Note: Zak is narrating the story AFTER Yuuki died.
It’s only been a week since Yuuki’s death, and I still can’t get the image of her screaming that it was fine for the spirit to kill her out of my head. I can’t even imagine how Nick feels about this, I mean she was his sister. Rin often comes over to check on me. I’m just sick of sitting around on my butt thinking about her. I couldn’t even get myself to go to her funeral. Rin is coming over today… again, she will probably drag me out of the house… again. I heard a knock on the door
Oh god. Here we go again.” I mutter to myself as I opened the door
“Yo Zak! What’s up?”
“Uh, Rin, you called me ten minutes ago.”
“Don’t get in a crappy mood just because your girlfriend died.”
“I have every right to get in a crappy mood because Yuuki died! All I did was stand there and do nothing. God, it’s all my fault!”
“Zak it’s never been your fault, Yuuki loved you with all her heart and she sacrificed her life for you and she will be missed dearly, but we can’t just sit around being emo, so get off your lazy butt and let’s go do something fun.”
“Just sigh and go with it Zak. You won’t die… this time”. I thought to myself. I sighed and said, “Whatever, let’s go.”
She took me to Starbucks to get some coffee and just hang out. As we were walking there I saw Yori go into an alleyway, it was on the way so I decided to take a peek at what she was doing. As I looked down the alley I saw her with a dark figure. It looked familiar… it looked like, Yuuki! I could make out her face and every detail. Yori sat down next to her and said,
“Being a sprit must suck, I know how you feel. You know Zak misses you a lot.”
I heard a small whisper from Yuuki, I couldn’t understand it but it seems like Yori did. Yori nodded her head and looked in my direction. Crap, she’s going to notice me. I’m worried about Yuuki so I might as well let her.
“Zak, did you understand what Yuuki said at all?
“Not a bit.” I said stepping out so she could see me.
“I see, well she said 'I wish I could hold Zak one more time.' And she wonders why you didn’t go to her funeral.”
“Well tell her-“
Before I could even finish my sentence Yuuki was gone. Ignoring Yori I walked out of the alley and ran to catch up with Rin who had stopped and waited or me.
“How’s Yuuki?” she asked when I came up to her.
“I wouldn’t know, I can’t even understand her when she tries to speak.”
She put her hand in mine and said, “Don’t worry about it Zak, you know that she loved you a lot and cared for you.”
“I know but-” I tried to say before Rin interrupted me.
“No! Don’t start that emo crap with me Zak! You know all of this, you know that Yuuki loved you and I even know that! So stop acting like she didn’t and just deal with what happened!”
I couldn’t even believe what Rin said, but she had a point. We hadn’t even got to Starbucks yet and she was already yelling at me about how emo I was. I let go of her hand and strode off to the cemetery to go visit Yuuki. When I got there, there was someone already at her grave. I could tell by just looking at then from afar, it was Yori. When she saw me coming she walked toward me.
“Zak,” she said in a normal tone, “for you to speak to Yuuki you have to say something that you never told her before.”
“Why is that? I never had to do that with any other spirit.”
“Because she won’t respond if you don’t.” Yori said as she walked off.
I walked over to Yuuki’s grave and sat down. It seemed like I was about to talk to myself but I knew that she would listen, no matter what.
“I’m sorry I didn’t go to your funeral, I just didn’t want to see the one I love dead.” I started off, “I do love you, and nothing will change that.”
I felt something cold on my hand and it didn’t go away, I heard a small whisper in my ear that said, “I know you do, but I wanted to see you, have you hold my hand, and kiss me one more time.”
“Our love will never end Yuuki. I want to be with you too.” I sighed.
“I know you do, but I need your protection from the spirit that killed me.” She whispered back.
“I want to protect you,” I said, “but I just don’t know how.”
“You’ll find a way that we can be together. I know you will Zak.” She said in an even more quiet whisper.
“Yuuki, I can tell you’re running out of energy to talk to me.”
“But I want to be with you.” She said even more quiet this time.
“Don’t worry, I’ll come back often to see you. But for now you should rest and get back your energy.”
“I love you,” she said almost silently as the coldness on my hand went away.
As I was walking to my car, (which was a long walk I might add) I was trying to think of ideas I could protect and be with Yuuki. And an idea came to my mind of how to be with her! As I was planning out how this was going to happen, I ran to my car and started driving to where my last investigation with Yuuki was.
As soon as I got into the parking lot I ran inside the asylum. I burst through the doors and started to look around, and there it was, Yuuki’s body, still laying there from when she was killed. So I decided to yell, “I want to speak with the jerk that killed Yuuki!”
The same voice I heard from one long week ago came back and said, “Oh look who’s here, the little boy that Yuuki wouldn’t let me kill.”
“I have a deal for you this time around.” I said in a calm voice
“Try me.” he replied
“You kill me, and after I’m dead you can torture me all you want. But you have to stay away from Yuuki.”
“What are you trying to do?” he said like my deal was a trap.
I sighed, still in a calm voice I said, “I just want to be with Yuuki again. I can live my life without her.”
He paused for a moment, thinking of a plan to make my plan turn out like a bad idea on my end of the deal. After at least five minutes he said, “Ok but you have to kill yourself and I will get Yuuki to come watch you do it. But make sure it’s entertaining for me as well. You can use the knife I used to kill Yuuki with.”
After he got Yuuki I was confident in my plan now. So I picked up the knife and heard Yuuki scream, “No! Zak, don’t do this just because of me!”
I didn’t want to see her cry, so I wanted to get it over with, but I couldn’t do it, not with Yuuki there. So I dropped the knife onto the floor. After a minute or two, the other spirit picked up the knife and said, “If you won’t do it, then I will.”
He stepped back and threw the knife at me. I almost dropped to the floor screaming in pain. But I knew I had one last part to my plan, so as my last words, I said, “I love you Yuuki.” And after that I collapsed on the ground, with blood all around me. But I knew that I could be in a happier place, just as long as I was with Yuuki.
