Moonlight Desire

Chapter 11

Lia heard someone enter the room who happened to be Kazuki. She took in the view of him with him now wearing purple hakama and a white kimono with some purple threading along the sleeves. She also noticed he was no longer wearing his boots and instead, wearing tabi socks and zori sandals.

"Kazuki," Lia said to herself.

"How are you feeling today?"

Lia smiled. "Much better. I can finally walk on my own now."

Kazuki walked over and took a seat next to her bed. "That's good to hear. Are you ready to leave this place finally?"

Lia's eyes lit up when she heard those words. "Yes. I am."

Kazuki gave Lia a small smile then got up and started to head out. "Let's go."

Lia followed Kazuki out the door, happy that she finally gets to leave the hospital. The moment she stepped out the hospital door, she was met with a warmer air and felt the sun soak into her skin. It felt nice to see the sun in December. She looked around to see the city signs written in a language she couldn't understand but could recognize the writing system.

"Kazuki," she said. "Where are we?"

She knew she was not on earth anymore but, she wanted to find out some information about his home planet.

"As you know with your cancer being gone, we are no longer in the human world."

"The human world," Lia interrupted. "You mean Earth?"

Kazuki nodded and continued with his explanation. "Yes. The moment your heart stopped beating, I took you back with me to my home planet. It is called Rakuen. Rakuen is made up of twenty districts. District one being the closest to royalty and District twenty struggling each day to stay alive."

"Just like the difference between America and Africa," Lia replied with disappointment in her voice.

"We are in a city located in District one. It is the largest city in this world also known to be the most beautiful of them all. It's called Izayoi, the sixteenth night or the night after the full moon. The name itself is beautiful."

Lia was looking around the city and taking in the sights. It was a really big city for her but she noticed a lot of Japanese influence in it.

"Kazuki," she began. "About the language. In my hospital room, I found some books. The writing looked like it was Japanese and another one looked very different. It had writing I've never seen before."

"Ah," Kazuki acknowledged. "I see did a little snooping."

"I'm sorry," Lia replied and looked down.

Kazuki chuckled. "It's understandable to be curious about things here. We adopted Japanese as the language to communicate with a long time ago and the other one you found would now be a dead language. Not even I know how to speak it. Japanese is more useful so there's no point in learning a dead language."

"That makes sense but why Japanese?"

"It's something that was established a thousand years ago. The stories say that some Aliens from a noble clan traveled to your planet and found themselves in the Heian period of Japan. Back then we didn't have any culture of our own so, that group fell in love with the language and the culture and stayed there until it was mastered. Humans had no idea that Aliens were living among them back then and they still don't. By the time they returned, it was a challenge for everyone to accept the fact that they had to talk differently than they were used to."

"How did they manage to switch everything over?"

"Everyone had to learn the language the old fashioned way. It was difficult for everyone to learn how to speak Japanese so a lot of Aliens were sent over to Japan who knew how to use the human disguise. Eventually Japanese took over and the next generations were slowly forgetting the way things used to be."