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Chapter 10: WARNING

Aru's POV

At morning ...

This was the first time my head wasn't dizzy and I wasn't sleepy when I got up. It was unusual thing, but a good one since I slept earlier after entering my room last night without reading my detective journal and thinking about the cases I had.

After preparing myself for school, I headed to the dining room as Yuno's delicious cooking led me to.

"Good morning, Yuno." I greeted her with an awe, seeing the Japanese style food for breakfast on the table.

"Good morning." She turned around to greet me while cooking. "Sunny egg or scrambled one?"

"Sunny egg, please," I replied. "Can I help you with the table?"

"Yes, please."

We enjoyed our breakfast and went to school by riding my bicycle silently.

"I'll pick you up after school," I said when we were near the gate of our school and like on our usual school days, I just dropped her off before going to police office.

"No, you won't," she murmured, indirectly reminding me that I should have a drums practice with the band of our seniors.

"I'll have it after taking you home."

"No, I'm fine being alone." She looked frustrated with my persistence.

"Yuno." I chose to call her with a warning tone to overpower her stubbornness.

She winced, hearing it. As expected, she didn't like being called with that tone. Then without saying anything, she turned around, leaving me.

X X X

Yuno's POV

My feeling was very messed up since I woke up from my dreams this morning. I really wanted this school time passed quickly so I could go to somewhere to make myself more comfortable.

I stopped walking to my class as one of my male juniors blocked my way.

"What happens?" I asked, confused.

"Gasai-senpai, please accept my feelings." He bowed politely in front of the door of my class, hiding his reddening face while showing a white envelope in his right hand.

Another confession.

It seemed something never changed, even though I already had a boyfriend. Silently I eyed the envelope without any expression.

A love letter?

"Oh! And this!" Then his left hand showed me a small pink bunny stuff.

I swallowed hard as I felt a sense of deja vu. Love letter. Pink bunny stuff. Then I heard my own voice said in my mind.

I can't let - have a good chance to give the letter.

Silently I touched my face and covered one of my eyes. How could I think of it?

"Hey, what are you doing here, kid?" Hinata appeared from the inside of the door. "You're blocking people's way."

"I-I'm sorry, Hino-senpai," he stammered shyly.

Hinata snickered, seeing what on his hands were. "Stupid kid! This lovely senpai already is taken. Should I report you to her boyfriend?"

"B-boyfriend?!" His eyes widened in surprise. Clearly he didn't know anything about my relationship with Aru-kun.

"The detective-in-training in this school."

"Oh!" He lowered his hands in defeat, knowing his rival so well. "I'm sorry, Gasai-senpai."

"It's okay. I'm sorry, too." I smiled apologetically. I hoped I didn't hurt that nice and shy boy too much.

After he was out of my sight, Hinata approached me and took my hand, dragging me to my seat.

"So, how was it?" She smiled deviously, sitting beside me as Mao joined us.

"What was it?" I asked back. Clueless.

She whined, "Aw, Yuno-cchi. He slept in your house last night, and your parents weren't at home."

Suddenly I felt heat on my face, realizing what she meant. Seeing my reaction, Mao took her chance to probe, "Did he treat you well? Was he rough to you?"

"What! No! Nothing happened!" I said quickly in panic, finally understanding what they meant.

They laughed for my defense and tried again to ask me. However, there were nothing that they could get, except disappointment.

"You're no fun, Yuno-cchi," Hinata moaned.

I just smiled uneasily.

X X X

Aru's POV

I walked to the light purple haired female demon sitting on the chair floating with her monitors.

"You call?" I asked.

"Yeah. What took you so long?" She complained, flying down to approach me.

"You called me suddenly this morning," I replied matter-of-factly. "Don't you forget that I should hide myself first every time I'm needed to be here?"

"I wouldn't call you if it wasn't important, Observer," Muru Muru retorded, landing smoothly on the floor. "Where are the new manga-s?"

I gave her a big brown envelope without any words. There were many manga-s in there.

"And my ice cream?"

I gave her another small plastic bag with ice cream before asking, "Did you call me just for these?"

"Well not really. Actually, I want to tell you something. I reprimanded myself from the first world after I knew she has been trying to contact the Second several times."

I frowned. As I remembered, this little demon said that she had sealed her first-world-counterpart in the prison in the isolated dome to prevent her to be able to contact Yuno.

"Is there something wrong with the seal?" I asked again.

"No. The seal is fine. I think it's because of their inner connection. You know, master and servant stuff."

"Hm ... did she ... succeed?" I placed my hands inside my pants' pockets.

"She didn't give me any answer. But based on the Second activities in my monitors, I assumed that she contacted the Second from the dreams and ... sending some memories into her mind."

I stared at her floating monitors. "Hey, Muru Muru, can you see what Yuno was dreaming when she was sleeping from these things?"

"What do I look? A dream peeper?" She was irritated.

"Is it difficult to say 'yes' or 'no'?" I smiled.

"No. And why don't you ask her directly?"

"I'm just waiting for the right time."

Muru-Muru chuckled, rolling her eyes. "I know you have gotten hard times by handling her. However, I'm pretty sure she thinks that you're not the one that she could trust and ... love. She never said that she loves you, am I right?"

I smiled bitterly, silently admitting how well I was in hiding my own sick and painful problem.

"You're playing with fire, Observer," Muru Muru concluded seriously, crossing her hands. "You do know everything will be over after she gets her counterpart memories."

"There is always a possibility." I closed my eyes and ignored this annoying topic. "I won't let myself fail this time. Not to mention it's your job too to maintain the causality continuum."

"Hmph! It's lucky for you that I'm not like my too-hostile-first-world-counterpart so we can cooperate." Then she grinned. "But it doesn't mean I won't constantly pester your relationship with her."

"As I thought," I groaned.

"Why don't we bet?" She jumped to the floating ball and sat on it.

"Are you sure you want it?" I warned her that I was too great in gambling games.

"Of course I am. Let's bet. If the Second chooses to be with you, you win. But if the Second chooses to be the First, I win."

"I thought what we bet is 'whether-Yuno-gets-her-counterpart-memories', not 'whether-Yuno-chooses-me'." I frowned. No matter how well my friendship with Yukiteru Amano from the second world was, I still didn't like being compared with the brunette, especially when it was related to Yuno. Afterall, I didn't like thinking that the First could be my rival.

"Well, 'whether-the-Second-chooses-you' is more amusing for me. And when I win, you should do anything I want as long as you live in the third world!"

"But if you lose, I want you to support my relationship with her as long as I live in the third world."

"What?! No way!"

"Oh, come on! I think it's fair enough."

"GRRR! Fine!"

"Great! Now I want to talk to Deus. Can I?"

"What do you want to say to him?"

"I want to speak to him in private."

Muru Muru looked upset. She was about to snarl but suddenly we heard his voice.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again, Observer!" Deus's voice echoed in the Cathedral before his sitting silhouette appeared on his throne. "I hope you don't bring bad news to us."

With one bended knee, I lowered my head.

"Deus, there is something I want to ask," I said politely.

"I allow you to speak your wish now, Observer."

"I really appreciate it if you could give me permission to talk in private."

"Muru Muru, leave."

The female demon went to another room obediently with grumpy expression.

"Then, speak now." Deus looked at me stoically.

"Muru Muru informed me that Yuno Gasai gets constant dreams about Yukiteru-kun every night and Muru Muru from the first world has been trying to contact her by sending some memories about the second world to her."

Deus nodded. "What is in your mind, Observer?"

"I really wish that you could grant me the detective-diary so I could observe her better."

There was a thick pause after that, and I was waiting patiently. I knew my chance was really slim but giving up would never be my option.

At least, not this time.

"I cannot grant it."

I sighed with this disappointing answer.

"But I don't mind if you want one of the Mirai Nikki participants gets his diary until we have someone to replace me."

"Deus ..." I raised my head, surprised, hearing his last sentence.

"Who will you choose to be granted the future diary from me?"

Talking about the safest option, I had someone's name in my mind.

"Reisuke Houjou. The Fifth."

"All right. You can retrieve it from the Akashic Records now."

X X X

After I went back to the third world, Muru-Muru floating towards Deus and then sat on the floating ball.

"It looks like the Observer, Akise Aru, is hard at work," she murmured, an ice cream on her hand. "It's an important period right now in deciding who will become the new God to replace Deus. It'd be unbearable if we were to get disrupted by Yuno Gasai in the same way as in other worlds." She smiled wider when reading the word of 'winner' on her ice cream stick. "Oh! I won!"

Deus looked at the monitor silently, having no interest to comment.

Muru-Muru continued, "That is, if we can remove the causality from Yuno Gasai getting close to Yukiteru."

X X X

After picking up Reisuke-kun from the kindergarten, we headed to the cafeteria. While waiting for our order, I glanced at the little boy who was busily drawing on his book with crayon.

"Is that Yuno?" I smiled, seeing him picturing a pink haired female on it.

"Of course!" He chirped happily.

I laughed a bit. Actually it was not a great picture (what could I expect from a 5 years old child for drawing?), but it was so cute.

I blinked when I saw another drawing book on the table.

"Can I see it, Reisuke-kun?"

"Sure, Aru-niichan." He gave it to me.

I opened the book casually. The first picture is him sitting on the passenger seat on the bike with a silver haired boy. Next to the bicycle, it was a picture of a standing pink haired girl with school outfit.

I'm sure these are me, Yuno, and him.

On the next page, I saw a picture of a pink haired girl on the balcony with binoculars in her hand while a silver haired boy and a kid was watching her from behind.

I headed to the next page, just to see a picture of a silver haired boy lifted a pink haired girl's body, bridal style, while a kid was crying beside him.

"I wish I was the one who held Yuno-neechan there when she fell," Reisuke-kun sulked. "You were so lucky, Aru-niichan. You always took the great part."

"Sorry, then." I tried my best to sound so apologetic.

The last picture was a kid gave a flower to the pink haired girl sitting on the bed, while a silver haired male was leaning his back against the wall.

I smiled bitterly before closing the book.

"Done!" He cried excitedly when his recent drawing finished.

"Your orders." A waiter put a cup of chocolate ice cream and a glass of ice latte on our table.

"Thank you." Reisuke-kun and I said in unison.

"What did you draw recently, Reisuke-kun?" I asked before lifting my glass of ice latte.

"Well, actually there is something that I want to tell you," he murmured.

"What is it?"

"When I was drawing, it looked like my hand moved without my consent. I don't even know why I drew this." He showed me a picture of a pink haired girl standing at the big room with so many windows, the standing field glasses next to her.

The work of the Hyper Vision Diary.

For some reason, I knew this place. Sakurami Tower, to be exact.

I narrowed my eyes.

… so she'll go to this place ...

In fact, I shouldn't be surprised this would happen again.

What a stubborn and impenetrable girlfriend!

I chuckled inside, realizing how desperate I claimed her like that.

It needed more than three calls of my name to make me go back to the reality while thinking of that.

"What is it, Reisuke-kun?" I questioned.

"That's my question, Aru-niichan. You looked so troubled. What is it?"

"Oh nothing." I took my beverage from the table. "Reisuke-kun, if you make pictures again, please tell me what you draw, okay?"

"Okay."

X X X

Yuno's POV

Our last class was painting and now we were at the city park. Since I had finished my painting, I had leisure time to do some thing while sitting on the bench, like looking at Amano-kun silently.

Faraway from me, he was sitting on the grass and painting a big tree in front of him.

"Hey!" The tomboy tapped my shoulder. "Do you know that Amano-kun's girlfriend was absent for a few days ago?"

I shook my head.

Ironically, I felt I knew the reason.

She grimaced, "She slipped at the School Medical Room. It looked like her head hit the wall since there was a terrible wound on her temple."

I smiled inside.

That was what you got if you let me see you being kissed by him!

"But today she attends the class and ... it seems she is angry at me because of Amano-kun's and my roles," she added.

"You got them from the class lottery."

"Well yes. However ..." She looked so hesitant to continue.

"What is it?"

"... I felt like she knew that ..." She took a deep breath before finishing, "... that I like her boyfriend."

I turned to her, eyes widened.

She continued, "I know he has a girlfriend and I also don't want to mess up his relationship. So I never confess. But ... Wakaba-san does have a sharp female intuition. I can't deny that I like Amano-kun. But there is something that makes me to fight back. I heard the rumours in our school that I has been stalking Amano-kun all this time."

I lowered my head.

"I'm angry at this baseless accusation. I feel like she's the one who spreaded it," she growled. "I think I'm gonna catch her after school. Maybe today. Or tomorrow. What do you say?"

I didn't answer it, just turning away and trying to stand, carrying my painting tools.

"Yuno-cchi ...?" She was confused as I left her.

X X X

Being a narrator on the class performance was not a big deal for me. So when we were practicing in front of our class, I watched Amano-kun playing his role.

I smiled sympathetically, seeing his bashfulness, his constant red face, the way he stammered and lowered his head to control his edginess. I could not deny that he always succeeded to drag my attention only to him.

... he's really like him ...

Unexpectedly, I thought about my dream last night. The last words that I remembered clearly.

... let's see the stars together ...

X X X

"Finally ..." Hinata groaned after 2-hours-of-practice was over per today.

"Yuno-cchi, do you want to go with us to the new stationery shop? It's not far from here," Mao offered me while carrying her school bag.

"Sorry, I pass." Quickly, I walked to the door. Reaching the school gate, I felt relieved, realizing Aru-kun didn't pick me up.

... it looks like I'll be free alone now ...

Silently I took the different path since my destination was not an usual place to me for hanging out. Soon I raised my head, seeing one of the tallest buildings in my city that I wanted to enter.

Sakurami Tower.

It didn't take much time for me to reach the highest floor and since today was not holiday, it was so quite here.

Not too far away from me, I glanced at the standing field glasses. Normally, it should be used at night or midnight, when the stars appeared shiningly at the dark sky.

... let's see the stars together ...

However, I would use it for another reason.

I touched it nervously, controlling my excitement. For some reason, I felt like it had been a long time since the last time I did it.

I was about to adjust it, but then I remembered that I never really managed to stalk Amano-kun well. Aru-kun and Rei-kun would never let me. So this situation was too good to be true.

Finally I sighed in defeat as in fact, I already felt his presence from the beginning I entered this building and I was too stubborn to admit it. I really wanted to try my never-existed-luck.

But here I am ….

"I get it, Aru-kun. I'll give up, okay?" I closed my eyes, finding no difficulties to make sure who the boy standing behind me in the shadow was.

"I hope you will hold on to your words at this time," he said. I could feel his accusing gaze on my back sharply, making me wondering if he was angry.

In fact, I wasn't sure it was because of pure jealousy. My intuition said he had another motive that I didn't know. But before I asked about that, I thought this was my chance to explain.

"I just keep following him because he looks similar to a certain person. That's probably just my imagination, though."

"A certain person?" Aru-kun asked curiously.

"That's right." I nodded as he approached me cautiously. For some reasons, I felt like I was being intimidated by his move. But it didn't stop me to tell him more, "That's just a dream. Don't worry about it. That has nothing to do with you anyway."

Actually, I expected him to be calmer after listening to it. However, I was so wrong.

He gritted his teeth, hiding his disagreeable eyes behind his bangs. Surely this caught my curiosity.

"Yuno, it has everything to do with me," he said coldly.

I was surprised, hearing that.

"Wakaba-san did indeed request my help. But the truth is ... I have personal interest in you, and had been observing you even before that."

"What did you say, Aru-kun?" I questioned innocently.

"My reason is the same as yours. But there are some slight differences." For some reasons, his spiteful details was like pushing me to remember something that I didn't even know. "I remember everything. That's why I'm giving you this advice. Stay away from him. If you get close to him again, I'll kill you."

I stared at the floor, taking his words forcefully without any defense and hearing his footsteps leaving me alone in this huge room.

X X X

In the realm of Space and Time ...

Watching the monitor with Deus, Muru-Muru chirped, "Of course it's impossible for normal people from this world to exceed our expectations. We're probably worrying too much."

"Hoo... why do you say that?" Deus, in his glory, wanted to listen to her details more.

"They don't have the Future Diaries," she stated. "Gasai Yuno ... alias the Second ... can't carve out a new future for herself. She won't able to regain anything."

They gazed at the monitor picturing a pink haired girl with a disappointed expression on her face before the little demon replaced the channel to monitor others.

X X X

Aru's POV

I still didn't believe I could say something like that to her.

Duty comes before else.

It was true. But I thought I had done a mistake here.

I could not stand seeing her expression there. She was so shocked, frustrated, sad, and disappointed.

Maybe I'm too early to give her an ultimate warning.

From the opened window of the second floor of Sakurami Tower, I saw her walk toward the quite gate without any enthusiasm.

This is my chance!

"Gremory!" As I called the name, a little creature appeared, floating behind me.

It was a female little demon, with braided dark hair being tied into two ponytails.

Silently I was grateful that beside granting Hyper Vision Diary to Reisuke-kun, Deus also gave me an assistant, seeing that my cooperation with Muru Muru was not too great.

"Make Yuno lose her consciousness!" I ordered. "And don't let her body hit the ground when she falls!"

"Mor!" Gremory flew down quitely towards Yuno while I went downstairs to meet her at Yuno's place.

Just one flick on the back of Yuno's head was enough to make her fall forward, and like I ordered, soon Gremory held Yuno's shoulder to prevent her to hit the ground.

"Thanks." I smiled to my demon assistant as I gave her a gesture to let Yuno free so I could hold her in my arms with guilty thing in my chest.

"I'm sorry, Yuno," I whispered on her ear, seeing her innocent face.

"Who is she to you?" Gremory asked curiously.

I smiled bitterly. "For sure, she is the reason why my existence happens."

"And what did she do?"

"Forbidden time travel to keep the world in an eternal time loop and forever replaying Mirai Nikki game." I glanced at my demon partner.

"It's a fatal time crime," she commented.

"Yeah."