It is somewhat late at night. Well it was really late to be quite frank.
Tenjou Utena is lying in her bed wearing her usual pink pajamas. Her analog
alarm clock displayed that it was 1:53 am in the early morning. She was
tossing and turning as REM sleep engulfed her into another dream state. ...
{~Utena awoke in another one of her midnight reveries. Her sky-blue eyes dazedly opened slowly. Those same blue eyes darted around the pitch black room, inspecting the surroundings to recognize anything memorable. Yet the room was so dark nothing was recognizable to the pink-haired girl~}
{~Where am I? Utena thought. She looked down at herself slowly. She was wearing a dark blue military style boy's uniform which was fashionably decorated with gold tassels, epaulets and braids. She was also wearing a pair of red spandex shorts. She straightened up her posture and ran her long slender fingers down the uniform, taking in the familiarity of the attires feel against her athletic frame~}
{~Utena noticed she was sitting down in a plush cream colored couch. She did not dare move from it. She took a deep breath and let her head fall back against the couch. Her eyes took notice of a ceiling filled with stars. Looking at the night sky took heed at the pink-haired girls mind and so she started connecting the millions of stars in her head. Unveiling different constellations she had seen before. She was amazed at how many constellations she knew. Her eyes kept focus on the stars until her concentration was interrupted~}
{~ "I see the stars still fascinate you so much Tenjou?" Utena's head snapped up at the sound of the deep voice. She looked around but she couldn't see anything. "It's ironic how you can get so engrossed in the stars, but then again your name does reference heaven?" ~}
{~ "Who is there and how do you know my name?" Utena announced from her position on the couch. The deep voice sounded familiar to her, but she still couldn't quite place it. "You don't recognize me Utena, we were so close." ~}
{~ "Why don't you show yourself?" Utena edged closer to the edge of the couch, feeling confused and irritated at the unknowing individual. "If you so much desire," the voiced chuckle loudly. At that moment another couch dimly appeared in front of her. In it sat a man. Yet, the man had red skin and two black horns protruding from his forehead. He also wore a red shirt and dark pants. Utena shook her head and blinked at the 'form' before her ~}
{~ "Who the hell are you?" Utena asked. The man laughed before stating. "Why I am Satan a.k.a Lucifer. How easily you forget Utena." The man crosses his legs and extended his long arms across the back of the couch. "Lucifer?" Utena whispered to herself. "You don't remember do you?" ~}
{~ The red man points up at the stars. "I am the star the shines brightest in the sky." Utena looks up slowly and the man starts to laugh menacingly. The room goes dark and Utena jerks around nervously. "What the hell is going on here?" Utena stands up from the couch and looks around. "Hello......" Her voice echoes in the room. ~}
{~Utena crashes back down in the couch. She leans back and closes her eyes. "Why is this weirdness happening to me? I just wanna wake up. I wish I had some answers?" Just as she said that the room lit up again. Utena felt warmth against her body. She tilted her head up and across from her sitting in the same place 'Lucifer' was relaxing in just moments ago was another man. Yet this man had a noble charisma about himself. He was dressed in a white military style uniform. His short hair was pale-violet in hue and his skin was tanned like the color of caramel. But those sea-green eyes are what caught Utena's fascination with the mysterious prince~}
{~ He said nothing. He just sat there with his arms folded across his broad chest. He smiled at her slightly, not taking his eyes away from the pink- haired girl. Utena looked puzzlingly at him. "I know you, don't I?" She said from afar. He nodded. Utena started to stand up and move closer towards him but he held up his hand and gestured her to remain seated ~}
{~ "You know why I am here don't you?" He closed his green eyes and nodded once more. Utena bit her lower lip. "Are you the reason, I am here, better yet did you bring me here?" He said nothing, but he gave her a generous smile ~}
{~ "Are you going to answer my questions or play mute all day," Utena wanted nothing more than to go home and wake up from this crazy dream. The man shifted in his place on the couch and crossed his long legs. He looked up into her azure pools. "A prince shouldn't speak with such exasperation, yet remain calm and focus at all times," the dark prince stated with a deep soft tone that melted Utena's uncertainty ~}
{~ "I am sorry, I didn't mean to come off as a nuisance." She bowed slightly. "Wait did you say (prince)?" Utena frowned a bit. "Yes you are a prince that was your life goal." Utena smirked. "I am no prince. I'm just a normal high school tenth grader..with a crush on my best frie.."Utena trailed off. The dark prince smiled at hearing the last part of her statement ~}
{~ "You are indeed a prince, but you haven't yet acquired your abilities due to your lacking." The man frowned upon her. "I am lacking something?" Utena questioned. "Yes actually." "First of all you are lacking this," he gets up and walks towards her. "This belongs to you once again." The dark prince puts the rose crest ring on her left finger ~}
{~ Utena looks up at him with wide blue eyes. "My ring I remember...now." He kisses her hand. "This ring has awakened your past memory as a duelist for the rose bride." "Dios how is this possible that I have two sets of memories now? I mean I remember dueling in one world and I remember a car accident in another, it's like I lived two separate lives."~}
{~Dios took a seat beside her on the couch. "We all originated from the outside world, even me; but actually you didn't live two separate lives, because your life as a duelist was an illusion create by my evil self." "End of the world," Utena mumble. Dios nodded. "When I died, the good side of me died as well. I couldn't protect anyone anymore, especially.." Dios trailed off. "Anshi," Utena finished. "I turned heartless, revengeful, and manipulative. That's how Akio was created, from my bruised ego of not being able to protect my little sister and other princess's." ~}
{~ "You know the rose bride never really existed right?" Utena furrowed her eyebrows. "She didn't?" Dios shook his head. "Akio created her. She was just an apparition." Utena looked confused. "Akio created her out of guilt, of not being able to protect her anymore. In fact Akio hated Anshi for living without him." ~}
{~ "So the girl I saved at the end of the final duel was the true Anshi." Utena said. "Right, Akio was keeping her in that coffin the whole time." "So I fell in love with the rose bride," Utena sported a sad expression. Dios grabbed her hand in his. "No you didn't. My little sister's consciousness existed in the rose bride, the part of her that wanted to be saved. That's who you fell in love with and she knew it, that's why she allowed you to be her prince." ~}
{~ Utena brightened up after hearing those words. "So why me Dios? I mean there were other duelists." "The other duelists were just pawns in Akio's game. You were the main player, because." Dios puts Utena's hand over his heart. "..you was me. My noble spirit chose you to live through in order to save Anshi from the coffin." Utena started to blush. "Even now in the outside world I live through you" ~}
{~ "So how did we end up back here in the outside world?" Utena asked. "That whole world was created out of my inability to not let go of the one person I loved most. I needed someone to save me from my selfishness and I needed someone who was pure and noble. That person was you Tenjou Utena." Dios got from the couch and started walking about the room ~}
{~ "Do you remember the first time we meet in the outside world?" Utena started scratching her pink head trying to remember. "You probably don't. It was in the hospital, the day of the train accident. I was being rushed into ER when I pass you on the gurney. You were also being rushed into the hospital. Our eyes meet for split second and you smiled at me. That's when I knew you were someone special. Soon afterwards I died, well my mind did anyways, yet body was kept alive for a little while. My spirit lived on and thus watched over you and Anshi comatose forms in the hospital, yet a side of me became jealous and bitter that I no longer existed." "And that's why you created the illusionary world," Utena added. He nodded ~}
{~ "In order to leave my world you needed to complete a task, which was to save Anshi. You did and so your unconsciousness was release from my grasp. You returned to reality waking up from your coma." "What about Anshi and the others?" Utena inquired ~}
{~ The dark prince sighed. "Anshi task was to choose her prince and to become independent of my world. She chose to be with you and she killed Akio which released me from my own illusion thus destroying that world. Once my world was destroyed everyone you knew there was released and returned to the outside world. The only side effect is that they won't remember anything about that world unlike you and Anshi." ~}
{~ "Oh, now I see." Utena looked down at her ring. "So now you live though me, huh," Utena whispered. Dios walked over to her and pulled her up from the couch so they were standing facing each other. "You are still lacking something though?" "What is that?" ~}
{~ Dios placed his hand over her heart. "Utena you fail to accept that you love a certain princess." "I do not deny that I don't love her; I would do anything for her." Utena looked away from him. "You say that here in this dream, only because you know the truth and only because here you remember all, but once you wake from this reverie you will forget everything I told you. Your memories will become fragmented once again" ~}
{~ "But I don't want to forget. I thought you are a part of me, so why must I forget? You don't how hard it is to have amnesia. To always have strange feelings, to always feel confused," Utena fell upon his chest crying. "I am sorry, but the only way for you to remember is to awaken Anshi from her amnesia as well. Once you two come terms about your feelings for each other you will remember all and get to be the prince you so once desired to be." ~}
{~ "How do I get her to remember our life together, if I myself will not be able to remember anything once I wake up? Utena looked up from his chest with glassy blue eyes. Dios smiled and wiped away her tears. "I have faith that you can do it, you just have to look into your heart for the answers." Dios kissed her on the lips softly then pulled away from her slowly. ~}
{~ Utena just stood there looking at him, with her fingers against her lips. "I will always be with you. Just remember this, the longer you reject your love, the longer your mind will stay fragmented." The dark prince's body began to dissipate. "There is no such thing as wrong love. A true prince needs a true princess." The statement echoed in the room. ~}
{~ Utena stood in the dark room looking at her rose crest ring. "A true prince needs a true princess." she kept repeating the statement...until~}
{~Ring! Ring! RING!!! ~}
Utena jumped from her bed startled by the alarm clock. Her body drenched in sweat. She clumsily reached for the clock and fell out of bed.
"Damn it!" The pink haired girl yelled as she hit the floor.
Utena hastily stood up and slammed her hand against the annoying clock. She took a deep breath and peered at the clock to see what time it was.
"It's 6:30 am already. Damn, I have to get ready for school."
Utena looked down at herself and frowned. "I need to shower first."
Utena started unbuttoning her pajama top when she noticed the silver ring on her finger. She glared at it in confusion. "Where did I get this from," she whispered.
"It feels so right though, like I was meant to wear it." Utena smirked and continued to take off her clothes. She grabbed her bath robe and headed to the bathroom to shower.
As the warm water flowed over her pink mane, Utena kept mumbling over and over as she showered. "A true prince needs a true princess."
"Ahhhh...why can't I get that sentence out of my head? Damn it, what does it mean? Wait I had another dream last night. Yes...no..yes. I can't remember." Utena began lathering up her tall slender body, her mind frustrated from not being able to remember anything.
Utena turned off the water and dried herself off. She wrapped the towel around her form and headed back to her bedroom. She noticed that the uniform she ordered was laid out across her bed. All crisped and ironed. She smiled and ran out of her room.
"Hey auntie thanks for.."
The pink haired woman just waved from downstairs at the excited girl. "Don't mention it Utena-chan. You got it in the mail yesterday, so I decided to wash and iron it for you. I meant to give it to you last night but you had gone to bed already."
Utena just smiled. Her usual uniform wasn't meant to be worn during the winter months so she ordered 5 new ones. She put on the white and black jacket with a pair of matching long pants. She looked at herself in the mirror. 'Maybe I should cut my hair?' She thought. 'Nah, that wouldn't be a good idea.'
The uniform came with a hat. Utena put the hat on and glances at herself in the mirror once more. "Nope, this hat makes me look stupid." She tosses the hat on the bed, grabs her satchel and heads downstairs.
To be concluded..
Next chapter 20: A walk to remember
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A/N: Well guys/gals there go Chapter 19. Another chapter with Dios..Yay!! Can't have enough of him in fan fics. Yeah I know this chapter was weird, but so is SKU. Anyways, next chapter coming soon, well slowly (I only got 1 page written so far ~_~, sweat drop). Thanx for all the great reviews. You guys motivate me to continue writing. YaY!!!
{~Utena awoke in another one of her midnight reveries. Her sky-blue eyes dazedly opened slowly. Those same blue eyes darted around the pitch black room, inspecting the surroundings to recognize anything memorable. Yet the room was so dark nothing was recognizable to the pink-haired girl~}
{~Where am I? Utena thought. She looked down at herself slowly. She was wearing a dark blue military style boy's uniform which was fashionably decorated with gold tassels, epaulets and braids. She was also wearing a pair of red spandex shorts. She straightened up her posture and ran her long slender fingers down the uniform, taking in the familiarity of the attires feel against her athletic frame~}
{~Utena noticed she was sitting down in a plush cream colored couch. She did not dare move from it. She took a deep breath and let her head fall back against the couch. Her eyes took notice of a ceiling filled with stars. Looking at the night sky took heed at the pink-haired girls mind and so she started connecting the millions of stars in her head. Unveiling different constellations she had seen before. She was amazed at how many constellations she knew. Her eyes kept focus on the stars until her concentration was interrupted~}
{~ "I see the stars still fascinate you so much Tenjou?" Utena's head snapped up at the sound of the deep voice. She looked around but she couldn't see anything. "It's ironic how you can get so engrossed in the stars, but then again your name does reference heaven?" ~}
{~ "Who is there and how do you know my name?" Utena announced from her position on the couch. The deep voice sounded familiar to her, but she still couldn't quite place it. "You don't recognize me Utena, we were so close." ~}
{~ "Why don't you show yourself?" Utena edged closer to the edge of the couch, feeling confused and irritated at the unknowing individual. "If you so much desire," the voiced chuckle loudly. At that moment another couch dimly appeared in front of her. In it sat a man. Yet, the man had red skin and two black horns protruding from his forehead. He also wore a red shirt and dark pants. Utena shook her head and blinked at the 'form' before her ~}
{~ "Who the hell are you?" Utena asked. The man laughed before stating. "Why I am Satan a.k.a Lucifer. How easily you forget Utena." The man crosses his legs and extended his long arms across the back of the couch. "Lucifer?" Utena whispered to herself. "You don't remember do you?" ~}
{~ The red man points up at the stars. "I am the star the shines brightest in the sky." Utena looks up slowly and the man starts to laugh menacingly. The room goes dark and Utena jerks around nervously. "What the hell is going on here?" Utena stands up from the couch and looks around. "Hello......" Her voice echoes in the room. ~}
{~Utena crashes back down in the couch. She leans back and closes her eyes. "Why is this weirdness happening to me? I just wanna wake up. I wish I had some answers?" Just as she said that the room lit up again. Utena felt warmth against her body. She tilted her head up and across from her sitting in the same place 'Lucifer' was relaxing in just moments ago was another man. Yet this man had a noble charisma about himself. He was dressed in a white military style uniform. His short hair was pale-violet in hue and his skin was tanned like the color of caramel. But those sea-green eyes are what caught Utena's fascination with the mysterious prince~}
{~ He said nothing. He just sat there with his arms folded across his broad chest. He smiled at her slightly, not taking his eyes away from the pink- haired girl. Utena looked puzzlingly at him. "I know you, don't I?" She said from afar. He nodded. Utena started to stand up and move closer towards him but he held up his hand and gestured her to remain seated ~}
{~ "You know why I am here don't you?" He closed his green eyes and nodded once more. Utena bit her lower lip. "Are you the reason, I am here, better yet did you bring me here?" He said nothing, but he gave her a generous smile ~}
{~ "Are you going to answer my questions or play mute all day," Utena wanted nothing more than to go home and wake up from this crazy dream. The man shifted in his place on the couch and crossed his long legs. He looked up into her azure pools. "A prince shouldn't speak with such exasperation, yet remain calm and focus at all times," the dark prince stated with a deep soft tone that melted Utena's uncertainty ~}
{~ "I am sorry, I didn't mean to come off as a nuisance." She bowed slightly. "Wait did you say (prince)?" Utena frowned a bit. "Yes you are a prince that was your life goal." Utena smirked. "I am no prince. I'm just a normal high school tenth grader..with a crush on my best frie.."Utena trailed off. The dark prince smiled at hearing the last part of her statement ~}
{~ "You are indeed a prince, but you haven't yet acquired your abilities due to your lacking." The man frowned upon her. "I am lacking something?" Utena questioned. "Yes actually." "First of all you are lacking this," he gets up and walks towards her. "This belongs to you once again." The dark prince puts the rose crest ring on her left finger ~}
{~ Utena looks up at him with wide blue eyes. "My ring I remember...now." He kisses her hand. "This ring has awakened your past memory as a duelist for the rose bride." "Dios how is this possible that I have two sets of memories now? I mean I remember dueling in one world and I remember a car accident in another, it's like I lived two separate lives."~}
{~Dios took a seat beside her on the couch. "We all originated from the outside world, even me; but actually you didn't live two separate lives, because your life as a duelist was an illusion create by my evil self." "End of the world," Utena mumble. Dios nodded. "When I died, the good side of me died as well. I couldn't protect anyone anymore, especially.." Dios trailed off. "Anshi," Utena finished. "I turned heartless, revengeful, and manipulative. That's how Akio was created, from my bruised ego of not being able to protect my little sister and other princess's." ~}
{~ "You know the rose bride never really existed right?" Utena furrowed her eyebrows. "She didn't?" Dios shook his head. "Akio created her. She was just an apparition." Utena looked confused. "Akio created her out of guilt, of not being able to protect her anymore. In fact Akio hated Anshi for living without him." ~}
{~ "So the girl I saved at the end of the final duel was the true Anshi." Utena said. "Right, Akio was keeping her in that coffin the whole time." "So I fell in love with the rose bride," Utena sported a sad expression. Dios grabbed her hand in his. "No you didn't. My little sister's consciousness existed in the rose bride, the part of her that wanted to be saved. That's who you fell in love with and she knew it, that's why she allowed you to be her prince." ~}
{~ Utena brightened up after hearing those words. "So why me Dios? I mean there were other duelists." "The other duelists were just pawns in Akio's game. You were the main player, because." Dios puts Utena's hand over his heart. "..you was me. My noble spirit chose you to live through in order to save Anshi from the coffin." Utena started to blush. "Even now in the outside world I live through you" ~}
{~ "So how did we end up back here in the outside world?" Utena asked. "That whole world was created out of my inability to not let go of the one person I loved most. I needed someone to save me from my selfishness and I needed someone who was pure and noble. That person was you Tenjou Utena." Dios got from the couch and started walking about the room ~}
{~ "Do you remember the first time we meet in the outside world?" Utena started scratching her pink head trying to remember. "You probably don't. It was in the hospital, the day of the train accident. I was being rushed into ER when I pass you on the gurney. You were also being rushed into the hospital. Our eyes meet for split second and you smiled at me. That's when I knew you were someone special. Soon afterwards I died, well my mind did anyways, yet body was kept alive for a little while. My spirit lived on and thus watched over you and Anshi comatose forms in the hospital, yet a side of me became jealous and bitter that I no longer existed." "And that's why you created the illusionary world," Utena added. He nodded ~}
{~ "In order to leave my world you needed to complete a task, which was to save Anshi. You did and so your unconsciousness was release from my grasp. You returned to reality waking up from your coma." "What about Anshi and the others?" Utena inquired ~}
{~ The dark prince sighed. "Anshi task was to choose her prince and to become independent of my world. She chose to be with you and she killed Akio which released me from my own illusion thus destroying that world. Once my world was destroyed everyone you knew there was released and returned to the outside world. The only side effect is that they won't remember anything about that world unlike you and Anshi." ~}
{~ "Oh, now I see." Utena looked down at her ring. "So now you live though me, huh," Utena whispered. Dios walked over to her and pulled her up from the couch so they were standing facing each other. "You are still lacking something though?" "What is that?" ~}
{~ Dios placed his hand over her heart. "Utena you fail to accept that you love a certain princess." "I do not deny that I don't love her; I would do anything for her." Utena looked away from him. "You say that here in this dream, only because you know the truth and only because here you remember all, but once you wake from this reverie you will forget everything I told you. Your memories will become fragmented once again" ~}
{~ "But I don't want to forget. I thought you are a part of me, so why must I forget? You don't how hard it is to have amnesia. To always have strange feelings, to always feel confused," Utena fell upon his chest crying. "I am sorry, but the only way for you to remember is to awaken Anshi from her amnesia as well. Once you two come terms about your feelings for each other you will remember all and get to be the prince you so once desired to be." ~}
{~ "How do I get her to remember our life together, if I myself will not be able to remember anything once I wake up? Utena looked up from his chest with glassy blue eyes. Dios smiled and wiped away her tears. "I have faith that you can do it, you just have to look into your heart for the answers." Dios kissed her on the lips softly then pulled away from her slowly. ~}
{~ Utena just stood there looking at him, with her fingers against her lips. "I will always be with you. Just remember this, the longer you reject your love, the longer your mind will stay fragmented." The dark prince's body began to dissipate. "There is no such thing as wrong love. A true prince needs a true princess." The statement echoed in the room. ~}
{~ Utena stood in the dark room looking at her rose crest ring. "A true prince needs a true princess." she kept repeating the statement...until~}
{~Ring! Ring! RING!!! ~}
Utena jumped from her bed startled by the alarm clock. Her body drenched in sweat. She clumsily reached for the clock and fell out of bed.
"Damn it!" The pink haired girl yelled as she hit the floor.
Utena hastily stood up and slammed her hand against the annoying clock. She took a deep breath and peered at the clock to see what time it was.
"It's 6:30 am already. Damn, I have to get ready for school."
Utena looked down at herself and frowned. "I need to shower first."
Utena started unbuttoning her pajama top when she noticed the silver ring on her finger. She glared at it in confusion. "Where did I get this from," she whispered.
"It feels so right though, like I was meant to wear it." Utena smirked and continued to take off her clothes. She grabbed her bath robe and headed to the bathroom to shower.
As the warm water flowed over her pink mane, Utena kept mumbling over and over as she showered. "A true prince needs a true princess."
"Ahhhh...why can't I get that sentence out of my head? Damn it, what does it mean? Wait I had another dream last night. Yes...no..yes. I can't remember." Utena began lathering up her tall slender body, her mind frustrated from not being able to remember anything.
Utena turned off the water and dried herself off. She wrapped the towel around her form and headed back to her bedroom. She noticed that the uniform she ordered was laid out across her bed. All crisped and ironed. She smiled and ran out of her room.
"Hey auntie thanks for.."
The pink haired woman just waved from downstairs at the excited girl. "Don't mention it Utena-chan. You got it in the mail yesterday, so I decided to wash and iron it for you. I meant to give it to you last night but you had gone to bed already."
Utena just smiled. Her usual uniform wasn't meant to be worn during the winter months so she ordered 5 new ones. She put on the white and black jacket with a pair of matching long pants. She looked at herself in the mirror. 'Maybe I should cut my hair?' She thought. 'Nah, that wouldn't be a good idea.'
The uniform came with a hat. Utena put the hat on and glances at herself in the mirror once more. "Nope, this hat makes me look stupid." She tosses the hat on the bed, grabs her satchel and heads downstairs.
To be concluded..
Next chapter 20: A walk to remember
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A/N: Well guys/gals there go Chapter 19. Another chapter with Dios..Yay!! Can't have enough of him in fan fics. Yeah I know this chapter was weird, but so is SKU. Anyways, next chapter coming soon, well slowly (I only got 1 page written so far ~_~, sweat drop). Thanx for all the great reviews. You guys motivate me to continue writing. YaY!!!