Have you seen the last episode of the anime? Izumi died! I was srsly so sad, I thought she was actually gonna make it but in the end she died. Well, I know that she dies in the novel but since she didn't die in the manga (just got an awesome haircut) I actuallt thought she was going to survive... Stupid anime...

mikichara12: Yeah D:

TheRoseShadow21: Yeah, I got that idea yesterday (that she would be the dead one and hat she would know Reiko) and I thought it was so awesome so I had to add it to the story. It was actually going to end in whole different way...

For the last time in her short life, Izumi stood in front of the big school gates. She had decided to go to school one last time, she wanted to say "good bye" to all her friends before "leaving." Even though she didn't have that many friends and they all would have forgotten about her by tomorrow, her life would have felt incomplete if she didn't do this. Mochizuki, Sakakibara and Misaki were waiting for her in the classroom.

"Good morning!" Mochizuki greeted her, giving her one of his usual, friendly smiles.

"Hi", she said quietly, nodding at Misaki and Sakakibara. She didn't really like them but since they were nice to her, she had decided to be nice to them as well.

"Found out something new?" Sakakibara asked. This was their usual morning ritual: First they greeted each other politely and then they asked if the others had found out something new about the curse.

Izumi nodded, she sure had.

"Great!" Mochizuki smiled. "Can we take it now or should we talk after school?"

"After school", she replied shortly, she wasn't in the mood for talking today.

"Can we go to your house as usual?" Mochizuki asked, turning to Sakakibara.

"Yeah, of course we can", he answered in his usual carefree voice. Oh, how she hated that voice, couldn't he understand the seriousness of the situation they were in? That aside she was glad they were going to Sakakibara's house, she wanted to see Reiko one last time before disappearing from this world. Even though she wouldn't be able to tell her about who she really was and she didn't have any memories of their time together, Reiko was still her best friend.

"Okay students, take your seats!" Mikami-sensei said and Izumi went to her desk and sat down. Naoya hadn't showed up today and it made her pretty sad. She told herself that they would soon meet again and that made her a little happier.

~After school~

"Akazawa-san, are you coming?" Sakakibara screamed, waving at her. "The bus doesn't wait forever!" Izumi sighed. 'That attitude again...'

"Yeah, I'm on my way!" She replied, taking one last look at the school. 'Bye, bye', she thought as she ran to the bus.

"Good, I thought you were going to be left behind", Mochizuki sighed in relief as she sat down on the seat beside him. She forced a smile. 'I hope they won't get all wild and try to kill me when I tell them', she thought.

After a while the bus stopped at Sakakibara's house and they went inside.

Now they all sat in the usual couch, drinking tea and chitchatting. Well, the others were chitchatting, she just sat there, listening to them. After a while Sakakibara turned to her.

"So… what have you found out?" He asked. Izumi gulped, what if they would actually try to kill her?

"Well… ehm, you're not going to believe this but…" She began. God, this was hard! "I know who the dead one is. Everybody stared at her in shock.

"You know who's dead!" They said in unison. She nodded.

"Yes, I know who's dead… I'm the dead one", she said. Now when it was said she could only wait for their reactions.

"Y… you're kidding… right?" Mochizuki asked, still that expression of shock on his face. She shook her head as she felt tears starting to take form in her eyes. 'Oh, why do I always cry, I'm such a crybaby…' She thought and bit her tongue.

"What are you going to do?" Misaki asked, breaking the silence. 'So they didn't try to kill me, huh…'

"I'm going to do what I have to do, I'm going to commit suicide", she said. Now she couldn't hold back the tears anymore, for the second time that day she started to cry. Mochizuki and Sakakibara gasped while Misaki just stared at her with an emotionless look on her face. 'You're supposed to react to this!'

"Y… you sure you can do this?" Sakakibara stuttered, a look of pity on his face. She nodded, wiping her tears.

"Just give me until tomorrow, if you wake up and still remember me, you can kill me", she answered, trying to look like she didn't care if she died. Now it was their turn to nod.

"We trust you, Akazawa-san", Misaki said, as coldly as usual.

Suddenly the door opened and Reiko came into the room. Izumi looked at her with wide eyes as a memory flashed by in her mind.

The two of them sitting at the riverbank, talking about Reiko's newborn nephew.

"He's around this tall…" Reiko said, holding up a small branch, a few decimeters tall. "… And his name is Kouichi."

She sighed and gave Reiko one last look. She'd really grown, she looked so mature now. Izumi was glad that she'd been able to keep on living after she'd lost so many people close to her, and she hoped that she would live a long life. That she would be able to live for both of them.

"I think I should go now", she said, waving at her friends one last time. "Bye…"

"Bye…"

~Later that night~

The pain from the knife stabbing her was terrible and she screamed in pain as blood flooded out of her mouth.

"Izumi!" And running steps was the last thing she heard before everything got black and silent. 'It doesn't hurt anymore…' She thought as a sharp light suddenly appeared in her darkness. She made her way towards the light and after a while she could see that it was a door. She slowly opened the door and on the other side she found Naoya, waiting for her. As he saw her he gave off a big smile and she couldn't help but return it.

"I've been waiting for you", he said happily and hugged her tightly. She hugged him back and once again she started to cry, but this time it wasn't tears of sorrow… it was tears of happiness.

So... That was the last chapter! What did you think? I actually thought it was kinda good, and since I'm such a negative person that's a really good rating... :D

R&R