Chapter 5: How Painful Love Can Be
Ban was panting heavily as a mad dog. He had lost so much blood that he felt dizzy.
He stretched his right arm and reached the wall for support. He could no longer handle himself. He was losing his balance.
Shit! Of all times why now?
"Any problems, Mister?" a voice asked.
"Nande mo nai. Leave me alone." He said strong-headedly.
"Your head is bleeding." The same voice told him.
"I said leave me alone!" he shouted. "Who are you any—" he paused.
He could no longer say a thing. Too shocked of what or who was in front of him, he could not believe his own eyes.
"Your head is bleeding, Mister. It must be attended as soon as possible."
The rain had completely stopped.
Slowly, the sun was divulging itself.
Ban was mesmerized as he watched the woman in front of him…
She had a long shimmering creamy hair that glitters as the sun shone upon it...
For Ban, she was a beautiful deity that came down from the heavens … she was an attractive young nymph that in a way or another had magnetized his heart.
Ban stared at her as if a newly born baby that had just seen the world or as if he was a prisoner who had just came out from his cell and had just saw the morning sun.
The woman who was standing right in front of him seemed to have placed him in some kind of hypnosis.
Ban could do nothing other than to stare at the woman and admire her as she was wiping his head with her own white hanky.
Ban was wide-eyed.
Am I dreaming?
Is this girl really with me?
"Um…" Ban closed his eyes trying to think of anything nice to say.
"Sorry for yelling at you." Ban humbly started. The woman did not reply.
Ban looked at her again with his right eyebrow raised. There was no change in her expressionless face.
"My name is Mido Ban. De anata wa?" the young woman continued to wipe the blood from Ban's face.
As she was about to speak to answer Ban's inquiry…
"Chi!" a remote voice called out. Both Ban and the woman with her turned towards the voice's direction.
A silhouette of a man running appeared.
For every second, that figure was becoming nearer until it was only a stone's throw away from them.
"O, it's you Hideki-kun." The woman's impassive face lighted up.
"Where have you been? I am looking for you for hours now." The lad said.
"Uh… excuse me. Do you know each other?" Ban interrupted.
"Hai. Are you the one who find my Chi? O, arigato gozaimasu." The lad bowed low as a sign of gratefulness and respect.
"Kimi no Chi? What do you mean?" Ban was more perplexed now.
"Oh, let me introduce you ourselves." the lad said. "My name is Hideki and this is Chi."
"O, wakarimashita. Watashi wa Mido Ban desu." He replied. He did not know whether to be grateful or not.
"Oh, your head is bleeding!" Hideki exclaimed.
"O, kore? This is nothing." Ban just ignored the pain in his head for knowing this person, Hideki, was more painful for him.
Chi, aren't we really for one another? Ban thought.