𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 | 𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢

a different timeline - [3]

—July 20, 2003

"M-Manjiro.."

[first name] whispered with her wide eyes not leaving her little brother's cold, lifeless body in front of her. She could feel her whole body shaking as her eyes remained on her little brother. Then her eyes went to the white cloth covering Manjiro's cold body, "T-Tell me, he's just sleeping.." she said, controlling her emotions, not wanting to make a scene in the hospital. "Please tell me that you only called us here to see him resting.."

The doctor was standing beside her, and he could see the pain in [first name]'s eyes. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder, "I'm sorry," he said. Then after a few moments, he left the room, leaving [first name] with her brother, letting her have her last moment with him.

When the doctor left, that's when [first name] couldn't control herself anymore. Her tears began streaming down her face—she dropped to her knees and gripped the end of the white cloth covering Manjiro's body, "D-Don't leave..." she whimpered. She felt like her heart just shattered into a million pieces, she put a hand on her chest and held her shirt tight, she couldn't handle the pain that she was feeling in her chest. "Don't leave..." she croaked.

Then she closed her eyes shut and buried her face in her palms as she continues to cry her heart out. Then images of her deceased loved ones began flashing inside her mind...and the day when Emma ran away. [first name]'s heart ached more because she could remember the pain that she felt..and now that she has to deal with that kind of pain all over again now that her little brother has passed away. She folded her lips as she sobbed harder,

"D-Don't leave me too, Manjiro.."

Shinichiro was outside the hospital room, listening to his poor sister, mourning for their little brother. He balled his hands into fists and decided to leave the hospital. It was raining so heavily, but Shinichiro didn't care. He stepped out of the hospital, letting the heavy rain hit his body. He walked a few streets away from the hospital and ended up in an alleyway.

He stared at the cemented wall emotionlessly, then an image of Manjiro smiling appeared inside his head—which caused the tears that he's been keeping in to finally fall. He balled his hands into fists once again and punched the cemented wall without hesitation. Then he did it again, and again—he began punching the wall multiple times. He didn't want to stop, the only thing that he wants to stop is the pain that he was feeling right now in his heart.

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Shinichiro

"You're so stupid," said [first name] as she sat beside me with a bandage roll in her hands. Then her eyes went to my bruised knuckles. She already wiped all the blood off earlier and cleaned it.

She sniffed as she took one of my hands and began wrapping bandages around my hands, "Punching everything that you see won't do anything.." she said as she took my other hand and began doing the same thing that she did with my other hand. I just hummed, listening to her lecturing my ass like she was the older sibling.

I looked from the corner of my eyes to glance at her, and I saw how empty her eyes looks as she treats my injured hands. She sniffed as she lets go of my hand. It's already nighttime, and we're currently outside the house—when I came home, I saw her crying while waiting outside for me, she saw my hands all bloody and immediately treated them, then we decided to stay outside for a bit, and talk.