Here is Chapter 4!
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"Ikuto." Her laugh echoed through the dark space of Ikuto's dream.
Ikuto shot up in his bed, or cot. He was sweating heavily and as he ran his hand through his hair he realized he had dug his nails into his palm again. There were little blood marks on both of his palms.
Suddenly the heavy steel door opened and Ikuto's boss stepped into.
"Oh, good you're awake." The man smirked.
Ikuto glared at him and then said, "I'm not doing your dirty work."
The man seemed to find the statement funny as his sinister laughter ricocheted off the walls of the confined space.
"But you already have." The man smiled as Ikuto swallowed. "And I have another mission."
A woman walked around the man with a needle in her hand.
"Please don't struggle." She begged, but Ikuto was already on his feet and ready to struggle.
"If you cooperate I'll give you your phone." The man dangled the slender mobile phone. Ikuto noticed it had a red flashing light which meant there was a texted message that the boss was going to let him see. However, Ikuto knew this text message would only throw him deeper into despair; which only made him want to see it more, but he also was terrified that the message would be about Amu.
While he was thinking the woman shoved the needle into his forearm with surgical precision and then she ran out of the room in fear of her safety. The man left the room and shut the steel door.
This drug that they pumped through his veins was filled with a new experimental drug they were using to control him. Ikuto hardly remembered what he had done when he was influenced by the drug before. He knew the door would be unlocked, and his mind told him he wanted to leave, but Ikuto tried to surpass the urge to succumb to the boss' will.
Ikuto noticed a file on the ground near the door. It was taunting him because as his mind became more clouded by the drug the less control he had over his body, until he was watching himself walk over and pick up the folder.
The drug enhanced all of Ikuto's abilities. He flipped through the folder with lightning sped and when he was finished he threw the folder to the ground. It slipped under his bed, like the rest. Ikuto raced out of his room as the information flew by in his mind.
Young male, about his own age, but that didn't bother Ikuto at the moment. No direct family, the only person close to him was the daughter of Ikuto's boss' rival. Ikuto didn't question the boss' motives when he was drugged, but Ikuto's conscious mind was strong this time; it was more used to the drug.
Ikuto hopped along the roof tops until he got to an apartment. A piece of information floated by, room 429.
Ikuto went into the building and found the room, but when he broke in there was no one there. Ikuto searched the information in his mind. One of his favourite places to go was the park - with his girlfriend. However, Ikuto's mind didn't comprehend that there might be a bystander because he would take out the bystander as well.
Ikuto's inhuman reflexes and strength allowed him to reach the barren park in minutes and his enhanced hearing allowed him to hear a woman's laughing and a man's words. Ikuto raced off in that direction.
The woman was blonde and the man was he turned to face Ikuto was the man Ikuto was looking for.
"What do you want?" He asked as Ikuto walked forward.
Ikuto didn't answer as he shoved his fist into the man's face. The man stepped back and coughed. The woman gasped and raced to his side, but Ikuto threw her away like a bothersome fly. She hit a trashcan nearby, and that's when the man lost it. He ran at Ikuto, but Ikuto used the man's own momentum to throw on his back.
Ikuto was so busy beating the person to a pulp that he didn't realize the woman was standing beside him. She managed to daze Ikuto, by smashing a branch over the back of his head. The daze was enough to weaken the drugs effect a slight bit, but Ikuto's boss was fighting to control him.
"Finish them." The boss' voice commanded through the ear piece. Ikuto didn't realize it was there until now.
Ikuto's body willingly moved forward.
"No!" The woman screamed as she covered the man's body.
The man tried, with weak attempts, to push her away, but she wouldn't move.
"I love you." She cried.
Ikuto stopped moving.
Any cloud in his mind vanished with the presence of one girl. Amu was all he could think about and how he left her. Ikuto looked at the people before him and stumbled away.
"I love you," She cried again, "Don't leave me."
Ikuto turned and raced away, there was fear and horror present in his features as he realized what he had been doing.
"What!" The boss' voice bellowed, but Ikuto's mind was clear. He ran far away from the little Italian park and he threw the ear piece on the ground as he raced through the small and empty streets.
Ikuto knew he just had to stay awake until the drugs effects wore off, but he knew it was easier said then done. In fact, it was impossible because Ikuto was dragging his feet through the street; he was too tired.
Ikuto fell to the ground with his back to the wall of a building. He needed something to keep him away, but, as he looked around, he realized there was no one around to pick a fight with and no way to stay awake.
"I . . ." Ikuto tried to talk to himself.
"Need to sleep." A female voice said. Ikuto shook his head wildly because it sounded like Amu's voice. Ikuto finally looked up and stared into golden eyes. The girl smiled and swept a piece of her pink hair behind her ears.
"You need to go to sleep, Ikuto." She stated. Ikuto knew he would listen to Amu because he was so tired that his brain had forgotten a side affect of the drug his boss was using. The drug made him see hallucinations, but not just any hallucinations, they always were of Amu.
So Ikuto fell asleep . . . Or so he thought. Except, his conscious mind went to sleep as his body managed to find its way back to the cell where his boss was keeping him.
The next morning Ikuto was awake and sitting in a chair, strapped down. Ikuto moaned and then looked ahead at his boss.
"I am not pleased, Ikuto." His boss sneered.
"You never are." Ikuto retorted. Ikuto didn't know who his boss was; his face was always shrouded in darkness.
His boss didn't do anything except raise his hand.
Ikuto screamed and gagged as electricity flowed through his body. It wasn't enough to kill his or do permanent damage, but it was enough to be painful. Very painful.
The pain stopped and Ikuto slumped forward. The woman from before was furiously untying the straps holding Ikuto down and then rushed away. The man stepped forward, but he was still surrounded with shadows.
"Now, that I have your full attention, I'd like to read you something." The boss said and Ikuto knew he had a smirk on his face.
The boss pulled out Ikuto's cell phone and flipped it open.
"Oh, you have two new messages." The man said evilly, "One from your sister, like usual and, oh this is new." The boss was taunting him.
"The other is from your lovely little Amu." The boss laughed a little when Ikuto looked up with attention. "Let's see what they have to say."
Ikuto knew that if the message was going to be read to him then it would be better not to hear it, but he didn't have a choice.
"This is from your sister," He took a breath and started with a fake girly voice, "Ikuto, I know you won't respond to me, but you have to this time. She sounds serious, Ikuto, you better respond." The boss was being cruel as he continued, "Tadase is framing you; I have to know if it was you who pushed her down the cliff."
The colour on Ikuto's face drained faster than water from a tap. He remembered back to when the bus was pulling away from the cliff and Amu. They passed a red ford focus idling just minutes from where Amu and Ikuto just were. Ikuto knew who's car it was; it was Tadase's, but Ikuto knew, or at least, hoped it wasn't Tadase who pushed her down.
The boss closed Ikuto's phone and Ikuto looked at him.
"What did Amu say?" Ikuto whispered.
"Nothing, I was lying to you." The boss laughed as he exited the cold room, which suddenly felt a hundred degrees colder because suddenly Ikuto badly wanted to hear for Amu in any way, shape or form.
Ikuto clenched his teeth together as two men lifted Ikuto out of the chair and pulled him back to his cell, but Ikuto hardly noticed as Amu danced across his mind. It was driving him insane, but he knew it was the only thing keeping him from going insane.
The men threw him on to the cement floor. It was damp and cool, but Ikuto hardly noticed as exhaustion suddenly overwhelmed him body and mind. He fell asleep.
Amu stood alone on a cliff and she was humming to herself like she would when she was thinking about something.
"What are you thinking about?" Ikuto asked, like he always did, but she usually answered with a shrug or an 'I'm not telling you" and a smile.
However, the Amu in Ikuto's dream turned to him and said, "Are you coming back, or would it better if I moved on and forgot about you?"
Amu vanished as if she was never there and Ikuto jolted awake to find himself on the ground. He needed to get out of this place and that was the only thing on his mind, but then the question came to his attention. How?
There you have it?
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