Takaba's eyes scanned the room in agitation, despite the fact that he knew he was safe for the time being he just couldn't bring himself to calm down even the slightest amount, nor could he stop the nervous action of his foot moving up and down as he tapped it lightly on the ground.
He knew his hands were shaking lightly as he held a tight grip on the cup of warm tea that had been placed in front of him, despite the grip he had on the glass he wasn't even really aware of it's existence as his eyes started at the doorway from where he sat at the living room table, the doorway that he knew lead to the kitchen and where Feilong had gone mere moments ago. Takaba knew from experience that the other was more then likely going to be coming back with some food for him, food that he knew he'd be able to hardly eat, and even if he did manage to force it down he wouldn't be able to taste much of anything past the large lump in his throat and the burning ball in his stomach.
Of course Takaba was right with his guess and when Feilong came back out of the kitchen he was carrying a plate that had something that looked absolutely delicious. Takaba smiled back when Feilong gave him a soft smile as he sat the plate down on the table before the younger male. Takaba looked away from Feilong when the other took the seat opposite of him and waited patiently while looking at him, more then likely wanting to know what exactly was going on with Takaba and why he was so frantic for older male to pick him up. Even though Takaba couldn't look Feilong directly in the eye he had no problem glancing over at the other and admiring him.
Feilong was a rather elegant figure to behold. Feilong was a tall, slender, pale skinned, longhaired, gorgeous Chinese man who held the beauty of a woman while still looking masculine. For the most part Feilong was very gentle and soft-spoken, having quite a great deal of patience to deal with most people. Though he didn't have a habit of losing his temper that easily when he did he could be rather hurtful with the words that he used. Of course Takaba had never been on the receiving end of Feilong's rather for the Chinese man was rather fond of him and tended to take great care around Takaba, knowing his situation he tried his hardest never to be too harsh with the boy.
"You seem so distant right now, what is bothering you so greatly?" Feilong's words caused Takaba to look up at him for a moment before looking back down at the food that had been placed in front of him, not all that certain that he should really tell the other what was bothering him.
"Nothing is really bothering me, I just wanted to come and see you." Takaba replied as he picked up the chopsticks next to his plate and started messing with the food that had been placed in front of him, rather certain that Feilong was going to see through his lie without even having to think twice about.
"Takaba, both you and I know that you've never sounded so frantic before just because you've wanted to come and see me. We've been out of touch for a few days and I haven't seen you at all in that time. You've lost some weight and it's obvious by the clothes you're wearing that you've been staying some place. What's going on?" Takaba shifted uncomfortable under the other's hard gaze, knowing that Feilong wasn't going to leave him alone until he got the answers he was looking for. An image of Asami suddenly entered Takaba's mind and that caused the boy to shiver without thinking of what he was doing, Feilong of course noticed this. "Have you been in contact with Kou or Takato recently?" Takaba shook his head at this question.
"They've been gone on a school trip the last few days, they said they'd call me when they got back." Takaba replied, taking a small bite of the food, forcing himself to swallow and chew it while under the other's watchful gaze.
"Where's your cell phone at?" Feilong then questioned causing Takaba to freeze, realizing that he hadn't grabbed back any of his stuff before leaving Asami's penthouse, he totally forgotten that none of it was on him when he left. "Did it die, is that why you called me on the pay phone?" Takaba shook his head, not really wanting to lie to Feilong, but knowing that it wouldn't be a good idea for him to give the other all the information. "Then you left it at the place you were staying at?" Takaba bit his bottom lip as he nodded his head in a yes causing Feilong to sigh. "You really need to be more careful in matters such as these, what if something serious had happened and you weren't close enough to make a call on a pay phone, what would you have done then?" Takaba looked away from Feilong when the other asked this question.
"Sorry, I'll make sure to be more careful in the future." Takaba replied causing Feilong to sigh once again as he stood up from the table.
"I don't expect you to apologize for what happened, I just expect you to be more careful in the future." Feilong told the other as he took away the plate that was in front of him; the other seemed to know that Takaba wasn't going to be able to eat what was placed in front of him. "Come with me then." Feilong told Takaba catching the other off guard as he stood up, ready to follow after the other.
Takaba knew by the direction that they were heading in that Feilong was more then likely taking him to his own room. Feilong probably knew that Takaba hadn't gotten any sleep yet and that the boy would benefit from some rest.
Takaba had never been in Feilong's room before, certainly he had been to the other' house many times before and even slept in the guest room on various occasions but never before had he entered the other's room. Feilong had never told Takaba that he couldn't enter his room Takaba had always just felt that it would be rude to enter it.
"I hope you don't mind sharing a bed with me, if it wasn't so late already I would get the guestroom ready for you, but I think you'd benefit from sleeping with someone tonight." Feilong told Takaba, as he got ready to pull the cover's back. Feilong's words again brought the image of Asami back to the younger man's mind and caused him to shake his head in order to get rid of it.
"I don't really think that I'm going to be able to get any sleep right now." Takaba told Feilong as he took a seat at the bottom of the bed, not looking at the other even though he knew that Feilong was staring directly at him. Feilong stopped what he was doing but didn't say anything as Takaba allowed for his eyes to travel around the room. There wasn't really that much in the room but what was there was well placed and gave a nice feel to the room.
Takaba froze for a few seconds though when his eyes landed on a picture that was sitting on Feilong's dresser mixed in with a few other pictures, most of them Takaba recognized right away because he had taken the pictures together with Feilong. Takaba couldn't see the picture that clearly, but from what he could see, one person and one person only came to his mind and it was the one person that he didn't really want to think about.
Takaba didn't move from his spot at the bottom of the bed to get closer to the picture, not jus because he didn't want to confirm whom he thought was in the picture but because he didn't want Feilong to know that he was staring at the picture either.
"Are you having problems sleeping again at night?" Feilong questioned turning his attention once again back to Feilong who was sitting up at the top of the bed watching Takaba.
"A few problems still." Takaba admitted, watching as Feilong frowned at him.
"Are you certain that you don't need the sleeping pills again?"
"NO." Takaba knew that he probably came across stronger then he had wanted to, but he really didn't want the sleeping pills again. Feilong had forced him to take them once before and while they did allow for him to be able to sleep, they did nothing to get rid of the nightmares that he had while sleeping.
"How about going out with me for a bit then?" Feilong suggested catching Takaba's attention
"Aren't you still tired and in need of some sleep?" Takaba questioned as Feilong smiled at him while standing up.
"Even you should know that since you're here there's no way I'd go back to sleep unless you did, besides that I got plenty of sleep last night so I'm not even that tired any more. I know that it will be good for you to get some fresh air anyway." Takaba got ready to say something in response to Feilong's words when the other's cell phone started ringing suddenly. Feilong pulled the object out of his pocket and looked to see who was calling before glancing back over at Takaba. "Let me take this call first real quick and then I'll be ready to go. It's probably going to be chilly this morning so go ahead and pick out one of my sweaters to wear while waiting." Takaba gave Feilong a nod and a smile before the other left the room. Takaba continued to sit on the edge of the bed even after Feilong had left.
Takaba groaned inwardly to himself as he stood up while biting his bottom lip, he knew for a fact that he could end up getting himself into some serious trouble for what he was about to do because he knew for a fact that Feilong would never approve of him eaves dropping, but with everything that had been going on recently he couldn't really stop himself from doing what he was about to do.
"It took you long enough to pick up." Asami told the other on the end of the phone as he sat in his office looking out the window.
"Even you should know that I'm a busy man who doesn't have a lot of time to waste, don't sound so irritated if it takes a while for me to answer. What is it that you wanted to bother me about today? I didn't think our meeting was until some time next week."
"It's later this week actually." Asami smoothed corrected as he looked at the folder sitting on his desk. "As for what I'm calling about- I think that you should easily know what's going on." Asami wanted to get his current call out of the way as soon as possible, he didn't have much hope that the other knew where Takaba was, but he knew that more then likely the boy would go to someone he thought that he could trust, not even really caring that he could end up causing more problems for the older man when it came to getting him back.
"Your toy ran away?" the other wasn't all that surprised when Asami didn't respond, "And here I would've thought that you'd have kept a better eye on him after I so kindly handed him over for half the price that we originally settled on.
"Firstly he's not my toy and secondly I was keeping a good eye on him, he was behaving himself rather well until he got into something that he shouldn't have."
"Ohh, so a misunderstanding was formed. I hate to tell you that at this point in time there isn't all that much I can do to tell help you when it comes to the point of finding him, even I don't know where he would've gone." Asami paused for a few seconds after the other told him this, not really believing what he said.
"I didn't honestly have that much faith in the fact that he would've gone back to you. Though I'll ask for you to keep an eye out in case he comes around your area."
"Very well, I'll see what I can do to help. I suggest in the future though keeping a better eye on something that you want to keep close to yourself." Asami hardly let the other finish speaking before he shut his cell phone. Sighing to himself Asami took a sip of the glass of whisky that was on his desk. It was already early morning and there were still no traces of the boy. If Takaba had taken his cell phone with him then Asami would have had no problems tracking the other, but since Takaba didn't have his cell phone on him Asami didn't have any other way of knowing where it was that the boy could've been. Kirishima had dispatched as many men as he could and they were searching and combing through every area that they could in search of the boy and they still hadn't found anything. Asami wasn't all that concerned yet because it hadn't been too horrible long yet and that meant that Takaba couldn't have gotten already gotten himself into too much trouble. Closing the folder in front of him Asami was going to get ready to stand up when his cell phone started ringing again.
"Speak." Asami ordered as he answered the phone knowing that it was Kirishima who was calling.
"Sir, I think that we may have found a lead who might possible know where the boy is at." Kirishima told Asami, "He's in our custody right now and I'm bringing him to your office as we speak. He hasn't given out that much information yet but he seems to think that he remembers seeing the boy not that long ago."
"Very good, I look forward to talking to him when he gets here." Asami told Kirishima hanging up since he knew that there was no further information for him. Even if the man didn't know where Takaba was at least Asami would have a short distract for a small amount of time.
