Chapter 13: Bring Me To Life
Hitomi returned to Michirus room, hoping that Haruka wouldn't do anything stupid, when the next shock already awaited her: her daughter was stirring in her bed, her eyes open. "Michiru!" Hitomi cried out, practically jumping to her daughter's side. "Michiru, can you hear me?" The aqua haired girl looked at her mother, and to the elder woman's shock, her eyes were full of terror and pain. "Michiru…Michi, what's wrong?" Hitomi asked, her voice shaking all of a sudden. "Haruka…" Michiru groaned, trying to sit up, completely ignoring her wounds. „She needs me…" „Michiru, no! You have to stay in bed!" Hitomi cried out, trying to make Michiru lie down again. "I can't stay in bed!" Michiru suddenly yelled at her, pushing her back with surprising strength. "She's dying! She needs me!" Hitomi just stared at her daughter, wondering how the aqua haired could know all of this. "How…what happened?" the elder woman finally asked. "I don't know exactly…" Michiru whispered, rubbing her hurt throat while she spoke. "But her father attacked her…and she's dying, mother, please, we need to save her!" After a few seconds of thinking, Hitomi nodded. "Good. Let's get out and see what we can do for her."
Haruka laid on the ground motionless, her eyes staring up to the ceiling without really seeing anything. Her whole body felt as if it was set on fire; she was still alive, but knew that death would come to take her with him soon. Her chest rose and fell a few more times, then she slowly stopped breathing, her eyes slowly closing.
Michiru leaned against the door of her mother's car, holding her stomach and breathing heavily. From time to time, Hitomi would look at her daughter worried, but the aqua haired girl shrugged it off every time and urged her to drive even faster. Finally, the two women reached the apartment where Haruka and her father had been living, and Michiru jumped out of the car, once more ignoring her wounds. "Michiru! Slow down!" Hitomi cried out while the aqua haired girl already ran towards the entrance. She quickly pushed the door open and hurried up the stairs, stopping in front of the door that led into Harukas apartment. Much to her relief, Michiru found the door open; she pushed it open and entered carefully, fearing that Harukas crazy father would jump out of somewhere any moment. Luckily, that didn't happen, and thus, the aqua haired girl could make her way into the living room. And that was when she saw Haruka.
"Haruka!" the aqua haired girl cried out, kneeling next to the side of the fallen blonde in the next second, her own wounds completely forgotten. The smell of burnt flesh laid in the air, but that wasn't the thing that shocked Michiru most. The fact that made the aqua haired girl nearly jump out of her skin in horror was that Haruka wasn't breathing anymore.
"No." Michiru whispered, frantically searching for a pulse at the blondes neck. "No…" Behind her, Hitomi came running into the room, stopping dead in her tracks when she saw the blonde on the ground. While her mother still stared, Michiru desperately started to pump Harukas chest, hoping that she could bring her heart back to beating. After five pumps, the aqua haired girl moved away from Harukas chest, only to blow air into the blondes mouth. (A/N: That's how I learned to do life reanimation. I hope it's correct ^^;;;) She continued like that for almost twenty minutes, not noticing how the wound in her stomach opened up again from the sheer strain. Hitomi, on the other hand, did notice. "Honey, stop." She softly spoke, putting one hand on her daughters shoulder. "You're only killing yourself. It's too late, you can't help her…" "No." Michiru replied, thick pearls of sweat running from her brow. "No, I won't let her die! You hear me? I won't let her die!" Hitomi took one step back at the sudden outburst of her daughter, then just nodded and allowed Michiru to continue with the life reanimation.
Another twenty minutes later, there still was nothing. Harukas heart refused to beat again; although Michiru tried more than hard, nothing seemed to work. Finally, after what seemed like eternity, Michiru broke down over the blondes body, crying heavily. "No." she sobbed, over and over again, as if this could help her to bring Haruka back. "No…no…" And suddenly, with one huge outburst, the aqua haired girl smashed her fist down on the blondes chest. "Don't you dare to leave me now!" Michiru screamed, tears running down her face like two small rivers. "Don't you dare to! You hear? Don't you dare!" Ever sentence was accomplished by another punch at Harukas chest, and suddenly, the blonde let out a hoarse cough, and her body jerked upwards. Then, the blondes eyes suddenly shot open, and she pulled in a deep breath before she turned on her side and vomited, her whole body shaking. Michiru let out a surprised mixture of a sob and a gasp before she gently placed one hand on Harukas shoulder. "Haruka! Can you hear me?" Finally, after vomiting out everything that had been inside her stomach, Haruka turned back to look at the aqua haired girl. "Thanks." The blonde then whispered, her voice hoarse and full of emotion. "Thanks, Michiru….for bringing me to life."