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Chapter 2
Illusions
"What is the matter Minoru-san?" Yuzuki questioned as she walked up behind her young master.
"She fainted. I believe the weather has over-whelmed her." Minoru said stroking the girl's hand as he softly spoke.
"She is quite beautiful, isn't she?" Yuzuki muttered quietly as she watched Minoru.
He was looking at her differently then he looks at anyone else. It was like he saw what no one else could see. It was as if he were looking into her heart and soul, not just her face.
She had warm light peach skin with slightly rosy cheeks. She also had light almond colored hair that was almost shoulder length. It framed her face perfectly.
"Minoru-san. Shall we take her to the hospital?" Yuzuki asked.
Minoru took a moment to consider. He reached up and felt her forehead.
'She doesn't have a fever. It wouldn't be quite worth the effort.' Minoru thought.
"No, we'll take her home. She doesn't seem to have a fever, so it would be a waste of the hospital's time." Minoru said.
"Of course, shall I take her to the car."
"Please do."
With that Yuzuki bent over and picked up the unconscious girl. Minoru also stood up and took one final look at Kaede's grave.
'Merry Christmas Nee-san. May the holiday spirit be with you.' And with that, the lonely boy, the beautiful persocom and the unconscious girl headed to the warm car across the quiet and empty graveyard.
(Nothing happened during the car ride, but silence and Minoru stroking the girl's hand.)
Once the car stopped, everyone went inside. Yuzuki was carrying the girl and set her on the couch in the living room. Minoru first went to the hall closet and removed his coat.
'I hope the girl will be all right. I don't even know her name.'
"Yuzuki, please run some diagnostics on the girl. I would like to know a bit about her." Minoru said as he walked over to his computer in the same room.
He sat down and started typing a report about how the ecosystem corresponds with global-warming. After ten minutes of typing, Yuzuki finally found some thing about their houseguest.
"Minoru-san, I have completed the diagnostics." Yuzuki said as she entered a dazed state.
"Kiara Kunasaki. Twelve years old and turns thirteen on January thirtieth. One brother, who died two years ago today in a car crash. Both parents died seven years ago in a plane crash. She comes from a wealthy family and lives in a 10,000 square foot mansion outside of Tokyo. She's quite smart. She maintains an A+ average in a very prestigious prep school in Kyoto that she has attended since the first grade. She has three persocoms. One is a female laptop model, named Hikari, which was her eleventh birthday present, and two Regular sized models, one male named Akitori, after her father, and one female named Reitsuki after her mother. Light brown hair, dark brown eyes, 4 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs 84 pounds."
As Yuzuki snapped back from the daze she was in, she noticed Minoru had paled slightly.
"Minoru-san, are you all right?" Yuzuki asked concerned
'Poor Kiara. She went through so much. She went through what I went through. That is a shame. No one should have to see that much sorrow, especially at the young of an age.'
Kiara started to stir from her slumber.
'It's so warm. Where am I?'
Kiara opened her eyes and started to sit up.
"Are you alright Miss. Kunasaki?" Yuzuki asked smiling.
At the sound of her name she was a bit startled.
"H… How do you know my name?"
"I had her do a search. What happened to you?" Minoru as he stopped typing.
"I don't know. It's almost like I got lost in a dream. I thought it was real, but you see, I saw my brother, Time. And…" Minoru cut her off.
"And he died 2 years ago." He said knowingly.
"Yes. I miss him. Why do I keep having visions of him?"
"Posttraumatic shock perhaps?" Minoru said almost sure that was the answer.
"That's what everyone says, but that's a very strange case. I mean it has been 2 years."
"Yes, that's what's strange. Have you ever experienced posttraumatic shock before?" Minoru asked, curious about her predicament.
"Yes, when my parents died. I was a bit quiet, trying to process everything. I remember exactly what they told me." Kiara said before glancing down at the floor.
"Kiara, Time, I'm sorry to tell you that your parents have just died in a plane crash off the coast on England." Kiara flinched at having to repeat those words. It was like being stabbed with one thousand knives.
"It was the most devastating thing. It all hit me at once. When they told me I went to my room and locked the door. I didn't cry. I figured it was just a dream, and that I would wake up the next day. I came outside and saw my brother eating breakfast in the dark. He was wearing all black, and I asked him what was wrong. He looked surprised and hurt. 'Have you forgotten?' He yelled. 'Our parents are dead!' He was angry and so was I. I walked calmly back to my room and put on as must black as could handle. I came back, climbed in my brother's lap and sobbed. I suppose you could count that as posttraumatic shock, I don't know. With my brother's death however, I understood what was happening and that it couldn't be stopped, so I locked myself in my room for 3 days straight. And I continued mourning for the next six months." She finished with a heavy sigh.
"I'm sorry to here that." Minoru said sympathetically.
"What of your past?" Kiara asked anxious to get off the subject of her past..
"Similar to yours. My parents died, and then it was just my sister and I. Then, she died, and I was alone." Said Minoru reluctantly.
He was not sure about reveling his past to this girl, but she must have understood.
"I'm so sorry. It's hard, you know," she said looking across the room, "To face reality, that the people you love will never come back, to know that they will never come back and comfort you, or help you, or even see you again. At least, we can't see them. They can see us" she said blankly looking at the ceiling," but we won't see them, until we face their fate, and leave other people behind, and start a cycle that will never stop!" she finished with tears brimming from the corners of her eyes.
"You're right." Minoru said out of the blue. "But the fact that they won't come back doesn't mean we should forget them. We can't see them in person, but we can feel their sprit, and remember everything important." Minoru finished tears also ready to fall.
Yuzuki looked on as the two started to silently cry. 'They're crying, they're sad. I can't understand. I can't feel for them because I am not one of them.' Yuzuki thought, trying to understand.
Minoru sat in his large chair trying to stop crying. 'It has been so long since I've cried. I wish I could stop, but it feels so good to cry. It feels so reliving. Like crying will make the whole world right. But in the end it will only make you long for something beyond your reach.' Minoru thought with silent tears streaming down his face.
'Oh no! He's crying too! It's all my fault! I was the one who kept pressing!' "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you cry!" Kiara said as she stood up. She could feel more tears fun down he face. 'I didn't mean to hurt anyone else!'
"No, it isn't your fault. I did to cry. I want to cry." Minoru replied as he also stood up.
"But it is my fault! If I hadn't said that and gotten you angry!" Kiara said, as her vision started to blur.
"But you didn't make me angry, you just made me see! That is all you did!" Minoru said trying to calm her down.
Kiara felt her knees start to give as she started walking out of the room. She kept walking until her legs couldn't carry her any father and she fell over on to the wall.
Minoru felt as if he was watching a train wreck in slow motion.
He watched her get up but could barely stand to protest.
He watched her start to walk away, but he couldn't find it in himself to stop her.
And now to see her slumped against a wall, he had to help her.
Kiara had slid down the wall in a messy heap on the floor. She was balling and couldn't stop.
"Please," Minoru said putting his hand on her shoulder. "Please stop crying."
Kiara flinched. She looked behind her and saw Minoru standing there with wide eyes that glistened from tears. She couldn't stand to be there anymore. She felt like she should be with her brother, not anyone else.
'I must go. That is all there is to it.' She thought as she started to slowly stand.
Minoru, who still felt like a train in slow motion, pressed down on her shoulder to make sure she didn't go anywhere.
"You are going to stay right here." Minoru stated firmly.
She once again tried to stand and once again he stopped her.
"You are not going anywhere." He said more firmly then before.
She looked, once again into his dark brown eyes, and reluctantly nodded.
"Yuzuki, will you please get us some tea?" Minoru asked not taking his eyes off Kiara for a second.
"Of course Minoru-san. I'll get on that right away." Yuzuki replied obediently as she walked off to fetch the tea.
"Come with me and I'll show you to your room." Minoru said sternly.
"Oh, but I can't! I don't want to impose!" Kiara said hurriedly to not be impolite.
"I have invited you, so you are not by any means imposing." Minoru said sure of himself, as he reached for her hand.
Kiara reluctantly took it and stood up. She was only shorter than Minoru by about an inch or 2. (AN: I'm guessing that Minoru's about 5 feet tall. Someone tell me if I'm wrong.)
Minoru guided Kiara through the mansion up to her room.
This didn't take as long as he expected, because she has a mansion of her own and has seen many of the things in Minoru's mansion before.
She did not wish to stop at every original piece of art, nor the beautiful chandeliers. She only marveled at something very surprising to him.
She marveled at the architecture of the house. How everything was symmetrical. And how all the artwork in the house had some form of mathematical relevance to it.
"Wow" she said in utter amazement. "Look at how the colors complement each other in a way that you can distinctly make out the shadows."
She was referring to a large painting of a lion (AN: Random thought about a lion painting O.o) that was painted with very abstract colors.
"That's what I thought when I bought it." Minoru said with a tone of impression in his voice.
"Its beautiful." Kiara said softly as she turned away.
"And here is your room." Minoru said as he opened the door.
"Thank you very much Minoru-san." Kiara said slowly, slightly still feeling guilty because she thought that she was imposing.
"Good night Kiara." Minoru said with a slight smirk as he closed the door.
"Good night Minoru-san." Kiara whispered under her breath, as she prepared for bed.
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End of Chapter 2
Hope you liked it! It kinda has a slow start, but I kinda had been pondering on the idea for sometime! R&R! Ja! Otakuintrainig