"Well, well it looks like someone woke up," My eyes opened in shock as light purple eyes stared down at me in a teasing way.
"TRISHA!" My head shot in surprise and I sat up in…a hospital bed? What the hell?
"Its nice to see you too, Rea Catherine Uchiha," Trisha replied little offended, she flinched back slightly too.
Trisha and I had special connection that we think formed in America, since Trisha was the younger of the two of us, we believed we were spiritually sisters, not blood though. We could feel when one and other was in trouble, so Trisha musta sensed her older sister was in mortal peril from a mad vampire.
"Sorry, I guess I'm still out of it," I muttered touching the right side of my head gingerly.
Trisha sighed heavily and sat down on my bed with her arms folded. "What happened to get these injuries? Were you being crazy?"
My mind suddenly blanked…what did happen? The last thing I remember was Itachi brutally assaulting me infront of Neji then…nothing. I stared back at my spiritual sister in confused look.
"I…don't remember…"
"Of course you don't." Trisha shook her head. "You hardly remember anything anymore these days."
I glare at her with my murky blue eyes, I saw my arm was bandaged from my elbow to my upper arm, this was the wound I could spot so far. Other than that, I was perfectly fine. Weird…there were fallen bandages on the ground near my head, weirder.
"Anyway, you practically scared everyone with fright when they heard you were in the hospital for your upper arm," Trisha continued with an uneasily face. "Plus that one kid with the black eyes kept staring at me, but he stopped when you came out of the ER."
The words ER made me think if the TNT show that displayed lots of re-runs, I heard they were airing their last season on NBC, our local channel. Of course, everyone had heard about that show, who couldn't have?
"Oh…" She must have been talking about Sasuke. "What about Takeshi?"
"Worried out of his mind, of course who wouldn't be? I think he was yelling at your pale boyfriend out there for that." My younger sister explained pointing to the door. "Did I mention how pale he is? Are you sure he isn't…dead?"
I chuckled lightly, then I began to cough violently and Trisha's eyes widened in fear. I clutched my stomach until the coughing ceased and I lay back down on the bed silently panting.
"You really worried us…especially with those claw marks on your stomach…we all assumed a bear attacked you, and I think we guessed right."
I nodded gulping slowly. "So, is everyone else alight?"
"Well, turns out that black-red haired girl Lycan hit a tree when she heard the news."
Attempting to hide my laughter, but Trisha couldn't contain herself and she laughed in my place since if I did, it hurt my stomach more. Why in the Nine Hells would Lycan hit a tree?
"Why she hit a tree?" I asked restraining my giggles.
"Well, it turns out that kid she hangs out with a LOT, Kiba, well he kinda accidentally knocked into her and she slammed against the tree. They were really shocked." I mentally inside, even Cathrina was laughing her head off.
Then I heard the door open and Neji stood in the doorway quietly gazing towards me for a moment with his snow white eyes then over to Trisha. She placed her hands on her hips stubbornly as if she knew what he was gonna ask.
"Trisha, can you please leave? I'd like to talk to Raidon." Her eyes narrowed on him suspiciously then she stopped sighing indicting that she gave up.
"See? He's really pale, and why are those bandages on his forehead?" Trisha leaned towards me whispering so Neji couldn't hear.
"I get it little sis, now go!" I demanded pushing her out of the room. "Go find Naruto and flirt with him!"
Her face lit up dark red at the sound of Naruto and flirt, I knew she liked him, it was easy to tell. Trisha forced a grin on her face to accompany her blush and skidded out of the room quickly so I couldn't tease her about liking everyone's favorite blonde kid. Neji let out a fond chuckle as he watched her leave the room, before turning to bed ridden and slightly confused me.
That's when his face fell. It grew strangely silent, he couldn't even look at me for a while as he sat down in the chair next to my bed. The chair had a dark azure cushion that appeared to comfortable and now humid because I bet Trisha had been sitting there for awhile before she noticed I woke up. Neji gnawed at his lower lip staring guiltily at the ground.
I hated this silence, Cathrina hated this silence.
Why doesn't he speak?
I shrugged. Maybe he's thinking of what to say Cathrina, people tend to do that after something bad happens to them or they hurt someone they love…Cathrina nodded in agreement staring at him quietly too.
How did I not see that the boy was Hyuga?
"Raidon…" Neji's soft voice interrupted finally looking up at me. "Please…I didn't…mean those things my other side…said. You know that wasn't me, right?"
"Of course I knew it wasn't you, that was the past you." I nodded intentionally.
"Raidon, can I ask you something?" Neji was able to form words into an actual sentence without faltering in his own words. "Do you still love me, even after all I've done?"
I paused before trying to think of something to say. I knew that wasn't Neji before, that man from before was not that sweet, mysterious guy I met at the beginning of the school year. That was someone else that loved to kill, to hunt, and to drink human blood. Neji hadn't even drank on drop of my blood, but he could always smell it, from where ever I was. I gazed over at him to see him shuffling around in his seat anxiously awaiting an answer from me.
"I do," I say quietly feeling tears enter my eyes. He stared up at me as I turned my head to him with a smile and blinking tears. "I couldn't stop loving you, even after everything."
Neji stood up from his seat as I lied down on the bed again and he lied down next to me with my body against his. I felt his arms wrap around my waist softly and his lips pressed against my dark-light hair softly.
Then his lips moved to my ear whispering to me, "I'll always love you…little one."
My eyes drifted off again, but not into the darkness, into the light where I truly belonged, with my vampire lover beside me.