Keeping this short, (I kept you waiting too long already!) I found that a trip to America was a very good chance to catch up on this only through the car journeys, of course!

So, anyway, this is a much shorter chapter than the others, but that doesn't matter

I have one thing in this that looks like this: a/n - and if someone doesn't know, I'm using it to mean 'authors note.' – Just clearing things up before I start

Anyway….

My Head's Cursed

Chapter Four : Dispenser

Naota looked up at Haruko, feeling her grip loosen. He pushed her away as he clenched his fists. Haruko looked at him, completely confused.

"Takkun, you're not even happy? Don't you love me Takkun?" she smiled evilly, with her arms tightly locked behind her back.

Naota took a deep breath and glared at Haruko. "No I don't, Haruko. Not now!… Haruko, I hate you!"

Haruko glared back at Naota. "Takkun, don't you even realise what you're saying!"

Naota looked away, with a slight glint of glum-ness in his stare to the floor,

"I don't even know what you're real name is anymore… Raharu." Haruko also looked away from Naota and scratched her head.

"Well, Takkun, you decide what to call me for yourself, okay?"

Naota started to think to himself, trying to ignore Haruko's bright gold eyes.

'Where the hell is Canti? If he were here, he'd be ripping Haruko apart right now.'

"Canti! Come up here!" Naota shouted as loud as he possibly could.

"I suppose if you don't love me anymore, I guess I'll just leave." Haruko said and made her way to the door. She glanced at Mamimi, who was wearing Haruko's clothes; "see ya Sameji, it was nice seeing you again."

Mamimi looked at Haruko blankly and nodded at her. Naota managed to spill some last words out of his mouth,

"Hauko, why did you come here… through my head?" Haruko kept looking forward instead of facing him.

"Well, I wanted to see you so badly that this was the easiest way to get to you quickly." Naota ignored her answer, knowing that it was most probably a lie and continued asking questions.

"Then why didn't it hurt when you came out of my head?"

"I used pillows" Haruko said smiling. She slid open his door and slowly walked out. The sound of a car made its way to the house,

"Crap, it's my dad!" Naota said in panic, the last thing he wanted was for Kamon to see Haruko. Haruko continued her flight down the stairs as the enterance to the house slowly opened. Kamon walked in holding 2 shopping bags in each hand. There were no lights on downstairs, and the only beams of light that seeped through into downstairs was the light from Naota's room and the crooked street lamps outside.

Kamon looked in amazement at the similar figure on the stairs. Haruko smiled at him.

"H-Haruko-san! Is that you?" he dropped his shopping bags on the floor and ran up the few stairs left to Haruko. He dived at her breasts but Haruko quickly avoided him so that he fell onto the stairs underneath Haruko. He blushed as he looked up her skirt.

"Yo Kamon."

"W-Where are you going?" Kamon asked in surprise.

"Hmm, well I dunno. Lil Takkun there wants me to leave him alone. So being a-"

"Don't leave Haruko-san!" Kamon cried out and formed a begging position sitting on the stairs. Haruko looked around with an evil grin on her face,

"Heheh, it's nice to be back!

Naota removed his ear from the side of the wall, near Mamimi and slowly closed his door. Mamimi crawled up behind him.

"Is Haru-san staying then?" She asked. Naota closed his eyes in anger and then stood up, opening them again and walked over to his bed. He fell on it with the energy he had left.

"Ugh! I'm going to sleep!"

"But it's not bedtime yet." Mamimi said getting up from the floor.

"Naota-kun! Come down, we're having a feast!" Kamon yelled from downstairs. Naota's frown worsened as he scrunched himself up on his bed.

"Aren't you going down there then?" Mamimi asked, standing beside his bed.

"No." Naota replied bluntly.

"Why not?"

"Haruko's down there."

"So?"

"He'll make me eat curry!"

"You used to love Haru-san." Mamimi said, creating a long pause after. Naota looked at her.

"I used to love you too… only for a while though."

Mamimi went quiet as she looked away. Naota closed his eyes in hope to find some peace in his sleep.

"Well, I'm going." Mamimi said, heading for the door. Naota sat up quickly,

"No, you can't!"" Mamimi stopped and looked back at him and smiled.

"I know, but I'm hungry."

"Me too." He said, holding his stomach. "Let's just say you came in through the door." Mamimi nodded and together they slowly walked down the stairs, Naota kept making sure that Kamon wasn't around. They walked into the dinning room to make Kamon's smile brighten.

"It's the Mamimi girl! She's back!" He said, causing her to nod.

"What about the curry?" Naota asked.

"Ah, my son, don't worry about that now, the real Haruko is here now!" Kamon said, holding chopsticks in his hands.

"I hadn't noticed." Naota said, crossing his arms. 'She did kinda come out of my head!' Naota thought to himself.

"Anyway, come and sit down Naota-kun!"

"Yeah, come and sit next to me, Takkun!" Haruko said, smiling. Naota frowned and walked straight past her and sat far away from her on the opposite side of the table. Haruko kept her smile as her eyes watched him. Mamimi sat down near Haruko and opposite Naota. Canti could be heard making a loud noise as he was chopping food with a knife, breaking the small moment of silence. Naota looked around on the table, at everything that had been cooked already yet Canti was still preparing food.

"So, Haruko-san, what brings you back here?" Haruko smiled at the question, still looking at Naota.

"Well, I missed everyone, especially Takkun here!"

'That is the biggest lie I've ever heard!' Naota again thought to himself. He frowned while Kamon went into different shades of purple, red and blue.

"What about me, Haruko-san?" Kamon asked, twitching his fingers, Haruko looked at him from the corners of her eyes.

"Wanna try the electric massage again?" Kamon looked at her, puzzled as Naota walked out of the room, taking some food with him. Mamimi just sat there, watching and eating most of the food that was on the table.

"But that wasn't me, Haruko-san!"

"On second thoughts……" Haruko stood up, "maybe not. It made me throw up and I don't want to trouble you."

"So kind of you Haruko-san!" Haruko said goodnight and walked up the stairs to Naota's room. She rudely barged in to see Naota lying on his bed with the plate that used to have food on it non-existing.

"You could of at least knocked." He said, opening his eyes. Haruko sat on the edge of his bed. "Tell me the real reason you came back." Naota asked. Haruko stayed silent for a while. Naota sat up causing their backs to touch each other.

"My Atomsk Navigator… said he was back on Earth again, so I came back to check it out. Oh, and I did want to see you again." She said as the moon came out of the clouds so that some light appeared through the window.

"You knew I would hate you when you…… if you came back. So, I don't believe you." Naota moved slightly so he could see her back. "You don't care, do you? You wouldn't of cared if you if you hadn't seen me again, right!" Haruko stayed silent. Naota felt like crying, but fought back tears as hard as he could. He faced the wall again.

"I did tell you that I'd use you but you were too blindly in love with me to care about how you'd feel in the future." Naota held his head and closed his eyes.

"I'm tired. My head can't take this." He said laying back down again.

"Before you sleep, Takkun, tell me has your head started to bleed when my stuff came through?" Haruko asked, whispering in his ear.

"Yeah, so. What does it mean?"

"It seems like your brain is trying to grow back. You might be getting some sense back into you." She said and then stood up and walked out. Naota was left alone in the dark to ponder his thoughts.

In the morning, Naota woke up again to the sun. He looked around his room. Mamimi was lying on the floor with Haruko near her, still asleep. When he came back from his shower, Mamimi and Haruko were both out on the balcony. Naota could smell the cigarette smoke from the very start of his room. He quickly took his clothes from the drawers and went back into the bathroom to get changed.

"Hey Takkun, how long are ya gonna be! We want a shower!" Haruko said, knocking on the door. A frustrated Naota opened the door, as he walked out Haruko walked in.

"Common, Sameji!" Mamimi ran over to Haruko.

"What are you doing?" Naota asked. Haruko put her arms around Mamimi's collarbone.

"We're just trying to give you more forbidden previews!" a/n – if you haven't read the manga, you probably wouldn't understand this!

She let go of Mamimi and pushed her into Naota and shut the bathroom door. Mamimi smiled at Naota as he held his head again.

"I'm surprised Naota-kun that you forgave Haru-san so quickly." She said honestly. Naota shock his head in disagreement.

"Mmmm, I wouldn't call it forgiveness yet." He sat on his bed and closed his eyes in thought. There was a few moments of silence where all they could hear was the water running from the shower. Naota quickly looked up at Mamimi with a sudden look of shock in his face.

"Shit!… Why did I just leave Ninamori out there!" Mamimi looked at him, still calm.

"I thought you didn't care about her?"

"I didn't at the time… but who can blame me, I was tired from getting a bass guitar pulled out of my head!" Mamimi continued to stare at him. "But the again she was possessed, like she said."

"Maybe Haruko can help her?" She asked. Naota frowned and wanted to shout 'don't even think of that!' but he knew Mamimi was right. Solemnly he nodded and they agreed that they would wait for Haruko to come out of the shower.

Naota had led the two in a rushed manor to the river - the last place they had seen Ninamori. This was the only place Naota could think of and he almost prayed that she was there.

Out of all odds, Naota's wish came true. There she was under the bridge, Ninamori curled up in a tight ball – head obscured and legs tightly locked together. Naota ran over to her and put his arm around her shoulder.

"Ninamori! You're here!" In shock, she jumped at Naota's warm skin touching her frozen body, her eyes were wide open and had long lost their sparkle. She turned stiffly to look at Naota. Her mouth opened, but again she couldn't make a sound. "Don't worry, Ninamori, Haruko has come to help you!"

Haruko and Mamimi were just behind Naota. Something on Haruko's wrist caught her attention. She lifted her arm up to her face in shock.

"My bracelet…. The chain is moving.… Atomsk." She muttered to herself. She walked over to Ninamori and looked at her. The chain rattled fiercely as Haruko was expecting. Naota watched as Haruko examined Ninamori, it was dark under the bridge, so Ninamori's eyes glowed white.

"Can you help her?" Naota asked, his worrying thoughts echoed in his speech. Haruko looked at him, emotionless.

"Hmmmmmmm…………… The only thing I can think of, as a 'last resort' is to get Atomsk out physically."

"Atomsk?…… Wait a sec- what do you mean by physically!" Naota remained inquisitive. Haruko looked at him from the corner of her eye again and took hold of Ninamori's hands. Pushing them to the wall she stuck her mouth on Ninamori's and held it there for a while. At first Ninamori didn't react, unlike Naota and Mamimi, who were both gob smacked and blushing severely. Her body began to twitch, to Haruko's delight and they broke off their contact.

Gasping for air, Ninamori screamed as a red light drifted out of her now becoming limp body. Haruko looked angrily at the light.

"Atomsk, you bastard, come back here NOW!" Nothing happened. The light disappeared and so did the rattling of the chain on her bracelet. She clenched her fists as everyone ignored her; they were still extremely surprised by the kiss. Ninamori was asleep on the ground but the colour had come back into her skin so Naota felt pure relief flood through him.

As Haruko turned towards Mamimi, the chain clicked once to Haruko's surprise, yet she smiled. "So, Mamimi, Takkun, girl, I'm going back."

"I need to stay here for a bit longer, until she wakes up." Naota said to her, still looking at Ninamori and recovering from the shock. Haruko got Mamimi up from the floor and started to walk back to the house while Naota waited patiently for Ninamori to wake up.

About 45 minutes later, Naota found himself being shaken awake by Ninamori. His eyes slowly opened but when he realised who was in front of him, his eyes woke up.

"Are you okay?" He asked her. She nodded,

"I feel normal now… Or at least, as normal as I can be…"

"Do you remember what happened?" Naota asked her.

"No, nothing at all. Why? Did I miss something?"

"Uh… No, we were just talking to each other, that's all. I suppose we both fell asleep."

Ninamori stood up and stretched. It was still dark under the bridge and more clouds began to cover the sky. Naota stood up as well and looked around, forgetting for a second that Haruko and Mamimi had gone.

"I suppose I better get back home." Naota said. Ninamori agreed and they both went their separate ways. Naota was a bit sad that she didn't remember because he truly wished that Ninamori would go all emotional on him, as what he wanted was some affection from somebody.

As soon as he got back to his empty home, Naota realised that it truly was empty and Haruko and Mamimi were not there. He looked around, but there was nothing to look for. Not even Canti was there. Naota looked up at the ceiling and there, he found a message written on one of the tiles above him, it was roughly written in black paint and it looked like it had been a struggle to get up there and write it – which was obviously logical that the handwriting wouldn't be neat. But the actual message it contained made Naota weak in the knees. It read:

'My dear Takkun, I have taken myself and Mamimi and Canti to a place. I have stolen them!

I know you'll look up to me someday, Takkun.'

Naota read it over and over before he could finally understand what it meant, but when it hit him. He fell to the floor yet emotionless and watched the floor for a long time without making a move and he began to feel the true pain of loneliness and defeat.

Sorry if the ending was crappy. Oh yes, a cliffhanger! Mwahahahaha!

Many apologies for grammar etc…. (the usual)

I can't believe how long this took to write…. (not as if I was writing it constantly all the time though.)

Anyway, many thanks in advance if people review. Huggles to them all!

Back in about…………… 4 months (hopefully not, so I'll try my best!)