Chapter Two

Takumi was awakened by the sound of his alarm. Once again he was looking for Misu, but then when he looked up to the clock, he decided to leave him a message. He took the memo card on the desk, and started to write simple lines to describe where he was heading off. He putted that message on the table where Misu will surely notice it.

I'm going to see Gii. Gomen that I can't see you before I leave. Take care.

Hayama Takumi

Then after packing some clothes and things he may need, he went to the student affair, asking for the permission like what Gii said. Fortunately, in that section, there was only Shikimura-sensei, the English teacher. Shikimura-sensei was nice to the students, so he was liked by many of them, and so was Takumi.

"Hayama-kun?"

"Konnichiwa, sensei." greeted Takumi.

"Konnichiwa." Shikimura-sensei replied. "What do you need? Do you wanna take a leave?"

"Hai." Takumi nodded. "I need to go for five days, starting today, actually." He said hesitantly.

"Five days?"

"Hai. I just called my mother to say hi, but then I've been told that my mother was sick. She was hospitalized and need a serious treatment. So my father asked me whether I can go to visit her or not. Then I was thinking maybe I could take care of her in the hospital. I want to be with her in her sick time, I want to be beside her. And when she wakes up, I want to be the first person she sees." Takumi explained.

Well, it wasn't all lie. He did call his mother, and his mother was indeed hospitalized because of hypertension. But her condition wasn't that bad, that she can go home in one day or two. Takumi just fabricating it so that he could get the permission. And it seemed work.

"Of course you can go." A smile was hovered in his face. "Five days is not a problem, I think. Here, this is the paper. Just make sure you write it properly." He gave Takumi some papers.

"Arigatou, sensei!" Takumi said as he returned the papers.

"Douita!" he replied informally. "You are going now? I see you have packed your things up."

"Hai."

"Ja, have a safely trip! Tell my regard to your parents, okay?"

"Hai. Arigatou, sensei!"

Takumi went out from the school. He felt a bit guilty lying about his parents. But, he didn't have a choice, he had to do it. He must leave to see Gii.

The air after leaving the school entrance gate was different. He felt the freedom, power, and free-willingness flow all over his body, the feeling he barely felt. The sun had reached its apogee, its ray come through the shady trees, warm to his skin. The wind was blowing gently as Takumi entered the main road. The town's park wasn't so far, ten minutes walk, so he decided to just walk than to take a taxi.

When he turned on an empty street, Takumi had this feeling of uneasy. He was unsure why or how, but suddenly a black car run fast from behind and stops in front of him. He was shocked and stunned right where he stood. Then the people come out from that car, wearing all-black suits.

"Hayama Takumi, you have to come with us." One of them said coldly.

"Who are you? How could you know my name?" he asked out of shocked.

"You don't have to know why. You must follow us, or we will use violence way if necessary." They threatened him with showing their weapons behind their tuxedo.

So he was forced into the car. He knew that he couldn't scream for help. He had no choice but to follow them obediently. He was thinking about Gii. He should've wait for him in the park now. Gii, he must be worried by now, Takumi thought. They were taking him to a house somewhere in the middle of the town. The house was empty. It seems like there was no one living there. They brought him to the living room-or was a living room, and told to wait there.

Takumi was left alone while the others were stay outside. It was just like they were securing the area cause someone important about to come. And his guess was true.

Someone wearing the formal suits came. He was tall, with black hair and eye glasses. He looked smart and so polite, as he allowed Takumi to sit.

"I know you must be wondering why you were brought to this place. And why there are so many guards outside securing the area." he said.

"Hai." Takumi replied in doubt. "Actually I have an important promise with someone important, so I hope I could leave as soon as possible."

"Unfortunately, that is impossible."

"What do you mean?" Takumi asked confusedly.

"I can't allow you to meet Saki Giichi anymore."

Takumi was surprised and stunned. His brain worked fast to know where it all end. So this is what his hunch was.

"You are…"

"My name is Fukumoto Daiki. I'm the secretary of Saki Yuuji, Giichi's father. I brought his message for you. He suggested you not to going out with Giichi again. This is for both of you. If you follow this instruction, they will guarantee that you will graduate smoothly. How's the offer? Well, I personally think that this was a good one. And more important, you don't have a choice."

"I can't do that." Takumi didn't have to think to answer that. "I can't break up with Gii!"

"Well, like I said, you don't have a choice. Whether you like it or not, you'll break up with him. I suggest you to stop now. Cause both of you will be hurt."

"What do you mean?"

"Saki Giichi will marry soon, with the woman he knew. Well, there's a possibility that he knew this woman more than everyone in this world. That's why I can assure that the marriage will be success. There is no way that your relationship will be accepted. You'd better release him now, before you ended up broken and hurt."

"Uso da… I don't believe you!"

"Well, then you didn't give me a choice." He snapped his fingers, and the people burst in. "Locked him up. Do not let him go anywhere, in any condition!" he ordered. His tone was raised surprisingly and his expression turns cold. Takumi even wondered if he is the same person he met just a minute ago.

Then one of them pulled the collar of his shirt and slammed him to the wall. His hands were locked behind his back easily. Another man pulled him to the center of the room and suddenly he felt a whop in his stomach. His breath jerks out and his vision was all blur. He was in a state where he still conscious but his body just didn't want to follow his order. They brought him to a room in the corner of the building. They laid him on the bed and locked the door. The black out began to spread as his breath grew heavier and heavier.

"Target locked." The man reported. Daiki stood in the front of the window, he nodded. And as he waved his hand, all the men left the room.

Daiki picked his phone and call the first number in his contact which he had sorted by the level of importance.

"This is me. I've met with Hayama. And just like what you've predicted, he refused the offer. Now I've locked him down."

"Good job, Daiki. Now, you may return."

"Hai." He hung up the phone and leave. He actually didn't like this job. But he was a pro, and a pro should not let his feeling affected his action.

Meanwhile Takumi finally regained his consciousness. The pain had gone completely but he felt a bit dizzy. He woke up and stared around the room. Where is he? He thought. Then all the pieces of memory arranged together and form the whole sequence of events. He ran to the door only to found that it was locked from the outside. He immediately searched his phone, but there was no signal. He tried over and over again to call Gii or Akaike, he tried all direction to search a single bar of signal, but it was all in vain. Maybe there was some kind of interference devices which disrupt all phone and radio signals.

He observed the room once again. There was only one window on the left side of the room, and it was barricaded with wooden planks. The air was flowing through ventilation on the roof, but the hole wasn't big enough for him to escape from there. The door was made from fine wood, hard and thick, it was impossible for him to break it. And so the wall, made from solid cement.

The only way is that window. Those wooden planks seemed like it was added quite a long ago. So maybe the woods have been brittle. But if he makes any noise, before he could go, the guards will realize that he tried to escape. He observed the window very carefully and decided. This was a very reckless act, but it was his only chance to escape. He had to do it very quick; he had to break down the planks before the entire guards got distracted and tried stop him.

It was quite difficult since Takumi has no experience in any martial arts. Luckily, he saw a chair beside the bed. He could use that to break the window, he thought.

"This will do, I hope." he whispered to himself.

Then he smashed it with all the power he got. The sound was quite loud, but he had no time to worry. He smashed it again, and in the third time the planks was finally wrecked. He smiled in relieve, but now he could hear the tramp of the guards approached. He rushed and jumped out the window, and landed on a large bush just under the window. It was a lot better, considering the injury if he landed on the ground. As soon as he got on his feet, he ran to the forest.

"Target escaped, I repeat, target escaped!" the man who seemed to be their leader shouted to their communication tools.

Takumi ran as fast as he can. He got more scratch from the trees in the forest, but he could care less about that. The guards were chasing right behind him. He ran without any direction to go. He didn't know whether that he was going out or got into the forest deeper. He ran until this limit. His lungs felt like it was on fire. Finally after a long time of suffering, he arrived at a beach. He didn't know where beach was that. But it was better than being lost in the forest.

"They probably follow me to this place. I should find somewhere to hide." He thought. Then he saw an abandoned hut and decided to hide there.

He was so tired. He leaned his back on the wall when suddenly his phone rang. He was surprised and also glad.

"Moshi moshi, Akaike-kun?"

"Takumi where are you? Gii called me when you didn't come in time. I tried to call you so many times before, why you were always out of range? Where are you exactly?"

"Listen, Akaike-kun. Help me! I was brought to a house in the middle of a forest. I escaped and I'm on a beach now." he whispered.

"Where? What beach?"

"I don't know. There's no sign. The beach was empty, no one is here. Now I'm hiding in an old hut. Wait! I can see an abandoned small lighthouse in the west. Not too far from where I am now." Then Takumi heard a humming voice behind Akaike. He was pretty sure that it was Gii.

"Okay, Takumi. Relax, just stay there until the help arrived."

He hung up the phone. It was very tiring to wait alone with only the sound of the waves. The breeze was blowing gently that closed his eyes and sent him to a very deep sleep.

"So Hayama escaped, huh?"

"I apologize, sir. He escaped through the window, and somehow he managed to run from our guards. Now we've sent people to go to find him." Daiki answered calmly.

"Well, tell them to retreat. You don't have to look for him. Now we move to the next plan. Leave that place quietly and come here as fast as you can."

"Hai."

"And by the way, I'm already in Japan."

"That fast, sir?"

"It's about my son, my family, and more importantly, my business. Of course I want everything to be clear. Don't ask anything anymore, just go!" And he hung up the phone.

"I heard your voice, is anything alright?" a woman stood in the threshold. She was wearing an apron. Obviously she was cooking before she came.

"Yes. You don't have to worry. I can handle everything."

The woman walked gracefully towards her husband. Then she placed her left hand on his shoulder while the other hand rubbed his cheek.

"Well then, I have a favor to ask you."

"And what's that?"

"Please don't burry yourself with all of your business. We agreed that this would be about family, didn't we?"

"You know I can't do that."

"I know. But please, spare your time even just a couple hours for our family, will you? You know, it's been a long time since last we came to Japan not for your business trip. I want to take time as a whole family with my beloved husband and son." She demanded.

"Very well. I'll think about that." He said, again, coldly.

After telling her wishes, she went back to the kitchen; knowing that there was no use even if she stayed there.

Yuuji light his cigarette and sat on the couch near the fireplace. He took a picture from the table in the front of him. A picture from a boy on a blue uniform coat with dark hair and round eyes. That picture was obviously taken when he didn't notice it.

"Hayama Takumi." He murmured. "I want to see why Gii was protecting you very carefully."

"Takumi! Takumi!"

He vaguely heard a voice which is familiar to him. Takumi opened his eyes. The sky was dark and he felt the cold breeze touching his skin.

"Gii?"

"Takumi!" Gii took off his coat and covered Takumi's trembled body with it. Then, he hugged his beloved dark-haired boy in relive. "I'm glad you're okay."

"How did you know I'm here Gii?"

"It's easy, because this is my family's private beach. I've already guessed it when you first mention an unsigned beach outside a forest. And when you said that you saw a lighthouse, I knew exactly where you are. Because the lighthouse, it was my playground when I was a kid. My mother often took me to this place. And while she was resting in the house, I went to play here. My father always busy with his job, and I didn't have much friend outside the school. And of course my friends couldn't accompany me. They are the heir of their own family business, after all. I even doubt that they were really a friend of mine."

"Gii…"

"But it's not important anymore." He looked Takumi right through the eye. "Now I have Shouzo, and more importantly, I have you by my side. I will be lonely no more."

Surprisingly, Takumi pulled the boy's collar and kissed him deeply.

"It's embarrassing, you know." His face turned red that made Gii chuckled.

"It's so rare that you took the initiative." Gii grinned.

"Ugh, cut it out!"

They laughed together as they walked towards the lighthouse. The coldness couldn't touch Takumi now, since Gii was by his side, casted the loneliness away. Gii was everything he need. And now with him by his side, he felt like nothing could go wrong.

"I think we better hurry up. Shouzo was so worried about you." Gii suggested.

"You're right. I don't want to troubled him anymore."

The moon was already on her best place when both of them finally reached the end of the forest. Gii held Takumi's hand along the way. That's one way to make the boy feel safe, he thought.

"Where are we going, Gii?" Takumi ask anxiously.

"To my apartment." He answered calmly.

"What? Since when you have an apartment? I never heard anything!"

Gii smiled.

"I just bought it today just for anticipating. Though I don't think I'll use it frequently." He shrugged his shoulder. "And because of that, I haven't placed any furniture there." He explained.

"Souka…"

"It's not too far from here. It takes about twenty minutes walk." Gii smiled sincerely.

They were intended to spend their time walking together. But not long after they got to the main road, there was a car blinking its light to them and stopped. Two young men came out from the red car.

"Misu-kun? Shingyouji-kun?" called Gii, recognizing them. Misu and Shingyouji walked toward them in rush.

"Hayama-senpai, daijoubuka?" asked Shingyouji. This kouhai seemed to be so worried about his senpai.

"Why are you here? How could you know…"

Misu didn't let Takumi finished his line.

"Akaike told us. And he also told us that maybe we could find you in this street. He said that both of you would probably go to Gii's new apartment." He interrupted. "He knew you too well, Saki. And that's only my personal opinion."

"Huh, wow. It's so nice of you to give your opinion to me. Is it gonna rain or something?" Gii joked.

"Shut up…" Misu replied calmly. But, he ended up smiling too.

"Are we going to stay on your apartment tonight, Saki-senpai?" asked Shingyouji.

"There's no way we could do that. We already made Shikimura-sensei approve to let us go only for two hour. We must get back to the school on 9, and that's mean we only have less than one hour." Misu answered.

"As expected of the President." Gii comented.

"But we still can help them, can't we?" asked Shingyouji once again.

"Of course." He said. "Let us take you to your new apartment, Saki. Though I understand what you're encountering now, I couldn't help you at all. At least this is what we could do for you."

"I understand. Thank you." Gii smiled.

"By the way, whose car is it? I never saw it around the school before." Takumi asked after they got into the car.

"It's mine, actually. But I left it in the main household." Misu explained. "Well, we should hurry. We have less time."

Note: I'm sorry for the late update. I was having two months full of exams, due to the national exam on this April. I really appreciate you who have support me. Please tell me what you think about it, and hope you enjoy this story :)