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To all my reviewers!
Gothic-ember- Yeah I know the whole OC thing is confusing, I just wanted to ties up a few loose strings. Now I'm going to focus on mainly my fav OC Reiko! YEAH!
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Reiocu- I don't know how I do it either, I was reading the chapter to my friend over the phone and the whole time I was cringing and wondering if my dinner would stay down. I don't understand myself sometimes.
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Chapter Fourteen
(Yukina)
Waking up slowly I rolled over in my bed trying to cling to sleep just a little longer as the golden rays of sun shone on me urging me to get up and embrace the day. As I stared up at the ceiling I found myself thinking about the girl in the next room who I had known as a friend for a while, it was hard to think of her as the same person as Hikari. They were so different in appearances alone, how much would they differ in personalities? Knowing that it would be near impossible to fall asleep now I got out of bed and dressed in a pretty dark green kimono I had found near my bed around Christmas time.
"You awake?" Genkai asked me from outside of my room.
"Yes." I opened the door to find her fully dressed and carrying lots of medical supplies. "Would you like some help?"
"No, I'm fine." Genkai waved me off as she headed down the hall to Reiko's room; as she entered Hiei left his red eyes catching mine for a moment before he walked off. "After we eat something we can continue our work on the invalid."
"Sounds good to me." I walked to the kitchen and started to make a nice breakfast to help build up our strength so we could heal Reiko quicker. Genkai came into the room as I was putting everything onto plates.
"She hasn't appeared to gotten better in the slightest, it's like her body doesn't want to get better." Genkai growled as she sat down and began to eat her breakfast.
"It takes time," I offered this as a form of reassurance.
"I know." Genkai muttered, "I just want her to get better so I can figure out something." She quickly finished her food and stood up, "When you're done join me in Reiko's room."
"Of course." I ate as much of my food as I could and then cleared up the dishes before cleaning them. My mind was filled with many thoughts; I wanted to know if Hiei had found my brother, how Kazuma was doing, if Reiko would be ok, the list went on and on. When I was done I hurried to the room where Reiko and Genkai were, it appeared that Reiko was awake because Genkai was talking to her, but she wasn't responding.
"How are you feeling?" Genkai asked
"……." Reiko continued to stare up at the ceiling completely ignoring Genkai as she fixed her up.
"Do you know what's going on?"
"……."
"Do you need anything?"
"……." Genkai finally stopped asking questions when she realized it was futile and Reiko wasn't going answer.
"I think today I'll work on just her heart, what do you think?" I sat down next to Reiko observing how she didn't acknowledge me at all.
"That sounds like a good idea," Genkai agreed, she was rolling Reiko over to take care of her back, which was just one big pus-oozing wound. Laying a hand on Reiko's bare shoulder I slipped into her and began to study her heart. The organ was slightly better than it had been yesterday due to the miniscule amount of healing I had forced upon it. The tissues that made it up were almost non-existent and what was there was diseased and almost rotten.
Gathering up my energy I began to rid the remaining cardio tissue of disease by basically burning it out with the intensity of my energy. I couldn't miss a single spot or leave a dot of the disease on or in the cells of the tissue for it would multiply and spread again. Inside and out I scoured everything out and off of the organ being completely meticulous. When I was finished I channeled my energy into stimulating growth of tissue to steady the organ and make it stronger so she didn't have any heart failure.
When I pulled out of her I barely registered it was night before collapsing into darkness.
(time elapse)
"Don't worry Hiei, she just over taxed herself in healing Reiko," I heard Genkai talking to someone who must have been Hiei. I wanted to open my eyes and tell them that I was ok, but it felt like my eyes had leaden weights on them making it impossible to open them. A wave of exhaustion swept over me and I was gone dragged back into the depths of sleep but this time I had dreams.
"Do you have any family Hikari?" I asked looking to my friend who was sitting next to me her brown hair piled on top of her head as she peeled potatoes with me.
"Nope, I never knew my parents." She responded her voice calm but she was glaring at her potato as if had offended her.
"Same here, I have a brother out there but I don't know who he is." I sighed rubbing my arm across my forehead.
"I'm sorry," Hikari apologized to me as she finished off her potato. "But to me family is a waste of time. Your parents are supposed to love you unconditionally but instead they abandon you and forget you even exist." She dropped her potato into the pan and stared off into the distance. "Sorry, I shouldn't have said that."
The scene changed to another time when I had been with my friend.
"What do you do for a living?" I questioned my friend; I loved asking her questions because she always told me what she thought without softening it at all.
"I help those who life has spat on." She replied not looking up from her crossword, "The poor unfortunates who have been abandoned, abused and ignored; mostly children."
"Wow, you're actually making a difference in the world!" I thought this was wonderful.
"If you wanna look at it like that, I tend to look at it more like no one could do anything for me so I want to do something for those who need help." Hikari shrugged nonchalantly.
The picture faded to be replaced by another.
"KARI!" A little child launched herself at Hikari; I was at her work at her invitation. "We missed you! Ichiro's being mean to me!"
"Hello Kuniko," Hikari picked her up and kissed her on the forehead. "What did Ichiro do to you this time?"
"He pulled on my braids and tripped me!" Kuniko explained completely indignant.
"Well, what can I say; he's a boy." Hikari laughed setting her charge down and pulling her hair back in a ponytail. "Kuniko this is my friend Yukina."
"Hi 'Kina, my name's Kuniko." Kuniko greeted me a big smile on her face.
Opening my eyes I slowly brought the other person in the room into focus, it was Hiei. He was sitting next to my bed his eyes closed in sleep his face totally relaxed and open making him look so much more…vulnerable. As I watched him I realized how little I knew about him but yet I looked to him to search for the one person I wanted to meet the most. If I could choose who my brother was, out of all the people I knew, I would choose Hiei, he just seemed like such an older brother type person. Smiling to myself I sat up and instantly Hiei's eyes snapped open.
"Good morning, how long was I out?" I questioned.
"Three days." Hiei regarded me with dispassionate red eyes as he stated this watching to see my reaction.
"Three whole days?" I was shocked, I knew I had been out for a while but I hadn't thought three whole days.
"Good thing you're finally awake, now that lamebrain won't have any reason to stop by and plague us." Hiei pushed himself to his feet, "You stay here, and I'll go get Genkai." It was cute how he pretended like he didn't care what happened to me but I knew he did, I knew because of all the times he'd saved me and the snippet of conversation I had caught during my period of down time.
"How are you feeling?" Genkai walked in pulling me from my thoughts.
"Fine," I assured her. "I'm sorry if I worried you."
"I knew you were fine, it was that imbecile Kuwabara and Hiei who worried, though Hiei will most likely deny it." Genkai shook her head, "If you'd like you can get up and do what you like. While you were recovering I finished patching up Reiko, her heart is in almost perfect condition and I fixed her lungs to probably the best shape they could be in under the circumstances."
"Ok." I got up as she left and pulled on a proper set of clothes. Walking to the window I looked outside and thought about the dreams I had had, if they were any indication as to what I needed to do, I needed to talk to Reiko.
The thing was, did I want to and would she talk to me?
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