Destiny and Fate Ch 9
Sound of the gun shots roars and people are being massacred. No matter how many appear, they all fall and lie dead on the ground when confronted with Hikari. She constantly fired and reloaded the gun. She was an expert at shooting and nobody could react quick enough to shoot her before she killed them. She never suffered an injury of any kind and pressed on. After more than half an hour of shooting, she received a message.
"Infiltration success! Mission complete!"
What followed after that message was a screen displaying all the high scores. Of course, Hikari immediately became the top high score and inputted her name. The difference between her score and the second high score was vastly apart. 1,203,000 to 403,237 were the score. Everybody in the game center looked at the screen and was surprised to their bones. Upon looking at the score screen, Takeru couldn't help but to compliment her.
"You're absolutely amazing, Hikari."
"This was an easy game."
She said calmly, not surprised at the result.
"To you maybe. Not everyone owns a gun to practice shooting."
"Whatever. Is there any challenging game?"
"There's a basketball game over there. Want to play against me?"
"No."
An immediate reply came. He complained at the gun master princess.
"How come?"
"You're too tall. It's obvious that I'm gonna lose."
"Height doesn't matter since I'm gonna be away from the hoop."
"Still, I don' want to play that."
"Didn't you say you wanted a challenging game?"
"I said challenging. Not impossible."
After saying so, she wandered around the game center for entertaining games. Takeru, being her boyfriend pretender, followed her around. After some walking, Takeru tapped Hikari's shoulder and suggested a game.
"Hikari, how about that one over there?"
She looked to see and realized that it was another shooting game. However, the gun wasn't a pistol, it was a large sniper rifle.
"Sniping game?"
"You don't have a sniper, right? Maybe that's a challenge for you."
"Gun is a gun. I think I can handle it."
"Good luck, then."
Hikari walked towards the machine, inserted the coin and started the game. She placed her eye on the scope and aimed the gun around the screen, searching for enemies to shoot. First stage was no hurdle for Hikari. She shot one after the other without a single life lost. However, as she moved on to the later stages, the enemies became brutal and almost undetectable. Now, the computer enemies have gotten quicker reaction and were camouflaged in the environment. Also, the enemies were spread out across the map, making it difficult for Hikari to detect and fire the target quickly. In the end, she was eliminated from the game. She sighed and got off the machine, little frustrated to lose in a gun game.
"You still did pretty well, Hikari."
Takeru commented with a shining smile.
"Whatever. I'm satisfied with my result anyway. I still have the highest score."
"Yeah. You're the greatest."
Then, Hikari looked around for more things to do. Takeru, seeing that she was having fun, couldn't help but to smile happily. He found it glad that she didn't seem so depressed about the arranged date of Taichi and Sora's engagement.
"Hikari."
"Yeah?"
"Want to play that together?"
She looked and read the game's title.
"Time Crisis 4?"
"With two people, it should be easier to beat it."
"Okay."
With that, coins were inserted and the two picked up the plastic gun to play. Being a skilled gunner, she shot enemies in an instance that they appear. Takeru, on the other hand, was getting fewer chances to kill the enemies. Score difference between the two was vast. On average, Hikari would have killed 100 people while Takeru only got 40. Regardless, he was not a bad shooter. He never lost a life and blasted the enemies with incredible precision. The game continued for couple more minutes and the two cleared the entire game without a single life lost. By the time they finished it, a whole crowd of people has been standing behind, amazed at their skills. The two received numerous compliments and thanked them as they moved away from the game. When they finally escaped from the crowd, Takeru spoke to the gun mistress.
"What do you want to do now, Hikari?"
"I'm done with games. I don't like being bombarded by people every time I play a game."
Takeru chuckled and suggested an idea.
"Let's go somewhere else, then."
He grabbed her delicate, soft hands and began walking. After much walking, they arrived at a large amusement park.
"Amusement park?"
Hikari asked the tall blonde man.
"Sure. It's always fun to be at an amusement park."
"…"
Hikari fell in silence and had a slightly sad expression. Takeru saw her face, but pretended as if he didn't see her expression and urged to enter with an excited voice.
"Come on, Hikari. Let's go."
He held her hand again and took her in to the amusement park. The two wandered around aimlessly, riding whatever that comes across them and playing whatever carnival game that was in their sight. They mostly enjoyed the carnival games. Hikari won numerous prizes from games that involve shooting while Takeru won prizes from games that required physique and athletic abilities. The two were playing separate from each other, competing in a small competition to see who wins the most prizes. After their time limit, 30 minutes, passed, Hikari and Takeru came to compare the prizes. Takeru was the first one to arrive at the promised location and Hikari was shocked to see how much he had won. Unlike her, who mostly won stuffed animals, hats, and jewelries, the pale blonde man had a stash of guitars, bass guitars, basketball jerseys, hats, shoes, accessories, wrist bands, and humongous stuffed animals.
"Hi, Hikari~."
He saw her arrive and waved from the distance. After few moments from shock recovery, she resumed walking and sat near Takeru to compare the prizes that they won.
"Come on, start counting."
"I already counted mine. I got 73 prizes."
Hikari flinched at the incredible number and hastened to count her share.
"23…24…25…26…"
She counted until the number reached 42. The number difference was tremendous. Takeru spoke with a satisfied smile.
"Looks like I win, Hikari."
"…whatever…"
She replied with weak energy in her voice. She didn't think she'd lose to him, but she couldn't ignore the truth of the situation. Then, Takeru began speaking.
"I never lose in a bet or competition, Hikari."
His words had reference about their first bet. She dived into silence, thinking deeply. However, she couldn't do so because Takeru prevented her from doing so.
"Don't think about difficult stuff right now. We're here to have fun, aren't we?"
He gave a divine smile, which was enough to convince her to listen to his words.
"…Yeah..."
"Alright, then."
He got up and brightly spoke to the hazel eyed princess.
"Before we get going, what should we do with these?"
She glanced at the mountain load of prizes that sat motionless behind Takeru. Hikari became speechless, not knowing what to do with that many prizes. She sighed and then, complained at the gold haired man who just had to win 73 prizes.
"What were you thinking when you got this much, Ishida?"
"I was thinking that I was gonna win the competition."
He responded with innocent tone.
"You're really hopeless."
Hikari spoke as she dug through the prize pile that Takeru won.
"Should we just give them away, then?"
She suggested a solution, but the pale man questioned her idea.
"Are you really willing to waste your money just like that?"
"Why not? We won't be moving with this many stuff anyway. Besides, I can buy better quality of these items by the thousands."
"That's true, but you really should know the value of money."
Takeru spoke in a slightly gloomy tone, remembering the days in his street life. Hikari, however, did not notice the change in his voice and continue to speak her mind.
"I know the value of money, but would you rather waste your time carrying all these around?"
"I guess not."
"Thought so. Now, let's go."
Hikari urged to go somewhere else, but Takeru stopped her.
"Hold up, let me get something out of this, then."
He began digging through the pile to seek the few prizes he wanted to take home. He dug out some small things and put them in his pockets, but it was hard to see what he placed in his pockets. After several seconds, he finished digging and walked away from the pile with a bass guitar and guitar in his hands and wrist band on his wrist.
"Are you seriously gonna take the guitars, Ishida?"
"Of course. I kinda always wanted to play these instruments."
"Whatever. Let's go."
She quickly turned down the subject and began walking. Like a newborn duck following its mother, Takeru followed his beautiful mistress. They walked around more and rode many roller coasters and rides. Soon, the sun was sinking down, painting the sky and clouds with red, orange and yellow.
"Anything else you want to do, Hikari?"
The handsome blonde asked the beautiful brunette.
"I want to eat something. Let's go a restaurant."
"Won't finding a restaurant take a long time?"
"What other choices do we have?"
"Can't we just eat churros or hot dogs or something like that?"
"Hot dogs? Churros? What's that?"
She asked with genuine curiosity in her voice. Takeru, then, responded with a surprised voice.
"You honestly don't know what those are?"
"…No…"
"Wow…that's…surprising. Wait here, then."
With that he was off, leaving Hikari to wait by herself. Once he was out of her sight, she sighed deeply and sat on a nearby bench, thinking about her past memories. This was the very same amusement park where she used to come when she and Taichi were still going out approximately 5 years ago. Back then, they were still oblivious of the fact that they were brothers and sisters. Hikari closed her pretty eyes, living the days of her past in her thoughts. She could see the image of her younger self running around the amusement park merrily.
"Taichi, I want to go on that next~!"
"Of course, Hikari. Let's go."
Hikari could see how happy they both looked in her memories. Her visions of her past fast forwarded to the part when they were in a ferris wheel. The two were located at the top and were looking at the beautiful scenery and the majestic sunset. Then, Hikari remembered the part where Taichi confessed his feelings to her. His sentence still remained in her mind and echoed as if she was in the ferris wheel.
"Hikari…I love you…Would you be my…girlfriend…?"
She could still feel the excitement that she felt that day and her heart began pounding quicker just by remembering the moment. She remembered nodding silently and the over excited Taichi thanking Hikari for saying yes to his question. She opened back her eyes and came back to the present. She gazed at the ferris wheel where they officially became boyfriend and girlfriend and whispered to herself.
"Taichi…Do you still love me…?"
She, then, quickly became depressed and sighed heavily. All she could do was detest the scientists and the president of Yagami Corp for stating that she was Taichi's sister. She began falling in to deeper sadness, but luckily, Takeru came just in time to interfere her gloomy thoughts.
"Sorry, Hikari. The line was pretty long."
He came to her running with foods she never seen before in her life. She curiously looked at the bizarre food.
"Here, try it."
He handed them to Hikari along with a bottle of coke. She looked at the food for a while before finally taking a bite out of it. She took a bite out of churros first and Takeru asked for her thoughts.
"How is it?"
"Its…sweet."
"Do you like it?"
"I guess…"
Then, she took a bite out of the hot dog to taste it.
"This is kinda salty."
"Do you like this, then?"
"Mm…I think I like the other one better."
"Glad you like them."
With that said, Takeru began eating and Hikari enjoyed the sweet pastry called churros. The two finished their simple meal quickly and the gold haired titan spoke.
"Hikari, let's go there now."
She looked to see where the tall man was pointing. It was the fateful ferris wheel. Upon seeing it, she stuttered a disagreeing word.
"Uhh…N…no…"
"How come?"
"I… just…"
She couldn't finish her sentence and diverted her eyes away from the blonde. Takeru, then, relieved her troubled mind.
"It's okay if you really don't want ride it. It's not like I'm gonna force you to."
"…"
She felt embarrassed to make such a big deal out of it. She didn't want to let him know that the ferris wheel has a special meaning to her, but Takeru spotted that out of her mind immediately. He, then, simply suggested to go home.
"Then, let's go home. It's gonna be dark soon."
"…Yeah…"
She got up from the bench and the two began walking back to their home. They spent their walking time quietly and arrived at Hikari's expensive home. As soon as they entered through the door, Takeru placed the heavy instruments on the ground and massaged his tired shoulders.
"Whew. Finally some rest."
"Tired?"
"Just my arms. These are kinda heavy to carry around all day."
"Whatever."
Hikari spoke disinterested and began heading to her room. Then, Takeru complained to the brunette ice princess.
"You're not gonna massage my shoulder or arms, Hikari?"
"In your dreams."
Takeru chuckled and spoke one last time before she could enter her room.
"I can wait until it becomes reality, Hikari. Take your time."
Hikari turned around and saw him smile brilliantly. Takeru was determined to make her his girlfriend, but he was also considerate Hikari's feelings and was taking his time. She understood the meaning behinds his words and briefly thought for a short moment. Then, she took out her gun and shot the wall next to Takeru continuously until her bullets ran out. After the bullets ran out, without a word, she went into her room and closed the door behind her.
"What was that for?"
Takeru was puzzled and confused at her strange act and saw the poor wall that got fired at. On the wall, there were two alphabets. Takeru looked at pronounced them out loud.
"…T…Y…?"
He tried analyzing the meaning behind these two alphabets and almost immediately got the message that Hikari conveyed with the dangerous gunfire spelling. He looked at the brown, wooden door of Hikari's room and silently whispered.
"You're very welcome, Hikari.
I added some details so that the relationship between Taichi and Hikari clearer to understand. Tell me if it's still unclear to anybody and I'll definitely clarify in the near future chapter. Sorry for the confusion, that's my fault for not having the ability to sound mysterious without being confusing.