Borderline Chapter 10
Title: Borderline
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter X
June 4, 2007; 9:20
Kei can't take off his eyes out of the bonzai plant that Kou give to him. He wonders what's going on? It is the same bonzai that he have in his present time, it is the same since there is the same word written on its pot. He remembered that he can't remember where he get that bonzai and when he asked his mother about it she said that he is the one who brought it back home and it is given by someone which didn't know. Why is the bonzai plant is on his dream and it is even detailed? Because of that he can't shove the feeling that it is Kou who really give it to him but if he is then why can't he remember meeting him in his present time? This is his past, there are things that really happened as far as he can remember. Actually he can remember about the ferris wheel, about the trip on Hokkaido when he is 14 years old but he can't remember Kota at all. He is not in those memories but now he is there, in those memories he is there.
"What's happening? I don't get this anymore." Kei asked to himself and while doing that Kota arrived and greeted Kei. Kota looks like a real ghost now and he has only half body and right hand.
"Inoo-san, I think i need to say something to you. Something important." Kota started.
"What?"
"June 10, until June 10 is my limit." Kota told him and that give Kei a shocked. "If I can't go to heaven by Jun 10 then I...I'll be gone."
"Wh...why so fast? H...how did you know your limit?"
"It's my body so i know about it. But it's alright even we can't do it by that time i want you to know that i am happy that I meet you. You don't need to push yourself doing things. You should enjoy your life and don't concern about me. I'll be fine."Kota told him so gently like he is already giving up to go to heaven and he is just okay being sent to a dimension he didn't know.
"Stop messing around, do you think i can give up now. I promised you... I promised you so...i will do it. I can do it...i can do anything."
"Stop pushing yourself anymore, i said that i am already fine with it. I accepted my fate. Let's give up, Let's give up Inoo-san. I...I'll be going away as well. I don't want you to see me like this coz i know it pains you. I don't want you to suffer because of me so...I'll be leaving to a place where you can't see me anymore. Thank you... Thank you for everything."
"W...wait... Kota. Why are you doing this to me? I didn't tell you to leave. I didn't tell you that i already give up. I didn't tell that i am in pain. I told you i can do it so why not listen to me? I can do it... i...i can make you go to heaven. I can do it so... Please stay... Stay with me till the end." Kei told Kota and then tears starts to fall from his eyes. He immediately wipe it away coz he can't understand why he is crying at all.
Kota smiled but at the same time he is also crying, parting is always side but it is needed to be done to avoid more painful feeling. "Forget about me..." Kota whispered and then he tried to touch Kei but his hands just pass through him. "Good bye."
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June 4, 2007; 14:45
Kei sulk himself into his bed, his mother is calling him to eat but he didn't want to. He didn't want to do anything but stay on his bed and do nothing at all. His family is worried and so he sent his father to talk to him about what happened. It is rare for his father to go to his room and it is unexpected so he is surprised. They don't talk that much to each other but Kei likes his father so much. As a young man, their father can be seen as a hero of a show. "Your mom is worried about you, is there a problem?"
"Nothing in particular." Kei whispered but not in a good mood.
"If you will not tell me then how can we fix the problem? I don't want to see my son being like this at all."
"Even i tell it to you, there is nothing you can do about it." Kei replied back. "Even i told it to you, h...he will not come back." he whispered.
"But it can lessen the burden that you are feeling right now. Kei i am your father and i wanted to help you, it's true that the only one who can solve their problem is their own self but still you need to seek for the opinion of the others right?"
Kei gasped and then he cried again, his father hugs him and tried to cheer him up. "What should i do? I...i didn't know what should i do? I wanted to help him but i can't do anything at all. I thought i can do it but i...i disappointed him. This feeling sucks i wish i am not born like this. I am always full of myself because all these time i always do whatever i wanted to do but now... But now i failed and failure and losing is painful."
His father pat his back gently and then he smiled "That's means you just growing up. You are now experiencing how cruel world is."
"B...but..."
"It's alright, there is no shame on falling down, true shame is when you didn't stand up again. If you loss ones it doesn't mean you should give up. There is always a solution to a problem and so you just need to think. You are smart right? You are my son and i knew it."
That warmth, that words, it feels so good to hear. I miss him, my father....i really miss him coz he knows best on how to cheer me up.
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June 6, 2007; 10:17
"Kota is gone?" Hikaru asked "What do you mean by that?"
"He leave already coz he didn't want me see suffering and he said that he will already give up going to heaven and he already accepted his fate." Kei explained but Hikaru noticed that Kei is not okay at all for things to end up like that.
"But i guess it is you who can't accept it at all. What are you planning to do then?" Hikaru asked him. "We still have 4 days but i don't think we can do something about it. In that short period of time, all we can do is forget about his existence."
"No...I will not do that. I know there is a way. I promise him....i promise him so i will do it. I...I don't want Kota to be alone coz it was lonely."
"Then what should we do? Do you have a plan?"
"I don't have." Kei answered honestly.
They are sitting down on their seat on their favourite restaurant when someone entered the shop and there are lots of girls surrounding that guy. He is a foreigner and he is the famous Hollywood artists named Brad Pitt. Everyone inside that restaurant are all stunned and then approach him to take picture and get an autograph. Even Hikaru was surprised to see his favourite actor in the Hollywood in that restaurant. It became a big news and event in the city. While looking at the crowd Kei remembered something again, he remembered in his present time. Two girls are talking about Brad Pitt that he will be back to Tokyo after 6 years since he last visit the country. The girl said that she have an autograph of Brad Pitt and she wanted to have another one again. As Kei look at the crowd he saw the girl he meet in the present time pushing other fan just to have his autograph. He was sure that it was the same girl that he meet that time.
Kei felt that the puzzle is slowly completing in his mind and he just need to put them in the right places to meet the answer to all his questions. He get a piece of paper and right down all the things that is on his mind. The Brad Pitt coming, the girl with his autograph, the bonzai and the memories that he can remember in his mind which he can't remember happening on his present time. While fixing everything he feels like he was near a conclusion but there are still things that he can't understand and he still need some hint for it be discovered.
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June 6, 2007; 11:01
Kei runs away of the shop leaving Hikaru behind who was busy with his favorite actor. His memories are slowly coming back and he wanted to meet Kota for he knows what can happen now. He knows the reality on Kota's existence and so he need to meet him. Hikaru saw him running away with a smile on his face and he thought it's weird. He give up chasing after his favourite actor and just follow Kei where he is going. They are in the street when the traffic lights is on red. He stopped and waited for it to turn green and on the process he saw his father standing in a restaurant called Aizenka and he keeps looking on his watched and then something flashback on his mind. The date is June 6, 2007 and also it is 10:59 of the morning.
Flashback:
"Tadaima." Kei said as he open the door and then he heard his mother shouting and so he went to the living room area where there are police inside.
"It's not true... How come.. It's not true!" she shouted tears flowing from her eyes. Keiren on the other hand is sitting on the floor and crying as well. Kei approach and asked what happened and the police explained to him what happened. Their is an accident happened that morning, a truck hit a restaurant called Aizenka and then his father is there that time and he didn't escape the accident that he was hit and died immediately. His father died on June 6, 2007 11:15.
End of Flashback:
Kei looks around and then he saw the truck that is driving crazy. He start running away towards his father's, he runs as fast as he can. The people started shouting and run away but he can see his father standing there and was shocked of the truck that is coming towards him. He run as fast as he can but someone stop him from going to that place and with just a few seconds his father was hit by it and so as the other people inside the restaurant.
"D...dad." Kei whispered and then he look at that someone who stop him and it was Hikaru who was panting. Kei immediately push him away and that makes him fall down the ground. "W....why? Why did you stop me? Why did you stop me Hikaru?!" He shouted on him desperately. Tears are falling from his eyes and his whole body was shaking in fear. Why did he forget about it? Why did he forget about his father's death? . "I... i...da...dad... Dad was there i'm going to save him!"
"If i didn't stop you then.."
Kei glare at Hikaru and then after that he run towards the accident area, he wanted to save his father even at the last minute he wanted to save him. Now that he see him again... Now that he saw him again... He wanted to talk to him like always.
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00:00
Kei open his eyes and then everything is back to pitch black and he saw the twin again who is looking at him seriously and they are not like they used to be. Dancing and laughing.
"Let me go back!" Kei shouted on them. "I need to save him...i need to save my dad. Let me go back. I can still make it. If I will save him… if I will save my father then he can be alive again right? Please… please… I beg you."
"You can't change the past Kei Inoo. Even whatever you do you can't change the fate of the person who already died." they told him at the same time.
"B....but.... I was there... I was there. If only... If only.... Why?" Kei asked and then he kneel down and tears continue to flow from his eyes. "What is your purpose to show me this? Why? Why am in Borderline?"
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June 9, 2007; 9:03
I can't remember it, in the present time i can't remember how did father died and how i move on from it. My mother always said that he meet an accident but she didn't said the details maybe it's just painful to remember what happened that day. He is all healthy that morning and then we will just heard that he already died but now it's more painful for me since i know i was there but was not able to save him. I was there but i didn't have a chance to stop his death.
"Let us pray for the soul of Inoo will rest in peace." the priest said. After the burial Kei was still left in the cemetery as he just stare at his father's grave and not doing anything. Then he feel someone sit down besides him and it was Kou who visit the burial of his father. He didn't say anything at first, like Kei he just stare at that grave and read the whole name of the guy who ones help his mother and he is very thankful to.
"I was....i was not avail to save him." Kei broke the silence. "I...i was not able to save my father." he whispered and then tears start to fall from his eyes again.
"Do not blame yourself... Is not the right word that you wanted to hear right?" Kou asked him. "Even i said that to you, you will still blame yourself and you can't erase that easily to your mind. You know what, i have a chance to talk to your father when he visit mom in the hospital. He talks about his family to us and he really looks happy. He is proud of everyone and most especially you because you are smart and genius but he said that even you are like that you are not strong at all and so he wanted to be a support that can help you stand up ones you break. He is a nice father and you are fortunate to have him."
"I know..."
"and he said that he is so happy this few days coz you somewhat change. You have smile on your face whenever you are going back home not like before. He heard you talking alone in your room which he can't understand but then he didn't care since he is really happy. He is too proud of you that there is no chance he can blame you to anything. He loves you Inoo-san, he loves your family."
"I....i know." Kei murmured and then more tears fall from his eyes as he can imagine his father said those words. He is so like that guy that Kou was talking about. Kou tap Kei's head and then the latter look back at him.
"If you know then stop crying already. He said that you look better when you smile and i do agree with it."
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June 9, 2007; 19:19
Kei stare at the family picture that he is hiding for a while and he touch his father's picture. "I love you, dad." he whispered and then finally he close his eyes and fall asleep.
Disclaimer: I didn't own anything except for the plot
Characters: Inoo, Yabu, Yaotome
Genre: fantasy, romance
Summary: Borderline is a moment in time where wishes are granted but with a equivalent compensation.
Author's Note: I posted this in one of my journal before but i wanted to post it again here... so enjoy readingXD
Borderline
Chapter X
June 4, 2007; 9:20
Kei can't take off his eyes out of the bonzai plant that Kou give to him. He wonders what's going on? It is the same bonzai that he have in his present time, it is the same since there is the same word written on its pot. He remembered that he can't remember where he get that bonzai and when he asked his mother about it she said that he is the one who brought it back home and it is given by someone which didn't know. Why is the bonzai plant is on his dream and it is even detailed? Because of that he can't shove the feeling that it is Kou who really give it to him but if he is then why can't he remember meeting him in his present time? This is his past, there are things that really happened as far as he can remember. Actually he can remember about the ferris wheel, about the trip on Hokkaido when he is 14 years old but he can't remember Kota at all. He is not in those memories but now he is there, in those memories he is there.
"What's happening? I don't get this anymore." Kei asked to himself and while doing that Kota arrived and greeted Kei. Kota looks like a real ghost now and he has only half body and right hand.
"Inoo-san, I think i need to say something to you. Something important." Kota started.
"What?"
"June 10, until June 10 is my limit." Kota told him and that give Kei a shocked. "If I can't go to heaven by Jun 10 then I...I'll be gone."
"Wh...why so fast? H...how did you know your limit?"
"It's my body so i know about it. But it's alright even we can't do it by that time i want you to know that i am happy that I meet you. You don't need to push yourself doing things. You should enjoy your life and don't concern about me. I'll be fine."Kota told him so gently like he is already giving up to go to heaven and he is just okay being sent to a dimension he didn't know.
"Stop messing around, do you think i can give up now. I promised you... I promised you so...i will do it. I can do it...i can do anything."
"Stop pushing yourself anymore, i said that i am already fine with it. I accepted my fate. Let's give up, Let's give up Inoo-san. I...I'll be going away as well. I don't want you to see me like this coz i know it pains you. I don't want you to suffer because of me so...I'll be leaving to a place where you can't see me anymore. Thank you... Thank you for everything."
"W...wait... Kota. Why are you doing this to me? I didn't tell you to leave. I didn't tell you that i already give up. I didn't tell that i am in pain. I told you i can do it so why not listen to me? I can do it... i...i can make you go to heaven. I can do it so... Please stay... Stay with me till the end." Kei told Kota and then tears starts to fall from his eyes. He immediately wipe it away coz he can't understand why he is crying at all.
Kota smiled but at the same time he is also crying, parting is always side but it is needed to be done to avoid more painful feeling. "Forget about me..." Kota whispered and then he tried to touch Kei but his hands just pass through him. "Good bye."
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June 4, 2007; 14:45
Kei sulk himself into his bed, his mother is calling him to eat but he didn't want to. He didn't want to do anything but stay on his bed and do nothing at all. His family is worried and so he sent his father to talk to him about what happened. It is rare for his father to go to his room and it is unexpected so he is surprised. They don't talk that much to each other but Kei likes his father so much. As a young man, their father can be seen as a hero of a show. "Your mom is worried about you, is there a problem?"
"Nothing in particular." Kei whispered but not in a good mood.
"If you will not tell me then how can we fix the problem? I don't want to see my son being like this at all."
"Even i tell it to you, there is nothing you can do about it." Kei replied back. "Even i told it to you, h...he will not come back." he whispered.
"But it can lessen the burden that you are feeling right now. Kei i am your father and i wanted to help you, it's true that the only one who can solve their problem is their own self but still you need to seek for the opinion of the others right?"
Kei gasped and then he cried again, his father hugs him and tried to cheer him up. "What should i do? I...i didn't know what should i do? I wanted to help him but i can't do anything at all. I thought i can do it but i...i disappointed him. This feeling sucks i wish i am not born like this. I am always full of myself because all these time i always do whatever i wanted to do but now... But now i failed and failure and losing is painful."
His father pat his back gently and then he smiled "That's means you just growing up. You are now experiencing how cruel world is."
"B...but..."
"It's alright, there is no shame on falling down, true shame is when you didn't stand up again. If you loss ones it doesn't mean you should give up. There is always a solution to a problem and so you just need to think. You are smart right? You are my son and i knew it."
That warmth, that words, it feels so good to hear. I miss him, my father....i really miss him coz he knows best on how to cheer me up.
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June 6, 2007; 10:17
"Kota is gone?" Hikaru asked "What do you mean by that?"
"He leave already coz he didn't want me see suffering and he said that he will already give up going to heaven and he already accepted his fate." Kei explained but Hikaru noticed that Kei is not okay at all for things to end up like that.
"But i guess it is you who can't accept it at all. What are you planning to do then?" Hikaru asked him. "We still have 4 days but i don't think we can do something about it. In that short period of time, all we can do is forget about his existence."
"No...I will not do that. I know there is a way. I promise him....i promise him so i will do it. I...I don't want Kota to be alone coz it was lonely."
"Then what should we do? Do you have a plan?"
"I don't have." Kei answered honestly.
They are sitting down on their seat on their favourite restaurant when someone entered the shop and there are lots of girls surrounding that guy. He is a foreigner and he is the famous Hollywood artists named Brad Pitt. Everyone inside that restaurant are all stunned and then approach him to take picture and get an autograph. Even Hikaru was surprised to see his favourite actor in the Hollywood in that restaurant. It became a big news and event in the city. While looking at the crowd Kei remembered something again, he remembered in his present time. Two girls are talking about Brad Pitt that he will be back to Tokyo after 6 years since he last visit the country. The girl said that she have an autograph of Brad Pitt and she wanted to have another one again. As Kei look at the crowd he saw the girl he meet in the present time pushing other fan just to have his autograph. He was sure that it was the same girl that he meet that time.
Kei felt that the puzzle is slowly completing in his mind and he just need to put them in the right places to meet the answer to all his questions. He get a piece of paper and right down all the things that is on his mind. The Brad Pitt coming, the girl with his autograph, the bonzai and the memories that he can remember in his mind which he can't remember happening on his present time. While fixing everything he feels like he was near a conclusion but there are still things that he can't understand and he still need some hint for it be discovered.
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June 6, 2007; 11:01
Kei runs away of the shop leaving Hikaru behind who was busy with his favorite actor. His memories are slowly coming back and he wanted to meet Kota for he knows what can happen now. He knows the reality on Kota's existence and so he need to meet him. Hikaru saw him running away with a smile on his face and he thought it's weird. He give up chasing after his favourite actor and just follow Kei where he is going. They are in the street when the traffic lights is on red. He stopped and waited for it to turn green and on the process he saw his father standing in a restaurant called Aizenka and he keeps looking on his watched and then something flashback on his mind. The date is June 6, 2007 and also it is 10:59 of the morning.
Flashback:
"Tadaima." Kei said as he open the door and then he heard his mother shouting and so he went to the living room area where there are police inside.
"It's not true... How come.. It's not true!" she shouted tears flowing from her eyes. Keiren on the other hand is sitting on the floor and crying as well. Kei approach and asked what happened and the police explained to him what happened. Their is an accident happened that morning, a truck hit a restaurant called Aizenka and then his father is there that time and he didn't escape the accident that he was hit and died immediately. His father died on June 6, 2007 11:15.
End of Flashback:
Kei looks around and then he saw the truck that is driving crazy. He start running away towards his father's, he runs as fast as he can. The people started shouting and run away but he can see his father standing there and was shocked of the truck that is coming towards him. He run as fast as he can but someone stop him from going to that place and with just a few seconds his father was hit by it and so as the other people inside the restaurant.
"D...dad." Kei whispered and then he look at that someone who stop him and it was Hikaru who was panting. Kei immediately push him away and that makes him fall down the ground. "W....why? Why did you stop me? Why did you stop me Hikaru?!" He shouted on him desperately. Tears are falling from his eyes and his whole body was shaking in fear. Why did he forget about it? Why did he forget about his father's death? . "I... i...da...dad... Dad was there i'm going to save him!"
"If i didn't stop you then.."
Kei glare at Hikaru and then after that he run towards the accident area, he wanted to save his father even at the last minute he wanted to save him. Now that he see him again... Now that he saw him again... He wanted to talk to him like always.
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00:00
Kei open his eyes and then everything is back to pitch black and he saw the twin again who is looking at him seriously and they are not like they used to be. Dancing and laughing.
"Let me go back!" Kei shouted on them. "I need to save him...i need to save my dad. Let me go back. I can still make it. If I will save him… if I will save my father then he can be alive again right? Please… please… I beg you."
"You can't change the past Kei Inoo. Even whatever you do you can't change the fate of the person who already died." they told him at the same time.
"B....but.... I was there... I was there. If only... If only.... Why?" Kei asked and then he kneel down and tears continue to flow from his eyes. "What is your purpose to show me this? Why? Why am in Borderline?"
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June 9, 2007; 9:03
I can't remember it, in the present time i can't remember how did father died and how i move on from it. My mother always said that he meet an accident but she didn't said the details maybe it's just painful to remember what happened that day. He is all healthy that morning and then we will just heard that he already died but now it's more painful for me since i know i was there but was not able to save him. I was there but i didn't have a chance to stop his death.
"Let us pray for the soul of Inoo will rest in peace." the priest said. After the burial Kei was still left in the cemetery as he just stare at his father's grave and not doing anything. Then he feel someone sit down besides him and it was Kou who visit the burial of his father. He didn't say anything at first, like Kei he just stare at that grave and read the whole name of the guy who ones help his mother and he is very thankful to.
"I was....i was not avail to save him." Kei broke the silence. "I...i was not able to save my father." he whispered and then tears start to fall from his eyes again.
"Do not blame yourself... Is not the right word that you wanted to hear right?" Kou asked him. "Even i said that to you, you will still blame yourself and you can't erase that easily to your mind. You know what, i have a chance to talk to your father when he visit mom in the hospital. He talks about his family to us and he really looks happy. He is proud of everyone and most especially you because you are smart and genius but he said that even you are like that you are not strong at all and so he wanted to be a support that can help you stand up ones you break. He is a nice father and you are fortunate to have him."
"I know..."
"and he said that he is so happy this few days coz you somewhat change. You have smile on your face whenever you are going back home not like before. He heard you talking alone in your room which he can't understand but then he didn't care since he is really happy. He is too proud of you that there is no chance he can blame you to anything. He loves you Inoo-san, he loves your family."
"I....i know." Kei murmured and then more tears fall from his eyes as he can imagine his father said those words. He is so like that guy that Kou was talking about. Kou tap Kei's head and then the latter look back at him.
"If you know then stop crying already. He said that you look better when you smile and i do agree with it."
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June 9, 2007; 19:19
Kei stare at the family picture that he is hiding for a while and he touch his father's picture. "I love you, dad." he whispered and then finally he close his eyes and fall asleep.