"Ah, there you are. Eureka, come to my office now," coming from in front the headmaster called for her.
"What do you need," upon entering the office Eureka asked what the headmaster needed. The headmaster turned to look at her pouting reaching out his hand.
"The key, give me back the key. Karen said you took it back from them."
"No, why would I give it back to you?" Eureka turned around to leave.
"No you have to give it back that"s school property," stopping her.
"School property? Then I"d return it once I"m out of the school," she said trying to leave once again.
"Noooooo you have to give it back. How am I suppose to check on you when you"re sick or when you"re injured?"
"No is a no. I won"t give it back, not until graduation."
"You meanie," pouting while tears are forming on his eyes.
*sigh* "You- Never mind. Don"t you dare enter my room without asking any permission do you understand?" tossing the key back to the headmaster, whose face lit up instantly catching it in the process.
"I"m going now if you have nothing else to discuss," as she turns the k.n.o.b the headmaster spoke once again this time with a serious tone.
"Do you still not remember anything? Before 4 years ago?"
She turned around, looked him in the eye and said "No, I already told you. My life, before, 4 years ago does not exist". This time she left closing the door behind her.
"Does not exist kah?"
*****
4 years ago
Strolling around the school"s forest while raining, the headmaster saw a girl standing in the middle of the rain, gravely wounded.
"You stupid Zu," he heard her say before approaching her.
"Are you okay? You"re gravely wounded. What are you doing standing here?" trying to reach her hand to bring her to the infirmary. But she swatted it away.
"Who are you?"
"I"m the headmaster of that school, Kaoru. So at least allow me to bring you to the infirmary or you might end up losing a lot of blood," he said as he tried to pull her again. This time she didn"t swat his hand away but instead, she started coughing blood and collapsed on the ground.
"Ah, geez that"s what I"m talking about," he carried her and run towards the infirmary.
"Headmaster!! Who is she? What happened to her?" the head nurse asked as she helped him lay her on the bed and calling for the doctor. Upon arriving, "You stupid, why did you bring her here? Can"t you see her wounds? You should have brought her to the hospital," the doctor lectured as he checks the girls" condition.
"Do you think I have the time? I just saw her standing in the middle of the forest and then she collapsed. Stop getting mad at me, Akito," he retorted as he frantically paced around the nurse and the doctor.
"Forest? Why would a gravely wounded girl be standing in the middle of the forest?"
"How would I know, I already told you I just saw her standing there as I take my afternoon stroll."
"Why are you strolling on this heavy rain?"
"It"s already my routine whether it"s raining or it"s sunny. So is she dying? Will she die? I was the last person who held her. Will I be accused of murder? But I swear I just met that girl I don"t even know her name? I have no alibi as well? What should I do? What-" he abruptly stopped what he"s saying when an injection was pointed on his throat.
"Shut up and go sit in the corner. I am trying to help this girl right now and your chatter will distract me. Or do you want me to inject you right now to shut you up?"
The headmaster zipped his mouth and run to the sit in the corner of the room behaving himself like an obedient child. Hours later.
"She"s fine. We only need to wait for her to wake up before knowing what really happened," hearing these words the headmaster sighed on relief.
"Prepare yourself Kaoru, you might end up in jail for a.s.saulting a girl," Akito added before turning on his heel.
"Akito!! I already told you I just met her," running after Akito, leaving the girl to rest.
After a week of watching over her.
"So, is anyone looking for a missing teenager?" Akito asked Kaoru as they entered the room where the girl sleeps.
"Nope, none at all. I tried searching for someone who knows a girl with Silver hair and red eyes but to no avail. Could she be from another kingdom?"
"Who knows," he replied as he checks her condition.
"Hey Akito, why isn"t she awake yet?"
"It"s her body how would I know?"
"Geez, you"re the doctor here."
"I don"t know okay. Her body must still be healing itself, she"ll wake up when the right time comes," just as he said this, the girl beside them opened her eyes.
"Oooh, you"re awake. So how do you feel? What"s your name? Where do you live? Why are you in the forest? What happened to you? Where"s your –" once again he was stopped by an injection in his throat. He zipped his mouth and stand there obediently.
"How do you feel?" this time the one asking the question was Akito.
"Fine," the girl answered as she looks around.
"Do you know your name?"
"Eureka"
"Where do you live?"
"…"
"You"re parents, where are they?"
"I don"t know"
"Do you know why you ended up in the forest?"
"By the time I realized it, I was already there."
The two looked at each other.
"Do you remember anything from your past other than your name?" Kaoru finally asked seriously.
"My past...… doesn"t exist," she answered before closing her eyes once again.
The two went to the door and spoke quietly.
"Amnesia?" Kaoru said worriedly to Akito.
"Might be. She didn"t know her parents and by the time she realized it she was already in the forest." Akito replied.
"Ah," as if remembering something, Kaoru walked towards Eureka.
"How about "Zu", do you remember that person? It was your last words before you fainted," Eureka opened her eyes, stared at the ceiling but didn"t speak. Kaoru returned to where Akito is.
"Zu?" Akito asked.
"Yes before she fainted she said something, it was….. that"s right she said "you stupid Zu","
They looked at her who"s still staring at the ceiling. After a bit of silence.
"Anyway, while we still don"t know who she is and where she came from. You will be her guardian."
"Okay I unders- GUARDIAN!!!" Kaoru looked at Akito incredulously. "I can"t and you know that I"m not good with kids or teenagers."
"You have no other choice, you are the first person who found her. Or do you want her to be interrogated over and over again by those in the inst.i.tute? Oh, how terrible would that be," Akito said knowing how soft-hearted Kaoru is.
Pondering over it Kaoru knows that the inst.i.tute will treat anyone, who suddenly appeared in the kingdom, with suspicion. Will interrogate them nonstop to the point where they"d include torture. Thinking about that he shuddered.
"Fine, fine, fine. I"ll take care of her. But you have to help me. Especially on her ident.i.ty."
"Sure."
*****
Kaoru thought as he reminisces.