Chapter One

Kato Act:

Every night he is listening to his footsteps in the most horrible silence that could experience. Each time he came he could feel relief in his heart, a glimmer of hope swirling in the room, pushing the sounds of the machines that kept him alive.

Kato, who was killed in life, reborn again and again, with tired but happy to wake up the next morning and find fresh, lively, so lively and splendid pink inside your vase smile. Free stem of thorns and leaves just a few sunk in the clear water.

- Again?

He moved his eyes even with fatigue toward the voice, a nurse had entered her room however looked more interested in knowing rose practically had ignored him despite his situation.

Surely, he thought, she was not in her care.

Still what hurt the most was seeing the vase and pink nebulae away from flooding her eyes. The door slammed shut and again was plunged into her weariness and boredom.

In the noise of the machines and the bustle outside its "cage". Improperly said.

He did not feel the time pass because he slept deeply, not even he was able to witness when they came to asearlo and review your medical history to see if they had developed or worsened.

I had no strength or ability to feed themselves, but had noticed that they had renewed the serum and yet still felt a knot in his stomach.

What made you go back a few years ago, when the roses and weakness were made everyday in your life.

Two years ago.

He was working as usual, he was his own boss so arguably had everything under control and won by the beautiful bride who accompanied him in his day. Soon he proposes marriage.

That particular day would go drinking with his subordinates, cadets who taught the labor camp, joking along the way about that they will not happen leave and then paternally told them that if they advanced forward into new fields he would be proud to let his hands go.

Kato could not have own children, this was their way to compensate.

He remembers to be taking a bottle of sake and congratulating the oldest cadet, for the good news, Serious father in a few months, so I gave his side all night and just before midnight I rushed, just like that, on the table.

And it's all black environment.

- What do you mean -interrogo the doctor, and at a time that was conscious and shirt stood after a review?.

-Even we do not know Kagure-sama, we do blood tests and review as they left the cardiograms and X-rays. I'll make an appointment for tomorrow morning.

Early the next day path to the beginning of an end, without knowing it.

In a few days he could then know that he was suffering from terminal cancer, treatment may well succeed and give a new chance to continue living as well as ... could only prolong their suffering.

His girlfriend had left him, it was difficult to deal with everything. He was still "young" and said she wanted to enjoy her life with a healthy person. At least consoled Kato, money was not the bait to stay at his side despite their status.

I let go.

The following was thinking about your company, evaluated the first month cadets, he saw the future father imminent successor and said nothing pretended he was going on vacation, settlement paperwork with his lawyers, and let it run as a " test "for a future position close to the boss.

He began treatment.

Yui came relatively quickly to his life the first two months, when I had no hair and his eyes were sunken in black sockets.

They are playing Chinese checkers and sometimes adult content made it easier for you to enjoy.

It was more than a nurse, his only friend. He was busy at work to grow your corporation to have one.

Yui rubbed his back as he ran to throw up, not let him win at checkers as an act of compassion to his illness and, yes Yui knew how.

Yui I was ... always thinking of him, even internally jealous when she must go and take care of other patients. For some time now he had realized that she loved him for his simple and honest way of being, especially with him.

He was in love with the young nurse and that was the first problem.

'Then now you'd rather have a nurse-I had planted against the doorframe of his room, with zero compassion, he loved to keep his palabra.- Why have you done this way, so, abruptly?

Kato reserved comment.

He thought carefully before answering.

I do not want to spend my last years saw a man come in my room ... I want a woman, breasts, you know-Yui frowned and seemed he was about to hit him ... as if they could read his mind and know that really was not the problem, there was something much deeper.

It was the only time he had compassion, perhaps as revenge after closing his hands into fists, he turned walking away.

Was a year sharing moments.

That was the first night I hear the footsteps in the silence.

It would be like midnight and the noise of the machines that controlled his vital signs could be heard even breathing on her own.

I did not see it until the next morning. Someone had snuck into his room and leave a glass vase with a beautiful red rose inside, floating in crystal clear water as if dancing in this.

He could not help but smile in the midst of intrigue.

The following nights wrapped in that beautiful routine. He was grateful that joy who brought him in his room, however while on one hand missed Yui, on the other hand felt that it was actually much closer than I thought.

'So it was you ...' The nurse could not escape the end of the week, Kato still had the strength and held subject when he finally managed to fish it.

I thought you might be .... Close to you this way Kato, you and I ... you separated us.

They looked into the eyes, green eyes Kato: but tired and were deep brown, sincere and fierceness, in Yui.

Kato retain only hope for the rose on her nightstand. He released Yui's arm and stroked her cheek. The nurse blushed and took the first step. Chapped lips kissing Kagure. A tear slid down her cheek.

'Actually I was lonely without you here-Yui burst into tears upon hearing, they wiped them with the sleeve of his suit nurse.

Kato was happy since then, but there was at the beginning again, with rose Yui having being snatched away by the crotchety nurse who had ignored him.

Yui Act:

His grandmother was the first to realize that, had inherited that gift that could be good and bad at the same time.

Yui carried the responsibly until Kato had appeared in her life.

- You see this, you will not be you he accused the head nurse, holding his hands and drumming vase he had taken from Kato!. The water had splashed uniforms, which made him more rude, and part of the floor as well had been affected.

You should leave that place-he warned seriously, she immediately calmed down, he understands why I kept going. However I not think it was good for Yui.

Look, I know it's hard, but that's how things here and this will not do you any good.

Yui remained serene and serious, reaching out to retrieve the vase. The crude nurse had no choice but to deliver it and let out a long sigh, the boy had no choice and knew that things could end badly for ... although he looked so calm about it was not sure how was your mind in there .

The young nurse safe way into the room of Kato steps, I looked there was no one loitering and slipped inside the bottle slipped from his hands in surprise.

- Kato! ¿Kato? Where have you gone? She took a start with his nose, as if about to mourn, lips and the way he bit surrounding the broken glass swimming in the water covering the rose, whose petals are peeling off by the impact.

-Kato, Kato ... -continuous invoking, dodging stuff in the room that looked abandoned. Where his brown eyes will see, everything was in renovation. There was a bed covered by a plastic, glassless windows and more plastic, some had hung from the ceiling and saw where old machinery.

He refused to be panicked, so once collected crystals and rose, rushed out looking for a replacement, the section of the hospital that was not in remodeling and had patients.

He had traveled all over the place, dodging doctors and other nurses, stretchers and wheelchairs, as I pass Imelda's room: an old patient who lived in that place, was a Foreign and friendly.

Your room look carefully, noting the marble vase on her dresser, inside daffodils were beginning to dry and yellowish water below.

You're your Yui-she appeared behind her, walking slowly, was an older woman and always took a turn for exercise. Although far I could not reach.

-Imelda-chan-greeting tenderly, the old blushed.

Looks like you like that vase, I've lost count of the time it takes there, maybe five years. Before I was on the windowsill of my room and always put fresh daffodils.

-Five years…

Oh, I'm sorry Yui, I have made you remember something wrong-I look at him with compassion, he was the one who needed it at that time, the old woman sat on the bed.

Never mind ... sometimes it's good to remember. Could I borrow it-the old lady was surprised and as if he knew that maybe not going to recover in time, he said with a smile:

'I'm giving it, you're my favorite nurse. You can take-Yui smiled with all his teeth and wasted no time. I move toward him and took his hands. Giant steps back to the room ... Kato's room.

Not think in reality, I do not think, do not think. He repeated as he made preparations, I stylize the rose and placed it in his new vase, clear and clean water that had taken bath. At least that was ready for use.

-Kato ... I called again and then the magic is made.

The room environment like five years ago with glasses instead of plastic on the windows and the noise of the machines that kept him alive. No longer they are checking their vital signs but also breathed for him.

However the bed was empty, scared Yui turned, looked around. Kato was still not there again.

-Kato may not see me but if you hear me, is strange but do not feel fear.

As if one on each side of a mirror glass, we could see across to Kato on convalescent bed. Kato was scared and surprised, but happy to listen to Yui.

Yui What?

Listen, we .... No, you must understand that you have the power to get out of bed, no longer you feel pain and you are not sick, all that is over, and now it's just a reflex-volume air, and had once tried to explain and another night not recordaba.- what was more real than you felt between them?

Kato was on the bed, I could not get up, he was dead already. Yet his ability to think the question was good ... Remembering the first kiss between the two, as more real ... as the last truly alive and meaning.

-Our kiss, your initiative ...

Yui smiled while feeling so homesick.

-Kato that ... that was also our last kiss-avowed, unable to avoid the heat of his eyes, tears sliding down her face and hideously painful lump in her throat.

She felt as if forcibly shut, something hard, narrowed felt like sticking together.

'Five years ago you, you were here, it was what you hear ... w-was your room-Kato felt as a hindrance to the machine breathing for him. He felt suddenly more strength and felt like the mirror glass that separated him from Yui, broke into a loud "Crick, crack".

Yui ...

You've been five years ... dead-avowed, in a hoarse voice, sunk in a morass of pain. That damn gift.

He loathed him since that night, since the last time you saw green eyes and live Kato.

No longer had courage and strength to play checkers, including new studies and other patients, they had had little time to love each other a moment longer. And then the tragedy of that night hovered over his head, wearing a rose to put in the vase on the table Kato.

Kato, of course, was no longer on the bed whose sheets had been folded.

Kato was gone in the morning, simply could no longer have the strength to go there, among the living.

Unable to accept, in the solitude of the room, I put up with tears and walked to the table.

Still leaving the flower in the vase that had not yet taken out of there. And as a kind of rare magic place come alive.

Yui, I've caught back-Yui left the room, scared, leaving their voice heard. He ran to the morgue and ensured.

He made sure he was having a bad dream ... but seeing the lifeless body on the gurney metal, entered mourn uncontrollably.

Kato was gone and really earlier than ever, gave cause to his gift, his gift allowed him to see through the connection with the rose in the vase.

As I saw him at this time, face to face. Once one had dared to tell the truth, confront your soul yet very different from this time last Kato seemed willing to accept it.

I was sorry for her expression as serene quality.

Something deep and painful, stabbing with thousands of needles in his mind told him clearly that the next day Kato and would not forget and start all over again, thinking he was still dying on the hospital bed.

- Is not it a gift from the gods?

Yui looked toward Kato.

But ... Kato ...

Look at me, I'm here and I can touch you, I can talk, I can be at your side and I have to no longer leave.

Yui sob.

-I…

Kato floated toward him, it was all different. Above the pain he felt they needed this to the inevitable,

'I've always been alone before you was all gray and after you I could see the orange dawn-Yui smiled-I think I got it from a magazine, but it's like really saw it all before he died and now ... your you're that orange.

I want to rest, I want your soul to ascend. This place is not for a man like you ... You deserve a true paradise and not just the color of a "sunrise".

- Who can assure me there? Some soul has gone down just to tell you there and leave you alone, maybe just disappear forever and above all ...

Yui before his supernatural green eyes, dropped the vase that Imelda had given him.

We regret, but their faith was very determined. Rose and observed the poor by destroying just trampling all the pain of his soul printed in stomps. He watched as much as the figure of Kato vanished as if thousands of little lights of Christmas tree, went out in a slow waltz and radiant.

It meant that the end had come loose from each other.

I avoid only then think about anything and turn on his feet, his face drenched in tears again, off ex Kato room had met with the head nurse before.

This time she had seen him, knew he was the one who got there and left the rose in the vase before, had taken off.

Very different from Yui, she could not see the supernatural projections Kato: the shadows of what was in his last days, for five years. When he went to take a look as if he had a premonition and Kato, saw the vase and the rose were snatched him, then thinking of his soul, to be ignored, the nurse was not in charge.

Of course, never imagining he was dead and Yui could see it thanks to its "cursed gift."

She had hoped the time had now however was unable to say anything. The attitude of nurses suspected that anything was fine again.

Yui avoided looking at her, he seemed to think which direction to take and went to the left, reaching the stairs. The low for a good stretch until you find the reception and left there with great sadness choking him heart and soul.

Had taken a walk around the places mentioned in Kato life, he liked to go. He had always dreamed of visiting them with him when hope bloomed he could beat his illness and yet was there alone without their company.

A bad end that perhaps was very visible then, but I do not know as much as possible.

Continuous days had passed in his apartment, mulling over the matter and weighing in Kato as ever.

And he had had to, or else overcome other five years would pass before he realized that maybe I could not ... pass others without it.

The arrival of midnight supposed recent days a vague and sharp beating. I could not change the facts, you should never follow even after his death that absurd romantic ritual.

It is always tempting to buy roses when, as he went to the store to buy lunch, passed by the nearest florist and the third day of his rested finally relented rushing to get home to put a large bouquet in the vase or at least in a glass jar in your pantry she never used.

But it did in the hospital, Kato would not return, his soul would be good as it should, in paradise.

So at ten o'clock he went to sleep.

I dreamed that they were together again, the echo of words mixed the confused and in the middle of the scene, a mutant rose separated entangling her its winding, thorny branches that broke his love displayed as a paradise of more roses that were transforming into hideous monsters.

He opened his eyes as his never have been sleeping, gasping and turning to see the time ... His astonishment made him jump out of bed, it was midnight.

He let out a long sigh, she doubted she could fall asleep again and then as if he still had nightmares Kato saw standing on the foot of his bed floating on a soft blanket of light.

No matter how many times it should, now I can and I know, then just I break the glass between us and smiling-funny-not you let me tell you before-float el- into. You are my paradise decidedly mutter.

Yui I do not cry, just outline a huge smile after watching the roses in the makeshift vase on her dresser then looked at Kato.

"Sometimes there are outstanding issues remain, sometimes a living being is the paradise of that poor soul ... need to know to accept his death and not be stuck in a loop of their best days of life."

"Your grandfather was quite astute, he said it took time but the glass broke and I read poetry every afternoon, while he took you, it seems that some things do not change. But sometimes you do not let me take tea and invited me to dance ... "

Yui remembered the words of her grandmother, then remembered she used to be dancing with someone. The only saw light covering it all.

"Perhaps you help many times, but once you know how to open their paradise, they entered again and again looking for that immense happiness that alone, his paradise can give them rest so deserved after transit into the world of the living."

Come to think more carefully, Yui did not know if maybe it was dead, because not even thought about it and actually made him really happy in five years, tell Kato:

-And you're mine.

Kato was his paradise, they belonged to each other.

Would not change.

Not undermine.

You cling to the gift.

A happiness.

And they would love.

FINISH