Chapter 7: Feeling ill
Hikaru and Kyoya looked surprised to see the old woman who was standing there, in snow, in the front of the house when they arrived. They remembered her name was Eiko. Well, they looked puzzled at her. Ironic, she had warm but cold emerald green eyes. Hikaru and Kyoya gave nudges one to each other, looking very puzzled, gaping to the old woman who started to work hardly. They were following her moves with their puzzled, confused eyes. "Kyoya... She's our nightmare which became true..." whispered Hikaru to Kyoya, but still following Eiko's moves. Kyoya nodded, without changing his gaze. "Oh, yeah... You're right. I don't know why, but I agree."
Hyoma entered the room. "Hey, guys, what's...?" Before he could continued his sentence, Kyoya put his hand at Hyoma's mouth, showing him the old woman with a big ass, who started to cook with so much dynamicity. Hyoma joined their gaping and looking puzzled club, but Kyoya didn't remove his hand.
They stood like that for a long time, until she finished. When they saw that food, they gave nudges one to the other again. "Hikaru... After I escape, I promise I will give twenty dollars to poor people." whispered Kyoya, still keeping his eyes' attention at that food. 'Me too." she answered.
Those two children came in time for the lunch, so they had it, but... as Kyoya, Hikaru and Hyoma weren't familiar with the rules of the house, they were wondering why Eiko was fetching the food to the kids, in their own rooms. Well, Eiko explained them that they are having just the dinner in the dinning-room. But, as she knows very well everyone, when no one's at home, they forget about rules. The teens looked happy to see now they can forget about having dinner in family... Yack.
So, they ate where they wanted... then they had to make the beds... Anyway, a lot of things which don't really worth to be described. Anyway, at the end of the day they were over.
Kyoya threw himself on the bed and closed his eyes. He thought about that woman and started to chuckle. Then he thought why the heck he accepted that dare... Then Madoka's face appeared in his mind, but he quickly erased it. Afterwards, he remembered about some crazy things he did with Hikaru... he tried to erase that, too, but he gave it up because he was too tired. He slowly fell asleep.
It was about 10 o'clock when he went to bed. A sudden violent knocking on the door woke him in the middle of the night. He heard someone yelling:
"Kyoya! Kyoya, open the door! Quickly! Kyoya!" He sighed, got up and flicked on the light. "What my f****d mother... I took care of ten children today and I cannot even sleep? If this means to be a nanny then I'm taking compassion on mothers..." His eyes weren't adapted with that bright light and his brain was just a half woken, so he wasn't sure what was happening. Kyoya slowly opened the door, rubbing his eyes, to see Hikaru hurrying to enter the room and close the door. Kyoya scratched the back of his head. Hikaru looked to be terrified... she hugged him, but Kyoya was very, very... very sleepy to have any reaction. He let her hug him and just pushed her slightly after some seconds.
"What's going on? And what's the clock? And why you look like you just saw a ghost?" he asked peering about and trying to understand what's happening. He put his hand on her forehead. "You are burning. What the heck happened?" Hikaru was biting her nails nervously. Her eyes were scared, and she was shivering. She had no control; she was ready to kill anyone just to keep herself safe. She was looking like she lived a trauma.
"I... I saw a lion..." she whispered, stuttering. Kyoya raised an eyebrow.
"And... what's with that? On TV are often lions... they are some amazing animals." he asked on a questioningly voice. "They are strong, big, beautiful, wild..." Kyoya could've enumerated many more qualities of lions, but Hikaru's terrified expression made somehow his words remain stuck in his neck.
"It was a big one... a real one... I saw it in my room... it whispered... 'Hi, baby...'" she dared to say as she hugged him again. Kyoya laughed on a puzzled way, pushing her again.
"What? Are you on the fritz? Did that woman give you milk with cocaine?" he asked making fun of her.
"It's not funny! May I sleep here for this night?" muttered Hikaru, Kyoya looked questioningly and nodded. Hikaru threw herself on Kyoya's bed, while he went towards the door. "Well... Then I'm going to sleep there... with the... 'lion'... I guess so..." said Kyoya, trying to control himself from laughing, cursing to himself on a low voice. But Hikaru's voice stopped him: "No, wait!" He looked questioningly. "Stay here." Kyoya smirked at this.
"Why don't you go to sleep with Hyoma, then?" This made Hikaru startle and blush. I mean... he was right, bro... "Well, I just..."
"You what?" he asked on a teasing tone, waiting for an answer. "Don't tell me you are here because you thought I will be nice with you, because I will not." Well... this time Kyoya caught her. She had no reply left for this. She had no reason to choose Kyoya when Hyoma was there! You heard it, no reason! Well, maybe she had some reasons... "You know what? Lump it. Do not continue your sentence." said Kyoya as he lay next to her.
Hikaru screamed again. "What the hell..." said Kyoya.
"Kyoya, save me! Do not let the lion eat me!" with this Kyoya got angry. He got up and pulled Hikaru with him. Kyoya started to yell:
"Go and face the lion right now cause it is just your imagination!" Hikaru retreated behind him.
"I'm afraid! No!" Kyoya sighed. "I should've known... you aren't strong enough to face your imagination or your fear." He lay on the bed and looked at her. "Come here..." he told her. Hikaru lay next to him, and Kyoya started the discussion:
"What's with the hallucinations?" Hikaru sighed and looked at the ceiling. "I don't know... I dreamt something in that night... I dreamt a lion, which was following to eat me. I was running... anyway, a long story. And now I see that lion everywhere. I think I'm sick. It is saying... 'Hi, baby' to me. Just like in my dream... It is calling me..." Kyoya looked sad at her.
"Is... it here?" he muttered. Hikaru nodded. Kyoya sighed. "Oh, yeah, here we are again. I promised I will not be nice and I am just being. Hah. Close your eyes... (as Kyoya saw she closed her eyes, he continued) imagine you are in a night club... It is five o'clock in the morning... You are dancing... drinking beer... and partying... Hikaru cut him off: "Are you there, too?" This surprised Kyoya. "If you'd like... then yes." She smiled, without opening her eyes and snuggled in Kyoya. He continued:
"The rock music was roaring..." Hikaru cut him off: "Kyoya... I hear the lion. It is calling me... I can hear it... Baby! Run... I cannot see it... but I can hear it... It is roaring..." Kyoya took a deep breathe as he saw Hikaru opened her eyes and she was looking scared everywhere around her. "Kyoya... I'm afraid... of sleeping alone, in the dark. I'm afraid I can... die, there, in the dark, with no one around me. (she started to lose her hope) "Kyoya, do not let the lion eat me! Make it disappear, Kyoya! Do something! Please, Kyoya, do something! It's terrible to... It smells me! I heard its voice... it is eating me with its words... slowly... enjoying me... I feel so... little and..." Kyoya stopped her:
"Stop the hell because I heard enough! No, I heard too much already! I cannot do anything, ok? I can just... feel like an idiot because I cannot do anything." Hikaru nodded looking at the ceiling with a little smile on her face.
"I know... I also feel like an idiot because I'm asking you to comfort me. Ok, it's weird. I know. It's very weird. Very, very weird. I'm here, next to you and feel weird, ok?" Kyoya smirked.
"Me too. I feel weird that you are here. Very, very, very... very. Very weird." Hikaru seemed to remember about something which made her giggle.
"When I was little... I was playing with boys and... dad hated this and... he was always beating me but I... never stopped. He said girls have to be girls and they have to... play with dolls and... be delicate and cheerful because... they will have to marry but I... never listened to him and I was so angry... because he said I mustn't play like boys that one day... I... told a big boy to... draw a tattoo on my waist and... dad beat me terrible, but I... was laughing because dad had nothing left to do... because the tattoo was already drawn and... I'm not regretting this." Kyoya laughed at this.
"You mean you have a tattoo on your waist?" Hikaru looked at him, nodding. "Wanna see?" Kyoya widened his eyes and shook his head several times. Well, he had his heart set against seeing her tattoo; even it quickened his pulse a bit. "No, no, no, I saw... enough." he said trying to control his laugh. Hikaru giggled and sat up. "Then I guess you wanna see the tattoo on my shoulder." she scared him. Kyoya sat up and acted nervously. "You have another tattoo on your shoulder? You gotta be kidding me!" he asked, looking like he wasn't sure he heard what she said. Hikaru nodded like it was a normal thing. "Wait, Hikaru, I hope you'll not going to show me your tattoo..." Hikaru looked questioningly. "Why?" This made Kyoya sweat drop and he started to explain her on a tired voice: "Because I'm a boy, ok, and I'm not a girl, so I'm going to be very embarrassed if you're going to take your shirt off and show me your back, ok?"
Hikaru burst into laughing with this. "Well, hard cheese!... You bet your ass! Why? I have a really nice back. I know you wanna see it." she boasted. Kyoya felt abused... "You are a slut, you knew it?" he said, trying to keep himself away from her. Hikaru sweat dropped, feeling a bit angry and tired of Kyoya. She just took off her jacket then her shirt, showing him her tattoo. "Look. It's not a big deal." she whispered turning around. Well, for Kyoya was a big deal to see her in... brassiere. He examined her tattoo. It was located on her right shoulder. It was a black dragon with red flames around itself, just like it was burning. You had the impression it was crying for help, because of the vertical position of his body. "Nice..." muttered Kyoya. Then he looked at the tattoo on her waist: it was another black dragon, this time in a horizontal position, with some swirls around it.
"Oh, God... Bless me! Hikaru... You rock. I think it hurt you very much." Hikaru looked bored to him, somehow amused. "Maybe, but I'm not regretting, I told you. Even those boys were about 20, they were just some... you know... Tom, Dick and Harry, and they were working with tools which weren't sterile... it was ok. Well, the skin on my waist recovered hardly, but when I drew the tattoo on my shoulder, I was older, and it was in a salon, so the skin recovered more quickly. Well, it hurt, that's true."
Someone entered the room in a crazy pace. Kyoya and Hikaru looked with indifference to see Izumi hurrying to enter his room. Just like Hikaru did. She let out a short exclaiming phrase: "Ah!" as she saw Hikaru with no shirt on. Well, I guess she didn't really notice that, until she started wondering why the heck Izumi was staring so puzzled at them two. She startled and quickly put on her t-shirt. Izumi was panting. "You were about to have...?" she asked. Kyoya and Hikaru looked one at each other with the corner of the eye, smirking. "No... Hopeless!" they both exclaimed on an amused voice. Izumi panted even more and walked towards them two. "Good. Cause I will sleep here for this night. I saw a spider." she said as she lay down between them two. Kyoya and Hikaru looked puzzled at her and lay, too. They were too tired for questions or answers, so let it be there... Well, the scenery was nice. Him sleeping in the left side of the bed while she holding Izumi, making her safe of spiders or toads, or anything she could fear. Izumi suddenly broke the silence: "Did you sweep off one each others feet?" They looked puzzled at Izumi. "Yeah. Last week. Why?"asked Hikaru looking questioningly. Izumi laughed. "Just wondering. I read that if this happens, those people are completely and suddenly falling in love." Kyoya and Hikaru laughed very loudly. "That's the most ridiculous thing that I ever heard!" they exclaimed. Kyoya explained a simple theory of his:
"Yeah, more than this, Hikaru and I are almost same personalities. We are both strong and we are both keeping our ideas, never giving up. We both love adventure and challenges. Everyone knows that people with same personalities are rejecting one each other. This means opposites are attracting. Everything has logic. Hah." Hikaru admitted this. Izumi giggled and closed her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I think you can understand one each other, right? Anyway, good night." Hikaru and Kyoya looked pissed off one at each other and sweat dropped.
"Kyoya..." whispered Hikaru. "Yeah..." he answered on a low tone. "Good night." Kyoya stole a puzzled glance at her, while she smiled to him and looked at the ceiling. "Good night, Hikaru. Yeah. Good night. Hah. Hikaru... after this, could I never see you again?" he whispered. Izumi giggled at this. Hikaru kept quiet for a while. "No."
In the next morning, all the children, including Eiko and them, had the breakfast in the dinning-room. Well, everyone was sitting on the chairs, eating... I don't know what that was. Well, they were quiet.
Hikaru was standing leant against a wall, with her arms crossed, looking at the floor. She was feeling terrible. She looked a bit around the room and sighed.
She suddenly ran out of the room.
She went to the bathroom and vomited everything she ate in that morning.
She went to her bedroom and lay on the bed. She was so tired, but she couldn't sleep, because, even she was tired, she was restless. But when she was getting up, she was feeling her blood stops flowing so she was just... there, lain on the bed, with her eyes closed. Hikaru heard that lion again.
"What do you want?" she asked. The lion just chuckled. "You. But I think you knew it." Hikaru sighed as she got up and looked at her hallucination with anger. "Go away in this second!" she yelled as she threw with a book she got from the table. Her illusion disappeared and appeared behind her. Hikaru turned and started to cry. "Go away! Please, go away... Go away..." The lion disappeared again and Hikaru looked everywhere worried. She breathed freely, looking at the ground, but when she brought her gaze up, she and the lion met again. Hikaru closed her eyes and put her hand at her chest. Her heart was beating like a drum. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes after that big shock.
Hikaru didn't see the lion anymore. Kyoya entered her room. She quickly brushed away her tears and faked a smile. She saw Kyoya had a kind of cup. "Look. Drink some tea. It helps the nervous system." Hikaru refused. "Did you eat anything in this morning?" Hikaru looked at him with indifference and crossed her arms. "Just some bread with butter very quickly." Kyoya looked sad as he saw Hikaru is slowly retreating and her attention was stolen by something behind him. Kyoya let the cup on her table. "Are you alright? Damn it. Who do you think you're fooling, Kyoya? Of course she's not alright."
He put his hand on her forehead: fever. "Do you feel dizzy?" Hikaru nodded. Then he put his hand on her cheek: burning. "Go and lie back for some minutes. I'll tell Hyoma come here for you, ok?" Hikaru nodded with her ill expression.
Kyoya watched with indifference and somehow sadness that mawkish scene... of Hyoma and Hikaru hugging. He sighed and walked away, slowly, slowly, taking it very, very slowly. He started to talk to himself:
"Sorry because... that's my knee-jerk reaction but I couldn't help laughing in my heart... I never laughed like this, so thanks. Even you are doing just what your boat flows, you are crazy and I love this. And you have a tattoo on your waist... Man... And even you are poisonous for me, and even you are blind and even you don't care about the fact that your mother made you so beautiful, you sure are crazy. You are crazy, you heard it? Crazy! You need some mental support! Well, I don't know what you're expecting. Your father was crazy if he beat you because you were like a boy. I think he should've been proud. Men often want sons, not daughters. Right? So, I think you are crazy because your father. Well, actually, I'm crazy because of you, not because my mother or my father. You are the one who made me crazy. I think this is becoming interesting..."