The Life of Neah Walker

Chapter 11

A.N~So I'm thinking about when I get finally get a laptop of my own - Which hopefully will be soon -Of rewriting this story to make it flow a bit better :/ I feel like the plot line I have right now is very shaky and I just need to fix it. I will tell you all when I finally get around to doing that. So for the cookies, so far only one will be given out today - if I missed anyone please tell me - it goes to yukinojazz for reviewing. Thanks so much! :D

Disclaimer ~ I don't own -Man. Nor will I ever.

Mana's P.O.V

It was the next day, and Mana decided he was going to go check up on Neah to make sure his younger brother was doing alright. It'd be a huge lie of Mana said he wasn't very concerned for Neah. His younger brother barely ever got sick, it was normally Mana having to sit in bed, and have the doctor come in and treat him. As Mana neared Neah's room he thought about the words the doctor had told him. What had happened to his younger brother? Mana bit his lip. He just hoped that Neah would be alright. As the older boy finally arrived at the room, he carefully knocked before entering, "Neah? Are you awake?" Receiving no answer Mana ventured further into the room and walked towards the bed, "Neah?" He lifted up the blankets on the bed to find that his brother wasn't there. "Neah!?" Mana began to frantically search the room for his brother. There was no way he could have gotten up. Mana had saw how bad the marks on Neah's head where...there was so much blood. When searching the entire room proved to be just a waste of time, given that Neah wasn't there. Mana raced to the parlor where his parents were discussing their youngest son's condition, "Where's Neah?"

His mother looked at him startled, while his father gave him a confused look. His father was the first to reply, "What do you mean? He should be in his bed recovering from whatever happened."

Mana shook his head, "I just went to go check up on him, he's not there!"

His mother stood up, "What do you mean not there? Where could he have gone? The doctor said he wouldn't wake up for another day!" Katerina darted off to the direction of her youngest son's room. He was followed by her husband and Mana. When she reached the room she searched frantically for her son. Throwing the covers off the bed, looking under the bed," Neah!? Honey where are you!?" She searched the entire room, tearing it apart as she did, hoping to find her son.

At this point Allen, who had slept in, was woken up by the shouting, he looked at Mana confused, " What's going on?"

Mana looked at Allen," It's Neah, he's missing."

The red head's eyes opened wide in shock. " Maybe he's outside. He could have woken up and wanted some fresh air?"

Mana nodded and told their father what their plan was. "Alright, I'm going to search the rest of the house if I can't find him, I'll call the police and have them come and help us find him." He looked down at the two boys and put a hand on their shoulder, "Don't worry, we'll find him."

Mana nodded and looked at Allen, "Let's go." Allen nodded and the two ran outside to go search for Neah.

After an hour of searching turned up nothing, the boy's father had called the police to file a missing person's report. Their mother was in Neah's room, crying worried about what happened to her youngest son. Mana was on the verge of tears himself, but held them back. He was outside with Allen by their favorite tree, "Where could he have went to? He was in such a bad state! No one would be able to move in his condition, let alone disappear!"

Allen nodded his head in agreement, "Don't worry Mana we'll find him. The police are already out searching for him. He'll show up soon." Mana wanted to argue, but knew Allen was just as worried as he was.

" I hope you're right Al."

2 days later in the White Arc

Neah's P.O.V

His head was throbbing. Every tiny little movement shot pain through his entire head. Neah felt weird, it was like every sound was enhanced, and it hurt his ears. He was afraid to open his eyes, despite having been awake for about an hour. He didn't want the blinding light of the sun from his bedroom window to make his migraine worse. After lying in bed for another ten minutes Neah decided that now was as good enough of a time to get up, he might as well get it over with. He could always ask his mom for pain medicine. He very slowly started to sit up, but had to stop halfway to let a dizzy spell pass. After he felt like he wasn't about to pass out again he sat up all the way and mentally prepared himself. His body was aching already, but he still slowly opened up his eyes. He was surprised to see that the sun was in fact not shining through his window, because there was no window. It was completely dark in the room that he was in. Neah looked around in surprise. Where was he? He didn't know of any room in their home that looked like this. He rolled his feet to the edge of the bed and slowly stood up. The way his body was slow to react, and the ache in his bones. Neah guessed that he had been asleep for a couple days. He slowly made his way over to the door, using any object near him as a crutch to help him. When he finally arrived at the door, he grabbed the handle and slowly opened the door.

As Neah peeked his head out of the door his eyes were blinded by the sun and he head to retreat back to the room for a few moments to let the pain pass before he was able to look outside again. There were other buildings around and it looked like a beautiful town, with only a few peaceful clouds in the sky. The strange thing was there were no people walking the streets. Had his parents sent him to some type of medical faculty? Neah walked out of the room and began to wander the empty streets searching for someone. It took him a good ten minutes before he was able to find anyone. It was a little girl around his age with short black bordering on purple hair. She wore a pink skirt, with black and white striped knee socks. Her shirt was a white dress shirt with a pink bow, and she had a lollipop in her hand. She was watching the clouds with a bored look on her face. As Neah got a better look of the girl he realized that her skin was an ashen-gray. Was she also sick? He looked around at the white buildings in curiosity, maybe this was a medical faculty. He looked back at the girl, his only way of knowing was asking her.

Neah walked up to her and gently tapped on her shoulder, "Umm excuse me, but where am I?"

This had startled the daydreaming girl and she jumped and spun around to face Neah. When she saw who it was a huge smile spread across her face as she hugged the boy so tight he was gasping for air, " You're finally awake! Millenie and I were beginning to get so worried about you!"

Neah looked at the girl confused, "Who? Where am I? Did my parents send me here because of what happened?"

The girl just continued to laugh at his confusion, "No silly, you're with your real family now."

Neah continued to stare at the girl, "What do you mean my real family? Where's Mana? Where's Allen?" Neah began to struggle against the girls hold. He didn't know what was going on but he didn't like it one bit. After finally escaping her killer grip he began to run. Where to he didn't know, just as long as he got away from this place.

As Neah turned a corner he ran into something and fell up his butt. When he looked to see what is was he gasped. It was the same little girl, " What are you doing silly? Trying to run away?"

The boy began to panic, "Who are you?! You're not my family! I look nothing like you! Where's Mana? Where's Allen?! Where's my real family!?"

The girl's smile turned deadly, " Well you're with your real family now silly. And as for us not looking alike you should try taking a good look at yourself."

Neah hesitated for a moment, confused by the girl's words and took a look at his hand. His eyes widened in shock, his hand was the same ashen color as hers! He yanked up his shirt to get a look at his stomach and saw that it was also the same ashen gray. He let go off his shirt and looked up at her as he attempted to back away, despite still being on the ground, "What did you do!? Why am I like this!? What's going on!?"

Neah began to panic, when a fat clown like elf thing showed up holding a pink umbrella, "Road. I see you have met our new family member. Have you been nice?"

The little girl now dubbed Road smiled at the weird clown person and nodded, "Yes Millenie I have." She frowned as she looked down at the panic stricken boy, who was still on the ground, "Though our newest member doesn't seem to think we are his real family, and keeps asking about his fake one."

The Earl looked at Neah, bent down and offered a hand to help the boy up. Neah refused the hand still confused as to what was going on and very frightened. The Earl's smile shrunk as he shook his head, "Tsk tsk Road, you scared him pretty bad. You'll have to be more careful next time." The Earl's smile widened as he looked at Neah, " Hello young one. Don't be scared, for I am the Millennium Earl. I know you are very confused right now, but you're safe here, I know that you know that. It's a feeling deep down inside of you that's saying you can trust us and that we are a family. So if you'll just take my hand, I will lead you down to the parlor and tell you everything."

Neah hesitated. This Earl guy wasn't wrong, Neah did feel like he could trust him. It confused and frightened him very much. He wanted answers to what was going on, and the only way he could think of getting them was going with the strange girl and the Earl. He bit his lip and nodded as he grabbed the Earl's hand and was led towards the parlor.

A.N~ Ha! I think I'm getting slightly better at this :D. I'd like to say thanks to my amazing boyfriend, friends, and you guys, the readers for giving me the inspiration to keep writing this story. Despite what I said earlier in the chapters I felt like the way I have wrote this story was kind of rushed and not very good and I almost gave up on it. But fear not for the above mentioned people helped give me back my inspiration and I shall see this story through to the end. Though I am still seriously considering re-writing it when I get an actual laptop. Anyway Ta Ta for now!