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Speech Key:
"The" – Oral/Normal Speech
'The' – Thoughts
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AN: This chapter is slightly connected to the series in that it's about what happened in the period between the end of Rayeath and beginning of Rayearth II. The next chapter, I think will also be placed in more or less of the same time placement, if my thinking is correct.
Anyway, I hope you all like this and please remember to review, but if you've nothing polite to say then don't bother saying anything at all!
~A Match of Two Souls~
oO-Cursing Fate-Oo
"I beg your pardon, but can you please repeat that?" Kagome asked the doctor in disbelief when the Shidou brothers were out of sight. "Hikaru is here because of what?"
The woman sighed irately as she pushed her glasses up her pointy-shaped nose. "Shidou Hikaru-san was brought here after collapsing from shock. She is resting now, but she will be cleared to go home after she wakes up."
"And you didn't see it fit to inform us of her admittance here?" the Miko gritted her teeth. She counted backwards mentally as she tried to hold back from decking the arrogant woman before her. "Do you know how worried we were? How long we looked for her when she didn't come home? Not even the school knew where she was!"
"I made a professionally unbiased decision. The child is my patient and I wished to see her out of any potential danger before informing her family," the doctor sniffed. "As it is, her father was unreachable, to my knowledge."
"Exactly!" Kagome burst out. "Hikaru is a child! As her family, we should have been notified immediately! And if you had bothered to check her records correctly, you would know thatSatoru-niisan is her legal guardian, not her father!" Her eyes grew bright with anger. "She may have been admitted as your patient, but that gives you no right to make legal decisions for her! You are not a Kami! You have no right to do what you did, and I have the feeling that this isn't the first time you've done so either!"
The raven-haired teen stalked away towards Hikaru's room, but stopped just a few paces away. "Don't think I'll let this issue go so easily, Sensei," she cast a cold glare at the doctor, "I will report you for misconduct and ask for an investigation into these 'professionally unbiased decisions'. You can be sure of that."
She left behind a fuming hook-nosed doctor cursing quite loudly, much to other passerby's shock.
-Shidou Residence-
"Hikaru?" Kagome asked softly, knocking on the redhead's door. "Can I come in?" In her arms was a tray that held Hikaru's dinner.
There was no response at first, then a small sniffle. "…okay…" came the tiny whisper.
The raven-haired girl let herself into her cousin's room. Her heart dropped at the sight that met her eyes. "Hikaru…"
The girl was curled up in a fetal position around a pillow. Her small form shook with muffled sobs as Hikari faithfully lay by her feet, whimpering.
Kagome set the tray of food down on the low table and sat beside the redhead on her bed. "Hikaru, why won't you tell me what's wrong? I'm worried about you…" She stroked the fiery locks slowly, prompting a small flinch from their owner.
Without warning, the Miko found herself dragged down to the bed with her cousin's face buried in her stomach. "Why? Why Neechan?" Hikaru wept into the fabric of Kagome's fox-print nightdress. Kagome only held her tight, giving her as much comfort as she could.
Since they brought her home from the hospital, Hikaru had sequestered herself away into her room. She said very little, and ate nothing unless coaxed. She cried and cried, but still would say nothing to her family.
There were no coincidences in the world, only that which would be. Every person's path in life was written from the moment they came into this world. Everything from the good to the bad instances in life to everything in between was already made to happen.
It was something Kagome was made to understand while traveling through the Sengoku Jidai.
It was something she found out herself.
But although she knew this, it didn't stop Kagome from cursing Fate in instances like this. 'I asked the Kami to give her strength,' the miko cooed softly to her cousin who was finally letting her exhaustion lull her to sleep. 'Her body survived, but her spirit is broken! A soul as sweet and innocent as her never deserved this!'
She sighed as she felt herself giving into the Sandman's call. 'I can only hope that you will be given a chance to heal, Hikaru. And that you will take it…'
Adieu,
TsukiyoTenshi
