Miku Hinasaki: Getting her life back

Part 4

For those of you that haven't read my profile update, I am back and I am working to finish all of my current fanfics, whereafter I can work on new ones one at a time. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this latest chapter (from Rei's POV), this story's gonna be a long one… :D

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Rei sighed, Yuu had been gone for a while now, she knew Mafuyu's place was kinda far away (it's why there weren't many visits between the two)…but it shouldn't have taken this long. But then, as if on cue, she heard the front door open and close. She leapt up off the sofa and ran to the entrance hall… only to see Yuu with a young girl caked in dirt and smelt of a manor of things. Immediately catching Yuu's eye she jerked her head in the direction of the living room, where he quickly followed her,

"Yuu, I don't mean to be rude, but I thought you were going to Mafuyu…who is a man," she asked, her voice a mix of confusion and slight irritation. Yuu placed his hand on her shoulder,

" I know how strange it looks, but you've got to believe me when I say I've got a good reason Rei," he told her reassuringly, before taking a deep breath, " Mafuyu's dead Rei. Mafuyu's dead and that is his sister out there, I don't know the details and quite frankly I don't want to. All I know is that he's dead and that's affected her bad and she needs help. Mafuyu was my best friend Rei… I couldn't leave her there, I just couldn't," his voice grew more emotional the more he talked, and by the end Rei could easily tell he had tears in his eyes. Which was why she wrapped her arms round him and gave him a loving hug,

" It's okay Yuu, I understand completely. Though eventually we're going to need a bigger place, she can't live on the sofa," Rei told him soothingly before she let him go,

" Now why don't you go back to her apartment and try to find her some clothes? I'll run her a bath and lend her a bath robe as well as some clothes while I get some blankets for the sofa and put her clothes in the laundry. Okay?" Yuu nodded in response to Rei's plan. Yuu brought Miku in and introduced her to Rei before he left the apartment once more. Rei was determined to make Miku feel safe and at home here, so as soon as she heard the front door 'click' she clapped her hands together and smiled at Miku,

" Do you want me to run you a bath Miku? There's a bathrobe and some pyjamas you can wear while I wash your clothes," Rei spoke comfortingly to Miku, who raised her face up to see Rei,

" Thank you Miss Kurosawa, but I don't want to burden you with my presence," Miku told her quietly, returning her stare to the floor, Rei placed one hand on Miku's shoulder and the other underneath her chin, which she brought up to talk to Miku's face.

" You are not a bother Miku, not in the slightest. If anything it would be a pleasure, now you just wait here, make yourself at home and I'll get things ready okay?" she reassured Miku before walking into the next room to run the bath,

'She looks a nice girl, it's a shame what happened to her brother though… it would be like me losing Yuu, I don't know what I'd do. But let's not think about that now, just run the bath and get Miku cleaned up' Rei thought to herself as she rummaged through the towel cupboard for the bathrobe she put there a month ago that hadn't been used. There were quite a few things in this apartment they hadn't used, that they were saving for when they got the house they never seemed to get around to buying.

Rei returned to the main room 5 minutes later, bath filled and robe and PJs at the ready. Miku was still stood where she had been when Rei exited,

" You can go in now Miku, just put your clothes outside the door when you're changed Miku, I'll get them and put them in the machine," she informed Miku before gesturing towards the bathroom door, Miku bowed thanks to her before entering.

'She's an incredibly polite girl, I hope we get along,' she thought to herself again as she sat on the sofa waiting for the click of the door to collect Miku's clothing, which came alone no less than a minute later. So Rei, as she said, swooped over and grabbed the girl's discarded clothing and threw it in the machine, adding fabric softner and powder before turning it on for 30 minutes. On her way back to the living room she knocked on the bathroom door,

"Miku, you okay in there?" she asked, but there was no reply. She knocked once more on the door, speaking louder now, but still no reply. Panic slipped into Rei almost instantly and without thinking she flung the door open, rushing to the bathtub. When Rei's eyes beheld the sight in that bathtub her instincts took over, it was as if she wasn't really there, she was only viewing what was happening… and what she was viewing was unreal. Miku had tried to drown herself. She had turned herself over and laid in the water, waiting to die. Rei didn't even bother to check for a pulse and went straight into CPR, praying to god that Miku wasn't dead. Lucky for her though, her prayers were answered by a jet of water spluttered out of Miku's mouth. Rei let a sigh of relief pass her lips, she hadn't been too late,

" Miku, why, why, did you do that?" Rei pleaded to Miku, who had propped herself up against the bath,

" To be with my brother… even though he told me he's happy…and for me to live on, I just don't think I can…he was everything to me," she told Rei quietly.

"I'm sorry to cause you distress," Miku told Rei, grabbing the bathrobe from the toilet seat and putting it on herself,

" Miku, please, let us help you. It's not right that you should be trying to kill yourself, do you think if you did kill yourself and see your brother in the afterlife he'd be happy?" she questioned Miku as she made to get up off of the floor,

" I just want to see him…one more time…" she said before exiting the room, leaving Rei sat on the bathroom floor.

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Yes, yes I know many people won't be happy Miku's trying to kill herself but it's my story and we all know It works out happy in the end otherwise there'd be no Project Zero 3. So anyway, hope you enjoyed it and are excited for part 5, but until then, read and review