AKI MAE NO AME (RAIN BEFORE AUTUMN)

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Kami

Inari

She was resting under a massive Tipuana tree which rose penetrating the sunlight through his leaves and mixing the fragrance of his golden flora with smooth breeze.

Plain sandy soil danced around her fingertips.

Tipuana flower petals combs her hair. 

Green grass breaths and bends to the wind. 

Silver Rain droplets slid through the leaf tips and falls on her face. 

Tree trunk swings with the wind. 

The land swings with the trunk. 

She swings with it.

It is not a blur vision anymore. She sees. She feels. She is them. They are herself.

"My mistress,"

She turned to see a white fox sitting on top of a rock pole in the grass land. His 7 tails spread behind him majestically. He jumped down from the pole and bowed her.

"Welcome home!"

Where she belongs...

Human

Haruhi

Val bit her lip nervously. 

She was walking back and forth along the corridor of hospital, waiting till the doctor comes out.

How's Haru?

That's all her mind cried.

Normally its Haruhi who first wakes up and it made her surprised when she wake up and to saw Haru still is sleeping next to her.... but breathing heavy.

Haru was almost out of conscious when Val put her in cab to go to hospital.

Val's heart sank to the sight of little hospital of the village but Mrs. Tanaka tried to ease her by telling that the new doctor who moved there is from the city hospital and is very clever. But Val was nervous, something in her gut shook her from the bottom. 

She turned fast to the sound of door opening.

Her feet ran to the doctor.

"How's her?"

She hated it, she hated the facial expression doctor gave her.

"What is it doctor?" It was Mrs. Tanaka.

"Did she ever show any symptoms of unwell time to time?"

"Sometimes she breaths hard.. and get tired too easily.," Val murmured. "Sometimes complain about neck pain like.. things.."

She is a doctor. She took medicine to that illnesses. Haru promised to Val not to be careless. Val always took care of her. Val felt the taste of blood in her lip by biting.

The doctor sighed nodding his head.

 "I'm sorry to tell you but I don't think this is a simple case, Mrs. Tanaka and.. Miss Valda," 

Val breathed hard.

"I think she has been affected by... a congestive heart disease..., in other words, she has been.., born with this condition"

Val's hearing went silent for a moment.

Until her thoughts start screaming...

Why?