Mizu: ...

*Inside Mizu's head*

Kai: You need to be on time, diligence is a virtue.

Mizu: ...

Kai: *Continue's to rant*


Chapter Eight

"Are you feeling better?" I ask Fuyuki as he opens his eyes. He just stares at me and gives me a slight smiles, I start to get my hopes up but his next words crush any hope of that.

"Who are you?" He asks me looking at me straight in the eyes, I immediately start to frown. How can he forget me, we were really close before and he just woke up. We should have one of those moments where he makes a joke about me missing him to much or something.

"You mean you don't remember?" I ask and he shakes his head, I would say something but the words get stuck in my throat, I just listen to the beeps inside the room.

"All I know is that I feel very safe around you..." He adds on and I feel a little bit of hope, if he feels safe around me then that means not all hope is lost. He might remember more about the past, I chose this moment to call a nurse up.

While I wait for the nurse I call Atsushi and Azumi to tell them that Fuyuki is awake. It is a miracle that he even woke up... to bad he seems to have amnesia... no I'll be honest it is killing me on the inside, I just stopped feeling things like this four days ago.

"That's nice to know..." I give him a weak smile, the doctor walks into the building and asks a lot of questions to figure out what is going on. He then takes Fuyuki away and runs tests on him again just to make sure everything is alright.

I stare at the lights within the hospital, it is very blinding but I guess that it was always like this. The ceiling is a little dirty, definitely not a pure white you would expect from the building. It's been awhile since I last smiled, I lightly touch my finger to my lips, I guess Fuyuki became a source of happiness in the time that we got to know each other.

I wonder if he will still be the same as before, he was pretty outgoing but seemed to keep important things close to him. Funny, he did a lot for me. We met when I was at my lowest, I was thrown out by my parents and I was struggling to pay for rent. Fuyuki then met me and helped me find a job, from there I began to teach him martial arts. He was good at it but he didn't seem to like it all that much, well he did like meditating. In return he said he wanted to teach me to be more ladylike. I still think that it was just an excuse to get out of work and eat.

"Fuyuki, we should wait up front for your dad and mom to get here." I say leading him sit in the front of the building, his parents should be here to pick him up. His parents come and talk with the doctor awhile before coming and bringing us to their car.

"I have been staying with you these past three days during my free time, you scared me because I thought you would never wake up." I say laughing, the laughter is hollow though and there is no joy detectable within it. He asks his parents some questions but for the most part he is really silent, he does listen to me talk. Funny, even after the accident I still talk and in fact I talk even more now. But that is only when I don't want my thoughts to stray.

"Yeah, you are practically good at everything so I don't think I have impressed your parents. They do like my cooking though, it's not the best they have tasted but it is good none the less." I continue talking and gesturing with my hands, his parents also put a big emphasis on eating properly so I got use to at least the bare minimum as they put it.

Fuyuki's parents are nice but they can be very strict, I can see where Fuyuki got his attitude that everybody is dirt beneath his feet. Actually I always wondered why he didn't treat me that way but I never had the time to ask... and I can't ask him now.

"You're weird." Fuyuki says all of the sudden, I turn and give him a look that is a mixture of a stink eye and surprise because he has been silent for awhile and the first thing he says after opening his mouth is an insult.

"Don't worry about it, she is weird." Atsushi says while driving the car, actually I still can't get over how luxurious this car is. I know they have a limo but Atsushi rarely uses it because he says he enjoys driving so why wouldn't he take out a car and drive himself.

"Wait, are you ganging up on me now." I ask, looking at Atsushi, he doesn't usually say anything that doesn't have a certain amount of importance to them.

"You will get used to it, he used to do it to me in the past too." Azumi sighs, wait why are you reminiscing the past like he wasn't the same cold robot like creature? You are not going to tell me that there is a soul in there.

"He used to be quite the smooth talker in the past!" She continues, wait a second. Don't continue! I don't have a single interest about his past, not one at all.

"He doesn't seem like one at all..." Fuyuki says in disbelief, I mean I can agree with you on that. Where in him does he have the potential to be a smooth talker, he probably couldn't talk a cat into walking outside if he wanted to.

"Well there is a reason you were born, your father obviously had to have some talent." Azumi says blushing, she obviously has very different standards from me. I look out the window and see people's faces flash by, funny at this speed they don't seem to different from the next person over.

Maybe humans aren't very different in the end, I mean we all eventually die. We all need to eat, sleep and drink in order to survive. Look at our bodies they all follow the same basic principles, I mean humans share a ninety-nine percent genetic match with one another. Even if they are not genetically related with each other.

Actually that brings a good question to my mind, why do we have the personalities that we have? The answer in my mind is simple, we don't have unique personalities. I mean I could probably give you a piece of paper describing your personality and you would probably agree with it as long as it wasn't outrageous.

What I am trying to get at is that humans are all pretty much the same, we live the same way, we act the same way and we die the same way.

"This language is interesting." Fuyuki says in a whisper and I turn to question him some more. He is looking out the window right now, reading the signs.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"You talk backwards..." He explains. What does he mean we talk backwards. We talk perfectly normally, what kind of ideas are running through his head.

"What do you mean we talk backwards?" Azumi asks in confusion.

"You talk in the order of subject, object and then verb. I am use to subject, verb and then object." He explains, he does take a pause every now and then as if he is looking for the right words.

"But isn't your native language the same as ours?" Azumi continues questioning him. Actually maybe something did happen to him because of the accident.

"No... I mean I don't think so..." He says. Me and Azumi look at each other in puzzlement, Atsushi just continues driving as if he doesn't care.

"Are you saying your native tongue is English?" Atsushi asks and Fuyuki shakes his head and thinks over his response for awhile.

"It's more like Chinese..." He trails off. "I think it started with an l."

"You mean Lao?" Atsushi says as soon as the letter l comes out of Fuyuki's mouth. What kind of language knowledge does Atsushi have?

"No, I think the name is Lotai..." He says and Atsushi's face actually grows confused. I haven't ever seen Atsushi confused before, I know I have only known him for three days but he knew my name from the moment that we had met.

"Lotai?" Azumi asks with interest seeping from her body, she could probably do better at hiding it but that doesn't matter right now. What matters right now is why nobody is considering taking him back to the doctor! I mean something is obviously wrong with his body.

Why is he talking about knowing a different language when he should be a native Japanese speaker. This is going to go downhill very fast.

"Yeah, it is a language that puts emphasis on social standings and respect." He says looking at something that isn't there. "We have three writing systems... I can't remember their names at the moment."

"We?" Atsushi asks, Fuyuki just shakes his head.

"Wait stop!" He suddenly cries in an outburst, he then jumps out of the car and runs down an alley. I try to follow him but end up losing him because the small head start he had gave him enough distance.

I take turn after turn, sometimes I feel like I am going in a circle but eventually I get out of the maze of alleys. I see Fuyuki standing by a bridge, that would have been something to be relieved about but what is on the other side of the bridge causes my heart to seize.

"ku sekota nubate ahin korola, ku na Mizuki." Says a beautiful woman on the other side of the bridge. She has long black hair, hazel eyes and is wearing what looks like an ancient Chinese dress. "Zu ba kantu de fala."

"ku sekota nubate kubo koro, ku na Fuyuki." Fuyuki says, he then rubs his eyes and stares intensely at the woman. "Ga toanafu shiga tola bu ta."

"Taw wu so zan fi, Pain is for those who understand Lotai in your new world. Gu ta so buna nihon-go giyura." She says as she smiles, her smile hides daggers that send chills down my spine. Those eyes are the eyes of somebody who has went through things that I couldn't fathom.

"Then what am I to do?" Fuyuki asks.

"Just never remember your previous memories, they serve no purpose in this life. Enjoy this life because it will truly treat you well, as the people here say Tu ga in mantel" She says walking over the bridge and fading away. Maybe I need to go to the doctor too, I am starting to see things as well.


Kai: ... And that's why you need to apologize!

Mizu: ... I am sorry for being a day late...

Kai: Good!