A/N: It's the holidays so I'll be updating and starting several new stories, hope you'll like them
A/N2: Valium DOES EXIST, wiki it [I love saying (typing) that, wiki it; so fun to say]
Chapter 9
The door slammed opened, standing in the doorway was Lenali's father, Yukimura Len. He was panting slightly, his suit wrinkled and there was sweat on his forehead.
That was quick, thought Marui. Did he run all the way?
"Papa!" exclaimed Lenali throwing her arms in the air. "You remembered our promise!" She giggled happily.
"Promise?" asked Marui. Lenali leaned forward slightly as she whispered.
"Papa always promised to play tennis with me and now-" her voice went a notch higher. "-he's finally keeping his promises." Finally keeping his promises? Has he never ever…?
"Lenali, what are you doing!? Get down from there!" demanded her father. "Now! Honestly why are you such a troublesome child?!"
The smiled vanished from Lenali's face.
"Papa, why are you yelling at me?" Her eyes began to tear. "Why papa? Why are you always yelling at me!?" She began to weep quietly, Marui was tempted to just glare at him but focused on Lenali.
"Hey Lenali," he said gently. "Hey, stop crying now, you're a very pretty girl, if you don't smile I'll be the only one who sees it." Lenali sniffed and wiped her tears.
"Really?" she asked, she looked like a small child seeking approval from her parents.
"Really," said Marui. Lenali sniffed again and dried her eyes, she smiled at him sweetly, and Marui felt his heart skip a beat. He really has fallen in love with her. He reached through the steel net gate. "Come back inside okay?" Lenali reached nervously for his hand but pulled her hand back. She shook her head.
"I don't want to," she said meekly. "I don't want to go back there, I don't want to be lock up again, I don't want to go back to that place." Her voice sounded like a child, her eyes were tearing. Locked up?! Marui looked at her father with a shocked expression on his face.
"I, I," began Yukimura Len. "Lenali, sweetheart I'm sorry, I should have been home more, I'm sorry I left you with that horrible woman."
Lenali covered her ears and fell to her knees. "No! I don't want to hear it! Papa's lying again, I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! You liar! Mama said you're tumbling with another woman! Mama said you'd rather be with them than me! Mama said you don't love us anymore!"
"Lenali, that's not true sweetheart," said her father. "I love you, I do-"
"But you hit Mama!" she shouted crying now; Marui felt his heart being ripped from his chest as he watched her, he couldn't speak, he didn't know what to say. "Mama said…Mama said," she inhaled. "I'm next…"
"Lenali, come home, we'll make things better okay?" He walked towards her. "We can't change the past but we can change the future come home okay? We'll spend more time together, just the two of us…"
"Don't come near me!" she screamed taking a step back, Marui gasped as she almost fell backwards.
"Stop it," he said fiercely grabbing Yukimura's arm. "Can't you see you're making it worse?"
"This is a family matter, you shouldn't even be here," replied Lenali's father with a sneer.
"Stop it! Don't hurt Bunta!" begged Lenali. "Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him like you hurt Yuu-tan!" Yukimura froze and let go of Marui's arm.
"Lenali, I didn't I swear I didn't touch him," he began.
"You said you'd kill him if he came near me again," said Lenali, tears kept trickling down her cheeks. "He's gone, he's gone…AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" she screamed.
"Lenali, I swear I didn't touch him," Yukimura Len was practically on his knees begging. "It was an accident, his death was an accident, Lenali, I swear, I swear I didn't touch him."
"He's gone," she whispered again and again. "He's gone and it's all your fault! If you never came back! If only you stayed in Paris with that, that whore!"
The steel door to the roof slammed open once more, this time four people raced to the roof. Two were very familiar to Marui, Yukimura and Sanada while the other two seemed to be in their late thirties and early forties, one was a female with wavy dark blue hair and blue eyes while the other was a man with greying black hair and taller more muscular build. With having to know their names Marui knew they were Yukimura's parents.
"Oh god! Nali-chan," gasped the woman.
"Lenali," exclaimed Yukimura.
"Baka," muttered Sanada.
"Ah! Seii-nii, Bakada, Oga-san, Otou-san! What are you all doing here?" asked Lenali, wiping her eyes and smiling. "What's with those expressions?"
"Lenali, what are you doing?" asked Yukimura and began walking towards them. She giggled.
"I don't know," she admitted.
"Baka! Get back inside the gate!" remarked Sanada. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Don't you dare talk to my daughter like that!" sneered Yukimura Len.
"Stop it!" shouted Lenali. "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!" she screamed. "Why are you all here!? Leave me alone! I hate you all! All of you! Leave me alone!"
"Lenali," said Sanada firmly. "What are you talki-"
"I hate you!" she began to cry again. "You knew how I felt! You knew how I felt about you! Why is it him and not me?! Why can't my feelings never reach you!?" she sobbed and wiped her eyes. "I hate you! Both of you! It's not fair! Why Seii-nii of all people! Why can't it be someone I can easily hate?!"
Yukimura's mouth fell open as he looked between Sanada and Lenali. "Geiinichirou, you have something to tell me?"
"I hate you! Why are you so nice to me when you do things that hurt me so much?" whimpered Lenali, she stood up slowly. "I hate it! I hate this world! Why is life so hard!? Why can't it just be over?" She looked daze, as if she could no longer make the right decisions.
"Lenali!" exclaimed Marui. "Don't! Please, don't! I'm begging you! Just come back inside, please, I 'm begging you, if not for you, for me, please!"
"Why?" whispered Lenali, a single tear trickled down her cheek.
"Because…because I really like you," said Marui. "For ages, ever since we ate that German cake Yukimura-bucho gave you."
"Liar," said Lenali, she closed her eyes. "All of you, liars, you promised me," she said quietly. "You promised me you'd be there, you promised you stay by my side no mater what happened, you liar, you liar."
Who's she talking about? What's she talking about? Pondered Marui.
"Everyone lies, I hate it," she whispered. "I hate it…"
"Lenali! Please don't!"
"Why not?" said Lenali softly.
Marui began to climb the fence, Sanada grabbed his ankle but Marui kicked him back and climbed over and jumped down on the cement.
"What are you doing?" asked Lenali.
"If you'll jump I'll jump with you," replied Marui firmly.
"Liar," whispered Lenali. Marui smiled sadly. "Why are you doing this?"
"This is the first time I've ever fallen in love so," he said honestly. "I honestly don't know what I will do without you in this world."
"Baaka! People fall in and out of love all the time," said Lenali. Marui smiled and walked toward Lenali.
"Maybe my action are a bit naïve and green of me to be doing this but…I'll take a chance," he said, he took her hand in his. "You've been alone, all this time. You deserve better." Lenali looked down; Marui walked towards her and embraced her. "Come on, let's go back, back t that horrible world, but this time, I'll be here, okay?" Lenali nodded and held him closer.
"Thank you," she said quietly. "Thank you, thank you Bunta." Marui felt his eyes tear as well; he let her go and looked her in the eye.
"Let's go back," he said taking a step back. "Back to-"as he took another step back he foot slipped off the edge of the roof.
A/N: Be honest, did you see that coming? As I said on the last chapter review and wait until the next chapters comes…
