I just noticed something, in relation with my Japanese cousins (with the
same names) I'd say, Rika should be Rina and Rina should be Rika. The age
is still the same, though. Just a rant
***
In what seemed like years, Sendou could hear the voices of some people. Shivering, he hurried out into the rain and saw his parents and waved frantically to them and screamed as hard as he could. They saw him and immediately sent out his cousins to get both of them into the vehicle they were riding in.
Sendou was immediately set with a blanket around him inside their van and Rika was laid down at the back of it with the Ryonan ace watching her with a worried expression. He muttered and cursed at himself about not being able to do anything. His cousins consoled him, telling him that everything was going to turn out fine. He knew that they did not know what they were talking about so all he could do was give them a weak smile rather than explain her situation which his parents only partially understood themselves since it happened the last time.
Still watching over her, his wounds were being bandaged by his mother and consoling her that everything would be all right. He winced every time her hand touched his scathed back and hand, swallowing growls of pain in his attempts to bite down curses aimed at himself for being able to do nothing.
***
As they reached their house, which was an average, typical Japanese middle- class house, Rika was immediately carried off to Sendou's bedroom as cleaned himself off. When he was done he almost screamed in surprise when he saw her there.
"Okaa-san," Sendou called out, "Why is she in my room?"
"There is no other room, honey," his mother called back. "You're the only one who is alone in a bedroom."
"But what about onee-san's room?" he asked, "It's big enough for the three of them with Michiko (cousin)."
"You are the only one who has more knowledge on how to deal with her," his mother reasoned out, "Now, stop whining and help her out if you really want to do that!"
Sendou closed the door controlling himself before he slams it shut with its reverberation around the house. He dressed up looking at the girl at his bed every once in a while making sure that her eyes were certainly closed. He looked at his bandages before putting on his shirt, 'It's worth it anyway.'
He got near her and checked her temperature. 'This is not good. I do NOT know how to handle this! Why did I agree with her?' It was still high and he could do nothing about it even with the ice bag on her forehead.
Having no other choice, he resorted to talking to her. "Rika, everything's going to be all right. Don't worry about it. Nothing like that will ever happen to you again. I won't let it. I will never as long as I can..."
He paused as her eyes opened a little and showed burnished silver irises instead of her normal red ones. He held her hand not knowing what would happen next. "Rika, calm down...you're safe. We'll take care of you."
Rika's ragged breathing were accompanied by whimpers and he bent down to her ear shushing her and whispering assurances he only hoped would reach her.
Slowly, she was beginning to steady herself and her breathing became even but without improvement in her temperature. He sighed in relief and decided to get a glass of water for himself and some ice to replace the ones in the ice bag on her forehead.
As he went down, his cousins decided to divert his attention to other things seeing that he was sullen - and they weren't used to him being like that.
"Hey, Sendou," Nikki called out, "how's your girlfriend?"
"She's not doing well...hey," Sendou cut himself realizing a part of his sentence, "she a girl and she's a friend but she's not my girlfriend."
"Oh really?" Yoshi sneered, "Then why do you always meet up with her and compared with the other girls who you buzz off, you treat her very differently."
"She has been my best friend since childhood and she isn't like the others who only like me for my skills in basketball - "
"And good looks." Nikki added.
Sendou rolled his eyes at him, "right..." he muttered sarcastically, "and besides, she has a problem that is ten times bigger than all of ours put together."
"Say, cousin," Yoshi ginned, "Where did you put on your clothes? Your dad immediately went in the bathroom right after you went out."
"In my room," he hissed and stopped in his tracks realizing what they were getting him to say. But before he could catch himself, he was blocked.
Nikki and Yoshi grinned from ear to ear. "So, you don't mind dressing up in front of her, do you?" the latter asked.
"I've never known any best friends of the opposite sex doing that." Nikki mocked, "Are you sure you're just friends?"
Sendou's face was definitely hot by then. "Yes, I'm sure! Where do you want me to dress up, here?"
"You could've done it in our room," Nikki was giving his smart ass brain a treat.
"It didn't occur to me, besides, she was unconscious." Their cousin said in his defense.
"How sure are you?" the fraternal twins asked at the same time. Even as he stalked off to the kitchen, they rounded up on him. "Sendou..."
"I watched her, OK?" he furrowed his eyebrows going even redder than he was a while back.
"Admit it, Sendou, even to us only," Nikki whispered, "You like her much more than as a 'best friend,' right?"
"Don't worry we won't spill it out," Yoshi added, "We never did spill any of your secrets yet, right?"
The Ryonan captain bowed his head and sighed in defeat. "OK. Maybe I do like her...a little." He never expected his flushed face to return to its original color.
"See, that is all you have to say." They said in unison followed by, "Oba- san (aunt)! Sendou's got a secret!"
"Hey," Sendou ran after them with what he intended to get on the table, "You said you'd never tell!"
Yoshi came out of another room and smiled innocently, "Oh, we already did."
Suddenly Sendou's mother came out wiping her hands at her apron. He muttered loud enough for her to hear, "Well, any reactions about me liking Rika?"
His mother smiled, "Why, Sendou, I always thought you liked her but it was never confirmed until you told me."
"It's all -" he stopped dead on his tracks, "Yoshi, Nikki, you guys didn't tell her?"
"You told me, yourself, son." Her mother snickered. "Yoshi or Nikki never told me anything."
"I hate you!" Sendou growled at his cousins and proceeded to get what he needed from the table and went back up.
Both of his cousins and his mother laughed at him for being gullible which he tried so hard to block out. Before he was in the safety of his room, he heard his mother say, "Your secret's safe with us, Sendou, as long as you're not gullible the next time.
Sendou snapped at himself in his room, "You have already been tricked before, why repeat that mistake?" He replaced the 'water' in the ice bag with fresh ice and set it back on her head. He sat on the chair of his study desk and watched her silently, praying that she'd be able to hold on...unlike before...
***
Richard was fuming as he listened to what Rina took from her sister. The former bent the truth a little on this part and a little on that making it look like Rika was being a bad influence on Sendou as well as stealing him from her. As she was telling her father she pretended to be holding back tears which were, in truth, being forced out.
"*&%$#@!" Her father cursed, "I know she is suffering right now, but wherever she is, I'll make sure that she won't ever do that to you again."
In the back of her mind, Rina was smiling.
Anzai, his wife and Shishouta sat in the porch (?) of the temple-like house trying to keep their business out of the two who were discussing...matters.
"How long must both of you put up with this?" Anzai asked his daughter who was in the arms of her mother.
"I don't know..." she replied in between sobs, "I want Rika out of this."
"There is a way," he replied, "You only have to have the will to find it."
"I just hope," their daughter started to futilely wipe her flowing tears, "Rika lives long enough until I find a way, or better if she does it earlier than me. I wonder where she could be."
"Wherever she is," her mother assured her, "she is far safer there than here. Don't worry about her. I can just feel someone taking care of her. Now, hush and relax, we can't do anything about it unless he has lost his power and influence. Being a wife and a mother means endurance, remember that."
Shishouta nodded her head and retired to her room trying to shut out the voices of her husband and his child.
***
ninny: that's what often happens, doesn't it? Well, I'm not like them...yet.
Sofia/3sh: Oh yeah, jealousy plays a big part in this fic.
dunkmoonX: Rina and Sendou? Hmm...like I said, it will really depend on my mood. Pwede pero hindi rin, gulo noh?
Kono sekai wa naze wo hontou ka? Watashi wa naze wo hontou ka? Anta-tachi wa
***
In what seemed like years, Sendou could hear the voices of some people. Shivering, he hurried out into the rain and saw his parents and waved frantically to them and screamed as hard as he could. They saw him and immediately sent out his cousins to get both of them into the vehicle they were riding in.
Sendou was immediately set with a blanket around him inside their van and Rika was laid down at the back of it with the Ryonan ace watching her with a worried expression. He muttered and cursed at himself about not being able to do anything. His cousins consoled him, telling him that everything was going to turn out fine. He knew that they did not know what they were talking about so all he could do was give them a weak smile rather than explain her situation which his parents only partially understood themselves since it happened the last time.
Still watching over her, his wounds were being bandaged by his mother and consoling her that everything would be all right. He winced every time her hand touched his scathed back and hand, swallowing growls of pain in his attempts to bite down curses aimed at himself for being able to do nothing.
***
As they reached their house, which was an average, typical Japanese middle- class house, Rika was immediately carried off to Sendou's bedroom as cleaned himself off. When he was done he almost screamed in surprise when he saw her there.
"Okaa-san," Sendou called out, "Why is she in my room?"
"There is no other room, honey," his mother called back. "You're the only one who is alone in a bedroom."
"But what about onee-san's room?" he asked, "It's big enough for the three of them with Michiko (cousin)."
"You are the only one who has more knowledge on how to deal with her," his mother reasoned out, "Now, stop whining and help her out if you really want to do that!"
Sendou closed the door controlling himself before he slams it shut with its reverberation around the house. He dressed up looking at the girl at his bed every once in a while making sure that her eyes were certainly closed. He looked at his bandages before putting on his shirt, 'It's worth it anyway.'
He got near her and checked her temperature. 'This is not good. I do NOT know how to handle this! Why did I agree with her?' It was still high and he could do nothing about it even with the ice bag on her forehead.
Having no other choice, he resorted to talking to her. "Rika, everything's going to be all right. Don't worry about it. Nothing like that will ever happen to you again. I won't let it. I will never as long as I can..."
He paused as her eyes opened a little and showed burnished silver irises instead of her normal red ones. He held her hand not knowing what would happen next. "Rika, calm down...you're safe. We'll take care of you."
Rika's ragged breathing were accompanied by whimpers and he bent down to her ear shushing her and whispering assurances he only hoped would reach her.
Slowly, she was beginning to steady herself and her breathing became even but without improvement in her temperature. He sighed in relief and decided to get a glass of water for himself and some ice to replace the ones in the ice bag on her forehead.
As he went down, his cousins decided to divert his attention to other things seeing that he was sullen - and they weren't used to him being like that.
"Hey, Sendou," Nikki called out, "how's your girlfriend?"
"She's not doing well...hey," Sendou cut himself realizing a part of his sentence, "she a girl and she's a friend but she's not my girlfriend."
"Oh really?" Yoshi sneered, "Then why do you always meet up with her and compared with the other girls who you buzz off, you treat her very differently."
"She has been my best friend since childhood and she isn't like the others who only like me for my skills in basketball - "
"And good looks." Nikki added.
Sendou rolled his eyes at him, "right..." he muttered sarcastically, "and besides, she has a problem that is ten times bigger than all of ours put together."
"Say, cousin," Yoshi ginned, "Where did you put on your clothes? Your dad immediately went in the bathroom right after you went out."
"In my room," he hissed and stopped in his tracks realizing what they were getting him to say. But before he could catch himself, he was blocked.
Nikki and Yoshi grinned from ear to ear. "So, you don't mind dressing up in front of her, do you?" the latter asked.
"I've never known any best friends of the opposite sex doing that." Nikki mocked, "Are you sure you're just friends?"
Sendou's face was definitely hot by then. "Yes, I'm sure! Where do you want me to dress up, here?"
"You could've done it in our room," Nikki was giving his smart ass brain a treat.
"It didn't occur to me, besides, she was unconscious." Their cousin said in his defense.
"How sure are you?" the fraternal twins asked at the same time. Even as he stalked off to the kitchen, they rounded up on him. "Sendou..."
"I watched her, OK?" he furrowed his eyebrows going even redder than he was a while back.
"Admit it, Sendou, even to us only," Nikki whispered, "You like her much more than as a 'best friend,' right?"
"Don't worry we won't spill it out," Yoshi added, "We never did spill any of your secrets yet, right?"
The Ryonan captain bowed his head and sighed in defeat. "OK. Maybe I do like her...a little." He never expected his flushed face to return to its original color.
"See, that is all you have to say." They said in unison followed by, "Oba- san (aunt)! Sendou's got a secret!"
"Hey," Sendou ran after them with what he intended to get on the table, "You said you'd never tell!"
Yoshi came out of another room and smiled innocently, "Oh, we already did."
Suddenly Sendou's mother came out wiping her hands at her apron. He muttered loud enough for her to hear, "Well, any reactions about me liking Rika?"
His mother smiled, "Why, Sendou, I always thought you liked her but it was never confirmed until you told me."
"It's all -" he stopped dead on his tracks, "Yoshi, Nikki, you guys didn't tell her?"
"You told me, yourself, son." Her mother snickered. "Yoshi or Nikki never told me anything."
"I hate you!" Sendou growled at his cousins and proceeded to get what he needed from the table and went back up.
Both of his cousins and his mother laughed at him for being gullible which he tried so hard to block out. Before he was in the safety of his room, he heard his mother say, "Your secret's safe with us, Sendou, as long as you're not gullible the next time.
Sendou snapped at himself in his room, "You have already been tricked before, why repeat that mistake?" He replaced the 'water' in the ice bag with fresh ice and set it back on her head. He sat on the chair of his study desk and watched her silently, praying that she'd be able to hold on...unlike before...
***
Richard was fuming as he listened to what Rina took from her sister. The former bent the truth a little on this part and a little on that making it look like Rika was being a bad influence on Sendou as well as stealing him from her. As she was telling her father she pretended to be holding back tears which were, in truth, being forced out.
"*&%$#@!" Her father cursed, "I know she is suffering right now, but wherever she is, I'll make sure that she won't ever do that to you again."
In the back of her mind, Rina was smiling.
Anzai, his wife and Shishouta sat in the porch (?) of the temple-like house trying to keep their business out of the two who were discussing...matters.
"How long must both of you put up with this?" Anzai asked his daughter who was in the arms of her mother.
"I don't know..." she replied in between sobs, "I want Rika out of this."
"There is a way," he replied, "You only have to have the will to find it."
"I just hope," their daughter started to futilely wipe her flowing tears, "Rika lives long enough until I find a way, or better if she does it earlier than me. I wonder where she could be."
"Wherever she is," her mother assured her, "she is far safer there than here. Don't worry about her. I can just feel someone taking care of her. Now, hush and relax, we can't do anything about it unless he has lost his power and influence. Being a wife and a mother means endurance, remember that."
Shishouta nodded her head and retired to her room trying to shut out the voices of her husband and his child.
***
ninny: that's what often happens, doesn't it? Well, I'm not like them...yet.
Sofia/3sh: Oh yeah, jealousy plays a big part in this fic.
dunkmoonX: Rina and Sendou? Hmm...like I said, it will really depend on my mood. Pwede pero hindi rin, gulo noh?
Kono sekai wa naze wo hontou ka? Watashi wa naze wo hontou ka? Anta-tachi wa