Hate: Well, finally! Chapter 7! Hallelujah!
Otis: They own the plot and their non-canon characters only.
Tucker: Or lack of plot.
Chapter 7: Oh Snap!
Kirai
"Nai!" I shouted, tugging her body from the sidewalk. She was bloody, bruised, and just gone. Sadly, I can't even do pull-ups in gym, so there was no way in hell I'd be able to carry her back home or through the building, so I did the next best thing. I called the Host Club. Thank God I remembered Hikaru's number.
"Kirai? What's up?" His voice came through the phone. He seemed a little worried, and I could hear the limo engine in the background.
"Hikaru? I need you to get here, like, fast! Nai passed out about four blocks south from the school, I don't know why, but I'm not strong enough to carry her by myself. Please, help me!" I begged. Gah, this place was turning me into such a girly-girl. But hey, my sister had just passed out for no freaking reason!
"Be there in five." With that, the phone clicked off. I moved Kirai onto my lap, keeping her head elevated. I put my hand to it. Warm. Warmer than warm, in fact it was almost on fire with how bad it was. I pulled a tissue out of my school bag and wiped the blood off of her face. She looked like she was in pain, and she felt worse by just feeling her head. I checked the time, twenty minutes before school would start. I pulled Nai's helmet off and set it on her skateboard.
"It'll be okay, earth ninja. It'll all be okay." I almost cried. Those were almost the same words I said before they had to put my dog to sleep. It tore me apart, but I knew this time it might actually be. Just then, I heard the limo pull up to the curb and the boys get out.
"We're here. What happened?" Kaoru asked me, staring in near-horror at my long-gone sister.
"I don't know. One minute, we're skating down the street, and the next, she's on the ground, bloody and running a high fever. I think we need to take her to the hospital, or back to your place. Anywhere that has a doctor, at least." I said as they lifted her from my arms and put her into the limo. I climbed in with our things right behind them, taking a seat by Nai's head on the far side. She needed me right now. "Can you guys call us in sick?"
"Sure. We'll head back to our place and take care of her, okay?" Hikaru was looking directly at me as he said this. I don't know why, but something in his eyes gave me mild comfort as he said this. I just nodded and rubbed the hair out of Nai's face. I couldn't let her leave me.
About twenty minutes later, we were all sitting in the Hitachiin mansion medical room (which, by the way, was huge!) with Nai on a hospital bed, hooked up to about a dozen machines checking on her periodically, a doctor recording almost everything, Kaoru looking like he might lose it while sitting in a seat next to her bed and holding her left hand, and me sitting by the door with Hikaru, both of us using a pair of earbuds to listen to music. This was the way I dealt with things, I listened to music, or I drew, which was how a notepad and pencil ended up in my lap with wild sketches running over it. Hikaru was staring intently at my sketches. I wasn't even paying attention to details, but I wasn't ready to see how my manga had turned out. Yes, I drew manga and sang. Big freaking whoop. I spent a whole year taking art classes and three years in vocal lessons to get good at them.
"Well, I have some good news and some bad news." The doctor said to me. I looked up at him, afraid.
"Bad news first please." I said. It made the good news sound better if I heard the bad news first.
"Okay, the bad news is Nai was poisoned. By what, I don't know. It caused her to have that fever, which was just under critical levels. But the good news is that she's going to be fine and her temperature has gone down to only a hundred degrees. It looks like she'll be okay to go home, but I'd prefer to keep her here for a while." He said. I nodded, but I wouldn't be going home to investigate until she was healthy again. At that moment, her eyes fluttered open and she looked at me.
"Hey Kirai." She said softly. She didn't look good, but she wasn't gone anymore. I guess it was a good thing I brought Tucker and Otis with us, since Tucker was beside her head on her pillow.
"Hey Nai. You look better. I'm glad you're going to be okay." I said. I stood and walked over to her, leaving my stuff by Hikaru. I sat down by her right hand, and when I did, I seriously felt like someone who wasn't in the room was watching me. I looked out the window and almost had a heart attack.
There in the window was a deer, staring right at us, and boy, did it look mad. I saw Nai look at the window and her eyes widened in fear. Oh my God, was that what did it? No, that was stupid. The doctor looked to the window and the animal ran off. We shook our heads and looked at each other again. I knew we'd talk about this later. She nodded and looked to Kaoru, striking up a conversation. I sat back next to Hikaru and listened to the music again. Ah, Monochrome no Kiss, my favorite Japanese song. I mouthed the words and looked back at my picture.
I hadn't even realized it, but I had drawn a picture that looked scarily like the four of us in the snow, messing with each other. Whoa, my subconscious was losing it. Then again, that deer was freaking creepy! Then, out of nowhere, I felt completely sick. I ran to the bathroom and leaned over the toilet, throwing up. I felt someone pull my hair out of the way and rub my back like my mother used to. I coughed and flushed the goop away, not wanting to see it. My stomach lurched, but I was out of substances to throw up, so I coughed long and hard. That was when I heard a voice.
"Come on, Kirai, you'll be okay. Just breath." Was that Hikaru? Yeah, I think so. He seemed understanding and calm for the first time since I met him. So, he was helping me. Wow. Aw, crap. My crush really is becoming apparent, isn't it? He put an earbud in my ear and rubbed my back some more. I calmed down eventually and he helped me up and get back to a chair. The doctor took my temperature and said it was 95 degrees.
"Ugh, I feel horrible." I moaned. Hikaru was currently trying to warm my shivering body up while phoning the kitchen (who does that!) for a glass of water. I swear these guys had it good. Hikaru had put a thick blanket over my shoulders and was letting me curl into him. What? I was freaking FREEZING! Some guy brought up a glass of water and some cold medicine for me. Hikaru put the pills in my hand and held the glass of water to my lips. I took the medicine and Nai looked at me in a worried way.
"Could you boys give us a minute?" She asked, looking to Kaoru. They nodded and left, leaving worried glances to us.
"We'll be right outside if you need us." They said. I looked at the clock; lunch time. We nodded and they left, presumably to feed themselves. We looked at each other.
"That deer did something to us." I said.
"That deer is a jinx. There is something about it, and it seems determined to hurt us." She said in a worried tone. I shivered again and looked back at her.
"We have to find out what it wants. At least, if we want to make it out of this alive. Once we heal up, let's head to the library and look up anything about the woods behind out house. Something tells me it's not good for us to go back alone, though, so we'll have to see if we can stay here while we investigate." I said. She nodded and almost freaked out again.
"Wait, every bad thing that's happened to us has involved that deer. We have to find out what's up with it and fast. It's not safe to be alone anymore, since it seems to run away from everyone but us. We need to get the whole Host Club in on this, at least keep them around us at all times." She said. I nodded this time through the shivers. This was the start of the scariest investigation we'd ever be on.
