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 Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:49 am
Mitsu looked to Blade as he spoke, it took a moment for the words to fully set in but when they did her eyes grew in size and her face paled. "D...dying?" Of all the words she wished she didn't know what that one meant but she knew all too well. His life was at an end, he would be drawing his last agonizing breath, his body would grow cold, and his eyes would become dull and lifeless.
Horror stuck Mitsu turned to look at Neko sitting on the floor of the bathroom tears beginning to well up in her eyes. "Neko can't die." She said softly. To her he was a part of their family and what would they do without a member of their family there?
"You guys seem to write me off so easily," Neko mumbled trying his best to ignore the man. The ghost of a demon was really a bother and was striking nerves Neko didn't even know he had. Sitting up a bit more Neko rested his head back again. "Yuki...before you go I want to talk to you for a moment. You too Mitsu. Close the door."
Unsure what Neko might want Mitsu stepped forward into the bathroom and waited for Yuki to close the door behind them. She only hoped it wasn't a dying wish of some kind.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:31 am
The shout certainly gave him a start, and Yuki fell silent again. What were they supposed to do? He wasn't going to stand here and watch his friend die, but he didn't have the knowledge or means in which to stop whatever was causing his suffering.
Standing a little way from the doorway, as not to be so much in the way, Hitsu looked over toward the waking Mitsu. "It's not morning," She replied, "Neko is sick." Sick was such a kinder diagnosis.
But then Blade decided to just speak it outright.
"What?" Hitsu whimpered, looking from Blade to Neko quickly. Blade walked off, and Hitsu moved closer to the door to take what space Blade had occupied. "Neko can't die!" She said, eyes brimming with tears all over again. It was only a matter of seconds before she was crying, making very incoherent attempts at speech in between her sobs.
Way to go, Blade... Way to go... "He's not dying!" Yuki shouted, though at this point he wasn't sure how much truth was behind the statement. He gritted his teeth, biting back a growl. Who could have done this? Why had they done this? The thought that this really was something that Neko couldn't survive made it hard for Yuki to keep his emotions in check, but he would manage... At least in front of the eyes of the others.
With a worrisome glance, Yuki closed the door behind Mitsu when she came inside. He could still hear Hitsu crying on the other side of the door, and it didn't make it any easier to turn his attention back to Neko. "Blade shouldn't have said that..." He said softly, "You're going to be fine. Just give it a few hours, and you'll be as good as new." He'd adverted his gaze, almost like he was trying to convince himself instead of only Neko. He tried to swallow the lump in his throat, but the sensation did not go away. Yuki never did understand just how Neko was able to repair himself, but he could only pray now that his body could fix whatever was wrong right now.
When he looked back down to Neko, Yuki's eyes were watering slightly. Apparently he could only hold out for so long, and thinking about the reality of the situation didn't help matters any. He didn't say anything, concerned that he'd only say something foolish again. If Neko had called Mitsu in here, Yuki could guess what this might be about.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:32 pm
"Yeah," Neko grunted as he sat up a bit more almost fully upright now. "Blade can be a bit blunt." Wrapping an arm around his waist Neko felt a fit of nausea coming on but fought it back. Closing his eyes for a moment he took a few deep breaths trying to focus on what he wanted to say. His eyes didn't stay closed too long though because the darkness behind his eyelids were plagued by a familiar nightmare.
"Anyway, Yuki....Mitsu. On the slight chance that I don't make it through this I-"
"But you are going to make it...... right?" Mitsu said through her tears and sobs as she sat down on her knees beside Neko.
"I'm going to try my best," Neko tried to smile though it was obviously forced as he reached up a hand and patted Mitsu on the head to try and reassure her. "But if I don't," Neko turned to look at Yuki his expression a bit more serious now. "Will you take care of Mitsu and the baby? I know that's asking a lot and I'm sorry ab-" Neko took in a sharp breath of air again as the pain continued in his chest forcing him to cough rather violently. Oh how pathetic he looked at this moment. As soon as his coughing fit was over he wiped the fresh blood from his mouth. "I must look pretty sad right now, huh?" A small laugh left his throat as he closed his eyes again.
Not sure what to say to all of this Mitsu looked back toward Yuki her eyes filled with unshed tears as they threatened to follow the others down her cheeks. She was worried, what could they do? And hearing Hitsu just on the other side of the door crying her eyes out as well really didn't help matters much. "Yuki..." Mitsu said softly almost pleading him to do something....anything.
[[ This is where I think it would be funny for Yuki to tell Neko the truth...because despite how he feels he'll have enough energy to try and beat the crap out of Yuki XD ]]
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:07 pm
At the sounds of yelling and crying, Riyo awoke groggily and looked around. "Wha? What's happening? Why's everyone so... Sad?"
Atticus, who'd just lit his cancer stick, looked back at Riyo. "Blade said it best. Your friend is dying." The almost equally blunt raven spit out without so much as a remorseful tone, taking in a deep breath of his cigarette and letting it out after a few seconds.
Riyo sat up and whiped the groggy from her eyes then glared at Atticus as he spoke. "So, what? You couldn't fix him? What happened to the fancy pants doctor?"
"I never claimed to be a "fancy pants doctor". Besides, he refused to take the medicine I offered. So it's not my fault." Another puff. Another release of foul smoke into the room.
"For the love of everything, if you're going to smoke that, take it outside! Or even better, go back to your own room! It's obvious you're doing no good here." She was practically hissing by the time she got done yelling at him. Riyo was more than just a grump when someone abruptly woke her up.
"Fine." He stood and looked back at her. "You're right. I'm doing no good here." And with that, he grabbed his medical bag and stormed out.
Riyo didn't focus too much on him. Instead, she moved over to Hitsu groggily and did her best to give her a reassuring pat on the back. "He's not gonna die." Her reassuring voice was calm... But that's probably because she just woke up. "You should have more faith in him than that." How could she smile at a time like this? She pondered it to herself as the smell of blood hit her nose.
Was she... Happy with this? With everyone dissolving into little piles of salt water? In theory, if I caused someone physical or psychological distress to the point where it overflowed, I could...
No...
She couldn't do that...
"He's not gonna die..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:46 pm
So perhaps he was a little blunt about saying what was going on. But he wasn't really sure if he should have put it any other way. With the way Neko's condition was, he had some doubts he'd make it through the night without any sort of medical aid. Then again, he wasn't quite so sure how much more resilient felines were than humans.
Either way, for now he felt he was better off staying more towards the back, lest he wanted to get a few glares from the others for saying what he did. Neko had all his friends at his side anyway.
So, he leaned against the table in the room lightly, watching what was going on in the bathroom, and listening to what the others had to say. As they did, he tried to think of how this might have happened. The effects Neko was going through seemed vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite think of where he had seen something like this before. Even so, it might not really say a whole lot since he could have some sort of common poison in his system now.
There was also the fact that whatever it was that plagued Neko, it was being rather slow acting.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:48 pm
with all the noise that was happening, even poke couldn't stay asleep through it. She sat on the bed and tried shaking of the weariness she felt, but it abuptly left when she heard of neko's current condition.
At first, she just sat there on the bed, taking in the information and trying to make sense of it. How the hell could he be dying? the last she remembered was walking out the bathroom with him having halluciantions...and in alot of pain...
mitsu and hitsu were crying, and atticus was lighting a ciggerate. And watching riyo talking to him and his reactions, she could tell he was bothered as well. And her own reassurances were shot when she faintly heard neko asking someone to close the door.
Poke didn't say anything. She couldn't say anything. This was way different than before when people were upset just because of where they were heading. Her gut clentched. She felt naucious, clastrophobic even.
She brought her knees up closer to her body and rested her hed on them, fighting a losing battle of trying to hold back any tears. There was just no way...
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:11 am
[Planned on it. XD Might be the best time... So Yuki can have a plan of defense for later, when Neko's strong enough to actually give him a suitable beating. D;]
Slight change, he said. It raised Yuki's hopes a little, but it didn't outwardly show. With the sound of Mitsu's crying, and Hitsu right outside the door, it didn't make it any easier to try and keep a positive outlook. Hitsu always had been quick to show concern, but it wasn't uncalled for this time.
Shortly, the hypothesis that had formed just in the back of Yuki's mind came to pass. Neko was trying to make sure that Mitsu would be taken care of, if he didn't pull through this. Gee, didn't he feel like an a** now? "Uhh... I..." He trailed off when Neko began to cough again, "I will take care of..... Mitsu."
How could he have known that it would come to this? It was supposed to be something to teach Neko a lesson for his foolishness, and he'd never intended the facade to end this way. "Th-there's no baby, Neko." He murmured, grimacing lightly. The revealing of this lie probably wasn't going to go over well. In fact, he quietly motioned Mitsu away from Neko, just in case he had enough energy left in him to be angry. He tilted his head to gesture toward the door. Yuki didn't want her being shouted at for something that he'd instructed her to do.
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Hitsu couldn't hear what they were talking about inside, though through her crying she probably wouldn't have been able to make it out even if they were speaking louder.
When she felt a pat on her shoulder, she quickly looked up to see Riyo. "B-but Blade said..." She stammered, before trying to rub the tears away from her face. It was only half effective, since there were still new tears leaking from her eyes. "I do have faith in him..." She stared at the bathroom door, as though trying to see through it when she heard Neko coughing again. "I've just never seen him this bad..."
However, even when she had seen him 'bad' it never really lasted very long. Hopefully this would be no different. He had always had such high resilience, maybe he'd manage to prove that again, and beat whatever had him sick right now.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:29 pm
"Well, that's good to he-....wait what?" Neko looked up at Yuki in a questioning manner and then to Mitsu. "Th....there's no baby?"
Mitsu shook her head lightly before she stood to her feet and stepped away. "N...no. There is no baby."
"But...the Mid-wife said-"
"You didn't hear everything," Mitsu shook her head as Yuki guided her closer to the door.
"Then," Neko was stumped and as his heart rate began to quicken so did the pain. "Why didn't you......" He then looked to Yuki. "You!" He pointed an accusing finger at his fellow feline while his other hand grabbed at his throbbing chest. "You did this!"
Despite the pain in one quick movement Neko was on his feet and stumbling toward Yuki. He braced himself against the sink as he came near and out reached a hand as if trying to strangle Yuki from his current spot. "Did you think it would be funny?" His eyes were a blaze with anger but his body movements could not hide the pain he was in.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:24 pm
Blade's dark red eyes locked onto the bathroom door as he heard someone shouting from within. It sounded an awfully like Neko, but he really couldn't think of why the guy would be yelling like that. Especially considering his current condition.
"Well at least he's lively enough to be shouting," he uttered under his breath before glancing towards Hitsu, "I shouldn't have said what I did. Besides... even if someone is dying, it doesn't necessarily mean that they will die for sure."
There were still some doubts in the back of his mind, but he figured it would be best if he did not voice them. Sighing heavily, the thief looked towards the closed door again, wondering just what was happening now.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:25 pm
Well, Neko had figured that out quickly. Yuki quickly backed away, narrowly missing Neko's attempt to grab him by the throat, thankful that he hadn't been wearing anything that Neko could have gotten hold of to pull him closer. "No!" Yuki barked. Well, really he had thought that it would be funny... Just, not given the current situation. "I wanted you to realize how irresponsible you had been!"
[Lol, short.]
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:07 am
"I'll kill you for this!" Neko hissed taking another step closer and bracing himself against the wall.
"Neko!" Mitsu pressed herself against the door, her eyes somewhere between fear and worry.
Just as Neko reached Yuki and was about to reach for something to grab a hold of on his person a sharp pain, worse than all the others, hit him. Clutching his chest Neko doubled over falling to his knees. He gasp for air finding it hard to breath before his body and mind finally gave up and he collapsed on the ground unconscious.
"NEKO!" Mitsu screeched still pressed against the door. Had he just.....died before her eyes?
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:44 am
Mitsu's scream was easily heard by poke, and she looked up with a face of fear. Without thinking she jumped off the best and ran towards the door, with all intent of bashing the thing down as if whoever was on the other side was being attacked
[I also has short posts, but it's up to you weather she bashes the door down or not]
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:55 am
"Neko. Isn't. Dying." Riyo mouthed the words carefully to Blade so he could fully understand them. "Please. Just stop saying the words 'die', 'dying','death', and 'dead'." If only for Hitsu's sake. Though... She thought about following up with 'try deceased, passing on, or getting creative with your words... Like pushing up daisies!'
She, however, realized how inappropriate that was and held herself back. "C'mon Miss Positive. Start smiling again so the room won't be so gloomy.." Then there was yelling in the room... Then a thud... Then a scream by Mitsu. And Riyo's heart sank a little.
'This is your fault, you know. They're dying because you got involved. And they'll continue to drop... One... By... One...' That little voice... Oh, how cruel it could be.
"Everything's gonna be okay. You'll see." Whether she said it to convince herself or Hitsu... Well, that was the question. She could lie to other people. Sugar coat things as much as she wanted. But she just couldn't seem to pull the cloth over her own eyes. Neko... Was probably dying.
Did it really matter to her? She hadn't known him as long as Hitsu or Yuki did... So what? He was still her friend... And... She knew his little 'secret'. Which made her wonder if he realized... If he dies, everyone finds out what's under the disguise. Find out that the Neko they saw wasn't exactly all. Did he want to go that way? It's not really something you have to worry about... Once you're gone...
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:51 am
With a light sigh, Blade nodded towards Riyo. Though, before long, he heard more yelling come from the bathroom, along with a light thud. Not exactly taking all of that as a good sign, he stood up and moved towards the bathroom.
"What the hell just happened?"
Poke already seemed pretty intent of busting right in, so he stayed back a bit where he wouldn't get in her way. He shot a glance towards Hitsu and Riyo, wondering if the latter may have spoken too soon about Neko. Maybe he wasn't on the brink of death right now, but with everything going on, it didn't quite seem that way.
He didn't really know Neko much, and the guy did rat him out in that one town. But he didn't think he deserved to die.
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