(A/N: Here's the sixth chapter. Last time, Battlefront was able to get to the Guild. What will they do next? We'll see. Enjoy.)

Diva's Pain and Iwasawa's song

Everyone else was gathered in Headquarters, I knew. I was busy walking around however, not caring if I got in trouble with Yuri. Psh! If I cared at all.

After a few minutes of aimlessly walking, I decided to just check out what my "wonderful comrades" were doing. But instead of coming through the door, I thought it would be nice and exciting if I entered through the window. And so, I made my way a few feet away from the building and rushed up to it. I jumped really high and bursted in the window, breaking it.

"I'm here!" I announced cheerfully.

"What the hell?!" Yuri screamed.

"Why the hell did you come in through the window?!" Otonashi yelled. "There door's right there! Plus you broke the window!"

"It would be too boring to come in through the door all the time," I answered simply. "So I like to mix it up. Keep me on my toes."

"How did you get through the window anyway?" Hinata asked flabbergasted. "We're on the second floor!"

I turned around, looking out the broken window. My hands on my hips. "My very own expressway!" I answered, eyes sparkling and such.

Yuri sighed. "Someone turn off the lights."

Takamatsu did that, and the SSS monitor appeared on the screen. I decide to take a seat next to Hinata. He scooted over to make room for me.

"This next operation is going to be another attempt to infiltrated Angel's domain," Yuri informed us. "The operation will be in three days."

"We're trying that again?" Noda asked. "But last time…"

Yuri put her hand up to stop him. "Yes. But this time, we got him with us." Yuri rolled her chair out of they way to reveal an orange haired boy with glasses.

"Hello there," he said.

"He was behind her chair," Ooyama said, shocked a little.

"Yurippe. This isn't funny," Noda said.

"How is that mince some member moron going to help us?" Fujimaki asked.

"Now, now. Don't be like that," Yuri said, calmly.

"Ha! Fine then." Noda pointed his axe at the new kid. "Let's see what he's got."

I giggled softly at that.

"You don't have friends, do you?" Otonashi commented.

The orange head dude smirked before reciting pi. I laughed louder seeing Noda's agony while the kid was reciting pi to him. He was flapping on the floor, like a fish on dry land.

"Stop it! Please!" he cried. "I can't take anymore!"

"Holy math nerds! Is all that pi?" Matsushita asked, trembling.

"Make him stop! He's a moron," Ooyama said, scared.

I rolled my eyes at them. What's so scary about it? It's not like he was attacking them.

"Exactly. Our weakness is that we're morons," Yuri stated.

"Leader shouldn't say that," Otonashi said in the background.

"Last time we tried to infiltrate Angel's domain…our lack of intelligence was made apparent. However! This time, we'll be bringing a genius hacker with us. Codename: Takeyama will be on the team. Be sure to fully investigate the area." By now Takeyama was done torturing Noda.

"Wasn't that his real name?" Takamatsu mused.

"Yes, but…" Takeyama said, pointing a finger toward them with a serious face. "…I'll appreciate if you called me Christ."

Everyone gave him an unamused look.

"See! She ruined our cool codename," Fujimaki whined. "That's our Yurippe for you."

"So? What is Angel's domain?" Otonashi asked.

"It's Angel's lair," Hinata said as if it was obvious.

"What do you mean Angel's lair?"

"The core system is controlled by a computer."

"Huh?! So it's mechanical?!"

"She has a way to contact God in there somewhere," Yuri said.

"This operation is crazy!" Ooyama said, throwing his arms in the air.

"It'll be our second try. Angel should be in higher alert than before. I'll need GirlDeMo to go wild. Is that understood?"

Iwasawa smirked a little. "Understood."

"Goodbye and good luck," TK said in broken English.

I raised my hand at that moment.

"What is it, Diva?" Yuri asked.

"I'm going to seat this one out," I stated.

"Why?" Yuri asked.

"Because…" I began looking off to the side. I wasn't really in the mood for an operation. Actually, I didn't really care about doing any of them. I only do them because I think they might turn out to be fun, at least, to me. "…I'm tired."

"Diva…," Yuri sighed. "You know you can't skip out of an operation. We need everyone for this."

"Is that a new hat?" I asked, putting towards Yuri's beret, like it was the most awesome thing in the world. I needed to distract her for a bit.

"No, it's not new," Yuri said, annoyed. "You seen me wear it plenty of times."

I shrugged my shoulders. Then I gasped out loud.

"What's wrong, Diva?" Hinata asked.

"Did you hear that?" I asked, feigning surprise. Only I was faking it.

"Hear what?" Noda asked.

"Uh oh! Smoothie troubles," I lied. "I have to go!"

I raced out the door without another word. I could hear Yuri cursing at me, but I didn't care. I can do what I want when I want. I'm a Chiropteran Queen, after all. I'm more superior than any human race. And taking orders from a human? Ha! Like that will ever happen!

It's been three days since the talk about infiltrating Angel's domain and what not. I was currently on the roof of the school, hanging over a railing, thinking about my own past.

(FLASHBACK)

I've been in a cold, dark Tower for fifty years. I have never been outside before. The experiments I went through were extremely painful, but I endured it all. I was miserable in that cage. I was being treated like an animal. Not a person with feelings. Like an object they found interesting to experiment on. I had no love, nor education. I couldn't talk. I didn't even have a name! I was just wanting to rot away and die. I tried so many times to kill myself, but because I wasn't human, and with my rapid healing ability, I couldn't accomplish it. Death was far less painful than this torture.

Thirty years later after my birth, I learned how to sing. The singing saved my life. It brought Saya to me.

"I like you're voice," Saya said as she got to the Tower.

"Thank you. And I like yours." Even though I couldn't talk at the time, I could communicate with Saya telepathically.

"My name is Saya," my sister said, introducing herself. Even though I didn't realize it before, but I was talking with my sister at the time.

"Saya? I…um…" I was tongued tied.

"Tell me what your name is," Saya said, tilting her head a little.

I shifted uncomfortably. "Name?"

"You don't have a name?" Then Saya smiled. "Then we'll just have to find a name for you." She started approaching the Tower. "Now, let's see…"

I began singing again. Saya sat down at the base of the Tower with a happy expression on her face, enjoying the sound of my own singing.

"Ah! I know!" Her eyes popped. She turned and looked up at the top of the Tower where I was behind the wall. "You're name…will be Diva! Diva the princess with a beautiful singing voice!"

"Diva?" I said, testing the sound of her new name. "I'm Diva?"

"That's right, Diva!" Saya said, reassuringly. "So now we can be friends."

I felt incredibly happy at that moment. I tossed a blue rose out the window as a thank you for finally getting a name.

After that day, Saya and I continued to talk about different things. When I told Saya that I've never been out of the Tower, Saya promised to let me out.

Twenty years later, I could hear Saya coming close to the door I was locked in.

"Saya?" I said.

"I'm almost there!" she cried out.

"I'm…scared," I admitted. This will be the FIRST time I ever been outside before. I didn't even now what the outside world looks like. Hell yeah I was scared! Wouldn't you be, too?

"You'll be fine. I'll stay with you," Saya assured. She put the key in the lock, unlocking the door. When she opened it all the way, she was able to see me with my legs up to my chest, my arms crossed over them, and my head down in nothing, but rags for clothing. I didn't even look up when Saya opened the door.

"Hello? Can you hear me?" Saya asked. "I unlocked the door just like I promised you I would."

I remained silent.

Saya continued talking. "So you're coming to Joel's birthday party, right? And you're going to sing that pretty song for us, too?"

"Saya? Where are you?" a man's voice yelled out.

"Oh!" Saya said, looking out the door. "I think Hagi's looking for me." She turned back to me, smiling. "I'm going pick some lilies with Hagi for Joel's birthday, but I'll see you later." After that she closed the door and ran off.

A few minutes later, I got up, and opened the door. I was the most happy than I'd ever been in my life. I was finally free off this awful place. The first thing that ran through my mind was revenge, for all those years of pain and suffering.

So I got a dress from who knows where, and began killing the people in Joel's party. I set the mansion on fire, too. Just as I was killing Joel, the man she wanted to kill the most, for he was the cause of all this, Saya came.

Saya stared at me in horror as I was finishing the old man off. After that I ran off.

I was happy at the time. I got my freedom, I got to FINALLY see the outside world, and I was able to get revenge. But that all didn't last long as my selfish sister declared war on me, and making it her lifelong goal to kill me.

I felt betrayed. So Saya was only using me? Was my singing really the only reason she let me out of the Tower? Did she not care about me at all, or how I felt about everything? No! Why would she? She was a self-centered bitch that was living like a spoiled princess with Joel. I thought I actually had a friend, but I thought wrong. Saya got everything she wanted. I didn't. Saya got love, a family, friends…everything her younger twin sister wanted and more. And just when I was about to find happiness of my own…

Saya killed me.

She fucking killed me! This is why I hate Saya so much! She doesn't care about me, at all. She only used me for her own selfish purposes. She just wanted me for her selfish gain.

(END OF FLASHBACK)

I was gripping the bar so tightly, my knuckles we're beginning to turn white. "There are no friends in this world," I thought, shaking in anger. "Even if it is the Afterlife. No one would help anyone! Especially me!"

"Diva!" someone shouted.

I turned her head to see Otonashi, heading towards me.

"Hello, Otonashi dear," I greeted, getting my happy side. "What brings you here?"

"I was just wondering…" he said, scratching the back of his head. "…Why don't you want to participate in the operation? You really ** Yuri off when you dropped out of it, you know."

I scoffed at that. I could care less what Yuri thinks.

"I just didn't feel like it, okay?" I said, sighing a little. "I just do things my way, that's all. It's only way I know how to do things," I mumbled the last part to myself, so Otonashi couldn't here it. I got off the railing. "Let's take a walk, dear Otonashi." I started to climb down the stairs of the roof. Otonashi followed hurriedly after me.

We were chit chatting about this and that. Just then Iwasawa burst out of the music room.

"Hey, Iwasawa," Otonashi greeted.

"Hi, dear" I greeted happily, waving at the lead vocalist of Girls Dead Monster.

"Hey, guys," she greeted back.

"Iwasawa, want to sit down, and talk for awhile?" Otonashi asked.

"Sure." She smiled. "I'm on break anyway."

We all sat outside the practice room…just talking about random stuff.

"Have you guys heard about anyone's past yet?" she asked, after a few minutes of talking.

Both Otonashi and I shook our heads.

"Well, I guess I'll be the first then. It will good for you'll to know the reason we're all here." She began to look up as if she was in deep thought. "I'll couldn't sing by beloved songs."

Iwasawa began to tell her tale. "My parents we're always fighting," she said. "I didn't have a bedroom…so I will always curl up in the bedroom, and plug my ears when they started screaming. I had to close myself up in my own shell. There was nowhere for me to rest. That's when I found a found a band called Sad Machine. The vocalist was from a bad home environment like me. Whenever things got rough, he would cover his ears with earphones, and escape into the world of music. I started doing the same. I felt like my problems were blown away. The vocalist was screaming out through me. He was pleading for me. The kids acting like everything's is normal are wrong, and the kids crying are right. Those of us who were lonely were true humans. He screamed out against the unfairness of the world as he lashed out and shattered it. He…saved me. I found this one rainy day in the trash. That's when I started singing. I had music in a life where I thought I had nothing."

Iwasawa paused then continued. "I got a part-time job, and started saving up money. I was constantly auditioning at recording studios. I was going to leave that house when I graduated, move to Tokyo, and life off my music. Or so I thought. I got into an accident while at work."

Otonashi and I gave each other concerning looks.

"When I awoke next, I was unable to speak. A head trauma caused by seribal stroke, inducing fissure. A blow from one of my parents fights caused it. I cursed my fate. There was nowhere to run. And that was how my life…came to an end," Iwasawa said.

Otonashi stared at her in slight horror while I was looking at her with a blank expression.

"So?" Iwasawa turned to me. "What's your story like?"

"Huh?" I said.

"You have your memories, don't you?"

I nodded her head hesitantly. I really didn't feel like sharing.

Just then, some other girl named Hisako head popped out of the music room. "Iwasawa," she called.

Iwasawa looked up. "Oh, Hisako. Everything okay."

"We're getting bored in here," the lead guitarist replied. The lead vocalist got up ran toward the door.

"Mr. Amnesia," Iwasawa called to Otonashi. She tossed him her water bottle. "You can have that," she said as she walked inside the room, and closed the door behind her. Both me and Otonashi took off in different directions.

It was later that night and Battlefront went on their own separate missions. I, on the other hand, was on a mission of my own. I was waiting for the perfect opportunity to catch my prey… The NPCs. Since all the NPCs were gathered in the gym, it will be easy. All I have to is lure them somewhere quiet, and away from everybody.

Today, I thought of wearing a midnight blue dress with a white ribbon around the waist, and midnight blue heels. I very appealing outfit for this night.

I began walking through the halls, singing:

"No rose lives forever

But forever it will bloom in our hearts

This blue rose holds a key

Never let her wilt away

For every blue rose

Has her own story

Just waiting for someone to listen to her

And possibly accept her

A blue rose just wants a friend

Even with her thorns

That might hurt others

She doesn't want to be alone

Thorns are only there to protect her

From the danger outside

So, fellow listener

Would you mind befriending a blue rose

And forever be my her side?"

I finished my own song when about five NPCs were lured by my singing. With my Chiropteran speed, I killed all of them in an instant, sucking the blood out of them. My eyes turning into a glowing sapphire while doing so. Just then, I heard someone else singing, but I knew who it was. It was Iwasawa. But this song is different from all the other songs she sung before. I stood outside watching Iwasawa perform all by herself.

"Ningen rashii yo

(That's what being human is)

Otoshita namida ga

(The tears that have been shed)

Kou iu yo

(Say this to me)

Konna ni mo utsukushii uso janai hontou no

("This isn't a beautiful lie.")

Bokura wo arigatou

(Thank you for honoring he real us.)

Iwasawa disappeared after finishing her song. I just stared blankly. No emotion whatsoever. I walked away from the scene.

"So that what getting obliterated is like," I thought. "I wonder what is like to find peace." I shook my head from the thought. "What am I thinking?" I said to myself. "Is not like there's anyway I can get peace. I never have before," I finished sadly, roaming the halls alone. Alone as always.

(A/N: D'aww! Poor Diva. She needs a friend more than anything right now. Well, Iwasawa disappeared. Sad face. What will become of Battlefront after that? We'll see in the next chapter.)