If you have not read 'And so, as I lay Dying', and are reading this, READ IT.
Itachi – Yes, it's here, just as I promised, the epilogue to 'And so, as I lay Dying'. This one is for the doctor who I've placed as Naraku. The part just fits him, ya know?
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'I walk only as her shadow, a lonely life I lived, but now my life is over, watching over her – its all I could give…'
'A sad story – so close to my mine – the only difference, is who lives, and who die's…'
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I watched her.
It was all I could do now.
…But I also watched somebody else – a doctor…yes…I remember him now. The very same doctor that had taken me in for some time after I had passed out on the street. He tried to tell me into staying at his office, contacting my loved ones…but what loved ones do I have? I have nobody…well…that is what I had spoke of before…
…but even after I've died, I know I have her.
I can only hope this man as well as my nurse would remember me…always.
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…A patient I knew I could not save.
I knew…I knew that even as a doctor, I could not save every one of the sick and injured I had came across, but…His face…The face of that young man I saw that day…knowing I could not save him of all people – one who's dying wish had been so simple – it just…hurt. So, so, very much.
"Sir, are you aware of your heart condition..?"
He answered me with a simple nod – I wondered if he had even cared at all for his weak heart. If he did, I was sure he would have been kept in a hospital. I wondered if he would answer – I thought about asking about his family, maybe he would want them to know where he was at the moment. So, I asked.
"You do know, you barely have 4 days remaining at the rate you are going, you must rest, please tell me, do you have any loved ones I could call for y-"
The answer I had received from him had been unexpected.
"My mother died in an accident, my father disappeared, and my younger brother does not even know that I exist."
…I started to worry when he mentioned his broken family. What was this boy thinking?! He needed treatment – and he knew it, so…
"Then, won't you stay at a hospital for treatment we-"
What he said…
"I have to find her, I'm now halfway there, and standing on the verge of death, if you too fell in love, yet knew that you were dying, would you chose to die alone, or die with the last thing you see being the gentle smile of the women you love?"
…And that had been it. He left.
He left me, the doctor, in search of his lost love…our stories had been so alike, the only difference had been who lived…and who died.
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It started when I met the women who soon became the love of my life.
Kagura.
She had became my world – no, my everything. My only thoughts had been about her and myself. Nobody else could destroy this fairy tail fantasy that we two had created all for ourselves – or so, I thought.
…the wheels of fate had turned to us. To her.
The day I had been working at a larger hospital to teach to the newer employees. An ambulance had wheeled out some time ago, the patient was said to have suffered a shot wound to the chest in a robbery gone wrong…I had saved so many people in my time as a doctor, I was sure that this next person would be saved by my hand as well – Something edged at me while I started reached the patient being rushed into the ER (Emergency Room). For a reason I could not explain, my legs started to feel like lead. My hands started to shake – sweat beaded on my brow.
Tears had been in my eyes by the time I saw the face – What chance would I have in infinity that our small fantasy would start to crumble.
It was her.
Covered in blood – …I nearly screamed, I wanted so badly to scream…but my voice only came out as a horse whisper…
"…Ka...gu..ra?.."
Her wound…she …she wouldn't last. I knew the fact, but I refused to accept it.
She only rolled her eyes to face me – her lips moved, but no sound made its way through. She reached for my hand – I grabbed onto it. I ignored the sudden silence. Every person knew she would not make it.
…She moved her lips again – her hand turning colder, and colder with every agonizingly passing second.
I still could not hear her words. I felt something drip onto my hand – which held tightly onto hers. Water? …Oh…Yes, that is right. I was crying, wasn't I?
I spoke her name again – and over – and over – again and again…until I felt her hand slowly slip away from mine. I fell onto my knees, and screamed.
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…It felt like something had ripped my heart from my body, and crushed it in their hands.
So alike we had been. Yet so different. I saw a women with black hair comforting a young boy, and a man crying brokenly over the silver casket. I starred at the coffin in front of me.
'Thank you…"
I heard him.
"Sesshomaru," I started, "it's okay now, I know you have found her-" a tear rolled down, "you can finally rest now."
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Next story : The Family.
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Itachi – Thank you all for reading. This chapter was a bit hard to write – but I guess it still came out okay, right? Leave a review!
