You Get Me
Chapter 6
"So how long are you in town for?" Nuriko hugged his friend.
"A few weeks." A brown haired girl replied.
"Kina will be so surprised!" Hotohori grinned.
"That's the point!" She answered smartly.
~*~
"Kina, Kina talk to me! Come on, stay awake. What's going on?" Yue frantically repeated to the pale, trembling girl in the seat next to him. She had her knees pulled up against her chest and she seemed to rock slightly.
"It's him. Him." Her cold lips repeated as the quiet words escaped. She said them with vengeance and hate but at the same time with fear.
"WHO!?" Yue yelled but bit his tongue in regret, the worse he wanted to do was scare her. "Who?" He said gently.
"It's him." She said as new tears surfaced and formed a river down her cheeks.
"Hey, don't cry. It's ok." Yue tried to comfort her. He had never seen her so paranoid and scared. It was frightening to see her like this. She wasn't herself.
"It's not ok! I thought he would leave me alone but he won't!!" Kina stood up in the car, grabbing at anything that she could grab.
"Sit down! Kina, STOP!" Yue tried to control the car as she reached out for the steering wheel. "Please forgive me." He muttered as he reached for Kina, trying to be gentle but failing with a new fury, and regret. But he didn't know his own strength. With his right hand he grabbed onto her arm and pushed her into her seat but the power of his push caused her to fall into the seat at a slanted angle where her head smashed into the door. A trickle of blood fell down her forehead as she stared wide-eyed at Yue.
"Oh. My. God...Kina...I'm so...so...sorry!" Yue fought tears as he begged for forgiveness from his wife. "I'm sorry. Sorry." He couldn't believe what he had just done. He had to stop her but he didn't have to be so rough. But at the same time he tried to tell himself that she wasn't the same person she had been an hour ago. "No matter who she is or how she acts, she is still my Kina." He said to himself.
She weakly put a finger to the area that the pain was throbbing from on her forehead. She brought her hand down to stare at the crimson blood on her fingertips. "It's just like him..." A shrill scream erupted from her throat as tears flooded once again down her face. She grabbed for the door handle, trying to open the locked door.
"Almost there..." Yue frantically shifted his gaze from the road to her, if she unlocked the door she would fall out onto the moving street. But he was almost home, just a little further.
Her eyes where dilated as Yue lifted her out of the car, slinging her over his shoulders. The white haired bishonen was pale, as he feared for his wife, he could feel her body shaking as she limply hung from his shoulders.
"Damn!" He hoarsely whispered as he kicked at the door, he couldn't reach his keys in his pocket. "Someone open the door!!" He kept kicking.
~*~
"Did you hear that?" Nuriko turned and faced Hotohori.
"Hear what?"
"That!" Nuriko exclaimed as the thumping sound started up again, coming from the front door. The three rushed over and slowly unlocked the door, peeking out to see who it was.
"What the-?!" Shiva took in a sharp breath as standing before her was Yue with a white, struggling Kina thrown over his shoulders. She had blood on her face.
"What happened!?" Hotohori pushed Yue inside, running for a blanket to cover the shivering Kina in.
Yue carefully laid Kina on the couch as he inspected the wound on her forehead. The wound he had caused. Why had he been so stupid? But he had no time to ponder as he spilled out the tale to the three at the same time bandaging the cut, "We where driving home and she was sleeping than she woke up screaming saying "It was him!" She wouldn't tell me who and then she freaked out, trying to crash the car!!" He sputtered.
A look of understanding passed through Nuriko and Shiva's faces.
Shiva rolled her eyes as she attempted to add humor to the situation, "Looks like nothing has changed, always something weird or life threatening going on with you guys."
Nuriko grabbed onto Kina's arms gently, looking straight into her blue eyes. They seemed to have changed now, with confusing and fear in them now instead of the happy sparkle. "It was the dream from back then, isn't it?"
Kina sat there, unresponsive.
"It was the same one, with him, wasn't it Kina? Wasn't it?" Nuriko said more forcefully.
Biting her lip while fighting tears, she nodded yes.
"Just as I thought." Nuriko sighed, wrapping his arms around the hysterical Kina who was now crying and holding her close to him.
"Who is he?!" Yue stated in utter confusion.
Nuriko turned his head and looked at Shiva as if to ask her something. She nodded yes. He then turned to Yue. "It's no use trying to hide it any ways. The person in her dreams is her father."
Yue gave Nuriko an expression that had the words written all over his face. He didn't believe him.
Shiva laid a hand on Yue and whispered, "It's true. Let's just say her father wasn't a very good dad. He was a good husband, but not dad."
Nuriko sighed, "I never met him but when I met Kina, her parents had both died. She started having these weird dreams where she would be surrounded by goo and a voice would be taunting her, teasing her. And sometimes the dreams would even physically hurt her. I know it's hard to believe, but if a person, who has left this world, in other words, died, tries to contact you, it can affect the person. If her mother tried to speak to Kina in her dreams, from heaven, it would be peacefully and loving. But if her father tried to speak to her in her dreams, from hell, it would hurt Kina physically. For example, if he grabbed her arm or anything or hit her, it would make a bruise or cut on her body. I helped her stop the dreams but it seems they have started again." He finished.
"But why would they start up now?" Yue questioned.
"Either her dad wants to speak to her or she was calling to him. The only way we can know is if Kina tells us."
Shiva stepped in, "Her parents had a loving relationship but her dad didn't know how to be a good father. He wasn't an understanding person, and he'd never try to be. Her dad wasn't the kind to call her his little princess or to take her out to throw a ball back and forth. He was the kind that yelled at her not to do something or to hold her back from the other kids. He didn't abuse her or anything but she did get spanked or in trouble for any little thing that could be remotely wrong. I don't think he abused her... any ways. Most of the time he was cold to Kina, rarely would he even smile at her or acknowledge that she was there, even in front of her mother."
"But why did he go to hell, besides being a horrible father?" Yue whispered.
"I'm not sure but I heard he was involved in illegal business dealings, things like that. He was a very good husband to Kina's mother, they where both madly in love and he seemed like a nice guy, he was just going down the wrong path." Shiva answered.
"Kina was very close to her mother." Nuriko nodded but a broken voice stopped him.
"H-he was telling me to beware...to beware of what lies ahead. He grabbed my ankle...my shoulder...and it h-hurt..." Kina's cracked voice said quietly, "I don't know w-what he wants..." She held in tears. "I think I was c-calling him because I'm afraid I'll be a terrible parent just like he was. I'm scared I'll be like...him..." She finished.
"No!" Yue almost yelled.
"You'll never be like him. You're who you are and nobody can change that. You're a caring person and I know you know it too, in your heart, that you'll be a great parent. You and Yue both." Shiva comforted her friend, saying the same words that where running through Yue's mind. Her gentle eyes looked into Kina's, causing a bit of sparkle to return to Kina's eyes.
"So what happens now?" Yue looked at the ground, sighing. He wished he could do more for Kina, his wife.
"DING!!!" A ringing noise broke the silence as the doorbell rang. Shiva jumped up from her seat and ran for the door, opening it up.
"Hello. How may I help you?" She politely asked.
"Is Kina here? We're suppose to meet for a study group." Max smiled at the brown haired girl.
"Who is it Shiva? Tell them to go away, this isn't a good time." Yue's voice reached Max's ears.
"Sorry, she, um, isn't feeling well. Call her tomorrow or something." Shiva slowly pushed Max out of the doorway.
Anger grew on Max's face, "Fine." He muttered some choice words under his breath then stalked off down the street.
"Who was it?" Yue asked.
"Some guy. Now what should we do..." Shiva replied.
Hotohori, who had been silent the whole time, stood up. "Kina should go back to sleep and let the dream come to her and there she should face her fear. She should face her father and find out why he has returned out of no where."
The newly returned sparkle in Kina's eyes faded again at Hotohori's words, "I guess you're right." She sighed, "But-but...how..can...I?" Slowly, she was returning to normal.
"I'll be right here by your side the whole time." Yue smiled down at Kina tenderly with love, "I promise, I swear I'll never leave you until you say so."
"T-thanks..." She grinned back at him, much calmer than in the car.
"Ready?" Nuriko broke the moment between the two.
"Yes. Let's do it." The red head nodded.
Yet ANOTHER story...
Yue: SIT DOWN! KINA STOP! YOUR ELVIS IMPERSONATION SUCKS!
Kina: B-B-But...I'm all shook up!
Chapter 6
"So how long are you in town for?" Nuriko hugged his friend.
"A few weeks." A brown haired girl replied.
"Kina will be so surprised!" Hotohori grinned.
"That's the point!" She answered smartly.
~*~
"Kina, Kina talk to me! Come on, stay awake. What's going on?" Yue frantically repeated to the pale, trembling girl in the seat next to him. She had her knees pulled up against her chest and she seemed to rock slightly.
"It's him. Him." Her cold lips repeated as the quiet words escaped. She said them with vengeance and hate but at the same time with fear.
"WHO!?" Yue yelled but bit his tongue in regret, the worse he wanted to do was scare her. "Who?" He said gently.
"It's him." She said as new tears surfaced and formed a river down her cheeks.
"Hey, don't cry. It's ok." Yue tried to comfort her. He had never seen her so paranoid and scared. It was frightening to see her like this. She wasn't herself.
"It's not ok! I thought he would leave me alone but he won't!!" Kina stood up in the car, grabbing at anything that she could grab.
"Sit down! Kina, STOP!" Yue tried to control the car as she reached out for the steering wheel. "Please forgive me." He muttered as he reached for Kina, trying to be gentle but failing with a new fury, and regret. But he didn't know his own strength. With his right hand he grabbed onto her arm and pushed her into her seat but the power of his push caused her to fall into the seat at a slanted angle where her head smashed into the door. A trickle of blood fell down her forehead as she stared wide-eyed at Yue.
"Oh. My. God...Kina...I'm so...so...sorry!" Yue fought tears as he begged for forgiveness from his wife. "I'm sorry. Sorry." He couldn't believe what he had just done. He had to stop her but he didn't have to be so rough. But at the same time he tried to tell himself that she wasn't the same person she had been an hour ago. "No matter who she is or how she acts, she is still my Kina." He said to himself.
She weakly put a finger to the area that the pain was throbbing from on her forehead. She brought her hand down to stare at the crimson blood on her fingertips. "It's just like him..." A shrill scream erupted from her throat as tears flooded once again down her face. She grabbed for the door handle, trying to open the locked door.
"Almost there..." Yue frantically shifted his gaze from the road to her, if she unlocked the door she would fall out onto the moving street. But he was almost home, just a little further.
Her eyes where dilated as Yue lifted her out of the car, slinging her over his shoulders. The white haired bishonen was pale, as he feared for his wife, he could feel her body shaking as she limply hung from his shoulders.
"Damn!" He hoarsely whispered as he kicked at the door, he couldn't reach his keys in his pocket. "Someone open the door!!" He kept kicking.
~*~
"Did you hear that?" Nuriko turned and faced Hotohori.
"Hear what?"
"That!" Nuriko exclaimed as the thumping sound started up again, coming from the front door. The three rushed over and slowly unlocked the door, peeking out to see who it was.
"What the-?!" Shiva took in a sharp breath as standing before her was Yue with a white, struggling Kina thrown over his shoulders. She had blood on her face.
"What happened!?" Hotohori pushed Yue inside, running for a blanket to cover the shivering Kina in.
Yue carefully laid Kina on the couch as he inspected the wound on her forehead. The wound he had caused. Why had he been so stupid? But he had no time to ponder as he spilled out the tale to the three at the same time bandaging the cut, "We where driving home and she was sleeping than she woke up screaming saying "It was him!" She wouldn't tell me who and then she freaked out, trying to crash the car!!" He sputtered.
A look of understanding passed through Nuriko and Shiva's faces.
Shiva rolled her eyes as she attempted to add humor to the situation, "Looks like nothing has changed, always something weird or life threatening going on with you guys."
Nuriko grabbed onto Kina's arms gently, looking straight into her blue eyes. They seemed to have changed now, with confusing and fear in them now instead of the happy sparkle. "It was the dream from back then, isn't it?"
Kina sat there, unresponsive.
"It was the same one, with him, wasn't it Kina? Wasn't it?" Nuriko said more forcefully.
Biting her lip while fighting tears, she nodded yes.
"Just as I thought." Nuriko sighed, wrapping his arms around the hysterical Kina who was now crying and holding her close to him.
"Who is he?!" Yue stated in utter confusion.
Nuriko turned his head and looked at Shiva as if to ask her something. She nodded yes. He then turned to Yue. "It's no use trying to hide it any ways. The person in her dreams is her father."
Yue gave Nuriko an expression that had the words written all over his face. He didn't believe him.
Shiva laid a hand on Yue and whispered, "It's true. Let's just say her father wasn't a very good dad. He was a good husband, but not dad."
Nuriko sighed, "I never met him but when I met Kina, her parents had both died. She started having these weird dreams where she would be surrounded by goo and a voice would be taunting her, teasing her. And sometimes the dreams would even physically hurt her. I know it's hard to believe, but if a person, who has left this world, in other words, died, tries to contact you, it can affect the person. If her mother tried to speak to Kina in her dreams, from heaven, it would be peacefully and loving. But if her father tried to speak to her in her dreams, from hell, it would hurt Kina physically. For example, if he grabbed her arm or anything or hit her, it would make a bruise or cut on her body. I helped her stop the dreams but it seems they have started again." He finished.
"But why would they start up now?" Yue questioned.
"Either her dad wants to speak to her or she was calling to him. The only way we can know is if Kina tells us."
Shiva stepped in, "Her parents had a loving relationship but her dad didn't know how to be a good father. He wasn't an understanding person, and he'd never try to be. Her dad wasn't the kind to call her his little princess or to take her out to throw a ball back and forth. He was the kind that yelled at her not to do something or to hold her back from the other kids. He didn't abuse her or anything but she did get spanked or in trouble for any little thing that could be remotely wrong. I don't think he abused her... any ways. Most of the time he was cold to Kina, rarely would he even smile at her or acknowledge that she was there, even in front of her mother."
"But why did he go to hell, besides being a horrible father?" Yue whispered.
"I'm not sure but I heard he was involved in illegal business dealings, things like that. He was a very good husband to Kina's mother, they where both madly in love and he seemed like a nice guy, he was just going down the wrong path." Shiva answered.
"Kina was very close to her mother." Nuriko nodded but a broken voice stopped him.
"H-he was telling me to beware...to beware of what lies ahead. He grabbed my ankle...my shoulder...and it h-hurt..." Kina's cracked voice said quietly, "I don't know w-what he wants..." She held in tears. "I think I was c-calling him because I'm afraid I'll be a terrible parent just like he was. I'm scared I'll be like...him..." She finished.
"No!" Yue almost yelled.
"You'll never be like him. You're who you are and nobody can change that. You're a caring person and I know you know it too, in your heart, that you'll be a great parent. You and Yue both." Shiva comforted her friend, saying the same words that where running through Yue's mind. Her gentle eyes looked into Kina's, causing a bit of sparkle to return to Kina's eyes.
"So what happens now?" Yue looked at the ground, sighing. He wished he could do more for Kina, his wife.
"DING!!!" A ringing noise broke the silence as the doorbell rang. Shiva jumped up from her seat and ran for the door, opening it up.
"Hello. How may I help you?" She politely asked.
"Is Kina here? We're suppose to meet for a study group." Max smiled at the brown haired girl.
"Who is it Shiva? Tell them to go away, this isn't a good time." Yue's voice reached Max's ears.
"Sorry, she, um, isn't feeling well. Call her tomorrow or something." Shiva slowly pushed Max out of the doorway.
Anger grew on Max's face, "Fine." He muttered some choice words under his breath then stalked off down the street.
"Who was it?" Yue asked.
"Some guy. Now what should we do..." Shiva replied.
Hotohori, who had been silent the whole time, stood up. "Kina should go back to sleep and let the dream come to her and there she should face her fear. She should face her father and find out why he has returned out of no where."
The newly returned sparkle in Kina's eyes faded again at Hotohori's words, "I guess you're right." She sighed, "But-but...how..can...I?" Slowly, she was returning to normal.
"I'll be right here by your side the whole time." Yue smiled down at Kina tenderly with love, "I promise, I swear I'll never leave you until you say so."
"T-thanks..." She grinned back at him, much calmer than in the car.
"Ready?" Nuriko broke the moment between the two.
"Yes. Let's do it." The red head nodded.
Yet ANOTHER story...
Yue: SIT DOWN! KINA STOP! YOUR ELVIS IMPERSONATION SUCKS!
Kina: B-B-But...I'm all shook up!