Who says you can't change everything with your dreams?

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-June 21, 2008; Night; Time 04:01-

The time is late, four o'clock in the morning. Tokyo is asleep. And some personalities are not. That individual was Dima. He woke up because of a strange dream that was bothering him. So he decided to freshen up and take a walk, just like in the good old days. He was dressed the same way he had been a little earlier.

***

"Why...? Why do I have such a strange feeling. Hanagaki, what kind of man are you?" - Dimitri thought, on the balcony of the brothel where Takemichi was sleeping.

He stood quietly, as he always lurked.
Staring at Takemichi's peaceful sleeping face. Quietly opening the balcony and entering the room, Dima stood in front of the bed where Hanagaki was sleeping.

Red just stood there looking at Takemichi, thinking about different things and what the consequences might be.

- Who are you to me, Michi... - said Dima and suddenly stopped talking.

Why did he call him Michi? Why was he standing in front of his bed now, looking at him? Who were Mikey and Izana? Did they know each other? What happened before he lost his memory? Does he remember four years of his life?

Such questions were going through Black's head until he heard a rustling on the bed.

Quickly hiding behind the dark curtain, Red saw Hanagaki assume a sitting position and look around.

- Was it just an impression? - Takemichi asked in a whisper, then lay back down facing the wall.

Black, in turn, continued to look at Hanagaki, pondering. After standing like that for a while, he left the room without leaving a trace of his presence.

***

-June 21, 2008; Time 15:XX; Harajuku-

Day. The day started, and Dima didn't even sleep at night, he just took a walk and decided to follow Hanagaki as he walks with Senjyu because of his boredom. There are no problems and conflicts in Oni, so why not?

"Maybe I'll remember something after all," thought Dima as he watched Takemichi freak out about Senjyu being a girl.

***

"Man, how can chicks shop so much, and for so many hours. you could die," thought Dima as he ate the strawberry ice cream in a waffle cup he bought while he watched the "couple." He watched from around the corner as Hanagaki said goodbye to Senju. She too was eating ice cream, only of a different flavor and on a stick.

She had finished it when she tossed the stick to Hanagaki and he caught it. Something clicked in Red's memory as Takemichi froze in the same second he did. The meeting with Shinichiro Sano, the theft, the beating, the cops... Mikey... Friends...
Takemichi... Swastons...

Almost falling down, Red grabbed the wall with one hand, the other on his head, he dropped the ice cream. Dima realized - it was a memory: he knew the founders of Toswa, they were friends, he saved the older Sano, saved Takemichi them in the first meeting, there were no more memories.

Red wanted more memories, so he quickly jumped out of his seat and started running all over Tokyo, looking for where he had and hadn't been...

***

-June 22, 2008; Night; Time 00:32-

The night, there it is again... The night is dark, quiet and peaceful. Dima likes that atmosphere. Now he is sitting in the same abandoned building only on the roof.

His eyes were empty, but... They were red. Red remembered everything, remembered the dreams he hadn't paid attention to when he had amnesia, about the Swastons, about Mikey and Izana...

He remembered everything. Takemichi went back in time to make him remember everything, but it seems he doesn't need to do that anymore, he remembered everything himself. Every little detail.

"Well Takemuchi, we'll meet up soon."

To be continued...