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Chapter 2
Jou sadly pulled the lifeless body of his sister from the water, trying his hardest to hold back the tears that he knew were coming. Climbing back up to the top of the waterfall he hastily pulled the young boy from the water, before hypothermia set in if it already hasn't. He had also picked up a large heavy back pack out of the water and carried it in with him, dropping it onto the floor.
Settling the boy into his bed and pulling a few extra quilts a top of him he settled to the sad task of telling his father what had happened and why his only daughter was now dead. He put Shizuka's lifeless body onto her bed and went around to the back of his home. "Hey mama, how are you?" He asked the unmarked grave sitting in front of him.
"Guess what mama, you aren't alone anymore. You have Shizuka now; she died this morning saving a young boy in the river. But at least her death wasn't in vain he is alive. I promise to take care of him."
"I miss you mama, now you and Shizuka. And soon Papa will leave me too, I have no one left anymore. I know you moved us out her to give me peace and quiet because of this stupid illness, but mama, I want a friend, someone to talk to, someone to share problems with, like I did with Shizuka. I want to know what it is like to have a friend before this illness takes me away forever."
"It hurts mama, it hurts so bad. The pain is so unbearable that lately I have been passing out from it alone. Mama, I don't know what to do anymore. I know there is no surgery to help me, and I know that if there were we wouldn't have been able to afford it. But mama, I want to live in the world outside of this place, some place where I can see those large buildings papa always talked about, and all those other things."
Jou gave up talking at that point, the tears were fallings freely and slurring his speech. Instead he picked up a discarded shovel and started digging a large hole next to his mother grave.
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Jou's papa watched as his only son spoke to the grave in sadness before starting to dig another grave for his little sister. "I am so sorry son, there was a surgery we could have used for you, but we just couldn't afford it my boy." A rough coughing fit racked his body. He looked over at the young boy who we was keeping an eye on. He had put a damp cloth on his forehead to break the fever that was rising. And the boy still hadn't woken up.
He walked over to his dead daughter, using his cane as support, and used his hand to pull her eyelids over her eyes, he couldn't bear to look into those lifeless eyes any longer, it just wasn't possible. Slowly he sat in an old crooked chair and cried himself into a restless slumber.
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Jou quietly walked back into the house, did a check up on the boy, who was sound asleep, with a light fever that seemed to be breaking. He walked past his slumbering father and picked up his sister's dead body. "I am sorry Shizu, oh why did you have to die?"
He walked back outside and gingerly lowered her into a hole that was as high and as wide as he was tall. "I love you baby sister." He gradually started to fill the hole with earth. He went back inside to get a drink, but stopped abruptly as a sharp pain rocketed through his head. "Not again." He fell to his knees, gasping in pain.
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"Mokuba!" Kaiba yelled as he followed the river in a gallop run. "Mokuba, where are you!?"
"Kaiba-Sama!" A young man called from across the river. "Listen to me, Mokuba-San has had enough training in the wilderness to last him at least a week alone, it is a three day hike down this river, let us please rest, I promise Mokuba will be safe when we find him."
"I am not giving up on my brother!" Kaiba growled back as he kept up his pace. "I will find him!"
TBC
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Chapter 2
Jou sadly pulled the lifeless body of his sister from the water, trying his hardest to hold back the tears that he knew were coming. Climbing back up to the top of the waterfall he hastily pulled the young boy from the water, before hypothermia set in if it already hasn't. He had also picked up a large heavy back pack out of the water and carried it in with him, dropping it onto the floor.
Settling the boy into his bed and pulling a few extra quilts a top of him he settled to the sad task of telling his father what had happened and why his only daughter was now dead. He put Shizuka's lifeless body onto her bed and went around to the back of his home. "Hey mama, how are you?" He asked the unmarked grave sitting in front of him.
"Guess what mama, you aren't alone anymore. You have Shizuka now; she died this morning saving a young boy in the river. But at least her death wasn't in vain he is alive. I promise to take care of him."
"I miss you mama, now you and Shizuka. And soon Papa will leave me too, I have no one left anymore. I know you moved us out her to give me peace and quiet because of this stupid illness, but mama, I want a friend, someone to talk to, someone to share problems with, like I did with Shizuka. I want to know what it is like to have a friend before this illness takes me away forever."
"It hurts mama, it hurts so bad. The pain is so unbearable that lately I have been passing out from it alone. Mama, I don't know what to do anymore. I know there is no surgery to help me, and I know that if there were we wouldn't have been able to afford it. But mama, I want to live in the world outside of this place, some place where I can see those large buildings papa always talked about, and all those other things."
Jou gave up talking at that point, the tears were fallings freely and slurring his speech. Instead he picked up a discarded shovel and started digging a large hole next to his mother grave.
~_~_~_~
Jou's papa watched as his only son spoke to the grave in sadness before starting to dig another grave for his little sister. "I am so sorry son, there was a surgery we could have used for you, but we just couldn't afford it my boy." A rough coughing fit racked his body. He looked over at the young boy who we was keeping an eye on. He had put a damp cloth on his forehead to break the fever that was rising. And the boy still hadn't woken up.
He walked over to his dead daughter, using his cane as support, and used his hand to pull her eyelids over her eyes, he couldn't bear to look into those lifeless eyes any longer, it just wasn't possible. Slowly he sat in an old crooked chair and cried himself into a restless slumber.
~_~_~_~
Jou quietly walked back into the house, did a check up on the boy, who was sound asleep, with a light fever that seemed to be breaking. He walked past his slumbering father and picked up his sister's dead body. "I am sorry Shizu, oh why did you have to die?"
He walked back outside and gingerly lowered her into a hole that was as high and as wide as he was tall. "I love you baby sister." He gradually started to fill the hole with earth. He went back inside to get a drink, but stopped abruptly as a sharp pain rocketed through his head. "Not again." He fell to his knees, gasping in pain.
~_~_~_~
"Mokuba!" Kaiba yelled as he followed the river in a gallop run. "Mokuba, where are you!?"
"Kaiba-Sama!" A young man called from across the river. "Listen to me, Mokuba-San has had enough training in the wilderness to last him at least a week alone, it is a three day hike down this river, let us please rest, I promise Mokuba will be safe when we find him."
"I am not giving up on my brother!" Kaiba growled back as he kept up his pace. "I will find him!"
TBC
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