Disclaimer: chobits is by clamp.
Forever yours
By miyamoto yui
Chapter 8- More and less human.
"Minoru-kun…" a small voice called after me.
But I couldn't turn around as I found the little drops of rain forced their way harder upon my back making it unbearable. My tired body was giving way and I shaking uncontrollably.
Out of frustration or madness, I knew not what.
Without anything to save or hold onto, my eyes closed heavily as my body swung to one side and I fell down with my arms apart.
Someone still called my name as if they were so many yards off. My eyes couldn't open, but I felt my name being said over and over in some distance.
As I lost unconsciousness, my last thought was, "Where could you have gone, Yuzuki?"
Even when I should have thought about myself, I thought about this girl…
**
"Mino-kun?" a sweet voice said to my ear.
My eyes opened to find my sister putting my hands on my knees as she helped me put on my shoes. I looked at my hands…stubby little hands.
My only thought at the time as I saw her gentle expression before me was, "I want to be with my Onee-san. She is always so nice to me."
Her head tilted to one side as she asked, "Mino-kun? What are you thinking about?"
When I was little, I couldn't express my feelings, but I grabbed her hand and smiled. I was so shy that I couldn't even speak, but she understood me without words.
If only I…
If only I could have made her sad smile stop…
The one she always gave me whenever she visited me. Love and pity blended into a single hue…
**
When I woke up two days later, I found myself in a hospital with Hibiya-san holding my hand. My head slowly registered her face, but by the touch, I knew it was no one other than her.
"Hello, Minoru-kun…" she greeted me as her grip on my hand became a little bit tighter. She sighed a big sigh of relief as she let go and hugged me. "I was so worried!"
"I'm sorry," I weakly answered as she pulled away.
While wiping her tears of worry away with the back of her hand, she laughed as she said, "You are usually not so troublesome. But when you are, you go all out, don't you?"
I tried to conjure up a smile as I heard Hideki say, "Yea! He's awake."
My head turned towards the door. I saw Hideki come in with two cups of coffee and a slightly matured Chii in back of him. I think it was because she pulled her hair back since it always got in the way while she cooked. She complained about that once to me.
They sat by me as Chii patted my leg with a small rub. "How is Minoru-kun?"
"Okay, I guess," I replied unsteadily.
After handing one cup to Hibiya-san, Hideki patted my head. Sighing, he said with a smile, "I'm just glad you weren't heavy to carry all the way to the hospital."
"How did you find me?" I asked, almost ashamed at such a stupid inconvenience.
"Fate," Hideki said as he took a sip of his coffee. "I got a call from Manager Hibiya while Chii and I were watching a late night movie. But Chii and I didn't know where to begin until we recognized you while running through the park."
"Thank you very much," I said with a smile as I tried to pat his hand.
Hideki shook his head as he got up and cupped his hand into Chii's. "Sorry, but we've got to go to work soon. But take care and we'll be back later."
Hibiya-san, who was left next to me, finally turned her head to me after the other two had left and said, "Your grandmother was here also."
At the mention of this, I was happy and angry at the same time. I didn't want to see her at the moment. So what if I was going to be a temperamental child right now?
"And what did she say?" Only out of politeness did I utter these words without getting too upset.
"She will be back in a few days while she goes on a business trip on your behalf."
I nodded. "Ah."
She started to yawn and I said, "I think you should go home and get some sleep."
I looked out the window with the crickets already out and at her watch. Eleven o'clock, it read.
She persisted, "I should be here."
I shook my head. "You've already done enough. More than I could have ever asked for."
"But-" Hibiya-san protested.
"Please rest. And I will see you later." I said this with a smile that made her take up my offer.
She got up and bowed her head. "I'll be back bright and early tomorrow, then."
"Thank you…"
"I hope so…" she trailed off as she got her things and walked to the door. This tone of uncertainty prevailed in the air as she took the knob of the door.
"Please find her…" I begged as she silently closed the door behind her.
And in that white hospital room, the nurse came and went. I was alone and staring at the ceiling thinking of my sister and about that dream before I came to consciousness.
It was the time when I was only four and I was still a mute, but only to her would I even say a single word.
She made me speak.
But now, I found no words to express the depths of my mind.
All my thoughts kept on circling back to Yuzuki. Where could she have gone? Did she hear what we were talking about? Maybe. But why was there oil? I had to know…
Lying here was of no help to me, but my fever was giving me choice whatsoever.
As I turned my head to the window of my room, I sighed. Was there no other way to get through this? And why was this so sudden?
Click…
My hospital was being opened and as I turned my head, I saw Her slip into the room cautiously. She looked outside with the pure intention of not being seen.
I, who was watching her do all this, couldn't help but feel that I had already slipped into dreaming. Or better yet, was I going delirious with all the rainwater that had floated into my ears?
She bowed her head as she said my name, "Minoru-sama…"
Her words were like a double-edge sword. Protective, yet killing me at the same time with its purity and cruelty.
"Yuzuki…" I weakly said as I got up slowly and coughed while doing so.
As she came towards me, I was watching a Venus undress herself while the raincoat slipped off her figure, which revealed a sight that I wasn't accustomed to.
She was wearing the simple, dark blue dress I had given her underneath.
With all the confusion in my head, I caught her arms as she came and just hugged me. She buried her head into my hair and I felt something immediately different.
Pushing her away a little, I held her arms. "Why? Why did you leave me?!"
My hoarse and whispery voice shouted at her with my hands grabbing her arms with a firm grip. I shook my head as I looked at her with nothing else to say.
My heart was dying and here she was standing in front of me…
Blankly, she looked at me. "I want to be with Minoru-sama."
"I don't understand what is happening to you, Yuzuki…" I pleaded. "Answer me."
"Do you love me as you say you do?" she asked with much innocence. The same question I had posed to my sister so many years ago was coming back to haunt me.
"You shouldn't even have to ask me."
She blinked her eyes sadly, "Would you do anything I asked for?"
I couldn't understand where this was leading, but my heart was beating faster and faster in apprehension.
"Then let me go," she told me. "I ask you to let me go, Minoru-sama."
I became numb…
My eyes blankly blinked at her as she carefully, yet gently pushed my hands away. As she shook her head, she folded her hands in front of her. Stepping away from me, her eyes became more distressed. "I want to be the person that can be with Minoru-sama."
"Yes, you are, Yuzuki…" I gently said as I feebly pushed my body to move off the bed. I got off as she shook her head more and more.
"No," she quietly said. She gave me even more sorrowful eyes. "Minoru-sama, you have been kind to me, but don't you see?"
"What is it, Yuzuki?" I stood there and saw a part of Yuzuki I had never seen before.
For the first time in my life, I was seeing Yuzuki speak for herself and her feelings. It was amazing and yet I knew that our time was diminishing because of it.
"I can't grow old with you." Oil started to come out of her eyes. "And I cannot even give you a child."
Oil tainted red…
I was shaking my head back and forth as I tried to get closer to her. At that moment, she came closer to me.
"I can't give you anything…" With her eyes closed, she tenderly kissed me on the lips.
Then, she pushed herself away as she ended, "It is painful to love someone you are useless to…"
I reached out for her hair, but it was too late. I watched her leave me with my hand in mid-air still trying to catch her.
"You haven't changed," I mumbled as my grip finally gave way while trying to get to the door.
With my fever rising, I was too weak to run to the door and catch up with her. As I grabbed for the knob of the door, I fell to the ground helplessly. Still trying to catch the star that just wouldn't be caught.
Click…
And with the closing of the door, I touched the cold, tile floor.
I felt that we had somehow traded places. She was becoming more and more 'human' while I was swayed by her actions.
"You are my 'dake no hito'," I whispered to the impersonal, white walls of the room while my eyes closed while I was on the cold floor.
You are my dake no hito…
You control my fate.
Tsuzuku.
--
Author's note: Aiya…I think that the story is going a little fast so I'll have to back track so that I may enter the grandmother once more. And what's chobits without our other characters??? Hee. Especially if Ueda-san and Sumomo are my second favorites.
Forever yours
By miyamoto yui
Chapter 8- More and less human.
"Minoru-kun…" a small voice called after me.
But I couldn't turn around as I found the little drops of rain forced their way harder upon my back making it unbearable. My tired body was giving way and I shaking uncontrollably.
Out of frustration or madness, I knew not what.
Without anything to save or hold onto, my eyes closed heavily as my body swung to one side and I fell down with my arms apart.
Someone still called my name as if they were so many yards off. My eyes couldn't open, but I felt my name being said over and over in some distance.
As I lost unconsciousness, my last thought was, "Where could you have gone, Yuzuki?"
Even when I should have thought about myself, I thought about this girl…
**
"Mino-kun?" a sweet voice said to my ear.
My eyes opened to find my sister putting my hands on my knees as she helped me put on my shoes. I looked at my hands…stubby little hands.
My only thought at the time as I saw her gentle expression before me was, "I want to be with my Onee-san. She is always so nice to me."
Her head tilted to one side as she asked, "Mino-kun? What are you thinking about?"
When I was little, I couldn't express my feelings, but I grabbed her hand and smiled. I was so shy that I couldn't even speak, but she understood me without words.
If only I…
If only I could have made her sad smile stop…
The one she always gave me whenever she visited me. Love and pity blended into a single hue…
**
When I woke up two days later, I found myself in a hospital with Hibiya-san holding my hand. My head slowly registered her face, but by the touch, I knew it was no one other than her.
"Hello, Minoru-kun…" she greeted me as her grip on my hand became a little bit tighter. She sighed a big sigh of relief as she let go and hugged me. "I was so worried!"
"I'm sorry," I weakly answered as she pulled away.
While wiping her tears of worry away with the back of her hand, she laughed as she said, "You are usually not so troublesome. But when you are, you go all out, don't you?"
I tried to conjure up a smile as I heard Hideki say, "Yea! He's awake."
My head turned towards the door. I saw Hideki come in with two cups of coffee and a slightly matured Chii in back of him. I think it was because she pulled her hair back since it always got in the way while she cooked. She complained about that once to me.
They sat by me as Chii patted my leg with a small rub. "How is Minoru-kun?"
"Okay, I guess," I replied unsteadily.
After handing one cup to Hibiya-san, Hideki patted my head. Sighing, he said with a smile, "I'm just glad you weren't heavy to carry all the way to the hospital."
"How did you find me?" I asked, almost ashamed at such a stupid inconvenience.
"Fate," Hideki said as he took a sip of his coffee. "I got a call from Manager Hibiya while Chii and I were watching a late night movie. But Chii and I didn't know where to begin until we recognized you while running through the park."
"Thank you very much," I said with a smile as I tried to pat his hand.
Hideki shook his head as he got up and cupped his hand into Chii's. "Sorry, but we've got to go to work soon. But take care and we'll be back later."
Hibiya-san, who was left next to me, finally turned her head to me after the other two had left and said, "Your grandmother was here also."
At the mention of this, I was happy and angry at the same time. I didn't want to see her at the moment. So what if I was going to be a temperamental child right now?
"And what did she say?" Only out of politeness did I utter these words without getting too upset.
"She will be back in a few days while she goes on a business trip on your behalf."
I nodded. "Ah."
She started to yawn and I said, "I think you should go home and get some sleep."
I looked out the window with the crickets already out and at her watch. Eleven o'clock, it read.
She persisted, "I should be here."
I shook my head. "You've already done enough. More than I could have ever asked for."
"But-" Hibiya-san protested.
"Please rest. And I will see you later." I said this with a smile that made her take up my offer.
She got up and bowed her head. "I'll be back bright and early tomorrow, then."
"Thank you…"
"I hope so…" she trailed off as she got her things and walked to the door. This tone of uncertainty prevailed in the air as she took the knob of the door.
"Please find her…" I begged as she silently closed the door behind her.
And in that white hospital room, the nurse came and went. I was alone and staring at the ceiling thinking of my sister and about that dream before I came to consciousness.
It was the time when I was only four and I was still a mute, but only to her would I even say a single word.
She made me speak.
But now, I found no words to express the depths of my mind.
All my thoughts kept on circling back to Yuzuki. Where could she have gone? Did she hear what we were talking about? Maybe. But why was there oil? I had to know…
Lying here was of no help to me, but my fever was giving me choice whatsoever.
As I turned my head to the window of my room, I sighed. Was there no other way to get through this? And why was this so sudden?
Click…
My hospital was being opened and as I turned my head, I saw Her slip into the room cautiously. She looked outside with the pure intention of not being seen.
I, who was watching her do all this, couldn't help but feel that I had already slipped into dreaming. Or better yet, was I going delirious with all the rainwater that had floated into my ears?
She bowed her head as she said my name, "Minoru-sama…"
Her words were like a double-edge sword. Protective, yet killing me at the same time with its purity and cruelty.
"Yuzuki…" I weakly said as I got up slowly and coughed while doing so.
As she came towards me, I was watching a Venus undress herself while the raincoat slipped off her figure, which revealed a sight that I wasn't accustomed to.
She was wearing the simple, dark blue dress I had given her underneath.
With all the confusion in my head, I caught her arms as she came and just hugged me. She buried her head into my hair and I felt something immediately different.
Pushing her away a little, I held her arms. "Why? Why did you leave me?!"
My hoarse and whispery voice shouted at her with my hands grabbing her arms with a firm grip. I shook my head as I looked at her with nothing else to say.
My heart was dying and here she was standing in front of me…
Blankly, she looked at me. "I want to be with Minoru-sama."
"I don't understand what is happening to you, Yuzuki…" I pleaded. "Answer me."
"Do you love me as you say you do?" she asked with much innocence. The same question I had posed to my sister so many years ago was coming back to haunt me.
"You shouldn't even have to ask me."
She blinked her eyes sadly, "Would you do anything I asked for?"
I couldn't understand where this was leading, but my heart was beating faster and faster in apprehension.
"Then let me go," she told me. "I ask you to let me go, Minoru-sama."
I became numb…
My eyes blankly blinked at her as she carefully, yet gently pushed my hands away. As she shook her head, she folded her hands in front of her. Stepping away from me, her eyes became more distressed. "I want to be the person that can be with Minoru-sama."
"Yes, you are, Yuzuki…" I gently said as I feebly pushed my body to move off the bed. I got off as she shook her head more and more.
"No," she quietly said. She gave me even more sorrowful eyes. "Minoru-sama, you have been kind to me, but don't you see?"
"What is it, Yuzuki?" I stood there and saw a part of Yuzuki I had never seen before.
For the first time in my life, I was seeing Yuzuki speak for herself and her feelings. It was amazing and yet I knew that our time was diminishing because of it.
"I can't grow old with you." Oil started to come out of her eyes. "And I cannot even give you a child."
Oil tainted red…
I was shaking my head back and forth as I tried to get closer to her. At that moment, she came closer to me.
"I can't give you anything…" With her eyes closed, she tenderly kissed me on the lips.
Then, she pushed herself away as she ended, "It is painful to love someone you are useless to…"
I reached out for her hair, but it was too late. I watched her leave me with my hand in mid-air still trying to catch her.
"You haven't changed," I mumbled as my grip finally gave way while trying to get to the door.
With my fever rising, I was too weak to run to the door and catch up with her. As I grabbed for the knob of the door, I fell to the ground helplessly. Still trying to catch the star that just wouldn't be caught.
Click…
And with the closing of the door, I touched the cold, tile floor.
I felt that we had somehow traded places. She was becoming more and more 'human' while I was swayed by her actions.
"You are my 'dake no hito'," I whispered to the impersonal, white walls of the room while my eyes closed while I was on the cold floor.
You are my dake no hito…
You control my fate.
Tsuzuku.
--
Author's note: Aiya…I think that the story is going a little fast so I'll have to back track so that I may enter the grandmother once more. And what's chobits without our other characters??? Hee. Especially if Ueda-san and Sumomo are my second favorites.