Hello everybody, how have you guys been, I haven't been feeling well so I couldn't be bothered going on the computer to type, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while, but I will TRY to make this a longer chapter, but I can't guarantee it. (Noticed how I said try in large letters) well anyway, please give me some ideas in your reviews, I'm stumped, and If I don't get at least 5 new reviews, I won't write the next chapter, well on with the story.
'Masaya' just the thinking of his name makes me feel sick' Ichigo thought. Now she knew how Ryou felt, when he thought about him with me. 'But how can I prove it was him? If it isn't, what will I do?' she wondered. That day at work, Ichigo wasn't her usual, peppy self, and everyone noticed. "What's up with Ichigo today, I wonder?" Lettuce asked "And where is the one to tell her to do her job" Mint snickered, referring to Ryou while taking a sip of her herbal tea. Keiichiro overheard this conversation and wondered were his blonde haired friend was; he hadn't seen him since this morning, when he was napping, on top of his bed. So he decided to go and see him. He walked upstairs to where he should be, but when Keiichiro reached the entrance of Ryou's room, he found it, open? As he entered the room, he saw half of the genius's body under the covers, but sitting up, working on a laptop. "Hey Ryou, you've been up here all day, what's wrong?" Keiichiro asked walking over to him. "Oh, nothing" he said, as he took his friends entrance by surprise. "Alright, come down when you're ready" he then walked out of the room, still unsure if his project partner was really ok. Back downstairs, Ichigo was still not acting like her normal self; she was very distant and unapproachable to the question of why she was acting like that. "How can I prove it was him?' that thought, spun around and around inside of her mind, it was if she hated Masaya, well she did but… Her thoughts trailed off to the sound of annoyed customers. Ichigo ran over to a lady, who was waiting impatiently for her order to be taken. "Hey Keiichiro, order for table 6, a cups of lemon tea" Ichigo said walking into the kitchen, when she saw him, fiddling with an overhead camera, she asked, "What are you doing?" Tilting her head, in curiosity. "Just adjusting the security camera" he said, getting down from the ladder. "Are they everywhere in the Café?" she asked curiously, putting down her order tray. "Yes, oh and out the front of the Café too, Why?" he asked, getting the tea ready for table 6. "Well" Ichigo thought for a second 'The knife came from the front window, that's it' "Well, I dropped my, uh, bracelet, yeah that's it, out the front this morning, and I wondering if I could use the tapes to see where I dropped it" she lied, hoping that he would fall for it. "Sure you can Ichigo" he went to get the outside tapes from this morning. When he returned, he was carrying 11 clearly marked tapes, labelling from 1 to 11. "Here, go to the spare bedroom, there is a video player in there" he said going back to the tea. Ichigo headed up to the spare room, once she had gone into the room, she put the tapes in one by one "No, Mint and Zakuro, mailman, no, Lettuce, no, milkman, Pudding, no, no. Ichigo finally got to the last tape. "This has got to be it" she reassured herself, as she put it into the VCR; she sat down and watched it with intense eyes. The tape showed a dark male figure, he was holding a long, sharp butchers knife in his right hand. His hair was short, but she still couldn't make out the colour. "I can't see who this is" Ichigo said, squinting. But just as she was about to press stop, the figure turned around a little, but just enough to reveal a light bruise on his left wrist
(FLASHBACK)
A couple of days ago, Ichigo went to watch Masaya at one of his kendo matches (This was before the broke up) he was fighting a swordsman as strong as himself; the opponent swung his sword and hit Masaya in the wrist. The following day, Masaya showed the bruise to Ichigo, when they went to the central park on a date.
(END FLASHBACK)
"It is Masaya, he will pay" she said to herself, she clenched her fist, as a sign of her anger "Are you ok in there" a voice came from outside. She recognised it as Keiichiro's voice "Yeah, I, uh, found out where the guy, I mean, the bracelet is" she replied, stuttering after every word. "Well ok, but you need to come down, there a lot of customers coming in and the rest of the mews need your help" "Alright, I'll be down in a sec" as she ejected the video, she took the rest of the tapes and headed back to the main area of the café, to help the struggling girls, well except for Mint, who was doing nothing but drinking her afternoon tea. The day went on, as it usually did, Lettuce breaking plates, Pudding breaking more in her acts, Mint STILL drinking tea, and Zakuro, well. "Girls, its time to close the Café" Keiichiro said as he turned the sign to closed. "Thank goodness" Mint said "It has been a hard day" "Mint, you didn't DO any work" Ichigo exclaimed, starting to put up the chairs, "Is something wrong?" Lettuce asked as she was picking up plates that she and Pudding had dropped, just moments before. "No, no, of course there isn't" she reassured them, Ichigo then walked into the change room, where she changed back into her casual clothes. "See you everyone" Lettuce and Pudding said as they exited the Café premises, with Zakuro right behind them, and as usual, Mint followed. This left Ichigo alone, with the exception of Keiichiro and Ryou. But Ichigo had no intension of leaving Ryou alone, even with Keiichiro here; she knew that he would leave sooner or later. So she had to come up with a way of staying here with Ryou, and if he didn't let her, she would stay and sleep on a table, because Ichigo knew that she couldn't leave Ryou by himself, with the person, who goes by the name of Masaya Aoyama, lurking around. She had a feeling that he would come back, even if he had to kill her to get to him. As these thoughts spun through her head, Ichigo heard the floorboards in the hallway creaking, as the sound of footsteps came closer and closer towards the main area of the Café, she saw a hand, holding a knife, a long sharp knife.
Ohhh, another cliffy, one of my reviewers said I was cruel with the ending chapter cliffy, but I think this one has more suspense then the last one, aw well, remember, if I don't get at least 5 new reviews, I won't put up the next chapter, see ya MEOW55
