“Help!” Kakashi screamed louder. “What are you guys doing? Do something about this. Do something fast, do something now!” The master who had just returned with the soldiers after a few days walked in on a medic attending to Kakashi.“We are doing everything we can. He just keeps burning up.” The medic replied. “They all keep burning up.” He added as he pointed at Zoa, Tanya, Daichi, and Jiro all lying beside one another. Jiro had been brought back from the city after confirmations reported his case not being medically inclined. He had followed the master’s escort. “I do not care what you have to do, save them!” The master looked from the medic to the bodies that lay motionless, their fever causing sporadic screams. “Please, save them” His eyes fixated on Zoa, his eyes begging and suffering. ***Zoa woke up in no man’s land. She looked at both sides and it was empty. She made to stand and she heard a crack. ‘What was that?’ She questioned internally. She looked down in slow motion
“Ahhhhhh!!!” Zoa’s scream took the spotlight from Kakashi. The medics, now two, turned their heads at the same time to the direction from which the ear-piercing sharp cry came. “What could be the problem now?” One of the medics asked his colleague who looked drained of energy as he was drained of ideas. He stood with confusion written all over his face. He gripped the edge of his glove as he drew the elastic and tight material further up his hand, making a slapping sound against his wrist.They both stood gazing at the young lady who suddenly, but gradually, had veins move up her jaws to her eyes with blood clogging the eye surface. “This is beyond the realms of medicine.” Doctor Haishi Aang confessed to his colleague; who stood with the foreknowledge of what he had just heard. Doctor Haishi Aang moved closer, for further examination, to the laid patients seeking answers that eluded his professional intelligence. “What are you trying to look for?” Doctor Hiro peered at his coll
A loud bang captured the curiosity of the readers within the walls of the library as its doors swung open with reckless abandon, shaking the very roots of the building.Surprise enveloped the faces of all the eyes that anticipated the culprits’ entrance as the figures of Doctors Hiro and Haishi Aang emerged. The Doctors scanned through the corners of the library with their eyes as they walked forward with urgency.“He is not here.” Doctor Hiro mentioned as his eyes almost completed a three-sixty-degree full turn around his head.“Where could he be? We were assured he would be here.” Doctor Haishi Aang responded with a slight aggression in his voice.“There he is.” Doctor Haishi shuffled backward as Doctor Hiro’s words halted his footsteps in motion. They both walked hurriedly into the private room in which Master Yonda meditated. They exchanged glances as if to communicate each other’s uncertainty about how to break the master’s meditation.“Your child is in pain.” Doctor Hiro loosen
“Look at my medal Mom. Mom, look!!!” “I’m driving baby, I can’t look.” Kakashi’s mom replied, looking at the reflection of her son through the rearview mirror. “Look out!” Kakashi’s dad sounded a warning, but it was too late as the car collided forcefully with heavy rocks placed on the road. The car was on its side as the tyres spun non-stop. Kakashi who had run after the car, ran towards the car seats to open them. His strength was more than it was a few years back, but he still wasn’t strong enough to open the doors. “Arrrrrrrrrrgh!” One would think his voice was the force necessary to pull the doors out. “You did this.” Kakashi jumped in fear as his mother’s face suddenly banged on the windshield with a twisted neck to suit the position of her face, looking directly at him. Blood trickled down from her head and covered her face as her hands glued to the windshield for a few seconds. Kakashi tightly closed his eyes, letting out his held breath. He opened them a few minutes lat
Doctor Hiro felt the nerves buzz through his body like a wave of electric current. He didn’t lie to the Master, but he wasn’t truthful either. Doctor Haishi had undermined the supreme authority of the Master by going out to look for Oz, even if it was for a good cause. That would usually attract a heavy penalty. “Maybe he will be merciful. After all, he changed his mind later.” Doctor Hiro conversed with himself.“Sir, sir?” A nurse intensified her calls on Doctor Hiro.“What is the problem?” Hiro’s tone is unappreciative of the disturbance to his self-consultation. “I think you need to see this.” The nurse led the way after her last words, urgency in her footsteps. Doctor Hiro got the message as he ate up the distance between them with three giant strides.They got to the beds and the nurse pointed at something... or was it someone? “Hello?” The doctor called out from a safe distance. His neck stretched to give his eyes a clearer view of the figure away from him. “Hello?”“I can h
“H—ho... how?” Doctor Hiro expressed his shock, the magic he had just witnessed left his eyes doubting the untruth he had just seen. Speechless, he looked on as Kakashi sat up, catching his breath and the reality of his environment. “Oh God, another place. Where am I?” Kakashi groaned as he dropped his head into his palms, trying to rub the banging headache he felt away.“Can you feel your head?” Doctor Hiro peered at Kakashi, walking closer to his bed. He held his forefinger and middle finger up to test his vision as well.“Two. And yes, I’m fine.” Kakashi answered.The doctor stepped back a bit and questioned the stranger with his looks. Kakashi looked around after a quick relief from the head-splitting aching he felt. “You. You. I recognize you. You were there, weren’t you?” Kakashi fixed his gaze on the stranger.“There? Where? You were somewhere? Where? Were you with others? Alone? Did you see Doctor Haishi?” “Argh” Kakashi’s groan signaled the revival of the headache and this
“You don’t know him?” “What did you say?” Doctor Hiro couldn’t hear the below whisper tone Kakashi mimed at him.“You... really... do... not... know... him?” Kakashi said each word like a sentence with the same tone as his face moved closer to Doctor Hiro’s, and his finger pointed at the floating object for more clarity.“No, I don’t. You think I said I didn’t know him just for what? Because I’ve always wanted to meet a frightening stranger who happens to be a healer and also an incredible fighter with no blood in his veins?” Doctor Hiro swore under his breath as the last part slipped out. “He has no blood in his veins? You two fought?” Kakashi queried further.“We didn’t fight. Well, not really.” Doctor Hiro responded, his eyes searching his head for answers. “Not really? He has no blood too? Did you cut him to realize that while you tried to fight him he still overcame you with no effort?” Kakashi wasn’t letting this conversation slip away. He moved closer to the doctor. “You s
“I am so so sorry,” Kakashi spoke through Jay’s shoulders. “It’s fine. I’ve forgiven you.” Jay replied.“Thank you, Jay, thank you.” Kakashi let Jay go as they broke off the hug, smiles creeping up their faces. “Kakashi! You might want to see this.” Doctor Hiro’s voice alerted Kakashi. Kakashi rued the interruption. He was having a moment with Jay, and the last thing he wanted was for this – an interruption, but the urgency in the voice of Doctor Hiro was too much to ignore. He walked quickly with Jay behind as they got to where the doctor was. Doctor Hiro was fighting his hands into the fitting of the gloves, his nose mask already in place. “Shouldn’t we not disturb them?” Kakashi halted the hands of Doctor Hiro.“He said we shouldn’t disturb him, not them.” Doctor Hiro said, still hesitant about whether or not to continue what he wanted to. “Ah aah!” Jay let out a scream as he saw the man floating above them, across the beds. “Shh” Kakashi and Doctor Hiro uniformly hissed