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Chapter 10: Naomi
~No one's POV
What the hell is going on here!?" Takigawa moaned while plopping into the vacant bed once again.
"Naomi! Wha- do you know how worried mother was you little…" kyouya said with worry laced voice while carrying his 7 year old sister securely in his arms.
"I'm sorry…" her voice muffled in his shirt as she hugged her brother's neck.
"I'm going to call father so he can pick you up" he set Naomi down and ruffled her emerald hair which Kyouya chuckled when she made a face at her messed up hair. She blinked twice and scanned the room only for the pair of irises to land on the sleeping figure on the bed.
"Mai onee-san!" she gasped as she made way to her bed.
"Is she okay?" she asked Eisen who still wasn't done with the blood transfusion and replied with a nod.
"Maybe if you hold her hand she'll feel better Naomi chan" Angelie smiled and her face instantly lit up taking a hold of Mai's free hand.
"Onee-chan, please wake up, I really missed you" she brought Mai's hand to her cheeks.
~Mai's POV
"Welcome to our home Mai-chan, I know it will take time to get used to it but don't worry, we will always be here for you…" a gentle voiced said to the small young brunette.
…
"Hey, my name is Kyouya, I hope we can be friends…" onyx eyes looked straight into brown. The young girl smiled warmly and took the hand he was offering.
"Let's play Kyouya!"
…
The young girl was making some snacks for everyone when she noticed a faint green bulge near the frame of the door.
"Do you have a special order maam?" I joked. Then a small little girl with emerald hair and onyx eyes peeked through the door.
"Mai-chan, can you stay beside me when I take my afternoon nap? Onii-chan told me that there might a boogeyman under my bed and I'm scared!" I sighed, taking a few seconds to register 'smack-the-head-of-that-idiot-later' in my long memory. I smiled and took her small hand and led her to her bedroom full of stuffed animals and frilly pillows. I laid down the bed beside her whilst humming some random tune lulling the small girl to sleep.
"Mai-chan…"
"Hmm?" the little girl smiled
"Wake up…"
On cue, my eyes fluttered open and I saw Ayako beside me plastering a band-aid in my arm. I noticed that Eisen guy beside me too, and he also had a band-aid in his arm and it made me curious. The left side of my body felt so heavy like gravity was pulling me down a little stronger than 9.8 m/s^2. That is when I realized a little girl, who was on the trying hard not to fall asleep was leaning on my arm. She seems to not yet have noticed that I'm already awake, so I called her attention.
"Naomi…" I whispered. Startled, she looked up with gleam in her eyes.
"Mai-chan!" she hugged me lightly conscious of my wounds and kissed my cheek. I smiled and patted her head making her giggle 'she always likes being patted on the head as usual'. i heard the door open revealing Kyouya.
"Oh, you're awake Mai…you okay?" he asked me
"I feel lightheaded…" I groaned trying to sit up, Eisen helped me with that and I'm starting to think that he might not be such a jerk after all.
"Airhead…" I heard someone say, I turning around, I found Naru with a folder stuck in his face and I suddenly had an urge to make that figure of speech literal.
"And you missy, you are going home, although dad can't pick you up right now because he's still in a meeting, he sent Chi to pick you up, aren't you happy?" he sent a fake smile to Naomi who was pouting. She dragged her feet to Chi but before leaving, she looked up to me with puppy-sad-eyes and pleaded.
"Mai-chan, you'll come to visit right?" she asked, eyes moist and lips quivering. I was about to reply when her brother beat me to it.
"Don't worry, she's bound to…" then he sent me a look.
"Yayyy!" she squealed and was out of the room in no time.
"Well that was quite a show…" Ayako said closing her med kit with a click.
"Naomi is pretty cute huh Ayako?" I giggled
"Yes, and you look pretty cute right now too Mai-chan…" her tone was low giving me a warning of what is yet to come. I swallowed a lump on my throat and tried to smile. But it failed.
"Care to let us know what happened?" she tapped her foot in a monotonous rhythm, all eyes upon me making me blush…
"well, I dreamt of kids who…" I suddenly remembered the unsightly memory making my stomach churn. I winced in disgust as I remember how she…ughhhh….
"There was an orphanage here, and the owners made the kids beg for them. Then if they didn't earn too much money or when they tried to escape they…"I covered my mouth in disgust and was on the edge of throwing up. Ayako rubbed my back in comfort and Angelie gave me some fresh tea.
"Okay, just leave that up to our imagination jou-chan, but still how did you get all those wounds?" monk asked
"She saw me…and I don't know how…but…uhmm I was told not to make any noise…well I just gasped a little…but it caught her attention" I fiddled with my fingers unsure if I should talk about Gene in front of his narcisstic twin.
"Told? By who?" I heard the Lin-alike guy…Uhhh...What was his name again…oh…Alexis…said. Ok, great Mai! You really know how to cover up things…
"Uhhh…" I took a quick glance at Naru and he was indifferent as usual.
"Gene…" I said cautiously.
"Gene? Eugene Davis? So he's your spirit guide" he deduced.
"Alexis, research about the orphanage Mai was talking about" Eisen said, and with that all the EPA members started moving. I felt someone poking my side and saw Yasu. 'since when did he get there?'
"First name basis huh Mai?" he grinned in a Yasu like manner and I blushed beet red.
"Wha-what are y-you trying to imply Yasu!" I stammered, but he just smirked as a reply.
"I do not waste my money in paying you to stand around doing nothing" Naru growled never looking up from the folder he was reading. Instantly, everyone grabbed something to do like thermometers and watching the tapes etc.
"Mai, if you can move, tea. John go with her." He ordered me…damn narcissist.
"Based from Mai's dream, it is impossible for that woman to sense Mai when it all happened in the past. Which means, the hollows are repeating their crime over and over again which would support the data regarding the ghost children and it is possible that it is the reason why they can't move because they are forced to experience their deaths all over again." Eisen said closing the folder and looked at us.
"Could we borrow the expertise of your exorcists Shibuya-san?" he asked Naru.
"That is not a problem, Takigawa, Brown-san and Matsuzaki-san prepare for exorcisms.
Kriiinggggg…
"excuse me" Kyouya said. A few seconds later, he was already shouting at the other line.
"What do you mean by she hasn't arrived there yet! I sent her hours ago! Where the hell is Chi? I am so going to fire her!" Kyouya growled onto the phone.
"WHAT! What do you mean by she's in Osaka? She was here and she picked her up!"
"Eisen, the temperature in the collapsed building dropped by 28 degrees and…" Alexis trailed.
"Naomi?!" Kyouya was horrified when he saw the figure of his little sister inside the collapsed building that looked like a music room.
"Everyone. Move!"
We all ran to the building as fast as our breath can take, I just can't imagine what will happen to Naomi if we were too late…a murderous ghost on the loose who takes pleasure in killing children and Naomi lost in the building where her presence is the strongest…upon arriving in the building we split into groups but I couldn't care less about that anymore, I just ran to where my instincts were telling me to go…
"NAOMI!" I screamed on top of my lungs
Mai-chan let's play hide and seek, come find me 'kay?
"NAOMI!" I repeated, I felt a warm hand on my shoulder and when I turned around I saw Naru with his ever stoic face with Lin and Eisen behind him, and yet his eyes show a glint of concern that I couldn't resist the tear that was threatening to fall.
"Calm down, you can think straight that way…" he said and I somehow smiled a little 'typical Naru, even in times like this he can't help but insult my intelligence…' I closed my eyes and inhaled a large amount of oxygen to calm my racing pulse helping my senses boost to a whole new level. When I opened my eyes, the sight made my breath hitch. Naomi was there and she was pointing in a burning room except that she's transparent! Panic engulfed my body and I felt an adrenaline rush coming when I kicked the door out of its place and saw Naomi crying amidst the sea of flames.
"Naomi!" the instant I called her, she looked up and was at my side in seconds and hugged her tight assuring her she isn't alone anymore.
"Shhh…it's okay now, I found you so don't cry anymore…" I patted her head while she continued sobbing in my chest.
"Mai, we have to go" Naru said and grabbed my arm. I was carrying Naomi so that our hands won't slip just in case. While we were running though, we came face-to-face with the woman we've been avoiding the most. Lin summoned his shikis while Naru and Eisen are standing protectively in front of us. The woman shrieked in an inhuman pitch and glared menacingly at us…at me specifically.
"YOU!" she tried to lunge herself at me but luckily Sephirot intercepted it causing her to stagger backwards and writhing in pain, I noticed the air around us felt weird when the ghost launched a full-force attack. I stopped breathing for seconds when I found her rotting face inches from mine; I heard a crackling sound near me, sounding like water freezing instantly. She shrieked again in attempt to break free from the ice immobilizing her entire body.
"NOOHHHHHH! YOU CANT KILL ME!" she screamed.
"Shut up bitch…" and in an instant she was incinerated into thin ashes…
"Eisen, guys, you're not hurt, are you?" Cyril walked towards us and saw me trembling from head to toe. He then gave me a sweet smile similar to John and helped me up to my feet.
"Don't worry, we already exorcised her, she won't be coming back anymore." With that I let out the air that I hadn't known id been holding. I also loosened my grip on Naomi because god knows if I was hugging all the oxygen out of her small frame.
"Naomi!" Kyouya called and a trembling Naomi hugged her brother's knees and sobbed.
"What the hell happened? Why are you still here?" he asked drying up her sister's tears in the process.
"Chi told me that Chopin's Tristesse could be heard in the music room of this building. I-I just wanted to check it out for a while and Chi said that she would go with me, but when I reached the music room the door suddenly closed and-and…" she sobbed again. Kyouya nestled his head between her small shoulders and calmed her down.
"Let's go home…" was all he said and the ghosts of Sacred Gate University was cleared at last.
~At the Satomi House…err…Mansion
"OOOOOOHHHHHHH! This food is great! Ahhhhhhh…..abundance…" monk was silently thanking the gods for the blessing of food when a solid purse hit his head.
"You stupid monk! Have a little dignity would you!" she growled.
"No its okay…besides, were kind of celebrating today anyway" Kyouya said smiling at their antics.
"Celebrating what?" but before he could answer his question, I entered the room causing everyone to stop whatever they're doing, this creeped me out…
"What?" I raised my brow
"Oh, nothing Mai, how's Naomi?" he asked me
"She's with sensei right now…" I said suddenly finding my skirt interesting.
"You know you could ask me about it…" he said as he stood up and walked to one of the cupboards taking out a white scented candle.
"Satomi…since when?..." I asked not looking up, not wanting to see the expression on his face.
"A few months after you decided to move to Shibuya…" he said lighting the scented candle and placing it into a table with a picture of a girl with emerald hair tied into pigtails with a pair of onyx eyes.
"How…?" my voice was low and yet he still heard me
"A truck hit her and she died on the spot" he replied.
"It was my fault…" everyone was startled when they saw Naomi standing near the entrance of the dining room
"Onee-chan is always sickly, so mom and dad would pay more attention to her, also, she much more talented than me, she can play the piano so well in an early age, everybody loved onee-chan. So I thought, that I would tease her a little bit. While we were playing in the park, I kicked the ball hard on purpose so that she wouldn't catch it but it landed on the street and she was hit by a truck…onee-chan probably hates me up until now." She said with a grim expression
"That's not true!" I shouted too loud causing her to flinch and look up at me with teary eyes.
"She's helped me find you…Satomi that is" and on cue she started crying again…'great Mai'
"I wanted to see her! I wanted to tell her how sorry I am, and that I love her and was lucky to be her twin..." she sobbed, I kneeled down and patted her head
"She knows, and that she never hated you once in her life, and she loved you much more that you can imagine Naomi, I know…" I hugged her crying form. We stood in front of her memorial picture and prayed together, glancing from the corner of my eye, I saw Naomi smiling like she should be…
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling aki…this isn't good…"
"Yui, we can't anything about it, all we can do is stay by her side, we knew from the start that sooner or later she will have to face this…"
"I know, but I just…"
"Just believe in them Yui"
~Naru's POV
"Noll dear guess what? We are in Japan right now!" mother giggled on the other line
"Oh and were going to visit you soon, I'm just going to visit an old friend of ours, cant wait to see you darling!"
-beeeeeep-
'okay, that was scary' I groaned. Knowing my mother, she would make such a big fuss about Mai staying at our condo, in my room nonetheless! I winced at the thought of my mother dragging Mai to choose bridal gowns or…..god knows what chaos she will bring! Looks like I should talk to Mai before my mother arrives in the flesh. Looks like my plans would have to wait after the hurricane has left.
-but I shoud've had known, expect the unexpected….-
~Ding dong~
"Yui, Aki, long time no see!"
"Hello, nice to see you again, Luella, Martin"
A/N: so what do you think? Review pls xD
Oh, and I totally left it like that on purpose. Don't hate me, but as you noticed, my title is like a summary of the whole story, if not, some kind of clue… So sorry for always leaving a cliffhanger, but I think I warned you that it will stay that way…C: peace