CHAPTER 2
Mink woke up the next morning with a half-naked Noiz lying next to him, who was still asleep.
Surprisingly he didn't have feelings of regret of over last night.
He sat there for a moment or two, thinking about leaving before Noiz would wake up or staying a bit longer. For some reason he chose the latter.
He didn't feel like just sitting there though, so he got up and walked into the kitchen. Looking around, he found nothing really edible, only the phone number of a pizza & pasta delivery restaurant.
He took a bit of Noiz's money and went to the convenience store. When he was back at the apartment he made pancakes and coffee, a bit of cinnamon mixed into both of them.
Meanwhile Noiz had woken up and had walked into the living room. Surprised at the sight of the breakfast-ready table, he stared at Mink for a moment.
"You're the first one to make me breakfast." Noiz mentioned as he walked up to Mink and kissed him.
"Why did you do that?" Mink asked just like the night before, apparently still surprised at Noiz's habit of kissing him randomly.
"It's normal, isn't it?"
"Is it?"
"Whatever, let's eat."
They sat there quietly for a while, eating breakfast, befor Noiz decided to ask: "So, why did you come to Japan?"
"Hmm?"
"Well, you're obviously not from this country, makes me wonder what would bring a person like you here."
"It's none of your business."
"Is that all you can say?! Seriously man, you don't even try to communicate with me in the slightest!"
Mink just stared at him.
"You really aren't, now are you?"
Noiz was starting to get fed up with the others attitude, last night was great and all, but the way Mink acted towards him pissed him off to no end. They went back to eating breakfast silent for a while.
"And where are you from?" Noiz, surprised at the fact that Mink had just asked him a question, took a moment to respond.
"Germany, you?" He decided it wouldn't hurt to ask again.
"America."
Noiz smirked, he was finally able to get him to answer at least one personal question, it wasn't much, but it was still better than nothing.
After that poor excuse for a conversation, it remained silent for the rest of the breakfast.
They cleared up the table together and while Noiz was doing the dishes, which has been a while since the Platinum jail incident, Mink started lacing up his boots.
"Are you leaving?"
"Yeah."
Noiz kissed him as a way of saying goodbye.
"I'll see you around."
And like that Mink left as nothing had happened. Noiz went back to bed, feeling like he could sleep for two weeks straight. But lying in his bed he somehow just couldn't manage to fall asleep and he kept thinking about everything that had been going on: Platinum jail, Aoba, Mink, Toue….
…
Wait a minute…
Did Toue actually die yesterday?
Thinking about it, he didn't recall finding his body or any other signs the guy had died along with his evil plan. Suddenly he thought about Mink again, that guy seemed to be so focused on killing Toue, so maybe he should contact him and tell him about this. If he really wanted to get rid of Toue as much as Noiz thought he wanted, he deserved to know, didn't he?
And if Toue was still alive, it could mean that he might try to do something like Platinum jail again. Noiz was pretty sure the guy still had enough money to do that.
He decided to call Mink.
"Hey."
"What do you want?"
"Nothing, I was just thinking about the fact that we didn't actually confirm wether or not Toue died in yesterday's incident."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that he could still be alive."
Mink hung up.
10 minutes later he stood at his doorstep.
"Put on some clothes, we're gonna investigate the collapsed building."
"Why are you taking me along?"
"You might come in handy at some point."
"Oh right, I'm just a tool to you, something you can use, just like Aoba and when you don't need it anymore you toss it aside and never bother with it again, interesting way to treat others" Noiz said with a hint of mockery in his voice
"That's exactly how you treat people too."
"I know." He smiled in a way that confirmed he was well aware of it and not ashamed of it either.
"Stop whinig and get dressed already."
"Fine."
And so they went to the ruins of Oval tower together.
They looked around everywhere, but found nothing that confirmed Toue's death, absolutely nothing.
"So we're still not rid of him."
"Yeah."
Mink started to walk away.
"Hey, where are you going?"
He turned around and looked at Noiz like he was stupid or something
"I'm gonna find Toue of course."
"And you think you can just easily do that, the guy could be anywhere, by the time you would have found him he'd already be long gone."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that you can't locate his whereabouts on your own."
"Are you implying that you want to help me?" Mink's expression was a mix of confusion and disbelief.
"Yeah." Noiz was surprised about his own answer.
"Why?"
"I don't really have anything to do now and I really don't feel like going back to Germany yet."
They started to walk away from the ruins that were Oval tower just a day ago.
"How do you plan on finding out where Toue is?"
"Give me a few days."
END OF CHAPTER 2