I've read some Angel Beats fanfiction so I decided to write my own! Hope you like it! Note: I don't own Angel Beats and only the plot!

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Otonashi's POV

Chapter 1: Yuri and Kanade Back in My Life

I'm Yuzuru Otonashi. On the outside, I might appear as some normal teenage boy with orange hair but my mental being tells a different story. Sometimes, I have visions or dreams of myself holding a gun and walking around some strange school. When suddenly a small girl, I believe her name was "Angel", would show, walking emotionlessly towards me. At that time, I would hear a command to fire my weapon which I do hesitantly. They girl appeared harmless, after all!

Other times, I see/dream of myself facing this Angel girl. She keeps telling me to repeat my last words to her. Without realizing, I tell her how much I loved her and asking her to stay at the school with me. But without much warning, she thanked me before disappearing. I always find myself in tears as I reach out to grab her as if she were still there. This often resulted in me waking up; the tears still stained my face, my chest twisted in knots as the emotions won the countless battles, one little tune, and a name.

Kanade

I shake my head clean. The therapists told me it is nothing more than just my imagination gone wild. I believed them for some time but these sudden appearances wouldn't stop coming at me.

Anyway I found the answer to all these crazy flashes I've been having one day when I was on my way home from taking the entrance exam for the new high school I would be attending in August.

That was the time I heard a song, the song, which solved and fitted all the pieces to my confusing life puzzle.

…..

I walked by calmly, in no hurry to get home, really. I already had the rest of my day planned. I'd go home, eat a little lunch, take a short nap, study, go for a jog, dinner, read, then bed. That's how my days usual went back in my old home and since I moved out of my parents' place and to Tokyo to finish my last two years in high school and start collage in the capital.

As I neared the corner of the street, I noticed a young girl with a hat covering her face leaning against a white pole but I faintly recognized the snow white hair underneath the hat.

But she was humming the tune; the tune that haunted me with its melodic notes. My body suddenly stopped in its tracks. I didn't face her until I heard her stop her humming and check her phone. Without warning, she turned and started running off in the opposite direction.

I couldn't stop myself. Before I knew it, I was running after her.

Kanade!

Was the only name/word that popped up in my mind at the time and as my hand came in contact with her shoulder, I made the name audible, "Kanade!"

I felt her stop and her body suddenly become rigid.

"You're Kanade Tachibana, right?" I asked.

The girl slowly nodded her small head but she didn't turn to face me as she spoke for the first time, "How do you know my name?"

I realized I still had my hand on her shoulder. Feeling my body heating up, I immediately removed it and rubbed the back of my head nervously, Smooth Yuzuru.

"Not trying to sound weird or if that I'm hitting on you or anything," I cleared my throat, "But I've been having dreams about you. It's kinda awkward; I know but don't run off!"

Kanade turned her head slightly so only her mouth was visible, "I am not planning to run off."

Such a beautiful and sincere voice; I guess that's why the dream me fell for her, "Really? Because that's not what you usually hear every day."

"I have heard weirder," admitted the angelic girl.

I only managed a pretty creepy chuckle, "I was kinda hoping you would have answers to my weird dreams concerning you."

I saw a smile almost a smirk form itself upon her lips, "You are Yuzuru Otonashi, correct?"

"Yeah, how do you know my name?" I repeated her, confused. "You've been dreaming about me, too?"

Before I knew anything, Kanade attacked me and scored a punch right behind my right ear. I couldn't remember anything at the moment as the world turned black, but I'm pretty sure I heard the following lines coming from another female.

"Got him! Nice job, Kanade!"

"Thank you, Yu-"

….

"Yuzuru please," begged the girl I gave my heart to, literally, "Tell me. Repeat what you just said."

I looked at her, feeling my heartless chest tightening, "No, I won't! Kanade, you'll disappear!"

"Yuzuru please!" she continued begging, coming closer to me.

But I continued to refuse, gripping on my tan jacket, "No, I can't. I can't do it!" I shut my eyes; half hoping that would stop the pain from coming.

"Yuzuru!" her voice made me open my eyes and look into her sun colored ones, "Please let me believe in everything you believe in." They continued to glisten with sadness but determination, almost commanding me to say the words.

I closed my eyes once again, gripping the pain.

"Let me believe," she continued to speak, "that life is worth living."

I finally gave in. The battle between myself and her words ended, me losing to the pain.

"Yuzuru," she repeated my name again.

"Kanade," I opened my arms and she walked into them, wrapping her smaller ones around me, "I love you. Let's stay together forever, okay?"

She buried her face deeper into my chest, "Thank you, Yuzuru…"

…

I faintly woke up, my head pounding like crazy.

"When is he going to wake up?" Kanade's voice filled my head.

"Pretty soon," another female voice entered the scene, "You worry too much, Kanade. He's not gonna sleep forever, you know."

"I hit him pretty hard," admitted Kanade.

You knocked me out cold!

"But if I know any of my Battlefront guys, they all have thick heads," the other female spoke again, the voice slowly becoming recognized by my brain, "And Otonashi has one of the thickest. He did get his head slammed against the floor several times by Yui back then anyway."

Battlefront?

"He barely survived that," Kanade replied, her voice filled with concerned.

"But it's not like you hit him with a brick, Kanade," her friend answered. "You used your bare hands and you were still able to knock him out. Just proves how strong you were back then and even now. Seriously though, your first encounters are very, well, unforgettable."

"How so?"

Wait, I'm confused. What happened the first time I met Kanade?

"You literally stabbed and killed him the first time he came to the afterlife," replied Kanade's friend. "And now, you knocked him out cold."

Kanade? Killed me the first time we met! Hold it, how is that even physically possible?! Better question, how did I end up loving Kanade if she 'killed' me the first time we met?

"He asked for it remember? I would not have stabbed him otherwise and you would have never gotten the chance to recruit him into Battlefront, Yuri."

Yuri…? Wait a minute, Yuri is familiar, too.

Suddenly, a flash of a girl holding a gun. She had dark pinkish reddish hair and a bow. Her face wasn't always serious but she held the leader's posture. And she also had the green bow…

"YURIPPE!" the person suddenly became familiar. I yelled as I sat up.

"About time you came to, Otonashi," I turned and saw Yuri sitting in a black computer chair across a small coffee table from me. She had a wide smirk and beside her, stood Kanade without her hat. I now know for sure who she is and she's the girl I supposingly loved in my dreams so much. And she's real?

I scanned my surroundings and found that I had been sleeping on a very comfortable vanilla colored sofa in an afternoon lit living room.

I rubbed my head, "Where exactly am I?"

"You are in Kanade's and my domain, Otonashi," Yuri answered.

"D-do you remember any of us?" asked Kanade, a little nervous about my answer.

"I've had dreams with you two in it," admitted me, again sounding like a creeper, "But I always thought they were fake."

"Obviously not since we're here right in front of you," pointed out Yuri.

When my mind still drew a blank, she yelled at me, "Oh come on, Yuzuru! Don't tell me you forgot the girl you love, too?! It's okay if you forget me, but if you forget Kanade, you are in very deep trouble. Why don't you take a moment and examine her a little closer."

I felt myself shiver a bit at her sudden exclaim. Nonetheless, I looked at the little girl standing next to her.

The white hair, the sun eyes, the once emotionless face all looked back at me, a slight blush painted on her cheeks. The girl then gave me a very warm smile.

Suddenly, everything flooded back to me, making me clutch my head. Her stabbing me when I didn't believe her words. Me shooting a bullet into her thigh and her unknown skills at the time. Picking up her Maboo tofu ticket by accident and eating it for the first time. Finding her rather really cute while we were locked up in the little prison together. Then when she went fishing with the Battlefront crew….

Battlefront, afterlife! It all makes so much more sense now!

I fell in love with Kanade in the afterlife after I found out her real intentions. I helped her help Yui get obliterated (well it was mainly Hinata's doing but still).

Hinata! Yui! Oh joy, everything is coming back too fast.

"Yuzuru?" her voice made my eyes snap open, "is everything alright?"

Before anybody knew what happened (even me) I leapt across the coffee table and landed right in front of her. With my strong arm, I pulled her tiny body against my own and tightened my grip, afraid that if I loosened, she would disappear from my sight again.

"I remember everything, Kanade. I remember how much I loved you and how much it pained me when you just left my side," I whispered into her ear. "Just promise me, promise me to never disappear again. Because I don't know I could ever survive that much pain. Tell me, Kanade. Tell me you love me, too."

It took a while and I was almost convinced that she didn't love me. But her small arms snaked themselves under my arms as she returned my show of affection.

"I love you, Yuzuru," she replied. "And I promise, to never disappear from your side again."

We stayed like this, her in my arms and I felt everything around us fade to black. I have Kanade back, even though I thought it would be a 1 in a billion chance but she's back in my arms and this time, I can tell her how much I loved her without being afraid she would be gone.

"That's long enough, Otonashi, let her go," Yuri's voice interrupted our happy reunion.

I turned to her, my arms still around my lover, "Come on, Yuri. I haven't seen her for seventeen years!"

"I know but I get a little protective over her," Yuri admitted.

"Why is that?" I raised an eyebrow.

Kanade answered for the ex-leader, "In this life, Yuri is my older cousin by two months."

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"Seriously?!"