Light Upon the Darkness (A Your Lie in April Fanfiction)

Chapter 14: Weathering the Storm

Watari Ryouta's POV

Along with Tsubaki's mom, I got myself to know Kashiwagi's father more. He's an experienced, successful lawyer that often represent many big companies including one that Kousei's father's was leading, but also some pro bono works with his own law firm.

"Watari-kun" said Tetsuya Kashiwagi in his gruffy voice. "Thank you for caring for my daughter just as with your own girlfriend. She is the only one that I have now."

"She is a good friend of Tsubaki since middle school, Mr. Kashiwagi. A friend have to be there in her time of need." I replied.

"With what happened to her, I realized that I am a failed father to be just with her even when she and your friends are now grown up adults... I had become out of many people who devoted less of their time for family, even after the passing of her mother."

"Oh, I am sorry, Mr. Kashiwagi." I said again.

"Not a problem, son." I am crestfallen, but I kept attention to what he was going to tell me. "You have to know this; my daughter does not speak to me, yet. On the other hand, she's calm enough when I am besides her. With her baby on her womb, we have to be extra careful, and I dare to say I had become a miracle to her... otherwise, she will surely hurt herself."

We shared the similar pain after all, I told myself.

Then suddenly a siren blared, from Kashiwagi's room followed by the hurried footsteps from doctors and nurses on duty.

"I have to tend my daughter now."

"Mr. Kashiwagi." I replied. "Let me help you!"

"No, take care of your girlfriend first." Then the old lawyer left me.

I head back to Tsubaki's room. Only few words were able to be spoken. She's slowly less and less prone to burst out in anger, instead she cried more when it's time to sleep, for example, or tried to avoid any males that she did not know, like what happen when two police officers attempted to question her and Kashiwagi about their ordeal. They weren't able to do it and neither I am, yet, even with the fact that their captors were now in custody.

I remember what the lead doctor Dr. Maaya Uchida told me and others present yesterday, particularly Tsubaki's mother and Kashiwagi's father. "They are still suffering from nightmares, we managed to wake them up before they hurt themselves. However, we advised that you always be vigilant and call us or the nursing team immediately when it recur or other development that you deemed dangerous for their wellbeing."

About the kidnappers that I learned from the media to be named Keizo and Michiko respectively, I believed more in updates from Saito. His latest detail suggested that they were to be transferred into a different detention center citing threat to their lives.

I told myself somehow "Rapists deserves their just dessert, However Saito is right..."

"I want to go home!" Tsubaki suddenly shouted. "I don't want to be here forever!"

I responded. "You are in a long need of rest, my love. I'll stay with you, okay? You are still too weak!"

She's not yet been able to eat on her own, and neither Kashiwagi. The doctors gave them extra nutrition geared for pregnant women, but how they will cope with the inevitable information of their state and later the childbirth process had now become my main own concern and everyone they loved.

"By the way, Auntie." The question that I harbored for long were finally out. "How long that her friends should wait? Will they be able to see her again?"

"You must tell them that it would take some time. The doctors and nurses are doing their best, but if somehow they want to see her, they must be ready on what will happen. Especially to Kousei, which I remember how much he was a traumatized man in his past..."