Love Resigned( Steps Taken 2)

Aki-Sora:

Love Resigned

Chapter Five:

Steps Taken

Part Three

The time had, finally, arrived for both Aoi Aki and Satsune Runa to reunite with the now strengthened man that they had both come to consider as their most beloved and powerful entity.  However, he was the only person that could either come between them or to unite them.  It was completely up to him and his personal choices from this point on.  They knew the strengths and weaknesses that each one had held previously in their relationships.  In the end, they just hoped that all of his "choices( would) lead to happiness."

However as they finished deciding on which one of them would speak to him first, Aki's phone buzzed and startled her. "It's another text from my younger sister, Haru.  She says that the fifth member of our family will be back during her summer break.  Her name is Aoi Nagisa and takes after Nami in many ways.  The way that our family is between ourselves is hard to not wonder if we are somehow cursed to ruin and not to continue as a bloodline."

Runa looked at her and was surprised by her words.  She had to consider it, but since it was only the past relationship between Sora and Aki that she had to go by.  This meant that she could speak for the entire family, but she did want to know more about it.  "What there is a fifth sibling that I need to worry about?  We know that our most beloved Sora has a terrible weakness against any woman.  It's a good thing that it seems to only happen in..."

She had stop herself as she noticed that Aki was about to slap her again.  It was only after a few moments, Aki had settled down and sighed as she pulled her arms close to her body.  "I can't explain it all here, but I can say that it began with all three of parents.  They were a single younger brother with two older sisters.  They had, always, been very close like the three of us( Sora, Nami, and myself) were back then.  Unlike our circumstances, they loved and were in a relationship with one another.  Each one was honest and open of their feelings as brother, sisters, and lovers.  Eventually, they would come to be ridiculed and forced to be apart from one another.  They had felt that this point was coming and had even sought the guidance of a tarot reader.  In the end, they had decider to have as many children as they could before that time came.  That is how the five of us were born as a tribute to their everlasting love for one another."

As the story of her parents was told, Aki couldn't help but to become somber and to tear up.  Though, she had known the circumstances behind how they had come to live together.  It was, also, because of the secrets that she and her "mother" had had to keep from Sora and the other three siblings from the very beginning.  She knew that it was up to her to reveal all of this to the others of her family, but had not been able to find the words as of yet.  She could not imagine how the rest of them would take this news, especially Sora, as it had nearly destroyed her own reality when she had been told the truth.  "I am glad that Haru and Nagisa were spared from the events of our lives as our 'father' had sent them away to separate all girls' schools after they had been born.  My 'mother' had stolen me away from him and took me overseas with her.  Her sister had taken my 'mother's' twins and moved to Kujikura to live a peaceful life."

Runa helped Aki sit down as she was about to fall from all of the emotions that were growing within her.  She could know understand how hard that she had had to work to keep such things from the much younger twins.  Especially during her time with Sora.  It must have broken her heart then as well.  Runa could only imagine it as she had done something similar, except with her exhibitionism and her feelings for Sora.  "Then, how did the three of you reunite?"

"It was after their 'mother' had been killed in a car accident about twelve years ago.  My 'mom' and I had to return as it was believed that she was the only familial guardian left.  We knew nothing of our father at that time and had made our best as a family.  We returned to our parents' hometown to be loser to her new job.  And it was not until much later that we knew of our two sisters."

Aki had calmed down by the time that the doctor had said that it was fine for them to see him.  They had, previously, decided to see him separately.  This was the time for them to consider the person to see him first.  The two of them were, now, completely different from one another in the hair colors and styles.  Runa had returned to her dyed pink medium-length hair cut ad Aki had remained the same as she had since she had returned.  Which meant that Aki's once long hair was cut short and with enough volume to allow her to still appear very gorgeous to plenty of men that she did not care about at all.  Their choice could not be based on their appearance and so it was made by Aki.  Runa would be the first to speak with the one love that they both shared.

Part Four

Runa stepped through the door after she had been fully checked out by the hospital's security people.  She bowed before his bed in her respect, love, and deep concern for him.  When she looked at him, her heart skipped a beat and could not decide whether it should break or speed up at the sight of him.  He had become much more like he would when he had a bad fever and not as he had when she had seen him last.   All that her body could do when she saw him was to break down and cry.

She had not expected for herself to fall to the floor as she had or to feel herself being shifted by a set of hands.  She looked up through her tear-soaked eyes and saw that it was Sora that had come to her side.  She couldn't help to nuzzle her face into him and held onto him. "Sora...  Sora...  Sora, why couldn't you have forgotten about her?  And paid attention tom alone.   Why?"

He looked deadpan at her.  "Who are you?  And why are you here?"

Shock at his words broke through any other emotion that she had been feeling.  She backed up against the far wall.  "What...  What did you say?"

He continued to look at her blankly.  "I don't know you or why you are here.  I haven't known anyone or their purpose.  It was only that angel of hope that exposed her purpose to me."

She began to cry even more as she replied that the woman that had raped him was more important to notice than she was.  She could not help but to repeat her last words as Aki entered the room to this very scene.  "What...  What did you say?"