Little sisters and open eyes
Well it's me again and this is chapter three. I own nothing but the mad ravings this story is. All the characters with the exception of any oc introduced belong to someone else the songs and bands I may mention belong to them selves or their record labels. Now that I got that out of the way on with the show.
"So tell me why it has to be me?" Natsuki asked looking at Reito with an arched eye brow.
"I told you already when I explained this whole mess, please don't make me say it again." He said his expression pained as he looked to TV that was still playing the news.
"But that's the only thing I don't understand about all of this, she never wanted me hell she use to tease me endlessly in school. I thought she only put up with me because I was in all the quiet places when she was trying to escape her fan club."
'It's not like she ever pretended to like me she just liked to hang out at the same places I did.'
"Have you ever been told you are denser than a brick wall?" Reito asked. 'I know Shizuru can be subtle but even I noticed she had a crush on this block of ice.' "Look she asked me to give you a letter once and I was over the moon about it, you see it was the first time she ever let me in enough to see past the mask she always seems to wear. I got half way to your locker when I decided to read it, after that I knew if I gave you that letter my life wouldn't be as grand as I planed. Mikoto and I were alone in the world after our grandfather died leaving us a business I had no clue of how to run and I needed the Fujino family to help me keep it out of the hands of the fat cats my grandfather had on his board of directors. Shizuru was my way in not just for business but to have a strong family. With her I wouldn't have to worry about Mikoto being alone in the world again they take care of there own.
"What was in the note?" Natsuki asked looking at him intently with her cold green eyes drilling holes in him.
"It was a confession of her love for you and how she wanted you to meet her in the garden after class for your answer to her feelings." He whispered remembering how he found her the next morning in the garden, with that dead look in her eyes.
"So what you are telling me is you had the opportunity to get what you wanted and took it without really giving a damn about how the people involved would feel about it. Did it ever cross your mind to ask for the help you needed?" Natsuki asked her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. "You know what don't bother answering that and just get the hell out of my life, you have done enough." She snarled ripping her hands away from her face glaring at him in such a way that he knew if he wasn't already dead he would want to be.
"Suki," called a small voice from the stairs.
"I want you gone," Natsuki whispered harshly to Reito. She then got up and met a cute little blond child at the end of the stairs.
"What wrong runt did you have a bad dream?" Natsuki asked every thing about her changing, her husky voice taking on a softer and more comforting tone; her body language went from about to do battle to relaxed and protective. But what had Reito's mind reeling was how her face changed all the hard indifference softened as she looked at the small child with love in her eyes.
It was in that expression that Reito knew how to get her to help him.
"I can't leave until you help me fix this, and if you don't the world doesn't just end for me but for her and everyone else as well. Do you really want her to go through a war that will wipe mankind from the face of the planet?"
'I can't deal with him right now I have to take care of Alyssa.' She thought turning around and cutting him an icy glare.
'Maybe I should let her take care of this first,' he thought as he shook off the chill the glare had left him with.
"No your alarm woke me up when you didn't shut it off, so I went to your room to turn it off…. Did you know you have a hole in your wall?" she asked the fact that she turned off the alarm no longer important to her questioning mind.
"Yes I know about the hole in the wall." Natsuki said with a sigh knowing more questions would come if she didn't distract the child. "Well since your up early what do you say to watching the science channel while I make us some break fast?"
"Sounds good as long as we don't have to have mayo toast for breakfast again." Alyssa said looking up at her big sister with her big blue eyes.
"Fine what do you want for breakfast?" Natsuki asked pretending to be offended by the knock her cooking skills just took.
"Coco crispies with bananas, and why you don't want to talk about why there is a hole in your wall." She said the last part in a way that made her sound very mature for her age.
'Some times having an observant little sister sucks.' Natsuki thought as she heard Reito laughing in the background.
Reito stopped laughing as he watched the two make breakfast together. His eyes began to open as he realized that they were all alone here, and that it was Natsuki that took care of this little girl as if she were her own. In much the same way as him and Mikoto they as well were alone in the world.
"You don't have to do this Zuru they have already looked at his dental records it him. I am sorry little one but it is him," Shiro Fujino looked at his daughter in wonder at how well she was taking everything. 'It must be shock,' he thought.
"I have to see it for my self father, I just can't…," Shizuru said her mask cracking her voice breaking. "He is my last chance of having some kind of love in my life."
"Oh Zuru my little love your whole life has been about love, everyone who knows you loves you. You touch the lives of all you meet and open there hearts," he said pulling his daughter into a hug.
"I wasn't talking about that kind of love father; I am talking about being in love."
"I understand Zuru and that why I don't want you to see the man you were in love with when he can't even be recognized as a human." He said hoping his daughter would see reason if he got a bit graphic.
"So it's that bad then?" she asked in a tone that said clearly that her mind wasn't going to change.
"The bus was going over eighty, I'm surprised that he wasn't liquefied." He said shaking his head, looking at her beseechingly. "Please don't do this Zuru it will only hurt you more, don't you think it is better for you to remember him as he was that to remember him as he was ended."
"I have to do it, if I don't…." her voice broke and tears started to run down her face. "If I don't I won't be able to convince myself that he is really gone. It will make me crazy father I have to do this." She said as she continued to cry brokenly.
He took her hand and led her to the elevators and hit the button that would take them to the morgue. Once there they walked to the desk where the rumpled looking attendant looked up at them in a board fashion.
"What can I do for you?" he asked in a monotone.
"We are here to view the body of Reito Kanzaki," Shiro said looking at his weeping child.
"Right this way," he said leading them through the room to a table at the far end of the room.
With a questioning look he waited for the nod that would tell him they were ready, and once he had it he lowered the sheet. Once lowered Shizuru went dead weight passed out in her fathers arms.
"I'll go get you a nurse and a gurney," the attendant said before running off.
"Alyssa, Miyu is waiting for you at the door," Natsuki called out to her little sister.
Alyssa bounded down stairs her doggie shaped book bag bouncing on her back. Before she could pass Natsuki at the door she was grabbed by her book bag by her older sister.
"Hey slow down there speed racer," she said unzipping the book bag and placing a small pink lunch box into the book bag. "Have a good day at school runt," she said zipping the book bag and giving the small blond a hug.
"Have a good day at work sis," Alyssa responded before jumping into the arms of the fifteen year old Miyu. "And if you aren't mean to them your underlings will stop calling you names behind your back," she said as they left.
"So what do they call you at work?" Reito asked smirking at Natsuki.
"Boss and Ms. Kuga," Natsuki said glaring at him.
"Oh," he said chilled by the glare knowing that he was still and would most likely always be unwelcome. "Have you thought about what I said?" He asked in a small voice hoping she would see past her hate for him. 'If she can deal with a child she is capable of forgiveness,' he thought.
'I don't have time for this crap right now, why won't he just go away. Oh right that whole end of the world thing. I have to help but why do I have to work with him.' Natsuki thought slamming the door closed then palming her face. "Fine I'll help, but I am not doing this for you. We are going to have to set up some rules the first one is I don't want to have to deal with you until I have to. Second you are not entitled to comment on my life and how I lead it. Third my sister is none of your damn business. Fourth we won't be doing any more treks through memory lane. Fifth if I see you any were in eye shot when I or Alyssa are changing or in the bathroom, I will find a way to kill you again. Do we understand each other?" Natsuki asked in a menacing tone.
'What the hell I am the dead guy here, have I not suffered enough already?' he asked himself. "I understand what you are saying fully, but understand I haven't even been dead a day yet so I don't know how any of this works. First I don't know how far away from you I can get but I do know that I can't go away. Second I don't give a damn how you live your life, as long as Shizuru can live with it and you don't mistreat our child because she will be yours. Third I will admit I have questions about that but I can keep my mouth shut. Fourth well when it comes to the past I can keep it on a need to know basis. Fifth I am not a pervert and I have no wish to see you or your five year old sister nude." He said as if it pained him to explain his take on all this. "Now I would like to make a few rules on my end, I do need your help, but if we are to get anything done we are going to have to put all the bad in the past where it belongs. I am willing to listen to you, but you have to take my advice under advisement as well. I have no ill wishes for you so please let's just work all this out so I may truly rest in peace." He finished looking directly into the dark green eyes, that were studying him intently.
'He does have a point if we are ever going to fix this mess we are going to have to let the past go for now,' Natsuki said looking at the clock. She only had fifteen minutes to get to work with morning traffic. She straightened her collar, then grabbed her jacket.
"Fine we have an understanding then," she answered rushing around to ensure she hadn't forgotten anything before going to the garage.
'Ah my babies,' she thought as she looked at the modified cars and bikes in the massive room. It was like a place of worship for motor head. Anything you could ever need for a vehicle was there and accounted for even leather and vinyl wipes for interiors. Reito stumbled after her and stopped dead in his tracks.
'Wow,' was all he could think as he looked at her collection.
"What is it you do for a living Kuga," he asked wondering if he was in the wrong business.
"Well I am the CEO of Sears technologies in trust for Alyssa until she is out of college and has at least a year of experience under the current CEO, and I am also the CEO of Kuga motors we build and design motors for BMW, Ducati, and I am currently working up designs for government transports." She said sliding into a modified X6. "I know the Fujino business is one of the leading producers of tea in the world, what is your family business Kanzaki?" she asked as he walked into the car and sat in the back seat.
"My company specialized I ready foods and sweets but we have subsidiaries from toys to pet food even fish farming. With the merger of my company and Fujino we hold a good portion of all the consumables in this country and have more options to export." He said with pride. "So what kind of technologies does Sears specialize in?" he asked.
"Clean running energy solar, wind, hydro, we even head up most of the recycling both here and in the US and we provide power options and materials not just to our subs but to other businesses, including Fujino teas and snacks. With the holdings in the US we are the leading supplier of silica parts for computers and solar panels, though that is about a fraction of what we do but I am tired of talking shop with you." She said turning the radio on and turned her mp3 player on the song lights out by Breaking Benjamin filled the car's sound system.
"Ah you're awake, how are you feeling?" the nurse asked.
"Thirsty," Shizuru rasped.
"Do you feel cold, dizzy, or weak," she asked handing her a cup of ice water with a bendy straw.
"Well I am a bit cold but I feel more tired than weak," she replied after taking a sip.
"Your blood pressure is a bit low. I am going to go get the doctor and your father." She said leaving the clean white hospital room.
It seemed like no sooner the nurse left the room that both her father and the doctor entered.
"Zuru you took three years off my life I am telling your mother," her father said trying to lighten to mood of the room.
"I want to go home," Shizuru said looking out the window.
"Well other than you pressure being a bit low I can't see a reason to keep you but I would like to run some test before we turn you loose just to be safe." The doctor replied feeling bad for the lovely girl.
"I understand," she said looking at him with an expression that could chill the blood with its emptiness.
Sorry it took so long I was trying to figure out how to get where I needed to go in the story without getting stuck. But I hope you like my latest offerings. Please review I like to know how you feel about the story.