Chapter 21: Suprises around every parking lot
Kaneda watches the TV, not really paying attention to it. He sighs. It's been a half-hour. " I bet they went shopping those bunch of...." He stops. " Or Tetsuo could have went phyco.." Kaneda gets ready to leave and someone knocks on the door. He answers it. Kay stands before him. " Kay?..." He stammers. " I'm sorry I left. I thought that you would be better off. It's not your fault Kaneda..." Kay says. Kaneda looks suprised. " I guess that little incident got everyone a little stressed out. And-" Kays stops. Kaneda is hugging her tightly. "Kaneda?.." Kay hugs him back.
Magumi wakes up. She feels fine, just a bit groggy. Yamagata and Kei stare at her from their bikes. Their sitting on them. They were apparently waiting for her to wake up before they went anywhere. " Are you awake? Do you understand what I'm saying?" Kei asks. Magumi nods and stummbles to her feet. They left her lieing on the ground. Her leg stings. The dart lays smashed on the ground. Yamagata rubs his forhead. It looks like he has a huge zit. " Yamagata..Kei..Akira..Where's Tetsuo?!" She asks. " I don't know..I woke up not to long ago and..Kei says he didn't see much.." Yamagata explains. " They wouldn't beleive me if I told them.." Keisuke thinks.
There's a thick patch of dark blood on Magumi's arm. It's half dried. She isn't hurt and the others don't appear to be. She gets a sick feeling in her stomach. " Are you hurt? You got blodd on your cheek.." Kei says. Yamagata dosen't really care that much, it looks lke he has a big red zit on his head from the dart. Magumi raises a hand to her cheek. " What?...No..." She murmers. Tetsuo is gone. Someone's blood is one her. She tries to remember what happened before everything went black..Tetsuo's arms grasping her...than the darkness. " Tetsuo!" She begins to search the parking lot franticly. " Is she gonna freak out again?" Yamagata asks. " I don't think so..I don't think Tetsuo is much hurt..I think he just ran off somewhere..and the men ran away far as I know.." Kei says. Yamagata shrugs.
Tetsuo slowly opens his eyes. He is slumped against a shed's wall. The wall is stained with his shoulder's blood. He clenches his teeth. His robotic arm is dripping blood, thickly. He holds it. He is wedged in between two buildings in a narrow alley way, between two white sheds. In the parking lot. He closes his eyes. His skull seems to be slowly floating away in a sea of numbness. Tetsuo lets his teeth loosen and his head sink down. He breathes slowly. He lets himself join the darkness and feel the numbness. It's better than the pain.
Magumi shreeks loudly. " I FOUND HIM!!! TETSUO!!" She cries out, falling to her knees next to the slumped figure. She takes him in her arms and cradles him. " Tetsuo...are you ok? Tetsuo.." She whispers. Kei, Yamagata and Akira run over and stare at Tetsuo. " He dosen't look to good..we haft to get him back.." Kei says. " Yeah.." Yamagata shakes his head. " Tetsuo..you idiot..what have you gone and done.." He thinks. " Tetsuo!!" Magumi cries. Someone taps Kei on the shoulder. " Excuse me..but you're all gonna haft to come with me." He says angrily holding a gun. A white van is parked behind them. The soilders had bought beere and happened to drive by and spot the group. He holds a gun to Kei's head. " That is Tetsuo Shima..boys load him into the car..." He orders the other soilder. The soilder tries to pick Tetsuo up. Magumi latches onto his arm and refuses to move. The soilder points his gun at her. " Let go..this is an order or I will..shoot!" He says angrily. Magumi holds on to Tetsuo tighter. The man's finger slides a 16th of an inch on the trigger. His patience is growing thin. " LEt GO OR I WILL SHOOT!! THIS ISN"T A WARNING!" He says. Small streams of tears flow down Magumi's face, twards the ground. She rests her head on Tesuo's uninjured soilder. " No.." She whispers. The man fumes. " That's it! Clear away!" He moves closer and presses the gun against her temple.
Cold steel. Magumi tenses up. So this is it?She was going to die trying? Go ahead...I dare him to. Suddenly a gun shot goes off. After a few seconds Magumi opens her eyes slowly. The soilder lies dead on the ground, eyes wide and blood flowing out of his mouth. A huge bullet hole gapes in his head. " Wha..?" She looks up as do the others. They see a tall, strong looking man. " Are you alright?" He booms. Magumi slowly nods. It's the colonel. They have no idea. " I'm here to help you." He says. Yamagata crosses his arms and examines the three dead soilders. " How do we know you're not gonna set us up?" He asks. " That's the thanks I get..but I understand. You better get your friend out of here.." The colonel says. He climbs into the soilders van and drives off with it. " Who was that..?" Kei asks. The colonel drives back and shouts out the window. " Don't let anyone get their hands on Akira!" The man drives off again. They look at each other. Magumi dries her eyes and acts like she was never crying. Although they all saw her with their own eyes. They help take Tetsuo home.
Tetsuo slowly opens his eyes. He can hear Kaneda shouting something angrily at one of them. He slowly turns his head looking around. His arm is stained with dry blood. I guess they didn't know what to do with it. He is wearing boxer shorts under his bed covers. He'd like to think that Magumi was responsible for that. He hopes. He is alone in the room. Kaneda must be yelling at everyone. What a fucking crab he's turned into. Tetsuo sighs deeply. He's not sure where to go or what to say. He has to think.
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" Wow. You're like gone not even for an hour and all that shit happens?" Kaneda asks, slightly angered. " You know what? I think Tetsuo should move out with that kid of his and.." Kaneda interupted by Magumi. " What do you mean his kid? We don't even know where it came from!" She shouts. Kaneda smirks. " Don't freak out on me. You're always defending him. Well tell me this, has he explained anything to you?!" Kaneda asks. Magumi shuts up. She freezes. She lowers her fist to her side slowly. She crosses her arms and looks at the floor. Yamagata is listening leaning against the counter. " No..." She says bitterly. " But that dosen't mean he wasn't going to." She says angrily. Yamagata shakes his head to himself. Kaneda still smirks. " You just keep thinking that than." He shoots. Magumi looks up at him quickly, shooting him a ' what do you mean' look. Kaneda sits in a chair next to Kay. " I don't care what you guys do but Kay and I are hitting the town tonight.." He puts his arm around her. " Right,Kay?" He asks. Kay frowns. " Kaneda...don't you think that's a bit careless if there are people going after Tetsuo and Akira?" She asks. Kaneda's facial expression is in utter suprise. " No...why should I be worried and you worry when we're not even Tetsuo and AKira? We're Kay and Kaneda..so let's go out and have fun tonight." He says. Kay sighs. " Well...." She starts. Kaneda gives her the puppy face. " Alright." She smiles. Kaneda smirks again. Magumi is fuming over what Kaneda said. Tetsuo wouldn't lie to her would he? I mean they haven't really known each other that long but so much has happened and she cares so much for him...or is it something else? She is lost in thought. Yamagata stares at her like she is an idiot for even going with Tetsuo in the first place. He slumps his shoulders. And Kei..poor Kei. Waiting for her. He sneers. Why should Kei haft to wait for her?..Yamagata thinks and leaves the kitchen.
" Tetsuo are you going to
come with me?" A woman's voice asks. " Wha--are you
Magumi?" He asks. He reaches out in front of him feeling for
anything in the dense, blinding, white fog. " Tetsuooo are
you going to find mee? I need you Tetsuoo.." She chants.
Tetsuo starts running blindly in front of him. " Where are
you? Mag- whoever you are?!" He shouts. He runs into Akira.
The child stares up at him and begins to morph into a hideoud
octapus-like monster with many sharp teeth and starts to pull him
in and eat him. " NO!!!! I HAFT TO FIND YOU!!!!" His
arm starts to pulse. The last thing he sees is the light turning
into the darkness, with the monster's mouth closing in around
him, squeezing him and confininf him. " Kanedaaa help
me!...Magumi! Magumi! Where are you! Kanedaaaa!!!!!"
Tetsuo wakes up sweating. His arm is pulsing again. Tetsuo
touches it and his arm calms down. " Magumi..I'm
sorry.." He pants.
To be continued....
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