DAY 3 PART 2
Yoshiko, Naru, an I got to base safely with no disruptions natural or otherwise. Once we got there, Ayako made a make shift bed for Yoshiko to lay down on. She was still pale and shaking.
"The, ghost…it's…it's never gotten this close or this loud. This is the first time it's done this." Yoshiko says with silent tears streaming down her face. She said it so quietly it was as if the wind had softly rustled the trees. Ayako pats her back softly and soothingly.
"Mai!" John says looking alarmed, "Your hand! It's bleeding!"
Oh yeah, I remember now. It was bleeding because of the glass cup that, I want to believe this I really do, Yoshiko dropped. I had forgotten. Monk runs up to me and asks "Are you alright?" I don't answer. Lines start to blur. I hear a group of voices calling out my name in an odd chant.
"Mai. Mai. Mai. Mai. Mai." The voices say in a worried tone. Colors fuse together. Faces come in and out of focus. Peosple are standing around me in a circle. Monk is standing to the left of Ayako. Lin behind Naru. I sway on my feet, almost collapsing to the floor, but not quite. Naru…Naru…Naru.
"Mai! Are you alright?" A voice calls out. It sounds like Naru. You know what? I don't think I am. That's the last thought I think. Suddenly I feel my body go limp and my vision go the black/white color it goes to when one faints. I wasn't conscious long enough to feel my body hit the floor, but I'm almost possitive that I had an ungraceful fall.
******************************************************************************I open my eyes and I'm standing in Mr. and Mrs. Oshobos' living room. Funny. I don't remember waking up and going to the living room. I scope out the house. Wait a second…the decorations in this house are different! I snap my head to the right and sure enough, he's there. Naru. Not real Naru, but Dream Naru. So… this means that I'm having a vision dream.
There's a woman with beautiful wavey hair that reaches to the middle of her back. Three children, two boys one girl, are around her. There also is a man, with hair cropped short sitting on a reclining chair with his head in his hands. He looks…sad. Defeated, even. I walk over to the coffee table and I see a newspaper that looks as if it has been thrown down hastily. The front page cover title of the newspaper is "UNEMPLOYMENT RATE SKYROCKETS; MILLIONS LOSE JOB"
"Is, is that what happened to him?" I ask Dream Naru. He gives me a small sad smile and says
"Wait and watch."
So I wait. The man gets up and walks to a room. The woman nudges the children to their room and calls after the man.
"W-wait, Ruu. Can we jus-"
"No, Nakei. There's nothing to talk about. I lost my job and I can't support my family. I, I need time alone." Ruu says to Nakei. Nakeis' hand, that was reaching to comfort Ruu, recoils back at those words. Her hand goes to cover her mouth and her eyes are filled with tears. She obviously feels hurt. Then time passes. I don't know how I know, but I do. Now Nakei is sitting in the chair Ruu was sitting in before. She also has her head in her hands. One of her children comes up to her, taps her shoulder, and gives her a flower. When she lifts up hear head it is clearly seen that she has been crying. She gives a sad smile and tells the child to go to her room. Somehow I get the feeling that something bad happened to Ruu. I walk up to the coffee table and again there is a newspaper on there, open to the obituaries. I gasp as I find a picture of Ruu and his name in there. It says that he hanged himself. I turn my head around fast enough to see Nakei lock a door from the outside. A tear slides down her cheek and she says softly "I'm sorry." She walks over to a drawer, opens it, and pulls out a rope with a noose already tied to it.
"NO!" I yell. If she does that then what will happen to her children? I try to run and stop her, but Dream Naru grabs my wrist and tells me "Let time course through. Wait and watch."
"But I'm tired of waiting and I don't want to watch anymore!" I say with a chocked sob. Dream Naru shakes his head sadly and points. I look. Time passes. Hours. Days. Weeks even. And I hear the children cry. I hear them cry for their dead mother. I hear them cry for hunger. Then I hear silence. Deathly silence. I let tears slide down my cheek.
"How" I say in a whisper "How can that woman call herself a mother."
Dream Naru looks at me with that sad look again and says "It's time for you to go back." His voice fades on the last word and everything goes black for a minute.
******************************************************************************I stir,
"She's moving!"
"Is she awake?"
"Maybe…"
Disembodied voices float around. Voices that I recognize but couldn't name. I crack open an eye and I get a very unwelcome surprise. Yasu is about an inch away from my face.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" I shout, sitting up in bed too fast and knocking heads with Yasu.
"Ooooow. Ouch, ouch, ouch!" Yasu says rubbing his forehead, while the room is spinning. At least to my eyes it is. I drop back down to the bed, while rubbing my poor, poor, sore forehead.
"At least she reacted properly." Monk says trying hard not to laugh at Yasu and my expressions, "Did you have a vision dream? You were knocked out for half an hour or so."
"Yeah… in fact I did." I says slowly. Then I tell them about the dream.
"Yasu," Naru says "Do you still have that packet you read to Monk and I on the first day?"
"Hmmmm…" Yasu thinks for a moment, " I suppose I do." He goes out of the room, then comes back a couple minutes later holding a thin-ish packet. "What do ya need it for?"
"Do you think you could read it again. Out loud. For Ms. Hara, Ayako, John and Mai?"
"Sure yasu says "Here goes nothing. " Double Suicide Murder Anniversery. Today, a year ago, was the day that Mrs. Nakei Takinyak hung herself leaving three children behind. A few days prior to this incident Mr. Ruu Takinyak, Mrs. Takinyaks' husband, also killed himself. Three days after Mrs. Takinyak commited this horrendous act, her children died. It was later found that the children died of starvation" …and that's all folks."
"That's horrible! How could that woman call herself a mother?" Masako says, outraged. It's even worse, I think to myself, when you have to hear the children cry.
"Ayako, can you make some charms? Ten of them to be exact." Naru says.
"Sure," Ayako responds "I'll start making them. But… what do you need them for?"
"Some thing tells me that we will need them. The ghosts… they haven't shown themselves that much. Are they saving energy for something? Something doesn't seem right…" Naru says, looking off, thinking hard about something.
An hour later everything was back to being more or less normal. Ayako was talking to Monk, Naru was reading something, Lin was typing away on his laptop, Masako was sitting down staring off to space, and John and Yasu were arguing about something.
"Chicken!" John shouts out.
"Egg!" Yasu says in the same manner John said it.
"Chicken!"
"I said Egg!"
"It is Chicken!"
"No…Egg!"
"Chicken"
"Egg, Egg, Egg, Egg, Egg!"
"Chicken, Chicken, Chicken!"
"Ummm…what are you guys arguing about?" I ask standing in the middle of their battle field.
"We're debating on whether the chicken or the egg came first. Of course it's the egg." Yasu says.
"No, it's the chicken. Because what would warm up the egg enough to make it hatch?" John says defending his chicken. By now almost everyone had taken an intrest in the argument. Even Lin.
"Egg. Because where did the chicken come from, hmmm?" Yasu says defending his egg.
"It's the chicken." John, Masako, and Lin say at the same time.
"Egg." Yasu, Ayako, and Monk say together.
"Chicken"
"Egg"
"Chicken"
"Egg"
"What do you think it is Naru? Chicken or egg?" Ayako asks.
Naru puts down the book he was reading and slowly stands up " Neither. The chicken and the egg just evolved from something else, as all life did."
Everyone stares at Naru, possibly thinking the same thing, 'Charles Darwin'. Leave it to Naru to make it sound so analytical and scientific. Hmmm… it evolved from something else? I'm not on team chicken or team egg… I'm on team evolve.
END DAY 3
