To Be Free! (Noragami Fan-Fic)

The Date

     "Crystal-chan!" I heard Yamashita call.
     "Yamashita-san..." I said still in a daze from what happened earlier today.
     She pouted immediately. "Like I said, you can call me Yama-chan!"
     "And call me Ami-chan, not Tabata-san!" The other girl added.
     "Right..." I said. "Did you need something?"
     "Oh, right! I just got a few tickets to visit Capypa Land. You wanna come along with us? I have a Senior joining us with some of his other friends. It's going to be like a quadruple date!"
     "Oh... sure thing," I said with a smile. 'Maybe I'm just thinking too much... A little break from the paperwork should be the right thing.'

     That weekend, we went to Capypa Land and waited at the entrance for the other boys. Akai wasn't too happy about me going by myself but I convinced him that I would make sure that I wouldn't do anything too outrageous. In the meantime, Yamashita was acting nervous, like it was the end of the world for her.
     "H-Hello! Umm...!" She panicked. "I'm Akira Yamashita!"
     "I'm Aimi Tabita," Tabata replied.
     "I'm Hiyori Iki..." Hiyori said but her voice sounded different from what I was used to. Almost as if she was distressed.
     "My name is Crystal," I replied not bothered to share my last name because I didn't have one.
     "I'm Seki."
     "I'm Abe."
     "I'm Kuro."
     I looked at the boy that called himself Kuro and let out a sigh of relief when I saw he looked nothing like the Kuro I knew. I was suddenly pulled by Tabata into a small huddle.
     "So, which one is your guy?" Tabata asked Yamashita.
     "He's not here yet," she replied.
     "Sorry for the wait!" I heard a familiar voice say. I turned around and saw the boy that I met a few days ago. "I'm Fujisaki."
     "U-Umm, thank you for coming today!" Yamashita said getting closer to the boy while I distanced myself as far away as possible without looking suspicious. "Where would you like to go first?"
     "Let's get some Fast Passes," one of the boys said.
     Suddenly, Yamashita pointed at some weird doll that was hanging from one of their bags. "That's a Limited Edition Hundred Archfiend swag!"
     And that was all it took for them to engage in a longwinded and exciting conversation. Soon, Hiyori and Tabata, as well as the other boys, joined in on the conversation. This left me with the boy.
     "Sorry to impose on your day off like this," he said politely.
     "It's no problem. I miss out on a lot of school anyways," I replied, trying to sound as joyful about the predicament as possible.
     "Well, let's have fun today!" He said with a bright smile. I nodded warily. There was something about this boy that I don't trust.

     "Look! It's the parade!" Yamashita cheered happily as I was picking out a few gifts for Akai and the others and talking with the manager about the price for them since I had over a few hundred regalias that I needed to get gifts for. However, when I recounted the number of people I was getting gifts for, I couldn't help but think I was forgetting a few people.
     "Let's go, Crystal-san!" Fujisaki said but paused when he saw the troubled look on my face. I thought for a few more minutes before I noticed he was staring.
     "Ah... Sorry, were you talking to me?" I asked.
     "Huh? Oh, everyone's headed off to see the parade. We better catch up."

     When we arrived, I still couldn't figure out who I was missing. It made me feel so frustrated and sad.  It didn't help that the more I thought about them, the more distant the image I have in my head gets. Without realizing, tears of frustration and sadness rolled down my face. "Crystal-san..." Fujisaki said and I turned to face him, only to notice how close he was. On the outside, I was still calm but internally, I was panicking like I was about to die from blood loss. In the midst of my panic, his lips touched mine but I was too confused, sad and frustrated to get my mind in the right direction and sort out my thoughts. In a flash, I couldn't remember anything that happened up to this point. 'Who is this man? Who am I? Where are we? Who is that group in the distance that looks so familiar? Why did I want to buy so many gifts? Who are the people that I have forgotten before I had forgotten everything else?'
     Before I knew it, everything turned dark and I couldn't move, nor see. It was just darkness. There was no sense of freedom in this darkness or any darkness. I want to be free.