Chapter 11: Deliverance
Ahvs: Eloh! I thought I'm gonna be able to update this chapter next month. Good thing I found time to write because of the suspension of work and classes due to typhoon Undoy that hits badly the capital city of the Philppines-Manila and other places in Southern Luzon. This phenomenon was such a disaster; it causes floods from different parts of Luzon, which gives every Filipino a very big lesson in life. I wish our government will come up on a plan to make every residential unit a houseboat wherein incase of floods, the house will just float like a boat, same as Noah's ark but a mini version of it. (^^,) V
Anyway, let's just go to the next chapter of Kanata's secrecy of love…
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No one can understand the depths of Kanata's love for Miyu or the agony he felt when he heard that his love was in trouble. He tried to stay calm to the very bad situation but his weariness was so visibly seen by his friends and classmates. The brunet can't control himself from thinking bad thoughts that probably might happen or not. He was afraid to lose again someone who made a big mark in his heart and soul. A person whom he can't understand why his heart learns to beat, a person whom not even once he will fell in love with and a person who change his boring attitude into a wonderful and happy life.
He already lost his mother, but now he won't let this thing happen again, never! He will not able to forgive himself if he loses again a very much important person in his life. He wants to cry and burst to God not to take away Miyu's life because if she died, he'll die too.
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"Walls of worry surround us everyday…" Ms. Mizuno broke the silence of the students sitting on the bench not talking to each other. "Worries are always beside us and we can never regret nor run away from it." her students looked at her a bit of weary, then she continued, "But we should remember that walls only blocks the sides of the angle and never the sky." then she looked up above.
Everybody looked at her surprised. Ms. Mizuno gave them a sweet smile and whispered softly. "Guys, look up! Have you forgotten; behind the satin clouds there is God who can give us peace and hope. Let's have faith and trust God. For in every circumstances there's a always a purpose. God won't allow this thing to happen, if He has no plans on it. So, let's lay all our troubles to Him and surely He will make a way. Miyu will be fine! I know it. She's a strong and brave girl. So let's be strong also and don't think negative thoughts, coz' thinking bad wont' help."
Everybody smiled and nodded their heads.
"Thanks ma'am! Thanks for reminding us." Nanami said. They all sighed in relief.
Kanata smiled on Mizuno's direction. He bowed his head and breathed a silent prayer, "Lord, I don't understand why this thing happened to me, but I trust You. And I'm not going to spend all my time trying to figure out why this certain things happened. But from now on, I'm going to trust you to make something good out of it. You're a good God, and I know You have a best interests in every people's heart. You promised that all things will work together for good. So I trust you! Save Miyu please! Save her!"
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After a few hours, Dr. Ramus came out from the Emergency room. His head bowed in silence and his face looks so sad and weary. He lifted his head and said in soft cold voice, "Is there anyone here who is close to the patient?"
Ms. Mizuno walked towards the doctor and said, "We are all closed to her and I'm her class adviser."
Dr. Ramus nodded and continued his word, "Anyway, is there any family member here?"
Nobody responded.
"Her parents were out of the country." Kanata suddenly spoke.
"Oh! So who is in-charge of her?" the doctor asked.
"Ahh.. I am! I-I mean my father and I." the brunet replied.
"Then where is your father?"
"Well… ahmm… he's home."
"Have you contacted him yet?"
"N-no… N-not yet… I'll contact him today."
"Please boy, do it."
"Yah I will… o-of course I-I will. Well, i-it's because it's an emergency… and I don't know what's really going on... that's why I haven't contacted him yet!" Kanata suddenly retorted.
"I know! I know… I understand. I just want to make sure that you contact him right away… Anyway, do you have any blood relationship with Kouzuki, Miyu?"
"No..." the brunet silently replied.
"What do you mean?" the doctor asked puzzled.
"Actually, she was left in the care of our family coz' her parents went to America."
"Ah I see… so your living on a same roof and you and you're father is her guardian?"
"Yah!"
"Ahmm… anyway, what's her parent's name?"
"Yuu and Miki Kouzuki."
"Ohh! The famous astronaut Miki Kouzuki!" the doctor exclaimed.
"Yes!"
"Okay!" the doctor paused for a moment and said slowly, "Well, anyway I have one bad news and good news to tell."
"Tell it doctor, we're listening." Ms. Mizuno said.
"By the way, before I say it… which one do you like to hear first - the good or the bad one?"
Everybody looked at each other nervously.
"I'll just choose first the bad news …" Nozumo decided.
"Was that your final answer, young lad?" Dr. Ramus confirms.
Everybody said, "YES!"
"Well the bad news is that - I don't care…" he said in a sad tone.
"What???" everybody asked in unison.
"Kidding… okay, here it goes. Actually, the bad news is that……… your friend didn't make it."
"Say what?" everybody said in unison again.
"What I mean is that ………… she's gone." said the doctor sadly.
"WHAAAT!!!" all of them freaked out.
"No it can't be…" Kanata shook his head. "No-no-no… you're lying. Tell me, you're just lying! Aren't you?" the brunet said almost going to cry.
Nanami and Aya embraced each other tightly and started to weep.
Ms. Mizuno, Ahvs and Christine held their mouth in fright.
Santa blinked.
Nozumo's flower in hand slowly faded.
While Kanata's earth quickly stop rotating and his eyes started to dim.
"Anyway, before you cry… you haven't heard the good news from me yet. Would you like to hear it now?" said the doctor a bit happy.
"For what!!!! She's already gone!!!" Mizuki suddenly blurted out from his silent standing position. Everybody held him except Kanata who is dead inside.
"Hey doctor, don't tell us that you had promos in here like free coffin and burial. I'm telling you, we don't need that!" Nozumo added angrily. All the girls burst out a loud cried, "MIYUUU!!! Huhuhu!"
"But guys, if ever that would be their promo, therefore it's a nice treat, right?" said Santa who thinks his idea is oh so cool.
"STOP IT, YOU CRETIN!!" shouted Nozumo almost going to punch Santa's face.
The doctor gulped nervously and said, "Hey hold on guys! The good news is that……… I'm just kidding! She's not dead… she's fine! You don't need to worry! HAHAHA!" he said it without further ado, scared on what the youngsters will do to each other and to him.
Everybody looked at him in despite. Then after a few seconds Santa cracked a laugh. "AAHAHAHAHA! That's a very funny joke, doctor! HAHAHHA!!!" he laughed while tapping Nozumo's back. The doctor laughed also, yet his brow is twitching nervously.
"OUCH! That's painful, weirdo! STOP IT!!!" Nozumo reacted while Santa still tapping hardly his back in delight.
Santa can't able to stop himself. "Don't you hear that, guys!!?? It's a funny JOKE! AHAHAHAHA! I can't take it… AHAHAHA!" he laughed like a fool.
Aya can't stand on Santa's reaction, so she faced the doctor and said, "Hey Doctor! That's not a good joke! You almost kill us!!!" she shouted.
"That's a very bad joke! And it's not FUNNY!!!" Ms. Mizuno added furiously.
The doctor cleared his throat and explained, "Ehehehe! I'm sorry… I just want to give you a nice surprise!"
Everybody wasn't in a mood to entertain such bad joke as that especially Kanata who is now heating like a mad dog. Then he suddenly blurted out, "IT WASN'T A NICE JOKE! YOU DEMON!!!" then he gave the funny doctor a hard fast blow of smack on his right jaw.
The doctor quickly knocked down on the floor.
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"Miyu's operation is successful; she got more or less 45 stitches in her abdomen. She lost lots of blood but good thing she's type O coz' we have lots of stocks of 'O' in here. Hopefully she will gain her consciousness after 3 days, but still we are not sure whether she will wake up on the day that I stated. It still depends on the patient strong willpower to overcome the pain that she have. I guess what you can do is to pray for her quick recovery."
Dr. Ramus, a 29 year old doctor of Heomachi hospital known as the youngest expert doctor in operational procedure. He was the one who made the big impact in helping the other doctor to operate the said blonde. But his bad joke didn't help the student to ease the pain and weariness that they felt inside yet their angriness added in every second while listening to his explanation.
Dr. Ramus was sweating hardly as he looked at the young student looking at him in spite. He gulped again and said, "Look, again I'm sorry. It wasn't in my memory that you will all freak like that. Sorry if I do it intentionally but will you all please forgive me?" he begged while caressing his swollen jaw.
"NO!" everybody said.
The doctor almost fell from his sit as he heard the youngster's response. Still their eyes are fixed on the doctor's face that seems like a criminal that needs to be eliminated by a firing squad.
"Don't joke!" said Mizuno.
"I'm not joking madam. Please forgive me!" he said and bowed his head many times to the teacher and to all her students.
"That's fine doctor… you have my trust! hahaha!" said Santa cheerfully.
The doctor made a shaking smile; still he hasn't received the forgiveness that he asked for. He sighed in disappointment.
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The incident swiftly went to Miyu's parents in America. And because Miyu was so dear to them, her parents quickly flew back to Japan without filing any leave to the management of NASA.
As they soon as they arrived in the hospital and entered in the blonde's room. The couple burst out a loud cry in front of their sleeping daughter. The couple looks silly as if they were crying in front of their daughter's dead body.
"Ahem! Uncle, auntie... Miyu was just sleeping... she's not dead." explained Kanata who is standing right next to them.
"We know..." said Miki sniffing, she wiped her tears and said in a sad tone, "We can't just imagine how we left our daughter in others care while we, her parents were so far away. I just can't take how my one and only daughter suffered this kind of pain. Huhuhu~"
Yuu hugged his wife and they cried again in guiltiness.
"No auntie, you just decided what is good for her. I should be blamed on this and not you..." said Kanata in a low tone. The couple looked at him wearily. "I should be the one taking care of her... but I wasn't there on that time. It should not happen if I was just there only!" he said almost going to cry.
Miki went near Kanata and tapped his shoulder, "You haven't done anything bad, my dear. It was us that should be blame. We called to be her parents, but who is on her side...? We're so guilty that we left her. It's our fault not yours."
"But it was my fault! If I wasn't just careless, it wouldn't happen to her." said Kanata.
Yuu stood up and shouted, "What did you do to my daughter?!"
Kanata gulped. Then he answered shakily, "I haven't done anything to her, sir?"
"Then what happened to my daughter?!" Yuu asked angrily, went to Kanata's direction and held his collar.
"Honey, stop it! He's just a child!" Miki panicked.
Kanata didn't able to respond, he started to shake. Fortunately, Miki's body guard suddenly came in the room and said in a strict voice, "Mr. & Mrs. Kouzuki, both of you are called out for a very important task, yet you escaped without any words from the management. We are here to pick you up. Please don't make an effort to run away again."
"But this is an emergency! My daughter is in a bad situation now. Can't you see she's here in the hospital? I hope management understands it!" said Miki in agony and approached Miyu's bed and hugged her daughter tightly.
"We are not allowed to receive any excuses from you. Please, come with us now! There's no time left."
Miki burst out a loud cry. The body guards went to the couple held and pulled their arms. "Please Mr. and Mrs. Kouzuki, we are running out of time."
The couple felt hopeless, so Miki decided, "Please, let me kiss first my daughter and we will go after you."
"Okay! Request granted."
Miki kissed her daughter cheeks and forehead deeply, Yuu did the same. After that, they surrendered themselves to the authority and stepped out of the room.
While walking Yuu said to Kanata, "Kanata, please take care of my daughter. My trust is in your hand."
Kanata smiled and said, "You don't need to ask that sir, coz' I'm doing it."
"Thanks!" Yuu smiled back in return.
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Almost one week had past still Miyu's condition was still stable. Her eyes still shot and never give a hint if she already moved from her lying position. Everybody was all concerned to her situation. The doctor examined her and found out that she is in state of coma.
"How come you didn't detect that she is in coma right now? Ha, doctor?!" asked Kanata who is very angry to the physician who went there to check Miyu's condition.
"We're sorry about this… but it's my first time to check her profile and I didn't know that the she was like that already." explained the doctor.
"What kind of hospital is this?! Everybody has no concern. I guess we should go to other hospital that can give us a special treatment!"
"You can't do that, young lad. It's against our policy. Don't worry I do my best to check her from time to time." said the doctor. "Anyway, if you think there's something wrong with her, don't hesitate to call Me." then he went out of the room.
"DAMN! What kind of physicians are they. They haven't got any heart! We never know that they are just killing us slowly!" shouted Kanata who almost going to punched the door of the room.
"Hold on Master Kanata! I guess they change doctors. I haven't seen that doctor Ramus after the weird joke that you told me about." said Wannya calmly, who transformed to be Kanata's father.
"And I hate everyone in here! I guess we should take Miyu out of this place as soon as possible." he said clutching his fist in angriness.
"But how Master! How? We weren't allowed to do that!"
Kanata held his chin and think for a better idea. "We'll do that tomorrow midnight." he said quickly.
"But how about the paraphernalia's that is on her? How will we able to remove all of those?" asked Wannya.
Kanata stopped thinking and said unhappily, "Oh yah! I forgot that… hmmm…"
Wannya sweat dropped and said, "Maybe at least we should start believing on what the doctor said that he'll do his best checking Miyu's condition from time to time."
"Yah I guess so… but if there's something bad happen to her… I will never gonna forgive them!" said Kanata and gripping his fist tightly.
Wannya gulped. It was his first time to see Kanata get mad like that. He just nodded his head and clasped his both hands.
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Its been 15 days have passed still Miyu state wasn't changing at all. The doctors are now getting alarmed on her situation; they've almost pushing anything on their part just to diagnose the poor blonde. Kanata on the other hand was getting paranoid. He can't even focus to his studies and in any activities in their school. His mind is always flying in Miyu's condition everyday and every night.
Every morning he went to school to study while Wannya was the one taking care of Miyu in the hospital. After school, Kanata will be the one to take care of Miyu while Wannya will go home to prepare their meals and do household chores.
Every day is always the same. The temple was so silent. No more shouting, mocking, yelling and scolding that can be heard. Sometimes the cry of baby Ruu was just the one you may hear but it only happened early in the morning or depending on the baby's mood.
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It's been another week had passed, still nothings change on Miyu's part. Her breathing was still same, her blood and heart pump still the same. Yet she wasn't awake. Her classmates already missing her in school, they even visited Miyu from time in time in the hospital, checking if she's fine or okay. But then, same old story is what they've got, truly the blonde was in a state of coma.
"Hey Brenda, what's wrong with you? I missed you so much… it's been 3 weeks you're lying in this bed and not even moving your right finger. Oh, what can I do just to wake you up?" Kanata silently cried out while sitting beside the blonde's bed holding her fingers. Then after a minute he dozed off.
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After a week…
"TADAIMA!!!" Miyu shouted as she slid the door open of the temple.
"Kanata, Wannya, Ruu! I'm home now!" she called out the people inside the house while taking off her shoes.
"Hello, anybody home?!" she called out again. She looked at her surrounding and saw no marks of people inside. She went to the kitchen to see if Wannya is preparing their meal but no cat-dog like inside.
She went to baby Ruu's room to see if he is sleeping but still no baby inside the little spaceship. She tried also to go to Kanata's room, but she didn't budge to knock on the door, afraid that the brunet might get angry if he saw her. She sighed as she saw no trace of people inside the house.
"Where did they go? Why they didn't tell me that they went somewhere? This is so unfair, I guess they went to the amusement park and left me puzzled here. Why Kanata didn't inform me? I have my cell phone, but he didn't tried to text or call me. He's so annoying. ARRGH!" she said to herself.
Due to disappointment she decided to go to her room and took some sleep but unfortunately she can't sleep. So, she just lay back with arms widespread on her futon thinking what to do when her housemates return. "Hmm… maybe it will be better not talk to them if they arrived, so that they will know how much I'm so disappointed on their attitude!"
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After an hour, she heard Kanata, Wannya and baby Ruu arrived. She closed her eyes and pretended to be sleeping. She decided to stay firm if they called her to eat something, and if Kanata opened her room, she will be seen sleeping.
But what she expects didn't happen. Nobody calls her name, and not even once asked where she is now - if she already home or not. She didn't even hear baby Ruu cried out for her name.
"I guess they really don't care about me anymore! Well, who cares! If they mad at me... Well, I'm mad at them also. I can live without them, especially Kanata! After all, I can manage myself! Hmpf!" then she shot her eyes off irritably.
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After a few minutes, she saw someone standing outside the door of her room. She knew it was Kanata. So, she firmly closed her eyes but then she changed her mind. Instead of pretend sleeping, she decided to hide inside the cabinet so that when Kanata called her and entered to her room, he might not able to see her.
She also wants to see if Kanata will get worry if he finds out that she's not yet home. She smiled on her idea.
She quickly stood up to her futon and dashed inside the cabinet. Using small holes inside, she saw Kanata entered in her room with sadness on his face.
Miyu didn't able to determine why Kanata was so upset. She was surprised when Kanata grabbed her photo situated in her study table; kissed and hugged it without her permission while crying silently.
Miyu can't understand why, so she decided to quickly go out from her hiding place and shouted, "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!"
The brunet get shocked and squealed to death. "AAHH!!"
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To be continued…