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Fever

Chapter 2 第二話

Akira sat at the kitchen table, eating buttered toast, fried eggs and sausages. After being around Akiakane and Akari for a few months he felt the silence awkward, them and Shirogane being chatty and sometimes downright annoying, although it was this silence that had accompanied him for years.

Still, he appreciated it. It was rare that almost everybody had some business to attend to at the same time. The only ones left behind were Aya, Kengo, Master, and himself.

He looked at his cell phone. Almost time to get ready for school.

"Don't feel like going to school…" he murmured aloud.

That's decided then. I'm going out to buy some snacks, rent some DVDs and buy some manga to fill my pretty-empty schedule, he thought.

After that he showered and made his way to the shopping district.

As he was waiting for the traffic light to turn green he got a message from Akari, saying that they'd arrived at Ikebukuro.

He was about to reply when the light turned green and the crowd started to push forward. He wasn't in the shopping district nearest to his home, he was in a bigger district, that's why there were so many people.

Akira was passing by a few parked cars when he felt somebody coming up behind him and lightly touching him on the shoulder.

"Akira-kun!"

He whirled around to see Morimiya Reiga, his brother's manager.

"Reiga-san! Weren't you supposed to be in Ikebukuro too?"

"Yeah, I'll be going later. Akane-chan told me to check on you before I go. Looks like I finished my work here early, so I was just about to go to your house when I saw you."

"Oh." Akane-chan…? he wondered. New nickname for Aniki, huh. "But wait, what'd happen if I were in school?"

"I kind of felt that you won't be going, and seems that I was right." Reiga looked at Akira's bags. "Shopping?"

"A little."

"Finished?"

"Yeah."

"Then come on, I'll give you a ride home. I bought some cake for you too." He opened the passenger door for Akira. "You could share it with your friends, I bought three."

"Oh. Thanks." Akira got into the car and balanced his bags on his lap as he fastened his seat belt.


"Thanks for sending me home, Reiga-san," Akira said to him in front of his house.

"Come on, no need for the honorifics!"

"But—"

"I'm the same age as your brother remember?"

"Reiga-kun doesn't seem appropriate now, is it?"

"Fine, fine, Reiga-san is fine," he pouted. "Oh well." He smiled, patting Akira on the shoulder. "Just don't anything about me giving you cake to those two."

"Okay."

"Bye then!" He climbed into his car and zoomed off.

Akira put the cake into the fridge before flopping down on the couch, looking at his cell phone. 10.30 a.m. He stared at it for a few seconds longer before it rang and vibrated and he almost dropped it.

"What?" he asked irritably, not even looking to see who the caller was.

"A-Akira?" A feminine voice said hesitantly, as if it hadn't expected for him to pick up.

"What, Aya?"

"Are you at school?"

Of course not, he thought. "Yup. I'm skipping class."

"Oh. Tell the homeroom teacher I had to go to Okinawa with my family for some emergency alright?"

"I'm sorry I'm actually at home," Akira said nonchalantly.

"What? Then you were lying to me?"

"'Course I am."

At the other end Aya sighed irritably.

"Why don't you ask Kengo?"

"I did, but something weird happened."

This caught Akira's interest and he sat up straighter. "What, he was kidnapped? It was the kidnapper that picked up?"

"No! He picked up, but there were rustling and he was breathing heavily. And he started to say something then there was a loud sound and that's it. I guess he dropped his phone or something, but I'm a hundred percent sure he didn't go to school either."

"Ceh," he said, sounding almost as if he was disappointed.

"Are you hoping that he'd be kidnapped?" Aya almost shouted.

"Oh shut up. I'll call him later then. Bye Aya."


Kengo's feverish light sleep was disturbed by the persistent ring and vibration of his phone. He tried to ignore it, but the ringing was just making his head ache worse.

He lay on his stomach and propped himself up with one elbow. He reached for the ringing vibrating thing and flipped it open.

"Hello?" It was Aya.

"Aya…?" His voice came out hoarse and and raspy. He tried to clear his throat but he felt a cough coming and lost his grip on his phone. It clattered to the floor and he coughed painfully.

Kengo sighed. Soon, just as he was starting to feel drowsy again his phone rang for the second time.

He picked it up. It was Akira this time.

"Osu."

"Hi…" Kengo tried to sound casual.

"You aren't in school right? Come over to my house. I have some cake here."

He considered. It was rare that Akira would invite him over, but he really wasn't feeling up to it.

"But if I go then I won't be alone…" he mumbled.

"What?"

"N-Nothing. I'll come."


Well then, hope you enjoy this story~~! ^_^ And again, sorry if it's so short...