Chapter 12: Complicated Situation

Authors Note: Finally, after almost 4 months without updating, here's another chapter:-) Thank you guys for all your support, this is my most successful story yet. I hope you like the chapter!

Disclaimer: I have no rights to Full Moon Wo Sagashite the manga, the anime, or the dub. The previous are owned by various companies. The manga was written by Arina Tanemura.

Mitsuki woke up to sunshine pushing on her eyes, willing her to wake up. Feeling well-rested and quite refreshed, she opened them and took a deep breath. In a moment memories of her dream hit her, and she closed them, to try to ward the memories away. She wasn't in love with Takuto was she? No, she definitely wasn't.

Where is Takuto anyway? Mitsuki wondered. She stood up and stretched; relieved to no longer fell any throbbing pain in her head. Neither of the shinigami were in sight. Maybe it was for the best; Mitsuki wasn't sure how she could to Takuto right now anyway.

Stepping in front of the mirror, she was glad to see that she looked fine, expect for maybe a tad pale. Her brown hair was perfectly in place….Wait…brown hair?? No wonder she felt so much better! She had turned back in Mitsuki!!

She closed her eyes, insisting to herself when she opened them she'd be Full Moon again. But nope…she had definitely changed back "How did this happen? Why did this happen?" She asked desperately to her reflection.

This was bad. No worse then bad. Horrible. Full Moon didn't have any permission to leave, and now a strange girl was in her room? Not to mention Takuto and Meroko had somehow disappeared. She leaned against the wall, depressed. Her secret…she had preserved it so well…

"Having trouble?" Mitsuki flipped around. It was…it was that person from last night! In the light of day she could see him better. He leaned against the wall, his arms folded. He had blonde hair, which was covered in…a dog ear hat? It looked rather odd. The ghost was there too, floating around in an un-ending circle.

"Who are you?" She asked nervously. She had enough problems, she didn't need any more.

"My name is Izumi Rio, shinigami." That wasn't too surprising, Mitsuki thought. The odd hat had made it fairly obvious not to mention she could see wings peaking up behind his shirt. "This is my partner, Jonathon." Izumi's voice seemed to carry very dry emotion, as if life held only vague interest, as if he wasn't really giving any effort.

"What do you want with me?" Mitsuki demanded. She didn't have time for this. Any second now someone would surely come in and check on her…She pushed away panic.

Izumi ignored the question. "You're fated to die in a year, correct?"

"W…Why does that matter?"

"Because in case you hadn't noticed, your time is slowly slinking away from you."

Jonathon started circling the other way.

"What are you talking about? I still have lots of time, I mean, don't I?"

Izumi shrugged. "Maybe. But what can you really get accomplished? Besides, you secret is about to get blown. Why not just end it now? Just say the word…."

"NO!" Mitsuki yelled. "Unlike you, I'm not just going to give up on life!"

"Too bad. I'm not taking no for a answer." Izumi grabbed Mitsuki's wrists. She screamed. "Let go! Let go!" She tried to kick him away, but it didn't work.

There was knock on the door. Izumi froze, though he didn't loosen his grip.

This might be my only chance… People discovering me is better then where I am right now. I'm not ready to leave this world just yet… Mitsuki thought.

Taking advantage of the confusion, Mitsuki kicked Izumi hard and broke free of his grasp. Then as loudly and as she could she yelled, "Actually, I'm having a problem. Do you think you could help me?"

There was a pause. Would the nurse buy it? She probably sounded different as Mitsuki…

"Ok, let me find they key and I'll be in there a minute, alright Full Moon-sama?"

Meanwhile, Izumi had recovered and was heading after Mitsuki again, trying to corner her. But Mitsuki was faster, jumping up onto the bed and heading across the room in different directions, trying to confuse him.

But she couldn't hold this up very long, she was Mitsuki now and her throat was burning, her breath coming out so fast she was surprised she was breathing at all. The nurse was still fumbling for the key outside.

Just hold on a little longer…Mitsuki told herself. She was relieved the room was so large or the plan wouldn't have worked at all. Just…keep…that was it, she couldn't keep it up any longer. Collapsing, she leaned against a wall, clutching it to keep herself up.

Izumi laughed. "I wasn't really trying you know. You were just wasting your time. I thought you said you weren't ready to give up on life? By running away, you're just hurting yourself." He pinned her to the wall, but she had no way to fight back, she was too weak. She just kept wheezing, trying to regain her breath.

The door clicked. Yes, it was about to be open!

In the next few seconds, so many events happened simultaneously that if you blinked you would surely miss them. First, the door opened and the nurse saw Mitsuki, and looked very confused. The next moment, Mitsuki screamed again and Takuto burst through the wall, taking Izumi by surprise, punching him and sending him down the ground. Finally, Meroko came and knocked the memory out of the nurse.

In shock, Mitsuki clutched the wall again as her breathing began to return to normal. "I...thought…you…guys…had…forgotten…about….me!" Mitsuki exclaimed, taking long breaths in-between each word.

Meroko and Takuto exchanged a look, a look that held something Mitsuki didn't understand. A secret was there. Meroko shook her head. "We had…to do something. But we would never let something happened to you. You know that." Takuto seemed to be blushing slightly as he agreed, muttering, "yeah."

Mitsuki smiled, and nodded in a relieved sort of way. "I know."

Izumi stood up, a fiery emotion in his eyes. "Don't interfere with FATE! I'm sure the boss would LOVE to hear about what you're doing here."

Takuto rounded on him, all since of embarrassment gone. "Fine! Go! I don't CARE!"

Scowling, Izumi turned around and stalked off. Jonathon followed, taunting them as he left. "You're in trouble now…."

Mitsuki was so touched she wanted to cry. "Thank you so much!" she said, running forward and hugging Takuto. All worries of the dream had faded.

Takuto blushed even harder then the last time Mitsuki had hugged him. He didn't push her away, didn't hug back, didn't do anything, just stood here.

Mitsuki broke free of his embrace. She was blushing a little herself. Had she overdone it? But Takuto still wasn't saying anything. "Takuto?" she asked nervously.

"I…I better turn you back in Full Moon before the nurse wakes up." He sounded nervous too, but he wouldn't have admitted it for the world.

"R..right."

Takuto snapped his fingers, and she changed. As Full Moon, Mitsuki had a slight headache from all that had went on, but the panging in her throat was nonexistent, and she was relieved for that.

She leaned over the nurse and tapped her on the shoulder. "Is she going to be ok?" she asked Meroko, who hadn't said anything for awhile. Meroko nodded "Yeah, she's just knocked out…she should wake up any-"

"H..hello?" The nurse stood up and clutched her forehead. "What happened?" Mitsuki looked at Takuto, mouthing "What should I say?"

When he shrugged, she turned to the nurse again, and in the most believable voice she could muster said, "Well, I'm not sure, you came in here and…just…fainted!"

The story was stupid, but hey, what else could she think of in like 5 seconds? Takuto shook his head wildly at Mitsuki mouthing "NO…THAT WAS STUPID…"

Somehow though, the nurse believed her. "Whoa…weird. Anyway, Full Moon, I'm supposed to let you know that you can go home now."

"Thanks you." Mitsuki signed the checklist, confirming she was leaving. The lady left, still a little shaken but otherwise alright. She warned Mitsuki that there was a lot of press outside.

Mitsuki closed her eyes for a moment, trying to process everything that had just happened.

Takuto floated over to her. "Are…are you alright Mitsuki?"

Mitsuki smiled. "Yes, I'm fine. Let's just….go home, alright?"

"Ok."

Authors Note: What did you think? Be sure to leave a review and let me know. The next chapter will (hopefully) be a little kind of Christmas-in-July thing! Well…you'll see. :-) I'll try to get to when I can, I have other things to write too. I promise it will here by Christmas though.