Izark set up his surroundings so he could accomplish his goal. He made sure that Noriko stood back a few feet from where the journals were. He'd placed the journals in the direct center. Izark then thought to himself, Go back, back to Noriko's world. Suddenly a bright light came from where the journals were. Now they should just vanish. Izark thought but it didn't happen like that. A little circle opened and kept getting wider. Inside the circle was a picture. A picture with things that were not familiar to him in it. The journals floated up and went into the picture. He suddenly realized it wasn't just a picture. It was sort of like a portal into the place the picture was. The picture was of a room. There was a tall wooden item that had four posts at each corner (he didn't know this but it was a bed) and there was a table of some sort and that was where the journals landed. There was also a door to the room. That was all he could see in the small circle picture.
"Izark! Are you doing that? Are you showing that?" Noriko asked.
"Well, I think I'm doing it but not by choice. I'm doing everything I've done in the past to send your journals, but this time this picture appeared. Why do you ask? Is it familiar to you?" Izark asked.
"Izark that's my room! That's my old bedroom in my old home!" Noriko said running toward the image.
"Noriko stop!" Izark yelled.
Noriko stopped. "I just wanted a closer look." She said as Izark walked up next to her.
Just then the image changed. It was still of the same room, but something was moved. A young man had opened the door and walked into the room. He looked directly at Izark and Noriko. Noriko recognized him immediately.
"Onii-sama!" She shrieked.
The man ran towards them and responded. "Noriko! Is it really you! Oh my God! Mom get in Noriko's room now!" He said. "Noriko I'm not seeing things am I? Am I really seeing this?"
"Yes, Ryuta." She said tears in her eyes. (I don't know what her brother's name is so I named him Ryuta.)
"Who is that?" Ryuta asked indicating Izark.
"Ryuta, this is…" She started to say but she was cut off by some one else coming into the room.
"Ryuta, what is it… Noriko!" The woman who came into the room said.
"Mother!" Noriko exclaimed.
"Noriko! Can it really be?" Her mother exclaimed tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Yes mom, it's me, Noriko." Noriko said reaching her hand out to touch her mother's hand. It was only inches away from hers. But something stopped her. She noticed Izark had grabbed her hand.
He hadn't said anything, nor did he understand what Noriko had been saying. She had been speaking in Japanese. He looked into her eyes mentally pleading her to not touch the image. He feared that she too would go into it just like the journals. Noriko smiled and then nodded.
"Mom, Ryuta, I'd like you to meet Izark." Noriko said still looking at Izark.
"Izark?" Ryuta and Noriko's mom said simultaneously.
"You mean this is the man who…" Ryuta asked but he trailed off.
"Yes, this is Izark. Izark… The man who I met luckily before anyone could meet me. He saved me countless times. But in the end I guess I saved him. I saved him from leaving me forever. I saved him from becoming the sky demon. And some where along the road I fell in love with him." She said looking dreamily into Izark's eyes.
Izark's face turned a bright red. And he turned to look the other way. He didn't know what she had just said exactly, but he did hear 'aishiteru' in there.
"I embarrassed him. Hey I just got an idea. Mom is there something in my room that is worth losing?" Noriko said as her eyes lit up.
"Um I guess there's this hairclip? Or maybe a shirt of yours that you never wore? Why?" Noriko's mom said fumbling around on Noriko's desk.
"Izark, I want you to try something. I want you to try to bring that item my mom has in her hand here. Can you try for me?" She said to Izark in their language. Izark just nodded. Izark then closed his eyes and concentrated, he thought, Come to me. And a bright light came over all of them and suddenly the hairclip was in Izark's hand.
"YES!" Noriko exclaimed.
"What just happened?" Ryuta asked confused.
"I asked Izark to try to bring that hairclip here and he did it. Which means Izark can not only send things there but he can also bring thing back." Noriko exclaimed, too excited. "Izark now try to send our bags!" She said in Izark's language. Izark did as she asked and he sent all of the bags to the room. "Now try to bring all of them back." Noriko said. Izark did as she said. He brought back every last bag with all of the contents intact.
"Mom, Ryuta, he did it." Noriko said in Japanese. She then said to Izark in his language, "Izark you did it! You can items to and from my world and yours. Do you know what this means?" She asked very excited. Before he had the chance to answer, Noriko told Izark the answer to her question. "It means you and I can go back and forth between our worlds. You'll be able to meet my whole family. We'll be able to go to my world and you'll learn a little bit more about where I cam from and grew up!" Noriko shouted out loud. "Mom, both me and Izark might be able to come there to visit. Do you think that'll be all right?" She asked.
"It would be perfect! Your father will be able to meet the hero of one of his novels, I'm sure your brother would love to meet Izark for real and not just look at him through the wall. We'll set a date. How about a week from now?" She asked.
"That's sounds great! But wait hold on a second. I gotta ask Izark what he wants to do." She then said to Izark, "Izark what do you think about us going to visit my family week from now? I don't know how long we'll visit for but what do you think?"
Izark just smiled and said, "I would love that and I know it would make you happy. Yes, a week from now we'll journey back here and go to your world."
