For the Love of the Mobudachi Trio
By: Tanokai
A/N: I know that Chapter eleven seemed like I was cheating you all, but I felt like it was an important chapter. Maybe that's just me. Oh well. Either way I decided to get this chappie out quickly then so that I wouldn't make my loyal fans too angry with me. This has been a great story to work on and I'm glad it's been my biggest hit thus far. I never would have made it without you guys though, my loyal readers. Thanks for the reviews. It's because of them that I saw this fic through to the end, that and my three closest friends Anishi, Mayumi and Losan were all threatening me with lethal spoons if I didn't write this fic and let them know what happened to the three of them. I do apologize that the humor I started with did not strive throughout the story, but this is where my mind and fingers led me, and I'm pretty happy with it. Enjoy!
Chapter Thirteen: "Sometimes You Simply Wake Up And Forget"
/Now what? For the first time in my life I am truly at a loss of what to do. Do I just let her go?/
"Some memories are just too hard to live with. Sometimes you just have to forget."
/Are there really such things as memories best forgotten?/
Hatori was standing in his office looking at the woman standing at the window. Her hair was a curly red, but as she began to speak her hair turned to brown and became straight. "When the snow melts, what does it become?"
Hatori was stunned by the question. "Water of course."
The woman turned around with a smile on her face. "Wrong! The correct answer is Spring!"
She laughed and opened her eyes to meet his.
In the next moment Hatori saw her eyes change from happy to sorrowful as he stared deeply into them, his eyes and mind stealing away their memories together even as his heart cried out. Each memory his mind took in from hers was like a snowflake upon his heart until his heart was covered in that cold snow.
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Hatori felt himself surface into consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes. He quickly closed them again to shield them from the immense light, but he had seen a figure sitting in a chair next to his bed.
"Good morning Hatori. I'm glad to see your awake."
I was a woman's voice. Soft and gentle. The warmth of her voice entered his ears and traveled through his body.
Hatori's voice was weak from days without use and sounded strange even to him. "Kana…"
The woman looked away. "Kana…" She spoke the name quietly. "You really did love her…didn't you?"
Hatori slowly opened his eyes and looked at the woman beside his hospital bed. He saw her curly crimson hair pulled tightly back in a ponytail while a few stubborn strands insisted upon staying down to lightly frame her face.
"Mayumi."
The woman turned her head and faced him smiling. "Hey there Hatori. Feeling rested?"
Hatori attempted a smile but couldn't quite manage a convincing one as his eyes traveled from her beautiful face to focus upon her eyes and the deep sorrow behind them.
"What's wrong Mayumi?" Hatori forced himself to sit up. It wasn't difficult, except for his stiff joints caused by his sleeping for the past three days.
"Nothing. It's nothing, Ha'ar…Hatori. Did you have a nice dream as you slept?"
"Bits and pieces were nice."
"I see."
There was silence between the two of them.
"You know…" Mayumi seemed unsure of how to say what she wanted. "Dreams are funny things. Your mind spins these webs of visions. And…they seem so real at the time. You watch yourself do all these things, and you believe it all. Almost like memories, no?"
"Mayumi?"
"You sleep for hours at a time and it feels like you've lived days in your dreams sometimes. Sometimes you wake up and your unable to tell what is real and what is dream. But more times then not, you simply wake up and…forget."
"What's this all about, May? This isn't like you at all."
"You've heard about Mitch, from Aya and Shigure, no?"
"I have. Who is he exactly?"
"He's the head of our family. Mine, Losan's, and Ani's that is. He came here to Japan with Jared, the family doctor- as well as the Gemini-, for us."
"Why? I mean, he let you come live here, why does he want you back."
"He let us move here because Losan was offered a job. We were supposed to return home after Losan finished 'Mogeta.'"
"She finished that last year, though."
"That's why Mitch and Jared showed up. It's hard on Mitch when the members of the Zodiac are separate, as I'm sure it is on the head of your family too."
Hatori gave a slight nod.
"That's also why we have to leave."
"I see."
"And…" She placed her right hand against his left cheek.
He looked up to stare into her eyes.
"It's also why you must forget."
"But why Mayumi?"
"Mitch's word is law. As is Akito's, I'm sure."
"It's funny, isn't it? The way memories are a lot like dreams. You mind spins these webs of visions for you and you wonder if they are dream or memory. And like dreams…"
Hatori stared deeply into her eyes as he pupils dilated, taking in all of his memories of her.
"…sometimes you simply wake up…"
Her pupils contracted quickly to their normal size as Hatori fell back onto the bed into a deep sleep.
"… and forget." She closed her eyes for a moment the memories becoming like snowflakes covering her heart. Once again she was left alone in her world of memories. Her world of dreams.
She opened her eyes again and smiled at the sleeping form of Hatori. She stood and gently pulled the blankets over his sleeping for to keep him warm. She stared at his peaceful form and bent over him, her lips barely inches from his. Her lips parted slightly as her eyes closed. She felt the air pass through his lips in a rhythmic way and then smiled, pulling away. She stood up straight and smiled down at him.
"Hold on tight to those memories of Kana, because she's the only woman to have stolen you heart. Mayumi Takanashi was merely a dream you've forgotten about."
Mayumi then left the room with a sad smile.
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"Where is our Waitress. If we don't hurry up and pay we'll miss our flight, " Anishi whined.
"Then why don't you two go get a cab while I wait to pay?" Mayumi suggested, a bit annoyed with Ani's whining.
"Ok!"
Losan and Anishi stood up and headed on out while Mayumi waited for the waitress to return.
The waitress came by not to long after and Mayumi paid so that she could fallow her friends. As she walked outside of the restaurant she noticed Ani and Lo passing three handsome men, but they didn't know them of course. They would have surely recognized the one man with his long white hair and yellow eyes.
As her two friends passed by the three men she smiled and fallowed them, passing the three herself. She took seven more steps before she stopped and turned around to look at them continuing to walk on.
"Without a second glance." Mayumi smiled to herself. "Just the way it should be."
"Come on, Mayumi! What are you staring at, we have to get going!"
Mayumi turned around to look at Anishi who was waving at her as she got into a taxi with Losan.
"Yes of course. Sorry about that."
Mayumi walked to the taxi and sat in the backseat with her two friends.
Hatori stopped and looked behind them, watching the girl with curly red hair get into the cab with her friends.
"Something wrong, Hatori?" Shigure asked as he looked at his friend.
"No. That woman's name sounded familiar."
"What name?"
"'Mayumi'."
"Mayumi? Never heard that name before. Aya?"
Ayame shook his head.
"Oh well. Doesn't really matter. Must have heard it in a dream."
A/N: So, What cha think? Review please and let me know! OMG I'm going to cry. I've loved working on this fic soooo much. I almost don't want to send in this last chapter because that means it will be over. I know I have other stories and that I have this new fic in my min that is begging me to write it, but still… This has been my biggest success. Before this fic I was happy getting five reviews for a fic. I remember how happy I was when I got twenty for this one when I first began. I was so happy I couldn't stop talking about it. Now I'm at Sixty-one as I send this one in. I hope to top this one someday, but even if I don't. I'm so happy to have gotten this far! Thank you everyone who has supported and threatened me through this story! And a special thanks to Ani, May and Lo for threatening me with spoons and other lethal school materials!