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Chapter 4- Yumi's Room
I was supposed to be helping with the interviews, but Naru was in such a bad mood that he had dismissed me after arguing with him. Monk was upstairs helping restore order to the kitchen and Ayako and Masako were doing a thermal sweep. I, however, was still fuming and did not notice where my feet suddenly took me.
I looked up and realized I was standing outside of what had been Yumi's door.
How odd….
From within I could hear muffled sobs and my heart skipped a beat. Someone was crying. I stood there, wondering rather I should check on them or just leave. I was just thinking that they might want to be alone when I found my hand sliding the door back.
I gasped and stepped forward into the room, not even stopping to wonder why the door might not have been locked, for the room was quite empty and silent.
"How odd, I could've sworn I heard someone crying," I mumbled as I walked towards the bed. Had I imagined it?
Suddenly, an ominous voice hissed in my ear, "betrayal!"
I whipped around, hand flying to my chest as if to catch my racing heart as my eyes scanned for the owner of the voice.
"betrayal!" This time the other ear heard it and my head spun back violently, my breath heaving.
"Okay, I think it's time to leave now Mai," I squeaked to myself as I began to back up, hands searching for the door. They met fabric instead.
"Mai, what are you doing?" I shrieked and jumped away from Naru, my face not sure whether to drain of color or blush.
"Naru!" I exclaimed. He waited as I calmed myself, unfortunately I only became angry.
"What do you mean what am I doing?" I growled.
"Why are you walking around alone after being told not to?" he stated, calm as ever.
"Well, I don't know, maybe because you kicked me out!" I said, my fists clenching.
"No, I said, 'if you cannot be quiet leave,' obviously the correct choice would to be quiet."
"Well excuse me if I don't choose the right one." I began, turning my back on him and crossing my arms. "You know Naru, you're worse than a girl with how cryptic you are."
"Why were you in here?" he asked, his sudden mood change throwing me. I turned to him, dazed and all traces of anger gone.
"I thought I heard someone crying," I stated simply.
"I'm assuming you found no one in here." I nodded my head as Naru stepped towards the bed.
Then, out of no where, there came a knocking sound, as if someone was rapping on a door with their knuckles. I turned towards the entrance to find it void of knocking people as Naru examined the walls. He paused in front of a spot and the sound stopped. Naru stood there for a moment then passed his hand over something. The wall shuddered open, revealing a cave passage that lead back into darkness.
I stared in shock as Naru pulled the flash light—he had decided that we all should carry one—from his pocket and began forward.
"Hold on, Naru, shouldn't we call Lin or Monk or someone to come with us. We shouldn't go in alone," I said. He paused and looked back at me.
"Feel free to do as you like," he said before continuing with his original plan. Annoyed I followed after him quickly, pulling my own flashlight out.
As we walked, I thought about Naru's weird behavior. It wasn't like him to go off on his own to investigate a place. Normally he would call for Lin or Masako or one of the others.
After a few minutes, the path opened up into a moderately sized cavern. On the floor were old looking chests and boxes. A few books were scattered across one side.
"What is this?" I asked as Naru walked to the chest and opened it, letting out a small cloud of dust.
"It seems Yumi kept some of her belongings here," he said as he lifted a photo frame.
"Incredible!" I exclaimed, lifting one of the books into my arms. "So this was like a her own secret little room." He didn't reply as we began to go through the objects.
I knelt down to a smaller book and flipped it open. Spotting a date at the top of the page I said, "Hey Naru, this looks like Yumi's journal." I flipped through the pages, not really reading the words when a piece of folded paper fell out. I picked it up and read the journal entry.
I'm quite surprised that Kuzuhiko let me draw the portrait of him, but very happy too. Now, when he's away, I have a picture of him to keep with me. I still don't know why Kuzuhiko doesn't like his image being put on paper. I bet mine is the only drawing of him in the whole world.
I'm so excited for our wedding. It's in three months!
I raised my eyebrows and then looked at the paper in my hand, excitement building. This was the only picture of Masaru in the world, and, if she could draw well, this might be an incredible find.
Slowly I unfolded the paper and my eyes widened. It was uncanny…I mean the likeness was…wow.
"Naru!" I said in awe, "This photo looks just like you!"
I turned to look at him, expecting to see a confused or curious Naru, or even his nonchalant look, but what I saw stunned me.
Naru's body was facing me, his hair covering his eyes.
"Naru?" I stood, looking at him in the dim light cast by our flashlights. He didn't respond and I stepped towards him a bit.
"Naru?" I repeated as a knot built in my stomach. Something was wrong. I went to stand just before him and tentatively looked up into his face. His eyes, even though they were hidden by his hair, were closed gently. I blinked.
Then his lids opened rather quickly. My eyes widened as arms encircled me and….lips pressed to my own.
My heart soared as I realized what was going on. My dream was happening. Naru was kissing me! I let my eyes close lazily and began to kiss him in return. Our lips molded and moved together in harmonic bliss as fingers entwined in hair and hearts raced. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity we broke apart, my breath heavy.
Still wrapped in his arms, I looked up and saw a sight I never thought I would. Naru was smiling kindly, gently, as he looked at me.
Then, his words took away my little piece of heaven.
"I've longed to see you again, Yumi. I knew you never would betray me."
Wow, I just had the biggest thing of writers block. I actually think my injury helped clear it up. So I have been very busy with school and cross country and tae kwon do and soccer, but this past Wednesday, I strained my mcl and now I'm only allowed to do school for two weeks and I'm on crutches for at least one. Yuck, but anyway, I hope you guys understand what happened at the end and I know your gonna hate me for it. Still, hope you liked it.
update soon
-mytruthaboutlife.
