Natsumi from the Nega World watched on in awe as she saw a "good" Kamen Rider fight. She had never thought that there was such a thing. She was us to seeing Riders like Dark Kiva, Ryuga, Orga, Dark Kabuto, and Alternative. But here was this Kamen Rider Decade fighting them off. And he was using a power that her friend Chinatsu had taken. It filled her with hope for the first time since the monsters came to this world.
As she watched Ryuki, Faiz and Kabuto took down their evil counterparts. She couldn't believe it is how happy it made her feel to see the ones that had taken her dear friends down. When it was all over Tsukasa took of the K-Touch system that gave him this power. He looked at it then two Natsumi and her positive world version.
"Here Higaisha-chan!" he said, tossing her the system.
"Huh?" she asked, looking at it and him.
"This was your treasure first. So you should decide what is done with it," he said, smugly as he undid his henshin. She looked at it and then her positive self.
For the first time in years, she was free of the hurt and the pain. She was a survivor. A victim of the injustice of this world. She had lived through hell and came out on the other side.
"I have a request?" she said, looking at them.
"Do you wish to join us on this journey?" Natsumi asked herself.
"Yes," she said with tears.
"Fine by me," Natsumi said with a smile.
"Oh, mou. That means two of the devil lady in the studio." Tsukasa moaned.
"Tsukasa-kun," Natsumi said balling up her fist and sticking out her thumb then pressing it up against his neck. He then started to uncontrollably laugh.
"Welcome our new traveling companion properly," she said with a stern face that made the Nega version smile.
"Hahaha. Natsumikan," he said, looking at her as he started to come down from the pressure point attack. She cracked her knuckles.
"Welcome to the studio I hope we can get along, Higaisha-chan," he said bowing to her.
"Call her name properly," Natsumi said menacingly.
"It's fine. I kind of like it," she said with a smile.
"Plus with there being two of us we need to figure out a way to tell us apart," she said with a smile.
She then handed Tsukasa the K-Touch. "Just make sure you never disrespect the sacrifice of Chinatsu. She died for this." Higaisha-chan said looking as stern as Natsumi.
"I won't," Tsukasa said, taking it from her as the three of them made there way back to the photo studio.
"Welcome home Natsumi-chan, Tsukasa, Natsumi-chan," Yusuke said, seeing the three of them walk into the photo studio. Then it hit him. "EH?!" he said, looking at the two Natsumi.
Higaisha-chan looked a little unease around Yusuke. She had never met this person but he had just greeted her like they were old friends.
"I have coffee for you waiting for Natsumi-kuns." their grandfather said then realized the same thing as Yusuke.
"Ojiisan?" Higaisha-chan said, running into the man's arms. She never thought that she would ever see him again. But here he was like the last time that she had seen him. And she cried into his shoulder.
"Everyone this is Higaisha-chan. She is this worlds version of me." Natsumi said, explaining as she tried to comfort her other self who was crying.
"There there Higaisha-chan. Ojiisan has you," he said, holding her as she cried the last of her tears.
"Yes," she said smiling at him. In the first smile, she had in years.
"My my there are two Natsumi now," Kiva-la said as she came flying in. Higaisha-chan recognized her right away as being of some connection to Dark Kiva and became leery of the little bat.
"This one is called Higaisha-chan," Natsumi said, putting her hands on both of her shoulders.
"I thought so," Tsukasa said, looking at the photos that he had taken when they had gotten here.
"How did that happen?" Yusuke and everyone asked, looking at the horribly taken photos.
"What do you mean?" Higaisha-chan asked.
"Tsukasa-kun can't take any photos in any of the worlds we've been to before. It is like the world itself doesn't want Tsukasa-kun to take its picture. So they all turn out like this. But when we got here you took such good pictures too." Natsumi said, looking at the pictures of her.
"It means that there is more than just 9 worlds. And each of them is still colliding with each other. Our journey is not over yet." Tsukasa said, looking at the backdrop of the exploding world.
"What do you mean?" Higaisha-chan asked as she leaned up against the post had the chains for the backdrops on it. And then almost like it was meant to happen a new backdrop fell down showing a wanted poster blowing in the breeze.
"Kaito's world?" Tsukasa said looking at the image on the wanted poster is that of there sometimes friend, sometimes thief Kaito Daiki.
Everyone looked at the backdrop and they knew that they had just moved between the worlds again.
"Before we go outside. Would you like to have a nice bath Higaisha-chan?" Natsumi asked herself, looking a little filthy in her ragged clothes.
"Y-Yes," she said, making her way to the old bathroom that she remembered oh so well.
She couldn't believe it as she soaked in the tub. She was actually back in the photo studio she had grown up in. She never thought that she could return here. But here she was she looked around and saw that everything was just as she had left it. Like nothing had changed. She could almost forget the pain, the anguish, the deaths of her TG survivors.
She felt guilty at this moment and started to cry. Why did I survive that and not them? She thought. And the tears wouldn't stop. That's when there was a knock on the door. "Higaisha-chan?" Natsumi asked, hearing the sobs.
She couldn't answer her. That's when the door opened and Natsumi walked in to find herself crying nonstop. "Higaisha-chan," she said, closing the door and taking her into her arms to let her cry.
"Why aren't they hear too?" she sobbed.
"Higaisha-chan...Hikari Natsumi," she said to her. "Don't think like that. I know that you are blaming yourself more than anyone else. And it's not your fault." Natsumi said, looking at her.
"But if I was stronger maybe I could have..." she sobbed.
"You would have died with them Natsumi," she said, looking at herself.
"Maybe that should have been my fate?" she cried.
"Never think like that. Your fate was to find us and come on our journey. Tsukasa-kun is a handful I could use the help wrangling in his ego." Natsumi said to the woman in her arms.
The tears stopped as she calmed down. She then sank down into the bath a little. Thinking about everything. "You like him don't you?" she asked her positive self.
"Who? Tsukasa-kun?" Natsumi asked shocked.
"Of course. I may not be your happy self but I know when we are in love," she said with a smile.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Natsumi said with a little grumpy face.
Higaisha-chan giggled at her own awkwardness. She wasn't sure if she would ever be able to move on from what had happened to her. But she knew that a new journey laid out before her. And she had taken the first steps towards it.