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  NOTE: The "~~~~" means it's a point of view change. Whether it be Japan or Reader's point of view, or they're memories.

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  She lives in a fairy tale
  Somewhere too far for us to find
  Forgotten the taste and smell
  Of a world that she's left behind

  "Kikuuuuu!" (Name) whined, "There's absolutely nothing to doooooo." We were sitting in her pink bedroom, her lying halfway off her bed and me sitting on the ground.

  "We could tell stories," I suggested, not really thinking anything of it.

  "Okay!" (Name) said eagerly, jumping up from her place on the bed. She bounded over to me and plopped down on the floor leaning forward eagerly.

  "Well..." I pause, trying to think of a story. Of course, at the time, I was only six so I couldn't think of much. Then I remembered some things my friend Arthur told me.

  "My friend Arthur told me that there's a Kappa living behind my house in the hot spring," I say.

  "What's a Kappa?" (Name) asks me, tilting her head to the side.

  "It's a water monster from Japan. They say that Kappas live under bridges and in ponds, and when you try to cross the water they live in, they pull you in and drown you." (Name) gasps at this, her (e/c) eyes widening. I really didn't want to scare that much, but I kept going.

  "They have a dent on their heads that holds water, that way they can go on land. The only way to cross their waters is if you either get them to bow to you, spilling the water from their heads, or throw a cucumber in the water before you cross," I look at (Name) and see that she's shaking a bit. 'It would probably not be a good idea to tell her that they also pull out your intestines from your behind...' I thought to myself.

  "T-that's a scary story. I want to hear a happy one!" (Name) pouted. Giving into her adorable (e/c) eyes, I nodded my head.

  "Arthur also told me about the fairies he can see. He says they help him with things he needs to do. They can also do magic and cast spells on people. He said they come from the Fairy Kingdom," I said, smiling at how (Name's) face lit up.

  "Wow, Kiku! That sounds amazing!" she said, jumping up and dancing around her room. The next thing she said stopped me for a second, "If they're that amazing, they have to be real!" At the moment, I thought nothing of it. I didn't know it would come back to haunt me.


  It's all about the exposure the lens I told her
  The angles were all wrong now
  She's ripping wings off of butterflies

  Keep your feet on the ground
  When your head's in the clouds
  Well go get your shovel
  And we'll dig a deep hole
  To bury the castle, bury the castle
  Well go get your shovel
  And we'll dig a deep hole


  To bury the castle, bury the castle
  Ba da ba ba da ba ba da


~~~~

  Now, thirteen years later, (Name) is in a mental hospital. All because I told her about the fantasy creatures that Arthur told me about. After that day, she started hanging out with Arthur more and she kept saying that she could see the mythical creatures from the stories of our childhood. I was going to visit her again today, but I was afraid she would freak out like she usually did when I visited. (Name) only thinks that certain people aren't going to hurt her, certain people like her family and her doctors. Not me. No. She thinks I'm out to get her, and the whole time I'm visiting her, she curls up in her corner and just stares at me. The whole time. If I try to make conversation with her, she covers her ears and mumbles that I can't hurt her. I arrived at the hospital, ready to try just one last time.

  So one day he found her crying
  Coiled up on the dirty ground
  Her prince finally came to save her
  And the rest you can figure out

  But it was a trick
  And the clock struck twelve
  Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick
  Or the wolf's gonna blow it down

~~~~

  "(Name)," the Dragon Queen said, "Your friend Kiku is here." Didn't I tell her before that Kirai(1) isn't my friend? He tries to kill me every time he comes! With his lifeless eyes, staring into my soul, he wants to take my life and use it for his own. So when he comes, I do the only thing that will protect me; I make the force field that Sir Arthur(2) taught me how to form and sit in my corner until he leaves. And whenever he tries to chant his evil curses and get inside my mind, I cover my ears and remind myself that with the force field, he can't hurt me. I groan when he comes in and run to my corner, raising my force field. He walks through the door calmly, menacingly, his black uniform spotless as always, and his blood red cape flowing behind him. He closes the door with the hand that's shrouded in black smoke, his black devil's tail flicking behind him. The light from my room glints off his deathly pale skin.

  "Hello (Na-" he starts to say, his forked tongue flicking out between his sharp teeth, but I drown him out with my mumbling.

  "He won't hurt me. He can't hurt me. I have a force field," I mumble over and over, covering my ears.

  "(Name), I'm not going to hurt you," he hisses, walking closer to me.

  "DON'T COME NEAR ME!" I scream. It was a wonder the Dragon Queen didn't come with her two Dragon guards yet.

  "(Name). I promise I will not hurt you," he says gently. Then he looks at me with a feeling in his eyes that I can't place. He looks sad. Then he started fading in and out of focus, crackling at the edges, his expression changing from rage to something else, and I had no idea what to think anymore.

  "Stop," I whisper, "Stop it. You're scaring me."

  Keep your feet on the ground
  When your head's in the clouds
  Well go get your shovel
  And we'll dig a deep hole
  To bury the castle, bury the castle

  "(Name). You need to snap out of this," Kirai- no, Kiku says, walking over to me and crouching in front of me, wiping the tears off my face. I didn't even realize I had started crying at the time.

  Well you built up a world of magic
  Because your real life is tragic
  Yeah you built up a world of magic

~~~~

  "Hey, Kiku!  I want you to meet someone!" (Name) said, running up to me during recess.

  "Hai, (Name-chan)?" I asked after leaving my game of kickball with the other boys.

  "I want you meet Lila Gamgee. She's a hobbit. Lila, this is Kiku Honda, my best friend," she said, gesturing to me. She paused for a second, as if listening to something. I furrowed my eyebrows together, showing a rare sign of emotion, confusion.

  "Of course not, Lila! You're my best friend, too! But Kiku is my best boy friend!" I blush when she said boyfriend and she blushes, too.

  "No, no, no! He's not my boyfriend! He's my friend that's a boy!" she said, turning to face the seemingly empty space.

  "Uhm, (Name-chan)? There's no one standing there," I said, trailing off when (Name) began to glare at me.

  "Not you too, Kiku! Everyone else says that Lila and my other friends aren't real, but they are! I see them! If I can see them, that means they're real! They are! The only person who believes me is Sir Arthur!" then she ran off, crying.

~~~~

  If it's not real
  You can't hold it in your hand
  You can't feel it with your heart
  And I won't believe it
  But if it's true

  You can see it with your eyes
  Oh even in the dark
  And that's where I want to be, yeah

  "(Name). Look at me."

  "No!"

  "Look at me!" I shout at her, grabbing her hand. She jerks it out of my grip and brings it harshly across my face, leaving an angry red mark on my cheek. I flinch for a second, shocked that she would hit me, even in her deranged state.

  "Stay away from me!" she cries, shrinking even further into the corner. Her (h/c) hair falls in front of her face as she turns to face the wall and lean her forehead to it.

  "Y-You're scaring me," she sobs. I feel my heart lurch, and reach for her one more time, putting my hand on her back. She tenses up and turns around to stare at me and I memorize her face; tousled (h/c) hair, watery (e/c) eyes, flushed cheeks, clenched fists, and a wild look on her face.

  "Aishiteru," I whisper. Then, I lean in and kiss her.

  Go get your shovel
  We'll dig a deep hole
  To bury the castle, bury the castle
  Well go get your shovel
  And we'll dig a deep hole
  To bury the castle, bury the castle

~~~~

  I couldn't believe it! Kirai was kissing me. Kissing me. I open my eyes wider to make sure I'm not imagining it, but when I open them, it's Kiku who's kissing me. Realizing that he wasn't going to hurt me, I melted and kissed him back.

  "I'm so sorry, Kiku. I didn't know it was yo-" he cuts me off with another kiss. Suddenly-

  "(Name), are you okay? We heard screaming!" my doctor, who I now recognized to be the Dragon Queen, and her two nurses, the guards, came storming in. Kiku and I immediately jumped away from each other.

  "I-It was nothing, miss," Kiku started, trying to think of an excuse for the screaming.

  "Was he hurting you, (Name)?" she says, her expression hardening. I shake my head quickly.

  "N-No! He wasn't! In fact...I feel a lot better now," I say, getting quieter and quieter with each word until I'm speaking just above a whisper. I smile and touch my fingers to my lips, the warm feeling still there. My doctor still looks suspicious for a moment as she stares at me.

  "Okay," she says carefully, "We're going to run a few tests tomorrow. Is that alright?"

  "Yes, that's fine," I said, smiling pleasantly at her. She looks at me weirdly and leaves.

  "I take it that was one of the onry times you've answered her normally?" Kiku guesses, turning to me.

  "I think so...can't quite remember," I answer. I look at him and smile and he smiles back.

  Ba da ba ba da ba ba da...
  Ba da ba ba da ba ba da...
  Ba da ba ba da ba ba da...
  Ba da ba ba da ba ba da...

  Epilogue

  (Name) (Last Name) was discharged from the mental facility a week after Kiku Honda visited her. Kiku asked (Name) to be his girlfriend shortly after and they are currently going steady. They love each other very much. Kiku is actually thinking that (Name) might be the one he pops the question to.

THE END
Hey, bros! Twisted here. This is a request for :iconnostaligicdreamer: I'm terribly sorry this is so. Freaking. Late. I was procrastinating again. And I had dance camp, so I'll blame it on Mr. A! (See my journal, Somebody's Koling Me... ^J^) Lol not really. I was just procrastinating again. :P I'm sorry if it's not good and I'm sorry about the OOC-ness. And the suckiness. I'm not that proud of this one. :/ ANYWAY!

(1) Kirai is Kiku's evil version's name. Yeah. I couldn't think of anything, so I Googled it. It was either this or Evil-san.
(2) Sir Arthur is, well, Arthur, of course!

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