TabTabAiko nodded, clearly distraught. She had wanted to tell Katsu as well, but he'd been at his anger management appointment, so she'd settled with just Yusuke.
TabTabShe ran after him towards the hospital, neither of them even bothering to stop and ask at the main desk as they rushed up to the room that had been Natsuko's, in the hopes of finding a doctor there. When they arrived, there was just one woman in there, making the bed and folding up old sheets.
TabTab“Where's the body?!” Aiko demanded, thrusting an accusing finger at the woman, her own teeth bared. Why had they moved Natsuko's body, already? Where were they supposed to go now? Had they already made ash from her?!
TabTab“What body?” Natsuko asked, glancing over her shoulder in bewilderment.
TabTabAiko cringed, and looked at Yusuke awkwardly. Now she probably looked like an attention-seeking, s**t-stirring prankster with a very, very bad sense of humour. “Uh... yours. Well... Well... W-Well I got a letter! It said you were dead!” she squeaked, defensively, before glancing at Yusuke. “I swear! It said she was dead!”
TabTabNatsuko chuckled. “No... I did die apparently. The last thing I remember was hearing my heart monitor go flat and ring out, then the next thing I knew, I woke up and they were wheeling me on some metal table down into the morgue... but... I feel great, right now! Perhaps dying was the way to go about it all?” she suggested, cheerily.
TabTabAiko just stared at her, awkwardly. “So you're not dead?” she asked. “I'm not imagining things? And you're not a ghost or an angel or something?” she asked, for clarification.
TabTab“Well... I might be an angel,” she said with a grin, but then shook her head. “Right as rain. I feel fantastic. So fantastic, in fact, that I want to do something fun like... clean or cook! I haven't been able to do that in a while!” she said, excitedly.
TabTabAiko looked at Yusuke, sheepishly. “A...ha... ha... S-Sorry...”