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Endless Darkness
Chapter 03 - Broken will…
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Mai, Aoi and Chie sat in a restaurant. They had just left from checking the hospital when the storm rolled in so they sought shelter. "Well, that plan was a bust. When this storm clears, we should head home and continue looking tomorrow." Chie said as she took and took a sip of soda from her glass.
"But before that, we should notify the police." Mai added. Aoi just looked out the window they were sitting next to, watching the rain hit the ground when her cell phone went off.
This made her jump, causing her to hit the table and spilled the drinks. "Ah, Aoi!" Chie griped, grabbing some napkins to wipe the soda off of her dark blue blouse. "Gomen, Chie." Aoi apologized as she answered her phone. "Hello… Natsuki? What's wrong?" Aoi asked as a look of concern crept its way onto her face.
"What? But we just left from there." This caught Mai and Chie's ear and they began listening in on the conversation. "Yes, we'll be right there." Aoi said and hung up. "Nao's in the hospital."
"What? What happened?" Mai asked. "I'm not sure. All Natsuki said was that she's in the hospital and asked if we were able to come." She said and put the phone onto the table.
"I guess she was unsuccessful with offing herself." Chie said, getting out of her chair. "Chie!" Aoi yelled with an angry tone. "That's no way to talk. She's our friend for crying out loud." Chie just raised both her hands up in a defenseless manner and smiled lightly. "C'mon Aoi, I was just joking."
"That's no way to joke, Chie." Mai said and got out of her chair. "Come on. We have to make sure she's okay." Aoi said and headed out the door with the other two trailing behind her.
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Natsuki hung the phone up, walked over to some of the chairs in the center of the lobby and sat down in one of them. She looked around the room and noticed that how unlovely it was. But this was a hospital so that's only natural.
A few minutes passed and Natsuki picked up a magazine that was on the table next to the chair. "Hmm, half off on designer lacy lingerie." Natsuki said to herself. As she flipped through the pages, someone approached her.
"Aren't you the girl who brought in that teenaged, female patient?" Natsuki heard a voice ask her. She glanced over the magazine to notice a female nurse that was roughly in her twenties.
Natsuki just nodded in response. "The doctor would like to see you. Please follow me." The nurse said and started walking to an elevator. Natsuki put the magazine back down onto the table and followed the nurse right into the elevator.
The nurse hit a button that read '7'. Once they arrived on the seventh floor, Natsuki followed behind the down a hallway of doors. They soon stopped at a door. Natsuki read the wall plate next to it and it read '717'. A man in a white overcoat came out of the room. He had a stethoscope around his neck and a chart in his hand. He looked to be about in his early thirties.
"So you're the one that brought this girl in, hmm?" The doctor asked with a friendly smile. "Yeah. What's wrong with her?" Natsuki asked. "Well, nothing serious. Just a lot of water intake." He replied. "We were wondering if you could tell us what happened." He added.
"I'm not sure. I just found her floating in the sea." Natsuki replied. "Ah. Well, you're free to visit with her, but I'm afraid she is still unconscious. Now if you excuse me, I have other patients to attend to." The doctor said and left with the nurse. Natsuki opened the door and entered the room. She saw Nao laying in a bed.
Natsuki slowly approached the sleeping girl and sat down in the chair next to the bed. "What the hell were you thinking Nao?" She thought, looking down upon the girl. Natsuki anxiously waited for the other three girls to arrive. Her foot began to tap against the ground.
"Uhng…" A grown came from the unconscious girl laying in the bed. "Is she coming to?" Natsuki thought, as she got up out of the chair. Nao slowly opened her eyes. At first it was bright, but then her eyes started to adjust.
"Where am I?" She though as she reached up and grabbed her head. "You okay?" Nao heard a voice from her right side. She spun her head to find Natsuki looming over her. One of the last people she would ever want to wake up to. "What the hell do you want?" Nao venomously asked Natsuki.
"Well, that's a nice greeting to your rescuer." Natsuki replied. Nao just looked in the other direction, averting Natsuki's look. "Go away." She hissed and clenched the bed sheets.
"Nao… I know we don't see eye to eye but tell me, what the hell were you trying to accomplish?" Natsuki asked, sitting back down in the chair. "I said GO!" Nao yelled, attempting to get rid of the cobalt headed biker.
"I'm not leaving until you tell me what you were doing." She insisted. "Why the hell do you care. You'd never understand." Nao said, shifting her gaze back at Natsuki. Tears began to weld up in her eyes. "Just go away. I don't want to see you face." Nao said, turning her gaze back down to the sheets.
"Why do you have to be so difficult!?" Natsuki raised her voice in question. Nao didn't respond, she just sat there, looking down at her hands clench the bed sheets. "You think that committing suicide will fix everything? I thought you stronger then that Nao." Natsuki added, crossing her arms over her chest.
The redheaded girl looked back up at Natsuki, tears trailing down her cheeks. "What the hell is the point in living in a life that always takes and doesn't give back?" She said, her words as cold as ice. "So I figured why not end-" Her words were interrupted as Natsuki smacked Nao across the face.
"Get a hold of yourself, Nao!" Natsuki yelled, laying her hands on the redheads shoulders and gripping them tightly. "You say this as if everyone and everything's against you. I know you've lived a hard life but you have to see that there is more to life then just pain and misery." The biker said, hoping to fix Nao's current state.
Nao just looked in the other direction, averting Natsuki's eyes. Biting her lower lip, Natsuki let go of Nao and stepped back. "Fine! You know what, if you want to waste your life just because of some mishap then go ahead!" She yelled and stormed out of the room.
Nao just looked out the window of the room with deadened eyes as tears continued to flow down her cheeks. "It's always the same…" She whispered, laying her head on her pillow.
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Aoi, Chie and Mai anxiously waited for the elevator that was located in the lobby of the hospital to arrive. Once it did, the door swung ajar, revealing and angry, cobalt headed girl. "Natsuki?" Mai jumped as she saw the look on the girls face. It looked as though she was about to kill someone.
"What's up, Natsuki?" Chie asked as Natsuki stormed past the three girls. "Hey, Natsuki! Wait!" Mai commanded as she grabbed Natsuki's shoulder, trying to stop the angry teen. "What?!" Natsuki scolded, glaring back at the three girls. Mai quickly released the girl and took a few steppes back.
"I- is Nao okay?" Mai nervously asked as she looked at the fury in Natsuki's eyes. "Tch… I could care less about that idiot!" She yelled and continued out of the hospital. "Well… That was queer." Chie said, glancing back and forth between Aoi and Mai.
As Natsuki made her way over to her bike, she ran every little moment of what just happened. She didn't know why she was so pissed at Nao. Maybe it was how weak and vulnerable Nao was acting or maybe it was that she hated looking at people that couldn't grasp the fact that life was full of pain and suffering.
As Natsuki stopped as she reached her bike, deep in thought about what happened. The rain let up and the clouds began to brake apart, revealing some of the stars that lingered in the sky. "I can't believe I said all that. Plus I took my anger out on the others." Natsuki smacked herself in the head, feeling like the worlds biggest ass.
"Man, what's wrong with me? I just probably made the situation worse." Natsuki decided that it was getting kind of late, so she mounted her bike and started it up. "Sorry guys. I'll leave Nao in your care for now." She said and took off on her bike.
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Aoi, Chie and Mai arrived at Nao's room with a nurse accompanying them. "Okay, so we'll just see how she's doing and ask a few questions. Then we'll go." Aoi stated as she turned the door knob.
They walked into the room and found a bed with sheets covering a large lump. "Nao?" Aoi said, approaching the bed. "Are you okay?" She said as she let her hand slide over the lump.
"What the?!" Aoi gasped and ripped the sheets off the bed. All there was were a few pillow laying in the bed. "Oh no!" The nurse said and started towards the door. "Doctor!" She yelled on her way out.
"That's not good." Chie stated as she approached Aoi's side. All Aoi did was gazed down onto the pillows that laid on the bed. "Nao… What's gotten into you?"
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A/N: That pretty much sums up this chapter. What's going to happen to Nao? Will Natsuki save Nao again? When will Shizuru finally arrive in this story? Only way to find out is to read the next chapter.
P.S. Sorry for the late release. I have had some things going on lately so I haven't found much time to spend on this story. Please also remember to review. Thank you for reading. D