fortuneprince | 21st Case - [Written] - Foward-dated to the morning of the 4th

[ It's a weird feeling, deja vu is.

Standing in the doorway of what used to be Rise's room, Naoto staring in at the bareness of it. The bed is neatly made, no fluffy or frilly pillows resting around it, just white sheets and a single pillow. Everything the idol once possessed and stored in this room now gone. Accessories, pictures, books, clothes, you name it, all gone.

It felt as if Luceti just wiped the girl off the face of the earth. Like she was never even here. That every moment Naoto spent with her here was a lie. Much like when Souji left.

Naoto doesn't panic as the reality of the situation sets in nor does she cry. Instead, she closes the door to the unoccupied room quietly, and walks away from it, sitting herself down on the couch while Kuzunoha stays behind and stares at the door sadly, waiting for his playmate to come out and scream at him.

It takes her a good thirty minutes to pick up the journal, but when she does, she almost decides to try a filter, to try and deny what she knows what's really going on, but she resists. What would the point be? She knows it would break. So she pulls out her pen, in fear that her voice may crack if she speaks, and writes: ]

Rise Kujikawa has been sent home. [ ...She stares down at her own message and frowns, the tears finally well up in her eyes. It's going to be so much quieter without Rise around. Without her best friend. ]

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[She smiles, amused] Then be sure to inform me when you have chosen a date so I know to not schedule any plans for that day.

Probably sometime in June...June's a nice month.

...if you really can't get away from working, maybe we can study some crabs or something.

June will have much warmer and appropriate weather for the beach, I believe.

Hm... though I admit studying any species of crab would be fairly interesting [And really, she means that. More knowledge the better] I will keep to my word and enjoy one day off of work.

I was hoping you'd say that. Crabs pinch too much anyway.

If you agitate them, yes, they do. [She chuckles]

Hey, I didn't do anything to the crab that it didn't start first.

[Okay she has to laugh at this one] So it provoked you?

Yeah, it was kind of being a bully. It kept running into my sand castle.

Perhaps you had built a sand castle on top of it's home. Crabs live underground, so it is possible you were unaware of it's presence.

Well then maybe he should have picked a better place to live. Besides I thought their shells were their homes?

[A light chuckle] Those particular species of crabs are referred to as "hermit crabs". To protect itself from predators, it submerges it's body into an empty shell that was once inhabited by a sea snail/

That's actually kind of smart. It's like...kind of like that spell that girl did over our house when Vanitas was still around.

Spell?

You know, the one that made our house invisible unless we had someone tell people.

I do not recall you ever mentioning such a spell to me before.

I guess it wasn't important how it was done, but that's how we were protected when Vanitas was around...after he broke into the house and attacked Axel.

He had attacked Axel-san?? [~~That sounds so weird in my head~~] I was not aware of this.

...really? I never told you about this?

No, I'm afraid you haven't.

...Vanitas broke into our house one day and attacked Axel. If Xion hadn't found him...who knows if he would have lived. [The way he's speaking, the way he's suddenly carrying himself is enough to hint that he might not be telling all of the details.]

[Naoto can definitely tell that he's holding back on something but she can't decide if she wants to urge him to explain more or not. The subject is definitely a sensitive one. Maybe she should just let it go this time.]

...I see. I am sorry to hear that had happened though I am glad he lived.

...I'm almost scared to think of what would have happened if Xion didn't come home when she did. And it just didn't stop after that. [Ripping off Sora's wing. Nearly killing Xion. And didn't he go after Naoto, too? He can't remember.]

[Well, more like she went after Vanitas but she won't say anything about that. Instead, she just quiets down a little.] I know...

[She remembers those days pretty clearly, actually. How endless they seemed with the fighting and emotional stress. And she wasn't even as effected by it as badly as those who were really involved, like Roxas and Xion.

Hesitantly, she reaches out and touches his hand with her finger tips.] But... eventually all of the violence did cease. And we were all able to walk away from the entire ordeal alive. [That's what matters, right? So don't be scared.]

Yeah, only because he left. [Unfortunately he's still pretty bitter about the whole thing. Knowing he inadvertently caused Axel's attack still haunts him.] What if it didn't?

Then we would have put a stop to him just as we [Not really meaning her since she wasn't the one who killed him in the end. She still doesn't know who did that] did before.

We would regain the control we lost.

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