J16: Haven't updated this story in a while. But here's chapter 10. Try
not to kill me...
Chapter 10: Suicide
It's hard to believe that, after all this, there still was school to deal with for the tamers.
Ruki got up the next morning in one of Ryo's many guest bedrooms, knowing that she had to endure the torture of school, at least for one more week. She would graduate, and then she could go to a good college depending on how she finished the year out.
6:50 a.m.
Ruki reluctantly raised herself off of the bed and took a set of clothing and marched over to the bathroom as she proceeded to take a shower. The gentle and warm feeling of the water sprayed over her skinny yet well-built body as she focused upon finishing the last week of her school days.
Through all that, though, her friends... most particularly Juri.
What would she do? How would she afford the baby, and take care of it? It was pretty lucky of her, if you could call it that, for the fact that she would have the baby after she graduated.
Ruki planned to talk to Juri at school today, to give her more 'womanly' support, though she really wasn't the best at it, she was her friend, and it was the least she could do-
"Ruki? Are you in there?"
The voice of the brown-haired boy interrupted Ruki's thoughts as she got out of the shower and dried herself. 'Maybe Ryo can help me,' she figured. 'I'll bring her here after school and maybe Ryo can give her some words. After all, he is an expert at these kinds of things, even if she is a girl, and he is not. I guess it does pay to be perfect.'
"Ryo?" Ruki said, stepping out of the bathroom. "If it isn't too much trouble, I thought maybe Juri could come over here and just visit with us-"
"That's alright," he interrupted, which mildly insulted her. "Just have her come over after school. I'm sure I can help her with her little problem."
Ruki grinned. "How did you know I invited her for that?"
"I guess I'm a natural," He shrugged. "Now I gotta take my shower, or else I'll be late." And with that, he disappeared into the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
****************
"People, be advised that your English Final will be this Wednesday, and it will account for 25% of your grade..."
Ruki leaned her head on her desk, bored from repetitive announcements. Everyone knew the final was on Wednesday, why does she have to say it again?
She looked around. 'Where's Juri?' she wondered to herself. Juri was in her English class, yet she was nowhere to be found. She hadn't noticed until now.
'Maybe just a little shocked about the whole thing. Maybe I shouldn't take her after all, but maybe just check on her to make sure she's alright.' Ruki looked over to the next desk, which housed Takato, who just looked at her and gave her a depressing frown. 'Guess Takato isn't too happy about the whole thing either.'
Though it was obvious of Juri's pregnancy, it was just unusual for her to not go to school. It was Juri, after all. She normally got good grades, and she loved to learn. In addition, the pregnancy hadn't escalated yet, so it wasn't obvious to anybody except for her friends.
'Or maybe she got sick. Why the hell do I keep thinking about this?' Ruki shrugged Juri off of her mind as she opened her English book and read some poems.
It was hard for Ruki to memorize these poems, despite her interest in the subject. She browsed through the reviewed poems until she came to one and stopped.
"Darkness"
My friends have been lost
My family has been tossed
My own body has left at a cost.
What am I to do?
Only one thing left to do
It's the best for me and you
Just like The Son, I shall die too
To benefit this world of yours.
Ruki needed not to finish the poem as she realized something serious. She closed her book and stuffed it into her backpack and ran out of the classroom, hearing something from her teacher directed to her but didn't exactly pick the message up.
************
"Juri! Open up!" she yelled, banging the door of the Katou residence. She knew that if anyone was home, Juri was, because her father and stepmother were working, and her brother was at school also. Realizing that the door wasn't going to open anytime soon, she climbed the stucco- like walls of the two-story establishment and looked through her window. Nobody there. She continued, grabbing the edges of the windows, until she ended up at another window.
Her parent's room. Again, there was a void of human life.
Ruki was ready to give up, thinking that it was a stupid idea to cut school to an unforeseen notion, but decided to continue to one last window. It was the bathroom window, and though it was a bit fizzy, Ruki managed to see though it.
Ruki wished her eyes deceived her as she saw a motionless figure lay on the floor, knowing exactly who it was. Frantically desperate to get to the other side, she threw her fist against the window, it shattered easily, causing a sharp pain through Ruki's knuckles, but the pain was quickly abandoned as she tried to rescue her friend.
Stepping through the destroyed glass, she ran over to the body and turned it around, making it face her, revealing an auburn-haired girl with blood dripping slowly on her neck. Juri.
Ruki grabbed Juri's limp hand with a bloody-knuckled hand of her own and put her forefingers on her pulse.
-Still alive.
Ruki didn't know much more about first aid and the like, so she ran over to the nearby bedroom and picked up the phone, slamming 9-1-1 buttons frantically.
"Possible suicide! 5531 Cedar Lane! 17 year old girl! Come now!" she panicked through the phone.
"Ok, sweetie, you're going to have to talk more clearly and slowly so I can understand you," the female voice on the other end spoke.
-I don't have time for this bullshit.
"Goddammit, my friend's dying from a fatal slice in her neck, from possible suicide, come 5531 Cedar Lane!" She said, in a calmer tone.
"Alright, just wait there, get a cloth on the wound, and paramedics will be there shortly." The click sounded, and Ruki threw the phone down.
-Why the hell do they always act calm like that? A girl's dying, for God's sake.
Ruki ran back in the bathroom and grabbed a small towel. Wrapping in around her hand, she placed it firmly on Juri's neck and put pressure on it, doing everything to stop the bleeding. "Don't worry Juri, everything's going to be fine," she said silently to her friend.
-Where are they? I called hours ago.
After what seemed like forever, Ruki heard the pleasant or not-so-pleasant ringing of the siren approach the house. She loosely tied the towel around the girl's neck and ran downstairs, ready to greet the paramedics in a courteous way.
"She's upstairs, go get her now!" she yelled, double-timing the medics as they raced upstairs with a stretcher. Watching the meds run upstairs to save her friend, Ruki had a disturbing foreshadow, one that she didn't want to believe, but knew due to her first aid knowledge.
-I really don't think she's going to make it.
*************
Ruki, Takato, and the Katou family sat without interaction in the waiting room, doing exactly that: waiting. None of them wanted to speak up, until Ruki finally broke 10 minutes of silence.
"Do you guys know why she did this?" she asked the others, already knowing the answer, though she was sure her family did not know the cause for all this.
Mr. Katou immediately got out of his chair, and grabbed Takato by his collared shirt. "I swear to God, you little bastard, if you are any part of the reason my little baby did this..."
Takato was speechless, because he didn't want everyone to know the truth, the truth that caused all this...
Ruki got up and tried to pull him back, but to no avail. "Mr. Katou," she begged. "Please, I assure you he was involved in none of this..."
He shoved her away. "Oh, what do you know? You're not her father, are you?"
Juri's mother was next in line. "Please, honey, don't..." she pleaded, going up to her husband.
At that moment the door fifteen feet away opened, exposing a guy in a white jacket, which Ruki recognized as a doctor. His face was sullen, with a neutral body language-
"No," Takato cried. Mr. Katou let his grip go and the brown-haired boy ran straight up to the doctor, panic in his eyes, ready to take the worst. "Don't tell me-"
The doctor frowned, a horrible sign indeed for all six of them in the room. "I'm very sorry, son..." he started...
The Katous started to break down but for Takato and Ruki, who held unbiased faces, did not, until Takato finally spoke up. "No! This is bullshit!" he yelled out, as he ran down the hall, sobs echoing through the room.
Ruki looked down. "I can't believe this," she blurted. Then, looking at the doctor, she muttered, "Fuck you MD's."
She looked at the family, who still were crying. She hated to see them like this; crying, weak, miserable, just like their other family member, Juri Katou, who was no longer living. "I'm sorry," was all she could tell them, and then she ran down the hall after Takato.
***************
Of course, Ruki had no idea where to start searching for Takato, but she started outside in the front of the hospital. It was hot outside and Ruki wasn't one who liked to sweat. She continued looking around, but he was nowhere to be found.
-If my girlfriend died, where would I go?
It was very crude, yes. But she tried to use common sense to find her friend. Suddenly Ruki jetted to Juri's house, which was a good several blocks away, where lucky for her, she found Takato standing by the door. She was clear out of breath and felt like she was going to collapse from running a full sprint.
Ruki noticed a yellow lining go across the door of the home, which she assumed was the infamous 'police line do not cross.' Suddenly she felt a wave of dismay and uncomfortable disposition.
-I can't believe this is happening to us. It's all so real...
"Takato?" she directed to the boy, who did not look at her, but instead stared at the house.
"Do you know what the last words I said to her were?" He asked, which Ruki assumed was meant for her.
"No, I don't."
"I told her to go fuck herself."
Ruki stood in perplexed confusion, not knowing what he meant. Suddenly her instincts filled in the blanks for her, telling her that Juri did tell Takato about the whole thing, and that Takato wanted no part in raising the baby. Half of her was pissed off at Takato for not accepting the fate of raising a baby, but then again, she wasn't in his position.
Takato still looked at the house, not wanting to accept what had happened. But he knew it. His ex-girlfriend was dead, and it was all his fault. Juri had gone through enough, being pregnant, she didn't want the desertion of the boy who caused it all.
-No wonder she did this. All my fault. My entire fault. I killed her, not to mention her conceived baby.
"I need a hug," he said, turning around to Ruki. His face was covered in tears, making Ruki slowly tear as well, which was unusual for her.
Ruki walked up to Takato, and little by little, she slowly put her arms around his body and pulled him in. Crying, Takato rested his head on her shoulder, prompting Ruki to give a depressed sigh.
-Death always brings loved ones together, to mutually mourn what was lost.
**************
No. It's not over, yet. There's still about four chapters to go, so dig in and we'll finish this.
Please review. Comments, flames, I don't care, just be constructive.
Chapter 10: Suicide
It's hard to believe that, after all this, there still was school to deal with for the tamers.
Ruki got up the next morning in one of Ryo's many guest bedrooms, knowing that she had to endure the torture of school, at least for one more week. She would graduate, and then she could go to a good college depending on how she finished the year out.
6:50 a.m.
Ruki reluctantly raised herself off of the bed and took a set of clothing and marched over to the bathroom as she proceeded to take a shower. The gentle and warm feeling of the water sprayed over her skinny yet well-built body as she focused upon finishing the last week of her school days.
Through all that, though, her friends... most particularly Juri.
What would she do? How would she afford the baby, and take care of it? It was pretty lucky of her, if you could call it that, for the fact that she would have the baby after she graduated.
Ruki planned to talk to Juri at school today, to give her more 'womanly' support, though she really wasn't the best at it, she was her friend, and it was the least she could do-
"Ruki? Are you in there?"
The voice of the brown-haired boy interrupted Ruki's thoughts as she got out of the shower and dried herself. 'Maybe Ryo can help me,' she figured. 'I'll bring her here after school and maybe Ryo can give her some words. After all, he is an expert at these kinds of things, even if she is a girl, and he is not. I guess it does pay to be perfect.'
"Ryo?" Ruki said, stepping out of the bathroom. "If it isn't too much trouble, I thought maybe Juri could come over here and just visit with us-"
"That's alright," he interrupted, which mildly insulted her. "Just have her come over after school. I'm sure I can help her with her little problem."
Ruki grinned. "How did you know I invited her for that?"
"I guess I'm a natural," He shrugged. "Now I gotta take my shower, or else I'll be late." And with that, he disappeared into the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
****************
"People, be advised that your English Final will be this Wednesday, and it will account for 25% of your grade..."
Ruki leaned her head on her desk, bored from repetitive announcements. Everyone knew the final was on Wednesday, why does she have to say it again?
She looked around. 'Where's Juri?' she wondered to herself. Juri was in her English class, yet she was nowhere to be found. She hadn't noticed until now.
'Maybe just a little shocked about the whole thing. Maybe I shouldn't take her after all, but maybe just check on her to make sure she's alright.' Ruki looked over to the next desk, which housed Takato, who just looked at her and gave her a depressing frown. 'Guess Takato isn't too happy about the whole thing either.'
Though it was obvious of Juri's pregnancy, it was just unusual for her to not go to school. It was Juri, after all. She normally got good grades, and she loved to learn. In addition, the pregnancy hadn't escalated yet, so it wasn't obvious to anybody except for her friends.
'Or maybe she got sick. Why the hell do I keep thinking about this?' Ruki shrugged Juri off of her mind as she opened her English book and read some poems.
It was hard for Ruki to memorize these poems, despite her interest in the subject. She browsed through the reviewed poems until she came to one and stopped.
"Darkness"
My friends have been lost
My family has been tossed
My own body has left at a cost.
What am I to do?
Only one thing left to do
It's the best for me and you
Just like The Son, I shall die too
To benefit this world of yours.
Ruki needed not to finish the poem as she realized something serious. She closed her book and stuffed it into her backpack and ran out of the classroom, hearing something from her teacher directed to her but didn't exactly pick the message up.
************
"Juri! Open up!" she yelled, banging the door of the Katou residence. She knew that if anyone was home, Juri was, because her father and stepmother were working, and her brother was at school also. Realizing that the door wasn't going to open anytime soon, she climbed the stucco- like walls of the two-story establishment and looked through her window. Nobody there. She continued, grabbing the edges of the windows, until she ended up at another window.
Her parent's room. Again, there was a void of human life.
Ruki was ready to give up, thinking that it was a stupid idea to cut school to an unforeseen notion, but decided to continue to one last window. It was the bathroom window, and though it was a bit fizzy, Ruki managed to see though it.
Ruki wished her eyes deceived her as she saw a motionless figure lay on the floor, knowing exactly who it was. Frantically desperate to get to the other side, she threw her fist against the window, it shattered easily, causing a sharp pain through Ruki's knuckles, but the pain was quickly abandoned as she tried to rescue her friend.
Stepping through the destroyed glass, she ran over to the body and turned it around, making it face her, revealing an auburn-haired girl with blood dripping slowly on her neck. Juri.
Ruki grabbed Juri's limp hand with a bloody-knuckled hand of her own and put her forefingers on her pulse.
-Still alive.
Ruki didn't know much more about first aid and the like, so she ran over to the nearby bedroom and picked up the phone, slamming 9-1-1 buttons frantically.
"Possible suicide! 5531 Cedar Lane! 17 year old girl! Come now!" she panicked through the phone.
"Ok, sweetie, you're going to have to talk more clearly and slowly so I can understand you," the female voice on the other end spoke.
-I don't have time for this bullshit.
"Goddammit, my friend's dying from a fatal slice in her neck, from possible suicide, come 5531 Cedar Lane!" She said, in a calmer tone.
"Alright, just wait there, get a cloth on the wound, and paramedics will be there shortly." The click sounded, and Ruki threw the phone down.
-Why the hell do they always act calm like that? A girl's dying, for God's sake.
Ruki ran back in the bathroom and grabbed a small towel. Wrapping in around her hand, she placed it firmly on Juri's neck and put pressure on it, doing everything to stop the bleeding. "Don't worry Juri, everything's going to be fine," she said silently to her friend.
-Where are they? I called hours ago.
After what seemed like forever, Ruki heard the pleasant or not-so-pleasant ringing of the siren approach the house. She loosely tied the towel around the girl's neck and ran downstairs, ready to greet the paramedics in a courteous way.
"She's upstairs, go get her now!" she yelled, double-timing the medics as they raced upstairs with a stretcher. Watching the meds run upstairs to save her friend, Ruki had a disturbing foreshadow, one that she didn't want to believe, but knew due to her first aid knowledge.
-I really don't think she's going to make it.
*************
Ruki, Takato, and the Katou family sat without interaction in the waiting room, doing exactly that: waiting. None of them wanted to speak up, until Ruki finally broke 10 minutes of silence.
"Do you guys know why she did this?" she asked the others, already knowing the answer, though she was sure her family did not know the cause for all this.
Mr. Katou immediately got out of his chair, and grabbed Takato by his collared shirt. "I swear to God, you little bastard, if you are any part of the reason my little baby did this..."
Takato was speechless, because he didn't want everyone to know the truth, the truth that caused all this...
Ruki got up and tried to pull him back, but to no avail. "Mr. Katou," she begged. "Please, I assure you he was involved in none of this..."
He shoved her away. "Oh, what do you know? You're not her father, are you?"
Juri's mother was next in line. "Please, honey, don't..." she pleaded, going up to her husband.
At that moment the door fifteen feet away opened, exposing a guy in a white jacket, which Ruki recognized as a doctor. His face was sullen, with a neutral body language-
"No," Takato cried. Mr. Katou let his grip go and the brown-haired boy ran straight up to the doctor, panic in his eyes, ready to take the worst. "Don't tell me-"
The doctor frowned, a horrible sign indeed for all six of them in the room. "I'm very sorry, son..." he started...
The Katous started to break down but for Takato and Ruki, who held unbiased faces, did not, until Takato finally spoke up. "No! This is bullshit!" he yelled out, as he ran down the hall, sobs echoing through the room.
Ruki looked down. "I can't believe this," she blurted. Then, looking at the doctor, she muttered, "Fuck you MD's."
She looked at the family, who still were crying. She hated to see them like this; crying, weak, miserable, just like their other family member, Juri Katou, who was no longer living. "I'm sorry," was all she could tell them, and then she ran down the hall after Takato.
***************
Of course, Ruki had no idea where to start searching for Takato, but she started outside in the front of the hospital. It was hot outside and Ruki wasn't one who liked to sweat. She continued looking around, but he was nowhere to be found.
-If my girlfriend died, where would I go?
It was very crude, yes. But she tried to use common sense to find her friend. Suddenly Ruki jetted to Juri's house, which was a good several blocks away, where lucky for her, she found Takato standing by the door. She was clear out of breath and felt like she was going to collapse from running a full sprint.
Ruki noticed a yellow lining go across the door of the home, which she assumed was the infamous 'police line do not cross.' Suddenly she felt a wave of dismay and uncomfortable disposition.
-I can't believe this is happening to us. It's all so real...
"Takato?" she directed to the boy, who did not look at her, but instead stared at the house.
"Do you know what the last words I said to her were?" He asked, which Ruki assumed was meant for her.
"No, I don't."
"I told her to go fuck herself."
Ruki stood in perplexed confusion, not knowing what he meant. Suddenly her instincts filled in the blanks for her, telling her that Juri did tell Takato about the whole thing, and that Takato wanted no part in raising the baby. Half of her was pissed off at Takato for not accepting the fate of raising a baby, but then again, she wasn't in his position.
Takato still looked at the house, not wanting to accept what had happened. But he knew it. His ex-girlfriend was dead, and it was all his fault. Juri had gone through enough, being pregnant, she didn't want the desertion of the boy who caused it all.
-No wonder she did this. All my fault. My entire fault. I killed her, not to mention her conceived baby.
"I need a hug," he said, turning around to Ruki. His face was covered in tears, making Ruki slowly tear as well, which was unusual for her.
Ruki walked up to Takato, and little by little, she slowly put her arms around his body and pulled him in. Crying, Takato rested his head on her shoulder, prompting Ruki to give a depressed sigh.
-Death always brings loved ones together, to mutually mourn what was lost.
**************
No. It's not over, yet. There's still about four chapters to go, so dig in and we'll finish this.
Please review. Comments, flames, I don't care, just be constructive.