iheartikuto: Oy, snap out of Takuto

Takuto: ...Mitsuki...

Mitsuki: I'm okay. Stop pestering me. i'm fine...

Takuto: I can't

Mitsuki: Why?0

Takuto: you'll find out soon enough;

iheartikuto: ... :) i know, just to cheer you up, you may do the honors, Takuto :)

Takuto: ... iheartikuto does not own Full Moon Wo Sagashite

Chapter 1

"What do we do? What do we do!" cried Meroko as she ran around the room in a blaze. Izumi paced back and forth thinking quickly. He ground his teeth in frustration and his eyes became slits.

He hissed at Meroko without meaning to. "Think of something! There has to be some way!" His hands balled up into fists. Before he could take his anger any farther, Mitsuki groaned and cringed in pain.

"Hang in there Mitsuki!" cried Izumi. He glanced over in the shadows for the other shinigami. "Zero! Get over here you lazy dog." He growled at a gray haired boy standing in the corner. Zero sighed and trudged over to Izumi's side.

"Meroko….Izumi …. I'm sorry. But there is nothing we can do! There's no one she can meet and nothing she can do that will stop her death! I told you twice all ready! (Make that three times.) We must let Jonathan come and collect her soul!" He explained quietly, upset as he was. "I don't want her to die either," he added hastily after Izumi gave him the evil eye.

"But, but!" Meroko cried, tears welling up in her large eyes. Her eyes peeped quickly at Takuto, who was kneeled at his beloved's side, before going back to flipping through her shinigami hand book again. Izumi's eyes also darted to his face, worried.

Mitsuki's bloodshot eyes opened at the sound of Meroko's sobbing. She coughed a little. "Don't…Don't worry about me Meroko. I'm not going to be gone forever. I'll be back. So don't worry." The wound in her heart carved deeper into her chest at the sight of her friends' grief. The thought of grief made her think of another who was in more pain. She turned her head and to watch Takuto.

The blue shinigami felt Mitsuki's gaze on him. He slowly lifted his head to look sadly at her. His expression was full of pain and sorrow. "I'm sorry Takuto, to leave you this way, but my time has come. I must leave you. But…I will be back for sure. Just…just wait for me. Promise me that." She touched his face with her cold hands, her eyes filling with tears for the fifth time.

Takuto nodded and held her hand to his face. He bit his lip and choked back tears of his own, his eyes glued to his girlfriend's face. Mitsuki turned to her parents, siblings, and friends. "Everyone," she said. 'I'll be gone for a while. But don't miss me. I'll be back before you know it." She tried to end happily but her voice cracked a little at the end and she closed her eyes. Her hand slipped out of Takuto's hands and fell from his face.

Akira, her sister, was crying into Kouta's, her brother's, shoulder. Meroko turned her head into Izumi's chest. He hugged her closely. 'It didn't have to end this way. Why did it though. Was it her choice?' he thought. Yuri, her mother, started sobbing really hard into her black handkerchief. Mitsuki's best friend, Yumi, and her older brother, Kohaku, leaned against each other with tears silently rolling down their cheeks. Zero looked away. He couldn't bear to see her die. Takuto closed his eyes and the tears overwhelmed him.

A light breeze blew into the room; however, it started to blow harder and harder. Izumi closed his eyes and grasped Meroko tighter. A blind flash of light eliminated the room and then disappeared as quickly as it came.

When everyone opened their eyes again, Mitsuki's body was gone. Her greenish soul was in its place. Next to her was the ghost type shinigami, Jonathan. He stood silently as the soul spoke, "Goodbye, Everyone." Then, he picked the soul up and vanished into wisps of smoke.

There was quiet. Then the room filled with Meroko, Yumi, and Yuri's sobs. Izumi, still grasping Meroko, led her out of the room. Zero sulked in dismay behind them. Takuto stayed fixed where he was.

Slowly, Yumi and Kohaku followed them out. Then, almost everyone filed out. Only Yuri, her husband, Aoi, and Takuto were left.

Yuri started, "Takuto?" Takuto gave her an evil look so evil that she caught herself. She didn't finish her sentence. Aoi led her out of the room, leaving Takuto alone.

He balled his hands into fists. 'Why did it have to be Mitsuki? Why wasn't it someone else?' he thought angrily. His fist slammed down on the bed.

He couldn't look at the empty bed anymore. So he unclasped his hand, stood up slowly and trudged out of the room. Meroko was standing outside of the door with tears still sliding down her cheeks. She looked up when Takuto emerged. "Takuto," she started to say, but didn't finish her sentence.

Takuto ignored Meroko and slowly flew down the hall to his and Izumi's room. She looked sadly after him before flying in the other direction.

Takuto opened the door to find Izumi sprawled on his bed flipping through some photo albums. He flew by him and settled himself on his bed. He kicked off his shoes and turned his back on Izumi.

Izumi sighed and said, "Mi-ki was a kind girl. She was one of the gentlest girls I have ever met. We'll all miss her very much. Don't worry Takuto. If she says she'll be back, she will definitely come back." He continued flipping the pages and stopped.

The picture was the three shinigamies and Mitsuki together. They were all laughing and playing along the beach. He starred at the picture for a long time. A smile played on his lips and a glistening tear slid down his cheek.

He sighed again and turned back to Takuto. "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?" The blue shinigami didn't stir. "You were prepared for it. That's why you didn't break down like we thought you would." It wasn't a question. It was a statement.

Takuto bit his lip and pretended to be asleep. After a few minutes, Izumi turned back to the album and started flipping through it again. He stopped at another picture. It was Mitsuki giggling in the grass with Takuto. Another tear worked its way down his cheek. Just then, Meroko appeared out of the portal in the wall. She was holding a picture that hung in the gallery on the third floor. She threw it into Izumi's lap silently before disappearing into her own room on the other side of the curtain.

Izumi lifted his head and looked over the picture. He smiled a sad smile. He abandoned the album and put the photo onto the nightstand between Takuto and his bed. His golden eyes wandered over to the blue shinigami before slipping out of bed.

The yellow shinigami slid the curtain open and went to Meroko's bed. He whispered into her ear. The pink shinigami nodded and got out of her bed. The two drifted to the door.

Before she closed it, Meroko opened her mouth to call Takuto's name but closed it again. She shut the door and he was left alone.

Takuto opened his eyes and rolled over when the door shut and looked at the nightstand. The picture Meroko had brought was a photo of Mitsuki when she was just a little girl. She was laughing playing in the flowers. He bit his lip again and the tears threatened over flow like the day he found out Mitsuki was going to die.

I wish I had died with her if I could have! Then I could be with her! He knew very well shinigamies couldn't die, but he wished. He sighed and lied down again. He closed his eyes and took a small nap.

His dream was a confusing one. Takuto was in the boss's office waiting for the new partner. The Boss introduced him to a young girl with brown curly hair that looked very familiar. He was about to take a closer look when everything went black.

When he woke up, Meroko was sitting on the edge of his bed. He grumbled groggily, "What do you want?"

The pink shinigami grinned a lifeless smile and stuttered, "I brought some dinner for you." She gestured to the plate on the nightstand.

Takuto sat up slowly and looked at her. "Sorry, but I'm not hungry. Thank you though," he muttered. Meroko got out of the way as he slid out of bed and put on his shoes.

On his way out the door, Takuto saw Izumi lying on the bed flipping through the album again. The yellow shinigami steadily ignored him. Takuto went out of the room and shut the door.

Company from them wasn't what he wanted right now. The voice he craved right now was not his friends' but Mitsuki's. Then, a thought presented itself to him.

Takuto flew down the hallway and into the portal that led to the vaults. He felt the soundless shimmer as he teleported from the fifth floor to basement 2. He stepped out of the portal.

This floor was where all the "treasured" items and such from the academy were kept. He went to a metal door on the far right and deliberated. 'Should I do this or not?' He deliberated.

Takuto's desire to hear Mitsuki's voice overpowered his conscious. Takuto cautiously placed his hand on the scanning screen. Only shinigami could enter this vault. The scanner sent a green light flashing over his whole body. It beeped and the metal door swung open with a barely audible creak.

Inside were shinning balls of greenish light. They were the souls that the shinigamies collected. They were the souls that had moved on to the next life.

The names were in alphabetical order. He went to the shelf with the M names. His blue eyes scanned the rows of names on the shinning golden plaques. When his eyes found the plaque with Mitsuki's name on it, it was empty.

Takuto: EMPTY? EMPTY?

iheartikuto: relax. You're over reacting

Takuto: What's wrong with you? How can you leave her soul behind?

iheartikuto: "you'll find out soon enough." Those were your words. Now i'm throwing them back at you.

Takuto: ...

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