Chapter 2: Possible Danger
Michiru was the first one to run into the room where Haruka laid, and she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw her blonde guest standing next to the bed, looking around with somehow scared eyes. When the tall blonde spotted Michiru, she went into fighting stance and shouted: "Who are you?! What do you want from me?" "Calm down!" Michiru replied, raising her hands to show that she had no weapons with her. Instead of calming down, Haruka took a step back, raising her fists. "I'm Michiru." Michiru quickly spoke on, in fear of getting attacked by the blonde. "This is my brother Ichiro. We don't want to harm you. I found you at the beach yesterday, you were hurt and unconscious, and so I decided to bring you here and take care of you." Slowly, Harukas fists sank back down to her sides, but she still was tense, ready to attack any minute if any kind of threat should appear. "Please, calm down." Michiru pleaded, hoping and praying that Ichiro wouldn't make any fast, unexpected moves behind her back. "You were shot twice, you shouldn't be out of bed." "Shot…?" Haruka replied, her eyes widening. Michiru let out a startled yelp when all of a sudden, the blonde let out a strange sounding gurgle and pressed both hands against her head, doubling over in obvious pain. "Haruka! Haruka, what's wrong?" Michiru cried out, hurrying over to the blonde. Haruka fell on her knees, and when Michiru put her arms around the blonde, she felt how much she was shivering. A weird gagging noise emerged from Harukas throat, and suddenly, whitish foam ran out of her mouth and over her chin. "Ichiro!" Michiru screamed, panicking. "Ichiro, she has some kind of seizure! Do something!" Ichiro cursed his luck – why did he have to be the doctor, and not his sister? – but ran over to the blonde, kneeling down next to her. Harukas eyes had rolled back in their sockets, so far that the only thing that could be seen was white. "Help her." Michiru whispered. "Please…" "Get her on the bed." Ichiro commanded. "Fast! Hurry up!"
When Ichiro left the room again one hour later, Michiru sat in the kitchen, waiting. As soon a she spotted her brother in the doorway, the aqua haired girl jumped up. "How is she?" Ichiro sighed and took a seat at the kitchen table. "Unconscious again. The seizure she had probably was caused from the drugs she was given." "Drugs?" Michiru asked, shocked, and Ichiro nodded. "The symptoms she showed were typical for an overdose." He let out another sigh. "Normally, she should be dead by now. Michiru, there's something wrong with her." "What do you mean, something is wrong with her?" Michiru asked, frowning. "The two bullets…they must've hit her out of a close distance, but only went in a few centimeters deep. That's totally impossible. And now the drug overdose…everyone else would have died from it, but she didn't." "What do you want to tell me?" Michiru asked, growing impatient with her brother's medical rambling. "I don't know." Ichiro admitted. "But, Michiru, I think that Haruka could be a possible danger for us." "Possible danger?" Michiru cried out. "You can't mean that! And besides, what do you want to do? Send her away, in her condition? Or maybe drop her off at the beach again and hope that someone else will find her?!" "Of course not." Ichiro replied, angered. "But we should be careful. You saw how aggressive she was before." "She wasn't aggressive, she was scared." Michiru replied. "God knows about what she had to go through, I would be scared, too, if I was her." Ichiro nodded and stood up from his chair. "You're probably right…well, we'll have to wait until she wakes up again to find out what happened to her. Until then…can you care for her? I know that you won't like what I'll say now, but…she freaks me out." Michiru sighed and nodded. "Fine, I'll look after her." "And no more links!" he warned before checking his watch. "Well, I need to get going, my shift at the hospital starts soon. Be careful, okay?" Michiru nodded, and Ichiro quickly packed his things and left. As soon as he was gone, Michiru jumped up and walked into her bedroom, where Haruka still laid motionless on the bed.
"What happened to you, Haruka?" Michiru spoke quietly to herself while she looked at the lifeless form of the blonde woman. Her eyes traveled over the still body, and it was the first time that she noticed how muscular the blonde woman looked. Her shoulders were broader then Ichiros, who wasn't a weakling at all, and her arms looked as if she could tear out trees without breaking a sweat. "Did you gain all these muscles with hard training? Or did you gain them with drugs?" Michiru wondered out loud. "I need to take another link." She finally decided, although Ichiro had warned her not to. Taking in a deep breath, Michiru concentrated before she put her hands on Harukas temples. A terrible flash of pain ran through her body, she screamed in agony and finally collapsed to the floor, unconscious.