Chapter 42:

The ones that fall and the ones that give up.

Yui


“Natsuki! you are too quiet, something happened?” Nana ran to Natsuki and saw for herself why Natsuki was so quiet. She dropped her meal on the floor in shock.

Fuyuki laid on the floor, his eyes was open but no emotion could be seen through them, he turned one of his fingers to blades and stuck it in his not-beating-anymore heart.

“I remember….” Natsuki finally could say something, his eyes was wet from tears “I remember when he told me about a thing Yui said to him, sucide….” Natsuki sat on the floor “I thought that he will do it in the end but I didn’t think I will start crying..”

Nana approached Fuyuki and closed his eyes, she decided to smile “I will give you the freedom to do as you will.”

“What should we do with his body?” Natsuki tried to stop the tears unsuccessfully.

“We should save it” Nana kept smiling but a single tear escaped from her eye, a tear of actual sadness “you heard what god of love said, we will wake him up but only if there's an emergency.

“I understand” Natsuki finally stopped his tears “what should we do now.”

“There is a game I wanted to play with Aku” Nana looked down “I used to play it with Fuyuki when we were little” she looked up at Natsuki’s face “let’s play it!”

“Let’s do it” Natsuki agreed.

They suddenly appeared on the ruins of the supreme land.

“This game is too dangerous for earth so we will play it here” Nana said.

“What do we do in the game?” Natsuki knew if it’s too dangerous for earth it must be something physical.

“Easy” Nana rolled up her sleeves “try not to fall.”

Before Natsuki could say something he found himself on the floor and Nana sitting on him.

“I won too easily” Nana tried hard to not show any kind of emotion “are you even trying?” another tear slipped on Nana’s chick.

“I’m nowhere as strong as you or as Fuyuki” Natsuki looked at Nana.

“For now, you can take this” a bright heart flought on Nana’s hand.

“Keep it for yourself, he is your brother” Natsuki tried to stand up unsuccessfully.

“You are my brother too” Nana pushed the heart to Natsuki’s face “former god of future, will you take on yourself the role of love?”

“N..o” it was a little hard for him to talk when something was pushed onto his face.

Nana made a bitter face, she was not satisfied.

“Former god of future, will you take on yourself the role of love?” Nana asked once again, this time she pushed the heart even harder.

“N..o” Natsuki answered the same thing once again.

“I have all day long” Nana pushed the heart even harder “former god of future, will you take on yourself the role of love?”

“I.. have all day.. too” Natsuki almost couldn’t talk “I will… not.”

Nana stood up, she gave Natsuki a big kick and he went flying in the air.

“I landed!” Natsuki said in relief when he felt the floor again after a few seconds of flying.

“former god of future, will you take on yourself the role of love?” she appeared out of nowhere.

“It’s going to take forever…” Natsuki said to himself, he was a bit annoyed.

“I think it’s time” Yui said to his partners “let’s catch a train.”

He exited the little building in the middle of the endless field and everyone went after him.

“Come on Takashima” Aku said happily to Yui.

“Now? in front of them?” Yui didn’t like this thought and it was visible on his face.

Aku nodded in agreement, a big satisfied smile spreaded on her face.

“I don’t want to” Yui crossed his hands and closed his eyes.

“I don’t want to get stuck in the mud again..” Nakata walked further from Aku.

“It’s your problem” Yui tried to act tough, he never learn that he achieves nothing from it.

“Don’t be such a baby” Aku put Yui on her back and held him strongly so he won’t go away.

“Let me go!” Yui tried desperately to release from Aku.

“Aku holding boss?” Kimori laughed a little “something is wrong, the girl shouldn’t lift the boy.”

“What did you say?” Aku lifted Kimori in the air and then dropped him strongly on the floor.

“Ouch…” Kimori landed with his face on the side of floor.

Minato pulled Kimori out of the mud and put him on his back, Nakata took Eda on his back and Aku stayed with Yui.

“Are we doing a competition?” Aku asked, ignoring the kicks and punches she get from Yui on her back.

“We will” Nakata said with an evil face.

“I will join too” Minato said although he knew he had no chance of winning.

“Ok! 3! 2! 1!” Aku said happily “go!!!!!”

The three started to run as fast as they could, for Aku it took two seconds to pass the train rails, for Nakata it took six and for Minato it took ten seconds.

“I won!” Aku said happily when the other two came.

“It was way too fast” Yui fell off Aku's back and vomited on the floor.

“I will go to buy tickets” Minato said, he wanted a little time alone after his loss, even if it's only a minute.

The five waited quietly for Minato to return, they just stood there, not talking, only looking at people passing by.

“Ok, I returned” Minato looked less happy than usual.

“When will the train come?” Eda asked, he really wanted to return to his bed after everything he had gone too.

“Right now” Minato said and a train stopped behind them.

“Good!” Aku said, she tried to transit a good mood “everyone enter the train!”

“Yes!” Kimori jumped in place, Kimori fell into the good mood “trap”.

They all entered the train, not a lot of people was in the train so there was plenty of space to sit.

“Everyone are in?” Aku asked the boys.

“I’m here” Minato, Kimori, Eda and Nakata said.

“If you are here, where is Takashima?” Aku didn’t see him inside the train.

The door closed and the train started to move slowly, Aku looked outside the window and understood Yui didn’t actually want to come back.

He stood outside looking at the window and waving slowly. He didn’t climb back from the depths of his abyss yet.