No Matter What It Takes
Chapter Nine
Sora's hazy green eyes slowly opened revealing a dimly lit room filled with dust and dirt. "Where am I; what's going on here?" he asked aloud to himself wondering what was happening to him. The blond realized he was sitting down, but when he tried to stand up, he realized he couldn't. He instantly came to and saw that each of his wrists were tied down to the arms of the chair he was sitting in. As he tried to move his legs, he realized his ankles were bounded to the front legs of the chair as well. No matter how much he struggled, he could not break free of his restraints; the ropes were tied to him too tight. The blond could not get a good reading on where he was located either. All Sora was able to make out was he was in an old, abandoned room with hardly anything in it except a lot of dust. At that moment, the memories of earlier events came flooding back. "Wait a second, I remember I was being arrested by the police, but how did I end up in a place like this?!"
"So, you're finally awake; we were starting to get bored." he heard an amused male voice say to him. He looked up and saw two well-built men standing before him. They each wore well-made black tailored suits with white dress shirts underneath and black ties and leather shoes to match. They also had black sunglasses on their faces to hide their eyes and they both had their arms crossed against their chests with matching smirks on their faces.
"Who the hell are you guys, and why did you bring me here?!" Sora asked in heated anger.
"Aww, were heartbroken; don't you recognize us? Does "You're under arrest." ring any bells?" one of the men asked him before they broke out in hysterical laughter.
Sora's eyes widened at the man's words, "You two were those police officers?"
"While we're being completely honest, we're not exactly police officers, but you falling for our little façade made our job a whole lot easier."
"Why the hell am I tied up; let me go right now!"
"Unfortunately, that cannot be done." Sora looked up and stared in shock as he saw Akashi strode in the room. The two bodyguards gave the newcomer room to walk in while giving short bows to him. The red golden eyed male walked up to his captive who was glaring at him. Akashi simply gave him a small grin as he said, "I apologize if your current accommodations aren't to your liking, but you're just going to have to deal with it."
"I should've known you were behind this, you brat!" the blond male yelled at the student in rage. Once those words escaped his lips, one of Akashi's guards punched Sora hard in the gut. The captive coughed up blood and the crimson liquid escaped his lips, plopping down on the floor below him. He breathed heavily as a trail of blood fell from the right side of his mouth.
"I would advise you watch the way to speak to me, Takahashi or else you could wind up seriously hurt."
"What is your deal, huh?! It's bad enough you set me up at the restaurant, but you get me fired and kidnap me?!"
"I set you up?" Akashi started to laugh manically at the other's ridiculous accusation. After a few moments, he ceased with the laughter and walked up to his captive. When he got within ear shot of him, he grabbed the other by the hair and yanked his head towards him. Sora yelled out in pain; it felt as though the college student would rip his hair off his scalp. He tried to look at Akashi only to have the blood drain from his face as he paled in fright at the look on the other's face. Akashi gave him a look of searing anger and disgust mixed in one. The sight of that glare paralyzed Sora with fear. He felt as though he were staring into the eyes of a mighty yet dangerous predator. "Just who the hell do you think you are talking to, vermin?! Do you honestly believe I'm the one who got you in the predicament you're in? You are sorely mistaken, the only one who caused you to be fired was yourself. I wasn't the one who punched a student then tried to slaughter a coworker with a knife. If I had known you had the gall to attack Kouki like that, I would've dealt with you a long time ago." the red head said as he let go of Sora's hair.
After hearing the redhead's confession, a crazed smirk arose on Sora's face, "So I was right; you did want to get rid of me! Ha, I knew I wasn't crazy. You may have everyone including Senpai fooled, but I told him you were nothing but an obsessed, possessive brat who doesn't care who he steps on to get what he wants." At that moment, Sora received another hard punch from one of Akashi's guards to his left jaw causing him to spit out more blood and a molar.
"You know for someone with a degree to teach college students, you're not very intelligent, are you?" Akashi asked after giving a small sigh.
"Excuse me?!"
"I don't know if you realize this, but I have your fate is my hands." At that moment, a loud shrill cry of pain echoed throughout the room. Sora had screamed due to receiving a deep cut across his left eye causing the blood to cascade down the left side of his face. "So, it would be in your best interest not to say anything that could cost you your life." Akashi said unaffected by the other's blood curdling cries while holding a pair of sharp bladed scissors with the blond's blood dripping from the tip of the blades.
After crying out in searing pain, Sora stared at the college student in complete shock after what he did. "Do you have any idea what you just did; you could've gauged by eye out!"
"Ah, wouldn't that have been nice."
"You're absolutely insane!"
"To be fair, all this could've have been avoided if you simply obeyed me, but now you've forced me to play my hand."
"W-W-What do you mean?!"
"Honestly, I hate having to repeat myself to pathetic maggots like you. I made a vow to myself that I would make you pay for what you did to Kouki, and I intend make sure I do. Quite frankly, I never cared what you said or thought about me, but when you endangered Kouki's well-being, you crossed the line. I doubt you care how I felt about this, but I do know it matters to you what Kouki thought of your actions, doesn't it?"
Sora instantly remembered the look on Furihata's face when he punched Akashi, when he cut him with the knife and when he tried to make amends. The Senpai who was so precious to him lost all faith in him and saw him as nothing but a heartless monster. The green-eyed male lowered his head in defeat as hot salty tears came to eyes before cascading down his cheeks. "I never meant to hurt Senpai, honestly. I have loved him since the day I met him in college. He was always so kind and caring towards me. I had always hoped we'd find happiness together."
"How touching; unfortunately for you, that hope was short lived. You were never deserving of Kouki's affections. You were deluding yourself if you actually thought you had a chance with him." Akashi said to the distraught ex-professor not even sparring his feelings.
"What does that make you?!" Sora said to the other with a frown, "My chance with Senpai may be over, but you don't stand a chance in hell of being with him either. Regardless of what you feel towards him, Senpai will only see you as a student and nothing more. He would never jeopardize his career to be with a psychopath like you!"
"How would you know anything about how I feel? What I feel towards Kouki is more genuine and runs deeper than your meager feelings ever did. He is the shining angel who saved me from the darkness. When I was dwelling on the pain of loss wanting to be free from this cruel, lonely world, he reached out his hand to me and guided me out of the darkness. He embraced me with is warmth and tender care. Ever since that day, my love for him grew and grew. My feelings for him go beyond human understanding. Kouki is the epitome of everything that is good in this wretched, ugly world. He deserves only the best this world has to offer, so it's only natural the one truly deserving of him is me and me alone."
"Oh wow, if being a ruthless company owner doesn't work out, you should consider being a poet." Sora said in a cocky tone with an amused smirk on his face which infuriated Akashi to no end. "Just as I thought, you are too full of yourself. You rich people are alike; you think you can just take what you want without having to work for it. When something ends up being bad for you, you just throw money at it. Upper class folk always think the world revolves around them. People like you make me want to vomit. If you want my opinion, you're as mad as they come."
"Is that all you have to say?" the red golden eyed male asked in a strained voice trying to keep in anger in check.
"What's the matter, brat; can't handle the fact your little sick fantasy will never come to pass? Once Senpai realizes what you are behind your "innocent honor student" façade, he'll see you as nothing more than a twisted, obsessed freak that can't do anything for himself without Daddy's money." Sora said with a twisted smirk plastered on his face, looking triumphant.
After a moment of silence, Akashi simply gave a short sigh before saying, "I was considering allowing you to continue your meaningless existence but as I thought, you're nothing more than useless vermin that needs to be exterminated. If not, you'll continue to be nothing more than a hindrance to me and Kouki and I can't allow that."
Unbeknownst to Sora, a figure cloaked in shadow came up behind him holding a syringe in his hand. "What is that supposed to me…!" At that moment, Sora felt something prick his arm. He looked down and saw a gloved hand was sticking a syringe needle in his upper harm. Sora noticed the needle was filled with a clear, unknown substance and as the stranger behind him pressed down on the top of the syringe, the mysterious liquid entered his arm. The blond was starting to become afraid; his breathing quickened as he struggled to break free from his restraints to no avail. "What is that; what are you putting in me?!"
"It's useless to try and escape; there's no hope for you now."
"Seriously, what are you injecting me with?!"
"Like I said, you are vermin that needs to be exterminated and what better way than with poison." Akashi answered nonchalantly with an evil, amused smirk on his face.
"Poison?! Are you insane; you can't do this to me?!"
"I believe I just did; you had this coming for a long time. You had the gall to look down on me then hurt the one thing that gives me endless joy. Like any other criminal, you need to be severely punished for your actions."
"No, please don't let him do this to me! I didn't mean to do what I did; forgive me!" Sora begged, yelling at the top of his lungs as hot tears cascaded down his face.
Akashi simply signed at the other's pleas while shaking his head. "Typical; the very minute your life is in danger, you become a sniveling toad pleading for mercy. You remind me of those three pathetic fools who tried to rape Kouki. Their leader tried to beg for his life, but like you he didn't sway me one bit. The poor fool died along with his underlings. Be grateful Takahashi-san, unlike them you will die a slow, painless death. I can't say you don't deserve it because that would be a lie."
"NOOOOOOO!" Sora cried at the top of his lungs in agonizing fear. Once the syringe liquid was completely in Sora's system, his vision instantly became hazy. His body started shaking violently as he started to have continuous spasms. The blond started to make gagging sounds as he started frothing at the mouth like at rabid dog. Sora started to feel his strength leave him and his body grow cold every second his body shook. After a few more minutes of violent shakes, Sora's eyes rolled in the back of his head as he instantly died on the spot.
The one who gave Sora the lethal injection stepped out of the shadows revealing himself to be another one of Akashi's guards. He went around the victim to check his vitals for a pulse. As he was doing so, he heard Akashi ask him, "Well is it done?"
"Yes sir, he's no longer among the living."
A small smirk arose on his face as he said to his guard, "Efficient work as always."
All three of the guards bowed to their employer as thanks. Then the redhaired male said to them, "Now that the pathetic rat is out of the way, you all know what to do."
"Yes sir." the three men said to their young master.
"If you all will excuse me; I have more important matters to attend to, so I'll leave the cleaning up to you."
"Right." the three guards said in unison as they went about following their employer's orders as he left.
(Later on, that evening…)
A taxi pulled up to the front gate of the Akashi mansion. Once the vehicle came to a complete stop, the taxi driver turned around to his passenger and said, "We're here, sir."
The passenger who happened to be Furihata told the male driver, "Thank you very much."
"Anytime; that'll be 1000 yen, please"
The hazel eyed male reached for his wallet in his pocket and pulled out a 1000-yen bill. Once he did, he paid the taxi driver, and got out of the vehicle holding a box under his arm. When the taxi drove way, Furihata stood before the large iron gate. He gave a quick sigh as he said, "Well, here's go nothing."
He walked up to the intercom by the gate and pressed the button. After the loud buzz, a male voice came on through the speaker asking him, "May I help you?"
"Um, good evening; I'm here to see Akashi Seijuro-kun."
"I see, but unfortunately the young master doesn't allow guests at this time of night."
"Oh, I'm sorry, my name is Furihata Kouki and I just wanted to see how Akashi-kun was doing."
"Hold on, did you say Furihata Kouki?"
"Yes sir."
At that moment, the brunet heard the iron gates creak loudly as they opened. Furihata was quite confused, until he heard the gatekeeper say to him, "Go on ahead in, Furihata-san."
"Are you sure it's okay; I can come back tomorrow."
"It's fine; go on ahead."
"Well okay then; thank you very much." the hazel eyed male said as he walked onto the property and headed towards the grand mansion. Once he arrived at the front door, he saw the doorbell by the door frame. Furihata pressed the button and the bell chimed throughout the property. After a few minutes of waiting, the doors opened revealing his student's butler. The brunet smiled as he greeted him with a bow, "Ah, good evening Shuji-san."
"And a good evening to you as well, Furihata-san. What brings you here this evening?"
"I know it's late, but I came to visit Akashi-kun; is he here?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, but Seijuro-sama had some important business to take care of and he hasn't come back yet."
"I see," the brunet said before giving the other another short bow, "I wanted to come by and see how he was doing. I apologize for coming by so late and bothering you. I guess I should call for a taxi to take me home."
"Perish the thought, Furihata-san; you've come all this way, the least I can do is let you in."
"But…?"
"It's quite alright; when I spoke with the young master a little while ago, he told me he was almost home. By all means, do come on in."
"Well as long as it's okay, I'll come in then." Furihata replied as he walked into the grand house while Shuji closed the doors behind him.
The head butler guided Furihata to the grand living room. As the brunet took a seat on the cream-colored sofa, Shuji said to him, "Now while you're waiting for the young master's return, would you care for some tea?"
"Oh, I couldn't; it's bad enough I'm imposing on you at this time of night. The last thing I want to do is to put you out."
"Think nothing of it; I don't mind preparing you some."
"Well then, yest I would love some tea; thank you."
"Of course, sir; I shall return momentarily." Shuji replied with a smile and a short bow as he headed towards the kitchen to prepare tea for his master's guest.
As the head butler left the room, Furihata sighed as he leaned back in the sofa and looked up at the high ceiling. 'What a day this has been; I'm surprised I even left my apartment considering how I ran into Sora-kun. It's bad enough he did those horrible things, but he had the gall to blame Akashi-kun for everything. I hope I never see him again for as long as I live. I wonder if Akashi-kun is doing alright; I hope he hasn't gotten involved in anything dangerous again. Please be safe, wherever you are, Akashi-kun.'
To Be Continued…
A/N: Hello my fellow readers; Happy New Year to you all! It's been ages since I uploaded new material. I promise you guys I'm still here; with work and dealing with writer's block, I haven't been writing as much as I need to. I promise, I'll try to update this story and new works as I'm able to, but I appreciate you guys following and favoring my work. I'll see you at the next update, but until then stay safe and remember to R&R! :D