Lithium
Chapter 9
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…"Nothing better have happened. She better not have died…" He sounded desperate, as if he was pleading that nothing had happened to Tsuyahra. She meant something to him, even though he knew her for a short time - it seemed her knew her years. She was precious to him… And no matter what anyone would say, she'd be his… one way or another.
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Gaara had been sitting in the waiting room staring at the floor as if it was about to open up and swallow him whole. As far as he knew, Tsuyahra had been in surgery for about six hours since he was throw in a cell for beating the living shit out of the man who tried to molest her in front of her home with people watching. Apparently the man had died a couple of hours into his surgery on the operating table. Good… He deserved much more.
The sound of a door slamming and footsteps running into the room followed by the gasping of a male and a small sob from a female, Gaara looked up to see his older brother and fiancé. She looked as if she had been hit by a car, her hair was poofy and her eyes were wide.
"G-Gaara, where is Tsuyahra-chan? What happened to her?" She was worried, a lot. Her eyes were frantic, body was shaking as Kankuro had took hold of her shoulders and pressed her against his chest, letting his chin rest on her head.
"She's in the operating room…" Gaara couldn't bring himself to sound remotely cold, and he didn't know why. He was pissed beyond hell, yet worried for her safety. Letting his black-rimmed eyes close, he took a deep breath in and exhaled slowly, letting the air from his lungs drain until requesting more air. "She was almost rapped."
"What!? How could she…? There's no way she'd allow that! She went though that phase! S-she…" Kayla was mumbling now, letting the tears fall from her eyes and burring her face into her fiancé's chest.
Gaara's eyes opened, looking back at the floor as if it was the most interesting thing he had ever laid eyes on. A phase… of what? Of being rapped? Gaara didn't know, but he wasn't going to push the question to an already hysterical woman.
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It had been about two more hours before a doctor finally came out to greet the three people in the waiting room. Gaara upon noticing him stood up and immediately asked how she was, but the doctor waved him to sit down before he took a seat himself. His eyes weren't looking directly at Gaara until he finally got the courage to speak.
"She has many punctures to her lungs and heart. We managed to get the worse of the punctures done, her ribs should heal fine… That is.." The doctor paused, letting his hand fidget before clasping them together, "…If she lives through the night. She's very critical. It'll be a miracle even if she awakes. But, if she does live there might be problems with her walking. A shard of her bone had managed to lodge itself into her spinal cavity. Only time can tell…" The Doctor stood up, Kayla immediately standing.
"Can we see her?" She was still crying, but her voice was strong. Hands clasping tightly onto Kankuro's.
The doctor nodded, waving his hand to tell them to follow. Walking down a couple of halls and into a room that only held one bed, the doctor turned around and face the three of them. "Do not try and wake her. Visiting hours will be done in about fifteen minutes…" And with that, he left leaving only a couple of nurses and the three of them..
Kayla, being the first to react ran over to Tsuyahra. Her eyes widened at the way she looked. She had the tubs coming out of her throat obviously helping her breath, her face was extremely pale and she had black-like circles around her eyes. The beating of the heart monitor wasn't sound too good, as if her heart would suddenly give up at that moment. Kayla's hand moved to touch her face and pulled her hand back at the feel of her skin.
"She's… so cold.." Kayla sighed softly letting her eyes close and lowered her head. The two males standing by the door didn't make a move. Gaara just stood there as if the very life he had was sucked out from him and left a lifeless body to take his place.
'If only I had walked faster… if only…' Gaara growled under his breath, watching as Kayla just ran past him crying her eyes out; Kankuro immediately following after her, leaving only himself and Tsuyahra. Slowly, he let his feet move; but it was so slow as if he was stuck in some type of crazy glue and was slowly making his was out of it only to step and get stuck again.
He managed to make it over to her bed, letting his hand grasp onto hers, and as Kayla had said, she was cold. Extremely cold. Gaara's eyes narrowed at the white sheets of the bed, eyes glancing over the tubes to help her breath. She looked worse than she did when he beat the shit outta the person who tried rapping her. She'd be scarred for life… if she awoke…
"Tsuyahra… Stay alive… For me…" Gaara's eyes softened, a moment that would probably only reach him and possibly her at one point. He let his hand squeeze hers lightly, as if to tell her he was there and she would be fine. His eyes suddenly widened as his eyes slid down to her hand, breath catching in his throat.
…She squeezed back.
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"It's truly a miracle… Really, I never expected her of living the night she got here, let alone this long." The doctor, now apparently know as Doctor Yurha Setsu, gasped at the sight he was seeing. Tsuyahra was sitting up on the bed, obviously being propped up on the bed, the breathing tube was out of her mouth and her throat, indicating she can breath on her own.
"She's only been out for about a week and a half. If she survived that night wouldn't it mean that she would have survived anyways?" A nurse in training asked, holding a clip-board in her hands, white lab coat moving around lightly as she wrote down some things. Her long blue hair falling into her eyes but she dismissed it.
"There are possibilities, but, usually if one lives the night after a critical surgery such as hers the percentage of living goes up about two percent. She's got the side of God with her… Unless it's the strength she has from people who come to see her." The male smiled lightly, letting his chocolate brown eyes soften at the little moment he saw the when she was practically on her death-bed. The male that had been with her…
"I see, so does this mean she can walk? You did say she had something lodged into her spine." The female nurse looked up from her work, purple eyes glancing at the male doctor. The doctor's shoulders moved into a position where he'd shrug.
"Now that's what I'm going to see now, Rei-chan!" The older male laughed lightly and walked into the room, greeted by the smell of morphine and blood. Walking over to the side of the bed, he smiled at the woman, and let his fingers move to grasp the stethoscope around his neck, letting the two black bulbs fit into his ears and letting the small round metal touch Tsuyahra's chest. "Alright, take in a deep breath…"
Tsuyahra let the air move through her nose, but it was slow and it was painful, but she exhaled through her mouth, repeating a couple of times before the Doctor finally pulled away. He smiled lightly, before moving down to where her feet were. Raising the sheets over her feet, he looked up at her. "Can you move your feet?"
Nodding Tsuyahra let her toes wiggle, indicating right away to the doctor she'd be able to walk. Even though it was something small to do - to wiggle your toes - but it was a huge thing in neurology. The doctor then nodded to her hands and she flexed her fingers. The Doctor smiled again and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Well! God must be on your side, young lady!" The doctor laughed lightly. "You might have some complications like pain, trouble breathing and trouble sleeping. Of course it's part of the 'road to recovery'. Once your ribs start to heal properly we'll send you home."
Tsuyahra nodded lightly, smiling to the male. "Thank you… so much." The doctor just blushed lightly and waved it off. "Alright, Tsuyahra, I must go make my rounds." Then the Doctor left, along with the nurses, leaving her alone in the room. She closed her eyes and let her head rest against the hard white bed. Images of what had happened to her, floated into her mind and her eyes shot open. She didn't want to think of that… But.. Who had gotten the landowner off her?
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, trying to figure out who it was. The sound of the voice running through her mind as if she was trying to remember. It was slightly distorted because she had been slowly passing out with the male on top of her.
"She said to stop." ….Who the hell was it?! She growled lightly to herself, only to stop immediately and wince at the pain that was coursing through her body. "Ow…" She better not have had amnesia… God she hoped she didn't.
"Tsuyahra-chan! Your awake!" The sound of a female's voice rang through the room, and Tsuyahra turned and looked towards the door, only to see her sister standing in the door frame holding a bag of some sort, her eyes wide and surprised to see her awake and sitting on the bed, looking at her. Her eyes had the black-bags around her eyes, indicating she hadn't gotten sleep because she was worried.
"Eh, Kayla-chan… Hey.." Her voice was weak, but it was to be expected. Kayla was about to run and glomp her but something held her back.
"Kayla, you'll kill her if you were to hug her." The males voice was deep, obviously older than Tsuyahra herself. But damn, the male was taller than Kayla… And Kayla was tall! The male had brown hair, a some type of painting on his face… She didn't know what it was and wasn't going to ask.
"But.. Kankuro-kun…" So, he was her fiancé and Gaara's older brother? Odd… "Oh right! Tsuyahra-chaaaaann!" Kayla managed to pry herself out of Kankuro's grip and over to her bed. "Guess what! Guess what!?" Kayla didn't manage to give her enough time to speak. "Our wedding is soon! Like, a month soon!" She squealed. "And, your going to be my maid of honor!" Kayla spun around, earning odd looks from both Tsuyahra and Kankuro.
"Really? Hopefully in a month I'll be better…" Kayla glared at her.
"Damn right you better be!"
Tsuyahra laughed lightly, earning a groan of pain before relaxing. "I'll see what I can do… Oh, can I sing at your wedding?" At the mention of singing at her wedding, Kayla looked at Tsuyahra, eyes wide.
"Oh! Can you sing Lithium!? Please! I love that song! Please, please!?" Kayla was now clasping her hands, eyes filled with stars, Tsuyahra nodded her head and she practically passed out of all the excitement she was getting. "Yes! Well, Yahra-chan! We must go find a place for the wedding, alright? I'll come see you tomorrow! Bye!" And with that she left, pulling Kankuro with her.
"You think she'd be fine by herself, Kayla?" Kankuro seemed a bit worried, trying to pry himself out of his fiancé's grip.
"I didn't set your Brother up with her for no reason!" Kayla laughed lightly. "The note was all my idea, and getting 'Tasha to go wasn't hard. And hiring that man to 'threaten her' and pull her out of the shop was also mine! But… he wasn't supposed to break her jaw…" Kayla sighed softly. Yes, Darious going after Tsuyahra was her idea, setting up a little 'date' with 'Tasha was also hers. Kayla had told Tsuyahra when she was about 20, that eventually for her birthday she was going to get her a man… And she was almost there.
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"No, I don't want to eat that… Hospital food is gross! I'd rather starve to death, than eat that!" Tsuyahra was having a really hard time with her supper, the nurses were trying desperately to feed the woman who was simply refusing to eat the soup that they had gotten her… Tomato soup.. Seriously, who eats tomato soup when their sick or wounded badly? Tsuyahra sure as hell didn't.
After about five minutes more of fussing like a baby, the nurses gave up and left the woman alone. Tsuyahra just sighed softly, finally getting the peace she wanted. She let her tri-colored eyes glance out the window of the hospital room. The sky was slowly turning into colors of the sunset, indicating it was going to be night soon. The flicker of a bright light caught her eye, and she saw it was a Mc Donald's sign, and she practically drooled for the food she wanted from there… Mc Donald's was evil, trying to make people in the hospital starve for their food. Bastards.
A figure suddenly appeared in the window, showing her who was standing at the door, holding a bag hat was white. Tsuyahra turned her head to look at who it was, and instantly she smiled. "Hey, Gaara." Gaara gave a small, force smile before walking over to the bed, taking off his jacket and letting it rest against the chair.
"Heard you were making a big commotion with the food… Here.." Gaara lifted his arm that was holding a white bag, and Tsuyahra would have hugged him right then and there, had she had goon bones to actually support her properly.
"Oh… I love you so much…" Of course it was something like an expression, Gaara's eyes looked at her, trying to find some seriousness in it. But, she was just extremely happy to have fast food.
"How are you feeling, Tsuyahra?" Tsuyahra, after unwrapping a burger, looked up at him and let her shoulders move in a small shrug.
"Can't laugh much… Hurts to breath too deeply… but other than that, I'm fine… Other than…" She let her eyes move away from his and looked at her lap. "I can't get what happened out of my mind… And I keep having someone say 'she said to stop' in my head, but I can't make out who it was…"
Gaara looked at her, seriously. "It'll take time for it to leave. But, it was me who said that, Tsuyahra…" He watched her eyes widened and she looked up at him. "I should have walked faster to get you… but I took my time… If I had hurried, this wouldn't have happened, and you would--"
"--Stop. Gaara, it's fine. You didn't know, and I didn't know it was going to happen. I… Guess what happened, happened, and there isn't anything we can do to change it. But I'm alive, aren't I? I stayed alive because you asked me too…" Tsuyahra smiled when Gaara's eyes widened. "I was awake… Just couldn't move much…"
"You heard me?" She nodded lightly.
"If I didn't, I would have squeezed your hand back, anyways… You're the first guy to actually care about me, as much as you do. Even though we only known each other for, what? About three weeks? I really like you, Gaara. You may have your own flaws, but I do too, and ironically it all works out for the both of us." She smiled again, a bright smile, one ( that to Gaara ) seemed as if she was an angel.
Gaara just shook his head lightly, pushing her hand to the hamburger that was getting cold.
"Eat, Tsuyahra."
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R i d 3 r: Whoo. Uhm, now… yeh nothing to say.
dark Alley: Thank for the review!
LittleAngel22493: He died! I wasn't going to leave him alive.. Tch, not for doing that. The bastard.
Gaara1Love: I updated…
3karen3: I guess I can move her in with Gaara. I'll use that.
Tainted-reflection-126: If only he had Chakra in this story. ( I find in a lot oh AU he's got all his chakra and such… I find it unrealistic. ) As for the romantic dinner, that you obviously want so badly, I'll add it in, for ya. Anyways, thanks for reviewing!
