IMPORTANT: Gomenasai… I should have uploaded it by christmas time but the computer-zillas never let me touch the computer… Any way, I hope you'll be happy with these chaps… hehehe
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL !
AN: Atlast, I will now reveal why Kaede became 18… hehehe… gomenasai for GenexMai lovers…
Warning: lotsa spoilers ahead….. (inner self : yeah like the story didn't run on spoilers already…) (",)
Chapter 4:The ghost's girlfriend…
(Kaede's POV)
"Is he really the famous Dr. Oliver Davis?" I asked while I looked at the pink-haired woman in front of me. She was the one I'm very much comfortable with…
She stopped pilling the pillows on the bed abruptly…
'Did I say something wrong?'
She then looked at me with a serious face…
"How sure you are that he is the famous Dr. Oliver Davis?" she asked.
"I just sorta knew… uhhhh… Clairvoyance?" I answered with a sweat drop forming on the back of my flowing red hair…
She looked at me with searching eyes. She then heaved out a tired sigh…
"It is truly late now, why don't we just sleep? I know you're tired…" she said with a tired smile…
'She instantly became tired and alert at the same time, especially when Oliver was mentioned… why?'
"What will happen tomorrow?" I asked her while I snucked inside the cold covers of the left bed.
"It sort of depends on your actions… mainly to the big (mafia) boss…" she answered sitting on the side of my bed. Hers was across mine. She looked at me like a mother ushering her baby to sleep…
'I don't trust people immediately.'
'You have to trust them, Keade…'
'Gene!' I yelled in my head. His voice… I know it's his … did he just?...
"Hey, you should sleep now…" the woman named Madoka told me with a bit of an authorative voice.
"You didn't believe me when I said that the other psychic girl would get possessed by the spirit."
"Who, Mai?" she asked me with the same smile.
'What's cooking behind that smile?'
"She's going to be possessed anytime now…" I said. I felt it. Yukio-otou-san's spirit aura… gone.
And I felt it again…
"Darn, it's back!"
"What's back?!" she said. She looked at me with a shocked expression…
I can't answer her…
'No! I'm paralyzed'
She kept on shaking me as if I'm asleep. I felt myself beginning to float… wait, why am I floating?!
I tried to keep myself from splitting… and I saw it… on the corner of my eye, in my peripheral vision… Yukio-otou-san's spirit smiling at me wickedly then disappeared when I looked at him squarely in the eyes…
Violet smoke started to engulf me… I can't see anything anymore… I drifted slowly to sleep… for eternity?...
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(Madoka's POV)
I started to shake her like mad! Her eyes were slowly closing… I yelled at the two men on the other side of the door. I started to feel cold. The door still didn't budge…
"Lin!!! Takigawa-san!!! Help!!!" I continuously yelled till I felt my throat scorch and my eyes were overflowing with tears… and hers were now closing.
"Don't close your eyes, Kaede!!!" I yelled…
The door didn't budge and I sat there, staring at an unconscious red-haired girl, crying to myself because, deep inside, I know something is terribly wrong… and the brunette might never wake up…
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(Kaede's POV)
What is this? Why am I in this dream-like dimension? ...
I kept on walking … what happened to the violet smoke? the bedroom and the pink-haired woman? my uncle's spirit?
"Kaede…"
"Gene!"
I yelled back at the voice… then I saw him… and many things more… along with memories I buried deep inside me…
The place became a sanctuary of fireflies … red, tiny orbs circling his body and mine … We were both wearing kimono for that certain summer temple festival … Mine was a shade of orange with yellow leaves and fireflies for patterns … His was a perfect blue, with light and dark colored dragons … I stared at his perfect sapphire blue eyes … Then he grabbed my wrist and led me away from the temple … The noise of the crowd was slowly disappearing till it turned to a murmur itself…
It seems that he did not only led me away from the festival, nor from the temple, but from everything … When we stopped, we were overlooking the temple and its grounds from a far away hill top … And he cupped his hands to cradle my face … And slowly, very slowly, he lowered his lips to mine … And we kissed a kiss full of emotion, depth and love …
I knew by then that he wanted me to remember him … Those stolen nights … Those memories of love …
When we broke away from each other, we were back to the dream-like place … And, again after a very long time, I cried…
"Gene!", I said as I hugged him tight with tears spilling from my eyes…
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"Nau maku san manda bazara dankan!" , the monk yelled as he rushed in to the room. I followed by his trail, muttering my own set of onmyougi spells…
We found Madoka crying like mad on an unconscious Tanaka-san … And I suddenly felt something …
The room temperature suddenly dropped to almost 4 to 7 degrees by estimation. Then we warded the violet smoke away from the girl and Madoka …The smoke took form of a man … The spirit earlier … Tanaka, Yukio-san … The monk made a barrier enclosing the spirit in a pyramid like space … However the spirit, laughing madly at us, turned into smoke and disappeared …
I made my way towards Madoka … She was holding the head of the girl in her arms … Then, crying, she opened her arms and showed me the girl, with purple lips and darkening eyes….
'Damn!' , I said to myself, 'she's not breathing!'
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"Something is happening outside, Keiko," the man said.
"What do you mean?", I answered back.
"Our dying wish was to be able to save the two of you from that bastard…", Keiko said.
"If that was your dying wish, then why did Gene die! ", I said, yelled is more likely …
"He is different from you…", the woman said looking sideways.
"There is something you are not telling me… but no matter, I'll find it out anyway.", I said to them turning so that my back would face them, "Looks like you don't want to help me so I'll find it out myself…"
"Very arrogant, are you?" the man called Raiga, or Voltaire said. He was smiling though…
"Have Gene told you about the curse already?" Keiko said breaking the tension building between me and the man… Heck, am I wasting time?
"No", I said turning to look in her golden eyes…
"We must make haste, Keiko." Raiga said.
"What curse are you talking about?" why are they so secretive?
"Yukio – ", keiko started and was blocked by Raiga's voice.
"That bastard Yukio was your mom's stalker.", He said. Smooth…
"He was my childhood friend until he became somewhat more obsessive…", she said in a rather melancholic voice.
"Why is it that women take longer to relate a story?" Raiga said.
"Listen closely 'cause I'll never repeat this…", he said before Keiko could retaliate.
"That bastard Yukio was you're mother's stalker. He was her childhood friend, yeah, but he became so obsessed with your mother. He thinks your mother was in love with him. The worst part is that he is a strong psychic, like us. He went to Hokkaido for 3 and half years. Well, when he came back, what he saw was your mother carrying two little boys and he became more psychotic. He began cursing us both and the very next day, he hanged himself in his family's temple." Raiga said.
"He is also very knowledgeable when it came to psychic powers so we searched the whole area if he left some sort of curse or whatsoever. Anyway, when we didn't find one, we went straight back to America."
"Three and a half years later, we found out that his whole family got burned inside the temple…" Keiko said in such a solemn tone, "by that time, we were still in America and we received the news by mail…"
"My family told us that we should make ourselves "scarce". We decided to leave every year for a new place to live. However, we had a feeling that Yukio managed to follow us. Well, you lost us when you were just eight…"
"So", I butted in, "the curse was put on all your relatives. If what you're saying is true, then Gene died seven years later, which means your other relatives in here died in our place, am I right?"
"Just as I thought," Raiga answered with a smirk, "Let me guess, you're going to ask why he didn't kill the two of you when he got the chance, but instead, killed our relatives in Japan?"
I smirked at the idea… At last, something concrete to step on.
"Didn't you know the saying that when someone loves you, they'll be able to leave some sort of protection on you?" he answered, with an all-knowing smile.
I almost looked puzzled at the thought…
"We left some kind of protection for the both of you, not to mention that we asked my best friend Marvin to look after the two of you, which, I think, he did a good job at." Again, he showed me that all-knowing smile, "he wasn't able to track the two of you for that time. It lasted up to those times only, though."
"Why? Is it because we went to Japan for that stupid PK Test?" I asked him… Darn, where's your notebook when you need it?
"It's not because of the Test…" Keiko said looking away from my eyes.
"It's not because of the stupid PK Test. It was because Gene 'had contact' with one of that bastard's relatives." He said, "Not to mention that his spirit sleeps during those three and a half year lapses."
"Then who ―?", and the thought almost punched all the air in me when it came…
"Yes." Keiko said as confirmation.
"We've given you enough information, I guess, enough for you to solve this. We've cost you so much dear time and trouble's brewing in the other room. Better come and sort them out." Raiga said in such a finishing matter.
"You'll know more about us when the time comes, but not from us directly. Maybe we'll be passing on…" Keiko said as she started to disappear.
"What?! That's all you could give me?!"
"If time was infinite… we could have talked much more…" Raiga said as he, too, started to disappear," and perhaps about that redhead assistant of yours…"
WHAT?!
"Stop that, you're making him blush!" keiko said while laughing.
I'M NOT BLUSHING!!!!
"Ha, he's lying from himself, dear!", Raiga jokingly answered back and they argued lovingly as they slowly disappeared. They were not even hearing me anymore.
Suddenly, I was looking at the ceiling.
And Lin came bursting at the door.
"Noll," he said," You better come quick."
AN: I know that the protection thingy was from Harry Potter… sorry, I can't help myself! I wanted to put that part in. hehehe