Yugana Kashi

By Sakura Takanouchi

Disclaimer: Jigglypuff and Pikachu, I no own, and if you sue, then something to you I will do! This time I rhymed!

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Chapter Two: Some Memories are Made to Last Forever

Kateri stood up and put her book bag on. Today was Sunday, so she was going to the park to draw.

She then went to the comic store, and read several manga and bought her favorite.

After that, she went over to her friend Cara's house and showed her the manga.

While the girls were playing Dance Dance Revolution, the phone rang. Cara picked it up. "Hello? Oh, hi, Mrs. Miwa, yeah, I'll put Kateri on," Cara said. She covered the mouth of the phone. "Your favorite person is on the line," she told Kateri.

Kateri took the phone from Cara. "Hello?" She said.

"Kateri, get home this instant," her mother's voice sounded angry and confused.

"If it's something that I've done wrong, then I'll..."her voice trailed off as her mother spoke.

"It's...it's your father, Kateri. He's passed away."

Kateri let the phone drop and sank to the floor. She could still hear her mother's voice on the line. "Kateri? Kateri! Get home now!"

"Is anything wrong?" Cara put her arm around Kateri for support.

"My mother... she's going to do something terrible to me, I just know it... my father always protected me, but now... I can't go back home," she told her friend. She started crying, and Cara got misty-eyed as well.

"Don't you have a relative in Japan?" Cara asked. Kateri perked up, and she stopped crying.

"Yeah! My deceased sister's husband's cousin, and most of my grandparents live there," she said. "In fact, it was where I was born."

"You could go there! I'm sure my parents could buy you a plane ticket," Cara gushed. Just then, Sakura remembered her pictures, and that one in particular.

"I couldn't... I have to get something back at home. I'll try to come back by the fire escape or something," Kateri refused the offer. She couldn't leave those pictures.

"Look...I gotta go," Kateri got up and started to leave the room. "I'll see you sometime, ok?"

"Sure! I'll be waiting with that plane ticket!" Cara smiled. 'I need to be strong because she needs my strength,' she thought. 'It's going to be a really rough time for her.'

Kateri got back to their apartment in ten minutes. She knew that she couldn't hold it off any longer.

"Kateri Miwa! You are incredibly late! Show some respect for your father!" Was her mother's greeting as she stepped into the apartment. Kateri quickly walked down the hallway heading towards her room, but a hand grabbed her shirt collar to keep her from walking

"Yo," Toshi whispered to her. "Mom says that your sisters get their own rooms now, and she's going to throw you out. I can't be seen with you any longer, but It'd be a shame if you died, so, here." He stuffed a phone book into her hands.

"Toshi..." she said, tears coming to her eyes again. She opened it. "Phone numbers of all our Japanese relatives--- Thank you!" She quickly hugged her brother, and then composed herself.

"Look... mom may want me to say something nasty to you to get on her good side, so... don't believe anything I say from now. Now get out of my sight," he replied.

Kateri's eyes widened, and then she smiled. "You too," she said, and then disappeared into her room.

She gasped at what she saw going on in her room. Her younger sisters were going about happily taking all the pictures off the walls and putting them in a paper shredder.

"Audrey! Katelyn! What are you doing?!" Kateri gasped as she collected all the pictures from the higher parts of the ceiling that they could not reach and quickly put them in her book bag.

"Mommy said you wanted us to do this," they said, looking sad.

"Oh no, it's all right, but you can stop now," she told them. Then she got an idea. "How about you collect the pictures, and then give them to me?" she told them. Their eyes lit up.

"Okay!" They chorused, and started giving pictures to Kateri. She then carefully reached under her mattress to get her diary and the picture she treasured most.

It was gone.

She gasped. Her sisters stopped and stared at her. "Is something wrong?" They asked.

"Did mommy take something from under this mattress when I was gone?" She asked them.

"Um...er...she told us not to tell you, but...maybe?" They said.

"Stay here, and don't touch any pictures," she told them. "I've got to have a talk with mom."

"Kateri! I was just thinking how nice it would be if you cooked us dinner," her mom said from her position on the couch.

"Look, I'm only here for one purpose," Kateri stated.

"Maybe I didn't make myself clear," her mother said. "But as long as you are living in this apartment, you shall do as I say, so make dinner now!"

"Ayao Michina Tsukiru, I want my freaking diary back sometime today in it's full condition, if you don't mind!!!!" Kateri yelled. Her mother had a very surprised look on her face.

"I'll give it to you on one condition—if you tell your sisters that you hate them, and listen to what your brother has to say," she extended one finger in the direction of her sisters. "Oh Audrey? Katelyn? Your sister has something she wants to say," she called, and the two filed obediently out of her room and sat down on the couch facing her.

"Go ahead, tell them," her mother grinned evilly.

"You are the spawn of the devil," she muttered through clenched teeth. She then turned to her sisters.

"Okay, now, I want you to listen to what I say, and believe none of it," she spoke in a sweet tone. "But I hate you very much and I hope I never see you again."

"Oh...Okay!" They said, and it seemed like they had forgotten what she said.

Ayao Tsukiru was seething, but she put forth a calm exterior. "Toshi, you can come here now," she said. Toshi came out of his room and leaned against the wall. His face was expressionless, and his hair was wet, as if he had just taken a shower.

"Go on, Toshi," she said. "Tell her exactly what you think of her."

"What I think of you?" Toshi said, directing his words towards Kateri but his anger towards his mother. "I think that if you died, the world would remain the same. I hate living here and having a Japanese name. But you—you have that... anime stuff. You know nothing about me, and so you can just leave this household and commit hara-kiri for all I care!" He walked past her, but as he did so, he shoved something in her hand that was folded up. She held it tightly.

"I'm going for a walk," he said, and left. Kateri knew without looking that it was her picture. She adjusted the weight of her book bag and started to leave.

"You can burn my diary," she said. "I don't need any of you anymore."

A/N

Here's another one! *Looks around* Hey, I got a reviewer! *Dances around happily* Review, onegai! If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please press the little blue button at the bottom of your screen. I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability, and I'll put shoutouts after the Disclaimer. Toodles.

Sakura Takanouchi