Forgotten and Lost In Blood Red Eyes

Chapter Sixteen

There he was, the man of my dreams standing over my dead body. He collapsed by the bedside  holding my hand.

"Why were you so selfish?!" Yoko was on a rampage. She was confused, angry and her eyes held anguish.

"I didn't mean for this to happen." His voice was faint, almost a whisper. I hovered around him trying to touch his shoulder, hug him and kiss him anything to soothe him.

"He got so lonely without you Big brother Kazuhiro." Ai stepped forward holding a note from Akihito.

"He's dead too!?" He clenched the sheets in his fists and swore over and over again. My brother appeared behind me putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Its time to go Minori." I had forgotten my brother almost altogether, all these years spent in bitterness about his death and I had forgotten. 

"I have to stay Brother." I could feel a smile creeping onto my lips. I sounded unsure even to myself, but I knew I had to, Kazuhiro needed me the most then and there. He lost a brother and a lover and now another love laid dead before him.

"As you wish." He ruffled my hair chuckling, "We'll meet again someday." My heart ached and suddenly I was back in the living world. The sheets that had been lain over me now suffocated me. I was sore I couldn't move and Yoko noticed I was alive once more.

"Minori!" She ripped the sheets off my head and hugged me. Relieved to feel the rise and fall my chest.  She laid there listening to my heart beat and Kazuhiro stood astonished. 

"Minori?" I could barely move my head but yet I looked to him and smiled. He took a sharp inhale and I watched those beautiful ruby eyes shed tears. He started to cry and Yoko moved aside smiling. I was still kind of wishing Akihito was there with us... None of this would have happened if I had stayed loyal to my true love. 

"K-Kazuhiro. W-Welcome home." He hugged me tightly and cried into the bed sheets. Still to this day I don't understand how I came back to life, or how I even died without a wound. 

"Minori, Minori, Minori!" He was saying my name over and over again as though if he didn't I would die again.

"It's alright." It took all the strength I had to lift my arm to stroke his face. I was so tired and so weak all I wanted to do was make sure he was okay before I took a nap. As my eyes closed he got scared and clutched my hand.

"Minori..." A familiar voice echoed in the room. I looked to the door to see my mother. She was holding the necks of two royal guards. She tossed them to the side as if they were nothing.

"Who is she Minori?" Daisuke looked to me. I laid there still and scared.

"No no no.  You can't be real." I muttered, I was panicking and I couldn't move. 

"I am real. Where have you been?!" She was crying, like was worried about me. She used to beat me and make me feel like I should've never been born. 

"Who are you?!" Kazuhiro finally yelled. I pushed myself up and propped my body against the headboard.

"She used to be my mother." I looked into her eyes and noticed that they were glowing blue. Her eyes had always been brown...I had never seen her eyes change color.

"Used to be? I birthed you from my body!" She seemed so hurt. But I knew she wasn't how could she say those word so openly.

"You also tried to kill him!!" Ai said. She had been silent and in disbelief since I woke up. 

"I did it to save him!!"She screamed. She pushed everyone aside like they were pieces of paper on a desk. 

"You are a monster."I said. She looked at me with caring eyes for once in her life, "You had your chance to care for me like I was your child. And you lost it, I now have a whole entire family that loves me. They took me in after you tried to murder your own child." 

"I had to kill the thing inside of you. That soul should've died all those years ago, Kazuhiro should know that better than anyone." I looked to Kazuhiro who stood with enlarged eyes. 

"You are that witch!!! You were the one that killed her!!!" Kazuhiro yelled with fury lunging towards her.