Here's another installment. I don't wanna feel like i'm rushing things, so tell me if you think i am.
If not, then i'm very pleased with this chapter.
i do not own any of the characters
Sunday morning didn't come easily. The second I woke up, my heart began to race as Kanda had not returned. If he was back at that park, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. I scrambled out of bed and threw on my clothes, white jeans and a black t-shirt. After almost throwing myself down the stairs, I heard the news, barely audible, from the kitchen.
Feeding my curiosity, I decided to enter the room and find out what was going on. I was surprised to find breakfast set out on the table for me, pancakes and sausage, and the TV on. Of course, I could only figure the old panda made too much and left the TV on.
I chuckled to myself as a took a seat at the table and began too much on my already syrup covered breakfast. Breaking news was flashing across the screen. It would appear that even the news reporters were shocked and appalled that Winter's Park, a park old as the city itself, was being torn down. So much for it being deserted and in complete disarray, it was an historical marker for the city, and now they were in the process of destroying it.
I couldn't help but let my eyes roll up to the ceiling and back down. If they were so shocked by it, why hadn't they just rebuilt the damn thing if it was so important? Granted I cared too, but that's only because my phantom did. If he didn't care about it, I wouldn't have even sat down to watch the news. No, I would've taken my breakfast and eaten in the living room where I could've watched some cartoons.
And I was about to follow this plan, but then the camera zoomed out and away from the reporter and onto the actual scene of the park and the construction vehicles. That wasn't what shocked me; my eye caught one important fact. This wouldn't have passed my eye even they were closed. This fact had me running out the door in second. The rain was pouring, but I was rushing. I hadn't even taken the time to grab a jacket before I ran.
Running, running, running, as fast as I could to get down to Winter's Park. A park that even in my youth had been prosperous and lively. So maybe I did care about it, but that wasn't the first thing on my mind. The last thing I heard on the LIVE news cast was that they were beginning to raze everything. EVERYTHING.
"Kanda!" I shouted quietly as to not attract the attention of the construction workers, the bystanders, and news reporter.
He turned on his heel to look at me. I could see that sadness and even fear in his eyes, his midnight blue eyes.
"Lavi…" his whisper came with the wind, barely audible with the rain. With the wind and the rain pounding into my ears, I could barely comprehend his next whisper.
"My home…." If he was real, he would've cried. If the rain wasn't taking the appearance of running down his body (?) I could've seen tears on his face. My phantom was going to cry, was looking as if he was going to cry, the sadness in his eyes overtaking everything in me, and at the moment that was all I cared about.
"I know…" I had no idea what to say, all I could do is turn with him to watch the bulldozer go up to the gazebo.
And everything went downhill from there.
I could feel sadness radiating out of my phantom. Our eyes didn't meet and nor could I see him. But I didn't have to see him to know how this hurt him. The bulldozer hit the top of the gazebo. And that about crushed the whole thing, the entire rotting disgusting gazebo. It fell to the round.
I heard the news reporter, "And this isn't stopping now. Today is the day they are beginning of the leveling of the land…"
"No, it's not fair!" Kanda shouted, his fists pounding in the air.
"Just wait, calm down, Kanda," I told him, my hands itching to just clasp around his shoulders and hold him to me, just to stop that crying that hadn't started yet.
The giant claw dug into the ground and through the left over wood. That crack shot through the air like a bullet from a gun. A sob attempted to erupt from Kanda, but he wouldn't let it. He wouldn't let it at out.
Into the ground it went, digging deeper and deeper and deeper until it stopped. And in a split second it was returned from whence it came, up above the ground. Seconds passed as hours and time itself seemed to slow down to the pace of the hour hand on the clock. I could hear my heart beat. In drenched clothes, I awaited the final step in the beginning of the destruction of a true city landmark, Winter's Park.
And then it was over, but everything was beginning. High pitched screams filled the cold and moist air until it seemed that that was the air was nothing but screaming. There was mass panic, and people were literally running around.
I on the other hand stood there, my mouth agape, staring into the distance at the pile of dirt the newer construction machine had brought up. Nothing around me stunned me any father out of my daze then my own mine could; I was hypnotized and that was it.
"Lavi…" Kanda gulped, almost squeaked if his deep voice would've allowed him.
I nodded. I saw that pile of bones in the dirt. I saw the tattered bits of clothes that resembled almost exactly the clothes Kanda had on the moment I saw him that first time. I knew, without a doubt in my mind or my heart that that was my phantom's bones right there in front of me.
My breath caught in my throat. Everything went silent now. Everything. I couldn't hear a word…
"Kid! Kid, get up!" I heard someone scream at me when the blackness vanished.
"Ugh…" I groaned and rubbed my muddy head as I sat up. My entire shirt, my pants, my new shoes, I was covered in mud everywhere. To my left there was a man in a paramedic's uniform, and to my right was the invisible Kanda, less tangible than I've seen him normally. I wanted to reach out and touch him, just to see if I could, but it wouldn't do any good. He was a ghost.
"What…happened?" I asked, my eye darting around to see cops and a whole other assortment of people.
"I was hoping you could tell me, Kid. I guess you fainted," he shrugged.
"Lavi! Lavi, that's me!" I could hear Kanda screaming. "Lavi!" he wanted my attention. I could feel his want to latch onto me, or someone even, and just scream out his troubles.
"Kid, you need to get outta here and go home," that paramedic said to me.
I nodded.
"NO!" Kanda shouted, centimeters from my ear. "You have to stay! You have to find out what happened! You promised you'd help me!" he was freaking out, or he was as far as I could tell.
"I didn't promise to help with this!" I sneered as I stood up, ignoring the paramedic's strange look and beginning of a question. I trudged through the grass and the mud, not caring about the way I looked.
"What's going on here," I demanded to the police officer.
"I don't believe you have any right to ask that," he replied.
"I have all the right in the world. Don't you know who I am…Komui?" I smiled, a smirk almost.
He laughed, "Of course I do, Lavi. You're that all seeing boy Lenalee's always rambling on about."
"Oh come on, don't pretend we haven't met," I laughed, Komui joined me.
"Of course. Anyway, whatcha need?" he looked back to his notebook and began to scribble down some things.
"I want to know what happened, or what you know. And maybe, just maybe, I'd like to be kept in the loop."
Komui nodded, "I can keep you in the loop, but there isn't much I can tell you at the moment. Just a pile of bones and old clothes. Lavi, I'm pretty sure that this case will be closed before it's opened."
"Just…find out the ID, that's all I need to figure out the rest."
"What makes you say that?" Komui raised an eyebrow.
I looked over to my right at the ghost who was trying to keep from sniffling, and even crying, "Because. I promised him I'd help him out."
"Him?" Komui asked.
"Yu Kanda, you can look him up if you want to. He's part of a string of four murders, the only body never found, the only one never investigated. And he's standing right beside me."
"LAVI!" Kanda screamed, his hands reaching to latch around my arm, but they stopped short. "Don't go telling everyone everything about me! Seriously! It's a waste of your time!"
I ignored him, "I'm pretty sure, almost 100% that that body…well bones…is Yu Kanda. Just confirm that for me and I'll do my best to get his memories back in order."
"I really don't believe you, you know," Komui smiled, showing his lying. But that's how he had to work when his comrades and even his boss was walking around at ears length.
"But," he began again, a larger smile, "I'll believe you. I'll do some searching and some matching. I'll confirm ID and get back to you," He left.
Kanda couldn't take my more after that, I had to take him home. Or leave so he would come with me. His hands were latched onto his head in sort of a pain or confused manner. Again, I just wanted to hold him, but at the moment that wasn't happening. Even if I could, he would've killed me for doing so. I was covered in mud.
The minute I got into my room, I stripped myself of my clothing, much to Kanda's disliked, as he wished I would've done it in the bathroom, and then went into said bathroom. I was quick to take a shower and clean myself of that filth I called mud. By the time I was out, the rain had stopped almost completely, but not the noise.
"I can't believe this happened! You don't need a freaking confirmed ID! That was my body!...Or what's left of it…" he sighed and sat down. I listened carefully as I dried my hair with a red fluffy towel.
"Th-that's me… I'm dead, gone, nothing but a pile of bones… You know…you asked me what it was like when I died, or I remember a question like that," his now pale transparent eyes looked towards me.
"Hm?" I dropped the towel around my bare shoulders.
"When I died, my life didn't flash before my eyes, I didn't see the faces of my friends and family. No, I just thought 'I'm so stupid,' and that was the end. Everything went black. It was black for the longest time, and the last thing I remembered was…sitting in the gazebo and watching you…smiling and walking up to me.
"And there was no light if that's what you're wondering. No light, no nothing. Just darkness."
I nodded, and after throwing on some sweat pants and a large t-shirt, I sat down on the bed beside him.
"Yu," I said. He looked at me and grumbled for me not to call him that, but I didn't listen, "just slow down, ok?" I smiled. "You're going to remember what happened, but if it's not now, then it's ok."
"How can you be so calm about this!" He shouted as he shot up, throwing his arm at me "We just saw my pile of bones! My dead body! How can you be calm about that!"
My arms threw themselves at him, to grasp his shoulders, but they went right through him. I backed up, feeling rather foolish, "Because it doesn't matter to me. You may be dead, but you're right here with me, and that's what matters," I sighed.
"I said I would take care of this problem; that I would help you, and that's what I am going to do." There was nothing beyond that point I could say. I was upholding my promise."
"Fine…" He muttered, turning away from me.
I sighed. I wanted to know what was going on, but he'd never tell me. I knew him long enough to know that. Kanda wouldn't tell me a thing. That familiar pang of sadness clapped into my heart as I just sat there helplessly and watched my ghost. That was all I could do. But hey, maybe I if I thought about helping him out more than I could, that would help.
A foolish thought it was, but that hadn't stopped me from doing it. I thought about holding him, telling him it was going to be alright. But I knew it wasn't going to be. How can everything be alright when you're dead? It really couldn't, but then, more than ever, I was determined to make it all right.
Even if there was no light, no heaven, no anything else. I was going to make sure Yu Kanda got to rest in peace.
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