Is it that time already? I believe so! Yay for 4th chapter :) so just a few things.
I don't think I will be able to update this every Sunday from now on. Things are too hectic. But I do promise I will update it at least once a week.
Now it's time for the...:

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters from Angel Beats. Any characters that are not from the original show or manga that appear are purely fictional and are not intended to represent any other person.

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Time After Time

Chapter 4

Radiant

"Brought into the light at last by the cold exposing sun."

"Yuzuru."

There was a lot of people around him. Most of them guys, but there were some girls. The guys were all wearing tan school coats it looked like. The girls were wearing normal school girl outfits, the ones that kinda looked like sailor outfits. Everyone looked like they were smiling and having a good time.

They were down by a river. Everyone had a fishing pole and were goofing off. One guy had a stereo and was blasting some music. A little girl with pink hair was picking a fight with a guy with blue hair. Did she have a tail? A girl who was all depressed looking was over in the shade playing with a little wind up toy? Everyone just looked so peaceful and like they were having a good time.

"Hey Kanade!" someone yelled. He then looked the direction in which the voice came from and there was another girl with shoulder length pink hair and a green bow headband in her hair. She was standing next to a girl with long white hair. But that couldn't be her could it? Why would she be here, surrounded by people he didn't even know!
"Yuzuru."

He began to walk over to the girls, trying to get a closer look at the girl with white hair that looked so much like her. He was getting close. They seemed to get a little blurry somehow.

He took another step. Again, they looked blurry.

Another step. Even more blurry.

One more step. Everything went blurry, then black. Before he blacked out he was able to see her face. It was Kanade!

Now it was black. Everywhere he looked;black. He began to run, not knowing if it would do him any good. After what seemed like an eternity he stopped running and dropped to his knees. 'What's going on? Why can't I get out of here?' he kept thinking.

"Yuzuru?" he heard faintly in the distant. Hoping it would be a way out of this darkness, he began to run toward the voice.

Again he heard the voice call him. "Yuzuru." It was louder this time. A lot louder. Maybe he was getting close.

He ran for a long time before he heard the voice again. This time it was as if the person was right next to him. He stopped and looked around frantically. "HELLO!" he called out. No one answered. Again he yelled out but no one answered. Just then, he saw a faint light. He looked up, not wanting to hope it was something just to have them trashed again.

But the light didn't diminish. It kept growing. And growing. Maybe this was the real deal. He began to walk towards it. With each step his head began to hurt though but he didn't care. He just wanted to get out of there. With each step the pain got worse but he kept trudging onward.
"Yuzuru."

He was almost there it seemed like. It was extremely bright and the pain was almost intolerable. His head felt like it was going to be crushed under the weight it felt like it was under. And then the pain hit him so hard instantly that he fell to his knees. The radiant light began to shine brightly, almost blinding him.

And suddenly, everything came back to him. All the memories. All those people. All of the adventures. The useless fights. The Guild. How he was dead. His friends.

Yuri. Hinata. Takamatsu. Naoi... Kanade.

"Come on Yuzuru. You're almost there."

Kanade.

All of it was real. He was dead. Well used to be. But all of them were. They were stuck there because they died with lingering attachments from when they were alive. Everyone wanted to believe that they lived life to the fullest, but no one ever talked about when they were alive. Only on certain occasions did they tell him about how they died.

Everything just seemed to hit him hard. So hard, he blacked out again.

He came to a couple of hours later. Kanade had laid him on the couch in the living room, put an ice pack on his, and set a glass of water on the coffee table. He couldn't move though. It hurt him to much to move.

"Welcome back Yuzuru." He turned his head a little to see Kanade standing in the hallway. "How are you feeling?" she asked as she came over and put her hand on his forehead.

"My head hurts like hell," he tried to joke but it came out as a whisper."

"Tell me. What happened?" she inquired when she figured he didn't have a fever.
He motioned that he wanted to sit up and she helped him sit up and sat down when he patted the seat next to him.

He tried to talk, but his voice came out all raspy. So he tried again. When that didn't work Kanade got up and put her ear next to his mouth so she could hear him better.

In his faintest voice he whispered to her, "I remember."

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