Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out, things have been happening lately, and this is the 7th time I had to redo this chapter. I know you may be upset, but I hope you enjoy. (sorry if it wasn't good, I'll try better in the future)
"How come I didn't remember this earlier?" asked Yurippe
"I don't know" I replied, "As a matter of fact, Kanade seems to be the only one to remember anything from the afterlife."
I had walked over and sat down behind her, as she got situated, her blanket and feet now hanging off the side of the bed so she could face Yurippe. I had god situated a bit more behind her, my arms around her waist now, and my chin resting on her shoulder. I was thinking about kissing her cheek or something, but she looked embarrassed enough as it was. I almost thought she was going to get a nosebleed. I smiled a bit to myself at the thought.
Kanade being embarrassed? Thinking that only me made me grin more.
"Could this be a dream?" Yurippe asked, getting herself situated as well, breaking me from my thoughts about Kanade's actions. "Perhaps if it is," she continued, "then would I wake up forgetting the dream and carry on with what I was doing, or maybe if I remembered the dream, would I think that the Afterlife was also a dream? Then that would mean that remembering the afterlife would also be a dream. WHich would also conclude that my entire life so far has just been one big dream, and that eventually I'll wake up."
Just what Yurippe was saying right now was getting me off track, I got lost as soon as she started talking about the dream part.
"What do you two think?" she asked.
"I could maybe explain why you are thinking this way," said Kanade
"Please do." said Yurippe, feeling relieved, that somebody was able to understand her words.
"Well you see-" started Kanade. However, she was interrupted by a nurse walking down our hall, her footsteps were quite audible, and she sounded like she was in quite the hurry.
Her steps didn't get more quiet, but on the contrary, louder. she had walked in the room, since the door was open, she seemed very tall from the point of view I was seeing her at. It may have been her heels, though. She had long purple hair that was about down to her lower back. She had then adjusted her glasses, and clipboard.
"E-excuse me for bothering you." she said
"What is it?" I had asked, lifting my chin off of Kanade's shoulder.
"I had heard a scream come from down this way," she explained, "I was wondering if you have heard it too, and if you have, if you could tell me from which direction it came from." she said.
"Oh, there is nothing to worry about," said Yurppe, "You see, everything is sorted out now, I am sorry for making you worry, miss."
"Thank you for letting me know," said the nurse, looking quite relieved at Yurippe's words. And with that, she had headed out of the room, and back the direction in which she had come from.
"Right," said Yurippe, "you were saying, Angel?"
"As I was saying," she started "the way you look at this situation seems not rather all that odd, indeed, you see, since you have regained your old memories it would almost feel as if they were nonexistent, like they themselves were a dream, however, if you look at the afterlife it is like one long dream. But it only seems this way, since your previous life's wishes were unfulfilled, then this could conclude that perhaps the afterlife was a dream after all, the only way that this is a dream, however, is that it would seem, that any wish can come true with a dream, and that the dreams in the afterlife were just wishes or goals that you had in your previous life that were not accomplished or had not come true." Explained Kanade.
She had carried on "It's quite contradictory, really, because if you consider the afterlife a dream, the after you wish is granted, you wake up from it, and start your second life. Another theory could be, is that if somebody were to decide our life and death, our dreaming and waking, as if clockwork, I would not like to touch that that theory right now, due to the fact that it would take me too long to explain."
"So your saying that because of my old memories returning, that I feel like I'm in a dream, because I remembered a dream?" asked Yurippe "An interesting, concept, Kanade."
"It is simply a theory, nothing more, for every person it is different." she said
I was quiet and had placed my chin on her shoulder again, sighing, and releasing warm air onto her neck, making her get goosebumps.
We were all silent for a moment. Until Yurippe asked, "How come you remember your memories without trouble then? Were they given to you through a dream?"
"I was born with my memories, I don't know why I got to remember, perhaps it was because we were all meant to be back together again." said Kanade, rather solemnly.
We were silent for a moment, and I could tell Yurippe was going to say something, but we heard some more footsteps head our way which also caught our attention.
They were the same except there were two sets of feet. I could tell, because the there was a pattern and the sounds were not synchronization, the patter was two loud, then one quiet, while the one was quiet there was a loud with it too, the only way I could tell, was because the quiet foot was only on every third loud one. Another thing I noticed was, because of this sound, it had suggested that the shoes of the louder ones could be heels, and also, they were shorter than their companion that they were traveling with.
The pair had stopped outside the doorway, walking in. I lifted my chin again off of Kanade's shoulder.
"Hinata," I apologized, "sorry for not letting you know, I guess I was just worried."
"It's no problem, man," He said "we were going to come down anyway, it's starting to get light out."
"I'll let it slide this time, Moron." she said, "But you better not forget next time." she finished, eyeing me down, all the time, Yurippe staring at the two.
As soon as Yui noticed Yurippe's stare, she hid behind Hinata, whom had walked over to us. I knew that he wanted to talk about what was going on here, which meant that I had to get up from my spot. I had loosened my grip, and moved my hands to opposite sides of her waist, nuzzling her neck and kissing her cheek before I got up off of the bed.
I could see she had blushed, because she was hiding most of her face in the covers now.
"What is it?" I whispered to Hinata.
"Does Yurippe have her memories back?" He whispered the question
I nodded in response, then whispered back, "Kanade had quite the theory, too, about her memories and all." I said
Yurippe had noticed us whispering the whole time and interrupted with a question of her own.
"What are you two talking about?" She asked
"Oh, nothing..." I said, not seeming like it was nothing, though, I didn't want to have a whole new lecture on memories and theories about dreams again.
Yurippe didn't seem like she was convinced with my response, but she let the matter slide.
"I was thinking," she started, quieting the room, Yui and Kanade had stopped chatting a bit to listen. "Maybe we should have the guild back together again." she finished, waiting for a response from some one.
Did I really want the guild back together again? I asked myself and shivered at the thought of that purple-haired maniac If we get the guild back together, that jerk may end up killing me, for real. But then again, we would have everybody back together again. At the same time, It would be kinda nice to have everybody back together again, but it would take a while.
"I agree," said Hinata, clearing the silence away.
"So do I," came a voice, causing us to look back at Kanade, whom was very quiet, her rosy cheeks' recent color dying down.
I nodded in agreement.
"Alright!" shouted Yui, sending her fist through the air, almost hitting Hinata's jaw.
"Hey, watch it!" he shouted down at her "you almost hit me!"
"Well, it's not my fault you're standing there, you moron!" she retaliated, staring him down.
The two had bickered back in forth. I had saw that Kanade and Yurippe were setting up a game of chess, while they kept fighting in the background.
"What color are you?" I asked her, getting back on the bed where I was before Hinata and Yui came in.
"I got black," she said quietly, smiling back at me, almost making me blush.
"Have you played chess before, Yuzuru?" Yurippe asked, while setting up her pieces as well.
"Yes," I replied, "but it's been a while."
"Perhaps we will have to play sometime, then" said Yurippe, placing her last pawn on the board.
"Perhaps we will, indeed." I replied, helping Kanade place her last piece on the board as well.
"Don't go easy on me, Kanade, it would be such a shame." Said Yurippe, before moving her first piece, the pawn in front of her left rook.
"Don't worry, Yurippe, I won't." she said, moving her right knight over the board.
Their game of chess has begun, This will be interesting, I thought to myself.
Okay everybody, hope you enjoyed and had a great Thanksgiving wherever you were, I know It's been a while since I have released my last chapter, and I will try my best to prevent this from happening in the future. I would have released it sooner, but my older brother had gotten into a car accident, he's doing much better than the car, and everything is fine now. (Also, homework has gotten in my way lately, preventing me from being happy, but that's not the point. The point is that I hope you enjoyed. Make sure to let me know what you think, and just thanks for reading!)
Have an awesome rest of the day wherever you are!
