This story is a continuation of the fanfiction ALL IS IN MY MIND. You can also read as a separate story but I recommend reading that fanfic first. Hope you enjoy it!
Sousuke and Akira used to go to the firing range when his was little. They loved to share that sport and it was an excellent way to bond, so when the boy heard the gunshot outside from his classroom he recognized it immediately.
"Everyone behind your desks fast!", said the teacher to the students, but Akira jumped from his seat and ran towards the door. His younger sister was in day care, just a building away from his class so the only thing in his mind was to get to her.
His father had warned him that his sister was his only responsibility so he knew he had to do everything he could to save her.
As he ran down the halls he could see the other students running the opposite way, but he didn't care about them, he had to get to her. As he went down the stairs, he heard two more gunshots and a girl fell wounded at the end of the stairs, followed by the perpetrator, a boy about his age. He had an AK-15 and two hand guns.
Akira hided behind a column at the top of the stairs to avoid been seen. After a few minutes after the perpetrator left, he went down the stairs and bend towards the injured young girl to look for any vitals, but it was too late, she was already dead.
Suddenly, he heard a gun shot. The bullet hit the wall behind him. Akira ran and hide behind the lockers, a the other boy continued shooting.
Close to him was a fire extinguisher so he took it and aimed it towards the perpetrator. As the boy was blinded by the smoke, Akira ran towards the door, but was shot on the arm. Still, he continued running until he reached the door to the day care. The boy with the riffle followed him close.
Akira still shaking, closed the door behind him and moved the desk towards the door. The kids inside the classroom where hiding, Yuki was also there. "Go to the back of the room!", he said to the kids, when more gunshots were heard. The perpetrator was trying to get inside the classroom.
"Akira!", screamed Yuki as she came running towards her brother, when all of a sudden one of the bullets hit the young girl through the wooded door.
Akira could only see in terror how his sister got shot in front of him. He ran towards her and hold her in his arms. All he had tried to do to protect her was in vain.
More gunshots were heard but now coming from the hall... and then silence.
"Akira!", screamed a familiar voice. It was his father.
He opened the door in tears, "Dad! Please Yuki…, he said with tears in his eyes.
Sousuke saw in fear as his little girl lay on the floor. He hold her in his arms, "Call an ambulance!", he screamed and with a smile his little girl died in his arms…..
Sousuke screamed in terror.
He had just woken up covered in sweat. It was just a nightmare.
He looked next to him at his little girl, she was sleeping deeply. She loved to sleep next to Sousuke every time she stayed at his house. It was common for his children to stay with him every other week after his divorce from Kaname.
He gave her a kiss and then walked towards Akira's room to check on him. He was also sleeping deeply.
After checking the doors of the house, Sousuke took the phone and rang Kaname. It was about 3:00 am.
"Hello?", she answered half asleep.
"I had a nightmare. Sorry to wake you", he said as he sat on a couch. He had gotten used to calling her every time he had a bad dream. Although they were seperate, they still loved each other. The only reason they had decided to keep a distance was to keep their daughter safe.
Yuki was a whispered. Since she was little she showed an incredible inteligence and could solve puzzles above her age capabilities. Kaname knew the moment she was born, she could feel it in her mind. Although she wasn't exposed to the tartarus as her mother, Yuki had inherited her powers through her mother's genes. Akira, his older brother, didn't show this skills so it was only Yuki, and she was in terrible danger.
"What was it?", asked Kaname half asleep.
"Remember the school shooting in Newtown today on the news? I dreamed something like that could happened to our kids. It was horrifying", he said as he grabbed his forehead. His head hurt.
"It's alright Sousuke don't be scared, our kids are safe. You even have trained Akira and me in so many things that we are ready for anything. Besides it's been seventeen years since everything happen. We are safe", she said in a comforting matter.
"What if I'm no longer here and they are in danger?", said Sousuke worried.
"Then I'll protect them", she said to Sousuke, "I have even been thinking that it's time for us to be together again. Yuki is safe. It's been three years since she was born and there had been no attacks. I miss my husband you know?".
"I miss you too", he said, "I'm just scared that they might be a target... But you are right, we need to move on and stop living in fear".
"I love you. let's think about it, OK?", she said.
"We will, I love you too. Have a good night", he said and hungged up the phone.
Sousuke closed the call and checked the alarm system. He could not sleep anymore so he turned on the TV.
Then, in the middle of the night, his cellphone rang. It was an unknown number and few people knew it. He picked it up carefully, "hello", he said.
"Sousuke Sagara", said a deep voice coming from the other side of the line, "You spared my life when you had the chance to kill me, since then I had a debt with you, so I'm using my last phone call to talk to you before they execute me for my crimes. I had no one else to call anyway. I heard that in the underground forces there is price on your little kid, alive. Keep an eye on her", and the hanged up the phone.
He knew the caller. It was Commander Rem, from the LRA rebel forces, a tyrant that had tortured child soldiers and almost killed Kaname when she was pregnant with Akira as a way of revenge. Sousuke had spared his life and forgave him for his crimes. Because of this somehow that horrible man had respected him and now he was helping his family.
After going back to his senses, Sousuke ran towards his room and took Yuki from the bed, then towards Akira's room.
"Wake up! We need to move", he said to his son as he shake him from the bed.
"Dad, what's wrong!", asked Akira in his sleep.
"Move now! And stop asking questions!", he screamed to his son as he picked a bag from underneath some boards on the hall. The boy, after seeing his father's desperation, woke up immediately and took his own bags.
He followed his Dad and picked another survival bag at the entrance of the house. Sousuke put his little girl on the car seat and his son on the back sit, put the bags in the back and drove towards Kaname's house.
He called at her phone, "What is it now?", said Kaname, apperantly she had been trying to go back to sleep.
"They know where we are", said Sousuke. Kaname's heart dropped, she took a gun from her drawer and a bag in her closet. She walked towards the door and Sousuke's car was already at the front entrance.
"How?!", asked Kaname as she walked inside the car.
"Commander Rem called me as a warning", he said.
"What are you talking about? That monster?", she said as she gave his two children jackets for the cold weather.
"What's going on?", asked Yuki, she had woken up with the commotion.
"Where are we going?", asked Akira, as confused as his sister.
"Rem called from prison to my personal phone number. If he knows how to get in touch with us, then they know where we are. He did it as favor for sparing his life"
"Who's they?", asked Akira.
"Shut up!", screamed Kaname to her children. Yuki started crying but Akira gave her a toy to distract her.
"How much time do we have?", asked Kaname.
"A couple of hours at the most", said Sousuke, "We need take the first flight back to Japan. Is our only choice"