It has been five days since the incident at his house happened and he also had been sleeping over at Kagami and Kuroko's apartment. He couldn't helped it. He just didn't wanted to meet with his father and dealt with him yet for now, and his mind are still too occupied with what has his lover said. Furihata's words kept on playing in his mind like a broken tape. He just couldn't forget about it. In fact, it was really hard for him to even forget about it even if he forced himself to. How, just how could he even brought himself to forget something so important and dearly to him just like that? The only one thing Akashi could think of his brunette lover was that, the taller are just out of his mind.
"Akashi-kun, are you okay?" Kuroko asked the shorter red haired man when he approached him sitting on the couch in the living room, bringing both of them a cup of tea in his hands. He put it down on the table and looked over at the other with a concern looks on his face. "Here, I make some tea for us."
"Thank you, Tetsuya."
"It's nothing."
"..."
There was silence lingering in the house, not even a single word could be heard coming from both of them. The only sounds they could heard was the pitter patter of the rain that were hitting on the window, the howling of the wind coming from the gap of the sliding door that they purposely had left it opened just a bit and the thunder grumbled every two minutes. Kuroko kept his eyes on the other man in front of him while he constantly glancing over his phone at the coffee table. He couldn't helped it, since he were waiting for his big lover to come back from the campus. It has been over an hour already and it was making him worried since the taller's class supposed to end an hour and half ago.
Noticing how the teal blue haired kept on fidgeting here and there, feeling anxious all these times, Akashi put a hold on his typing on his laptop as he lifted his head up and looked at Kuroko. "Are you worry about Taiga?"
"E-eh?" Kuroko snapped his head to stared into Akashi's eyes, and immediately he looked down at his tea in his cup. Even after all these years, he couldn't still looked at it straight into those heterochromatic eyes. There was just something in it, that make it impossible for him. But nevertheless, he was not afraid of him and he also would answered his question. "You.. notice it, Akashi-kun?"
"Yes."
"So?"
"..I.." He bit on his lower lips as his hands were playing with the cup, rubbing his thumb over the handle. He were clearly are nervous, even he would admitted that. How couldn't he, when his lover are not at home yet and he really need the taller by his side right now since he had always afraid of rain. Well, if it was a heavy rain with thunders and lightning, of course.
"Don't worry, that idiot are not that weak."
"..."
"He's probably just stuck at the campus since it was raining right now."
"..I hope that was it."
"It is."
Again, there was silence between them. It went on for about 5 minutes, before there could be heard the keys jingling in the key hole and the knob were being turned from the outside. Hearing this, immediately Kuroko lifted up his head at the sound and placed his cup down on the table, before he make his way towards the short hallway to the front door. He waited for the door to swung opened, and there could be seen relief washed over his face when he saw the face that he were been waiting for. "Kagami-kun.." He called for the other, and approached him even closer. His lover are completely drenched from head to toes, even he could saw the water droplet fall from his hair and all his clothes.
"I'm home, Kuroko." Kagami looked at his small lover while panting, and his eyes widen when he could saw the other are on the verge of crying. Seeing this, instantly he felt really bad and his heart ache. He knew it that he should came back home soon the moment he noticed the sky turned dark, but he choose to ignore it and do something else. Something that was quite important.
"A-are you okay?"
"I'm sorry for coming back late. I'm stuck-"
"Wait here, Kagami-kun. I'm going to get you a towel."
With that, Kuroko quickly ran towards their room and grabbed his lover's towel and a fresh new one that he had just fold before, and ran back at his lovers. He immediately hand the other's towel to him, while he used the other one to dried his lover's hair gently. "You're going to have a fever if don't dry yourself quickly, Kagami-kun."
"..."
"You should take off your coat and-"
"Kuroko..." Kagami grabbed his lover's arm, halting his movements as he stared into his eyes. Ah, he was right. Kuroko were trying really hard not to broke down in front of him, and he guess it was probably because Akashi was here. Usually if it was just the two of them, the other would already cried while his hands were pounding on his chest mercilessly. "..hey."
"F-faster K-kagami-kun..you need to-"
"Hey, look at me." He said gently, softly so that the only one who could heard their conversation right now are them. "Kuroko, it's okay. I'm okay."
"B-but-"
"I'm sorry, okay?" He apologized, bringing both his hands and hold onto the shorter's head tenderly when he noticed his body trembled. He leaned in and kissed on his forehead, softly muttering sorry again and again. He knew why was his lover are so worried about him, and he could only linked the reason was because of the incident happened in the past. They hold that position, just holding onto each other for 2 minutes, before they pulled away with he wiped away the tears on the shorter's cheeks. "Kuroko.. where's Akashi?"
"Akashi-kun? he's in the living room. W-why?"
"I've something to tell him."
"What is it?"
"I'll tell you both later, okay? Now, let me just take a shower and change my clothes."
"O-okay. I'll make you some hot coffee-"
"And I'll continue to comfort you later in our room later, okay?" He whispered, and instantly he got a red Kuroko in front of him. He couldn't helped but to let out a soft chuckle, before he leaned in and pecked him on the lips.
(25 minutes later)
"Akashi, I need to tell you something." There could be seen now all three of them are now sitting at the living room, with already bathed Kagami sat beside of Kuroko and Akashi sat across of them. Kuroko and Akashi couldn't helped but to changed a look with each other when they noticed how serious Kagami's face were right now.
"What is it?"
"Before I tell you, I need you to answer me first."
"Just what is it?"
"Answer me, honestly."
"..."
"Kagami-kun, you don't have to-" Kuroko tried to covered for Akashi and helped Kagami to calmed down a bit, only for Akashi to brought up his hand, asking him to stop and it was okay.
"Fine." Akashi looked at Kagami, demanding for the taller man to spilled out whatever he wanted to know from him. "What is it?"
"Tell me why do you insist on staying in our apartment these few days?"
"What?"
"Answer me, Akashi."
"..."
"Why can't you answer me? My question are not that hard, isn't"
"K-Kagami-kun-"
"This is not your time for you to side with him, Kuroko."
"But Kagami-kun-"
Kagami chose to ignored his lover as he continued on to looked at the heterochromatic man in front of him. Truth to be told, he was a bit angry at him, but at the same time he pitied him. At first he didn't even bothered to get involved in his mess and problem, but when his eyes caught something on his way back home, he knew it that there was a solid and reason behind why did he suddenly showed up on their doorstep. "Is there something happen at your house before this?"
"W..what?"
"Is there?"
"..."
"It seem like there is, huh?"
Akashi were somehow are taken aback at the sudden question that the other threw at him. He didn't expected for that kind of question to be directed at him. But somehow, hearing and getting this question, he could felt that the other seeming like knew something about it. And for some reason he could felt his heart suddenly become heavy and he got a bad feeling about this. "You could take it as that."
"Then, that's explain the whole situation."
"What do you mean?"
"Did you see something, Kagami-kun?" Kuroko turned to his right and looked at his lover in curious.
"On my way back just now, I saw Furihata."
There could be heard a gasp came out from the teal blue haired boy while the other shorter just hissed, feeling still annoyed at the brunette for what did he said to him when they got back home to his house the other day. "So what?"
"What?" Now it was Kagami turned to be surprised at how Akashi respond to his meeting with their old friend. "What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing?" Akashi hissed, before he lowered down his gaze at his laptop's screen back, feeling totally disinterest in this topic. "If you're just going to say that you meet with him, then I don't want to continue this talk anymore."
"What?"
"I had enough."
"Oi-!"
"Akashi-kun, what happen?" Kuroko turned his head to looked at the man across of them in concern. He had tried to have a conversation with the other before as to why did he suddenly decided to stayed at his and Kagami's apartment instead of going back to his house, but the only replies he got was a silent air and just a simple one word of, 'just'.
"I told you, Tetsuya. I don't want to talk about the reason why I-"
"Akashi-kun-"
"Then if I say he's half dead, would you still continue to act like this?" Kagami balled up his hand to a tight fist as he tried to hold back his anger while glaring at the cocky wine red haired. he knew that even though the other pretended like he didn't care, he actually care more than anyone else do. Of course he would, because Furihata was his lover; and he didn't know if he could even considered it to be 'is' right now after all these years. Just who wouldn't even worried about their partner? No one.
"Don't try to lie to me, Taiga. The last time I saw him, he's fine. He's not that weak and-"
"Your last time has been for four days, do you even know how to differentiate between last time and few days ago?"
"There's nothing different about it. It actually hold the same meaning behind it anyway."
"I'm not lying, you bastard! Do you even know what your father's men do to him?!"
Upon hearing the word 'father' and 'men' in one sentence, it immediately triggered something in his heart ans in instant his attention goes to looked at Kagami with a worried expression all over his face. "W-what do you mean?" He gulped his saliva in nervous, as he pleaded the other to said what happened to his lover. "What d-did they do to him?"
"Tch, I thought you would not care?"
"Tell me, Taiga!" He slammed his hands on the table, not caring that it was actually hurting his hands. For now, his lover were the most important thing.
"He were beaten really badly with different sorts of things and were bleeding a lot, and I don't know for how long it already went but by the time I come to help him..."
"...!" He were speechless and completely shocked when he heard that. His heart break just hearing what happened at the brunette, and just trying to imagined it really make it worst for him. He could felt that his hands started to trembled when he think of all the possibilities that could have happened at the brunette. "No...no, Kouki..!"
Noticing how worried does Akashi looks like, Kuroko immediately leave his lover's side and goes towards the other. "Akashi-kun, are you okay?" He placed his hand on top of the other's shoulder as there was a concern looks in his eyes. He didn't know what happened between both of them, but the only thing he knew was that even though Akashi tried to acted like he didn't care at all,in actual it was totally the opposite of it. He knew how dear was Furihata to him. He had been there, witnessing how broken the other was when the brunette went missing for the last three years and a half.
"I..."
"Akashi-kun-"
"I-I need to see him!" Akashi mumbled to himself as he started to freaked out when all of it came down to him all at once. "I-I need to go.." He bend down to close his laptop and started to gathered all of his things in his arms.
Seeing how vulnerable did the emperor looks like right now, Kagami could only hissed in frustrated as his hands balled up into a tight fist. As much as he hate to interfered between the two man relationship before this, he knew that for now he had to helped this guy to take Furihata with him back. He knew it would be a hard things to do, since he also already saw just how different the brunette were. It was totally like he were seeing a two different kind of people, instead of just accepting that it was the same person but with a different personalities. Besides, he also missed the Furihata Kouki of Seirin that they all knew before. But the only thing that was bothering him right now was, how would he going to do to take and bring the other back to them. "Fuck, what am I suppose to do?"
"Kouki...Kouki.."
"Akashi-kun, please calm down."
"God, how should I help him in this case? And Furihata too.. how in the world that he could change so much?" He kept on thinking the reason and all the possibilities that might lead to the brunette's current actions, but all just did not clicked at all. No matter how much he tried to think, there would always be a plot hole in it that just doesn't make sense to him at all. Seeing how the other suddenly gotten himself two new friends, that he had never seen before, really make all of it became so much harder to find the answer. "God damn it, ergh!" He slammed his fist onto the wall behind of him. He kept on getting all frustrated and bothered, until there was a yell that snapped back his attention at the two shorter in front of him.
"Akashi-kun, please-"
"Please what, Tetsuya?!" Akashi shrugged Kuroko's hands on him harshly and turned to glared at him in anger. "How could you ask me to calm down with what just happen to Kouki?! Don't you have a heart?"
"..A-akashi-kun, I-I don't meant tha-"
"Yeah you don't mean that! You don't know how I feel, Tetsuya!"
"That's because you're always beside Taiga!"
"...I-I.."
"Try to put yourself in my place, Tetsuya!"
"..I'm s-sorry.."
"Oi, Akashi!" Kagami stepped towards the two and immediately grabbed his lover's wrist and pulled him to stand behind of him. He were quite surprised at the other's outburst and he also were afraid that the heterochromatic man in front of them would do anything to hurt his beloved. Thought it was rather stupid of him to suspected that kind of action from the other, he just could not helped it. He was really a protective boyfriend and would never tolerate with anyone who would lay their fingers on his Kuroko. "Can't you calm the fuck down?!" He hissed as he glared at the other. "Kuroko just wanted to help you to calm down and think more rationally about this situation!"
"Shut up, Ta-"
"I know you're angry and all, but damn! just think properly for now, can't you?! Can't you see that you're hurting Kuroko?!" He continued to yelled at Akashi while looking at him intensely. Seeing that the red wine haired didn't even spoke a word, he decided that the other probably already started to calmed himself down. He let out a sigh as he brought his other hand to massage on his nose bridge. "Look here, Akashi. I really know hos did you feel when you heard what had happened at Furihata, but trust me, he's okay. I mean.. just okay to the point that he could still stood up and drove away with his motorbike."
"..."
"I know you really want to go check up on him and I know how worried you are. You've been looking for him all these times, so how is it still not obvious that you really love him? Only an idiot who wouldn't see that."
"..."
"For now.. let's wait for the rain to stop, and then I'll send you to his place."
"..."
"Is that alright?"
"..."
"Oi-, Akashi"
"Fine."
Looking at how his lover had managed to calmed the other down, Kuroko could only let out a soft sigh as there was a smile on his face. He was glad that now Akashi became more stable and didn't started to freaking out. As his lover said, it was obvious that the other really love the brunette, and all of them could saw that. "Akashi-kun..."
"Ugh..." Furihata groaned in pain as he tried his best to unlocked the front door of his house and tried not to passed out right now. As soon as he managed to unlocked it and there were heard a 'click' on the other side, he quickly make his way inside. He couldn't even had a time to took off his shoes when all of a sudden his vision started to become blurry and all the things inside of his house are somehow doubled. Trying his hard to force himself to stayed conscious, he managed not to lasted even 5 seconds when his legs stumbled and he fell onto the wooden floor with a loud thud. He winced as he forced himself to immediately lied on his back because cursed it, his wounds got pressed against the wooden floor were the most painful thing he had ever felt. "Ugh..!"
"Meow!" His black and white cat, Shiku, jumped down from the kitchen's aisle and immediately approached her owner, rubbing her nose at his cheeks. She were really confused as to why suddenly her owner just lied down right in front of the front door. Usually she would saw the human entered his room and be in the same position as this on top of the soft material. As lazy as she was, she actually really like her owner and if there was a time where the human didn't acted like his normal self, she would approached him and tried to calmed him down.
"Shi...ku.." He stirred a bit when he could felt the fur rubbed against his cheek and how loud her purr was. He knew why did she purred. He had read somewhere that when a cat purred, they actually were trying to reduced the pain on their injuries aside when they just like to be patted and acting like a spoilt one. He knew it sounded stupid and it really aren't at the best time, but he really thought that it was cute for his cat to acted like that. Usually his cat would just ignored him and only came to him when she need to eat and to be pet.
"Meow~!"
"..are you..stupid.." He tried to bring out his smirk, because it wouldn't worked on human since it would only work for herself, but instead he only groaned and winced in pain. "..damn.."
"Meow!"
*BUZZ*BUZZ*
He heard his phone were vibrating on the floor next to the table's legs, that had fell out from his pocket when he fell down on the floor. He turned his head painfully to looked at where his phone was. He could saw the screen were lighted up, and there were someone's name flashed on it. As much as he wanted to picked it up and asked whoever it was to come here and helped him to discard this pain away, he knew he was in no state to even move anymore. The wounds on his arm and legs from the incidents before still didn't even healed yet, and now it only had became worse. The wounds were bleeding again and it was really hurt, to the point he just wanted to cut off both his limbs. And plus with another new bruises and wounds that he just got on all over his body and face, it really make him pissed off. He should and could handled anyone that were trying to interfered his way easily, but when it was on 8 to 1 and he were blindfolded, it really just prove that he were at a disadvantage. He couldn't helped but to cursed because somehow it seemed like the old man had noticed about his left eye. "Damn...it.."
*BUZZ*BUZZ*
It was really pissing him off to not be able to reached his phone even if he tried to stretched his hand as far as he could,it just were not in his reach at all. Ah, somehow his eyes caught the sight of his arm. It was... awful, he finally would admitted it. It was bloody and was wet with the mix of blood and water from the rain outside. Just looking at it make him wanted to mocked himself as his mind tried to imagined the same conditions on all of his limbs. Heck, it was really hurt.
"Meow~"
"Meow~"
"..S...h..iku.." He winced and closed his eyes tightly when there was a sharp pain shot through all over his body at once. "A-arghh!" He yelled as loud as he could, before his vision turned blurry again and he finally lost his conscious. Somehow before he passed out, he didn't knew why, but the name just slipped out from his lips. He didn't knew whether he should be mad because of that guy that he were in this condition or he just wanted the other's attention directed to him only and take care of him. "Sei..juro.."
"Luz..."
"..."
"Luz.!"
"..."
"Are seriously going to act like this with with me?"
"..."
"Oi, Luz-!"
"Can you please shut up, Norio?! you were making my ears bleed!"
"Then, why don't you answer me?!
"Should I?" Luz looked at his friend in disinterest and hissed in annoyed. He were in no mood to talked with the other, nor he had ever think to have a normal conversation with him anymore. He could tolerated with a simple greeting and if there was something related to the school's works, and when he need to picked up and send him over. As ridiculous as it looked like, he still couldn't just let the shorter to go to their campus on his own. He knew the risk too well, especially if the said person are so pretty like an angel.
"W-what?"
"Is my voice to low for you to hear it?"
"..." Norio eyes grew wide in surprised when he heard how harsh did that tone came out from the taller's mouth. He did not knew what makes the taller are so mad at him so much that he didn't even wanted to take a look at his face nor hear his voice. He also didn't even replied to his call. The only time they would communicate with each other was when they would rode the that was also only a simple, 'you're here' and 'we've arrived'. The only thing he knew was, he did indeed make the other mad, but it just he did not know the sole reason behind of it. To be honest, he really missed the moments where he and the blonde would joke around.
"I'm going somewhere else." Luz said as he stood up and grabbed his bag's strap and slung it on his left shoulder. He looked at the other. "I don't have enough balance credit in my phone, so I'm not gonna call you."
"..."
"As soon as the rain stop, wait for me at the parking lot."
"..."
"Late, and I'll leave you." He said one last time before he walked away from the shorter. As soon as he turned around the corner, he immediately let out a breath that he didn't even knew he had been holding in, and let out a sigh. To be honest, he really didn't like for him to acted this way towards the other, especially when he knew how sensitive the man was. But he had no choice. Every time he looked at the black-blue haired boy, he would always saw Furihata's face on it, and that was what making him so pissed off. He really didn't like it. He didn't hate the brunette at all, he really didn't, but if the shorter continued to acted too caring about the brunette, he would probably started to hate him. As ridiculous as it sounds, he didn't wanted anyone to be close to his Norio, man or woman, he wouldn't accepted that at all. He also didn't wanted the other to be so concerned about other people except for him. Norio are only his, and he would really make the other as his in the nearest time, want or not, he would forced it even if he had to. "Damn, Norio."
On the other side, Norio's eyes just followed the blonde's figure until it disappeared behind the wall. He didn't know why, but he felt like he really wanted to cry right now. It hurts so much when the taller ignored him, and didn't even wanted to spare a look at him. He missed the cheerful Luz, he missed the way the other always on his side teasing him so much. "Luz..."
"Does Seijuro still didn't come home yet, Aika?" The head of the Akashi's family, Akashi Masaomi, asked the beautiful young lady who were sitting at the couch across of him. The girl just shook her head, looking really disappointed at that fact. "That boy!" He slammed his hand onto the the hand rest in anger as he gritted his teeth.
Aika couldn't helped but to flinched in fear when the old man in front of her were releasing his anger on the poor couch. But then again, that was not she really care about. The only thing she care right now was Akashi Seijuro. She had been staying in the other's house for five days already, but still she couldn't see the other's figure walked through the front door. She never did saw anyone, him, back to this house after that incident happened. She were really disappointed at that, but also she was really angry at the taller brunette. From what she has observed, it seemed like that person were the one who are responsible for his soon to be husband to acted like that. "That guy!" She balled up her hands, feeling so angry at the brunette.
"Is there still no news about him, dear?" Akashi's mother asked her husband in desperate, totally worried over her son and also felt sad for the girl sitting beside of her.
"No."
Hearing that answer, it also were making Aika's heart crumbled. She really hope that they would get any news about where are the other and how was him right now. "It's all his fault!" She gritted her teeth in anger. "I'll definitely make Seijuro fall for me! I'll not let him sway to that disgusting side of relationship!"
"Oh no.. I'm really worry about Seijuro.." The older woman bit on her lower lips in worried as she clasped her hands together.
Just then, there was heard a phone rang through out the whole living room. Feeling that his phone were vibrating and hearing the specific tone he had set for someone, the older man quickly picked up his phone. "So?"
"Masaomi-sama, we already found that boy."
"Really?! then how is it?"
"But it seem he didn't know anything about Seijuro-sama."
"What? do you already try ask him?!"
"We did. We forced him to talk, but he just said that he didn't know who was Seijuro-sama and that they didn't even know each other."
"I'm sure that boy are just lying!" He hissed. "So what did you do to him?! I hope you didn't just let him go just like that!"
"No, we make sure that he had a hard time to stand up and probably would take more than a month to heal. We also already warned him to not even dare to go near Seijuro-sama."
Hearing that, he couldn't not helped but to let out a smirk before it followed with a dark chuckle after that. "Good job. I'll transfer your pay by tomorrow."
"Yes. Thank you, Masaomi-sama. And I'm really sorry for not knowing where Seijuro-sama are."
"That's one thing that you should have done more properly. If you want extra payment, you all better get your ass up."
"We're really sorry, Masaomi-sama."
"Good job anyway." He hang up the call as soon as he said that.
Noticing how the smirk somehow started to resembled a smile, Aika decided to asked him since she was really curious about it. "Uncle? who is it?"
"Ah.. just someone."
"Oh.." She just nod, to show a polite way to dismissed it, but also as a way to start another question. "If it's okay, can I know who are you talking about?"
"I don't mind. It's about that guy."
"What's..wrong with him?"
"I won't explain in detail, but just rest assure Aika."
"Seijuro will be yours soon, and realize something important later."
"E-eh?" She were dumbfounded at the older's answer. She didn't knew what the true meaning behind all those words, but she knew one thing that she really were certain of. Whatever it was, she knew there was something happened at the brunette and she also could not helped but to be overjoyed by that fact. Finally she could have the only son in Akashi's family to herself. She would definitely make the other as her's. "Finally he will be mine!"
40 minutes later, the rains had finally stopped but the sky were still grey and there was not even a ray of sun did penetrated yet through the clouds. By just looking at how dark the sky are, it seemed like this was only for temporary before the second wave would hit the ground again. Seeing this as his chance to go to Furihata's place, Akashi quickly get off from the couch and grabbed his bag that he had left it in the room and started gathering all his things that he need once he reached there. Kuroko, who were just coming out from the kitchen after having a glass of water, were a bit shocked to see how fast did the other move. He followed him, and stopped right in front of the room.
"Akashi-kun?"
"The rain already stop, I need to go to Kouki right now Tetsuya."
"N-now?"
"Yes."
"I-I'll call Kagami-kun right now." He said before he go and get the taller who were already sitting at the living room, waiting for them. He quickly make his way towards the taller. "Kagami-kun-"
"Yeah, I know Kuroko."
He nodded as his eyes scanned the other from head to toes. "Are you just going to wear like that? It's quite cold outside-"
"Don't worry, I'll drive today."
"D-drive?"
"Oh.. did I not tell you that I have a car?"
Looking at how confused his small lover are, Kagami stood up and approached the shorter before he pulled him into his embrace. "I'm sorry for not telling you. Dad sent it to me the other day."
"..."
"Don't worry, I promise everything is going to be okay."
"..."
"Kuroko-"
"B-but still.." Kuroko could felt that his body were starting to trembled.
"..."
"I-"
"Let's go together then."
"E-eh?"
Kagami pulled away and looked at the other in the eyes, before he leaned down and placed a soft tender kiss on his forehead. "Come on, let's go." He pulled away once again and let out a smile as his hand grabbed the other's wrist. "If you're angry, scold me later okay? For now, we have to help Akashi and Furihata."
"Okay?"
"F-fine."
Just after the teal blue haired boy said that, Akashi walked out of the room and went straight ahead to the front door. He actually already finished packing up all his things, but when he unintentionally overheard the couple's conversation, he decided to waited and stayed in the room or awhile. After he couldn't heard any words being spoken from either of them, he quickly make his way out. He didn't even have to said anything at them when he knew that the taller red haired saw his signal through his eyes.
It takes them about half an hour to reached Furihata's house, and that was also because there was no traffic jam on the road and Kagami also were speeding up while receiving a glare from the seat beside of the driver's. Akashi immediately got out of the car as soon as the red haired parked his car just in front of the gate. It was kind of a relief that this house were build a bit far away from the other houses in the area, because then it didn't disturbed the other residents on where did they parked their car.
"Please, don't let it get lock." Akashi prayed when he approached the tall blackgate, and he was He just cursed as he continued to walked along the gate, just a bit to the far left, there was a door that created for only people to go trough it. He tried slipped his hand inside and roamed for the door lock and he found it. He tried to slide it opened, and he was really lucky that it weren't locked. He let out a soft sigh, before he felt his heart suddenly became heavy. He knew that usually the brunette were not this careless not to forget to locked his gate since he aren't the one who were fond of having people inside of his house."Just how bad are you, Kouki.." He continued his pace to the front door, and again, the door were also aren't locked which he didn't get surprised by it anymore when he also noticed that the motorbike were parked like it weren't used for several days. The moment he swung the door opened, his eyes widen in shocked as tears started forming in his eyes before it rolled down on his cheeks and fell on the floor. "KOUKI!" He screamed in horror as he quickly goes towards his lover and sat down next to his head, cradling the brunette's head on his lap. "No... no.. K-Kouki!"
Upon hearing Akashi's loud scream, Kagami and Kuroko quickly entered the house and what they saw next also shocked them. There was so much blood on the floor, and there were also so many tissues on beside the lifeless figure on the floor. They could saw that all the tissues were there, are because of the cat that were sitting down and guarding her owner.
"F-Furihata-kun..!"
"Fuck!"
"K-Kouki.. Kouki, please wake up!" Akashi sobbed as he used his right hand to move away the brunette's front hair while his left one wiped away the dried blood on his cheek. He couldn't even held back his tears even if he forced himself not to. His lover's condition were really bad right now that he were started to felt a bit nausea seeing the blood and all those wounds on his body, as well as the smell of iron struck inside his nose. He really felt like he wanted to vomit, but he had no time for that at this time. His lover were in a really bad state, and he really have to helped him. Judging by how the brunette's hair were still a bit damp and his clothes are still wet and there was still a bit droplets of water fell from the clothes as well as his fingers wrinkled, it seemed like he was already in this state for a long time. "W-what should I do?"
"A-Akashi-kun, we should bring Furihata-kun to the hospital."
"Yeah, Kuroko is right! We have to get it treated."
"Akashi-kun-"
"No!"
"What?"
"If we bring him to the hospital, my father might find where he live." He shook his head at that. "And I don't want him to suffer anymore. He... Kouki already protect me from my father, so I want to do the same for him too."
"..."
"It's okay. I'll take care of him-"
"Let's go to Midorima-kun then."
"What?" He lifted his head to looked at Kuroko in confused.
"Midorima-kun are studying medicine and his father also own a small clinic besides the big hospital at the town. So how about if we go to his clinic? I heard that Midorima-kun is the one who in charge of attending the patients for the clinic since he said that he wanted to learned more from real experience."
"I heard that too from Tatsuya."
"..." He just stayed quiet, as he were having a different opinions about this. He couldn't make up his mind and he were really desperate right now. He couldn't afford to leave his lover like this anymore, since he would probably get an infection from the opened wounds. And Midorima, he could trusted the megane since he knew how smart he was and even though he were still in his studies, he already knew so much of being a doctor. "Fine."
"Good." Both Kagami and Kuroko sighed in relief. Kagami quickly goes towards the brunette and started to slipped his hands under the other, asking Akashi to stand aside as he wanted to carried the brunette. He looked at his lover and asked for him to called Midorima right now and informed him that they are on their way there.
It takes them only 10 minutes to reached the clinic, and as soon as the door were being pushed opened, Akashi had already firstly interrupted the tall green haired. "Shintarou, save Kouki!"
Midorima couldn't even said anything more, before he let out a heavy sighed as he instructed Takao to showed them to the room. He had just wanted to closed the clinic for today, but when he received an emergency call from Kuroko, he had no choice but to agreed with it, just because he could heard the panic in the shorter's voice. He was really shocked to saw Furihata Kouki are the one who actually going to received his treatment, and not someone else. Kuroko never did explained it to him and he knew why was it. If he heard the brunette's name, he would flatly rejected it. How could he bothered himself to even treated the other if he was the one who make Akashi suffered for almost 4 years.
As soon as they already put Furihata on the bed, they were asked to waited outside while Midorima were getting ready with all the things he needed that which mostly would used a lots of bandages, antiseptic, iodine and others gel and ointments. "Takao, you should go and serve them a cup of tea first before you help me here."
"Aww~ Shin-chan is so sweet, thinking of his friends~"
"Shut up Takao, and be quick. I need helps to clean these wounds."
"Aye, aye sensei~" Takao walked towards the taller and placed a quick kiss on his cheeks before he walked out of the doors with a grin, the usual face he would always wore. He quickly make his way to the pantry at the back and make a a cup of tea for each one of them, and placed it on the tray and brought it at them. He greeted them as well as asked them to take the drink which Kagami and Kuroko did, but not Akashi. He could only frowned at the heterochromatic man, but he choose not to forced the shorter because he knew how did he felt right now. "I'll put it on this table, Akashi."
"Please.. please save Kouki." Akashi grabbed Takao's shirt and pleaded at him.
Seeing how different did the man in front of him from his usual intimidating self, Takao couldn't helped but to be surprised at it. He looked at him, and he could only beamed him with a smile. "Don't worry, Shin-chan are good with his work." He assured the worried man, before he excused himself back to the room to help his lover.
(20 minutes later)
The door in front of them were finally being opened from the inside, and Akashi immediately lifted his head and looked at the tall green haired man in worried. He stood up and approached the other. "How is he, Shintarou?"
"He's fine, but.." Midorima answered as he closed the door behind of him and brought his hand up to adjust his spectacle. He then looked at the shorter emperor with a serious face.
"W-what is it? Is there something wrong with him?"
"Fortunately no, but his condition are really weak. He had a fever, probably from the infection."
"..."
"But don't worry, I'll give him a pill for it when he wake up."
"When.. will he wake up?"
"Soon." He looked at the clock on the wall behind the shorter's. "Probably in another an hour or so. He were awake when we were cleaning up his wounds, but I had to ask Takao to give inject him with a sleeping pill since we need him stay still."
"Ah.. thank goodness."
"..."
"Thank you, Shintarou-"
"Akashi, can I have a talk with you?"
"..."
"..."
"About him?"
"Yes."
"Fine." Akashi sighed softly. He then turned around to take a seat back at the couch where Kagami and Kuroko was. "Do you mind if we talk here? I need.. I mean, I have something to tell all of you too. "Kazunari-san too, if you want." He offered when he saw the black haired guy standing behind of the green haired. He saw all four of them exchanged look with each other, before all four pairs of eyes directed towards his way.
(At The Same Time)
"Where is he?" Norio mumbled with himself when his eyes caught the time on his phone that showed it was already 6:25 PM. He has been waiting for the blonde at the parking lot for 10 minutes after the rain had stopped, but the other's figure couldn't even be seen. It would be logical if the other had left him if the motorbike are gone, but it didn't. The taller's bike are still here, the same model, color and license plate, but the owner were no where to be seen. ""Maybe I should give him a call..?" He bit on his lower lips, unsure if he really should do it or not. After debating about it, before he wanted to pressed the green button, there were a voice stopping his action from doing so. He looked up, and his eyebrows furrowed in discomfort when he saw three man who were totally he unfamiliar with.
"Wheeww~! Look who do we have here."
"Who are you guys?"
"Check out his look and body.." One of the man whistled yet again as his eyes scanned the younger from head to toes. "..I never know we had this hot junior in this college."
"Our junior man!"
"As expected of all the riches~!"
Hearing all those three talked with each other, it really make Norio became disgusted at the conversation but also somehow getting scared by them."If you're here for money, you're at the wrong person." He hissed, trying his best to fake his courage as he let out a smirk. "I'm not from the riches, I'm just an average."
"Yeah right, who would even believe that?"
"Yeah."
"For what do I want to lie about this?"
"Because you want to save your ass from us?" All three of them laughed. "Don't worry, we don't want your money too." They started approaching him step by step.
"Then what the hell do you want?" Seeing that the three students started to approached him, he slowly backed away bit by bit. Somehow he didn't felt anything good are about to go out from this situation. Taking at their looks closely, he could noticed the one at the middle had a bruise over his cheek. "Who are these guys? Are they piss of that they just came to me to relieve their anger?" He hissed lowly when he started to guess on what actually the cause of this current encounter right now.
"Oh you know, just to mess you up."
If he didn't even think of the possibility just now, he would probably shocked at the other's words, but since he kind of expected it, it only make him nervous and a bit scared. Even though he was one to let out a cold aura and pretend tough on the outside, it actually just contradict with the real him. He are not good or even knew how to fight, and his physical strength are really low. He always depended on Luz to protect him, always, because the taller were the one who would only be by his side and protect him from everything. "For what?"
"Revenge."
"Hah?"
"Well you know, your stupid blonde friend did this to me." The one in the middle with the bruise on his cheek pointed to his left cheek. "See this?"
"What?"
"And seems like you two are not together as always anymore, I guess this is a perfect chance to get him back right?"
"W-what do you mean?"
"Don't think that we didn't notice anything. We know how much he treasure you, and.. you're the only one who he had been always trying to protect. So I wonder what if we 'broke' it."
"D-don't mess a-around-!" Norio eyes widen when he felt his back hit the wall. He slowly cursed himself as he now have nowhere to ran anymore. Before he could even opened his mouth, trying to stalled him a bit of time while hoping that the blonde would appear and save him, the three of them surrounded him. Two of them held onto his both right and left hands as their legs locked his legs in place. He couldn't move anymore and the wounded one had stuffed his mouth with a ball of cloth that he had took out from his pocket. "E-ehmm!"
"Shut up!" The man slapped him, while the other two just watched with amusement, smirk on their face. In just a minute, the man had already unbuckled Norio's belt and pull down his pants and boxer until his thighs. He whistled. "Wow, look at that." He reached his hand and touched the other's dick, playing it in his hand, rubbing it. "I only just touch it, and it already letting out a precum." He laughed, mocking the other. "Look at it guys." He showed it to his two friends, and they also just laughed.
"Emmm! ehhh ghhoo!"
"You're a virgin, aren't you? who did you save it for huh?"
"..uhhh ashhh-le!"
"Must be that blonde huh?" He snickered. "Before you shake your ass and beg him to fuck you, let me show how is it done." He smirked and leaned forward to licked his prey's jaw. He used his other hand and go down, touching the balls, before it even went lower until he found the puckered hole. "Here." He touched it, purposely probing his finger inside until the first line of his finger, ignoring the loud groan and protest from the other. "He would put his dick inside of you, and you will moan like a bitch in heat.!"
"Nngghhh urt-!"
"But of course, you don't know how it felt like right? It's okay, I'll show you first."
"No! no! don't touch me you disgusting!" Norio began to cried as he continued on to groaned and pleaded to be release. But of course, they wouldn't even bothered to listened to him and just do whatever they wanted. He was really scared right now. He wanted for Luz to save him from all these man, and he didn;t want to lost his virginity to these pervert.! He wanted to gave his virginity to someone he love, not these bastards! Someone who cares for him, always by his side and always protect him from somehow, a familiar face flashed in his mind. He closed his eyes, as he prayed for his blonde to save him. "Luz, save me! please! Luz! where are you?!" At that moment only he realized how much actually the blonde meant to him and also.. he actually love him. He knew, really knew that right now was not the time to think of that, but that was what crossed his mind. Actually he knew from before that he always felt different when he was with the taller, but he always tried to ignored it and gave his attention to their brunette's friend. "Luz!"
"What..the fuck are you guys doing?!"
He opened his eyes upon hearing the familiar voice echoing in the parking lot. His eyes became even more watery as his tears fall even more faster on his cheeks. In just 5 minutes, Luz managed to get him back and pulled him onto his embrace as the three of them scrambled away limping on the way. Before he could even said anything, the blonde cut him off with a harsh tone and not even looking at him. He was hurt, but he knew that the taller with angry. Furious, he would dare to said.
"We're going to my house."
It only took 15 minutes for them to reached Luz's house, with the blonde speeding up until 180km/h. Again, before Norio could even voiced out, he were being dragged by Luz inside his house. The blonde slammed his front door and locked it, before he turned to pinned the shorter on the wall with an annoyed face plastered on him.
"I'm really piss off Norio. Why did you let them do that to you?!"
"...!"
"Answer me, Norio!"
"..."
"Don't fucking cry because I don't fucking care about it right now!" He slammed his right hand beside the shorter's head in anger. "The only thing I want to know is why!"
"..I-I.. not.. L-Luz.."
"Stop crying!"
That was it, Norio couldn't hold it anymore. Despite the taller told him not to cried, he even cried even more and there was a bit anger in him, feeling so frustrated at why did the blonde suddenly got angry at him. It was not his fault at all. "I-it's because y-you're not with me!" He yelled at his face. "Y-You know that I'm n-not good at fighting and I'm-" That was all he were able to said, before the blonde caught his lips in a rough manner as he pressed their bodies together. He somehow didn't dislike it when the taller kissed him, but the only thing he didn't like was how rough was the other. He pushed away the blonde by pushing him on the chest as there was flushes creeping on his cheeks. "W-what are you doing?!"
"Shut up'
!"L-Luz-!"
"I'll claim you for my own self, Norio."
"Ugh.." Furihata groaned softly when he tried to opened his eyes. It takes him about three times for him to successfully opened his eyes and adjusted to the lights illuminating the room. His eyeballs move in circle, inspecting his surrounding which had a dark brown and beige colour on the walls, while the ceiling were painted in white. "Where..am I?" He groaned yet again as he slowly tried to sat up. Once his eyes spotted the familiar things in the room, only then he realized where he was. It was his room. He was in his room. He couldn't helped but to felt a bit weird because he remembered that before this, all the things he could saw around him was a soft blue wall, but why when he closed and opened back his eyes he was in his room? Had he been dreaming? He questioned himself that, but when his eyes caught all the white bandages on all his both arms and legs, only then he knew what actually happened. His clothes also were changed, as well as he could smelt soap and shampoo on his self. "So, I'm not dreaming at all. Who.. did this?" He tried to remembered what else he saw in his half conscious state, and he could saw a bit of red, the red where it was not blood, but red like that one particular person's hair. His eyes widen when that thought invaded his mind. "It can't be..! h-him?!" He looked at his right, carelessly trying to reached for the switch to turned off the lights in the room to go outside and looked for the shorter, but only for him to winced in pain when his wounds got stretched.
"Shit.." He cursed inwardly, closing his eyes in reflex at how hurt it was. Hearing there was a sounds coming from the living room, he immediately opened back his eyes and tried to ignored the pain on his body as he got off from the bed and stood up. He pressed the switch, which switched off all the lights except for the one at the wall near his bathroom, before he make his way to the living room with a help by supporting his weight on the wall. He walked as fast as he could in his current state, and his breath caught in his throat when he noticed the familiar red wine haired kneeling on the floor near the front door. His eyes move to looked at what did the shorter were doing, and he was taken by surprised when he caught the look at the used to be white cloths were red. It was blood. That was where he had lost his conscious. But that was not what he were surprised at, but the hing that make him speechless were at the fact that was blood. Akashi Seijuro was not the one who could handle blood that well, not at all.
"Why is he.. doing so much.. for someone like me?"
...
"Why..."
"Meow~!"
"Ah.. thank you, Shiku." Akashi smiled sadly as he reached his hand out to petted the cat for bringing him a new cloth, which earned him a purr. He then proceed to continued back his task. He need to clean this properly, because he couldn't stand at the sight of it and how it smell.
"I..."
...
"Sei..." Unknowingly his legs move by itself, heading towards the other as his heartbeat quickened. As soon as he reached there, he instantly leaned down and stood on his knees, and pulled the other's in his embrace as his arms wrapped around him tightly. "Sei.."
Upon having suddenly a pair of bandaged arms wrapped around his waist and that familiar voice beside of his ear, Akashi eyes grew wide as he quickly turned his head to looked at his left, and he was really surprised to met eyes to eyes with his lover. He instantly could felt his heartbeat were beating fast as his cheeks heated up. "K-Kouki?"
"Sei.."
The hold's around him tightened, bringing both of them even closer with each other. He was supposed to like it, but when he heard that name came out from the taller's mouth, he immediately bring up his guard and pushed the other away from him, distancing himself from the other. He furrowed his eyebrows. He don't want to received any affection from the 'other' Furihata, because he was not the one he desired for. "W-who are you?"
"..."
"Y-you're not Kouki, aren't you?" He raised his voice a bit, starting to be suspicious.
"..."
"A-are you..t-the other him?"
"..."
"I-it is, huh-"
"..I'm not him."
"W-what?"
"I'm.. Kouki, Seijuro. I'm not him."
As soon as he heard that and noticed that his lover's left eye are not glowing, he immediately let go of the cloth in his hand and goes towards the taller, burying himself inside his lover's embrace with a fast movement, making the brunette fell on his butt on the floor. "Kouki... Kouki.." He wrapped his arms around the other's tightly, never wanted to let it go. "I'm glad you're safe.."
"..."
"Please, d-don't make me scared like this again."
"..."
"Please, I beg you.."
Listening to the red wine haired's cries and felt how his shirt started to get wet from the other's tears, he somehow could felt his heart throbbed in pain at it. But whatever it was at this point, he were just glad that he could met with the other again. He knew it really didn't make sense for him to longing for the other's presence because he was the one who had pushed him far away and out from his frame of life. But somehow, he just and would suddenly missed the shorter, even though he was sure that he really didn't hold any feelings for the other. He continued to believed on it, until he finally took his courage to entered the only one room at another hallway across the storage's room, which he had been locking it since the he had lost most of his memories. the other day. He didn't remembered if it was him who had brought in all of those things or not, but it was really in that room for some reason.
(FLASHBACK)
As soon as he stepped inside at that time, he could felt there was a different aura surrounding it and he was really shocked to saw a picture of him and Akashi were smiling at someone's birthday's party on the shelf. At first he really, strongly, accused of that as someone who had a same face as him, but as he goes through other things, he had a doubt growing bigger and bigger inside his heart.
He kept on even denying it at that point, until he found an old diary, with his name on top of it. He never knew that he was one to actually wrote a diary, but he just shrugged it off as he picked it up and settled himself for it. Looking at the date, he could saw that he was not the one who would wrote every single day, no, but he wrote when there was something happened, like if there was an incident, celebration and when he and Akashi had a problem with their relationship. He kept going on reading it, when he reached at the last entry date in the diary. He was really shocked when he read what did he wrote on that page and he could felt that instantly he started feeling dizzy with all of the images and scene from when he had lost his memories flooded i
nside his head.
Date: 11 June 20xx
Dear diary,
I received a call from mom and dad the day before yesterday, and they said they need me to come back home as soon as possible. I wonder what is it this time. My heart become really heavy because I don't want to leave Sei alone. That poor innocent soul.. just seeing him cried in my arms last night really break my heart. We both knew why he really didn't want me to go, but I assured him that nothing are going to happen. But I just can't shake off the worries inside me, but decided not to tell about it at him because I don't want to see him cry anymore. (That is the last thing I want to see.) We make love with each other all night yesterday, and it was really good and both satisfying but it make me suddenly become even more greedy to taste him. (I'm sure if he read this, he will kill me T-T) But as much as it was too good to be true, the next thing happened was he landed a punch on my stomach when he said that he can't feel his back at all and how is he suppose to walk in that state. (way to go Furihata Kouki, you make the emperor begging for you last night! victory! \^0^/) I'm really happy and it make my stomach fluttered whenever I remember that.
I really love him, Akashi Seijuro, with all my heart.. and I swear that I will not leave him alone. So..
God, please grant me this wish as I'm really desperate. Please.
I hope last night is not the last time I can hold him in my arms.
(FLASHBACK END)
"I'm sorry, Seijuro."
Akashi opened his eyes in shocked when he heard his name rolled out from the brunette's mouth. He immediately pulled away a bit from his lover as he stared at him in disbelief. "What.. did you just call me?"
"..."
"Kouki-"
"Seijuro."
"You..." He brought up his hands and placed it on the other's cheeks, just placing it there while his thumb started stroking in circle on the skin.
"I.. I have something that I have to say to you."
"W-what is it?"
"..." Furihata stared into the heterochromatic orbs in front of him with his own, as he took a deep breath and let it out steadily. His eyes changed to serious as he tightened his hold's onto the shorter, trying to encouraged him to said it. He had been thinking for these for the last four days, and after he had entered the room, he had finally made up his mind that he would tried again. He would accept Akashi Seijuro's presence in his life once more, and he hope the other would accepted his selfish favor. But of course, he would have to see on how far did the wine red haired would accepted him as he is now.
"Kouki?"
"Are you scared of me?"
"E-eh?"
"..."
"S-scared of y-you?"
"You already saw that there are another one of me, isn't."
"..."
"So, are you scared of me?" He waited for an answer, and his heart hurt when the other didn't answered him. But then again, he should knew this. He had seen how terrified was he when he met with his other self. "You are..huh."
"I.. I'm not scared of you, Kouki."
"W-what?" His eyes widen when he heard that.
"I'm really shocked when I saw the other side of you, I admit that and even feel scared whenever he appeared. But.. that doesn't mean that I'm 'really' scared of you. I assume that you really did lost your memories, but I'm like that too before.."
"..."
"Despite you know how people had been calling me a psycho and crazy since there's two of me inside of this body, you choose to ignored it and approached me. You did that, and look now.."
"..."
"You make me accept and love my own self, despite what people had always been calling me. You show me that."
"And now, it's my turn to show you that too."
"You.."
"So know that Kouki.. know that I'm not afraid of you and please.."
"..please don't push me away from you anymore. I want to be with you."
"Sei.."
"Please."
"Then... I.." He could felt he were trembling just a bit as his heart were beating fast at all those words. He felt really glad that Akashi didn't mind that of him. He thought that the other would backed away and ran from him, and even gave up on him, but when he saw that he was in his house, it already showed that he really love him. And for his self.. he would tried to find back the love he had lost from years ago. "..I'll accept you in my life, Akashi Seijuro."
"W-what..?"
"So please be on my side from now on."
"Kouki-!" Akashi couldn't even finished his words when Furihata suddenly leaned forward and kissed him on the lips. His eyes grew wide at this as there was tears rolling down his cheeks. He really was glad and happy that the brunette finally said those words and he even more overjoyed when he were being pulled in for a kiss. "This is not a dream right?" He really had missed all of this. He missed Furihata Kouki's touch on him. Not wanting for this moment to end and to prove that this was not a dream to him, he closed his eyes as his tears kept on streaming down his face. He let go of the taller's face, only to wrapped his arms around the other's neck and pulled him closer.
Furihata who could felt the shorter were pulling him closer, he also tightened his arms around him more as he deepened the kiss between them. He really couldn't believed on what did he just did, he was kind of unsure about it but he didn't mind it at all. The feelings he got in him right now really was nice, and he didn't wanted it to end. He probably would started to enjoyed this in the future. "I'll love you again, Akashi Seijuro."
"Erghh! why did that Akashi Seijuro never know how to give up?!" The girl yelled in frustration as she threw all the things on her table onto the floor. "Furihata-sama is mine! Mine alone!" She screamed and took down all the pictures stuck on her board on the wall down. "If this is how he's going to play, then I don't have any other choice." She gritted her teeth in anger. "I'll make sure to make him suffer!" She looked at one of the picture on the floor, and it was none other than a picture of Akashi Seijuro.
She stepped on it. "You keep on hurting me and break my heart every time, Akashi. Now you'll see what's the consequence of it. I know that I should go on hard with you the moment I lay my hand on you."
She huffed.
"I'll make you break, Akashi Seijuro."
A/N: And there's a new chapter!^^ I'm sorry if it take me so long to update this fic. I just have some kind of writer's block, I'm so sorry. And this story is kinda hard to do actually with all of the secrets hidden and things happening, uhh.. 6_6 I also somehow kind of lost in the middle of thinking on how should it go on, hahaha! So, how is it? I hope you like this chapter and please leave a lots of reviews~! ^^ Don't worry, in the next chapter I'll tell about Furihata's past and what happened to him. And there's not much chapters more, since I don't intend to drag this story until 20+ chapters. 'Till then, let's meet again in the next chapter! ^^