Gravitational Acceleration 【Diabolik Lovers】【Sakamaki Shuu】

∆ Clock Strikes FIFTEEN

A/N: To readers that are still reading this, in case you have forgotten what happened previously. I will put up a summary. To those who still remember, scroll away and start reading :D

Summary of the previous chapters:

Koyuki confessed to Shuu and he accepted. A lot of fluffy scenes after that and then Koyuki followed Leonardo de Crest to his mansion back in the Underworld. 

Leonardo supposedly had mistaken Koyuki as his dead lover.

Shuu chased after Leonardo and had a duel. He won the duel but was attacked by the First Bloods (Carla & Shin). Koyuki was transferred to morning school and Shuu found out. They were sleeping together when she was kidnapped. 

Her kidnapper mentioned Karl Heinz but she didn't understand and lost consciousness. Shuu brought her to the hospital and kept her company. One day, Shuu went to the Ashiya manor, after reading about the Ashiya family in a book. He also found out about Endzeit and the reason the First Bloods were chasing her.

Ashiya Hanae told Shuu the truth: where Ashiya Haku got engaged to Leonardo de Crest and they had a duel to prove his worth. Haku was accidentally killed in the battle and her grandmother resurrected her through a reincarnation.

Her reincarnation is Akaito Koyuki. Thus, Koyuki is Haku. But she's dying and Shuu had to think fast.

He told Leonardo and Arthur about it and Arthur went to visit Koyuki. He asked about her choices whether she'd like to continue being human or start again as a demon (as what she was before).

Koyuki was confused but after that, she was brought into a dream or some sort, where she witnessed Ashiya Haku being killed by Leonardo. She felt a nostalgic connection between her look-alike. 

Her "dream" ended.

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∆ Clock Strikes Fifteen

I opened my eyes and it was the hospital's ceiling.

'You were crying in your sleep.' A voice said.

I turned to look. Shuu was sitting on the chair by my bed, staring back at me. My hand travelled to my face and yes, it was wet where tears soaked them.

'I was sleeping?' I asked.

He didn't answer, probably because it was obvious.

Then it was a dream?

I sighed and looked away, suddenly remembering Leonardo killing "me". The scene played across my mind in slow motion. How Leonardo dodged the slash towards his neck and how he spun and cut her abdomen instead. He wasn't very close to her but his sword was long enough to deeply cut her. I remember the sight of blood dripping down, wetting her clothes, and draining her.

Or should I say... me.

Most likely, Shuu realized I wasn't being myself and I could feel his eyes on me.

But the image of Haku looking dead haunted me. I couldn't shake it off my mind.

'Koyuki?'

Suddenly I was breathing heavily, my hand was clutching my chest. I was anxious for no reason. My chest hurt. I frowned and my other hand searched for something to hold, perhaps to share the pain and it found Shuu's cold ones.

'Koyuki—' Shuu began but I knew what was happening.

'I think...' I gasped, turning to him, panting. 'It's time.'