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Sora Kobayashi



That stabbing pain returned, but it was worse than before. Sora fell to her knees. "Not... this... again" She muttered silently. Her body felt as if it was being pulled apart by unbreakable chains. Because 'Sora's' personality was completely gone, and there was only Hideki's the body seems to be changing to match it.

The first noticeable change is that the chest became completely flat. Her short black hair sudden became longer. Her arms, and legs became a little bit longer. At these changes occurred blood came dripping from Sora's face. It seemed as if a large cut suddenly appeared on her face, and her right eye which was blind to begin with suddenly vanished.

When everything was done Sora was gone. Hideki Kobayashi sat where she was. Blood dripping from the newly formed wounds.

OOC: It might seem lame to use Xigbar's picture, but I did kinda base Hideki off of him.







When the pain ceased, aside from the fresh cut on his face. He lightly touched where he was cut. He seemed surprised to see the blood. He tried to get back to his feet, but he was actually very sore from what just happened. He could barely even move let alone rise to his feet. In short he was in a very pitiful position.

He wondered to himself if she was playing dumb, or if she made herself forget. Either way he was sure she was the same Yuki who cursed him to die so long ago. It seemed to have carried into this life as well. "How much more should I suffer like this?" he thought trying to get up, but no matter what he couldn't get his legs to move.

OOC: Profile editing here I go =3

Hideki was caught by surprised. He believed that Yuki, and Yukari were two different people. But wait... wasn't Sora's grandmother still alive? The anger he had was quick to turn to confusion, then into panic since he still isn't able to move.

While in the middle of the panic, and confusion Hideki's becomes hazy. He would eventually collapse. "This can't be real...." he thought as the world seemed to turned to darkness.

In that darkness he thought he had seen Sora. Within seconds she seemed to have dissolved into that darkness. Was everything just a big joke to make him seem like a fool? Like a fool he fell into that trap. Why must he endure so much suffering?

"Its simple isn't it? Just keep your heart locked...' a voice echoed within the darkness. 'Give it to no one.... Because no one deserves it...'

[I actually had quite a hard time responding to that.]

The truth he was just told left Hideki stunned. He felt as if everything he knew was a lie. For all intent it could have been all a lie. He wasn't sure which out of the two was more painful. The lie, or the truth. But then again no matter how he was to look at it he was still a fool who feel into a trap.

He felt even more of a fool for letting 'Sora' fade away as she did. Sure Sora did suffer because of his memories, but she was able to live with it strangely enough. Perhaps fools like himself were fated to suffer such painful things. It was more painful to think that Sora had never loved anyone. She never knew love....

But as far as he knew there was no way to him to revive a dead personality, nor a way be change back into Sora. However now he seemed clear why Sora's grandmother called her Hideko before she seemed to have disappeared.

Hideki's eyes closed. For the first time he would actually have a peaceful, dreamless sleep.









Sora Kobayashi



Sora didn't actually fade away as Hideki seems to have believed. She was trapped within his subconscious. At the moment it was a dark dream-scape with nothing but a pitch black sky, and a dark sand. A depression place really. She stared out into the distance. She sensed Hideki's despair, but it didn't effect her as much as it used to. In fact his emotion didn't effect her at all anymore.

[Wow, what a twist]

Hideki looked up when he heard her voice. His expression seemed blank, however clearly conveyed a deep despair. "I don't know" he said after a short moment, "Perhaps later I will be... but right now... probably not." he looked down at his hands which were both on the table before him. "Everything I knew... all gone... my home... my family... everything lost in Nagasaki..."

"I don't even know what I should do..." he said staring at his hands. The cut on his face seemed to throb a bit to remind him of everything that he had lost.

Sora Kobayashi



Sora stood as the dream-scape became to change, and take form in reaction to Hideki's memory. It was Ikkou Chuushin as it was in 1945. Sora rose to her feel. The sky was still pitch black, but at least there was some form of light from street lamps.

"I guess this is better than nothing" Sora muttered as she looked around. She was in the middle of the city. But she couldn't figure out where she was. She couldn't help but to laugh coldly at the situation. "Why, oh why does this make me think of that one song... Black Rock Shooter..." she said to herself as she didn't expect an answer.

Hideki was a little surprised at the offer. But it wasn't one he would be quick to turn down. If at all. "That... would be nice..." he said. "My name is Hideki Kobayashi by the way"

***

Not too long after the sun sets Hideki opened his eyes. Or rather just his good eye. He noticed he was on the bench at the lake. The cut on his face stopped bleeding. A weird deja vu that is. At least now the pain was gone.

Sora Kobayashi



Bikki walked though the memory of Ikkou Chuushin. It was quite clear that she was alone. She vaguely sensed Hideki's despair. Perhaps it would be possible to separate herself from Hideki. Maybe if she would to feed off of his despair would it be possible.

For a moment the despair he felt earlier was eased, if it was been... consumed by something. He felt strangely relaxed. As if he had just taken a nice hot shower. "It seems... that all that information is a little hard to process" he said as he glanced up at the sky. The moon, and the stars seem quite bright tonight.

He had to to admit, being suddenly stripped of his anger, pain, guilt, and any other negative emotion felt pretty nice. Even though it was a blank state it was as if a great weight was lifted.

"I probably wouldn't have been here otherwise, right?" Hideki said as he was led away from the lake. He vaguely wondered why that little part of him that wanted to close his heart off suddenly didn't care. Perhaps it didn't matter. Never once would be guess that those negative emotions that were stripped away would create something wicked.

Sora Kobayashi



The amount of suffering that Hideki had experiences would be more than enough for what Sora would need. But best to take things slow so no one would notice. Once the negative energy is gathered she'd wait until the right time to pull off her plans.

Hideki climbed into the truck, and closed the door behind him. Within minutes he was asleep again. It seemed like changing suddenly the way he did used to quite a bit of energy. He seems strangely at peace compared to how angry he seemed to have been earlier. Stranger still since it was the negative emotion that seemed to have wiped Sora away after all.

Again his dream was quite peaceful. Instead of reliving painful memories he was dreaming nice, and peaceful dreams. Happy memories of when he was a kid. His parents, and his little sister spending a nice peaceful day during a festive event.

His little sister Momoko looked quite cute in a summer yukata. It was green. A color Hideki had always been fond of. He vaguely recalled how sad he was when he learned she had died. But the sadness wasn't very strong. Once he remembered it the emotion seemed to have disappeared.

During some points he had seen Sora. Or a shadow of Sora. He didn't see her face clearly. She was nothing more than a phantom in his mind. In a way he had died so he could live. Sounds sad, but in a way it was true. Why didn't he feel sad though? Why is Sora smiling like that? Something feels... wrong...