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WARNING: Contains seines of assault and battery, attempted rape, bloody violence, and some "choice" words. Reader discretion is advised.
MINDS WITHIN A MIND
Chapter 6: Remembering Memories- Part 3
"798! 799! 800!" Shinobu hears someone callout at a distance. Shinobu turns around to see her younger self looking out the window to something.
"I wonder what I'm looking at?" she asks herself. She walks over to the window and looks out. She looks up and sees Motoko doing her 1000 morning sword exercise. She looks back over to her younger self look a bit nervous looking a Motoko.
"I wonder if she can give me any help." says the young Shinobu. Suddenly the beeper goes off on her watch. "Time to go hang the cloths out to dry." says the young Shinobu. She then quickly walks out of the room followed by Shinobu.
Young Shinobu walks into the laundry room and puts all the wet cloths from the washing machine in a basket and heads up to the roof. She reaches it and slowly heads up the stairs a little wary of Motoko swinging her sword. She stops near the top and peers out looking at Motoko swinging her sword.
"978, 979, 980!" says Motoko taking another 3 swings. Young Shinobu takes another step and the stair squeaks. "Who's there!" cries out Motoko as the throws a dagger in the general direction if the sound. The dagger catches Shinobu by the hair and stabs into the railing right behind her pinning her there.
"Yahhh!" young Shinobu yelps in fright. "Oh! Miss Shinobu! I'm sorry!" says Motoko as she rushes over to Young Shinobu. She pulls the dagger out of the railing thereby releasing young Shinobu's hair. She then helps young Shinobu up.
"Please forgive me Miss Shinobu. I'm not use to having people walk up quietly from behind while im training. I've only been here 2 weeks so I'm going to need some time to adjust myself to my sew surroundings." says Motoko apologetically. "Um it's ok. I should have announced myself before I came up here." says young Shinobu bowing.
"You can return to hanging up the cloths now Miss Shinobu." says Motoko turning back around. "Um…Shinobu." says young Shinobu. "Excuse me?" asks Motoko. "Just call me Shinobu." answers young Shinobu. "Alright." says Motoko.
Young Shinobu starts to hang up the cloths on the cloths line as Motoko goes back to swinging her sword. A minute later Motoko finishes her exercise, and turns to walk off the roof. Young Shinobu turns around really quick and speaks up.
"Um…Miss Motoko I've been meaning to ask you something." says younger Shinobu. "Yes?" says Motoko as she stops to face young Shinobu. "Well um lately I have been getting these weird looks form some of the boys at school and it's gotten me a bit worried. So I wonder if you could…um….teach me some basic self defense moves if you know any." asks young Shinobu shyly.
Motoko gives a sigh. "Shinobu you're 12 years old and have just started 7th grade. Even I know that at this time in life boys and girls start to notice each other, so getting a few looks from boys isn't anything to get worried about. In fact you should be flattered. After all you have a very cute completion. It's only natural that you would get a few looks." says Motoko. Young Shinobu blushes at her remark.
"Um…well…yes I know about all of that, but it's just some of the looks some boys are giving me are very troubling. I can tell when a guy looks at me he notices my cutness/sexyness what ever. But lately a couple of boys have been giving me more evil looking stares. Not only that, but I think some of the girls are actually jealous of me because some of them have been giving me angered stares and that has me worried too." explains young Shinobu.
"Well if you're that worried then I guess there wouldn't be any harm to teach you a few self defense moves. Besides I like seeing a woman who can protect herself from the perverted ways of a man." answers Motoko. "Oh thank you very much!" yelps young Shinobu happily. "We'll start right after breakfast." says Motoko. "Ok." answers young Shinobu.
Shinobu follows both of them to the dinning room where they eat breakfast. After they finish she then follows them as they head back upstairs to the roof and begin the training.
It only takes a couple of hours before young Shinobu learns the 1st few basic moves. When Motoko finishes the 1st days training she heads back downstairs leaving young Shinobu on the roof. Shinobu looks over at her younger self "reviewing" what Motoko has taught her. Shinobu looks back downstairs as she hears the door close behind Motoko. She looks back up to her young self and sees that she is looking right at her. The bright light once again comes blinding Shinobu.
A moment later the light fades and Shinobu opens her eyes to see she is facing the gate to her Junior High School. rrrriiiinnnnnggggg! goes the school bell. Shinobu turns around to face the school and looks up at the clock tower. "Hmm 1:00 p.m. Must be the Saturday class. Wait a minute! Is this the Saturday after Motoko started training me?" she asks to herself. "Oh I hate what happened to me here." she says to herself in a fearful whimper.
She looks up to see her younger self walking out of the main building's front door with a slight depressed look of her face that she seemed to always have during this part of her life. She follows her as she turns the gate corner to head back to Hinata Sou. They only get about a block from the school when they here a boy calling out to young Shinobu.
"Hey Shinobu! Wait up a second!" calls out the voice. Both Shinobus turn around to see not 1 but 3 boys run up to her. Both Shinobus recognize the boy in the middle as Shimbo (age 14), the school bully, and his 2 "henchmen." The fat one is Hitachi (age 13) and the skinny one is Satoshi (also age 13). Young Shinobu stops and is quickly surrounded by the 3 boys. Nervously young Shinobu speaks up.
"Um…What do you want Shimbo?" she nervously asks. She recognizes him as being one of the boys giving her some of those evil looks at school. Aside from his badass attitude and extremely short temper he is actually quit cute. Even some of the girls are interested in him.
"I was thinking, if you don't have anything to do now we could go on a date." he says confidently. Young Shinobu gets a very shocked look on her face and blushes deeply. "R…Really? You want to do on….a date. With me?" she says very nervously.
"Yeah. I was thinking maybe I'd take you out for dinner and then to a movie, and then back to my place where we could, well you know." he says with a slight evil grin. Young Shinobu lowers her head some still blushing a very deep red. She hesitates to answer.
Well? How about it?" asks Shimbo. After a moment young Shinobu speaks up. "Sorry." she says making Shimbo come out of his arrogant smile. "Thank you for your offer, I'm flattered really, but I don't think I'm ready to go on a date yet. I would like to wait a couple of years before I feel I'm ready. So thank you." she says as she bows. She turns around and starts to walk away.
Hitachi reaches over suddenly and grabs onto Shinobu's arm hard. "Oww! That hurts!" shouts young Shinobu. "I don't think you understand. Our boss wasn't asking you out, he was telling you." he says with a serious face. "And I said I wanted to wait a couple of years before I go out on a date, now please let me go, you're hurting me!" she complains.
Young Shinobu is grabbed from behind by her left shoulder and is turned around quickly and she gets back handed by Shimbo in the face really hard. Young Shinobu falls to the ground hard causing her to drop her bag. She gets back up some and covers her face with her hand from where she was hit. She feels her upper lip and nose start to bleed and her eye hurts. "Why? Why did you hit me for?" she says as she begins to cry.
"Because you pissed me off. I was being nice for once and you turned me down so I had to make you pay. Hitachi. Bring her." commands Shimbo. Hitachi picks Shinobu off the ground covers her mouth so she can't scream with one hand and pins her arms behind her back with the other. Young Shinobu struggles but can't break Hitachi's strong grip. After all he plays on the junior high's wrestling team and is one of the strongest on the team. They "escort" her to an alleyway between 2, 5 story buildings where they go behind some dumpsters. Satoshi stays by the entrance to be a look out in case some one comes by.
When they know that they are out of sight from the street Satoshi joins them. "Well Shinobu I think maybe we should have our date right here. But we're going to skip the dinner and the movie." he says with a sinister smile. Shinobu can only watch in helplessness as they do this.
Shimbo walks up to young Shinobu and gets right up to her face. "Now slut. You're mine." he says sternly. She watches as he reaches down and undoes a few buttons on her shirt until the top part of her bra is reveled. He then reaches down and puts his hand on the inside of her left thigh just above her knee. She can fell his hand slowly start going higher. She begins to struggle and cry a little again as his hand goes under her dress.
He is now is only a couple of inches away from her panties when she looks down and suddenly notices that he is bending his knees to reach under her dress. He is too close to kick, but maybe… Before she has another though in her head she immediately leaps up off her right foot, plants her left foot on his knee and knees him as hard as she can with her right knee. Her knee makes connect with his nose and she can actually feel the bones break against her knee.
"Oh Shit!" he cries out in pain. Before Hitachi has any time to react to this, Shinobu comes up and bites him as hard as she can on his finger. She bites so hard she hears and feels 2 snaps before he lets go. Hitachi yells in pain as he holds his bent, broken finger.
Young Shinobu hears some foot steps behind her. She looks to see Satoshi charging her. "Why you little bitch!" he cries out and he takes a swing at her. She ducks just in time to dodge the punch. She then comes up and thrust palms him in the face, like Motoko showed her, busting his nose. Before he has time to real from the punch young Shinobu kicks him as hard as she can in the nads. Satoshi grabs between his legs and gives a loud moan before his eyes roll back into his head and he passes out. Thinking that she's in the clear Shinobu begins to run.
But before she can even take a step she is grabbed from behind around her throat by someone's forearm. "I'll teach you a lesson with the sleeper hold!" says Hitachi very pissed off. This is his signature move in wrestling. He starts to squeeze hard on her throat. Young Shinobu can fell her airway being closed off as he tightens his grip.
"Hey don't kill the little bitch Hitachi." says Shimbo with his hand holding a handkerchief up to his nose. He then pushes on top of it and popes his nose back into place. He has been in more than one fight so he knows a few ways of putting "stuff" back together after a fight. "Don't worry boss I'm only going to do this until she passes out; then we can have our way with her." says Hitachi in a very evil voice.
After about a minute or so young Shinobu can feel herself staring to slip out of consciousness. Her eye sight starts to get fuzzy and sounds are becoming more and more faint. The pulling on Hitachi's arm becomes less and less forceful. In her mind young Shinobu is panicking, knowing that this is it. Suddenly a memory of her and Motoko comes through.
"Now remember Shinobu. A clouded mind can't fight but a calm mind knows no bounds." says Motoko. "What does that mean?" asks young Shinobu. "You will know when the time comes what this means." answers Motoko. The dream state ends as young Shinobu can feel herself beginning to black out.
She makes one last desperate move to get free. She grabs her right fist into her left hand and elbows Hitachi in the ribs with all her remaining strength. She feels his grip ease off a bit just enough for her to take a breath before his grip clamps back onto her throat. But that breath is all she needed. She reaches down and grabs his balls in her hand and squeezes as hard as she can. Instantly Hitachi lets out a painful howl and he starts to release his grip. When she fells him start falling backwards she lets go and watches him fall to the ground out cold. She also falls to the ground gasping and coughing for breath.
"I had just about enough of you! You little bitch!" yells Shimbo as he tries to kick young Shinobu. Young Shinobu looks up just in time to be kicked in the face hard. She falls backwards onto her butt holding the same eye she was hit on earlier. He goes to kick her again but this time she grabs his foot. She pushes with all her might causing Shimbo to loose his balance and fall backwards onto the ground hitting his head on one of the dumpsters knocking him out cold.
Young Shinobu stands up and looks at the 3 boys lying on the ground. She turns, grabs her bag and runs. She keeps running with tears in her eyes all the way back to Hinata Sou. She runs up the steps, into the door, takes a second to slip off her shoes and runs all the way to the top floor of Hinata Sou. She flings open the roof door and runs up the stairs. She sees Motoko doing some different exercises and runs right toward her.
Motoko looks over to see young Shinobu running to her. "Shinobu?" says Motoko confusingly. Young Shinobu plunges her face into Motoko's stomach and begins to cry loudly. Motoko looks down and sees some blood staining her shirt. "Shinobu! You're bleeding! What happened?" says Motoko with surprise.
Young Shinobu cries a bit more. "I got attacked after school, and was nearly raped! If it wasn't for your self defense training I still would probably still be being raped or worse!" she cries out. She begins to cry again into Motoko's stomach. Motoko puts a hand behind Shinobu head and begins to comfort her.
"Those boys got just what they deserved!" says Shinobu to herself. "After this Shimbo was arrested and was put into Juvenile detention. Hitachi was suspended from school indefinably. And Satoshi was suspended for the rest of the school year." she adds.
Shinobu looks back up at her younger self who is now looking right at her with tears in her eyes with her right eye swelling up. The bright light comes once again blinding Shinobu once more.
More memories of her and Motoko come and go before the light becomes extremely bright again. As the light fades once more, Shinobu sees that she is once again in the bright white room.
What seems like another hour goes by and suddenly Shinobu hears a little bell ring. The light once again comes and blinds her. After a moment the light fades and Shinobu opens her eyes to see racks of cloths in front of her.
"Oh Hello Naru!" she hears someone call out. Shinobu looks behind her and sees Naru and herself come through a door in a small clothing store. "Hello Mr. Johnson." says Naru.
(Author Interruption: Can't use young Shinobu anymore, therefore I will be writing about Store Shinobu more than Coma Shinobu so you can understand this part of the story better. Shinobu will now refer to Store Shinobu while I'll be using Coma Shinobu to talk about the Shinobu in coma.)
"Mr. Johnson? I'm in the store again! But why?" says coma Shinobu to herself. She watches as Naru introduces her to the Johnsons. After a minute Mr. Johnson tells Shinobu that she can have 25 percent off anything in the store. With that Shinobu walks off to the front of the store where the dresses are followed by coma Shinobu.
Shinobu reaches a rack of interesting looking dresses and skirts so she starts to flip through them. She comes upon a plastic covered leather mini skirt. "Ha ha!" giggles Shinobu. "If Kanoko ever tried to hit on Sempai again she could use this because it matches her personality." says Shinobu with a grin. She puts the skirt back and walks over to another rack.
This one is full of Neon colored denim mini skirts. Oranges, yellows, greens, blues, reds, and even neon purple ones. Each skirt has a certain sewn picture on the left side. Some have hearts; others have birds, unicorns, rainbows, teddy bears, bunnies, and other cute pictures. She decides not to get one and so she moves on.
"Hey! You're Right! She does look a bit like Shinobu!" comes a voice from behind her. She glances back to see Naru looking at a picture and having a nice conversation. She turns back around to look at more designer dresses. She goes over to inspect the manikins in the front left window of the store that are wearing dresses.
"Wow these look nice! Especially that flower pattered one. I wonder if there is one folded on the display shelf there in my size." she says to herself. She starts looking through them. Then a white thing out of the corner of her eye catches her attention. She looks over and sees a white Honda speeding down the street.
"Man that idiot is going to kill someone!" she says to herself. "I wonder how fast he's going?" she thinks to herself. She stands there expecting the car to fly by the store at any second.
"What the!" she says to herself surprised as the car suddenly slams on it's breaks causing a big smoke cloud to erupt from behind it. She watches as it comes to a stop in front of the store. "What is up with that driver?" she wonders.
As the smoke cloud envelops the car she notices the two driver side windows open up. She then sees 2 things being aimed at the store. She instantly recognizes the shape of the 2 things.
"GUN!" she cries out. She looks back really quick and notices the driver of the car looking right at her as if he heard her shout too. Her eyes narrow with horror when she watches him train his gun right at her! Before she has time to react, both gunmen open fire on the store.
She watches as the window in front of her shatters into God knows how many thousands pieces. She then feels something hit her stomach like someone hit her with a bat. She stumbles back and hits the wall behind her before she falls forward onto the floor. She holds her stomach as she feels unbearable pain coming from where she was hit.
She looks over from the floor to see Mr. Johnson lean over the counter and give Naru a hard shove, pushing her to the ground. As soon as Naru hits the ground she watches Mr. Johnson get hit in the throat and then in the head. She watches him fall dead onto the ground. She then watches as Mrs. Johnson get hit and fall screaming off the roller ladder into the glass display counter and get impaled with the broken pieces of glass.
Shinobu grabs her stomach tighter as she feels more and more searing pain. She watches as the store gets torn to ribbons by the gunfire. Suddenly the gunfire stops and she hears tires squeal as the car speeds away.
She tries standing but the pain is too much and she falls back on her stomach. She tries again and slowly stands up felling very weak and getting weaker by he second. She feels something wet on her hand. She looks as her hand and sees a lot of blood. "Oh God! I've been shot!" she says to herself fearfully. She slowly starts to walk to the middle of the store where Naru is.
"Shinobu!" she hears Naru call out. "Shinobu! Are you ok?" she hears Naru call out again. She goes around a rack of shredded up cloths and sees Naru. "Shino-" Naru stops when she sees Shinobu.
"Oh Shinobu! Thank God you're-" Shinobu looks right at Naru fearfully when Naru stops. She watches as Naru looks at her stomach. She then feels blood ooze out from between her fingers.
"Shinobu?" she sees Naru say. Shinobu tries to say something back when her vision blurs a bit then goes back to normal. "…..Naru." she says back. She then feels too weak to even stand any more. She can feel her legs give out from under her. She can feel herself land on her knees but even they are too weak to stay up so she starts to fall forward.
"Shinobu!" she hears Naru cry out. The next thing she knows she is looking into Naru's face. "Come on Shinobu! Stay with me girl!" she hears Naru say. She watches as Naru lifts her hand off her wound and look at it for a second. "Oh God!" she hears Naru murmur.
"Someone call for help! Hurry!" she hears Naru shout. "Call for an ambulance! Hurry!" she hears her call again. Shinobu's vision becomes blurry again and this time it doesn't go back to normal. She reaches up and grabs Naru's sleeve. Naru turns to her.
She tries her hardest to take a deep breath but it's coming up short. But she tries her best to speak again. "Naru…….Please tell she gasps again …..Please tell Sempai that I love him." she says again. She sees Naru look at her with anguish. Her hearing starts to fade but she can still hear Naru shout at her. "No! You can tell him that yourself!"
Shinobu suddenly feels very cold but still gives a grin knowing that Naru would tell Kietaro that if she dies on the spot. She can fell her self going as her vision goes black. She tries as hard as she can to keep breathing but even that is zapping her strength fast. The she feels herself black out.
(Author interruption: Coma Shinobu will now be called Shinobu.)
Shinobu watches as Naru calls out her name and begins to cry bitterly. She suddenly hears a crash behind her. She turns around to see some paramedics and a police officer force the busted door open and rush into the store. She watches as the paramedics work on herself and is also surprised to hear one of the paramedics yell that she has a pulse. She then watches as they put herself on a back board and put her and Naru in an ambulance. Before the ambulance takes off Shinobu runs up and jumps into the ambulance.
She watches as the paramedics cut off her shirt and begin to work on her. She then hears a heart monitor go flat line. She continues to watch as they cut off her bra, making her blush, and then shock her making her jump. She hears Naru crying and looking very upset at seeing this.
After a minute or so she watches as the ambulance stops in front of a huge hospital. She gets out and reads the door of the hospital. "Tokyo University Emergency Trauma Center." She follows Naru and the paramedics inside as they wheel her shot self into the hospital. She watches as one of the paramedics stops Naru at the front desk and then go back to wheeling her shot self down a hallway to the left behind the desk.
Shinobu starts to walk to Naru when the she notices her shot self sit up from the cart and look right at her before going around the corner. The bright light once again returns and blinds her.
After a moment the light fades and Shinobu opens her eyes again. Once again she is in the bright white room. She then realizes something. "Hey if I blacked out in the store then how do I remember going to the hospital?" she asks. She ponders this for about an hour when she hears some yelling.
"Come on nurse! Hurry and get those blood bags hooked up!" she hears someone call out. The bright light once again blinds Shinobu. A moment later the light fades and Shinobu opens her eyes.
She sees that she is facing 2 doors. She looks down and sees a checkered floor. "Come on! Come on! Suction! This girl is bleeding out!" she hears someone shout from behind her. She turns around and sees a bunch of doctors and nurses around a gurney working on someone. She walks over to the side trying to see who it is. Finally one of the nurses steps away for a second and Shinobu gets a clear view of who it is. She is shocked to see who it is.
End of Chapter 6
To be continued in Chapter 7- Miracles at work
Author Note: Well I promised that this chapter would a be bit sorter and it is….by a half a page :-P. You curious on why Shinobu is remembering memories that wouldn't make since if she'd blacked out. You'll find out in one of the final chapters. The memory of the store incident is from Shinobu's point of view. The one from the 1st chapter is mainly from Naru's point of view just in case you were wondering.
Story Hint: I know that Shinobu was probably never attacked/attempted raped in her past but I figured this was another main reason why she fell for Kietaro, him being the polar opposite of Shimbo that is. If I offended anyone with that part im sorry.