C.3
When Hanamichi woke up he felt a weight on his left shoulder. He turned his head and looked at Rukawa. Well, actually, all he could see was a mess of raven hair, which he supposed was Rukawa's.
As usual he was sleeping.
He tried to get away from the boy but it seemed impossible without waking him, and he didn't want to wake him up.
Suddenly he heard heavy footsteps coming from the hallway and the three guards appeared in front of the cell.
"We're here to take his handcuffs off, piece of shit!!" Jack said, grinning evilly.
"You can't!!" the memory of the past 'operation' was still impressed in his memory and he didn't want Rukawa to suffer like that. Well, he didn't want anyone to suffer like that.
Unfortunately there was nothing he could do, was it?
"Just look, piece of shit!!" Jack opened the door. The other two hadn't started to speak, yet.
"Hey, bitch… Wake up…" he shook Rukawa.
"Don't bother my sleep!!"
Jack cried out, clenching his shin.
"Son of a bitch!!" he managed to say between clenched teeth.
A chance had been offered to him and Hanamichi didn't throw it away.
He grabbed Rukawa's chain from the floor and put it around Jack's neck, strangling him. As he planned the other two, responding to the instinct, shot at him, but only hit Jack. Quickly he grabbed Jack's gun and shot them, killing them.
Oh, shit!! I've done it!!
"C'mon, Rukawa!! We're outta here!!" he opened the kitsune's handcuffs and dragged him by an arm.
"I can walk by myself." he said, icily.
"Okay, okay…" he let go of him and the raven-haired boy took the guns from the other guards and the keys.
"Just in case…" he answered the unspoken question of the red-head.
Hanamichi nodded and started to run along the hallway, trying to remember the path he'd walked on, when he arrived there.
"This way!!" he shouted to the kitsune.
"There they are!!" voices behind them shouted.
"They're getting closer!!" Hanamichi told more to him himself than to Rukawa.
The latter turned around for a second and shot. After a moment someone screamed.
"Hey!! You're a great shooter!!"
"I was the best, in the Shohoku team…"
"Really, I've always thought the best was Micchy…"
"Who?"
"I mean Mitsui…"
"Has he come back??"
"Yes, after a little fight."
"Well, I remember he was a good sniper…"
"And you?"
"Hand to hand combat…" he said "I did that…"
"Shoot 'em!!" a voice yelled behind them.
"Get down!" Hanamichi pushed Rukawa on the floor behind a desk and covered the kitsune's body with his.
Hanamichi pointed a door in front of them.
"You go first, I'll cover you."
Rukawa nodded.
"Now!!"
The kitsune started to run like hell while Sakuragi was shooting at the guards. With the corner of his eye he could see that Rukawa had reached the door so he got down and prepared to dash.
Rukawa nodded and he started to shoot, while the other reached his side.
He grabbed Rukawa's wrist and ran to the left, dragging the boy along with him.
"Slow down!! I'm out practice!!"
"Oh, sorry…" he slowed down.
"And what's your discipline?"
"What?"
"Your discipline."
"Oh, yes… I can do everything!! I'm Tensai after all!!"
Rukawa was beginning to wonder why the Shohoku team and captain Akagi would want such an idiot.
"Do'aho."
"Temee, kitsune!!! I saved your life and that's how you thank me??!! Baka kitsune!!"
"My life hasn't been saved, yet…" the boy replied.
"This way, kitsune!! We'll be out of here!!"
Sakuragi ran towards the exit, shooting at first sight to the guards, dragging with him the poor Rukawa who was putting all efforts into following Hanamichi.
The red-head opened the door and he got out in the sunlight.
"Ah!!"
He turned to see the kistune laying on the ground with his hands on his face.
"What happened? Did they hit you?"
"No… The sunlight… My eyes hurt."
He has been so much time in the shadow his eyes aren't used to it… And his skin is so pale… He'd need some protection cream…
He took Rukawa in his arms and ran towards one of the car that was parked near.
"What are you doing?? Put me down!!"
"Calm down… here."
He plopped Rukawa on the passenger seat, while the latter was still covering his eyes.
"Take this…" Sakuragi handed him a pair of sunglasses he'd found in the car.
Behind them the guards started to get out the building, shooting to them.
"Hold on something!!" Sakuragi warned "I can't drive!!"
"You can't what??!"
"I can't drive, but I know the basics!! Why?? Can you drive, baka kitsune!!"
"Of course not, do'aho!! I was captured when I was too young!!!"
"Then shut the hell up!!"
"They're following us!!" Rukawa shouted.
"I know!! And stop shouting!! We're not in some stupid movie!!" Sakuragi shouted back.
"If you shout at me, I'll shout back at you!!" the kitsune yelled.
"Why you…" Hanamichi drew a deep breath and said in a lower tone "Let's just stop this."
Rukawa nodded and started to look in every spot on the car.
"What are you looking for? Did you lost something?"
"A gun."
THUD
"Ouch!"
"I told you I can't drive!" Sakuragi exclaimed.
Rukawa sat back straight in his passenger seat, rubbing his head.
"I found this…" he said, holding a kalashnikov in a hand "And these…" he continued, holding the ammo in his other hand.
"The, what are you waiting for??!!"
"For you to, go back on the road." he said simply.
"Waah!!"
Sakuragi drove back to the road.
Rukawa undid his belt and turned towards the other jeeps.
He shot and he hit the one of the jeep's wheels, sending it off-road.
"I just shot one in the wheels…" Rukawa said.
"Good job!!"
"Shouldn't their wheels be bullet-proof?"
"I don't know… Maybe their financiers are a little cheap…"
"Do'aho."
"Baka kitsune."
The guards shot them back and that brought Hanamichi and Rukawa back to their duties…
After a while all the chasers had been sent off-road.
"I can't believe we made it!!" Hanamichi exclaimed excited.
"I can't believe we're still alive after your driving."
"Temee, kitsune!!!"
"Do'aho."
"Listen you-"
"You're wounded."
"What?!"
"Stay on the road!!"
The jeep went back to the road.
"I said you're wounded."
"WHAT?!" Hanamichi slammed on the brakes and Rukawa was sent forward, on the hood of the jeep (that's one of those desert jeeps, without the windshield! ^_^) then on the ground.
"Ite!!"
"Where? Where is the wound? I can't feel anything!! Am I going to die??!"
"Ouch… I just saw the blood… Don't know if you're really wounded…"
Sakuragi spotted the blood on his shoulder and felt relieved when he did see blood but not the wound.
"I'm alright. Must be someone else's-" the words died in his troath as he looked at Rukawa.
The kitsune-eyed boy just looked at him with an arched eyebrow.
"What's this?"
"K-Kitsune… Behind you…"
GROOOWL
Rukawa paled and turned, slowly, around.
What he saw made him pale even more.
A giant bear was in front of him, it growled.
"Kuso."
"Kami sama!!" Sakuragi whispered.
Rukawa didn't waste time: he pulled two combat knives out of nowhere. With one of them he stabbed the bear's 'foot' and, with an amazing jump, he reached for the throat of the animal, slicing it.
"That was close." he said, when the beast fell to the ground with an almost human expression of surprise.
"Hey, where did you find those?!!" Hanamichi exclaimed, trying to conceal his amazement.
Rule #1: Never piss Rukawa off.
"In the jeep… when I was looking for a gun…"
"Oh, yeah… hehe…"
"Mpfh."
"C'mon… we gotta go to the base…"
"As you wish."
Rukawa got on the jeep.
"And try to stay on the road, do'aho."
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING DO'AHO???!!!"
"You."
"BAKA KITSUNE!!"
"Stay on road."
"TEMEE!!"
"I said 'stay on the road'."
And so on…
