One was swapped with another but either way both had the same intention, to go into the fire.
After the flames one was dead.
No matter which Hamada ¨It's still the same story.¨ they said.
Go-Go was only having a pleasant conversation with the group when Tadashi ran over. He had this crazed look of fear, grief and anger all combined just smeared across his face. ¨Hiro-he went in the Expo building-Callaghand was in there-I¨ said Tadashi between breaths¨Tadashi slow down.¨ coaxed Honey lemon ¨What happened?¨ ¨ I was just talking with Hiro but then when we left the center we saw smoke. We ran towards the smoke and saw the expo building was on fire. Callaghand was still in there. I tried to tell Hiro no but he ran in any way to save him.¨ ¨ Go-Go wait!¨ cried honey lemon but her voice was not heard as Go-Go sped off to the expo building.
Go-Go Looked around the Expo building. looking down she saw a micro bot at the bottom of the stairs of the building and bent down to grab it. Go-Go to stunned and saddened to speak stared into the fiery Inferno. As she put the bot into her pocket she felt someone rapidly pulling her away. Looking up she saw one of the firefighter pulling her away from the blazing fire. One of the other firefighters from the other side of the building said something in audible ¨The power generator is going to ex-¨ thats all Go-Go heard before being thrown back by the force of the building as it exploded and then blanking out.
A week later Go-Go was looking at a totally different sight. A small coffin holding someone she had loved. Go-Go had never got to tell Hiro how much she had loved him. She should have though. She knew she shouldn't be there it it only made this scratchy tickle in her throat worsen. In the back of her mind she had always had the persistent nagging thought that it might have been something serious but she tried to push it away. As she stared at the coffin the nagging tickle in her throat started to more viciously claw at her throat as she began to cough. Honey lemon discreetly handed her a tissue and Go-Go put it to her mouth as she coughed. Looking down at the tissue she saw a slightly bloody red stain on the tissue and a few blood soaked white rose petals. She needed to leave. The tight itchy dress, the sad uneasy atmosphere, everything about the funeral made her symptoms worse. Her breaths came out a bit more forcefully as she struggled to cope with the prickly tightness of brambles and vines wrapping around her lungs. By now the coughing had increased as the rain started to pour. Rose buds and lillies pressed at her throat as sweet peas and chrysanthemum petals covered in blood and flem erupted out of her mouth and blood spattered the grass. Her coughs shook her body as her breaths became more pained and her consciousness drained away. She didn't even notice that the funeral had been stopped and an ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. Soon she keeled over now unconscious; the only sound she now made where ragged uneven breaths.
When Go-Go soon came to, she realized she was hospitalized and in icu. The rest of her friends Honey lemon, Fred, Wasabi, and Tadashi sat round the bed with tight lipped smiles. Go-Go felt drowsy but the pain in her body had subsided from the iv pain killers they injected into her body. ¨Go-Go why didn't you tell us how you were feeling¨ said Tadashi his eyes downcast and his tight lipped smile faded. ¨You can't do this Go-Go you need to tell us. You will have to stay here The doctors say your condition is too severe. There's nothing they can do.¨ ¨Do for what?¨ asked Go-Go ¨I thought you knew. It's a severe case of hanahaki.¨ said Honey lemon. Hanahaki…huh how could i have missed that? Thought Go-Go although she knew it was a possible explanation for the incessant tickle in her throat. All of that became hazy as she internally laughed spitting her emotions outwards resenting her feelings of love as they now became hatred towards Hiro . Doing so she began to feel her physical pain resurface making her monitor start to alarm causing her ears to hurt and her to voice crack as her pain now morphed into a deep shuddering cough. Soon she had again blacked out.
Days passed and Go-Go stayed in her now comatose state after blacking out the second time. Her friends would take turns overlooking her comatose body. They would talk to her like she would listen but she never would. She would always just lay there lifeless and drained of emotion. ¨It's in its final stages now. All we can do is wait. The painkillers seem to have worn off so those wont work.¨ The statement from the doctors echoed in there mind while looking at Go-Go's X-ray. Looking at the X-ray they could see sharp thorny rose vines wrapped tightly around her joints.
Months later Go-Go began to regain consciousness but now began to choke upon thorny brambles and large blooming buds that crammed her throat. Her friends where quickly ushered from the room as the nurses and doctors did what they could to keep Go-Go from slipping away to a flowery death. There were soon allowed back after a few hours and found her propped upright in her bed barely able to breathe with flower petals stained with blood and flem coating her blankets. Go-Go her eyes kept downcast avoided the looks and stares of her friends. She was ashamed of making there smiles falter. She was ashamed for not telling them sooner. ¨Why did you hide your love of Hiro from us Go-Go? We could have told him.¨ said Wasabi. Go-Go just tiredly stared into her friends eyes. There concerned eyes meeting her lifeless ones. How could she answer that when a answer wasn't present when she needed it. She wouldn't be able to speak as the buds in her throat burst open and a few petals where coughed out, her body feeling weaker by the minute as the brambles tightly clenched her joints. I hate you Hiro! thought Go-Go. Look at what you did! Then Go-Go began to cackle maniacally Fuck you Hiro! Fuck you! Thought Go Go as her cackles turned to coughs that spewed out hoards of brightly colored buds and flowers and left a bitter aftertaste of blood and pollen. It felt like her bones would bust with the amount of pain surging through her body. Her friends ran into the hall but when they returned with the nurse she had almost slipped to her grave and uttered one last thing before her descent to heaven¨Fuck you Hiro. Look at what you did.¨ And then she was gone. Her blanket covered with flowers and her soul slipping away to meet with Hiro up in heaven.
Filling your lungs and filling your heart.
Thorns tearing your insides apart.
A garden inside of you squeezing the life out of you.
The flavor of pollen and blood bitter to the taste.
Hatred now has your love replaced.
Hanahaki the most beautiful way to die.
Flowers turning your love awry.
Don´t let them leave flowers at your grave.
For that would be there mistake.
Flowers and blood the perfect medley.
It´s what makes hanahaki oh so deadly.