News.Conclussion.

Part of me just wants to be analytical and deal with that bombshell later but i am at such a loss for words so much so that my faculties are momentarily out of order.

"What?"

She yells even harder now,i see how she winces from the pain and even more so that she is bleeding even more now because of this.

"Please let me patch your side up first okay?You refused a hospital and i get that and i am fine with it but you can not stay like this much longer.I truly have no idea what you are talking about but i will listen to anything right now.Okay?"

Oiha has a vicious scowl on her face but she starts to back down a little has the woozy feeling kicks in from all the rage she just expelled.

I help her pull off her shirt first,she keeps looking down at my blanket mortified by her other situation but i remind her that is not an issue at all now.

It is awful the depth of human depravity.

Oiha has fist size bruises on her breasts that her bra can not cover all of,numerous cuts on her abdomen that look almost like they have been done by a serrated knife.
Even a long scar that stretches from just under her left breast to her belly button.

I try to keep a calm expression if for no other reason than to keep her from raging anymore but after i clean and bandage her up as gentle as i am able then she begins to cry.

Weep,really.

Oiha will not let me approach her so i sit on the floor in front of her after i help her put on a shirt.

"Talk to me,So what if we have never liked each other.It does not mean i will leave you alone like this."

She looks at me like she could throttle me if she could but Oiha just relents and falls backward on the bed again,hissing in pain at the hard movement.
I begin to think back and i start to see it a little more.

Once upon a time we had no idea of each other and few times we met had been sort of casual but not particularly friendly but after that day.
The incident.

She pounded me in every way she could relentlessly and mercilessly.

"I..i never knew about any of this Oiha,do you really think that if i had i would have done anything to allow him to do...that to you?Really,Oiha?Your brother attacked me,drugged me and dragged me around BY MY HAIR and beat me up with you and friends watching.But a letter saying he was sorry and wanted help to get out of jail?Do you really think i would have ignored a real apology?"
"Obviously you very much did because i would see all the letters he sent you be sent to my house instead with notes saying that you refuse.Witch."

I look her eye to eye and she matches me for it,beautiful doe like eyes that are red rimmed and soon going to swelled closed if this keeps up but she needs to let this out.
Maybe.
I do too.

"I promise you.I may have a problem that will remain with me for life because of what he did, i honestly had no idea that he and the others were and would be hurt because i was proud yet i hurt people, I hurt you and i am sorry.He was wrong,i was wrong .But on my life,Oiha i had no idea about any letters!"
"Everything alright?"

It is almost unsettling to hear both Kenshin and Arata at the door,asking the same thing at the same time.

My eyes go right back to hers.
Almost like a dual somehow.

"You promise you really did not know?"
"Completely."
"Will you talk to him and help him?I need out,i need him back."

I take a moment to really think about that.

That boy who i did not even know was her brother has been the face of my downfall for years now and the beginning of my bad streak.
That though was my choice to not try and see if maybe he was trying to change, not his.No matter what my sides to myself want to say.

'A heroine must face herself'I always write.
It is my turn now.

"If he still is then...yes,of course"

She holds my stare.

Oiha looks like she is torn between holding on to her hate for me and wanting to cry her heart out beside me.

"Why?......"

She moans out.
Oiha leans forward and grips my shoulders so hard as she weeps,over and over saying 'Why?'and comfort is not the strong suit of my introverted,socially awkward and reserved self but i try to.

I do not want to hate her and now i can't.
I helped bring about her misery without really knowing i did and someone else made it worse for her and me.

Minutes pass and Oiha settles enough for me to help her into my shower and so she can clean up,get fresh pants on then I guide her back to the living room to find Uncle Goji standing next to Kaoru.

Both in a surprised state at the sight of both Kenshin,Arata and now I with Oiha in my arms as I walk into the living room.
Arata takes Oiha and leads her to the Couch,Kenshin is suddenly so stock still as Uncle Goji eyes him with suspicion but when I catch on to why I explain that quickly away.

"Then what is all the rest here about?You are not sneaking around with your boyfriend but the others.What?"
"Go...Look at her,really look at them Go."

Kaoru settles Uncle Goji by just saying that and he listens,finally catching to what I am afraid to say now.

"What happened to you?'

Words of the last hour it seems to be on repeat for us.

"Uncle Goji...Oiha.She needs help."
"Please,I had no other place I thought that would be safer than here!I-"

Uncle Goji pauses him right there and Arata stills so fast I would have figured he had turned to stone.

"After the stunt you pulled,after the mean things you did because you were hurt by Yukihana and I am expected to let that slide?She talked to me about it after her date Arata.I have no desire to be of any kind of help to you,I am only even listening now because my niece is pleading with me to now."

Arata.
He looks beaten from every side.

Oiha looks only at him and wants to yell at my Uncle but knows that will not be of any good and she seems to like how he is trying to protect me.

It seems she has not seen much of that.

"I have a doctor who can see you discreetly,and you can stay with me but only on the condition of good behavior and the two of you end the feud"

Kaoru speaks, 'How did she even know?'is a mirrored expression on both Oiha and I.
She walks to us and leans in to listen to what Oiha told me I am now telling her.

I also notice a new something.
A sparkling new finger ornament on her hand.

I wish I could smile now properly but I will soon enough.

"Come on.Lets go all of us"