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Finally the flashback that most of you have all been waiting for. Enjoy ;)
Flashback.
12:00 Pm. May 20th – Japan time. Kazuo Kiriyama is being escorted out of a car by three with armed AK's troops and is brought into the school with one troop leading and the two others guarding by each side of Kazuo. They walk into the schools' main entrance and straight down the first hallway. Everything is dim on the inside, not one single light is on except for the daylight broadcasting into the windows.
The troops halt and Kiriyama stops along with them rolling his eyes, bored and wanting the program of Battle Royale to begin. One of the troop members opens up a door almost hidden in between the lockers. He pulls the light switch and hand gestures to Kiriyama.
Kiriyama glances inside, it is nothing but a small janitorial closest. What the hell was this guy trying to get him to do? Kiriyama thought looking back at the troop with a dense expression.
"Get in the closet for now," The troop said. "We can't have you in a classroom by yourself."
Kiriyama stands his ground now licking his lips and stares at the troop pathetically. "I'm not getting in that closet." He says sternly.
The troop puts on an intimidating stance and facial feature as he walks up to Kiriyama getting close to his face, Kiriyama exchanges in the troops stare down and doesn't flinch once or blink."I'm going to tell you one last time or-," The troop didn't finish since Kiriyama heat buts him and the troop falls down unconscious.
"Get him! Stop him!" The troops shoot and a few who caught up helped them contain Kiriyama by slamming him the ground and one has his AK gun at gunpoint against Kiriyama's head as he struggles and grunts through his angry gritting teeth. The troop is about to pull the trigger when Ms. Ti arrives and swings her whip getting everyone's attention.
"Everyone get off of him now." Ms. Ti orders. "You are all a bunch of ignorant bastards." She pushes most of her troops off of Kiriyama and punches one in the face.
Ms. Ti grips Kiriyama by the collar and yanks him back up to his feet. Kiriyama grins at her and raises his eyebrows a few times at her and adds a wink. This chick isn't that bad, he thought. "I'll take him from here boys."
The troops leave them and Ms. Ti brings Kiriyama into a secluded office so they could be alone and out of hearing reach. "It is against policy to volunteer again for this program you know?" Ms. Ti said playing with her whip in her hands.
"So are you going to try and banish me then now that I'm here for a second time?" Kiriyama asks in the corner of the room.
Ms. Ti walks around the desk in the room and sits in the chair propping her feet up on the desk papers that are sprawled out. "I wanted to bring you back after your infamous win last year." Kiriyama gives Ms. Ti a smug look when she said "Infamous." Bitch I did what I had to do in a program where you have to kill each other, He said in his mind.
Ms. Ti chuckles almost as though Kiriyama had read her mind, but she did so because his expression was exactly what she wanted from him, he wasn't famous like he thought, people hated him from all over the world. They knew he only volunteered for Battle Royale so he can have a reason to kill legally not because he was chosen by the unfortunate lottery.
Ms. Ti continues. "Since you are determined to both kill and survive, I want you to protect a previous student of mine."
Kiriyama winces. "Why the hell do you think I would want to do that?" Was she crazy? Did she know exactly who he was and what he would be capable of doing? He knew he can only take care of himself and no other than himself.
Ms. Ti smirks; she doesn't even look at all worried to Kiriyama. "Because if you do not cooperate with what I say to you and if you fail to protect this person then I will send your necklace a little happy signal, I will blow your head." She looks at Kiriyama to see if he'd shown any form of understanding that she wants from him.
Kiriyama doesn't make any sort of emotional response. He stands in the empty part of the room with his hands in his pockets and stares at the floor blankly.
"Well what is it going to be Kiriyama?" Ms. Ti said calmly and waits patiently for the answer he may have for her. She knew it was an offer he couldn't refuse.
"Who is the person of your interest?" Kiriyama said lifting his head up and crosses his arms.
Ms. Ti smiles. "Her name is Elizabeth Johnston." She pauses. "The students should arrive any moment now, and they'll be unconscious just like last year. After they get here I'm going to have to take off for an interview and will be back shortly after everyone should be waking up from the gas they were given." Ms. Ti get's up from the desk and crosses over to Kiriyama.
"Before I go you are to go into the class room number 17 up the stairs and stay there. When the students are brought in you'll know who Elizabeth is when she is dropped next to you." Ms. Ti said perfectly clear to Kiriyama.
Kiriyama heaves through his nose. "I'll do it. What will happen if I do succeed in keeping her alive?" He said with a glint of fierceness in his eyes.
Ms. Ti nods giving him a satisfying look. "Then I'll let you go free too. The world will know you as a winner of Battle Royale again."
"What will they know Elizabeth as?" Kiriyama asks suspiciously.
"They will know her as the girl you spared and that she escaped the island. It'll at least make you look like a person with a heart for a while to the people." Ms. Ti said, her last sentence is meant to be sarcastic and Kiriyama caught that, though he didn't care or what people thought of him.
Kiriyama nods in agreement and so does Ms. Ti. Suddenly a loud solar noise is heard and grew louder as it passes by the school overhead. "That will be them now." She grins and takes Kiriyama by the back of his collar and pushes him out of the office.
Ms. Ti calls her troops. "Make sure that he gets in that classroom upstairs and that he stays there. If you hear one peep or anything else going on between him and the other volunteer shock them both with the stunt guns."
The troops do what she asks except for the one that Kiriyama previously head butted. He is sitting up against the lockers with a wet cloth pinched on a bloody nose. Kiriyama had hit the troops forehead too hard that that it gave in a nose bleed. Kiriyama smirks and laughs to himself.
"Behave yourself Kazuo." Ms. Ti orders him before the troops lead him up the stairs and into the classroom. There is a female sitting on a student desk in the end of the room with her back turned from everyone. Kiriyama knew it was Yasu. They came in the same helicopter and took separate rides up to the school.
Kiriyama walks toward the back of the classroom just after the troops closes the door behind him however he sits on the floor on the opposite side where Yasu sits. She never flinches or gets an urge to look his way.
They stayed there without one word, movement, grunt, nothing and even their breathings are silent. The whole room and building is nothing but silent, It is quiet outside too, no sounds of birds or nature.
It was that way for about 45 minutes until they heard multiple vehicles coming up and parks outside the school. Kiriyama and Yasu didn't bulge from where they are to look out from the windows to see their competition. In a matter of time, every troop hauls an unconscious student over their shoulders as well as their belongings and carries them one by one in a single filed line up into the school and up the stairs into classroom 17 placing them in either chairs or on the floor.
Kiriyama keeps his eyes out for the girls, the one that will be put beside him will be the girl he'll have to try and keep alive throughout the entire program. One by one of all the girls are being placed further and further away from him.
He began to wonder if she wasn't going to be placed by him was he ever going to know who she is in the crowd of all the other female students before the Battle Royale started. If Kiriyama didn't know who she was by then he knew he'd be screwed. He also didn't want to randomly ask the girls if either one of them was Elizabeth. It would be too suspicious and not to mention random.
Kiriyama had already seen about 20 different girls come in through the door over the troops shoulders and not one of them were being dropped beside him. Any one of these girls can be Elizabeth now, he thought.
The next girl to come in over a troops shoulder Kiriyama felt was probably Elizabeth because Ms. Ti comes in afterwards. "Put her next to Kazuo Kiriyama." The troop glances at her in curious question by look of his face. "Why?" he asks. Ms. Ti glances back at him with a sneer. "Just do it." She said through angry gritted teeth.
The troop shakes his head and obeys Ms. Ti's orders walking up to Kiriyama with Elizabeth and tosses her onto the floor next to Kiriyama. Her head lands on Kiriyama's left side of his chest softly bouncing off on impact once she hits the ground beneath her and back down.
Kiriyama doesn't push her away or off of him. He glances up at Ms. Ti and she winks with a nod then turns around and leaves the classroom.
The troops bring the last of the students in and close the door on their way out and locks it. Kiriyama looks down at Elizabeth for the first time. Her long layered bangs cover her face and Kiriyama slowly scoops his hand through Elizabeth's hair combing it out of her face to get a better look of her. The only things he noticed about her is American and white, the general things, since he is a young man of no emotions he could not describe her as pretty or ugly. Although common sense already told him that she is definitely not ugly it's just he couldn't know nor recognize beauty or feeling something for someone.
He didn't care for any of that because he simply couldn't make himself feel beauty. His only mission is to protect her until the program is finished, nothing more.
Kiriyama hear's a chopper start outside and can see as he turns his head around to look through the window of it flying away, obviously that Ti chick going to her interview like she said to him in the office.
A few hours passed by and none of the students began to wake up yet and the sun is setting outside. Yasu found a place sleep behind a table. She was beginning to grow irritated of Kiriyama's stares. Kiriyama was dragged out of his own bed at 4am, really early that morning and he is starting to get tired himself. Since everyone else is asleep he decided to try to as well. He hated to admit this to himself but Elizabeth's snuggling against him added a bit of comfort like an actual bed or a warm blanket.
Kiriyama lowers the back his head to the floor gently and tosses it to the side for a more sufficing feel to his neck and closes his eyes.
Back to the present day some cold liquid is squirted in Kiriyama's face. He wakes up in a surprised jolt. The liquid enters his mouth and it is just water. Kiriyama sees Robbie standing in front of him with a water bottle in hand from his ground point of view. Kiriyama wishes that Robbie would've squirted some more water so he could try catching it in his mouth. He felt like he was dying of thirst ever since he lost his survival bag at sea.
Kiriyama looks behind Robbie and sees that Elizabeth is sitting on a log a few meters away next to her friend Claire examining her injured and bruised up leg. Elizabeth looks over at Robbie closely as if making sure he isn't doing something she didn't want him to do. Kiriyama also notices that his arms are tied around this strong piece of bamboo behind on his back, it hurts to try and move
"You're lucky to still be alive." Robbie said in a threatening tone. "God know how I will be able to contain myself from doing so as soon as you answer every single question Elizabeth has for you. It's only a matter of time man."
Elizabeth then diverts her eyes on Kiriyama. He catches her glance so Elizabeth gets up patting Claire's arm and walks over. "That's enough Robbie." She says calmly.
"We should start heading back to our camp. People would've started to see the fire by now." Robbie said slinging his crossbow onto his back.
Elizabeth looks at Robbie a tad bit bewildered. "A fire? You started a fire and didn't think to put it out before you all came here?"
"Liz," Trey says and Elizabeth turns her attention to him. "Don't worry, we're creating a diversion. When Robbie first said that I thought that he meant division or some shit like that."
"Wait a minute, what diversion?" Elizabeth asks them both. She turns back around to look at Robbie. "What is he talking about Robbie and for whom?"
"Why are you asking me and not Trey? He's the one that brought it up Liz!" Robbie yells at her defending himself by blowing the situation out of proportion and points at Trey with a wave of his hand who now sat down by Claire.
"Trey said that you mentioned the word diversion so it must've been your idea, and this is why I am asking you." Elizabeth almost loses her temper with him and slowly breathes in and out relaxing herself. She fixates on him. "What is your diversion targeted at Robbie?"
Robbie begins to lay it all down, the neighborhoods, farm animals, and other supplies. "If we make way towards it now we'll be able to reach the neighborhood within 50 minutes tops." He eyes Kiriyama. "We would get there quicker if we killed him right here, right now."
Elizabeth refused. "I still want to know why he's saved my life and helped me so far." She concentrates back on the story that Robbie had just told her. "So is the diversion your plan to get everyone to come to the neighborhoods too?"
"Yes, and when they do we'll kill them all on sight." Robbie said.
"We?" Elizabeth said in a gawking expression.
"Yes Elizabeth that's right, we," Robbie said notoriously with his eyes wide and walks toward Trey as he helps Claire back onto her feet.
"What if they're not meaning to kill anyone though? Have you ever thought about that Robbie?"
Claire shakes her head. "I told him the same thing Liz. He still won't change his mind no matter what you say to him."
Robbie flashes around as soon as he gets close to the woods brush. "You two can just learn to face it and endure because if anyone who wants to survive out here without killing anyone wouldn't be stupid enough to walk towards another persons' fire."
Robbie had a point there, Elizabeth thought. It was no use arguing with him and since they were all on the move, Trey helps Claire walk on her feet and Robbie didn't dare help Kiriyama up as he led the group back from whence they came so that left Elizabeth doing that job. "Come on," She says and Kiriyama didn't say a word as she helps him up, however he allows her to help him instead of faltering. He grunts and Elizabeth looks down at his wounded leg.
"So was it Yasu that shot you just now?" Elizabeth asked after a few minutes as they walked. Kiriyama didn't answer her right away as he grunts again. "No it was from last night when I tried to outrun her."
Elizabeth winces. "I thought you were very good at still other peoples weapons instead of running away from them." She phishes at the thought of him becoming a runaway this time around and found it to be humorous all in one. "Why didn't you fight back?"
Kiriyama rolls his eyes. "You saw it yourself. She has an AK rifle, and ran me down with it." He pauses and tone grew deeper into an aggression. "You may think you know everything about me, I get that, But you don't know everything I've been through. So stop talking as if you know everything."
As much of a bad person Elizabeth knew Kiriyama was he is still right with what he just said. She didn't mean to go so overboard on her spoken words about him or for Kiriyama to take such sudden offense to it. She didn't know that that would be possible for him. It just goes to show she didn't really know much about him as she thought. Elizabeth felt sorry though she wasn't going to admit it to him.
Elizabeth changes the subject after a minute went by. "How'd you escape her from last night?" She asked.
"I jumped into the sea from a high cliff. I ran her off as far away as possible from the temple I led you to." Kiriyama said. Elizabeth is speechless and shocked as she looks at him with huge eyes. It is yet another time where he saved her. "Did you go there like I said?"
Elizabeth nods her head. "Yes I did go there." She says. They walk in silence until coming upon the hill where Robbie and Trey started the fire to cook the chicken and gave Claire and Kiriyama a break from their injuries by setting them down and Robbie stops out the fire, and Elizabeth helps him do so.
After all of that they carry on until arriving at a large stable a kilometer down the large hill and a few yards away from the neighborhoods. Robbie orders that Claire and Elizabeth stay in the stable after they had thoroughly checked it out and to keep a close watch over Kiriyama while they go check out the other homes and the surrounding buildings. Afterwards Robbie is going to set up his diversion and didn't tell anyone what it was going to be or do.
Elizabeth sets Kiriyama down gently against a post in the stable. It is vaguely dark and the only light they got in there was the natural light outside coming in from cracks in the old torn wooden walls, and a few open windows in the back. Kiriyama's grunts grew very hoarse and he coughs. Elizabeth can hear it from his lungs and as light casted on him she could see that his lips are cracked and is obviously experiencing dehydration.
Elizabeth takes out her water bottle from her bag, looks at it and by the looks of it there is only a small cup full left, maybe even half. There is enough for only one person that'll last until evening that day. She makes up her mind and undoes the bottles top getting down onto her knees in front of Kiriyama.
"You would risk to save someone like him from dehydration rather than yourself?" Claire said confused as she watches Elizabeth, seeing what she is about to do.
"That's what he has been doing for me ever since we got here Claire, and I want to keep him alert and alive so I can find out why." Elizabeth said and tilts Kiriyama's head up with her hand placed on top of him. 'Don't worry Claire I'm very sure that Robbie and Trey can find some water."
Elizabeth raises her bottle up to Kiriyama's lips and he drinks from it. After he is finished he says something in a whispering tone looking down. Claire lifts her eyebrows and Elizabeth does the same and comes closer to Kiriyama. "What was that?" She asks him.
Kiriyama lifts up his head staring at Elizabeth directly into her eyes. "I'll never tell you," He says slowly. Elizabeth stares back at him with anger already building up inside of her. She wanted so badly to smack him in the head but couldn't find herself to do it. He was too weak for one and also for the fact that he hasn't threatened her yet.
Meanwhile as Robbie and Trey trek down the empty roads they come upon a house with lights on in the inside. Robbie tells Trey to shush as he sang a song by "Journey" off tune as they walked and came to a stop. Robbie takes his crossbow in his hands and Trey takes out a knife (One that Travis used before he died last night.)
The both of them counted to three and charged towards the house. "Get out of the house whoever you are!" Robbie exclaims ferociously readying his crossbow with an arrow.
Robbie's determination and rage to kill off more people, if it were people they knew or were friends with frightens him as he charged with Robbie through a garden the owner of the house had made it looked like, a lot of flower pots were on display everywhere and Robbie jumps over a four foot one in the yard.
At arrival a large bulky man flies the door open suddenly at both of the boys surprise. This man is definitely not a player or graduated with them. He is a Japanese man, 50s- 60s years of age, wore a dirty white shirt and some jeans. He pulls out a large rifle and points it towards them.
"Whoa, whoa wait old man!" Trey panics in a surrendering position and so does Robbie.
~No One New Dead. Still 37 More To Go~
I know IveGotAJarOfDirt13, you did say not to put too many cliffhangers, but for this i couldn't help myself :) I still hope you enjoy it though. Awesome username by the way!
