AUTHORS PRE-NOTE!

Due to hate mail (courtesy of disgruntled fans) and and Hamster Ninjas in pink jumpsuits wielding banana katanas and throwing rice trying to assassinate me (I'm thinking Dylan Hooper is responsible for those) I am re writing Elfen Lied: A Second Chance.

I will NOT however, make the same mistakes this time as I made in my last story. Things also will not go the same way this time, things will change from the previous installment to prevent monotony.

PLEASE REVIEW PEOPLE! I TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY!

Now, without further ado: BEGIN

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Theme

Fight the fight alone,

When the world is full of victims.

Dims a fading light, in our souls.

Leave the peace alone,

now we all are slowly changing.

Dims a fading light in our souls.

In my opinion: Seeing is to know.

The things we hold are always first to go.

And who's to say we won't end up alone?

On Broken Wings, I'm falling, and it won't be long.

The skin on me is burning by the fires of the sun.

On skinned knees I'm bleeding, and it won't be long.

I've gotta find that meaning, and I'll search for so long.

Chapter 1: A Second Beginning.

"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live." -Bette Midler

She was bleeding. The wound on her head from the broken horn because of Mariko's assault on her, was still bleeding. It was the first thing that he had noticed.

"You're hurt." He said with concern.

She looked solemnly at him, "It's nothing." Was all she replied as she sat down.

Sitting on the stone staircase that they had been so few times before. He listened. Listened to her tell him how sorry she was, how she survived hell, just to come back to see him once more.

To bear him her heart for what she had done to him. Not even expecting to be forgiven, she just wanted to tell him.

He listened to her as sobs racked her body.

Kouta didn't know what to do.

One part of his heart was screaming. Screaming to tell her the pain that she had caused him. The loss...the murder...of his little sister and father, but...

The other side of his heart knew why. Rejected, hated, feared, tortured, and ultimately unloved.

He knew this was her. The life that Lucy has led from as far as she could remember. He could only imagine the pain that he had caused her when she saw him standing with Yuka at the festival. The cousin that he lied about, right to her face, and said was a boy.

He knew that she would be hurt when she found out, but at the time, the lack of age, and the want to keep his pretty pink haired friend smiling, had led him to decide that telling her the truth was a bad idea.

He knew how much she hurt. How much her heart was torn when she thought that the only person that ever truly loved her, ever truly cared, betrayed her.

Kouta could not help but wonder: Was it his fault? Was the hell that she went through, all because he couldn't tell her the truth?

Lucy had finished her explanation to Kouta. On what she was, what she could do. How she could make it to where the majority of babies that are born are Dicloni, instead of human.

And how she had to die.

She stood up and began to walk away after saying a final goodbye. She began to walk away, when the pain in Kouta's heart surged. The silent guilt overtook him, the guilt and his love for the pink haired Diclonius.

"Don't go!" He cried. He jumped up and threw his arms around her, "Please, don't go..."

She had a look of surprise on her face...she didn't know how to react, "But Kouta...I killed your family..."

"I know!" He interjected, "I..I can't explain it. I..I can't forgive what you did to my father and my sister...I don't think that I ever can."

Lucy cringed upon hearing that.

"But...I still love that sad little girl I met in the mountains all those years ago, and Nyu too..."

Lucy had placed her hands on top of his and let her head drop, "Kouta..."

She turned around to face the man that loved her. The man that she had hurt more than anyone else on the planet, and the only one to still wanted her. She placed her hand tenderly on his cheek, "Kouta...thank you. You were a beautiful dream, in a hellish nightmare. I'll always cherish the memories that we shared." She stepped closer to him and pulled herself closer to him. She looked into his tear-filled eyes. She realised that those tears, for the most part, were FOR her, not BECAUSE of her. She pulled him closer, and she met his lips with hers.

Right. That's all she could think. This moment. This feeling of bliss as she felt her love for him returned to her through the kiss that they shared. It felt right.

The moment seemed to last only for a second, but at the same time, it lasted an eternity.

She pulled away, and let go. She had no choice.

She couldn't let him go to face the fate that she knew awaited her. She just couldn't let his life be over because of her.

He stood there in silence and watched her go.

He didn't know what to say. He didn't know what to do.

All he knew, was that this would, more than likely be the last time he would see her. The last time he would see Nyu.

As Kouta was standing there going through the many thoughts in his head, trying to sort them out, Lucy had gone. She had gone to face the soldiers that were trying to find and kill her. She would not let Kouta's life be in danger anymore because of what she was.

Kouta came to his senses. He could not let her leave. He could not and WOULD not let her die for what she was.

Kouta took off running. Not away, but toward Lucy. He couldn't let it end like this. She wasn't the monster that everyone tried to label her as. Humans...if anyone, should be labeled monsters, it was the humans that treated her so horribly.

Kouta ran as hard as he could. He could see the lights from the military vehicles that they had brought to ensure the killing of the Dilconius Queen.

"Ready..." he heard the man shout.

Kouta picked up his pace, he ran harder top get closer to her, to tell her not to throw her life away.

"AIM..."

"NO!" Kouta screamed. He had to make it.

Lucy turned to meet the voice, the look of utter shock on her face was impossible to cover as she saw Kouta running toward her, but surprise turned to fear. Fear that paralysed her.

"FIRE!" The hail of bullets started just as Kouta reached Lucy.

Kouta, in a protective surge of emotion, grabbed Lucy and wrapped his arms protectively around her, turning his back to the oncoming assault. Lucy was terrified. Terrified for Kouta's life.

Lucy used every ounce of will she possessed to use her vectors to protect Kouta.

The onslaught of bullet's, however, proved to be much more than she could handle to stop, not having both horns made using vectors difficult, but to stop a hail of bullets, at her current power level, was impossible. She was simply incapable. The terror in her heart surged to new heights as she saw the bullets tearing through Kouta's back and her ears picked up his cries of pain.

The hail of fire stopped as the soldiers seen that they were not hitting the intended target.

They started shouting and orders could be heard over. Kouta slowly slid down her body, unable to hold himself up, any longer.

Lucy fell to her knees and rested Kouta's head on her shoulder. Tears fell freely from her eyes and slowly fell on to Kouta's back.

"Lucy…..run…get outta here." Kouta breathed.

Lucy couldn't move, she couldn't speak. She could hardly even breathe. Kouta was dying. Kouta was dying because he was trying to save her.

Kouta realized that she wasn't going to move. She was to much in shock because of what Kouta had done.

The problem is….he couldn't hold on. He felt life slipping away from his grasp as the pained face of Lucy watched.

"Kouta…" she said

"Kouta, don't you die on me. Kouta!" Lucy shouted.

Kouta gave her a soft smile, "I wish…that I could do it all over. Just so you could be happy again. Just to see you smile."

Lucy pulled beck and met her eyes with that of Kouta. She watched the light in Kouta's eyes sloly dim and fade.

"Kouta! NO! Please!" She cried.

The only thing that she could do was fall into his chest and cry. She listened as the beat of his heart crawled to a stop.

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Kouta didn't know where he was. It was dark.

"Is this…..death? He asked himself.

He looked around, and saw a light. The light made him feel a warmth that was somehow….familiar.

He began to float into it…..the only thing that he could hear in his head was "Your selfless wish is granted."

Aaand cut. Different this time. More of a connection between Kouta and Lucy. DONT YELL AT ME FOR INCONSISTANCIES BETWEEN MY STORY AND THE ANIME/MANGA! I have never read the Manga anyway.

Well maybe the hate mail will stop now, and please, stop with the hamster ninjas

Haru Glory.