Takumi knew that if Gii didn't meet him, there was a good reason to; so instead of go and search for him, he managed to ask Akaike for some news.
As he thought Gii was watching over both of them, and even though he wanted to be useful as well, considering the danger Kamenashi represented for them, he decided it was best that he didn't see them together after all, so in the end Akaike had to act as intermediary once again in spite of himself.
Takumi was walking alone to the main dorm when he heard someone call out for him. It was Tanaka's roommate "Could you?" he asked indicating with a gesture to follow him "there's something I wanted to talk to you about"
Even if a bit perplexed, Takumi reached him and the two started walking together to the opposite direction. As they walked, the other boy kept looking ahead and never made a start to speak. It was getting strange so Takumi urged him to speak "Is it about Tanaka?"
"Mh?" he hummed questioningly finally turning his head to the person walking next to him as if he didn't notice someone else was there.
That looked even more strange and with his guard up Takumi stopped "Well I'm sorry but I've got to go" as he made a move to turn and walk away, he heard a malicious "We've just arrived" as that guy grabbed his arm and shoved him through an open door; the moment he was inside, the door closed and as he reached it he heard the sound of a key locking it close. Takumi tried to open it but the other guy has been too fast. Then he heard a laugh coming from the other side of the door "That guy only has brilliant ideas!"
"What the hell are you doing! Get me out of here!" Takumi yelled as he tried to open the door with no avail.
"Calm down, you'll stay here until Saki decides to" that stopped Takumi as his eyes widened in the darkness. He barely heard the sound of footsteps walking away.
"What the hell does that mean?" he whispered in a breath as his hands closed in a fist on the door, his blood freezing over for a moment. Looking down, in the darkness, he realized he was locked in.
Was it.. Gii's doing..? No, no. He didn't have to think that. But.. he felt like being left alone and now this. No, that was too cruel it couldn't be true.
So he tried to convince himself and stop the panic raising in his throat. 'I have to get out of here' he finally realised. Even if his heart was beating faster, he tried to stay calm and focused all his attention on being able to do just that. Only on that. He touched the wall around the door hoping to find a switch; then frantic hands finally reached a square shaped material, Takumi pressed on it and finally the room was illuminated by the artificial light.
Takumi turned around then to see he was in a room with only some furnitures in and no windows, 'great' Takumi thought. Since his only chance to get out was through the door, he opened a small cabinet hoping to find something he could make use of; inside of it, he found some cleaning tools for the garden, 'maybe these could help..'
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Kamenashi and two of his minions walked through the school aiming for Gii. When they reached him, another student was with him and was thanking him before walking away, leaving him alone. Gii saw them and watched them as they walked closer, then the other two stopped behind Kamenashi as their leader took another couple of steps closer to Gii. When they were face to face Kamenashi started "Hi Saki" never hiding his evil smile, but Gii's look was harsh
"Come on, be friendly. And to think that I came with the best intentions"
"Which might be..?"
"You seem to distrust me. You have no need to, after all I'm keeping your secret safe"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm referring to your.." he lent closer and hid his mouth with one hand as he continued in a lower voice "secret relationship with Hayama"
Gii snorted "Well, if this talk isn't useless.." he said calmly and, hiding his feelings perfectly, he started walking away. He just made it past Kamenashi when he heard "Not so useless for him I'm afraid"
Gii turned back then, the other two were behind him now "And what would that mean?" his eyes shot daggers now but Kamenashi was still too smug and sure of his victory.
"Well, let's just say I have him... not so free of doing anything he wants"
An angry Gii lent closer to Kamenashi "Where is he."
His smug smile was gone now as he matched Gii's angry tone "Tell sensei that you have a relationship with him now. Get yourself expelled, and I'll tell you"
Gii used all his strength so he won't touch him and without saying another word, pushed him on the side and walked away.
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Gii wasted no time in updating their friends about his latest encounter with Kamenashi and now he was waiting, standing next to Akaike, for the others to come back with what he hoped were good news. Misu was the first to arrive "He's not in his room" he announced. The three of them turned to see Shingyouji and Toshihisa walking towards them.
"Anything?" Gii asked
"He didn't attend class"
"I asked around but couldn't find out where he is" the other said.
Gii closed his eyes, worry got mixed with anger, "Maybe he locked him somewhere" his voice got low and dark "he could be anywhere"
"We'll look for him, we'll search throughout the whole school grounds if it's needed" Shingyouji said and as Toshihisa nodded his agreement they went running away looking for their friend.
Gii, Akaike and Misu were standing alone once again. Gii still didn't raise his gaze on them, Akaike was watching him and after a moment of silence he asked his best friend "What do you have in mind?"
At that Gii raised serious and determined eyes on his.
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Takumi really tried all he could but that door was as sturdy as a mountain.
Maybe professors reinforced it to prevent students to go inside; whatever it was, the certain thing was that it didn't move an inch.
After trying to break free he was taking a rest sitting on the floor with his back on that door, his breathing labored for the effort. As time passed, even if he was hungry his brain never registered that need; or rather, it was outranked by the greater need to get out of there.
Looking ahead, while thinking about all the things he didn't do yet that could help him out of there, his eyes passed on a little window just below the line of the ceiling; just the right size for a person of his body built to pass through.
A second later he froze realizing that it could be his only chance.
With a new boost of energy he was on his feet in a second and took his time to look attentively in front of him.
There was a small cabinet and a few feet away there was an higher one, double in size, which was the closest to that window, still, it wasn't close enough to reach it easily.
He'll have to reach the top of the smaller cabinet for climbing on top of the higher one, and then try to open the window with those cleaning tools, somehow; if he managed to do it he could reach the window with a jump..
As it was his only way out, it was worth the try.
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Tanaka was walking alone, he didn't see his friend Takumi all day and, by the way, he was confused by Takumi's friends' behavior, whom he saw running all over looking like lost children looking for their moms, that was strange enough of a sight and thinking about it like that made him giggle.
Feeling lonely, he decided to reach the school's cafeteria. There, through the big windows, he saw his roommate outside, talking with another one of the Kamenashi group. Tanaka almost groaned inside, he wasn't a big fan of their leader, whom those guys were so fond of, and in another circumstance he'll go somewhere else because he knew they'd just talk about the same thing they've been talking about since their group formed, but he had no better company to choose right now so he went outside towards them.
Both guys had their back on the cafeteria so they didn't see Tanaka walking their way.
Tanaka though could hear what they were saying.
"And he followed you?"
"Yeah! That Hayama guy wasn't the least suspicious" Soshiro said, proud of his success.
Tanaka stopped, that talk was just too strange.
"As soon as we reached it, I pushed him inside and locked the door. He'll be there for a long while"
Both the boys started laughing out loud but stopped immediately as an outraged yell could be heard from behind them "What!?" Tanaka exclaimed in rage while appearing from behind them. The two of them turned back surprised.
"Are you crazy?" said the other recognizing the boy.
"Hey what's wrong with you?" his roommate, Soshiro, said.
"Why the hell did you do it?" Tanaka's tone didn't change as his worry for Takumi finally had him fed up with them.
"We have a goal or have you forgotten?"
"He has nothing to do with that, tell me where he is"
Immediately the other boy addressed Soshiro "Don't, he'll do something stupid"
Then Soshiro stepped towards his roommate "Hey, what's your problem?" he said at all friendly while pushing on Tanaka's shoulder with one hand, at that Tanaka shoved his arms away forcefully and Soshiro taking offence leant ahead a few inches right in front of Tanaka in a menacing pose, immediately Tanaka pushed him away with force with both hands, but Soshiro stepped only a couple of steps behind and in no time launched himself back ahead throwing a punch in Tanaka's face.
When Tanaka turned back his face towards Soshiro, he run with determination to him aiming to hit him with his shoulder and all his side, Soshiro turned a bit and bent down on his legs for support and stopped him as they crashed. Tanaka took a step back but before he could do anything two seniors reached the two to stop them "What the hell are you doing? Do you want to get expelled?"
That seemed to make them both realize where they were. They were lucky that no one else was their witness because, as rules have it, they'd be expelled right away.
Taking deep breaths Tanaka and Soshiro shot daggers to one another under the eyes of those two seniors and the other boy. Seeing as the two upperclassmen seemed to have all the intentions to stay until they were sure both calmed down, with angry eyes they had to turn back and walk away.
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Tanaka paced through the school trying to cool down but it was hard, plus he was worried for Takumi. He didn't know what to do, then suddenly a flash crossed his mind: the memory of Takumi's friends going back and forth, looking like they were searching for someone.. "Of course!" Tanaka exclaimed slapping his head. Suddenly he knew what to do and on instinct started running to the floor where their rooms where.
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It was the first time he climbed to the floor of his seniors, he didn't really know which rooms Takumi's friends were in exactly but he wasn't let down by anything and walked ahead hoping to get lucky.
There were just a few students walking through that corridor and Tanaka looked closely at all of them trying to recognize their faces. Looking past them he saw a group walking towards the same door. He squirted his eyes and focused on the one who he could see better and looked familiar.
Unconsciously his steps got faster and, before they could enter the room, Tanaka recognized him "Toshihisa!" he said to get his attention, all of them turned around to him who in the meantime reached them.
Toshihisa was surprised to hear his own name being called in that moment, and so were the others, because of that situation it looked suspicious, and that's how the group was looking at Tanaka when they recognized the boy.
Tanaka didn't have the time to say anything to that though as in an instant he was being pushed to the wall forcefully and a voice accused him "You were his friend!" it was Gii and his friends did nothing to stop him, as they felt the same.
"I knew nothing about it!" Tanaka defended himself.
The others were now standing in semi circle around him. "Where is he?" Shingyouji demanded
"I don't know, they won't tell me"
"Did they do that to you?" Misu asked in his usual cool manner, referring to the red and swollen side of his face.
Tanaka wasn't aware of the look it had, but being reminded he touched it briefly absentmindedly.
"We have to tell sensei" Tanaka said as it was clear that they didn't know where he was either.
At that Akaike eyed his best friend "Gii.."
Gii knew what he wanted to say. The others didn't say anything as they waited for Gii to decide what to do, then Gii spoke up "Let's bring him in Toshihisa's room with us"
But their behavior was suspicious to Tanaka, "What are you on about? You don't want to tell?" he said almost appalled that they weren't helping Takumi.
Gii kept his aloof demeanor and "Come" he just said, then turned to walk in Toshihisa's room followed by the others.
