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Will it be too late? (partII) By Yu

Yu's words:

This story is created by me. All incidents are not real. Words in green are memories. Words in white are Neon's thoughts.

Will he be happier if Kurenai is with him?

Will he ever thought of me if I'm gone?

They were standing outside Kurei's room. Neon was afraid but in order to be fair, she decided to ask Raiha and Joker to come in too. As she was afraid that Kurei-sama would chose Kurenai.

"What's wrong with you, Neon?" Joker asked as he was curious when Neon dragged him along to Kurei's bedroom.

"Just come along, please." Neon asked with a sad smile on her face.

They entered the room. Kurei was shocked to see them.

"What are you all doing in my room?" Kurei asked them.

"Kurei-sama. I had a question to ask you." Neon said softly. "Will you answer to me?"

"What question?" Kurei asked as he saw Neon smiling sadly.

"If I asked you to choose either Kurenai or me to stay by your side. Who will you choose?" Neon said softly and looking at Kurei.

"...." The three guys were shocked when they heard Neon's question.

"Why you want to know?" Kurei asked. "Kurenai was with me all the time." He let out his flames but he could not see Kurenai appearing. "..."

"Kurei-sama. You still didn't give me the answer." Neon asked.

"Kurenai" Kurei said out. But he was just calling out for Kurenai, not answering to Neon's question.

Unknown to Neon, she smiled at Kurenai and said, "Kurenai, Kurei-sama had chosen you. Please return to his side and stay with him forever."

"Kurenai!" The three guys shouted as they heard Kurenai's name.

"Kurei-sama. Kurenai will be by your side as a human again. Using my body, she will be with you FOREVER." Neon said sadly as she knew that she would never see him again.

"What do you mean?" Kurei asked Neon. "Neon."

"...." Neon recalled that incident...

Neon was busy watering the roses in the garden. Suddenly she heard a sweet familiar voice calling her name.

"Neon. Neon." The sweet familiar voice rang through her mind. "Can you hear me, Neon?"

Neon looked around but she saw no one in the garden except herself.

"Who will it be?" She whispered to herself.

"Neon, it's me. Kurenai." The voice answered.

"Kurenai!" Neon was shocked. As Kurenai should be inside Kurei's body. Why Kurenai was calling her?

"Where are you?" Neon asked and she spotted the familiar figure standing in the rose bushes. "Kurenai."

"Neon. I got something to ask you." Kurenai went near Neon and asked. "Someone told me that I can be human again. But..."

"Really?" Neon added. "Then Kurei-sama will be very happy."

"But there is a problem." Kurenai said softly. "I need to find a body."

"Then find one."

"But if I do, the person will die." Kurenai said. "They gave me a body to choose."

"Who?" Neon asked as she wanted to see Kurei-sama's smile again.

"...it was you, Neon." Kurenai said softly and she cried. "Neon, what shall I do?"

"Me..me." Neon was shocked. She didn't want to leave Kurei-sama. She wanted to be with him forever. But when she saw Kurenai crying, she realised that Kurei-sama need Kurenai more than her. Maybe Kurenai should stay.

"Then take my body and stay at Kurei-sama's side." Neon said softly to the crying Kurenai.

"But...you liked him too." Kurenai whispered. "I couldn't do it. Never mind. I had died long ago. You stayed here and looked after him for me. I know you will teasure him."

"..." Neon thought and said. "Why don't you see who was the person Kurei-sama need the most? It'll be fair to everyone. Will you, Kurenai?"

Who was the person, Kurei-sama need the most?

Of course. It's you, Kurenai

He loved you so much. No matter how much I did to him.

He'll not bother to care.

He disliked the soup I cooked.

He disliked the food I cooked.

But he wouldn't dislike the roses I put in his room.

It was not because I plucked for him.

It was... it was

Because the roses... His beloved Kurenai loved the most.

To recall the times spent with Kurenai by seeing those roses...

No matter how much I do, his beloved love will always be the one.

The sweet, kind and lovely Kurenai... the girl who loved roses.

"Kurei, now you can understand." Neon asked as she told them the whole incident.

"Stop it. It's a story, right?" Kurei shouted as he hated people who said bad things about Kurenai, even though she had died few years ago.

"No, it's not. Kurei-sama." Neon answered. "Why you didn't chose me? Do you feel anything for me?"

"Kurei-sama. I love you whole-heartilly." Neon said softly. "I want to be at your side."

"Stop it, Neon!" Kurei shouted angrily. "It's your story. You want to know the answer?"

Kurei looked at them and said, "Kurenai...happy? Now leave."

Tears falling down Neon's cheeks. She knew she lost to Kurenai. Kurei-sama hated her. He didn't believe in her words.

"Kurenai, please." Neon said softly to Kurenai and turned to look at Kurei.

Neon smiled sweetly and added, "SAYONARA, Kurei-sama. "

Then she felt darkness in her eyes, she knew she had to go. Went to a place where she would not see her beloved Kurei-sama again. But she tried to say out her last words to him.

"Neon.." Raiha shouted as he saw Neon fainted in front of him.

"Kurei-sama." Joker shouted to attract his attention.

Kurei saw Raiha holding the pale Neon in his arms and suddenly he heard Neon's voice

"I Love you, Kurei-sama! Forever love you."

It is totally darkness here.

Will I be able to see Kurei-sama again?

No..no. He had Kurenai with him now.

It's better this way.

SAYONARA, Kurei-sama

I love you!

"It's true?" Raiha asked Kagero when the Hokage Ninjias arrived at Kurei's house. It had been a few days after Neon fainted.

"Then you mean Neon was not the real her but was actually Kurenai?" Joker asked.

"You are right." Kagero answered.

"Then what shall we do?" Recca asked as he saw his brother looking at the 'sleeping' Neon on the bed.

"You have to choose either Kurenai or Neon." Kagero answered. "The chosen one will be awake. Then the other will be leaving us." Then she looked at Kurei.

"Then who will the chosen one?" Koganei asked as he looked at Neon.

"I told her that I chose Kurenai." Kurei said softly as he recalled what he replied to Neon's question.

"That means...Neon will be leaving us." Koganei said.

"I thought she was kidding." Kurei said. "....will it be too late?" As he found himself missing her smile and everything even the soup she always cooked.

"Neon...please wake up...." Kurei whispered softly to Neon.

Yu's words:

Will it be too late? There are two different endings. Please email me at yoyo_zyz@hotmail.com for giving comments. Thanx ^_^