A/N- Shank you, spiritofwater! *hugs* :D
Disclaimer- Nope. Er. Nope. Still nope. Stop reading this idiocy. Seriously. I'm still not owning it. Oh, shut up.
I'm not entirely sure why, but I REALLY don't like Dravis now. Maybe it's because he kept stealing glares at me. Maybe it's because he would constantly be holding Larka's hand. Maybe it's because he's called me a F-er and flipped me the bird about twenty times just today.
He's so easily jealous.
Then again, I suppose that I'm easily jealous too, because every time he did those things I envisioned myself punching the living daylights out of him. We were having a silent battle over Larka, and I kind of wish that she didn't know about it as much as she did.
Yuuki's been a little bit steamed about it too, because she won't cook for us anymore. She just sits next to Larka and glares at us.
I'm not really sure how Larka's been taking our battle because she hasn't said anything. She just kind of acts like it's nonexistent. I think that she might know something about this battle that no one else knows. She keeps acting like she's hiding something... like she's-
"Wake up," Dravis growled, smacking me on the head.
I glared at him and rubbed my head before growling right back at him, "Idiot. Don't you know you shouldn't hit a God?"
"I think I have some rights since you keep moving in on my girlfriend," he replied shortly.
"I haven't put a single move on her for the longest freaking time!" I shouted at him, standing up. "Have you not noticed?! I haven't done a single thing and yet you're acting like I have!"
Dravis gave me the bird again. "You're thinking it, though."
"This is getting ridiculous!" Yuuki cried, standing up. "Both of you need to shut up! Even Larka thinks so!"
"Nn," Larka agreed, looking away.
"She and I have actually been managing to get along for you guys' sake, but we won't get along if you won't! And then this entire plan of "saving the world" and stuff will have to come to a halt because none of us can get along! And do you know how bad that would be?! Very bad! We just want you to shut up and be friends! Larka hates this stupid fighting because she loves both of you! Jin's like a brother and Dravis is, like, her one true love and stuff! So just shut up!"
I stared at Yuuki before saying, at the exact same time as Dravis, "Are we really that bad?"
"Yes!" Yuuki cried, sitting down again. "Now be silent!"
Some words connected in my brain at that moment. Like, love and me and Larka. Sure, it was brotherly love, but still... she still loved me...
I smiled dreamily, going off into space.
... sometimes I wonder, am I stupid? Because that wasn't the best choice I could have made at that moment.
"He's thinking about my girlfriend again!" Dravis shouted, grabbing my arm. "I wanna punch the *beep* out of him! Damn it damn it damn it!"
"Control your mouth, Dravis," Larka said, looking at him flatly.
"Leggo!" I snapped, trying to pull my arm away.
"Like hell I will!" He answered angrily, gripping me even tighter.
"I made things worse, didn't I?" Yuuki groaned.
"Yeah, you should've kept your mouth shut," Larka answered sympathetically. "Good try, though."
"That is it!" I snapped. "Stop!"
And, for an instant, I was extremely grateful for being the God of Time. On the other hand, I was super pissed about pretty much everything. Including myself for getting me into this mess. It was my fault for making my own memories disappear.
I sat down, sighing. The anger I had felt was already started to dissipate just because I didn't have to talk to Dravis.
"What would Mom do...?" I asked myself, resting my chin in my hand. "She wouldn't force love... I know that much. She wouldn't be mean. She..."
I hesitated and said softly, "No. It doesn't matter what she'd do because she's not really my mom."
I had figured this out a while ago. My family that was in the future of this time... it couldn't possibly be my real family. After all, they were humans, mortals even, and I was... I was just me. I mean, I guess, I was a God. The God of Time.
"Maybe I'm stupid is all," I said aloud.
"Yes, we are," I heard someone agree with me from behind. I twisted around quickly and blinked. A guy in a blue and white hakama was standing there.
The scary part wasn't that he was here, it was that he looked exactly like me. Except older. I mean, I am not kidding. He looked so much like me I wondered if there was a weird mirror in front of me or something that showed what you looked like when you were older
"Who the heck're you?" I asked blankly.
"The name's Kouin, but you can call me Jin," he answered, sitting next to me.
"You serious?" I asked blankly.
He knocked on my head playfully. "Hello, I'm the God of Time. Do you keep forgetting that?"
"What're you doing here?" I asked blankly, yet again.
"I wanted to see how everyone was doin'," he said, smiling at nothing. "Dravis sure seems happy."
"As if," I growled, blowing my hair out of my eyes.
"You should cut that," he said.
"So should you," I retorted.
"Ah, touche," Other-me said, smirking.
"So... why are you really here?" I asked, knowing that I couldn't possibly want to see these people ever again after I got out of here. Well, maybe Larka, but she's a special case.
"I wanna tell you 'bout everyone at... home, I guess," he said, slightly frowning. "Like Ai, in particular."
I bit my bottom lip. He wanted to talk about... my other family? I thought that they wouldn't really care that I had disappeared. I mean, if Larka was going to do a full scale kidnapping so that I could become the God that I truly was, I had expected her to clean up her little messes that she happened to make.
Hm, that's a little complicated now that I think about it.
"Ai misses you a lot. And because she loves you so much, she's managed to become in-tuned with the God part of you, so you'll automatically be transported to her anytime that she dearly and truly misses you. This is extremely dangerous," Other-me said.
"Huh?" I asked.
"She basically in match with your brain waves," he stated, shrugging. "You need to talk to her."
"Uh," I said.
"Oh, hey, time's stopped," Other-me said, sounding oh so smart.
Reading sarcasm is hard, so I'll just let you know that right now. Yes, I used sarcasm.
"Better change that," he said, snapping his fingers and making time start again. Dravis stopped yelling, Larka blinked, and Yuuki's face abruptly turned a bright red color that I've only ever seen on strawberries and in some anime.
"Yo," he said. "What up?"
"Who the fu-" Dravis began, looking at him, then me, then him, then me again.
"No need for swearing," Other-me said, making a hand movement like he was zipping something up and giving a little wink. Dravis's face turned red and his mouth was now closed.
"You're kidding me!" Larka moaned. "It was bad enough when there was one Jin around, but now there's gotta be two?! What the heck is up with that!? And what are you doing here, anyway?! I don't need some crackpot like you aro-"
Before Larka could finish her sentance, Other-me's arms were around her. "I missed you, Larka," he said into her hair softly.
"Um, er, can you let go?" Larka asked. I could see that her face was very red.
"Ah, right, yes," Other-me said, blushing slightly and letting go. He gave her a quick bow before saying, "I'm here to... to take Jin to the future for a little while."
"Huh?" Larka asked.
"His- my- our little sort of sister has because somewhat a nuisance!" Other-me announced. "Ai is making my life as a parent harder as well because I keep screwing everything up! I can't take it, and I need other-me to take care of Ai and the rest of our fake family."
"Ung," I stated, confused.
"Ai is making things hard on both ends of the bargain," he stated, folding his arms. "I need to take Jin to the future so he can tell her to quit being so annoying."
"So... are you gonna take me to see Ai?" I asked.
"Duh," Other-me answered.
"Mm-mmph mm," Dravis growled, trying to open his mouth but failing terribly.
"Beautiful poetry, Drav," Other-me said, trying not to laugh. "Please, now tell me about springtime."
I thought Dravis might kill him.
For the first time, Other-me seemed to notice that Yuuki was hiding behind Larka. He walked past Larka, came right up to Yuuki, got in her face, and said with an expressionless face, "I swear, if you keep blushing you're going to turn into a tomato."
Yuuki's face couldn't turn any redder but it certainly tried to. She looked down, biting her bottom lip. All I really wanted to know was what her problem was. Why did she seem so embarrassed by the future me? What the crap was up with that? And the Other-me seemed to... pleased about something.
Dirtily pleased.
I tried not to think about those sorts of things anymore.
"If you don't smile at me, Yuu, I'm gonna have Lar kick you," Other-me said flatly. "Because I can't hurt a lady. I know you know how much it hurts to be kicked by that chick with her freaking metal heeled boots. So smile."
Yuuki smiled slightly, still seeming embarrassed. Other-me, however, seemed satisfied.
"Let's go to the future then, ne?" It wasn't even really a question. It was more of a statement.
"Hold it," Larka growled. "We can't just stop the mission and all. We have to save the world! We can't just take some random detour because you told us to, Jin! We have work to do in the ways of saving the world, whether you like it or not!"
Other-me pouted, then frowned. "Sorry, Lar-Lar, but I'm in charge now. If you wanna save the world, you have to deal with certain people and creatures. King Lee. Riku. And Ai. Ai could become a powerful objection to saving the world. She could change the world, making it blacker because she's so selfish."
"An eleven-year-old?" I asked, frowning. "Make the world darker?"
"Well, sure," Other-me answered. "You're sixteen when you save the world. Larka never changes her age, so she'll always be fourteen. Dravis is forever fifteen. Yuuki's fourteen. Do you have something against that? Because if you do-"
"Mm mm," Dravis mmphed.
"You really should shut up," Larka agreed.
"So are we going to the future, or what?" I asked.
"You have no choice," Other-me stated. "Onward speed!"
Before I lost sense of anything and everything, I realized something very important:
In the future, I was even dorkier than now.
"My word!" I heard Larka shout in my ear. "Are you deaf!?"
"Huh?" I asked dumbly.
"You're not listening to me," Larka growled. "I just asked you what we're supposed to do. I've never been to your house and the other you abandoned us. Dravis is somewhere else that I don't know because he disappeared somewhere and Yuuki's blushing like she just got her first kiss. I am so freaking lost."
"Nn," I answered.
"You're not helping!" she shouted, shaking me. "Am I the only one with any sense around here?!"
"Leggo," I answered, karate chopping her hand away.
"Where do we go from here?" she demanded.
I frowned. She wasn't letting me take in the fact that I was back. Back to the world I remembered. Back to my... unreal family. Back to my home city of Aomori. Back... home.
"Stop thinking!" Larka growled. "Take me to your house so we can set this Ai girl straight!"
The sky was cloudy so I couldn't tell the exact time. She might have still been in school. So I walked up to a perfect stranger and asked, "Excuse me, but do you know the time?"
The woman blinked and took out her cell phone. "It's just after noon," she told me, then walked away.
"Ai is in school right now," I stated, folding my arms. "We can't just burst in. Everyone is at school or work right now. There would be no point."
"She could be at lunch," Larka stated.
"That's true," I murmured, rubbing my chin. "I know where it is from here, but... shouldn't we be more concerned about finding Dravis? He wasn't here when we got here..."
"He's fine," Larka said, brushing it off. "He gets lost in time travel a lot."
How would she know this... ?
"So guide the way to the elementary school, Jin," Larka said, taking order again. "And make it snappy. I don't want to be here a second longer than I have to be."
I glared at her flatly.
"I'm very confused," Yuuki said softly, following me as I began walking at my own pace to Namiuchi Elementary School just to bother Larka. Which it did. She hit me. Not that fun.
"You ought to be, yukata girl," I said, frowning slightly.
The future. We were finally back. I was. But I still had to save the world.
What an odd feeling, knowing that... I almost wanted to moan and groan that I couldn't stay here forever and just sleep and eat and be a regular teenager.
Stupid being a God-ness.
A/N- MM, the chapter felt somewhat random and very short. I've been planning it for a while, but I thought it would come up later. And when it came up, it would be better than this load of crap that I'm reading over. Bah, humbug. At least it's funny.