Cupids Bullet
Actress
'Why does everything hurt so much... I can barely move.'
A slender body pushed itself from bed, she felt many twinges along her skin. She chocked suddenly... froze. 'My throat.. Why does it burn?' She thought as she run her dry tongue over her chap lips. 'I feel so weak...'
Strange persacoms came, male persacoms. Yuzuki blinked as she turned to them. "Are you new servants?" She asked noticing their sudden stillness.
"Mam?" They asked curiously. Yuzuki stood still.
"A-are you new persacoms...I haven't seen you around here before." Yuzuki spoke finding her voice a bit higher than usual... changed, and croaky.
"I've served you for 3 years, Miss." one of the males spoke. Yuzuki blinked in utter confusion. "Where am I..." She spoke out weakly leaning her arm against the bed. She stilled expecting pain.. then turned to her arm. It looked peachier than usual, a lot thinner, was she able to tan? No... She had always been pale...
"The hospital, you've been here for 3 months, Miss Luna. " The servant spoke.
"What do you mean I've been here for three months-..." She stood very still, noticing his eyes follow her. "L-Luna? N-no I'm Yuzuki... Miss Luna.. she was my masters ex-girlfriend." Yuzuki spoke surely, as one of the servants handed her a mirror. Yuzuki saw another face, one that was without make up and definitely scary, it wasn't hers...
She dropped the mirror, letting it land on her lap. "What..." She thought getting up, she remembered it all. The morning she woke up in Minoru's bed, the shower.. she felt him hold her. "No.." She uttered, suddenly feeling sick. "Mng." Quickly she ran to a nearby bathroom and threw up.
"Miss Luna? Are you all right?" One of the servants asked in worry. Yuzuki shook her head, tears beginning to come uncontrollably. "I'm not Miss Luna! I'm Yuzuki! Yuzuki!" She shouted looking at the male, she noticed his eyes. "I was made when Minoru was a child to help him deal with the death of his older sister Kaede." She said sounding hysterical, her knees buckled as she fell slightly, one of the servants holding her to him.
"I was a direct copy of personality! I wasn't real!" She shouted looking around the hospital room, she became dizzy.
"Please Miss Luna, you haven't eaten for a very long time, you're body is very dependant on the I.V. Go back to bed..." One of the servants spoke as nurses rushed in the room, trying to control her, another one holding a shot with something to calm her nerves.
"Don't call me Miss Luna!-..." She went silent as she felt the needle puncture her skin, near her shoulder. She felt a strange cold sensation come over her, she found it hard to breathe suddenly, the servants that were with her held her in worry that she might fall. Lifted her up and put her down on the bed safely.
'How is this happening?' She thought weakly, feeling unusually calm now as they set her on the bed. Her body felt numb as they removed the needle and re-attached the I.V to hers which was leaking blood. She was trying to catch her breath, her throat felt too dry. "Minoru..." She whispered weakly as she felt faint once more.
'Luna...What did you do..?'
"How is she now? Is she all right?" Asked Minoru bursting through the doors of his home as he made it up the stairs, her room was his destination. He didn't want to leave that morning, no sooner coming home he found out that months earlier she had been in an accident, and was barely alive. Something had happened to her, on the way to school.
He didn't think much of it when the servants had called him and told him that she was late for supper, she was of course with a study session with that... Tsutomu character. He called back at night to make sure, a different voice had answered and made sure that she was fine and sleeping now. Minoru knew there were many servants in the house; he recognized the voice so he didn't mind it. He knew she was safe.
As the weeks passed and he had more meeting over seas. He noticed something strange, something very odd when he called again. They kept reassuring him. He called up people and sent them to his house to check on her. She wasn't home... and the persacom servants had been reprogrammed...
As time progressed she didn't arrive at all, so he managed to get a hold of Tsutomu.
Yuzuki had disappeared the day that she had left his home. She had gone missing all this time. Upon knowing this he had immediately went home, and began to search for her. And he did find her... In a hospital. He had worked hard to make her seem as human as possible, for some reason the bones and spine were able to replace, but could heal well on their own. he didn't want her body scarred so he let it heal.
She had her left wrist broken, her ankle had snapped. many bruises and cutes all over her arms and legs, a small bruise on her cheek in healing. She had been in a coma for 3 months, and now finally, she had woken up. He needed to see her, wanted to know that she was ok. "Yuzuki?" Minoru asked as she came to her room, gently knocking on the door.
"Come in.." She called, as he entered. He noticed the nurses around her tending to her fractures, she was healing nicely. "Yuzuki..." he said feeling relief strike him when he walked across the room to hug her.
he felt slightly alien to her when he did. he noticed her smile a bit too wide, uncharacteristic. She was still very beautiful, even in these harsh conditions. "Yuzuki are you all right?" Minoru asked her hand moving over her hair.
"I feel all right, just that these persacoms suffocate me." She sighed making him stiffen. he gave her one good look while she turned and looked to one of the nurses. Her eyes, something about them, they didn't shine anymore when they looked to him. He couldn't see his reflection in her eyes anymore... why?
He leaned down to hold her. 'I've been away for too long, she might be mad at me for not being with her. That has to be it.' He thought as he reached to pet her cheek. Yuzuki giggles as she turned to him, and smiled a small smile. This caused him to stare again, 'Why does she seem off?' he thought and smiled back.
"Yuzuki are you tired?" Minoru asked.
Yuzuki moved a slender hand along her hair, running her pretty clean fingers along each strand. " A bit."
'She's tired as well...' he thought giving out a relieved sigh as he ran his hand through his hair. 'It is rather suffocating in this room...' he thought and looked to her.
"Do you know who did this to you?" Minoru asked her gently, he was just glad to see her awake. All these emotions much have bubbled up all at once, he was confused. But he knew that Yuzuki was safe now, she was fine. And he's never leave her side again. he noticed her eyes go slightly distant as he continued to look at her.
"Luna did this to me." She said looking to him.
"Luna?...Miss Luna?" he asked her. 'She'd always be so formal, she must really be shaken up.'
Yuzuki gave out a small nod.
She noticed something flare in Minoru, some type of odd anger that scared her. She as happy she was in this girls body for the moment, the surgery had been successful, everything was going fine.
"I need to speak with her.." He spoke out angrily kissing Yuzuki's hand before leaving her bed. Yuzuki stiffened, "NO!" She suddenly called out. Minoru froze and turned to her in alarm.
"What is it?" He asked walking back to her.
'This could ruin everything..' She thought as she willed herself to spill tears. "That woman is pur evil Minoru, she might seem gentle and beautiful but she's pure evil-"
"I know." Minoru interrupted. "That snake of a woman likes to hurt people and use them to get what she wants. She went too far with you, I almost lost you Yuzuki.." Minoru said in worry, his look turned hard. "I'm going to talk to her... I'll get my best lawyers to see that she is put in jail." Minoru said gruffly before walking out the door.
She sighed and stood out of her bed. It was strange how easily this body could manipulate him. She had a feeling he knew that she wasn't herself. Luna felt herself smile as she looked at her hand and body. One of the persacom nurses reached to touch her shoulder.
"Miss Yuzuki, please, you should stay in be-"
A hard slap was delivered to the nurse, making her tip hand slightly. Her head swing in the direction of the blow. The servants turned to Yuzuki, shocked.
"Never touch me again, filthy.. worthless doll.." She snarled feeling a strange tinge to her ankle. It should be completely healed soon, she needed to bathe, and dress... put on some make-up. As she closed the bathroom door behind her, the servant that she had slapped was still in shock.
"Filthy...worthless...doll?" She asked looking at the door as the other female servants came behind her and held either side of her shoulders. "Miss Yuzuki would always be very familiar with us... she'd never talk to us that way." One of them spoke.
"She says we're like family..." The other spoke.
"That...isn't... Miss Yuzuki."
To be Continued.