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Authors Beginning Note: Answering the Q's of why I continue writing this story when it so seemingly happens to be that the main plot it over with:
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Okay, Reasonable enough question. It's kinda a multiple answer thing. So let me start out one step at a time. (1) There's a few things I want to happen in this fic. Before I officially call it completed, and I'm having trouble getting there in a short time. I'm hoping to get there by the next three chapters or less. (2) Some people have requested I do a sequel. Though I am still unsure (I'm kinda leaning towards it), I want to have an open window so if I do start it, it won't be too crazy and illogical, so I need certain events to happen, thus referring to reason number 1. (3) So I can come up with the perfect ending to a loved story, because I find that a really good story can be ruined completely if it has a bad ending, and I wouldn't want any of you to be disappointed in me in such a way. (4) I'm trying to answer all of the questions that if I was a reader I know I would have, as fully and completely as possible (5) It's hard just to drop my story like that.it's kinda sad, but it has to be done, so I'm taking my time at it a little, though kind of unintentionally as well (does that make sense?)
Chapter 28
It's About to Blow UP!
"Caught you!" came a soft blessed voice in my ear as I felt myself being caught in someone's arms. Snapping my eyes completely open, I looked into the relieved and worried green eyes of my rescuer.
"Kohaku! You shouldn't be up! Your leg! It isn't fully healed!" I exclaimed, those words were the first thing to burst through my mouth. At first he looked surprised, then smiled. The susuwatari jump up and down around us.
"My leg will be fine. It's you I was worried about." He said setting me down, my hand clutched together and my arm instinctively pulled itself across my chest. Looking more worried, Kohaku gently took my arm and held it out. When he touched my fisted hand, I impulsively tried to pull away but he held my arm firmly.
"Try to open your fist." He said not even looking up. I nodded and tried.
"I-I-can't. It won't open." He looked up.
"Is it because it hurts?"
"No, It's like it's glued." I said shaking my head. I looked at my hand that was an angry red and could see black skin hanging loose from the edges of my palm.
"I take it you touched a hot pipe, then a cold one soon after." I nodded.
"We need to get you some help quickly. This may even take magic. Your hand melted together. It will be a while before you'll be able to use it properly." He said seriously.
"But Kamajii needs help! He's up there holding the pipes together. Water will come pouring through if he lets even one go!" I said worriedly.
"Chihiro."
"Kohaku, worse comes to worse, my hand will have to be cut off, but if we don't help Kamajii, the air preasure will rise again when the water reaches the boiler, that would be even worse than a moment ago!" I said urgently. He looked at me and nodded, then looked up into the pipes where Kamajii's form could barely be made out.
"Kamajii, I'm coming up there to help you!"
"Kohaku? Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me, I'll be right up."
"I'll go up there and help too!"
"No, you stay down here. You can't use your left hand. It will only make it worse." Sighing with defeat, I nodded.
"My tools lad, I'll be needing them." Came a voice up in the pipes.
"I know where they are!" I said glad to help and went to one of the lower cabinets, rummaging through it until I came to a bag.
"Here, hold this." I said handing Kohaku the black bag.
"There's nothing in it."
"Not yet. Most of his tools are scattered, and you'll need something to help put them in. I'll also need to find rope and a plank of wood so we can hoist it and you can lay out the tools." I said searching through another one of the lower cabinents. I brought out a few metal tools.
"Chihiro, grab my 4/16 and my 1/8, will you?" Kamajii yelled down.
"I'm on it!" I yelled back.
"I take it this isn't your first time helping Kamajii with his work on the pipes." Kohaku said as I kept filling the bag in his arms with wrenches, hammers, screws, and other nessecary things needed to fix such things. Compared to these pipes, a drain pipe under a sink would be easy fixing.
"No, usually, on the days I have off I come down here and Kamajii needs help. I never went up into the piping area though. There never was a need. I always stood with tools ready in hand." I said grabbing a monkey wrench.
"What are you looking for now?" Kohaku asked as I rummaged back and forth between five cabinents.
"I'm looking for that screwdriver. I'm never able to find it, but I know it's around here somewhere." I said. I looked up at him and saw the amused look on his face.
"What?"
"You mean the one he always keeps in the fourth cabinent up, third on the left?" I gaped at him.
"How'd you know that?" I said and rushed to it. Sure enough there it was. The purple and orange handled skrewdriver.
"When I first came here, I helped Kamajii out one day and he told me where the skrewdriver he always keeps in there was. He said he never moves it." I smiled tossing it in the bag. Going out of the wooden door I found a large piece of wood and rope. Kohaku limbered up in the pipes with grace and agility with the bag of tools. I threw up the rope to him, and he threw it back down over a bar. Tying the rope through the knots in the wood, I gave him the thumbs up and hoisted it up.
Within the hour, the pipes were fixed. Kohaku and Kamajii came down, hot sweaty, and covered in ashes, but got the job done.
"Chihiro! I was so worried! Don't you ever do something stupid like that again!" Came a voice from behind me and as soon as I spun around I was in Arelinita's embrace.
"Arelinita, I'm fine really." I said trying to breath. She pulled back and looked past me.
"Kohaku! Why the heck are you even up! You know your leg isn't even completely healed yet!" Arelinita yelled. She looked angry, but I could tell she was actually worried.
"Arelinita."
"No! You're going straight back into your room and you are not moving until that leg of yours is healed!" She yelled. He took a step back. I know how he feels, Arelinita can be very scary when she gets mad. Soon, after saying a polite goodbye to a chuckling Kamajii, Arelinita ushered us into the elevator and up we went where things were beginning to get back into order. Every time Kohaku and I dared to even try and interrupt Arelinita in her rambling, she started to raise her voice. When she saw my burned hand, and demanded to know how that happened, she began ranting some more. Any Spirits that heard Arelinita's ranting, quickly got out of the way while Arelinita made way to her room, us following. Kohaku slightly limping. It would have been quite funny, if we weren't the ones being yelled at, and we would have laughed too, if we didn't know that that would surely mean certain death from Arelinita.
"Granny!" I exclaimed when we got into the Head Mistress's main office. Arelinita shoved me first and took my arm showing it to Granny.
"Oh my! How did this happen?"
"Well, I was trying to get to the wheel where the air preasure is controlled, and I slipped and grabbed a hot pipe. Then I had to gab onto a cold on to get there and use my hand to turn it." I said looking down at it. It looks even worse.
"And this idiot here walked all the way down there too with a broken leg that's not even healed completely!" Arelinita said pointing behind her at Kohaku. He gave her a strange look, but didn't say anything. Granny smiled at the whole scene and shook her head.
"Are you able to open your fist?" She asked. I shook my head no.
"This will hurt, and may take a few moments." She replied. She began mumbling something under her breath. Blood ran down my lip as I bit it to keep from screaming. My hand slowly began to flatten out to reveal chared skin. She began to mumble something more under her breath, one hand holding mine underneath, the other raised a few inches above it. After a few moments, when I thought the pain couldn't get worse, it began to seer to a new point. I watched my hand and it began to feel as if snakes were slithering all over it, right before the black skin began to ooze off.
"Oh, that's just disgusting." Arelinita said. Agreeing I closed my eyes and shook of the waves of nausea.
"There. All better now." Granny said. Opening my eyes I looked at my hand.
"It's completely healed!" I gasped as I began to flex it. Looking at the floor, the oozing black skin wasn't there either.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to use it completely for a little while, but in a few days it should be as good as new. Now, what's this I hear about a broken leg. Kohaku?" Granny said turning to Kohaku. Upon hearing his name, he looked up and put on a placid face. He's afraid still that Granny will turn him into a frog.or worse. Flicking her hand, a chair appeared and Kohaku kind off fell onto it. Granny undid the cast that was on his leg and stared at it.
"Hmmm. This shouldn't take long either. Only about fifteen minutes. Then you should be in walking condition." She said and began mumbling some more. Kohaku began to relax a bit as he watched his leg glow a blue color.
"Arelinita. I'm going to go for a walk. Is that all right with you? You'll stay here with Kohaku?" She nodded.
"Don't stay out to long." She said. I smiled and walked out quietly.
Authors Ending Note: IMPORTANT!: In helping to finish this off, I need to know, how many of you demand fluff, and how many of you say keep Chihiro and Kohaku as friends. Then I need to know how many of you would like a sequel, and if no fluff in this story, than how about lovey dovey stuff in that one, or should they stay as friends even then? Reply soon Please!
Authors Beginning Note: Answering the Q's of why I continue writing this story when it so seemingly happens to be that the main plot it over with:
&&&&
Okay, Reasonable enough question. It's kinda a multiple answer thing. So let me start out one step at a time. (1) There's a few things I want to happen in this fic. Before I officially call it completed, and I'm having trouble getting there in a short time. I'm hoping to get there by the next three chapters or less. (2) Some people have requested I do a sequel. Though I am still unsure (I'm kinda leaning towards it), I want to have an open window so if I do start it, it won't be too crazy and illogical, so I need certain events to happen, thus referring to reason number 1. (3) So I can come up with the perfect ending to a loved story, because I find that a really good story can be ruined completely if it has a bad ending, and I wouldn't want any of you to be disappointed in me in such a way. (4) I'm trying to answer all of the questions that if I was a reader I know I would have, as fully and completely as possible (5) It's hard just to drop my story like that.it's kinda sad, but it has to be done, so I'm taking my time at it a little, though kind of unintentionally as well (does that make sense?)
Chapter 28
It's About to Blow UP!
"Caught you!" came a soft blessed voice in my ear as I felt myself being caught in someone's arms. Snapping my eyes completely open, I looked into the relieved and worried green eyes of my rescuer.
"Kohaku! You shouldn't be up! Your leg! It isn't fully healed!" I exclaimed, those words were the first thing to burst through my mouth. At first he looked surprised, then smiled. The susuwatari jump up and down around us.
"My leg will be fine. It's you I was worried about." He said setting me down, my hand clutched together and my arm instinctively pulled itself across my chest. Looking more worried, Kohaku gently took my arm and held it out. When he touched my fisted hand, I impulsively tried to pull away but he held my arm firmly.
"Try to open your fist." He said not even looking up. I nodded and tried.
"I-I-can't. It won't open." He looked up.
"Is it because it hurts?"
"No, It's like it's glued." I said shaking my head. I looked at my hand that was an angry red and could see black skin hanging loose from the edges of my palm.
"I take it you touched a hot pipe, then a cold one soon after." I nodded.
"We need to get you some help quickly. This may even take magic. Your hand melted together. It will be a while before you'll be able to use it properly." He said seriously.
"But Kamajii needs help! He's up there holding the pipes together. Water will come pouring through if he lets even one go!" I said worriedly.
"Chihiro."
"Kohaku, worse comes to worse, my hand will have to be cut off, but if we don't help Kamajii, the air preasure will rise again when the water reaches the boiler, that would be even worse than a moment ago!" I said urgently. He looked at me and nodded, then looked up into the pipes where Kamajii's form could barely be made out.
"Kamajii, I'm coming up there to help you!"
"Kohaku? Is that you?"
"Yes, it's me, I'll be right up."
"I'll go up there and help too!"
"No, you stay down here. You can't use your left hand. It will only make it worse." Sighing with defeat, I nodded.
"My tools lad, I'll be needing them." Came a voice up in the pipes.
"I know where they are!" I said glad to help and went to one of the lower cabinets, rummaging through it until I came to a bag.
"Here, hold this." I said handing Kohaku the black bag.
"There's nothing in it."
"Not yet. Most of his tools are scattered, and you'll need something to help put them in. I'll also need to find rope and a plank of wood so we can hoist it and you can lay out the tools." I said searching through another one of the lower cabinents. I brought out a few metal tools.
"Chihiro, grab my 4/16 and my 1/8, will you?" Kamajii yelled down.
"I'm on it!" I yelled back.
"I take it this isn't your first time helping Kamajii with his work on the pipes." Kohaku said as I kept filling the bag in his arms with wrenches, hammers, screws, and other nessecary things needed to fix such things. Compared to these pipes, a drain pipe under a sink would be easy fixing.
"No, usually, on the days I have off I come down here and Kamajii needs help. I never went up into the piping area though. There never was a need. I always stood with tools ready in hand." I said grabbing a monkey wrench.
"What are you looking for now?" Kohaku asked as I rummaged back and forth between five cabinents.
"I'm looking for that screwdriver. I'm never able to find it, but I know it's around here somewhere." I said. I looked up at him and saw the amused look on his face.
"What?"
"You mean the one he always keeps in the fourth cabinent up, third on the left?" I gaped at him.
"How'd you know that?" I said and rushed to it. Sure enough there it was. The purple and orange handled skrewdriver.
"When I first came here, I helped Kamajii out one day and he told me where the skrewdriver he always keeps in there was. He said he never moves it." I smiled tossing it in the bag. Going out of the wooden door I found a large piece of wood and rope. Kohaku limbered up in the pipes with grace and agility with the bag of tools. I threw up the rope to him, and he threw it back down over a bar. Tying the rope through the knots in the wood, I gave him the thumbs up and hoisted it up.
Within the hour, the pipes were fixed. Kohaku and Kamajii came down, hot sweaty, and covered in ashes, but got the job done.
"Chihiro! I was so worried! Don't you ever do something stupid like that again!" Came a voice from behind me and as soon as I spun around I was in Arelinita's embrace.
"Arelinita, I'm fine really." I said trying to breath. She pulled back and looked past me.
"Kohaku! Why the heck are you even up! You know your leg isn't even completely healed yet!" Arelinita yelled. She looked angry, but I could tell she was actually worried.
"Arelinita."
"No! You're going straight back into your room and you are not moving until that leg of yours is healed!" She yelled. He took a step back. I know how he feels, Arelinita can be very scary when she gets mad. Soon, after saying a polite goodbye to a chuckling Kamajii, Arelinita ushered us into the elevator and up we went where things were beginning to get back into order. Every time Kohaku and I dared to even try and interrupt Arelinita in her rambling, she started to raise her voice. When she saw my burned hand, and demanded to know how that happened, she began ranting some more. Any Spirits that heard Arelinita's ranting, quickly got out of the way while Arelinita made way to her room, us following. Kohaku slightly limping. It would have been quite funny, if we weren't the ones being yelled at, and we would have laughed too, if we didn't know that that would surely mean certain death from Arelinita.
"Granny!" I exclaimed when we got into the Head Mistress's main office. Arelinita shoved me first and took my arm showing it to Granny.
"Oh my! How did this happen?"
"Well, I was trying to get to the wheel where the air preasure is controlled, and I slipped and grabbed a hot pipe. Then I had to gab onto a cold on to get there and use my hand to turn it." I said looking down at it. It looks even worse.
"And this idiot here walked all the way down there too with a broken leg that's not even healed completely!" Arelinita said pointing behind her at Kohaku. He gave her a strange look, but didn't say anything. Granny smiled at the whole scene and shook her head.
"Are you able to open your fist?" She asked. I shook my head no.
"This will hurt, and may take a few moments." She replied. She began mumbling something under her breath. Blood ran down my lip as I bit it to keep from screaming. My hand slowly began to flatten out to reveal chared skin. She began to mumble something more under her breath, one hand holding mine underneath, the other raised a few inches above it. After a few moments, when I thought the pain couldn't get worse, it began to seer to a new point. I watched my hand and it began to feel as if snakes were slithering all over it, right before the black skin began to ooze off.
"Oh, that's just disgusting." Arelinita said. Agreeing I closed my eyes and shook of the waves of nausea.
"There. All better now." Granny said. Opening my eyes I looked at my hand.
"It's completely healed!" I gasped as I began to flex it. Looking at the floor, the oozing black skin wasn't there either.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to use it completely for a little while, but in a few days it should be as good as new. Now, what's this I hear about a broken leg. Kohaku?" Granny said turning to Kohaku. Upon hearing his name, he looked up and put on a placid face. He's afraid still that Granny will turn him into a frog.or worse. Flicking her hand, a chair appeared and Kohaku kind off fell onto it. Granny undid the cast that was on his leg and stared at it.
"Hmmm. This shouldn't take long either. Only about fifteen minutes. Then you should be in walking condition." She said and began mumbling some more. Kohaku began to relax a bit as he watched his leg glow a blue color.
"Arelinita. I'm going to go for a walk. Is that all right with you? You'll stay here with Kohaku?" She nodded.
"Don't stay out to long." She said. I smiled and walked out quietly.
Authors Ending Note: IMPORTANT!: In helping to finish this off, I need to know, how many of you demand fluff, and how many of you say keep Chihiro and Kohaku as friends. Then I need to know how many of you would like a sequel, and if no fluff in this story, than how about lovey dovey stuff in that one, or should they stay as friends even then? Reply soon Please!