Disclaimer: Again I shall disappoint you saying I don't own anything except Hisa, Ami, Ronin, Kuroda, Roger and the plot of course...
Chapter 4: Some light in darkness
Hisa left the hospital three days after the car accident. Life went on. She went back to school Monday, her usual smiling face was gone, it was as if she wore a mask to hide her emotions. Hisa didn't laugh, didn't smile. She did her homework, aced her tests and that was it.
Since she now had a permanent scar on her right arm, she wore long sleeves every day, even when it was too hot. Of course, her friends had asked her why, but she just answered she wasn't hot at all and it felt like autumn. Hisa's life at home however, was quite different than before, of course she had chores, but now it was as if they weren't just chores but duties, and sometimes, she felt like a slave to her own family.
"Hisa clean the pool!" "Hisa do the laundry!" "Hisa do this!" "Hisa do that!" was all she heard when at home, she even wondered how she kept up with homework at this rate. The bell rang and everyone bursts out of the classrooms to their locker and then sped up to their cars, happy for the school day to be over. Hisa took her time, she wasn't in a hurry to clean the house. She slowly put her pen away, she had been doodling on her left hand during the fascinating class of English, even though it was her second language, she still managed an A.
She walked silently to her locker, her head down. It happened for her to be depressed and think what would have happened if she was to one to have died in the car instead of Kuroda. Hisa spotted the car and her mom waiting inside.
She got in and Ami drove out, "How was your day?" she asked, as usual.
"It was good." was all she needed to answer to please her mother.
Hisa remembered when one of her friend asked her one day in the hall if she could ever meet Kuroda her brother. "Not anymore, no." she replied to her friend's request.
"Why not? You said I could meet him and he'd like me..." she continued to argue, Hisa looked straight ahead.
Her emotions frozen, "He died." and she entered the classroom while her friend stopped walking in the middle of the corridor.
Since that day, this particular friend left her alone and never really bothered her, but the others still had no clue what Hisa had lived through. The following day at lunch, the group was talking about someone who broke his arm and when they asked her what she thought, she replied it was better than losing it.
"Can't you stop, for one day, being so self centered and selfish!? Sheesh..." they replied offended, Hisa answered them with silence and finished her lunch.
'Maybe I am selfish... but they didn't lose a brother...' she thought, devoid of any emotions; and since that day, she never ate lunch again and was always deep in thoughts, in a dark corner of the crowded band room.
The car stopped in the garage and Hisa stepped out with her backpack and binder held closely. Hisa felt light-headed as her vision blurred and her eyes went blank once again, she saw a wave drowning a body on the beach. Hisa's binder fell on her foot as the vision vanished as quickly as it came.
"Hisa what are you day dreaming about? Come on there's work for you to do!" shouted her mother from inside the house. Hisa sighed and picking up her binder, walked into the house.
- - - -In Spirit World- - - -
Koenma
was repeatedly stamping his piles of paper when Botan entered the
room.
"Koenma sir! We have found unconfirmed activity in California!" she said brandishing a paper and waving it high in the air. Koenma stopped stamping and quickly ripped the paper out of her hand, his eyes skimming it rapidly.
"In California?" he said out loud, although talking to himself.
"Do you think it's the same girl Koenma sir?" asked Botan eagerly. Koenma didn't answer and continued stamping his papers, dismissing Botan in doing so.
'Could it be? Then again... the FBI already has proof that other living forms unknown to human kind exists... I wonder if--'
- - - -In California- - - -
It
had been a week since Hisa had that vision in the garage and she
thought no more of it. It appeared strange to her to have those
flashes and she wondered what they were, 'Maybe it's just
my imagination taking over...' she told herself over
and over again to convince herself. It was a Saturday afternoon and
Ami roamed the house seeking for something to do.
"Hisa come with me, we'll go to the beach..." she stated randomly, Hisa dropped her book and got ready.
'Thanks for the short notice...' she sighed and climbed up the stairs to go to her room in search of a jacket. Her feet came to a stop in front of Kuroda's room. Hisa didn't know what to do. Since his death, she hadn't set foot inside, and now her parents forbid her to... Before any tears could reach her eyes, Hisa blinked and rushed in her room, grabbed a jacket and hustled back down.
Shouting her good bye to Ronin who was working in the study, she quickly put her shoes on and entered the car, a flash of the wave coming back. Hisa shook her head to get rid of it and closed the door. The drive took at least thirty minutes, and, by the time Ami and Hisa arrived at the beach, the ranger counter was closed so they didn't have to pay for the parking. Good! Because it was really expensive.
Ami looked relieved there was almost no one, and suddenly looked more joyful than in the last two weeks. "Come on Hisa we're going to see the sunset. I brought the camera." she said taking the camera out of the glove compartment.
Hisa nodded in a bored manner, she didn't want to come in the first place, so taking pictures or not made no difference to her. Ami walked to a bench and sat there, looking at the horizon but her smile faded as her thoughts wandered back to the car accident. Hisa guessed her mother was probably going to think of her beloved brother and decided to go take a walk on the rocks -normally covered in water- to avoid any topic of conversation where she was to be blamed.
As Hisa wandered on the green rocks -green from algae- she noticed the few people crowding the beach were leaving. Ami was still on the bench, contemplating the setting sun, and realized she had a camera. Ami took a lot of pictures and spotted Hisa standing on the biggest rock, lonely.
'What a good shot...' thought Ami as she stood up to have a better angle and positioned the camera, staring at her beautiful daughter through the lense. Hisa's brown curly hair swayed in rhythm with the wind, it looked like it was dancing around her head while her crimson eyes looked at the lovely horizon in sorrow.
Kuroda wasn't there to admire it.
Ami took the picture and got ready to take another one when she noticed something moving under Hisa's feet.
Ami's eyes widened as she ran towards her daughter, "HISA! Watch out! Below!" she screamed while running as fast as she could. Hisa turned around and looked at her mother frowning, then directed her gaze to her feet and saw that indeed something was there, and it didn't look too friendly...
"RUN!" shouted Ami who was now on the rocks, Hisa didn't make her repeat and hopped back, trying to run. But come on, on rocks? It was hard... The moving puddle grew larger and larger, Hisa looked back and slipped on a rock, falling forward. Luckily, she was able to catch herself at the last moment, no harm done. Ami finally arrived where Hisa was and forced her daughter up.
"Hurry! Run, I'll distract him!" she panted, pushing Hisa forward. Hisa didn't move but stared at the wave getting bigger and bigger. The thing lunged at her but Ami jumped in between and was caught in the swirling mass of water, snapping Hisa out of her torpor.
"Mother!" she yelled running towards the moving wave.
Hisa could see Ami turning inside that-- thing that looked like a hurricane. Hisa extended her hand expecting her mother to grab it. However, she didn't see a massive arm of water speeding up and slapping her under her extended arm and on the side, breaking a few ribs in the process. Thrown a good ten feet away, Hisa's head hit a rock as she landed on her back, in the middle of green algae rocks, making a long scratch on the back of her left leg at the same time, but she didn't feel it for she was already unconscious.
Ami saw her precious daughter being thrown back and smiled to herself, 'At least she's safe...' but her thoughts were diverted back to her problem: she was going to drown...
Hisa's head throbbed like mad when she opened her eyes -only to be blinded by the setting sun. Using the back of her hand to protect her eyes from the direct sunlight, Hisa snapped her eyes open again when she remembered what happened to her mother. She sat up abruptly, feeling a surge of pain shooting through her rib cage. Hisa winced quietly, quickly putting a hand on the sore ribs and breathed in slowly. While calming the pain down, she looked around and spotted a body lying not too far from her.
Dreading the worst, Hisa stood up, but fell back down as her leg sent waves of pain to her brain, "Hey, one's moving!" shouted a voice from the dry shore. Hisa glanced towards the source of the sound and saw yellow rolls of police tape extended around a safety perimeter.
Hisa ignored the men and started crawling towards the body, 99 sure it was her mother's, but if the guy said one... that meant... Hisa pushed that conclusion to the back of her mind. Surely it was all a big mistake, the police was just here to make sure-- to make sure that... Hisa reached Ami's body, swallowing her fear back she touched the skin of her wrist.
It felt like ice.
Hisa's breathing became shallow, it couldn't be true, that was just a-- a dummy! It couldn't really be her mother, but then-- why would it have the same freckle as Ami? Hisa placed both her hands on her mother's stomach and dropped her head on her hands, crying.
A policeman came forth and put a hand on her shoulder, "She drowned. Do you know how her body came back?" rudely asked the policeman.
Hisa retrained the urge to beat the guy to death, "No." she simply answered but her tone was as cold as an iceberg.
The policeman nodded and motioned for his colleagues to come, "Take care of her... And she has a crab in her hair." and he left the sobbing Hisa mourn over the dead body of her loved mother. Still sobbing her heart out, Hisa was carried to an ambulance and driven to the hospital. The last thing she saw of her mother was two police officers covering her body with a black cover.
The doctors and nurses were surprised to see Hisa again, yet they didn't comment since they knew what had happened to her. While staring at the blank wall in her room, Hisa heard the door open slowly. She didn't glance at the new comer, she just knew it had to be her father... It was exactly who she predicted, and he came in without looking at her and sat next to the bed.
Silence ensued. Hisa didn't dare to talk, she knew it was her fault her mother died, Ronin would never forgive her...
"I'm sorry Hisa." said a deep voice, and by the tone, Hisa guessed he must've had cried a lot. Hisa turned her head to her dad, he never apologized for something before, why would he start now? Especially for something that important?
"I'm sorry you had to see them both die. I'm sorry, it's all my fault..." he continued, still not looking at his daughter. Hisa didn't say anything, she felt like crying again. Her heart filled up with contained emotions, all the pain and sorrow she felt ever since she had moved.
"Dad..." she whispered. How she longed to be held in his strong arms, she needed to be held in a reassuring embrace.
Ronin raised his head and Hisa saw two tears rolling down his cheeks. She'd never seen him cry before...
Hisa opened her arms, Ronin stood up and slowly, gently embraced his precious daughter, "You're all I have left now..." he whispered, burying his head in Hisa's soft hair. Both of them stayed like that for another twenty minutes, just holding each other, sobbing... (And this is when you imagine the camera doing an upper shot and making a zoom out on the two of them...)
T.T Don't kill me... Everything happens for a reason... But I felt like J.K Rowling when I made Ami die, I almost cried... Well except she cried for real when she killed Sirius... But it's not like this is ever going to be published so... Anyway, I hope you-- liked that chapter... to some extend. Review if you wish.
