Wide Awake
Chapter 12
A Deadly Moment
When there was a knock on the door, Jack and Chris both rushed to answer it. They both got there simultaneously and both tried smashing each other into the wall. Then Chris pulled the door open as Jack pushed him over so they could both stand there. Meanwhile, the Akatsuki all stood in the hallway to watch the brother's brawl over the door.
"Can we help you… officer?" Chris asked upon seeing the police officer. The young man cleared his throat and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
"You two are Jack and Chris Duncan, right?" he asked. Jack and Chris nodded.
"I am here to inform you that your sister, Itami Duncan was shot in a robbery and is in the hospital in critical condition. From the looks of it, she won't make it." the officer informed them. Chris paled and stood there, shocked while Jack started hyperventilating. Jack fell back and leaned against the wall for support.
"What happened, yeah!?" yelled Deidara, however Konan threw a hand over his mouth and Sasori held him back.
"W-what exactly happened?" Chris asked the man quietly, ignoring the struggling Deidara behind him..
"Well…. what her friend managed to tell us was that they had been in there and two men came in. Your sister managed to fight them, but in the end she was shot when the robbers were out of options." the officer reported. Chris grit his teeth.
"Officer…" Chris paused to look for a form of identification on the officer.
"David, Officer David." the blonde man told him.
"Officer David, what hospital is Itami in?" questioned Chris.
"St. Helens." answered Officer David.
"We're going to head there now to check up on Itami, is there anything else you needed?" Chris asked while looking behind him to find Jack being comforted by Konan.
"Yes, is Alistair and Reina Duncan, your parents here?" inquired the officer.
"No, Jack and I are nineteen, we're Itami's guardians due to…. difficulties with our parents. They live in Edgewood now." Chris replied. The officer nodded.
"I see, I hope Itami makes it." Officer David said before he bid his goodbye and left to his patrol car. He drove away and Chris watched before he slammed his fist into the door leaving a slight dent.
"Everyone, get in Itami's truck, we're going to the hospital." barked Chris.
"Even Tobi and I?" questioned Kisame.
"Yeah, we're all going." Chris ordered and they all trouped out to the car, except Zetsu who was nowhere to be found.
Chris sped to the hospital while Konan allowed Jack to stick to her side and bawl. As Chris drove along the road, surprisingly at normal speed for he didn't want to be pulled over, his thoughts wandered. Itachi sat in the front seat next to him to make sure Chris didn't do anything stupid.
"The stoplight is yellow up ahead." Itachi informed Chris. Chris blinked, and then gave the light an indifferent look.
"Yellow lights are supposed to mean to slow down for the red light that's about to come, as you gathered from Itami's driving." Chris surmised. But then, he let a small grin go through his sadness, "But really, a yellow stoplight really means, floor it motherfucker!" and Chris did just that.
They made it to the hospital relatively fast after they sped through quite a few lights like that. Normally, the Akatsuki would have thought that their lives would end each time, however this time they trusted Chris's driving to get them to the hospital. To get them to Itami. As soon as they had parked in the hospital parking lot Chris got out and led them inside to the ER nurse.
"Itami Duncan." Chris said to the desk nurse. She flipped through her things before finding it.
"She's being stabilized in surgery now, you'll have to wait." she told him. Chris nodded and led them to a corner of the waiting room where Jack continued to hold onto Konan like she was his life support. Kisame and Itachi spoke quietly in somber tones to each other and Pein scowled at the floor. Deidara looked lost and Sasori was staring into space. Even Tobi was unnaturally quiet. Hidan was bowed, silent as he was praying to Jashin. Kakuzu was watching the nurses walk by, waiting for news of Itami.
'Itami, please be all right.' were the only thoughts going through their heads.
Itami's POV
"So we meet again." I sighed as I saw the familiar figure of the angel. She smiled at me as she gestured for me to sit next to her on the stone fountain. I took my spot next to her and looked down at myself. I counted the bullet wounds in my chest.
"Am I dead?" I questioned her as I counted five bullet wounds in my chest. Five, fucking, bullets. I should be dead.
"No, you aren't dead quite yet…. your spirit is holding on quite strongly." she replied. I wasn't dead, and yet, i'm pretty confident in my guess that five bullets to the chest should kill someone. I was about to announce this but a sudden comment stopped me.
"She's a tough bitch." I flew around and saw Tenshi and Akuma walking to us. Well Tenshi was skipping while Akuma lazily stomped.
"Aishite, Nahito." the angel greeted them.
"Those are their names?" I asked curiously, they had never told me their names. I had called them Tenshi and Akuma just so i could refer to them as something.
"They're our titles, but they could be our names." Tenshi replied, "I would be Aishite."
"What the hell were you thinking, getting shot!?" yelled Akuma, or Nahito, "We're inside you! If you die, we die! Don't die you dumbass!"
"Nahito, or as Itami calls you, Akuma, do not blame Itami. It wasn't a force she could have changed. Besides, I needed to call her here." I frowned as the angel said this.
"So you basically had me put near death so we could talk." I asked before sighing.
"Yes, but don't worry, you will live if you fight for your life." the angel assured me.
"That is very reassuring." I said, sarcasm heavy in my statement.
"Why do you always use so much sarcasm?" questioned Tenshi.
"Because sarcasm is the body's natural defense against stupid." I told her as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, and it was.
"Yes, because insulting a goddess who is very smart by calling her stupid is a very smart idea." Akuma deadpanned back at me. I blinked.
"Well, I never said that I didn't say stupid things." I informed her.
"You're such a dumbass!" Akuma snapped.
"Yeah, and you're an asshole but you don't see me announcing it to the world!" I snarled, my temper flaring.
"Both of you calm down!" Tenshi cried. Akuma and I shared scowls before we looked at Tenshi, my facial expression was calm, somewhat. Akuma's was still livid.
"Whatever." I muttered and the angel just looked very amused.
"Now, I need to speak to Itami without you two interfering." the angel said, and Tenshi skipped away without complaint, Akuma followed after her trying to complain about it. I turned to the angel.
"So what did I do to piss off someone this time?" I inquired. The angel laughed. But then turned somewhat serious.
"When you were sent back that last time, when your other body was sealed, you opened up a rip in the dimensions that your soul had occupied." the angel explained. I nodded to show I was listening intently.
"Now, the Akatsuki are in your world because of this rip." I sighed.
"So basically, because I caused the rip all the beings and god's and goddesses are all pissed off at me because I caused this and now shits all messed up." I guessed.
"Correct, now, you have two beings on your side, me, and a death god. However, you have a rather powerful god against you. He's already cross because you stopped the Akatsuki from dying, and now you're creating a further mess because you brought them here by opening that rip." I groaned.
"Ok, so how do I get these gods to not try to kill me?" I questioned.
"The rip has a time span of a few months between each time it opens up enough to get the Akatsuki through, when that time comes next, which will be the day of the Jigen Comet, Jigen translating to dimensional, at that time, have the member know as Itachi, or the member known as…Tobi? Or both perform a space-time Jutsu and they will be sent back to their dimension." explained the angel. I nodded.
"Ok, got it." I had to look up the date of that comet when I get home.
"Now, with you getting from this world, your body is very weak due to you losing more blood than even your body can handle, and your internal body is damaged from the shooting." she informed me.
"I understand that." I nodded.
"I know you do, that isn't the issue, but the issue is that when you get back, if you get back, something will be awaiting you, something that you will not like. I am telling you this now to prepare you, because what has happened may cause you to lose your grip on your life, and you, may die." she told me gravely.
"What happened?" I questioned warily.
"It is not my place to tell you, but be ready; hopefully you will learn of it after you heal enough to where your life is not in danger." she denied before she put a hand on my shoulder.
"I will send you back now. Keep a grip on your will to live, think of the things you want to get back to." Her hand began to glow and a sudden thought hit me.
"Wait, what should I call you? Your title?" I questioned. A smile spread across her face.
"You can call me Megami." And with that, everything turned black and all I thought about was the things I wanted to get back to.
My brothers flashed through my mind. My friends flashed through my mind, especially Kayan. She was probably really worried about me, after all, I was shot in front of her. Again. And then the Akatsuki flew through my mind, my thoughts lingered on Deidara though. And they stayed on Deidara as suddenly, I knew nothing else.
3RD PERSON
The dreary, cold, rainy weather was perfect for the occurrence. All the people were dressed in black for the funeral. The two family members of the deceased were mourning, their faces set into grim expressions.
"How are we going to tell her?" Chris asked Jack, who couldn't keep his eyes off the coffin being lowered into the ground. They had been some of the firt two to place the roses on the ground by the new tombstone that was at the head of the plot where the coffin was being lowered.
"We shouldn't, she'll think it's her fault that she died." Jack denied, his eyes moving from the coffin to his brothers sad face. Both brothers were holding back tears, Jack was ready to start bawling, and Chris was ready to start sobbing, but not as bad as Jack.
"She'll find out eventually, it's hard to hide something as big as… death…. from a friend of the dead." Chris pointed out as he looked up at the sky that was threatening to pout rain.
"What if she kills herself over her death?" demanded Jack.
"Then she'll be stopped, too many people love her for her to kill herself, but now she's going to go from being sad all the time to depressed all the time." sighed Chris.
"Maybe we should send one of the Akatsuki to tell her? At least we wouldn't have to." Jack suggested, however when he took another look at the coffin, he felt a few tears slide down his cheek.
"It's all because they went on that walk, she wouldn't be dead if they hadn't gone on that walk." muttered Jack a moment later.
"No, that was pure chance, they were just unlucky, and now, she's dead." Chris replied.
"I really want to know who will tell her though, we'll have to flip a coin." decided Jack.
"I think we should let Kakuzu do it, he's an emotionless bastard." suggested Chris.
"No. We're flipping a coin. It's fair that way." huffed Jack. Chris frowned at his twin.
"Dumbass, a coin has two sides, there's over ten of us." snorted Chris. Jack paused.
"You're right, damn." Jack sighed, "Then who's going to do it?"
"Do what?" asked a solemn looking Violet from behind them, Kitai was behind her and in the very back you could see Evelyn and further back, holding back tears, was Kayan's brother and mother.. All her friends were here to watch her coffin go into the ground.
"Who is going to tell Itami that Kayan is dead."
AN
Short chapter, but so much happened. I'm tired. I've had softball tryouts for the school team all last week, I had practice for my out of school league after the tryout, and then I had to eat, sleep, shower, and do school work so I've had no time….I really need sleep since I've had a ton of reviewing for those huge tests that school decides to throw at you near the end of the year.
So who thought that the funeral was Itami's at first? That was w hat I was going for, because Kayan's family, her brother and her mother, were there, and I put two family members so it could have been Jack and Chris. And then Kayan is friends with all Itami's friends.
Also, on my poll for who Itami ends up with… the fourth option that says "Itami should go die in a hole" Three people picked it. I laughed. Then was very, very curious.
Ok, so, predictions please, I have had Kayan's death planned for a very, long time. And I love hearing predictions because they're awesome. Also, I have things planned for Tenshi and Akuma.
Shits getting deep.
Q-Who's your favorite OC of mine?
A-Best movie ever is anything Studio Ghibli by Miyazaki, I love his movie Princess Mononoke, I love Spirited Away and Howls Moving Castle too, they're just… amazing. Then I like this book series called Warriors, its about cats. It's actually a really good series. I also have a huge pile of awesome books, but that's my favorite series.