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AN (Taeniaea)- Nothing to put here.

Chapter 7- Hospitalized

-I-

Three days later.. Seimei groaned, trying to sit up, but was stopped by a nurse. "Take it easy, that was some beating. You alright?"

"Yes." Seimei replied brokenly.

"Okay, I"ll be right back." She exited the room, "The patient is awake."

As soon as the words left the Nurse's mouth, Akira barged past the door. "Good." She sighed.

"I thought I might of killed my favorite student." She said sadly, before brightening impossibly, "But Seimei-Chan is alright, right?"

Seimei looked over at the door in a daze when Akira barged past it, and replied "I'm fine Akira." Her head was still ringing some and it was wrapped in bandages.

Akira sighed again, "Good. Do you know what this means?"

Seimei replied, "Not really Akira. Ahck, my head's ringing."

"Ringing huh? I'm sure it's just dizziness." Akira said with her apparently unbreakable attitude.

The nurse came in, "Sorry but she should rest."

"Alrighty!"

"What I 'm fine! I really don't want to rest-" By the time Seimei had even started speaking the lights were off and the door had closed.

As Akira and the nurse left Seimei's room they moved through the corridors, after arriving at the waiting room, they started heading through the corridors, apparently to the doctor in charge of Seimei's office.

On the way there they heard music flitting in from one of the rooms, a sign told them this was the critical care wing. "It sounds so nice." Misaki droned.

"Ah, that's Saezuru Chidori's room, please don't disturb her."

"Right."

-I-

Meanwhile Seimei lay in her bed, thinking, 'Why do I get the feeling they know something I don't.' Before promptly falling asleep.

-I-

"What?" They arrived at the doctor's office, only to face disturbing news. The doctor said Seimei had a personality chip installed on her brain, because she had a weak consciousness. "Is she.. even herself?" It was Misaki who asked.

"Well, we programmed it as close as possible, but its been altered several times. Listen, you must NOT ever mention it to her, the trauma would be severe."

"R-right."

With that, they left the hospital, noticing the music had stopped playing from Chidori's room and the door was open. Inside they caught a glimpse of a five-year old girl lying asleep on the bed, with all kinds of equipment hooked up, and she was singing.

She stopped when they noticed it, and they moved on. Unknown to the passerbys, she had just seen something in her dreams, because of their [presence, or rather an uninvited person that was with them' What was that?' She had been looking at a broken mirror in her dream-room, when suddenly someone appeared in it and looked at her, before vanishing.

Misaki and the others left the hospital, Misaki pausing to wonder at the fact that even such a small child wasn't spared life's cruelty. She tried to find the room, but it didn't have a window. ' Well, Seimei-chan gets to leave tomorrow, so I should prepare a welcome-home gift.'

The next morning Seimei was packing up her things so she could leave the hospital. There was a restless atmosphere in the air as she worked hurrying to get done until she noticed something off, her alarm clock has stopped ticking.

"Need any help onee-chan(1)?" A little girl dressed in a flowing white dress appeared behind her with long gold hair. As Seimei blinked, the girl was gone.

Seimei was still looking over at the spot where the little girl had appeared, "What the, who was that." The clock started ticking again.

A Nurse approached her door and knocked, before entering. "Are you ready?"

Seimei picked up her large backpack, "Yes I'm ready!"

The Nurse nodded, "Okay, follow me please."

"Ok" Was all Seimei said as she followed the nurse.

The Nurse paused as she heard singing coming from the ER area.(2) "It's a wonder she can sing so well.." the Nurse trailed off, walking toward the elevator.

"Who is that singing?" Seimei asked the Nurse as she was following her to the elevator.

"Ah, she's one of our more peculiar patients. Saezuru Chidori. She went into a kind of vegetative state a few minutes post-birth, and has been like that since. She hasn't opened her eyes since then, and her father funds her stay."

"Yet she can sing?"

"It's not understandable, it just happens to sound appealing to the ear As I said, it's a wonder." The nurse replied.

"Ah, here we are. The cab outside will take you to your hotel."

"Ok then bye." Seimei replied as she walked out the door to the cab, which took her to the hotel where she finally got some rest.

-I-

Footnotes-

1- In japan from what I gather you address elder females as onee which could be 'miss', 'lady', or 'big sister'. There are a decent sum of other ways to address them, but I just think this one fits the occasion better.

2- There isn't a door to separate Seimei and the nurse from the ER as this is also a CCU. [Critical Care Unit.]