Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. Rawr.
Thank you to all my reviewers. This chapter is a little longer, but it might be kinda odd, since I'm posting this at 3 AM. God, my sleeping habits are almost as bad as Shigure's. I guess that's what it means to be a writer. God, I'm so tired. Oh well.
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Chapter 17
It had been a week since Amaya went into her cataleptic state, and Megumi hadn't come back to visit her once. Amaya hadn't stirred in that time, either. Hatori was getting worried that he might actually have to cut off Amaya's support and let her rest in peace, forever.
Hatori had struggled to find another way out of this situation, but Amaya was slowly sinking deeper within herself, and soon she wouldn't be able to survive, even with the support. That would hurt Amaya and she would be able to feel it, even in her comatose condition. Finally, he decided that he would call everyone and tell them that if she wasn't awake in a month, he would let her move on.
So, now, Hatori was wondering who to call first. Amaya would want her beloved to know first, right? The doctor picked out the phone and called the Hanajima residence.
"Hello, this is Dr. Sohma." Hatori said into the phone, trying to sound official.
"Yo, Hatori! So, what's up?" Uotani's voice boomed through the speaker, and Hatori pulled away. After making sure his ear was alright, Hatori put the phone back to his ear.
"I have some… bad news. May I please talk to Megumi? He would want to hear first." There was a sound of someone muffling the speaker, and a distant yell for Megumi. The phone was uncovered again and Megumi's voice could be heard.
"Yes?" Hatori winced; this was going to be hard.
"Amaya... she hasn't woken up. She's slowly dying, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. If she doesn't wake up by the end of the month, I'll take away her support, and let her rest in peace." There was a sound of the phone clattering on the floor. It seemed as if Megumi had dropped the phone.
There were sounds of scuffling feet, and the phone emitted a sound that suggested that is was being picked up.
"Hello, what happened?" Saki's voice was now coming from the phone. Hatori gulped, repeating this would be hard work, his throat was already dry.
"Amaya's showing signs that she's dying, slowly. There's nothing I can do. I have to cut off her support by the end of the month. If she doesn't wake up by then, it'll be obvious that she's only suffering, and we're not helping her." Hatori heard a gasp, apparently he was on speaker, because Uotani could be heard.
"I need to tell the others, so I must hang up now." Hatori pushed the off button on the phone. Truth be told, he had a lot of time to tell everyone, he just didn't wanted to avoid the uncomfortable conversation that was being held.
"I might as well call the others…"
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Tohru was humming while washing the dishes that were used in lunch. She passed a wet but shining dish over to a figure beside her, who happened to be Kyo. He grabbed the plate and dried it off, then placed it on the top of a pile of clean dishes.
The two just washed dishes and enjoyed each other's company in silence, until the phone rang.
"I'll get it, Kyo-kun!" Tohru dried off her hands and rushed over to the phone, picking it up quickly. "Hello, who is this?"
"Tohru-san, don't you use caller ID? It is I, Hatori." Tohru blushed and let out a little "oh".
"Hello Hatori-san! How are you!" Tohru smiled, but Kyo had bad feelings about this, Hatori, as a doctor, usually didn't give good news.
"Well, Tohru-san, I've been better. I've gotten yelled at a lot today… But that isn't what's bothering me… You see, Amaya isn't doing well. She's slowly dying. I can't do anything, or else I would. At the end of this month, I'm going to let her go, if she doesn't wake up." Tohru was so shocked, she dropped the phone, much like Megumi had.
"I've been getting a lot of that lately…" Hatori's voice sounded from the fallen phone, but no one heard his remark, nor did they particularly care.
"Tohru!" Kyo ran over to her, holding her close. "What happened!" Tohru didn't answer, but instead turned into him and put her head on his chest, weeping.
"K-Kyo, its A-Amaya. She's n-not well…." Kyo rested his head in the crook of Tohru's neck for a moment before lifting his head up again and hugging Tohru even closer to his body.
"You can tell me later, for right now you can cry your eyes out." Kyo picked up the phone with one hand and spoke into it. "Hey Hatori, speak to you later, ok?" Without waiting for an answer, her hung up the phone and went back to comforting Tohru.
Kyo sat Tohru down at the table and let her cling onto him, crying into his shoulder. This continued for quite a long time. Eventually, Yuki came in and saw Tohru still sobbing in Kyo's arms, and immediately got ready to attack. He stopped short, however, when he saw Kyo mouth something about a phone call from Hatori. Yuki knew that he should leave the couple alone, so he went up to his room, probably to call Hatori to see what this was all about.
Around dinnertime, Shigure walked through the sliding doors and saw Tohru, with her tearstained face, lying on top of Kyo, her arms around his neck and his arms around her waist. Shigure just smiled sadly, picking up the phone to order take out.
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Amaya was lying down, staring up at the still lilac sky. She felt pain coursing throughout her body. It had grown stronger with each moment she spent in this imaginary world of hers.
The cat girl felt terribly lonely, but the only thing that kept her from trying to wake up was that someone always came to talk to her in the real world. Although she couldn't see them, she could hear them, and that was all that mattered to her.
Feeling her emotions turn depressing, she expected the rain that always came here when she was sad. And, soon enough, the candy clouds let the little drops of rainwater fall to the ground. She knew it was just an illusion, but it seemed as if the raindrops were speaking to her.
"Hurry, for you don't have much time!" One raindrop seemed to say. The raindrop landed right by Amaya's left ear. She jumped up, the message was easy to decipher, unlike the usual babble of the rain here.
"Open your eyes to the love around you." The next speaking raindrop landed by Amaya's right hand, but missed just by a millimeter. Amaya jumped again. This was odd…
"Why don't I have much time! And what do you mean by the love around me!" Amaya yelled up to the sky. If there was one thing she had learned in the time she had spent here it was that anything could answer her, that everything here had some advice to give, something to say.
"You may feel you're alone, but I'm still here with you." The voice had come from behind her. Amaya wheeled around to see a beautiful woman with cobalt black hair and purple eyes stood there, a loving look on her face. She was wearing a black, blue, and purple dress and a fedora. Just then she noticed a girl her age peeking out from behind the woman. The girl looked just like her, she could be her twin! Wait, no, her eyes where a deep sapphire, just the opposite of Amaya's ruby eyes.
"W-who are you!" Amaya stood up, facing the two with a look of fear on her face. The two looked at each other sadly.
"You don't remember us, darling?" The woman's eyes showed hurt. The girl, her eyes were full of fear, her head poking out from behind the purple eyed, black haired woman. Suddenly, the rain stopped and the sun shined brightly, illuminating the lavender sky stunningly.
"M-mom! Is that really, truly you?" Amaya's eyes clouded with tears as an old mental would opened up again. The woman nodded.
"Yes, Amaya dear, it's me." Amaya smiled and ran into her mother's open arms, tears of joy streaming behind her.
"Mom…" The girl that looked like Amaya stared at her sadly, knowing she had been forgotten.
"Amaya-chan?" The girl had a timid voice, but as Amaya looked to her, she smiled. "Do you… remember me?" Amaya shook her head and the girl looked defeated.
"I suppose Hatori-ue erased my memory of you… You do seem… familiar." Amaya let go of her mother and walked over and in front of the girl. "I'm sorry, I truly can't remember."
"I'm your twin, Mi Nami. I wish you would remember me…" Amaya looked down and hugged the Mi Nami tenderly.
"I wish I would, too. But we can get to know each other now! You can stay here, in my imaginary land, with me!" Mi Nami and Amaya's mom looked at each other sadly.
"Amaya-chan, I want to, but then you would die! We can meet in the real world, I'm still alive." Amaya looked from Mi Nami to her mom, and then back again.
"But mom, what about you, you're dead!" Tears welled up in Amaya's eyes, she had never known her mom, but she really wanted to.
"Honey, since you're staying in your comatose world, you can't do vital things! You're going to die, and you don't need to die yet. I know I'll see you again, in heaven. Try to wake up, please. If not for me, for Mi Nami and Megumi." Amaya's eyes were still clouded with tears, but she smiled and hugged her mother again.
"I'll do it for all three of you! I guess you must be going, then…" Her visitor both nodded and Amaya hugged Mi Nami.
"I'm watching over you, darling." Amaya's mother (whose name is Mai) sprouted glorious, feathery angel wings and faded away, leaving Amaya and Mi Nami.
"I will see you in next to no time, sister. Good tidings to you." Mi Nami bowed her head and she too faded away.
"Goodbye, sister, mother. I shall miss you." Amaya closed her eyes and fell down back into the silver paper flowers, trying to hold back tears. "I saw you, and you were as perfect as Hatori-ue said! I promise you, I will wake up!"
Tears streamed down Amaya's face as she looked at the still illuminated sky.
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Happy... Sad... Touching... Yeah, that just about covers it. So, you like Ayama's mom? She's nice. Yeah... Mi Nami means beautiful wave, and Mai means brightness. Yesh, Amaya has a twin. She's gonna appear in the sequel somehow. And yesh, Mai is Amaya's guardian angel. Well, Amaya's old guaridan angel did a crappy job so he was fired recently and replaced by Mai, who, before, was a messenger angel. She mostly worked on those dream missionary thingies, like a Constantine job. Amaya also has another brother, but he's dead and I really don't give a crap about him. And only Hatori knows this, since Akito kinda forgot, but Akito isn't Amaya's brother, he's her step brother. You see, Amaya's mom married Akito's dad after Amaya's dad died. Akito's mom, Ren, divorced Akito's dad and wanted nothing to do with Akito, but Akito loved Mai like his own mother because she was so kind to him. Anyway... I'm tired, so while I catch forty winks, you should review as a pleasent suprise. So, Sayonara... Guten Morgen... I guess... Since it's past 12 AM... Ugg... bye.