7 Years From Now

Epilogue 9: This Time I Will Be The One To Save You

*note: haruto's(original) timeline.. so continuation of ep8*

"My... mother?"

"yea.. She was Dr ichiri's cousin..so if we cancel out, your mother would have .."

haruto spaced out..

"Haruto?"

"i see..." he continued..

"we really were relatives.."

"Oh with Dr Ichiri?"

"yea.."

there was silence. Haruto continued..

"so... are you looking for a way other than resonancefor me?"

"um.. uh.. yea.."

"Hey Ao--"

"y-you know! if you didnt exist.. everybody will feel a bit different right..! it'll be sad too! and we still don't know how resonance works anyway.. so i shall look for another way to save you! Hehe.. you should thank me you know! i had t--"

"Aoi!.." shouted Haruto.. 

"ohh right.. ihave to take the vaccine..! this is probably the longest we've spoken.! Alright then i should g--"

"Aoi.., its fine!   its fine .. you've done enough.. if i was in your shoes i would probably done the same as you, but.. you dont have to do so much for me anymore.. you don't have to find the way to save me, instead work on the othe--"

"What are you saying..?!!"

she was angry and her eyes were tearfull.

she continued..

"are you trying to act tough like you did 7 years ago when you heard your dad died? I don't wanna hear anything like that!"

"Aoi!.."

"I'm not doing this for the sake of anyone!! i'm doing this for myself! i'm doing this because I WANT to!!7 years from now i'm going to meet you again at the well. and we'll laugh together! ..... we promised... we.."

"honestly.. i was scared..In the world 7 years from now, the worl without you...i was worried that maybe you wouldn't come.. but you did the same thing for me. I mean, it was all reversed but..you pressed the button to save me.. And because of your heart i was able to live.. maybe you got to live because of me, but.. it's okay now..You saved me and i also got to save you.. Thats more than enough!! So now .. yo don't have to--"

"No.. that's not true... Hey Haruto, WHy aren't you saved even though we take the vaccine?"

"that's.. because i pressed the button first during the original experiment.."

"Exactly! you were the first to press the button. when i was scared to do anythng, you were the one who saved me. And its because of me that you can't be saved."

"NO its NOT!! It doesn't mater who pressed it first! You saved me too. If you didint save me,i wouldn't have lived the next 7 years..! you have already done so much!"

there was silence for a few moments.. Aoi spoke..

"hey haruto.. do you know which pair is better for organ transplant? parents or siblings?"

"umm idk.. siblings maybe?"

"yep.. but even then there is a chance of rejection..and they still take immunosuppressants... you see.. a perfect match for transplant between two people with no blood relation is nothing of a miracle..It 'll be incredible if we were like that.. but do you think thats eally the case?"

"what do you mean? .. are you saying that.. You and I are not strangers but siblings? or twins?

"yea.. i thought of that, but thats not true.. because i took the immunosuppressants, so  knew about the lung transplant as well.. hey Haruto.. why didnt you know?"

"huh... Wait a minute.. What do you mean? you knew about it?"

"yea.."

"then.. that means.. the heart transplant surgery from you was... but no! my parents and Dr ichiri said..! and thier surgical records too !"

"Dr ichiri is not a specialist. if he was shown surgical records from another doctor he'd trust them.. same with mom and dad..

"Haruto... You never had a heart condition in the first place.."

"so the heart transplant itself was a lie.. Do you understand now? Did i save you? No... i was the only one who was being saved. did you and i save each other? No.. it was just me being saved. All this time i was the one saved by you. i never saved you. it was always just me.. taking everything for granted.... so... .

This time I will be the one to save you!!"

to be continued...