Chapter 2- Can't Remember
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A/N: Man, I am on a roll today! Nearly 5 chappies in one day... maybe this is the 6th or 5th... XP
You should know what I own.
Enjooooy...
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I jumped as suddenly, something shattered. I stood, wary, until I realized nothing had really happened.
Then, I felt, for some reason, a part of my heart fade. It was a small, important part, I knew, but what was it?
It frightened me.
Then, Piko stirred. I was over him in an instant, back in another instant.
Then, over our link, I felt horrible pain.
His pain.
I cried out with him, then decided to do something immensely stupid.
I reached in and transferred all his pain to me.
It broke that piece of my heart...
...which was the link.
For a moment, all seemed frozen. Then, the pain doubled, and I collapsed, screaming, memories that weren't mine flashing in front of me.
Then, just as suddenly as it started, it all ended.
With an odd, painful sensation on my back.
I ignored that and staggered over to Piko, who was blinking incomprehensibly.
"Piko?" Then, his eyes focused in on me, confused. For a small moment, I was slightly relieved, then my heart stopped at his words.
"Who are you?"
I didn't just remove his pain...
...I removed everything that caused them, even the smallest links.
Including a lot of his memory, probably most of it.
Then, the pain intensified, making me wince, and my wings retract.
Then, he blinked, looking behind me.
I realized why when I rethought my thought process from a few seconds ago.
Having transferred his pain to me, I'd also transferred something that worried me in my haste.
The link itself was nonexistent, because I'd literally just placed the entire burden on my shoulders, in full.
These white wings won't be the last of it.
I feel like I've both done a good thing and I've just been caught with my hand in the cookie jar.
My face is red, tears threaten to come up, and I want to run.
"Gumi," I finally muttered, close to sobbing.
"I'm-"
"I know." Then, he nodded, almost as if he'd just remembered. My wings folded, and my entire body trembled with the frustration and pent up tears.
"Why..."
"I did something stupid," I mumbled, shuffling my feet and not looking at him.
"That doesn't answer my question."
"I transferred all your pains to me, so, in short, it was something stupid."
"My pains?" Then, I felt every memory flash by again. I can't wait much longer, or I'll break down here.
"Your worries... which, the stupidest of which, was worrying about me." Then, I spun and ran out the door, using my wings to balance as I sped through the halls, out the doors and into the day, before collapsing on the side of the building, hidden in the shadows.
What have I done? Then, I cried out in pain as it rebounded doubly within me, almost like a bouncy ball springing off a wall a million times.
I grabbed my hair, pulled, and screamed and sobbed. I've done the stupidest thing...Then, I curled up, my wings around me.
...that nobody else could screw up like I can. I shook, cried, but refrained from screaming again.
Here is my true punishment.
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"Gumi? What happened-"
"Let me in."
"Why are you wearing-"
"Let me in. This isn't a public discussion." Miku nods, then admits me into her place.
It's mostly coloured a warm green, giving everything a drowsily sharp feeling.
To attract less attention, I wore a large, draping coat. It was getting colder, so I suppose I'm lucky I didn't wear something else.
"Gumi..." She shut the door.
"Anyone else here?"
"Rin, Kaito. Both of them are playing Twister over... there." She pointed, where Kaito and Rin were doing Twister. Rin was holding the spinner, grinning evilly.
"Right foot, green." Hers slid into a spot easily, whereas Kaito was stuck, and then, he screwed up, making the both of them fall. Rin burst out laughing, as Kaito groaned.
"Damn, Rin, you can't be fair with that thing for once?"
"No." He groaned again, not getting up.
"Hey! Guys!" Miku walks in, then picks up Kaito by the ear- the latter screaming and whining- then motions for Rin. They come back out to me, then Miku drops Kaito on an armchair, taking a seat on the couch she owns, with Rin.
"So, Gumi... what is it?" I stand up, then take off the coat and spread my wings, feeling highly stupid again.
Kaito swears, Rin falls off her chair, and Miku seems suspended between crying and running away.
Then, she hesitantly walks forwards, then gently touches one of the bones that are visible. She's very near to tears now.
"Gumi... it's this close?" I know what she means.
"No. It's gone." Kaito swears again, whereas Rin, who has returned to her chair, looks confused. She fingers her necklace, then her expression brightens as she realizes what we're referencing.
"Gone? But how-"
"I did... something stupid. I removed all of the things that were hurting him... and some- most- of those were memories." Then, Rin blinks, then gasps.
"You seriously took it all away? But that's, like, nearly impossible, even with the odds of your link being firmer than diamond, and his pain being minimal! It's likely you just removed what was paining him then, but he might have more pain now!" Everyone turned to look at Rin, who blushed furiously.
"What? I study," she muttered, then kicked her feet at the floor. Miku rolled her eyes.
"Still... Rin's right, your bond would have to be immaculate..."
"It was, even before the verdict and the... other events. It was after I got interrogated."
"Really? It's that strong?"
"Was. Now, because I literally transferred our entire link to myself, it shattered."
"Wha...shattered?"
"Yeah," I mumbled, then felt like I was in a place where I was just in existence to answer questions but to get none of mine replied to with an actual answer.
Now I know what that shatter was.
Then, I felt small tears.
Rin fingered her necklace, and sighed dreamily.
Then, a bright, whitish yellow light exploded in the middle of the room, quickly expanding. I felt like I'd just unintentionally asked a wrong request, as the light seemed to be pulling us all towards it. I kept my wings shut, but it didn't help much. Then, I fell into that dark world that I was so familiar with.
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