A/N: Ok, so this chapter was part of the ones that I needed to change and trust me the other one was: BLEHSAG:LKDSGHD. Though I can say that the other one was quite interesting and this changed one one more 'innocent'... heh I've decided to use the other one for later so enjoy this chapter! Remember to review guys:)

Chapter 11: Part of a Nightmare and half the Truth

'No... No... NOO!' she screamed on top of a lifeless Takuya, his hazelnut colored eyes glazed over with death. This can't be happening, he just can't be gone, she stroked his hair tears pouring from her eyes and down her cheeks it dripped onto his shirt. A girl stood by agilely looking at a man before her, she resembled Aoi a lot with the dark colored hair and aggressive violet eyes that pierced the soul of any one who dared to anger her, but there was something different about this girl that made her different from Aoi. The man in black in front of them held something fiery in his hand it looked like a ball of fire or something.

'His soul is mine... you should know the law of equivalent exchange, sister.' he said, his long white hair bellowing out behind him and his black robes shrouded around him like a shadow. He stepped through the white mass of swirling light and disappeared with Takuya's soul, Izumi's breath was caught behind her throat as she watched him disappear she looked up at the girl and saw her jaw lock sideways and a death glare at the place where the man once stood.

'Damn it... How could you do that brother... even if you are Death

She woke up with a start her breath was fast and uncontrolled, her sheets was all over the place. That dream... it was so horrible, she clutched at her chest as the dream lingered in her mind. She'd had that dream for awhile now where Takuya laid silently in her arms and that man in black, who was he? The girl had called him Death, but how was that possible how can Death appear before her with Takuya's soul? What about the thing that he said something about equivalent something? She can't remember what he had said about being balanced or what not, Izumi tried to rack her brain a little harder to see if she could recall what he had said; it seemed really important but it was no use it only gave her headache. She sighed as she threw her head back and laid against the head board of her bed and looked at the ceiling, last night... was quite a night for her. She had dinner with Takuya under the impression that they were at Paris and her friends had served them spaghetti and Tomoki had played the violin for them. It was cute, she laughed to herself as the memory of last night surfaced into her head. She went through her hair as she got up and slipped into her white bathrobe and headed to her bathroom to clean up, after a moment of cleaning and brushing through stubborn hair Izumi was able to get into some comfortable clothes. She went downstairs to find the place empty, she looked into her parents room and saw that it was clean and desolate of human company known as her mother and father.

"What the hell? Where the hell is everybody?" she went to the kitchen and there on the table was a letter that read:

Izumi-

Left for a business trip with your father to Okinawa, be back in three days, there's food in the fridge and money in the drawer upstairs in my room. Don't throw any wild parties while we're gone ok? Love you honey!

-Mom

She sighed throwing the note aside and grabbed something to eat from the fruit basket only to have the dream she had emerge from her mind again. She shut her eyes in frustration trying to make it go away when a soft wind came from behind her Izumi whirled around and came face to face with the most beautiful woman she had ever seen in her life with dark brown hair and vigilant plum colored eyes and snow white skin that seemed to glow, but her eyes were filled with sorrow and her soft lips pulled down with sadness.

"I'm so sorry Izumi, but it's for the best." she waved her hand and then it was darkness.

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Izumi woke up with a throbbing headache when she felt someone dabbing her forehead with a wet towel, she looked side ways and saw Takuya sitting on the couch and Kouji twisting water out of the cloth, when he saw her awake he smiled.

"So you're finally awake I see," he said lightly dabbing her forehead again, Izumi took his wrist and stopped him and sat up to look at Takuya. Something was really wrong the atmosphere of the room was thick with anger and hatred she peered at the doorway and saw Aoi standing with her head down heavy with guilt. Kouji put the moist doily in the basin stood up and waked to the restroom leaving the three of them in the room.

"What's going on guys?" she asked, her voice hurt just asking the simple question, Takuya shifted his hand from his knees to his mouth.

"How you feeling?" He asked looking at her, for a moment his eyes only showed concern and worry, Izumi smiled and nodded her head, "Do you remember what happened before you fainted." It wasn't a question, it was demand and this scared her; he had never demanded with such a authority with her before.

"I blacked out?" she asked turning to look at Aoi for confirmation, but all she did was look away from her, Takuya nodded in reply. Izumi glanced at the floor board then at Takuya realizing that she can't remember anything but total darkness of her memory; it was like a whole in her brain. He nodded at her again then stood up came over and picked her up with ease and headed upstairs, Aoi heard him close the door lightly then footsteps descending the stairs. He appeared at the doorway of the living room when Kouji stepped out of the restroom knowing that Izumi was gone from the chamber, Takuya didn't wait as he headed straight for Aoi. Kouji was up and gone in a second when he saw what Takuya was going to do.

"Why!?" Takuya demanded his fist flying towards her but Kouji held him back just in time as Fate winced, she didn't even try to stop him because she knew she deserved it after what she had done to Izumi and what she meant to him.

"I had to Takuya, the memory set loose in her dreams are dangerous." she said her eyes staring at the floor never meeting his angry ones.

"How dangerous can one dream be?" he asked still trying to get to her, it took all of Kouji's strength to hold him back, "It's just a dream anyways isn't it?"

"It's just not ANY dream Takuya, her dreams are getting more vivid each time it visits her, soon she'll realize it's the future and if she does find out the truth then she'll set out to change and that will only complicate my job and destroy the system. Humans like you and her aren't suppose have these dreams it'll only kill her soul little by little if she keeps having it and trying to remember. All I can do was keep it at bay for the moment. I never wanted her to get sick Takuya." Aoi explained finally looking at him, and there Takuya saw that she was truly sorry, the tears forming in her eyes were real and the pain deep in heart was there. He relented and Kouji slowly let him go making sure that he didn't go insane again, "She truly loves you Takuya it's the only reason why she's seeing it. Her love was powerful enough that it allowed her to see into a possible future, but the consequences are deadly to pay."

"What is this 'possible future' that she's seeing? So bad that you must eradicate her memory leaving her brain bruised?" he asked her, she shook her head.

"That I can't tell you, only time will tell." she turned and left a very confused and angry Takuya behind and a solemn looking Kouji standing in the living room not knowing that at the stairs a frozen Izumi was sitting on the steps biting her fingers and staring into nothing as what she heard bombarded her world. What was going on she didn't understand, but she knew that somehow Aoi had taken a piece of her memory away from her, something she didn't want her to know about and Takuya was pissed that it had left a bruise in her cerebrum. She touched her head and a shiver shot down her body when she saw Takuya at the foot of the stairs staring with shocked eyes at her. He immediately came up to her and immersed her in his arms and cradled her as if he was going to lose her, she didn't ask anything of him of what she heard, he probably knew by now that she had heard everything that was exchanged between him and Aoi.

"I'm so sorry... that you heard everything. I never wanted this to happen to you. What have I gotten you into Izumi...?" Izumi felt something wet touch her scalp as she realized that he crying, she touched his face gently as if to say that it was ok and kissed him lightly on the cheek and wrapped her arms around his neck giving him a hug.

"I don't care if she took away my memory as long as I still have you and the others is all that matters to me." she whispered into his ear. Somewhere, somehow Kouji had silently slipped away from the two giving them a moment as he disappeared away from her house.

'It's almost time... Just a little bit longer and I won't have to lie to you two anymore...'