Chapter Sixteen Alive

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     Satomi's POV
     I automatically shut my eyes tightly awaiting the bullet.  But it never came.  Instead, I heard my sister yell for Clark and more footsteps running in the hallways.  When I opened my eyes, Riki punched the gun out of Shizumi's hand and grabbed her wrist.  He looked angry at her as he engaged in a heavy battle with her.  Clark ran in to help her, but Yuki got in front of him.  More men dressed in black came from the darkened hallways.  The rest of the boys started to fight them, and I dragged my sister into the dining room after calling for Taiga.  he nodded and did his best to get to us.  I laid her on the ground next to the table and tried my best to keep her awake.  Taiga ran intot he dining room and shut thr door after knocking down some men.
    "Satomi.  Please keep her occupied as I fix her up." said Taiga urgently.  I nodded and began asking her questions.
     "Um, how old are you?" I asked.
     "Twenty-one..."  Taiga got out clean cloth and a small bottle of sterilizer.
     "How old am I?"
     "L-last time I saw you, it was t-twenty-three."  Taiga lifted up her shirt and began cleaning her wound.
     "When is your birthday?" I asked.  She clenched her eyes shut as if in pain and reopened them.
     "O-october thirty-first."  Taiga got out a pair of tweezers and a scapel to start looking for the bullet in her.
     "When is my birthday?"
     "S-september twenty-  Aaagh!"  She yelled out as Taiga cut deeper into her and dragged out the bullet carefully.  He laid it onto the floor.
     "Who was our mother?"  My words were more hurried and frantic now.
     "Y-yae Kasanagi...."  Her words were growing faint as Taiga got out a needle and a string.
    "And our dad?"
    "D-dagarasu Sanazaki..."  Taiga began to sow up her wound slowly.  She jerked at the touch of the cold needle piercing her. 
     "Satomi.  I need you to hold her still." Taiga said urgently.  I nodded and grabbed her arms as she laid on her side.
     "How many siblings did we have?"
     "F-four....  Not including us..."  Taiga tied a knot and cut the end of the string leving a perfectly stitched wound.
     "Their names?"
     "Tanako being the b-boy, Shizumi b-being your twin sister, Lekki b-being t-the youngest at age of fourteen now...  A-and...."  Her eyes were drooping and I had just realized the blood pooled around her.  Tears stung my eyes, and Taiga pressed a cloth to her side to remobe the blood off of the stitch.
     "W-wait!  Don't go!  What's your name?"  She looked up at me and smiled.
      "M....."  Her words were slurred as she began to fall asleep.  There was banging on the door.
     "Oh no..." I mumbled.  I shook her awake but she didn't respond.  Her eyes were closed and her body didn't move, but her heart was still beating.  The door was hit on from the outside even more.  We all moved to the back of the room, but it seemed as if the door was going to bust open any second.  I held my little sister in my arms as Taiga kneeled in front of us and searched for a weapon in his coat.  Suddenly, the door bust down and dust flew everywhere.  Men filled into the room and pointed guns at us. 
    "Put your hands up!  We have all of your comrades surrounded!" yelled the man in the front. 
     "Taiga..."  I looked at his nervously as we both kneeled onto the floor.
     "Just put your hands up for now." he hissed lowly.  "We'll figure something out."  I nodded and we both put our hands up.  My little sister woke up just as we were being held by our arms.  They dragged her upwards by both arms and led us to the room where Shizumi and the others were.  The guys were surrounded by the mafia guys and Shizumi was waiting for me eight in frint of the curcle they made.  Kenshi and Tatsuro were there also.  Oh no...  Is it all over?
     "Let go of Satomi." she said calmly.  They did and backed away.  She stood about twenty feet away from me.  "So.  Have you made your decision?  If you choose wrongly, someone you care about will die."  I stiffened up as she pointed a gun at our sister.  She shouldered a man holding her in the face and reached into her coat.  I turned to her all the way.  She grabbed an old revolver to me.
     "Catch it!" she yelled.  I nodded and caught it with both of my hands and turned back to Shizumi.  Our little sister was grabbed by her arms again.
     "Listen.  Satomi, if you shoot me, all of your friends will be dead." she said coolly.  I looked at all of them.  She held out a hand to me.  "So come with me." 
      At that moment something struck me.  It was like a lightning bolt hit me and boiled my blood.  My heart started to beat daster and more painfully.  I clenched the gun in my hand and the held it normally.  I brought it up so it was aimed halfway from where she was.  I looked at her intensley.
     "Come with me?  Come with me you say...." I mumbled.  I sounded almost possessed.
      "Satomi?" she asked.  I felt so alive and energetic and violent.  I was a new person.  I swung up the gun and pressed it to my temple.
      All of them looked up shocked at me.  I widened my eyes like a crazy woman about to snap any moment.  Like a little girl tired of getting beat up by her parents and wanted revenge.
     "Come with me?!  How the hell am I supposed to come with you if all you're gonna do is freaking hurt my friends?!" I yelled.
     "S-satomi, that's-"
     "That's what?  Not what you're gonna do?  How the hell am I supposed to trust you, when you tried killing me and the innocent huh?!"  I put my finger on the trigger.  Riki started towards me, but was held back by the guys who had surrounded him.
      "What are you insane?  Why do you want to kill yourself?" asked Shizumi.
      "Isn't that for the better?" I asked in a scary quiet voice.  "If I didn't exist, would this all have happened?"  The room fell completely silent.

      Riki's POV
      "If I didn't exist, would this all have happened?"  We all fell silent.  Even Shizumi.  If Satomi didn't exist...  I hate to say it, but she has a point.  She pressed down on the trigger, but not hard enough to shoot out a bullet. 
      "Satomi, come on.." whined Shizumi scaredly.  I guess everybody likes Satomi.
      "Stop!  Don't come any closer!" Satomi yelled.  Her finger pressured the trigger.  Shizumi stopped in her tracks.  Satomi sounded like a possessed woman.
      Satomi's unknown sister was dragged over near where I stood.  She smirked at the scene.
      "Satomi, you got a hell lot stronger.  But I guess there was no choice.  Satomi, you poor girl.." she mumbled kind of sadly.  That's right.  Satomi lost her memory, and then she was nearly killed a bunch of times, and then now.  Satomi, I'm so sorry.
      "If you kill yourself," said Shizumi.  "I'll blow up this whole damn place."  She held up a remote with a bunch of buttons on it.  Satomi widened her eyes.  But then, it seemed as if her character, her whole self had changed as soon as Shizumi held up that remote.
    "Why don't you damn well do that then?!  Might as well do it in front of me goddammit!"  Shizumi was speechless.  Satomi's panting was now ragged and rushed.
     "Satomi?  Did they do something to you?" she peeped.
     "They?  Who's they?  I'm Satomi and I've been alone my whole life."  Is she forgetting everything again?  "Drop the remote.  I have no friends."
     "Satomi-"
     "Drop it or you'll lose me!" she yelled while smiling.  She went to pull the trigger.
     

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