Chapter 24
No one moved a muscle for a minute or so after Akari fainted. It didn't make any sense. Akari was gone. They had a ceremony and everything… but how was she there?
"Akari… she's here?" Hiro asked so quietly that almost no one could hear.
"Yeah…" Tadashi trailed off.
"Boys, why don't you go downstairs? We can handle this…" Aunt Cass offered.
"No! I don't want to be apart from Akari!" Hiro shouted.
"Hiro please! Just go downstairs!" Aunt Cass begged.
"No! I want to be with Akari!" He cried, and he struggled in the arms of his older brother as they went down the stairs, "NO! STOP IT! LET ME GO! I WANT AKARI!"
A while later, Hiro managed to calm down, but he wouldn't quit staring at the wall…
"She's alive…" Hiro trailed off.
"I know…" Tadashi trailed off.
"Callaghan lied to us…" Hiro trailed off.
"I know…" Tadashi trailed off.
"I missed her so much," Hiro began to cry, "I'm pathetic. I couldn't last without my twin for a week."
"Hiro, you're not pathetic," Tadashi hugged him, "You just had a very special bond… one that's really hard to replace."
"I want Akari to wake up," Hiro sniffled.
"Me too," Tadashi replied.
Akari had been in her bed, asleep for hours. She'd barely moved around, and breathed slowly, which caused panic. But when they saw she was fine, the panic dissipated.
Aunt Cass came walking down the stairs with Honey Lemon. Tadashi and Hiro turned to face the two of them, "Has she woken up yet?"
"Not yet boys," Aunt Cass said solemnly, "But she's doing better."
"I want her to wake up so bad," Hiro cried again.
"We all do Hiro," Honey Lemon put a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm going to take a nap," Hiro announced, and walked up the stairs into the bedroom, and climbed the ladder to the top bunk of his bunkbed. He could hear Akari's soft breathing, and he never realized how much he missed hearing it, until he finally heard it again.
Hiro drifted off to sleep peacefully, and before he knew it, he was being shaken awake.
"Hiro?" a soft voice asked.
Hiro opened his eyes slowly to see that Akari was lying next to him, awake and tired.
"Mm… Akari?" he asked sleepily. Then he suddenly awoke when he realized he was speaking to Akari, "You're ok!"
"Yes Hiro, I'm fine," She replied.
"What happened?" Hiro asked, concerned.
Akari yawned, "I can explain in the morning. Can I sleep up here with you?"
"Sure," he mumbled, and scooted over so his sister could have some room.
"Thank you…" she mumbled softly, before she fell asleep, and Hiro joined her soon after.
When Aunt Cass went to check up on Akari the next morning, she became a little frantic when she saw that Akari wasn't in her bed. Then she saw a bundle on the top bunk move.
She walked over to the ladder, and climbed up on the first step. She gasped in awe at the sight, and gushed at the sweetness in the situation.
Hiro and Akari were lying next to each other, wrapped in their favorite, comfortable blanket, with their arms around each other. Their hair was messy, but that didn't matter, and if you looked close enough, you could see the soft smiles on their faces.
Aunt Cass couldn't resist. She pulled out her phone, and took a picture at the sight. She walked down the stairs, thinking…
This is so going to be in the photo album.
Tadashi woke up about an hour later, and freaked out when he saw Akari not in her bed, just like Aunt Cass. Maybe she was awake, so he went down the stairs, and saw Aunt Cass in the kitchen.
"Hey Tadashi!" Aunt Cass chirped.
"Hey Aunt Cass. Have you seen Akari?" Tadashi asked fearfully.
"Did you check Hiro's bed?" she asked, smiling as she did.
"No…" Tadashi trailed off and went back up the stairs. He looked in Hiro's bed, and sure enough, there she was. She was curled up next to him, their heads together, and their blanket up to their neck. Tadashi smiled at the sight, and decided not to wake them. Instead he went down to eat with his Aunt.
About another hour later, the gang arrived, and Akari and Hiro were waking up. They listened to the conversation as they rubbed the sleep from their eyes.
"Has Akari woken up yet?" Honey Lemon asked.
"She must have at one point during the night," Aunt Cass began, "Because this morning, she and Hiro were sleeping in the same bed."
"Aww…" Honey Lemon gushed.
"It was a rather adorable sight," Tadashi agreed.
Hiro and Akari climbed out of the bed, and when they hit the floor, they hugged each other tightly. Akari sniffed, "I missed you Hiro."
"I missed you too, Akari," Hiro sniffled.
"I d-didn't think I would see you again," Akari cried quietly.
"I didn't either Akari," Hiro replied and looked into her eyes, "I didn't because we all thought you were dead."
"I know. I came back because I saw an article in the newspaper," Akari whispered, "But I thought all of you were dead."
"Why?" Hiro asked.
"Because I never saw you all resurface at the port after Wasabi's car went under…so I assumed the worst," Akari said quietly.
"Callaghan said that he drowned you at the port, and we believed him," Hiro explained.
"You knew Callaghan was alive?" Akari asked.
"We all found out when we went to the island," Hiro stated.
"You were there?" Akari asked.
"Yeah… were you there?" Hiro asked.
"Yeah," Akari replied quietly, "Callaghan locked me in a room, and after these people came, I was alone, but I broke the door, and I got back here."
"What did the people look like?" Hiro asked, confused.
"They were colorful… like suits. Someone I saw said they were superheroes that saved Krei from Callaghan," Akari explained.
"Oh, Akari!" Hiro exclaimed. He sniffled again and wrapped his arms around her.
"What?" she asked.
"That was us!" Hiro replied.
"You were there, but you didn't know I was there?" Akari asked.
"No Akari. Baymax didn't catch your scan. We scanned the whole island. I'm sorry," Hiro apologized.
"It's ok Hiro. It's not your fault. It's Callaghan's," Akari told him.
"You're right. I hope he gets what he deserves for doing all of this to us," Hiro muttered.
"This isn't all he's done to us Hiro," Akari stated suddenly.
"What do you mean?" Hiro asked.
"He separated us from our family," Akari said simply.
"What? Why? How?" Hiro asked, millions of questions suddenly filling his mind.
"It's a long story…" Akari emphasized.
"I have all the time in the world to listen," Hiro told her.
"Ok," Akari sighed, "So, 14 years ago, when we were born, Callaghan used a time machine to separate us. He's not who he says he is. He was from a different timeline, and can never go back to it. One of his colleagues stole the time machine from Krei Tech Archives. He was a prisoner, like he is now, because of us. He used the time machine to go back to the day we were born, so he could succeed in getting revenge on Krei."
"I don't understand," Hiro admitted.
"The reason the superhero team you made formed in the other timeline, was because Tadashi died in the fire, and we were so depressed. We wanted to know who set the fire, and basically everything you did, was supposed to happen… except Tadashi wouldn't have been there, and I wouldn't have been kidnapped. We still would've found out everything, and still would've stopped him, just differently. Had Tadashi still died, we likely would've still found out the fire wasn't an accident," Akari explained.
"How did you know the fire wasn't an accident?" Hiro asked.
"Ever since the fire, I've been having trouble deciding with what reality… was real. I had visions, and they seemed so real, and they were, until Callaghan traveled back in time. I got a vision the night I was kidnapped, and you said the fire wasn't an accident, and it made sense," Akari explained.
"I understand now. I just…can't believe that Callaghan would do that!" Hiro exclaimed.
"I know!" Akari cried, "We never met our real parents, and we never will."
"We should've met them, even if we only knew them for 3 years," Hiro mumbled.
"I know…" Akari trailed off, looking at something from Tadashi's side of the room. It was a picture frame, on the bookshelf. Akari walked over and grabbed it. She walked back over to Hiro and sat back down. She gave Hiro the picture frame.
"Is this them?" Hiro asked.
"I think so," Akari replied. Hiro handed her back the picture frame, and she stared at it, giving her another vision…
The setting was fuzzy, but Akari knew she was in a car. She was younger, three years old. She and Hiro were sitting in their car seats next to each other, and Tadashi sat by the window. It was raining, and rain poured down hard.
"Mom? Are we almost there?" Tadashi asked.
"We're almost there honey," she replied.
"I want to see Aunt Cass!" Akari shouted from her car seat.
"We're almost there Akari," Tomeo, their father, replied.
"I want to go with you!" Hiro pouted.
"Hiro, you know you can't come with us. We're not allowed to," Maya said softly.
"I know…" Hiro muttered.
Akari gasped when she spotted something, "GUMMY BEARS!"
"Where?" Hiro looked around, but didn't see any.
Maya laughed, "You got me!" she pulled out a bag of gummy bears for Hiro and Akari.
The next part was a blur. A car swerved onto their side of the road, and crashed into them, pushing the car back into the intersection. Another car rammed into the driver's side, flipping the car upside down. Everyone was screaming, and then everyone in the car went silent. Everyone was breathing heavily, but some weren't.
Tadashi was the only one conscious. He was frightened. With the car being upside down, he carefully undid his seatbelt, and looked over at his parents. Their dad was dead. He died on impact, when the second car rammed into the side, but their mother was almost ready to join him. She looked at Tadashi, who looked at her fearfully.
"Take care of them Tadashi. Don't let them go through anymore grief," she whispered, "We love you. All of you."
That was the last thing she said, before she too, died because of her injuries. Tadashi cried out in despair, unable to process the fact that his parents were gone. He snapped out of his shocked state, and tried to get his younger sister and brother out of the car.
Neither of them were conscious, which made Tadashi fear the worst, but sighed in relief when he saw them both breathing. He unbuckled his brothers' car seat, and pulled him out first. Other than a scratch on his forehead, he was fine. Akari…she had it worse.
She was breathing slowly, slower than she was supposed to. She had a gash across her forehead that was bleeding freely. The glass from the now-broken window had crashed onto her, pieces embedded into her skin. He undid her car seat, and lied her on the ground next to her twin, the rain still falling hard. Tadashi made one last trip into the car, and grabbed his mother's phone.
He didn't know how to use the phone very well, but he learned a little bit. He knew how to call 911, and he gave all the answers to the questions that were asked. He called Aunt Cass, and she'd meet them at the hospital. An ambulance arrived, and the three orphans were put in the back. They were sped to the hospital, and their Aunt was notified of everything.
The vision ended when Akari woke up…
"Akari!" Hiro shouted.
Akari's labored breathing and petrified face turned on his brother complex. Not to mention, she'd been staring at the same spot for 5 minutes on the wall. Akari's eyes closed, and they opened when she gasped, back into reality. Her eyes welled with tears, and her lip trembled.
"Akari?" Hiro asked, concerned.
"I saw them…" Akari said through staggered breaths. She closed her eyes.
"Who?" Hiro asked.
"Them!" Akari cried, "I… We… They…"
Akari suddenly burst into tears. She curled herself into a ball, "I saw how they d-died! She said to protect us! We never got to say goodbye!"
Akari's loud sobbing caused everyone to come upstairs. They saw Hiro's concerned, yet sad face as he stared at Akari sobbing into her knees.
"Akari? Please calm down," Hiro begged.
"But the vision… it was so awful!" Akari continued crying.
Neither of the twins noticed everyone's presence.
"Our parents…they died in that car accident, and we survived!" Akari sobbed, "How come they couldn't survive too?"
"I don't know. But it happened, and there isn't anything we can do about it," Hiro mumbled, and finally noticed everyone's presence, "Oh… H-Hey guys!"
"Huh?" Akari asked. She looked up, and saw everyone in the room staring at her.
"What was that?" Gogo asked.
"Gogo!" Wasabi cried.
"What? We all wanted to know," Gogo replied, a snap from chewing her gum after she said it.
Akari wiped her eyes, "That… was a reaction to the vision I had."
"Vision?" Tadashi asked.
Akari nodded, "It's a long story though."
"We're not going anywhere until you tell us," Aunt Cass said sternly.
"Ok then… here we go…" Akari sighed.
She told them all about her visions, why she got them, and explained everything that had happened to her since the fire. She told them that Callaghan was the one who separated them from their family, and that he was from a different timeline. She explained how one of his friends stole it from the Krei Tech Archives, and that in the original timeline, Tadashi died in the explosion. The last part had been a shock to everyone, especially Tadashi, since he was supposed to die, but he was relieved that he didn't.
"So… I was supposed to die?" Tadashi asked.
"Uh-huh," Akari mumbled.
"And Callaghan separated you two from us when you were born?" Aunt Cass asked.
"Yup," Hiro said quietly.
"It makes sense why Callaghan showed so much hostility around me," Akari said in realization.
"Oh my gosh! You have had it so rough honey!" Aunt Cass enveloped her niece in a hug, "You could've come to us you know."
"I didn't want you to think I was crazy or something," Akari admitted.
"Honey, I'll admit it sounds odd, but I know you wouldn't say something like that unless you meant it," Aunt Cass explained.
"Thanks Aunt Cass," Akari smiled gratefully.
"You're welcome," she smiled, "Now let's get you two something to eat."
"Good," Hiro replied, "Because I'm starving!"
Akari giggled, "Me too!"
"Well, come on then!" Aunt Cass called while she was already half-way down the stairs, and everyone followed her down the stairs.
Everyone sat at the table and ate what Aunt Cass had prepared. They ate in silence, and Akari looked around at her friends and family, but noticed one was missing.
Gogo.
"Hey, where's Gogo?" Akari asked.
Everyone looked around, but they didn't see their short, headstrong friend.
"Where is she?" Honey Lemon asked.
"I don't know," Tadashi replied.
A knock on the door caught their attention. Aunt Cass walked down the stairs to answer the door while everyone else continued eating, and Akari went into the kitchen to get some water.
"Oh, hi Gogo. Hello Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka. What brings you here?" Aunt Cass asked.
"Is it true? Is Akari alive?" Hanako asked hopefully.
Aunt Cass just smiled, "Yes it is. She came home yesterday."
"Can we see her?" Takashi asked.
"Sure, come on inside," Aunt Cass replied.
Aunt Cass led Hanako, Takashi, and Gogo up the stairs where Akari was walking back to her seat to the table, but stopped when she saw her former parents in the room.
Honestly, she was glad to see them. It had been a while since she'd seen them, and obviously, they had to had heard about Akari's 'death.' Gogo must have gone home and brought them here to see her. They were glad to see her, because tears erupted from their eyes.
"Akari!" Hanako exclaimed. She ran over to Akari and squeezed her tightly. Takashi joined in.
"Hi," Akari giggled slightly.
"We were devastated to find out about your death," Hanako said brokenheartedly.
"It wasn't fun on my part either," Akari admitted.
"What happened?" Takashi asked.
Akari took a step back and explained everything that had happened for the 3rd time that day, hoping it would be her last. When she finished, she sighed, but looked up and saw everyone approaching her. Then before she knew it, she was right in the center of a group hug.
"Um… guys? Can't…breathe," Akari gasped.
The hug ended and the group of people spent the entire day together, glad that everything was back to normal.
Hello! Sorry for not updating this week... 9 week exams had me like AHHHHHHHHHH! But I'm good now. I passed all my exams, and surprisingly aced one... I didn't know I could do that!
Anyway, I've seen a few people do this today... Today is the 92nd anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios! Happy Birthday WDAS! I saw this really cool video on YouTube celebrating it, and it's called "92 years in 92 seconds." check it out, it's pretty cool!
I have to break this awful news to you guys... the next chapter is the final chapter of Separated Siblings. Seriously Guys! I don't want to go dormant, and I know you guys don't want me to either, but I need ideas for new stories. I'll accept ideas about Big Hero 6, Frozen, and Inside Out ('Cuz it's likely you all read that story)
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~Krypie (P.S. I might be changing my username, but I don't know what to yet. I'll let you know before I change it though.)
