Her Deepest Desire
Before you guys get scared, this will not be about sex or such things, MAYBE a quick refrence but nothing more!
I do not own Zatch Bell/ Konjiki no Gash Bell. It belongs to Makoto Raiku, This is a no-profit parody, please support the official release! I also do not own Suzu, Skye, Ri, Kaede, Sean, Robin, Petal, or Tanya. They all belong to their respective users. I do not own any songs used in this story. They belong to their respective writersand companies
The room was quiet. A painful silence filled the air, for Natsumi, Zeno, and Kolulu and the anger toward the chaos their families had been dragged 's made some really think about their lives, but most wish they weren,t there. Deep down though, they all knew this was their problem, and currently no one knew that better than Zatch who was furius at how twisted fate was. Why wasn't he going through this? It seemed like, all of a sudde, all he wanted to lie his life for, was to suffer with his brother, just so for once . . .for once . . .As he thought of this, he was too deep in thought to notice that he was crying, and it wasn't quietly. People could hear it. They mentioned it not, at first, but Kiyo became worried and put a hand on Zatch's shoulder. Zatch stopped in that sudden moment and looked at Kiyo.
"Zatch, it's not over yet, not for Zeno, don't be this down about it. Keep your hopes u-"
"You don't get it Takamine!" Zatch yelled. " None of you do. Our whole lives, Zeno and I were so different. I'd be the idiot and Zeno would always either mock me or have to face the burden of making up for my mistakes. He was always so much better off than me in almost all aspects of life. I'm just the mess up. So why couldn't I be the one threatened to die?! Why does my brother, who has always proved to be so much betterly equipped to live be the one who's goingdown? I'M THE FAILING NOBODY! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME!" Zatch cried harder as the room became otherwise deadly silent.
"It's funny, Zeno would have litterally killed you if he heard that." a quiet voice said. All including Zatch turned around, they knew that voice. Sure enough Natsumi stood with royal blue markings that were curly on her comepletely white skin. One eye was ocean blue with a black cat-like slit in it. The other was comepletely black, in the middle of a black lightning bolt looking design, the black dot had a defining yellow orbin the middle of it. Her hair now reach just below her chin. She had neko ears and a fox tail, both real. She looked weak, like she was about to fall, also wearing a beater and shorts, holding Lukia.
"Natsumi!" Megumi panicked standing up, Minami sat her down, shaking her head
" I-I know it doesn't seem like it now, but under all of that anger Zeno has, he is just as happy that you aren't in danger, as I am that Megumi and Tia aren't. The fact that nobody else feels the pain or fear we do of such a strange disease, is very painful, yet so reassuring to us. Zeno's just being cranky because he feels s little lonely. Kolulu says it's because he's the only guy with it. We all know that he's happy it's that way too, the fewer the better" She smiled and despite her new look, it was the same pretty smile everyone knew and loved. The smile that meant everything was OK. The smile that now pissed Claire off
" Why the hell do you look worse than the other two?" Claire asked.
"I'm not getting treated, but I know my mother is still with me. She made Lukia who is really special to both of us. She made Lukia because she knew I was scared to leave her for kindergarten. She made Lukia and put part of her spirit in Lukia so she would be with me. That's why, even now, I'm not scared, She is with me and I know just like back in the days,when the day is over, she'll be home, waiting for me with dad." Megumi remembered that. She was there when Naussica did that which is why Natsumi had to hide Lukia "I'm gonna go lie down now, Zatch, maybe not now but later on, maybe talking to Zeno will help him feel better." Natsumi turned around, about to go back. Kanchome, that's a weird but nice thought you had though unfourtanetly figuring out the square root of pi, 1.77245385, won't make things better."
" Maybe not, but thank you for sharing that, I needed the answer for my homework." A familiar voice said.
"Hi Don, I'm too tired to wonder why your here after saying three paragraphs of dialouge and then mentally correcting Kanchome's math homework which needs much work. Reading minds is so funny . . ." She fainted, Don caught her and set her against a wall. Maxwell got up lifted her, nodded at Don and took her away.
"Seriously kid, why are you here?" Veronte asked. Don took a seat where Kanchome had been before he fainted after Natsumi read his mind.
"Weeeellll . . . last night I was walking to my room after getting some water when I hear Mimi talking in her sleep, asking Natsumi why she had to leave like her mom and hoping Mr. Raiku's explanation tomorrow would explain why they disappeared. Weeelllll, I remembered Naussica and Ryomu, everyone in the family saw Conan kill them, rest in peace, because of this and I remember having a crush on Nausicca, buuttt I was really bad at hiding it but she didn't tell me until the night before the incident, Natsumi cracked up so hard, Megumi was in tears . . .Well I wanted to know why Minami disappeared so the next day I rode my bike to school as usual, and while you loaded in the limo, I tied a rope to it's pipe and skate boarded following you guys so when we got here I could slide it under the limo, so nobody suspected a thing! HI AUNT MINA-CHAN!!" Don yelled Minami twitched.
"Aunt Mina-chan?" She asked, annoyed. "Well now that yer here, how IS Nayoko these days?" Everyone took this as a que to dispatch and go their own way, all staying in the building. Veronte walked off, Tia followed, the two walked down a hall and in a room with sofas. Veronte walked to one, sat, and gestured Tia to join her. Tia sat as well. Veronte sighed.
" You know, there are so many things to catch up with you on . . .but theres something that I want to just get off my chest. I can't blame your father for remarrying Hyono, before her bad qualities were known. I am quite angry about him beating you up and making life miserable for you"
"Wha? But how do you-" Tia started, Veronte raised her hand.
"Maxwell was one of our spies, he heard you talking in the hospital to everyone and Petal was listening the night before. What hurt me the absolute most was that you wanted to die because it was that painful for you" she said starting to cry. Tia looked at her mother's shoulder length red hair, her brown eyes, the ones that used to be so happy and mischevious now comepletely crumble over her guilt of neglectance. "I talked to your father in prison, I told him the truth and so did he. It's my fault that things are like this for you, I-I" She ducked her head, then pulled Tia in an embrace.
"M-Mom . . ." Tia stuttered as tears poored freely from her eyes, muffled by her mothers sleeve
(A/N: For those who may wonder, I may seem like a huggy person, in real life, I'm anything but. Who knows? I might be one day . . . )
Kolulu and Zeno were watching Shugo Cara on Zeno's iPad. It was Kolulu's favorite anime after the incident with Blaire, and of course, Zeno just wanted Kolulu to be happy especially now. The strangely exsisting intercom suddenly came on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, This is Kaede and Skye speaking, would all OCs and mamodo and human "from a thousand years ago" please come to the confrence room? We've got scheming to do. Thank you, good bye."
There then was a knock at the door.
"Who is it? Zeno asked.
"It's Lori and Zatch" Lori answered.
"Oh Lori! Come on in!" Kolulu said cheerfuly "Zeno can we please let Zatch in?" She asked
"Let him say whatever from outside." Zeno replied. The door opened, Lori looked at Zatch apologetically and entered the room.
"n-No problem." Zatch started. "Zeno, I, I'm sorry, I don't know if it helps to say this but I wish I was infected too so you weren't alone but even while not, I still know you aren't alone, I'm still here, mom and dad are too, their just hiding on the roof from us because they know we would be pissed as hell that they sorta did this to us, and Kolulu's mom is tied up in a room so she wouldn't kill herself out of guilt, and you know what happened to Natsumi's mom."
"Ah yes, she's watching you, with a cleaver in hand . . ." Zeno replied, slightly joking.
"See, your still in a joking mood!" Zatch cheered
"No, I still wanna kill you." Zeno replied.
"Well, that's OK, because I have just the cure for your depressed mood!" Zatch exclaimed. "I want to give you something personally, so could you PLEASE come to the door?" Zatch asked. It was silent for a few moments, then Zeno opened the door and stood there. " OK, Well I noticed how although she's doomed, Natsumi is able to keep her hopes up because of Lukia, a reminder of family . . .So here!" Zatch stook a hand in his shirt back and pulled out his Vulcan and handed it to Zeno. " Even if you dispise me now, when you want it Vulcan will give you a reminder that I'm here for you, wait!" He quickly took out some gum, and chewed it while digging his finger in his ear, took the finger out, full of wax, and then blue a huge bubble, let it slap his face as he said, "OK gum, take some of my spirit!" took the gum off, stuck it together with the wax and tuck it in Vulcan's mouth.
"There, That way my spirit is with you and whatever you say to it, my ear wax will tell me!" Zatch smiled Zeno sighed.
"I'd never be caught dead doing that, but thank you." He said, as he took it and closed the door. Zatch smiled proudly and walked off.
Mr. Dufort was walking around when he saw Kiyo in the room everyone had met in,now the only one there.
"You alright?" Mr. Dufort asked.
"Yeah, I just have alot on my mind" Kiyo answered, sighing. "I usually relieve stress by using a computer, doing anything on one helps, but there isn't one here and we aren't leaving here until tomorrow so . . ."
"Well, there may be a solution to that" Mr. Dufort replied, he walked out, came back with a laptop five minutes later.
"It was Naussica's, if you don't mind using it. I'm sure she wouldn't mind." Mr. Dufort explained.
"Thank you very much Mr. Dufort, I'll take good care of it." Kiyo said, Mr Dufort nodded.
"Now, where did I put that hotdog . . ." He mumbled as he left.
Kiyo turned the laptop on, and surprisingly, there was no password, and the desktop only had three things on it. Kiyo clicked the Internet and surfed around. He then saw a pop up on the bottom of the screen saying Nausicca has nw files in her project folder. Out of curiousity, Kiyo minimized the Internet and clicked the other file on the desktop, the third being Recycle Bin but was titled: Things on my computer that I wish I could kill. (A/N: Does anybody do that on their desktop?) The file opened but there was a password, and it really did not look friendly.
I have to get your daughter to help me don't I? Kiyo asked the laptop as he got up with it and headed to Natsumi's room.
.
.
.
"I don't know why your so scared to ask for help on this" Natsumi wondered "Wait a second, you're scared because it's my mom's laptop and I might get mad? No I'm not. I just don't get what could be so important about this file . . ." Kiyo sighed.
"It'll be hard to be around you and keep secrets . . .Call me a queer but the pop up made me think there was a message your mom wanted to send. Like she wanted us to look at the file, pretty stupid huh?" He asked, bonking himself in the head.
" I suppose it's worth a try . . ." Natsumi replied, they began to work.
That night, the gang ate burritos for dinner, Kanchome ate all of the beans and farted so hard he blasted off to Space. When it was time for lights off, all boys slept in one room, girls in another, Zeno amd Kolulu got their roomS (See the S!) Megumi was woke up by a rough hand. It was dark so she did not see who it was.
"Come with me" the voice of the hand said. Megumi followed it (A/N: Bad girl, someone must have had taught you better!) He lead her outsside to a balcony, the curtain was close. He turned the light on before they exited, when she saw who it was, she gasped, she was about to faint.
"H-h-h-how are you still alive?" She said quietly. She could not believe she was looking at her father in the flesh. He smiled that same smile that meant "You're screwed"
"Relax my child" He said, putting a hand on her cheek, caressing it. Megumi wanted to KILL this guy. "I'm not here to hurt you."
"HOW THE HELL-" He covered her mouth.
"Am I alive? Hehehe . . . Not even your mother knew that all along I was one of Clear Note's people" Megumi gasped. "I simply exploded the elctric chair room, to make it seem like a fire, killing everyone in there, it was so beautiful" Megumi got rreally ticked then. She threw her fist at Conan who simply grabbed it and let it smirking proudly.
"I came to tell you that you will die soon. You can't feel it but your heart has a big parasite on it. Clear Note bit me as a child, his blood mixed with mine . . .such anamazing feeling, but he gave me a gene that caused all of my children to have the parasite which slowly but surely turns you into one of his monsters, making you a threat to life, nobody will have a choice but to kill you.
"I-I don't believe you" Megumi stuttered quietly while shaking her head Conan simply took a knife out and made a deep cut one his hand, blood came out. He put it on Megumi's a strange sensation filled Megumi's chest, like something making hasty movement in it, she suddenly started coughing, blood came out. Megumi gasped, Conan laughed loudly
" That was the parasite, trying to get to Clear Note's blood which can be sensed in mine" He explained, kept smiling and disappeared, his last words being "You can't kill me with human tactics anyway, no mamodo can be!!" Megumi dropped to the floor, she began to cry of fear.
' How could this happened? Why would he do this to mom? Did he know who Naussica was before . . .Is that why he called Ryomu . . .Why can't I figure any of this out?! She thought, Maybe it's better this way, I won't need to be saved anymore . . .I'll be out of everyone's way, but what about Mom, Nayoko, Don, Rai, Tia, and Kiyo; they'll have to see me go . . .I don't want to cause them pain . . .and Natsumi? This sucks . . .She sat there crying alone, she then noticed a light a couple of balconies down. As star of the long jump team, Megumi jumped from balcony to balcony, not wanting to wake others up. She quickly put on a tired face and opened the strangely unlocked door in time to hear Kiyo yelling,
"How many levels are on this thing?!" He and Natsumi, two of the last people she wanted to see, on a laptop.
" Kiyo, are you forcing my cousin to get you into a hardcore porn database at two AM?" Megumi asked in a tired voice, Kiyo gave her WTF look, Natsumi sighed.
"No Megumi, we;re just playing a game and Kiyo can't get over how many levels it has. Megumi always acts comepletely off when she's half asleep, Nobody pays mind to what she says between her waking up from sleep and eating breakfast. Go back to bed Mimi"
"c-K" Megumi replied sleepily and left. She finally got back to her bed, between Tia and her mother's and realized, that now she had a secret no one else knew.
And she hated it.
The next morning Megumi woke up and realized everyone else was gone for some reason, it was 8:32, Megumi went outside to the hall, stretched and when she put her armscdown someone tugged one of them, she looked to see Tia.
"I heard your father last night." She announced "Ever last word." Megumi gasped, about to cry, of all people . . .
" But how did you?" Megumi asked.
" I sometimes get insomia, I was on the roof and I have big ears. \"She explained. " I told my mom but made her sign a paper swearing not to tell even Minami. She says she'll see what she can do. Damn . . .He really won't die, damn" Tia said as she clenched her fists, Megumi grabbed both of Tia's hands.
"I don't want anyone to worry" Megumi replied. " So it's OK, really! I'm going to fight this as long as I can, but I want you, to promise me when I do change, you won't hesitate to kill me. That way nobody gets hurt. That is all I want." Megumi explained, Tia got teary, and nodded. Megumi patted Tia on the shoulder." I'm going to go tell Natsumi, so she doesn't blurt it out when I think about it." Megumi declared, she and Tia headed to Natsumi's room. When they got there, Natsumi was sleeping. Claire, still in her PJs with no ponytails and no AK-47 sat sanely smiling.
"Carrot top and your boyfriends, helped make a miracle happen." Claire whispered. "Go to the operation room, next to where Tia and her mom talked, and you'll see it. And so they walked to the room, and before entering heard Don, Wonrei, Alm, and Lance singing with Wonrei in front, looking like he was leadding the rest, facing the other singing teens.
To Be a man
We must be swift as the coursing river
To Be a man
With all the force of a great typhoon
To Be a man
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon . . .
Minami and Veronte had a "Do they really have to do this?" Look on their faces Meanwhile, Zeno could be seen with no markings on his skin, holding Kolulu's hand who also appeared to have strangely turned back to normal, she was laying on a bed with a wire in the hand Zeno was holding, blood was coming into her from a bag, Zatch layed unconcious with an oxygen mask next to Kolulu with a wire in his hand. Tia and Megumi were confused so they walked up to Minami.
"Hey, what's going on mom?" Megumi asked over the loud singing.
" Your aunt made a miracle happen." She replied.
"Nayoko?"
"Other side."
"Nausica's dead . . ."
" Yes, but Kiyo and Natsumi spent the whole night hacking into Nausica's laptop, they finally got onto her work desktop and saw a video she made the day she died, she had just figured out how to comepletely cure the curse in Kolulu and Zeno's case, which was thought to be Natsumi's too. Zatch was the key. Nausica's explanation was really complicated, only understandable to us in the project. So we explained it to everyone by saying all of the parent- gaven blood cells were like little troops who may or may not be able to fight off the enemy killer cells. While the cells in Zatch's blood, which has been developing it's immunity to the disease to keep up with Zatch's growing up body, are much more equipped to fight the disease. So by injecting Zatch blood in them, Zatch's blood leads the "troops" in Zeno and Kolulu's blood to a swift victory over the disease . . .So now these weirdos are bringing Disney into it." Minami finished, smiling.
Megumi smiled largely and was in tears, Tia ran to Zatch and held his free hand. Kolulu soon woke and sat up. She saw her mom and Zeno crying.
"Zatch freed us . . ." Zeno whispered. "We don't have to fear dying anymore."
"Wait," Kolulu started, "Is Zatch going to be OK?" She asked, shocked from seeing her normal body again.
"Yeah, and I'll explain that and those singing people when Zatch wakes up." Veronte promised. Kolulu's mom hugged her child, and, after being convinced down by Mr. Dufort, Zeno's mom cmae down and hugged her son. Overly filled with happiness of their children living on. Zatch finally woke up, as he did, still laying down, Tia kissed him on the forhead. Zatch snapped awake and blushed. Tia stopped and stood up, smiling at him.
"You did it Zatch." Tia started. Veronte explained and Zatch jumped around happily, he and Zeno hugged, he gave Kolulu a half hug and ran around some more.
"I'm going to see Natsumi now." Megumi whispered to Tia who nodded. Megumi got to Natsumi's room, Claire and Yukiro were there, talking about "Grand Thief Auto" Natsumi continued to sleep, Lukia in hand. She had some hair in her face, Megumi brushed it off and talked with the other two,
An hour later, Minami and Don entered. Claire and Yukiro had left to get lunch and change clothes.
"Still sleeping eh?" Don asked, Natsumi strangely woke up and sat up, Don seemed shocked. Natsumi smiled.
"What's up?" She asked, Megumi hugged her.
"Nice work, Ms. Hacker" Minami smirked.
"Kiyo helped," Natsumi replied " thank you though."
"Welp, you all leave tomorrow,and I guess I come back with you. Strangely we've wasted all this time . . .and a whole family is lost" Minami finished, putting her head down. Natsumi hugged her, telling her not to worry because they would be together in Heaven, and with Minami and Megumi and everyone else in spirit. Megumi frowned, she had no idea.
"Moving on to brighter subjects . . ." Don started, "Mommy's birthday is tomorrow!!"
"Ah, shoot that's right! How old is she, twenty eight now?" Minami asked. The two older teens nodded. "So what should we do?" Don waved his hand as if to dismiss the question.
"That's easy! We play some Pokemon Stadium on our Nintendo 64, go bother Mr. Toyoma, weird old guy still lives there, peek in everyone's mailbox, sell people Girl Scout cookies when we know damn well that we don't know where the hell to get them so we give people their money back weeks later saying it burned down because wolves were testing nuclear bombs, ask the wolves why they didn't use it to blow the Twilight set up, go back home and play Pokemon, eat cookie dough sushi, eat your special cake, watch the Onegai My Melody Christmas Special while Rai and Natsumi cuddle with Nayoko, play more Pokemon, play Super Mario 64 just to mock Mario, run through the apartment hallways next door saying Lady Gaga is at Mr. Toyoma's house, watch them go mad, go to the next apartment over and yell Mr. Toyoma can see Russia from his house, go home,play kareoke, then RPG and kill eachother when we really just goto sleep: The End!" Megumi could see her mother's expression turn more and more into a "Really?" expression. She sighed.
"We did that EVERY year! We need to make this year special!" Megumi shook her head.
"You know, after I got my memories back, I asked Nayoko at one point what she would do if she saw you again. She said she would be all over you, beating you up for just disappearing and destroying the family . . .I could see that, but I know she would also want to hug you and cry. Mom, I ccan tell that through all of these yea-" Don cut her off by putting his hand in front of her.
" Rai still isn't old enough to understand what really went down all of those years ago, and Mom couldn't talk to Megumi about it without putting Mimi's life in danger. She only had rare hances to talk to me alone, when she did she held no secrets. She was in pain for all of those years, she couldn't take the change. It wouldn't be right to have you come back and still insist on changing things. All of these years, her deepest desire is to see you and have some assurance that even after everything we all lost, there's still a way we can go back to our good old traditions, even if it's just a little. She had to try so hard to do that for her and I but exclude Megumi and Rai . . .We finally get the chance to go back to normal. So let's do it!" Minami smiled, tears in her eyes.
"You're right . . .I, just wanted to find a way to make things up to Nayoko for all of those years she suffered . . .but the only way, is really to change nothing at all Y-yeah. We have to do that. Alright then, we will! Now, I'm going go get her a present, and Don is coming with me!" She dragged the teen with her. Megumi then sighed, and without looking at her,
"Nami?"
"Hm?"
"M-My mind has something to tell you" Megumi answered, gripping Natsumi's hand. Natsumi looked into Megumi's mind for a couple of minutes, had her jaw open as far as it could go, she was shaking, shaking her head, Megumi kept crying "I'm so sorry" Megumi cried. The two had their foreheads together, they would be together, but in a way neither wanted.
Rawr! Ugh, sad chapter . . .Sorry T.T Next one will be sunshine and lollipops compared to this.