Chapter 20

IF's POV

Where would he be? If Nagana is here, then who fought Hikan? So many questions and we have no means of answering them, not only that, what if Hikan caused that explosion, but I'm not sure…

"Who did it?" Nagana asked a different guild member,

"The guy with the red hair caused the explosion and almost killed the other, who started the fight was unknown." The guild member said, Nagana put his hand behind his head to think for a minute,

"Alright, we'll bring them both in for questioning." Nagana said, I walked up to him and gave him a shocked look,

"What?! Hikan would never do anything to harm anyone!" I yelled, Nagana gave me a sorrowful look,

"I apologize IF, but from the witness's point of view, it seems Hikan is the attacker here, we'll capture him and see what he says." Nagana said, I glared at Nagana, Hikan would never try to kill anyone… would he? Nagana grabbed out his phone and held it to his ear, "Hello? He's where?! Alright, on it." Nagana said as he hung up his phone,

"You found him?!" I said, Nagana nodded his head,

"He's in the forest, slaying any monster that gets in his way, I'll go get Lady Vert, and you two run ahead and try to stop him, if he trusts anyone, it'll be you two." He said as he turned back and ran in the direction of the Basilicom, I looked at Compa, who had tears in her eyes,

"Let's go." I said, Compa nodded, and we ran toward the forest by Leanbox…


Shizuki's POV

Hikan is killing everything in his way, any monster or human, he'll destroy it without mercy, this isn't him!

"Hikan!" I yelled, he turned his head and looked at me with that cold stare,

"What? Did you find him?" He said, his eyes still had that glow in them, he's under the power's influence, like a curse.

"Hikan you need to stop! This isn't you!" I yelled, he turned his full body towards me and started to walk to me,

"Shizuki… this will be over when Nagana's head is at my feet." He said, he was now in my face and he stared at me, I got a glimpse of his eyes, they were different, instead of a regular pupil, you could see a spark of fire, Hikan wasn't in control of his body,

"Hikan…" I muttered and he grabbed my arm, and leaned towards my ear,

"If you won't help me, then leave…" He whispered then he started walking again, I don't know what to do, Do I help him or do I leave?! My long lost childhood friend, I saved you from those saviors, but it looks like you still have one thing in your mind…

I started to follow him again, if he kills Nagana then will he go back to his regular self?

An arrow shot from one of the trees, Hikan put his hand up and shot fire at it, melting the arrow instantly,

"I don't have time for this…" he muttered then continued to walk forward, I walked close behind him, and I know what I have to do…

"Hikan…" I muttered, he turned his head and looked at me,

"Now what?" He said, I clasped my arms around him and held him tightly, I started to blush, this feeling I thought I would never get again.

"I will follow you to hell and back." I said and I looked up at him, he still had those eyes, but I hope he heard me, He nodded and motioned me to follow close behind him as we walked further into the forest...


"Where is Nagana?" Hikan said as he was tightened his grip on a soldier, we kept walking forward until we landed in an ambush, Hikan and I fought all of them at least two versus forty, they all were knocked unconscious or dead,

"He's back at Leanbox! You're wasting your time!" the soldier said, Hikan punched his jaw knocking him unconscious,

"He's around here somewhere… Find him." He said and I nodded, this isn't what I wanted to do, but there is only one way to save him,

"Now!" A voice yelled and a bunch of sharp objects flew towards Hikan with blinding speed, He had no time to react, he was impaled everywhere, from his upper body all the way down to his feet, he fell backwards and landed on his back, a puddle of blood formed around him,

"Hikan!" I yelled as I ran towards him, I started to pull out all the daggers and other blades that were all lodged in him, once all of the blades were out, he started to heal, he opened his eyes and stood up breathing heavily,

"I… won't… stop… until she's… safe!" Hikan said, I knew who he was talking about, Neptune, the CPU of Planeptune, he started moving forward again, I stared at him as he made his way forward, blood was dropping from his body, he could die from this…


"NAGANA!" he yelled when I walked in front of him we were greeted by Nagana, he was wearing a green hoodie and blue jeans with a green belt,

"You sure have caused quite a stir in my nation." Nagana said, wait, his nation?!

"What do you mean your nation?!" I yelled, Nagana smiled and looked at me,

"Surely Shizuki, you know that I'm mostly doing all the work now, Vert is always in her room playing those MMO's, that just made my job easier." he said, he really thinks that Leanbox is his?

"Lady Vert still does her work and she plays those games at the same time." I said with a glare, I never liked Nagana at all, he always made Hikan angry and he always tried to kill him.

"I don't care about that, Nagana give Neptune back!" Hikan yelled, his eyes still had that glow to him, but the red aura died down a little,

"You're a bit too late Hikan, She's already almost dried up of share energy." Nagana said, share energy was the source of power for the CPU's, without it they may lose their powers as a CPU or even die,

"Shizuki, find Neptune…" Hikan said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a hair clip,

"What's this?" I asked him, He put the hair clip in my hand,

"It's Neptune's other hair clip, give it to her when you find her." He said and he started walking over to Nagana, he materialized his sword and pointed it at Nagana, Nagana grabbed his daggers from his hoodie's pockets and then they charged at each other, Hikan and Nagana both parried each other's attacks, I took this time to head toward the Saviors hideout in Leanbox, I knew Hikan was on his way over here, he remembers a good bit from his past, but how much does he know?

I was going through the different rooms in the hideout and I heard explosions outside, I guess Hikan and Nagana are having their brawl, I don't know exactly who I'm looking for, but I guess I need to find someone with a missing hair clip, I opened a door at the end of the hall and I saw a cell that seemed to be opened, I ran out the door and down another long hallway, if there was one thing that I didn't like about these hideouts, it's that they're so big.

"Neptune!" I yelled hoping to get an answer, but I heard nothing, I ran through a corridor and into one of the rooms I hated the most, in the middle of the room there was a machine, that was hooked up to an energy converter, there was a girl strapped to the machine and she was missing a hair clip, it looked like the same one that Hikan said to give back to Neptune, the machine was activated and it was sucking the share energy out of her, Neptune, I'm guessing, was unconscious, it's just like what happened all those years ago…

I materialized my katana and made it transform into a bow, it was kind of a special power I had, I charged the arrow and shot it right at the top of the machine, breaking it instantly, I ran up and unstrapped Neptune off of the machine, she was breathing hard, she must of lost so much share energy, and it worries me that the saviors have the power to take share energy from the CPU's now,

"Hey, Neptune." I said, she opened her eyes a little bit and looked at me,

"You're… not… Hikan." She muttered, I shook my head, I held out her hair clip and clipped it back in her hair, opposite of the other one,

"He'll be here soon, just hold out a little longer." I said, she shut her eyes again and I leaned her against the wall, Hikan you have to hurry!


Hikan's POV

"I will end this now Nagana!" I yelled and charged him and prepared a stab, he sidestepped it and grabbed my hand the sword was in,

"You can't beat me!" he yelled and he kicked my feet out from under me, I countered by dropping my sword and did a handstand to get back up to my feet, Nagana grabbed my sword and charged me with it, he did a horizontal slash then followed up with a vertical, I jumped back to counter both of them, He charged me again and this time tackled me to the ground, he raised my sword above his head and swung down, it collided in my shoulder and cut down with no resistance,

"GAAAAH" I screamed in pain and I grabbed his arm and twisted it, breaking it instantly, He jumped off of me and fell on his knees holding his arm,

"You've gotten better…" Nagana muttered, he got up and looked at me, I got up as well, and looked at my shoulder, blood was squirting out, I can't die here,

"Go ahead and try to kill me! You can't do anything!" I taunted, Nagana shook his head,

"I don't need too, you already killed yourself…" He said, what did he mean? "Hey, voice in his head, I know you can hear me!" He also said, was he talking to Saito?

"What does he want?" Saito said, he clearly was not amused,

"I just wanted to say that your plan, it won't work, the CPU of Planeptune will be dead here soon." Nagana said, I felt a pull in my head,

"HAHAHAHA! Does he really think that would work?!" Saito said, what was going on here?!

My head started to hurt, I fell to my knees and clutched my skull again, and I started to see red, red was everywhere,

"Boy, let me handle this." Saito said, and my vision went black.


Saito's POV

I got off the ground and cracked a wicked smile, finally I can kill Nagana!

"HAHAHAHA! Finally, now then Nagana, prepare to die!" I yelled as I started to walk towards him, he didn't move and he kept that same smile on his face,

"Come on!" he taunted I rushed towards him and pulled my fist back, my hand engulfed in fire and I charged him,

"DIE!" I yelled, and then he sidestepped out of the way and pulled out another dagger and stabbed it into my neck, I coughed up blood and fell on my knees, that dagger… it was the same one…

"Well, well, well, I knew you would like this." He said as he walked up in front of me, he had a big smile on his face, the dagger was lodged in my neck and it wouldn't heal, blood kept going down my neck and it was killing me,

"…" I couldn't say anything either, I fell down and was greeted by a face full of dirt, I tasted blood and I tried to move, but couldn't, my hearing went fuzzy, so this is what it's like to die… I thought that my plan would work… but I was wrong… my vision went black, goodbye Gamindustri…


Nagana's POV

I did it… I finally killed him…

"Ha, Ha, HAHAHAHAHA!" I started to laugh maniacally, the great "Hikan Masato", he was dead at my feet! No-one will stop me now, I can rule Gamindustri!

I looked over my shoulder and was greeted by a face full of tears, Shizuki.

"Ah, Shizuki you really did miss it." I said, I picked Hikan's body up and shook him around, "He really did fight well, but he was too cocky!" I said and I threw his body down with a thud, I finally defeated him…

"Hikan… is… dead?" Shizuki said, she dropped to her knees and held her head,

"Yep! Dead! Finished! Destroyed!" I said, I stood in one place, Shizuki clutched her fists and gave me a look of full anger, looks like she's mad at me too,

"You bastard!" She yelled as she got up and materialized her katana, is she really going to fight me?

"Well if you think you can win, come at me!" I yelled and she charged me, her blade turned into a shade of darkness, then it happened,

"I… can't die… here." A voice said and something grabbed my leg, I looked down and saw Hikan, he looked up at me and his eye was red, not just his pupil either, all of his eye is red, he got up and held me in place, he pulled out the dagger in his neck and stabbed my back, it went through my back and popped out my chest, I wasn't surviving this time...

Shizuki charged towards me and I couldn't move, I messed up.

"DAMN YOU!" I yelled and Shizuki's blade went straight through my abdomen and Hikan's as well, blood splattered out and Hikan stood in place, he can't die… why can he never die… My vision was becoming blurry, Saito… be safe…


IF's POV

Compa and I finally arrived where the battle took place, in the middle of a field were three figures, one was Hikan, laying at his feet was Nagana, and next to Hikan was a girl with white hair that is in one long ponytail, what happened here?

"Hikan!" I yelled, he turned and looked at me, he waved to signal that it was him,

"Hey IF, Compa." Hikan said, he had a different tone of voice

"What happened to Nagana?" I asked, but I already knew what happened,

"We killed him." The girl said, Hikan nodded then turned to face the girl,

"Shizuki, where's Neptune?" He asked her, the girl called "Shizuki" pointed over towards an entrance, Hikan ran over and went inside, I looked at the girl,

"Who are you supposed to be?" I asked her, she looked at me then averted her her gaze from mine,

"I'm... Hikan's... friend." She said quietly, is she always this quiet?

"I'm IF and this is Compa." I said while pointing to Compa,

"Nice to meet you!" Compa greeted giving Shizuki a soft smile,

"Nice to meet you... too." Shizuki said, she returned her gaze back to us,

"Hey, Shizuki, can you give us a run-down of what happened?" I asked her, she looked down at the ground then returned her gaze at me again,

"I can try..." She said quietly as she began to explain what happened,


Hikan's POV

"Neptune!" I yelled, I ran down the stairs and came into a big room with a machine in the middle, beside it on a wall was an unconscious Neptune, I ran up to her and picked her up, "No! I will not let this happen!" I yelled, What could I do?! She's not breathing or moving?!

I felt tears drop down my eyes again, These feelings... I hate them! Dammit, why did this have to happen!

"Neptune, I promised you that I'd get your memory back, so please wake up!" I said holding her close, This is my fault, I should have stayed awake back at the camp...

"Don't cry... big guy." I looked down and saw that Neptune had her eyes open, she smiled a bit and her small hand reached up and planted itself against my cheek,

"Neptune..." I muttered and pulled her close to me and our lips met,

"Mmn... *smack*..Mmn." that red aura appeared around us and grew with intensity, it gave me a warm feeling, this was my energy,

The aura then surrounded just Neptune and it turned into a purple color, then a flash of light appeared around her and she began to transform, now Purple Heart was sitting in front of me,

"Hikan... thank you." she said and she leaned towards me and planted her lips against mine again, she wrapped her arms around my neck and I put my hands on her hips, she was okay, I was able to restore the share energy with my own energy... I... know... my purpose...

We separated and I looked at her, "Neptune..." I said, she looked at me with a concerned look,

"Hikan, are you alright?" She asked, my vision started to fade, the energy I gave her tired me out,

"I'm... so... glad... you're okay..." I muttered before falling onto Neptune's legs , I looked up at her as I rested my head on her legs, she was smiling and running her hand through my hair,

"Hikan, I promise I won't let anything happen to you." She said, I started to shut my eyes, I need to sleep, that's all I want now...


A/N: Phew, twenty chapters! I never thought I could make it this far, but you guys made me get this far! Seriously you guys and girls are amazing! Everytime I see a new follower or favorite it brings me joy to know that some people out there like my ideas. But, I will not be uploading tomorrow due to school, they're really tiring me out from all the work and I need a break, so starting Friday I will be relaxing a bit, but Tuesday will start up again as normal! Thanks for reading and I hope to see you guys and girls later!

P.S. Highschool DxD season four releasing this summer! Who's hyped!