Needed: Chapter 02/?
OKAY DOKEY-here is the next chapter for y'all. Hope you enjoy and ignore the Y'all I just typed. XD hahahaha my humor is soooooooo bad eh?U should here my brother or my best mate. My brother makes fun of accents and life, blunders by famous ppl and what other famous comedians do whilst my bezza can make the teachers who don't even smile most of the time laugh just by acting casual with the. Anyway enough about my (recently aka-Ryder Daniels!) life and onto the story! Enjoy!
The next morning Irie and Yoshida met up in the kitchen after they had both woken up after a night of worrying as they didn't hear Takasugi come in that night. Also as a plus they found his room un-disturbed and no sign of his school uniform or belongings. The biggest thin is that there was absolutely no sign of Takasugi had ever entered the apartment at all.
"Irie-kun, why didn't he come back? " Yoshida innocently asked whilst dressed in cute white pair of PJ's.
Dressed in his own sleepwear consisting of an orange short sleeved T-shirt and black lounge pants replied to the smaller super middle school student.
"I don't know Yoshida but I think we should just go to school like normal. It's Takasugi so he might have been out all night and instead coming back, went to school or something. He's so unpredictable I just don't know"
"Of all days. Okay then, I'll go get ready. Will you make some breakfast and get our bento's? "
"Sure thing" The two each worried about their third fried went off into opposite direction of the house. Yoshida headed towards his own bedroom, in a meanwhile Irie started to cook and make bentos. Still making 3 of them like normal Irie packed two of them into his own school bag wiling and hoping he would find Takasugi at school.
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Later on the way to school Irie and Yoshida found Kusaka walking their way shouting their names trying to catch their attention. When the two boys together stopped and waved back Kusaka proceeded and ran up to them only to stop suddenly near them
"Eh, where's Takasugi" He asked wondering "Is he sick?"
"No, Takasugi-kun is..."Yoshida tailed off as he saw something in the corner of his eye on the bridge just opposite them.
"What is it Yoshida" Irie asked before he noticed the smaller boy had sprinted off towards what he had noticed
"Hey!"Kusaka shouted when Irie and Kusaka looked at each other and trailed behind Yoshida following him urging him to slowdown but the boy interested in horticulture did not stop at all until coming towards what he had noticed. A school bag exactly like theirs and a plastic bag near 2 wooden boxes.
Rummaging though the bag contents and checking the labels on the boxes he discovered it all belonged to Takasugi.
As Irie and Kusaka to came to a stop all puffed out having to sprint all of a sudden even though that was an unusual occurrence for Irie.
"Whose is it?" Kusaka asked curiously looking over Yoshida's shoulder
"It's Takasugi's, all of it" He replied nervously turning around after picking up and gathering the fallen contents of the plastic bag.
"Maji de?" Irie was shocked and now was truly sure that they would meet neither at school nor later after back at the apartment.
"I think something bad might have happened last night, so me and Yoshida will go look and gather information" Irie said straight to Kusaka's face then continuing to talk before Kusaka could object.
"You have to go to school and act normal say that we called you this morning and that all three of are sick ok? It's important know one knows what we are doing especially Sugi-sensei"
"Fine but keep contact with me. Send messages to my phone whenever you can ok?"
"We will, promise" Yoshida said standing beside Irie. Kusaka walked away no to sharing the deep worry of Irie and Yoshida for Takasugi. He may not reply to Kusaka's feeling but Kusaka truly cared and thought he maybe was able to be civil friends with the shorter and cold boy.
Yoshida pulled out one of the wooden boxes and read an inscription that was carefully engraved but even he could tell it looked like the job of a complete novice.
'Ontanjoubi Omedetou Yoshida from Takasugi!' Yoshida read the inscription out aloud shocked. Quickly removing the second box he to read the inscription on that box to 'Otanjoubi Omedetou Irie from Takasugi ! ' passing the box slowly to Irie as he realized the handwriting on the both boxes were the same and they were indeed Takasugi's. One important detail about both Irie and Yoshida that only Takasugi knew was that that their birthday was during the same week. Today being Yoshida's and in 3 days after the weekend it was to be Irie's birthday too.
Neither of them dared open the boxes yet and shuffled them back into the bag Yoshida had dropped.
"Let's go search for him" Irie stated before grabbing the have plastic bag letting Yoshida carry the light weighted school bag.
"Hai" Yoshida strongly replied following Yoshida away in the opposite direction of the school premises.
They started out by going to the shop that Takasugi had supposedly been to the night before by using the logo on the bag Irie was carrying. It was a wood shop store, where there were plenty of people were carving and making their own creation using the tools and wood with some assistance from some professionals. Asking the shop clerk what Takasugi had been doing last night and what time he had left.
"Ahh Takasugi-kun, yes well he's been coming here for the past week working on the present for his close friends said. Something about he had never gave any gratitude to them and never gave any sincere apologies even though he realised he was wrong a lot. He also said he never had wished them Happy Birthday and anted to make a change"
"He really told you all of that, I can't believe it, it's just not…Takasugi like" Irie pointed out once again they each were shocked for the nth time today.
"Yes he did, he worked hard for the past week and finished it last night. He left around 9pm and went out the south exit of this market.
"Okay thank you very much" Yoshida replied being the first to leave. They began trailing the route Takasugi would of took eventually leading back to the bridge. They noticed a small shop with a sign saying that they were opened till midnight. Even in the dark if anyone was there, because of the street lights illumination the street they must have seen something.