Warnings: shonen-ai, OOC, angst :P
Spoilers: Aya-chan, Kaze,
the beginning of the manga
Disclaimer: Weiß doesn't belong
to me. Nuff said!
Anything but You
Part 1: Broken Wing
Kisaragi
Yuu
It was another day where the birds were chipping, the beautiful autumn leafs were leaving the branch so the young ones would have a place to be born, the kids were running in the playground with smiling faces and healthy red cheeks... it was a beautiful Saturday in somewhere over August.
Funny although the wind was blowing rather hugely, the sun also shone quite hard.
He was standing in front of the hospital where his ex-paralyzed imouto stayed. One hand stuck on his pocket, he looked up... high into the sky.
The sun was merely making him able to look upon anything. It was still too bright although he closed his eyes.
"Aya..."
Whispering the name of his imouto, he leaned against the nearest tree to find some shades.
Closing his eyes, he rested his shoulder against the wooden surface. The wind blew across his smooth, pale skin, while his hair was being played with the lady wind. A sign of calmness was spread through his mimic. A pure portrait of daintiness...
Then everything started to fade in black.
...
"Aya."
Who... who called?
"Oii Aya."
The voice that I've been missing for days that passed like years... and minutes like hours... who...
"Aya... open your eyes. It's me."
Who are you?
"It's me. It's Ken, your everlasting slave in the Koneko along with Omi and Yohji. Just me."
K-Ken!
He opened his eyes violently, making a sudden surprise to his own cornea until those little species hurt. Then he felt like his head was being banged onto a solid wall. He swore he could simply shot himself to death if it had to continue again for another minute.
As his sight focused, he saw a vision of the person that had been bothering his sleep nowadays. The soccer boy with the most cheerful eyes he'd ever seen.
"Ken...?"
"Yo! Aah... you fainted beside the tree next to the hospital. I think it was some kind of anemia or what since you looked damn pale I could almost couldn't recognized you with a dead corpse! Don't go wandering away if you are not that strong."
Listening to Ken's lecture, he rubbed his head and got up from the couch. He looked around.
It was the mission room.
"Where are the others?"
"Omi went out to buy some medicines for you. Yohji is... well you know Yohji, somewhere over his own la-la land of searching for ladies and lovin'... or at least that's what he said about his 'trip'."
"How did I get... here?" Aya asked as he noticed that a blanket had been covered up to his hips. He tried to get up but expectedly, a pair of hands stopped him.
"Dame yo. You are not going to get up from there before the medicines arrive." He paused as his hands pushed Aya's body back to the couch gently, soon he put back the blanket up to Aya's neck, "I carried you back all the way down to our Koneko here. Believe it or not but I did."
"...uso."
Ken laughed, "Hontou! You are kind of light anyway. Need more calories on that skinny body, leader!"
Out of Aya's sanity, his face started to redden. Dammit, why the hell it had to be Ken?! He was so embarrassed... moreover carrying him in the public would of course have attracted the neighbors' attentions. Just great. Now how could he show his face to them?? After people saw him carried by a younger boy...
So _damn_ embarrassing.
"Hey, don't get embarrassed! What I would say embarrassing was when I was a little kid. FAR more embarrassing. Wanna hear the tale?"
The redhead looked to him without any word said in his lips, eyes wondered and wanted to hear Ken's story. He would listen to everything the brunette said. And Ken got the sign.
"I was playing ball with my fellow lil' brothers, who of course are all demons," he laughed, "Then I slipped from a small pond and fell till I lost a teeth. That time I was only 7, so I cried as loud as I could in front of them, and I lost all the dignity I got with them. They were all surprised though since you see..." he paused again as he grinned, "I always played this character of 'big strong brother' you know?"
"Aa, I know how you felt."
He grinned wider, "Yeah I'm sure about it."
Then he continued, "They are nice kids, they didn't laugh at me but they offered me tissues and said 'we thought you are half monster since you never cried...' hah, they thought I was a monster? I thought _they_ are the monsters with angelic faces."
A fresh peel of laughter.
Aya couldn't help himself but to smile at his teammate happiness.
He wondered if he ever seen Ken got really down. No, he'd never seen it before. Either he's angry or he's happy. About that Kaze thing too was the same. He was seen quite sad and angry and down in the same time, but after a week he'd been happy and smiley again.
This boy who suddenly just sneaked up into his mind and made him couldn't sleep.
Ken...
"Nani?"
Aya was startled.
"You called?"
"I-Iie."
"Funny, I was sure that someone called..."
And suddenly Aya just had this really weird thing circling his rational head that in any chance, Ken could read his mind. But of course he shooed the thought away. There's no such thing.
Feelings are just some blurry images that desperate people create to ease their loneliness in this world.
At least that's what Aya thought before something unexpected came over his sorrow life.
That he met Ken.
He wondered since when he started to feel something funny about this brunette soccer boy. Was it when the first time they met? The look that Ken gave to him when he was chained by Yohji's wire... it got something inside. Something... that couldn't be described with words.
Something unforgettable.
Soon enough a certain blonde Weiß opened the mission room's door and walked down the spiral stairs with a bag of medicines on his hand. Noticing his leader cautiousness, he greeted, "Aya-kun! Feeling any better?"
Aya nodded a little as Ken smiled to Omi, "Got the medicines?"
"Well you didn't really tell me what to buy so... I just bought some aspirins and bandages, since the supplies of bandages in our storage room is wearing thin. While we _need_ bandages a lot."
"Aah, thanks Omi!" Ken said as he took the aspirins and asked Omi to get some water.
Aya took the little white tablets while waiting for the water. After the un-coloured liquid came, he swallowed the aspirins. Feeling the little devil of dizziness came back, he laid down to the couch again.
***
Another night of mission.
[Siberian, get out of there, use the map we've made. Balinese, take the route B and evacuate as quick as you can while Abyssinian, you'll have to cancel the target. I planted a bomb and it's going to blow in 4 minutes, which means you have 3 minutes and 02 seconds to execute him and get out of the hotel.]
Ken looked around, he didn't find any way to escape, but hell, he's Weiß. He _had_ to escape. Seeing no other choice, he jumped off the window while breaking the glass with his hand. There was a swimming pool down there, he dived into the bluish water. He felt like he broke his ribs.
"K'so..."
Yohji took the route B, which made him has to use the off-ed elevator. He used the wire to climb down to the lowest floor and forced open the shutter wall. Then he also did the same like Ken, jumped off the building to the swimming pool.
After groaning a little of pain, he met Ken, "Dammit. Next time we're on mission, never trust Omi to choose the escape field."
"Yeah, surely. We'll end up broken ribs if we do." Ken laughed as he and the playboy Weiß swam throughout the pool and ran to their mobile. Omi was already expecting them.
"Ne... where's Abyssinian?" the boy with codename Siberian asked.
Omi looked to Ken, "Abyssinian still hasn't canceled the target. He has to be hurry... only 2 minutes to go."
***
Somewhere over the floor in the 16th floor, there was a certain redhead with his victim sitting down in front of him looking helpless. Just like a prey with no way out.
Aya unsheathed his katana, looking at his injured target who didn't even show the slightest fear in his eyes.
"What are you waiting for? Kill me."
"..."
The katana that had been blooded by many people rose up to face the victim's neck. Aya didn't say a word, nor his impassive mimic changed.
"Shi-ne."
"NOO!!"
Aya swung his head violently to see a girl about 15 years old age, running to them and hugged the victim with tears in her eyes. She looked to Aya, "Don't kill my father!! Please! Don't!! He's the only one I have after mom died... I beg you!!"
"Midori..." the victim whispered while his hand tugged on his daughter's back, "...I have committed sins... I have to go to pay for what I've done. Many people are dead because of me... Midori is a good girl, ne? So don't cry." he smiled to the girl.
"No... if you want to go to mother's lap, take me with you..."
"Midori..."
Aya stopped his movement as his hand that was handling the katana started to shake. Then suddenly a 'BOM' sound was heard. The bomb that was planted by Omi exploded.
Aya widened his eyes.
***
"A-Aya is still in there!"
"Shimatta!!" Yohji cursed. Omi searched for Aya's location with his laptop, then he was startled, "How is this possible?? Abyssinian hasn't canceled the target! The whole building will collapse any time now!!"
Ken's heart started to beat very fast.
/Aya./
Then he just ran away from the car and got back to the building with his other friends' screaming his name on his back but he didn't care. He had to meet Aya.
***
Aya coughed for the nth time. The smoke was getting more and more thick until he could barely saw anything. He left the victim and his daughter alone in the room, saying that it's all up to them now.
He never felt sentimental like that... but somehow... he saw a vision of his own imouto in the girl's mimic.
That's why he didn't kill him.
Yeah he thought so.
His lung reached the maximum capacity of holding on throughout the very dirty air. His legs started to cramp. As he walked a few steps again, his legs betrayed him and limped down.
"...K'so..."
He couldn't walk anymore.
He rested his head on the wall and puffed some air as he closed his eyes. Maybe this is the end, he thought. He was already tired of the life he was having anyway. Moreover he lived for Aya, for taking her revenge. But now the revenge had been accomplished and he didn't care about others.
He had no regrets... except that... he hasn't talked to the boy who little by little shed of the icicle heart he had.
/Ken... if only I had the chance to confess to you... I won't have any regrets back again./
He closed his eyes deeply trying to imagine how Ken look when he smiled. It was all too vaguely familiar. He had remembered how Ken looked in every aspects of life till he could picture him anywhere he wanted.
The playful brown coloured hair along with the matching orbs, the reddish cheek and the full of life shimmering skin... a perfect figure that God ever made.
/...Ken.../
"AYA!!"
Aya had lost his consciousness.
Ken hurried to him as he carried the taller figure and tried to get out. But he couldn't, his movement was stopped by Aya's weight and the smoky scene along with the dirty air weren't helping either. He looked around, sweats traveled on his cheeks. Soon he took the nearest pot, and with all the strength he could gain, he threw it out of the window.
The solid thing broke the glass.
He looked down. /Damn, 16th floor is kinda high/ he thought. /But for Aya./
"For you, Aya." He whispered to the unconscious figure on his back.
Then he jumped.
***
Only for you Aya
I do this only for you
/Ken./
Aya opened his eyes a little. He was not in the Koneko, nor in his apartment. This white furnished place with very cleaned floor and a bucket of flowers decorating the table next to his bed is...
...his imouto hospital.
He tilted his head to see a pair of eyes was already watching him. "Aya-kun."
"...Omi. What happened? How can I be in hospital? We are not in the census..."
"Don't worry... it's all settled. We gave you a nick, here you are called Hanagiri Aya. While Ken-kun is Ryuzaki Ken."
Aya looked around. "Where is Ken?"
Omi shut his mouth, Aya sensed the tense that started to rise as he noticed that Omi's hand was clutching his own fabric of short pants. He looked to Omi, "...did you just cry?"
The ocean-eyed boy was startled. Soon he looked down, didn't have the courage to look at his leader's eyes. Aya got up from the bed until he was sitting on the white-sheeted bed and asked, "Omi, what happened to Ken?"
Then Omi just burst out to silent tears.
"K-Ken-kun... he lost his sight."
TBC~
It's kinda long since I wrote anything, ne? ^^;; This one came in one night when I was very sick and I just couldn't see anything so I just thought what if it's Ken. ^^; kinda angsty ne? Well anyway!! COMMENTS onegaiii!!! .
