Somewhere In Time
Part 3: The statue of Khamage

"Go ahead, my dear boy. Touch the statue." The old lady says eerily. Tsuzuki touches the statue, and all of a sudden his world turns dark and pains attack every part of his body.

"What happened?" Tsuzuki asks the lady, but she is no longer there. He is alone under a red moon in a wood. Not too far away a pretty little boy is walking alone quietly. "No way! It can't be!" Tsuzuki shouts. He is sure that the little boy is Hisoka, only several years younger.

"What's going on here?" Tsuzuki asks himself as he runs after the boy. The young Hisoka and the wood suddenly disappear and the purple eyes shinigami is standing in the incense room again.

Tsuzuki looks at the blood ruby statue and asks, "what's that?" The old lady replies in an even deeper voice, "This is the statue of Khamage. He answers to those who wish to end the sufferance of their love ones. Khamage heard your wishes and he wants to help you. You can return to the time the boy was harmed and kill the evil monster before he raped the boy."

Tsuzuki can't believe what he is hearing. Kill Muraki before he raped Hisoka? It's too good to be true. He can stops all Hisoka's nightmare once and for all; and Hisoka doesn't have to die or become a shinigami. The old lady says enigmatically, "however, there is a catch."

"Anything, I'll do anything." Tsuzuki says eagerly. The lady rubs the crying mummy statue and tells Tsuzuki, "In exchange for his lover's happiness, Khamage gave himself to the hell fire. His whole body is burnt to a crisp and he cries painfully for eternity. Are you willing to do that? Give up your life and live in eternal torment?"

"Yes." Tsuzuki says without any hesitations. The old lady smiles and says, "good. Khamage will take you back and help you kill that man. The boy will be returned to his home." Tsuzuki looks at Hisoka one last time and thinks, "Good bye, Hisoka. Even if you don't know I ever existed, I'll always love you. Have a happy life."

Somewhere else in the store, Hisoka is looking at samurai books of virtue when a strange feeling overwhelms his whole body. His head starts spinning and he falls to the ground. A lady holds Hisoka in her arms and calls, "Hisoka! Hisoka! Wake up! please wake up!" The voice sounds familiar, and Hisoka suddenly remembers who it is.

"Mother?" Hisoka calls uncertainly as he opens his eyes. His mother looks at him with concern and cries, "I'm so sorry, Hisoka, I will never be mean to you anymore. Please don't walk off by yourself again." Hisoka looks around and sees that he is in his childhood bedroom.

"What happened?" The boy asks his crying mother.

"Your father and I yelled at you and locked you down at the basement cause you used your power. After we asked the servants to go and release you, you went out to take a walk by yourself. Some psychotic killer walked into you and tried to kill you." Hisoka's mother says. Hisoka figures the killer must be Muraki. The green eyes shinigami has returned to the day he was killed.

Hisoka checks himself and sees no carving on his body. He has escaped from Muraki unharmed. Hisoka is very confused. How did he get back to the time of his death? How did he get away from Muraki's assault? What happened?

"The doctor says you're going to be okay, my son." Hisoka's father comes in and says softly.

"Dad?" Hisoka says. His father never shows any kindness to him before. This is all too strange to Hisoka.

The father put his hand on Hisoka's shoulder and says, "I've been very harsh on you. Sorry I didn't take care of you. I almost lost you today and I will never let that happen again."

Hisoka's mother adds, "from now on we will not yell at you or lock you up anymore. We will accept your power and love you for who you are."

Hisoka can't believe all this is happening. He wanted his parents' love and acceptance since he was a baby; and he never received it in his lifetime. And now, all of a sudden, he is inside his parents' arms showering with his parents love.

"Get some sleep, my son. We'll talk more tomorrow." Hisoka's parents say to him gently as they leave his room. Hisoka lies down on the bed and tries to figure out what's happening when he feels something in his hand. He opens his hand and sees the toy fox Tsuzuki brought him at Tokyo tower. "Tsuzuki…" Hisoka murmurs.

Suddenly, the little fox starts disappearing. "What happened?" Shouts Hisoka as he realizes his memories of the Shinigamis are slipping away. He tries really hard to think of Tatsumi and Watari but he can't even remember what the two of them look like. And then Hisoka starts to forget about Tsuzuki.

"Tsuzuki…" cries Hisoka. The boy tries really hard to remember the things that Tsuzuki did, the words that Tsuzuki says and the sweet that Tsuzuki eats; but no matter how hard the teenager tries to hold on to his memories of Tsuzuki, the purple eyes Shinigami just keep getting blurrier.

Meanwhile, Tsuzuki is walking in the wood as his body burns painfully. The fire of hell is taking over Tsuzuki's body, but it doesn't bother him. All that matters to Tsuzuki now is the sooner he kills Muraki, the sooner Hisoka will be free of all the sufferings. Tsuzuki walks up to a tree and sees Muraki. The silver hair man grabs a girl and stubs her while the young Hisoka watches in fear.

Muraki looks up but he doesn't see Tsuzuki; the fuda user is too far away to be noticed. However, Muraki does notice the frightened young Hisoka. "Pretty little boy like you shouldn't be walking around, it's dangerous." The silver hair scientist says threateningly to the young boy.

Hisoka runs away and Muraki chases after him. Tsuzuki walks up to the corpse, picks up the knife and runs toward Muraki. "I need to kill Muraki…I need to erase all Hisoka's bad memories…I need Hisoka to forget everything…" Tsuzuki murmurs painfully as the hell fire keeps burning him.

Back in Hisoka's bedroom, the teenager feels tears slipping out his green eyes as Tsuzuki's memories slipping from his mind. "No! I don't want to forget Tsuzuki! Don't make me forget Tsuzuki!" Hisoka shouts. The boy can't even remember Tsuzuki's face now. Hisoka never realizes how much Tsuzuki means to him, and now he will never remember.

Hisoka watches as the purple eyes toy fox disappears in his hand. Suddenly, something from the back of Hisoka's mind clicks. The young angel remembers Tsuzuki gave him toy fox and told him, "Now you have something to remind you of me when I'm not around." Hisoka remembers the Purple Eyes of the toy fox.

Hisoka remembers Tsuzuki's beautiful violet eyes. The first time they met, he points the gun at Tsuzuki's back and when Tsuzuki turns around and stares at him with those purple eyes, Hisoka felt the world stops spinning. Hisoka sobs, "Tsuzuki, I fell in love with you the first time I met you! I just don't know it until now!"

Hisoka jumps off the bed and shouts, "Tsuzuki! I will not forget about you! I will never do that!" All the memories of Tsuzuki rushes back to Hisoka's head. The way Tsuzuki cares for people, the way Tsuzuki's eyes light up with sweets; and the way Tsuzuki suddenly giggles and blushes around him from time to time. Hisoka screams, "TSUZUKI! Where are you?"

The green eyes shinigami suddenly feels Tsuzuki's present, and he can also feels Tsuzuki in great pain. A blood rube statue appears in front of Hisoka from nowhere and floats in mid air. "You're the one who is messing with me, aren't you? Get out of my head! I want Tsuzuki back!" Hisoka screams to the statue.

The statue disappears; the bed, the room and everything else starts disappearing, too. Hisoka finds himself standing in the middle of the wood he got raped and carved. He is wondering what's going on when he sees Muraki runs after his younger self.

Instinctively, Hisoka points his gun toward Muraki. The honey blonde angel was going to pull the trigger when he feels Tsuzuki in great pain again. "Tsuzuki?" Hisoka looks around and sees Tsuzuki walking toward Muraki with a knife in hand.

"Tsuzuki!" Hisoka shouts. The teenage shinigami feels a strong aura coming from the statue in Tsuzuki's hand; and the aura is burning the dark hair shinigami up alive. Hisoka runs up to Tsuzuki and tries to take the statue but Tsuzuki stops him.

"No! I need this to save you!" shouts Tsuzuki as he runs away.

"Tsuzuki! The statue is killing you!" Hisoka screams out. The empath can feels Tsuzuki's burning pain. The pain hurts so much it makes Hisoka falls to the floor and cries excruciatingly. Tsuzuki says, "sorry about the pain, Soka. I don't have any strength to shield it from you. Give me one second. Once I killed Muraki, you will forget all this ever happened. You can be with your parents and have a normal happy life." The purple eyes Shinigami raises his knife to Muraki.

TBC…