Time As Always Time Chapter 21
2 days after...
Wednesday March 17, 2024
“Taichi, the state wants you to testify against that woman,” Sora said as she read the piece of paper in her hands. She handed it to Taichi.
“That’s no problem.” He put the paper down on the table, “But let’s not dwell on those thoughts. It’s all about here and now.”
There was a knock on the door, Taichi got up and went to get it when he opened it. Dean was standing there with a surprised expression on his face. Sora came after Taichi and saw her father she shoved Taichi aside and shut the door on his face.
“Sora, what did you do that for?” Taichi questioned, “I mean, I don’t like him very much but he is your father-“ he was interrupted.
“WAS my father, you didn’t hear the things he said to me when he found out you were missing. When I thought, you left me. I will never forgive him! Ask Mimi and Yamato they will tell you,” she walked back to the kitchen.
“Sora! I’m sorry for the things I said. I love you I just care for you.” Dean hollered outside the Yagami front door.
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Indonesia< b>,
Sunda Islands,
Buru
“We shouldn’t I mean we will get into trouble if someone finds out we went on a tour of the island ourselves,” Kevin said to them eagerly as he looked back to the teachers tents.
“This is our only time to do so, it’s our free time. They will never know,” Saria said pointing out matter of fact.
Davis shook his head disapproving of her crazy idea, “Saria I love you and all but you’re a little adventure hungry don’t you think?”
“Not at all and this doesn’t mean that I’m going back on what I promised my mom and dad. I promised I wouldn’t go and be a hero and take an adventure,” she replied with a cute smile.
Mina and Davis frowned; “Fine we will go but not too long,” Davis said agreeing yet not so sure it was a right of him to agree.
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Obaida, Japan...
Mimi pressed the doorbell it rang once then the door opened and she saw Hikari, “Hi, how are you?” she asked.
Hikari ushered her in law inside and closed the door, “I’m doing alright, the baby is fine,” she said and gave Mimi a smile.
Mimi looked around, “Takeru isn’t here?” she questioned.
“He went to go get the groceries. We were running out of them,” she walked wobbling toward the kitchen table.
“Hikari, is something wrong? I feel like there is something that you aren’t tell me and if I’m right you’re not telling Takeru yet either.”
Hikari frowned and slowly sat down at the table, “Nothing to worry about,” she smiled, and then got up again, “Do you want some tea?”
“Sure,” Mimi said but she was not convinced that she was fine.
She set a teacup in front of Mimi then, second for herself, took the pot of tea, and poured them both a cup.
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“Dean called me this morning,” Anna said as she cleaned some dishes in the sink.
“What did he say?” Kevin asked.
She let out a sigh, “He told me that Sora and he had a disagreement. About Taichi, because apparently Taichi was missing for a couple of hours not even a-.” she was interrupted by him.
“Say that again, Taichi was missing!?” Kevin shouted he strode over to the phone picked up the receiver and was about to dial a number.
Anna staggered and dropped the dish she held in her hands and the sponge. “Kevin, I don’t feel good.” She replied.
Kevin put the phone down and went to his wife, “What’s wrong? Should we go to the hospital?” he said watching her then her knees gave way and he caught her, “ANNA! ANNA!” Kevin shouted he shook his wife to wake her. He felt her pulse, ran to the phone, and punched in 911.
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The four teens walked further in the jungle brush, marking the way back as they go, Saria stopped and looked around for a moment trying to decide which direction they should head.
“I don’t think this is a good idea I mean we coul-“ Mina tripped over something. She turned over on her back. “Owe, something tripped me.”
Kevin looked at the ground near her feet and saw something protruding from the soil he squinted his eyes a bit then started to dig it up, “Davis, little help?” he said as he dug away the dirt surrounding the object.
Davis knelt down on his knees and began to dig as well, “What do you think it is?” he asked.
“A small treasure box look at this,” Kevin said he cleared way some of the dirt that covered the box and in deed it was a treasure box he lifted the medium sized box up.
“Open it up Kevin, maybe it’s one of those mysterious treasure hunt maps!” Saria said eagerly.
The two boys got up on their feet. Kevin tried to open the lid of the treasure box but it was no use, “It’s locked.” He said sighing in frustration.
“Maybe it’s not even a treasure and it’s some kind of bad curse.” Mina said frowning at the brown rusted treasure box. “I mean look at it. It’s old and rusted.”
“Not true, old stuff can be worth a lot,” Kevin said and he continued to examine it trying to figure out how to open it.
“Come on we got to get back to camp before someone sees us. We can maybe open it up in our tent,” Saria said and she set back the way they had came from and the other followed.
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Hikari was taking the teapot back to the counter when she stopped and placed both hands on her abdomen. The pot she held in her hand fell to the ceramic floor and shattered on impact, Mimi rushed to her, “Hikari! What’s wrong is it the baby?” she cried.
“It’s too soon, Mimi!” Hikari said tears streaming down her cheeks. “I timed them this morning, but I couldn’t let it happen… I was able to keep them under control—gahhh!” she cried out clutting her on to her abdomen.
Mimi guided her away from the kitchen to the living room and sat her down on the couch. “How far apart are they?” she questioned.
“About ten minutes,” she said breathing in relaxing a moment feeling the contraction going away.
“We got to get you too a hospital right away,” Mimi said she heard the door open Takeru came in with groceries he set them on the Island.
“Oh my god what happened!” Takeru said he looked on the floor the teapot lay in pieces then he looked to the living room and ran over in there, “Hikari! Are you okay? What is wrong? Is it the baby, do you need to go to the hospital?”
“We got to get a move on Takeru let’s go!” Mimi said she pushed him and he got up grabbed the keys off the island and headed for the door.
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Buru…
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“Man this is an awesome discovery! We should try to open it though it would be nice to see what is in it,” Kevin said he had been staring at the box eagerly.
Mina frowned, “Hello, you should be paying attention to me more then that stupid treasure box.” She said rather crossly.
Kevin looked at her and gave her a kiss on the cheek, “I love you babe, but aren’t you a little curious about what exactly is in there? I mean just a tiny bit?”
“Well maybe bu-.” Saria interrupted Mina.
“I’m dying to know what is inside so let’s do some more brainstorming on a ways to open it up.” Saria said and kept watch of the front of the tent to make sure no teachers were coming.
“Okay you know what how about we use a rock and smash the lock a couple of times with it. It should loosen the mechanism inside and maybe open?” Davis said uncertainly.
“It’s worth a try, “ Kevin got up checking to see if anyone was around grabbed a rock from the ground then carefully looking to see if anyone saw him slipped back into the tent. He sat next to the chest and was about to smash the lock in when the loud mega phone sounded in everyone’s ears and they were called back to do some schoolwork.
“GREAT!” He shouted irritated, “Just when we get the chance it blows up in our faces.” He got up from his spot, as did the other three.
“There is always tomorrow,” Saria said with a gloomy expression.
Davis frowned, “I’m just really glad we didn’t open it today, because that box just looks like trouble, big trouble.”
The four filed out of Kevin and Davis’s tent and headed toward the teachers. The treasure chest sat rested by Kevin’s bed.
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A nurse wheeled Hikari in quickly into a room, Mimi had called Yamato and he was on his way from work. Takeru was worried, what if she gave birth what then what would happen to the baby he or she are too small to be out in the world.
Takeru and Mimi waiting patiently outside Hikari’s hospital room, “Mimi, thanks for being there.” Takeru said felling he owed her for helping Hikari, “I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t been there yet. She assured me she was okay,” he stopped seeing the Mimi’s look.
“Takeru, things happen. You don’t need to thank me for being there.” She said softly. Takeru walked to the waiting area and sat down. Mimi followed him and sat next to him, “Yamato is coming soon.”
“What is he going to do? He can’t make everything for the baby alright, nothing is going to be alright if they are born today they are going to be four weeks premature,” Takeru rested his head in his hands and let out a sigh.
Across the hall a gurney was wheeled out, two nurses, rolled it along quickly another held on to an IV rack and two doctors followed them into the ER it wasn’t till after that Mimi looked and saw Taichi’s father she stood up quickly and hurried forward.
“Mr.Yagami what happened?” Mimi asked him with worry. Takeru eyes turned to where Mimi had went off too and he and saw Hikari’s dad he got up
“Anna collapsed, I don’t know what it is…maybe the cancer did come back…Takeru, Mimi what are you doing here?” he said looking at both of them for an answer.
“Hikari was going into premature labor…” Takeru said trailing off.
“Where is she?” he asked.
“In there with the doctor he is checking up on her,” Mimi said she patted Takeru on the shoulder.
Kevin looked at Takeru, “I’m sure you did all you could do, I wouldn’t blame you for anything Takeru cause you do make my daughter happy.”
“Thank you.”
“Mimi, can I trouble you to ask you to call Taichi and Sora and tell them the news,” he said to her.
Mimi nodded, “No problem I can do it.”
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“if you still loved me father, you would have done a lot more then say Taichi was trash!” Sora shouted through the door. Taichi frowned looking at his wife they had been standing in the front lobby for what seemed to be half an hour already and it didn’t look like Sora was going to forgive him.
“I didn’t mean it that way! I just said that I though he was wrong for you.” Dean said as he explained to his daughter.
Sora glared at the door, “That is unforgivable, how can you be so rude to my husband all he ever did was take care of me and my children.” She said.
Taichi sighed, “Honey, listen I don’t want to be the one to come between you and your dad. I realized he would never forgive me for stealing you away the way I did from him-“ Sora interrupted him.
“You never stole me away from him in the first place, you were here for me before he decided to waltz back into my life,” Sora said matter of fact.
Taichi pulled her into the living room and sat her down on the couch, “That he did, but to him you will always be his little girl, he never got to spend time with you until it was too late and he probably blames me for that.” He stopped for a moment and watched her, “Do you understand what I mean?” he wondered.
“I understand,” Sora, said she bowed her head down then looked at the front door, “But I don’t understand why you are trying to tell me to apologize to him when all he did was hurt you make you suffer.”
Taichi sighed, “We only live once Sora.” He took her hand and brought her back to the front lobby, “Your father maybe be an idiot, but he loves you.”
Sora smiled up at her husband, “I love you and I care about you. But I don’t like him to make those kind of comments about the man I love.”
“Then sweetheart you got to tell him that yourself,” Taichi said he reached for the doorknob and opened the door.
“Dean come on and we will have a heart to heart, how dose that sound?” Taichi questioned to a surprised Dean.
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“Takeru, this can’t be happening…” Hikari said crying tears flowed down her cheeks, she felt another contraction grabbing his hand tighter.
“The doctors will do everything they can,” he reassured her.
Mimi watched from the window nervous something was going to happen to the baby, when she remembered that she had to let Sora and Taichi know what was happening. She picked up the cell phone and began to punch in the numbers.
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“And those will be the terms and condition in which we will agree to,” Sora said as she finished writing the term of agreement.
“You have to go by those terms at all times,” Taichi said, “no exceptions at all.”
“I can agree to that,” Dean said he looked over to his daughter, “I will promise not to break it, I don’t mean to call you all those really bad things, I’m sorry I really am.”
The telephone rang “hold that thought dad,” Sora got up and picked up the phone. “Hello, Sora speaking.”
“Sora it’s an emergency, we need you to come to the hospital right away. Hikari went into premature labor, and your in-laws are here, Taichi’s mom is in the hospital too.” Mimi said quickly.
“Oh my god, what’s wrong with mom?” Sora asked she looked at Taichi as he looked at her worried.
“I don’t know Kevin said that she just passed out and he couldn’t feel a pulse so he called nine one, one.” Mimi replied, “Just hurry right away, Takeru is in the room with Hikari, I got to go, see you here in a few minutes.” Mimi hung the phone up.
Sora turned to Taichi, “Your mother collapsed, and Hikari is going into premature labor we got to go honey.”
Taichi looked at her in shock, “Oh my god, come on let go quickly.” He and Sora started to the door dean followed them.
“I’ll drive if you both want,” Dean said the two looked at him and nodded.
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Takeru walked out of the er room he looked saddened to Mimi she frowned as she watch him take off the paper mask they had him put on. “Takeru, what happened?” Mimi asked.
“They did a c section and took the baby out, they placed him in an incubator and put him on a oxygen machine to help him breath better. They told me that he should be fine, but Hikari…” he trailed off and looked away from Mimi.
Mimi’s eyes widened, “Takeru! What’s wrong with Hikari?” she shouted at him angry.
“Mimi, Takeru!” Yamato came running down the hall way he saw his brother’s eyes riming with tears, “Oh no don’t tell me..” he trailed off.
“Takeru! My sister how is she, how’s the baby?” Taichi said tears rimming in his eyes, “Well come on!” he shouted frantic.
“He’s fine he’s just in an incubator because his lungs aren’t fully developed. Hikari she is, they said, that she was hemorrhaging the bleeding is not stopping. They had to sedate her to calm her down.” Takeru said slowly he looked at Taichi who looked horrified as well as Sora, Mimi and Yamato as well as Sora’s father Dean.
“I have to find my dad,” Taichi said he turned around toward the nurse station. Sora followed after him while Mimi and Yamato stayed back with Takeru.
“Nurse, we need to know where they took my mother, Anna Yagami please tell me,” Taichi said begging them.
“Taichi!” The two turned and they saw his father.
Taichi hugged his dad then looked at him seriously, “How is mom, Mimi called us and told us that you brought her to the hospital.” Sora watched the two with tears still in her eyes after hearing about Hikari’s condition.
“They told me that it was nothing to worry about. She will be fine she was over worked and they want her to stay over night to run tests but what about Hikari?” Kevin asked his son.
Taichi gave a sigh of relief that his mother was okay but his facial expression changed to one of worry and fear, “Father Hikari isn’t doing well either, she’s bleeding profusely they are trying to stop it now.” He said his voice cracking.
“I have to see my baby girl,” he walked over to where Takeru, Mimi and Yamato were.
Taichi turned to Sora, “I can’t believe this is happening...” he whispered. Sora said nothing and pulled him into hug. “Sora I can’t lose my little sister, when I promised I would protect her…” he said and began to sob on Sora’s shoulder.
To Be Continued…
Next time on Time As Always Time….
- The kid’s open the treasure box and find something interesting.
- Hikari’s life hangs on the line
- Taichi prepares himself for the possibility that he might lose his sister.
