Friends with Death

Azuma Yunoki

*Death*

people who normally say that i should have got used to seeing people cry in pain and sorrow but what they don't know is it makes me feel guilty, i don't want to be the one causing pain, i don't want them to see me as the bad guy, I'm not the bad guy...I'm just doing my job. I didn't choose to be the one who takes away lives...

I stared at my only friend, bewildered. Why is she crying? Did i do something wrong? There shouldn't be anyone that Kaho knows who've died today...

"Ka...hoko, what's wrong?"

"Everything..."came her quiet little reply.

"Want to talk about it?" i asked, i actually found this whole thing very awkward.

"Nothing seems to go right, i just wish it would go away, i can never be like the girl in my stories."

I froze, she once told me of a world that her and her friends Hirara and Amou created, a world of their own, filled with adventures and fantasy. A world where they are able to help each other through any problems, a world where they can be whoever they want, superhero, vampires, ghosts or even demons. A world where the dead could be reborn. So innocent and fake, so naive and stupid it sounds, but they all take it so seriously. It's like a family, with a mother, who is queen of the vampires and spirits, a Demon prince for a father, and Kaho as their little princess.

"Kaho-chan..."

"they all say I became like this because of him, but did they know I was acting, trying so hard to be happy...Kiriya-niisan might not have been the best person, but he was a great brother..." her voice trembling ever so slightly.

I'm sorry Hino Kahoko...

"Right now, after meeting Lili and starting to play the violin, everyone expects so much from me, getting good grades, going into music school, even Tsukimori-kun..." My eyes narrowed, "even him, he expect me to practice and understand all those musical stuff he taught me and he gets so annoyed easily...I got no one to talk to at all, no one understand what it's like to be the rich kid with all this damn attention turned to her, her life planned the moment she was born!"

She looked broken, it was then i noticed that this bubbly hyper and crazy girl, was actually this fragile. It was then that I noticed her tiny form and how delicate she was, like a flower.

"And I'm tired listening to Amou all day. Did we not create our fantasy world together? Why is it that she always make her character the best and goes on about how she would do anything for her friends. I'm tired of the way she acts, looking for attention. You know what? I just about had enough of her, i actually stopped caring, if she wants to die then fine, whatever. I don't wanna hear oh Kazuki loves me and we are getting married or anything, I just had enough..." She went on ranting.

"Kaho...it's alright, you can talk to me about your troubles, and I will always be here." I said, yet she burst out in tears, what did i do now?

"That's exactly why. Mother believes that after Kiriya-Niisan's death, i stopped talking to her and father, they are thinking of moving me to England..."

"Oh...that's great, maybe a change will help you move on..." no, not her too.

"But I don't want to!" she shouted, startling me, " I love it here, I can't let it go, I can't let go of Kazuki, Len, Amou even if she's annoying...I don't want to leave Mio or Nao or any of my other friends..." My eyes weakened, Kaho...i would miss you too... "but most of all..."

I couldn't look at her, I could not bear to hear the fact that she can't let go of any of her other friends, "most of all...I don't want to lose you." My eyes widened and stared at her in shock, "I enjoyed every second that we have together, and you are always here for me...it's just too bad that I can't always see you...we don't see each other as it is when you are away,if I move, we won't live next door and I..."

"That's enough! That enough...that's all you have to say and all that I wanted to hear..." cutting her off, i pulled her into a hug.

*Kahoko*

He's hugging...me, Death...is hugging me. I blushed, "Death..."

"I'll help you."

"What...Death, I..."

"I will help you." he pulled away, his hand moved up to his hood, what is he...

He removed the hood, revealing a boy with wild red hair and brown eyes, "so what do you think?"

"What are you doing? Think what?"

He blanked me, "too much on the red side maybe? How about this?" he now have blond hair and piercing blue eyes.

"Umm...you look a lot like Keji-kun."

His eyes narrowed at me, before changing again, a long pigmented lavender haired and gold eyes boy stood there before me. I stared.

"Hm, it seems to me you like this one a lot, Azuma Yunoki, a wealthy teen from the 60s, he played the flute i believe."

"Yunoki...san?" so he's using the faces of the dead.

"Could it be that, little Kahoko has a thing for long haired boys? Huh?" He chuckled.

I blushed and growled at him, "You still haven't answered my question, why are you doing this?"

"I'm coming to school with you." he's what? This is madness!

he watched me carefully, " then we can be together at school as well, I can also help you out with this Amou, when your parents sees how happy you are, they will let you stay for sure. As for my own job, I could always send a clone or work on it during classes, I highly doubt that there would be anything I don't already know about in your lessons."

"D...Death, thank you." I threw myself at him.

"It's what friends are for isn't it?" Friends indeed...