Chapter 12
"Liar! Does it feel good, Yako? Being in his arms, being violated by him? Does it make you insane in his every touch...?" Neuro got closer and closer as Yako felt confused and anxious in the close proximity Neuro is. She suddenly remembered what Haruse has done to her in her bed. Yako felt afraid and backed away. In her fright, she forgot the couch behind her, having her legs reach the edge as Neuro advanced. It was not long that she fell into it.
Yako now lie on the couch, her whole body aching because of the impact. She opened her eyes to the shadow that blocks the light from the office window. His green eyes were swirling in anger and mockery of her. Those eyes have hurt her more than she had imagined. There is something wrong with him, something that she can't put. Is it confusion or...sadness?
"Neuro...I-why?-" She also caught up in the atmosphere is confused.
Neuro suddenly disappeared before her and was for a moment, blinded by the night lights coming from the window. She was unable to notice the figure coming for her. Neuro was now on top of her. Their eyes met in an instant. Neuro's head fell on her neck where Yako can feel him breathing on it. Suddenly startled, Yako felt a pair of lips trailing kisses on her neck hardly.
"Neu..ro? Neuro!?" She found panic and put her hands on his shoulders trying to get away from him. Even though it's Neuro, this isn't right. "Neuro! Stop it! Stop!" She said now struggling to get out of his cage of arms while she noticed he was putting kisses on her collarbone.
"Does this pleasure you, Louse?" He said in between kisses.
"Neuro! Stop! What's happening to you?"
"What's wrong? Isn't this what you are, dishrag? A toy to play with? I did see him enjoying you a while ago. You were really into that part earlier"
"What do you-" She suddenly remembered earlier with Haruse. Does that mean Neuro was there when it happened?
"You remember now, louse?" Neuro looked intently now at Yako's eyes. Somehow Yako felt that his eyes tell her to be guilty. "I never knew an amoeba like you could dare meddle in the prince's affairs. You must be very desperate for his affection, aren't you dishrag?"
"I would never-. Neuro, It was a misunderstanding"
"What can a human with your level probably offer to say with your knowledge? You're just a slave that lacks attention, affection filled with lust and greed that they grab to anyone, always waiting for the opportunity to grab to become more of your stupid self. Selfish little slave"
"What...do you mean, Neuro?" She said shocked and hurt.
"Don't play like a fool louse, you've been through all that. Aren't you? You're just a selfish, puny, human slave whor-" Neuro was cut off by a slap in his face. Yako finally freed herself from his grasp and stood up.
There was silence and Akane being in witness of it all make her heart in her body of hair hurt for both of them.
"Neuro, you once made me believe that people are important over and over again. That people are for you that create mysteries that's why they were so important. That I should never forget every suffering, pain and torture. That I would evolve if I do. You were there for humans and that pushed me more to be more than who I am. I believed and understood more people. I believed in you." She stopped and he heard a sob, her voice shaky. "I asked for you for your help because of its involvement to humans and your world even how large a part Haruse is to it. I thought you weren't the kind of person who would bother about that"
"Person?" Neuro stood up on the couch and looked at her in his usual swirling green eyes in pride. "I'm a demon. How could one earthworm of this realm understand high species such as us?"
Yako looked at him in mix of determination, hurt and sadness. She looked at her feet and spoke.
"Maybe you're right. I-"
"I am right!" Neuro persisted.
Even with the anxious, dead silence between them, she dared to continue what she is saying.
"I thought we have the same goals, seems like it was just my imagination. My mistake. We are too different. Who would have thought really a demon and a human can work together? I was never been you're partner. Right? Neuro" She looked at him directly with her eyes puffy red.
Neuro didn't answer and still looked at her in pride and ignorance. His face was a perfectly fixed in his expression of supremacy. But with Yako's words and look at him at that moment, something stirred within Neuro that he can't determine and for a second, his eyes faltered before Yako turned her back on him.
"If being a slave is all you see me, I'm fine with it. If you want mysteries, there are plenty that are stacked in the closet. You could have food for yourself for a whole year, you won't need me for it, you could say whatever you want on my behalf..." She walked straight to the door and before she could turn the handle, she spared a glance at him. "I...never lied Neuro about earlier. I would rather be skewered than betray the trust that have earned mine. Whatever you've seen, It's not like that...I said the truth."
'You wouldn't listen to me anyway' she thought. She grabbed the knob hard and opened the door with her saying that made that stirring sensation inside Neuro worse.
"Sayonara, Neuro" She finally closed the door behind her, leaving the office where it resides Yako's hope for her friend's salvation.
Yako after closing the door, ran outside the apartment. Finally, letting loose all her pent up emotions. Going out on the streets, she ran with all her might not minding where her feet would take her.
Why?
Why?
Neuro I thought...
I trusted you, I believed in you...
It hurts...it hurts so much...
The Neuro I know...
The Neuro I liked...and loved.
What happened to you? Where are you?
Yako continued to run, not noticing the glances she gathered at that time. Once did she break Neuro's trust on her. Now, it's different. Her trust on him is starting to shatter.
Higuchi was walking down the streets when someone bumped into him.
"Hey! Try to be more care-" he was shocked when the lady that bumped him looked at him. It was Yako and she was...crying. "Yako, why are you-"
Before he could say another word at her, a camera from a phone behind Higuchi flashed at Yako that led him distracted by it. Yako continued to run away from him until she was lost from Higuchi's eyesight. Higuchi looked at the man behind her who took a picture from behind and told him to give him the phone. The man ran and Higuchi followed.
"Hey! Give me that!" Higuchi shouted.
After a few minutes of chasing, Higuchi can't find the man anymore. He was a fast runner. He could've reached him if it isn't with the crowd tonight. Suddenly, someone called.
"Where's Yako?" A ruff voice said.
"Godai? Why are you asking me? I just bumped into her a little earlier. Why? Does something happened?" Higuchi said.
"Look at the freaking internet sites. It's swarming of photos of Yako."
Higuchi looked into his phone and looked for anything that was tagged to 'Yako'.
It is true, he was blocking half of the camera. The sites were filled with Yako running and her crying face. The headline read "Ms. Detective Katsuragi Yako, Tears of Sadness or Joy? What has befallen of the World's Great Negotiator?"
That guy from earlier! I should have shot him instead of chasing him. Higuchi returned to Godai.
"Have you seen it?" Godai talked again.
"Yeah. Do you know why she's like that?" he sighed.
"How would I know? I just freaking left her on the apartment with the shitty demon. I'm going there to know what's going on. Yako doesn't cry too much. If she did, she really meant that she's sad. I'm going"
"Wait. Godai why are you going there? Aren't we going to find Yako first?" Higuchi said worried.
"I'm going to confront the monster. She can take care of herself. She's stronger than she looks" Godai said before he hung up.
"What can I do now?"
Higuchi said looking at the sky, it started to snow. It's the beginning of winter.
Yako ,after a while of running, is now sitting on a swing from the park, looking at the falling flakes of snow as she thought about everything that happened.
"This is bad. Now what? What should I do? I totally got carried away back there with Neuro" she said her head drooping in disappointment.
'I couldn't follow Haruse in the demon world without Neuro's help and now, we fought each other again. It's not like the time that I said that I shouldn't have met the people in my life in front of Neuro back then isn't enough setback that time. Should I say sorry?' She sighed. She remembered again what Neuro done back there. Her whole face reddened in a second.
"That Neuro! She doesn't even know how women felt with those things! He totally deserved it" She shouted. "It's like he's...jealous..." she said surprised herself. 'is he?' she thought.
"Yakoooo!" She turned her head to see Kanae coming towards her. "There you are! We are looking all over for you!"
"Kanae. What are you doing here? And who's we?"
"Yo!" a guy greeted Yako behind Kanae.
"Higuchi? Why are you looking for me?" She asked. 'Did someone else told them about what happened earlier?'
"Why? You're all over the news again. What happened? Did someone hurt you?" Kanae said worried.
"All over the news?" She said confused.
Higuchi showed his phone to Yako and the websites that carried the news. Yako was dumbstruck. "Sorry about that Yako. I saw who took it but he ran so quick, I couldn't see him in the crowd anymore"
"Someone took a photo of me while I'm crying!?" Her eyes bulged. Yako just laughed half-heartedly. "Kanae if it's about that, I'm fine" she smiled.
"Then, why are you crying then?" Kanae persisted. Yako looked at Kanae, trying to think what she could tell her.
"That's my cue. Yako and Friend of Yako. Let's catch up some coffee some time alright? I'm going back to the station. Usui would be tearing his hair if he finds out that I'm gone for too long. Bye!" he said as he winked at them. Yako and Kanae looked at him until he was out of sight.
"You really have unique acquaintances, Yako" Kanae smiled at her and Yako did the same. Kanae quickly changed her expression. "Now, Yako. Tell me. Why are you crying in that photo? Tell me now or you will never get free food from me again!" She threatened.
"K-Kanae, I think that's a bit too-" she said anxious.
"I'll do it if it's the way to make you talk. Now, speak. I've let it pass that you didn't tell all about the last time you were depressed. You weren't eating well and then I just found tomorrow morning that you've eaten all the barbecue, leaving it's end like a monster."
'Is that how you see me all along!?' Yako said to herself, her eyes feeling teary.
"Now tell me, Yako. Why? Ever since you become a detective, you haven't told me a thing. I'm hurt that I'm your bestfriend and you don't tell me anything anymore about it. Please Yako, tell me everything" Kanae looked directly at her.
"I understand but you might get ready for this one. You wouldn't believe it"
"I'm the bestfriend of the World's Greatest Negotiator who could eat a whale if she's really hungry. Try me" She grinned.
Yako laughed. "Alright"
Yako started her story from the beginning, telling Kanae the days since Neuro came and of what happened that day on the reason she cried.
Godai reached the office in no time and barged inside the office.
"Oi! Monster! What did you do with Yako!? She's crying like hell and it's all over the social media!?"
Godai looked around the office and he couldn't find the demon. He saw Akane and waved at him.
"What is it, Akane? Where the hell is the demon? And what happened here earlier, she's freaking crying" he asked.
Akane typed on her computer what happened and Godai read all of it. He became more angry by the minute and irritated.
"So that's what happened. For all those years, that damn demon has been with Yako and she made her cry because of this. I'll punch him!"
"What did you just say slave no. 2?" A voice came from behind.
Akane signalled Godai, waving her hair body with her might. Godai turned to face the demon who is grinning at him.
"You heard me right, monster! I'm going to punch you senseless! You made Yako cry. I won't forgive anyone anymore who makes Yako cry!"
"Ho~ how would you do that?" he grinned, his swirling green eyes lighten up.
"Like this, you shitty demon" Godai punched and Neuro evaded. He punched forward again and Neuro is still evading, creating even a distance between them.
"Don't move you monster so I could hit you!" he punched again.
"You're slower than most of your species, just what would you expect of a dog. Slave no. 2" he grinned.
"I'm not you freaking dog! Quit calling me that, you demon. I'm already you're no. 1 right? Yako is your partner what are you calling me no. 2 for!?" he punched again. Neuro narrowed his eyes and he vanished in front of Godai. Godai didn't notice the trap in front of him that he tripped on was faced by a demonic animal trap on the floor. Godai was horrified but punching him senseless is more important. He's going to say this a million times until it processes on the demon's high and mighty brain about Yako.
"I never knew a demon could be such a coward" he said in his coughs from tripping. Neuro heard this and lifted Godai by the collar of his shirt and threw him to the wall.
"You were saying, Slave no. 2?" He said stern at him.
"I said...you're a coward!" Another trap went to Godai and he is hurt all over. Neuro then went forward to him and strangled Godai by one hand on his neck. "Do you want more severe punishments by talking to your master like that? I might have been gone for far too long that you people need to be trained again by me. You've become daring slaves." he threatened.
"Who gives a shit about that! You should have been gone too long and never return if this is what you would turn into. A coward!" he said in a husky, strangled voice. Neuro tightened his grip on Godai's neck, Godai is starting to lose air from all this strangling.
"What do you mean by that, Slave no. 2?" He said, shaking him.
"I'm not Slave no. 2. I've been spending this whole year and the times you were gone making Yako happy. She's lost all hope and energy when she thought you were gone. She gets sad and sometimes a little teary. It's all because of you, monster! She's happy that you're back and being you dead was false and now you make her cry again when you return!?" Godai needing air, breathed a handful again before speaking in his strangled state. Neuro was strangely attentive on his words. "I don't give a shit on what you're reasons were...but Yako will never lie to you on something as important as that. She believed and trusted in you. She waited for you, you shitty demon. What can that other guy compare from the time that you've been with Yako and that made her grow? She became the world's greatest negotiator just for you! You've freaking called her partner. When did you ever give a shit about other people, you monster!? Shit. Just be what you are already. I'm tired playing hurt and betrayed with you"
Neuro looked at Godai at him again with his frown and discontent and then Neuro grinned at him. In a split second, Neuro threw him towards the window. Godai yelled and before he knew, he landed on the sofa with a thump. He cursed but much more surprised that he isn't dangling from a string after what he said to him.
"I'm alive? What's the big idea monster!?" he shouted at him.
"What are you complaining about, Slave no. 1?" he said, grinning. "Don't tell me, you really liked to be tortured?" He said with his innocent face.
"The hell would I like that!" He shouted in anger. Godai stopped for a second and realized that he was called the first slave again.
"You've done well, Slave no. 1. You've evolved" Neuro smiled.
"Ha?" Godai said in his Yakuza tone voice, confused.
"I'll reward you because of this. I've bought you a new bowl" Neuro pointed at the back of Godai's desk. There was more dog food and a much larger bowl has been placed instead of the small one.
"I'm not a dog! Who gives a shit what size the bowl is!?" Godai shouted at him. He hissed after that.
"Take care of the office"
"You don't have to tell me. Get the detective back here, you hear!?" He said to him.
Neuro grinned and left the office.
Akane waved herself, calling the attention of Godai.
"What is it?" Godai looked at her.
Akane wrote something on her board. 'You're softer than usual' she waved her whole body in glee.
Godai became bashful. "Shut up. I'm not like that" he said looking in the other way.
A/N: Just updated. I hope you read this.