A/N: Alright, so I've been undercover lately and I've decided to start anew. In this fiction, It is fairly centric on Shido/Kurumi, but Shido/Yoshino and Shido/Miku will be in this story as well. Sorry for all you Tohka fans. Me, personally? I LOVE Shido/Tohka, and sadly, I've seen not too many fabulous amounts of Shido/Kurumi and the other two mentioned, so in this fiction [don't hate me pls] Tohka and Yamai twins don't exist. I will make another fiction strictly for Shido/Tohka completely, because honestly, I myself feel horrible for doing this, but I want to make a fiction with Shido/Kurumi-centric/Yoshino/Miku, so, I hope you all enjoy. c:
Oh, please tell me how I can improve my story. I'll take suggestions and hopefully will be able to add them into the story without
screwing up the plot, and I'll also obviously happily take advice on how to make it better. Thank you all. \^o^/
"Kurumi," He spoke calmly. "If you do not remove this barrier along with the spacequake, I will fall off of the ledge behind me,
and die." He looked her straight in her eyes, with a stern look.
The girl simply cracked a small smirk with a forward look, and spoke back. "Fine, go ahead. Your words are mere empty threats to me."
His eyes tightened and he took a deep breath. "Alright." He felt himself slowly falling backwards, his eyes closed, the look on his face vanishing. 'I wonder if I'll actually hit the ground...' He thought. 'It's not like it matters. I just proved myself to her, proved that my words were not 'empty threats' to her', he thought.
Shido felt the wind stop forcing itself against his back as Kurumi swept through a portal and caught him, flying back up to the top of the roof and placing him down rather roughly.
Kurumi yelled, "Are you serious? You moron, are you completely out of your mind?!" Her teeth ground against eachother as she looked down at the boy.
He looked up, a grunt of discomfort heard. "Now I understand." He spoke, and slowly made his way to his feet. "My life isn't expendable."
Kurumi grunted with an unchanged expression.
"Stop the spacequake, Kurumi. Please." He looked her straight in her eyes.
"And, for the love of my friends, please remove the barrier." He looked at her with more edge. "I will bite my own tongue off, and die. That, you cannot control."
For some reason, she
doki
"Che," She spat, releasing the barrier, the ear-ringing spacequake alert signal fading away.
He looked down at her as he stepped closer. "You're thinking it right now, aren't you, Kurumi-san?" He spoke quitely. "We both know that I cannot forgive you for hurting my friends, but there is one more thing I want." He swallowed what felt like a cactus.
"Nani? There's more? How greedy. I just spared your friends', along with this city's citizens' lives. What more could you want?"
"Why would you go this far, Shido-san?!" She yelled, "Why would you go as far as to end your own life just to save your fr-"
He looked down and almost yelled, "Let me give you a chance to start over!"
"W-Will you quit with that already?" Kurumi felt unease, but it wasn't discomforting. "I've heard it enough, and I-"
"Kurumi!" Shido cut her short, taking another step. "You will never know unless you try! Have you ever thought once of being good? What would you think if I didn't like you? Would you just kill me off?"
"Sh-Shido..." Kurumi felt more unease, and this time discomfort made itself known to her. "Enough, please..."
"Yoshino is living a normal life right now, and you can enjoy it too!" His heart was pounding. He had never been so freightened. One wrong move, one wrong phrase, one wrong anything and he could have his own life taken away. Never had it occured to him that while saving Yoshino he could lose his life, but with Kurumi...
"Had you never considered it, you couldn't have enjoyed your date with me, Kurumi!" He took yet another step closer, they were 4 more steps apart.
"B-but, Shido, I-", still, her affection was..
"I know I can do this! I have to do this!" He was on the verge of tears. "You can make amends for everything that you have done to this innocent city, along with my friends! Kurumi!", and even then, she..
"Kurumi, I don't care now about how many sins you have committed, because," Shido swallowed dozens upon dozens of boulders.
Kurumi's heart was racing, and guilt was settling in.
'Oh, no... Shido, don't make that face... it's breaking my heart..', even in this moment, she...
"Because..." Shido jolted his head up and yelled,
Even now, Kurumi's affection meter remained at an unchanged 100%.
"I will stop at nothing to save you, Kurumi!"
doki-doki, doki-doki, Kurumi's heart rate was making her head ache.
"But, I... I can't, Shido, I..."
Shido smiled, hearing Reine confirm her affection meter at 100%, he held out his hand. "Please, Kurumi..." He spoke with gentleness, "take my hand, and let me rescue you." Kurumi's eyes began to water up, slowly extending her arm out as Kotori was silently cheering him on from afar.
"Can I... really be saved? Can you really... save me, Shido-san?" Shido smiled as he nodded. "Only if you're willing to let me. Just hold my hand, Kurumi." He had a saddened look on his face. "I can't bear not being able to save you any longer." Kurumi's heart shattered like slowly melting ice in the summer. "So, please, Kurumi.. your only job right now, is to hold my hand... I can do everything else!"
Kurumi ran into his arms almost faster than her heart did as she cried gently. "Shido-san... Shido-san..." She felt two arms coil tightly around her body and felt a comfort like none other. "Kurumi... just hold me." Closing his eyes, he squeezes her, doing unto her.
Reine confirmed that her affection gauges were unreadable at this point, Kotori screaming in victory.
Pulling his head back, he looked into her eyes, pushing the hair that was hiding her golden clock to the side. "You're beautiful, Kurumi."
Kurumi's heart had skipped a beat, and Kotori told him that he didn't have to do anything more, and to bring her back to their house.
"Shido...-san... you, you think so?" She looked up at him.
'So... I turned this psychopathic yandere killer into this loving, gentle, fragile girl by manipulating her feelings. Alright, 2 spirits and counting!'
Shido silently cheered himself on as he placed her head on his shoulders. "Yes, Kurumi, you're beautiful. Please, leave the rest to me."
Kurumi wiped the tears off of her face with her sleeve and nodded, closed eyes and a gentle smile, "Of course, Shido-san."
Shido leaned in and surprised Kurumi with a gentle kiss, finally sealing her powers. Albeit leaving the girl wide-eyed, she sank into his kiss subconsciously, frozen in many emotions. Her gothic clothing slowly faded from toe to head, with a shimmer brighter than the one shown in her eyes, currently.
"Sh-Shido-san, when did you?..." She pulled away, her face red. "Kurumi, It's a part of the sealing. You're now safe with me." He took her hand, and smiled. "Let's go to my house, okay? I can explain anything you want to hear there, okay?" His eyes were closed.
'Yes! I did it! Jesus christ, what a psycho! I thought I was going to die! I don't even feel much for her... so, why was my heart going insane?' He questioned himself. 'Maybe... it's fear? She's scary, but.. It feels a little better than I thought it would.'
"Yes, Shido-san, I will follow you." She smiled slightly, looking down. "Thank you... I will follow you to the end of time." Speaking of an ironic statement, considering her power was to control time.
Shido's heart skipped a beat at that moment, though he shoved it off. "Y-Yeah, no problem.."
IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
UGH. I feel like I had a great idea with where this was going, but I feel like it all happened too fast! I'm really rusty, so this fic is basically like a practice, and will probably end up re-doing it in the future!
:P I fucking LOVE Shido/Kurumi just ugh it's so perfect ;u; In all honesty, I'll probably make a fic where the story remains untouched, except that after saving Miku, Shido saves Kurumi :DDDDD
Alrighty, I hope you guys enjoyed chapter 1!~ c: Laterss.
Please remember to constructively criticize me, and DO point out spelling errors... I re-read my stories/chapters and edit/refine them to my best of power, but I'll still end up making a mistake. Bye-bye! ^u^