The Ghost of My past
Rana: I don't like this story...I'm gonna discontinue it...*sulks
All of Rana Bananas OCS: NOOO! WE'RE GETTING DISCONTINUED! PLEASE SAVE US, MORE REVIEWS! AHHHHHH!
Kori *Gets on hands and knees Please! I haven't had any lines yet, and Rana's gonna make me a quiet character! Please let me speak! This doesn't count right now 'cause I'm really out of character! Is this because Rana doesn't own Simple and Clean or Passion/My Sanctuary by Utada Hikaru? (Rana: P.S. I wrote this part up there a year ago, before I was even on fan fic. I heard some authors say it and I got bored...Teehee! By the way, there is a spoiler for later on Prince of tennis chapters and such in here. It's about Yukimura, and that's all I'm gonna say.)
Chapter 4- Friends
The next day Kori woke up and began to get dressed for the hospital visit that day, all the while reflecting on the last fragment of his dream.
That was the day that he found a large 'closet' in the room that he was in. It was a large gray room with clothes lined up on racks in rows that went as far as the eyes could see and wigs-all perched on mannequin heads. Kori, however, could not enjoy the large room of clothes, his mind still wandering on the strange dream.
"Where did that music come from?" he asked himself dreamily, still quite tired at seven o'clock in the morning.
Kori tiredly walked downstairs-making sure to put his hands on the railing where he could see outside of the crystal clear glass doors, feeling slightly dazed. A long, shiny black limo was waiting outside.
Inside of the limo there was a hot tub, and a volleyball court, though sadly Kori didn't get to enjoy the limo ride, since the hospital was only 5 minutes away by car.
Kori then nodded in gratitude to the new and personal driver(Mikoyan, Sonora, a 22 year old female that seemed to blush whenever she looked at Kori in the backseat), when they had stopped in front of a tall, white building with many windows and a picture of a red plus on a white sign in front, along with the title 'KOKO HOSPITAL' in bold, capital letters.
"Sorry, Kori-kun," said Mikoyan, looking in back of the car with her bright green eyes, her black hair in a ponytail and her blue cap nearly falling off of her head. Her high cheeks were a bright red color. "We have a couple of minutes before the your appointment." She then turned back to the front window.
Kori looked at his white mini-box(called an I-pod)with interest. While getting in the car, Keigo had given to him the small white thing with many buttons, and told Kori to put the 'ear buds' attached to the long string into his ears and to put it on 'shuffle'.
It first landed on a song that Kori rather enjoyed called, 'My Sanctuary'. After listening to it once, he decided to replay it and sing it.
"Ahh...
I need more affection than you know [Reversed]
[Chorus] In you and I,
There's a new land,
Angels in flight
I need more affection than you know (Reversed]
My Sanctuary,
My Sanctuary, yeah
Where fears and lies melt away...
Music will tie
I need more affection than you know [Reversed]
What's left of me,
What's left of me now...
I watch you fast asleep,
All I fear Means nothing... [Chorus]
In you and I,
There's a new land,
Angels in flight
I need more affection than you know [Reversed]
My Sanctuary,
My Sanctuary, yeah
Where fears and lies melt away...
Music will tie
I need more affection than you know [Reversed]
What's left of me,
What's left of me
So many ups and downs [Reversed]
My heart's a battleground
I need true emotions [Reversed]
But, I need more affection than you know [Reversed]
I need true emotions [Reversed]
You show me how to see,
That nothing is whole
and nothing is broken..."
Deciding to save himself from further embarrassment, Kori turned off the song. Mikoyan wore a rather disappointed face.
"Very good singing, Kori," she said, sounding thoroughly unconvincing and sad.
Kori just grinned lightly, the tired look in his eyes not changing. Is that what praise felt like? It wasn't that good a feeling then was it?
"It's time~!" Sonora-Chan practically sang after a couple of seconds.
"Oh. Thanks." Kori once again gave Nora-Chan a small grin. "I'll call you when I get out of the hospital." The run into the hospital was easy, the strong but warm wind blowing into his hair. A small grin was implanted on his face. It felt as though he hadn't ran at all for a very, very long time.
However this short period of happiness was interrupted by a hand. A regular sized, fair skinned hand that was thin, calloused and long(but not too long)fingered.
"I'm sorry sir, but you can not run in a hospital." The hand had a commanding, and strict voice which could not be distinguished as either a girl's or a boy's. Kori looked towards the hand's body and saw a golden eyed boy with long brown hair and a white uniform with a red plus patch on the right side of their chest.
"Ah, sorry ma'am." apologized Kori blankly, panicking a little on the inside. He had been afraid that the nurse would yell at him in case it turned out that she was a feminine guy.
"What's your name?" asked the nurse, now speaking with an air of one who is very scary.
"Atobe Kori." The nurses eyes widened slightly while Kori just stared back, wondering why the nurse had her hair so long while the weather was warm out. It seemed unusual for some reason.
"A-ah, I see. Mr. Atobe, could you please follow me to your room. You will be sharing with another boy, about your age. He kind of looks like you too..." The nurse drawled, now acting slightly nicer with a distracted smile upon her freckled face.
Kori began to walk with the very nurse feeling slightly uneasy. It almost felt as though the silence was eating him alive.
"Hey. Ms. Nurse, what your name?" Kori asked the nurse, who was not much taller him.
"My name's Kago Natsuki. But my friends call me..." she paused suddenly, as though wondering if she could trust him, or if she would ever see him in her life. With a sigh she said;
"Natwerd, Nat-Chan, Nathaniel, and..." She seemed reluctant to finish.
"And...?"asked Kori inquisitively, an eyebrow raised.
"N-Natwee..." Someone, who appeared to be listening from behind the front desk was snickering, and Kori was unsuccessfully trying to hold back boisterous laughter by putting his hands in the pocket of his jacket and twisting the fabric. "But you can call me Nat-Chan if you want."
Kori could feel his mouth twitching and wondered if there was an alien in his mouth, while forgetting why he was laughing.
"Kay, Nat-Chan."said Kori, grinning lazily.
"Here we are! Room 16." Nat-Chan opened the door extremely quickly. "Hello Yukimura-kun, this is your new roommate. Kori-kun, this is your roommate, Yukimura Seichi, I'll just leave you two alone to get to know each other!" said Natsuki in one breath, quickly pushing Kori into the room and rushing out.
'That was...strange...I'll greet Mr. Yukimura when I get into my bed.' thought Kori from inside of the room. He then got to the bed, undoing the neat sheets and laying himself down, before sitting up and experimenting with different poses and such in an effort to get more comfortable.
"Hello. My name's Kori. Your name is Yukimura, right?"
After a long pause Kori wondered if he had spoken to this person while he was sleeping, or if he might have woken them up.
Then the curtains over the person's bed started opening. Suddenly, through a small opening in the curtain, a feminine head of blue hair and closed eyes poked out.
"Yes. My name is Yukimura Seiichi. But I didn't catch you're name. What was it, again." This boy had somehow reminded Kori of the grim reaper boy from his dreams, with the same closed eyes and peaceful expression.
"My name? Atobe Kori." said Kori nonchalantly while Yukimura's eyes opened for a moment, then closed once more. It seemed quite unnecessary.
"Atobe...?Are you by chance related to an Atobe Keigo?"asked Yukimura, the gentleness in his voice seeming different for a moment. Almost rushed.
"Yeah...his brother." However Kori was not sure of this statement. Yukimura's eyes opened again. "Hey, Mr. Yukimura, what are you here for?"asked Kori suddenly hoping to lighten the suddenly tense mood.
The awkward silence had somehow reappeared, and with a vengeance.
"Uh, uh, sorry. I-"
"I'm here because I'm sick; Guillain Barre Syndrome. What about you, Kori-kun?" said the other boy gently, in a way that made Kori wish he hadn't asked.
Picking up a clipboard with his information, Kori skimmed through it, and read;
Name: Atobe Kori.
Age: 13-14 on admittance, now 14
Birthday: July 20th
Height: 155 cm
Injury; Blunt force trauma to the back, signs of tearing and immense bleeding, very close to the spinal chord. Found shards of green glass, perhaps a beer or alcohol bottle in wound.
Caused; coma 5 months. Recovery in process, must get plenty of rest, and not strain self, or may reopen wound. Will most likely be tired for some time.
"Back injury." The silver haired boy shrugged. "Do you mind if I sing a bit, Mr. Yukimura?" Asked Kori blankly, who felt as though they may have exploded if he didn't do something a little active by this time.
"Sure, I don't mind." said the Yukimura person softly, the same smile in place.
"Thanks." Kori cleared his throat, and hoped that he wasn't a terrible singer. I-pod set to shuffle.
"When you walk away,
you don't hear me say,
'Please, oh baby, don't go!'
Simple and clean
is the way that you're make me feel tonight.
It's hard to let it go.
You're giving me too many things.
Lately, your all I need.
(Oh, oh)
You smiled at me and said
Don't get me wrong I love you
But does that mean
I have to meet your father?
When we're older you'll understand.
What I meant said "No.
I don't think life is quite that simple."
When you walk away
you don't hear me say please,
oh baby don't go!
Simple and clean
is the way that your making me feel tonight It's hard to let it go.
(so simple and clean.)
The daily things
(like this and that and what is what)
that keep us all busy
are confusing me.
That's when you came to me and said
Wish I could prove I love you,
but does that mean
I have to walk on water?
When we are older you'll understand.
It's enough when I say so.
And maybe some things are that simple.
When you walk away,
You don't you hear me say,
please oh baby, don't go.
U-um... How was I..." asked Kori, wondering why his face was so warm, after turning off his I-pod, deciding to save himself when it felt like his face might have overheated. He felt strangely satisfied, but was still wondering why the I-pod was full of a ton of ladies singing. Maybe not a ton of ladies, per say, but the same person was singing.
"You were great, Ko-Chan!" Yukimura tilted his head lightly, that gentle smile widening to an almost scary point.
"Ko-Chan?"asked the annoyed Kori who suddenly felt a little sleepy, though somehow he also felt somewhat...relieved, somehow.
"Ko-Chan!" the blue haired boy seemed to explain as the room started to get a little fuzzy again, Kori just thought it was because his face was warm too.
'I feel sleepy...again. Weird...'