7. End
Dang it. Dang it! Kawachi stormed out of the room, the black key in hand. "Where's room 500?" Kawachi muttered under gritted teeth, looking left and right in the hallway. Not on this floor. At one end of the hallaway, he noticed that there was a door, and on it was the number 500. Running over to it and opening the door, he ran up the stairs revealed behind the door.
I have to get up there NOW!
Shadow pulled the trigger of the gun, only to realize there was a blank. He growled, before taking a bullet out of his pants pocket and putting it in the gun. "Dang it." Sophie heard Shadow mutter. "That Baldy isn't going to win..."
"You were planning to kill him all along!?" Tsukino exclaimed. "That's not fair, you promised you wouldn't!"
"Shut up, brat." Shadow snapped back. "I'm the ruler of this game; I can change the rules if I want to!"
Kawachi burst into the room, and Shadow pointed his gun at him, about to shoot-
When Sophie and Kai both leapt at him simultaneously and began to try to get the gun away from him. "Let go of me!" Shadow shouted, as well as a few swear words. Kai punched him in the face, only to get kicked to the side by the silver-haired psycopath. Sophie and Shadow now both grappled for the gun and-
"No!" Kawachi screamed, but the trigger was pulled.
Blood streamed from Shadow's chest as he fell to the floor. Sophie just stared down at the new corpse, gun still pointed at the dead psycopath, her facial expression looking a bit blank. She spoke two words, before she, Kai and Kawachi proceeded to free the other people.
"Game over."
Kawachi sighed as he, Tsukino, Matsushiro, Kuroyanagi, Kai and Monica stood by Kanmuri, Azuma and Shachihoko's graves. Sophie would have been here, too, to stand by Yuiichi Kirisaki's grave; but she was at the hospital, probably talking to her brother, who got into a somehow-comatose state a month ago.
One month ago. It was only one month ago that Shadow took Kanmuri, Azuma, Yuiichi Kirisaki, Yukino, and Shachihoko's lives, as well as putting Meister into a coma (could it be called a coma?).
Kai put flowers on Shachihoko's grave, looking at it quietly. Monica held his hand in hers, and Kai thought silently to himself. Shachihoko. Thank you for saving Monica. I won't forget the honorable thing you did for her. He glanced at the Azuma and Kanmuri's graves as well. Azuma, you were a strong opponent and I respect your talent. And Kanmuri. I never got the chance to go head-to-head against you, but I respect your work, too, even if you were stuck working for Yukino during the Newcomer's Tournament.
Kuroyanagi felt his cellphone vibrating in his pocket, and he took it out and put it to his ear. "Hello?"'
"Kuroyanagi..." Sophie paused for a moment. Kuroyanagi sensed that she was crying.
"What's wrong, Sophie?" Kuroyanagi asked immediately. "Don't tell me Meister died-"
"No. No, he's not dead. My brother..." Sophie once again faltered before finishing. "According to the doctor, he woke up fifteen minutes before I got here."
Sophie put away the cellphone, before walking into her older brother's hospital room.
The last couple times that she saw him, it was obvious that he wasn't awake, and she only had the beep of the other hospital machines counting his pulse to accompany her voice. But now, he was awake, and maybe he could speak with her.
She sat by the hospital bed, and looked down at her older brother. He looked tired, as if he just woke up from a long, dreamless sleep. His mask did not cover his face; as the doctors had removed the mask and put it on a nearby table. Instead, what Sophie saw of his face was pale, tired, but somehow peaceful.
"They told me I got into a coma somehow with Shadow shooting me." He started. "They said I was asleep for a month..."
"More of one month, six hours and thirty-three minutes." Sophie responded quietly. "And yes, I bothered to count, if you're wondering." She extended a hand towards his face and brushed a lock of hair aside, revealing one of his previously hidden light blue eyes.
Her older brother let out a soft chuckle. "I'm surprised I'm not dead." He paused, glancing away from his younger sister for a moment before speaking the next words faintly. "Did...Did anyone else get killed, after I got shot?"
"Shachihoko." Sophie spoke finally after a moment of hesitation. "It turns out the Nagoya fanatic had a crush on Monica during the Monaco Cup, too. It sucks that the time he got to confess it was right before a bullet was in his head."
"I see..." Sylvan paused, before speaking. "I do hope he's better where he is now."
"Same for me." The two were silent for a moment, before Sophie spoke up again. "What was it like while you were unconscious? Did you not realize you were unconscious, or what?"
Sylvan paused to think, before responding quietly. "Well, I felt that I was somewhere...I'm not sure where it was. I couldn't move, and I could barely think. I thought at times that I might wither away, but...I heard a voice." His mouth turned into a small smile as he finished. "It told me not to lose myself, for the sake of you."
Sophie just smiled back at him, and silence fell between them for the next few minutes before everyone else came rushing into the room and started bombarding Meister with questions and words of relief. Nothing else had to be said between the two siblings, because they knew that they didn't have to say anything else.
Author note: And this chapter, everyone, concludes the fanfic 'Find Me.'
A big thanks goes to Bite the Dust for reviewing this fic! :) This is also the first fanfic I've completed the fastest out of all of the ones I've started so far! XD I'll probably work a bit more on 'Reflections' and 'Yakitate! Cosplay?' as well as 'The Epic Reports of Kawachi Kyosuke,' but expect another new fanfic to come soon! Thanks for reading!
