed her eyes. A sudden flash passed by her mind. She opened her eyes instantly, a bewildered expression in them.
"Who?" She looked at her window to see the sun shining. She stared outside the bright blue sky. Her fingers unconsciously and tentatively brushed against her lips.
Who was that boy and young man I saw in my mind? It was weird, they had the same brown hair and green eyes. And the same smirk, like they were twins. But how was that possible? The age difference looked so far apart. It was like a…
"Fushigi Mystery…" Mayura whispered. She placed the photo back on her desk, just beside a hairpin, a flower shaped ruby with a gold center and a golden star design kind of pin.
Maybe it was just a dream.
"Mayura, breakfast is ready!" Misao shouted from outside Mayura's room. She shrugged any previous thoughts away and went to the kitchen for breakfast.
Little did the pink haired, crimson eyed teen know, she had memories in her that she didn't even remember.
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Under the large world tree…
"Verdandi…"
"Yes Urd-oneesama?"
"Did you really erase that girl's memory?"
Verdandi shook her head, a little knowing twinkle in her eyes "No I didn't I just made her forget about us…It's up to Loki-sama if he wishes it to be permanent or not."
"What do you mean Verdandi?"
"Her memories about us are still with her only she doesn't know she has them…now if Loki-sama wishes to go back to Midgard, then he'll have her."
Verdandi smiled as she looked up, the Yggdrasil Tree's leaves covered the sky.
"Why did you do that?" Skuld suddenly asked.
"Because, Skuld…we may visit Midgard again and…I am a little fond of that girl. She's different."
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