Chapter 2 – Push Forward

Author's Note

I still find it kind of strange to call Momoyo by her actual name, as writing in Yamato's perspective made me get used to calling Momoyo Nee-san, and I still do it half the time I write her name xD, and on a side note, Momoyo will have a dream, and it will be in Momoyo's perspective while she's imagining this dream.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

The alarm clock goes off inside Momoyo's room, but she just turns in her sleep and ignores the alarm clock, not wanting to get up, but the Imaginary Yamato frowns and shakes her, saying "Come on, get up and go to school, you need to make the minimum required days or you're not graduating this year."

Momoyo simply ignores the Imaginary Yamato, and continues to lay in the futon, not even budging.

After about two minutes of silence, Imaginary Yamato finally says "Fine, if you don't want to get up, don't get up." and then leaves the room.

Momoyo turns again and then falls back asleep, ignoring the fact that she's supposed to go to Kawakami Academy today.

Inside Momoyo's dream…

I'm staring at a meteor that I just used to crush Yamato, and look at my hands, saying "Why, why do I keep losing myself in battle?"

I hurl the meteor back into space, and run away, not looking at any of the girls behind me, and end up at the Kawakami Temple, where I go to my room and shut the door, laying in my futon and staring up in the ceiling, partly in shock of what just happened.

I finally muster up the courage to go see Yamato in the hospital five hours later, and finally get out of my futon.

As soon as I walk out of the door, the courage that I suddenly had disappeared, but I continued to painfully make my way toward the hospital.

Thirty-five minutes later….

I finally get outside the hospital, but freeze right outside the doors, and the guilt finally kicks in. My vision starts to become distorted and blurry, and very faint images of Yamato appear from everywhere, almost making me lose my sanity. I close my eyes and run away from the corridor, but accidentally make my way to Yamato's room, where I find the other members of the Kazama Family outside the door, but I hide around the corner and hide my presence, embarrassed to show myself at this time, and eavesdrop on the conversation.

What the hell was she thinking?" asked Miyako, enraged. "She almost killed Yamato!"

"I'm honestly surprised that he's not dead." remarks Chris. "That was a meteor that hit him, he should have been flattened."

"Yamato ran away far enough to not be directly under the meteor, which prevented from him being killed instantly." says Wanko. "But what was Onee-san thinking, doing something that dangerous to Yamato."

"Her battle libido must have gotten the best of her, like what happened on the 29th." says Mayucchi.

Hearing this much of the conversation, the guilt of the situation reaches and all-time high and weighs me down completely, as I can't even move anymore.

The door then opens and I can hear Capt. say "The heart monitor is barely showing any signs of life. I don't think there's a very good chance that he'll make it."

How slim of a chance are we talking here?" asks Gakuto.

"I'd say probably 1-2%." Capt. replies. "The odds really aren't in his favor right now."

As soon as I heard that, I almost started to cry, but I fought back the tears.

"Let's all go home." says Miyako. "Let's leave him in peace."

I almost fall over when I hear Miyako say that, as she's acting abnormally.
"This is…" Capt. starts to say. "Totally unlike you, I was expecting for us to hold you back before you dive on top of him while he can't run away."

"As much as I want to right now, I can't do that to him today, he's already been through enough." Miyako replies.

I hear the rest of the Kazama Family head towards me after Miyako says that, so I run away to a room and hide my presence again while they leave.

After about fifteen minutes, I get out of the room and slowly make my way to Yamato's room, which seemed like was a complete universe away, as every step felt like a mile.

I make my way to Yamato's room, but it takes me fifteen minutes to muster up the courage to go inside, and tears immediately start welling up in my eyes as soon as I open the door.

As soon as the door closes, I fall to my knees and say "What have I done? First I break is arm, now I just might have killed him!"

I look at the heart monitor, which shows that he is on the brink of death, and start crying; not wanting this to be the end.

"Why, why did it have to be this way?!" I ask myself, clearly infuriated. "Why did I get so caught up in battle that I might have killed him?! Is this my punishment for my battle addiction?"

I get up, and embrace Yamato, while crying in his shoulder, saying "Please, please don't die on me. I love you, I don't want you to leave me, I don't know what I will do if I lose you Yamato, so for my sake and everyone else in the Kazama Family, don't die on us!"

And then Yamato started to flatline, and I yell "No! Please no! NO!"

I start crying even more, and eventually collapse.

When I open my eyes, I'm being pushed in a rolling bed with Yamato running by my side to see if I'm okay.

"Nee-san! Are you okay?" Yamato exclaims, but his voice is barely audible to me.

I try to say something, but nothing could come out, and I couldn't move my body at all for some reason.

"Why am I in a rolling bed?" I ask myself. "Wasn't Yamato supposed to be the one that was on the brink of death?"

I close my eyes and open them again to find myself at the Secret Base, where I hear everyone in the Kazama Family's voices blaming me for hurting Yamato.

"You're the reason why he's in critical condition!" exclaims Wanko.

"He'd be a lot safer without you around!" exclaims Chris.

"What the hell were you thinking!? He most likely won't make it because of you!" Miyako yells.

"First you break his arm, now you drive him to the brink of death!" exclaims Matsukaze. "Are you trying to just use him as a stress outlet!?"

I put my hands over my hears in a desperate attempt to not hear them, but no matter what I do, I can't stop their voices to pierce my ears and my head, backing my sanity into a corner.

I start shaking my head and start yelling "Stop! Stop! STOP!"

Suddenly, I hear a voice say "Nee-san! Wake up! You're having a nightmare!"

The voice pulls me out of my nightmare and I find Yamato kneeling next to me in my room.

- End of Momoyo's Perspective

"Y-Yamato!?" Momoyo exclaims, and scrambles off her futon.

"Damn you're a handful, and no, I'm the Imaginary Yamato, you should know this by now. The Real Yamato is still in the hospital."

"Wait, so all of that was a nightmare?!" asks Momoyo.

"Yes, it was, your emotions were getting the best of you in your dreams, so you sub-conscience made me pull you out of your nightmare." Imaginary Yamato replies.

Momoyo sighs and says "Whew, you showed up right in time, that nightmare was getting even worse, my sanity was being driven into a corner."

"I know." Says Imaginary Yamato. "I'm a part of your imagination, so I can see your dreams, and the first part of it actually happened, but as soon as the Real Yamato flatlined, I knew it was going to turn into a nightmare."

"If you knew it was going to be a nightmare, why didn't you wake me up before it got that bad?" Momoyo asks.

"Because, I wanted to see if you could actually wake yourself up from the nightmare before it got that catastrophic."

"Oh yeah, go to school tomorrow, as you need to make the minimum amount of days attended to graduate." Imaginary Yamato says.

"Okay, okay, I get it already." Says Momoyo. "Damnit, why in the hell did I do that…." She mutters.

Imaginary Yamato turns around and says "Stop questioning your own actions."

Momoyo looks at Imaginary Yamato with a tilted head and says "What?"

"You can't take back the past." Imaginary Yamato says. "The only thing you can do is push forward, because if you always look back on your past, you can't make the future any better for yourself."

"Hmmm…" says Momoyo.

"Go get something to eat and think about your current situation; isolating yourself from your friends is no way to act at this time, as friends are there to comfort you, even if you hurt another friend." Says Imaginary Yamato.

Momoyo gets up from the floor and goes outside to get something to eat, feeling slightly better about her current disposition, and eventually comes back and goes to sleep again for the night.

End of Chapter 2

I already got a Planned R+V and Majikoi crossover, but I'm probably not going to make it a sequel to this one.