Stand by Me *completed*
by moochi2000
Chapter 23
What it takes to survive
We stared at Mikira as she pretended to not hear what I just said. Sora didn't let her think twice, she grabbed her arm and asked, "You're not cured are you? You can't still see properly!"
"I," started Mikira, "Sorry, I am sorry.."
I stared at her in disbelief, after all the time I've waited for her, she was still not cured. I had nothing, except for her. Yet Mikira was still not cured. I became very angry and tugged at her other arm, "Why aren't you cured? I thought the doctor guaranteed success!"
She tried to stare at mid-air instead of our eyes but let out a sigh, "Why don't we talk about this at home, I don't want to cause a fuss here. We don't want anyone hearing us, right?"
Sora snapped, "What does it matter now? All we want is the answer, it doesn't matter where this is discussed or when!"
Mikira tried to shrug our arms off but it just made us hold on tighter, so she started pushing. Sora got really pissed and pinned her to a wall, "DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG WE'VE WAITED, ME AND YOUR BROTHER! HOW DARE YOU COME BACK COLOUR BLIND, UNCURED!"
I didn't know if it was her fault or not so I tried calming Sora, "It might not be her fault.."
Sora started to calm down so she released Mikira, "I'm sorry, maybe the doctors made a FRIGG'N mistake."
"No," Mikira shook her head gently, "It was indeed my fault."
I could tell Sora was about to burst again however when Mikira started to cry she just let her anger go. We took the taxi home, it was a very quiet time from the airport to my home. Sora was pissed. Mikira, I don't know. The first thing Mikira did was touch all the furniture and her belongings when we arrived, I saw her grin and let out a sigh. "Brother, I let you down, but if you were in my place, you would have done the same!"
"He wouldn't have because he knows you're waiting for him," said Sora.
Mikira sat down on the couch disappointed, "I'll explain what happen, every part and snip of it. When I arrived they had already arrange a group of people to bring me to the hospital safely without any accidents. I couldn't see what was in the room I was in but all I heard were people chatting and lots of machine noises. Before I knew it they were stuffing things on my eye and ears. Afterwards they were literally shocking my whole body. I've never felt anything so painful in my life, it's even worse than biting your tongue or whatever. I don't know how long it took me to find myself out of the place but I managed to escape out of the human-killing hospital. All I could see were blobs of figures, some man said he could tell I had trouble managing my way around and would introduce me to a miracle doctor. I refused right away because I said I hate the pain. Luckily he told me it would be alright since the doctor won't hurt me. I trusted him mainly because he was another Japanese and that his words seemed persuading. I entered a building filled with dust and rats or so it seems, the doctor was just like any doctor in the hospital. The only problem was the setting, nothing else would have affected my opinion of the situation. I swear it also hurted a lot though I only had to endure it for a week, nothing compared to the weeks of pain in the hospital. When I finally saw properly he let me go without paying expensises. At first I thought he really was some miracle man because the place I woke up from was black and white anyways. It was a mistake of course when I finally stepped my way out of the building. The sky wasn't blue, it was black, everything else was that colour or white. I begged the hospital to cure me but they said it was my fault I had sneaked out. I knew at that moment I would never be able to experience a life full of colours again. I took the easy way out, never expecting any accident. The miracle man was never found again, the hospital told me that the guy who cured me committed tons of crimes like that. He was an amazing doctor but went coo-coo after his failure to save one of his patients. So, this is the end."
Sora looked really mad, "How can you take the easy way out? If you want to be cured, you have to go through some challenges!"
"Let's see you take those pain, it hurts like hell. I am not lying!"
Sora blew up, "WEll, LOOK AT YOU RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE NO DIFFEREN FROM A HANDICAPPED!"
"Then I guess it's a punishment from god from trusting Keita and not the one I love, Hisato."
"You're so dumb, you're just blaming your faults to somethng else," yelled Sora.
I looked at them still shocked from her story. I didn't know if I wanted to help my sister or Sora, to me they were both just as right. If I had to choose, I would choose that none of this happened to Mikira. She looked at me like never before, I could felt her sadness right there, "Brother, will you forgive me?"
I paused to think, "I'm just glad you're here alive."
"What?!" screamed Sora, "Of course she'll be alive, you sent her there so she could see us properly!"
"I just want her back."
Sora got up ready to leave, "That's what I hate about you, why can't you say what's hidden deep inside your heart? Tell her the truth, tell her what you truly feel. You're not helping her, in the long run, she'll hate you!"
I wondered if Sora was really right, if that was the reason then it must have been the reason she picked Yusuke instead of me. I turned back to Mikira, deep inside my heart I really couldn't forgive her for what she did. But she was my sister, I knew that she wouldn't go through the pain even if it costed her life.