Kaiju Fighters Ch. 53
Gojira had just spent twenty minutes waiting for Anguirus. When he decides to call and see what's taking so long, Anguirus swears that he hadn't sent him a message and that he doesn't even know how to text.
As he approaches R 'n R, Gojira hears laughing. When he opens the door, the kaiju finds Kimiko and Aunt Miki giggling at the table in the kitchen area. Slowly, he approaches them.
"He really did that?" Kimiko asks and Miki nods.
"What are you talking about?" Gojira asks when he takes a seat with them.
"You of course," the agent giggles. "I had no idea you were so adorable."
"He sure was," Miki smiles. The giggles increased as Gojira felt his face getting warmer.
"Did you really steal your mother's shoes?"
Miki was the one who answered, "All the time," and the giggling continues. Then, they notice the gloomy expression on the kaiju's face. Both women quiet down.
"Sorry, Goji," his girlfriend apologizes. "I forgot that is a sensitive subject."
The Fighter waves it off. "It's all right."
"If it means anything," Miki tells him. "She was proud with all the good you have been doing here."
Gojira gives her a nod as thanks.
"Wait!" Kimiko notices something. "How would she even know about what he's doing here? Unless…"
Gojira catches on to what was being said. "Aunt Miki. Please tell me where my mother is."
Miki finds that she could not make eye contact with either of them. A small tear drops from her face. "It would be easier to show you," the psychic holds out her hand to signal them to take it. Both the agent and kaiju reached out a hand and placed them over the psychic's opened palm.
An image flows through Gojira's and Kimiko's minds.
.oOo.
Miki has just walked into a small, simple house. She is here because she got a letter from an old friend that the psychic did not think was here. The letter said that Asuza wanted to speak to her before it was too late.
Too late for what? Miki thought.
"Hello, Miki," a voice says. An old woman walks into the living room with grey hair tied into a bun leaning on a cane.
The psychic looks the woman in the eyes and finds that she seemed familiar. "Asuza?"
"Yes," Asuza walks over to the couch to sit down. "If you want proof then just read my mind."
"I-I won't," Miki tells her as she sits next to her friend and smiles. "It's nice to see you again."
Asuza returns it, "Same here."
"What happened to you?"
"Old age," Asuza chuckles. "It seems that whatever brought us to this world didn't do so at the same time," closing her eyes for a moment to rest them. "I've been here for so long that I wanted to see one familiar face," opening her eyes back up to look at her friend. "You have no idea how long I had been searching for such."
Miki just stares at her friend. She could feel something on Asuza's mind. The psychic said she wouldn't read her friend's mind. But the feeling would not go away. When she found the words, Miki wished she hadn't. "How long?"
Asuza looks back at her. "The doctors say that I have a month if I'm lucky," she closes her eyes again, but this time in thought. When her eyes opened she asks, "Do you think you can hand me that scrap book on the table next to you?"
Turning to her left, Miki sees the said book and hands it to her old friend. Her eyes widen when Asuza opens it and sees a picture of a younger Asuza hugging a baby Gojirasaur.
"That picture is the one thing that I brought with me to this new world," Asuza informs her friend. "I had been carrying that around ever since I said goodbye," a small tear drops from her eyes. "Sometimes I think that I was a bad mother by forcing him away. And then I look at what he has become," she turns the page, this one with a newspaper clipping of the now human Gojira next to Rodan and Anguirus. Turning more pages, Miki sees many articles about Gojira. "I heard that he took my name," closing the book Asuza also closes her eyes to rest for a moment. "Even seeing the man he is today, I still can't help but think of him as my baby."
"Why don't you go and see him?"
"Because I don't think my heart can take him seeing me like this," Asuza answers simply as her eyes open back up. "I would prefer him remembering me as I used to be." she then hands the book to the psychic. "I want you to have this."
"You wish that I continue what you had started," Miki says, reading some of her friend thoughts.
"Yes. And I want you to promise me that you'll give it to my baby when you believe the time is right," she tells the psychic. "I want him to have something to remember me by."
"I promise."
.oOo.
The kaiju, the agent, and the psychic now stand in a cemetery in front of a tombstone.
IN MEMORY
OF
ASUZA GOJO
"I come here almost every week to visit her," Miki tells them. "She died peacefully."
When there was no response Kimiko walked up to her boyfriend. "Goji?"
"When I left, it was for her sake," Gojira admits. "I gained an understanding that as I got bigger, my body would start producing more radiation at dangerous levels. I had hoped that in this world with things being different, I would have been able to see her again," He tells her before waving them off. "I… I need a moment."
Both women look at one another before leaving the kaiju.
Gojira removes his glasses to wipe away the tears falling from his eyes. He opened his mouth a couple of times as if to say something, but no words came out. The kaiju eventually reaches one of his claws against the tombstone and starts scratching at it.
After a while, Gojira finally meets the others at the cemetery entrance.
"Goji," his girlfriend goes up to him and holds his hand. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," he pushes his glasses back hoping that they hide the fact that he was crying. "Everything's fine now. Let's go home."
.oOo.
A few days later, Miki felt the need to visit her friend. As the psychic approaches the cemetery, Miki gasps when the tombstone comes into view and then smiles when she is closer.
"Darn kids!" an old man with a shovel says. He walks up next to Miki. "Some people think that there's no way to disrespect the dead."
"I can tell you for a fact that the one who did this knew he wasn't disrespecting her," Miki tells him as she looks at what was newly carved into the tombstone.
IN MEMORY
OF
ASUZA GOJO
A LOVING MOTHER
"She truly is proud of her baby."