I Got Hots For My Rival~ Itachi Modern AU [NWA Winter'14 1st Place] REVISED

Chapter 13

~Anna's POV~

Darkness. Everywhere.

I couldn't see anything but an eternal abyss. My mind was blank and dead, my eyes only saw pitch black, and my body was stranded in the middle of a dark nowhere. I had no idea how I got here. Only one question at such a moment came to my mind.

Am I dead?

It was the matter of asking when I heard a few voices and advanced in that direction. Whoever those people were, were crying.

"Who's there?" I asked, hoping someone would answer, only nobody did, but the wailing got louder.

I kept walking until I could make out the silhouettes of people. Once I was just a few feet away, I was stuck, to the ground and couldn't move no matter how much I tried.

"Its all your fault," came a mixture of voices I recognised too well, from the crying people and they faced my way, with eyes glowing red and bloody tears trickling down their chins.

Fear settled inside me. I knew these people. They were all dead.

"Its all your fault."

They kept chanting the same thing over and over again until it started hurting my head and I had to cover my ears from the noise of it. I felt my hands come I contact with something wet and I saw my own blood, coming out of my ears.

Stop.

"Its all your fault!"

Please.

"Anna." I shot my head at the voice. I recognised it. I knew this voice like I knew myself.

"Marcus?" I called. His voice was the only one that didn't seem mingled with the weeping monstrosities.

"Anna." I looked around to find the source when this voice too, spoke the words that deepened the grief hovering my heart. "Its all your fault."

That was what it took for me to finally breaking down and going mad and right at that moment the silhouettes exploded and a sea of blood engulfed me, drowning me.

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see. I couldn't move.

It was too much to bear all at once and my breath gave away, filling my lungs with the hot red liquid. I squirmed but it was no use. It was taking away from consciousness.

Maybe its better this way.

If I just give in...

And let myself...

Die.

For a moment had my eyes closed when they opened to a complete different yet familiar surroundings. My mind still had the impression of confinement and drowning that it made my body shoot up from whatever surface I was lying on and thrash around for life.

"Get her sedated right now!"

"Push her back!"

"I got it! Make way!"

I was scared and afraid of the loud voices, breaking through the walls of my mind and destroying the strange stillness there. In a moment's happening, I was seeing black again.

No.

It was like a switch was flipped because one second I was back in the darkness and the other, I had my eyes wide open, looking at blinding whiteness.

As my mind cleared up a bit more by each passing second, I could hear all sorts of sounds, like a beeping sound and the sounds of my own breathing that was being helped by what I supposed was an oxygen mask.

Crap. I was in the hospital.

But why?

My head ached and I moved it to notice all the things present in the area. This room didn't feel like a normal hospital room so where was I?

Moreover, I noticed one of my fingers was occupied by the heart monitor plug, which was making the earlier noted beeping sounds, sure enough I was attached to an oxygen mask and I had an IV too. Great.

This room was too quiet to be a regular room and since there was nobody to answer my question, I pushed my head back in the obnoxiously fluffy pillow and closed my eyes.

Minutes later, I grew tired of the weight of the mask on my nose so I removed it with much difficulty. Well that worked better than I thought because the moment it was off, there was another beeping noise, a really loud one, which caused a doctor and a nurse to come inspect my room.

"You should put a calling button in here." I commented with a roll of my eyes.

"How are you feeling?" The doctor asked. I knew him, he was my heart failure specialist, Umehara, a man in his late forties with brownish greyish hair and light beard.

"Apart from totally oblivious of the situation, not so bad doc." I answered truthfully and the doctor laughed. Ok that was odd.

"My my, never would have I thought that a patient would answer like that." I shrugged. "But really, does it hurt anywhere?"

"Just my head and my heart." I said, removing the sheet from my chest and noticed some tubes there. "Oh, so thats why its hurting."

"Yes. Now let me conduct some tests and I will tell you what happened and you can meet some really worried fellows too." I nodded and let him work.

"Which room is this by the way?"

"ICU."

"Ok-WHAT?!" I had started to get my back straight but he pushed me back.

"Keep calm, you are still recovering."

Doing what doc said was easier than I thought. I just closed my eyes and tried keeping the peace in my head. Maybe it was a trick or something that doc did because I instantly fell asleep.

Just, what happened?

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