It's late sorry! Only 2 chapters left (about) o_O


Title: The Other Ankh
Series: Kamen Rider OOO
Pairing: So far Ankh/OC, Eiji/OC, Date/Gotou (hint), Ankh/Eiji, Eiji/Hina (implied)
Rating: T
Synopsis: Part 4 – Guess who the next victim is.
AU: Did it flow well? O_O
Ownage: Unfortunately the characters or actors do not belong to me but the imagination does! =D
Other: Enjoy! ^_^ 

The sun rose heavenly over the tree tops.
“Welcome!” Chiyoko exclaimed to the customers as they flooded in. Today was cherry blossom themed.
“Welcome!” Hina said happily as she stood there wearing a white dress with sakura leaves trailing down it.

The restaurant was busy and bustling. Ankh observed from the far corner with an ice candie happily being sucked by his mouth. His eyes narrowed as she walked up to Eiji.

“Here you go,” she smiled to him, as she handed over some drinks to him.
“Ah thank you Ai-chan” he smiled back. Ankh stood up sharply and marched over and grabbed the drinks,
“I’ll take them,” and took them to the table. All four (Aiyu, Eiji, Chiyoko, Hina) watched Ankh in surprised – he never helped out!
“Are you okay? I’ll help you,” Hina offered, following Ankh.
“That was odd, ne?” Aiyu turned to Eiji.
“Yeah it was…”
“Jealousy?”
“Ha?” Eiji looked at her confused.
“Maybe he did it because he was jealous that we have a good friendship.”
“O yeah, sure! Yeah you’re right…friendship…” Eiji’s eyes dropped slightly.
“Are you alright?” Aiyu asked concerned.
“What? O yeah! I’m super!” he laughed nervously with a hand behind the back of his head.
“Ne… do you like Ayama Himiki?”
“Huh? O you mean the singer?”
“yeah…”
“I don’t like her, not really.”
“Heh? Why not?”
“Well I hear she’s not a very nice person. And she’s been quite harsh to her friends in the past. Definitely not attractive.”
“So you wouldn’t date her.”
“I hope I never see the like of her again…”
“again?”
“…Anyway! Back to work ne!”
“Un!” Aiyu watched Eiji walked away and made sure he was out of sight before a large evil smirk whipped across her face. Her smile soon left her face as she sensed a person behind her.

“What are you planning?” Ankh’s voice breathed down her neck. Slowly she turned around.
“What’s it to you?”
“You don’t like Hina, so why pretend to? Why get close to her?”
“Why not?” And she walked off towards Hina.
Tch.

“Ne Hina!”
Hina spun around, “Aiyu-chan!”
“Want to go and get some food to stock up with for the restaurant?” Hina smiled, “sure!”
Hastily they left the store, “Itekimasu!” and made their way to the main street.

The streets were too bustling with people. People shopping. People going to lunch. People going to and from work. Madness.
“How do you do it?” Aiyu asked, looking at her surroundings.
“Do what?”
“Cope with such a busy city and lifestyle?”
“…I don’t know… I was brought up with it and got used to it I guess… where did you live before hand?”
“I used to live in a country… there were very few people. Quite small.”
“What did you do there?”
“I helped my brother who worked for the king.”
“Really? Wow you must be famous there?”
“Haha not really. I was kept out of the picture a lot. I didn’t have a very nice brother.”
“I doubt that.”
“Well nevertheless, you can’t have mine!” they laughed.

A passerby came towards them and knocked Aiyu onto the floor.
“Are you alright Aiyu?” she helped Aiyu to her feet, “o you dropped your phone too!” as Hina picked it up she heard a noise coming from it.

You don’t like Hina, so why pretend to? Why get close to her?
I don’t like her, not really. not a very nice person. And she’s been quite harsh to her friends in the past. Definitely not attractive… I hope I never see the like of her again…

Hina stood in shock. Aiyu brushed off the dust on her clothes and looked at her, “are you alright?” Hina shoved the phone into Aiyu’s chest (knocking her back into a wall), dropped the shopping and ran away with tears down her face. Aiyu watched her run away. A curve started to form on her lips, “Arigatou Ankh, for your excellent question. It defiantly came in handy.”


*


Aiyu ran into the restaurant, “Hina’s ran away!” Everyone turned and looked at her.
“What?” they all said.
“I don’t know why! One minute we were walking together and then I got knocked over and then the next thing I know she went off running. I couldn’t keep up!”
“We better go searching now!” exclaimed Eiji, putting his plates down and running out of the door.
“Wait Eiji!” Chiyoko took her apron off and went after him. Ankh went to speak to Aiyu but before he could, she put down her stuff and ran out the door, “wait for me!”
Tch.

After a couple of hours of searching, the sun was beginning to fall behind the clouds and turn the skies orange.
“Did you find her?” Eiji asked Chiyoko.
“No… Any idea where she’d be?”
“No sorry.”
“We couldn’t see her either!” Date yelled as he and Gotou caught up with them.
“Maybe she’s gone back to the restaurant,” suggested Chiyoko.
“Good idea! Let’s go back!” proposed Gotou.
“I wonder what was wrong with her…” Eiji spoke quietly.

Mean while, Aiyu was sat on a shade of grass looking up to the sky. Ankh appeared from behind a tree.
“What did you do?” Aiyu stood up,
“O you presume I did something?” she turned to face him and began to walk towards him.
“Of course you did something! Why else would she go off running.”
“I don’t know. Maybe because you don’t like her… also, you are using her brother’s body, she can’t be too happy with that-“ Ankh grabbed her shirt and pulled her close,
“What did you do?”
Aiyu pulled her mobile phone out…

(Ankh) You don’t like Hina, so why pretend to? Why get close to her?
(Eiji) I don’t like her, not really. not a very nice person. And she’s been quite harsh to her friends in the past. Definitely not attractive… I hope I never see the like of her again…

“Technology is fascinating isn’t it?”

Ankh’s face swelled with anger, “how dare you!” he pushed away slightly before raising his right hand and swipping it across her face. Aiyu looked to the floor in shock before looking up and composing herself.
“I’m not going to stop.” She said firmly.
“Why! Why won’t you stop?!” Ankh pushed her to the floor.
“I’ve already told you!”
“Why? Why do you want to hurt me so badly?” he said on top of her and grabbed her shirt once more, “tell me!”
“You obviously aren’t brother material if you don’t know that answer…”
“Tell me Aiyu!”
“Because you hurt me!”

Silence loomed. Slowly Ankh’s faced puzzled, “what?” he said tears begin to run down her face.

“Because... you hurt me…”
“…how did I?” He moved so that he sat with his back to her, starring at the sunset. Slowly Aiyu sat up.
“Remember when you and OOOs were together, 800 years ago…” she spoke quietly.
“Yea…”
“Well… remember that one time….”

800 years ago….
“I have to attend to OOOs”
“I want to join you.”
“No!”
“Why not?”
“It’ll be dangerous-”
“-but I’m old enough. I’m strong enough. I’m-“
“No you’re not. Not against what’s going on at the moment. I’m sorry.”
“No you’re not!”
“Aiyu… not now.”
“But I want to-“
“No! Stay here. I order you. Not as a brother. As your superior…”

“..that night… was the night you were all enclosed ne…” she spoke. Ankh twitched slightly and looked at her,
“You weren’t?”

Aiyu shuck her head, “I left that night. I was sick of being left behind. I felt so alone. So I thought I’d leave for good. But then… I came back a while later… and there… you were all enclosed in what looked like…. Tombs… all that was left were your core medals…”

There was quiet as Ankh moved up towards her and put his arms around her. She clung back.
“I’m sorry… I didn’t realise…”
“Do you have any idea how lonely 800 years are? …. It killed me to not go talk to you when you came back… It killed me to only be a few yards away from you and yet you have no idea I was there.”
“That’s why you left clues,” he tightened his hold and he heard her tears roll down her face quicker.
“Yea… and when you didn’t realise it was me… it… it broke my heart.” Her sobs grew louder. Ankh pulled back slightly and leaned into her face, “I’m sorry” and pressed his lips against her. Her hands cupped his face and stroked his cheeks.

Brr. Brr.

They broke apart. Aiyu grabbed her phone.
“What is it?”
“They’ve found Hina at the restaurant.”
“Thank god,” he stood up, “we better get back” and held out a hand to her. She took it and stood up.
“You go on ahead. I better contain myself before I go back,” she gave a small smile.
“Good idea.” He went to leave, “you will come back, ne?”
“Of course!” she said forcing a happy smile. He smiled back and ran off towards the restaurant.
Aiyu faced the sunset and wiped her tears. She took a deep breath and began to walk in the opposite direction.


*


The tall grey glass building stood in front of her. She took a deep breath and made her way to the top floor.

Ding

“Ah. I was wondering when you were going to show up.” Said a voice that came from behind the chair in the far side of the room.
Aiyu walked up to him,
“Why did you tell me where Ankh was Kougami?”
The chair spun around to face her and reveal Kougami’s appearance, “why?”
“You have a motive don’t you? You have a motive for everything. For bringing back the Greeds. For telling me where Ankh was. For bringing OOOs back…”
“Ahh. Would you be assuming a dark motive?”
“Of course.”
“Well my dear child,” he stood up and walked towards the small table that lay to the right, “I did those things purely out of love.”
“No you didn’t”
“Okay you caught me! I did it because..” he lifted up a box and gave it to her. She opened it, “I like cake.” The box revealed a cake with Aiyu and Ankh’s name with a love heart in the centre, “Happy Birthday!”
“Why did you do this? You can have it back..” she pushed the box back in his hand and began to walk towards the elevator, “if you’re not going to tell me, I might as well go..”
“Subarashii! You have such passion to persue your mission!” Kougami exclaimed, “who’s next on the list?”
Aiyu got into the lift and faced him, “Date and Gotou of course. Ja…” she smirked at him as the elevator doors closed.