EPISODE 15: THE FIGHTS.
"I've been all my life since my grandma died being hard and facing everything with happy face. Yet it happened that I just wanted to look hard, to save everyone. But the one who wants to be saved is me." Lily Boom.
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Once again, my bell rings and I nearly smack it. Another day begins and we have to get to the university. So, I run to the toilet to lock the door to get a quick shower always seasoned with the constant complaints of the guys that want to get in and pee when the toilet is also occupied by someone of them.
"So, today we have again that man telling us about the development of the kids, isn't it?" Sanzo said.
"As if we didn't knew." Gojyo said. "First a couple screw, then after some months an ugly wrinkled thing called baby comes out of her cunt and then she takes care of that crying, dung and being sick thing you can't even touch because it's so delicate that she is afraid you hurt him."
"That's not such!!" I said red in embarrassment on him saying it all that careless rude way. "I mean… you are using dirty words, and babies are not like that… furthermore, we are not speaking about that on lessons, why don't you stop sleeping at lessons and begin paying some attention to it?"
"Hey, if you want one of those bothering things we could always make one." Gojyo said getting nearer me.
"I don't want one now!!" I exclaimed while Sanzo and Goku hit his head and I punched his chest not too strong.
Then I stood up and went to stand at the middle of the bus.
"You made her angry again!!" Goku said to jump from his seat and run to my side.
"Why do you always make her so angry at you?" Hakkai said. "Man, you can't go around saying such things to girls."
"He is just a pervert kappa." Sanzo said. "He can't avoid it."
"Ah, sure." Gojyo said bothered now by Sanzo. "I don't go around raping women, did you know?! I respect them! And she over all the rest!"
That made Sanzo and Hakkai silent and confused. To their eyes, it was plain clear what he was saying. As she was not his mother, nor his sister, what was plain clear when he said such kinky things to her, what remained was…
"Our stop!" She said still a bit angry going to the door with Goku by her side.
They went all down the bus and when Gojyo tried to speak to her she just found the way of avoiding him; during all the morning.
"All right." He said when she avoided him in the middle of a lesson. "She will not be able to run away at meal time. She is going to have to speak to me at least then."
Anyway, he was once again mistaken.
"Sorry guys, I will have to have meal at the university because Jhon is ill so I have to work at the cantina."
"You are just trying to run away from me." Gojyo said bothered.
"No, it's true." I said fidgeting with a lock of hair. "He caught a cold this weekend so he phoned the boss saying he will not be able to work for some days so Jason and I have to cover him up. As Jason is studying this afternoon, then…"
"Hey, we still have to speak!" Gojyo said holding my hand when I was to leave.
"I don't know what you mean." I said serious. "So drop me or I'll be late for work."
"If I were you I would leave her alone for a bit." Hakkai said. "Yet if you came to look for her after work she will be certainly happy and will listen to you."
"Yeah, maybe you are right." Gojyo said rubbing his forehead. "I'll come to look for her then."
"Fine." Sanzo said serious lighting a cig. "Cause I waned to get to the public library to try and get a newspaper."
"Yeah, and Goku and I were going to buy some more meal for the week." Hakkai said. "Isa and I were doing a shopping list yesterday night, so I know what we must buy."
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"This is going to be the perfect chance." The elder woman said. "Jason, you go and get the red haired, 'lil' you go and get the Sanzo, I'll take care of the other two at the same time."
"Aye." The guy and the little girl said at once.
"And Jason." The elder girl said. "This time try not putting your feet on it again."
That made the guy look first at her defiantly and then to the ground.
"Aye, missy." He said sadly.
Then they all left and he stayed at the top of the building looking down to the gang that were leaving.
He wanted the red haired competence death and away the side of that innocent girl, he didn't want to hurt her. She was innocent; she didn't have a clue on why they were hunting Sanzo and his party. She was just… a delicate girl that knew nothing about fights, war matters or the dirty things he did for love and all. She was innocent as a little girl of three to five years old and seemed to think peace was always possible. She was also brave to fight for what she thought and she seemed not afraid on hard work for earning her life.
Anyway… she had stepped in the middle of their plans not just once but four times and so, his 'sisters' did now not care if they had to end up with that girl if she stepped again in the middle of their plans.
But he would not have enough strength to kill her.
"Hey, 'lil' sister." The elder one said. "If he misses again, I allow you to hunt that roach. And kill the girl if she gets in your way to success."
"Sis, Jason will not fail." The little one said. "He would never betray us!"
"I'm afraid he has begun to feel attached to that little annoyance to our plans." The elder girl said. "If she managed to turn Jason against us…"
"I'll kill her if you want." The little one said.
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"So, what will it be then?" I asked another customer smiling.
"A coke and a vegetable sandwich." He asked me.
"Ok…" I said going to get another sandwich tray from the kitchens and a coke from the fridge box under the counter. "Here you are. It all do… 2 euro 30 cents please."
The work was not the most exciting one, but at least it allowed me to relax a bit and forgetting the silly and offensive words of Gojyo at the bus.
Didn't he really care about me? Making a baby… I was still too young for even thinking about it. But… if he wanted to do it with me, not a baby I mean; what if he wanted to make me love? He was certainly stronger than me even if he didn't show it up; he could force me to agree.
"Two white coffee, a black one and one with a bit of cognac, please." A man ordered so me to get it ready.
Anyway, if he began kissing me as he knew, with those kisses that stole my wish… maybe I would not be able to stop him despite of the fear I had to that moment.
"It is 3 euro and 60 cent." I asked the man for the payment. "Thanks, have a good afternoon."
He would certainly know how to do it for me remembering it well during all my life, I was sure of it.
Anyway… was I ready for giving that step? How could a woman know if she was ready for giving that step with a guy? How would I know it?
I never thought it could be so confusing and make me nervous to even think about it. I felt really weird. Why I was wondering so many things at once? It was just a guy, wasn't him?
"Isa!" A class mate said moving his hand in front of my face. "Good to see you woke up. We wanted two black coffees and a cacao for drinking and then two sandwiches and one of those marvellous Spanish omelette dishes."
"Sorry." I apologized. "I had my mind away. It will take me a minute." I added smiling while I noticed there was a female classmate there too.
"Say Isa." The girl said sitting at a stool. "What made you so worried? You've been as absent for the whole day. How to say it? First angry and now absent."
"Yep, it's weird to see you absent minded or angry at lessons." My male mate said. "What caught your mind?"
"Nothing. Oh, you should not be so close or people would think you are formal couple." I advised them.
"In fact…" He said rubbing the back of his head smiling.
"We don't care of showing how in love we are." The girl said smiling and kissing him softly. "Now all we mind is both of us."
"What envy." I said smiling. "Having someone that care so much for you…"
"Well, but you have also somebody." She said surprised. "I mean… I know there's somebody for you too. That you are in love with someone."
"Hum, yep, you've changed a bit lately." The guy said. "You smile more." He added smiling.
"Yep!" Another one said. "You are cutter now you smile more!!"
I then smiled mildly before speaking.
"Well, there's nobody for me." I said. "What made you think there was one?"
"How you behave with those guys in the classroom." The forth guy said. "And with the rest of us."
"And I know there's a guy." The girl said aiming her finger at my nose with a smile while the guys got the cups and dishes to take them to the table. "I'm a girl, we have a sixth sense for that kind of things. I'm happy you smile that much and to see you finally happy among guys. We all thought you would never have a boyfriend because you seemed to be afraid of them touching you the slightest."
That made me go gobsmacked. Was I really giving that image of myself out? As a cold girl afraid of physical contract with guys? But I was not such, was I? I didn't minded a guy surrounding my shoulders with their arms, I didn't minded they hugging me with it was cold or when they needed it. Some of my best friends were men…
"Ok, Isa." The boss said five minutes later. "You can leave now. After all, today there is not much people and you don't seem either fully centred today. Are you already tired? It's just Monday." He said smiling.
"Sorry." I said bowing my head. "I have had not a good day today. Monday, arguments since first hour in the morning… I'll be more centred from now on."
Then we caught the sounds of fight outside the building and some people got inn the cafeteria to run away from it.
"Man, another fight…" The boss said going to get to the telephone. "It's been some this weekend."
"What caused it?" I asked.
"It seems one of the students here did something wrong this weekend with the girl of one gipsy and then they have taken all the friends, family and all and they have tried to get in here to beat up the other guy."
"Well, then let's expect they don't get here." I said smiling mildly.
Then, when I thought I finally managed to remove Gojyo from my mind, my friend arrived in the cafeteria running away the fight outside the university.
"Isa!" He said when he saw me. "Your red haired friend is outside!!"
"Perfect, I asked him to leave with the rest…" I said a bit bothered for him doing such things. "Well, today I'm not going out to tell him to get in."
"No, no!!" He said. "I didn't meant it! I mean he is fighting!!"
"What?!" I said shocked "What a brainless guy!! I've told him not to call for the attention a million times!!"
"Ok…" The boss said. "Get out there and get him in before police arrives."
I then nodded and I jumped over the counter to fall smoothly to the ground and then hurry outside sliding on the turns and when I tried to stop; I had to break through a bunch of people at the doors in the building seeing the fight outside.
"Why don't you do something of profit and help a bit?!" I asked while I went through the wall of people out.
Gojyo was caught on the middle of the fight, defending himself the best he could. When I saw one of the men hitting him that fell down to his knees and then they hitting him at the stomach making him cough blood I ran to fight. I was seeing all red and I didn't think properly.
If I had done I would not have taken part of a fight.
Then I saw Jason also there looking at the fight when I punched some men the hardest I could.
"Jason! Please, help!" I said.
He seemed to think about it, and didn't react, yet he seemed to have wanted to give a hand. His hand was a mix of feelings, I could caught doubt and sadness on it mixed with other feelings I could not identify.
I then was hit at my back hurting a lot when I was smacked at the ground and a guy held me by the hair pulling from me up making me scream.
"Hum… so this was the filthy bitch you were waiting?" The man holding me and making me shout said making me scream in pain as he held my hair pulling from it with a pen knife at my skull not hurting me.
"Hey!" Gojyo said. "Stop pulling from there! You are hurting her!"
"Shut up!" Another one said hitting him. "You've got in our way!"
"You put me in your fight you morons!" Gojyo said being hit again.
"Shut up!" The guy said.
"Now if you try hitting us again I will cut her pretty face." The one holding me said.
"No!!" I shouted to Gojyo. "Fight!! Don't let them beat you up!!"
"Shut up you bitch!!" The guy said pulling from my hair taking some hair in his fist before holding it tighter again.
"Isa…" Gojyo then whispered me. "Close your eyes. I don't want you to get hurt."
I did as he asked me to do, not for giving him the reason, but because I was afraid on what could happen.
Then I heard how they hit Gojyo once and again and I cried. The one holding me was loosening his grip at my hair and the knife was not so close to me now.
Meanwhile, Jason couldn't help having to give the back when he saw how I was treated. He was happy on the beat up Gojyo was getting, he was not even staining his hands to get that; that red haired had got into a big row himself.
Suddenly the guy opened his eyes and coughed blood twice while a knee from an enemy sank at his side.
The guys then laughed and the red haired coughed blood again. Certainly the beating up guys had broken an internal organ from the red haired.
And all of sudden…
I heard how Gojyo coughed and I opened my eyes on panic to see him coughing blood held up by two guys while another one hit him again.
"Stop it, please!!" I begged crying to shout again when the one holding my hair pulled wild from it shouting me to shut up.
All of sudden, I was slapped by another one.
I don't know where I took the strength or the bravery but I then that was looking down with my hair messed due to the pulling from it and the slap, raised my face looking mad at the ones taking care of keeping me quiet and at the place. That look made them laugh and one slapped me again while Gojyo shouted something.
I then looked down again. I didn't mind on keeping on loosing time. I raised a hand and I held the knife they had against my hair holding it next to my belly.
"What are you going to do?" The one at my hair said pulling from it again making me shout in pain.
Then I did a fast movement and I broke away from him to throw the penknife and sink it on a tree of the ones at the gardens making everyone astonished.
I didn't thought what I was doing, I had my eyes pooled in tears and I felt how everything in me burned I pain, specially my head from where they had kept me down pulling from my hair.
I then hurried towards the guys and I began hitting the ones I thought were holding Gojyo.
I attacked fast, accurately and even a bit strong sometimes. I first had no problem to hit people, even sending them away. I put what the guys taught me on practice and I managed even to break a couple of guys' arms and two legs, or so I think.
Anyway, they soon began attacking too and getting a full hit on them turned harder.
I got a big beat up too, I think they even broke my arm cause they hurt a lot; and all of sudden, I heard the police sirens getting near and all stopped.
They ran away and we were left there, after they kicked us on the ground. I then fell down and crawled to get Gojyo with my face full of blood.
As soon as I got him, I laid my head at his chest because he was nearly unconscious and I slept there.
When I woke up, I was at the hospital, lying on a bedroom bed.
"Gojyo!" I then shouted frightened as I remembered what happened.
"Hey, stay calm." Someone said next to me. "You got a bad part."
"Hakkai!" I said hugging him and nearly falling down the bed. "Are you ok? What happened? Why are you also hurt?"
"We've been attacked again." He said while Goku jumped over my bed hugging me tight and making me feel awfully painful that. "Goku, remember she had her ribs nearly broken."
"Sorry." He said hugging me more softly. "I've been worried."
"You were brainless to get into that." Sanzo said.
Then I realised they were all hurt, all of them seemed hurt but not as hurt as me.
"Who attacked you?" I asked. "Was it…?"
"The same as always." Goku said.
"Isa, listen to me." Hakkai said serious. "I don't want you to get mixed in any other fight. Did you hear? Under no condition you will fight when the girl you saw on the fire when you tried to save Goku or an elder woman or…"
"Or?" I asked. "Where is Gojyo?"
"Calm up, he is fine." Sanzo said. "He's been taken down to do some tests. He's not too hurt. He will survive, to our disgrace…"
That made me smile a bit, I knew he didn't meant it; he was also worried for both of us.
"And what do you have?" I asked.
"Apart from minor hurts?" Hakkai asked. "Twisted ankles or arms. Nothing a bit of rest will not heal."
"And I?" I asked realising I was bandaged from hand to chest. "Why am I wearing bandages?"
"Well, you have minor cuts." Hakkai said. "Then twisted arms, a twisted ankle that will prevent you from walking for a month or more… and your chest will be black for some time. Those guys hitting you nearly broke a couple of ribs in you. However, you stood too much pain."
"I don't care about it; I can't remember much of it all… how is Gojyo?" I asked.
They didn't answer at first; they just exchanged some looks but didn't say a thing.
"How is he?" I asked worried.
"Fine." Hakkai said. "He will recover."
"But?" I asked trying to pull from their tongues.
Then the door opened and two men came in pulling from a stretcher with Gojyo apparently slept.
I then jumped down my bed and fell down to ground due to the bandage from my foot to my thigh preventing me to bend it.
"Please, miss." One of the male-nurses said helping me stand up. "Get in your bed, please. You can't walk for some days."
"What does he have?" I asked standing against his stretcher looking at him really worried. "Why hasn't he waked up?"
"We have just ended operating on his rib and arm." The other man said. "He is still under anaesthesia effects."
"You've operated him?" I asked scared as they forced me back in my bed. "Why? What does he have?"
"Are you family?" He asked me then.
Then the other man whispered something at him and they exchanged a look while the doctor came in the room.
"Sir, are you our doctor?" I asked him nervous. "How is him? What does he have?"
He then noticed and looked at me before answering on a loud voice for all of us to listen it at the same time.
"It's nice to see you miss finally woke up. He had two broken ribs, a broken arm and the stomach hurt, however he will be fine after a week in here to recover from the internal wounds." The doctor said getting next to me to have a look at something at my head hurting me a bit. "He was less lucky than you miss. You just have a twisted wrist, arm, ankle and several minor wounds. Luckily for you, police will not ask you a word because they got the whole version from the people looking the fight. Anyway… you two will stay here for a bit. He has to stay here at least a week and I would rather you to stay here under surveillance for at least a couple of days before leaving. Without moving from bed, of course."
"You can tie her to bed if you want her to be there." Sanzo said.
"Can I stay with her?" Goku asked the doctor.
"No, you go home." I said faster than the doctor. "I'm fine, I need nobody to stay here as if I was an invalid. Furthermore, when the red haired wakes up, I will have some chat. Not too clever, but a chat anyway."
"I didn't want to stay anyway." Sanzo said.
"I could stay here." Hakkai said. "For nights if you don't want me to do it on day time."
"First, there's no need of it." I said. "Furthermore, I will need notes from lessons and they can't cook for themselves. I don't want to return home and find it turned into a rubbish collector." I added joking. "And that's all."
"A clever girl." The doctor said picking the blood for the tests over them. "Anyway, if you want to visit, you can come on the times you are given down at the information point."
"He can't come." Sanzo said holding Goku's head to make him get further from me. "He will just bother around."
"Anyway, you can come according to the timetables downstairs at the information point." The doctor said while the dinner service arrived along the corridor outside the room. "Bye, we will meet again tomorrow during morning." The doctor said smiling to me. "When your little friend over there wakes up get sure he doesn't move much, right? Beds are enough close for you to interact if you want, but do not stand up, neither you nor him."
"Sure." I said then.
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It was really late in the night when I caught some movement of life in the bed next to mine. I had tried to sleep but I couldn't. My arm was hurting whatever position I took.
First was a little movement, then some soft moaning and finally I saw him blinking.
"Good night, sleeping beauty." I told him smiling. "Do not move, neither you nor me can do it. Too hurt for moving."
"Ah, it's good to see I've got such a cute nurse." He said joking to then turn his head to look at me. "Are you also wearing one of those kinky uniforms?"
I then hit his hand softly a bit bothered; anyway, I ended laughing softly as I imagined what he thought I must have been doing there.
"Well, at least you are laughing." He said.
"Sorry." I said. "It was just funny. I'm next to you because I'm also a patient."
"Well, no uniform then…" He said holding my hand softly to then move his sheets and go cheerful. "But you are wearing a hospital gown too, aren't you?"
"Yep, I'm wearing one." I said smiling. "But it's not opened for operations as yours. Mine is just as a dress."
"Tsk, pity." He said making me hold my laugh again while we held hands.
We then stayed there silently, holding hands. Both beds were unusually close the one to the other as if they had removed the barriers the most they could after taking him in the room.
"What happened?" I asked. "How did you got into the fight?"
"I was out waiting for you to end your work to speak with you." He said. "Then I don't now how I got into the fight. And all of sudden I heard your voice among all that chaos and then I saw you. Then I was hit hard and I fell down and I remember how those cowards kicked me hard as mad. Next time I saw was they got you held by the hair and they used you to red-mail me. Cowards, they were all a bunch of cowards…"
"I'm sorry, I should… I should have kept myself away from that." I said. "So I would not have been reason of them hitting you and you not even trying to defend yourself."
"You did really well after you… break free from that guy." He said. "You remembered me on something."
"Yeah, a mental girl getting into something bigger than her." I said.
"No, like a lioness defending her cubs." He answered me kissing my hand. "As if you really loved me… As if you loved me so much you didn't want to lose me."
"It was just I didn't thought." I said. "When I don't think about what I'm doing and just do it, it happens I usually do silly things, some times even dangerous things…"
"Then maybe you should begin doing more things without thinking and allow those who love you to take care of you when you get into troubles." He said rubbing my hand against his cheek. "I'll save you whenever you are in need." He added kissing my hand softly.
I then looked at him in darkness and I sat down at the bed; again, I didn't thought and just let myself act for instincts. It turned out by kissing him standing on my healthy leg and bended over him kissing him softly but long to then separate slightly. We looked a bit for a second just a few inches from his face. Then he laid his other hand not chained to mine with our fingers mixed, back my head and softly attracted it to his face to kiss me again.
I knew it could have ended awfully, but we were on a hospital, and the door was open so nothing too dirty would happend there.
When we ended, I laid back at my bed and I ended falling asleep with our hands bounded by our fingers.
"It's so good to trust someone else to save me..." I thought. "Maybe it could work this time..."
It was funny, but that thought, my last one for that night, was adressed to that pervert red haired kappa next to my bed.