Chapter 6: In Your Mind

#4 cursed to himself. He was walking in the desert for quite some time. His bangs were sticking to his forehead, dripping with sweat which stung his eyes. Luckily the sun was finally going down and it got cooler. #4 took his hoodie off and dragged it behind him.

"Gee, #3's head sure is empty," he laughed to himself.

If #3 heard that she'd probably hit him.

"It's her fault for getting that stupid game anyways," he spoke aloud to himself.

"Yet...it's my fault for not saving her."

He looked down at the sand. The sun had completely gone down, the moon taking its place making the sand look grey. It was rather nice now that it got cooler and the moon was up...he would have loved for #3 to be with him though.

"What a waste of moonlight when you have no one to watch it with, huh?"

"What!?!"

Wally turned around and saw a spitting image of him only he was wearing a white hoodie and light-blue pants. His bowl-cut hair was neat, and #4 noticed a slightly tilted halo above his head. He also spoke with a polite accent.

"Whatever, watching the moon is a waste of time," #4 sneered.

"Dat's right, only girls would do somethin' like dat, real men would rather light things on fire."

#4 turned around and saw another image of him; this one was wearing a black hoodie which had mini looking bat wings poking out and royal blue pants. He had messy bed-head hair and black circles under his eyes. He spoke with a rather bad slang accent and was flipping a lighter on and off.

"Who the heck are you guys?" #4 questioned.

"Why, we're your conscience Wallace."

"We, y'know, help yah wif your problems."

"You don't help him with his problems, demon! You create the problems!"

"Nyooo I don't...I just do things the easy way."

#4 watched as his conscience bickered at each other. This was getting quite confusing and he couldn't take it much longer.

"Shut up!" he cried out. "If you two are just guna stand there and not help me like you're supposed to then just go away." He grabbed his hoodie and started walking off.

"I have to find the others and figure out a way to get out of here."

"And Kuki too?" questioned angel Wally. "You're going to save Kuki too, right?"

#4 stopped what he was doing and held his head down.

"Yea...whatever," he murmured.

"Pssht, why her?" asked the demon Wally as he vanished in a cloud of black smoke and re-appeared next him and whispered into his ear. "What has she eva done for you?"

That question made Wally think. What has Kuki ever done for him?

"She has done plenty for him!" protested angel Wally. "She saved him from that crazy, old cat lady, she told Lizzie to shut-up when she was yelling at you, and you know that you love it each time she hugs you."

Wally blushed at this. Demon Wally fiddled with his lighter.

"Yah but, don't forget all da humiliation she's put yah in!" he shot back. "Like when she tricked yah into goin' to dat cruddy 'Rainbow Monkey Friendship Fair' and yah wouldn't have been held hostage by dat ol' hag if she hadn't dressed yah up in dat stupid Mr. Huggiekins costume."

Demon Wally was right, and this made #4 fill up with rage.

"She wouldn't even let'cha have some of her cheeseburger when yah guys were stranded," the smirky demon added bluntly.

"It was a 'Rainbow Monkey' you nimrod!" yelled angel Wally.

"Whateva, yah annoying lil' pixie."

"I am not a pixie you spawn of Satan!"

Demon Wally leaped at angel Wally and they both began to wrestle on the sand. #4 had enough; he was already filled with rage and confusion and could stand anymore.

He held out his palms and shouted, "If you two are my conscience then I order you to go away!"

Demon Wally stopped punching angel Wally and they both disintegrated into a puff of black and white smoke, returning to #4's mind.

"Sheesh, I'm my own worst enemy."

#4 opened his eyes and saw that he had been lying on the sand.

"Was I dreaming...or did all that just happen?"

The moon was out and his hoodie was by his feet. Maybe that was real. He closed his eyes tightly and grabbed at his head. Whatever happened gave him a terrible headache. He lifted his head and saw Kuki standing a few feet away. He rubbed his eyes and looked at her again. She stood and smiled sweetly at him. He had always loved her smile even in the worst of situations.

He started walking towards her but stopped and frowned. He knew it wasn't her. But Kuki ran towards him and leapt into his arms, the impact causing him to fall backwards onto the sand.

He blushed but never returned her embrace.

"Yu..."

"Shhh," she cut him off. "Please don't say a word."

They both laid in the cool sand silently. Yume smiled, it was, he did look and feel a lot like...

"Yume," #4 started. "I know it's you, so you can stop pretending now."

She flustered and looked up at him.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," she lied.

#4 shoved her off. Kuki looked at him enraged.

"Even though my 'conscience' filled my head with confusing thoughts I still know how the real #3 is."

He got up and brushed the sand of his back.

"Kuki would never run up to anyone and hug them out of the blue, especially if you hurt her feelings before-hand." "Secondly, how can Kuki be here when she's floating unconscious out there!?" he shouted making Yume flinch.

Wally continued on, "Kuki has been on my mind ever since I met her...and on my mind ever since you trapped us here, and I'm not guna let some old hag stand in my way of getting to her!"

Yume's face filled with hatred. She transformed back to her original state and tackled Wally. She wrapped her hands around his neck and started chocking him. In the real world, Kuki was stirring in her sleep. Deep down she could feel the same pain as Wally.

"I will not be stuck in this stupid board again!" Yume yelled. "I will become human and leave you all in here to rot!"

She let go of his neck but still sat on him. She opened her eyes and #4 saw tears building up.

"Why...how...you love her so much and unlike the others, you saw right through my disguise."

Yume looked at him deeply.

"How about it Wally," she leaned in towards him. "If you come with me...I promise, I'll make all your dreams come true."

#4 shoved her off again.

"You're crazy, so far all you've done is create hell for me and my friends, if you..."

Wally stopped by the way Yume was responding. She had her head hung low and was laughing.

"Fine," she sniffed. "If that's the way you want it..." her head shot up, revealing tears and a once pretty face, twisted into an ugly glare.

"Then prepare to die!"

She flew off. Wally grabbed his hoodie and started running after her.

A/N: If you haven't realized by now, the individual chapters of each KND member (#'s 1,5,2 and 4) are named after .HackSIGN songs (if you like anime you'll know what I'm talking about) I picked the one's that fit them best. Down to business, I'm really proud of myself for getting the idea of Wally's conscience. I think angel and demon Wally are a nice touch to his life, which also gave me an idea of writing a fanfic of him dealing with his consciences. I think demon Wally sounds hot o.0; (slaps self) What am I thinking, nya!? If any of you's steal my idea for it I'll hunt chu down and kill you....I, I mean I'll give you a big hug . Yume's character ish coming out so I'll be doing a chapter on her. More later, muah!