Chapter 7
Miyashi Hashiba
The skies were covered with dark hazy clouds, indicating the arrival of a storm. People were running into shelter, and this one particular man was standing alone below the apartment. There was an ID, which indicated his identity, hanging on his neck. 'Dr. Miyashi Hashiba. Date of Birth: 14 September 1971. ID number: 789311z' that was that was written on it with his picture.
He looked around the place and waited. It was still 3.30 in the afternoon, he was too early and the one he was meeting was nowhere to be seen. The man sighed and ruffled his copper-coloured hair.
"Where is that girl?"
From where he was, he leaned his tall body on the wall. His dark leather cloak lay restlessly on his skin and the dress shirt inside was crumpled. He looks more like a Private Eye than an ordinary person; there was no doubt about it.
Hours began to past, the girl still hadn't appear and he was getting bored. Taking out his cigarette, he lit it and had a puff on it.
"Miyashi?" the little voice creep up behind him. "What are you doing here?"
Miyashi turned around and found his goal, finally relieve that he was not going to wait for another hour.
"Hi Kori, just here to see you. Are you going to invite me into your house?"
The girl nodded and squealed in delight.
"I'm happy that you're here Miyashi. I've lots of things to tell you. And before that, did you have fun while you were in Paris?"
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In the room, Kori held out her arms before him. Miyashi doesn't seemed to mind, but he was definitely disappointed with the girl. It had been three years since Kori was his patient but her condition still hadn't improved much.
"It's happening all over again, isn't it? I have to start all over again."
"Yeah." She replied in a soft whisper in fear of the seriousness of his tone.
Miyashi can't help it but turned his grey orbs away from the girl. It wasn't purely her fault that her body does things on its own and it isn't weird that she had no conscious of that. It's just that he didn't have any patient that had got condition similar to her case; it's just to tiring to know more.
"Miyashi chan is still going to help me right?" Kori grabbed his coat with a pair of puppy eyes that seemed to be lost in her virtue.
Miyashi hesitated. What is he can't create the miracles before? What is he disappoint the girl's high hopes of recovering?
"Miyashi…"
"Yes Kori," he replied finally. "I'm still going to help you recover. You can trust me for it."
"Thank you."
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"Tell me Touma, What happened?" Miyashi yelled over the phone, "What happened to her?"
His heart was tied into a knot; Kori's attack was not what he'd been expecting. He never expected Kori to turn back into that Masochist. His plan, remedy was perfect and there's no way he could fail.
There was no answer from Touma and the line ended.
"Fuck."
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Miyashi sat at the dinner table and gazed at the girl with his head resting on the table. Kori had invited him, Ryuichi and Eiri for dinner at her apartment. It was an advantage to him as he could dig up as much information from the two friends about her, giving a chance for him to understand the situation.
"It's been a long time since we last met, Miyashi sensei. How have you been doing?" Ryuichi started and smiled at the man.
Ryuichi was Miyashi's patient too. Like Yuki, they were both having some self-harm problem and were attended by him. In fact, they were sent to him together by Kori's brother, Touma Seguchi.
"I've been living in such a boring life without you guys, I missed the both of you so much, you and Kori."
"I'm so glad you did, Miyashi sensei." Ryu replied.
Eiri looked at the man and turned away. He knew that person, he knew but hated him, he was not a friend of his but an enemy. He was one of them.
"And this is…"
"Eiri, Eiri Uesugi. He was one of my classmate." Kori replied almost immediately as she brought the food in on the tray. The blonde stood up to offer some help, but was then rejected and sent back into his seat. It was assured that Eiri would not interrupt her serving and she is really determined to do it herself.
"Itadakimasu!"
The crowd sat down to tuck into the food.
"This is very delicious Kori, it's like heaven."
"Thank you, Miyashi."
Kori set her fork onto the piece of beef before her and fed herself. Then, bringing more and more into her mouth. Something's not right with her and Miyashi could sense it. He was intensively focusing on the girl, figuring out what she's doing.
"Stop." Eiri interrupted all of a sudden and gripped onto Kori's arm. "Stop it Kori, wake up."
Kori turned away from him and stared at the beef. There was nothing wrong with it but Kori seemed to focus all her energy on it, as if she was trying to kill someone.
"I'm done." She threw the fork onto the floor and left the table.
"Kori?" Miyashi asked but Kori just went away to her study and slammed the door.
The guys couldn't stand it anymore. Not only that Kori's behavior was killing their appetite, they were damn worried about her
Miyashi stood up and left the table. He walked to the room and stood outside without an attempt to break into the room.
"You wanna talk about this?" Miyashi asked.
Kori didn't answer, but yet, he still didn't go in.
" I'll stay out here, okay?"
He still didn't panic. He just stood there and waited. There was a soft sound coming from the inside. It was music, more specifically; someone was playing on the piano. (N/A: he didn't know Kori had a synthesizer.) The same tune was repeating over and over again with the lyrics:
It was gone,
All gone.
I'm missing every part of me more.
It was still my tears that led me
Back into the little space on my own that I've threatened to kill.
Oh God,
I'm dying and you tell me you don't care.
What in the hell is the world coming to?
Why do you need to know more?
I don't know about it myself
And so do you.
You know what?
I don't care.
As long as I'm erased,
I don't care.
All I need is me.
Say, let's see if you do.
Miyashi stood by the door and listen. He knew the girl had lost it and probably cutting right at this moment, but he just stood there and listen.
"Oh move aside, Hashiba!" The blonde appeared behind him and pushed him aside, barging into the room to see what happened to the girl.
Kori was playing, a pool of blood dripping from the synthesizer, from the keyboard to the floor. There were cuts of her hands and she didn't seemed to find. Eiri went to her side and pulled her away from the keyboard, landing the both of them on the floor due to the force. The girl passed out and the blonde cried. Ryuichi stood by the door in silence, dropped onto his knees.
Miyashi entered the room, setting his eyes onto the page of the notebook on the keyboard controls. The writings were scribbled and messy, but at least it was eligible. What were written on it were lyrics, but he stared and read only this particular one:
The Game of Lost
By: Kori I was there in the moonlightIgnored and find myself lost again.
Why do I keep doing this?
Losing myself in the past
And took the chance to escape the future.
I'm useless and should be long gone.
I hate it when I'm me.
I hate it when you say you love me.
Why do I think so?
I don't know about it myself.
All I knew was this is hell.
Tell me that this is a lie,
Tell me that this isn't reality.
You can face it but not me,
Oh well, what is the problem anyway?
For I'm not real at all.
It was gone,
All gone.
I'm missing every part of me more.
It was still my tears that led me
Back into the little space on my own that I've threatened to kill.
Oh God,
I'm dying and you tell me you don't care.
What in the hell is the world coming to?
Why do you need to know more?
I don't know about it myself
And so do you.
You know what?
I don't care.
As long as I'm erased,
I don't care.
Cause' I don't get the place to.
All I need is me.
Say, let's see if you do.
I know you can't agree to it,
So why be it?
Why do you care?
You told me,
You liked me to be me.
Are you sure, but this was me.
Tell me that you're out.
Out of my game forever.
I'm in distress,
I'm still digging my way out from the never-ending darkness
The world is falling on me
I'm not there to be sure.
So are you going to hate me?
Are you gonna hurt me
Oh darn,
I can't get a grip on myself.
I felt more like dying in this living hell.
It's polluted by pain.
Pain that just makes my life more difficult.
This show is going to end.
I'm wreaking it.
Hate me if you do,
Hurt me if you will.
Oh Jesus, I'm coming to an end.
I was there in the moonlightIgnored and find myself lost again.
Why do I keep doing this?
Losing myself in the past
And took the chance to escape the future.
I'm useless and should be long gone.
I hate it when I'm me.
I hate it when you say you love me.
Why do I think so?
I don't know about it myself.
All I knew was this is hell.
"Kori…"
End
Okay, this is the end…done some editing to the other chapters as well. I hope it'll be better this time. This time the story shall go slower to slowly feed into your minds. Thanks for reading!
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