Yami no Matsuei Pairing: Evreybody + Tsuzuki

Summary: The darkness inside Tsuzuki finally show his face then how would the other react on it? Which side of Tsuzuki will win in this battle? Or perhaps will he stay in unconsciousness endlessly?

((bla bla bla)) = Dark tsuzuki

"bla bla bla" = direct speech

In Italic = someone's thought

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Earlier before the Gensoukai's event, at Tsuzuki's apartment,

Knock Knock Knock

"Tsuzuki!"

Knock Knock

"Tsuzuki!! Are you there?"

Hisoka was peeved as he got no answer from his silly partner. His empath sensed nothing in there. Perhaps he's not here? But Hisoka shrugged and just grabbed to bolt, ready to open the door. As his fingers waves of unsettling emotions whirled right onto him which made him choked out of breathe and shocked to the most. Luckily he came with Tatsumi and Watari.

"Kid!!!" Watari quickly caught Hisoka before he could fall.

Hisoka's eyes widened in fear and shock as the waves of emotion kept assaulting him mercilessly. Those thick and impermeable darkness of emotion that looked like wanting to swallow him wholly.

"Kurosaki-kun! Get hold of yourself!"

Tatsumi's call was seemed too far to be heard at that moment as Hisoka savored the bitterness and the turmoil of Tsuzuki's unusual inner feeling that was seldom to be let loose like this. He could feel the darkness, the terrified heart, the battered soul even the pain of his suffering he could feel so vividly which made his breathe choked and he was unable to breathe.

"Kurosaki!!! Concentrate!! Block those emotions!!"

"Kurosaki!!"

Those simultaneous calls from both Tatsumi and Watari seemed to have their effect upon the young shinigami. Hisoka started to come back to his own bearing little by little and tried to concentrate hard to block all the feelings that assailed him. He then started to breathe again and shook his head to clear his vision.

"Kurosaki-kun…are you alright?"

"…hai…"

"You sure kid?"

"Yeah…something does happen to Tsuzuki."

Right after Hisoka finished his sentence, the door was opened and startled the three of them. The spoken shinigami was there, standing unsteadily as he was leaning heavily to the door. His clothes were messed up while his eyes were still evident of crying though there was no tear just the dried trail of the tear that had been shed.

"Tsuzuki!" Hisoka was first to break out from the surprise. The dark brown haired shinigami looked up and saw somebody standing in front of him. His eyes were unfocused for few moments then later he could see those images were his friends.

"…Soka-chan?……Tatsumi….Watari……?" A faint whisper escaped from his lips. The tone was weary and seemed like one who had been suffered for years. Then Tsuzuki's sight once again began to waver and he could not felt his own legs again as his knees started to buckle and he was falling.

"Tsuzuki!" Tatsumi quickly caught the falling brunette and examined that he was already passed out.

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Hisoka was sitting on a chair beside Tsuzuki who was appeared to be sleeping after given an injection of sedative to calm him and his mind. Tatsumi was standing, leaning on the wall just beside the bed in which Tsuzuki slept on.

A medical check up had been done to him but no illness was found and his bodily functions were all good. Thus it only left to the only option, it was a mental illness. But none of them knew what was the source of this mental burden. Though Tsuzuki might appear as one always happy easy-going person, he did bury lots of problems that were not so easy to be solved and what worse was Tsuzuki was not too talkative about his buried past. So in the end, what was bothering him now and none of them had any single clue.

Then the door burst opened, revealing a hurried Konoe Kacho along with worried Kannuki Wakaba with her partner, Terazuma Hajime along with them also the Goushousins brothers. Watari was with them as he was the one who told them the news as soon as they found Tsuzuki in his apartment.

"Tatsumi-san! How's Tsuzuki-san?" The chickens were sounded worried

"He's been unconscious for a while but the doctor said he's fine. No injuries found."

"Ah, that's a relief." Wakaba said as she let out a long relieved sigh.

"But what had happened to the baka?" As always Terazuma's old habit as a detective died hard and the ultimate question was asked.

"Tatsumi? Hisoka? Watari?" The chief eyed those shinigamis who were going to Tsuzuki's apartment and apparently they were the one who found him.

Hisoka said nothing while Watari shook his head and kept silent. So it was Tatsumi to explain things. Tatsumi sighed and went to push up his glasses, a gesture of his which showed that he was either irritated or disturbed.

"When we got there, we knocked and we got no answer. Then Kurosaki-kun felt something too strong that nearly choked his to death. For what it was, ask Kurosaki-kun. Then after that event, Tsuzuki came out and he just passed out."

"How's his apartment's condition? Any sign of being attacked?" Now that the arch-rival stated the forgotten question, Hisoka, Watari and Tatsumi looked each other.

Watari shook his head. "We just don't go inside. After Tsuzuki fell, we rushed to take him to medical center thus we didn't even check his apartment."

"But he's not injured so it means there was no one who attacked him."

"How can you sure about that eh, kid?" The ex-detective shinigami narrowed his eyes slightly as he glared toward Hisoka.

"But—" before Hisoka could finish his sentence, a faint whisper from the laying figure was heard. 

"…no…"

A quiet vague whisper escaped from the lips of the unconscious shinigami and drew all the attention to him. Though his eyes were closed but movements of the eye balls could be seen as if he was having a nightmare. Both Tatsumi and Hisoka who was the nearest to Tsuzuki realized this and quickly went to his side.

"Tsuzuki?"

Tsuzuki only stirred a bit but said nothing. His movement was quite evident now as now he was panting as if someone had blocked his air's supply. His chest was raising up and down quicker from time to time and he shook his head almost violently. Tears were streaming down to the slightly effeminate face, tainting its serenity and usually cheerful face.

"NO!!!…please no…leave me alone…No!!"

His voice was strangled and sounded desperate. He shook his head almost violently as his hands gripped the white sheet so hard and was enough to draw blood out, staining the pure white sheet.

((How ironic…look at yourself, Asato-chan…bound in such dark fate yet your friends warp you in pure white… yet you're not even a tiny bit as white as those sheets……))

"No!!! No…no…"

((Why deny it again Asato-chan…don't you understand? You can't escape from this fate and shortly you'll be mine…))

"Go away!!! Leave me alone!!!"

((Surrender to me…submit yourself to me Asato-chan…I'm your only savior…your only one salvation…))

"No!!! Tsuzuki!!!"

((Surrender…sweetly……I shall condemn you sins……))

"No…please don't…go…"

((Asato-chan…………surrender to me………))

"No…no…" Tears kept streaming down from the closed eyes as if they were rivers. His agonized voice faded at the time dark Tsuzuki stopped talking in his jumbled mind.  

Hisoka quickly grabbed Tsuzuki's upper arms and shook him quite rough in order to wake him up while Tatsumi and the rest of the room occupants only looked at him worriedly.

"Tsuzuki!! Tsuzuki!!"

After few times of shaking and yelling out his name, Tsuzuki's breathing rate started to lower down and he had stopped his struggles though tears were still flowing out from the closed eyelids. Hisoka released his grip and slowly laid him back down to the mattress. Just after he had laid back onto the mattress the closed eyelids started to flutter and it was opened a few seconds later, revealing those amethyst gems.

Tsuzuki blinked then after he had been used to the light, he turned and see his green-eyed partner, Hisoka and his ex-partner, Tatsumi. Both were standing beside him and relief was plastered all over their faces.

"Soka-chan?…Tatsumi?" his usually joyful and childish voice was merely a weary whisper now. It held none of his usual exuberant attitudes. He turned his head and saw more of them, "Kacho…Watari…Wakaba…he…"

"Tsuzuki, please don't strain yourself first…have a rest…"

Tsuzuki said nothing only let out a sigh as he turned his head to look out to the green scenery outside, the sakura tree and the EnmaCho building which could be seen from there. He stared for few minutes then he turned back to them who were just watching every movement of his carefully and worries invaded their mind again.

"Wakaba-chan can you ask Koujiro-san and Koutaro-san to call my shikis here? I want to speak them……"

"Ah hai, Tsuzuki-san, I'll call them immediately." With that Wakaba exited the room along with his partner.

Tsuzuki said nothing, he just gave a light nod. Then silence reigned into the room. The silence was far from comfortable as it was somewhat eerily consuming the soul from outside inside. None of them dared to talk about something just to break the silence as it was too unnerving added that none of them knew what to say or to ask. The silence however was broken by the rustle of the blanket as Tsuzuki tried to sit up on the mattress.

"Tsuzuki!" Hisoka's worried tone tried to stop his partner on sitting up. But Tsuzuki sat up anyway. He seemed fine now. He took a deep breathe and looked to his friends and colleagues as he offered one of his rare genuine smiles. 

"Gomen nasai, Hisoka-kun, Tatsumi-kun…Watari-kun too…Kacho…minna…gomen nasai……please forgive me of my stupidity…"

"Tsuzuki…" Tatsumi felt his heart constricted because the usual tone of his ex-partner whom he cared the most sounded too distant as if he was far far away from him, from Hisoka, from them…as if he was not here, not sitting on a bed in front of them but from a far land ahead.

Then after he had finished his last word, his breathe hitched and he gripped his heart tightly as his face contorted in pain and concentration. His mouth was opened as he panted. The rate was going faster and faster each second.

Hisoka quickly rushed to his side. "Tsuzuki?"

"Tsuzuki!" The other three of them approached the amethyst eyed shinigami.

Tsuzuki seemed not hearing those calls directed to him as once again he felt his mind was spinning and his soul was on the very edge of the bottomless cliff…hanging just by a thread. His other self was approaching him and he knew he could not stay any longer…he was already losing this battle since the first time it was started so now he could not prevent it again nor could he delay his loss any longer.

Still clutching his heart so hard till it was bleeding and stained his white yukata, Tsuzuki lifted his face up and smiled a sincere farewell smile.

"……sayonara……minna……" He was struggling hard to vocalize those words between his effort on breathing and yet to keep his smile though tears flowing down endlessly.

His violet eyes shone with sadness but in the same time it mixed with an ethereal beauty in which transfixed whoever that was looking right into him.

After that the eye's lids started to close, like a play that was finished and the curtain was drawn down, hiding those enticing violet orbs away from the world.

"Tsuzuki!"

The shout seemed too far as he collapsed onto his bed, as well as falling down from the very edge of the cliff into a dark bottomless ravine that was waiting for him. The darkness quickly swallowed him mercilessly for he was a prey on the clutch of his hunter, the darkness.

((Come to me………Asato-chan……))

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