/a.n./ I am SO SO SO sorry for the amount of time it took for me to update! I am seriously horrified; and this chapter comes as a relief… Please review, it would be nice to get one after all this time…
Anna's POV
Chapter 2 – Suffocating
Something isn't right.
I knew it from the first moment I regained consciousness. I felt all right, but somehow…different. Why though? I couldn't place it. I felt alive, but somehow…not.
Does that even make sense? How could I be alive and dead at the same time? Is it possible? As these questions passed through my mind, a strange realization dawned upon me: I couldn't breath. But it wasn't exactly uncomfortable; almost like I wasn't supposed to breath. Was I really meant to die? Maybe I should… Yoh would be better off without me as his slave driver…
I felt a jolt go through my chest.
Pain.
Could I still feel it? Or was it just brought on by my lingering thoughts… How come all the answers remained an enigma? Oh well…
Why can't I breath?
I tried to look around.
Nothing.
I was…nowhere.
Complete darkness. Wasn't there supposed to be an afterlife? In that case…was I really dead?
As I thought of that remote possibility, I felt another stab in my chest and before I could so much as register what had happed, I felt my body being pulled down into the nothingness.
The first change was obvious.
How come I can breathe again?
Voices… Someone was calling my name… Who though? It seemed distant, like the person was speaking to me from the bottom of a well..
"Miss Asakura? Miss Asakura! Can you hear me?"
A different voice now…
"She's breathing again!"
The unfamiliar voices grew clearer as time passed. I could now hear footsteps running around the room, I could sense the people around me. Why were so many people gathered around me?
"Oh thank god! She's breathing!"
"But what about…?"
What about what? What were they hiding from me? I was alive right? Then there was no problem… I heard someone clear his throat. They were definitely hiding something…
"Don't talk about that right now!" another man snapped. I didn't get why he was so angry. A softer voice spoke next…
"Miss Asakura, can you move?"
I weighed my options for a moment, trying to decide if I should simply stay put and listen; before deciding to move. Opening my eyes, I was momentarily blinded by the bright light that flooded the room. My eyes watered as I shut them reflexively. I peeked through my lashes and tried to adjust to the brightness. Finally able to open them, I took in my surroundings. Several people were hovering over me, with identical looks of anxiety on their tired faces. One was holding two metal objects in his hands. So they shocked me back to life… I averted my gaze from the people and studied the room. It looked like a hospital room… All white and high tech… Though not like the ones I saw in my soap operas… There were no flowers in the room. No cards, no "get better soon" messages… It looked like I was also hooked to an IV or something, I couldn't move my arms…
"Miss Asakura… Do you feel alright?" a doctor asked me. Unable to find my voice at first, I gave a slight nod before resuming my scan of the room. Someone was missing.
"W-wh-wheres Y-yoh?" I managed to croak out.
A heavy silence hung over the room at my simple question. I looked at each of the strangers' faces expectantly, but none answered my question.
"You should sleep Miss Asakura…." said a woman in the back of the room. I focused my attention on her and tried to get a read on her thoughts, it looked like my spiritual powers were also blocked for the time being…
"W-where's Yoh?" I asked again, in a considerably more audible tone.
"Sleep." She said once more, before ushering the rest of the people out the door, and turning the lights off.
As I felt myself drift off into sleep, my unanswered questions seemed to fade away along with my consciousness…
/a.n./ so that's it for now, and I promise I will update VERY soon! Plenty more chapters to come; and don't forget to check out the trailer for this fic: .com/watch?v=LpWwxWOy_g
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