Chapter 4: A Momentary Lapse of Reason
"Oh my goodness" gasped Riku, hiding behind Daisuke… there, on the street in front of the house were a couple of a hundred of people on the street, wearing matching, white sleeveless shirts and torn and ripped jeans, and the hair on their heads all the same shape and color of Daisuke's hair…
They were Mirror Daisukes, and they had come back… but Riku wasn't going to know… not because Daisuke wasn't going to tell her, but because their faces… were no longer faces: their faces were covered in large, deep gashes and cuts…
It was like someone had taken a board with nails coming out of the end and beat them around the head with it… and curiously enough, in their hands, they had just that, among other things like lead pipes, baseball bats and knives… but, then again, your trusty fists can never be beaten… you can just use them until they're just all bloody and all muscle… and they wouldn't fail you…
"True, true…"
And at the very tip of that mob was a single, smirking Mirror Daisuke: this one had a single wound: a long, deep gash that started (amazingly) at the left eyebrow and goes all the way across the face and down to the right cheek. This single wound had left much of the left eye open, and Daisuke could see the muscle behind the eye… the Mirror Daisuke's nose was missing, and in it's place were two holes very close to the gash…
"So, you're still alive" said the Mirror Daisuke, throwing a blade in the air and then catching it again, "guess we're going to have to force you out" "Daisuke, do you know who these guys are?" said Riku, looking at the many disfigured faces in the mob… "no, I don't" said Daisuke, "HE'S LYING!" screamed the Mirror Daisuke, "ISN'T HE SO CUTE!" and he started laughing a little laugh, doing a mock-ballerina spin on the spot, landing rather gracefully, "You know exactly who we are" "well, you're the guys who beat the resounding crap out of me, I know that" said Daisuke, shielding Riku from them…
The Mirror Daisuke stood there, his face blank… but then he screamed with laughter again… he was technically howling to the dark moon above them… "You have no idea!" he cried, giggling, giggling… "You're an honest boy…" and then, like he didn't weigh a thing, he moved his legs a bit and skidded to where Daisuke stood, Mirror Daisuke's nose inches from the real Daisuke's one…
"You know who we are" he whispered, his amazingly bad breath stinging Daisuke's nose, his rather black teeth adding to his macabre ambience… and his flesh smelled like it was dead… "You've been mad for fucking years… absolutely years, been over the top ever since your useless Niwa clan was born…" "What are you talking about? Leave my family out of this! And Riku too!" and then he felt himself grabbed by the neck of his shirt and lifted high off the ground, like he was a rag doll…
"Why do you even care about this little whore?" and he pointed at Riku, "just leave her alone!" yelled Daisuke, "I don't know you! What's happening?" "This is the result of what been happening all these years, Daisuke…… all of those… negative emotions you've been hiding all of these years!" and then Daisuke thought of something… but what…
"You don't get it do you? It's the reason you have this girl in the beginning: all of these years, you've been raised to be a goody-goody two shoes dumb wimp. You'd be "pure hearted" or some crap like that…" "What are you saying?" "Daisuke, Daisuke, Daisuke… this is the result of everything that's been… hidden inside of you… you see, I'm everything…" and then the Mirror Daisuke lowered Daisuke… and kissed him, his tongue going all the way in, leaving a sour taste in Daisuke's mouth… "You're not…"
"I'm all the hate and the despair that you don't normally feel… I'm all of that frustration that you've had with your little girlfriend… I'm all of that fear of this little unknown world of yours…" "What… you mean…" "That's right; Dark, that pretty boy prison bitch supreme… his DNA gave your tiny brain the jump-start it needed to… release me from that distant part where you've kept me locked up for…" and he mocked thinking for a minute… "FOURTEEN FREAKING YEARS!"
And then Daisuke landed on his back as he was thrown to the ground… "Daisuke, are you okay?" squealed Riku, landing right next to him, tears in her eyes… "Daisuke, what's going on? Please, tell me… What's happening? I'm confused… I don't know what's going!" and she helped Daisuke to his feet… "Riku, it's a long story… but I think…" and then Daisuke grabbed Riku and pulled her away "we should move………"
"I've been mad for fucking years… absolutely years, been over the top with this life… I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, but it's hard to tell if you're mad, even if you're not mad…"