The sun came down on an angels wings as his song took flight into the heart of his lover, or so it would seem if you could see Shinmigami.

'What a fool, he knows nothing of the Shinmigami arts! Why does she care for him so?' Izumi thought watching from the distance like a perplexed bird watcher during mating season.

"Oh Takuto?" she beckoned from the distance, the song broke and Takuto's ears perked up " are you enjoying embracing that speed limit sign" looking at him with sadistic glee

"What?' Takuto turned his gaze from Izumi and looked to what he thought was Meroko " this isn't a sign! This is Meroko!"

"Oh is it now?" Izumi said in a mocking tone, snapping his fingers.

Meroko's image vanished and Takuto was indeed hugging a signpost.

"An illusion?" he immediately removed himself from the sign. "Izumi…"

He lowered his head and clenched his fists in rage, "WHERE IS MEROKO?"

"Safe," Izumi paused, "and away from you."

They exchanged glares in a heated battle of the egos "And as you stay here serenading to a sign, she was with me bawling her eyes out asking me to make you go away."he grinned masochistically.

"No…" he said jadedly, slamming his gloved hand into the sign. "Nearly a hundred times...she said she loved me… and I never returned her feelings… now I do and all she wants me to do is go away."

Tears formed in his sullen eyes. It just didn't seem believable that Meroko would actually act this way.

"And I never want to her to be un-happy again," Izumi said, pulling out his bow. " And as long as your soul exists she cannot be happy."

"Meroko…-" Takuto murmured with glistening tears streaming down his face, the straps on his hat was blowing in the nights wind.

"-Has left you, you pitiful excuse for a Shinmigami." Izumi was now pulling back on the quiver of his bow. "As of now; Negi-Ramen shall be no more!"

"No...Izumi..." Takuto said, looking up from the ground.

"Izumi, your wrong!" A voice in the distance cried as a feminine figure rushed towards them with great haste. "Negi-Ramen is forever!", the pink haired beauty said with a hint of regret in her voice.

"Meroko step aside." He pulled back further and adjusted his aim. "I'm just doing what you asked me to."

"No Izumi, I love him!" she said with force in her voice.

"You told me to make him go away and that is what I'll do!" he released the string of his bow and let an arrow of light release towards Takuto.

"TAKUTO!" Meroko jumped in front of the arrows path and it clipping her wing left then disappearing.

She collapsed blood dripping down onto the sandy beach.

"Izumi... you will never win…HER HEART!" Takuto roared with a love-induced fury in his voice as he thrust his fist into Izumi's gut.

-End-