Intro -
A modern AU of Akame ga Kill. Tatsumi has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer which one is something I will reveal eventually. Before being diagnosed, he had the perfect life with a few exceptions. Watch, or rather read, as he comes to terms with his imminent death and realize he's hopelessly in love with a fellow patient at the hospital he makes his home at while he steps on a few toes along the way.
Featuring - Tatsumi, Esdeath, Run, Wave, Akame, Kurome, Seryu, Leone (minor appearances), and various other patients.
Pairings - Tatsumi x Esdeath; Wave x Kurome; Run x Leone (minor);
Ratings - T (mentions of depression, self-harm)
I'd have to say the highlight of my miserable time here has to be the few times a week where I get to leave my room and head over to the common area. There were always different people there every week as some became too sick to come and others got better, and of course there were always those that died in between. Most days Run gave him the stamp of approval to go, but some days were classified as 'bad' days and I wasn't allowed to have any visitors.
"Well Tatsumi," Run proclaimed, "I have good news and some not good news."
"The not so good news first," I requested, Run always gave me two options.
"Well..." There was a pause, "You're not going to the common area today."
"What?!" I exclaimed in anger, "My health is no worse than usual."
Run held up a placating hand, "One of my fellow nurses wants to try an experiment."
"That's wonderful!" I barked sarcastically, crossing my arms over my chest like a petulant child.
"Tatsumi..." the voice was full of warning, "There is a girl, around your age who has an extreme case of schizophrenia. She's obsessed-"
"I don't give a damn what's she's obsessed with!" I snarled, "Just because she has a problem doesn't mean her problem is my problem."
Run frowned for a few moments, before his eyes narrowed, "Very well. I never took you for such a naive child." He left the room closing the door quietly behind him.
I growled angrily before snatching the red 3DS off of the table next to me and opened it up. I had just beaten the twin gym leaders, my Aegislash easily tearing through the Sun and Moon Pokemon with no problems. I grinned as I captured the legendary Pokemon, Groundon. All of a sudden the screen went black signaling that the 3DS died.
"Damn it!" I shouted and tossed the thing angrily at the foot of the bed.
"Is this a bad time?" In my anger I had completely missed someone knocking on the door to my room.
"Mein?" I called my anger being replaced by excitement, "Come on in!" I sat up a bit straighter on the uncomfortable hospital bed.
"Straighten up your attitude, I heard what happened with Run." She placed one hand on her pink dress and another was pointed angrily at me.
"You don't-"
"Tatsumi shut up!" She snapped in anger her air flying around her, she took a deep breath in effort to calm herself before continuing, "Run has been nothing but kind, understanding, and supportive of you while you've been here. He has asked nothing of you in return. The one time he asks a favor of you, you snap at him and kick him out of your room. I am beyond disappointed in you. Bulat would be ashamed of you."
"I know.." I trailed off before looking down in embarrassment and shame.
"When Run returns in," she glanced at the pink watch on her wrist, "Twenty minutes, I want you to apologize. Furthermore, I want you to meet with this woman. She obviously needs help."
"But I have a game to play!" I protested.
"And I have college applications to fill out and scholarships to apply for," Mein replied, "I still took the time to visit my boyfriend."
Mein was a genius sniper, as she always so humbly put it, and there were many different colleges and university that had begged her over the years if she would consider going to their school once she graduated high school.
She finally sighed and moved closer to my bed and gently kissed me, "You stubborn boy," She said affectionately ruffling my hair, "I'll leave you to your game, but you might want to charge the console first. Which gives you the perfect amount of time to call Run in here and agree to meet this fellow patient of yours."
She gave me no room to disagree as she waltzed out of the room but not before she pressed the bottom that would call the nurse, "Goodbye Tatsumi, Wave said he'll be by later. Akame and Kurome might come as well." She hesitated slightly, "Make sure to answer Akame's questions honestly. And don't be too hard on them."
Run smiled cheerfully as he entered the room seconds after Mein had left, in front of him was an empty wheel chair, "Glad you changed your mind!"
"I hate you," I grumbled as I pulled myself into the wheelchair.
The angel like man wheeled me past the community area where I saw Ieyasu talking with Sayo. Sayo was nearly tortured to death by a psychotic maniac and Ieyasu was drugged and infected with several different drug related diseases. Despite most of Sayo's injuries being physical, many of them had been infected when she was brought in. As a result of this, her immune system had given up trying to keep her alive. They are both expected to die within the year.
I noticed Kurome and Akame, strangely enough, sitting not too far off along with several other kids around the same age. I knew that had been in a bad place earlier, but I never seen them at the hospital other than the times they came to visit me.
"Why are Kurome and Akame here?" I asked looking up a Run who was humming slightly.
He glanced over at them and then to the kids they were with, "They never told you?" He asked, raising an eyebrow in surprise.
"Tell me what?"
"Interesting," He said thoughtfully, I could almost see him tapping his chin in contemplation, "I'll let them tell you. Don't judge them too harshly."
I frowned, "Mein said something similar."
Run said nothing in response as he continued to follow the blue lines on the wall to a different section of the hospital, "Well here we are!" He had wheeled me to a sort of empty zone of the hospital, one I had surprisingly never been to. I had thought Wave had shown me the entire place,
"I'll just be over here," Run said and pointed to the desk. Before he walked over to the desk he placed a pad of line paper in front of me as well as two pens and set of colored pencils. Run sat down at the desk and began to do his paperwork, like he was over at this side often.
I glanced around to take in my surroundings. There were no other doors that looked like they could be opened as as they all had locks on them and the only entrance and exit to the small waiting room was the hallway I had just come from. There were a few chairs scattered around the area which meant that it was a remodeled waiting room. Unlike the rest of this hospital, everything was a light shade of blue, but it looked sloppily painted. In some areas it was darker where more than one coat of paint was applied and in others there wasn't any paint at all.
I looked down at the pad of paper curious as to what Run wanted me to do with it. I did know how to make a paper origami ninja star. So to kill time I tore off a piece of that yellow paper and began making my ninja star. As I was about halfway done, a voice made my heart stop beating for a moment.
"Why are you here and who are you?" The voice hissed behind me sending a chill down my spine.
"I was brought here," my green eyes flashed darkly, "Who are you?"
"Now now," There was a new nurse, one I vaguely remembered Run mentioning. He put a hand calmly on the new girl's shoulders and gently eased her into the chair, "Esdeath, this is Tatsumi."
"He is weak." Esdeath spat angrily.
"I am not weak!"
Thought, comments, speculations, questions, concerns? Leave them below in the reviews.
