Perfect Enemy
...Second Part: Dark...
It was a 'kiss'. The word registered somewhere in my mind, in that moment when I pressed my lips against his.
The sensation of it was wonderful. It was simple, but it had the most alluring and calming feeling to it. The soft skin of our faces barely touching. Our hands still pressed against each other's chest, feeling each heartbeat; each breath.
But another sensation soon washed over me. There was something within me – a tingling feeling throughout my whole body. 'Pins and Needles' came to mind.
I felt my consciousness retreating, like I was stuck in a state that was sort of... 'dream-like'.
I heard a sound, then. It was loud and harsh, without the forming of words. It was coming from my body, I realized, but I certainly hadn't made the noise. My body was standing up, too, backing away from Krad – but those movements weren't controlled by me, either.
What's going on!? I shouted, protesting the movements. I heard myself speak, but the words didn't go through my body. The lips didn't move; the recently familiar vibration or rush of air in my throat weren't there. My speech sounded to me more like a thought – but I hadn't been thinking it! Krad! I called to him, but he didn't hear me.
"Hikari! What have you done!?" the other voice accused – the same one which had made the startling sound before; the one that was from my body, yet not mine.
I watched as Krad's form shifted into a new appearance. His hair got shorter and more bluish, and his eyes turned from their beautiful, brash gold to a watery blue.
"What have I done!?" he shouted, in a tone similar to what could have been 'disbelief'.
This was not Krad's voice, just as the voice that seemed to come from my body wasn't right. I hadn't heard much of Krad's voice, but I knew for certain that this was not it.
He threw his arms out to the sides. "I have done nothing but create! I was trying to bring life into something that had none, and you – you had to come and mess it all up!!"
This new Krad was furious at me. At the word 'you' he stepped closer, jabbing his finger at me.
I didn't do anything! I objected, confused.
"Shut up, Dark! He's not talking to you!" the other voice snapped.
I shrank back – my body didn't move, but somehow I did. I felt the muscles in my shoulders react that way instinctively, but I was something else... Some other form in my mind, now.
"Don't yell at him like that!" the form this other voice called 'Hikari' scolded him. I couldn't get over the notion he was staring directly at me when he said it. "He could very well be a part of Kokuyoku!"
"I don't care what he is – I'm stuck with him, now! And it's your fault!"
"Stop blaming me for your issues, Niwa!" the Hikari argued. "You wanted to steal my art, did you not!? Well, now you have it – and it lives inside you as your curse! I hope it serves you well!!" he shouted, voice getting louder as he went on.
A sense of anger was all around me. And then my body was turning and trudging away in a furious silence that also didn't belong to me.
What about Krad? I wondered. Where's Krad?