Chapter Three
Akemi was awoken that night by her three very angry brothers. They were fuming mad! Yazoo literally had smoke coming out of his ears! She was still half asleep but woke up when a bucket of freezing cold water was tipped over her. "Aaahhh!" She screamed jumping out of the bed. "W-w-what was t-that f-f-for?" She asked them shivering from the cold.
"We went back to that club and the guy who you spoke to said nothing of mother being dead!" Loz shouted at her stepping forward. "He said that Mother is still living, breathing, and powerful!"
Akemi frowned. That idiot lied to me! She mentally shouted at herself. "That's not what he told…"
"I think that you just told us all that because you want to find out the meaning of your creation!" Kadaj also shouted at her not letting her get a word in. "Until we find Mother we are not doing anything else!"
Akemi was almost crying, again. "But… He said… that" She was shivering and interrupted again.
"Ever since you turned fifteen you've been a liar! But we never thought that you'd be the deceiver!" Yazoo screamed at her.
Akemi tried storming out of the room but was stopped when Kadaj threw her back on the bed. "For once you are going to listen and do as you're told! Which is search for Mother, help in the reunion and do exactly as we tell you when we tell you!"
Akemi ran passed them as fast as she could and into the thunder storm outside. She could hear her brothers calling after her but she didn't listen. She just wanted to get away.
She heard them catching up with her on their bikes. Oh why didn't I take mine? She asked herself knowing that they'd soon catch up with her.
There was nowhere she could run or go to hide. Even if she did the lights on the bikes would soon tell them where she was.
She saw Loz riding beside her and while he was distracting her Yazoo came up from behind her and pulled her onto his bike.
Akemi started to feel rather sick of everything. And the fact that her brothers had caught up with her was making her very mad. "Kadaj!" She heard Loz shout into his phone to get over the sound of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain. "We've got her! We're heading back now!"
When they got back they were all dripping wet. "We caught her… So we'll let Kadaj deal with her." Loz said to Yazoo going upstairs to get dry and warm.
Akemi sat on the sofa cold and confused, waiting for Kadaj to come downstairs and tell her off. After about two minutes Kadaj came down the stairs still looking angry, but not as angry as before.
He stood in front of her small shivering form and sighed. Akemi was sitting on the sofa, her arms around herself trying to warm herself up, and just staring at the floor.
About ten minutes slowly went by until they said anything. "Why did you lie to us?" Kadaj finally asked her kneeling down so that he could look her in the face.
"But I didn't." She softly said keeping herself in her same position. "I went to the club like you told me to. Asked the man the questions that you had asked me to ask him and that was the answer he gave me. Why he gave you a different one I'll never know." She put her knees up to her chest and rested her tired head on them.
Kadaj sighed and stood up. Deep inside him knew that she was telling the truth. But it wasn't in his nature to let it show. "Go upstairs have a shower, get some dry night clothes on, and then come down here." She nodded and tried to get up, but she was to cold.
"Uh… Kadaj." He looked down at her. "Can you help me… uh… get upstairs?" She asked him blushing. Kadaj helped her upstairs and then let her get on with the rest of it.
Loz and Yazoo came downstairs nice and dry and sat next to Kadaj who was watching television. "Who's the hot chocolate for?" Loz asked him looking at the drink on the table.
"Akemi." He replied.
Yazoo and Loz looked at him. "Why her? Didn't she lie to us? And has been a pain for the past few months?" Yazoo asked him.
"Yeah. But she was saying the truth just now. I think that she's confused. Or ill after that fall she took off the motorbike the other day." Kadaj said.
The other two were about to speak but Akemi came downstairs wearing a black nightdress that came down to her knees and was held up by two lace straps. "You have a hot chocolate on the table and chicken soup in the oven." Kadaj said.
"Thanks. Is the soup brought or homemade?" She asked him.
"Brought." Akemi smiled and sat down on the chair drinking her nice hot drink.
She looked at the TV. "What are you watching?" Yazoo and Loz didn't answer. "Kadaj?"
"Some documentary." He said sniffing the air. "I think you're soups done." Akemi got up and got her soup.
She put it on the table. "I'll go upstairs and change my bedcovers."
The next day Akemi was hoping that everything might be better. But she was wrong. It was worse. Except for Kadaj her brothers wouldn't even talk to her unless they had to.
They were all on their bikes again that day. Akemi was just speeding along when she started to feel sick again. "Kadaj…" She moaned. "I don't feel so good." Kadaj signalled for them all to turn back.
"Why are we going back Kadaj?" Yazoo asked him.
"Akemi thinks she's going to have another episode." Kadaj told them ignoring them as they moaned about heron the way home.
They got back just in time though. As soon as they walked through the door Akemi fell to the floor and started having shaking again. "When is this going to end?" She asked them feeling Kadaj pick her up and carry her into her room.
"Get her some sort of aspirin and warm water and a glass of milk." Kadaj ordered his brothers who were downstairs.
Kadaj put her down on the bed and started to undo the zip on her leather jacket. "What are you doing?" She asked him trying to fight his hands away from her.
"You can't wear leather when you're like this." He told her. "And you can't change yourself either."
Akemi sighed and felt embarrassed when she was just in her see through underwear. If Kadaj pretended that he didn't care then he did a very good job of it. Kadaj turned around and handed her a night top. "You can take the rest off yourself right?" She nodded and put her night top over her bra and then unclipped the back so it just fell off.
"Y-y-you c-can lo-look now." She told him. He helped her put her night shorts on but found it hard not knowing where to put his hands and all.
At last she was dressed. "I'm s-so –h-hot." She whimpered still shaking.
Kadaj walked downstairs and saw his brothers sitting down doing absolutely nothing. "I thought I told you to get some water for her!" He shouted at them breaking the still silence and making his brothers jump.
"We don't do anything for that girl!" Loz said.
Kadaj frowned at them both. "So then, you'd even not take my orders?" He walked into the kitchen and got everything that was needed himself.
Upstairs Akemi was in the small bathroom throwing up her breakfast from that morning. "Kadaj!" She called him throwing up some more. "Help me…" She whimpered. This hurt!
Kadaj heard her calling and was upstairs with her in ten minutes. That's what scared her though, the personality changes. One minute he'd be all strict and the next he wasn't. "You need help getting back into your room?" He asked her. She nodded and let him pick her up.
He set her in the bed and tucked her in. "W-what's wrong w-with me?" She asked him.
"I don't know." He replied dabbing her head with a warm cloth.
"P-please… Call a d-doc-tor." She pleaded much to his surprise. "I know y-you guys are w-wanted b-b-but then y-you c-an call the-them f-for m-me, and t-then leave o-out t–the b-back do-door."
Kadaj shook his head. "No. What if you're taken to the healing lodge?" Akemi stayed silent. "Here." He gave her a pain killer that he hoped would help her.
"W-what is M-mother?" She asked him wanting to know.
"Mother is Jenova. She'll help us take advantage of this world and then help us find the next by riding this world with us…" Kadaj spoke to her of Mother all afternoon until she fell asleep. And while she was listening in his eyes was a lot of happiness.
That night Akemi was awoken by Loz opening her bedroom door. "L-Loz?" She said still shaking. "What I-is it?" She asked watching his hovering over her bed.
Her eyes widened when he sat on top of her thighs and kissed her roughly on the lips. She could taste the alcohol on his tongue and knew that he'd been drinking. "K-Kadaj!" She screamed as loud as she could knowing what her eldest brother was trying to do.
Kadaj and Yazoo ran into the room and managed to get Loz off her. They threw him into his own room and took his weapons.
Kadaj returned to her room and stayed with her all night. As the days went by one by one she got more confused until in the end she would crack!