Hey! A lot of people commented on Touma finding out, let's see now shall we? Ha-ha. I'm evil I know that! On with the story!
Oh, before that, I want to apologize for the late update. School started and it is one heck of a pain in the butt people. Makes me want to wish for an endless summer. (transalation: endless anime time.)
Chapter 4
"Well, aint this day full of sh-t?"
He asked in a sarcastic tone as he gripped his hands till they turned white.
"Kamijou-kun, I want you to understand. Misaka-san probably did something wrong, but at that time, it was best for everyone."
Heaven Canceller said placing a hand on Touma's shoulders. Mikoto was still hugging her knees, burying her face.
"Heaven Canceller, could you leave us? We have a lot to talk about."
Touma said facing the doctor with a stern face. Dr. Frog face just sighed as he walked out. Before stepping out,
"Kamijou-kun, just so you know, what Misaka-san did 4 years ago really left a heavy burden on her. Please don't make her feel any more pain."
He then closed the door behind him. Minutes have passed and both Touma and Mikoto haven't made a single move or said a word.
"For four damned years Mikoto. For four damned years, you hid this from me?"
Touma said, finally breaking the silence between them. Mikoto didn't say anything, her shoulders shrugged, but she didn't speak or look up. Touma gripped his hands harder.
"Look at me Misaka Mikoto."
He said stepping forward. After a few seconds of hesitation, Mikoto slowly lifted her head, revealing her pained expression and teary eyes.
"How could you just act like nothing was wrong with you? Why couldn't you trust me enough to tell me the truth?"
He asked, his face and expression contorted in both anger and hurt, as he met her gaze.
-flashback-
Heaven Canceller stood beside Mikoto's bed and faced Touma.
"Kamijou-kun, before I start, I want you to promise me that you won't hate anyone okay? You must remain calm."
"I'm fine with that, but what I don't understand is why you're both so serious."
"It's about Misaka-san's co-"
"Heaven Canceller please! Please don't do this!"
Mikoto pleaded at the last moment. The doctor just sighed as he looked at Mikoto.
"Misaka-san, if you won't do anything, then I'm gonna have to make the first step. So please just keep quiet."
"But-"
"Misaka-san."
He said sternly. Mikoto just lowered her head in defeat and continued burying her face on her knees.
"Ehem, as I was saying, this is about Misaka-san's condition. I know that you were having doubts about my diagnosis regarding her jetlag, right?"
"Uh, well, it's not like I don't believe in your ability or anything Heaven Canceller! I just-"
"Relax Kamijou-kun, you are right. I lied."
"What?"
Touma asked out of confusion. He looked at Mikoto and saw her shuddering, he decided to give his full attention to the doctor.
"Misaka-san experiences frequent heart palpitations, considering that her heart rate just drops at certain points and continues on. But rather than just being mere palpitations, it's more of like a heart attack, because of the degree of damage that it concurs on her. Are you following what I'm explaining?"
"Uhm, sort of. But could you please lay low on the med terms? I'm not much of a braniac to understand them."
"Good enough. As I was saying, Misaka-san experiences intense pain in her heart during specific periods of time, but they gradually ease up, just like what happened earlier."
"So Mikoto had a heart attack earlier?!"
Touma asked in a raised voice. Heaven Canceller sighed,
"No. I told you Kamijou-kun, it's not exactly a heart attack. It's more of a palpitation, with the effects of a heart attack."
"I don't understand it. If it's not a heart attack and also not a palpitation, then what the hell is it?"
"There is no scientific term for it."
"Why? You're a doctor aren't you? We're in Academy City! You should know everything!"
"We don't know what to call it, because it defies all the laws of biology, and probably the laws of science and the world even. I'm pretty sure I don't need to elaborate now do I?"
Heaven Canceller said sighing, how many times has he sighed already? He glanced at Touma and saw the look of horror, shock and pain.
"Magic. It's an effect of... Magic, right?"
He gradually mumbled out, while lowering his head.
"Yes. You are correct. And since it's from magic, there's nothing we can do about it. Not even your Imagine Breaker will be able to do anything."
"How long?"
"Huh?"
"How long, has this entire thing been going on?"
"For nearly four years Kamijou-kun. But I just want to clear something up, magic is not the cause, it's just an after effect. Ever since Misaka-san lost all her emotions as a human being, her heart faltered. That's actually a lot easier to explain. It's something that really happens to a human body."
"What?" Mikoto suddenly asked, lifting her head. Heaven Canceller gave her a look, something which she immediately understood. He turned back to Touma and continued.
" It's only natural after all."
"What part of this crap is natural at all?!"
"Well, let's use an example. If you failed an exam what would you feel Kamijou-kun?"
"Nothing. I mean, I fail all the time, so what's new?"
Touma answered straight forwardly, making Mikoto and Heaven Canceller shake their heads.
"In any case, for someone like Misaka-san, who is an exceptional student, that would completely lower her spirits, make her feel empty. But then, if she took another test and scored perfectly, she would be filled with joy. This kind of scenario would seriously tire out her damaged heart. Therefore weakening it in the process."
"So when Mikoto's heart was completely empty back then..."
"You showed up and practically bloated her with different emotions, without you knowing. Experiencing different emotions all at once tired her damaged heart. It's beats were too fast that the oxygen in her lungs wasn't enough, this automatically sends reports to her brain, the only response it could give was to send out sensory pains to her chest, making it feel constricted and painful. I already prescribed her some medicine to help ease the pain for her."
Heaven Canceller finished his explanation. Mikoto buried her head once again.
'Thank you, Heaven Canceller.'
She thought with a sad smile. Anyway, Touma was dumbstruck after listening to all of that.
"So...all of this... all of the pain she felt was my fault?"
"I already told you Kamijou-kun, don't blame anyone, don't hate anyone. Misaka-san chose this path, we should respect it."
"Will this affect her life? I mean, will she...d-die young or something?"
Touma asked gritting his teeth, he didn't want to hear it, but he had to. Meanwhile, Mikoto's eyes widened as she waited for Heaven Canceller's response.
"No. No, it won't."
The doctor said lowering his head.
"Okay."
The room was kept in silence.
-end of flashback-
Mikoto didn't answer Touma's question. They both just stayed in their positions, not moving an inch.
"Please say something. Mikoto. ANSWER ME DAMN IT!"
"Well what do you want me to say?!"
Mikoto finally answered back. Touma closed the distance between them.
"I don't know! At least apologize or explain or whatever!"
"Apologize? For what exactly huh Kamijou Touma? For keeping this a secret? For not telling you anything?"
"Well...I...I DONT KNOW!"
He shouted, sitting on her bed, vigorously ruffling his hair.
"I don't know what to think anymore! I'm mad at you, but I also know that this was my fault!"
"Then what do you want me to do?! Just tell me! Do you think it was easy for me to keep it a secret? I didn't tell anyone, not even Kuroko or my own family!"
"Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"You would've done the same thing."
"That didn't answer my question!"
"Then ask yourself!"
Mikoto shouted glaring at him. She clutched the blankets even tighter. Touma just looked at her, surprised by her actions.
"Ask your damn self! If you were in my position, you would keep it a secret too! Just like when you lost your memories. Now you know how it feels like to be kept in the dark. To not know something happening to the people around you that you care about, you damn hypocrite!"
Mikoto panted, upon finishing. She had expected him to shout at her, to blame her for something, but no. He just sat there quietly. Minutes have passed and Mikoto's tears were falling from her cheek, one by one. She didn't even bother to wipe them off.
"Is there anything else you're keeping from me?"
Touma finally asked, after minutes, which seemed like hours, of silence.
"I don't have any obligation to answer you."
"Not even as a friend?"
"Are you even my friend?"
"I see."
He said standing up, Mikoto looked away. But she still watched him leave from the corner of her eye. When Touma was at the door,
"I'm just going to get some air. Can we please talk afterwards?"
"Don't tell anyone, and I mean anyone, about this."
"Sigh, okay then."
He said closing the door behind him and leaving the room. Mikoto listened to the pit-pat of his footsteps, until they were finally gone. She heaved a huge sigh, as she slumped back on her bed, hugging her soft pillow.
"You're really pissed huh?"
Mikoto said with a desperate smile on her face. She sighed before rubbing her head against the pillow.
"Then what would happen if you actually heard the real truth about it?"
She bit her lip, trying to stop a whimper or her tears from coming out, but they still did.
"I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry. I'm sorry...for lying to you...Touma..."
She said softly.*THUD* Mikoto hurriedly jerked forward upon hearing that. She looked around and thought that it came from the window. She looked closely, and saw something rose-colored suddenly disappear.
"Oh sh-t..."
She cursed, hoping that it was all just her imagination. She grunted as she tossed herself back on the bed, trying to get some much needed sleep.
IN JUDGEMENT 177TH BRANCH, Uiharu and Saten were doing what Kuroko had instructed them to do. Saten stretched out her arms as she read an article on Kuroko's computer.
"Ne, Uiharu..."
"Huh? What is it Saten-san?"
Uiharu asked rolling out from her computer using her chair.
"You've got another one to shut down."
Saten said yawning, before taking her cup of tea and sipping it. She heard Uiharu's desktop chair's (Don't know about you, but that's what we call it here...) wheels roll and move toward her.
"Eh? Another one? But that's the 24th one!"
"Don't worry Uiharu, it's the last one! Do your best!"
"Geez, people in Academy city don't have anything better to do huh? They just keep on posting about these rumours on the internet!"
Uiharu said as she fiddled with the keyboard, after a few more seconds, she was done.
"Cool! How did you do that so quickly?" Saten marvelled at Uiharu's speed in hacking and shutting them down.
"I was getting tired of doing the same thing over and over again, so I just made a program that does it for me. I used the older version and revved up its processing speed and viola! It's much faster than the original one!"
"So cool! But..."
"Eh?"
"Have you done what Shirai-san asked you to do? You know tracing the one who uploaded it in the first place?"
Saten asked looking at her flower headed friend, who just stared at her with a frozen smile. Saten sighed.
"You got too busy with that program that you forgot didn't you?"
"B-B-but! It's because you fond urban legend sites one after another so-so-so..."
Uiharu said, thinking of an excuse while she looked through the sites she hacked and shut down. One thing caught her eye.
"Alright, fine. Quit making excuses and just hurry up or Shirai-san will kill you, you-"
"Saten-san look!"
Uiharu shouted grabbing Saten's arm, shaking it. Saten spilled her tea and looked at the computer.
"What is it now Uiharu?"
"I found it! I found the person behind the rumour!"
She said beaming happily.
"What?" Saten asked dumbfounded. 'Why the heck do airheads have so much good luck huh?' She thought.
"Who is it? Show me!"
She asked as curiosity got the better of her. While they were scrolling down, Kuroko teleported behind them.
"Ah, Shirai-san! Welcome back! Look! I found the-"
Uiharu greeted happily but was cut off when she saw the look on Kuroko's face,
"What's the matter Shirai-san? Is everything okay?"
She asked worriedly. Saten peered behind her and saw despair written all over her face. Kuroko took a deep breath and put on her serious face.
"It's nothing. Have you progressed? Report, now."
She demanded stepping forward. Uiharu and Saten were hesitant but they just obliged and turned to the computer. Kuroko grabbed a chair and rolled it to the computer.
"Uhm, while we were hacking and shutting down, we were looking around and found something. It was hidden in the earlier discussion threads, so we didn't notice it earlier."
"Well, what was it?"
Kuroko asked, seemingly interested in the news.
"We found out who wrote and spread the very first rumour about Misaka-san. He was careless enough to mention his name."
"Careless? You're too nice Uiharu. You should just say he was stupid." –Saten
"His? So the perpetrator's a guy then. Who is he?"
"Hmm...Let's see. His name is..."
Uiharu tried reading it but it took a while. Saten wondered what was taking so long, so she looked at the name.
"Wow, that's one difficult name. Is he an old English man or something?"
She remarked. After a few seconds, Kuroko decided to join in.
"Huh? It's Aviaries Veolia Anderwick."[Pronounced as Avery Vyl Anderwick]
"You can read it fluently Shirai-san?" –Uiharu.
"Well, yes. The only reason it's difficult to read is because you have to pronounce it while silencing and changing a ton of letters."
"Then why do you know how to?" –Saten
"It was in one of our lectures in Tokiwadai. I read it from a book in our library. But, if I'm not mistaken, he should have died in the 14th century."
"D-dead? So we're dealing with a ghost?"
Uiharu cowered in fear. Kuroko had this determined face again.
"Uiharu, check the internet for his bio data, if there are any other people with that name. It would be pointless to check the database, since he wasn't an esper."
She commanded. Uiharu obliged and typed off. Saten did the same and helped Uiharu search for it.
"Ah! Shirai-san! I found it!"
Saten said happily. Uiharu was surprised and moved over to her computer.
"Hmm, let's see. He was a noble man from the earlier 14th century, he was a well known scientist, but for some reason, he also had weird abilities, it was like performing magic tricks. But then, in the mid-14th century, he saved a girl from execution and they were both exiled. After a few years, his body was found dead, but he girl was never found."
"So he did die after all." Kuroko said, putting her fingers to her chin. Uiharu scrolled down and looked at the pictures. All of them were kind of gruesome with the image of a man, being stabbed. On picture caught her attention.
"Shirai-san! Look at this!" she pointed out. The three girls looked at the picture. It was the man, he was bleeding, holding the hand of a blonde girl, who was seemingly floating. There were chains linking their chests.
"Well,"
Kuroko said, smiling. The two other girls nodded.
"Girls, looks like we have a lead."
She said putting her hands to her waist.
MEANWHILE IN A ROOM without any form of light, two figures stood, both wearing black capes with golden embroidered designs.
"Never thought that they would find out, about you."
One of the men said.
"That's as far as they'll get. I won't let them learn about anything anymore, especially not about my love."
The other man said caressing the key in the bracelet he had on his wrist.
"I won't let them interfere. Not those girls, not that man, not even my beloved, not even my dear, dear Cielo."
He said with a wicked smile.
-end of chapter-
Yo-ho! Well, I don't know why, but for some reason, I don't know what to say whenever it comes to the author's notes. I have a lot of things to say, but when I'm typing it, my mind goes completely blank...
Anyway, I got really inspired by the tons of videos I found on YouTube about Touma and Mikoto. Freak man, I was totally touched. Try searching on it, just type Misaka and Touma, a whole bunch of videos will appear. One of my favourites would be the love tribute. I don't know if I'm allowed to say this though.. Hah, never mind. Sorry if it's too short or what...
That's all for now! Thanks for reading! Please Review! Ja-ne!
