Chapter 11 Explanations
Sorry for the long wait..... I've been very busy this whole year.... a year already huh? Since I last updated.......
Hotaru smirked. Ayumi's blood boiled when she saw that smirked. She got really angry.
"Just wipe off that smirk!!" this time she punched her.
"Heh, I won't kill you coz you could be put to good use," Ayumi walked off leaving injured Hotaru behind.
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"...ai... mai.... Imai!" said a masculine voice. Hotaru opened her eyes slowly. The image of the person was blurry. "Who...?" she whispered softly.
"Natsume da. Are you alright? What are you doing here?" Natsume's voice was clearer this time. Hotaru opened her eyes wider and saw Natsume. She slowly was trying hardly to get up.
"Oi, you can barely stand up with all that wounds. Where do you think you're going?" he said, sighing.
"Shut up, would you? Of course I'm going to where Mikan is," her voice weak. Her body leaned against the tree. Her body swayed as she tried to walk deeper into the woods. She felt a sharper pain and she collapsed.
"Oi, Imai!" Natsume quickly went to her side. He noticed that Hotaru is unconscious and her body is bruised. He gave her a piggy back ride and brought her to the hospital. "What does she mean by 'going to where Mikan is'? Guess I'll ask her later when she wakes up....." He walked out of the woods and headed to the hospital.
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"How's her condition?" Ruka asked the doctor. He rushed to the hospital after Natsume met him and told him about Hotaru.
"Seems like she received a great impact on her body. Her body had bruises that indicating that she had a fight with someone fairly strong, because her body had been thrown over against something hard. She needs to stay here for a week to receive treatment," the female doctor explained briefly.
"I see...." Ruka sighed in relief. He wanted to ask what happened after Hotaru woke up. He glanced at Natsume who was sitting on a chair, staring into space.
"What happened exactly Natsume?"
"I don't know. All I know is I heard a loud explosion in the woods when I was napping on a tree. I went there and I saw her unconscious with her body full of bruises. But there's one thing she said before she collapsed."
"What is it?"
"She said she was going to where that polka dots were,"
Ruka blushed a bit about 'polka dots' comment. "I see... but what did she mean by that?"
"I'm not too sure either. We better wait until she wakes up."
"You have a point there...." Ruka sighed and sat on a small chair next to Hotaru's bed and stared at her worriedly.
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Hotaru opened her eyes slowly. She saw a white space before her eyes. "Where am I?" she thought. She tried to sit up and felt a pain on her right shoulder. She winced a bit and held on her right shoulder. She looked around her and she realized she was in a hospital room. Then she saw Ruka slept besides her bed. She smiled a bit. Then she saw Natsume, sitting on a chair leaning against a wall, sleeping quietly.
She tried to get down the bed to get a drink. This made Ruka woke up.
"Oh, you're awake?"
"Yeah,"
"Where are you going?"
Hotaru didn't reply him and tried to get a glass of water. But she is in no condition to walk around carelessly. "Oh let me help you. You just lie down on the bed." He offered. "What do you want?"
"Get me a glass of water," she commanded while getting back onto her bed.
Ruka glared at her for a sec and gave in. "Okay..."
Ruka filled in the glass with warm water and handed it to Hotaru. She muttered a soft thanks and drank a sip.
"So you're awoke, Imai," Natsume's voice spoke. She looked over to Natsume.
"I need you to explain what the hell happened back there," he said a little sternly.
"There's no need for you to know,"
"What?"
"It got nothing to do with you,"
"Imai, please talk about what had happened. I need to know and I'm worried about Sakura-san,"
Hotaru stared at Ruka. "I never knew you're so nice, Ruka-kun." She said with a smirk.
"Wha-? I-I'm always nice!" he snapped and blushed.
"It's about Taki Ayumi,"
"Huh?" both of the boys looked up to her.
"She disguised as Mikan to get Mikan away from here. I don't know what her objectives are."
Natsume grit his teeth and clenched his fists.
"So where is Sakura-san now?"
"She's in a wooden hut in a jungle far away from here."
"In a jungle, huh..... We still don't know where Mikan is with this bit of info." Ruka sighed.
"I have a way to find her," Hotaru claimed. Natsume raised his left eyebrow.
"I just have to make a robot dog that can follow Mikan's scent. We will be able to find her that way,"
"How long for you to take to make the robot?" Natsume asked.
"At least 3 days if I don't sleep,"
"Imai, you don't have to stress yourself right now. You have to stay here for a while. We will do things on our own." Ruka assured her. He got up to exit the room.
Natsume clicked open the doorknob to get out of the room followed by Ruka. As sson as he opened the door, he saw Sumire, Kokoroyomi, Anna, Nonoko, Tobita, Tsubasa-senpai and Misaki-senpai, slumped to the floor. They have been eavesdropping at the door in silence.
"Wha-what are you guys doing?!" Ruka sweat dropped. They grinned sheepishly.
"Erm.. well.... we sort of... ah, Hotaru-san!" Tobita exclaimed. He hurried to Hotaru's bed.
"Hotaru-chan, are you alright?" Anna said worriedly.
"It seems that Imai-san is alright," Sumire said glancing at Hotaru.
"We heard what's going on from the doctor, Hotaru-chan. It seems like you had a fight," Nonoko said.
"Get well soon, Hotaru-chan," Misaki-senpai said. Tsubasa-senpai nodded and grinned.
"Hmph," Hotaru lied down and turned her back towards them. "You guys are pretty disturbing. I wanna sleep right now. Get out,"
"Don't be so cold, Hotaru-chan," Tsubasa-senpai and the others laughed.
TBC~
Sorry if my grammar/vocab got a lil prob.... since I didn't write anything for ages.... my writing skills have gone down..... From usual.....