Hello, there! Some people have been telling me that I cut or end the chapter just in the best moment and I don't want to explain this more, so I will tell you all this: cutting the chapter in the best moment is just a strategy. If you find it interesting you want to read more and I try to do so, have more people to read my stories to enjoy them! Just understand me, I want people to read PDY and find it interesting so that they will also like it, so I try to do my best to leave you with the want of continuing reading~! =P Don't take it bad, but I also like to frustrate you a bit! =P Now, already said this, please enjoy the chapter!
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In the last chapter…
"H-he strangled her!" Haruka said through her tears. Yakumo stopped massaging her back as he noticed something really important for the case they were in.
Chapter 10: Who?
Yakumo pulled Haruka away and stared at her reddish eyes. "Who?" he asked. Haruka wanted to answer him and tell him but the sobs were still there and were making it difficult. She tried to breathe slowly, trying to calm herself down. Yakumo tsk-ed and glared at Kyou. Kyou was frightened by a moment, who though that that calm person could glare someone. "Could you bring a plastic bag, please?" Yakumo asked politely. Kyou nodded his head and went running towards the front door.
After Kyou disappeared from that room, Yakumo hugged Haruka again. He wouldn't admit it, but he hated seeing her like that and he liked to hug her. He had hug Nao-chan before but this was different, in many ways. Haruka wasn't a child (well, sometimes) and her body could tell it. She had a nice figure under all the cloths she put on, he would stare at her when she didn't notice it and he would glare at any guy that stared at her the same way as him. He knew that he didn't have any right to do so, but he couldn't help himself. He wanted to protect her like he never did with anyone, and he would do it.
It wasn't time to be pleased about her hugging him back, but he was. She was very soft compared to him and her hair smelled really well. He really was trying to calm her down by whispering her things, but that wasn't helping. He was hoping that breathing in the plastic bag would calm her down and let her breath normally. There were times when Yakumo would hear her gasp as if she was trying to say something.
"It-it-" Haruka tried to from words, but wasn't working. Yakumo pulled away again, and this time he caressed her cheeks. He started to clean her tears and wished for it to help in something. He really wasn't used to comfort women and less the one he wanted to protect.
"Don't think about the thing that made you cry, okay? Just try to calm down and breath slowly." He indicated her. She nodded and tried to do so. Yakumo heard what she said earlier and couldn't help but agree why she was crying. If it was like he was thinking, the ghost had showed her a piece of her past (the ghost), meaning her death. Haruka said that 'he strangled her' and he saw that the ghost went directly to her. But the thing was, why did she go for Haruka and not for himself? He was the one that could talk to the spirits, and she was the one that could bring problems.
Just when Yakumo though that he should call an ambulance, Kyou appeared with the plastic bag. He said a fast 'here' and handed the bag to Yakumo. Yakumo answered with a fast 'thanks' and indicated Haruka to breath in it. She started to breathe in the bag and it seemed to work, just a bit, but enough to get Yakumo's nerves down.
Some minutes passed and Haruka seemed to be better, but just to be in case Yakumo was about to ask. Then, everyone heard a key and a door opening. A woman's voice was heard and Shizuka made her appearance. She stared at what she found with an emotionless face. Anyone would have started to scream or run worried to Haruka's side or anything, but no, Shizuka stood next to the living room watching everything.
"What happened?" she asked in the end, after scanning everything. You know, her boyfriend kneeled in front of another girl, another boy almost hugging the same girl and the girl breathing into a plastic. Oh! And don't forget the broken glass in the floor. It was a difficult view to get used to.
"The ghost. That's what happened." Yakumo answered lightly annoyed, or so though Shizuka. Kyou greeted Shizuka and Yakumo continued to watch over Haruka. Kyou and Shizuka stood in the living room while they talked.
"What in the world happened here?" Shizuka whispered, she didn't want to annoy more Yakumo. Kyou sighed.
"A bit of everything." He answered. Shizuka's right brow got up.
"Care to explain?" she asked looking very serious. Kyou stood in silence some seconds before looking back at Yakumo.
"Saito-san, we are going to the kitchen, do you need something?" Kyou asked.
"No, thanks." He answered without looking at him. Kyou nodded and went to the kitchen with Shizuka hands-to-hands.
The official couple left the room, leaving the other couple (A/N; I wish they were!) alone. Haruka still had the plastic bag in her hands, breathing slowly and normally. Yakumo, in the other hand, was holding the bag with one hand while touching Haruka's back with the other. She wasn't crying anymore and the sobs already stopped, she was better but Yakumo was still worried about the thing that the ghost showed her.
"I'm sorry…" Yakumo heard Haruka whisper. He almost smiled at that. She was almost like before, she was almost the same person that followed him around.
"About broking the glass, hitting me or making me carry you?" he asked with a little smirk. Haruka continued to breathe into the bag, but moved her body to glare at him.
"Thanks for remembering me that." She answered him full of sarcasm. Yakumo's smirk only grew bigger. Yup, she was back to herself. "But I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come." She said looking to the floor. She already stopped using the bag and was holding it on her lap. Yakumo stared at Haruka without the smirk, looking serious and reached out a hand for her. Haruka stared at the hand with a questioning face until she faced Yakumo.
"Pass me the bag." He told her.
"Oh… here." She said giving him the bag. He took the bag and left it next to him but far from Haruka.
"It wasn't your fault." Yakumo said after some minutes in silence. Haruka moved her head to look at Yakumo.
He was staring at her with so much strength that she though that he would be able to look inside her heart, her soul and her feelings. Maybe it would help; it would help to know what she feels about him. Maybe his red eye only existed to see ghost and spirits, but they were way too pretty. Haruka couldn't understand how people could say that it was frightening, their way of thinking was wrong. It wasn't like he would give her pity, but she felt bad at thinking about his past. Nobody told her about it, but she could imagine something.
"You are just too magnetic for problems." Yakumo continued to talk. Haruka pouted and tried to hit him in the arm.
"There's no need to say that!" Haruka said angrily. Yakumo just rubbed his arm and glared jokingly at Haruka.
"Now being serious… did you see something when you collapsed?" Yakumo asked. Haruka's angry face disappeared and blinked a few times.
"Yes… it was like a dream, but Akemi-san was there." Haruka said. Yakumo nodded and caught his chin with his fingers. "I… I saw her death." Haruka added and Yakumo stared at Haruka's face to see her sad eyes.
"You don't have to tell me about it, but did you see the person who killed her?" Yakumo answered.
"He was… tall. Brown hair, dyed for sure." She answered, but Yakumo knew that a lot of people had her hair dyed and that they were tall. Shorting things, that wasn't helping very much. "Akemi-san said that they were his friends… and he said the name Shizuka…" Haruka finished.
Yakumo started to process the data in his head, it wasn't much but there had to be something connecting the case. Yakumo and Haruka were in a complete silence, they couldn't even hear Kyou and Shizuka speaking and that was making Haruka nervous. It wasn't her first time being alone with Yakumo, but it was the first after being hugged by him two or three times. Even at the thought of the hugging made Haruka blush lightly. She tried to look at anywhere else except Yakumo and she got to get a better view of the room. Not that it was that important, but it wasn't bad to admire the view. In the end, Haruka looked at Yakumo by the corner of her eyes to see if he was going to say something…. She waited but nothing. Well, he was Saito Yakumo.
"What are you thinking?" Haruka asked him. He didn't look up for some seconds, and then he looked at Haruka and snapped from the trance.
"I need to talk with Shizuka-san." He said before standing up and going to the kitchen. Haruka was right behind and collided with him when he suddenly stopped. Haruka looked under Yakumo's arm and blushed. In the kitchen table was Shizuka, her jacket was in the floor and Kyou's hands were trying to undo her shirts buttons. Everything was in silence for what seemed ages, but was a few minutes. Yakumo closed the door and went back to sofa, leaving a really red Haruka still looking at the door.
Some (embarrassing) minutes later…
Everyone was in the living room. Haruka and Yakumo were in a sofa and Kyou and Shizuka in another one. The girls were blushed to ears and looking to the floor, Yakumo was really trying not to laugh and Kyou was only looking at Yakumo. It really wasn't the perfect way to speak, but Haruka couldn't do anything. For Goodness sake, they caught the couple in a rated embarrassing state! Kyou coughed, trying to break the silence.
"So… you wanted to ask something?" he asked looking at the two in front of him. Haruka shook her head and Yakumo stared at the couple, without laughing… much.
"Do you actually have a tall friend, with brown dyed hair?" Yakumo asked surprising the couple. Kyou and Shizuka stared at each other and then to Yakumo.
"Are you talking about Shimizu Takuya?" Shizuka asked. Yakumo's eyes went wide and Haruka stared at him with a questioning face.
"You're his friends?" Yakumo asked. The couple nodded a bit worried.
"Did he do something?" Kyou asked. Yakumo started to understand things.
"Maybe. He was here this afternoon." It wasn't a question, Yakumo already knew the answer.
"Yeah. He came to chat a bit." Kyou answered and Yakumo looked at Haruka, who still didn't know who they were talking about.
"Is he the one?" Yakumo asked Haruka. Haruka stood in silence while looking at Yakumo.
"…" she didn't say anything. "Who?" she asked in the end.