Title: Hikaru no Genius
Author: Windying
Edited/Fully Beta On/By: November 27th By Wind of Hurricane
Warning: This AU include evil-like-Hikaru. Please read at your own risk. There might be a couple grammar that I missed.
Notes: At the end, please read.(if there is any)
"..." This is for talking : "I couldn't care less what he said."
'...' This is thinking, internally. 'What is this boy?' XX thought to him/herself.
"..." This is Sai's talking. "Hikaru, play with me~" Sai whined with a pouted lips.
"..." Bold is for talking on the phone. "I know, mom. You don't have to prepare my dinner," Hikaru said with a roll of his eyes.
Chapter Two: The Truth of the Matter, Part One
V_V X T_T HIKARU NO GENIUS V_V X T_T
There's a Chinese proverb that Hikaru recalled from Ancient History class; "bàn kōng lǐ fān gēn tou". Meaning to turn somersaults in midair. This proverb is what Hikaru's currently feeling like. He can't felt if his flying or walking as, currently, his brain refused to return to reality. Hikaru currently feeling is more like he's walking uphill with the world on his shoulder. Each droplet of rain hat hit the ground and on his body just make Hikaru feel more and heavier.
When it rain, it pours. This phrase was one of Hikaru's favorite phrase of all times.
Truth, when it rains, it will pours. Mostly, it was when Hikaru was making trouble for other people when he's hacking into people's privacy. Which, was what they should feel like. Hikaru had recalled Asami-san once said that for people like Hikaru when his world is underwater, it would feel like it was flying. Hikaru had never understood what the old man meant until now.
If going by their meanings; When bad things happen, there will not be a good ending as in reality. Hope an only do so much when your reality is turned upside down. He wished that right now, everything in his path would vanish and the rain would tell him that he had just got a bad nightmare. What happens wasn't real. Too bad, the one thing that Hikaru and Shouhen had in common was their luck when they're at their worse.
Hikaru's wished was un-granted, however, as the rain soon meet with the winds, creates down pours that made everything in the velocity to blackout. He could hear the sounds of cars crashing into each other in the background but he didn't care. The pedestrians such as himself, who was walking blindly in the rain, doesn't seem to care whether or not the world freeze over. Soon enough, the lights from the surrounding buildings in the walkway flicked for a couple of seconds and went off.
'Good, there shouldn't be lights on now.' The thought enters Hikaru's mind darkly and sinisterly, causing him to give a hollow smile as he continues walking toward the train station. Hikaru looks at the surrounding people who had their cellphones out, calling their love ones or family, telling them that they will be late coming home due to the blackout. All he could feel was a deep disappointing feeling that made his chest ache. He turned away from the human pedestrians and left the crowd of humans.
Where was he going?
Hikaru has no clue. His body can move by instinct. He didn't care where he would end up at.
His mind was filled with questions and his heart seems to beat in a slow rhythm that repeatedly beats in an echo of his mind, telling him that he is still alive. Yet, all of his senses... Hikaru could no longer feel the rain. Whether if the rain was cold or not, whether the winds was strong or weak, what colored was the sky again? Hikaru's brain asked himself.
His vision soon meets with the streets connecting the train station. 'Oh, the lights still works here.' A feeling of distress made Hikaru look at the bright light with a slight feeling of angry. He turned away from the lights only to stop after a couple of steps as his body automatically moved away from the blowing winds.
Hikaru didn't notice that he got into the train as he closed his mind off. He didn't even notice that the water underneath his feet was causing a lot of people to stare at him.
Even when the train slows down, and come to a complete stop. Hikaru didn't even notice that he walked out of the train station himself. He made his way into the rain, only to half realized that he actually made it out of the train station without any accident. It seems like his body remember the way to his grandpa's house as his eyes caught on the Cafe's name near his grandpa's place. Still, Hikaru didn't stop to rest from the rain.
The ache in his chest still makes Hikaru's senses dull. 'What is this? Did Shou-nii get so possess of the girl that he feared introducing her to me? Did he have to hide the fact that his engage and will be marrying before the official transfer of his company?' Hikaru thought to himself. If that was the truth, Hikaru won't be surprised. He knew his own personality enough to know that he will dig the woman's dirt out if he didn't like her. Is that why Shouhen hid his engagement from him?
As the normal rains soon turned into an upcoming rainstorm, as it comes down like there's no tomorrow, Hikaru walked passed by the business and restaurants area where his favor ramen shop was located. It poured so hard that nearly all cars are moving at the pace of a turtle compared to how it normally run, causing a traffic delay that on a normal day, would make Hikaru's day as he would watch them in a way that would make his brother's skins crawled in shivers and cold. Too bad, the slow pace of the human pedestrians was far slower than the pace of the cars.
However, today wasn't the best day in his life. In fact, it could had been the worst one ever. He was in no mood to watch how normally everyone would behave on such days as this so Hikaru turned his head back to the front of his face and let it trailed down on to his feet.
Hikaru just let his feet wanders around the roads in the rain without caring for where he was going. Just walking and walking with his head down, cloths wet and cold yet totally feeling nothing. The weight of his clothes on his back didn't even bother him anymore.
Hikaru doesn't know how long he has been walking or where he is going. All he know is that he have to keep walking. To where? He doesn't care for the moment. Hikaru was just wandering around directionless. He directionless.
When he come to his senses , he was standing in front of his grandpa's house and ranging the bell already. By then, he virtually notices that four hours has already passed by since he left the house.
When the door open, Heihachi's eyes were cold yet worried as he looks at his grandson's body.
"Hikaru-chan... Come in first. Here, dry yourself." Heihachi said as soft as he could as he drops the towel on top of Hikaru's head.
It seems like he already knew that Hikaru would be coming. Yes, he knows, because Hikaru's mother had called with a worried voice and informed him of what had happened.
Heihachi Shindou was not happy with the situation.
Not at all. In fact, Heihachi is just plain pissed off right now. If it wasn't that he was waiting for Hikaru, he would have gone to Hisashi's house and beat some senses into Shouhen's brain already.
Heihachi was rarely pissed off at his own grandchildren by the named of Shouhen. Shindou Shouhen, that is. But this time, he was more than just mad.
He wasn't going to forgive Shouhen for what he did this time. Heihachi Shindou was not stupid or dense like his two grandchildren. He knows. More than he care to admitted it. A lot of times, Shouhen was the one that made Heihachi worried, unlike Hikaru who made him worried over something else. Shouhen made Heihachi worried about the boy's mentality. After all, the one that Shou liked is Hikaru, the sadist boy who like to torture his victim over the internet.
He has long ago noticed the relationships between his two grandsons. Two of the most geniuses people that he know off, except for his wife, who have died four years ago. No one was as smart as his two grandsons. However, like his wife, they both are so dense that it make him wanted to laugh sometimes. And more than once, he did laugh. Shouhen made him feel proud and happy that he have a grandson like him while Hikaru made him both proud and worries at the same time. One thing different about his two grandsons was the fact that Shouhen had a lot of friends who he trusted and trusted him back equally. While Hikaru had a lot of friends, none of them had Hikaru's trust. He didn't have any close friends that he would trust his secrets to.
The only one that was near to the list of people that Hikaru trusts enough to or will tell his secrets to was Akari. And yet, that haven't happened even until now.
Like that times when Hikaru was walking home with Akari for the first time, and Shouhen just happened to come home from school early that day and seems them. it was funny how Shouhen fell into a rage of jealousy because of a nine years old kid. Yet, Shou, he didn't know why that was. Heihachi recalled the look of wonderment in his eyes when he noticed that he wasn't happy with Hikaru talking to a girl his age.
So dense is the Shindou bloodline who have their great-grandmother, Heihachi's mother, Shindou Mayabi, used to be Touho Mayabi, blood in theirs. To the point of laughable and annoyance at the same times. His wife might be the smartest girl but it seems like his grandson got his mother's blood in them more than their grandmother's blood.
Not that he'll ever tell any of them. However, it seems like Shouhen now known about his own feeling. Which isn't good.
After all, he's in love with his own brother. Feelings like this tend to lead to insanity and emotional problems. But what, he is also getting marry? What is that idiot thinking? He better not be thinking that by marrying someone else, he will forget about Hikaru. Life isn't that easy. Especially when it concern the heart.
"Grandpa?" Hikaru asked quietly as if there's no emotion left in him. It makes Heihachi grunt his teeth in frustration that his cheerful and full of spirit grandson can be this heartbroken, not that Hikaru know about his own feeling. In fact, Heihachi suspected that Hikaru might not be in love with Shouhen the way that Shouhen is in love with Hikaru. Hikaru's feeling are pretty much family love.
"Yes, Hikaru?" Answered back Heihachi quietly as he watches his grandson dry his hair with no energy.
"Do you know that aniki's married?" Asked Hikaru, quietly and solemnly.
"..." he didn't know what he should say. The truth?
"So you did know it" answered back Hikaru quietly. He doesn't have the strength left to be mad or sad anymore.
"Hikaru, I didn't tell you because I thought that Shou was going to be the one to tell you that himself," Heihachi whispered softly as he seen the looks in his grandson's eyes.
"I see." Was all that he got from his grandson before he fainted, face first into the floor.
"Hikaru!" Heihachi caught his grandson as he nearly hit the floor. With Hikaru's body in his arm. Heihachi finally noticed something, to his surprised. The fact that Hikaru was burning didn't lose its significance to him at all.
Feeling Hikaru's forehead, he confirmed his suspicious. Hikaru was hot. Very hot.
Without a word, he carried Hikaru to his room, the room that Hikaru made it officially his. Not that he mind at all.
First thing first, he got Hikaru out of his wet clothes and then exchange it for one of Hikaru's PJ, which was in green with leaves of golden and orange-red.
The night progressed with a worried Heihachi watching his grandson. After making Hikaru took his medicine, Heihachi closed his workshop and watch over Hikaru the whole time.
0°0→00°00→ Moving On ^°_°^
It has been two weeks and three days since Hikaru had fainted. He woke up later that night with a fever and had to be in bed for three whole days. During that time, Hikaru virtually recalled being made at someone but his fever was so high that he went in and out of it, most of the time. So, he can't remember a lot of things specifically.
What happened during that time? He didn't know and didn't ask. He rather not know, in fact. Or rather, he knows and didn't want to admit it. After all, Hikaru was avoiding Shouhen like a disease. But like a disease, not everything will go the way that he wanted. Life isn't a path made out of codes, after all.
It would be easy for Hikaru if life was made of codes. but nope, not happening.
When Shouhen came back, it was Saturday two weeks ago, and now, it is already Wednesday. Which mean that it is a school day for Hikaru, and he used it wisely to avoid Shouhen.
After school, both Akari and Hikaru were walking toward the train station, toward Heihachi's house. on the way there, Akari was trying to cheer up her childhood friends. She had noticed that Hikaru hasn't been smiling his goofy smile in the last two week. She had though that he would be so happy so that his brother is home again. Yet, strangely enough, with Shouhen home, Akari noticed that he was avoiding his own house like a plaque and always seems to be hiding when Shouhen-san is at the gate, waiting for him. It didn't take a genius to figure out that Shouhen did something that makes Hikaru pissed off, which was why Hikaru chooses to walk home with her and didn't wait for his brother for the past two weeks.
As they walked passed by the candy store, Akari's eyes landed on two figure at the back of the store, talking and holding on to each other. She blushed a little bright red. As a girl, her mother was very protective of her so the thing that she watches was limited. Which was why her attention was perked once she noticed that the two figure in the back of the store was kissing each other.
She was very curious about things like this as a girl. No, she isn't learning this for Hikaru and her. Akari knew that their parents have hope for them but seriously, Hikaru had always been someone like a little brother to her. So, it totally made sense to her that she wouldn't be interested in Hikaru that way. Shouhen-san? Maybe, since he was very pretty and beautiful, not to mention, there's this kindness in Shouhen-san that always make her content when he is near. But asides from that, Akari didn't think that she's interested in Shouhen-san in that manner. For some reason, she got the feeling that he doesn't like her much whenever they'd met. Which, was both a mysterious and a little weird for her.
Being the curiosity that Akari is, she stopped walking as she eyed the pair with somewhat a glint in her eyes. Totally forgetting that Hikaru was right behind her. And so, Hikaru walked right into her, smashing his face into the back of Akari's head.
"What the hell, Akari?!" He asked while robbing his nose in pain. Akari didn't even bother apologizing for stopping as she continues to look at the back of the store.
"Hikaru, look there," She said, pointing to the back of the candy store. Which have two figure doing things? It was a woman and a man, hugging each other and kissing very loudly... Well, Hikaru being Hikaru, he didn't' know what they were doing asides from thinking that it was somewhat disgusting. The woman was moaning like there's no tomorrow. And the man had one of his hand on her buttock and the other hand one of her chests.
What the hell is that man doing? Touching a woman's chest area like that is asking to be killed! Hikaru recalled that one accident when Hikaru accidentally touches Akari's chest in their P.E. Class, and was a slap, very loudly, for it. Akari might be a very well behave girl but oh boy, that time, Akari's slap hurt like hell.
Hikaru was getting disgusted as he's face paled at the noises they made. But, Akari didn't know that so she pulled Hikaru with her as she quietly tip-toeing to peek at them. Hikaru wanted to protest but was shut up when the couple talked. Near the couple just happened to be a block out an area where they can't seem them. So, Akari settles both herself and Hikaru there as they ear-drop on the couple. Hikaru rolled his eyes.
And so they listened to the couple.
The girl was really pretty, from what Hikaru could tell at least, but there's something in her that make Hikaru wanting to puke. Like, a disease or virus that Hikaru would love to get rid off if found on his laptop.
He listened. Hikaru would never admit that he is a bit curious about the girl. He knew internally that he had never met this woman before. So, how it is that his instinct already decided that he doesn't like this woman at all? He has never met her!
"Nasume, do you really love me?" Asked the man with a flushed face. Hikaru wondered if he had just run a marathon or what, why is his face so red? Wait, judging by where his hand is, Hikaru quickly change his mind.
"Of course, I love you Koji" answered the woman called Nasume with an equally flushed face. Arge, just hearing that voice was already enough to make Hikaru grimaced as something in him turned over.
"Then, why would you wanted to marry that damn pretty boy?" Asked koji with a whine and an annoying voice as he pulled the woman into his chest even tighter than before. Seriously, can the woman even breathe? What happens to personal space?
The girl chuckles a bit before she kisses him on the lips again. This times, she actually licks the lips of the man. Hikaru can see the blush on Akari's face but all he felt was disgust at that action.
"Shouhen might be a pretty boy and I might not love him, but he's rich and smart. I have a feeling that he's going to be something big in the future. Besides, you wouldn't want our child to be poor right?" Asked the girl with a grin and a smirk.
Something lit up inside Hikaru as a buzzing sound can be heard. Akari nearly gasped out loud if not for the fact he seals her mouth with his hand. Akari eyes widen at the name left from the woman's mouth. What did she say? Shouhen? There's only one Shouhen that she knew of in this part of their community!
"Damn it, Nasume. Not that I doubt your instinct but why him? Of all people, you could've trick anyone else so why that damn pretty boy?" Asked Koji with his eyes brightly lit in madness at the mention of the name.
Hikaru's hand clamp Akari's mouth tighter as something in his shift. Ah, so this is what happen. This woman tricked Shou-nii...
'Don't think that I will let you off that easily.' Hikaru though darkly as plans started to form in his mind. Hikaru decided that he have enough. And so. he dragged Akari with him and away from those two dickhead assholes. There is one thing that he has to do before them. They will never know what hit them until is way too late. Not for what they both are planting. Hikaru wasn't a genius for nothing.
When they run, more like Hikaru dragged Akari, far enough. Akari was panting hard and looking like she wanting to kill Hikaru. If not for the fact that when she opened her mouth, she closed them again automatically when she saw his face. She pale.
Hikaru's face was hardened into someone that Akari never saw before. He's not using the cold face that he used when she bring up Shouhen-san nor is it the other faces that she's similar with. He was grinning like an evil super-villain who has just gone crazy because of the insanity that followed after defeating the superhero. The sight was very creepy and it sends chills down her spine all the way down to her toes. She shivered.
"H-Hikaru..." She whispered softly as her whole body chilled in a way that has nothing to do with the temperature.
Akari has never seen Hikaru looking this evil before. Sure, she knows that he's smarter than he let's on. Sure, she also knows that Hikaru's hiding something from everyone. But she wasn't sure as to what she should think in this situation. Where her best friend and childhood has literally turn into a super-villain.
A super-villain that look like a cute angel with his bleach bang hair. Oh, not good. Whoever it is that's involved in his plan isn't going to be very happy. Akari secretly thinks as chills upon chills collided her spine, from the head all the way to her toes.
The images later give Akari nightmares for nights.
That night, when Hikaru comes back from his evil thoughts, he rushed home without Akari. He went straight to his room after greeting his grandpa. Heihachi had a knowing look in his eyes as he smiles softly to his favorite grandson retreating back as he closed the door to his room.
That night marks the night that Hikaru made a decision that would eventually turn him into someone who can never like the opposite sex. Actually, had Hikaru ever think of the opposite sex as his target?
The plans that he works on last two nights long. Including the people that are involving in, their night times were consist of nightmares about the devil himself as Hikaru slowly make his plan into reality.
Heihachi have to stop the chills down his spine once he passed by Hikaru's door and hear the sinister laugh inside.
'What happen this time?' Heihachi asked no one in particular as he swiftly continues his way to his workshop.