Chapter 7:

Her long silky brown hair highlighted her healthy smooth face. Her rosy cheeks blended with her glittering pink lips. Her thin and neat eyebrows made her face seem clear. Her eyelashes where long and made her dazzling deep purple eyes look graceful. Takumi looked into her eye and the longer he looked, the more engrossed he was. He soon forgot he was staring at her.

"What are you doing here," she said. She narrowed her eyes a little. Takumi was startled, since he had completely forgot he was looking at her. He flushed, and looked down to the side of his leg. He didn't know what to say, and he was scared to look at her again. "Who are you?"

"Ah… I'm-m Takumi," he said stuttering. He took a peek at her. She was on the floor next to some flowers. She was bending down admiring the plant that she was looking at. Takumi walked closer to her. He stood next to her. He saw her smile, it made his heart jumped, his mouth opened but his teeth where together, and his eyes widen.

"Do you know what kind of flower is this?" she asked slowly and gently moving her fingers under the petal and around the stem. It was a fully bloomed pink flower, the petals where small and the edge was ridged. It was a little crumpled together, but it looked like it was naturally like that.

"…A carnation?" he said not sure if it was or was not. She nod and touched the soiled. She got up and walked to the wall where the hose was. Takumi followed. She turned on the water so only a little is exposed. She filled a little watering can with water. She brought it over and watered the flower a little.

"I like this flower the most," she said with a smile as she watered it. "Even though it's abundant, not a lot of it can grow so beautifully," she said and brought the watering can back to the corner. She walked to the fountain, She bended down to reach something. Takumi bended down quickly.

"I'll help you," he said and smiled at her. She was surprised for a moment, then she smiled back, it made his heart beat, he blushed and tried to see what she was trying to find. It was a switch. He turned it on and lights started to appear in the fountain. Takumi mouth opened and he gasped in amazement. It was dazzling. The light shined on the fountain where the flowers were, and it made the flower seem like it was glowing. The light made the surrounding darkness glow as well. Takumi took a deep breath and sighed. It was so calming.

"Well, I will be leaving now, feel free to come whenever you want," she said and turned around and walked to the house.

"Wait," Takumi called out. She turned around and looked at him with a questioned look. He avoided her eyes. "Umm… Who are you," he said and looked up, but no one was there. She left. He rubbed his head and sat down on the edge of the fountain. He closed his eyes and thought. Those eyes, who could she be?

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Akira laid on her bed and thought. She rolled to the other side and closed her eyes trying to sleep. She turned to the other side. She couldn't sleep. She kept on thinking about what Aki had told her. She was worried.

"What do you mean we might be in more danger?"

"Well I'm not sure if you guys will be, it's just I'm not sure if you want to be here right now. But then again…"

"Again what? Aki- nii what's going on?"

"Dad told you to come home and you don't know why? I thought you were kidding…?"

"No I don't know, he didn't tell me why on the letter."

"He probably thought you wouldn't come home if he told you why, but he was right, you did get hurt."

"Aki- nii."

"For one, HiME war is over, the first thing you should have done was come home. But instead you fly to America. Dad didn't mind because he had things for you to do there, but you should've come home"

"There were other important things I had to do…"

"Anyway, it was probably because of grandma."

"I heard that before, but why?

"Grandma went to the hospital not long ago. The doctor said she's not in good the health."

"Why didn't you tell me that the first thing I came home?"

"You were hurt, if I did you would do anything to leave and visit her, if they attacked you again, then you don't have to ever visit grandma again."

"So how is she?"

"Well she's not good but not dieing, but doctors are worried."

"I Guess I had to come back, even if it's not for this family."

"But that's probably not the reason why dad called you back, at least not the complete reason."

"Then what is?"

"Inheritance."

"I can't believe him, Grandma isn't even died yet what the fuck is wrong with him!"

"Dad isn't the only people worried, so are the people who attacked you."

"You mean…"

"Yup, the other family members."

"There inhuman!"

She laid there, her face facing the ceiling. So why am I home, inheritance has nothing to do with me? She rolled facing the wall. She couldn't stay still. She was worried.

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"I'm back where I started," Takumi sighed and scratched his head. He looked around. He was back to where he was, in front of Akira's room. He looked around to see if there was another exit. He saw another arch way opposite of where he had just cam from. He began to walk there. Then he stopped and looked at Akira's room. "I wonder if she's asleep," he whispered to himself and knocked. No answer. He knocked again, nothing again. He decides to open the door. No one was there. "Akira – kun?"

"If your looking for Akira- sama, she moved back to her room, would you like me to take you?" a lady with a pink kimono said out side the door. Takumi nod, she smiled and motioned her had in front or her. "This way please."

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"Akira- sama?" Akira got up and looked at the door.

"Who is it?" Akira said and glared at the door. She was tired and can't sleep. She wasn't in the mood to see anyone. The lady seems to have notice she wasn't in a good mood and became nervous.

"Your friend is here to visit."

"Friend? Who is it?"

"Me," Takumi said, also noticing she didn't seem to be in a good mood. Akira's eyes widen and calmed down. She looked at her legs.

"Come in." The lady opened the door and Takumi came in and exclaimed at the big room. The lady closed the door and Takumi looked around in awe and went to the back where Akira's bed was. Akira's room separated into two by an arch way near the door. On the side where the door was, was a small coffee table with a small tea set with mats on the floor. That side was very small. When you walk through the arch way was where everything else was. Akira had a big balcony bed. Across from it was a closet door. The closet was as long as the bed and the bed was twice the size and length of a normal king size bed. Across the arch way and deeper into the room was a medium size table with shelves and book shelf's next to it where it seem to be a working area. He looked around forgetting why he was here. Akira looked at him and laughed. "So why are you here?" Takumi snapped out and looked at her and laughed a little.

"I was going back to my room but I thought I'll see if you were asleep," he said walking over to her bed and sat on a chair next to the bed.

"Did you get lost?"

"Well," he said hesitating thinking about the girl he met and blushed a little. Akira looked at him with question as to his slightly flushed face. "Not really, but you house is really confusing and big." Akira sighed and smiled.

"Think of this house as a big snowflake. Except the middle has a big gap, bigger then any space in the whole snowflake. That is the main house, a lot of the events and the people my father need to meet, they go there. The main house is like a divider, so the big space in the middle is a divider. The left side is where the smaller houses and other random things are, like our green house and other gardens, so the gaps on the left side are smaller. On the right side the spaces and the houses are bigger because that's where our family and our bed rooms are. Then imagine the snow in the snow flake having openings everywhere. Theses openings lead you from one house to another," she said thinking if there was anything she left out. Takumi nod and opened his mouth in amazement.

"It's like a castle. It's huge, you room is big like our cafeteria," he said looking around the room.

"This is nothing compared to grandmother's place, there's mores room for you to walk around and more little spaces and big spaces," she said referring to the snowflake explanation. She had forgotten about her grandmother until now. Her face seemed to melt, her eyes where close to closing and her mouth as closed. Takumi didn't notice until he felt the room was silent. He looked at her. There was worry in her eyes. Takumi wanted to ask her what was wrong, but he didn't know if it was the right thing to ask. He looked around and saw on the coffee table some medicine.

"So how is your wound, are you ok?" Akira looked at him and seemed to be back to normal.

"My brother said my stomach was really bruised and I shouldn't put too much pressure on my legs," she said wiggling her toes and looking at her legs.

"So how long do you need to rest?" he asked. She plopped on to her bed a put her hand behind her head and sighed.

"I'm not sure but I probably should rest in bed for two days. I tried walking before and it hurt a lot. If I stretched too much my stomach would hurt," she said and sighed. "It's going to be so boring." She glared at the arch way. Takumi gave a small laugh.

"It's ok, only two days," he said and gave a smile. She looked at him.

"Easy for you to say…," she said stared at the ceiling. Takumi smiled. I was on the hospital bed longer. He thought and he suddenly realized that he left the dorm for three days already and he didn't even give a call to his sister. Akira saw the surprised look on his face.

"What's wrong?" she said mumbling a little.

"I haven't told my sister I was here," he said giving her a face like he didn't know what to do, and that he was in trouble. Akira was surprised since she haven't thought about this either. Then she looked down. Her hair was slightly covering her face. He face scrunched together a little.

"Do you want to go home?" she said not allowing him to see her face. He hesitated and thought. Then he smiled.

"Are you?"

"No not yet, I have stuff to do."

"Then can I stay too?" she looked up at him astonished.

"Don't you want to go back, aren't you worried about your sister?" she said frowning and worried about what he would say. He gave an empty stare.

"There's nothing to be worrying about my sister, besides," he said getting up walking towards her bookshelf's. I'm more worried about you. "It's almost summer break anyway." He turned around and smiled at her. He could see the surprised look on her face. He turned around and took out a book from the bookcase. Akira smiled in relief. He didn't want him to leave yet. He closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She looked at him and smiled. I'm so glad. Then she looked at the book he was holding.

"What are you holding?" he walked to her, held it up and showed it to her. It was her baby picture book.

"Ah what the hell are you doing!" she yelled and grabbed the book and blushed. He held his hand out and whined.

"I didn't even get to the pictures yet, let me see," he said trying to reach for it.

"No way!"

"They seem to get along."

"Yea, at first I didn't know weather or not to bring him along."

"It was defiantly a good idea."

"Yea."

"It's been a while since I've seen her so happy."

"It's been a while since we've seen her at all."

"Another reason why he called her home was because he missed her too and he knew we did."

"Bullshit."

"Aki, don't say that, you know he cares."

"I know he cares shit."

"Aki, there's too much in the past, I'm pretty sure Akira forgot."

"If she did she wouldn't be home until now."

"Things will be better, now that she's home."

"Yea right."

"When's Karinna coming home?"

"Soon."

"Good then the family will be together."

"Let's hope so."