Chapter 9

Yamato couldn´t remember a shit from last night, only that his father had shot him. The pain in his body was un describable, having a hard time moving his leg, he finally stood up, He couldn´t get air properly, and his whole body was shaking his pills were all gone and he had no idea if his father was home or not. The house sounded empty but you could never know with Yoshiro, leaning heavily against the wall made Yamato his way down the stairs. His leg didn´t want to move and every little touch or wrong move set his stomach on fire he was sure that he had some ribs cracked but he had to get out from the house as far from his father as possible.

Not looking back, he stepped out from the door, limping down the road. People stepping aside, not wanting to help him. He looked too much like a gangster who had been in a fight.

***

The last preparing for the festival was doing now, they would open the gates at 10.00 everyone was there form the class expect for Yamato and it made Ren worried. Yamato had promised that he would come, but then again he could just come to ten or something it´s not as if somebody would notice if you would come later.

The only thing was that Kamiya seemed to have noticed his friend's absence. Pulling him aside Ren closed the door to the classroom, hoping that nobody would eavesdrop on them.

"Have you seen Yamato?" Somehow, Kamiya couldn´t keep himself from thinking that it was cute how Ren cared about Yamato. He had his own assumptions on what happened after that they left but he wasn´t going to say anything because he could very well be wrong.

"No, but he´s probably coming later, it´s not like anyone would notice that." It really made Ren a little bit less worried but he just couldn´t shake off that weird feeling of something being wrong. Especially after what Yamato had told him.

"Yeah you´re probably right. But if he doesn't show up after the clock is 10.15 then I´ll call him." Yep that he would do, getting back to their things trying to make it look as nice as it could get in their classroom something, which wasn't too easy.

People started to enter, but no Yamato yet. Giving Kamiya a worried look seeing that the other boy was starting to get worried too about Yamato he should already be here, he promised to come.

Yamato still had fifteen minutes on him; maybe he should talk to Yankumi? But Yamaguchi wasn´t seen anywhere maybe she was in the staffroom, or just doing something like trying to get people to come to their classroom not that tarot cards where that interesting he had just voted for it because he was sick and tired of those old things, he had wanted something new.

That was when he saw Yankumi she was speaking with two guys both nice looking and probably not too poor judging by their clothes, the funny thing was just that the monkey man looked like he could die when he saw them and Kumai-san seemed to know them too.

Looking at his watch he took out his phone dialing Yamatos number.

***

Stray! Stray! In the cold breeze that I walk along

The memories of generations' burn within me

Been forever since I cried the pain and sorrow

I live and die, proud of my people gaining…. CRACK!

Ogata Yoshiro stamped on the phone seeing how it cracked into thousand small pieces. Where had the son of a bitch gone? He had shot him in the leg, but if the boy went to the police then he would be in trouble.

Hurrying out the door, he followed the very faint trail of blood.

***

CRACK… peep, peep… staring at the phone, the first thing that came to his mind was that Yamato was in big trouble. For a minute he just stood there not sure what to do before he hurried his way to find Yankumi finding her still talking with the two guys but know there was a third guy he looked fancy and rich probably in the same age as Kumai-san.

"Yankumi, Yamatos in trouble, I couldn't reach him on the phone it was like somebody stepped on it." The reaction he got was much unexpected, four pair of eyes stared at him, he hadn't really expected those guys to know Yamato but it seemed like they knew him by their reaction.

"WHAT! Isn´t he here?" Ren could almost see the worry explode in Yankumi´s eyes and the guys seemed really worried and upset like they knew him.

"Well no, I wouldn´t be saying that he isn´t here if he were here now would I?" Yamaguchi had to admit that Ren had a point, but she knew that he had promised not to skip so then he should be here. She was well aware of the fact that Ogata wasn´t stupid and he kept his word, so he was probably in trouble.

"Wait I´ll try calling their house maybe he´ll answer the phone." One of the males pulled put his pone dialing a number. "Oh hello Ekihara-san this is Odagiri Ryu. Is Yamato there?" Never had Ren seen a face turn so fast from neutral to horror struck. "WHAT!? Shot, where is he now? YOU DON`T KNOW!" Okay, he had seen Yamato get that angry but this guy was far more scarier, the two others seemed used too it but Yankumi watched a little taken aback from this Odagiri´s outburst.

"Is Ogata-kun okay?" Yamaguchi was worried; you could hear it in her voice and Ren couldn´t stop himself from noticing that, the older guy gave her an calming look like he wanted to say don´t worry.

"He isn´t in the house there was some blood in Yamato´s room and Yoshiro, that means Yamatos father left about a half hour ago looking very pissed. It was the maid that answered the phone just now."

***

Those words still rang in Ren´s ears when Yankumi announced to Ichi that he would be in charge and that he and Kamiya would help look for Yamato, who knows what kind of state he would be in when they found him. Kamiya was there because he had known him for a long time and they had been close friends almost as long.

Running down the street, wondering if somebody had already found Yamato but the others would have called him.

Kamiya was tired and worried, where could Yamato be? He had looked everywhere for his friend but to no use. Seeing Ren coming his way he tried to look as positive as possible not wanting to make Ren more worried than he already was.

"No luck either?" sitting down beside Kamiya, Ren didn´t know what to do hoping that somebody of the others would have any kind of luck. Ren wasn´t sure what was that got him to notice the very fragile red spots on the ground, and they looked unpleasantly a lot like blood trails. If he and Kamiya were lucky then these belonged to Yamato even of it wasn´t very good that he was bleeding. Ren could feel his heart race, and he was getting more and more worried by every second that the lost by not knowing where Yamato were.

"Kamiya, doesn´t that look like real blood?" Pointing at where he saw the blood, Kamiya nodded it sure was blood.

That got them in a hurry both trying to follow the small red dots even if it wasn´t that easy as they disappeared sometimes and then you could again see a red spot a few meters ahead of you.

***

"Do you think somebody has found him yet?" Hayato didn´t even want to know what has happened to Yamato, if it was Yoshiro's doings then Yamato was almost as good as dead already.

There were no words to describe what Ryu was feeling at that moment. Only God would know what he would do to that damned man when he got his hands on him. People would usually say that he should think before he accused somebody for things like this but he knew that it was Yoshiro's fault Yamato had such a bad childhood and that he was the way he was nowadays.

Hayato picked up his phone seeing that he didn´t have the number he could almost swear, that it was that Kazama kid that was a friend of Yamato.

"Hello."

"Hey, I think we´ve found Yamato, Kamiya went a little ahead making sure if he was right I´m following him right now to the place."

"Good where are you now?"

"I´m near this kindergarten called the rainbow, I´ll wait here, but be fast we found a blood trail so who knows in what kind of state he is in." Jesus Christ a blood trail, that meant he had to be pretty bad hurt if he still bled when he got out from the house.

"Ok we´ll come there right now." Ryu seemed to have listened to the call because he was already heading for the kindergarten.

It didn´t take long to find Ren, you could see him pretty well on a place like that not only that he was kind of tall too. He was almost as anxious as Ryu maybe more than his lover was but Hayato could almost smell that there was something going between Yamato and this Kazama boy, and he seemed to have gotten even more anxious when he had seen that blood. Not that it disturbed Hayato he was only happy if Yamato was happy and if he liked guys then so what, Hayato liked guys too Ryu was a very good example of that.

"Ok, lead the way." Ryu had called Shin, he and Yankumi would come too they had been on the other side while Ryu and Hayato had been more in the center of the city, now they were heading a bit outside of Tokyo.

Kamiya was worried he was waiting for Ren to come he had walked now for sometime so that his friend would catch up with him. He was happy when he saw Ren with Odagiri and Yabuki with him.

No one said anything Kamiya led the way and the others followed but no one said anything. Then again, Yamato was a very good friend of them all. Maybe a little more for Ren, but who knows what those two were doing.

***

'Ren… Ren I love you.' Every single time he was hit and every time a kick was directed for him, these thoughts came back. The memories of the night when he had felt Ren´s lips against his own he felt somehow better, like his father´s words couldn´t reach him but everything was fading away like a giant black hole was forming in his mind.

Feeling the iron in his mouth when some knew blood swelled up from his inner coloring his teeth red. Yamato knew that he looked like shit; his clothes were dirty and torn. His face paler than a normal persons and a lot thinner, the only thing he had on his body, expect for his skin was his muscles. Don´t take it wrong Yamato was very proud of his abs and muscles, it was just that he was so hungry he hadn´t been eating well in a while and it took a lot of energy from him.

Trying to tune out his father´s, angry voice he tried to keep his tears from falling it hurt so much that he didn´t know what to do.

"You ungrateful boy, when I talk you listen or I´ll make you listen to me!" Pulling out his gun Yamato can´t keep himself he can feel the tears run down his cheeks.

"No… please don´t I´ll listen… just don´t shoot please." His voice stocking in the end Yamato had never felt a fear he felt at that moment. Felling the bullet piercing through his skin, sinking into his back, he was unable to move his leg made him an easy prey. Letting out a small cry, his whole body shaking uncontrollable, he didn´t know what to do.

A shot was heard, Ren felt how his heart almost stopped no Yamato had to be okay, he couldn´t leave him just like this. The others seemed to be thinking in the same lines as him because nobody stopped to see they just ran as fast as they could closing in on where from they had heard the shot.

There he was, with his dad over him with a gun in his hand pointing it at Yamato, Ren didn´t know what to do. Never had he thought he would see Yamato defenseless, never.

"You mother fucker, You´ve got five seconds to put down that gun Yoshiro before I´ll shoot you." Beside him stood Yabuki-san with a gun pointing at Yamato´s dad, looking like a demon his eye´s burning with a hate and passion Ren never had seen in the eyes of a man.

"And why would I listen to a gangster like you Yabuki, and he is my son I have all my right to do this to him." The sadistic grin spreading on Yamatos dad´s face made Ren´s blood boil out of anger, things he did to Yamato, no one had the right to do things like that he was the real culprit here. Looking at Odagiri-san the words didn´t seem to please hem very much either, and then Ren saw the small gun Odagiri-san had behind his back ready to shoot if Yoshiro would try anything.

"Hmm, did the cat ta…." BANG, the chocked expression on his father´s face was the last thing Yamato saw before Yoshiro fell to the ground with a small thump. Letting go of the gun on the same time, before he even could do anything Ren was beside him Kamiya not long after him.

The adults still staring at Yankumi, her face was hard and she didn't look like their teacher anymore her hair was loose and she didn´t have on her glasses, she hadn´t blinked even when she had shot her students father, he wasn´t dead but enough chocked not to do anything until the police was there.

The last thing Yamato saw before the ambulance left was Ren, a gentle smile on his lips mouthing the words I love you for him. Something told Yamato that he was safe he wouldn´t need to be scared anymore, he had Ren nothing more would he need as long as he walked on this earth nobody could make him more happy than he was now. God had heard his prayers and he needed no more be afraid.

The police would take Yoshiro to the hospital and then from there nobody knew yet. Not that any jail, would be enough of a punishment for a monster like Ogata Yoshiro.


KYAA! I cind of feel evil but i soo just love this chapter :) hope u like it 33