Akari's Depression
By TheBlackKid
Chapter 1 – Near-Death Injury
Chinastu's POV
As the final school bell rang for the day, me and Akari made our ways to the clubroom. I almost went there by myself, because Akari didn't want to go. She said something about always being ignored wherever she goes, but I told her she was overreacting.
"But what about all those times I get marked absent when I'm sitting in clear view?" Akari asked me.
"You're overreacting." I said.
"But what about all those times I keep getting left behind whenever we go on class trips?"
"You're overreacting."
"What about that whole Akarin! thing?"
"Okay, to be fair, you're the one who started that."
"Yeah, but…"
"Seriously, Akari. You're letting this 'no presence' thing get you paranoid over nothing. All those times were just accidents. Nothing more, nothing less."
"Oh, yeah? Then how come you do it, Chinastu?"
"U-Uh…w-well…"
Okay yes, it's true. I've been ignoring Akari a lot lately. But unlike the other classmates, I have a perfectly good reason for it. In a few months, Yui and Kyouko will be going on to high school, and I've been using all this time to finally confess my love for Yui…even though she's somewhat aware of it. Not completely, though. Surprisingly, she's too dense to figure it out. Yet, she's supposed to be the smart one between the four of us. But I'm willing to put aside those flaws of her's. Soon, my life-long fantasy of Yui being my girlfriend will finally come true. That is, if Kyouko doesn't get in my way.
"sigh. It's okay, Chinastu. You don't have to explain it." Akari said, sounding a little depressed.
"W-Wait, Akari! Look, I'm sorry for ignoring you a lot lately, but I'm getting so close to confess to Yui." I explained.
"You've been saying that ever since we've met."
"I know, but love is complicated, Akari."
"sigh. Whatever you say, Chinastu." Akari said as she walked ahead of me, still sounding a little depressed.
Why do I feel like I just screwed up big time?
I managed to catch up to Akari by the time we reached the clubroom. When we opened the door and went inside, we realized that Yui and Kyouko weren't there yet.
"Huh. They're not here yet." I said. "Want some tea, Akari?"
"Yeah, sure." Akari answered.
As Akari sat down at the table, I went to the mini kitchen to prepare the tea. Once that was done, I went to the main room and sat with Akari as we both drank our tea.
"Ah. Isn't this nice, Akari?
"Yeah…yeah it is, actually. Maybe you're right, Chinastu. Maybe I am getting paranoid over noth-
"CHINASTU!"
"sigh. Never mind."
Just then, Kyouko came barging into the room, breaking the door in the process, and came charging at me, squeezing me too tight as she kept cuddling me.
"Oh, I miss you, my little China-chan!" Kyouko yelled in my ear.
"Kyouko! Get off me! You're hurting my back!" I shouted while trying to push her off, but to no success. I honestly don't know why she does this to me and me only. It hurts like hell and it makes me fear Kyouko sometimes.
Hopefully, she comes here soon.
"Kyouko, get off her." A voice said. A voice that I've fallen in love with and pretty gotten addicted to.
There she is! My savior!
Yui came into the room and tried to break Kyouko's grip from me.
"But Yui, she's so cute and cuddly and soft and smooth! I just want to squeeze her for all eternity!" Kyouko shouted.
"Y-Yui! H-Help me!" I was starting to lose my breath.
"Hold on, Chinastu. I'll get you out." Yui said.
She then placed her hands on each of our heads and attempted to pull us apart. Unlike me, Yui has a lot of upper body strength. So although it took a bit of effort, Yui was able to get Kyouko off me. Problem is, the force Yui gave while pushing Kyouko off was too strong, as she ended up slamming into this giant shelf we had in there, cluttered with a bunch of Kyouko's Mirakurun stuff.
"Oh no! My collection!" Kyouko panicked. She tried to stop it, but couldn't, and everything that was there fell to the floor. Some ended up hit us in the head.
"Ow!" Yui yelled. "Kyouko, I thought you were going to take this stuff home with you!"
"I was, but then something happened." Kyouko responded.
"And what was that something?"
"I forgot."
"sigh."
"You're hopeless, Kyouko." I said as I got up from the floor. "Thanks for the help, Yui!"
I hugged Yui as tight as I could (which is a lot less power than Kyouko) as I showered her with my gratitude of love.
"Y-You're welcome, Chinastu. B-But can you let go of me, please?"
"Of course!" I let go of Yui and sat down on one of the cushions at the table. "You guys want some tea? Me and Akari were drinking some not too long ago."
"Sure, I can go for some tea."
"Huh? Akari's here?" Kyouko asked. "I didn't notice."
"You would if you weren't snuggling Chinastu so hard." Yui retorted.
"But my China-chan is so cuddly!"
"Quit calling me that!" I yelled at her. "Sorry about this, Akari."
"…"
"Akari?"
Akari was lying on the floor with her back facing towards us. She wasn't moving at all, and she was in a weird position.
"Did she fall asleep?" Kyouko asked.
"There's no way she could've slept through all that." Yui claimed.
"Hey, Akari. You okay?" I asked as I went up to her. I moved her body a little, and eventually I gained view of something I wish I didn't see.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
What I saw, was Akari laying limp, with a big sharp object piercing her left eye.
"AKARI!" I screamed in terror.
"OH MY GOD, AKARI!" Yui shouted.
"OH CRAP! OH CRAP! OH CRAP!" Kyouko began panicking.
We were all too horrified to move, but we knew that if don't do something, Akari might die from this. So Yui went over to Akari and placed two fingers on her neck.
"She still has a pulse! We've got to take her the school!" She yelled. "Chinastu! Grab one end of her! Kyouko! Call an ambulance!"
"Right!"
"Right!"
I grabbed one end of Akari's limp body while Yui grabbed the other. As we ran out the clubroom and headed for the school, Kyouko was on the phone with the emergency staff.
"Yes, hello? My friend! She got stabbed in the eye! She's bleeding everywhere! PLEASE SEND HELP!"
It didn't take long for an ambulance to show up at the school. They placed Akari on the stretcher and loaded her in the truck. As it drove off, the members of the student council showed up next to us.
"What the hell happened to Akari?!" Sakurako asked.
"She got stabbed in the eye by one of Kyouko's toys!" Yui answered.
"KYOUKO! I thought you took those home with you!" Ayano yelled at her.
"I'M SORRY, OKAY! I FORGOT!" Kyouko shouted.
"I'm going to meet her at the hospital!" I said.
"Wait, shouldn't you let Akane know?" Yui asked me.
"I'll call her on the way there!"
"I'm coming with you!" Sakurako said.
"Me too!" Himawari added.
"I'm worried about Akari!" Chitose said.
"Me too! I'll get Nishigaki to give us a ride!" Ayano said.
"Please hurry, Ayano!" Kyouko pleaded.
Nishigaki agreed to give us a ride to the hospital, and even Rise wanted to tag along. Once we got there, we met up with Akari's sister Akane, along with my sister Tomoko, and we told them what happened.
"A toy stabbed her in the eye?!" Akane shouted.
"How the hell did that happen?!" Tomoko asked.
"It was an accident, I swear! I didn't mean for Akari to get hurt!" Kyouko cried. From the look on her face, she really feels bad about this whole thing.
We waited there for hours while the doctors did surgery on Akari's eye.
The entire time we were there, we were worried of the possibilities that could happen from this. How would Akari handle this? If she survives, that is.
*Inaudible Whisper*
"Yeah I hope so, too." Nishigaki said to Rise.
"Y'know, we wouldn't even be in this mess if Kyouko wasn't so damn hopeless." Sakurako grunted.
"I said I was sorry!" Kyouko yelled.
"SORRY'S NOT GOING TO FIX AKARI! IF SHE DIES FROM THIS, IT'LL BE ALL YOUR FAULT!
"DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?! I ALREADY FEEL HORRIBLE FOR ALL THIS AND I DON'T NEED YOU TO MAKE IT WORSE!"
"Guys, please calm down! We should be arguing at a time like this!" Ayano shouted.
"Ayano's right." Chitose said. "We should be hoping for Akari's recovery, not ruining our friendship."
"Right. Sorry." Both girls said.
We waited for another hour until one of the doctors came in the waiting room, sighing as he took his mask off.
"Well how is she, doctor?" Akane asked.
"You'll be good to know that the operation was a complete success." He said.
"YAY!" We all cheered and celebrated the fact that Akari survived through it all.
"Although, we did had to do some…modifications."
"Huh? What do you mean by that?" Tomoko asked.
"Well, she's awake now. You all can see for yourselves."
Oh geez. I hope it's not too bad.
The doctor took us through the hospital to the room where they left Akari in. As we stood outside the door, he said one last thing to us.
"Just so you know, we didn't tell her what we did to her yet. So please keep your reactions to a minimum."
We all agreed to what the doctor said and he opened the door, letting us inside the room. When we went inside and saw Akari laying on the bed, we were happy to see her alive…but then saw the modification the doctor was talking about. Needless to say, we were horrified at what we were looking at.
Oh god! Akari! What did they do to you?!
"Oh. Hey, everyone. I didn't think you all would come." Akari said with weak voice while wearing a weak smile. Which is understandable, since she just came out of surgery.
"H-Hey, Akari. How're you feeling?" I asked.
"Well…I do have a headache."
"Yeah, you sometimes get those once you get out of surgery." Yui said.
"I guess. But…for some reason…I can't open my left eye."
We all went dead silent after hearing that. We didn't know how (or if) we should tell Akari what happened to her.
"Miss Akaza. As you know, the surgery was a success." The doctor said. "But…we did had to make a few…changes."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"Well, I'll go get a mirror and show you."
As the doctor looked for a mirror, Akane went by her sister's side and held her hand tight.
"Sis, what did they do to me?" Akari asked.
"W-Well…" Was all Akane was able to say.
"Okay…here it is." The doctor said as he held up the mirror to Akari's face. When she took a look at it, she nearly broke into tears.
"Wha…"
"What…the?"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY EYE?!"
Akari looked at her reflection…to see that she only had one eye. The spot where her left eye used to be was replaced with a giant red scar patched up by stitches.
"Well, Miss Akaza. When you were brought here, we only had a few minutes to save you. Your eye bled so much that filled up a good part of your head. It was deemed unfixable. So we had no choice but to remove your eye."
"Oh, god…" Was all Akari was able to say after he explained everything.
"A-Akari…" I said, feeling worried for my best friend.
"Hey, Chinastu. I think we should let Akari rest a little." Tomoko said to me with her hand on my shoulder.
"Your sister's right, Chinastu." Yui added. "She did have a long day."
I honestly didn't want to leave. I wanted to stay and make Akari feel somewhat better about all this. I knew I didn't really have a choice.
"O-Okay." I said. "B-Bye, Akari."
"Goodbye…everyone." Akari said, sounding more depressed than she did this afternoon.
After everyone had gone home (except Akane, who stayed with Akari), I had taken a shower and gotten into bed. But…I couldn't sleep. How could I? When I saw my best friend nearly die from getting stabbed in the eye, and then having said eye removed, so she's stuck with only having one eye. I hated myself. I didn't cause the injury, but it's still my fault for forcing Akari for coming to the clubroom when she didn't want to in the first place. I felt horrible that I was basically part of ruining Akari's life.
I continued to stare at my bedroom ceiling rummaging through the thoughts that were swarming in my head. I soon felt tears running down my face as I tried to close my eyes and sleep.
Some friend I am.
A/N: A brand new Yuru Yuri story. And this one's tamer than the other ones. I actually had this idea for a while. And was looking for a right time to start working on it. Luckily, I found time by taking a break from this other story I was working on. So this one will get some more focus as time goes on.
That's all I have to say. Feel free to review, favorite, and/or follow the story. I'll be working on this plus another one at the same time, and will be updating them at them same time, as well. So it might take a while for the next chapter to be uploaded. But until then, thanks for reading.