• The People Behind the Parents •

• Hanahaki Disease? •

Yor and Loid had slowly started being more together recently. They were both trying to forget about what they saw.
Loid got ready for work.
"I'm leaving. Bye Anya, bye Yor!" Loid said.
"Have a good day at work!" Yor said with a smile.
"Bye papa!" Anya said.
Yor had started to develop a small crush on Loid, even though they were already married. But it was fake, of course.
"Mama, are you sick?" Anya asked her.
"I-" Yor said but she started to cough something. It seemed like something was stuck in the middle of her throat.
The coughing start to get worse. Yor felt like she was gonna cough something up.
"Be right back, Anya!-" Yor choked as she ran to the bathroom.
She closed the door and coughed.
She then felt something in her mouth and she spit it out.
She analyzed the red flower.
"Is this.. a spider lily?" She said as she looked at it.
Then she remembered.
She started coughing again.
"Agh.. these things are poisonous!" Yor almost shouted.
"Mama, are you okay?" Anya said as she went to the door.
"Yes, I'm okay, Anya!" Yor said.
| Red spider lilies are associated with final goodbyes. Legend has it that these flowers grow wherever people part ways for good. Yor is coughing out a red spider lily. The flowers look like an upside down spider. |
Yor had a small rash on her fingers from touching the poisonous flower.
"Oh dear.. I wonder what it's like in my throat.." Yor said.
Then, it finally came to her.
The harmful disease, the Hanahaki Disease.
"I've.. I've seen this before.." Yor said as she looked down.
*FLASHBACK TO WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER*
Yor sat on the small staircase that lead to her house.
He younger brother had gone to school, which was great for Yor. She had started her assassination job when she was younger.
She looked up to see a boy in front of her.
He had blonde hair and brown eyes.
"Hello!" He said to her.
"Hi!" Yor said and stood up.
"Wanna come play with me?" The boy said.
"Okay!" Yor said.
As they were playing with Chalk on the sidewalk, Yor remembered something.
"Hey- I never got your name? What is it?" She asked him.
"It's Leslie!" He said as he drew on the sidewalk.
"I'm Yor! Me and my younger brother live over there." Yor pointed to her house that was not so far away.
"That's cool!" He said.
The two of them played for months. The boy started to develop feelings for Yor.
Then, he started coughing out small flowers.
"Ouch.." He said as he kept coughing.
"Leslie, are you okay?" Yor said as she got closer to him.
He blushed and looked away. "Im fine, Yor!" He said.
"If you say so.." Yor said.
She knew he was lying. She saw him cough up an unfamiliar flower earlier.
A couple days later, the coughing got worse.
"Leslie, if there's something wrong you have to tell me." Yor reassured him.
"I know you've been coughing out flowers." Yor confronted him.
He sighed and coughed a bit.
"Yor.." He looked away.
"I have the Hanahaki Disease.." He told her.
"What's that?" Yor asked.
He immediately blushed and looked away.
"A disease where.. someone falls in love.. and they start coughing out flowers.. and it can barely be cured.." He said, embarrassed to admit it.
"Are you in love? With who?" Yor said, clueless.
"Uh—" He coughed again.
"I'll.. I'll tell you later!" He yelled as he ran away.
"Hmm." Yor thought to herself.
She returned home to her brother and cooked a rather disgusting meal, but Yuri enjoyed it anyway. Or tried to.
A week later, Yor couldn't deal with this anymore. Leslie was too sick for his own good.
She met up with him again.
He showed up.
"Leslie.. you have to tell me. Who do you love?" She said.
"I cant tell-" Leslie got cut off by Yor.
"You have to tell me! I can't deal with you being sick anymore.. you're too sick for your own good!" She said.
"Fine.." Leslie turned red.
"I.. I like you, Yor." He rubbed the back of his head.
"Me.?" Yor said.
Yor also had developed a bit of feelings for him. But is it too early? Should she had asked?
"Leslie.. I like you too. But.. I feel like I don't like you enough.." Yor said and looked away.
"Oh.." Leslie said.
"I'll.. I'll get going now." Leslie said as he ran away.
Yor sighed and headed back home.
Yor had tried to meet up with Leslie, but he was never answering the telephone.
A couple weeks later, she was watching the news.
"Breaking News!" The man on TV said.
"A young boy had died of the Hanahaki Disease!" He said.
Yor suddenly felt empty.
It isn't Leslie, is it?' She thought to herself.
"The boy, Leslie ____,  had unfortunately caught it!" The man on TV said.
She stared at the screen, not being able to move.
It felt like her heart had been taken out of her chest.
She turned off the TV and headed to the bathroom.
She stared at the mirror and tears flowed out of her eyes.
"I knew it.. I knew I should've accepted it! But I did.. I did accept it.. was it not strong enough?" She said as she cried.
Yuri noticed something off about Yor in the next couple days. But he thought she was fine.
As they grew older, Yor slowly forgot about her childhood. She did because she wanted to. She didn't wanna remember Leslie.
*END OF FLASHBACK*
"It can't be.. not me.. who could I love anyway?" She asked herself and looked in the mirror.
"Could it be.." She kept staring at herself in the mirror.
"LOID?" She turned red and sat on top the toilet, stressed.
"It can't be.. after I found out he was a spy.. no.." Yor said to herself.
She threw the red spider lily in the trash bin and headed out of the bathroom.