Okay so wouldn't let me update new a chapter for another story and it almost drove me insane. I even wrote about it in this one get to know you thing my teacher gave me. (Don't ask.) But today it finally worked! But I already made this chapter super long… well I guess I'll have to see what I'm gonna do about that. I don't think that I've ever written this much on the computer for one chapter in such a short amount of time. Maybe I'm getting faster at typing! I can type 19 minuets a minuet according to my computer tech class last year. I think I've improved, but not as much as my friend. She can type 90 words a minuet sometimes. I could never get that good. Opps I'm boring you guys with my ramblings, sorry!
Disclaimer- Don't own Hana-Kimi… except for the books I bought using up all my money.
It was time for the big high jump competition of the year. Both Sano and Kagurazaka were entered in it. Everyone tried to guess who would win between the two knowing that no one else even had a chance.
Mizuki waited for Sano outside of the locker room, hoping to give an encouraging word before it was time for him to jump. He was the last to leave and almost didn't see her when he left.
"Sano!" she called. He turned around and smiled. She was holding one of those squishy hands that said number one on it. "I wanted to say good luck before you jump and that I'll cheer for you even if you do lose." "Thanks Ashiya." He said running out to the field.
She made her way to the bleachers where she took her seat next to Nakatsu and Noe. "Couldn't we have gotten better seats?" she complained. "I can hardly see anything!" "Hey! I had to wait three hours in line to get these seats!" Nakatsu said. "Three hours? So that's where you were that whole time. I thought that Sano got us these seats." Sekime said.
Mizuki shook her head. "They didn't give him any tickets for friends. This is a charity event. Everyone has to pay for themselves." She searched the field for her roommate. He was doing some practice runs while some of the other guys stretched.
The field was filled with athletes running around. No one was standing still, at least not anyone she saw. She saw a bunch of guys from every school in the area but no one from Tokyo High.
"Hey, where's Kagurazaka? I can't find him or anyone else from his school down there." Nakatsu quickly scanned the field. "You're right. Maybe he decided not to show up. Probably too scarred to be beaten by Sano when he talks so big."
Nanba showed up just then sliding into an empty seat nearby. "Hey Nanba, what's up?" Mizuki asked cheerfully as always. "Hey." He looked around. "Did you guys here what happened in the parking lot?" he asked looking as if he had just been up all night.
They all shook there heads. "Oh, they're probably trying to keep this off of the record…" he mumbled to himself. "Why what happened?" Noe asked. The RA shook his head. "The guys from Tokyo High were attacked. A bunch of guys tried to cut them up before they could compete. I was coming here late and they tried to hit me thinking I was one of them."
All four friends looked like they didn't believe his story. "Sure, and you probably saved them single handedly too. Save your hero stuff for the ladies, man." Nakatsu said laughing. Nanba pulled up the sleeve of his T-shirt showing them a large band aid that blood had soaked through.
"Someone really doesn't want them in the competition." Sekime said. Mizuki instantly feared for Sano. 'If they attacked Kagurazaka then they might attack Sano! Cool down, Sano's on the field. No one would attack him everyone could see.' The thought mad her feel better.
"But the Tokyo guys are real stubborn. They still insist on jumping. One of there guys was sent to the hospital but the others have decided to compete in his name. Makoto Kagurazaka I think it is. He gave the medics on hell of fight though. If he hadn't passed out from blood loss they might have never gotten him to the hospital."
'Oh no! He's in the hospital? Poor Kagurazaka… Despite his big mouth he can be kind hearted sometimes. That one summer he really showed kindness to me. I know, after the competition I'll go visit him.' She thought with a smile.
A few minuets later the games began. Sano dominated the high jump and won first place with ease. The guys from Tokyo High made a big commotion about how if Makoto had been there he wouldn't have won and how the trophy wasn't rightfully his. Sano just brushed them off as he entered the locker room.
Mizuki and the rest of the guys waited for him to get out. "Congratulations!" they all said in unison. He partly smiled. Nanba starred at him for a moment making him feel uncomfortable even though he didn't show it.
"So, how do you feel about all the Tokyo guys giving you crap?" he finally asked not averting his gaze. "I was actually really surprised. I didn't think that anyone like Kagurazaka that much. I thought all his team mates hated him." He shrugged.
Nanba nodded as if accepting his answer. "Come on! This deserves a celebration! Let's go have some fun!" Nakatsu said holding up Sano's newly won trophy. Noe and Sekime shook there heads. "There are a bunch of girls hanging around here and we want to scope them out a bit." They both said running off.
Nanba also declined. "I have a date tonight. I have to get ready before I go to pick her up." Mizuki smiled up sweetly. "I'll celebrate but I was going to visit Kagurazaka at the hospital first. You two go ahead and I'll catch up." She said.
"Okay Mizuki but don't be late! We'll be that new bar near the school." Nakatsu said pulling away a reluctant Sano. She wanted to go out with them but new she had to see Makoto first so she wouldn't feel guilty about not seeing him when he was hurt. Hailing a cab she went off to the hospital.
She walked up confidently to the front desk and asked where Makoto Kagurazaka was. The nurse shook her head and pointed down a nearby hall where loud voices could be heard. Curious Mizuki went to go check it out.
And there it was. Kagurazaka was standing by a hospital bed without a shirt on revealing all the bandages that they had put on his to cover all his wounds. A sling was holding his left arm. A nurse was yelling at him to get back into bed.
"You can't leave!" the nurse shouted trying to block him from his bloody shirt and jacket. "Try and stop me." He said gently pushing her away. "Dammit you do this every time you come here! You're not well you have to stay until your parents come and check you out after the doctor tells you it is okay."
Kagurazaka froze and looked back at the nurse with an evil glare. Right away she realized her mistake and tried to apologize. Mizuki didn't understand what was going on. She stood in the doorway until she was finally noticed by the nurse.
"Excuse me miss, can I help you?" she asked. Mizuki blushed and Kagurazaka tried to hide a smile. "That's no lady, Cornelia. That's Mizuki Ashiya, he goes to Osaka." the nurse apologized for the mistake. "I'll leave you two alone. Make sure he stays in bed." She instructed Mizuki leaving the room.
After the nurse left the room was unsettling silent. The girl found herself starring at the wounds of the high jumper. "They got you good." She said not even realizing she had said it out loud until replied.
"Yeah, dirty basterds. "I could have won the competition but instead they made me come here." she didn't know how o answer because she believed that Sano deserved to have his win. He smiled knowing exactly what she was thinking.
He grabbed his head for a moment sitting down. For the first time she noticed that he was very pale. "Are you okay?" she asked concerned. He nodded. "Yeah I'm fine. Could you hand me my shirt next to you?"
She grabbed the shirt and felt a bit morbid because it was covered all over with his blood. The only evidence that the shirt had once been light blue instead of dark red was a tiny patch of blue on the edge of the sleeves.
She watched him put it on with some difficulty. "Ashiya, could you help me out here?" he asked. She nodded breaking the trace of starring at him struggle with the clothing. Taking the sling off from around his neck she gently lowered her arm helping him put the sleeve on properly.
She watched as he winced when she out it back on around his neck once again. "Getting dressed every morning is going to be hell." He said standing up. "I think that you should really stay sitting. If you move around too much you wounds won't be able to close up and heal properly." Mizuki, the sister of a doctor.
He just shook his head. "I'm fine. They just want me to stay here longer so they can charge more money for there services. There's someone out there who needs that bed more then I do. I have to get out of here." going past her he picked up his jacket and left the room.
A minuet later he stuck his head back in. "You're coming right?" he asked. She smiled following him into the hallway. "I need you to do me a favor. He said. "What?" "Go and sign me out. Pretend to be my sister or something." "I don't think that's a good idea." She said concerned.
"Come on. You if I can get out of bed and walk around then I don't need to stay here. I can heal in my own home thank you very much. I don't need some highly educated rich man telling me whether I can stay or not."
Mizuki looked away for a moment thinking on it. "What about your parents?" she asked remembering his reaction when the nurse had mentioned his parents. "Won't they be worried when they come here looking for you and don't find you?"
He clutched his coat tightly in his hands at the mention of his parents. 'I can't expect him to know. I mean after all I haven't seen him in a long time anyways. Plus why would I ever bother to tell Mizuki? He's the last person I'd tell, right beside that annoying kid who keeps calling me Kagupi.' "They probably don't know that anything ever happened to me." 'Not that they'd care anyways.' He thought scornfully.
Mizuki knew that something was up but didn't press the subject. "Okay I'll sign you out." She finally said. A wide grin was spread across his face. "Thanks princess. I really appreciate it. Could you hurry up though? My nurse might come back at any moment and destroy any chance I have at getting out of this hell whole. I swear she wants me to spend the rest of my life in this place." She saw him playfully shutter at the thought.
Mizuki walked up to the front desk with Kagurazaka watching just around the corner of the hallway. "Hello. I would please like to sign Makoto Kagurazaka out." "Hold on a moment." The nurse said checking a book. She looked up at a nervous Mizuki. "The book says that he isn't to be released for a week. Who are you anyway?"
She gave out a nervous giggle and started to panic. Just then a shoe hit her in the back of the head. "Ouch!" she yelled turning around to see what had hit her. Kagurazaka looked away innocently when the nurse looked at him accusingly but when she turned away he tried to say something to his friend that she couldn't hear the whole thing because he was whispering.
She laughed turning back to the nurse. "I guess shoes get thrown around a lot around here." the nurse didn't see her humor. "Uh well I'm his cousin's husband. There was a family problem and I was asked to bring him home right away." "Aren't you a bit too young to be married?" 'Oh no! I can't believe that I said that! Now I'll never get him out of here!'
"Sign here." the nurse said pointing at the patient release forms. "It really is a shame that you knocked up that poor girl so young and had to marry her. Do you have any idea what kind of lives you could have lived?" another nurse asked who had been getting a file. "No it's not like that…!" Mizuki tried to say before Kagurazaka pulled her away.
"I said say that you're a family friend and that the house caught on fire not that you knocked up my cousin and that there was a family problem. You really are a bad liar." "I've been fooling you haven't I?" she asked. "What did you say?" he asked as they walked out of the hospital. "No nothing!" 'Damn that was close. I thought that I was thinking that. I have to be more careful while around him.'
Kagurazaka looked up that sky then back down at his shirt. "I have to go back to my dorm. Thanks for getting me out princess." With that he headed off in a different direction without waiting to hear her response.
She starred for a long moment before realizing that she was supposed to meet up with Sano and Nakatsu. As she tried to hail a cab she tried to remember where they were supposed to be going anyway.
When she arrived, after visiting 5 other bars first, it was already pretty late and the sun had been down for around an hour. 'This is the time when all the heavy drinkers come out.' She thought to herself.
Before she entered the building Nakatsu came out heatedly. "Nakatsu?" she asked after he slammed the door shut. "Yeah?" he asked instantly calming down when he saw her face. "Is everything okay?" she asked him confused.
He slumped down on the side of the building and held his head in his arms. "You don't want to hear it." He said looking up at her with a face she had never seen him have before, one of complete and utter shock.
"Yes I do. Tell me, please?" he nodded no knowing how to deny her anything that she asked for. "It's Sano. He said some things while he was drunk. And I'm not really sure what to make of them. He's really trashed in there. He's grabbing waitress' asses and talking a boat load of shit."
She leaned against the building with him. She placed a hand on his shoulder urging him to go on but he just winced in pain. "He also threw some cheap punches while I wasn't looking." 'Damn that Izumi! I can't get his words out of my head. "You're so obvious you queer bait. No one really likes you. Noe, Mizuki, and Sekime are only being your friends because they feel sorry for you. Who could ever want something as stupid as you? And you can just forget about Mizuki, she wouldn't want you if you were the last man on earth."'
"He kept on referring to you as 'she' and 'her'. What do you think he meant by it?" she instantly pulled away from him. Anger showed threw her eyes even though her words were calm like everything was normal inside her head. "I'm gonna go inside and see what's up with him. Go on back to the dorms."
She slowly pulled open the door into the bar and felt as if something was stabbing her in the heart. There was Izumi Sano, the man she loved, with some sleazy blond sitting on his lap making out with him.
Not knowing what was coming over her she walked right up tot eh two of them with tear brimmed eyes. "Sano?" she asked weakly, not knowing what to say to him after such a betrayal of her trust.
He opened his eyes ad pulled away from the slut. "Mizuki! How kind of you to finally join us!" he said standing up pushing the girl to the floor. "Hey!" she yelled but he just ignored her.
"I'm so glad that you finally decided to leave that hospital to celebrate with me! Did you give Kagurazaka my best?" the way that he uttered that last words with a drunken slur made her want to slap him right there.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked disgusted. "What could you possibly mean by that? It's my big day; I have a right to have some fun. Plus I thought that maybe now that you're here that we could go back to the dorm." He gave her a perverted look and she finally realized something.
"You knew? You new this whole time!" she yelled furiously slapping him across the face. He only smiled. He grabbed her around the waist and held her close even though she fought his touch. "Common." He said carrying her out of the bar.
The bar was close to the school so he carried her the whole way there. 'This can't be happening!' he thought to herself as he dropped her on his bed. "Sano stop it!" she yelled. "No." he simply said before tapping her mouth shut.
'No! You're supposed to be the one who saves me! You can't be the one who does this to me!' he smiled tying her tot her to the bed as if he read her thoughts. "I saved you with Makita for the same reason he saved you with those other guys. I didn't want anyone else getting to you first. Why else would I have kept you secret for so long? I needed the timing to be perfect."
And then it happened. The one thing that Mizuki thought could never happen did. Her one true love raped her in his bed. She cried the whole time before he finally fell asleep. 'I was so stupid to trust him. This isn't right. I should never have come here for him. It's all my fault.'
While Sano slept guilt free she broke free of her ties and ran out of the room, only wearing a pair of his boxer shorts. She kept running like she had never run before. She didn't know where she was going but she didn't care.
She found herself outside of Tokyo High when she finally stopped. She ran into the dorm building and banged on every door frantically screaming Kagurazaka's name. Every guy came out of there room and pinched themselves to see if they were dreaming. There was a very hot girl with no top on screaming for Kagurazaka.
No one did anything but just starred until she finally found the right door. Kagurazaka opened his door irritably rubbing his eye. "Mizuki?" he asked seeing her. He looked down and then froze. "Who are you?" he asked.
She could only cry when she saw him. He looked outside into the hall passed her and saw every other guy that he went to school with and pulled Mizuki into his dorm. He picked up a shirt from his drawer and threw it at her.
He waited patiently for her to stop crying and finally talk to him. "It was Sano." She said wiping her eyes finally. "What was Sano?" he asked confused. "And why are you a girl. No I mean why did you pretend to be a guy?"
"I wanted to meet Sano so I pretended to be a guy to go to his school. He raped me Kagurazaka." He could tell that it was hard for her to get the words out. He didn't look shocked or angry but shook his head. He put his arms around her for a hug. "Ka…" "Shhh, don't speak. It'll all be okay. Don't worry."
Mizuki felt weird in his arms. They weren't the incredible sense of safety that she had felt once with Sano but it wasn't bad. He knew exactly what to do when she felt like she was going to start to cry again. In the middle of the night she fell asleep in Kagurazaka's dorm.
When she woke up the next morning she wasn't sure where she was. She started to panic when she realized that she want in her dorm or with her vest on but then the memories of last night came rushing back. "Why me?" she asked in a whisper.
Not too long after she woke up Kagurazaka came back into the room with a ruler mark on his face. "What happened to you!" she asked alarmed. "Well I thought that it was against the law to harm the students but apparently I was wrong. You'd think that the principal would have given me some compassion since I was just in the hospital but apparently not."
She rushed over to him to take a good look at the mark. "What did you do?" she asked running her finger over his face. "Uh, nothing really. One of the ass wholes in the rooms nearby said that I got some naked girl in my room which I said was completely absurd. I mean when you stopped by last night you had on a pair of boxers."
He smiled. "Forget about it." He said when she looked like she was going to apologize. "It's just another injury to add to my collection. I was probably gonna get in trouble from something else latter on anyways." 'He's being so kind to me right now. I feel really bad for getting him in trouble.'
"How come," she questioned. "You know exactly what to do to make me feel better?" his smile faded as he sat down on a chair letting he go back to the bed. "My sister, the one the used to love Sano, she was raped. I was the only one she would tell. I guess that's why my parents hate me now."
"Why would they hate you? It's not your fault!" he shook his head. "Mizuki, she killed herself. They blame me for not telling them. But she swore that if I did tell them then she would kill herself. They don't see how I had no choice. My parents disowned me and if I hadn't gotten a scholarship to go here they would have done whatever they could to get me kicked out. They won't let me see Kyomi ever again." He paused and smiled. "I wouldn't be surprised if they had been the ones to hire those guys yesterday."
Even though he was completely calm and was laughing about his situation she could tell how it was killing him on the inside. "I couldn't protect my sister." She was shocked when his voice seemed choppy and that his eyes watered. "Promise that you won't do the same?"
Mizuki felt her own eyes water. "I promise." He gave her a sad smile. "I guess I'm just a big wimp. I'm supposed to make you feel better not be acting all emotional and shit." He wiped his eyes. "Common and get dressed. I'm gonna buy you breakfast."
"I don't have any cloth." She said looking down at her own attire. "Well um… are you a guy or girl today? I think I have some of my old girlfriends' stuff." She smiled. "I haven't been a girl since my brother last visited. It would be nice."
He pulled out a box fro his closet and then looked at Mizuki. "What size do you wear?" he asked. She was sort of startled by the question. "Um… I think that I'm a size 3." (Ha! She's so lucky. I could never fit into a size 3.) He nodded and pulled out a few more boxes until he found the one he was looking for.
"Sharon Hicks. She stayed here for the summer and was my last girlfriend. When we broke up she got sort of mad and threw all her stuff at me. Now I have them in a box in my closet. Am I the only one who thinks that that's sort of sad?" she shook her head. "Back in America I have a friend named Julia. Whenever she goes through a breakup she sleeps with something of that guy's under her pillow."
She walked over there and looked in his closet. It was filled with boxes with different girl's names on them. "But I don't think that she ever got this bad." "Ha ha you're so funny." He said sarcastically. "Hurry up and get dressed so we can go. I'm starving."
She picked out some cloth from the box and went into the bathroom to change. She had on a pair of tight jeans and a black turtleneck belly shirt. She walked out of the bathroom with an uncomfortable look on her face. "Sorry princess all her shirts are like that and I never dated a size 3 ever again." "Well do you think that you could go out real quick and date one to get me a good shirt?" she asked making him laugh.
"Come on most places stop serving breakfast when it's past twelve. Hurry up." "Okay I'm going!" she said looking around the box for another slipper that she had found. "Got it!" she said holding up the slipper, victory style.
He left the dorm last and locked the door. A few teachers looked at him disappointedly as put his hand on Mizuki's shoulder so they wouldn't get separated on the busy streets. Some guy accidentally elbowed Kagurazaka in one of his wounds when walking by.
The teen kneeled over grabbing his side. "Are you okay?" Mizuki asked worried. He bit his lip before responding. "Yeah, don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I'm a survivor." he gave her a wink straitening out and continued walking.
'And that's the mystery of Kagurazaka.' Mizuki thought catching up to him. 'He'll consol you when you're down but will ignore his own pain for he benefit of another person. He's sweeter then he'll let anyone know. It must be hard having everyone hate him. Even his own parents don't want anything to do with him. Maybe I ended up coming to him last night for a reason. Maybe I'm supposed to save him, save him like he saved me last night." Mizuki's the true believer that everything happens for a reason.
She was snapped back from her own thoughts when Kagurazaka punched her in the shoulder. "Owe! What was that for?" she rubbed her shoulder and he started to laugh. "Sorry princess but if you had been paying attention the waiter wants to know what you'll have." "Oh." She said picking up a menu. "The all American breakfast sounds good." She said.
"Mizuki?" "Kagurazaka?" they both said at the same time. "You go first." She said. "Okay. I was just wondering why you came to me last night. I mean we were never really friends. Yesterday was the first time that I had seen you in a very long time." She nodded understanding why he was confused.
"When he fell asleep I just ran away. I didn't even really notice where I was until I found myself knocking on every dorm room in your hall." He nodded. "You're turn." She looked out of the window. "I was just going to ask you how come you're being so nice and happy all of the sudden. I don't think that I've ever seen you this happy."
He smiled. "Well all it takes is a good hospital visit to the emergency to make me all school girl happy for a month." She watched him play with the salt and pepper shakers. "I get injured, a lot. Especially when I was little. It would take me hours to show you all my scars. I guess I'm a little weird but I feel this great adrenaline rush when I'm hurt and it keeps me happy for a long turn. I think that there's some sort of sickness for that but whatever."
"Well everyone has there strange quirks about them. "Kayashima is only happy when it thunderstorms. He even spends the whole day outside even if there is a chance he'll get struck by lightning. And then he gets theses massive colds. And Noe will deprive himself of sleep just to watch certain anime on TV after everyone else is asleep. He completely failed a test because he fell asleep while taking it. He said that a big marathon was on the night before. And Sano, he'll work himself…" 'Oh, I just made myself sad.' Kagurazaka didn't say anything and she knew he understood.
"It's gonna take you a long time before you can come to peace about what he's done to you, maybe never. All I want to know is how you're going to still go to school or be his roommate. Who knows, he might try and expose you for blackmail. That dirty little bastered will do anything, Mizuki. What are you going to do?" she could feel how worked about this he was.
When the food came she just shrugged her shoulders. "I never thought about that. It's not fair how Sano has found yet another way to ruin my life. Isn't it enough that he has to be my first kiss, my first time, and my first protector to hurt me? I hate him!" she was crying again when she finished speaking.
Kagurazaka sat on her side of the table and tried to give her a comforting hug. Trying to ignore the people's stares he wrapped his arms around her but to his surprise she pushed him away.
He looked into her eyes and he found that they were filled with terror. He grabbed onto her shoulders sternly and looked her in the eye. "Mizuki! Get a hold of yourself! I'm not Sano and I will never hurt you." 'This is the same thing I had to do with Tamami. I remember that it made me feel like I was training a dog because I couldn't blink. It always worked when she went into a trance like this one. She's remembering last night. If this is anything like what happened with Tamami then she'll do this a lot.'
Mizuki starred for a moment looking confused then looked down only crying harder. "I'm sorry Kagurazaka. Please excuse me. I have to go." She pulled away from his grasp and ran out the door. "Damn!" he yelled slamming his fist against the table.
He went to go run after her but the waiter stopped him to pay the bill. He just threw his wallet at the man and yelled, "Keep the change!" as he ran out after her. 'She can't be out by herself! What could have possibly made her think that it was okay for a beautiful girl like her to go out after she was just raped in that outfit all alone!'
The crowds of people on the street were too big and he couldn't see her at all. "Where would she go? I don't her enough to do this alone… Damn it I have to get that jack ass!" Kagurazaka said moving in the direction of Osaka High School.
Okay well this is extremely long. I'm really sorry if I bored you to death with the length of the chapter. I know I could never read the whole thing even if I thought it was the best story n the world. Oh well, if you made it this far and bothered to read the whole story lease review. I promise none of the other chapters will be as long. (I don't think I could do that.)