[Disclaimer] I do not own Eye shield 21 or Garasu no Kamen! All credit goes to the awesome creators.
[Author Note] Here's the eleventh chapter. Sorry about any typos and other writing errors.
(Chapter Eleven - The Bout of the Nightfall)
Hours later, the rehearsal was pretty much over with. Maya did a great job, as usual, and she felt like she was ready for the upcoming play tomorrow, but she didn't get overconfident, she never does that. When she left from the building, she ran into her friend, Ayumi Himekawa. That's right, Maya's biggest rival was now one of her closest friends, and they have been friends for years now.
"Hello, Ayumi," said the young actress.
"Hey, Maya, how did practice go?" she asked. The two began to walk away from the building and down the sidewalk.
"It went okay. I think I could have done better, though," she answered, that look of determination on her face.
Ayumi laughed as she responded back, "You ALWAYS say that! Oh, shut up, you know you did well!" She then hit Maya in the shoulder with her fist in a friendly way. Maya then laughed, that sense of confidence coming back to her.
"I guess you're right. Thanks, Ayumi."
"Hey, what are friends for, right? At least you are doing well. I have to admit, the crap I'm going through in my latest role is torturing!"
"Oh yeah, you said your role is a clown, right?" asked Maya.
Ayumi gave her an irritated and tired look as she retorted, "Yeah, a freaking clown. I'm perfect, and perfect girls DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT act as clowns."
She laughed at her comment and replied, "I had the role of a mime before, but never a clown."
"Lucky you," said Ayumi in response.
Maya then looked up in the sky, smiled, and then moved her head back down and started to look forward again, later saying, "Ayumi, you know that boy that I always talked to you about? Well, I saw him again! I saw him today!" She now had a shocked look on her face as she turned her head and looked at Maya, she seen how happy she looked and it made her feel even more happy for her.
"You did? No fooling?" she asked.
Maya nodded and answered back, "Yes. I ran into him earlier today. My heart went soaring soon as I seen him! I knew it was him, I just knew it was him!"
"Oh, my goodness, girl you better let me know about everything that went down!" said her friend, both of them laughing together afterwards. Maya then put her hands against her heart and closed her eyes.
"It felt so much like a dream, a dream I'd stay in forever and a day. There I was, walking down the crowded streets of this town, and then soon I bumped into somebody. It was him, and soon as I seen his face, I knew it was my Sena, my one and only love. I hugged him, feeling oh so happy to see him again, and he hugged me back. I wanted those arms to stay around me, I didn't want him to let go.
After all of that was finished, he asked me if I wanted to go to the diner with him, so of course I went. When we arrived, we went in, sat down in the seats, and then began to talk. I just had to know something; I needed to know if he had a special girl he was seeing, so after a while, I asked him. He told me that he didn't and that shocked me. I told him that I was still single, too, but he didn't seem to believe me at first. In fact, he told me not to be shy and tell him who the lucky guy was, as if I really had a boyfriend already.
So, I told him, and I said that it was him. I told him that I was still in love with him. There was no way I could even think about being with anybody else, there's just no connection; it's just him and him alone. And to my surprise, he said that he loves me, too. He still feels the same way I do. I couldn't help but to cry during all of this, it had too much of an impact on my heart and soul. We later left from the diner, about to go our separate ways.
I would have loved to hang out with him longer, but I had to go practice. If I was anywhere near late, Chigusa would have probably beaten me again. So I told him that I hope to see him again real soon, and he said the same thing to me. Before we left from each other, we kissed. Oh, Ayumi, it was wonderful."
Ayumi was still giving her a shocked expression as she soon replied, "You two kissed? Wow! So what, are you two going together now?"
Maya then opened her eyes, looking a tad confused as she answered, "Strange, we really didn't say. But who needs words? Our hearts have already told us that we are together and together forever."
"You're crazy," Ayumi laughed.
The two soon stopped when they reached the bus stop, and the bus drove up within a few seconds. "Well, I guess I'll see you later, Maya. I know you're leaving town tomorrow, right? I have to leave, too. It's rare when we get to see each other in person; we usual just talk over the Internet or by phone."
"Yeah, it's usually pure luck when we end up in the same place like this," Maya retorted.
Ayumi then chortled and afterwards said, "See you around, friend! Good luck with that special guy of yours." She then winked at her and got inside of the bus.
"Oh, Ayumi," laughed Maya as she waved good-bye to her. Ayumi waved back at her and the bus drove off. Maya was now on her way to her hotel room, and nighttime was just right around the corner. Everything was so quiet and it seemed like she was in a ghost town.
She was so new to this town and she only had a few hours of experience with it. She did, however, know where her hotel was at, though. Maya then started to sing a song to herself, some kind of love song that she heard on the radio a lot, and she was thinking about Sena as she sung this song. Doing this made her feel a little less alone, but little did she know that she was being stalked by someone, and that person was Masumi Hayami.
Masumi was still out to get Maya's heart, and even after all of these years of her showing how much she disliked him, he still tried his best to win her over. Maya was almost there, she only had a few more blocks to go, but that's when Masumi decided to show himself. Right when she was about to turn the corner, Masumi came walking in front of her, stopping her from making that turn. Seeing him come out of nowhere like this frightened her, she even screamed when this happened.
"Hello, Miss Kitajima," said the man as he gave her a wide-eyed look and a creepy smile. She started backing up as he kept approaching her.
"Uh, hello, Masumi… What do you want?" she asked him, her voice full with fright, and her face looking terrified.
"I want you," he said to her with a low voice. After hearing that, she was totally stiffened with fear now. She now thought that she was about to get raped or something, and she couldn't feel anymore scared right now.
With adrenaline pumping in her veins and panic beating in her heart, she started to cry as she loudly yelled at the pervert, "Stay away from me! Leave me alone! How many times must I tell you that I don't want anything to do with you! The reason why you probably can't find a woman is because you're always bothering me! Well, you're wasting your time! I hate you! I never wanted to be with you and I never will be with you! Do you understand me now! I seriously hate you, you sick pervert!"
And after yelling that, she then tried to run away from him, but he hurried and grabbed her by the arm. She started to scream, but he quickly put his hand over her mouth and silenced her songs of distress. She struggled and wriggled, using up every last ounce of her strength to break free from him, but she was just too weak and he was too strong. Horrible images began to flood her mind, tears of sorrow continually coming down her face.
He then put his mouth up to her ear and gruffly said to her, "I've been waiting YEARS for this, Miss Kitajima! And since you're not willing to do this yourself, I will make you!" He then began to drag her into an alley that was right beside him, forcing her against the wall. Her head hit the brick wall quite roughly, making her head hurt very bad.
Her eyes were closed and she was very afraid to open them, but when she did, she seen that horrible and disgusting smile on his face; she will never in her life forget how ugly his face looked and how horrible she felt this day. The man then used his other hand to reach in back of her, placing his hand on her bottom, which made her scream and cry even more, but her cries meant nothing if nobody could hear her.
"You like that, don't you?" the man said nauseatingly up close to her face, his horribly bad smelling breath traveling inside of her nostrils making her want to cough. He then put his crusty and chapped lips against her neck, which made her just feel like everything was over and she was about to go through something she did not want to go through. She felt so filthy, she felt so sickened, she felt like her whole world has just came crashing down into the pits of no return; this was the total opposite feeling she had toward Sena.
All she could do now was pray, and she prayed to God that someone would come and save her, and at that very moment when she prayed that, something happened. Suddenly, the man was taken from off of her and punched in the face, HARD. The man fell to the ground, knocking over a couple of trash cans that were there. When she opened up her eyes, she saw Sena standing there looking very mad. She was so happy to see him come to her rescue like this.
"Sena!" she said out of pure happiness, feeling so relieved that she was saved from this rabid pervert. Sena was too furious at the moment, so he wasn't really paying Maya much heed. Instead, he walked over towards the man, picked him up by his hair, and punched him in the face again. The blow busted Masumi's lips, causing blood to violently fly into the air, splat on the wall, and stain Sena's knuckles. Masumi stumbled a little, but kept his balance.
"It's YOU!" yelled the man, receiving a hard kick to the face from Sena afterwards.
"How dare you put your nasty hands on Maya like that? Have you no shame!" Sena loudly screamed as he punched him again, sending him onto the ground. Before he got a chance to get up, Sena hopped on top of him and began to punch him in the face.
He repeatedly hit him in the face as he was yelling out, "Don't you know how to treat a woman! Don't you have any sanity left inside of that corrupt mind of yours! Don't you ever put your disgusting hands on Maya again! If I see you even twenty feet away from her, I will frickin' kill you! You hear me! She does not love you! She loves me! And I love her! She hates you! I hate you! Your mother hates you! The whole freakin' world hates you, YOU SCUMMY PIECE OF CRAP!"
After all of that being said, or yelled, he ended his barrage of attacks with a double punch and knocked him out unconscious. The spiky haired boy began to pant as he calmed down. Blood was all over his hands, so much that some of the red liquid drip from off of them. He shook his hands, flinging blood everywhere and staining his shirt. He looked as though he just got done killing somebody, he was just so mad. He never felt so much anger build up inside of him like that, but now it was starting to subside.
He soon stood up on his feet and turned around, spotting Maya standing there with her hands over her eyes, crying softly after all that has happened. Seeing her cry made him want to cry. In fact, tears started to form up inside of his eyes and fall down his face. He walked over towards the weeping girl and wrapped his arms around her, giving her a heartening embrace. She let out all of her tears on his chest, just crying her heart out because of how sad she was about everything that has happened. Sena felt her body shaking as he held her, which made him cry even more.
"Everything's fine now, Maya. You're safe now, everything's over," he whispered to her, his voice sounded kind of shaky, he couldn't talk well because of how emotional everything felt to him. It was a very good thing that Sena came to this town today, because if he didn't? Maya's life would have been changed forever in a really, really bad way.
After a while, Sena and Maya both confronted Masumi and he was taken to jail; he was sentenced eight years behind bars. Sena walked Maya to her hotel and all was good. She got to go to sleep around four in the morning, as did Sena when he went to his hotel room. No court seemed to be needed for Masumi's arrest, and that's saying something, isn't it?
Masumi, I always hated that guy (Sorry Masumi fans, just saying). Well, I hope to see you again soon, and I hope you like this story! What? You don't? Oh, whatever T_T.