Yuki punched the nearest tree in frustration. Two months of searching and the police have reached a dead end.
"Yuki-san, please... try to calm down." Akane said having followed him out after the police told them the news. Yuki growled in pain as he knuckles started bleeding.
"How can you expect me to calm down?! No one knows where my Shuichi is! NO ONE CAN TELL ME WETHER HIS LIVING OR DEAD!!! Or even HOW the bastard's treating him!" Yuki yelled. Akane looked down knowing the other was right.
"He'll be found..." She tried reassuring him. Yuki scoffed and shook his head trying to clear his head.
"Shuichi... is in a very delicate state... he's a fucking pregnant GUY! My pink haired hyper-active singer is out there somewhere... and I'm here being absolutely USELESS!!!" He yelled.
"You know Shuichi is strong!"
"Yeah, well, he's never been kidnapped by a psycho when he's hormonal has he?" He replied bitterly. He rested his back against the tree trunk and slid down to the earthy floor. "He should be eight months pregnant right now... I should have never brought him here..."
Akane sat down besides him. "Yuki-san, please, it's not your fault. You couldn't have known." She said. Yuki turned to her at that.
"What should I do?"
"Not give up hope." She answered. Before she could react Yuki pressed his lips against her, giving her only time to freeze in shock. She could taste the alcohol on Yuki's mouth. She tried pushing him away but Yuki pulled her closer.
"Y-Yuki-san! Stop please!" She cried out as the other broke the kiss and started kissing her down her neck. "STOP!!!" She screamed pushing him back. "I'm not Shuichi!" Yuki froze at that and pulled away from her completely, looking at her in shock.
"Akane... I..." Akane was trying to catch her breath where she sat looking at him wearily to see if he was still out of it. "I-I'm so sorry... I'm sorry... Shuichi... please come back to me..." He said, starting to cry. Akane looked at him sadly and hugged him.
"It's ok Yuki-san. We'll find him. Lets keep searching." She said and Yuki nodded.
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Shuichi looked at his reflexion as the other brushed his once more short hair. His eyes failed to show any sign of the happy singer so many in Japan knew and loved.
"You look beautiful my Shuichi." He said kissing him on the neck.
"Thankyou my love." Shuichi replied, his voice monotonous, absent of any life. He stared at himself in the mirror as the other carried on trying to get him into the mood for sex. It was all a display of courtesy and nothing more, as Shuichi never got in the mood, and the other didn't really care. Just as he expected the other pulled him up to his feet and took him to the bed.
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Ryuichi sat with Kumagoro in his lap looking down heartbroken at the floor. Nothing Noriko did could cheer him up. No progress had been made since Shuichi's kidnapping, Ryuichi was too upset to think of anything besides him.
"Ryuichi... please try to cheer up." Noriko said giving him a chocolate bar which Ryuichi nibbled on.
"How can I Noriko-chan? Shu-chan is still missing! Kumagoro can't even sleep anymore! He must be so scared! If he had Kumagoro he wouldn't be so scared!" Ryuichi said sobbing. Tohma sighed as he was sitting there aswell, K and Sakano sat with them for lack of anything better to do. Hiro and Fujisaki were once more heading to Kyoto to try and look for Shuichi once more.
"I have all my operatives on the look out for the bastard. The guy is clever if he can evade my men." K said worriedly. Sakano was... well, lets just say the only thing keeping him from a mental breakdown was a truckload of calming drugs.
"Eiri must be a wreck, the doctors told him that it's very possible that under such stressed out conditions, it's very possible that... the baby... might have..."
"DON'T SAY IT!!!" Ryuichi cried out hugging Kumagoro tightly. "The baby is Shuichi's, so, so, so it must be strong and live!" Ryuchi said. Tohma picked up his mobile phone as it started ringing.
"Yes? Any news Mika? ... Oh... ok... See you soon." Tohma said.
"What is it?" K asked looking at him.
"Mika sais... the police have reached a dead end. This guy has disappeared from the map... either he's prepared ahead and is staying in hiding along with Shuichi... or I don't know..." Tohma said. "She too is heading for Kyoto now."
"What about your kid?" Noriko asked.
"My aunt is looking after him." Tohma said.
"My men aren't very far up ahead from the police, I'm ashamed to say." K said. Just then K's phone rang and he picked it up.
"Hello? Honey?! Where are you calling from? Yes... yes... I see... Yes I'll tell them." K said and hanged up. "Judy had some private investigators look up the guy, she thought he was familiar, turns out the guy's Japanese-American, born there. He saw Shuichi when Reiji was trying to get him to sign with XMR, Judy had been there the day Reiji took him to the company. She bumped into the guy, a common office clerk. She checked him out and she found out that the guy named Akira Winston has a small property in Tottori... the only thing is that the address wasn't registered."
"It's better than nothing, at least now we have were to look." Tohma said.
"The police were way off, Tottori is a good distance away from Kyoto." Sakano said.
"Lets just hope we can find Shuichi before the baby's due!" Noriko said and Ryuichi nodded.
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Shuichi lay on the bed crying silently as the other got dressed. Suddenly a jolting pain in his lower back made him curl up in pain and cry out. Blood poured onto the mattress from between his legs and Akira froze seeing that.
"Stop it! Stop that!" He yelled at Shuichi who couldn't stop his cries of pain.
"Ahhh! Please make it stop! It hurts!!" He cried. The other punched Shuichi to try to keep him quiet but the other only cried out louder.
"I'm not prepared for the kid to come yet! You said there was still another month left you bitch!" He yelled shaking him by the shoulders to try to shut him up. When he saw that the other wasn't fooling around he panicked and ran to the other room, coming back soon after.
"Please! Please take me to a hospital! T-The baby!!!" He cried, the pain was unbearable.
"We don't need a hospital! I'm the only one who can see you!" He yelled and gave him something to drink. "I looked in the internet, I'll perform the caesarean. It'll be alright my love." He said smiling with his insane look.
"NO! You're crazy!" Shuichi cried out, the other tied his other hand and legs to the bed and took out a knife.
"Don't worry, the drugs I gave you are so strong that you wont die." He said smiling as he placed a cloth in Shuichi's mouth to stop him from crying. "Now please be patient my love. Soon I'll get rid of the bastard child." He said.
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The ride Tottori had been too long for Yuki's liking but finally they were here. Yuki looked at K as he spoke to his men, getting the search parties ready.
"Are you sure the bastard's here?" Yuki asked.
"Judy's certain this is the guy. My men have also backed up her discovery. We'll find him Yuki, relax." Yuki sighed as he looked at a random place.
"We have to find him K... We just have to..." He whispered.
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The search had been fruit full but not successful as they would have wanted. Halfway through it started raining and they'd had to stop the search. Yuki however was determined to keep searching but Tatsuha was arguing with him.
"You can't go Eiri! It's too dangerous!"
"I'm too close to give up now!" He yelled.
"You're going to get yourself killed" His brother argued, but their conversation was cut short when a local police officer ran towards them and everyone who was nearby turned also. The man seemed out of breath but he managed to get some words out.
"A... baby... appeared on the nearby temple, it was half buried, the monk at the place had spotted someone... and that person ran before he could be identified. The child... wasn't breathing... the monk... took it to the hospital."
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Mika held onto Yuki's hand who looked at her and looked away but squeezed her hand back needing the reassurance right now.
"No news of Shuichi?" Yuki whispered.
"No... but they have a direction, the rain had stopped where the temple was and the car left a trail." Mika said. Yuki nodded softly and took a deep breath looking at her.
"Tell me they'll be ok." Yuki whispered and Mika smiled sadly.
"They'll be ok baby brother." She said.
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Akira smiled as he walked back into the room and kissed Shuichi on the lips.
"I got rid of the bastard my love. Now we can be together by ourselves." He said happily but the other didn't respond. "Shu-chan?" He said and made the other look at him. He looked deathly pale, his breathing non-esistant, and upon further inspection... his pulse was gone. "No! NO! DON'T DIE ON ME YOU BITCH!! WAKE UP!!" He yelled punching him but Shuichi wouldn't respond. Akira took a couple of steps back to take in everything. Shuichi was covered in blood from the incision Akira'd made on his stomach. He was still tied to the bed, and the opening in his stomach had been patched up by Akira himself with a common needle and threat.
He shook his head constantly. He wouldn't accept this. He couldn't. "NO! I LOVE YOU! Only I can kill you!!! AGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!" He raised the kitchen knife he'd used for the cesarian, ready to plunge his heart.
The door was thrown open by the very K himself and without hesitation shot the man several times. He ran to Shuichi's side untying him. In the dim lighted room he could barely see him, but the blood was enough to tell him that it might have been too late.
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"Uesugi Eiri?" The doctor called and Yuki was immediately on his feet.
"It's me doctor." He said.
"Well, the paternity test confirms she's your child. Due to her premature birth her lungs weren't properly developed but she should be fine after some time on the incubator." The doctor said.
"Can I see her?" He asked softly and the doctor nodded.
As Yuki entered the room his heart raced at an alarming pace. The baby girl was soundly asleep inside the incubator, she had Shuichi's hair... What broke his heart was seeing his baby with all those tubes connected to her. He caressed her cheek and saw her react slightly. She gripped his finger weakly and Yuki couldn't help but smile softly as tears rolled down his usually stoic face.
"Hey baby... It's me... It's your daddy..." Yuki whispered. He was a father. "I swear... that I'll always protect you... I'll never let you be in danger again." He said softly. Mika smiled softly at the sight but she had to interrupt.
"Eiri..." She said softly hugging him softly. "They've found Shuichi." She whispered. That brought his attention.
"Is he ok?" Yuki asked but Mika only cried. "Mika... tell me he's ok... please." He begged. She could only shake her head.
