I was back to Yokosuka base, where I should live the rest of my days, without bringing defeat to my navy and give victories to our enemies... Once I stepped in the concrete port, Nagato called me:
"Kyoto, please come with me..."
"Ok... Maybe I am going to be scrapped? I deserve it after all"
"Ok" I answer in a monotone tone. Nagato gave me a worried face, but then... Turned around and I followed her.
Nagato brought me to that dark room again, where all the plans for battles are planned. Thanks to this room, I gave victory at Suez Canal, but defeat to the ambush fleet... Would I be here to give another victory or another defeat?
"Kyoto, are you okay? Yamato told me by communication you are not feeling well..." Nagato asked me.
"Y-Yeah, I'm okay..." I answer, a little dismayed.
"Right... Well, Kyoto, tomorrow is the big day. Tomorrow we are going to invade Pearl Harbor and establish a base there... We assigned all the carriers... But if you don't want to..."
"I prefer to stay here, Nagato..."
"It will be better for everyone..."
"Very well... You're dismissed then..."
I leave the room without a word, no one stops me... On my way to the docks, I realize that my right arm is very harmed, with its sleeve torn apart... I keep looking to it... until I bump into a tree... My bad luck doesn't go away not even when I am sad. Then suddenly I feel pain in my head...
"Ouch!" I look to what hit me in the head... looks like an apple... It must have fallen from the tree when I bumped in it... No, I don't feel like I discovered something like Isaac Newton discovered when the apple fell from the tree...
Once inside the hot spring of the docks, I start to sleep... I am not hoping to leave here anytime soon, so... I will just sleep. But when I closed my eyes, I hear a dark voice...
"The end is close" I open my eyes to see who said that... But I only saw the sea... High curtains of smoke... gray smoke, from fire... A fire ignited by abysses shells... I hear screams of despair, kansumus are sinking... Then I see a bubble trail... From a torpedo, heading directly to Zuikaku... Without control over my body, I jump in the front of the torpedo... Then the water involves me and pushes me to the bottom... And then... I feel a strange pleasure over my body?!
I wake up, seeing a bucket above me... This still doesn't explain why I felt pleasure through my whole body...
"Still going to stay here? Admiral gave you an instant repair bucket, you should hurry up and leave right now". Said someone at my side... I look and it's Yamato.
"Seriously Admiral? Between me and Yamato, you choose me to get instant repair?!"
I thought while leaving the hot spring. I put my clothes and leave the docks, heading to the canteen... I am hungry, it must be midday now. I look to the sky and the sun is almost perfectly above me. Which probably means I am right, it's midday now.
In the canteen, I see the only thing that still brings me happiness... Akagi, my girlfriend. She is talking with Kaga, giving to Kaga a present. Looks like Kaga is in a better mood... My suggestions weren't so strange after all...
"Excuse me?" I say while approaching them.
"Hey, Kyoto! Are you okay? I was really worried after the damage you took at the battle and after Zuikaku breaking your friendship..."
"Yeah... But I would be happy to be with you, if that's ok..."
"Sure! Kaga, see you later".
"See you". Kaga answers in a monotone tone... It's impossible to say if she is sad or happy by Akagi going away... Why don't you show some emotion, Kaga?
"Well, where do you want to go?" I ask Akagi while leaving the canteen... She was peeking Kaga from the canteen door. I guess she was really worried about Kaga. "Akagi, let's go?"
"Um? Oh, yes! Where do you want to go?" She said.
"Where do YOU want to go?"
"Well... Why we don't stay here then?"
"Okay, let's stay here". I said, heading back inside.
"Let's sit in that table!" She said pointing to a table with no one in it. I sit in that table and put my plate in my front... Starting to eat it. Once we sat, Akagi asked:
"Are you really okay?"
"Yeah, now that I am with you... You see, Zuikaku said I was giving you to much attention and none to my friends. I know that's true, but I am glad to still have you. I think I gave too much attention to her words, that's why I messed up with the mission I had this morning... I couldn't pull the trigger and the words she told me were echoing in my head..." I look to Akagi after explaining all of this... She sighed while looking to Kaga... "Hey, Akagi?"
"Um? Oh, sorry... I was spacing out..." Spacing out looking directly to Kaga... Well, I should let this go, Kaga and Akagi are best friends after all.
"So you didn't hear anything I said?"
"Nope".
"Ok, I guess I am going to repeat then..." I explain everything again...
"Well..." She started to say after I explained everything "It's a good thing you have me now. Don't give attention to her words when you have me!"
"Well, I will remember that now!"
Then we went in silent. When I was almost finishing my lunch, I look to Akagi. She was once again staring to Kaga... I was going to let it pass again, but then... I realize one thing...
"No... It can be that, right?"
I ask myself in my head. I knew what to do to confirm what I was thinking... I finished my lunch and asked Akagi.
"Do you want to go to the anchor statue again?"
"Sure, why not?" She stood up, held my hand and we went together to the anchor statue. Please don't be what I think it is...
We reached the anchor statue... a calm breeze moved my and Akagi's hair. Once there she looked to me.
"Why you wanted to come here again?" She asked me with a little smile.
"I wanted to ask... Akagi... Do you really love me?" I ask with a dismayed face.
"What? Of course I love you, silly"
"Are you sure you don't love Kaga?" She gave me a surprised expression and hesitated to gave an answer... That was all I needed to prove what I was thinking.
"Um... Err... Of course not! W-Where did you get this idea from?"
"From your acts... Now I know you don't love me, you love Kaga. You knew Kaga liked Zuikaku, that's why you pushed me away from Zuikaku... For Kaga get closer to her, isn't that right? All you wanted was to see Kaga happy, even if wasn't with you..." Thinking now, that explains why I didn't sense her emotions when she declared her love for me... "You were disposed to do anything for her, even force me to love you..."
"W-Wha... H... H-How you discovered?" She said stuttering, barely believing.
"It isn't that hard when you connect the dots... But come on... be happy Akagi, be with her..."
"W-What do you mean?"
"We are breaking up... Go behind the one you truly loves..." She was crying... but then... gave me a smile... A sincere and true smile, different from all the others...
"Thank you, Kyoto!" She gave me a hug and ran away... Probably behind Kaga...
Well... I should be happy...I helped someone... But now... I have no one to talk with. My situation is just getting worse... First I lost my best friend and now I lost the person I thought loved me... I all alone now...
The rest of the day passes slowly, but nothing interesting happens... I decided to spend my afternoon in my bed... Crying in my pillow... I only left my bedroom to have dinner... Then I came back to my bedroom and start to sleep until the following day...
"Kyoto?" I heard someone... A distant voice... Looks familiar, but I don't remember the owner of this voice... Maybe if the voice were more close... "Wake Up!" Suddenly the voice was incredibly close.
"YA!" I scream and hit the bed above me... If I hit my head one more time in the upper bed, I have almost sure it will fall over me... I look to the one who woke me up. It's Yubari...
"C'mon Kyoto, I don't see you in ages! Where have you been? Are going to say you forgot I even exist?"
"Oh, fact... Yubari is my friend... Possibly the last friend I have..."
"You will find this kinda funny... But I forgot about you..." I said.
"Oh what a friend... Well, where is Zuikaku, you live together, right? Wait, she is helping with the attack to Pearl Harbor" I sigh to her.
"Not only that... She doesn't live here anymore... She lives now in another bedroom..."
"Oh... What happened? I can tell by your face that you two fought..."
"Yeah..."
"Let me see... You gave too much attention to the one you loved and lost your friendship with Akagi?"
"How do you know?"
"I think it's a lucky guess..." She accidentally dropped a journal with a photo of Zuikaku throwing her necklace at the ground...
"Lucky guess?"
"Yeah... Forgot what I said about luck guess, are you alright?"
"I guess I am ok..."
"I can tell by your face you are lying". It's really written all over my face? Oh, yeah, I forgot I have bad luck.
"Ok... I am not okay... I lost my best friend because of Akagi... I paid too much attention to Akagi and after I lost my friendship with Zuikaku... I... I... I broke up with Akagi because I discovered who she really likes from the very beginning..." tears start to be formed at the corner of my eyes...
"Then you thought you had no one, right? I feel that way too... the others usually talk with me when they want their equipment for training or when I am in their fleets... I never got a friend... Until... Until you and Zuikaku came to the repair shop, inviting me to go to the canteen with you... I never had so much fun... I hope to not have to choose between you or Zuikaku, you should repair the things".
"How? She even changed bedroom to not chat with me..."
"Oh... Well, Yubari will find a way. Like I always find when building prototypes!"
"Does your prototypes usually explode?"
"What? No! Ok, most of them explode, but you already used the Reppu fighter, you know he is a stronger plane!"
"Look, we can..." She started to whisper and tell me her plan to me.
Suddenly someone enters in our bedroom, interrupting Yubari. Someone with black long hair and... Oh, it's Nagato. Wait, she is looking to Yubari whispering at my ear and I am in my bed...
"Nagato this isn't what you are thinking!"
"Right... Anyway, Kyoto, Yubari, I want you two to move now, you are being temporally relocated to Pearl Harbor because of the next battle that I want you two to participate... In the case of Kyoto, it's totally optional, but..." Nagato said, but I interrupted her:
"I will go, I am already better"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I won't mess like the last time..."
"Right, then you shall go to Pearl Harbor now"
"Wait they already established a base there? What hour is?
"It's 2 PM, I think it makes sense they already established base by now and..." Yubari answered me.
"2 PM?!"
"Yeah, are you going to say you were sleeping since yesterday?"
"Yes..."
"Oh, come on!"
"Ok, you two... please just go to Pearl Harbor..."
"Right! We are going now!" I and Yubari leaved the room and went to the deploy building...
I just realize one thing while going there... Pearl Harbor maybe be the perfect opportunity to fix the things... I have sure the part of the plan that Yubari told me will be even more successful in Pearl Harbor... Now it's just a matter of time for me to apologize... And fix things...