Yuka's Pov

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Today is the big day! I thought to herself. Today is the day that I will ask Kouta out!

Yuka just finish watching Kouta set up the table when she finally noticed he accendently set up a plate for Lucy.

Why can't he just forget about her? Why must that women cause him so much pain? And why do I feel sorry for the fact that she is not here?

"Hey Kouta you did it again."

"Huh? What did I do," Kouta looked down and finally noticed the extra plate, "Oh. Sorry. I just guess I thought that everything that happened was a dream you know? That Nyu would be running around playing with Wanta or Nana and would be waiting for us to finish dinner."

"I know what you mean." I looked in the backyard to see Mayu and Nana chasing Wanta. "It doesn't feel the same without her does it?"

"Yeah. Hey remember that time we took her to college with us. She kept saying yes to everything... Do you like the school? 'YES!' Do you like the teachers, 'YES!' She even started to talk normal..." Kouta looked at Nana as if he wished it were Lucy instead. He still hasn't told Yuka about what and who Nyu really is. He wondered if he will ever get the chance to.

"Anyway, dinner is just about done. Hey Nana, Mayu! Time for dinner!" I started to get food for my plate when everyone sat down around the table.

"Hey Yuka," Nana said, "why do you a dreamy look in your eyes?"

"What? Oh it's nothing. I was just remembering all the good times we had with Nyu." It was the truth but I was thinking of a paticular time when Nyu grabbed my breasts when Kouta left the house. Unbeknowns to anyone else at the table, I started to think of Nyu in a very different way after that. I'd even fantasized about Nyu and masturbated to her. What is happening to me? I am suppose to ask Kouta out! I can't think of this! It is immoral and sick!

"Yuka the food today is really delicious!" Mayu just wanted everyone to stop thinking about Nyu because she saw how everyones face became sad. She just wanted everyone to be happy again.

When everyone started to dig in the doorbell rang.

"I'll go get it." Kouta left the table to see who it is. When he came to the door he stopped in his tracks. Through the paper door he saw someone, no a girl, standing there. What really made him stop was her head. He saw something sticking out of it as if the girl was wearing a weird headband.

"It can't be. It just can't be." Kouta opened the door and was rewarded with the sight of Lucy, a bullet hole in her right side. When he was her face he was grief stricken. He didn't see the innocent look of Nyu or the deadly glare of Lucy, instead all he saw was a broken girl. A girl whos eyes were dead to the world, as if her soul itself was shattered to a million pieces.

"I'm sorry Kouta but I had nowhere else to go," Lucy said with a frightning weak voice, "I just needed to see everyone one last time." With that Lucy passed out and fell in Kouta's arms.

Sensing Lucy, Nana ran twoards the door and saw Lucy in Kouta's arms and Kouta crying as if he lost the love of his life. Right behind Nana came Mayu and Yuka.

"We have to get her to the hospital," I said as I grabbed the keys, "come on Kouta! Don't just sit there crying! We need to get her there right now or else that bullet wound would be the last of her!"

Kouta didn't budge so Nana and I grabbed Lucy and dragged her into my new car. We drove like madwomen (hehe) and arrived at the hospital in less than thirty minutes. The doctors were able to close the wound but were shocked when they saw Lucy's remaining horn. I came up with a story that Lucy had a birth defect that caused the horn. The doctors bought it and left me alone with Lucy. I stared out the window most of the time, thinking that Nyu had to get better for everyone, Kouta, Mayu, Nana, and- and even me.

"Why did you bring me here? I thought you hated me." Lucy regained consiness and was staring at me with confused eyes.

"I don't really know. I just saw you passed out and I guess something just came over me. And for the hating you part, I guess I did at the beginning but now, I just- I just don't anymore." I looked at Lucy as if seeing her for the first time. "How come you always go back and forth? I mean one second your Nyu and another you act like someone else entirelly."

Lucy looked at me for a long time and when I thought she wouldn't answer she finally said, "I have a split personality disorder. You see, I have two sides of me. One side is Nyu, the side you usually see, and the other side is this. This side is Lucy."

Ok then. That actually explains a few things... Why is she staring at me like that? I thought as Lucy continued to look at me as if I am her lunch.

Lucy finally looked away with a small blush saying, "How is Kouta?"

I looked at her confussed. Then I relized that she must still love him. For some reason, I got an ache in my heart imagining Lucy hugging Kouta. "He is alright I guess... Why do you ask?"

"Do you love him?"

"Yes." I hesetaited. Why did I hesitate, of course I love him- don't I? I started to see where this was going.

"You should be with him. Make him stop loving me and start loving you."

As the last word left her mouth Lucy's eyes started to grow bigger and lighter and then Nyu came out. "Hi Yuka!" Nyu waved to me as if she weren't in a hospital with a bullet wound in her side and one horn ripped off.

I just stared at her thinking that I finally won I battle but felt as if I lost the war.