Chapter Two: All Apologies
Jiro hadn't felt anything but the flinch of pain increasing in his chest...it was the only thing he could ever feel at the moment. His eyes remained tightly closed, not listening to the beating of his heart...
*Wait a minute..a heartbeat?* his thought ran through his mind. But then the thought dropped, as the pain increased in his chest. He clutched more tightly to the area of his heart, but no matter how hard he tried, he began to suffer more.
***
Mitsuko took a quick glance at the narrow once more, she had two feelings about using this short cut. One, it seemed perfectly fine and easy to just go ahead and walk there and go home. But the second feeling was fear - what if someone was waiting for her there and could very easily slit her throat. Mitsuko scoffed at her bizzare and amusing thoughts. She shouldn't be afraid.
*I shouldn't be afraid* she repeatedly. *Why would I? It's only an alley. That's all there is* She breathed in heavily, taking one step into the alley darkness - cracking a few broken glass pieces that was lying there on the ground.
*Just a broken beer bottle.* She thought to herself, as she heard the cracking noise below her feet. She calmed down a little bit afterwards...only a few more blocks to go. *Great.* she told herself, cursing at herself for living so far from the city limits. She walked slowly feeling the light of the city lights fading behind her. The alleyway was being dimmed now, and there was barely any light from the way she was seeing. Feeling more comfortable with the surroundings, Mitsuko picked up her walking pace a little faster. Not only because she wanted to go home and get a good night's rest, she was getting a little scared as well.
That was when she heard a moan of pain ahead of her.
Mitsuko's eyes widened - she knew she was in deep trouble now.
***
Jiro heard footsteps coming his way.
Feeling insecure about the pain causing him to scream in agony, maybe someone he knew was going to help him. He crawled forward instead of backwards. He wanted to see the light again, and yet hide away from who was coming near him. The person that was coming his way seemed very hard to distinct, but he knew it was a female. The motion blur was still in his eyes, but he could sense more than when he was an android. Sometimes he had wished for the day he was back once again as a robot, than this pain of evil and good inside of himself that will forever torment him. But what could he do? He wanted it, and he slowly deserved this. For the good of all, and yet did something cruel and evil - like destroying Ichiro and Rei...
Jiro emptied out the thoughts of killing his own brothers, and decided to move on - move on with his new life. He could sense the woman was moving back, knowing she was afraid. Jiro tried to hold back the sadness and lonliness he was beginning to feel as he could hear the woman trying to avoid him. He couldn't blame her - why would she want to help a useless scrap of a once mad machine? But he kept crawling, his legs feeling weak and unsteady as he tried to walk. Suddenly feeling a bit of white in his eyes filled with motion blur, he saw the light of the city. The colorful bits of red, yellow, and green from the traffic lights, the beaming yellow letters of an advertisement. He now saw the woman, and the woman saw her...
All they could do was stare in one another's eyes.
***
"Dear God..." Mitsuko whispered beneath her breath, she could barely see anything what was in front of her but she heard the painful cries of a man in agony. She looked around the alley way figuring this wasn't the best place for a short cut, she started to take each step backwards from where she came from. *The man may be a serial killer.* Her eyes filled with fear and took each step backward at a slow pace.
"Take it easy, Mitsuko." she said to herself silently. Suddenly, she heard something being knocked over from the corner and started to quicken the pace of her steps a bit faster than before. Her face was getting sweaty now, tension in her legs feeling if they can't move anymore. She heard the man in pain and was wimpering a soft cry, sooner or later Mitsuko began to feel sorry for the man...
*Stop it! You have to get yourself out of this alleyway before you're killed!* she scolded. She dropped the whole intention of walking backwards at a slow pace and began to run quickly. She didn't turn back, but the man kept crawling barely even a whisper...he spoke.
"Wait...please...help...me," he said with an agony in his heart. Mitsuko didn't listen she kept running until she had to reach the metropolis - now.
The man tried the best he could to catch up with her - what the hell was he going to do to her?
Mitsuko took a deep breath, the damp air from the rain clogged her lungs and she began to cough to catch her breath, she turned around - soaking wet she looked over her shoulder slowly she saw the eyes of a young man she had once knew and loved. She gasped in shocked, feeling a bit startled at the site in front of her. He leaned against the brick wall - trying to catch his breath, clutching at the area where the heart is suppose to be. And with the sorrowful eyes she had remembered. She looked at him with an expressionless look on her face.
"Jiro?"
***
"Wait...please...help...me," he tried to catch up to her, but she seemed so afraid of him that she was running. By now the rain began to pour down steadily - his denims all soaked and wet, but he didn't give a damn. He wanted to be needed, and this female was avoiding him - honestly.
Jiro was about to give up hope as soon as he stumbled on the brick wall, the pain in his chest was beginning to fade yet took more time to catch his breath from being in pain for the past few hours.
"My...God..." he paused and he slowly noticed the woman turning around to face him. Struggling from the effects of the flinch of pain in his chest, his vision slowly turned crystal clear. He noticed a pair of brown sparkling eyes, a face so gentle he could cup her and he could gently see right through her - his memory began to haunt him. The promises, the kiss, everything he knew was directly in front of him. He opened his eyes a little bit wider, noticing a soft glow coming around the young woman.
*Those eyes, I've seen them before...they remind me of...*
"Mitsuko..." he looked at her all of a sudden the world seemed to pause on Jiro. Mitsuko was shocked, her eyes grew wide looking at Jiro with sadness and compassion.
"Jiro?" she looked at him once more, noticing the difference of him.
At last when Jiro took one more step towards her, he closed his eyes and collasped near her. With a gasp, Mitsuko leaned down and grabbed Jiro by the waist and gently took his left arm and enwrapped it around her shoulder for support. The rain continued to fall, but Mitsuko put being soaked all aside and decided she didn't care about being wet. Jiro was here...with her...As she tried to walk him to her apartment gently, she almost cried with happiness...
Jiro kept his promise that one day he will come back to her...
END PART TWO
A/N: Eh, this one was ok a bit short but hey anything just to get this idea out of my head. lol. I've got plenty of tricks up my sleaves and I'm not afraid to use them. ;)
Jiro hadn't felt anything but the flinch of pain increasing in his chest...it was the only thing he could ever feel at the moment. His eyes remained tightly closed, not listening to the beating of his heart...
*Wait a minute..a heartbeat?* his thought ran through his mind. But then the thought dropped, as the pain increased in his chest. He clutched more tightly to the area of his heart, but no matter how hard he tried, he began to suffer more.
***
Mitsuko took a quick glance at the narrow once more, she had two feelings about using this short cut. One, it seemed perfectly fine and easy to just go ahead and walk there and go home. But the second feeling was fear - what if someone was waiting for her there and could very easily slit her throat. Mitsuko scoffed at her bizzare and amusing thoughts. She shouldn't be afraid.
*I shouldn't be afraid* she repeatedly. *Why would I? It's only an alley. That's all there is* She breathed in heavily, taking one step into the alley darkness - cracking a few broken glass pieces that was lying there on the ground.
*Just a broken beer bottle.* She thought to herself, as she heard the cracking noise below her feet. She calmed down a little bit afterwards...only a few more blocks to go. *Great.* she told herself, cursing at herself for living so far from the city limits. She walked slowly feeling the light of the city lights fading behind her. The alleyway was being dimmed now, and there was barely any light from the way she was seeing. Feeling more comfortable with the surroundings, Mitsuko picked up her walking pace a little faster. Not only because she wanted to go home and get a good night's rest, she was getting a little scared as well.
That was when she heard a moan of pain ahead of her.
Mitsuko's eyes widened - she knew she was in deep trouble now.
***
Jiro heard footsteps coming his way.
Feeling insecure about the pain causing him to scream in agony, maybe someone he knew was going to help him. He crawled forward instead of backwards. He wanted to see the light again, and yet hide away from who was coming near him. The person that was coming his way seemed very hard to distinct, but he knew it was a female. The motion blur was still in his eyes, but he could sense more than when he was an android. Sometimes he had wished for the day he was back once again as a robot, than this pain of evil and good inside of himself that will forever torment him. But what could he do? He wanted it, and he slowly deserved this. For the good of all, and yet did something cruel and evil - like destroying Ichiro and Rei...
Jiro emptied out the thoughts of killing his own brothers, and decided to move on - move on with his new life. He could sense the woman was moving back, knowing she was afraid. Jiro tried to hold back the sadness and lonliness he was beginning to feel as he could hear the woman trying to avoid him. He couldn't blame her - why would she want to help a useless scrap of a once mad machine? But he kept crawling, his legs feeling weak and unsteady as he tried to walk. Suddenly feeling a bit of white in his eyes filled with motion blur, he saw the light of the city. The colorful bits of red, yellow, and green from the traffic lights, the beaming yellow letters of an advertisement. He now saw the woman, and the woman saw her...
All they could do was stare in one another's eyes.
***
"Dear God..." Mitsuko whispered beneath her breath, she could barely see anything what was in front of her but she heard the painful cries of a man in agony. She looked around the alley way figuring this wasn't the best place for a short cut, she started to take each step backwards from where she came from. *The man may be a serial killer.* Her eyes filled with fear and took each step backward at a slow pace.
"Take it easy, Mitsuko." she said to herself silently. Suddenly, she heard something being knocked over from the corner and started to quicken the pace of her steps a bit faster than before. Her face was getting sweaty now, tension in her legs feeling if they can't move anymore. She heard the man in pain and was wimpering a soft cry, sooner or later Mitsuko began to feel sorry for the man...
*Stop it! You have to get yourself out of this alleyway before you're killed!* she scolded. She dropped the whole intention of walking backwards at a slow pace and began to run quickly. She didn't turn back, but the man kept crawling barely even a whisper...he spoke.
"Wait...please...help...me," he said with an agony in his heart. Mitsuko didn't listen she kept running until she had to reach the metropolis - now.
The man tried the best he could to catch up with her - what the hell was he going to do to her?
Mitsuko took a deep breath, the damp air from the rain clogged her lungs and she began to cough to catch her breath, she turned around - soaking wet she looked over her shoulder slowly she saw the eyes of a young man she had once knew and loved. She gasped in shocked, feeling a bit startled at the site in front of her. He leaned against the brick wall - trying to catch his breath, clutching at the area where the heart is suppose to be. And with the sorrowful eyes she had remembered. She looked at him with an expressionless look on her face.
"Jiro?"
***
"Wait...please...help...me," he tried to catch up to her, but she seemed so afraid of him that she was running. By now the rain began to pour down steadily - his denims all soaked and wet, but he didn't give a damn. He wanted to be needed, and this female was avoiding him - honestly.
Jiro was about to give up hope as soon as he stumbled on the brick wall, the pain in his chest was beginning to fade yet took more time to catch his breath from being in pain for the past few hours.
"My...God..." he paused and he slowly noticed the woman turning around to face him. Struggling from the effects of the flinch of pain in his chest, his vision slowly turned crystal clear. He noticed a pair of brown sparkling eyes, a face so gentle he could cup her and he could gently see right through her - his memory began to haunt him. The promises, the kiss, everything he knew was directly in front of him. He opened his eyes a little bit wider, noticing a soft glow coming around the young woman.
*Those eyes, I've seen them before...they remind me of...*
"Mitsuko..." he looked at her all of a sudden the world seemed to pause on Jiro. Mitsuko was shocked, her eyes grew wide looking at Jiro with sadness and compassion.
"Jiro?" she looked at him once more, noticing the difference of him.
At last when Jiro took one more step towards her, he closed his eyes and collasped near her. With a gasp, Mitsuko leaned down and grabbed Jiro by the waist and gently took his left arm and enwrapped it around her shoulder for support. The rain continued to fall, but Mitsuko put being soaked all aside and decided she didn't care about being wet. Jiro was here...with her...As she tried to walk him to her apartment gently, she almost cried with happiness...
Jiro kept his promise that one day he will come back to her...
END PART TWO
A/N: Eh, this one was ok a bit short but hey anything just to get this idea out of my head. lol. I've got plenty of tricks up my sleaves and I'm not afraid to use them. ;)