Inner Light
Part 4: Shade
Kakei squirmed under the angry scrutiny of their eyes. He hadn't meant to ask out loud who they were talking about. Yukihiko screamed in frustration. 'Mind your OWN business!' Kakei started shaking and Yukihiko blanched. He hadn't meant to scare the poor kid, but his anger was boiling over. He pushed on the kid's psyche to see what the problem exactly was and whether he could help with it, but he found that he couldn't see what the boy was thinking. It was a great fog. He pushed a little harder maybe fear had brought up a wall. He caught a wave of emotions and gasped as his control went haywire. He fell to his knees and the pain that exploded up from the contact was nothing compared to the pain he felt inside his head. He was not an empath. Never had he ever felt emotions when reading someone. He couldn't tell if this was a growth of his powers or if it was signaling something else, something terrible. Saiga put a hand on Yukihiko's shoulder and the boy looked up into the dark glasses. He waved him away. 'Nn… 'm fine.' After a second of looking over his roommate he moved to the couch where Kakei's shaking had stilled but not stopped. He seemed to be in a trance. It looked much like the episode that had happened before. Suddenly Kakei gasped and grabbed Saiga's face. 'Stay away from the stairs!' As he said that his head fell hard against Saiga's shocked chest. Yukihiko slumped to the floor. The emotions that had flown through him were now gone. He felt the echo of Saiga's worried thoughts and smiled. It was nice for him to hear the normal sounds in his head.
'I have no idea. They both just passed out. Yukihiko started crying in the middle of his sleep. He seemed to be remembering something. I've never seen that happen to him.' Saiga's voice started to tremble. He was scared. He was normally the stoic one, but this was just too much for him. His best friend was crying in the middle of the room, every time Saiga had tried to move him the boy screamed in horror. Kakei was slumped over on the couch. He looked in pain. Since he had no idea what to do he called his Sensei. The man calmed him down quickly and kept him company while the other two worked their troubles as they slept. The man said something and Saiga took a deep breath. 'But he's hardly even breathing.' Another mumble came over the phone and Saiga's eyes widened. 'No! I can't do that to him. I've got to go.' Before the man could reply Saiga had hung up the phone. He set it aside and leaned against the kitchen counter. Kakei stirred and a moan escaped from his mouth. His eyes opened slowly and eventually locked with Saiga's shaded ones. 'Help.' Saiga was at the couch in an instant. 'Something terrible is going to happen. Yukihiko was right. I'm psychic and I just saw…' he closed his eyes in thought and a tear slid down his cheek. '… a horrible…' Saiga held a finger to the boy's lips. There was no sense in having him continue.
The two sat on the couch in complete silence. Kakei tried not to think of his vision. Every time he did it sent a throb through his head and made him want to cry. Saiga was completely still next to him on the couch. He seemed to be thinking of something important since his eyebrows were pulled into a contemplative look. Once in a while you could hear Yukihiko whimper in invisible pain. Saiga's shoulders tensed with every noise. It was driving him crazy to not know what was going on. Finally Kakei stood. He walked over to the sink and filled a glass of water. He walked back and stood over Yukihiko. Saiga was about to ask what he was going to do but the red head's eyes flittered open and he reached for the glass of water since it was the first thing he saw. He gulped it down and handed it back to Kakei. The two met eyes and immediately the blond knew that Yukihiko had seen the vision he had. 'I did. I'm a telepath.' Kakei's eyes widened and he held his hand out. It was taken and he was slowly pulled off the floor.
Saiga was watching the two and was amused at house much closer they seemed. Suddenly he felt a shift in the air. The metal of the stairs reverberated and he knew someone was standing at their doorway. He threw off his sunglasses and the room was suddenly white. As the door opened the light faded back to normal. A man, dressed in the bad guy cliché of a trench coat and hat pulled down low, stood in the doorway. He surveyed the room. He walked into the room and to the bedrooms. He checked each of them and after making sure he hadn't missed anyone he walked back out the door and down the stairs. Once Saiga was sure that the footsteps were gone he closed his eyes and slid his glasses back on. Kakei and Yukihiko gasped in breaths of air. Saiga stood and pushed his hair back in vain as it fell back forward. 'Just breath. Slowly.' He had only used his powers on another person once and that was at night. He had never hidden three people during the day, and he worried that he had over done it a little bit. After a few minutes the boys all were back to themselves, and for only knowing each other a day the trio were tighter than brothers.
'So something else was supposed to happen just then?' Saiga finally asked. Kakei nodded from his place on the floor. Yukihiko leaned his head against Saiga. 'We would've died in pain and sorrow.' Kakei nodded. They were lucky. He knew that he could change his visions, but it took him hours to fix the problems. This vision was so fast he had not been able to warn anyone properly. But things ended out better than he could have imagined. Much better than he had seen. All thanks to Saiga. He turned to the boy who was holding his head as if it hurt him. Yukihiko smiled at Kakei when he noticed the boys attention. 'He's fine. It takes a lot out of him during the day.' Kakei nodded like he understood, but in reality he had no idea what they were talking about. 'What exactly…' He didn't know how to ask. Yukihiko started to talk but Saiga interrupted him.
'It's my power. I can control light. I can bend it around things and make them disappear. I can change the amount of light in a place and make it darker or brighter. It started out as a good thing, but eventually looking so closely at every particle of light started to effect my eyes and they became ultra sensitive. I can't even stand in the shade on a rainy day without my glasses.' Saiga paused to rub his head. 'When I use my powers it hurts and I think I've used too much of them this time. I still can't stop seeing the sunlight.' Yukihiko gasped. He turned to Saiga and saw the tears he knew were streaking down the boys face. He pointed to Kakei. 'The curtains in my room. The ones I told you to leave alone yesterday. Grab them! They need to cover all the windows.' Yukihiko covered Saiga's head with the blanket on the couch. It had been a long time since the boy had this much trouble controlling his powers. 'Sensei?' Yukihiko asked. Saiga's grip tightened on Yukihiko's arm. 'Ok.' Kakei returned with the curtains. They were thicker than any other that he had ever seen. Yukihiko worked fast and covered all the windows in the room. He even covered the peep hole in the door with a thick piece of cardboard. The room was completely black and yet Saiga seemed to be glowing. 'Ahh man. We've got to call Sensei.' Saiga shook his head. 'I've got it. Just give me 5 minutes.' Kakei tapped the red head on the shoulder. 'He's holding the light in him, that's why his head hurts so bad. He shouldn't be doing that. I think its because of the amount of light he manipulated. Sensei told me that if this ever happened I was SUPPOSED TO CALL HIM IMMEDIATELY.' Yukihiko said the last to Saiga who shrugged and faded a little.
Kakei sat back on the floor and Yukihiko sat next to Saiga on the couch. The pair obviously had known each other for a long time. '5 years.' Yukihiko said softly. Kakei nodded. 'Can you… not listen?' Yukihiko shook his head. 'I can't turn mine off, or even turn down the noise. I can only turn up the noise, and turn up a specific person. The rest of you are still there, but not as loud as the one I wish to listen to.' Yukihiko looked sad as he spoke. Kakei was amazed. When he left home he had assumed that he was alone. That he was a freak. And in less than a day he had found two people that were just like him and knew all about their powers. He looked up at the pair. He felt a crushing sensation fall on him. His breathing stopped and his head felt like it wanted to explode. He groaned and grabbed at his head, but his arms didn't move. Saiga turned to the struggling boy. He looked at Yukihiko who was grinning ear to ear. Suddenly he understood what was happening.
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