This is a chapter I wrote for my best friend and cheering section. (WHO COULD HAVE WRITTEN IT BETTER THAN I EVER COULD! XP) And the OC in this is one she made herself and I thought it would be nice to add him here for her. So, my dear sister, I love you dearly. And I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as she did when I shared it with her.
Henshin Master sighed as he watched the former Henshin Mistress, Ju Skyslayer, leave the world they had left her. She had begun to learn the lesson that she needed to know. He was sad and hopeful for her future. She could no longer be a Henshin Master. But he hoped that everything she had learned while being Henshin Mistress would help her on this new journey.
"Bittersweet isn't it?" AkaBlue asked.
"A little. So I am working with you today?" he asked turning the feed to another world.
"We're here too," Master Yellow said, standing next to AkaBlue. Ultra Princess behind him was watching a world intently.
"What are you watching so intently?" Henshin Master asked.
"NOTHING!" she said trying to close the window. But she was still new to the system that they were using. And the window grew bigger and not closed. Instead of watching a world, she watched a J-Pop idol singing from different universes as it cycled through the various versions of the same idol.
"Seriously?" Henshin Master asked seeing this. He was visibly annoyed by this which made Ultra Princess scared about what he was going to do next, but he just looked away from her for a minute.
"B-But she's really good..." she said as she finally got the right command to turn it off. Henshin Master sighed.
"Why do I have to work with these people?" he asked himself more than the room.
"Lucky I guess," Master Yellow said with a chuckle.
"Could be worse," AkaBlue said, looking at the young Ultra. You could almost see the red blushing cheeks.
"How?" Henshin Master asked, looking at him.
"AkaPink could be here too," he joked.
"You're right..." Henshin Master admitted. He sighed before he turned around and walked toward her. She was scared that he was going to hit her or do one of those Rider Kick things she had heard about from her brother. But all he did was put a hand on her shoulder. She jumped a little upon feeling how softly he had done it. She clearly thought she was going to get yelled at by this grump of an old man at least. So feeling him being so gentle was a shock. "I won't tell your parents about this." She looked even more shocked by this tone and his words. He sounded like a fatherly figure right now. AkaBlue, who had known him the longest, just smirked on the inside of his helmet.
"But this is a place where we focus on the multiverse we have sworn to protect. If I catch you doing anything but that here again I will make sure they know about it. Got it?" he asked.
"H-Hai...arigato," she stammered. She thought she got off lucky. But AkaBlue knew the truth. Henshin Master was always a bit of a mentor type. Ju was his last mentoree. And he thought he failed her. Seeing her starting to learn was the sweet part. But he was sad that HE wasn't the one that got it through to her in the end. That was the bitter part. And AkaBlue thought he had found his next mentoree in Ultra Princess.
"Now, we should focus on the matter at hand and not waste more time," Henshin Master said eyeing her closely.
Rain poured down overhead as an explosion happened. But Tsukasa didn't care he wasn't sure if he would ever care again. He stumbled over to a heap of clothes on the ground. He wasn't sure he wanted to see it. Then he heard coughs from the heap that made him rush to it undoing his henshin as he reached it. "I-I thought I lost you," Tsukasa said looking down at the face of Kaito Daiki.
"C-Can't get rid of me that easy," he said then coughed up a lot of blood. "On second thought." He coughed up more blood.
"Don't talk like that! You are going to make it Kaito," Tsukasa said going white. He thought he had lost him once already today and he wasn't going to lose him again. He summoned all the power he could and opened a portal to the Photo Studio. He wouldn't normally do something like that. Opening a portal and staying in that world...but this was one of the loves of his life and he would be damned if he didn't do everything in his power to save him.
"Oh my god!" Natsumi yelled seeing Kaito on the floor, blood all over him. She rushed to Tsukasa's side with the first aid kit. "I-I'm not sure we have enough supplies for this..." Natsumi said shaking at the site of Kaito now that she was closer.
"That's our Kaito. Nearly killing himself every other day," Tsukasa said helping Natsumi remove his slashed shirt. "Just to get the milk that one time." Kaito chuckled at that one. And then blood seemed to pour out his wound as they tried to clean him up.
"Don't move baka!" Natsumi said to Kaito.
"It's no good babe," he said looking into her eyes. He looked at peace for once. Tsukasa on his right and Natsumi on his left. Two of the loves of his short life. "I'm done for."
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY THAT!" Tsukasa yelled. At that Yusuke walked into the room. "About time you showed up. GO GET MORE SUPPLIES, KAITO'S HURT!"
"DON'T GO!" Kaito said. "Tsukasa...I want the...loves...of...my..." as he spoke he slowly lost consciousness. Until he was limp.
"Kaito?" Tsukasa asked squeezing him. "KAITO?" he asked again lightly shaking him. "KAITO?!" he screamed as tears formed in his eyes and Natsumi started to ball like a baby as they all realized he had died.
"This is weird," AkaBlue said looking at the scene with Tsukasa crying over the dead body of Kaito.
"What?" Henshin Master asked coming up to him.
"Kaito aka DiEnd just died in this world," he said.
"Tojitendo?" Master Yellow asked.
"No...going back a little in this feed of the world it looks like a Shocker plot," AkaBlue said.
"Shocker?" Ultra Princess asked.
"A group from the dawn of Kamen Rider. Never a good sign when they or Foundation X are involved. Going by this they were trying to gather DNA for something. From both DiEnd and Decade. And they may have gotten a portion of what they wanted," Henshin Master said looking over the footage. He was intently looking at the screen.
"They had Natsumi before too...they took some of her eggs...what are they planning?" he asked.
"Explains why they were so pissed," Master Yellow said as they watched the fight.
"Yes, even in normal worlds they would protect her with their lives. This one, however, they seem to be a romantic couple," Henshin Master said seeing other images from the world. Tsukasa and Kaito kissed while Natsumi set up a picnic, Yusuke and Kaito held hands while walking in the park, and finally, Natsumi passionately kissed each of her boys. Then Henshin Master watched the blow that killed him. "Keep an eye on this world—more specifically this experiment they are doing. I don't think they know about that part of this plot yet...I'll follow their journey," he said looking at them.
Tsukasa barely ate after the death of Kaito. And only when Natsumi was watching. She already felt like it was partly her fault that Kaito had rushed into that base. Or that it was her fault that he was so mad that he was blinded by rage. And Tsukasa couldn't let her see him not eating. That would be another thing that she was blaming herself for.
Tsukasa would just leave Yusuke and her in the Photo Studio as they went from world to world. Yusuke was trying to look after Natsumi while kicking himself for not protecting her that day. While he was out all he did was see Kaito. Out of the corner of his eye, in the middle of a crowd, and worst of all anytime he did something even remotely stupid he could hear his laugh.
None of this was helping. He thought that he was going mad with grief and loss. But he couldn't be like that around them. That was the real reason for his long absences. They thought he was mad at them or himself. But he wasn't mad at anyone he wasn't even depressed. He was just existing right now. Existing without Kaito.
"You look like you are lost," Tsukasa heard someone say.
"Have to know where you are in the first place to be lost," Tsukasa said simply. There was a chuckle as someone in a blue leather jacket sat across from him with a smile. Tsukasa thought he knew him. He couldn't place him right now but he was sure he had seen other versions of this man before.
"Very true. Makoto," he said holding out his hand.
"Fukami Makoto?" Tsukasa asked. Fukami Makoto was Kamen Rider Spector. Secondary Kamen Rider to Kamen Rider Ghost. He chuckled.
"He said you would know me," he said with a smile.
"Who said?" Tsukasa asked.
"I did Tsukasa," He heard the voice of Kaito. This caused him to jump up and look around. It sounded like he was far off and right next to him at the same time. He couldn't see him...but he could feel him.
"W-Where is he?" Tsukasa moaned. His normal bravado was a memory. He couldn't even pretend to have it right now. Kaito was so near him and so far away. He wanted to see him again. To hear him. To feel him. But he couldn't.
"He's here. I can see him. A side effect of using the Luminaries so often I've been told. We can feel the world's...spirits," he said.
"THEN WHY CAN'T I SEE HIM?!" he grabbed Makoto by the collar. This was maddening and knowing that he was here was even more so.
"Don't go becoming the Destroyer of Worlds on me," Kaito's voice said again he sounded far away...but he could almost feel his arms around his waist. He let go of Makoto sending him to the floor.
"Is this a thing between you two? One gets super mad and the other gets super horny or whatever?" Makoto said standing up and brushing himself off.
"Yup he is my little hothead," Kaito said.
"Please," Tsukasa scoffed. "You were the one that always had to be rescued. It was annoying to come to your rescue so often. Half the time I expected you to swoon and say my hero when I showed up." Tsukasa said. It felt so good to banter again. He missed this banter.
"Then why did you show up in the first place?" Kaito asked with a chuckle.
"You had the fine China and silverware from the Photo Studio you baka Sneak Thief," Tsukasa said with a scoff. He could almost feel Kaito's lips on his cheek. He started to tear up again.
"Don't cry, Hair Spray," Kaito said his voice wavering.
"Don't call me H-Hair Spray...S-Sneak Thief." Tears were falling now.
"You two love each other don't you?" Makoto asked. Tsukasa just shook his head not able to talk. And Makoto could see that Kaito was the same. "He wanted to talk to you before," Makoto said looking at the two of them.
"Before what? Before he leaves me forever?" Tsukasa couldn't bare that thought but felt that this was what this was all leading up to.
"No babe...he thinks the Eyecons might be able to bring me back," Kaito said in his ear.
"No promises," Makoto said looking at the pair of them. "I'm not even sure if it will work. It might just destroy his spirit. He's not from this world after all."
"T-Then don't do it!" Tsukasa said looking around him trying to see his dead lover.
"I HAVE TO DAMN IT!" Kaito yelled. Tsukasa could hear tears now. "Do you think this has been fun for me? Seeing the loves of my life blame themselves for my death. Natsumi is crying every night now. Yusuke hasn't smiled even for a second. And then there is you." Tsukasa could almost feel his hand on his cheek. "Cutting yourself off from the others. Existing but not living."
"When Makoto found me and told me about this chance to save me...to bring me back. I didn't care about the risks...I can't let you three live like this. I want my treasures back." Kaito said. Tsukasa could almost see him now. Almost feel him. He wanted to reach out and kiss the Sneak Thief...but the second he thought he could the image of Kaito faded from his mind.
"What is going to happen?" Tsukasa asked looking to the spot where he had seen Kaito's face.
"There are 15 Luminary Eyecons. If we gather them together we can have one wish granted by the Luminaries. It has been used before. My own sister used them to bring her back...well she wasn't dead but she wasn't alive either. It is a long story. But we used them to bring her back. With her own body and everything. My adoptive brother had died...multiple times in fact," he said with a chuckle.
"We brought him back. We normally just help the spirit move on. They lived and did everything that they could. They remain because of 'unfinished business'. But your boyfriend was different on more than one level." He looked at the pair of them. Tsukasa didn't know it but he was looking dead into Kaito's eyes who was looking back at his lover. It was like a staring contest but one of them didn't know he was in.
"How so?" Tsukasa asked. Not blinking as he stared into the spot trying to will Kaito to appear before him.
"He's a Kamen Rider," Makoto said and Tsukasa and Kaito ended their staring contest to look into the eyes of Makoto. "Even in this world, Kamen Riders are usually the heroes of the world. If a Kamen Rider dies...the world could grow darker. I talked with Takeru and he is gathering them as we speak. When we get there he should have all of them. And in theory, he SHOULD be brought back to life. But the thing is seeing as he is from another universe and then killed in yet another universe. It may not work. And if doesn't his spirit may be destroyed."
"I want to be there and bring my two lovers," Tsukasa moaned.
"WHY? I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOU THERE!" Kaito yelled.
"YOU DIED TELLING ME YOU WANTED THE LOVES OF YOUR LIFE NEAR YOU!" Tsukasa yelled. He was breathing heavily and tears were in his eyes again. "...And if you..." Tsukasa couldn't think about it. "I'm not letting you disappear with that desire not being true." A tear dropped down his face. Kaito wanted to reach out and wipe that tear away. He then stopped himself before he could touch him. Because he couldn't handle not feeling him right now.
Tsukasa went back to the Photo Studio and grabbed Natsumi and Yusuke. He couldn't tell them what he was taking them to. Not if this ended badly. Natsumi was shaken by how many tears were falling down Tsukasa's face as they found the Daitenku Temple. He gulped as he was directed to the basement. "There you are, Tsukasa," Kaito said looking at him.
"K-Kaito," Natsumi said seeing him. She ran up to him not caring if this could possibly be real. She wanted to run up and kiss him. But she just ran through him with him looking sad.
"I'm sorry Natsumi. I'm still dead," Kaito said putting his hands in his pockets.
"S-So why can I see you now? I-I thought y-you," Tsukasa said stumbling towards him.
"You were right Tsukasa I wanted you all to be there with me when they tried," he said looking into his eyes.
"NO, HE DIDN'T!" they heard a female voice say. Then Tsukimura Akari stood up from behind a bookshelf. "He has been begging me to start before you got here," she said with a smile looking at the collection of people gathered. "Especially when he realized, in this room, spirits can be seen by anyone. Which is why you can see him now." She smiled at Tsukasa.
"If this works I am going to kick you Sneak Thief," Tsukasa said smiling for the first time. He was seeing him. Hearing him. Now he wanted to FEEL him. He just smirked like he always did.
"What's going on Tsukasa?" Yusuke asked.
"I've been seeing Kaito everywhere we go. I thought I was going mad. But it was him he has been following us since he died. Here he was met by Kamen Rider Spector. And he might be able to bring him back to life...or disappear forever." Tsukasa didn't look either Natsumi or Yusuke in the eyes as he talked.
"And, as Akari ratted me out...I mean said, I didn't want you here in case...it went wrong." Kaito said rubbing the back of his head.
"BAKA!" Natsumi roared. "BAKA BAKA BAKA! Both of you." Tsukasa and Kaito looked at her as tears flowed. "We weren't just lovers. WE ARE A FAMILY! Let us in," she said crying. Yusuke went to her and hugged her. Tsukasa couldn't, she was right. He had cut them out for so long. He just hoped that he could make it up to her.
"We're ready now," Akari said somberly. She placed the 15 Luminary Eyecons just so. "Here we go." It didn't take long for them to start to glow. And not much longer a flash of light. The four lovers shield their eyes from the bright light. But before long the light subsided and Kaito was still standing there. He looked at his hands. He felt for a pulse...and there it was.
"I'M ALIVE!" he yelled. He looked at the loves of his life. His treasures. He wanted to hug each of them so hard...but he knew the one he should start with. Especially after making her cry again. He rushed Natsumi and walked right through her. "Huh?"
He felt his heart again. It was racing but he kept going through her. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" he demanded.
"I don't know. Y-You have a heartbeat again right?" she asked going over to her computer.
"YES DAMN IT! It's racing. I want to touch them. WHY CAN'T I TOUCH THEM?" Kaito was mad and scared. Then he felt it, Natsumi's hand in his. He looked at the dainty hand inside of his own. She then kissed his cheek. Crying feeling him again.
He tried to hug Tsukasa but went through him too. "What is going on here?" he asked.
"Interesting. According to these readings, the 15 Luminary Eyecons couldn't bring him back completely. He's alive and tangible. But can also be less than tangible," she said. Kaito looked at his hands. Then chuckled.
"Imagine the heist I can do now," he chuckled. Then he got hit over the head. He turned to see Tsukasa.
"Focus Sneak Thief," Tsukasa said. "We both have to make it up to them don't we?" he said tears in his eyes and they looked into the tear-filled eyes of Yusuke and Natsumi. Yusuke was smiling for the first time since that night.
"We do. But first things first," Kaito said and he pulled Tsukasa into a kiss. Tsukasa was whole again. He was kissing the love of his life that he thought he had lost forever. And he was never going to let him go. They broke the kiss to look at their other two lovers both crying again. But this time they were happy tears.
Both Tsukasa and Kaito held out their hands and Natsumi and Yusuke walked up to them and the four of them hugged and held each other kissing from time to time. Both Tsukasa and Kaito knew they were going to spend the rest of their lives making it up to these two...and they were going to enjoy every second of it.
The four of them were fast asleep in their shared bedroom. The four of them cuddled for hours. This was something that none of them thought that they would ever do again. But none of them wanted this to end ever again. They were sleeping happily when there was a portal opened in the main room of the Photo Studio. Henshin Master walked out.
"Everyone is asleep," he sighed. He walked to the bedroom and banged on the door.
"Whasapen?" Yusuke asked groggily.
"There is more to the story than even you know," Henshin Master said to them.
"Who the hell are you?" Tsukasa asked looking at him. He had never seen a Kamen Rider like him before.
"Sorry to disturb the happy...quadrouple. But I have been watching you for a bit," he said looking at them and walking away.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING US?!" Kaito yelled as the four of them rushed out of the room.
"I am Henshin Master," he said. "I am part of a group that watches the multiverse for...situations. Situations like yours."
"What do you mean?" Tsukasa asked.
"If things were going to get out of hand we...push things so that they work out. In a way that is what I am doing here now. Pushing."
"Pushing us to what?" Natsumi asked.
"Parenthood, as it turns out," he said to her.
"EH?!" Everyone was shocked by that.
"What are talking about?" Tsukasa asked.
"Long story short when we saw Kaito die we took an interest in your story. I have been following you while others were following up on what Shocker was up to. I watched the resurrection of Kaito. I think but am not sure, that if he stays this way for too long he might fade away again. Just having a pulse doesn't mean you are alive. You may die again rather soon."
"How soon?" Tsukasa asked ready to move heaven and Earth to make sure that he never died again.
"Well, Ghost had 99 days to be brought back to life. I would assume it would be the same here. You were always a bit tricky Kaito so even I can't tell for sure. But there is a way to fix it. There was a Kamen Rider Ghost in the universe you died in too. Gather THEIR 15 Luminary Eyecons and do the same thing that you did here and that should finish the job that these started. And you'll have to go there anyway, so two birds one stone so to speak."
"But that doesn't explain the parenthood you are pushing us to?" Kaito asked while he saw the eyes of his lovers starting to worry about him again.
"Well, Shocker wanted to make another Kamen Rider. But not another version of Kamen Rider Songou or even a Kamen Rider Yongou," he said with a mild chuckle.
"Then what Kamen Rider?" Tsukasa asked.
"Kamen Rider DeStruct. Another Kamen Rider tied to you, Decade."
"And we are supposed to destroy him?" Yusuke asked.
"That would be awkward. Seeing as it is the son of Natsumi, Tsukasa, and Kaito." Yusuke looked at his three lovers and then fainted.
"What do you mean he's our son?" Natsumi asked.
"They took your eggs when they had you hostage. And during the battle that killed you, Kaito, you bleed a lot. And they already had some of Decade's DNA from the time Tsukasa was their mighty leader." The three of them looked at each other. "So they combined your DNA and then inserted that DNA into the eggs that they took from you. And...congratulations it's a boy," he said smugly.
"And you want us to save him?" Tsukasa asked.
"That's up to you, Tsukasa. After all, he is part your son. All I'm doing is pushing. Pushing you into saving Kaito. Pushing you to the world where your son is being held, prisoner. And pushing buttons right now with this smugness. Ta ta," he said and walked out leaving them there with a wave of his hand. In an instant, he was back in the white void.
"Are you sure that is going to work?" Ultra Princess asked.
"Tsukasa is like me. He is going to go there for sure," he said joining her and watching them make up their minds and start their journey back to the world where Kaito had died. Yusuke was still out cold on the floor as the Photo Studio made its way back to that world.
"H-How did you know?" she asked in aw.
"He's like me. Smug, egotistical, and stubborn as all hell. He'd go there if he had to drag Kaito kicking and screaming to save him. And Natsumi would have done the rest. There is no way she would leave their son there to be a prisoner. And Kaito," he chuckled a little. "Kaito would make sure that the bastards will pay for hurting his son. Kiba is going to be rescued by those four. And it's going to be a hell of a ride."
"Decade is his favorite if you couldn't tell," AkaBlue said with an audible smirk.
"Damn straight!" Henshin Master laughed. He then undid his henshin which was a rare thing for many of them to do, all to reveal Tsukasa's face. "After all. I was a Kamen Rider Decade, long ago."
"Don't remind me," AkaBlue said doing the same to reveal Kaito's face.
"Baka Sneak Thief, this was my moment to shine," Henshin Master said as Ultra Princess was shocked by this.
"Wait, are you two them?" Master Yellow asked.
"Long story, but yes," AkaBlue said smirking at his longtime friend. "We were never lovers though."
"Not that you didn't try Sneak Thief." The two just looked at each other and smiled. The unspoken truth in the air was that both loved working together here for that very reason. It gave them a chance to see each other again. And to help other versions of themselves...possibly take the paths they never did. The two shifted their gaze to the screen and smiled as other thems continued their journey through the worlds.