Mai HiME
Lost & Found
Chapter IX
Notes: my heart is an icebox: 'laughs' are you sure you want to help me? I hope you're serious on that. Anyway, my mind isn't all here with me err… it never was here with me in the first place! 'laughs cynically'
Sleep was cut short when Takeda amazingly hit the floor with the mattress somehow managed to land on top of him. He groaned, crawling out from under it cursing in the process but it all died out when a muzzle of a silencer touched his forehead. His green eyes shown fright as it traveled up the gun to a black glove covered hand, the loose black jacket, and finally stopped at the tousle blonde hair with piercing purple eyes staring at him. Those eyes show nothing but hostile against him, Takeda felt his blood run cold as he was only half-way out from under the mattress.
"What say we take a trip to the hospital?" the tall blonde woman spoke. "There's someone that you should meet," she continued as her voice remained flat and emotionless. Before Takeda could protest, he felt stunned and everything around him went pitch black. It turned out Haruka used the gun she found in his room when she broke in; butting the handle on the back of his head to knock him out instead of wasting her times in listen to him trying convinced her on sparing his life or whatever. She throw him over her shoulder and walked out, leaving the door wide opened since no one seemed to be around this place.
Using his car, Haruka shoved the unconscious Takeda into the trunk and cuffed his hands behind him before she got into the driver seat and drove out of the private basement garage in the slick Honda Civic. Of course, this isn't under anyone's order that she did what she did; Haruka did this because she wanted to punish whoever caused her lovely doctor to be so upset. The girl worked whenever she wanted to, and now she's hired by Mikoto to look after Yukino which probably the one job she would never dreamt of having. Of course, Yukino was always polite and very kind to Haruka and everyone else she met. Life just doesn't get any better for Haruka, being with the girl she loved was the best thing that had ever happened to the tough assassin.
Sitting in her office, the young doctor donning her lab coat waiting patiently for the one person she wanted to talk to arrive. Obviously, Mai was in ICU talking to a comatose Mikoto, and Nao is sitting in Yukino's office with her new fling Shiho, yawning from lack of sleep due to too much actions between the sheets. Shiho didn't have a clue why she's there just stifled a yawn and rested her head on Nao's shoulder, while their finger interlaced with one another comfortably.
"What is it that's so important that I have to come this early?" Natsuki asked storming into the room and jolted the two sleepy women from their comfortable position. "You might want to sit down," Yukino said resting her chin on her laced fingers while her elbows resting firmly on her desk. "Ara, Suzushiro-han… what is it that you're dragging?" Shizuru asked from outside the office. The woman sounded as calm as usual while the wolf was easily worked up as usual also. Before anyone could figured out what was going on outside, someone plowed through and went smack into Yukino's desk sending most of the things on her desk out of its place just a centimeter or so.
"Ow, fucking son of a…" Takeda groaned as the strong impact seemed to pull him out from unconsciousness. "Takeda? Why are you in cuffs?" Natsuki asked. "I brought him here, because he's in this as much as everyone else." Haruka said as she entered the room with Shizuru behind her. "Shit, Mikoto said nothing about you being a cop." Natsuki growled. "I'm no cop, just a bodyguard and he's posing a threat to the person I'm guarding." Haruka said coldly. "What do you mean?" Shizuru interrupted them.
"I can answer that," Yukino spoke in a matter of fact tone. "Haruka-chan, if you please." Yukino nodded at the blonde and she closed the door and locked it. "Let me be frank and went straight to the point, Mikoto is currently in a coma and we're not sure when she will wake up." Yukino paused and a few gasp ensued. "Now for a recap on what caused her to be in a coma," she paused again looking at Shiho and Nao. "Shiho-chan, I would assume that you're not all that close to your cousin: Yuuichi Tate correct?" "No, his mother drives me insane since he's the only child, she would try to set us up since we're second cousins. She thinks her son was made of gold, but he'd been doing things behind her back and she didn't even know it. God, just talking about them make my skin crawls," Shiho said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Then this will not harm your relationship with Nao," Yukino nodded as she stood up. "As most of us know, Mikoto found Mai-san in bad shape and brought her here. We know that Mikoto adored Mai-san when she first set eyes on her five years ago at Fuuka High's graduation, obviously her kindness moved Mai-san's heart as they started dating just recently. Of course, Mikoto, Nao and I knew of Mai-san's past and I would assume that Fujino-san and Natsuki here knew of it as well. Now back to the current situation," she paused again before turning away from the others and looked out at the windows behind her.
"They went out on a dinner date last night, unexpectedly run into Tate and his friend here when they left the restaurant. Tate said something about wanting Mai-san back and she refused, this is when Takeda-san pointed a gun at Mikoto threaten Mai-san with force." Yukino said letting out a heavy sigh as she controlled her voice to stay calm. "Of course, Mikoto isn't the kind of person that's easily scared when threaten. Things went from bad to worst when Takeda-san decided to kill Mai-san after Mikoto beaten Tate-san up; reacting on instinct Mikoto stepped into the path of the bullet and saved Mai-san. She managed to fight off both men with that wound before asking Mai-san to take her here. With all that being said," she paused again to take in a deep breath and steadied her voice before continuing on. "I will not allow anyone who hurt Mikoto to go unpunished…" Yukino said firmly.
Everyone could only look at her and gasped slightly at her tone of voice, Yukino was never this commanding or angry like she is now. Of course, Haruka find this aspect of the young doctor to be very adorable but she'll never admit that to anyone, not even to herself. Takeda leaned against the desk silently praying for mercy as Yukino finished her statement, the whole time Natsuki was giving him her famous 'Death Glare' and that got him sweating badly.
Meanwhile in the ICU, Mai sit quietly by Mikoto's bed listen to the beeping sound from one of the monitors that monitoring Mikoto's heart rate. She took the girl's hand within her own and pressed it against her forehead, "Did you know Mikoto, that the only thing I remember of you was those lovely golden eyes of yours staring into the depth of my soul on graduation day." Mai place a kiss on the hand and rested it against her cheek, trying to recall the event of that day.
"You know, I was born with a rare disease as my parents told me throughout my childhood. It's not like I'm colorblind, but I sometimes have a hard time making out people's face. It doesn't always happen though; the symptom seemed to come and goes like the flu. And on graduation day, I was pretty stressed out from all the preparation that everyone in my range of vision was just a blur to me. In that blurry crowd, I saw a pair of beautiful golden eyes looking at me and I felt like those eyes just pierced through the darkest corner of my soul and lit it up with unknown feelings." Mai smiled as tears started forming around her pretty amethyst eyes. "Of course, I could only make out the color of your eyes but I didn't have enough time to try and make out your face when Tate comes up to me. Oddly, he's just a blur that day when he would usually stand out even when everyone else around me looked like a blur." Mai laughed through her tears.
"Please come back Mikoto, there's so much I wanted to talk to you about. I want to know more about you," Mai started sobbing badly again. "I want to know what you like to eat, because I want to be able to make dinner for you when you come home late from work. I want go to the beach with you on our day off, just us or with everyone else. I want to go on a picnic with Mikoto and talk about anything and nothing at all, because I am happy just to be with you. So please come back," Mai said in between sobs as her tears dropped onto Mikoto's hand but the other girl stayed asleep still.
Back at the office, everyone seemed to have a gloomy look on their face. "Wait, where's the big chest woman?" Nao asked perking her head up remembering that the strawberry orange top isn't in the room. "She's with Mikoto in the ICU," Yukino replied. "What are we going to do with him?" Shiho asked looking at Takeda. "We follow the code of the Wolf," Natsuki said coldly glaring at Takeda still. "I don't want his blood on the floor of this clinic," Yukino said firmly. "Don't worry, he'll be staying at the warehouse by the docks until Mikoto come around. For now, his life will be spared but will not go unpunished." Natsuki said pulling Takeda up by his shirt and dragged him out with Shizuru trailing right behind them.
"What should we do about that Tate guy?" Haruka asked. "Nao and Shiho will have to keep an eye on him, until Mikoto woke up. We will do nothing to him, but I am worry about Mai-san's state of mind." Yukino said softly. "I think just let her be with Minagi, it might help bring her out of the comatose state faster. Though only time will tell," Haruka said taking in a deep breath. So Nao and Shiho politely took their leave, Yukino slumped down on her chair looking truly exhausted as she has yet to get any shuteyes the whole night.
"You should go home and get some rest," Haruka said softly. "I can't, not when I know that Mikoto is fighting Death." Yukino whispered. "Then come here, you can use my shoulder and get a little rest that way." Haruka said as she padded on the cushioned bench she's sitting on. Yukino blushed at the other woman's bold statement, but she moved over and sits down resting her head on the shoulder that Haruka offered to her. "Thank you," she whispered as sleep swept her away. "No problem," Haruka murmured resting her head on the young doctor's head and drift off to sleep too. It had been a very exhausting night, and they gladly welcome some sleep while leaning on each other for support and hoped for the best for Mikoto and Mai.
Author's Notes: Rawr!!! I really shouldn't even update this chapter today at all, since I did two yesterday. Oh well…