Chapter 26
Shizuki's POV
I sat down on Hikan's lap with my arms wrapped around his neck, I stared into his eyes and he stared into mine, then I pressed my lips against his and closed my eyes,
"Mmn… *smack* mm.." we stayed like that for a a couple minutes before Hikan pulled himself away,
"Shizuki…" he muttered and I pushed him down on the bed and pressed closer against him, my breasts squished against his chest.
"Hikan…" I muttered before he locked lips with me again, this time he stuck his tongue in my mouth and swirled it around, his tongue explored inside my mouth, then I separated from him again, "Hikan, I love you…" I stated, he looked at me and smiled,
"Shizuki, I love you too, that's why I need to do this." he said as he pushed me off of him and now he was on top of me, he's kinda rough, but is it bad that I kinda like it?
"Hikan, please do anything you want to me…" I muttered and he tilted his head,
"Anything?" he said in a questioning tone,
"Anything." I repeated, then he lifted his hand and a sword materialized in it, my instincts kicked in as I kicked him off of me and rolled out of the bed, "Hikan?! What's wrong?!" his smile grew even wider,
"Shizuki, you said I could do anything to you so… let me kill you!" he said in an overjoyed tone, he got off the bed and started walking towards me, what the hell is wrong with him!
"Get away!" I yelled as I scrambled to my feet and ran out the door, I heard his laughter as I ran out of the apartment,
"HAHAHA! RUN RABBIT RUN!" he yelled as I ran down the stairs and out of the apartment building, I was now on the streets and I was still in Leanbox, but I saw no-one anywhere,
I ran down the street and looked behind me, Hikan was following with his sword in his hand and a large smile on his face, wait, I can fight back!
I turned around and materialized my katana in front of me and held my ground, Hikan continued to walk up to me,
"Hikan! I don't want to do this, stay back!" I warned, but he was getting closer and closer, his smile was growing from ear to ear,
"Shizuki… no more running~!" he stated, I started backing up, but I hit my back on something, a dead end.
"What?! No?!" I said turning back to Hikan, who was now in my face,
"Heh, dead end Shizuki, poor poor you… Don't worry I'll kill you fast!" he said as he raised his sword in the air "HAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed maniacally,
"NOOO!" I shouted as I stabbed Hikan in the stomach.
"Gh!" He grunted as he stepped back a little, he dropped his sword and grabbed my katana by the blade with both hands, blood formed around his stomach and he looked down, "Heh… nice hit." he said before falling on his side and closing his eyes. He stopped moving completely,
I sat down and hugged my knees. Tears formed in my eyes, I want this to end!
"Why… *hic* Why did this happen!" I yelled and I looked at Hikan, he was still laying on the ground and blood was dripping from his stomach,
"Heh… It's not THAT easy you know." Hikan said as he grabbed the katana again,
"No! How?!" I said confused, that blow should have killed him, how is he alive?!
"HAHAHA! You can't get rid of me that easy!" Hikan yelled as he got up and pulled the katana out, "Man, taking hits with this really sucks, you should give it a try Shizuki!" He yelled as he approached me,
"No… stay back." I muttered, but that didn't stop Hikan,
"Bye-Bye Shizuki~!" he said as he raised his sword.
"KYAAAAAA!"
Hikan's POV
"Shizuki!" I yelled as I shook her, she was sweating profusely and yelling in her sleep, Nep and the others were there with me, trying to wake her up,
"KYAAAAAA!" Shizuki yelled in her sleep,
"SHIZUKI!" I yelled which made everyone jump, I got quite a voice on me, everyone in the building probably thought I was crazy.
Suzuki's eyes shot open and she looked around, I put my hands on her shoulders, "Hey, it's alright." I stated and she looked at me, then tears formed in her eyelids,
"*sniff* waaaah! Hikan!" she cried as she wrapped her arms around me and cried into my chest,
"It's alright now, everything's alright." I stated while rubbing her head messing up her hair a little, I looked at the others and nodded, signaling them to leave the room and they did,
"*sniff* Hikan… it was so… *hic* scary!" she said through her tears, I continued to hug her and rub her head,
"It's alright now." I repeated, then I looked down at her, she must have been having some nightmare,
"Hikan… *sniff* you're not gonna hurt me... right?" she asked, why would I do that?
"No, I would never do something like that." I said and she tightened her grip around me, did she have a nightmare about me? "Are you alright now?" I also asked and she nodded,
"*sniff* yeah…" she muttered and I patted her head and smiled,
"If you don't mind me asking, what happened?" I asked in a concerned tone, Shizuka's face flushed red and she averted her gaze from mine,
"Um… just a nightmare is all." she said, I don't want to make her uncomfortable,
"Okay, i'm gonna head out with the others, come on out when you're ready, alright?" I said and she nodded, then I walked out of the room,
In the living room was Neptune, IF, Compa, and… Vert?! Why is she here?!
"Hello again Hikan." she greeted, I stared at her with a surprised look,
"Uh, hi again Vert, why are you here?" I asked and she smiled at me,
"Well, I heard that you'll be leaving Leanbox soon, so I came here to ask a favor." She said putting her hands together,
"Okay, what is it?" I said in a curious tone,
"Please allow me to join your party." Vert said, I looked at the others and they shrugged,
"Well, the more the merrier, I guess." I replied and Vert's smile brightened,
"That's good to hear, now I can be around you more." Vert said as she got up and walked over to me, she put her arms under her chest and her breasts bounced a little, causing my face to blush,
"Whoa whoa there Vert! He's mine, we're the main characters!" Nep complained as she ran over to me and clung to my arm,
"Then it looks like we're rivals, I won't lose to you Neptune." Vert taunted as she clung to my other free arm,
"Bring it on Vert!" Nep challenged while I just sighed, why do I got to go through this?
"Wow, Hikan sure has a lot of friends!" Compa said in her usual joyful tone, at least there are two girls that don't obsess over me, well I hope they don't…
"Anyway, Hikan, what is the plan now?" IF asked as I struggled to get out of both Vert and Neptune's grip.
"Well, we need one more fragment, which is in Lowee, the only problem is The Saviors, they are most likely going to be expecting us in Lowee, so we cannot let our guard down, what we need to do is negotiate with Lowee's CPU and find the last fragment before The Savior's have the chance to strike, which means as soon as Shizuki is feeling better, we'll head out for Lowee. Any questions?" I explained, everyone shook their head, "Alright, this is almost over everyone, after this last fragment is found and we release Histy from her chamber, Nep's memory will return and everything will be at peace." I also said and everyone fist pumped the air,
"Yeah!" we all said in unison…
About thirty minutes later, Shizuki came out from her room and greeted all of us,
"Feeling better Shizuki?" I asked and she nodded her head,
"Yes, thank you for your concern Hikan." Shizuki replied with a smile, I returned it with one of my own,
"No problem." I stated as I got off the couch. "Well, time to go everyone." I stated and everyone joined me,
"Let's go!" Neptune said as she opened the door and ran out, we all followed after her and soon left the apartment building and into the streets of Leanbox,
With Neptune leading the way, I was behind her and IF walked up beside me, 'Do you think it'll be easy?" IF asked, I turned my head and looked at her.
"Doubt it, this is the last one, so The Saviors probably know what we're after, so they'll be waiting for us, just keep your guard up, I don't want anything to happen to any of you, especially since this is almost over." I said and IF blushed a bit,
"I always keep my guard up, but you be careful too, those other times almost got you killed." IF stated and I nodded,
"I know…" I muttered, but I'm still alive.
"Don't sweat it! Hikan's a main character of this fanfic, he can't die or else the author will not know what to do!" Neptune stated while shattering the fourth wall even more.
"You and your fourth wall breaking Neptune, I swear." I said with a smile, she really does make anyone smile.
We're now out of Leanbox and on the path to Lowee, IF and Compa were leading the way, chatting up a storm on something, Vert and Neptune were arguing over me from behind, and Shizuki and me were walking side by side, she had her head down and was walking quietly beside me, while I kept a lookout on our surrounding area, eventually I felt a tug on my sleeve and I looked over, Shizuki was pulling on my sleeve,
"Hikan, will this all be over after this last fragment?" She asked me and I nodded,
"Yes, but it won't be a walk in the park, they will be waiting for us, so keep your guard up." I stated and Shizuki nodded,
"I will." she stated and now was walking with her head held high, but something was wrong,
"Shizuki?" I said in a questionable tone, she looked at me and tilted her head,
"Hm? What is it?" she replied, I looked at her hair and her black ribbon was gone, making her hair look almost like Noire's in CPU form, how could I not realize it sooner?
"Your ribbon is missing." I stated and she looked down at the ground,
"I lost it after that… 'incident' with Noire." she muttered, how did I not see it sooner?
"I don't think we'll be able to get it back though." I stated and Shizuki shook her head,
"No, it's fine, I don't need it that much anyway." Shizuki said, somehow, I don't think that's true. "But Hikan, what will you do after this is all over?" Shizuki also asked me, I looked up at the sky and thought to myself,
"Haven't really thought about it that much to be honest, whatever happens I guess." I said and Neptune came up behind me,
"You'll be living with me obviously!" she said as she wrapped her arms around me, I looked back at her and sighed,
"I may live with you, you're the CPU of Planeptune so who knows." I stated and Neptune looked up at me,
"So what, we love each other no matter what form we change into!" Neptune replied tightening her grip on me, I looked at Shizuki and she was looking ahead,
"I disagree, I believe Hikan will be living with me." Vert argued as she walked up beside me, "Afterall, I think I'm the most qualified." she also said putting her arms under her chest again, Neptune looked at her and laughed,
"You think you can win just because of those? Hah, I can just transform and I'll be on the same page!" Neptune said as the flash of light engulfed her and she was now Purple Heart, "Right Hikan?" she said as she pressed closer against my back causing her breasts to squish on my back, which made me blush a little,
"Well, you are more… developed…" I muttered and Vert grabbed my arm,
"Of course you have bigger breasts in HDD form, but I still prevail." Vert said while putting my arm in between her breasts, my face was now burning hot,
"Alright, that's enough you two." I stated as I got out of both of their grips, "You two can argue over me after we get this last fragment." I also said and I heard Neptune giggle a little bit, I looked at her and saw her looking down at my pants, oh geez…
"Alright then." Neptune stated before turning back into her original form, 'But Vert, I will not lose to you!" Neptune challenged and Vert smirked,
"Neither will I." Vert retorted as I stood there and sighed, this is gonna be a long day…
We must be getting close to Lowee, there has been snow on the ground for a while now, I do know that Lowee was a snowy place, so we gotta be getting close now,
"There it is!" IF yelled as I walked up next to her, sure enough, where IF was pointing was the city of Lowee, you could see the huge tower in the middle and all the houses around it, that has to be it,
"Nice, now we can get the last fragment." I said, but something was wrong, no-one stopped us on our way here, no monsters, no people, no-one was here, "C'mon, let's go." I stated as I walked towards the city, along with everyone behind me, something's not right…
"So this is Lowee? It's a lot snowier than I thought." Neptune said as she looked around the area, of course as she said the area was snowy, most of the houses were just normal small house and no apartment buildings like in the other nations, the only thing that stood out was the tower in the middle of Lowee, which I'm guessing is where the CPU is.
"I hope the CPU will help us." I stated as I started to walk forward a bit, but was interrupted by a girl in a red and white maid outfit, she had long blonde hair and the entire maid outfit.
"Are you Hikan Masato?" she asked me, I was known in this nation too… this is not how I wanted to become famous…
"Yes, I am Hikan, how do you know me?" I replied and the maid smiled,
"I was sent here to get you, my name is Financier and I was sent by Lady Blanc, or Lady White Heart, to get you." Financier said, something doesn't seem right, but I guess I'll go with her, I'll keep my guard up.
"Alright, as long as my friends go along with us." I stated and she looked behind me and nodded,
"Okay, let's go." she stated then started walking, I motioned everyone to follow and we walked close behind Financier,
While walking, I had the chance to see what others did in Lowee and it seemed really peaceful, I saw kids playing in the snow and parents watching with smiles on their faces, and some parents were chopping wood for fire I guess. I have to say, everyone seemed to like it here, even I am interested in living here.
We stopped in front of the Basilicom I'm guessing, which was the tower, "Alright, we're here." Financier stated before opening the door to the Basilicom, again with the cathedral feeling, it looked the same as the others, chairs in rows, going towards the front, only this time the banners were white, "Follow me, Lady Blanc is in the back room." Financier also stated as she began leading us to the room where Blanc resides, I hope she doesn't mind me leaving out the "Lady" part,
"This is it." Financier said as she opened the doors to a room that was made of glass, inside the room was girl, she had a blue and white cap on her head, she had sandy brown short hair and blue eyes, she wore a white dress with an white overcoat with blue on the sleeves on her arms, the top of the overcoat was made out of fur and the overcoat barely fit her, she also had a white ribbon with gold highlights on her right ankle and white and blue shoes on. I'm guessing we found Blanc.
"Lady Blanc, I brought Hikan Masato with me, along with his friends." Financier said and Blanc nodded,
"Good, now then, time to get this over with." Blanc said as I heard footsteps behind us, I turned around and saw a bunch of Lowean guards enter the room, blocking the entrance,
"Now Hikan, you will be locked up for your crimes against Gamindustri, the other nations failed to do this, but I will not." Blanc said as the guards came up and grabbed all of our arms,
"Let go!" Neptune yelled as she struggled to get out of the guards grasp,
"Hang on! I need to explain something!" I yelled, but Blanc shook her head,
"That's what you did in the other nations too, I won't make the same mistake." Blanc replied, everyone tried to get out of the guards grip, but were unable to, I'll be damned if I let this happened!
"Get offa me!" I yelled as I ran back and smashed the guard against the wall, he dropped his hold on me as I turned around and restrained him, he tried to wrestle me down to the ground, but I was able to hold my guard, while the other guards were distracted, I saw Shizuki able to get out of her guards grip and was now working on getting the others out, while they were doing that, I picked my guard up and threw him towards the glass, he went smashing through it and I turned to the others, who were now all free from their guards grasp "We need to move now!" I yelled as I pointed towards the smashed out wall,
Everyone ran towards it and jumped through, while more guards came through the doorway, "After them!" Blanc yelled as I jumped through the wall and caught up with everyone, I don't want to disturb the peace in the city, so I'll go with the woods for now,
"Nice plan Hikan." Vert complimented as all of us ran through the woods,
"I wasn't expecting that, but now we had an escape route, so let's keep moving!" I yelled as I ran even faster, I knew something was up, but I don't want to hurt the CPU's, I'm trying to help them!
We ran as far as we could and stopped in the forest next to Lowee, everyone was out of breath.
"So… tired…" Neptune muttered as she sat under a tree,
"Can't… go… anymore…" Compa agreed as she was trying to catch her breath,
"I knew something was up!" IF yelled as I glared at her and held my finger up to my lips,
"Shush! We don't know if we were followed." I whispered and IF nodded, I sat down behind a rock and sighed, another way my reputation fucked us up… Great!
"I think we got away." Vert whispered, I poked my head from behind the rock and speak of the devil…
"Found them!" a guard yelled and soon we were surrounded by them, "Come with us Hikan, then we'll have a nice 'chat'." one of the guards said,
"Let me explain at least." I tried to reason with them, but I don't think it'll work,
"You can talk while you're locked behind bars!" the guard yelled, why don't I ever get the chance to talk?
"Fine then…" I muttered, "I won't go in so easily." I also stated, I don't want to do this, but at the moment I got no choice.
"You think you can take on the whole Lowean guard? You really are stupid!" the guard taunted,
"Everyone, get ready for a fight!" I yelled, I heard Neptune sigh behind me then I could see a flash of light, guess she was transforming, then someone grabbed my shoulder, it was Neptune in her Purple Heart form,
"Hikan, you do know this is a bad thing to do right?" she said and I smirked,
"I need to see something, besides if I don't, then I'll be in prison for who knows how long." I said and Neptune sighed,
"Sometimes even I don't understand you." Neptune muttered, but got into her battle stance anyway, behind me Shizuki and IF were already fighting guards on their end and Vert was nowhere to be seen, but I'm sure she's fine.
"Hey, Neptune you help IF and Shizuki, I got this on my side." I said and Neptune looked at me,
"Are you sure, you don't even have a weapon on you this time." she replied, she's right, I don't have my sword anymore, I lost it back in Leanbox.
"I'll be fine, I don't need it anyway." I said with a smirk, these guards will be nothing.
"Alright, but be careful." Neptune said before joining IF and Shizuki, I looked back at the guards on my side and smiled,
"Now then, time for some fun." I stated, the guards started laughing,
"You think you can take us on with no weapons? You really are a dumbass aren't you?!" the guards taunted, here we go again,
"How about you find out?" I taunted, one of the guards came toward me and pulled out his sword,
"Take this!" he yelled, but I saw through his movements and sidestepped to the side and quickly advanced behind him, he looked surprised by what I did,
"Missed me." I stated as the guard tried to hit me with his elbow, but I ducked and moved around him again fast, "Still missed." I stated again, the guard looked at me with an angry glare,
"Shut up!" he yelled as he charged me with his sword in position for a stab, again I sidestepped and grabbed his wrist, then twisted it making him drop his sword and getting on one knee, the other two guards pointed their guns towards me
"Release him now!" they yelled, I looked in their direction and smirked,
"Okay." I said in a sarcastic tone as I picked the guard up and threw him towards the other two, causing them to dodge, they looked in my direction, but I wasn't there anymore, I was behind them. "Behind you." I said as they turned to me, I punched one in the jaw and kneed the other, making both of them drop their guns, I delivered a few barrages of punches to the one to my right before the other two guards could get back up, I did a roundhouse kick to finish it, knocking the guard completely unconscious.
"Dammit, open fire!" the main guard yelled, which was the one whose wrist I twisted, and he and the other guard aimed their weapons at me again, the main guard had a pistol and the other guard had his assault rifle again, as the guard commanded, a bunch of guards appeared out of nowhere and surrounded me, they all fired at me, I felt bullets go into my skin and blood go out where I got shot, I fell on one knee and stared at the ground as a shadow casted over my vision,
"Did we get him?" another guard said as she walked over to me, that's when it happened, the red aura surrounded me and my eyes glowed red, I stood up looking at the guard, her face was in total fear,
"No, you didn't." I stated as I grabbed her by the throat and lifted her in the air, but another bullet went into my back, "Gah!" I grunted as I turned around and the guards were watching me in fear, "You want this? Take it then." I said as I threw her towards the guards, then I turned around again to see the main guard practically about to break his teeth from clenching them for so long.
"Damn you!" he yelled as he raised his gun again, but I was quicker as I dashed towards him and grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground.
"Captain!" another guard yelled as he ran at me, withdrawing his sword along the way, I looked over and glared at him, he stopped for a second before shaking his head and resuming his charge, I dropped the so-called captain and dodged the guards first slash, he then tried to kick me, but I ducked under it and tackled him and punched his jaw, I got up real quick and dashed at another guard, who was aiming his gun at me and punched his gut, the speed I had just increased the momentum of the punch, making the guard fall over, I glanced at my right and saw the captain back on his feet,
"Fine, if guns and swords don't kill you, then the Lady will!" the captain said as he ran off in the direction of the city, the guard that I punched in the jaw got up and tried to follow, but with my speed I caught up to him quickly and stood in front of him,
"Hold on. I got a message for you to deliver." I said, the guard held his jaw and glared at me,
"Why should I help you?" he questioned and I smirked,
"If you don't then you'll be leaving with more than a hurting jaw." I stated and the guard looked at the ground,
"Fine, what do you want?"the guard said,
"Tell the CPU of Lowee that if she doesn't want help in getting rid of The Saviors, then that's too bad, but when I do get rid of them for her, I expect a good reward for my services, got it?" I said and the guard clenched his teeth and then nodded, "Good, now get moving before I change my mind." I warned and he ran around me, I watched as he ran before turning back to the others and they were finished with their guards too, they looked at me and their eyes widened,
"Hikan, are you alright?" Neptune asked in a concerned tone,
"I'm fine, just needed to finish some things up." I said and everyone gave me a worried gaze, behind them I saw a guard move, they got up and pulled out a gun and aimed it at Neptune,
"No!" I yelled as I ran through everyone and towards the guard, I kicked her head as she flipped over on her back from the momentum,
"Gah!" she grunted, I picked her up by her and neck in one hand and in my other was the gun she was holding,
"I don't think so you fuck." I muttered, the guard glared at me then reached for her side, then pulled out a knife and sliced at me, I dropped her and recoiled in pain holding my eye, I glared at her in rage, "Fuck you." I muttered again and aimed the gun at her and shot, she dropped instantly and I held my eye, when I moved my hand my eye stinged a bit and my hand had blood on it, I couldn't open my eye either, I guess the guard got my eye.
The burning pain took over as my wounds began to heal, along with my eye, as they were healing, I turned to the others and they were looking at me with shocked expressions, but my vision was going blurry and the red aura disappeared. Looks like I used to much.
I felt myself collapse as deep sleep took over...
A/N: Here it is, the long awaited chapter 26! I once again apologize for such the long wait, I never had any time to get this done due to life stuff that's been happening recently, but don't worry it's just some drama stuff happening, but I got a new computer, some time on my hands and I'll try and upload on Friday, I can't promise anything though. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I decided to make it a bit longer than my usual 3000+ word chapters! Anyway, that's all I wanted to say and I hope to see you all later!
P.S. I left two game references in this chapter, kudos to whoever finds them ;)