"The 12 Days of Christmas"
Disclaimer: I don't own the song or manga, only the fanfiction.
December 22nd
Soul Transfer and a Stuffed Animal
"On the eleventh day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Eleven pipers piping..."
In a hospital, there reside many residents who have been injured, sick or just plain incurable. In that hospital, there is a wing that holds many rooms in where those residents live. In that wing, there is one particular room where there lives a sickly boy. For that sickly boy we will learn how his life fades away with the coming holiday. He is blonde, but very weak and as the coming Christmas is coming, people are too busy to visit the loved ones around them anymore. Along with the new age, the people who plan to stay with the hospitalized during the joyous season are being persuaded to forget them. If they don't change their mind, those are the rare jewels who make no excuse to stop what they're doing for the sake of others.
Unexpectedly, the door creaks open. It can't be his nurse, for even she has a week off this week. The boy sat up to see his visitor and saw a very friendly boy his age there. "Tsubasa," he said in a surprised manner.
He greeted back by tipping his beanie in a very old fashioned manner as a joke and grabbed a chair to sit on, "Kaname."
"Long time no see. You seem quite worked out," Kaname started out.
Tsubasa laughed, "No kidding, especially with Misaki working the hell out of me. I don't know why, but this school has no intention of ceasing the intense decorating and baking until actual party comes around."
"Won't you think that they'll become too tired to even have fun anymore?" the sickly boy asked.
"Yeah, I guess this is more of a pride kind of thing, but I can't wait! Too bad your doctor issued that you can't come..." his friend replied sadly.
Kaname put his hand on Tsubasa's hand and smiled, "Don't worry about me, just have fun like you always do."
"I'm sorry that i haven't visited you in the longest time too! You must've been lonely when no one came over or even bothered to say a hi towards you! I can't understand the isolation that you must've felt. That and because of your alice, you're so weak and..." he zoned out.
"I'm sure I just said 'don't worry' a minute ago. I have plenty of visitors," he lied.
Tsubasa looked at Kaname worriedly, but then looked at his watch. "Aww man, Misaki is going to kill me if I don't get there in time! I'm so sorry Kaname, I have to go again!" he apologized.
"Once again, don't worry and before you go!" he stopped Tsubasa.
"Yes?"
"Did you and Misaki become a couple yet?"
Tsubasa blushed, "Uhh..." then he toned down into a whisper, "we kissed, but that's it." He signaled a farewell and ran out of the room.
Kaname slumped down his bed and sighed a sigh of relief, "That's good..." He glanced towards the open window and contained his laughter, "Bear, you can come out now!" The bear rose up from the window suspiciously and saw there was no one else, but Kaname. He crawled through the open window and fell to the ground. Smoothly, he stood right back up and hurried towards Kaname's bed. He stretched out his arms and Kaname listed the stuffed animal up. "So, how was your day my favorite visitor?"
The stuffed animal made a bunch of random paw motions and things, but Kaname could hear what the bear what trying to say because the bear had a part of his soul in it. Thus, in the presence of Kaname, the Bear could speak, in a sense. "You wouldn't believe what happened in the Northern Forest Kaname!"
"What happened?" he asked bluntly.
"There was a person who was hanging from a tree! Apparently this person committed suicide!"
"I wonder why..."
"Even weirder, there was another suicide and people around the school and even animals in the forest think these are a series of murders. It's really scaring all the creatures in the forest, so I think I have to do something about this..."
Kaname held the bear in his arms and soothed the furry animal, "Don't worry...Not all of the responsibilities are going to placed on your shoulders. They'll find the culprit, with all the talented alices in this school, I wouldn't be surprised if they found him now! For the moment, Bear, you should just do what you can do the best, helping the animals in the forest."
"B-But what about the suicide cases!?" Mr. Bear argued.
The boy's eyes darkened, but before the boy could answer the bear, someone opened the door. "Hello? Anyone in here?" the female voice whispered.
"Yes, this my room," Kaname answered while disregarding Bear's warnings.
The girl took a peak at whom it was that answered her question. To her surprise it was a kindly boy who only smiled at her presence. She wasn't used to this, for due to her past experiences, person glared at her and yelled at her when she came. No one had acknowledged her presence once, until now. She smiled nervously, thinking she might not be able to pull it off in the end. Her voice was a bit shaky, "Hel-l-lo, Kaname-san."
"What brings you to my room?" he asked curiously. She knew his name, slightly weird because he doesn't remember meeting this girl.
She answered him, "I've heard about your alice and I thought it was interesting. The more I thought about it, the more I wondered that during this time, would you have been lonely and needed someone to talk to?"
"I don't know why people insist that I am lonely because I have a very important friend that I can always talk to," he replied, "but I thank you for your presence nevertheless. So what is your name?"
"Mine?" slightly surprised by the question, "Of course! It would be rude if I knew your name and you didn't know mines. My name is Ogamitaosu Hitokoe, and you can just call me Ogami-chan. Or whatever you like in fact."
"Well, Ogami-chan, I assume that you go to Alice Academy if you are here."
Hitokoe shivered at the mention of 'alice' and forced a fake smile, "I do."
"I'm afraid I've never talk to a girl very long, so what do you want to talk about? Boys? Dolls? Christmas? Gossip, maybe?" Kaname asked innocently.
"Ha ha...What a funny boy, but unfortunately I don't really want to talk about myself. Let's talk about you! I want to hear more about you!"
"I guess...What do you want to know?" He was easily persuaded.
She thought about it, "About your life."
"Hrm...I stayed in a hospital..." He continued on about his childhood loneliness and about Mr. Bear. He talked about the multiple hospitals he's been sent to and the friends he made in the academy. It was very repetitive and not the most exciting you could've heard from some hospitalized so much.
Hitokoe listened intently though, never had she talked to someone who wasn't egotistic. The other three were very egotistical and annoying at that too, but listening to Kaname, was like a light in her heart. Completely forgetting about her original purpose , Hitokoe was engrossed in her conversation with Kaname. When the boy was done, he introduce Mr. Bear to her. "He is so cute!" she commented. She tried to pet Bear, but he lashed out on her and stayed closed to Kaname protectively. "Uhh..."
"Sorry, Ogami-chan, but he doesn't like people that much," Kaname apologized.
Right then, she remembered why she was here. "Kaname-san, have you ever felt like you hated the academy?"
"Why?"
"You couldn't make friends because your parents kept hiding you from them. They were driven to such lengths, that you had to use you life draining alice just to play with someone! This academy, whose girls kept requesting from you without much regard to your health were pretty much asking you if they could take a part of your life for themselves. Their selfishness without a mention of your health, why don't you hate them for that!?" Hitokoe argued.
Kaname rubbed Mr. Bear's head, "That's because those dolls are my existence. Even if I die now, those dolls would still live on and I'd still be in this world until they finish their mission. In fact the dolls that take away my life, they are the reason why I keep on living. I'm pretty sure if I couldn't make people happy with those, I would die nevertheless." After he finished, he saw that Hitokoe was crying next to him. "Something wrong?"
"I-I can't ask you to join the AAO now..." she said guiltily.
"The AAO? You mean, you're part of the Anti-Alice Organization?" Kaname inquired. Mr. Bear was on the defense and was about to attack.
"I am..."
"So does that mean...?" he asked cautiously.
"I'm behind these suicide cases," Hitokoe replied sadly.
"Why would you...?" He didn't finish his sentences because it would be too awkward if he did.
"Don't be mistaken! They aren't dead, I swear. They're safe and sound, happy as pie!" she defended.
"How...?"
"They've escaped with help of the AAO...that means that they joined us."
"What about Imai-san?" he completed.
"S-She was a diversion, to keep them away from the most vulnerable victims."
"...What about the bodies?"
She stuttered to answer, "The bodies, those are a result of two alices. The copy alice and the molding alice. I don't know how we got such talented alices or how they did it, but they did. Those bodies are not real and that's what those examiners will find out soon enough."
Kaname stopped asking questions about that and sat up, "So why are you here?"
"Because..." she couldn't answer it.
He changed the topic and held the Bear back from hitting her, "What's your alice?"
"The voice pheromone alice," she answered.
"Last question, why are you answering my questions then?"
This question caught her by surprise, "I-I don't know, but I need to go now. They've probably found out by now, but you're alice, you know that you'll..."
"Die?" he finished, "Yes, I know."
"That's why I can't do anything to you. Kaname-san, live as long as you can." Kaname accidentally pushed Bear's face down into the bed, but immediately released the bear from it's short suffering.
"Don't worry, Ogami-chan," and with that, he shooed her away. When Hitokoe left, the room was silent.
Bear was slightly angry with Kaname's decision of letting her go instead of turning her in. "Why did you do that?"
"Hrmm? That was because that was the first kiss I've even gotten from someone else," he smiled.
"S-She what!?" the stuffed animal exclaimed. He didn't have any recollection of...when Kaname pushed his face into the bed! "NO WAY!"
"Don't worry Bear, Imai-san will be okay after all," changing the topic.
The bear pouted on the bed, "'Don't worry', is that not your favorite line?"
"Heh, that's what she said." Interrupting Bear's and Kaname's conversation came in a flood of people.
It was the whole gang from the elementary and middle school division. Eleven of them stepped out in front of the crowd and their leader was Tsubasa. "Kaname, I thought you might need a little entertainment." Each of them had pipes of different lengths and blew on them on different cues.
"Thank you..."
There are too many things you can do when you're alive, so let's experience them all: from talking to a stuffed animal to kissing someone else, and everything in between.
"...ten lords a leaping,
nine ladies dancing,
eight maids a milking,
seven swans a swimming,
six geese a laying.
five golden rings,
four calling birds,
three French hens,
two turtledoves,
and a partridge in a pear tree."
Typer's Note -
If I had to explain why I just COULDN'T update yesterday, then..I think I should.
Alright, on Saturday, it was not planned that I would update on that day, so I didn't.
I did not this chapter typed out yet either, so I still had to make it.
Then I decided to stay over for no sleep night, right after our tiring Christmas program at church.
I didn't sleep at all, and when I got home, I was sleepwalking I swear!
I went to sleep for a good 17 hours or so. That and I was debating whether or not to update or go to sleep.
I chose my health over fanfiction D; Sorry guys. Well anyways...I don't know how for sure this promise is but...
I'm going to update this story everyday until Christmas! Since now that I don't have anything I think, I'm not doing xP
So back to the original note, hope you enjoyed this fanfiction, no matter how bad and cheesy it was.
And also, review. Thanks again. Dam..long note o_o