Hiya people, as I told you guys over and over again, I'm not going to be updating as much since it's close to the school's end and my teachers are really making us study a lot. I might be able to update once every other week, but then I'm behind on typing this fic too. Sorry guys, but I'll try my best to update this for you.

Chapter 10: Recovering

Riku woke up a while later and she sat up from her bed. When she looked around the cabin, she found that Daisuke and Satoshi were sleeping on their beds and Kazuko was lying on her bed. Her eyes were closed and she had an arm over her head.

"Kazuko, are you awake?" Riku asked.

Kazuko looked over the Riku, "Hey Riku. How's it goin'?"

"What happened to you? Are those injuries from when you fell off the cliff?"

"Yeah…it's only minor bruises though. Are YOU alright?"

"I'm fine," Riku said getting up. She limped a little, but she was able to stand.

"…This wasn't supposed to happen. All we were supposed to do was take a hike up the mountain."

"It was all because you said you were okay was the reason we came back to the cabin. You should've told us you weren't feeling well."

"I'm sorry…hopefully, when we hike again, this won't happen again."

"Tomorrow? How can you think that you'll be fine tomorrow?"

"Riku it's-"

"You might be here for the rest of the time we'll be in this cabin, or worse, for the whole trip we're here!"

Takeshi, Masahiro, Risa, and Ritsuko showed up through the door whole Riku was saying her sentence. Takeshi looked at both of them.

"Hey guys," he said not paying close attention to them, "Why is everyone sleeping!"

He went up to Daisuke' bed and put his face in front of his.

"Hey, Daisuke!" Takeshi yelled.

Daisuke woke up a while later discovering that Takeshi was right in his face. Daisuke hastily sat up, but he hit Takeshi on the forehead with his forehead and they were both aching.

"Ow! What was that for, Daisuke!" Takeshi yelled.

"W-Well, you surprised me!"

"You shouldn't have been in front of his face anyways, Takeshi.

Everyone looked at Kazuko, who had the bandages on her arm, leg, and under her shirt (which she did by herself). Se started sitting up again, but she started hurting again. She slowly moved to the edge of the bed. Daisuke got up from his bed.

"Chisato! What happened to you!" Takeshi said running up to her.

"It's nothing…I fell."

"Where did you fall from, the cliff?"

"Well…sort of…I…I tripped and started rolling off the mountain."(Kind of true, but not really.)

"You look bad…who bandaged you?"

"I did it myself."(Didn't want to say that Satoshi did them)

Risa looked over at Satoshi, "Satoshi looks badly wounded, too."

"When I tripped, Satoshi tried to catch me, but he fell too. He was cut by a snag when we were falling and then I wrapped his arm for him."

"That was really careless of you to fall off."

"I know, but I couldn't really get my grip on the ground when I was walking up the mountain. I'm better now, though. That's all that matters."

"I know that, but what if you slip again when you hike?" Takeshi asked.

"It won't happen again, I promise…where's Satoshi by the way?"

"He's over there. You were all lying down in your beds when we came back."

"Yeah! We though that you guys didn't even start hiking up the mountain when we didn't pass by you guys. But then again…here you guys are really injured…" Masahiro said.

Kazuko looked at Satoshi taking a nap on his bed on the opposite end of the cabin. She looked at his arm and saw that there was dried blood showing on his bandage. She slowly stood up from her bed and Takeshi helped her a little. She walked over to the sleeping Satoshi and looked at his arm. She touched the bandage and saw that his arm was still bleeding. She started unwrapping the bandage and Satoshi woke up. He put his arm on her arm to stop her from unwrapping it even more.

"…Should you be up?" Satoshi asked.

"I'm worried about your arm. Don't tell me to do otherwise."

"But, you're even more injured than I am."

"I can endure. You're the one bleeding though."

Kazuko looked up at the rest of them, "Could you guys leave for a moment? I need to talk to Satoshi…alone."

"Well then…I guess we can find something to do when we're outside. C'mon people."

The four of them walked out and then Kazuko looked at Daisuke and Riku.

"Riku…Daisuke…" Kazuko said.

Riku got Kazuko's concept and got Daisuke and took him outside with her.

"Why did you want everyone to leave?"

"I need to rewrap your arm. You're still bleeding."

"Well you could've done it with everyone else in here."

"Yeah, but I wanted to talk to you about something, too."

Satoshi sat up and Kazuko sat next to Satoshi after she got the first aid kit. She started unwrapping his bandage again and when she took it off, they both saw that the wound was still bleeding. She rewrapped it and tied the bandage. Satoshi held his arm with his other arm afterwards.

"Is it too tight?" Kazuko asked.

"No, it's fine thanks. I'm sorry about earlier."

"Well, that's what I wanted to talk about. It's fine. There's no reason for you to apologize about that. That wasn't…entirely…your fault. You tried to calm me down. You just…surprised me a little for what you did."

"……"

"Well…it's all fine now…I better tell the rest that they can come in."

Kazuko slowly stood up, "You know…whenever Krad comes, I get angry. Now that we found out about Neda…I'm afraid about what's going to happen…if she comes out again."

"…Don't say that…it's just like the conversation that we had a while ago."

"…You're right…"

She walked up to the cabin door and opened it. Takeshi, as well as the others, was standing in front of the door.

Kazuko looked surprised, and then she had smile, which looked like she was mad on her face.

"Don't tell me you guys were out here in front of the door the whole time."

"D-Don't yell at me! Daisuke wanted to check up on you guys!"

"T-Takeshi! Don't put me into your arguments!"

Kazuko looked down at Takeshi, "Then…why do you have a microphone…on your collar?"

Takeshi looked down and stretched out his collar, "O-Oh this? This is um…I wanted to…interview people."

"The only 'people' around here is our class. Takeshi…tell the truth…why are you here?"

"It's a field trip, we're supposed to be here."

"You know I don't mean that…and why are all of you here, too?"

"…It was Takeshi!" They all yelled.

"Yeah! He said that he wanted to see what was going on with you and Satoshi! " Masahiro said.

"I see," she said with a maniacal look on her face. She had one of those evil smiles on which meant that she was about to hit you.

"N-Now, Chisato, don't be so mean! You're not like this all the time!" Takeshi said panicking. The rest of the people were moving back a little.

"Hmph…you're lucky that I'm hurt, or else it would be the other way around."

She smirked her regular smirk and said, "Come on guys. It's okay to go in now. Takeshi…next time you won't be so lucky."

"Y-Yes ma'am!"

She walked back to her bed and lied down. Satoshi walked up to her.

"Wow…Chisato can be a violent person…" Takeshi thought passing by her bed.

"…Did Genjo know about this? I know that my parents did…but how can Genjo find out?"

"…You should rest…I know that you've been up since our last conversation."

"You know…that sounds really nice right now…I think I'll do that."

After a while later, Kazuko went to sleep. Satoshi went back to his bed and he was rethinking about the conversation they had when Takeshi, Masahiro, Risa, and Ritsuko were hiking and when Riku and Daisuke were sleeping.

Flashback: (This is starting from the end of chapter 9. It's continuing their conversation.)

"Satoshi…what would happen if I transform into Neda…and not transform back into myself?" Kazuko said looking in another direction.

"Don't say things like that."

"…I wouldn't know what to do if it does happen."

"Stop talking about it…it won't happen if you don't transform into her."

"I know…but…Satoshi, what if it does?"

Satoshi grabbed Kazuko's shoulders and turned her to look at him. His arm was hurting but he took the pain.

"Kazuko, we just met Neda right now…and we have a hint on what she's capable of. I know that the part about you being unconscious when you're her is scaring you right now, but I know that you can pull through so you can transform back."

"Two years ago…I know that I got really mad sometimes…I don't think there can ever be a time when you won't see me really mad this year…what if it happens soon?"

"Kazuko! It's not like you to worry!" he said shouting a little, "Don't do this to yourself. I don't want to think what it would be like to live without you again…"

"…Without me, it would be the same as if it were two years ago. I was thinking about that…and I think it would be best if I moved somewhere else…so you can forget about me."

"…It's not that easy…you're the first person I fell in love with. Kazuko, you're not yourself right now…you were faced with these kinds of things before, but it didn't scare you…you kept on doing what you were doing."

"That was because it wouldn't hurt you."

"…We'll face it when the time comes."

"Satoshi…I'm sorry…if Neda comes out again…she might kill Krad…if that happens, that means…you would die, too."

"Enough talking about Neda…you need to concentrate on getting better."

"…You're right…But, I can't stop thinking about it now," she said looking downwards to the floor.

"Well then…let me take care of that."

Satoshi still had his arms on Kazuko's shoulders; he wrapped them around her and kissed her. Kazuko was surprised about that, but then she sunk into the kiss and she wrapped her arms around him. She closed her eyes and she kissed him back. Before they did anything more, they heard Riku's bed creak and they looked over to her. She turned to the other side, and she was still sleeping. Satoshi and Kazuko didn't do anything more; they took their arms off of each other and they looked at each other.

"The rest of them might be coming soon…I better get back to my bed before they suspect something."

"…Alright then."

Kazuko kissed him one more time and then Satoshi went over to his bed and lied down. He took a nap a while after. Kazuko couldn't move around that much so she lied down on her bed and she was thinking, not about Neda, but about something else.

"…I think it's a good thing that we're hiding it from people right now…but…I feel like something going to happen…"

END OF FLASHBACK.

They stayed a couple days in the cabin, and Kazuko and everyone else who were injured got better to go to San Francisco. When they went there, the four of them were lost, and they couldn't find their way around. Luckily, one of Kazuko's friends was there and he helped them around San Francisco. They had a great time over in California, and the next day, they had to leave to go back to Japan.

End of Chapter 10

There are some things that I want to point out in this chapter. One thing is that this if the first kissing scene I'm ever writing. I hope it was good, tell me if it was or not. I don't care. Second thing, I know that I talked about San Francisco here and it was really short…but that was the best I can do since I had a writer's block when I was thinking about what they were going to do there. N E ways, hope you like this chapter.