Chapter 10: "I loved you…"

"I- Y-You wh-what?" Ky stuttered in disbelief as he stumbled backwards from her shriek.

Dejiko seemed confident in her resolve and with tears streaming down her eyes she looked up into Ky's frightened eyes and repeated herself once more.

"I-I hate you nyo!" she yelled with a mixture of rage and sadness.

"W-why…? Why do you hate me Dejiko…" Ky pleaded.

"You know exactly why nyo…" Dejiko began with a sniffle, "…I-it was you the entire time nyo…! You wanted to kidnap me for ransom from the very beginning! The Black Gema Gema Gang told me everything: how you brought the gang here after me, how you planned to kidnap me, even how you tried to let my guard down! Th-that's why you came here to planet Earth, isn't it nyo?!"

With a heavy sigh Ky replied, "Y-Yes… th-that's why we came here in the first place… but…"

"But what nyo?!" Dejiko exclaimed cutting off the dogged-eared dentist. "That you were planning on turning me over to the Black Gema Gema Gang when you were done with me nyo?! That you made me let my guard down because you had Piyoko call me 'Oneechan' and got me to fall in lov-…"

She paused and looked passionately into Ky's eyes with tears in her own, "I loved you nyo. I had developed feelings for you that I had never felt for anything or anyone else before nyo. I told you things that I couldn't even tell Puchiko nyo… I poured my heart out to you… I loved you…"

"A-and I love you Dejiko! Please! Y-You've got to understa-…" Ky pleaded in vain.

"I don't want to hear it nyo!" Dejiko retorted in anger. "Wh-Why didn't you tell me any of this nyo…? Why…?"

"Dejiko I was going to…" Ky tried to explain.

"J-Just… Just leave me alone nyo!" Dejiko screamed as she turned and ran off to Gamers with a glistening trail of tears following behind her.

Ky was left alone in the park on the outskirts of the Akihabara shopping district a broken man. He stood still in disbelief and with a stream of tears running from the reservoirs of his eyes. As he stood droplets of rain began falling from the skies above, taking with them the last of the cherry blossom pedals that remained on the surrounding trees; and as the downpour began to strengthen Ky fell to his knees and began sobbing. His falling tears as numerous as the rain droplets covering his face. Ky had nothing left, the Black Gema Gema Gang, the only family he had ever known had excommunicated him, and his only love, Dejiko, had left him, alone, and in the rain.

Meanwhile…

Dejiko locked the door behind her as she entered the Gamers store. She had just made it in right as the downpour had begun. Everyone in the store stared at Dejiko in complete silence as she stumbled towards the stairs to her room above the store. There was a tense feeling in the air as she made her way to her room. Usada, who had become very worried about Dejiko along with Gema and Puchiko, reached out a hand to her and motioned as if to say something, but as Usada's mouth opened Dejiko shut the door behind her.

Once Dejiko had made it inside her room, she leaned her back against the door and slid down to the floor crying.

"Wh-Why nyo…" she bawled, "Why did it have to end like this nyo?! I-I loved him nyo. I-…" she said as she continued to cry.

"Dejiko… a-are you okay…?" a worried Usada asked from the other side of the door.

"N-No nyo!" Dejiko pouted back, " J-Just leave me alone Usada nyo!"

"Dejiko, I-I'm your friend, i-if you ever want to talk… I'll be here for you." She replied.

After a long pause the door opened revealing a shaken green-haired princess who threw herself onto Usada sobbing. Usada immediately wrapped her arms around the heartbroken girl and patted her on the head.

"It'll be okay Dejiko…" She said comfortingly, "I'm here for you now."

"Why did it end up like this Usada nyo?" Dejiko cried.

"I don't know…" Usada replied, "…maybe he just wasn't the one for you."

"B-but I loved him nyo!" she sniffled into Usada's arms.

"It's okay Dejiko…" Usada comforted as she rubbed the princess's back, "but, I don't think he loved you back in the same way."

"Nyo…" was Dejiko's only reply.

"Anyways, what happened to you, you look like you've been through a war." Usada continued.

"I-I was kidnapped by the Black Gema Gema Gang nyo," Dejiko wearily replied.

"We had worried as much, but I'm glad you're okay now." Usada responded with a half smile.

"If you can call it that nyo," Dejiko retorted coldly as she wiped the tears from her eyes, "but something bothered me when I was tied up in the Black Gema Gema Gang base nyo."

"What's that?" asked a curious Usada.

"When I was tied up, I saw Rik, Coo, Piyoko and all their useless gang members, but I didn't see Ky anywhere nyo." Dejiko pondered.

"Well he came here during that time looking for you… but wasn't he the one that kidnapped you and took you to the Black Gema Gema Gang…?" Usada responded, her eyes beginning to widen as she realized what was really going on.

"Th-that's what I thought too-…" Dejiko thought quizzically, "…th-then what if Ky really was… oh no nyo…" she gasped as realization set in, "I-I've got to go find him nyo!" Dejiko stammered as she stood up.

"Wh-what?! B-but he-!" Usada began.

"I've done a horrible thing to him nyo!" she replied as she began running out the door.

End Chapter 10

This has definitely been quite the chapter hasn't it. The problem of the story has been set into motion and is on its way to being solved. Sorry for the long wait to those of you who had been enjoying my fan fiction over the past few years. I've been quite busy with work and school, but I really want to try to finish this fan fiction. I'm not exactly sure what it was that motivated me this time, but I really do appreciate all the support that I've receiving in your comments, critiques, and reviews. Special thanks to AnimeKittyCafe for helping me get the ball rolling on this chapter. Only a few more chapters left before this story will be finished.

-Carefree Captain