Chapter 4:

What...is this? Takumi thought looking at the letter. He looked at the door and looked at the letter. Was she hiding this? He went to the door and looked at the girl slowly eating her porridge with a red face. She blew on the porridge and continues eating. He went out ands placed her clothing in a bin. He looked at the letter, and then places it in his pockets. He went to the table and sat across from Akira. She was eating very slowly.

"Is it good," he asked. She nods.

"Yea." She blew on it and continues to eat. Takumi looked at her. He didn't know what to say. His eyes wrinkled with worry. He wanted to ask about the letter. How am I…supposed to ask her? It was almost as if he was scared to ask her. He looked at the ground and fidget around. He moves his toes and moved his arm restlessly. Akira looked at him. "Is anything wrong?"

"N-no, it's … nothing," he stuttered. She nod and continue eating. He looked at the floor and peeked at her. "Umm… is anything bothering you," he finally said in an anxious yet scared to say what he was thinking. She blinked at him, surprisingly. She closed her eyes and took a bite before answering him.

"Don't worry about me," she said finishing off the rest of the porridge. Takumi frowned. That obviously means there is. He took her bowl and brought it to the sink. When he was done washing it he watched her eat the medicine. Her face was still red and she was still gasping for air a lot. But Akira, I do worry.

"Akira- kun," Takumi said sitting by her bed, placing a new warm wash cloth on her forehead. It was one hour to midnight. Takumi couldn't sleep, he didn't want to. It was about an hour since Akira went to sleep. Suddenly she started to moan and roll in her bed.

She was sweating a lot. She bit her lips as she gripped the edge of the bed with pain. He fever seems to be getting worse. Sometimes she laid there; sometimes she rolled around and hugged herself while she curled up. She was in a lot of pain. It was obvious. Her face looked like she was close to tears.

"It hurts," she moaned. Takumi came close her. He held her hand and closed his eyes, his eyebrows close together. It was like he was praying for a miracle, praying for her to stop crying. He put her hand down and realized her eyes where trying to open. She was panting for air. She wanted to speak. Suddenly her eyes widen. She got up quickly.

"Akira- kun?" Takumi said confused.

"Hurry someone's comin-." Suddenly the lights went off. But the moon gave enough light for Takumi to see Akira painfully but quickly get up. Takumi tried to aid her, but at the same time he heard a door creak and before he knew it Akira had pushed him away. Takumi fell on the floor and quickly getting up, furious as to why Akira had done that. But as soon as he got up he had known why and was no long mad, but scared.

"Who…are…you," Akira said excruciatingly. A guy in a black outfit had his hands tightly around her neck. He punched her in the stomach to shut her up. She moaned loudly in pain and fainted. Two more guys stood next to him. It seems that they were not aware that Takumi was there. Takumi eyes were like big marbles. He was confused but more terrified, nervous and worried. The guy tightens his grip. Akira scrunched her face. Suddenly someone turned over.

"Boss, there's another one!" Takumi tensed up, he didn't know what to do. The guy holding Akira turned around. And it seemed as he had loosen his grip.

"What-." Akira swung her legs and kicked him in the face. She landed on the floor and hurried and threw a smoke bomb. She took Takumi's hands and broke the window, glass scattered everywhere.

"Shit, not again! You two go through the window and I'll go down the hall. No matter what CATCH HIM!" with that they disappeared.

Five minutes passed, as her hands that were covering his mouth, slide down. She coughed, and coughed and spits of blood came out. She grabbed her stomach and hugged it. Takumi was in shock. She coughed again this time spitting a lot of blood out, and Takumi finally woke up when he saw the blood. He held her to support her. She stops coughing, but was breathing heavily. Then she lay on the bathroom wall, her head on the wall. She closed her eyes. Takumi was still confused. She closed her eyes.

"We have to hurry and get out of here incase they come back," she finally said as she tried to get up. But her stomach hurt a lot and she wanted to puke. Takumi got up and pushed her lightly down. He sat down to her height and put his hands on her shoulder. She blinked surprisingly.

"Stop…" he whispered. Akira was surprised and didn't understand what he said. "Can you tell me what's going on?" he said this time looking at her. His eyes told her that he was worried and he wanted to know what was going on. His eyes looked at if he hurt more then she did. His voice sounded like he wanted to help her. She no longer wanted to get up. She lay on the wall and closed her eyes.

"I… don't know."

"What?"

"When we got back, I got a letter from my father. It told me to go home. Then I went to talk to oneof my father's people. They told me to come home and to be careful, and after that I was followed," she said and sighed. She felt like she was sick for along time because she didn't talk about this and the last time she talked about this was when she was followed. Then she suddenly remembered it had to do with her grandmother. She opened her eyes and got worried. Then she closed it again.

"So you have no idea who they are," Takumi said slowly.

"No but, I'm sure my father does, anyway we have to get out of here, if they come back here, I wont be able to run anymore," she said trying to get up. Takumi helped her. Her head was spinning so much she almost couldn't recognize Takumi. She got up and walked. He supported her and helped her.

"You should have told me what was going on," he said as they walked to the door together.

"I didn't really have a chance," she said tried to focus on walking. "Once I got back I was sick."

"I asked before."

"It wasn't something that I could say so easily," she said as they head out the door of there dorm. Akira stopped right in front of the door before going out. She pulled Takumi in.

"Check the room again." Akira knew that they where back. But she could no longer run. She didn't know what to do. I can't think, I have to do this there's no other way. If this continues Takumi's going to get hurt. She looked around. She summoned her final energy and took his hand and ran to the window. She put Takumi's arms and wrapped it around her shoulder.

"Hold on tight when we land lift your legs up," she said, with that she jumped.

When they landed she took his hand and ran to the side of the building where all the trees where, so it would be harder to spot them. Akira touched her legs, not only did it hurt from that jump but the wound from last time seem to have grown. She bends down and touched it. It was bleeding a little. He eyes showed pain when she touched the wound.

"Akira– kun, are you ok, let's rest here a little," Takumi said bending down. By now the guys should be almost done searching the room coming down soon. She knew it. She was in pain, her head throbbed and her leg stung. Her throat was dry and her stomach felt like someone stabbed her. But she knew this pain would be worse if she was to be captured.

"We have to continue, we delayed and trick them so much, we have to run this time," she whispered with a glare in her eye and got up and started to run. Takumi followed her. She's so strong.