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*~The Regret~*
The face of the hitter made Kukai's eyes widen, and regret everything he ever did in these past two weeks.
"N-No stop!" Kukai screamed, struggling to escape, as another fist aggressively met his face. He yelped in pain. "Ikuto, p-please!"
"This pain is nothing in comparison to the pain you made my little sister feel." Ikuto hissed angrily. Ikuto hit him again.
"Argh!" Kukai screamed, bellowing in pain.
"Ikuto, stop." Ikuto froze, stopping in mid-punch. Kukai breathed heavily, gradually sitting up. Utau stood nearby, her hand placed on her hip. Her blonde hair was tied back into a bun, and she wore sunglasses. Kukai put his hand on his face, wincing at the pain. He knew he must have looked awful.
"Why did you…?" Ikuto wondered, glancing up at his sister. With her large sunglasses, it was hard to make out any expression on the pop star's face.
"There was no point to beating him up." Utau muttered. "Ikuto, it's not your problem; it's mine."
"Utau, I'm your brother; I'll look after you. The bastard hurt you, so I was just showing him." Ikuto pointed out.
"There's no calling for physical violence, but I appreciate your concern." Utau gave her brother a small smile. Ikuto crossed his arms, but didn't move. There was a silence. Kukai looked around at the scenario around him. There was Utau, his ex-girlfriend, standing close to her older brother who had just beaten Kukai up. There was Nagihiko, who had his arms crossed and intentionally averting eye contact with Rima. Rima walked over to Kukai, and knelt beside him.
"Are you okay?" Rima asked.
"Y-Yeah… It just stings slightly, but it could have been worse." Kukai admitted. Rima put a hand on his cheek, stroking it gently. Kukai could almost feel the anger of the other three.
"Aw Rima, how's your boyfriend? Is he okay, or did my brother hurt him pretty hard? Why don't you take care of him? He might need some affection." Utau said snidely. Rima ignored Utau, but removed her hand from his face. Again, another awkward silence was in the air.
"Why don't we talk about everything? Like civilized people?" Kukai wondered, immediately regretting saying anything.
"Okay, we'll talk, like 'civilized' people," Utau muttered. "If we're going to talk though, we should move so many people aren't staring at us." All five of them suddenly noticed the presence of a lot of people.
"Hey guys! I-It was for a movie, that w-was…"
"It's a movie we're filming. It's a romance-drama, so none of us really hate each other. Nothing is really happening." It astonished Kukai how naturally Nagihiko could lie, without showing any sign of despair. He even had a smile cross his face. "Let's go film in the Royal Garden; there are a lot of potential romantic scenes that could occur there." Darkness covered Rima's eyes suddenly. The five of them got up, and slowly walked to the Royal Garden, absolutely no conversation between any of them. They walked inside the Royal Garden. Ikuto, without knowing, took Amu's seat. Nagihiko and Rima took their own, which coincidentally was next to each other. Kukai and Utau took Tadase and Yaya's, respectively.
"So…" Kukai started, again wanting to cover his large mouth.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Ikuto turned to Kukai. "Are you an idiot or something? You dated some other girl, just because she was pretty, and broke up with your previous girlfriend via text that you loved so much?!"
"That's not why I dated Rima…" Kukai grunted. "She's a kind person too…"
"Do you know how upset Utau was, to have the only relationship she was ever in to end so abruptly?" Utau looked at the ground. "Damn it, and not only my sister, but Fujisaki too. Fujisaki was in love with that bitch and you knew that, but ignored it." Nagihiko glanced at the wall uncomfortably.
"I…"
"There's nothing you can say in your defense; what you did was obviously unforgivable." Utau hissed through gritted teeth. "I hate you. I hate you so much."
"It wasn't his fault. It was mine." All eyes were on Rima, surprised. "I convinced him to break up with you. It was my fault. I threatened him that if he didn't…"
"No you didn't Rima." Nagihiko finally spoke up. Rima faced him angrily.
"What the hell makes you have the right to call me anything without an honorific?!" Rima wondered angrily.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that we were good friends and dated?" Nagihiko retorted back.
"Well, that's all over now, so I would prefer you not to address me like that, in fact, it would be better if you didn't address me at all, because I hate you and never want to speak to you."
"But…why?! You have absolutely no reason to hate me! It's not like I broke up with you or anything. You're the one that ended it, giving me no reason. You told me to never tell anyone it ever happened. And you know what? I was hurt, but I complied, hoping I could find out why it ended. I was a wreck for those weeks, helplessly searching for an answer. However, when the one guy I trusted with my feelings for you also betrayed me, I gave up. You know what, Rima Mashiro, or however you want me to address you, I'm not fond of you either, and frankly, not speaking to you would be content with me." Hot tears ran down Nagihiko's face, and he didn't even bother trying to conceal it.
"You're right Mashiro; it was your fault too. Why the hell would you date a boy who has a girlfriend?! Don't you have any sense?!" Rima looked at the ground.
"I don't even understand why Kukai would like you, no offense Fujisaki. You're just a pompous bitch who thinks she can manipulate boys' emotions for fun and make the attention divert to her. You know what? I hope you two have a happy wedding. Thanks to the stupidity of the two of you, you basically lost all of your friends, so no one will go. How sweet, eloping." Utau laughed slightly, tears dancing down her face. She wiped them away. Kukai couldn't stand seeing her cry. "Ikuto, Fujisaki, let's go leave the lovebirds to themselves." Utau stood up.
"Wait Utau." Utau didn't look at him. Kukai breathed heavily. "I'm sorry. I should have never broken up with you. You're right, I did love you, and I think I still do, but I ended it foolishly because I was tempted. I was wrong in that text; we were perfect for each other. If I had a time machine, I would change everything and never would have dated Rima." Rima looked at Kukai, appalled. Her eyes widened.
"Too little, too late." Utau murmured. She stormed out of the Royal Garden. Ikuto followed her, giving the two of them glares. Nagihiko started walking out of the Royal Garden, but faced Kukai for a minute, shaking his head slowly in disgust. Kukai looked at the ground. Nagihiko finally left. Neither Rima nor Kukai uttered a word for a moment.
"Do you mean that, what you said to Utau?" Rima wondered, looking up at Kukai. Kukai hated feeling those cute eyes on him. Those eyes had possessed him, made him ruin his love life for the alluring girl.
"I meant every word of it." Kukai whispered, his voice choking slightly. He couldn't look at Rima.
"Oh… W-Well, I should be getting back." Kukai nodded slowly, in a daze. He stood up, and left the Royal Garden with the petite blonde. The walk back to Rima's house was dead silent. When they arrived outside of Rima's house, Rima spun to face Kukai.
"Look, I'm…"
"Kukai, don't say anything." Rima grumbled. "We shouldn't be together, if you meant what you said about still loving Utau. I'm sorry, I guess, for tempting you. Maybe things will work out for you with someone else. We should end this." Kukai nodded slowly, no words coming out.
"Good-bye." Kukai whispered.
"Don't you have to get your money for the day?" Rima wondered.
"I basically ruined your day, so I shouldn't get paid for that. I-I shouldn't continue babysitting you. So, um, yeah." Rima watched, as Kukai got on his bicycle and pedaled home. He pedaled fast, as fast as tears flew down his cheeks. He couldn't believe what happened. It was over with Rima now. He could feel the pain on his cheek that Ikuto provided him. It was heavily bruised. He didn't want his mother to see that pain. He didn't want his mother to question that and know that someone beat him up. However, he decided that he could just lie, just like Nagihiko.
Kukai arrived at home, to see his mother waiting at the doorstep.
"Kukai, where were you?! I was getting worried! You should have told me that your job was extending longer today."
"Sorry mother." Kukai murmured.
"What happened to your face?!" Kukai's mother exclaimed, putting her hand on his cheek. Kukai cringed at the pain.
"I fell off of my bike." Kukai lied. "It doesn't hurt that much though. I'm going to my room." Kukai's mother watched, as Kukai threw off his helmet, and hurried to his bedroom. Once secluded in his room, Kukai collapsed on his bed, and allowed tears to flow down his cheeks.
When Rima entered her house, she was greeted by loud shouts between her parents, screaming to each other that they hated each other.
Just like Nagi and me... Rima thought grimly. She hated comparing herself to her parents. She wanted nothing to do with them. However, she wanted nothing to do with Nagihiko either. She clutched the necklace, and took it off. She held it in her palms, and contemplated throwing it out. However, she couldn't bring herself to do it. Sighing, she stuffed it into her pocket.
"I'm home." Rima called. Both parents turned to her furiously.
"Where the hell were you?!" Her mother shouted.
"We lost track of time. However, that won't happen again, because he isn't going to be my babysitter anymore." Rima muttered, preventing tears from falling down her face.
"Why did he quit?" Her father wondered angrily.
"Because, when he babysat me, we were actually dating and now we broke up, so the job ended." Rima admitted, not even caring anymore what the consequences brought. She didn't care anymore.
"We told you that you weren't permitted to date!" Rima's mother exclaimed.
"Well, I broke the rules." Rima grumbled.
"How dare you break the rules, you ungrateful child. I was looking after you, but you just won't allow yourself to be." To Rima's dismay, her father lifted his fist, and slammed his fist directly on her face. Rima screamed, falling to the ground. "Go to your room!" He kicked Rima towards the stairs. Carefully, Rima ran up the stairs, and locked the door to her room. She was scared, so scared of what could happen now. Her father was starting to hit her. She could hear the sounds of the fighting downstairs. Rima sat on her bed, and just stared at the ground. She noticed the egg of Kusu-Kusu darken and form an X on it. It flew out of Rima's window, but she didn't care. She didn't care anymore. She didn't care about Kukai ending the relationship with her, Utau and Ikuto's anger, Nagihiko… For some reason, the thought of the indigo-haired boy made Rima flinch. She couldn't get him out of her mind. She wanted to hate him so badly, and as much as she told him she hated him, she couldn't actually hate him.
"Whatever." Rima muttered out loud, but she started sobbing uncontrollably about everything. There was not one thing in the petite blonde's life that was going well. And it was all because Rima wanted to be rebellious, and break the foolish rules that her parents established for her, even though they hated her.
It was a little shorter than normal, but I believe it wasn't disappointing. Please review/favorite/alert! It means the world to me.