Chapter 11

Red and White

Kori held onto her brother's arm tightly as he brought her out into the park for the fresh morning breeze. Even though Eiri was really getting jealous about the intimacy, He had to let them be since he had to admit, he's happy for the reunion too.

The three of them sat down on the bench, keeping the smile on their faces to each other's assurance, trying not to worry or upset anyone. Yet, the darkness in their hearts lurks in this happiness, it was really hard to lock it inside.

"Kori. Why don't you go there and play by yourself? I have something to talk with Uesugi about." Touma requested and patted onto His sister's head. "Please?"

Kori turned her head and nodded, "I guess I'm not allowed in your conversation."

Awkward, that's what Touma felt when she said that, But what else could he do? "Yeah, but I'll tell you when it's time okay?"

"Okay." Kori left the bench with a smile still glued onto her face, "I'll call you guys when I need anything."

The smile blew from the boys' faces when Kori left their sight, only to be replaced by a stern expression that shot straight into their voice when they began to speak.

"What is it Touma." Eiri began and shot his golden eyes onto the grass. "I hope that it isn't something that you're trying to manipulate again."

Touma kept quiet for a few seconds, hesitant to what he was going to talk about.

"Tou…"

"I'm not sending Kori to Kitazawa." He shot out. "I can't let her be there with his kind of condition."

Eiri gasped and shot his eyes immediately at Touma.

"I'm sorry Eiri, but her bipolar condition is..."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?" Eiri grabbed onto his coat and yelled, "She isn't insane ya know?"

Touma grabbed onto Eiri's hands and struggled, but in vain, his fingernail pricking into his hands. "What do you expect me to do then? I only and do have Kori as my only kin! I can't see why you have to see it in such a negative way. I only want the best of her; I just wanted her to be a normal person!"

"You mean she's not normal, Seguchi?"

Touma stared at Eiri's eyes, which were filled with rage and the same time fear.

"I…don't mean that."

"WHAT THEN?"

"I…"

"KYAAaaa!" A scream broke in suddenly and cut the conversation. The boys let go of one another and ran towards the owner of that scream.

"Kori!" Touma screamed and ran to her side, slowly dragging her away from the rose bushes in front of her, which the white roses were coated with red crimson, giving it a creepy kind of beauty in them.

"What the hell have you been doing?" He asked and held her hands up, inspecting the wounds on them.

Tears kept flowing down from Kori's face when her eyes met the blood. Touma quickly pulled her into an embrace in attempt to calm them down, after which Kori laid her tired and weak body on it.

"I…I was just going to get some roses for y…you guys, but…but…"

She broke on wails and hugged onto Touma, "I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry."

"There, there. You'll be all right. The wounds…"

"I'm going to die right? I'm…"

"You're not allowed to die." Eiri spoke and knelt down to face the girl, wiping her tears with his right thumb.

The girl nodded and sniffed.

"I'll take you back to your room to get the doctor." Touma said and carried the girl up, bridal-style. "Don't think too much about it since I'm here."

With that Kori fell asleep in Touma's arms, calming down with the warmth of her brother and the presence of her lover.

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(N/A: I'm sorry for ignoring Ryuichi's presence in the story for so long, now it's time to get back to him. Enjoy."

Ryuichi grabbed onto his guitar and strum the wordless tune, getting tired of all the commotion happening these days. The empty apartment had turned quite lonely without its owner's presence, colder in some way when he saw Kori's notebook untouched for months.

"Kori." The brunette breathes out and left the guitar aside. "Why was self-harm the big part of our lives, right after music? Why can't music be the top?"

"Da…da…dum…" he went with the rhythm of 'Enraptured Pain'.

He stood up and grabbed onto the notebook, picking up a pen at the same time and scribbled a few words into the latest page.

Maybe our life's gonna end.

It was just that same day we met that had predicted this.

We've turned to each other from help,

Yet causing the both of us to be hurt.

I wished that life could all start over again,

I really want you to see the real side of me.

'Do or are we another being?'

I just want a perfect answer to it.

Will you assist me?

Sakuma Ryuichi.

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"I suggest that Miss Seguchi see a psychiatric." The doctor suggested. "One that can replace Mr. Hashiba."

Touma sat down onto the couch, lowering his head down in each word the doctor said.

"But Kori, she won't allow me to."

"Mr. Seguchi, I know how you feel but. Unless she's sent to an asylum, she needs a new and better doctor to attend to her needs."

"I know that already, but it's not something that me myself is able to decide." Touma yelled back, almost in a screaming tone.

"I'm sorry Mr. Seguchi. But I hope that you come into a decision soon."

Touma growled in frustration and stormed out of the room.

"I just hope for the best of your sister before it gets worse."

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Days after living in the dead boring white building, Kori was finally released from the living hell.

Kori grabbed her stuff and kept it all in a bag that Touma had brought the day before, slowly clearing the mess bit by bit, showing a clean, white and of course, boring room again. The light glittered as it shone onto the piece of metal that constructed the frame of the bed, blinding Kori's eyes in its glaring light. It made the girl cover her face with her bandaged arms as she slowly moves away from that light.

"Oh darn." She said as she banged over her stuffs again, spilling the stuff in it all over the floor. She knelt down and put them all into the bag again and stood up, this time, zipping the bag before anything spills of again.

Ryuichi observed her and sat onto the bed slowly, waiting for Kori to get her packing done. "Finished?"

The girl shook her head and stared into the shining clean floor, picking herself up and laid by the frame of the bed and shook her head faintly as if she was disagreeing with something.

"Kori?" The brunette asked. Kori did not wait for him to finish; she stood up and moved over to Ryuichi. Slowly pulling out her hand, she grabbed onto Ryuichi's and pulled him up. "Let's go Ryu."

She said and the both of them left with awkward silence, as if an outburst is going to happen if anyone breaks into it.

But…

They left it as it is.

End

As Long as I shall agree in this, I'm so getting back into this story again. I know a lot of people don't read this fanfic but I don't care! As long as I love it, I shall continue writing it until it ends!!