That Yankumi!
Chapter 2
by: WhiteGloves
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"Ow…" Yankumi murmured as she finally started to gain conscious, "What the hell… my whole body's aching…"
"That's because you've never moved a muscle for at least 3 hours." said a familiar voice.
"Shut up, I'll complain when I want to…" Yankumi murmured as she tried to stretch but the funny thing was that she couldn't move her arms. Something was stopping her from stretching.
Opening her eyes, she looked around her and saw a large hall with nothing save boxes in it. The hall was quite dark, and only a little light from the shining moon above the small window was giving Yankumi the ability to see around her.
Blinking in spite of herself, Yankumi sat straight and frowned.
"Eh? Where am I? Is this the spa's private room?"
"You're really unbelievable." said the voice again, "Can't you see it's a warehouse?"
Yankumi shot the person beside her a look and saw Shin Sawada's eyes glowing in the dark.
"EH! Sawada, what are you doing here?" she shouted in surprise, moving inches to have a good look at him but he was half hidden in the darkness.
Shin chuckled and then gasped suddenly as if in pain. It didn't escape Yankumi's notice as she asked, "Sawada, what's the matter?"
Shin grunted, and then said rather softly,
"If you must know…you've been abducted."
Yankumi's eyes widened.
"Abducted? Me?"
"Haven't you noticed your arms are tied?"
Yankumi moved her arms but only to realize she was tightly tied from the back.
"What the hell…" she growled, her eyes sparkling dangerously, "My spa…"
Shin pressed his eyes closed as if trying hard not to roll them in exasperation. Yankumi struggled on her bonds, and then shot him another look.
"Wait, if I am abducted, then, what are you doing here?" she asked with a frown.
Shin sighed.
"I don't know."
"What? What do you mean you don't know? You've also been abducted and you don't know why?"
"That's what I told you," Shin finished quietly.
Yankumi frowned as she gave him a sharp gaze.
"Sawada…" she warned.
"What should we do now, Ojou?" Shin asked at once, emphasizing the last word with a smirk.
Yankumi blinked at him, and then looked thoughtfully around.
"Well, in that case we have to get out of here ourselves, right?" she tried to pry her hands from behind her but the ropes proved to be too tight, "Why would they kidnap a high school teacher, dammit…"
"Beats me," Shin rolled his eyes in exasperation, "Maybe that's not the point here."
Yankumi glared at him but didn't say anything.
Silence filled the two for a moment as she tried to free herself. She was still muttering about going to the spa while Shin, with his back leaning on the cold box, watched over her. After a few more moments, Yankumi sighed and slumped herself back on the wall, looking problematic.
"This is ridiculous… just when I thought I can relax for a night, this would happen…"
Shin smiled.
"You should never let your guard down, you know?"
Yankumi shot him a look.
"Shut up. How about you? How did you end up here?"
"I wonder about that," Shin sighed and looked upward, making Yankumi watch him instead.
"Neh, Sawada…" she started quietly, "How did you really end up here?"
Shin remained quiet for awhile as he looked at the ceiling quietly. Even though he was in that kind of situation, he doesn't feel afraid at all… Maybe because he was with her… or perhaps it's because he managed to be beside her when she was taken. He'd be more afraid if he wasn't there… so he was lucky… he need not feel afraid.
"Sawada!" Yankumi's annoyed voice brought him back from his thoughts, "What's wrong with you? Speak when I talk to you, alright?"
"What?"
"I'm asking how you end up here."
Shin closed his eyes for awhile, and then when he opened them, Yankumi was surprised to find the boy's eyes full of determination.
"I came here to protect my stupid sensei."
"What?"
"I couldn't just leave you when I saw them carry you like you're a piece of meat. That's not cool."
Yankumi's eyes widened in understanding as she looked at him from where he was half hidden in the shadows. Shin's unfailing desire to protect his friends…
"Sawada… you…"
There were sudden footsteps around that alerted the two.
Shin sat up straight and fixed his eyes toward the closed metal door. Yankumi, on the other hand, waited silently for their captors to appear.
The metal doors were pulled upward to open. There was a ringing noise. Lights spread around the warehouse as car lights were directed to it. Yankumi sat up straight as she saw two men wearing suits enter the scene.
"Oh well, look she's awake. Finally…"
"Who are you guys and what do you want!" she shouted as forbidding feeling alerted her senses, "what the hell do you think you're doing to a high school teacher and a cute student?"
"Sensei and student?" repeated the taller man with their shadows covering their identity as their back went against the blinding light. "Well, that explains why this brat meddled with us when we took you. But it doesn't explain why he would be so stubborn to protect you."
"Huh…?" Yankumi blinked in surprise and turned to Sawada. That was when she saw in full light that he was full of bruises all over his arms and face. His head was also bleeding with fresh blood, and his lip looked cut. "Sawada!"
She edge toward him but Shin merely brushed her off.
"I'm fine."
Yankumi looked at him in concern, "You—how did you end up like that!"
"It's not important." Shin answered quietly.
"Sawada!" she shouted sounding angry this time.
"They took you!" Sawada exclaimed as he turned to her with such determined eyes, "I couldn't let that just be…"
His answer rendered her speechless. Yankumi bit her lower lip with her eyes almost filling with tears as she understood how Shin tried to save her…
"Baka…" she whispered that made Shin close his eyes.
"What a touching scene considering you are the Oeda clan's next boss," said the shorter guy of the two suited man, "It makes me wonder what you are teaching this student."
Yankumi ignored the guy and looked at Sawada's injuries. They were all deep and swollen and their number almost made Yankumi frown. Fighting these two hooligans would not give Sawada that much of wounds and bruises… and Sawada was a capable fighter, so how come he's injuries looked so bad?
"You guys, what did you do to my student?" Yankumi hissed all of a sudden, her eyes all over the bruises and cuts Shin was supporting.
"Oh, he didn't blab to his dear teacher?" laughed the tall man, "We've been playing with him for the past hours. He's been shouting about not to lay a finger on you while you were unconscious which he said is very cowardly, so we told him since he is awake then why don't we play together?"
"We just taught him a little lesson or two," said the other man.
Yankumi gave Shin a very compassionate look, this time, with tears threatening to fall down her cheeks, her lips shaking at how hurt she was for her student.
"Sawada!" she croaked in sympathy to her beaten student who didn't even look like he was ready to back down yet despite his injuries. "You didn't have to do that!"
Shin looked away and sighed.
"I'll do anything to protect you," he whispered that made Yankumi's eyes round.
The two men edged at the captives.
"Well, since you are awake, suppose we start with you?" the tall man said, raising a baseball bat to his shoulder, "I suppose you wouldn't want us to hurt your student further, sensei?"
"Don't move anymore, alright?" she said softly to Shin as she ignored the enemies again. "I will not forgive myself if you are hurt further… leave everything to me…"
Shin apparently blushed but whether she noticed it or not, no one could tell for then she looked sideways at their abductor and gave them one hell of a look.
"You've picked on the wrong guy," Yankumi murmured, standing up slowly to her feet with the ropes from behind her falling down on the ground sadly. Shin blinked at the ropes then looked up at Yankumi who looked very pissed.
The two men looked at her stand up, and then at the ropes on the floor.
"As expected from a yakuza heiress" whispered the short man.
"I'll never forgive you for hurting him," Yankumi said looking as if she could finish an entire clan of enemy on her own, "My precious student who stood his ground in order to protect me… and you guys beating him with your pathetic toys… that's just very low… you're not even worth my clan's wrath… so let me finish it here, after all, it's me whom you owe something big time."
"Stop talking big," muttered the tall man as he raised his bat, "You're just a woman!"
"Yankumi!" Sawada muttered as the attack came. Yankumi's eyes flashed.
And it was over in a blink of an eye as the tall man come crashing on a box after Yankumi was done with him. The short guy stepped backward, looking suddenly intimidated.
"What the hell's with you…" he muttered, putting his hand inside his suit's pocket that made Shin and Yankumi's eyes widen. He pulled out a gun and pointed it at her. "Don't move!"
Yankumi eyed the gun, then the man.
"Coward…" she muttered.
The short man smirked as he threateningly pointed the gun at her and said, "You wouldn't have to go through all this trouble if your clan just gave up the territory we've been asking."
Yankumi didn't budge.
"So in other words you took me and hurt my student because of your greed?"
The man smiled. Yankumi's eyes darkened. She noticed the bat used by the tall guy in front of her, before whispering.
"Unforgivable."
In the middle of this scene, Sawada suddenly put himself in front of Yankumi and stood face to face with the short man and his gun. Yankumi's heart flipped in surprise and fear.
"Sawada what are you doing!" she frantically yelled as she tried to push Shin away, "Get out of there!"
"Don't point a gun to a lady, you coward," Shin said despite the pain he was feeling, "That's very low for yakuza like you."
"You…" said the guy rudely as he pulled the trigger.
"Sawada!" Yankumi pushed him on the ground. The bullet hit a box behind the two, making the short guy stop to look. That was when Yankumi saw the opportunity to kick the bat in front of her toward the short guy's head.
"Ahhh!"
And Yankumi was on him in a blink of an eye with the man's gun thrown away.
Whatever happened to him after that, he'd be wishing he was rather in hell.
Yankumi pushed Sawada's apartment door open and helped him in.
"I'm fine," he said as they entered and he slumped himself on his bed.
Yankumi immediately ran around for a towel and warm water for first aid.
A few moments later, Yankumi was dabbing on Shin's wounded face, to the scratches on his arms, and the bruises on his knees. They were on his sofa with Sawada lying on it and Yankumi beside him and treating his wounds.
"They really got you there," she said quietly as she dabbed more, "They could have killed you though. You're lucky you survived."
Sawada didn't say anything but stared at her for a whole minute.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked frowning slightly as she damped the towel, "Is something wrong with my face?"
"Your face is fine," Shin smiled sighing, "Even if it looked like that, its fine."
"How rude!"
He laughed heartily that sent her eyebrows up to heaven.
"Anyway, Sawada, thank you very much." She said after awhile, looking at him straight in the eye, "I somehow have ideas of what you did and how bravely you did it… I owe you this time."
Sawada returned her gaze with much intensity.
"Hey, Yankumi…"
"Hmm?"
"Is it okay… for me to like you?"
"Eh?" Yankumi's eyes widened at this, "Sawada, did they hit you hard on the head? What are you talking about!"
Sawada reached for her right hand as he sat up slowly and gripped her hand tightly to his.
"Yankumi… I'm serious." He said quietly, "No matter how stupid you think it is… I really think… No, I'm sure about it. I really like you."
Yankumi stared at him in full surprise.
"Sawada…"
Shin sat up straight and looked at her, his eyes determinedly searching her gaze.
"Don't worry about it; I won't push myself to you. All I ask is a permission to like you."
Yankumi didn't say anything as she stared at him in disbelief. Sawada couldn't hold her gaze any longer so he stood up and rounded toward his kitchen.
"I'm sorry about your spa stuff," he said without looking at her, "I suppose this kidnapping thing really ruined your night."
"Sawada…" Yankumi stood up and slowly looked at him. Sawada avoided her gaze. "Is this why you kept on protecting me…?"
Shin stopped and then turned to her with a red face.
"Baka… no one in 3D would forgive me if I let anyone hurt you."
Yankumi looked tearful.
"Sawada…"
Shin drank a full glass of water. When he lowered the glass from his lips did he say, "So then, is it okay… that I like you?"
Yankumi considered for a moment, and then nodded.
"Of course. No teacher would refuse such a cute student's request."
Sawada turned to her and saw that she was smirking with a V sign of her right hand. Clearly, his sensei's acceptance to his confession was overwhelming, but then Shin suddenly found himself wishing his teacher would not be monkey about it.
Which is what seemed to be Yankumi's way of coping up with it as she looked up the ceiling with a dream like look in her eyes.
"I've been day dreaming about a student confessing his love to me since I started teaching! Who would have thought, you, Sawada, of all people would be the first one to fall for me!"
Shin blushed and then hurried to the sofa and turned his back on her.
"Idiot… How can I like you the way you are…" he whispered.
Yankumi flopped on the sofa next to him.
"Oi~ are you embarrassed?"
"Baka…" he muttered, unable to look her in the eye. Yankumi's grin spread and she tapped his back nonstop.
"You are much more of a gentleman than I thought you were, Sawada! I must say I'm impressed! With all that you've done for me I'm giving you three hundred points, yosh!"
Sawada shot her a look.
"Three hundred points?"
"Of course~ you deserve it~ you cute student of mine,"
Shin stared at her and had to shake his head a little. Isn't three hundred points more than what he was expecting? If it was an ordinary person, giving three hundred points is more than enough to guarantee a 'yes'…But the Oeda's Ojou was different, he should have known that. Yankumi is really something…
"Get off me," Shin said as he pushed her off the sofa and stood up, trying to act cool and all. "You should go home now… there's no point staying in my house. And no point wishing you can make it to your spa appointment."
"Eh?" Yankumi looked at her watch and saw that it was 4 am in the morning, "AHhh!"
Shin could only manage another roll of his eyes.
~To be Continued~
Just an extra chapter later!
To give it a final ending^^
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