Disclaimer: Hey, I am still in school, and I am too lazy to get a job even
though I am of the legal age.
Please don't kill me. For this being so late. Have mercy on me. My life has turned really hectic.
Chapter 18 Fragile wings
Shiori could only hear the steady beeping of machinery in her step-sons hospital room, 'Things were going so well. What went wrong?' she thought painfully as she watched her son's slow rise and fall of his chest.
She tried to live a lie that every thing was going to turn out fine in the end, like many movies that she had seen though out her lifetime, but Shiori failed miserably, for her inner voice of logic and reason always got in the way. She hastily wiped a tear off of her cheek with her index finger and then wiped her finger on her navy-blue skirt. 'I am not going to cry by Shuuichi,' Shiori thought, 'It would be insulting his will.'
After a few moments of staring off into her own personal world, Shiori left the room.
~§~
"That was a great report Minamino, you may now take your seat." The teacher said after the applause of the class died down. He nodded to the teacher and in a half daze, picked up the papers that made up his report on Venus, and walked back to his seat.
"I wonder what is wrong.?" He could hear a hushed whisper ask one of his fellow peers as he walked by, ignoring them.
After Kurama sat down and placed the papers on his desk, he looked out of the window longingly that was beside his desk, wishing that he could just simply run away from every thing, and to forget it all, to start over. Kurama started to wonder if he would have ever chosen this life if he had known that all of this would have been happening to him, if he knew he would have to watch his stepbrother waste away to nothing where he was forced to do nothing to help him.
Kurama started to think about all of his friends, he would have not meet any of them they way he did.
~§~
"Hey! Kur- Shuuichi!" Yusuke corrected himself in mid-sentence while calling out to Kurama who turned the corner in front of Yusuke and Kuwabara.
Kurama blinked quickly, reverting back to the real world and switched his school books from one arm to the other, "Hello Yusuke, Kuwabara."
"Why are you going?" Kuwabara asked.
"To the hospital." Kurama said with sadness evident in his voice.
"Oh." Kuwabara said, stumped on what to say. Finally Yusuke spoke up, "Can we go with you and visit him?"
Kurama's eyebrows narrowed in thought, "I do not think that will be a wise decision."
"Why do you mean?" Kuwabara asked.
"You see," Kurama started walking, Yusuke and Kuwabara following, "when a person starts dieing, their soul gets close to the spirit realm. Shuuichi, in his case, is dieing slowly so his soul is inching closer, so, he has more time to think over things and interpret it in a way he would not have if he were to be dieing at a faster pace."
~§~
"Still writing Mayaa?" Botan asked as she stood beside Mayaa, "You have been writing for a very long time, why not take a break?" She asked cheerfully.
Maaya moved her eyes up to look at Botan through her raven bangs, "No, thank you, I would rather finish this before I do any thing else." Her dark brown eyes then quickly moved to the half-full tablet of paper that was lying no her lap.
Botan nodded smiled, "Okay, if that is your wish." Then left Maaya who briskly started to write again.
'It was weeks later,' Maaya wrote, 'That I felt how hard hitting the bottom is.'
"Maaya, what troubling you?" Hisae demanded of her daughter after her daughter closed the door behind her and set her schoolbag on the ground.
"Nothing is wrong Mother," Answered Maaya meeting her mothers eyes for a fleeting second and then looked away.
"Yes, yes there is Maaya!" Hisae stated, "What is wrong?!"
"Nothing." Maaya's replied softly and walked up the stairs to her room with her eyes coasted to the floor.
"She is starting to trouble me." Hisae stated to Koan who was sitting on the sofa.
"If she says nothing is wrong, then nothing is wrong. Don't worry yourself so much." Koan replied with a bit of bitterness in his voice, stood up, and left the living room.
Hisae stood, rooted in her spot, "What has become of this family?" She asked out loud, and stood transfixed with memories flashing to and fro in her mind.
~§~
'Why. Why cant I stop.' Maaya thought as her eyes watched the blood seep up through the fresh cut in her left wrist. Her eyes went back to the knife she was clutching in her right hand; Maaya's eyes analyzed the sharpened edge and then went back to the blood that was running off of her wrist and onto the counter-top. She then thought how much more pain it would be to pierce through her chest. Maaya shook her head slowly, 'I would never resort to that.'
~§~
Maaya laid down her pen and touched her chest lightly with her hand, 'I still, I still remember the pain. Even though I left. I can still remember the pain.'
~§~
"How are you doing honey?" Shiori's voice registered in Shuuichis' partly awake mind. Shuuichi moved his head slowly to get a look at his stepmother who was standing at the side of his bed, and then looked at the IV the hospital staff had inserted in his left arm.
Shiori smiled kindly with a trace of sadness evident in her eyes, "You gave us all a scare."
"I am sorry," Shuuichi said and cast his eyes downward.
"Its alright," Shiori said warmly, lightly touching his cheek with her right hand, "there is nothing to be sorry for."
"But I am causing all of you so much pain." Shuuichi weakly protested.
Shiori continued to sadly smile with her eyes slightly glistening with tears as she looked down on her stepson.
~§~
Kurama quietly watched his mother at his stepbrothers' bedside from the shadows on the far side of the room. He saw Shuuichi glance his way, but never said any thing to his relief.
Kurama started to wonder how it would be; with out his brothers' presence in the house, 'It will be like it is right now, but with the knowing that he will never return.' Kurama then looked down at his schoolbooks that were at his feet. He had arrived in his stepbrothers' hospital room before his mother came, and his brother woke up. Kurama decided that he would talk to his stepbrother after his mother left.
~§~
"So, should we go in?" Kuwabara asked as they stood, facing the automatic doors that opened into the interior to the hospital.
Yusuke smiled, "Why not? After all, what can it hurt?"
~§~
Small black booted feet landed on a tree branch that gave slightly under his weight. Red eyes located a partly open hospital window where he felt his friends (A/N: I decided to not make this shonen-ai/yaoi.) ki.
The short demon made a sound of disapproval and muttered, "baka kitsune". And walked to the trunk of the large tree and sat down against it.
~§~
"Hey Shuuichi!" Kuwabara said as he stepped through the door, thus announcing his presence.
Shiori and Shuuichi turned their heads and smiled. "Hello Kuwabara, Yusuke." Shiori said warmly.
"Hello." Yusuke smiled, and let his eyes go to the corner of the room where Kurama stood, who nodded his head in approval.
"Well, I better be going, I will be back later Shuuichi, maybe I will bring Jiro. It is nice to see you two, thank you for coming. If you see Shuuichi, please tell him to come home, I have not seen him all day."
Yusuke stepped on Kuwabara's foot as he replied, "We will."
Shiori stood up and looked at her soon as if she could see a time clock on his forehead, "Well, I must be going. Good. Goodbye Shuuichi, I love you." Shiori said, saying the last three words with as much warmth and love as she could put in them, and then left the room, shutting the door behind her.
"Hello Kurama." Yusuke said after Shiori shut the door.
Kurama laughed softly and stepped out of the shadows, "Hello." He replied.
"Why were you hiding?" Kuwabara asked.
"Because I did not want our Mother to see me," Kurama replied.
"Boy, you are weird some times." Kuwabara commented. Kurama smiled, and then walked over to his stepbrothers' bedside, "How are you doing?"
Shuuichi shook his head slowly, "Pain." He managed to get out, "So much pain."
Kurama put a hand up into his hair and extracted a seed, "I am sorry that I can only do this much for you." he said softly as he looked at the seed and inserted a small amount of his ki into it to turn it into a small pile dust in his palm, "This will help relieve some of the pain."
Yusuke and Kuwabara watched silently as Kurama walked over to the sink and took a plastic cup off of a small stack and filled it with water; then put the dust into the water.
"I am sorry that I am not able to do more for you," Kurama said as he walked back over to his stepbrothers' bedside, when do you wish to see the kitsune?
"Whoa! What!?" Yusuke and Kuwabara chorused.
"I promised him that he will get to see the kitsune that he heard in the bedtime stories I told him when he was sick."
"Are you sure that is legal!?" Yusuke asked.
"A promise is a promise. I am not going to kill him, or hurt him in any way." Kurama replied curtly.
"When will I be leaving?" Shuuichi asked, straining his voice.
Kurama smiled sadly, "Soon."
"Now?" Shuuichi asked.
Yusukes eyebrow started to twitch, "This is a public place. You know?"
Kurama smiled, "Yes, I know. I could just disconnect the cameras."
"But. But. What if you get caught?" Kuwabara asked.
"I won't be caught."
~§§~
Please. Have mercy on me. This is so late. *Hangs head* I feel so ashamed. I have had homework and my personal life has been turned up side down.
If you wish to message me, go to my profile and find my e-mail address. I am not sure if I have my new AIM s/n on there, but if I don't, it is KoukonTenshi. I don't mind talking to any one ^_^
And I know some of these parts were really crappy. *Sighs*
Well, please review ^_^
Please don't kill me. For this being so late. Have mercy on me. My life has turned really hectic.
Chapter 18 Fragile wings
Shiori could only hear the steady beeping of machinery in her step-sons hospital room, 'Things were going so well. What went wrong?' she thought painfully as she watched her son's slow rise and fall of his chest.
She tried to live a lie that every thing was going to turn out fine in the end, like many movies that she had seen though out her lifetime, but Shiori failed miserably, for her inner voice of logic and reason always got in the way. She hastily wiped a tear off of her cheek with her index finger and then wiped her finger on her navy-blue skirt. 'I am not going to cry by Shuuichi,' Shiori thought, 'It would be insulting his will.'
After a few moments of staring off into her own personal world, Shiori left the room.
~§~
"That was a great report Minamino, you may now take your seat." The teacher said after the applause of the class died down. He nodded to the teacher and in a half daze, picked up the papers that made up his report on Venus, and walked back to his seat.
"I wonder what is wrong.?" He could hear a hushed whisper ask one of his fellow peers as he walked by, ignoring them.
After Kurama sat down and placed the papers on his desk, he looked out of the window longingly that was beside his desk, wishing that he could just simply run away from every thing, and to forget it all, to start over. Kurama started to wonder if he would have ever chosen this life if he had known that all of this would have been happening to him, if he knew he would have to watch his stepbrother waste away to nothing where he was forced to do nothing to help him.
Kurama started to think about all of his friends, he would have not meet any of them they way he did.
~§~
"Hey! Kur- Shuuichi!" Yusuke corrected himself in mid-sentence while calling out to Kurama who turned the corner in front of Yusuke and Kuwabara.
Kurama blinked quickly, reverting back to the real world and switched his school books from one arm to the other, "Hello Yusuke, Kuwabara."
"Why are you going?" Kuwabara asked.
"To the hospital." Kurama said with sadness evident in his voice.
"Oh." Kuwabara said, stumped on what to say. Finally Yusuke spoke up, "Can we go with you and visit him?"
Kurama's eyebrows narrowed in thought, "I do not think that will be a wise decision."
"Why do you mean?" Kuwabara asked.
"You see," Kurama started walking, Yusuke and Kuwabara following, "when a person starts dieing, their soul gets close to the spirit realm. Shuuichi, in his case, is dieing slowly so his soul is inching closer, so, he has more time to think over things and interpret it in a way he would not have if he were to be dieing at a faster pace."
~§~
"Still writing Mayaa?" Botan asked as she stood beside Mayaa, "You have been writing for a very long time, why not take a break?" She asked cheerfully.
Maaya moved her eyes up to look at Botan through her raven bangs, "No, thank you, I would rather finish this before I do any thing else." Her dark brown eyes then quickly moved to the half-full tablet of paper that was lying no her lap.
Botan nodded smiled, "Okay, if that is your wish." Then left Maaya who briskly started to write again.
'It was weeks later,' Maaya wrote, 'That I felt how hard hitting the bottom is.'
"Maaya, what troubling you?" Hisae demanded of her daughter after her daughter closed the door behind her and set her schoolbag on the ground.
"Nothing is wrong Mother," Answered Maaya meeting her mothers eyes for a fleeting second and then looked away.
"Yes, yes there is Maaya!" Hisae stated, "What is wrong?!"
"Nothing." Maaya's replied softly and walked up the stairs to her room with her eyes coasted to the floor.
"She is starting to trouble me." Hisae stated to Koan who was sitting on the sofa.
"If she says nothing is wrong, then nothing is wrong. Don't worry yourself so much." Koan replied with a bit of bitterness in his voice, stood up, and left the living room.
Hisae stood, rooted in her spot, "What has become of this family?" She asked out loud, and stood transfixed with memories flashing to and fro in her mind.
~§~
'Why. Why cant I stop.' Maaya thought as her eyes watched the blood seep up through the fresh cut in her left wrist. Her eyes went back to the knife she was clutching in her right hand; Maaya's eyes analyzed the sharpened edge and then went back to the blood that was running off of her wrist and onto the counter-top. She then thought how much more pain it would be to pierce through her chest. Maaya shook her head slowly, 'I would never resort to that.'
~§~
Maaya laid down her pen and touched her chest lightly with her hand, 'I still, I still remember the pain. Even though I left. I can still remember the pain.'
~§~
"How are you doing honey?" Shiori's voice registered in Shuuichis' partly awake mind. Shuuichi moved his head slowly to get a look at his stepmother who was standing at the side of his bed, and then looked at the IV the hospital staff had inserted in his left arm.
Shiori smiled kindly with a trace of sadness evident in her eyes, "You gave us all a scare."
"I am sorry," Shuuichi said and cast his eyes downward.
"Its alright," Shiori said warmly, lightly touching his cheek with her right hand, "there is nothing to be sorry for."
"But I am causing all of you so much pain." Shuuichi weakly protested.
Shiori continued to sadly smile with her eyes slightly glistening with tears as she looked down on her stepson.
~§~
Kurama quietly watched his mother at his stepbrothers' bedside from the shadows on the far side of the room. He saw Shuuichi glance his way, but never said any thing to his relief.
Kurama started to wonder how it would be; with out his brothers' presence in the house, 'It will be like it is right now, but with the knowing that he will never return.' Kurama then looked down at his schoolbooks that were at his feet. He had arrived in his stepbrothers' hospital room before his mother came, and his brother woke up. Kurama decided that he would talk to his stepbrother after his mother left.
~§~
"So, should we go in?" Kuwabara asked as they stood, facing the automatic doors that opened into the interior to the hospital.
Yusuke smiled, "Why not? After all, what can it hurt?"
~§~
Small black booted feet landed on a tree branch that gave slightly under his weight. Red eyes located a partly open hospital window where he felt his friends (A/N: I decided to not make this shonen-ai/yaoi.) ki.
The short demon made a sound of disapproval and muttered, "baka kitsune". And walked to the trunk of the large tree and sat down against it.
~§~
"Hey Shuuichi!" Kuwabara said as he stepped through the door, thus announcing his presence.
Shiori and Shuuichi turned their heads and smiled. "Hello Kuwabara, Yusuke." Shiori said warmly.
"Hello." Yusuke smiled, and let his eyes go to the corner of the room where Kurama stood, who nodded his head in approval.
"Well, I better be going, I will be back later Shuuichi, maybe I will bring Jiro. It is nice to see you two, thank you for coming. If you see Shuuichi, please tell him to come home, I have not seen him all day."
Yusuke stepped on Kuwabara's foot as he replied, "We will."
Shiori stood up and looked at her soon as if she could see a time clock on his forehead, "Well, I must be going. Good. Goodbye Shuuichi, I love you." Shiori said, saying the last three words with as much warmth and love as she could put in them, and then left the room, shutting the door behind her.
"Hello Kurama." Yusuke said after Shiori shut the door.
Kurama laughed softly and stepped out of the shadows, "Hello." He replied.
"Why were you hiding?" Kuwabara asked.
"Because I did not want our Mother to see me," Kurama replied.
"Boy, you are weird some times." Kuwabara commented. Kurama smiled, and then walked over to his stepbrothers' bedside, "How are you doing?"
Shuuichi shook his head slowly, "Pain." He managed to get out, "So much pain."
Kurama put a hand up into his hair and extracted a seed, "I am sorry that I can only do this much for you." he said softly as he looked at the seed and inserted a small amount of his ki into it to turn it into a small pile dust in his palm, "This will help relieve some of the pain."
Yusuke and Kuwabara watched silently as Kurama walked over to the sink and took a plastic cup off of a small stack and filled it with water; then put the dust into the water.
"I am sorry that I am not able to do more for you," Kurama said as he walked back over to his stepbrothers' bedside, when do you wish to see the kitsune?
"Whoa! What!?" Yusuke and Kuwabara chorused.
"I promised him that he will get to see the kitsune that he heard in the bedtime stories I told him when he was sick."
"Are you sure that is legal!?" Yusuke asked.
"A promise is a promise. I am not going to kill him, or hurt him in any way." Kurama replied curtly.
"When will I be leaving?" Shuuichi asked, straining his voice.
Kurama smiled sadly, "Soon."
"Now?" Shuuichi asked.
Yusukes eyebrow started to twitch, "This is a public place. You know?"
Kurama smiled, "Yes, I know. I could just disconnect the cameras."
"But. But. What if you get caught?" Kuwabara asked.
"I won't be caught."
~§§~
Please. Have mercy on me. This is so late. *Hangs head* I feel so ashamed. I have had homework and my personal life has been turned up side down.
If you wish to message me, go to my profile and find my e-mail address. I am not sure if I have my new AIM s/n on there, but if I don't, it is KoukonTenshi. I don't mind talking to any one ^_^
And I know some of these parts were really crappy. *Sighs*
Well, please review ^_^