" I'm sorry to say this, but your grandmother has been telling us to keep this from you girls, and frankly, we can not do this anymore, your family has been coming to this hospital for as long as I can remember, and it isn't right to keep informing as important as this from the only family Sakura has left since kagome disappeared. He said solemnly.
Kaoru looked at kaori with a confused look on her face.
" What are you talking about Dr. Takahashi, what's going on with my obaasan? " Kaoru asked worriedly.
" She... She has cancer." Dr. Takahashi said sadly.
The girls heard the doctor, but, the words weren't processing right, their obaasan, who is the nicest woman in the world, the woman who thinks of everyone before she thinks of herself, the woman who gave up her life, just to raise them, has been suffering with this horrible disease without anyone but herself and the doctors knowing.
Kaoru's heart skipped a beat, and her eyes started to water up.
" No." Kaoru whispered to herself.
Kaori looked back at her sister and saw that she had her head down, her bangs shadowing her eyes, she had her hands balled up on each side in a tight fist as a line tear strolled down her face and dripped to the ground.
" No!" Kaoru yelled as she looked up at the doctor, her eyes flooding with tears. " That's a lie! S-she would have told us, she wouldn't keep a secret like this from us, would she?" Kaoru said more to herself than anyone else.
" Your grandmother has been fighting this sickness for a very long time, way before you two were born, she didn't tell anyone, not even your mother or your uncle, she said that she didn't want anyone to stress over it, she just wanted everyone to stay happy." Said the doctor.
More tears sprang to kaoru's eyes, her heart pounded faster and faster.
" She had to suffer through this alone, no one knew about it and she had to suffer alone." Kaoru covered her mouth with her hand as more tears fell, and in the speed of light, she turned around and ran out of the hospital.
" Kaoru!" Kaori shouted after her sister.
Kaori ran to the hospital doors, seeing her sister retreating back disappearing into the night.
Kaoru's Pov
"This isn't fair, obaasan doesn't deserve this." I thought myself as I continued to run to my destination, tears streaming down my face as the wind whips my hair in all kinds of directions.
When I arrive at my destination, I walked up the long flights of stairs, when I got to the top, all of my emotions hit me all at once.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! " I screamed out, hoping it would take all of my emotions with it, but unfortunately, it didn't. "
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed out again, while falling to my knees, tears streaming down my face.
" Why is my family plagued with misfortune?! Why do we have to suffer like this?! " I screamed to the sky. " First my mother is stripped out of my life, now your taking away my obaasan?! What did our family ever do to you?!" I screamed up at the sky again.
I've tried to hold everything in, I've tried to never think of the negative things, I always try to stay positive and keep a smile on my face, but I can't do that right now, I feel like I'm slowly loosing my mind.
I stood up off of the ground, tears springing to my eyes once again, as I made my way to to the forbidden shrine, I threw the doors open and walked down the stairs, I walked over to the lifeless well and stared down into it, my mind flashing back to seeing my mother cutting the vine as the man with the white hair grabbed her, I remember screaming and crying for mother to return to us, but it never happened.
" Why did you have to leave us huh?!" I yelled looking into the empty well. " Maybe if you were here, obaasan would be ok, your a priestess, you could heal her, but your not here, and now obaasan's gonna die!" I yelled as I ripped off my sun amulet and threw it full force at the wall.
I covered my face with my hands as I dropped to the ground, tears streaming down my face once again, I turned myself around, pressing my back up against the well, and I brought my knees up to my chest and put my forehead on the top of my knees. I sat there for about five minutes, when I stared to feel a warm feeling envelop me, but that warmth didn't last long before it was replaced with a scorching hot feeling, I screamed out in agony as I felt like my body was being torn apart, I stood up off of the ground, my legs shaking with pain, I tried to guide myself by holding onto the well, but when I touched the well, pink energy shot from my hand and into the well, making the well light up and dark purple color, it was captivating, I leaned closer to get a better look, almost as if the well was pulling me into it, and that's exactly what it did, because next thing you know, I'm flying down the well screaming my head off, and just as fast as it started, it stopped.
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Kaori's Pov
I held back my tears as I stared at my sisters retreating form, I wanted to chase after her, but someone needed to stay here with obaasan. I took a deep breath and walked back over to the doctor, my fists balled up tight, trying to find away to keep from breaking down.
" W-what room is she in " I asked quietly, but loud enough so he could hear me.
" Kaori-" The doctor began to say, and but I cut him off.
"What room is my grandmother in?! " I said more louder and forceful.
The doctor sighed and told me her room number, I turned around and began to walk to my obaasan's room, but what the doctor said next, stopped me right in my tracks.
" She doesn't have long kaori."
My fists tightened even more as tears sprung to my eyes.
"H-how long. " I asked, never turning around to face him, as I choked on my words.
" The most I can say is a month, but, with this disease, anything could happen at any given moment." He said.
Without saying anything to him, I continued on my way to my obaasan's room. When I finally got to her room, my heart started to beat fast, I opened the door, the lights in the room were dim, and I saw obaasan laying on the bed, she looked so fragile, she looked like if you touch her, she would break into tiny pieces, my heart clinched as I walked over to her, when I got to her bedside, I instinctively grabbed her hands, they felt so bony and cold, they didn't feel like my obaasan's warm caressing hands that I'm so used to feeling, tears rose to my eyes, unable to hold back anymore, I began to cry out.
I heard obaasan's door open, so snapped my head back, ready to snap at anyone who tried to take me away from my obaasan, but I immediately calmed down when I saw the loving face of my uncle, he stopped at the door, looking at me with a small smile, but it was obvious that he had been crying, the doctor must have told him as well, I saw a tears fall down his face, which made me tear up instantly, I carefully put obaasan's hands down, and turned to face my uncle again, he opened up his arms as I ran into them, hugging his body for dear life, crying for all I was worth, he caressed my hair, rocking me back and forth in a soothing way.
" I know sweetie, I know." He said softy as he continued to caress my hair.
I stood there hugging him for a while, when I heard a knock on the already opened door, and when I looked over at the door, I saw a woman holding a little girl, the woman smiled sadly at me and sat the little girl on the ground, and opened her arms to me, my uncle released me and I walked over hugging her body tight, she kissed me on the top of my head and hugged me tighter.
" I'm so sorry sweetie." She said while hugging me.
I didn't reply back, I just stood there hugging her, after a few more minutes, I released her and walked back over to my uncle, who had took a seat next to my obaasan's bedside.
" I just, I just can't believe it, all of these years, and I had no idea what she was dealing with." Uncle sota said out loud as he moved a curl from obaasan's face.
I sat down in uncle sota's lap and buried my face into his neck, he rubbed comforting circles into my back.
" Where is kaoru? " He asked, just now noticing that his youngest niece wasn't present.
" You know how kaoru is about these kinds of things, she can handles anything else, except news like this, so she ran off, I'm assuming back to the shrine." I said quietly.
" Well how about this, hitomi, saya, and I stay at the shrine with you girls, as long as you like, we'll stay there." Uncles sota said, as aunt hitomi agreed.
" I cannot ask you to do that, you two have a family of your own to raise, it is ok, you do not have to stay with us." I said quietly to them.
Uncle sota chuckled while ruffling my hair a bit, which made me laugh a little.
" Kaori, you and your sister are my nieces, your my family too, and you two are only sixteen, you don't always have to be so independent all the time sweetie, sometimes it's good to have to depend on someone, besides, we don't mind staying at the shrine, its always good to go back where you grew up." Uncle sota said while smiling.
I smile a bit back at him, and that's when the doctor came in.
" I'm sorry, but visiting hours are over." He said sadly.
I stood up quickly, about to protest, when uncle sota put his hand on my head, and that instantly shut me up.
" Yes sir, we'll be on our way then." Uncle sota said.
He bent down to obaasan and kissed her forehead, and I did the same, uncle sota grabbed my hand and gave it an encouraging squeeze, and we all walked out of the room, I gave one last look at my obaasan, before the doctor quietly closed the door.
We walked back to the lobby where Nanami, haru, and itachi were waiting, well more like sleeping, and I woke them up. Itachi left after saying his goodbyes to us, and haru was sleeping over and nanami now staying with us, followed us to the car.
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When we made it to the shrine, we all got out of the car, I stretched my cramped muscles, and was about to go inside, but I stopped when I saw a glow coming from inside of the forbidden shrine, my heart skipped a beat as I took off in the direction of the forbidden shrine, when I got there, I saw that the doors were thrown wide open and when I went inside, the glow was brighter, it was a very bright golden color, I cautiously walked over to it, and I saw that it was kaoru's amulet and when I got so close, my amulet started to glow a very bright blue color.
" Why is her amulet in here? " I asked myself. " And why is it glowing."
"Hey Kaori, you OK? "
I looked up and saw Nanami and haru walk into the shrine house.
" Hai, I am." I replied back.
Haru walked over with Nanami in tow, and they both hugged me, I hesitated for a moment, but I finally hugged them back, nanami was the first to let go, but haru kept on hugging, so I sighed and tried to push him off.
" Haru, let g-
I was cut off as I felt haru place his lips on mine, I heard the sound of a camera clicking as he pulled me closer to him, to shocked with what was going on, I did nothing to stop him, when he broke the kiss, I stood there, shock still evident on my face, but that initial shock wore off, and it turned into raging fury, I raised my hand to smack the living daylights out of him, but stopped when he caught my hand saying " Uh uh uh, I won the bet, remember."
I growled lowly and yanked my hand out of his grasp and marched out of the forbidden shrine and into the house.
" Hey, kaori, I was looking for your sister, she's wasn't downstairs, so I looked upstairs, but she's not there either, she's not in her room, and your room, and or in the bathroom, do you think she went to a friends house or something?" Uncle sota asked.
"N-no kaoru doesn't like to spend the night at her friends house, she says she doesn't feel comfortable with it, and she doesn't stay out late at night... either " I said slowly as I looked at her amulet in my hand. " No... That couldn't be." I said to myself as I ran back out if the house, past haru and Nanami, and back into the well house, I ran down the stairs and over to the well, I looked inside of the well, seeing nothing but complete darkness.
I sighed to myself.
" No wonder kaoru took it off, I remember mother saying that if we always wore our amulets, we would never be hurt." I said as I took off my amulet and held it in KY hands. " but that's was a lie because all I feel right now is pain." I said as I let both amulets drop to the ground.
I turned around and was about to walk out of the forbidden shrine, but I started to feel a warm feeling envelop me, my body started to tingle, then my body began to feel as if it was on fire, I fell to the ground screaming in pain, a few minutes later the pain stopped, so I grabbed on to the well to help me stand, and ylthats when I saw the familiar purple light swirling inside of the well, the same purple light that kaoru and I had fallen into when we were little kids that took us to the feudal era.
I gasped, and looked over at mines and kaoru's amulets that lay on the ground. What if kaoru... I let that sentence hang as I ran out of the well house and back into the house, upstairs to my room, I grabbed my backpack and dumped all of my school stuff out and packed it with clothes, then I went to kaoru's room and did the same thing, I zipped my over stuffed bag and ran downstairs, I opened my bag and stuffed a lot of cups of ramen in there and then zipped my bag back up.
" And where might you be going young lady?" I heard uncle sota's deep voice say from behind me.
I turned around to face him, about to explain myself, when he held his hand up to silence me.
" I'm just kidding, now... Go bring your mother and sister back, I'll make sure mother is ok, just hurry and find kagome, I'm confident that she can help mother." He said proudly.
I smiled at him and nodded determinedly, I hugged him and then ran out of the house and back to the well house, where I saw Nanami and haru changed out of their costumes an into regular clothes.
" What are you-
" Where coming with you." Haru said cutting me off. " And where not taking no for an answer.
" But how do you-
" Haru told me. " nanami me said cutting me off as well.
" We have no time to waste, so, shall we be in our way? " Haru asked.
I sighed and walked over to two swords that hung on the wall, a bow and quiver of arrows, and a belt full of daggers and pepper spray.
I told haru and Nanami to hold the weapons until we heron the other side, then we all hopped on the lip of the well, nanami on either side of me holding my hand, then... We jumped in.
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Hey guys, Amariyah here, I hope you guys like the chapter, I'm sorry for not updating sooner, my ideas weren't flying in like they usually do, so Gomen'nasai, but hopefully you guys will like this chapter and comment and vote on it.
P. S I have a new kamisama hajimemashita story that I'm writing, those of you who know what that is, I recommend reading, I just stared writing it, but it's gonna be a good story, so check it out.
But until next...
Amariyah out! * Anime peace signs and winks*