New chappy already! I started working on this chapter the same day I finished chapter 23. Go me! YAY!
To Ebony Dagger: Thanks lots. I do believe in God and His Son Jesus and that He died for my stupidness. (Aka sins) I wouldn't say I'm religious. I don't think Christianity is a religion. It's a relationship. I believe (mostly) what Baptists believe. Look it up if you would like or PM me for more. I would love to tell you. :D I'm glad you think so. I hope some people won't stop reading just because I said those things. Urgh. In an earlier chapter, I believe it was chapter 5, I prayed with Tohru and Jessica before we ate. And I did say "In Jesus' name I pray Amen"... Yup... :D Haha thanks. The whole swirls of emotion thing sounded really stupid when I read it back... but it seems good enough. I'm glad you liked it so much. You are one of the beeeest fans ever... I mean it!
To forgot it: Woah. Forgot what? Do you have ADD too? Gosh, what a coincidence... Anyway, Thanks. Haha It's not Megan. No offense. No hitting please. Violence might be the answer, but you don't want me to hit back. I might break a nail and then a real war will start. Lol But anyways... Really? It was confusing? Hmm... Thanks really. :D
Much love to all the readers and reviewers. I do love you all. I'm glad you have even given my story a chance. It warms me. .///.
Meeghan needs help. She is waaaaay too excited about VK and needs to get over it... HAHAHA noooot. I want to email Vic again... urghle... WHO WANTS TO EMAIL VIC?!?! His email is Yup yup. Just don't take up too much of his time. Meeghan wants to email him too! GOSH.
Okay. Time for a new chappy.
Meeghan: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Logged. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Kyo: What?
Meeghan: Naruto abridged. It's just... too funny. The new episodes aren't as good as the old ones but... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Kyo: Psshhh... What about Yu-Gi-Oh abridged?
Meeghan: Even funnier. Even better then Naruto.
Kyo: Good.
Mandy: WHERE'S MY RAMEN?!?!
Meeghan: HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Inside joke. Review. Please. Danke. I need some ideas for names... HELP MEEEEEEEEE. A 3 part chapter! SWEET!
Chapter 24: There Was No Theif, Because It Was Me Part 3
Meeghan's POV
"She's awake!" The nurse's voice seemed so loud against my ear drums. I winced.
"OH! Thank the Lord!"
"I was so sure that she would be unconscious longer then that." The doctor, who was quite handsome with his black hair and glasses, who looked like Kyoya Otori, mused as he tapped his chin with his pointer finger. "They can come in now. Only 2 at a time though. There's no need to scare her. They've scared me enough."
The nurse smiled and walked out the door, where I could hear screaming and laughing and running.
"MEEGHAN!" Mandy flew into the room with Hatori, almost sliding into the machine where all the tubes were hooked up to. Good thing there was no tube down my throat, or I'd be ripping it out by now.
"Careful! You'll knock all the tubes out of her. Then what will they do when she goes back into cardiac arrest?" Hatori grumbled, steadying Mandy.
"Whoops. Sorry." She scratched the back of her head. "I'll try harder not to be so clumsy."
"It's fine. But... Stop trying to be a ninja and walk like a normal person. You might actually kill me one day." I said, my voice hoarse. I could taste the blood caked in my mouth. Ew.
"NO! Real ninjas don't walk. Real ninjas are stealthy. Real ninjas-"
Hatori cut her off. "Real ninjas don't walk. Real ninjas are stealthy. Well guess what? You are not a ninja! Furthermore-"
"DON'T YOU DARE." She glared at him.
"Real ninjas... AREN'T REAL."
"NO! That is SOOOO not true! You know what? I might love you a lot but I will not tolerate this madness! Don't talk to me!" She turned from him and crossed her arms, sulking.
"Fine. But just so you know... I'm taking Gaara with me."
"HE'S MINE!"
"Well, HE'S going down the garbage disposal!"
"WHAT? Are you jealous or something?!"
Hatori blushed.
Hatori... blushed...
HATORI BLUSHED?! HATORI NEVER BLUSHES!
"N-No."
Mandy smirked. "I bet you are."
"Why would I be j-jealous of a st-stupid PLUSHIE?!"
"Who wouldn't?!" I interjected. They ignored me.
"It's okay... I might love Gaara... but I love you more."
Hatori blushed even more and patted Mandy's head. It was weird to see them together. Hatori being so tall and lean... Mandy being short and plumper then him... It was adorable though.
Mandy blushed then. "Don't touch my hair." She slapped his hand away.
"Okay... Um... Take this elsewhere please? I have people waiting to visit..." I said, loudly enough that they finally noticed me.
"I'm glad you're not dead." Mandy said. She hugged me close to her and I could smell her perfume. Eu de AXE. Hahaha.
"And since I'm not dead... Don't I get that Gaara plushie?" I smirked.
"Uh. Um... Uh-huh." I knew she didn't want to say yes, but she had to. Hatori smiled behind her.
"WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF YOUR FACE." Mandy hissed. How she knew he was smirking, I will never know. She still had her back to him, looking down at me. Hatori smiled even broader. The retards.
"I am glad you are alive too Meeghan-san. We will leave now so Mandy can say goodbye to her... stuffed toy."
"IT"S NOT A STUFFED TOY. It is a mint condition GAARA PLUSHIE."
"Right... Goodbye." He grabbed her arm and pulled her from the room. She tried to plant herself to the floor but Hatori stared at her long enough that she started giggling and walked out with him.
"Byebye." She smiled.
"Byebye..." I whispered as they walked out the door. Shii and Jessica came in next. Jessica was still crying.
"Compose yourself woman! I ain't dead! Just... ALMOST DEAD!" I smacked her arm.
"B-B-But... WAHHHHHH!" She buried her head in Shii's chest, who gave me a look I will now call 'OH-Dear-Lord-please-HELP-ME'. I laughed.
"Get her out of here. I'll see you at home." I gave her a slight hug.
"Yes. But just a moment. Jessica, I want a word with Meeghan. Please?"
She nodded and left.
"Yeah, you old hermit. What do you want."
He raised his eyebrow. "You defeated Akito."
"Yeah?"
"If you had died... He would've won..."
That was surprising. I didn't know that.
"Oh?"
"Yes. And... you freed us from the bonds of the curse. Thank you." His look was sincere. I almost cried.
"You're welcome..."
He smiled and left the room, waving his fingers in a goodbye.
Natalie walked in towing Yuki behind her, slowly. "Come on you... Stop trying to... STOP IT!" She smacked his arm and he finally stumbled through the doorway. His head was down, his hair covered his face entirely.
"Time for a haircut?" I chuckled.
"Yeah." Yuki said and looked up then. His eyes were red and puffy around the edges. So were Natalie's. But not as red as Yuki's. You could tell he had been crying recently. His cheeks were red and wet, and he was sniffling.
"Awwwwe." I cooed. "What a cutie. Come here little boy. I'll give you a big hug." I opened my arms. It pulled on the stitches in my side, and burned, so I put my arms back down, and tried not to wince.
His mouth turned up into a slight smile and he hugged me with one arm, quickly squeezed my shoulder and stepped back. He was sniffling again.
"Oh you..." Natalie said, smacking his arm lightly. She kissed his cheek.
It was quiet for a minute as I watched them, and they watched me. Finally Yuki spoke.
"Thank you. There is nothing we can do to repay you but... I'm glad you're alive. I hate seeing Kyo like that, even though I don't like him much."
"You've been getting along pretty well. You'll be best friends in no time. I know. I read about it." I said, laughing.
"Haha. I'll take your word on that." He took his hand from Natalie's. "I'll leave you to it."
"No. I'll go with you. Just wait a second." She hugged me tightly and whispered in my ear. "Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't know how you did it, but you beat Akito. And Yuki's right. What you did for us? We can never repay you for it. But we can at least thank you." She kissed my cheek and I felt her tears drip onto my hands, that were now in my lap. "Thank you." She let go and turned around without looking at me and left the room.
I could hear them in the hallway outside my room. "Kyo. You can go in now. She's fine I promise."
Silence.
"Kyo. Just go."
Still more silence.
"You better go, NOW, before I decide to kick you into next year. I mean it."
Still, nothing.
"Kyo. She needs you. So go." Yuki said this. For a moment there was utter, complete silence, then I could hear his footsteps approaching my room.
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I thought that our "reunion" would be easier to describe. But it isn't. It was touching, yes, and very painful. But to put those exact emotions into words, our thoughts and actions and feelings? No. It's hard thinking about it now, even after it all happened. Every memory with him in that hospital room was dangerous to think about. It forced me to tears every time. Every, single, time. But if you were me, and if you were there, you would understand. There were, and aren't the right words to describe it. There never will be.
But, I will tell you what went down in that room that day. The love of two teenagers, who would sacrifice their lives for the other, who would do anything to save the other... That love...
Never fails.
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His footsteps were soft and slow. With every step my heart beat faster. With every pause for breath he took, my heart stopped.
And then there he was. There he was, stepping into the room, sitting down next to me, holding my hand in his. His head was bent over my hand an I could feel his lips on it, kissing my knuckles, back and forth, one at a time.
"Kyo?"
He didn't look up. Just sat there, kissing my knuckles.
"Hey, Kyo?"
He took my hand and placed it in his, palm-to-palm and intertwined our fingers. He stared at them, rubbing his thumb back and forth over mine.
"Hey, Kyo? Hello? Are you in there?"
Still he said nothing. Just stared.
"Kyo. I'm alive. I'm here. My heart is beating. Really fast now because I'm nervous, but it's beating. Why aren't you looking at me?"
"I can see you're alive. I can hear the monitor. But..." He looked up then. His face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot and red. But he was still as handsome as always. Still Kyo. "For a while there, there was no beeping. It was... There was nothing. No beeping, no sign that you were there."
"But I was. I mean, kind of..." I looked into his eyes. Still the same color orange. My favorite color.
"But you weren't. You weren't here to tell me you were okay. No one was here to tell me you were going to be okay. They all thought you were going to die." He swallowed. "I thought you were going to die. And it would've been my fault."
"No, it wouldn't be. It's my fault for not being careful. I was being careless and I'm sorry. It was my fault."
"No, it wasn't! I told you I would be there to protect you from anything. But I couldn't. I couldn't even control my own body." He let go of my hand and held his hands up to his face, and stared at them. They were shaking.
"No, Kyo, it's not-"
"Yes it is. And I kept thinking, while they were in here trying to keep you from dying, that life would never be the same."
"It would be, someday. You could live without me. In the manga, Tohru's the one who-"
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT TOHRU! I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE MANGA, WHATEVER THE HECK IT IS. I. Don't. Care." He stood up, his fists shaking with anger. "It would never be the same. I wouldn't be able to live life without you. You took my heart. You stole it from me."
It reminded me of a song. Relient K. There Was No Thief. There was no thief, because it was me. It was me that stole his heart.
"And I was thinking that when you woke up, if you woke up, that I wouldn't hold you to your promise. I would take back the proposal. I would let you live life without having to deal with us Zodiac, who almost caused you to die."
I could hear the beeping on the monitor speed up. It sounded as if it was going to explode.
"Y-You can't be serious." I said, frowning. "You can't take something like that back, I won't let you. You can't-"
"No, you didn't let me finish. I thought about it. I thought about giving your heart back to you. But then..."
"Then what?" He was taking too long to say what he wanted to say, and I wanted to hear it now. "Then what?!"
"Calm down. I'm trying to say that, I'm selfish. I don't want you to leave. I don't care if it's ruining your one chance at life and I don't care that I almost got you killed. I want you here. I can't give you back your heart. I won't do it." He frowned at himself.
I was so relieved. I could hear the beeping slow a bit, but it was still beating faster then before. Partly because it was Kyo sitting there next to me. He always made my heart race.
"I thought you were going to leave me." I whispered.
"No. I won't. It would kill me to live without you."
"It would kill me too." I looked into his eyes and for a moment he looked like he was going to cry.
"I realized that too. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I promise, I truly, sincerely promise, that I will protect you for the rest of our lives. I will. I swear it."
"I believe you." I whispered, setting my hand gently on top of his. He smiled.
"I love you."
"I know."
"No, really. I do. I love you."
"I love you too."
He kissed my forehead and hugged me to himself. I missed his smell. Like laundry soap and the night air and freshly cut grass.
Then I realized something. He was hugging me.
But... Kyo can't hug me. We have to keep a strict distance. At all times.
"Kyo?"
"Yeah?"
"Is there something you need to tell me before I say it myself and punch you?"
"Um... I... Oh. Yeah." He paused. "It's gone."
I let go of him and stared at his face for a while. Broken. I wonder how?
"When? I can't believe I missed it. We had been waiting for this..." My eyes filled with tears. How could I be so stupid? How could I have missed it?
"When I was carrying you to the van and you started to pass out I felt something weird. Everything went black and then I saw both forms of the cat. It was really confusing at first. I thought I was dreaming. Then I was glad because if I was dreaming, that meant you were fine." He sighed. "I'm so stupid. Then they walked away and I suddenly felt a wave of relief and sadness. Like everything was lost in the world. But I also felt that I had finally been freed. The curse was gone. I don't know why it happened then, but it did." He looked at me then. "Do you know why?"
"I have no idea. I wish I had been awake to see it. I can't believe I passed out then... I can't believe it."
"I'm glad you did though. Everyone saw me cry. Except you. Which I think was a good thing."
"You cried?!" That must've been what was hitting my face before I passed out. Something wet. Kyo's tears.
I couldn't believe I had missed it.
"It's alright. I'll tell you every little detail." He kissed my cheek. Then he took my hand and kissed my knuckles again. The monitor sped up. Kyo chuckled. Stupid heart rate. Slow down will you?
A nurse walked in then and checked the monitors chart. "Are you in pain? You're heart rate sped up quite a bit here."
"Not really." I shrugged. Okay, maybe a little. Or... a lot.
"Here, I'll give you a little something to cheer you up. It'll make you really sleepy, and you'll be really disoriented, but you'll feel a lot better." She paused, then added. "When you wake up."
"Ahhh. I've had that before. Sweet old morphine. Bring it on. Let's see what I say this time, hmm?" She laughed and injected the syrum into the tube from my IV.
Of course, right away, I felt it. Sleep filled my eyes and I lost my train of thought.
"Bye. I'll be here when you wake up." Kyo said and the nurse raised her eyebrows at him. "Or not. Maybe I should go home for a bit."
"She'll be asleep for quite a while. You might as well go home. You look tired." She said.
"No flirting with my fiancee Mrs. Nurse person. That's not nice. Kyo, don't flirt with her. I'll have Mr. Doctor come and beat you with a stick. I mean it." I shook my pointer finger at him.
"It's alright Meeghan. I won't flirt with her. I don't want to. I'll flirt with you when you wake up. How does that sound?"
"Good. Veeeeery good. Night Night." I yawned and snuggled into the blanket, my mind groggy.
"Night." The last thing I felt was his lips brushing my temple, then nothing but sweet dreams. And in those dreams, I realized something else. Something that was utterly important, but I probably wouldn't remember later. Because my dreams just loved to run out on me.
Shii's curse went first. When Jessica confessed her love and he realized how much he loved her. Same for Yuki. Natalie finally had a real talk with him and then... it was gone. Both of them, right when they felt how much they had truly fallen in love... Their curse left them.
And then Kyo. His was gone. But it took his longer to leave him. And we were together almost from the begining. So why, when he first told me he loved me, why didn't it leave him then?
Maybe it was harder for his to leave. He had 2 different Zodiac forms. Maybe that was why. Or maybe it was that he hadn't realized how much he truly loved me until just then.
I wouldn't know until I asked him later. And maybe they were both the right answer. Maybe not. He didn't understand when I asked him the question and he still doesn't understand to this day. I didn't care what the reason was. I was just glad it was gone. He didn't have to be plagued anymore. He didn't have to hate himself anymore, and no one had reason to hate him.
Actually I did care. I still do care. I wanted to know the answer. And I hoped it was the latter, because when I would retell this story to my children and my grandchildren, I wanted them to know just how the curse was broken. I wanted them to know just what I had done. Just what we all had to go through to get where we are now. Maybe it was prideful. I don't know. But what I did know, was that it was finally over. This war with Akito was finally over.
And it truly was. Little did I know that Akito was changing. Akito was going to be different. I had hoped then that they would lock her up for being the wacko she is.
No. She wasn't wacko. Okay, maybe a little, but she was just raised the wrong way. I could teach her not to be so scary.
That was my goal. To teach a wackjob how to be normal.
What a job to have. Hopefully she wouldn't try to slash me with a knife. Again.
Hopefully...
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