Chapter 27: In my Dream

Tetsuo is awoken by the sound of his name. He looks through the mist and is perplexed. He can't see anything in front of him. Is this a dream? Is this the hospital? Where is Magumi? Where is Kaneda? He trudges forward and hears his name being called again. " Magumi? Kaneda? Kei? Yamagata?Kay?" He murmers out into the fog. He bumps into a brick wall softly. " What the hell is this?" Tetsuo says, feeling it with his fingers gently. A figure appears at the top of the wall.

" Tetsuo!" It shouts. Tetsuo jerks his head upwards to come face to face with Magumi.
"Magumi..? You're the one in my dream?" He asks. Magumi takes his hand and jumps down from the wall. " You're mind is open now. You were blocking me out. I had to reach you. I had to get to you. I couldn't because you were blocking me out of your mind...now I can be with you Tetsuo..I can be with you..and we can be happy together.." Magumi caresses his cheek. Tetsuo begins to tear up.
" I don't understand why I would block you out of my mind?" Tetsuo asks, gently holding her.
" You didn't realize it at first," Magumi says. " But it's alright now. I've always been watching you." She says. She smiles softly.

Tetsuo jerks awake to the sound of a door slamming shut. It's Miss Gena. Magumi wakes up too. " !" She can't say a word, she is speechless. Miss Gena and her troops souround the hospital bed. " Tetsuo Shima, you're comming back with us. And so is Akira." Magumi hops to her feet.
" Don't try anything." Miss Gena says, holding her gun close to her chest.
" You..." Magumi grits her teeth. She clenched her fists and stands her ground.
Tetsuo looks a bit confused, waking up from a nice dream, to this chaos. Miss Gena smiles. " Retreive Tetsuo Shima." Miss Gena orders her soilders. Two of them begin to walk twards Tetsuo. Magumi instinctivly lunges at them and knocks them down to the floor, along with herself. Miss Gena frowns at her soilders clumbsiness. She walks over to Magumi and grabs her shirt to get her to her feet. She than puts her in a loose head lock and holds the gun to her head. Magumi frowns at her. " That was stupid." Miss gena says.
" Magumi.." Tetsuo murmers. The soilders get off the floor. They look angrily at Magumi. One punches her in the face.
" Cheap shot.." Magumi murmers under her breath.
" ATTENTION! That is not your job, now retreive Tetsuo Shima at once!!!!" she shouts.
" Tetsuo..run!!! Get out of here! Go-" Magumi begins to shout but Miss Gena covers her mouth, making sure the gun still stayed pressed to her temple.
" Ignore her, and come with us. You're already in enough trouble for escaping and we can go easy on you." Miss Gena says.
Tetsuo stands on the hospital bed. He slowly pulls out his IV. Magumi watches in horror. " NO." Tetsuo says firmly. He removes some other IV's and tubes hooked to him. The spill lightly on the floor. The soilders don't back down. Tetsuo begins to feel his powers again. That doctor didn't even do anything.
" You want me so bad?!" Tetsuo screams, his power increasing rapidly. " COME AND GET ME!!!!" His power explodes from his body knockng the soilders into the wall. " Come and get me!" He threatens. Miss Gena pulls the gun slowly off of Magumi's temple, so he wouldn't notice.
" Tetsuo this is your last warning..come with us..now!" Miss Gena shouts. Magumi is struggling with her to get the warning out to Tetsuo.

" NOO!!!!" He screams and kills the soilders.
Miss Gena points the gun at him and fires three shots. Two his him in the stomach. At first his face was shocked with pain, than anger. He walked twards Miss Gena, hopping off the hospital bed, and grabbing her neck pushes her against the wall. she drops her gun, and Magumi. She falls to the floor.
" I'm gonna end your life.." Tetsuo says pushing his bloody hands harder on her neck. Miss Gena smiles.
" Tetsuo..you are a fool." She says with her last breath. Tetsuuo sighs. His stomach is pretty bloody by now.

" Tetsuo!!!!" Magumi holds him, and he falls to his knees.
" Magumi...I'm still human." He says. " I'm still human......" He murmers on the border of unconciousness.
" Of course you are Tetsuo...you were always!" Magumi strokes his cheek on her lap. Tetsuo clenches her leg gently. His whole mid- section was full of blood. A friend once told him what it was like to get shot, it felt hot. It did. It felt like his insides were burning. His breathing became faster and deeper.

He pulls himself up to come face to face with Magumi, and kisses her slowly with his bloody lips and mouth. They hold each other in that embrace, in that passionate kiss for a long while untill Tetsuo grows unconcious.
" Tetsuo..hold on! A doctor will be here and-" Magumi starts.
" I love you Magumi. I always did. Always." Tetsuo slowly closes his eyes on her lap and everything goes dark.
" Tetsuo..! Tetsuo!" Magumi shakes his shoulders, tasting his blood in her mouth, trying to revive him. " Tetsuo wake up..! Don't go Tetsuo!!!" She sobs. She lays her head on top of his soft hair sobbing. The tears and the blood were mixing. She didn't want to loose Tetsuo.
Kaneda and the Doctor walk in. " Tetsuo!!!" The shout in unison. The Doctor and a lot of nurses wheel in a stretcher and take him away. Kaneda stays behind to comfort Magumi's sobs.

Later, Tetsuo was placed back in the hospital. Everyone came to visit him. Even Akira. Kei decided that Akira was going to stay with him. He kinda grew attached to the little kid. And so did Akira. Kay brought him flowers, and Yamagata brought him beere. Magumi stayed with him. Kaneda brought more stolen food from the vending machine. They laughed. And after all of that, it brought them to this day. It was snowing heavily outside the hospital. And the streets were already bright with snow.

Tetsuo's doctor came in noisly, blaring greetings and questions. " No, no, you can stay," He said when Magumi began to leave. They made her leave before. The doctor shone a light in Tetsuo's pupils. Asked him to sit up. Even had him walk a few steps, holding onto the the bedrail like a little old man, his gut in agony.
" Fuck you Doc, I'm going back to bed." Tetsuo murmers angrily. Magumi smiles softly. The doctor was scribbling on the chart. " I didn't really need you to walk. Just wanted to see if it hurt as much as I thought it would. You're doing great. Going to take four to six weeks for your innards to heal, though. Bullets really whizzed around in there."
" Six weeks!?"
" Do you good." The doctor jerked a thumb and said, " Big dumb hero, eh?" Then he let the chart drop with a clatter against the bed and left as noisily as he had come in.
" Christ! He could be a cop with that sense of humor." Tetsuo said, lightly smiling at Magumi. Sweat was cooling on his brow. Magumi lightly kisses him on the lips. Tetsuo squeezes her waist weakly, kissing her back hard. They parted slowly.
" I better go," Magumi says. " You're whiter than the sheet."
" Don't go Magumi, please stay."
Magumi holds his hand, and kisses his forhead. So Magumi stayed. Stayed and watched over him as she had in his dream.
Tetsuo closed his eyes. He wanted to ask if she would stay with him, despite what he had done, if she could still live with him, be happy with him. He trusted her, loved her. The painkillers were a soft plump pillow in his skull, and Tetsuo felt sleep settle softly on his arms and legs and brow. He opened his eyes and saw Magumi beside him, laying close to his shoulder. Fringed by the flutter of his eyelids, the pale green walls turned into pale green trees. The voices in the hall became the sounds of hidden animals,and the door swung open wider on a swiftly flowing stream.
Tetsuo dreamed that they were traveling. He dreamed that he and Magumi were traveling on a river- a leafy, southern river he had never seen before. Magumi paddled in the front of the canoe, and Tetsuo steered badly in the back.
The sun was the bright yellow of children's drawings. The canoe was bottle green, and they were laughing.

The end

well, that's that. There may be a few unanswered questions. (?)A friend helped me think of the ending. I hope you all enojoyed this fiction. It was a long, fun adventure for me to write it. Yes, even with all the gramical errors I have made in it. Despite that fact, I hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you to everyone who reviewed! I'm working on another story in Akira, called ' Past Emotions' It won't be as long as this story though.^.^

peace and sayonara Akira fans,.. happy reading!