Note: As some of you have seen I have changed the name of the story, this new name will possibly be explained a bit more in this new chapter! This is a little insight as to what happened with the twins the night their parents left from Magenta's view! Please like and/or review. Even if it's to tell me what you didn't like (don't flame to harsh please!) or what you thought could've gone differently, your comments due matter to me. Thank you and Enjoy!
/Magenta's POV/
-Flashback-
Red. Nothing but pure red was all I woke up to that day. Those days where red was the only thing I woke up to would be horrible. A red headed nurse was blocking my view, smiling as she shrilled good morning. Looking to my right I noted that Okami was already out of bed. 'Did she already get ready for today?'
"Morning Alina. What did you bring this time besides my awful medicine." I stuck out my tongue at the mention of her many colorful pills. Okami, with damp hair wearing a long sleeve dress, shook her hands that held six small bottles. Paling, I pulled my blanket over my head.
"Well I am glad you asked sweetie! I have here some chocolate chip waffles for you two. Do you know how hard it is to smuggle in some food for you two that's good? I swear the things I do for you two!" Smiling, Alina moved to remove the needles from my arm. After she set the needles aside, Alina placed both trays that was over filled with food on the table in between our beds.
"Alina, can you fetch a glass of water while I get her meds situated?" Placing the six bottles down on the table next to the food, Okami began to pop off each lid and grabbed the 'rainbow' as I called my medicine as each pill was a different color. Sticking her hand out filled with the rainbow, Okami waited for me to eat the pills. Shaking my head, I stared at the door.
"Gen. Just eat the rainbow to get it over with please." She pleaded and shook the pills even closer to me.
"Mum and Da aren't here."
Looking over at the clock, it was only then did we realized that it was 10 and well into the day for the visiting hours to start. 'They've always been here when visiting hours started. Why are they late?' Shaking my head, I cleared my thoughts before putting on a smile. "Can't I take my meds when mum and Da are here?"
Okami whipped her head around so fast I could've sworn that I heard it pop at least ten times. Glaring down on me, Okami stood up gripping my chin between her hands. 'Oh god not again!' I mentally screamed before I felt my mouth being pried open. Okami threw the six pills down my throat and shoved the glass of water Alina had just finished filling into my hands.
Coughing while still trying to keep the pills down, I chugged the tall glass till it was nearly empty. 'No need for rough housing sis!' Looking up, I barely had enough time to see that silent tears were about to spill over before she turned away from me and took a deep breath.
Without another word, Okami stormed out of the room with tears silently falling. A slight giggling was heard from my left and I realized that the nurse Alina had stayed to watch the whole thing.
"Isn't she being a little emotional? I mean it's not like anything bad will happen to you if you don't take the medicines right?" Alina smiled and swayed a little before departing out of the room as well.
Trying to keep my emotions intact, I stood up and headed into the bathroom. After selecting a playlist I kept ready for situations like this and plugging in the speaker our parents had brought for us, I was about to turn on the shower when a stray bloody needle caught my eye on Okami's side of the counter. Picking it up, one thought ran through my head. 'She still is doing the treatments for me on her own even though I told her not to.' My heart began to race as my eyesight began to black out. Fumbling for the button on wall, I kept breathing deeply hoping the attack would pass soon.
Many voices filled the room as I stumbled out of the bathroom. I wasn't paying attention and only looked around for the spitting image of me that was in this hospital. Tons of nurses and doctors faces were in front of mine making it even harder to breathe.
"Oka! Okami. Where are you?" I cried out when darkness began to cover my eyes.
"MOVE!" One single voice rang out above the others that held authority. Immediately all of the hands that were touching my face left except for one. I felt a prick on my elbow and a flowing feeling as liquid was being pushed into my body. I didn't need to see to know it was a blood transfusion they were doing. 'Their using Okami's blood!'
"Magenta. Breathe. Don't worry we're looking for your sister ok so..." The person who if I remembered correctly was Doctor Nara. He was cut off when loud footsteps were heard outside the door before it was thrown open.
"Found her." A lazy voice drifted out before the door was closed again. 'Shikamaru. He found her. He always does.' Reaching out blindly with my right hand, I cried silently when I felt Okami grip my hand and pull me close to be hugged.
"Magenta. Shhh it's ok. It's ok. I'm here." Okami cooed while stroking my hair. Breathing deeply, I pointed towards to where I thought the bathroom was at.
"Y-you.. You're sti-hic-ll doing- hic- the treat..." I was cut off when I felt a hand go over my mouth before it traveled back to petting my head. I felt Okami sigh before she began to rock as carefully as she could while Doctor Nara began a second transfusion. 'Oka is going to kill me for letting my emotions run.' I thought before I felt a fresh wave of tears come.
"Okami. Her heart rate is still high. The transfusions won't help if she doesn't get her heart rate down. You're gonna have to do what your mom does when she's having attacks." Doctor Nara's voice rumbled through my bones as I felt him start a third blood transfusion.
Okami grumbled before taking a deep breath.
Okami
Let it all out, let it all out
You don't have to think your heart is made of steel
Come away now, from your own doubt
Like a flower of hope that's growing in a field, you will heal
Although the road has changed you
And the world has often failed you
You've gotta carry on and show them you're strong
You've gotta bury what is past and gone
Some days will be worse than others
But you've gotta find another way
Through pain and fear, or rain and tears,
We will hold on to the light
We'll chase the dawn that waits for us beyond the darkest sky
Keep following that distant star
Never walk away from who you are
Never forget that your future's waiting up ahead
As seasons change and rearrange
And the sands of time descend
As all your hope starts vanishing you'll always have a friend
In brightest day or darkest night
Even if we have to say goodbye
You'll be alright
I will always and forever be by your side
-Flashback Ends-
"After Okami finished singing was when my heart rate was low enough and stable to not be in complete danger. Doctor Nara had taken me to be put through several test to make sure all was well. Later on that night, we were told that our parents were murdered when a group of thugs had broken into their house early morning that day; We later found out that it was our nurse Alina who had our parents murdered because she believed that our parents weren't doing anything for us. Oka would not talk for the rest of the week; She was just a shell. What made it worse was at the end of the week, Doctor Nara had to move back to Japan, though he never did tell us where in Japan. I honestly believe Oka felt that she had nearly lost her whole family if Shikamaru hadn't found her in time." I mumbled into my mug of tea before setting it down.
Shizune and Tsunade sat on the other side of the table, mouths wide open and plates of food long forgotten. I was betting they wouldn't have moved if nothing forced them to react. I reached over and began to eat Shizune's Manju*.
A shrill noise rang in the other room. Shizune was the first to react by jumping out of her seat and race to answer the phone. Calmly finishing Shizune's food, I looked up to see Tsundae grab another sake bottle before walking around the table.
"Lady Tsunade. The hospital called. They said there's a patient that's demanding to talk with the head of the hospital. They need to do set her foot correct because she had her ankle twisted and crushed but she's resisting until she speaks with the top doctor." Shizune poked her head into the dinning room holding the receiver over her heart.
Tsunade ignored her and bent down in front of me. I could smell the strong alcohol radiate off of her.
"How many doctors have looked you over and said they couldn't work on you?" Tsunade wore a blank face. Leaning back onto my palms I looked to the side to see if Shizune would help. She had left. Looking Tsunade straight in the eye, I mumbled a number.
"What did you say? Speak up." Grumbling, I stood up and took a deep breath.
"I said 28! Overall doctors that have looked at me was 29! Doctor Nara was the only one who said he could possibly help! He said he wasn't as great as the mayor of his hometown but that this was all he could do to possibly prevent the attacks! He said that I possibly only have till my 19th birthday till I die because my sister can't keep losing at least 2 ounces of blood every single day! Okami might die of blood loss one day because of me! It's because of me that she has to go through every prodding of needles to see if her blood will hold the answer to my stupid disease or whatever it is!" I screamed. Gripping the table, I felt my heart begin to race. My eyesight hadn't begun to black out but I knew if I didn't stop the attack that I would be in trouble.
'No stop. Breathe. Clear thoughts. Hum. Repeat.' I hummed softly praying the attack would pass. It had lasted only a few moments before I was able to breathe properly.
"Shizune let the hospital know that I'm heading over there and that I have a patient with me that i'll be looking her over there. Don't wait up for us but please do call Okami to tell her to come home. Magenta, let's go."
Tsunade placed the bottle of sake back on the table before gripping my upper arm and dragged me to the garage. Looking around I noted that there was a bigger amount of trucks than cars. As Tsunade placed me in the passenger of a white truck I looked to my left and noted there was an object that was covered by a huge blanket.
We had reached the hospital within twenty minutes. Tsunade helped me get down from the truck before three nurses came rushing towards her with clipboards and a white jacket. Each nurse had a different hair color; one was a short pastel pink, the second was a long, bright blonde, and the third had a dark blue, long hair color. 'They look my age. What are they doing here at the hospital?' Shaking the thought away I quickly walked close behind Tsunade as she took off to the hospital's entrance.
The pink haired one had been talking with Tsunade when she paused midsentence to look at me.
"Shishou. Who's this?" The rosette eyed me with calculating emerald gazes. I ducked my head down and gripped Tsunade's jacket to keep from being left behind. This caught the attention of the other two nurses.
Tsunade didn't need to turn around to know it was me she was talking about. "Sakura. This is Magenta Kurusu. I need you to take her to a room and take a look over her."
I stopped walking when I heard it was this Sakura person who was going to look over me.
"No! You said that you were going to look over me." Tsunade whipped around quickly and strode up to me that I had to take a few steps back so she wouldn't run into me.
"Sakura is my prized apprentice. She will only take a quick look over you while I go straighten up your sister's ankle. If I don't do this now it will be harder to fix it. Now I want you to breathe and then follow Sakura. Do you understand Magenta?"
Tsunade didn't need to yell. Her voice held a power feel to it that if you had disobeyed her order then there would be havoc. With that said, She turned around strode away quickly leaving Sakura and the other two nurses with me in the hall of the hospital.
Sakura stood there for a moment before approaching me. She was a bit shorter than me but she stuck out her hand and smiled. "Hey. My name's Sakura Haruno. Come on. I won't hurt you if that's what you're worried about." Lightly pulling on my limp hand, Sakura towed me farther down the hall.
The blonde and bluenette followed behind but didn't say anything. Sakura sat me on a bed before turning to the other two. "Shouldn't you two be heading home? Deidara and Neji are gonna be worried if you two don't hurry up." I slightly picked up my head when I heard Sakura talk about Deidara. 'It can't be the same Deidara. This might be another Deidara.'
"Calm down Forehead. I got a text from Dei earlier saying he was here because Sasori had broken his nose for being late. Honestly, doesn't he know that Sasori hates waiting, especially in the airport. Besides, I'm only here to drop off food for you. I'm glad we don't work here, huh Hinata?" The blonde smirked as she played with a popsicle stick. The Bluenette nodded as she turned back towards me and Sakura.
Sakura chuckled as she placed a cool object on my chest to listen to my heartbeat.
"Neji-san said as long as I was with one of you guys that it was fine for me to be out. It's saturday anyways." The bluenette smiled as she sat on one of the chairs by the bed. Turning her attention to me, she held out her hand. "I don't think we were introduced. I'm Hinata Hyuuga."
Sakura had both my arms in different little machines so I nodded my head towards her. The blonde pushed off the counter she was leaning on and smiled brightly. "Name's Ino Yamanaka. You're Magenta right?"
"That's correct. Hello." I kept my eyes to the floor when she had walked closer. A hand reached underneath my chin pulling my head up. Startled, I tried to pull away only to see Ino's eyes up close to mine.
Sakura tsked and pushed Ino's head away from mine to shine a light down my throat. "So Magenta. Are you new in town?" Hinata had asked quietly as she scooted closer.
"Yeah. Me and my twin sister are being adopted by Tsunade. We had just gotten here earlier this morning."
Sakura smiled before placing the rest of the equipment on the counter. "So you're the two girls she's taking in from America? Finally! She was throwing a fit for the past month saying nothing but when are they coming, and why are they late. She was scared something had happen to you two."
Ino had been on her phone for the past minute before she looked up quizzically. "Hey Forehead? What's the room number for here? Dei wants to come over."
Hinata and Sakura shared a confused look before replying with 317. Ino nodded and returned to typing on her phone. Sakura let out a sigh and sat next to Hinata.
"So Magenta. Are you and your sister going to go to school here?" Hinata asked as Sakura began to doze off lightly. Nodding I was about to reply when Sakura snored loudly. Ino let out a small chuckle and threw her sweater on Sakura before returning to her phone.
"Yeah we're supposed to attend Konoha Academy. I think Tsunade was supposed to have us already entered."
The door slammed open causing Sakura to jerk awake and throw a pen at whoever was in the door way. "God dammit Sakura, un. Why are you attacking me, yeah?" 'Un? Oh my god it's Deidara!'
In the middle of the doorway stood Deidara, the lower half of his face covered by cloths, with a brown headed boy, a dirty blond girl and two red heads that looked ready to kill Deidara for yelling. One of the red heads looked really familiar but I didn't put much thought as the second blond girl pushed her way in.
"Sakura! We're here!" The dirty blonde yelled as she ran to hug Sakura. The brunette sauntered in with the two red heads pushing their way in past Deidara. As the younger red head edged a bit closer towards the bed to be in the room, it was only then did I realize that he was the boy from the airport.
"Hey. You're the guy who knocked me down in the airport." I mumbled thinking that no one would hear me. All talking ceased as everyone turned to stare at me and the young red head.
"Hn. You're the sister of the girl that attacked me at the airport." His jade eyes glared back at me as he switched his stance to face me.
Nodding I scooted off the bed and stumbled only to be steadied by Deidara. I felt him search me for any injuries. Taking my arm back, I bowed a little towards Sakura and walked quickly out of the room.
'I have to find Okami.' I had barely turned a corner when a scream radiated throughout the whole hospital. Nurses were running out of a huge room with scratches that ran down their arms.
"What the hell. Tsunade is letting the patient's pet maul her while she works. I can't even handle the pain." One of the nurses cried as the others held her up. Running into the room, I was met with a passed out Okami, a strange raccoon standing possessively over her foot, and Tsunade glaring at the animal.
"Fucking Gaara. You just had to leave your raccoon with her huh?" Tsunade hissed at the animal that growled and swiped back at her. I cleared my throat catching the attention of the animal but not Tsunade.
"Magenta. Get out of here. I don't want you to get hurt." I ignored her command but walked slowly towards the bed. Kneeling at the foot, I cooed and held my at the animal. It hissed before stepping closer to smell. Finding whatever it needed to know, it purred and nudged it's head against my hand.
"Please. They need to help my sister. Please behave." I cooed softly as I scratched it's ear. Purring one last time, it lightly licked my fingers and dashed off towards Okami's head to curl up underneath her chin.
Tsunade took this moment to snap my sister's ankle back into place before the raccoon could regret it's decision. Okami whimpered in pain but made no notion that she was waking up. 'This is the first I've seen her get any kind of sleep since that night.' I thought grimly as I slid down to sit against the wall. A cough was heard at the door.
"She'll be fine correct?" I looked to the door to see the same red head that had talked to me only a few minutes before. Tsunade looked up from wrapping Okami's ankle tight and nodded before continuing with her task.
"Hn. Shukaku let's go." The animal, or Shukaku by this guy's comment, rubbed it's head once more against Okami's cheek before it leaped off the bed. It raced across the floor and then climbed up the red heads legs to curl around his neck. Without another word, he left silently and swiftly.
"Tsunade. May we go home. I have to be hooked up before I could sleep." I yawned after we sat there for another half hour. Tsunade had already checked both me and Okami over. We were just waiting for nothing in my opinion. Nodding, Tsunade began to pack up when Sakura came into the room.
"Oh Shisou. Were you leaving for the night as well?" Sakura was carrying a backpack and sweater when she entered.
"Yes. Would you like a ride to the house or were you going to stay over somewhere?" Tsunade smiled lightly as she heaved her bag over her shoulder. Sakura shook her head and looked around the room.
"Where's Magenta? Is she staying with her sister here?" Sakura had a confused look when she couldn't find me.
"Down here." I smiled when Sakura jumped a little. Sakura offered me her hand to help me up. After a few minutes of making sure everything would be fine for Okami, we took off to the house. Sakura would not stop talking about how she couldn't wait for me and Okami to join her at Konoha Academy.
When we got to the house, Sakura pulled me out of the truck and up the stairs so she could show me which room was mine. 'Is this really mine?' I was breathless when I walked in.
The room was bigger than the one's in the hospital. It had black carpet and bloody red walls. Flower designs in black were spiraling the walls. The bed frame was a dark red with black bed spreads. There was one red curtain and one black. Sakura was splayed on my bed.
"So Magenta. I don't mean to be offensive or anything but you're from America and don't look Japanese, so how can you speak Japanese so perfectly?" Sakura was swinging her legs off the edge of the bed while I started to unpack a machine.
"Well. The thing about me and Okmai is that we've been in the hospital since we were born. Okami has left multiple times while I haven't. A single day was either spent with half the day being prodded, at least four hours of being homeschooled, or nothing to do for the day stuck in bed. Our mum would have us learn Japanese, Italian, Sign Language, and Spanish when we had nothing to do when we were younger." I smiled at the memories of Okami having a hard time rolling her r's in Spanish.
Sakura nodded as she watched me plug the machine in next to my bed. She stared at the ceiling for a few minutes in silence and for a moment I thought she had fallen asleep.
"Just thinking about what I would do if I was bed ridden for almost my whole life, it makes me think I would possibly go insane. What did you do when you couldn't get out of bed?" Sakura's small voice could barely be heard. I had to pause to realize what the real question was. 'How did we keep sane while being kept in the hospital for our whole life?'
"Well, I wasn't really allowed to be out of bed so I would draw or learn how to do card tricks. This is actually my first time out of the hospital. Okami was able to leave the room but she wouldn't leave for long because she feared that I would hate her if she left for a long time, which I didn't. When she did leave though, it would be to go play the instruments that was donated to the hospital. She was amazing on the violin and piano. Mum was so proud of her that every time Okami would make a new song, she would record it and upload it on YouTube; Dad would call us the bloody twins since he didn't know what to put for our YouTube account name. That's how Okami had gotten some pretty amazing opportunities to make music with or for people. She can tell you those awesome stories though. The only real thing that I had an opportunity for was creating art for a few games." Sighing, I picked up the IV needle and stuck it into my wrist.
Sakura yawned and stretched before climbing off my bed. "Well it's late. I'll let you sleep. If you need anything, I'm down the hall with the pink room ok? Good night Magenta." With that Sakura skipped out of my room while shutting the door.
'I hope Okami is sleeping ok. God and mum know she hardly does.' Sighing, I crawled into bed and tried to sleep. 'I wish mum was here to sing me to sleep.' I hummed silently before my body had enough of today and decided to save me.
Yay! After typing for four hours I finished it! Enjoy and i will answer a few things. The song that Okami sings is called Let it out (don't know who's it by though :/ )
1: I haven't been updating lately because I am in a play right now so my afternoons are gone. luckily spring break is close by!
2:What kind of "disease" does Magenta have? I would like to hear what you think it could possibly be.
2a: The reason that Okami acted rashly when magenta refused the pills will be explained later.
3: Manju is a type of dough I believe and it can usually be filled with red bean paste.
4: The reason the dad called them the bloody twins was because Okami's and Magenta's life basically revolve around their blood.
5: Just know that yes they are speaking in japanese but i will tell you when they switch languages kay?
~Yoshi