. : Inazuma : .
: . By Akikazu . :
. : Chapter Eleven : .
"Hi Oka-san," Kagome greeted softly.
There was no response, not that she actually expected one.
"I see that they gave you a nice room."
The room was indeed nice, the walls colored soft pastels and a pair of large windows that looked into the hospital's inner courtyard.
"Souta and I started school today and I wore the chou-ran that you bought me. Everyone thought I was a guy and I even got targeted by the fan guild."
A life support system stood nearby, just in case it became needed.
"I met this group of people at school one of them, a girl, was really nice to me and I saw one of the boy on the bullet train when Souta and I moved into the city."
The IV dripped steadily in its bag.
"They told me about the Aquarian Age."
The monitor at the bedside beeped at a steady rate, the line moving steadily.
"Then Souta was kidnapped."
For a second Kagome almost thought that the monitor skipped a beat.
"Some man cut his eyes. He'll never see again."
Kagome imagined that her mother's skin paled, but of course recently it had always been such.
"This really nice, cute guy saved him, his name is Noya Ai. He's a Sightless too, just like Souta is now."
Her mother had never been the same after her first bought of this 'sickness'.
"He said he'd come back in a week to train Souta, he even gave us a bandana to tied over his eyes."
Why no one had done anything after Mother had first gotten sick was still a mystery to her.
"Souta is with the doctor right now, he needs a pass to wear the bandana to school."
The curtains were open over the windows allowing as much sunlight as possible in.
"We're both going to be involved in the Aquarian Age now, Oka-san."
Still not much light got through the windows, only enough to cast a faint glow.
"And we know that you have something to do with the war. And something about the E.G.O.'s unification scheme."
Kagome smiled faintly at her mother as she sensed someone approach the room, and patted her mother's hand comfortingly.
"I love you, Momma."
The door opened quietly behind her but she didn't turn. Soft footsteps came closer to her and stopped at her side. Kagome didn't flinch but kept her eyes on her mother.
"Kagome?"
She barely moved at all.
"Did the doctor give you the pass?"
Souta knelt next to his sister and took her hand, holding it much in the same way Kagome held her mothers.
"Yup, but he asked why the wounds were so healed if I had been attacked today."
She made a mental note that the doctor was a nosy man. He shouldn't have asked, he should've just been grateful he had another job that he could charge them for.
"What did you say?"
Souta smiled and gave his unconscious mother a peck on the cheek before answering.
"I told him that we have a friend that's a doctor and he treated it on the way here, but had to leave for work so he couldn't meet him."
She supposed that it was somewhat true. The normal human doctor probably couldn't handle the true story anyways.
"The doctor's a buffoon."
Souta giggled but nodded his head in agreement.
"Did you have a nice visit with mother?"
Kagome had to wonder why had asked such a silly question.
"It was fine."
Souta stood and tugged on her arm.
"Then can we leave?"
She should have guessed that he was impatient.
"Sure."
Souta had never like hospitals.
"Bye, bye Mom. See you later."
He kissed her pale cheek again before dragging Kagome to the door.
"I love you, Mother."
Kagome allowed her brother to pull her completely from the room.
Giving it a second though Kagome figured that she didn't care much for hospitals either, especially this one.
And so she never looked back.
I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I . I .
How tiresome this job had become.
"Itsuki, tell the cook I need three number sixes."
He yawned and did as Haruna had ordered him to.
"Here you go boy-o, three sixes."
Itsuki took the order from the fast cooking chef and handed it to his sister.
"Thanks Itsuki."
Haruna smiled brightly at him.
"You're welcome, now go."
How did he get pulled into work when he was behind the bar, anyways?
"Hey you! Can'st I get a refill?"
Shrugging he went and brought the man his alcoholic beverage.
"Here you are, sir. Is there anything else I can get for you?"
Mentally he hoped the man said no.
"Naw, but aren't you a wee bit young to be working the bar?"
Well technically…
"No I just turned twenty-two last summer."
What a liar.
"Aw, sorry to bother you, my good man."
But how will you make up for it?
"It's fine."
He turned and left the man to drown in his drink.
"Itsuki."
He really needed a new part time job.
"Yeah?"
One without Haruna.
"Get me a four and a kettle of green tea please."
Because if he was honest with himself…
"Sure, hang on a sec."
… He was the only reasonable one in his family.
"Thanks."
And the rest of his family…
"Here."
… Worked way too hard.
Plus he was getting so many bad signals here.
And so, he quit.
: . End Chapter . :
. : Author's Note : .
Wow this chapter shorter than the one I put up a couple of hours ago.
Nine pages to five.
But I like this chapter, though it is a little random.
So you got to see Kagome visit her mother, which seemed more than a little sinister. And there's also the strange lack of voices…
And you got to see Itsuki at work and lying about his age.
The bad signals thing is about the orders, 666 and four which is a bad luck number in Japan. They don't have hospital room is Japan numbered four because it the word 'shi' not only mean sour, but death.
Later.
: . Review Responses . :
Evfrosyne – I like how Souta is being too, so cute.
regretfully-yours-Cassy-chan – Your wish is my command… Or something like that. I think it would really such having percent grades, then my parents would kill me for having even a low ninety.