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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Another cough brought the darker haired male out of his thoughts, his eyes looked at the wound to Chuuya's chest. It was fatal… And the backup wouldn't make it in time. He didn't understand how this happened. He had been positive that Chuuya had taken out all of their enemy's. He had been sure of it... but, it seemed he was wrong. Oh so wrong. And now, there they were sitting there, Dazai looking down at Chuuya with what was now a heart wrenching expression on his face. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Chuuya laughed weakly. "No. You and I... Both know, that by the time… they actually get here… It will be too late…" he said softly to Dazai. "Don't go… putting idea's in my head… I don't… want to die… but, I know I won't… make it." His voice was cracking slightly. His emotions showing through, but he was trying to stay strong…. No matter how terrified he was feeling./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It didn't take a genius to figure out that Dazai and Chuuya had been in love with each other, the issue was that they never were able to say to each other… Until it was too late./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The looks of horror flashed over everyone's face, and just as Kunikida was about to move, there was the echo of gun fire./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"With a soft sigh, he stopped running outside what he assumed was a café, he was still new to the area, he didn't know everything or what was in this city. But anywhere was better than being called illegitimate constantly. He didn't know who his father was personally, all he knew was that he had been some French male his mother had met, fallen in love with at one point and time, and had an illegitimate child with. Which would be him. A small sigh left his lips as he went into the café and sat down, his eyes downcast to the table. His mother had recently deemed him old enough to know the story about his real father. And told him how he ended up getting killed, after promising his mother marriage and everything when she had told him she was pregnant, he had gotten involved with the Port Mafia, and had been executed because of 'leaving' when he shouldn't have. Meaning he left, they found him. And they killed him. They know nothing about him or his mother, he has his mother's maiden name, because he refused to take on his step dads last name. Nakahara Chuuya is what he went by now, he no longer adorns his father's last name./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Another cough brought the darker haired male out of his thoughts, his eyes looked at the wound to Chuuya's chest. It was fatal… And the backup wouldn't make it in time. He didn't understand how this happened. He had been positive that Chuuya had taken out all of their enemy's. He had been sure of it... but, it seemed he was wrong. Oh so wrong. And now, there they were sitting there, Dazai looking down at Chuuya with what was now a heart wrenching expression on his face. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Chuuya laughed weakly. "No. You and I... Both know, that by the time… they actually get here… It will be too late…" he said softly to Dazai. "Don't go… putting idea's in my head… I don't… want to die… but, I know I won't… make it." His voice was cracking slightly. His emotions showing through, but he was trying to stay strong…. No matter how terrified he was feeling./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Now, he was standing there, looking at the dead body of the male who had shot Chuuya. His arms were limp at his sides. And Kunikida tried to coax Dazai into handing over the gun. Which, of course didn't happened. A small, weak smile slipped to his lips as he looked at the others./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It didn't take a genius to figure out that Dazai and Chuuya had been in love with each other, the issue was that they never were able to say to each other… Until it was too late./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The looks of horror flashed over everyone's face, and just as Kunikida was about to move, there was the echo of gun fire./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The Port Mafia took Chuuya's body, while the Detective Agency took Dazai's./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A bored sounding sigh slipped from the brunette's lips, leaning against the lockers before pushing himself off of them, he made his way out to the field where they were having gym that day. They were playing soccer. Oh joy, just what he enjoyed. He wasn't a sports person, but he knew how it worked. Once they were gathered out in the field, they picked goalies first, which Dazai had the unfortunate pleasure of being one of them. He was decent, which was why he was picked. He and the other goalie went to the goals and watched as the other kids were separated into two teams. Dazai's eyes instantly found the red head, who had just transferred here from another district. He groaned, noting that the boy, Chuuya, his name was. Was now on the other team. The shit was outstanding at soccer, even though he was on the track and field team. He was fast, and seemed to have some unseen agility that made it hard to keep your eyes on him until he was right up on you./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Speaking of the other male, Chuuya was currently stretching, and Dazai couldn't help but watch the other. Things were so weird for him, ever since the male transferred to this district, he couldn't help but feel like he knew him from somewhere, but he could not recall seeing him before./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"With a soft sigh, he stopped running outside what he assumed was a café, he was still new to the area, he didn't know everything or what was in this city. But anywhere was better than being called illegitimate constantly. He didn't know who his father was personally, all he knew was that he had been some French male his mother had met, fallen in love with at one point and time, and had an illegitimate child with. Which would be him. A small sigh left his lips as he went into the café and sat down, his eyes downcast to the table. His mother had recently deemed him old enough to know the story about his real father. And told him how he ended up getting killed, after promising his mother marriage and everything when she had told him she was pregnant, he had gotten involved with the Port Mafia, and had been executed because of 'leaving' when he shouldn't have. Meaning he left, they found him. And they killed him. They know nothing about him or his mother, he has his mother's maiden name, because he refused to take on his step dads last name. Nakahara Chuuya is what he went by now, he no longer adorns his father's last name./p
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