I am an Imaginary Living Body

File 8

Dreama Tsuki

Sorry it took so long! But now that I have graduated from high school I should have more time to write now… at least until college in the fall. Blarg. If anyone wants to know I'm going to East Tennessee State University because it's cheap and away from the orange that is Knoxville (University of Tennessee is located here). Anyways-all disclaimers apply.

~*~*~*~

"Turn off the television and only look at me,"

-Utada Hikaru Hikari

~*~*~*~

Hiiro had searched and searched. It had been months since Usagi had been stolen and OZ has long fallen. He supposed he was the only one looking for her. Though he believed now that he wasn't really in love with her. Trowa had explained it all. Part of her design was to put everyone in an unguarded state and willing to trust her no matter what. Some even might think it was love.

Hiiro now believed that he was pursuing because it was is mission. He was not going to let this mission be messed up, nor was he going to let some telepathic ass or whatever he was control a very deadly weapon like Usagi.

~-~-~-~

Usagi stared out the dirty window of her gray room. Schuldich never let her out except to go to the bathroom and eat. Sometimes he even took her to restaurants to show her off to business men that she knew he later killed. Schuldich never hurt her though, he treated her like a piece of glass. She found this very surprising.

When was her prince coming? Did he just decide he didn't want her anymore? Her answer came in the form of a crash. Someone had come through the window. It was Hiiro! She ran to him and they whisked away into the night to live happily ever after.

~-~-~-~

Usagi awoke from her dream with tears in her eyes. Schuldich lay beside her asleep, or at least that is what she mistook it for once. She tried to escape and he caught her and punished her by erasing part of her memories. She could no longer recall the names or faces of her family. Why was he able to do these things to her?

Blinking away tears, she sat up and looked to the window. It was all boarded up except for a tiny crack that she could see the stars of the night move through time. She wished she could be out there with the stars. Through it all, she refused to cry, she wouldn't give the orange haired demon that satisfaction. She lay back down carefully so she would not wake him, she wanted to rest still until the morning.

~-~-~-~

Hiiro walked down an ally. He had asked around and found that a German with flaming orange hair had lived somewhere close by. People also said that he lived with and abused someone they thought was his wife. A prang of pain hit a part of Hiiro's heart when he learned this, but he shrugged it off as Usagi's effect on people still in his system.

He found an abandoned apartment building. Where the two were supposed to be. Unlatching a window not too far from one that had been boarded up, he snuck in quietly. Or so he thought. The bedroom door few open and the last person he wanted to see was there, aiming a gun at the neck of the person he had come to save.

"One wrong move and she's gone," he said in his nasal German accent. Hiiro stay perfectly still. "Perhaps we can come to some sort of deal ne? I'm not in any mood to splatter my pet's brains all over the room."

"What do you want?" Hiiro said with a growl.

"I can remove all of the things that make her and a weapon and you can have her back," he said placing a hand on Usagi's hair and petting it.

"How does this benefit you?" Hiiro asked hiding any sign of confusion, "It seems she gets out without giving you anything."

"On the contrary," Schuldich's German accent nearly caused him to stumble over the word, "I can't have competition for taking over the world. And she really doesn't get out that well, I have to erase her memories to fully ensure that she is 'normal'."

Hiiro looked at Usagi. Her face was full of pain. She wanted to forget, he wanted her to forget. "Deal," he said. Schuldich smiled.

~-~-~-~

Hiiro and Usagi stood atop a cliff overlooking the ocean. It had been five years since Schuldich had let her go. Usagi was still learning about the world, but now she had to learn it like a normal girl. Nothing was programmed into her anymore, she no longer had a corrosive reaction to soap nor did she lead people unto a false sense of safety.

Usagi watched the seagulls ride the currents of the air as Hiiro watched her. She had learned a lot ever since she found herself being carried by Hiiro through the night. He took her to see the world. He said it was his responsibility to teach her everything.

Pulling a camera out of her pocket, she giggled and took a picture of Hiiro. She didn't remember much of her life, so she was going to go out of her way to make sure she didn't forget again.

"Put that thing away," Hiiro said with a small smile, it seemed like he only smiled for her. "Come on," he said putting an arm around her shoulder, "it's starting to get cold. I can't have you getting sick."

"Ne, Hiiro-san?"

"Hai?"

"You'll always protect me right?"

"…Hai. Ne Usagi."

"Hai?"

"Aishiteru."

"Aishiteru Hiiro-san."

::fin::

That's it! No more! Sorry if the ending was too short or just not to your tastes, but I really wanted to end this fic. I just don't have that much interest in it anymore. Gomen gomen. Maybe one day I'll write a better ending, but it won't be for a very very very long time.

June 6, 2003

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