"TSUKUSHI!" Tsukasa yells as he carefully lies her down on the floor. "Come on, open your eyes."
At this time, security personal finally arrive and detain the woman. She laughs as they drag her away.
Karin takes a deep breath. "Shigeru, call an ambulance now." She reaches into the top of her dress and takes out her cell phone which she tosses to Shigeru. "Rui, Akira, Soujirou, Kazuya, get everyone out of here right away. Sakurako, go wait outside for the ambulance to arrive. Yuki, do your best to calm down the Makino's and take them somewhere away from here." Karin finishes giving her orders before kneeling at Tsukushi's side opposite Tsukasa. "Tsukasa, I need you to hold this on her wound." She hands him her bundled up shall. He takes it in one hand and puts pressure on her wound located on the side of her stomach. "Tsukasa, look at me!" Karin orders. He snaps out of his trance and meets her eyes. "Tsukushi will be fine. It's not near anything vital. All you have to do is to keep pressure on the wound so we can slow the bleeding. I promise you, she will be alright." Tsukasa nods believing in her words.
Karin keeps watch as everyone does just as she had asked of them. She frequently looks at Tsukasa and Tsukushi. Tsukasa's mental stability is concerning her just as much as Tsukushi's condition. Within ten minutes an ambulance arrives. The paramedics take charge after Karin coaxes Tsukasa to let them do their job. Tsukasa rides in the ambulance with Tsukushi and everyone else follows in their own cars. Tsukushi is taken into surgery right away. Tsukasa, Karin, Rui, Yuki, Shigeru, Akira, Soujirou, Sakurako, Kazuya, and the Makino's wait anxiously in the waiting room.
"Karin," Tsukasa's voice is unstable with emotions. "Is there any truth behind what that woman said?"
Karin sits down and sighs. "I think everyone should sit down. I'll tell you exactly what happened on March twentieth last year." She waits until everyone is sitting, all attention on her, before she begins her tale. "It started a couple weeks before. Tsukushi had been acting off for a while. I also noticed she had been getting sick recently. She never told me anything but I knew something was wrong. She would sit and stare at the video phone you gave her Tsukasa. It continued on like that until the day of March twentieth. I came home and found Tsukushi writhing in pain. I took her directly to the hospital. She was admitted immediately. I didn't learn anything until a few hours later when I was allowed to see Tsukushi. She told me everything. She had been pregnant but something had gone wrong. Tsukushi had a miscarriage. She made me swear never to tell anyone until she herself was strong enough to tell Tsukasa. She's been secretly dealing with it herself ever since. She was going to tell you everything on your honeymoon, Tsukasa. She didn't want to destroy you're happiness before the wedding."
Tsukasa hesitantly asks his question. "Was… was it mine?"
Karin rounds on him and stares at him with hard, cold eyes. "Don't you dare even think that. You know Tsukushi better than that. It had to have been from your birthday."
The room echoes with silence, everyone wrapped in their own thoughts. The clock ticks out the seconds. The doctor comes into the waiting room then. Everyone is on their feet and gathers around the doctor waiting for news.
"We just finished surgery. Everything went just as expected. The bullet missed all vital organs but she did lose a lot of blood. After some rest, she'll be just fine."
A weight lifts from the room. "Doctor, can we see her now?"
"I'll allow all of you in to see her but only for ten minutes. She needs her rest."
"Thank you."
Everyone gathers in the room except Akira, Soujirou, Sakurako, and Shigeru who stay outside the room to make more room inside. Tsukushi slowly opens her eyes as everyone enters.
"Mom? Dad? Susumu?" Tsukushi whispers. The Makino's rush to Tsukushi and hug her. "What's going on? What happened?"
"You don't remember?" Tsukasa walks next to the bed.
"Doumyoji? What are you doing here?"
Tsukasa stares at Tsukushi puzzled. Before he can say anything Karin interrupts. "Miss. Makino, what is the last thing that you remember?" Everyone stares at Karin, her use of formality confusing them.
Tsukushi closes her eyes as she recalls the information. "I was at school. Makiko and I were walking to class together. I don't know what happened after that."
"I see. Thank you, Miss. Makino. I believe visiting hours are over now. We'll let you get your rest now." Karin glares at everyone and they comply to her demand without complaint until everyone is outside and the door is shut.
Tsukasa is the first to raise his voice. "What the hell was that for?!"
Karin's expression changes to one of sadness. "You couldn't tell? Tsukushi doesn't know who I am at all. Based on what she said, it seems she doesn't remember anything. There was too much trauma today that she wasn't able to handle it. I think she wanted to get rid of any memory of the trauma so she completely erased all memories of Tsukasa, which would be the past five years."