A/N: Okay, quick note, and please READ THIS! A quick word about Seiji, his personality is kinda a really over-dramatic, easy-going and arrogant guy who tons of people easily fall in love with. That's all I wanted to say, onto the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Trust me, if I owned DN Angel, the manga would have been completed by now, and not dragging on for over 10 years...
Chapter 11: A Chapter I Don't know what to Name
Satoshi's POV:
There must be some other way that I can be able to break this stupid curse! I thought to myself, as I knocked some of the books I was reading off of my desk.
I closed my eyes and covered them with my hands in frustration, and in the process, slid my glasses from my face to above my forehead. And I felt myself groan, I guess this was going to be harder than I had originally thought.
None of this research was working, and I wasn't getting any closer to finding anything that would be able to help me... I sorta felt like I was just wasting my time with all of this. But, if there was going to be a chance that I would be able to find some sort of alternate way, or by some sort of magical formation I could create, I might be able to be rid of Krad. And I didn't care how much time I could waste, if I eventually found an answer.
"In such a rush to be done with me, are you Master Satoshi?"
"Shut up!" I yelled out loud, thank god I was in my own apartment, or I would have probably lost it in front of tons of people. And that could never look good.
"Why should I? Besides, if you chose to be so rude to me, what could stop me from treating you the same?" He teased, and god why did he have to act like that every time that he talked to me? It was just god damn annoying, and it wasn't getting any more pleasant with the passing years...
"Besides, why are you doing all of this all of a sudden? It's not like you have been taking measures like this for the past few years... why now?"
Why now? That was actually a good question, one of the best ones he has ever asked me before, mostly because I actually had to think about the answer. What caused me to suddenly rip through page after page of numerous ancient books, just to be rid of something that I have already dealt with for years? True, I had always wanted to be free of Krad, but I have never taken such drastic measures before. All I used to do was just hope, that one day, the answer would just come to me, or by some miracle I would just awake, and the Hikari curse would have vanished, as if it never happened.
But no, that was all just wishful thinking, and this was reality. Research was the only alternative now, no matter how much I despised it.
Perhaps I was doing this all of a sudden just because I had finally realized the truth, that I had to work hard to achieve this impossible goal. But still, what was the cause that made me open my eyes to this? I couldn't it figure it out.
"Would it have anything to do with that hollow promise that you made with that girl the other day?"
"I said shut up!" I yelled at him without a moment to hesitate. And being surprisingly obedient, he left my mind. But now, I had time to ponder on what he had just suggested. My hollow promise? What on earth did he mean by that?
Uh, this was going to be a long night...
Shizuku's POV:
I flopped down onto my plain, but still comforting bed, feeling the essence of relief rush through me the second my head hit the pillow.
Letting out a loud sigh, I removed my eyeglasses from my face, and placed them right side up on my bed stand. I knew that I would fall asleep soon, and I wouldn't want to be wearing my glasses when I slept. Trust me, it's not pleasant to wake up in the morning, only to be greeted by the feeling of something poking your head, or worse, you accidentally break them in your slumber. Been there, done that.
And trust me, I may have a habit of being unable to fall asleep, but tonight I was pretty tired. And why was I so damn tired? You can ask Seiji, he's the one that dragged me out to some completely random, and I quote, "day of fun".
If by any reason this sound lame to you, well, I'll just say for now that you've gotta brain somewhere up in your head. Because this was one of the most exhausting, yet utterly boring days that I've had in my life.
Wait, did I even change out of my school uniform yet? I didn't have much more time to think about it, because I was soon under the sweet sensation of unconsciousness.
...
"Hey, Suki! Come on, you're being too slow!" Seiji teased, and jogged away at a quicker pace than usual. I found myself laughing at his obvious smirk, and slightly struggled to keep up with him, but I seemed to be enjoying myself so much, that I just ignored the small knot that emerged in my stomache, and pushed myself to go even farther.
Damn, why did he have to be so fast? It seemed like every time I picked up my pace, he would double it and go even farther away. But I was still laughing, and for some bizarre reason, was actually enjoying this half version game of tag. Although, what seemed like several blocks later, I just couldn't run anymore. Seeing this,he slowed down, and stopped walking.
I found myself panting with a smile, although it kinda hurt to do so, I was still laughing hysterically. But suddenly, the world around me started to slowly dissolve, turning into a black abyss.
"What's going on?" I found myself asking, but turning around, and looking in various directions, I realized that Seiji wasn't there anymore.
"Hey, Shizuku..." I heard his voice echo through the nothingness. I still desperately looked around, hoping to see something other than the depressing black. Although I saw no light, I kept hearing him say my name over and over. And I was a little crossed between the emotions of being either scared, or just really annoyed, because it just sounded like a person was just calling your name over, and over, until you finally talked to them.
"I know it's pretty late..." I heard him say in the same tone. Late? Why, what time was it in this dream? "But I was wondering, by any chance..." He kept saying, and now I was totally creeped out... "If you were..."
"AWAKE!" I heard him yell, followed by a rough shove on my shoulder, as I woke up in my bed. And to what did I wake up yelling to?
Seiji standing over me, now with a slightly concerned look on his face.
"Oh my gosh Suki, were you having a nightmare?" He said sympathetically, as I slowly sat up on my bed, while rubbing my eyes in an attempt to fully wake up. And of course, he just had to sit down on the bed next to me, and started stroking my head, like I was some kinda dog.
"Yeah, I was having a bad dream..." I croaked out, although my voice hurt, like it always does when you just wake up. As I slowly laid my head on his chest.
"Really? What happened?" Okay, I was really pissed right now, he just woke me up, and he has the nerve to keep talking to me like this?
"Well, I was sleeping in bed..." I started to tell him, and he nodded his head in understanding, "And then, some psycho snuck into my house... and WOKE ME UP!" I yelled, right before pushing off the bed. And if he had half of a brain cell, I think he got the message.
"Sounds pretty bad..." He still teased, and I sudden thought just occurred to me.
"How did you even get in here?" I yelled at him, and now, I finally felt awake. "All the doors were locked, and I never gave you a key!"
"You're doors might have been locked, but not all your windows were..." He said sheepishly as he stood up from the floor, that's when I looked at my bedroom window. And what do you know, it actually was open, but this is the second floor of the house, how did he? You know what, I'm still exhausted... what time was it again?
"What do you want?" I asked him in an obviously annoyed voice, and if he was smart enough, he would start to get the hint that I wanted him to just leave me alone...
"Just wanted to talk, we haven't seen each other in a while!" Talk, wh-what? Does anyone understand his logic here?
"What time is it anyway?" I asked him while reaching for my glasses. There was an electric alarm clock on my table, but I wouldn't be able to actually see the time without the glasses. But just as soon as my fingers slightly grazed them, I had Seiji swipe them off the table and out of my reach. Shit, why can't he just go away?
"You won't really be needing these," He said, before placing them into an inner jacket pocket. "And I think it's about, I don't know... 4:00 in the morning?" He said calmly, like it was the middle of the day or something, instead of extremely early in the... I just you could call it morning if you wanted to.
"Why the hell!..." I started to yell as I attempted to jump out of the bed, just to kick him out. But as soon as I made the motion of standing up, I barely collapsed from fatigue, and actually started to faint. But I felt something catch me, well I guess that you should say, someone.
"Hey, you feeling alright?" I heard him say faintly, but all I was able to do was mumble in response.
Here's a lesson people, always make sure you get at least six hours of sleep, or else you'll barely be able to lift your finger. Although, I couldn't really think of a reason for me to feel this tired... I mean, it wasn't like I just ran a marathon or something.
I kept trying to speak, although all that came out was more moaning. And I felt myself being laid down once again, as Seiji pulled my covers over me. When I tried to sit back up, he push me back down, and put a hand on my forehead.
"Ouch!" He yelped in exaggeration, and hold his hand as if he had hurt it badly. "You're head's so hot, I think I burnt my hand!" And then he started waving his hand, as if to cool it down.
"Don't be such a drama queen..." I thought to myself, but I was started to feel my eyes close. Damn, why the hell am I so tired? It was like all the energy was suddenly gone. Not a fun feeling.
It was hard to actually stay awake, since the sweet relief of sleep seemed to just be calling me, drawing me closer to it every second... Until finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and I knew I just had to give in. But just before I blacked out, I swore I heard one last thing.
"Hm, maybe splashing all that cold water on you as a joke earlier wasn't a good idea..."
What seems like hours of dreamless sleep later...
beep... beep... beep... "Uh, what's that sound?" I thought to myself, as I lazily opened my eyes. And what did I see? Why, my annoying alarm clock of course, and the present time that flashed in red, over and over...
6:15, and trust me, I was very tempted to just hit that snooze button, or better yet, yank the power cable out of the wall... But I guess that school could prove benificial, and who knows, maybe I'll feel better as the day goes on.
I slowly mounted from my bed, blinking and rubbing my eyes several times, just so they could adjust to the lack of darkness.
"Although, technecally, darkness is a lack of light, not the other way around..." I muttered to myself, before realizing that it was too early to be arguing with myself about these stupid little things.
Slowly, and every so carefully, I changed my clothes into the required school uniform, which in my opinion was just a little too frilly for me.(1)
I took one more glance at the digital clock on my night stand, and almost gasped at the time that shone in red, lit up numbers. 7:23
Since when does it take me this long to get dressed? I thought to myself, as I realized that I would probably have to skip breakfast, and catch the morning trainin order to make it to school.
I groaned, because this morning, I was actually a little bit on the hungry side. Probably would be a good idea to grab some bread to take as lunch today...
As I walked down the stairs into the main room, which held both the living room and I kitchen, I started to believe that I was even more starving than I had origionally thought. Because for some reason, I was smelling some sort of food, although I knew that it was just a figment of my imagination. At least, I was pretty sure...
"Hey, guess who woke up?" I heard an all-familiar voice say from the kitchen, and guess who it was? If you guess my, not-so-billiant brother, than you would already know the competely obvious! and you would already have 5 times the more IQ points than he has. And you know what else? That smell of food wasn't any illusion, he was actually using my kitchen, but that wasn't what was really on my mind right now.
Uh... so hungry... Wait, no! Don't give into him! I yelled at myself, and headed straight for the door, deciding that I would just buy lunch if I was really that hungry.
"You feeling okay?" He asked from the kitchen. And it would probably be better to answer him than to have him stalking me all the way to school. Again. And the fact that I used the word 'again' just showed how screwed up my life can be.
"I'm fine..." I said, partly lying, although it didn't really matter.
"You want something to eat?"
"...No" I managed to croak out, despite the lingering hunger that seemed to eat away at me... I just couldn't give into it! I will not be weak! Avoiding eye contact I made it to the front door, and opened it without saying anything else.
"Oh, and Suki, one more thing..." Seiji said, and god, since when was my name Suki? How do you go from Shizuku to Suki? It just doesn't make any sense.
"What?" I yelled irritably at him, now making obvious eye contact. And now, I could see the actual smirk on his face. What was so funny?
"Today's Saturday..."
Seiji's POV:
I didn't even need to see the look on her face, I knew I had won. But, I also knew for a fact that she probably still had a fever, so why the hell would she be going to school in the first place? Did she even remember that I took her glasses?
Which come to think of it, I should really give back to her... Not that she seemed to notice.
She slammed the door shut, as she carelessly threw her school bag to the side and kicked off her brown school shoes.
"You want something to eat?" I asked her again, and received a confused look in return.
"Seiji, you realize that you already asked me that question less than a minute ago..."
"Oh..." I said, and realized this was a great opportunity to tease her, "You're not hungry? Too bad..."
"Well, I'm fine!" Suki yelled in a somewhat tired tone. I guess someone has low blood sugar this morning! And I knew what she needed to make her feel better...
"You sure?" Pushing it even further, trying to just get her to eat the dang food! I mean, it's not like I poisoned it or anything... And I was pretty sure my cooking was eatable without gagging...
"Would you just leave me alone?"
"Would you just eat some stupid food? I know you're starving!" Okay, a little unnecessary, but she is starting to drive me crazy! I may be a dude, but I can have mood swings too!
"So what if I'm starving? That doesn't mean I have to eat the crap you cooked!"
"CRAP?" Way over the line sis... No one insults my cooking skills except me! "IF YOU'RE SO SURE IT TASTES LIKE CRAP, THEN WHY DON'T YOU EAT SOME?"
"Because I don't want to get food poisoning, thank you very much!" She said matter-of-factly, before storming up the stairs to her room, man, what was her problem?
"That's it!" I yelled after her, although I couldn't really see her anymore. "You go to your room right now!"
"I AM in my room!" Was the last thing I heard before the door slammed. Hey, this was our first fight as a family! That means we are closer now, AND caring about each other! Score one for me and my supreme abilities to make stuff happen!
But still, I guess that she was pretty pissed right now, and still starving. One of the worst combinations of emotions that she could possibly be in. I should probably do something about that... Shouldn't I?
"Why did this have to be so hard?" I moaned to no one in particular, as I went back into the kitchen to retrieve the ramen noodles I had been making for her. I wasn't sure what kind of foods she would like, so I came to a conclusion. Everybody loves ramen noodles!
After finally discovering where she kept the bowls, I carefully filled two of them to the brim with my own cooking, which as you should know, I have tasted, and has a great flavor, thank you very much...
Now, if I could just get her to eat... I thought to myself, as I walked up the stairs leading to her room, or as I would like to call it right now, the cave of terror. Because honestly, I was really scared out of my mind to confront her in one of her bad moods... But I can't show that to her can I? That's a sign of weakness in her eyes.
Quietly opening the door, I sighed in relief at what I saw. Shizuku had already changed into some sort of baggy pjs, which just kinda looked like an oversized t-shirt and some cargo pants. She was propped in a sitting position on her bed with her eyes sealed shut, and a pair of headphones fastened securely around her ears. This was, she couldn't see or hear me!
I'm a ninja! I thought stupidly in my head, and slightly chuckled at my own stupidity. After all, it's always best to laugh at one's mistakes... So as you must tell, I laugh quite a lot.
As I was about to advance toward her with the two bowls of noodles, when I finally saw what she had placed on the bed... And how I almost felt myself explode, but then, she pick up on of the objects again, and placed it in her mouth. Because on her bed was...
An open bag of holiday colors M&MS.(2) I mean what the hell was she thinking? Eating candy instead of my own cooking? Don't get me wrong, candy is pretty awesome, but seriously? That was just so unhealthy for her to be eating that right now.
Her eyes were still closed, so she still didn't notice my presence, which was actually going to work to my advantage right now... As she popped yet another couple of red and green candies into her mouth, I quickly snatched the bag away from the bed, without even alerting Suki in the slightest. Maybe I really should be a ninja! Okay, enough of the stupid talk.
"You might want to give those back..." She said, and then opened her eyes just to glare ferociously at me.
"Who did you..." I started to question, "never mind..."
"Seiji... I'm really hungry." She finally grumbled, removing her headphones, and I could hear a faint melody emanating from them, kinda sounded like Hey Monday...
"Uh, oh yeah, that's why I came up here!" I yelped in realization, and handed her one of the bowls, and pulled up a chair which she had near her desk, positioning the chair opposite the bed so I would be facing her. And she had already started to eat hurriedly, like she hadn't had any decent food in weeks.
"So... Does it taste like crap now?" I asked stupidly, only to earn a sigh from her, and a small smile.
"Actually, I never really meant that, it was just the first thing I could think of to say."
"WHAT?" I yelled, almost spilling out the contents of my own bowl, sorry, but that was sort of startling for me. You just can't insult my cooking for no good reason! Okay, I guess this calls for payback... I thought in my mind and pondered at what I could do to get her really pissed.
Shizuku's POV:
Okay, I hadn't had a meal like that in who-knows-how long, and it actually felt pretty good to be eating a proper meal in the morning. Who knew?
And I found myself laughing silently at my idiotic discovery, but looking at Seiji, he didn't see to notice, and seemed like he was thinking about something deeply, oblivious to everything around him. Hmm, I wonder what he's thinking about...
All of a sudden, he looked like he had stopped thinking, and reached for my headphones, which were still on my bed, and probably still turned on due to the fact of my forgetfulness. Which by the way had been true, since he started listening to whatever song was now playing.
The power lines went out,
And I am all alone,
But I don't really care at all
Not answering my phone...
He started to sing which his eyes shut, but opened one just so that he could give me a mischievous look, and I understood exactly what he meant, and starting to sing along, since I had already memorized this song, since it was one of my favorites.
All the games you played
The promises you made
Couldn't finish what you started
Only darkness still remains
Lost sight...
Couldn't see...
When it was you and me
I felt so lost in the song, I failed to notice that Seiji had actually stopped singing as well, but I still didn't care...
Blow the candles out
Looks like a solo tonight
I'm beginning to see the light
Blow the candles out
Looks like a solo tonight
But I think I'll be alright...
It was a little silent after that, until he decided to break the silence by clearing his throat, and started to say something.
"Your singing suck you know, you were really off key."
"EXCUSE ME?" It was a really good thing my bowl was empty, because it fell to the floor with a clank, hopefully it didn't break.
"Yeah, and the music you listen to is pretty awful as well..." He said with a straight face, and trust me, if he was an inch closer, I would have rung his neck.
"It is not! What would you know anyway? I bet you listen to rap music, which is totally horrible in my opinion."
"What would make you think that I listen to rap?" He said, and oh, he sounded a bit angry! Little sister 2, Big brother 0.
"Then what do you listen to? Hannah Montana?" I asked teasingly, although I knew that he would never admit to that, even if it was true, which it probably wasn't.
"HEY!" He screamed, and literally jumped out of the seat, now standing up, and towering over me. "I just said that stuff to get back at you for saying my food was crap! Don't make this turn on me!" What? He was just joking? Talk about cruel...
"So, I'm not a bad singer?" I asked shyly, and only to receive a loud and full hearted laugh from him.
"How could you not be? You're related to me!"
"Wow? Humble much?"
"...Shut up." He said, now losing him smile ever so slightly. You know what? Maybe having an older brother won't be so bad...
(1): I'm sure all of you know what the uniform looks like by now, and the only reason Shizuku doesn't like it is because it has a skirt, but I totally love the outfit! As a matter of fact, I'm planing on buying a cosplay outfit for an upcoming event, and I'm thinking about buying the girls' school uniform from DN Angel! (one of the reasons I want to buy it is also because one of the voice actors form DN Angel, Greg Ayres, will be at the event! :3)
(2): I was eating a lot of these while typing this chapter, I think I might have a new cavity! Jk XD
A/N: ATTENTION! Okay, good, you're reading this, because this is kinda important... and is about the issue of me taking a long time to update. I apologize for this chapter, but it only took so long because I was really stuck, but I'm not anymore! And, the next chapter will begin the ACTUAL PLOT of the story! ^^ But, I need at least 3 reviews in order for me to post, and I'm serious this time, if I don't get 3 reviews for this chapter, I WILL NOT POST THE NEXT CHAPTER!
Shizuku: At least now you finally thought of a plot... This story was going no where, and what was all that stuff about the bonus chapter?
Me: Hey! I had a plot the whole time, but I needed stuff leading up to it, and forget you read that chapter! Please! I had that idea in my head ever since I started this story, and I'm very tempted to delete that chapter! It didn't happen in this story!
Shizuku: *reads draft of later chapters* OH my god NO! You really expect me to go through with this?
Me: You don't have a choice, now people, sorry this a/n is really long, but please REVIEW!