Kish breathed in, taking in large gasps of air. A loud, high-pitched scream sounded behind him, Kish looked and saw a little girl, who he recognised at once. Chie, another horned experiment and Anju's best friend, they had met at the research labs where she met Hanyuu.
She was slightly smaller than Anju, with short shoulder length blonde hair, bright violet eyes, Kish had always found Chie's eyes to be both beautiful and disturbing at the same time, since they appeared to have no pupil or sclera, just completely violet coloured. And of course she had a pair of small horns growing out of either side of her skull and she wore a pain white dress like Anju.
Chie was shaking and staring wide eyed around at the blood and bodies. She then noticed her friend on the floor next to Kish and ran over to her.
"Anju-chan?! Are you hurt nyuu?! Wake up!" She cried shaking Anju.
"…Anju…?" Kish questioned softly lost in his own thoughts. That was Nemuri, wasn't it?
Chie noticed the weapons in Kish's hands with the blood on them, and Anju not moving, and put the two together. She jumped up and back away terrified.
"YOU MURDERER!!!!!!" Chie screamed at him and flew out of the open window as fast as she could crying. Kish stared after her, he wasn't sure what confused him more, the fact that Chie knew about Nemuri, or that she said that was Anju he had just killed. He looked down at the little body on the floor, and at the blood on his hands.
The feeling of realisation swept over him like a sickening wave, his eyes widen in fear and shock.
"No…" Kish whispered slowly kneeling down next to her and gently shaking her, he winced as her felt how cold her body was. "… Anju I'm sorry! Please wake up! I'm so sorry!" he cried holding her to himself.
A bright light filled the room blinding him momentarily, when it disappeared Kish found himself alone in Ichigo's bedroom, no bodies of Ichigo, Pai or Anju and no blood on the floor. It was like nothing had happened. According to the pink calendar hanging on the wall it was Tuesday, it had been Friday a moment ago.
"Have I gone back in time again?" he questioned softly still very upset and confused. The door to the room opened and Ichigo ran through the door to Kish.
"Are you alright?" She asked him looking concerned, Kish stood up shakily nodding.
"I think so" he replied and pulled the cat girl towards him. "I'm so glad your ok though"
"Kish we need to find out what's going on, and we need to know what Nemuri is, Anju knows but why won't she say anything?" Ichigo said hugging him back, gently nuzzling into his neck.
"I don't know, but I think she's always know this hasn't just happened, I think its been happening for a long time" Kish replied against her hair.
"And Hanyuu knows too" Ichigo said while in thought.
"Huh?" Kish asked a little confused pulling back a bit.
"Remember when I agreed to helping you guys? Hanyuu came in and told me about the time travailing, when she was here she told me something else too, I didn't really think much about it before but now… I'm sure she knows what happening"
"What did she say?" Kish asked
"Hanyuu said that she hears the real Nemuri screaming" Ichigo said staring into his eyes "Kish you said that Anju screams in her sleep, right?" She asked
"Yes" Kish replied confirming her information
"Both Anju and Hanyuu seem somehow connected to Nemuri, and I think something really bad happened to Nemuri and they can feel it"
"Ok, lets go find Hanyuu, she's probably going to tell us more than Anju would…" Kish muttered, the real reason he didn't want to go find Anju was because he couldn't bare seeing her after what he had done to her, he was also convinced she would hate him. He began breathing unsteadily as if he was going to cry, trying his best to keep the tears back.
"Kish? Are you ok?" Ichigo asked placing a hand on his shoulder, he turned away from her nodding slightly..
"Yeah" He managed to say without sounding too emotional. Kish grabbed onto Ichigo's shoulder and teleported them both to café Mew mew.
Ichigo cringed a little as the spinning colours made her feel a little sick and the inside of the building came into view.
"There you are!" Ryou exclaimed
"Thank goodness your alright" Lettuce smiled relieved "It was all so horrible!" she wailed as Pai and Tart teleported into the café.
"We talked to Hanyuu but she seems to be worried about telling us what's going on" Pai said "Also when we were younger she told me that something bad would happen if Deep blue ever could control Nemuri's powers"
"Don't tell people about that Pai" Hanyuu muttered teleported behind him.
"Alright na no da! We know you know what's going on na no da!" Pudding squealed jumping right in front of the red haired horned alien and landed on a table.
"I won't tell you because your get hurt" She answered simply, crossing her arms. "My onee-chan was killed because she told people"
"What? You said she died of cancer!" Tart yelled annoyed
"Well I lied" Hanyuu snarled back at him, everyone could tell they were about to fight.
"You old hag! Why didn't you say so?!" the young alien boy growled leaping at her, only to be caught be Pai who held him by the back of his shirt.
"Quiet Tart!" Pai growled, Tart huffed and glared at him.
"Hanyuu what did they do to your sister?" Ichigo asked
"When she found out about Nemuri she was going to tell everyone, so Deep blue had her killed, then when I escaped I was going to tell Pai so he tried to kill me… and he…."Hanyuu started sobbing with her hair covering her eyes
"Hanyuu onee-chan…" Pudding murmured reaching out to hug her, but Hanyuu glowed turquoise and wings grew out of her back and she flew out the door and up into the open sky.
She just wanted to get as far away from everyone as possible, she flew through the forest, easily avoiding trees coming to a small clearing. She landed on the ground panting heavily, pain shot through her chest.
"Shit" She gasped feeling blood working its way up her throat sending her into a coughing fit. Slowly sliding to the ground, lying against the soft moist grass. Coughing up more blood, the dark red liquid ran down her face staining the ground. Her eyes began to feel heavy as she dosed off feeling completely exhausted.
Hanyuu took her time waking up, since she was so comfortable resting against something nice and warm.
Her bright blood red coloured eyes slowly opened as she realized she was leaning on someone. Her keen sense of smell told her who this was. Pai. After a few more moments she worked out that he was sitting on the ground leaning against something with his arm around her. Her first though about the situation was on how warm he was.
'Everyone always says he's cold and unfeeling, but he's not, he's warm' she thought smiling to herself somewhat deliriously
Pai looked down at his friend, who was slightly beginning to wake up, though he wouldn't show it, he felt rather uncomfortable in this situation. He wasn't social and the very few 'friends' he had were more work colleagues, also he never had much experience around females. He was still a bit amazed at how much she had physically changed from when they were children, she was probably shocked when she first saw him again too, but just didn't show it. Maybe it was because all of this time he had thought her to be dead, for seven long years he had been told that his best friend was dead.
Hanyuu opened her eyes and slowly sat up a little more, so she wasn't leaning so much on him.
"Are you alright?" Pai asked
"Yeah, I think so" Hanyuu mumbled rubbing her eyes. "Pai-chan do you know what Anju is?" she asked looking straight into his eyes.
"No" he replied truthfully. Hanyuu stood up and took a few steps away from him.
"Can you please tell me? I doubt we can stop everyone dieing and being sent back in time if we do not know what is happening" Pai asked
"The real Nemuri is sort of dead, well she isn't actually dead but its like she's sleeping, and the other Nemuri is apart of her and…" Hanyuu tried to explain
"Can you just explain this a little more clearly?"
"Ok Nemuri was captured about one hundred years ago when her people's space ship accidentally crashed into our planet, the people there at the time thought she was a demon and burnt her, some time later Deep blue realised that she had great magical powers and if he had them, he could do anything and he kept her in a prison, she was already badly hurt, but she didn't die. He couldn't simply take her powers so he began experimenting on other people trying to create people like her so he could make an army whenever he was questioned about his research he just said it was to get the Earth back. Seven years ago he discovered a spell that would allow him to take over other's bodies, before he could use this Nemuri managed to use magic and a part of her soul to create another her, she gave that life all of her powers and implanted it into Kish's mother, who later gave birth to the second Nemuri, when she was two years old that Nemuri created Anju to live life as a simple child"
"So Nemuri split in two, creating another her and sent that away to hide her powers from Deep blue?" Pai asked trying to take this all in.
"Yes, the only problem is now Deep blue knows about Anju, eventuality, no matter what we do he will get her and reunite her with Nemuri, kill them and take her powers"
"So what can we do?" he asked
"The only thing me and Anju can think of is reuniting them ourselves and letting Nemuri kill Deep blue"
"Why don't we just do that? And why didn't you tell us about this sooner?"
"If the two Nemuri's and joined together again, there won't be any need for Anju and she'll disappear"
"Anju will die?"
"No she can't die, she isn't a real soul, she'll just simply disappear, gone forever" Hanyuu told him, she looked like she was about to start crying again.
Kish flew towards the playground at the park, where he guessed Anju would be, he didn't care if she hated him now, he at least wanted to apologise. He landed a behind some trees.
She was sitting on the swings, cradling the cat toy to her while gently stroking its head, and she was singing. Kish couldn't tell who it was, it sounded like both Nemuri and Anju. But he just hid for a while listening to the song.
'The whole world was at a complete standstill
And I was in fetters at the mercy of the god
The silent warning became louder everyday
Then I kept pretending not to hear
It's meaning had been in the eyes of the beholder all along
It had grown dark before I had found a sign
Among the nonsense tragedies, what on earth are you looking for?
You only have to be honest to yourself and your own fate
Tell me why or why not, complaining way too much
Maybe I overlooked something fatal for me'
She seemed to finish and looked up and in his direction, before smiling.
"Hiya nii-nii!" Anju called waving, Kish didn't move, what? Why was she so happy? Shouldn't she hate him? "Come over here nii-nii!"
He did as he was told and sat on the swing next to her, staring at the ground, refusing to look at her.
"Hey what's wrong nii-nii? Do you have a tummy ache?" Anju asked looking concerned
"Don't you hate me?" he asked, so quiet she could hardly hear while trying not to break down crying.
"Can't hate you, I love you cause you're my big brother" Anju said simply while grinning at him.
"Why?" Kish asked sadly, Anju continued smiling and floating over to him
"I love you silly!" she laughed patting him on the head. After not getting an answer from him she read his mind and found out what he was so upset about. "Oh your thinkin' about that, I'm not angry at you nii-nii, cause whatever you do I always love you ni ba!" She grinned climbing onto his lap and rubbing her face against his. "Hey you smell like cake! Yummy! I think you hang around that café way too much heehee"
Kish wrapped his arms around her hugging her tightly as a few tears rolled down his face.
"I'm so sorry Anju" He mumered against her hair.
"Doesn't matter nii-nii, cause we're all alive and good, and I told those nice FBI guys that Aoyama-chan is a terrorist and now he's one of Japan's most wanted ni ba, teeheehee" Anju giggled cutely, Kish smirked down at her.
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"Uh, first being tied to a chair with a potty over my head, and then getting killed by that girl… all of this is just too much to take…" Aoyama moaned walking down the street on his way home, when a FBI van pulled up near him and a group of men jumped out holding guns.
"There he is men!" one yelled
"OH CRAP! NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!" Aoyama screamed running away as fast as he could.
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"Ooh, you're a devilsh little thing, aren't you?" Kish smirked at her, she nodded.
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Aoyama ran past them and a few moments later the FBI van sped past after him.
"So nii-nii are ya still all sadie? Cause I'm really not angry" Anju asked, with her arms around his neck and her face against his shoulder "I really love you nii-nii" she said smiling, but still thinking about what the real Nemuri had said to her once.
'Who would love me enough to be willing to throw away their own precious life? If someone would drown and die in the sea for my sake, then I would be free of this eternal sleep and return to life. But if one day I was revived, using the life of the one who gave me the most important thing, at that time I will cry alone. Even if my heart beats again, of what use will it be? It won't bring back the one I loved from the bottom of the sea'
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Cybil kitty- Yes, PLEASE REIVEW!!!!! And please tell me what you think should happen! WUV YA!