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Chapter 4: The Truth
"What do you mean...me?" I ask in confusion. She gives me an obvious look. She knew I understood what she said, but I just didn't understand it..not at all. Why would he be looking for me? I am of no importance to him. I know that much. If I was, he would treat me with more respect for one! And, wouldn't he have told me?
"You are a very important person to Dark." She tells me smirking. This shocked me. Wasn't I just saying to myself that I wasn't important to him at all? She must be insane to think I am important to Dark...right? "You seem so shocked. You can't remember anything about what happened in your past?" My past? I look at her in question. I want to know everything. She sighs and then sits down on the ground. I then noticed we were in a park, when did this happen?
"Can you tell me? Everything?" I ask her in hope. She looks at me and gives me a small smile and nods. I feel my heart starting to fill up. Why do I feel like I'm really close with Yuki-chan, like much closer than I am with Nana-chan? "Wait, Yuki-chan, please tell me my relationship with everyone first!"
"That comes with the rest of the story." She tells me tilting her head to one side. "Should I start now?" I nod. She sits there for a moment and closes her eyes. She sighs and opens her eyes again and then she started from the very beginning.
"Well, when I was young, like I was four I guess, you were born. Dark and Krad are two years younger than me and Nana-chan. Me, Dark, and Krad used to be really close, but yeah, that's family stuff. Maybe I'll tell you about that later when it's actually apart of the story. So, when you were born, we all felt this...connection to you. Your parents found it really weird how we were all just always wanting to be around you. Nana-chan didn't really care either way, she just came along because me, Krad, and Dark always came to see you.
"So once when we got back from one of our visits when I was about...sixteen, Dark realized something. And you know, he would've only been about fourteen at that point. But back then, we didn't know what we were. We thought we were normal humans like the rest of our dimension..but were we ever wrong. Dark was the first one to make a connection with you, one that could never be broken. He made a love connection." Yuki-chan was saying until I gasp. A love connection? As in...he's in love with me? Am I in love with him?
"So me and Dark are...lovers?" I ask in confusion. Yuki-chan looks at me for a moment and then nods. "That's not possible."
"I know, it's hard to believe by the way he's been acting with you isn't is?" She says to me knowing. I nod. She then gives me a sympathetic look. "Let me tell you the rest of the story and you'll understand why." I look at her and look down. She sighs and then continues. "Alright, so he made the connection with you, and in our dimension if you can make that connection there is never a way you can break it. Dark was afraid of it, you know Dark, even now, he's still a total ladies man. She he forgot about it completely, until he turned eighteen.
"Now we get to our present ages. When I turned twenty, you and I formed a bond. You knew about the bond before I did, so when you approached me, I was shocked. We hadn't spoken in four years, we hadn't even come to see you." She was telling me until I cut her off.
"Why did you stop coming to see me?" I ask in confusion.
She gives me a look of shame. "Nana-chan...told us something about you. It turned out to be a lie. But, let's not get into that, that time we found out...it was very painful for you."
I understood. I wonder how close I was with them before they left.. "So you came up to me and you asked me to be friends with you again. I was reluctant, but then we made a bet. You told me that if you could get Dark to ask you on a date, I would have to consider being your friend. And since I knew why we stopped talking to you, I agreed to it not thinking Dark would be stupid enough to ask someone like you out. Not in a bad way, but Dark went after the...sluts. So when he asked you out, I was shocked out of my mind.
"Since we made the bet, I couldn't just back out of it. So I took the chance. At this point I had a boyfriend, his name is Kyo-kun, and he actually encouraged me to become friends with you. Like he knew something I didn't. So before I realized it, we were best friends, and we grew really close. You and Dark only ever went on one date back then. That year...something happened to all of us. Everyone in our dimension, we didn't know, they were all phantoms, and angels.
"But when we went to a dimension meeting about it we were all told that it had stopped after the last Angel of Light died. That it started with the four of us, was really abnormal. What was even weirder, was that everyone of our decade stopped aging. At whatever age we were. Now people in our dimension can control when they stop aging, everyone except the people in our decade can stop growing when they're older, or younger. But no one knew, no one knew anything about why this was happening again." She tells me sighing.
"So do you know now?" I ask in thought.
"Of course we know now, I'm not done the story yet.." She tells me chuckling at me. I nod waiting for her to continue. This is just getting more and more interesting.
"Alright, so everyone but you turned into...phantoms or angels, it really worried everyone. They didn't understand why you didn't into an angel like you were supposed to. But then, you grandmother told us that the Angel of Light that died before wasn't really an angel. She was more a...human with psychic abilities that could control all elements. That was when everyone realize that you were the Angel of Light. Do you know the name you were born with?" She says in wonder.
"Kari..." I say obviously.
"No, I mean your full name." She tells me hopefully. I think for a moment, trying to remember anything I could of the past, but I still couldn't remember anything. It was really starting to upset me, I wanted to know. And I wanted to remember. I shake my head feeling the tears coming to my eyes. "It is Hikari."
I pause for a moment. Hikari? As in...light? I wonder if my real parents knew about me being this...Angel of Light before I was born. "So my name means light. Why does that make me the Angel of Light?"
"Because, you're her reincarnation." Yuki-chan tells me brightly. I couldn't believe it. My mind was racing. Why can't I remember any of this! "When we found out about this, it turned out you knew you already were. But you didn't realize that our whole world would transform so drastically. Dark was in denial that anything had happened to him. He didn't want to be a phantom thief...at first. Until he got talking to you. When you told him how much you wished you could be one instead of just doing nothing.
"That was the turning point of your relationship, when Dark actually started accepting that you two were in love and that nothing was going to change that. The problem was..Nana-chan. You see, we're not completely related. Our parents adopted Krad and Dark when they were young, and Nana-chan was in love with him, and she wanted him for herself. Not that any of that has changed. So that was when mine and Nana-chan's relationship started to fall apart. See we have this other friend, you know her, Saki-chan? Yes, she is also from our dimension and she was sent here with you to protect you from...others. Like Nana-chan.
"So Saki-chan and Krad are together, if you didn't know that. And they've been here watching over you, when they found you that is. But back before you came to this dimension. Nana-chan started telling Dark and Krad things about me that weren't true, like that I was trying to kill you which obviously is not true because you're my best friend. And Nana-chan has been manipulating you this whole time. She's really just a manipulative little bitch. So as you and Dark grew closer, Nana-chan got even more jealous. She actually tried to kill you a couple times, but failed.
"About 100 years after that, you and Dark got married. Yes, you looked the way you two do now when you got married, and then you guys had a kid." Yuki-chan tells me in thought.
"Ryu-chan." I say to myself in shock. Yuki-chan looks at me in shock.
"You remember?" She asks me in question. Her eyes seemed to be burning with hope that I remembered something. To be honest, I knew that he was somehow connected to me when I saw him, but I didn't realize he was my...child.
"I thought I knew him from somewhere. I didn't realize that he was connected to me in that way, but I knew that I knew him before." I tell her knowing.
She smiles to herself. "At least we're getting somewhere." She says knowing. But I knew the rest of this story. The mother that left her child and husband alone, was me.
"Why did I leave?" I ask her, tears rolling down my cheeks. Yuki-chan stares at me in shock. She looks at me sorrily and then takes one of my hands.
"Me and you discussed this. You never told me a reason why you had to go, you said you just had to. And you told me to take care of Ryu-chan and Dark, which I had been doing until Nana-chan rudely cut in saying she had found you. Which turned out to be a total lie considering that I was the only one who knew where you were. And Saki-chan of course. The only reason Krad found out was because he followed Saki-chan one say, and saw you. We were both in shit after that happened." She tells me remembering.
I couldn't believe I would do something like that. I didn't tell anyone why I left? Well, that doesn't sound like me at all... I usually always tell someone why I'm going somewhere, especially if it's just to get away from something. "Nana-chan told me it was because I found some way to live here as humans with our own bodies." I say in confusion.
Yuki-chan begins laughing hysterically. I didn't understand why. I didn't see anything about it. "Kari-chan, you're not even living here as a human." She tells me obviously. I stare at her in confusion. Am I also taking over someone's body without realizing? "If you were sharing a body with a human, they would die." She tells me looking down.
"Why?" I ask in confusion.
"Because your power would overthrow theirs. The body would also start to disintegrate, there's no way you could ever live in a human body, or any of us for that matter. Krad and Dark are only sharing the bodies. The human would die if they took over their bodies, and then the body would probably die." Yuki-chan tells me knowing.
We both sit across from each other in thought. It was late, I didn't realize how long I was out here for. What am I supposed to do now? Am I supposed to just...never talk about this? Act like I still don't know? But I still don't know why I'm being protected. Why is it that everyone is avoiding that? Is it really that bad?
"Yuki-chan, why am I being protected here?" I ask. "I mean, if I could protect myself?"
"Kari-chan, I...sort of, I dunno suppressed your memories before you came here so you wouldn't remember. It was easy, the people you live with, their daughter had passed away without them knowing, so we made them believe you were their daughter. And you believe they were your parents. This life here, this is all fake, you've probably known that for some time though.. So since you don't remember anything there is no way you could protect yourself because you don't know a thing about your powers." Yuki-chan tells me still avoiding the first question.
I look at her for a moment waiting. But she only smiles at me innocently and turns away. I give her a look and she finally gives in. "Before you left, you were...sort of seeing premonitions of the future a lot. And you saw your children and that they'd suffer here, that everyone would be suffering here. So you left to see if we could go anywhere else, that would be better for the time being, until you could take over our dimension again. You've been living here for...about ten years. I lost contact with you after three months. Our ruler now has been..trying to get rid of you and your bloodline for a while.
"She almost killed you once, because she took Ryu-chan and you were desperate to get him back. After that, you and Dark had a fight. And you decided it would be best if you left, and come back when the time was right to take over. Ever since then, he's been sending his people here to kill you. Nana-chan is one of those people." Yuki-chan tells me worriedly.
"So, the person who attacked me today wasn't you, it was really Nana-chan?" I ask trying to clarify. She nods. And I believed her instantly. Something about her blue eyes made me believe her with my whole body. "So Nana-chan is trying to kill me and that's why she's been trying to get closer to me?"
"Krad was really worried when she showed up. He saw her a few days before, but he didn't realize she had found out about you being here. Dark..is stupid and doesn't realize." Yuki-chan tells me sighing.
"Is there any way to get my memories back?" I ask hopefully.
"Do you really want them?" She asks me in shock.
I look at her and nod. I want to know everything. I want to remember my past, I want to be able to remember my family, and friends, and my world.