"'It never stops hurting does it?"
"What?"
"Giving someone the best of you and watching them choose someone else'"
Kagami started at Kiyoshi when he paused, and asked him a question, "What do you mean, the last time she was any other form besides her shadows?"
Kiyoshi smiled at him sadly and stared at Kagami's legs. The shadows that had wrapped around his legs hadn't moved at all. "Kagami, what do you think happens to a shadow when the lights get too bright." Kiyoshi asked, avoiding answering his question directly.
Kagami looked at Kiyoshi confused, "If there's enough light the shadow would just disappear wouldn't it?" Kiyoshi nodded at him. "But what does that have to do with anything?" Kagami responded.
"Once the GOM and my dear friend were very close like a family. She even said that she saw them as her lights, and in her mind the stronger the lights were the darker the shadow would be." Kiyoshi explained. "With her unique ability, she could hide the shadows of her allies or her enemies. From there she could drain their energy, or she could give them more. As the war continued on and as the GOM got stronger, they needed her less and less."
"So, once they got strong enough they threw her away!" Kagami yelled, anger coursing through him at the thought of an ally being thrown away like they didn't matter. He stood up and paced the court. Kiyoshi noticed that his friend had let go of Kagami, but instead of moving toward him, the shadow slowly worked its way to Kagami. As Kagami passed the shadow in his anger, the shadow disappeared into his shadow.
Kiyoshi could only stare, his friend was more active then she had been for centuries. He noticed that as soon as she joined Kagami's shadow, Kagami suddenly froze, his eyes glowed softly, if Kiyoshi wasn't paying attention he wouldn't have even noticed the change.
'Please, come back to me my friend.' Kiyoshi thought as he watched Kagami and his shadow closely.
They kept the red haired one in their grasp, while Familiar made those noises again. Those noises that brought the hurt. The red haired stayed still, was he too feeling the hurt? They wondered and remained attached to his legs. We are safe, the hurt doesn't hurt next to the red haired. Familiar causes hurt, but also… not hurt. Familiar was always there, and Familiar makes the strange noises to them, and to the creatures are like red haired.
Familiar's tone changed, it wasn't like the way that Familiar normally talks, like a small sunlight, it was clouded. Red haired was suddenly moving, they released their grip on the red hair. The red haired walked back and forth his feet pounding the ground.
'Is the red hair feeling the hurt?' They wondered. 'Has the red haired taken the hurt?' They didn't want their red hair one to hurt. While the red hair moved about they waited until he was closer, and they slipped into his dark spot.
'Red hair, hurt?' They mumbled into the dark spot, connecting with is gently. 'Help red hair.' They sent a pulse to the red hair, and felt red hair stop. They continued the pulse, 'No hurt red hair, no hurt.'
Kagami was furious, he knew what it was like for someone to leave you behind for something bigger, better. His own brother had done it to him after all. Sure, they weren't brothers by blood, but they had fought side by side for years and then he up and left to go to Yosen. And to hear that these great warriors that were said to be gods did this to an ally, he was furious.
While he was pacing he suddenly felt a calm wash over him a gentle wave. He froze, he was still angry, but this wave continued to wash over him. He could feel is muscles relaxing as this wave continued to wash over him and he didn't know why.
He heard a quiet voice, if he hadn't been focusing on this wave of calm he wouldn't have even heard it. 'No hurt…no hurt' He turned his head to try and find the voice, but he couldn't see anybody in the gym besides Kiyoshi.
"Kiyoshi, did you hear something?" Kagami asked suddenly. Kiyoshi looked at him with his eyes widening in shock.
"No, I didn't hear anything, are you hearing something?" Kiyoshi asked him carefully, take a small step forward, a small smile was trying to form on his face.
"Yea, it was a whisper, but there's no one else here." Kagami said confused, "And it sounded like it was in my head, but that's not possible… right?"
"Kagami, what did the voice say." Kiyoshi pressed. Kagami looked closely at the Uncrowned King that stood before him and replied.
"It said, no hurt then something I couldn't understand then no hurt. But what hurt?" Kagami said sitting down again.
Kiyoshi stood up at that and began to pace, "Can you describe the voice for me Kagami."
"It was hard to hear, it was like there was a lot of cotton over my ears making it hard to hear, and it sounded very childish? I don't know how else to describe it." Kagami pause, "But right before I heard it, I suddenly felt something calm wash over me. But then I heard the voice and it just… stopped."
Kiyoshi nodded, and looked right at Kagami, and it felt like Kiyohsi was trying to look into his very soul. "Kagami, do you still feel it, that wave of calm, or is it gone?"
"What does this mean!" Kagami asked frustrated.
"It means that she's more awake than she's been in centuries and we have a chance to bring her back!" Kiyoshi said kneeling down by Kagami and grabbing him by the shoulders. "Kagami, you are the first person that she has gone to like this in a really long time. I hate to ask this of you, but Kagami will you help us get her back?"
"Us?" Kagami asked still utterly confused about what Kiyoshi was talking about.
"That would be us, and we are going to wake up the forgotten goddess while knocking the GOM off their high horses!" Riko said walking back into the gym with the rest of the team behind her.