Chapter 4 – Friends?

Author's Note

Sorry about the lack of updates; a bunch of incidents occurred consecutively which has kept me busy for a while. Also, A Sub-conscience Calling will now be abbreviated from me by AS-cC.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

I walk out of the Kawakami Temple after getting dressed for school and attempt to catch up to Wanko, who's going to the Shimazu Dorm to meet up everyone else from the Kazama Family.

"Hey, wait up!" I exclaim to Wanko, who seems like she's trying to avoid me, but she just walks faster away from me when I said that.

"Yeah, great idea, smart one." I say to the Imaginary Yamato. "Wanko's completely avoiding me, and I'll bet everyone else is."

"Okay, so it's too soon for this." The Imaginary Yamato says. "Wait a few days or a week; I guess you didn't give her enough time for her to stop being mad at you."

"I don't think Miyako will ever forgive me for this." I say and lightly chuckle to myself.

"No, she probably won't." Imaginary Yamato replies to me.

"So, should I try to meet up with the rest of the Kazama Family?" I ask Imaginary Yamato.

"I don't know, if Wanko's still avoiding you, all of the other girls most likely will avoid you, but I don't know about Capt., Gakuto, or Moro." Imaginary Yamato replies. "Moro and Gakuto might, but I don't think Capt. will avoid you completely."

"So, Capt. seems like the only person that's likely to actually talk to me?" I ask Imaginary Yamato to clarify what he just said.

"Yeah, but that's my guess; I'm just a figure of your imagination, after all." Imaginary Yamato explains to me.

"I think I won't try to talk to all of them today." I start to say. "I'll try to talk to Capt. during lunch or after school."

"Yeah, that'd probably be the best option as of now, but it's not guaranteed that he will talk to you." Imaginary Yamato says.

I walk to Kawakami Academy alone, hoping that at least Capt. will still talk to me.

Several Hours later…

"The Fall Sports Festival will be starting next Tuesday." The person who says the afternoon announcements says.

The afternoon dismissal bell rings, signaling that the day is over.

"Finally, the day is over…" I say to myself and stand up from the desk. "I didn't get a chance to talk to Capt. at lunch, so I need to try today."

I walk out of my classroom and head out of the building to the gate of Kawakami Academy, hoping to catch up with Capt. before he has to go work today.

I catch a glimpse of Capt.'s bandana and run towards him, exclaiming "Hey! Capt.! Wait up!"

After I say that, Capt. turns around to look at me and remains motionless, as if he's trying to think of something, and finally says "Oh, hey Momo-senpai, what's up?"

"At least you will talk to me…" I said as I caught up to him. "Wanko and all the other girls seem to be downright avoiding me, and I don't blame them, and I think Moro and Gakuto will, so you seem to be the only person that's willing to talk to me."

"While I do admit that I am still mad at you for knocking Yamato in a coma, I believe that us not talking to each other is only going to drive the wedge between us even further apart." Capt. says admittedly.

"Wow, that was actually well said of you Capt." I reply. "I've haven't heard you say something that well said in a long time."

"Well, I actually stop playing around when dire situations like this happen." Capt. says "I agree that none of the other girls won't talk to you for a while, but I think that Gakuto and Moro will at least talk to you, so you're not alone Momo-senpai, and don't try to face this situation alone, because that's what friends are for, to help each other out in this type of situation."

"I don't think Miyako will ever forgive me for that though." I say. "That's going to be the biggest problem, as Miyako will probably never talk to me again in her life."

Capt. chuckles and says "I wouldn't doubt it either, but we have to repair the Kazama Family before Yamato wakes up from his coma."

"You mean if he wakes up from his coma…." I say dejectedly.

Capt. slaps me across the face after I say that, and I take a step back, surprised at what just happened.

"Have some more faith in Yamato, Momo-senpai." Capt. says "He WILL wake up from his coma, I just know it."

"Sorry." I say while rubbing my cheek. "I was just being a bit pessimistic."

"I'll go talk to Miyako, Mayucchi, and Chris, and Wanko today after work, and see if I can get her to forgive you." Capt. says and starts walking to where he works. "Go see if Gakuto and Moro will talk to you, they probably will."

"Yeah, will do." I say as Capt. walks away.

After Capt. goes out of sight distance I hear Imaginary Yamato say "Well, my plan worked, even if it was a gamble."

"Yeah, I guess you were right about him talking to me, but now I got to see if Gakuto or Moro will talk to me."

"Gakuto will probably be at the gym today, but I don't know for sure." Imaginary Yamato replies.

"Well, I guess I'll start there, I'll go for Gakuto first, and probably Moro tomorrow." I say and start walking to the gym that Gakuto usually goes to.

Fifteen minutes later…

I walk up to the gym and see Gakuto leaving the gym, so I decide to walk up to him, saying "Hey Gakuto, what's up?"

"Oh… hey Momo-senpai… I'm kind of busy here…" Gakuto says after a brief pause, and then I notice he's lifting weights on his right arm.

"Well, at least you'll talk to me. None of the girls will." I say to Gakuto.

"Well, you did do something really stupid and put Yamato's life on the line, but staying mad at each other isn't going to get us anywhere except in a worse situation." Gakuto replies.

"Funny, Capt. said something similar to me." I say. "Do you know if Moro will talk to me?"

"He probably will, but I'll talk to him later today just to be sure." Gakuto replies, still concentrated on lifting weights.

"Thanks Gakuto." I say and start to walk back home.

"Don't mention it; I want to fix this train wreck of the Kazama Family before Yamato wakes up."
I walk out of the street and around the corner when Imaginary Yamato says "Well, this is looking like it will be pretty easy."

"Just because I got Capt. and Gakuto talking to me doesn't mean any of the girls will." I say. "Miyako is going to be the one that will definitely take time and effort to get her to talk to me again."

"Yeah, let's go home for now and wait until Capt. calls." Imaginary Yamato says.

"Yeah, probably the best idea right now." I say and walk back to the Kawakami Temple.

Two hours later…

As I'm sitting in my room, actually making an attempt on homework, for once, my phone rings and the caller ID picks it up as Capt., so I answer the phone and ask "What's up, Capt.?"

"Well, Mayucchi, Chris, Wanko, and Miyako want you to crush yourself with Kawakami Meteor and see how you like it." Capt. says.

"So, they're all pretty pissed off at me, so we're going nowhere." I say. "It doesn't seem like apologizing will do anything to help the situation, either."

"You know what they say; time heals all wounds." Capt. replies.

"That may be true, but I wonder how many centuries it will take for Miyako to forgive me." I reply.

Capt. lightly chuckles and says "I went by the hospital, and he's still in the same condition; nothing bad nor good."

"I guess you could call that good news." I say.

I hear my ringtone again and say to Capt. "Hold on; I got another call." and switch over to the other caller. "Hello? Who's calling?"

"It's me." says Gakuto. "Err; Moro's not going to be talking to you any time soon. Hell, he probably won't talk to ME for a while; since I tried to persuade him to forgive you."

"What did he say?" I ask.

"He said, 'I know that she can do some stupid things, but she nearly killed him! There's a fine line between doing something stupid and losing control of yourself; she did the latter, and I'm not going to forgive her that easily." Gakuto says.

"Well damn; I knew this wasn't going to be very easy." I say dejectedly.

"Sorry; I have to hang up now. Goodbye." says Gakuto.

"Yeah, see you." I say and switch back to the other line. "Hey Capt., Moro's not going to be talking to me anytime soon."

"Well damn." Capt. says "Looks like its five-to-three now."

"What?" I ask, confused on what he just said.

"Five-to-three; there are five people that aren't willing to forgive you yet, and there's three people, including you, that are willing to forgive you."

I sigh and ask "How the hell are we going to fix this?"

"Like I said; time heals all wounds." Capt. says.

"Yeah, but at this rate we'll all be in the ground before people forgive me." I say.

"Well, if that's the case then it can't be helped." Capt. says dejectedly. "It's up to them to forgive you; there's not much we can do about it if they're not willing to."

"Yeah; I guess you're right about that." I reply. "I guess we'll just have to wait some time before things can get better. Well, I'm going to go to bed, Goodbye."
"See you." Capt. says and hangs up.

I sigh and say "I guess we'll just have to play a waiting game…"

"Yeah; seems like it." Says Imaginary Yamato.

I lay back into my futon and go to sleep.

End of Chapter 4