Hi! this is the second part of "Forest of Memory"... and also the last part!!!

Waaaah! for the first time! I have finished a story! (since the other is on hold)

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters and also the story. (I just wrote it but it's originally in a manga entitled "I can't sleep alone" which is a compilation of horror/scary stories.

Chapter 2: Goodbye… and a Reunion?

"Did you know that long ago, something bad happened in this area?" Lavi asked as he took off his coat' now only wearing his dress shirt and vest.

"I didn't…" Kanda answered as she looked up at Lavi from her sitting place on the sofa at the parlour.

"It happened in a western-style house… A place just like this one." He said as he sat down beside her on the sofa. He looked at her as Kanda looked back, interest evident in her raven eyes.

"And it happened on the birthday of the only daughter of that family." He continued.

Suddenly a flash of a dark hand reaching out flashed into Kanda's view. "What… What was that…?"

"Some burglars, chased by the police, lost their way."

The she saw herself, running away, just like in her dream, with a terrified expression on her face.

"And they killed every last person in the house, because they had seen their faces."

"I shouldn't… I shouldn't remember what I remembered just now."

A long winding hall, art works and picture frames on the walls, passing or rather she, passing them as tried to run away.

"Stop it…" she pleaded as she closed her eyes and reached a hand hand to hold her head.

"They killed you too.." Lavi continued as he looks at her.

"NOOOO!!!" this time, Kanda screamed as she held her head with both hands.

"When I was a child, my Grandfather often told me the story." He began.

~Flashback~

"She was a very beautiful girl… It's a pity…" Bookman began as he went out of his study in their old fashioned house. (A/N: You know, the traditional ones in Japan??) Lavi looked up from his place on the windowsill, looking at the forest where the mansion lay.

"Don't ever go to that house! Lavi!" Bookman warned him as he proceeded to his own room and shut the sliding door.

~End Flashback~

"But no matter what, I was drawn to this place. That's why I came here. And then…" he neared her slumped form in the sofa and looked at her bowed head, her shoulders shaking, hands on her mouth as she tried to muffle her cries.

"I found you… Still as beautiful as ever." Lavi reached a hand and lifted her face and looked at her eyes with sincerity.

"It's alright to drift to sleep now… You won't see anymore fearful dreams." He continued as he leaned down and kissed her forehead. At this action, Kanda's eyes widen with shock and her eyes started well up with tears. Suddenly, Kanda felt dizzy and fell in Lavi's arms. She held on his sleeves as she felt her strength leaving her body once more then, round glowing light came out of her body. She became afraid yet again.

"Please… Don't let me fade away…!" she pleaded as she tightens her grip on his arms. "I…I want to live!"

"This isn't your home anymore…" Lavi tried to explain as he leaned in close to Kanda's face.

"No it is…!" she said defiantly. "If you think of me… If you feel for me, then this is my home..!" she finally said making Lavi stare at her with wide, shock eyes.

"If you remain here, you'll only keep suffering." He said. "It's the same as being asleep. So, don't be afraid." Lavi touched her pale face with her eyes close and letting her tears fall freely. Suddenly, Kanda opened her eyes and looked directly at Lavi's. She lifted her to embrace him once again but when theirs hands touch, she disappeared.

"I am…lonely…hurt…scared…" her words were left floating in the air as Lavi tried to hug himself, as if she's still there, in his arms. He let his tears fall down as sadness crept into his heart for his lost.

"In this place where your sadness has frozen time.. You were always all alone…" he whispered into the room as it turned back to what it used to be. The windows and some furniture lay broken, and the walls, dusty and full of cobwebs.

"And that is all.. that I can do for you…" he thought as he picked himself up and sat himself in the sofa where they had sat down. He rested his arm on the arm of the chair and rested his head in his hand, thinking.

"Why do I feel this way?… Lonely… and painful…" he thought as he closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he straightens up and a scowl made its way on his handsome façade. "No! I shouldn't feel this way! This isn't the first time I put a spirit into rest. I wanted to save her from this terrible dream. That's why I did this… but.. why? Why do I feel like this?" he questioned himself. Unable to think of an answer, he rested his head on the sofa and covered his eyes with his arm. With a sigh, a single name escaped his lips…

"Yuu…"

Suddenly, he felt a presence, a familiar presence. Then he felt someone wrapped her arms, since they're soft and petite, around his shoulders in an attempt for an embrace. He slowly looked down and saw Kanda, wrapped in his arms, returning the embrace and looked directly in her raven eyes. Then he heard the sound of the distant bells.

Cling, clang

Cling, clang

"Lavi" she whispered as she stared back into his emerald eyes. Then, Lavi leaned down and placed a passionate kiss in her awaiting soft, pink lips. When they broke apart, they stared at each other's eyes and Kanda leaned down and rested her head in Lavi's chest.

"This is my home… this is where I belong…" she finally said as she hid a smile while her hands rested in Lavi's chest.

"I know…" he replied as he tightened his hold onto her, as if afraid that she will disappear again.

"I have been waiting for you… in the Forest of Memory.." Kanda whispered as wrapped her hands around his shoulders again and gave Lavi another kiss, this time, more passionately and full of love.

~Owari~

There you have it! Now it's finished!!!

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see you on my next stories...

----mizu17