Finding Him
Chapter 13 : Ohno Yuki
by : Sakeena deathstalkker@yahoo.com


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Ohno Yuki confessed to me everything. She trusted me and a new light of hope sparkled in knowing she was not alone. How her world had turned around some time ago right after she was rescued. Her experiences were no different from mine; she would see images, her sight blurred, she would wake up to find herself in the least expected places, wondering what happened or what she had done without having anybody to tell her. One time she woke up half-naked, another with a beaten friend by her feet. It was horrifying her, just as it horrified me. Her situation was not very hard to understand. I've been through the same. I told her all about me, the same things that had happened to me, and now it's coming back.

"So how do you fight it?" she asked me, as we drank tea at the teahouse nearby.

I just grinned at her.


Ran was the first person I talked to regarding Ohno. His eyes were serious, and I knew once again his thoughts had gone to his sister. He was already thinking of how he could make Ohno lead him to where his sister was. And my father. They could be together.

What we had come to conclude was tell the first person who could help her : Tsukiyono. But we were not able to tell him until the girl was attacked by the Invader right before us, Omi hell surprised as ever.

"Kiss her," I ordered, pushing him.

"What?" he asked in disbelief.

"Just do it, Omi," Yoji advised.

"But --" he tried to protest. He was a gentleman all right.

"Omi!" Kudou and I yelled in unison.

The shop would tear apart if she was not calmed down, or if no one would suppress her.

Tsukiyono was still hesitant. "I'll do it," Ran muttered, almost to himself, striding calmly to the girl.

I didn't know how to react to this. It was hard to give it a "professional" view over it. I felt a surge of jealousy hit me, but I said nothing, and just watched him hold the girl steady and kiss her. It took long. It pacified the girl only a bit at first, but his kiss didn't seem to have any effect on her as it did to me.

"What's he doing?" Omi asked loudly.

I rolled my eyes irritably at Omi, laying a hand on his shoulder. I could just slap him that time. The first time. "What you should be doing," I answered, annoyed.

Kudou laid a hand on my shoulder. "Cool it off, Kasumi. Let's just call it quits." He winked at me. Of course. He kissed me too.

I decided not to let my emotions get in the way. It was just a kiss. Ran's kiss didn't seem to work, though, and we had to almost push Omi to do it. He did. She calmed down and took several minutes to recover herself. God, I was so relieved.

We talked to both of them regarding what was happening. The two of them found it hard to believe, but they had no choice. It was all reality. But Omi was willing to help Yuki. Lucky girl. That made two of us.

The next thing we had to do was slash the mask. If only we knew where it was. But when I checked out the bin beside the restaurant, there was no mask there, nor any other stuffs aside from trash.

In my mind, there were puzzles. I wondered what were the invader's basis to choose her victim. I wondered why Ran's kiss didn't work, and had finalized a theory. It was not just the kiss. It was the emotion with the kiss. The emotion from Ran, his love and the peace within himself, passed on to me. But with Yuki, he did not carry the same emotion. Or even if he did, it was too weak to help her. Omi was then the potential 'savior' of Yuki. I kept all these, however , to myself. It was enough knowing who had to kiss who.

Ohno was terrified, and she ran to our apartment, crying one late afternoon. "I think I killed someone," she confessed to me between sobs. "She's unconscious when I woke up and.." More sobs.

I just hugged her close to me. Same to her, the Invader was attacking me once more. We later learned her 'victim' was just brought to the hospital, but for that, the girl was traumatized. She decided to move in with me and stop school temporarily while her mind was being raped. Again, like me, she understood she was a danger to everyone. I understood her.

Ran agreed to let her move in with us, with Aya's room as her room. Omi had helped her propose what she had in mind to him, and thankfully, he understood. However, there were some problems with her legal guardians, and she told me the simplest way she had in mind was just to write a letter to them saying she had eloped with the man she loved. This of course, would leave things as it was : no cops. "It will break their hearts," she said sadly, "But it will break mine to see them dead later. It's for their own good."

So, Ohno Yuki had disappeared.

Few days later, after some more attacks by the Invader, we conceived the need to have Omi stay with her. Tsukiyono, understanding the situation, moved in with us, staying in my room which permanently deposited me with Ran in his room.

One night, as I sat down on my part of the bed, I heard Yuki's scream. I shut my eyes.

"What?" Ran asked.

"Do you think they'll go through it?" I asked him as I lied down. He slipped his hands through mine, his eyes glued on the ceiling.

"They will."


The invader attacked Yuki often than me, probably because I was a sort of a "veteran" while the girl was still a starter. However, the occurrences of her as the White Rabbit happened about three times before Omi was able to crush the mask.

The first one happened and we didn't even notice it. The newspaper read, "The White Rabbit Injures 2" and it happened during daylight, probably because we could not monitor her during that time.

The next one, I saw while I bathed Yuki skip silently from the window of Aya's room, and immediately I told the two others about it, following her in my bathrobe. I lost her however, and no matter how hard I searched t, it was too impossible to find a needle in a haystack.

The last one was the one where we were able to track her down, and ended up in the market place. There while running after the Rabbit, somebody attacked me, somebody I could not distinguish who and I didn't remember meeting anywhere before. I guess I was becoming way popular, like a magnet suddenly attracting without even the least bit intention to do so.

With Ran's help, I rid of my new attacker. Luckily, there were three of us, and during our absence, Tsukiyono was able to wreck the mask and save Ohno from doing any more crimes.





April 2000 © Sakeena