Author: Boredom helps too, you know for writers like us. :D
Latter from the last chapter:
"You are doing your job right now, aren't you?" Hitomi smirked, looking away from him.
"Hmm, I think so. Let's go." Haiiro lend his hand and help her to stand up.
Chapter 7
Hitomi stepped out of the enormous room she's temporarily staying. It was so bright when she got up. She was wearing the pajamas that a servant lent to her. She liked it though.
"Is it morning…?" Hitomi mumbled while wiping her eyes.
"I think not." Inaru said, with her left eyebrow stretched upwards.
Hitomi jumped as soon as she could hear Inaru's voice.
"Oh, it's you. Hi." Hitomi greeted, smiling. "Do you know what time it is?"
"As far as I know, it's 4:00 in the afternoon already." Inaru smirked.
"What?!? Where is Minoru? Haiiro? Tell me where are they, please?" Hitomi pleaded, nervous thinking she was left alone there.
"They are in the garden. Do you want me to accompany you?" Inaru was not grumpy now.
"Garden, right. I wonder what they're doing there." Hitomi thought to herself.
The garden was fantastic. It was so beautiful; it was full of Sakuras or cherry blossoms. The sky was as blue as her eyes and the clouds were as fluffy as a cotton candy. The sun was beaming its own light and reflecting the yellow-orange rays. She was looking around like a child who had never been in a garden as beautiful as this. Cherry blossoms can be seen around Japan, but in here even in the vernal, summer solstice, autumnal and winter solstice, Sakuras can be seen blooming. The flower petals were floating around and attach to her silky, soft hair that every student in her school has been a fan of and some envious of.
It was very quiet and peaceful but it was broken by the noisy sound of a lawn mower.
"Crap." She mumbled by her teeth.
"Oh it's a wonderful afternoon; the flowers are singing with me with so many boons… leaves are flying over the sky full of dry leaf bays, the sun saying: Lalala… Oh I love my rays…" Haiiro sang along with the noise while trimming the grass. He suddenly stopped singing as soon he can see Hitomi and Inaru gawking.
"Huh…?" Hitomi said with her jaws almost reaching the floor.
"Good morning." He turned off the lawn mower when he saw Hitomi and Inaru's appearance.
"What the heck is good with my morning?!" Hitomi annoyingly sighed, staring at the lawn mower.
"About that, what were you doing?" She continued.
"Uh, trimming grasses."
"Aw, how generous can you get… I don't know how to say this but you were a nuisance and disturbance!" Hitomi went cranky.
"Where's Minoru?" She grimaced.
"She went back inside, I don't know. She didn't tell me where she's going inside." Haiiro replied, scratching his chin.
Hitomi turned back as if she weren't talking to Haiiro.
She was walking down the hallway, exploring, having a tour on her own and several paintings of amazingly beautiful ladies were there hanged at the wall. Probably some of the royalties in this world, she thought. But there's this painting that caught her attention. A painting of a woman who looks exactly like her. She was partially surprised and partially curious, her face and eyebrows frowned. She placed her palm and touched the painting.
"Why do I look like her? Is she somewhat related to me?" Her fingertips brushed on the smooth painting. She heard some footsteps towards her place. She can see a shadow at the corner of her left eye.
"Good afternoon." Yumi was there beside her. She didn't even felt that she was beside her at first.
"Yumi. It's you." Hitomi took off her hands from the painting and her fingernails slightly screeched.
"That painting was painted long ago, just before you were born." She smiled.
"I see, I was just wondering why we look a little bit the same."
"Don't wonder, because you'll never know." Yumi replied, pursing her lips.
"Anyway, I feel kind of bored here. I don't know how to say this to you but, CAN WE GO HOME NOW?" Hitomi shouted, begging to go to the mortal world right away.
"Yes, I was going to talk about it with you. You are going back, but I'll try to make sure that you are safe. Equinox has been telling his Acherons to follow and kill you." Yumi gritted her teeth.
"Acherons? Who are they?"
"They are the minions of Equinox. They are created almost everyday, to do their mission."
"I don't want this life. MY life was perfectly normal before…"
"Your life never was normal ever since you were born."
"How so?"
"When you were born, they already know you. They made it a curse that you'll die as soon as you lose your entire powers."
"I don't want to die! Who are you, anyway?!? Why do you know my life? Are you even my mother?!" Hitomi angrily shouted, confused at her own mother.
"You don't have a right to tell me when and how I'll die!" Hitomi yelled again.
"I am tasked to take care of you. I am not your mother." These words came out from her mouth, even though it pierces her heart. She was totally sulking and trying herself not to burst into tears.
"When we'll we go back, then?"
"Today."
"I'm going to call my friends."
"Okay, go."
After calling, Hitomi, Haiiro, and Minoru left the immortal world.
TBC