Sorry it took so long again. I just couldn't think of anything. Oh yeah, I've watched all the episodes of the DNAngel anime and only on the 7th book of the DNAngel manga. N E ways, I've been watching a new anime called "Tennis No Oujisama" and that's taking some of my time too…and also the fact that I'm really lazy and I think I'm developing some kind of sleeping disorder. Haha, I'm just laughing at myself. I'm sorry about that, but I'll be sure to finish this story…even if it takes long.
Chapter 11: Neda's History
"Genjo you're such a jerk!" Kazuko yelled after Genjo welcomed her back.
"What! What are you talking about?"
Kazuko looked behind Genjo and asked, "No one's here, right?"
"Y-yeah…"
"Aliright then."
Kazuko closed the door behind her. They both sat on the couch and Kazuko dropped her bags in front of her.
"So…why do you say that I'm such a jerk…?" Genjo asked.
"…Do you know about Neda?"
"Neda…oh! You mean the angel who lives inside of you!"
"So you did know about it!" she yelled jabbing Genjo's arm.
"Ow! Yeah, I did know about her…but, what about her?"
"Why didn't you tell me about her?"
"You never asked. I felt like telling you when your marking disappeared, but then I thought that it would be best if you found out by yourself."
"Thanks for telling me, Genjo," Kazuko said in a sarcastic tone, "When she came out, she almost killed Satoshi and Daisuke."
"Oh…well, yeah. That's why she comes out in the first place."
"So she can kill everybody she sees?"
"No, whoever you're mad at, she takes care of them she they won't bother you anymore."
"Why does she do that?"
"You can call her the guardian of the family. She tries to keep the family happy and free of people the family doesn't like. Sometimes, that can be a problem since sometimes they don't want Neda to kill that person, but she does that anyways."
"Do you know who created her?"
"It's not clear, but she was created some 300 years ago. One of our ancestors made a wish to a statue, that's all I know. Maybe if you read our family history, you'll learn more about her."
"You mean…we have a book on our family history?"
"Yeah, of course. It's been passed down from generations. The book is like a diary on the people who had the red angel inside of them, starting from our first ancestor."
"And you know this because…?"
"When I ran away, I wanted to get something of theirs so I can sell it to make money. One of the things I grabbed was the book, that's all I remember."
"Then…you mean you haven't read it yet?"
"No…When I looked at the contents, I saw that it was about out family, so I read the first couple pages, but then I put it back down. Those first couple pages talked about Neda though, and that's when I learned about her."
"Hm…"
"I'll go check the book now…or maybe…you can read it…since it's your book."
"My book?"
"Yes, everyone who had Neda wrote in the book so each woman who has Neda in the future will know what is coming for them."
Genjo walked away and he went into their library. He looked through the books and found the one that he was looking for. He took the book out of the shelf, flipped through the pages to look at the contents, and walked back to the living room with the book in his hand.
"Here it is," he said extending his hand so Kazuko can grab it. She grabbed it and opened the book to the first page. She saw that the first page was an information sheet on the person's name, birth-date, and the age when Neda first appeared.
"Wow…this book IS 300 hundred years old."
"You can see that this book is banded by string. I think that everyone wrote it on regular paper and then attached it to the rest of the book later on"
"…I see…so that means I have to write in it too?"
"Well yeah…You have the Red Angel too…so that means you have to write in it."
"About what though?"
"Just read the other entries. You might get an idea."
"Hmph…"
"Well, I'm going-"
The phone rang before he could finish his sentence. Genjo got up and answered the phone. When he hung up, he said that it was Anna.
"As I was saying, I'm going to meet Anna, so I'll see you later."
"Well then, if you're going to do that, I'm inviting Satoshi over."
"That's fine with me," he said getting his keys, "I'm leaving now."
Genjo closed the door and Kazuko picked up the phone, but didn't dial anything. She stared at the phone for a while, sighed, and then put the phone back on the receiver.
Kazuko went to her room and lied on her bed with her stomach on the mattress. She covered her face with her pillow.
"Should I call him or not?" she thought.
She took a nap for a while and when she woke up, she got up from her bed and got the book she left on the couch, and went back to her bedroom. She opened the book to the second page and it read,
"I have made this book because I am a researcher. Due to my 'condition,' I have decided to write down anything out of the ordinary that has happened to me, starting from the day that this…person came out…"
The entry talked about how she was very mad that she wanted to kill somebody. She didn't want to say it out loud or show anybody she was bad, so her rage was building up inside of her. She prayed to the statue to get rid of the person and then she said that she fell unconscious after and saw the person she wanted to kill, die, in her dreams (supposedly, but it was actually Neda.) Neda killed the person, and then Neda went back to her house and transformed back.
Kazuko flipped some pages and read,
"It had been about three months since I've last written in this book. I am now the criminal of this town and I have run away from there before something bad would happen to me. During my travels, I have found the perfect person for me and we have gotten married some months after…"
Kazuko read the rest of the page and then flipped over to some other ones. After she flipped through a couple more pages, she read the last entry that came from her ancestor, and the page was splattered with blood,
"What has happened here? Everybody who I get really mad at are always killed, and my husband was about to be killed also. Who is this 'red wings' that people yell in my dreams? Since it has wings, is this person an angel? No, It can't be an angel since it murders people. Ii cannot go on with this. I have to commit suicide in order to stop the red wings from killing. My love…if you have found this…that means that I am already dead."
Kazuko's ancestor would write down her signature when she finished an entry. Kazuko looked at the page and saw that half her signature was covered with blood.
She flipped through the other pages and there was one that caught her eye. It read,
"From this book of entries, I believe that I am the fourth one who has this 'death angel' in our family. And in my dreams, whenever they see her, somebody dies. I have noticed that this...angel/devil shows up in the women's side of the family. I guess this condition is never ending. From now on, we will call this condition the never ending death angel or Neda for short."
"The never ending death angel? That sounds good for her…" Kazuko thought.
While Kazuko was reading her ancestors' entries, she saw that their last entry always ended with them committing suicide, except for the last one…who was Kazuko's mother.
Kazuko closed the book and she lied on her bed for a while with her head empty of thoughts. A couple minutes later, she sat up and started writing her first entry on a piece of paper,
"I really don't have anything to add to this book, but my own experiences with Neda. She came out a couple days ago, and she almost killed the person I love, until I woke up. About the last entry from my mother…the reason why she doesn't have that last entry there is because…I killed…murdered her…"
Kazuko went on with her entry and then she placed the piece of paper under the book. She didn't do anything for the rest of the day. She sat and lied down on her bed and took a nap. Genjo came through the front door and night and he went to open Kazuko's door. When he opened it, Kazuko woke up and she rubbed her eyes.
"Hey, Sleepy head," Genjo said.
"…Welcome back. Ya have a good day?" Kazuko asked with her "waking-up" voice.
"Yeah I guess."
"Something happen?"
"…I'm not sharing it with you!" Genjo said in a friendly tone.
"Tch…fine then."
She sat up on her bed and walked out of her room.
"I' gonna go out and eat something…"
"Hold on, I'll make something…"
"…Alright then."
Genjo went into the kitchen and took out some pans. Kazuko's cell phone rang and she picked it up.
"Hello?"
"Kazuko, you sound sleepy," said Satoshi from the other line.
"I just woke up, what was it that you wanted to say?"
"Dark is going to steal the Emblem of Water from the Aletsirk museum."
"Geez, we just got back from America and Dark has to do this right now? …Sigh…fine then, I'll meet you there. Is it alright if I just go with you and not steal anything?"
"I guess that's fine."
"Alright then, I'll meet you in several minutes."
Kazuko went to the museum riding her bike after she changed. Genjo was still making dinner when she left, but he said that it was alright for her to leave. She met up with Satoshi in the front of the museum about two minutes before Dark was going to show up. The guard looked at her suspiciously while she walked in. They went into the monitor room and when they looked at one of the screens, they saw that the Emblem of Water was still there.
"Dark hasn't come yet?" Kazuko asked.
Inspector Saehara looked at Satoshi and then at Kazuko. Since Kazuko was wearing a big t-shirt and she stuffed her hair into her hat, Inspector Saehara thought that she was a guy.
"Who's that?" the inspector asked.
"Just a friend."
"Can he be in here?"
Kazuko stuttered when the inspector said "he" but she thought that that was better instead of saying she,
"Satoshi said that it was fine if I came with him," Kazuko said trying to sound more like a guy. Saehara looked at Kazuko again and he looked at her a little suspicious because of the voice. Kazuko looked at the screen and then in half a second, the artwork was gone.
"Dark stole the artwork…" Kazuko said.
"What!" Inspector Saehara yelled.
He turned around to look at the monitor and then he slammed his fist of the computer.
"Dammit!"
Satoshi started walking out of the room and Kazuko followed.
"Hey! Where are you going, commander?"
Satoshi stopped and looked back at him
"Dark already stole the artwork. There's nothing else that we can do."
The next morning, unfortunately, they had school and when the teacher walked in, he carried a poster. He opened the poster and he said,
"Alright class. As you know, it's almost the school festival, so for this period, I want you to decide what we are going to do this year."
When the teacher let them pick what they were going to do, Takeshi went up to the class and said,
"Alright, as the manager, I say that we're doing a play!"
"Manager!" the class yelled.
"Who said you can be the manager, Takeshi?" Ritsuko asked, "And what if we don't want to do a play?"
"I think we should all decide on whom the manager should be," Riku said, "and I say it should be Daisuke."
"Me?" Daisuke said.
"You don't want to be manager, Daisuke?"
"Um…not really…"
Unfortunately, after a while, the manager ended up to be Takeshi. Takeshi was happy, and then Takeshi let the girls pick the activity that they were doing and all the girls agreed that they should make a movie instead of a play. Some of them went to the library to see which one they were going to do and they went back into the classroom to show Takeshi.
"What is this called…Ativilef Neighboorhood…?"
"Yeah! It's a love story between two people, but then she can win his heart."
"Um…alright then. Now, we have to pick out the cast."
They went through a lot and then they came to a conclusion. Takeshi went up to the class again and read the paper.
"Alright now, there are two or three main characters: Allen, the main male character; Suki, his girlfriend; and Amy, the main female character. Allen, is played by…Satoshi…no surprise there. Suki is played by, Chisato, and Amy is played by…Risa!"
"Hold on…me?" Risa asked.
End of Chapter 11
Once again, sorry that it took so long for me to update.