-Needing You: chapter 2-
Anna opened her eyes slowly because the sudden light hit her eyes.
"Sorry to wake you up, dear." Mai smiled. She pulled nearest chair to the bed side.
"It's okay…" Anna rubbed her eyes and tried to sit up.
"I have something to tell you…"
Anna stared emotionless to Mai.
"Yoh! Dinner is ready! Come on!" Hao yelled from the kitchen.
Yoh came into the kitchen and sat across Hao. He stared to the meal and stared to his brother. Hao frowned.
"What?"
"You are cooking dinner again?"
Hao groaned. "Who will cook then? You don't want to get out from your room even if I screamed! What else that you expect?"
Yoh chuckled weakly. "Ehehe… sorry… I have my own reason. Itadakimasu…" Yoh lifted his chopsticks and began to eating.
But before the rice reached his mouth, Yoh lowered his chopsticks.
"What now?" Hao asked. Yoh stared to nowhere.
"Anna… Where's her, Hao?"
Hao sighed and put his bowl down.
"Yoh. Listen. Polices are give up. It was almost one week. It comes nothing. Please Yoh! Stop hurting yourself!" Hao stated desperate.
Yoh lifted an eyebrow. "You are so heartless!" he pushed Hao forcefully. "You don't understand! You never understand how I feel!" Yoh sat again and lowered his face until his bangs covered his face.
"Yoh. I understand it. I really do."
"You don't."
"Shut up! Listen to me!" Hao snapped. Yoh silenced and looked at him.
"Yoh, I know that you love her so bad, but she remains missing. We don't have any idea where she is. What else do you expect from that? Hurting yourself with waiting her endlessly? Yoh, it's nonsense."
"I know…" Yoh muttered.
"Maybe… just maybe… she is already dead. Maybe she has rest in peace, we never know."
"I hope not…"
"Yeah… me neither. But, don't you want to give your last respect?"
Yoh kept silent for a while. Then he nodded. "I think so…" he smiled.
"Michi?" Anna frowned. Mai nodded.
"Is my name Michi, Mai-san?"
"Err… it's not. But it was my late daughter's name. I really want you become my daughter…" Mai stated.
"Late daughter? Is she dead? Why?"
"I don't want to talk about it…" Mai looked away. Anna stared at her.
"Sorry…" Mai shook her head. "It's okay, it was two years ago."
"Mai-san? do you know who I am?"
Mai gulped. 'What will I tell to her? Oh, well…'
"Mai-san?"
"I adopt you from the orphanage. You get amnesia." Mai chose to lie.
Anna's eyes widened. "Really? What caused it?"
"Err… bad childhood… yeah. Bad childhood. You don't want to know. So?"
Anna thought. "I need to think about it…"
"Oh, it's alright. If you are ready, just tell me." Anna nodded and lied back. Mai pulled the blanket until Anna's neck and kissed her.
"Sleep well, dear."
Anna closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. When Mai closed the door, Anna stared the ceiling in the darkness.
'What will I do now? In one side, she looks really love me. And other side, I don't know who I am…'
Anna sighed and chose to sleep.
"ANNA!" Yoh screamed and sat up on his bed. He breathed heavily.
"Yoh! What's that?" Hao murmured from his room beside Yoh's.
"Er… Nothing! Sorry!"
"Oh… Okay…"
After make sure that Hao got back to sleep, Yoh lied down again.
Yoh sighed and closed his eyes.
"Good morning, dear." Mai greeted as she poured coffee into Wataru's cup. Anna whom descended the stairs, nodded and walked toward the dinning room.
"Good morning, Mai-san, and…" Anna stared to Wataru.
"He's Wataru, my husband." Wataru nodded to Anna. Anna nodded back to him.
"Just take a seat." Mai smiled. Anna smiled back nervously and sat across Wataru.
"Here's your tea." Mai gave her a cup of tea. Anna frowned.
"Wait. I want-" Anna covered her mouth. Mai and Wataru gave her a questioning look.
"You want what?"
'Was I just wanted to tell… green tea? Or I was not?'
Anna shook her head. "No. Nothing, Mai-san." Then she sipped the tea.
"Mai-san?"
"Yes?" Mai looked to Anna.
"I think I…"
"I?"
"I accept that." Anna finished. Wataru frowned. 'What on earth that they talking about?'
Mai smiled and hugged her tightly. "Oh… thank you…"
"Um, can someone explain it to me?" Wataru felt dumb.
"She accepts being our daughter!" Mai stated happily.
Now, Wataru was totally dumb. "W-What?"
Anna smiled nervously as Mai smiled happily.
"Oh, well…"
"From now on, call me okaa-san, call Wataru otou-san, and your name is, Akaishi Michi." Mai stated to Anna. Before Anna nodded, Wataru cut them.
"M-Michi? Is it a must? There are many names in this world, but Michi??"
Mai stared at him. "Please…" she begged.
"Oh, okay… Michi."
Another week passed, Anna became welcomed in Akaishi family as Akaishi Michi. Wataru and Mai were getting closer to Anna. Just like a happy family. Just like what Anna wants.
Everyday, Anna always go with Wataru to the one and only hospital in that very small town because of Wataru's job as a head doctor.
Like that day…
Anna sat on Wataru's seat in his room when Wataru came.
"Otou-san, when will you get break? I'm bored…" Anna mumbled as playing with the hospital miniature.
Wataru whom couldn't avoid the fact that he started to love Anna as his own daughter, ruffled her golden hair lovingly.
"Hey… I'm break now, lady." Anna smiled at Wataru's act. Yeah, she really missed parents figure.
"Otou-san, I want something…" Anna stared at him.
"What's that?" Wataru asked as he drank her coffee.
"I want to work here too, can I?" at her word, he burst his coffee.
"Work?"
Anna nodded. "I'm bored! I want to do something too…" she pouted. (That's so un-Anna, huh?)
"Oh, well…" Wataru walked toward the intercom and talked to it.
"Nurse Yuuko, please come to my office."
"Hai, doctor." She replied in the intercom.
In a few minutes, a middle aged nurse came. "Are you calling me, doctor?"
Wataru nodded and offered the seat beside Anna.
"Take a seat, nurse Yuuko."
Yuuko nodded and smiled to Anna and sat. Anna nodded back.
"Is there any nurse off?"
"Yes. That is nurse Amane. She is pregnant and will be off for five months."
"Great. Now, my daughter will replace her position for one month. Michi, this is nurse Yuuko, the head nurse. And nurse Yuuko, this is Michi, my daughter."
Anna bowed to her. Yuuko frowned to Wataru. 'Daughter? Michi?' she mounted.
'Adopted.' Wataru mounted back. Yuuko nodded and bowed back to Anna.
-Staff Room-
"Here's your new uniform." Yuuko handed her a nurse uniform. Anna took it and undressed herself, and dressed back into the uniform.
"Hey! It fits me perfectly, isn't it Yuuko-san?" Anna turned to right and left infront of mirror feeling so happy.
"Yes, I think so." Yuuko smiled and put the nurse hat on Anna's head, and gave her a pair of white shoes.
"You can start your work as nurse from now." Yuuko said. Anna nodded and she looked to the name tag on her left uniform and read the small letters on it.
"'We will take care of you: Akaishi Michi' Hey! It's my name!"
'Of course. That uniform is used to be Michi's uniform…' Yuuko looked away.
Hao and Yoh stood by the small hill that already crossed with police line. That was the accident take place.
"Anna, may you rest in peace forever… I'll always love you…" Yoh smiled weakly and threw the roses bouquet to the hill.
"Come on, Yoh… it's time to go…" Hao circled his hand on Yoh's shoulder.
Yoh didn't move. "Yoh?"
Hao looked at his brother's face that covered by his bangs.
His eyes were closed and he smiled. But a single tear fell across his cheek.
"Yoh?"
Yoh's smile faded and his body fell down on the ground. Before it happened, Hao caught him.
"Yoh? Yoh? YOH! Oh, God…" Hao still held Yoh on his arm.
He thought for a while.
'What will I do? If I drive to Funbari ga Oka, that's too far. Wait. There's a small town near here. Right. I'll go there. Maybe that town has at least a hospital...'
Hao carried him into the car and drove off.
Na-chan: it's been a loooooooong time! Well, I have passing grade exams in whole week! What can I do? Oh, I don't own Shaman King. Thanks for the great review, critics, and suggestion!
Here's the dictionary:
Aniki: Big brother
Otou-san: dad
Okaa-san: Mom.
Hai: Yes.
Itadakimasu: that's what you say before eat.
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