Why You?
Chapter 9!
Please read the A/N!
A/N: Hey Everybody! It seems that I have been keeping you a long time from this chapter but I can say I have a good few reasons! My girlfriend has been really sick lately and she has been put in hospital until further notice. I cannot tell you the reason why because it is personal. I have my exams for my end of unit in Science, Maths and English plus my coursework coming in the next few weeks and so I have been busy doing extra classes and homework and when home my body is just too tired and so I unfortunately don't and cannot write! I can tell you now that I am back and will write and update as much as I can:D I hope you understand my reasons and enjoy this chapter but if my girlfriends condition is worsened, I hope you understand that I will be at her side! I know that you all love this story by the reviews and really want to see what happens next but please understand:) Enjoy! Brad:D
( Previously on 'Why You?' )
The cycle began again. Another 2 months have passed since Natsuki's parents visit and they haven't been back since. The doctor is always saying how the brain activity is slowly starting to work more but deep down she is fearing that the girl may not wake up. After all this time, Natsuki has begun to change.
Natsuki's body is no longer smaller than Shizuru's own, in fact, Natsuki is an inch taller than Shizuru now. Natsuki's hair that once reached just below her shoulder blades is now down at her waist. Natsuki's limbs have begun to turn into mush and she feels squishy. Although, her facial features have matured. Natsuki's face is fuller, showing all the curves of her jaw and cheek bones.
Everyone had begun to think Natsuki may never wake up in their minds, all except one who still prayed that Natsuki will wake guilt still eats away at her and it will for the rest of her life. Shizuru still cries herself to sleep by the side of Natsuki every night. Her parents never asked her why she never sleeps at home. Shizuru didn't care about anything else, she just wanted Natsuki to wake up. Even if Natsuki doesn't love her, even if she hates her, as long as Natsuki is alive and healthy, it is all she wants!
It is the last day of school before the summer holiday now. Time began to fly past. Shizuru is hovering her body over Natsuki's body with her hands on either side of Natsuki's head. The high tech equipment has been taken off her mouth because she is able to breathe without the use of it.
"Natsuki... I need to go now...I have to meet my parents but I promise...I will come back. When I do come back here, will you be awake, Natsuki? I...I wanted to confess on that night to you. Ara, indeed. I have decided that Natsuki is Natsuki and I don't care whether you are different, as long as you're by my side. Natsuki, I love you. With all my heart I love you, please wake up. I need you with me here and now. Please...I'm begging you..." Shizuru begged as she slowly began to close in on Natsuki's tender face.
The small gap between them began to get smaller and smaller as her face inched closer to Natsuki's own. What seemed like forever was only a few seconds as they finally reached their lips together and locked them. An electric current shot through Shizuru's body at the touch. The kiss is soft and tender but unresponsive. Shizuru finally pulled back and caressed Natsuki's cheek before she turned on her heels and left the hospital room without a word.
As she left and din't look back, she failed to notice the twitching of Natsuki's body when she left.
Time. That one word is beginning to grow on everyone's plummeting nerves. All of Natsuki's friends have visited countless times in the now 9 months time that Natsuki has been in a coma. The doctors had rushed in on her the day Shizuru left to go meet her parents. When Shizuru returned to the hospital at late night with her pass, allowing her full visiting hours, they had told Shizuru how Natsuki's body had reacted to something and that her body began to move. Those moves grew in this past month and everyone's hope decided to take a turn for the best.
Shizuru is always there in the hospital for them movements, besides from the ones when she is at school. No one had noticed that Shizuru's playful demeanor had changed and she only showed her true self to Natsuki. Her mind no longer wished to tease such underclassmen that admire her over her because she is beautiful. Now they just got on her nerves and she always tried her best not to show it. Her masks have slowly began to harden themselves in place and she only let them slip when needed.
Natsuki on the other hand, is proving that her mind is beginning to wake up and wants to move around. Her injuries that she had sustained in that guilty accident have finally vanished besides from the odd small scars on her back. They are now barely noticeable, just lighter scratches of rippled skin. Shizuru's guilt still continued to eat at her, no matter how many people have told her it was an accident. She knew that deep down, even if Natsuki forgives her, she has taken away a large proportion of her teenage life.
School graduation is coming up for Shizuru and Natsuki. Although Natsuki has been in a coma for a while, her grades have her passing with flying colours and so because of that, they granted Natsuki permission to graduate but the ceremony is fast approaching and Natsuki may not wake up by that time.
Although, the doctors are starting to have a rough date when Natsuki may wake up but they unfortunately won't tell anyone, not even Natsuki's hell hole parents. Speaking of such people, they have only returned once and that was when Shizuru was not at Natsuki's side. What they did is still unknown to this day.
This day is a special day, it is Shizuru's birthday and Natsuki is being more responsive to Shizuru's conversations and the day is halfway through and Shizuru knew that she had to go home for the night, her parents are throwing her a party in her honor after all and so she is trying to spend as much time with Natsuki on this day as possible before putting on her mask.
"Ara, my Natsuki! I'm now of age to start planning on taking over my father's company! I know that 18 is a still very young and all but I want us to be able to be together in the future and be able to support one another...that is if you still want me after...all that has happened..." Shizuru whispered as her confidence dropped significantly. She always tried her best to keep her confident and happy side for Natsuki but when she thinks of the accident, it all flies away like a caged bird, flapping its wings for freedom.
Nevertheless, Shizuru sprang back to life and wiped her face from the horrid tears that had consumed her face and she is thankful for not wearing any makeup to be smudged. Not that Shizuru does need any makeup. Her beauty is all natural. Shizuru is sometimes thankful and regretful for that. It brings her a lot of un-wanted attention and people who are fake around her.
Shizuru can't really say much from that point because she wears a mask to hide her true self from the world when needed. That is how the beauty of herself has made her. People envy her. They fake being her friends and when in truth, they all use her. Shizuru's status as the daughter of a famous company says enough for a person from high society but people do cruel things, it is how the world works.
Shizuru continued to stare at Natsuki's sleeping body when a slight movement caught her attention. Shizuru turned her head to see Natsuki's hands twitching and trying to move. She immediately took that hand into her own and brought it up to her lips and kissed each knuckle. Shizuru poured her love into those small kisses, hoping that it will help Natsuki wake up.
"Ara, my Natsuki! For my birthday I have one special wish and only you can give me that! Will you listen to my request?" Shizuru's whispered into the stone cold room as she clung to Natsuki's twitching hand. Shizuru redirected her gaze to Natsuki's luscious lips even though she knows that she shouldn't.
Over the time periods since Natsuki's parents had visited, Shizuru will continue to kiss them lips now and then in a light chaste kiss. Coincidentally, every time it happened, the doctor will say that Natsuki's brain activity increases but she feels guilty about stealing Natsuki's unknowing lips.
Shizuru gave out an aggravated sigh as she was about to speak but her phone buzzed, indicating that she has a message, most likely from her parents asking her to come home for her party. Although, she just ignored its constant buzzing and stood, hovering over Natsuki's body.
"I wish that you will wake up and come back to me...I love you, my Natsuki. I want you to be awake to hear these words that I wish to say to you...Please, I wish you will wake up and come back to me..." Shizuru whispered the words over and over like a mantra in her head. It repeated itself over and will continue to do so.
Shizuru snuggled her nose against Natsuki's own in a loving manner before pulling back slightly and admiring Natsuki's maturing features. Natsuki's jaw line to her button nose and beyond are perfect. All that is missing is Natsuki's stunning emerald eyes that she loves to gaze into that will stare straight back at her, as if they are replaying a scene in their heads and losing themselves into the other.
Shizuru leaned down and as her lips grew centimeters from Natsuki's own cherry treasures, she hesitated and stopped dead in her tracks. She began to have an argument in her mind but in the end, kissing Natsuki's luscious lips won. Indeed, Shizuru closed that small gap and planted her own lips ghostly over Natsuki's, with the small taste over, Shizuru drew back in more firmly and tilted her head to the side slightly for a better angle and pressed their lips together.
Shizuru's heart burst in her chest like a firework as it flew up to new heights and bloomed its sparkles. A light electric jolt ran through Shizuru's body, leaving a slight tingle in its mission to tour around Shizuru's body by her nerves. Shizuru's mind began to lose itself but the need for air grew and she had to pull back or suffocate, although suffocating to death and kissing Natsuki seemed like a slightly pleasing idea.
Shizuru was about to draw back and take a much needed breath when she felt like Natsuki's own lips moved against her own but Shizuru pulled away at the second it happened. Shizuru quickly studied Natsuki to see any signs of waking up but she couldn't see any. Maybe she just imagined it or wished it to be true too much. Shizuru caressed Natsuki's cheek and was interrupted again by the buzz of her phone and so she reluctantly turned around. One last look at the sleeping body on the bed and Shizuru quietly left the room and went home to prepare for her party.
Once Shizuru left, the heart rate monitor of Natsuki that she is hooked up to begun to beat rapidly and skip a few beats at every few seconds. Natsuki's fingers twitched and moved slightly, her toes at the end of the bed began to curl and her eyes wiggled to open. Natsuki's body felt hot and to the touch could make someone hiss and pull away. Her body writhed on the bed from the covers that tucked her in and held her in place, like a secured cot for a baby.
A groan filled the room. Natsuki's throat burned and she couldn't swallow anything to soothe the chaste feeling there, it is like a coal burn. Natsuki's head pounded against her skull like a hammer to a nail, only in the feeling of a migraine that washed around in her head. Natsuki let out a pained groan as her face twisted to one of pain. It wasn't long before doctors began rushing into the room and began fussing around her by checking the monitors and her pulse.
Natsuki hated the feeling of them touching her at all but their hands are freezing compared to her burning flesh that feels like a burning pipe has traveled her entire body. She wanted to speak but all that came out was a fit of coughs and her body didn't want to move to her commands. She needed something to soothe the chiseling feeling in her throat and she needed it now but she still couldn't form any words.
Natsuki wanted to groan in frustration until a doctor with a brain seemed to understand her needs and pressed a straw to her lips for her to take a drink. Natsuki's mind seemed to have forgotten how to do such a simple action until her mind began to remind her of how it is done. Natsuki finally was able to push her body up slightly and take a sip at the liquid. Once the frozen water hit her dry mouth she immediately began drinking all the water she could to help soothe her body. She sucked on the straw as if she was a new born vampire that had come across its first prey and sucked the life out of its victim. An IV drip does no justice as a prick in her arm reminds her it is there as she tried to move it.
The water is finally consumed and Natsuki began to feel it relive her boiling body as it traveled around her body. Natsuki began to hear distant voices and strained herself to listen to them. After a few minuets of regaining her senses, she found out the doctors are addressing her.
"Mis...Kru...ger...?" She listened carefully to what seemed to be making her hearing slightly better.
"Miss...Kruger?" The voice seemed to be of a woman. Natsuki guessed she must have a female doctor. A doctor? Why would she have a doctor?
"Miss Kruger? Can you hear me?" The voice is finally clear and Natsuki can understand every word that is being said. Natsuki nods her head to show she can hear and she heard a relieved sigh.
Natsuki's body slowly began waking up from her small movements to being able to move them around more with the help of her doctors instructions, telling her how she is able to wake her body up. After what seemed like endless hours had only been a few minuets and Natsuki's once immobilized body has begun to wake up and can move with ease.
Although, her eyes are still struggling to open but the doctor reassured her that they will eventually wake up soon enough, just not to tire her body out. After a good short while of twenty minuets, her body has woken up and she is able to move it around without complication but now it was time to find out the reason why. Natsuki's memory's are still a bit fuzzy.
"Doctor? Why am I actually in a hospital? Can you explain to me why? All I can remember is a bunch of fuzzy scenes that I can only just make out. I remember that I saw desperate to see someone and I went to them, I think...but then something happened...to...me...?" Natsuki asked a bit uncertain as she heard shuffled steps in what she assumed was the nurses leaving the room.
"Hah..." Doctor Yohko let out a rather lengthy and breathless sigh. "Miss Kruger, you and your fiancee were in an accident. You remember a woman named Shizuru Viola, correct?" The doctor asked as she inspected Natsuki's eyes.
"Yeah! I do but where is she? You said she was in an accident with me? Is she hurt? She's alive right? Is she here too? Where is she?!" Natsuki began rushing the doctor with questions as she began to put small pieces together of an accident involved with a car as she was on her way to Shizuru to correct things with her. As Natsuki began to rant and shout, she hadn't realized that she had snapped her eyes open until the bright light invaded them and blinded her for a few minuets.
Dark black spots covered Natsuki's vision and she winced and tried to resist the urge to rub her eyes to help clear the problem. The spots looked like drops of ink that have been flicked on a sheet of paper for no apparent reason. After roughly half a minuet, Natsuki began to panic again as she rushed the doctor with random and hundreds of questions about Shizuru. Then one thing clicked in place...her fiancee?
"What the fuck?! You just said my fiancee?! When the hell did that happen?!" Natsuki had the urge to suddenly jump out the bed and grip the doctors lab coat and shake her until she spits the answers out. Although, a throbbing in her head made her wince out instead as a memory came rushing right back to her mind...
( Flash Back: Memory! )
The only sound heard for miles is the sound of Shizuru's roaring engine as she continued to speed down the rich neighborhood. Mansions built at the side of the road next to each other. Trees surrounding the roads. Posh cars parked everywhere.
Shizuru then noticed the rain pattering against her wind shield as the wipers wiped the water out of the view. The road began to grow rather slick as she continued to drive along the main driveway, heading towards the city since Natsuki lived in a hotel. Shizuru's mind traveled to thoughts of Natsuki and how she must have been in pain so much from her actions. That hurt facial expression strangled Shizuru's heart as she recalled it.
Shizuru was so lost in though she hadn't realized that a red light had appeared on a street light and when she immediately stepped on the brake, the car began to skid and slide as she whizzed past the light. Thank fully it is rather late so no one was on the road.
That was what she thought until a rev caught her attention as the driver of that vehicle tried to brake also seeing Shizuru wasn't able to stop but the the driver didn't have enough time to make a complete halt.
The impact wasn't as hard as Shizuru though it would be, in fact it was as if the thing just flew over her car but that didn't help with the big bruise now forming on her head as she had been thrown against the steering wheel before the air bag came out. Shizuru inspected the damaged and noticed her car had barely moved besides from skidding to a halt on an angle. Her left car door is dented and the window cracked. Other things appeared on the car but Shizuru didn't spare them a glance.
It is rather dark and so she couldn't see who or what she had crashed into. Shizuru stepped out of her crashed car doors side. She looked around and went to her trunk and pulled out a flash light and shined it around but she couldn't see anything besides odd pieces of a...bike?
Shizuru rushed to the over side of her car and ran a few feet as she approached a shattered bike and a body laying motionless on the floor. Shizuru panicked and let the tears roll down her face as she sprinted to the person's side.
"NATSUKI!" Shizuru screamed at the top of her lungs as she carefully took off the person's helmet...
( Present: Hospital! )
"Miss Kruger? Did you have a sudden memory? Is your head giving you pain? If you need some medication I can prescribe some for you-" Doctor Yohko never finished that sentence as Natsuki sprang from the hospital bed and began looking around frantically for her clothes. She has a distinct memory of someone kissing her lips and telling her of a birthday party. Once Natsuki had indeed checked the calendar on the wall, her mind sprang to auto pilot and lurched from the bed to find Shizuru.
Natsuki spotted some folded clothes that she remembered buying not too long ago but depending on how long she was out...she doesn't know. Rushing over from the bed she ripped the wretched hospital set of clothes off and hurriedly flung on her formal dark blue silk suit. It didn't take long before she was done but her time is running short. She had to get to Shizuru and no one and she means no one will get in her way!
Natsuki, now clad in her dashing suit ignored her doctor and ran from the room. Right now, all she heard is the doctor running after her, screaming of how she has been in a coma and needs rest to fully recover before pushing her body around too much.
She didn't care she had been in an accident!
She didn't care she has been in a coma for over half a year!
She didn't care she may injure herself!
She didn't care about anything!
She just wants Shizuru!
Natsuki ran through the blinding white halls, she dodged gurneys being rushed around by the nurses and doctors and ran. Then she realized, she has no idea where she is going to get out of here. She spots a nurse about to walk past her and immediately grabbed the woman's shoulders and pulled her body slightly closer.
"Excuse me! I need to know how to get out of this hospital! Give me directions, please!?" Natsuki begged the woman as her lungs began to suffocate her and begged for air. Natsuki didn't spare it a thought and shook the woman a little. It seemed to snap the nurse out of her trance.
"Go to the end of this hallway, turn to the left and continue forwards. You will come to a reception area, once there, turn to the right and follow the corridor along and you will find the entrance-" As soon as the woman had finished, Natsuki spun past her and followed the directions given. She hated this place. It smells of young people to dying people. The halls are bleached white and people are always getting in the way.
Natsuki had snapped out of her daze of hating hospitals to find herself in front of the entrance. Now she needed a car or a bike! Something to get her to Shizuru!
Natsuki spotted a taxi that just pulled up and a man getting out, she rushed to the back door and hauled the man away and jumped in the backseat and slammed the door.
"Quickly! Take me to the Viola mansion on the other side of the city and step on the fucking gas pedal! I'll pay you a hefty amount! Get me there as fast as you can! Ram through traffic or speed lights, I don't care! Just fucking drive!" Natsuki shouted at the man as she gripped the leather seats. The car soon sped off with screeching tires and the smell of burning rubber as they launched into the traffic on streets.
Natsuki's breathing is hard and fast. Her lungs are closing in because of the lack of oxygen and her vision is duplicating and then joining as it splits up. Natsuki shook her head and slowly calmed down a bit. Natsuki is usually the fun and cool type, not a smoldering hot bundle of love sickness but even she has to admit that now, everyone thing can be damned as long as she gets to Shizuru.
A/N: Hey everybody! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Especially since Natsuki is now awake from her coma and heading to her beloved! I do hope you read the first A/N at the top of the page and if you are reading this, please do read it to find some information on why I haven't been writing much and further problems! Please, do read it:D Anyway! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and chapter 10 will be updated as soon as I have the time to write it:D I want to let everyone know something now as well! There will be a sequal to this story when it is finished but I will post that when I feel it is ready:D I hope to see you all soon, Brad:D