Oy! I would like to give thanks to my new Beta for this story: Your Blackened Wings and my WMP, because it actually spat out songs that matched the occasion for once. xDDDD Anyway, that's about all I have to say. Enjoy!

The next morning, I woke with a one of the brightest smiles that I had smiled in a very long time. It disappeared rather quickly when I found that Dark wasn't beside me anymore in my lonely bed. I sighed, knowing it had been rather foolish of me to hope he would still be here beside me when I woke up from my slumber, but a girl could hope, right? Not this girl apparently. I blinked the crust out of my eyes and sluggishly went about my daily ritual of getting dressed and heading out of my house. My sole thought was the fact that I was going to surprise Dark by going to watch him steal tonight.

That morning, I got to school earlier than usual. I wasn't surprised when I walked into class and found that the few people who had arrived were huddled in a corner, chatting it up about different things that probably had nothing what-so ever with school . Then the annoying nuisance, Takeshi spotted me. Instinctively, I threw up my hands to create a barrier that would block my face because, knowing Takeshi, he would either blind me with his camera, tackle me, or worse… both…

"Yo Miu! So you and the Phantom Thief got it going on!" My eyes widened. I was stunned. How could he possibly know about last night…?

I hardened my voice. "What are you rambling about, Saehara?" He swung his arm around my shoulders causally like we had known each for years instead of just a short time.

"I saw you two totally making ou-" Before he could finish that sentence, I grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back, applying the slightest bit of upward force. He cried out a little like a skinned puppy.

"You're delusional." I growled lowly, narrowing my eyes. Everyone was looking at me. Risa Harada, Riku Harada, and several other girls in my class, plus even a few of the guys in our class was watching me twisting Takeshi's arm behind his back.

"Are you going to hold him like that all day, or ease his pain by releasing him?" Satoshi asked from behind me, cocking an eyebrow at Takeshi's twisted arm.

"Don't mess with me." I growled at Takeshi and released him. As I walked past Satoshi, I mumbled, just barely loud enough for him to hear: "I remember everything now. I acknowledge that it isn't your fault. It's his." I glanced back at him just in time to see his normally sapphire eyes flash an icy blue. The rest of the day was uneventful of course, like always. And Dark's Tamer, Daisuke, never even showed up once to school that entire day with his cheery face and happy-go-lucky attitude…

It was a fairly easy task, getting past the guards. All they were doing was watching the sky. They didn't even bother with the ground. And the security system sucked. I mean, the locks were like those on a diary and the traps were obvious. The thing that got me was that all of this came to me almost naturally, and deep down that sort of frightened me…

I allowed myself to clear my thoughts as I scrambled up the stairs, to reach the roof. I pushed the door open quietly and stopped dead in my tracks. Dark was kissing Risa. I didn't know who to be more upset with. Dark or myself for being a brainless fool - Karma was such a terrible being…White rage began to bubble up in me. I watched as Dark broke the kiss, stroked her cheek, and smiled a dazzling smile that even made my heart flutter with the distance between us. The smile was like the ones he gave me. Before I knew it, I was speaking. The words that came out of my mouth were automatic. Like it wasn't even me who was speaking. But I knew it was, because the words were the exact thoughts I was thinking.

"Aah. Now I see how it is. She's your girl. I'm a pawn. You did nothing but play me the whole damned time!" I shrieked, choking back hot tears. Instead of crying all those hot tears that threatened to boil over, I twitched and wringed my hands quietly at my sides and focused all of my boiling rage on rage on Dark and Dark alone.

"All you were doing was toying with me! Screwing around with my emotions! When you were with me… I felt happiness for the first time in a long time… You made me believe I had a reason to live! Then you go and… and… and…" The lump that formed in my throat got bigger, and I felt that if I said anything more, the tears would fall. I couldn't let that happen. I couldn't show weakness in front of him…

Dark took a small step towards me.

"That's not true…." He whispered. I shook my head slowly.

"Mr. Dark! Wh-" Dark cut her off.

"Leave, Risa." His voice was molten ice.

"But Mr. Dar-" He cut her off again.

"Risa! I told you to leave!" He raised his voice at her. This was the first time I had seen him like this, but it felt so familiar. He appeared to be in so much pain, like he was tearing himself apart on the inside. Risa shook her head, teary eyed, and ran passed me and out the door.

Aimlessly, I walked over to the edge of the four story building's roof and looked down.

"You know, I don't think anyone would really care if I fell off this roof and died. My parents despise me. I have no friends or allies to speak of. I have no reason to live. No purpose. All I do. All I've ever done is take up the needed air and space of others..." I glanced back at Dark. The wind blew, tousling my hair and the first tear – and maybe one of my last – slid painfully down my cheek. I turned to face him, my heels hanging slightly over the edge.

"You're wrong, Miu. You DO have a reason to live, and, like everyone else, you have a purpose. Whether you know what it is or not. God… Please… I love you…"

I did my best to ignore Dark's words, even though they raced through my head at lightning speed. They weren't true, maybe to him they were, but not to me. After seeing him with Risa, nothing he could do could possibly change my thoughts now. I looked up at Dark and locked my eyes with his for perhaps the last time in my life.

"Goodbye Dark… Please… Never forget me…" I whispered, barely loud enough for my own ears to hear over the roaring wind. I could tell from the look on Dark's face that he had heard me. Before he could react, I let myself fall backwards.

"Miu!!!" Dark shouted. He was at the ledge now, and I realized he was going to be the last thing I would ever see. The wind tore at me mercilessly as I fell, like it was laughing at me for believing that Dark wanted me to live. A cold fact hit me harder than the wind: I was going to die, and yet I still couldn't bring myself to cry…It was for the best. I slowly shut my eyes and waited for the impact of the cold ground to hit me, for death's cold grasp to wash over me. Oddly it never came.

My eyes snapped open when something collided hard with my back, I could feel a rib shatter with the collision. My vision faded and I blacked out…