Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Date A Live as much as I'd like to, this work is strictly my own and how I wish to portray this story and complete works of fiction. I updated two chapters already and let me know what you think. There will be Lemon or sex in this story. So be advised.
Tohka stood in the one place that brought her comfort to this world, high up in the mountains along a path that over looks the city. The very same spot she lost shido the first time. What agony it caused her to watch him die, but that same feeling of loss she felt now as she stood alone, wishing he would come to save her once again from the depths she was receding into.
She tried to fake a smile, thinking maybe it would bring some life back into her eyes. But they remained as sad and far away like the first time Shido and tohka met.
Tohka looked up at the now orange sky as the sun creeps up on another day, another day that she will not have the courage to tell shido how she feels.
"I'll probably never get that chance either" she says to herself aloud for the whole world to hear her sorrow of a broken heart. This sad expression and spoken words were not meant to be heard but indeed were. In the shadows of the trees behind tohka, kurumi watched with such enjoyment in her pain. Her sadistic smile was plastered on her face as her crimson eye watches with the same vigor a lion would give to his pray as he hunts.
Kurumi wanted to torment this lost soul and bring her heart to nothing but ashes just like her own from life being so cruel. Life is nothing but an uphill battle with nothing to show for at the top but the scars you've taken along the way. Life was truly meaningless, thinking what your actual purpose is while you try to climb higher in a hierarchy where everything was already decided before you even started the race. Some even fooled themselves thinking love was the answer like little miss princess over there. Love was nothing more than a bitter game of constant disappointments and nothing left to yourself as you're left with scars from someone you thought you loved.
Rejection is all you receive when you're different in this world and no one to trust. If you spell LOVE backwards it spells evol, better known as evil. Its an excuse to use someone else for their own benefit. That's what all life is. A survival game, and she would survive leaving a wake of destruction and taking away others time on this earth for her own enjoyment and amusement.
Her smile that was still on her face could only show the amount of glee she had for this lost princess looking for her prince charming coming to save her from the nothingness of this pointless world. She had a plan to bring that evil out of her and make the king of darkness appear again, and seek destruction of this world. Making sure Kurumi was the victor in this god forsaken place as she stands on the ashes and bones of those in her way, which incidentally was the entire human race. A weak and repulsive species.
Kurumi decends into her nether and reappears behind tohka and whispers in her ear " He doesn't love you, humans would never except you for what you are. They hate you. So does that shido of yours"
Tohka whips around startled and jumps back as far away from kurumi as she could. "Its you. The one from the rooftop" tohka says recognizing who kurumi was and recalling their last encounter.
Back flash:
There would at least a hundred of kurumi on the school rooftop, a time eater sphere around them putting everyone except Mana, Origami, Shino and herself into a realm of sleep. Clones she thought until she explained they were all figures of kurumi in the past and how she can recall them at will. It's why she can't die, and why she's so powerful and someone who you shouldn't mess with. She was an enemy then and an enemy now.
Back in present time:
"What do YOU want kurumi?" tohka said in a hostile tone.
"Oh me? I just wanted to show you an opportunity of a life time" kurumi replies as she giggles to herself.
"You have nothing to offer to me of worth" tohka snaps back.
"But what if I told you I could help mend your broken heart, or rather make you see the reality of life?" kurumi says with words that flow like honey as if she were the devil himself.
"I-I- Only want to be with shido" tohka says sadly looking at her feet, the despair In her voice noted by kurumi.
"But he doesn't even love you. No one will ever except you. Not now, not ever... Unless..." Kurumi says drawing out her words to get the deepest impact possible.
"Unless what?" tohka says quietly, still looking down, her eyes hidden behind her hair.
"Destroy the earth and build it a new. So shido will love you because you'll be all he has, just like how you had nothing in the other world."
" I mean he hates you, and he'll never acknowledge you unless you destroy everything he has, that goes for the rest of the world. look around, the AST is already on the way. You're hated by all of humanity. This hierarchy of society you have to please but will never be excepted as one. Do you really think you can get away with being normal?" kurumi tactfully says. She disappears and materializes behind tohka.
"Because of what you are he can't stand you, don't you ever wonder why he sealed your powers? Why he took them away from you and left you defenseless? He despises what you are, you are nothing to him. Everything he's ever told you was a lie, to get you to fall in love with him just to seal you're powers. Your "friend" kotori is the mastermind behind it too, he didn't even want to talk to you, be with you or take you on a date, he was afraid of you. He didn't even want to Give you a name. You are a monster, tohka."
Those last two things she heard were too much. Her existence in this world was all because of shido, someone who was supposed to accept her no matter what, then why did kurumis words hurt so much and make so much sense? She was at war with herself. How could she be a monster? But then she realized as she looked back at evertime she got her powers back shido would panic and do what he could to distract her and take her powers away. Was she really that horrible of a being to do be a monster?
"Can I ever be accepted for who I am?" She said to no one but kurumi heard and was overjoyed.
Kurumi appeared behind tohka again "Let her out, The Deamon King. Shido will always hate you. He will never love you. So why not kill them. Kill them all for making you so weak. The princess wouldn't have even hesitated" she says.
The air around tohka began to darken. Her purple eyes no longer seeing this world, only red as she began to let her hatred build. The pain, the despair, loneliness, all served to make her powers stronger bringing forth the Demon King who had no emotions and immense amounts of power.
"Oh yes, this makes me so wet!" Kurumi yells to herself with an evil and crazed glee on her face.
A flash of dark purple.
Her world seemed to split in two, the warm sticky feeling of blood spraying everywhere, running down her face. Her body falls, split in half down the middle. What immense power this was, and this was only the beginning kurumi thought as she falls to the ground.
A new kurumi slides up out of her nether a few yards to tohkas left facing her. "What manors you have, to cut someone who only wants to help you bring chaos to this world. The one I brought you to, freeing you from those trivalent and pertinent ideas of loving someone, a human at that" Kurumi says laughing hysterically.
"I killed you, but here you stand. Tell me, why is it I'm here?" The Demon king asked with eyes to kill.
"Why to play a game of course" kurumi replied, receiving a death glare that almost stopped kurumi in her tracks. She thought she better tread lightly if she is to see this through to the end.
"To make this world yours oh Deamon King, and to make shido yours of course, or destroy him for rejecting you" Kurumi says with a smile, bowing exaduratedly.
"Watch yourself" tohka said with a deadly venom to it.
She turns to look at the city recalling this being the place where everything started for here, but it should only be recognized as this is where it ends, where she will sever the bond where no one can hold her down anymore. Her sad eyes watching tiny people off in the distance, the breeze all to serene if shido were here to admire it along with her she thought silently, wishing he would save her, but it was just as quickly thrown away as it poped into her head.
Where to begin this worlds destruction she thought.
She puts up a hand feeling the need to protect herself, and indeed because the AST sent a volley of fire at her. The assult was so sudden and not expected she was actually surprised and impressed for only a millisecond, as much time as it would take to destroy their lives.
Tohka raises her sword halvanhelev, and slashes 4 times sending vibrant purple waves of energy at her opponents, scattering them but not killing them much to her annoyance which only served to flare her anger. Tohka raised her sword again charging it and slashing with all she had, sending an ultimate death slash that took out the whole mountain side. Only about 4 of the AST were able to dodge and not succumb to death. One of which was none other than origami herself. At this discovery tohka was beyond pissed now as they were making her use her powers for such futile acts only to end in death.
Mana happened to be of them as well but wasn't part of the AST but tohka did not know that much. Mana took the opportunity to quickly try and defuse the situation by going straight to the source going one on one.
She drew her plasma sword and attacked.
Another part of the city:
Shido runs through the streets which were diserted trying to find tohka but he would soon come to find out where she was even though he could only imagine one place for her to go. Where shido first accepted her for who she was and hoped he was not too late. Shido was about 1 mile away and could begin to see her but wasn't sure, he could also see the AST closing in and he knew that it spelled trouble.
*BOOM*
Shido was sent flying backwards no less than 10 feet by a concusion wave, from what he didn't know. That is until he looked to the direction it came from and where it originated from also happened to be where tohka was. He could see the devistaion imprinted in the mountain side where it was literaly cut, and shido feared the worst.
He raced as fast as he could to get to tohka and kiss her to seal her powers and to talk to her and see what is going on that made her like this.
Shido could see very clearly what was going on ahead, it was as if it were all happening in slow motion. The sound of gun fire was audiable from even here, resonationg throughout the city like a war was right in the middle of it, which infact it nearly was.
"What happened to make her like this? I can't belive this is happening, why me? Why now? I just got her back!" Shido screamed to no one. But one person heard all to clearly and knew exactly what needed to be done. This person was definitely on the mischeivious side of things and running the show.
It's none other than Kurumi and she happens to walk out from behind a tree in front of shido snickering to herself as knowing what will happen next.
Shido saw her all to late and ran kurumi over, falling head over heel on top of her. When shido looked up from his position he was in he instantly turned red but couldn't deny he'd love to exploite their differences in one way. Shido was atop kurumi, his left knee between her legs touching her hot core and pushing up her skirt above her waist showing off the panties she bought when they went on their first date. Shido could see her shaved pussy through the slit in her panties meant for easy access, to say the least it got him hard, but now was not the time. His right hand was on her left breast and his left hand fell out to kurumis right with his head next to her ear, he was blowing hot air into her ear and grunting from running into her which only turned Kurumi on.
"hmm I do like this, please take advantage of me, I saw you look at my panties and my tight pussy. I know you want me. Take me right now and I'll let you seal my powers" Kurumi said giggling and turning red from getting turned on by their errotic position. She thought he was cute and sometimes even thought about letting him seal her powers but that would be too boring living with people she hated in a society where she didn't belong or fit in.
"Kurumi! What's going on? Why are you hear? Tell me!" Shido yelled at her.
"Oh I do love being talked down to. It gets me so... excited" Kurumi says playfully licking her lips as she looks at him with her hair covering her eye with the clock. Shido even thought she looked really cute looking like this too but more important matters.
"Why are you here kurumi?" Shido says with as much authority as he has to maybe get something out of her. "please" he begs.
"Oh, alright." she says looking at him with lustful eyes.
Shido waits for a response but gets none. "well?" shido demands.
" I may or may not have stirred up Tohkas feelings for humans and being accepted and what not but I only said what was true, I didn't lie to her, I just told her how reality is and not this fantasy you have her and all the other girls in right now." Kurumi says with a devilish grin.
"You defend them against the AST, DEM, and any other government corporation and don't even know them but try making us fall in love with a complete stranger, only to be stripped of our powers and made useless, not to mention when we are sealed our cloths which are our identity are taken off of us and you enjoy watching knowing full well what kissing you does. Then to top it all off make us become normal people and not super beings in this world to fight in this hierarchy of society to be rejected and face the reality that we are not wanted. Living our lives trying to find love which an empty meaning if you ask me. Plus if we are found out we would be captured by the government and tortured, analyzed, beaten and much more to see what it takes to kill us, take our powers, or make us into war machines."
"Did I get everything? Oh and then theirs you, because you intend on saving us all. But look at you, there's only one of you to go around to 6 girls, 7 if you added me to your harem collection. Do you really think all of them are going to wait around only going on dates and getting nothing more over time? Sex, Marriage, Kids, a house and car, all that is in this world we need and you want us to wait on you to take us out on a date to make us happy? How heroic don't you think?
Look at poor tohka up there. All alone, fighting your sister and origami because she's a threat to humans. You're supposed to be protecting her. She wants you all to herself, for you to accept her even if no one will..."
"I know GOD DAMN IT!" Shido yells cutting kurumi off which surprises her and making her go silent.
"You don't think I don't know all of that? Thats why I try so hard for them. To make them happy! To make their lives better than what they were! They would be forced to this world and immediately be attacked. To have no one. That's why I am doing this, I know it's selfish of me but I'm not doing this for me I'm doing this for them. To give them a life worth living, to show them humans are not that bad. I NEED them. I had no friends, only kotori and a pervert acquaintance I talk to at school who is in love with his phone girlfriend. I can't remember anything from my past except these past five years. I! am alone!" Shido confesses as he begins to cry, choking up every so often and has to stop but only for a second before he continues again as he talks.
Kurumi watches as shido spills his secret that he's kept from everyone, even kotori. Shido was lost in depression too, it's why he didn't mind taking on all of these girls and taking the responsibility of caring for them and making them happy. She felt that weird feeling her chest again but didn't know why as she looked at him differently now. Maybe he really did mean it when he said he would save her. It was almost surreal, but Kurumi was only affected for a brief moment and returns to her normal cold self.
"Don't worry sweety, I can help you get her back." kurumi says darkly, "but for a price of course, and you already owe me twice"
"Name it and it's yours." shido replies without thinking twice.
"but within reason!" shido replies just as quickly
"now where's the fun in that?" kurumi said watching his cute face, again thinking maybe he really meant it when he'd save her. *budump* there it was again that unexplainable feeling. What the hell? He's cute but I-I can't be falling for him, especially after what all I said was true.
Kurumi pondered on this only for another second before she hopped to her feet throwing shido to the ground who was still on top of her.
"Well lover boy shall we go get the girl?" Kurumi says sarcastically with as much enthusiasm as she can muster.
Back on the mountain top where the battle still rages:
Tohka again lifts her sword as origami comes at her with all she has reigning blow after blow at tohka who seemingly effortlessly held her off. Tohka was matching her blow for blow watching origami struggle with her deep purple eyes that bore into origami wondering why she fought. Her efforts were futile mistakes and should just stop now Tohka thought to herself. Mana came to the side and tried a sneak attack which to no avail tohka sensed and drew sandalphon and counter attacked.
Mana receded, jumping back into the sky letting her jetpack take her up higher where she could get a vantage point and look for a weak spot. Mana watched for several long moments and could not find a weak spot in tohkas defenses or attack patterns as she circled the carnage of battle watching tohka intensely. But what she did find was the girl who almost killed her a few months back. Shooting her over and over while she was stuck in a time block where she could not move but time around her carried on. Mana watched this figure and her reaction to the carnage from a distance in the trees.
Mana drew her plasma sword and dived in from above, ready to take her out once and for all. Mana attacked chopping off kurumis hand, letting it fall to the ground. Kurumi who was not surprised by the sudden attack and the loss of a limb, which kurumi already had her gun out and shoots herself, making the hand reappear on her arm.
Mana tries to strike again to which kurumi shoots herself again disappearing and re appearing behind mana and kicks her as if this were all a fun game to her and her sadistic ways.
"So, you want to fight again ? Maybe try and kill me this time only for me to come back? Or maybe you just miss me too much" Kurumi said playfully to mana as she brings her sword in front of her steadying the sword at kurumis chest. She attacked once again viciously while kurumi dodged each like it was a game of tag but with deadly weapons.
An explosion from tohkas slash from her sword, destroying half the mountain side separating mana and kurumi from their squabble as origami had jumped by them dodging one of tohkas attacks and instead tohka sent a slash her way. Their efforts seemed more like a nuisance to tohka as they continued to trade blows, the other 2 AST members firing their rifles down on tohka with all they had but tohka had created a field of energy around herself just bouncing off sounding more like irritated wasps flying around her. The AST members didn't mind worrying about hitting origami or mana because they both had their own territories to protect themselves, only leaving themselves out of the fight as ordered by origami.
"Why do you fight? It's pointless, you're all going to die once I've regained my full power and I get used to this body." Tohka states so boldly, as if she's already won, which in reality she has as she had 100 times the power origami did. But even though origami was injured she still fought on and traded blows with her until she temporarily stopped to catch her breath, but subtly by asking tohka " Why do you fight princess. Do you really want to destroy this world that shido has shown you has so much good in it?"
"But yet you're here to kill me" Tohka says very deadpan.
"No I'm here to take you back to SHIDO! Against my orders because shido would be distraught if something were to happen to you. It's why I hate you! The way he looks at you, I'm envious, you got closer to him than I ever could, You were his first true friend as much he was to you! and he LOVES YOU! He still won't take me seriously, he always treats me like a bomb. A FREAK!" Origami yelled at Tohka with so much vigorous honesty mixed with pure hatred tohka was slightly taken a back.
Origami took that split second while tohka accepted those words to strike viciously and hard with everything she had left. The sounds of swords rang across the whole city as the intensity was increased 10 fold. The mountainside literally began to fall apart threatening to fall of the mountain as the two fought each other trying to win over the other as they both had sides of how they saw things on the line to show whose was more correct while also showing their true strength of will. Kurumi only watched and danced around mana who tried to attack her viciously as well trying to buy shido time to come up to the mountainside, which as it happened kurumi turned to look at the stairs up to the mountainside and there the hero was. But he was no hero and only a boy beginning to grow to a man.
Shido came running up the stairs that were crumbling as he climbed them from the ferocity of the war that seemed to be waging on the mountain. What shido saw put him in almost utter despair as he watched tohka who had turned into the demon king once again battle origami who was loosing as she also had a previous injury and was surprised she was even making it this long. But his thoughts were short lived as tohka was getting the upper hand realized this and took advantage of her now slowing movements to take the final blow using the flat end of her sword to send origami flying and creating a 30 foot long crater as she was thrown by so much force digging in to the earth. Origami lay semi conscious as tohka walked up to her slowly and raised her sword.
"I do not want shidos friendship anymore if it was all a lie, even this name... was just so I would come to this earth and have my powers taken from me so I wouldn't kill anyone else and be controlled. I will not be controlled or held down but an emotion I have no intention of ever succumbing to as it is a falsified religion. This LOVE is nothing but people coming in to some kind of mutual agreement to only hurt one another with false feelings. I do not need emotions, they are weak. Just like you and your hope to be loved by shido as he is nothing more than a lecherous bastard with hopes of making us all fall for his seductive reclusiveness we lose sight of what this world really is and that's an evil society wrapped in falsified realities." Tohka went off on her rant as she raised halvanhelev slowly, finally coming to it's peak as she finishes her sepal which can be taken in many different ways depending on your very own false reality in which you believe in.
Tohka had a crazed look in her eye as her sword was at it's peak, the sun finally out shining, the sun glinting off the tip, so deadly and full of hatred for being brought into this cruel world. Origami watched with half closed eyes as in slow motion the sword began to fall, she wondered what would really happen if she were to somehow live or die by tohkas hands, a spirit of all things that she hates for taking the one thing she held dear, her parents, and now shido.
A flash of blue hair. A sea of red sprays like the midnight ocean sea foam, flying in the air in slow motion. You could see the shock in both girls expressions, their eyes seeing the unbelievable, unthinkable horror of shido stabbed straight threw the right side of his chest as he protects origami from the blade. The blade a mere inch from origami as shidos blood rolls off the blade on top of her horror stricken face as she looks up at shido, tears beginning to form in her eyes.
Tohka whose hand had not wavered once while trying to kill origami, trembled with fear now as her hand held the very hilt to the blade that was impaled to the man she was so deeply infatuated with.
"Why...?" tohka whispered breathlessly, her voice trembling in sadness. "Why would you be so stupid and irresponsible to do this?" tohka says starting to let her rage come into her but still sad, tears coming to her eyes as well which were slowly starting to turn back into the princesses.
"I said I would protect you. I would protect you all. At all costs, no matter *coughs up blood* w-what" shido says coughing up more and more every time he tried to speak. "I will put you girls first, over my own happiness to make sure you girls lives are better than what they were. scared and alone forced here only to be captured or killed. I don't care about myself as long as I can make you all happy at any and all costs. Especially you. Tohka" shido says turning his head to look up tohka whose hand was still on the sword shaking with something shido couldn't pin point. But he recognized her eyes as the tohka he knew to come to know and love was starting to come back slowly as her powers seemed to draw back from the demon king.
" I love you. Tohka." shido said as he drew his last breath.
Shidos body slid off of tohkas sword, making a sickening and distinct wet noise as he fell forward, drawing more blood to come rushing out of his now open wound. Tohka and origami both look down at shido in horror. Mana watched on in disbelief that shido was dead. Even kotori on the other end of shidos headset who was watching everything from above on the Fraxinus was in disbelief.
The yamai twins along with miku and yoshino who were stunned into silence as they watched on as shido died by tohkas hands but knew they couldn't do anything to tohka in this state. She was more powerful then all of them combined and especially as the demon king, the demon king in a traumatically distraught state was even worse. But before they left the house shido had pulled them all together to talk to them.
Back flash just a while ago in the house:
Shido quickly put on his cloths as he bounded up the stairs taking it in 3 whole steps and bursting into his room where all the girls are and startling them all awake.
"Tohka!" shido yelled hoping beyond hope she was here, but he had known better.
"What's the matter Onii-Chan?" yoshino says rubbing her eyes looking really cute when she wakes up
"Yea what it is" kagari asked as well followed by yuzuru "Agreed-What is the matter?"
"It's tohka! she's gone and I can't feel her anymore inside me, I think her spirit powers has been taken away and I just can't feel her! What's going on!?" Shido says more to himself as he begins to panic holding his head squeezing it hoping it was just a bad dream.
Miku was the first to take action in calming down shido who did so with her sweet voice speaking softly without using her powers "It's ok shido, there's probably a reason, you can get her back and we'll help you. We're her friends and you both a really important to us darling." At this shido feels calmer but not confident to the point of not freaking out. "She's not gone from you, you will always have that connection with her, now feel it, strengthen it like a bridge. ... Now where is she shido? you know her better than anyone." shido concentrates on that link as she talks bringing confidence into his body, he did know her and his feelings stabilized their connection and the flow of spirit powers, he could feel it.
"I know where she is. But I think it is best if I go alone, I don't want her to attack any of you and I have to loose you as well" shido says with as much meaning as he could put into it believing it fully that he must protect these girls. He loved and cared for them all and did not want any harm to come to them no matter what and had to protect them at all costs, they were to precious to him. "Promise me this, please." shido asked with tears in his eyes, to which all the girls replied at the same time.
"Yes."
Back to the present:
That is what led up until now and this is what they saw, what everyone saw as they watched shido throw himself thoughtlessly in harms way for someone else which made all of them love him so. But all were to stunned to move except for tohka who was now back to her normal state of happiness and full of energy, only the only thing that was left of her now was a sad scared girl who had just killed the man who said he had accepted her and would always accept her no matter what.
Tohka stood up silently without so much as a sound escaping her silent sobs as heavy tears rolled down her face. halvanhelev disappeared as she turned back into the normal tohka everyone knew and not the demon king. Tohka turned around slowly, taking in everyones tear ridden faces, even kurumi who didn't show anything except sadistic satisfaction with unruly things was somehow in a disappointed scowl on her face looking at shidos blood covered body. Tohka looked up at the open sky now blue with a slight hint of orange from the early morning, wishing she could just disappear and never return. She looked down and her hair covered her face as she began to walk to the railing where they shared so much and grabbed a hold of it like as if it were her only teather in this cruel world.
A purple dark orb began to form over her which was not on purpose but because of tohkas emotions being so unstable it was creating a spatial quake, it was small but it was gathering so much energy within its tight space that was growing it would bring so much devastation to this world bringing an even bigger disaster than the one 30 years ago. Tohka then got up on the ledge and jumped...
She was headed for the center of the city, not knowing what it was she was about to cause, leaving everyone behind.
On the mountainside:
Everyone slowly gathered around shido watching the blood pool from his lifeless body, all of them shedding tears, even kurumi had one tear that she wiped away before anyone could notice but was seen by all. As they watched shido his body began to glow a deep blue and small flames began to lick the wound where he was impaled.
Ok so this chapter is the longest ones yet and this next chapter is going to be short one so I can go ahead with the next chapter after because I have some good plans for that one and this next one is more of a filler to get to the next one. But thank you for my review I do appreciate it I'm glad you like it, I am trying to stick to how the characters are with my own flare and how ive interpreted their personas. hope you all enjoy it and their will be sex to coming in not the filler but the next one. Thanks again for reading.
