Tsuyoshi in Iraq - The Cold Sweat
(Chapter II)
"Are you there? Naozumi Don't tell me you've too got..."
"Huh? What's wrong? I'm okay.... I'm right over here, Fuka "
Concerned Fuka ran up the flight stairs of her high rise apartment. She found the door to the main room open. Upon entry, she sees Naozumi covered in sheets of dark-colored blankets hiding under a large desk. A loud and blunt manly yell could be heard outside.
"Shut the door " said Naozumi.
Fuka closed it, turned around, and asked, "What has happened? You look like you're in some sort of shock."
"No, they're after me - the recruiters. It's quite a story, but I'll explain later." Naozumi crawled out under the desk to the window. He reached up to the blinds and pulled it down. Immediately, he switched the lights off, and it was almost pitch black. Slight light could be seen from under the room the door the main hallway. Another bright but small light could be seen at a corner. It was a flashlight Naozumi had turned on and held.
"Follow me," he directed.
"The army has gotten you, haven't they?"
"No, they found my neighbors - all of them, in this apartment, and they took them away from their wives and children. I was the only man left in this building because I have had hidden myself there very luckily." He pointed to a safe under the desk where he was at. Young Fuka looked under the table and she could almost see a metal casing that appeared to be almost concealed.
"The lock space is just my size. I didn't intend to use it as a safe veil, but anyways... Let's call up Akito.."
"No, he's been drafted. I'm sorry..."
"What about Tsuyoshi?"
"Him too, I'm afraid. Sana, Aya, and I are the only ones left except you."
"Alright, where's Sana and Aya? Home?"
Naozumi and Fuka started walking out towards the indoor parking lot in ground floor.
"Yes, at Sana's home. I'll drive us there..."
"No, I'll drive. You've done a lot of it recently this week."
"Hey I only drove once, and that was yesterday "
"No, the car you drove wasn't mine. That one was the Mercedes I borrowed from my manager. You drove my own Jaguar everyday earlier this week."
"It still doesn't matter whose car it is. I still drive as much as you do whenever we're together "
"Exactly " Naozumi exclaimed as he approached the grey sport Jaguar.
She grunted and said, "Whatever.. You're confusing me "
Naozumi chuckled for his shiny blue eyes was glancing at Fuka, but she had caught him. Fuka began to codify her thoughts when Naozumi's optics were inevitably sparkly. She couldn't face her eyes away from them. Substantially, both of the figures in the lot began nearing each other's faces. Their lips have almost met, until...
"Hey.. We've found one. Over there! Get him!" a dark brown-clothed figure said at the entrance of the lot.
"Get in, Fuka! Quick!" Naozumi panicked.
Fuka and Naozumi scrambled themselves into the vehicle. As soon as Naozumi was on the road, he accelerated the car at the figure with no hesitation.
"Look out " The officer squealed. He jumped to the curb and banged his head at the trash can near the guard post. He fell, but quickly got up and pointed a 357 magnum onto the back window of the speeding car.
"Ahhh " Fuka screamed in mercy. Several graphed shots were fired to the rear sending the car window glass shattering. Naozumi swerved to a deep right to the main street. A loud burning screech sounded off. His vehicle traveled straight for a mile before he finally stopped to the lights.
"Come here.. It's ok.." Naozumi gently hugged Fuka, who rested her head on his chest. He held tighter, and Naozumi could almost feel her teardrops coming out.
At Sana's house, nothing stirred in the night but crickets chirping and a few light-lamps being on. Aya was there making a few sandwiches for a trip Sana had planned to get on to the Tokyo military camp. Sana was on the couch in the living room daydreaming.
"Sana, it's us! Naozumi didn't get conscripted!" Fuka went in through the front door.
"Hey Fuka!" Sana jumped up to her feet and excited herself.
Naozumi sat outside in his driver seat waiting for a signal. Fuka waved her hands out, and Naozumi came in.
"Hi Sana, where's Akito and Tsuyoshi?"
"They've been drafted. I don't know where they are, but we could drive to the Tokyo camp to find out."
"Don't worry, I'll drive all of you girls to the center. They've probably got information about... Wait I can't go. I'll have to stay here. They'll notice me. I'm on their list "
Aya came out of the kitchen and carried with her a handbag in her hands. She paused and listened to the chat Sana and Naozumi were engaging. Fuka started talking to Aya.
"Aya, what is that in your bag?"
"Oh, I've made sandwiches incase anyone gets hungry on the way to the camp."
"I'm not sure if anyone will be hungry though. It's almost midnight."
"Tsuyoshi might if we can ever find him. One of the sandwiches I've made is special." Aya pulled out a breaded meal embedded with hard chocolate and melted marshmallows.
Naozumi continued, "Sana, there must be a way for me to get into that compound. I don't want any of your girls getting hurt without a man in charge."
"Oh, hmm. Wait here " Sana disappeared into a dark room at the back. The house started shaking. Moments later, she came back to the living room from what seems to be upstairs. In one arm, it looks as if she held a blue uniform. The other, she held a holster belt to which it had a small firearm in it. "Sir, try this on."
Naozumi stared at it, and his face analyzed the clothing. "Good idea." Fuka took him to change at the closet room while Sana waited.
Aya sat beside Sana on the couch.
"Sana, may I ask you what is the uniform for?"
"It will disguise Naozumi as a soldier, so no one notice he's still an innocent rookie yet to be taken by the government. Akito bought the whole set from a clothing shop of a museum. The gun that's in the holster is not real; it's just a toy he got on one of his birthdays."
"Oh, I see.." Aya said.
Sana was dropping her head for the first time in years staring at the living room table. "Akito.....", Sana whispered.
Sana looked back at Aya, who was sitting foward watching at nothing. Aya started thinking about Tsuyoshi. She had never been so silent these days ever since Tsuyoshi and she have gotten married. She visions him getting beaten up by the drafters. Drop by drop, her tears started pouring out of her eyes. "Please, not Tsuyoshi!"
"Aya, it's ok, we're in for this together. Don't cry."
Aya sniffed, got up, and swiped her face with a handkerchief in that was in the kitchen. "I know, it's just that it all happened too quick. We were just kids back then, but now things have changed."
A while after, everyone was at the Tokyo recruiting center. While the girls waited in the SUV van, Naozumi disguised as a soldier talking to a head council member in an office room.
"Please, sir I need to talk to Tsuyoshi and Akito. At least tell me where they are..."
"I'm sorry, but unless you have the yellow card, I cannot let you through our network computers. And shouldn't you be outside doing your duty at the front gate?"
"No, it's my break time sir."
The officer looked at his watch and wrinkled his eyes. "Uhh, no..."
"Well, my sergeant gave me a special time off."
"Really?" said the officer. He picked up a phone and dialed the gate sergeant.
Naozumi, upset, pulled out Akito's toy gun and pointed at him, who noticed.
"Do you want to shoot me? Please go ahead " The officer looked up at Naozumi and bellowed.
"Don't make me.." Naozumi responded, shaking his hands on the fake weapon. Outside, he could hear footsteps coming to the door behind him.
"Hello?" someone said.
"Rei? Is that you?" Naozumi said.
"Akito? Naozumi? Huh?"
"It's Naozumi for gosh sakes! I need some help!"
The officer was confused. He never heard of a employee called Naozumi. A tall figure came into the room. It was Rei and he was in his early 40's.
"What's going on here?" Rei asked.
"Rei, do you remember me? It's Naozumi "
"Oh, right.... I remember you. Of course I do!" Rei picked up Naozumi and brought him on his shoulders. He seemed to be hugging him.
"Uh.. ugh.. You're crushing me, sir..." Naozumi said gasping for air.
The officer at the desk expressed a shocking face. His head spun to which seemed like a baseball had slammed at his head at 200 miles per hour. He rolled over the chair, fell to the carpet, and was no more. Rei laughed as the high class member fainted on the ground.
Naozumi was astonished by Rei's intimate trick. Rei seemed to have grown stronger everyday. He couldn't believe his physical abilities to be able to lift adult humanoids onto the shoulders.
Rei sat down on the office chair while Naozumi explained, "Akito and Tsuyoshi were conscripted into the army, and I need your help. I don't think they are fully prepared for the war."
"I see what I'll can do. Meanwhile, do you need their locations?"
"Yes, please. Do you know how?"
"Come with me. You're in the wrong zone. This is the duty post office, not the radar control room."
Naozumi felt misplaced. He should have known better than to go to the head office. He knew Rei was an experienced belligerent of the army. Rei had told everyone that he wished to join the military someday, and for that, he pretty well did. Luckily, Rei did not have to go to war.
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"Are you there? Naozumi Don't tell me you've too got..."
"Huh? What's wrong? I'm okay.... I'm right over here, Fuka "
Concerned Fuka ran up the flight stairs of her high rise apartment. She found the door to the main room open. Upon entry, she sees Naozumi covered in sheets of dark-colored blankets hiding under a large desk. A loud and blunt manly yell could be heard outside.
"Shut the door " said Naozumi.
Fuka closed it, turned around, and asked, "What has happened? You look like you're in some sort of shock."
"No, they're after me - the recruiters. It's quite a story, but I'll explain later." Naozumi crawled out under the desk to the window. He reached up to the blinds and pulled it down. Immediately, he switched the lights off, and it was almost pitch black. Slight light could be seen from under the room the door the main hallway. Another bright but small light could be seen at a corner. It was a flashlight Naozumi had turned on and held.
"Follow me," he directed.
"The army has gotten you, haven't they?"
"No, they found my neighbors - all of them, in this apartment, and they took them away from their wives and children. I was the only man left in this building because I have had hidden myself there very luckily." He pointed to a safe under the desk where he was at. Young Fuka looked under the table and she could almost see a metal casing that appeared to be almost concealed.
"The lock space is just my size. I didn't intend to use it as a safe veil, but anyways... Let's call up Akito.."
"No, he's been drafted. I'm sorry..."
"What about Tsuyoshi?"
"Him too, I'm afraid. Sana, Aya, and I are the only ones left except you."
"Alright, where's Sana and Aya? Home?"
Naozumi and Fuka started walking out towards the indoor parking lot in ground floor.
"Yes, at Sana's home. I'll drive us there..."
"No, I'll drive. You've done a lot of it recently this week."
"Hey I only drove once, and that was yesterday "
"No, the car you drove wasn't mine. That one was the Mercedes I borrowed from my manager. You drove my own Jaguar everyday earlier this week."
"It still doesn't matter whose car it is. I still drive as much as you do whenever we're together "
"Exactly " Naozumi exclaimed as he approached the grey sport Jaguar.
She grunted and said, "Whatever.. You're confusing me "
Naozumi chuckled for his shiny blue eyes was glancing at Fuka, but she had caught him. Fuka began to codify her thoughts when Naozumi's optics were inevitably sparkly. She couldn't face her eyes away from them. Substantially, both of the figures in the lot began nearing each other's faces. Their lips have almost met, until...
"Hey.. We've found one. Over there! Get him!" a dark brown-clothed figure said at the entrance of the lot.
"Get in, Fuka! Quick!" Naozumi panicked.
Fuka and Naozumi scrambled themselves into the vehicle. As soon as Naozumi was on the road, he accelerated the car at the figure with no hesitation.
"Look out " The officer squealed. He jumped to the curb and banged his head at the trash can near the guard post. He fell, but quickly got up and pointed a 357 magnum onto the back window of the speeding car.
"Ahhh " Fuka screamed in mercy. Several graphed shots were fired to the rear sending the car window glass shattering. Naozumi swerved to a deep right to the main street. A loud burning screech sounded off. His vehicle traveled straight for a mile before he finally stopped to the lights.
"Come here.. It's ok.." Naozumi gently hugged Fuka, who rested her head on his chest. He held tighter, and Naozumi could almost feel her teardrops coming out.
At Sana's house, nothing stirred in the night but crickets chirping and a few light-lamps being on. Aya was there making a few sandwiches for a trip Sana had planned to get on to the Tokyo military camp. Sana was on the couch in the living room daydreaming.
"Sana, it's us! Naozumi didn't get conscripted!" Fuka went in through the front door.
"Hey Fuka!" Sana jumped up to her feet and excited herself.
Naozumi sat outside in his driver seat waiting for a signal. Fuka waved her hands out, and Naozumi came in.
"Hi Sana, where's Akito and Tsuyoshi?"
"They've been drafted. I don't know where they are, but we could drive to the Tokyo camp to find out."
"Don't worry, I'll drive all of you girls to the center. They've probably got information about... Wait I can't go. I'll have to stay here. They'll notice me. I'm on their list "
Aya came out of the kitchen and carried with her a handbag in her hands. She paused and listened to the chat Sana and Naozumi were engaging. Fuka started talking to Aya.
"Aya, what is that in your bag?"
"Oh, I've made sandwiches incase anyone gets hungry on the way to the camp."
"I'm not sure if anyone will be hungry though. It's almost midnight."
"Tsuyoshi might if we can ever find him. One of the sandwiches I've made is special." Aya pulled out a breaded meal embedded with hard chocolate and melted marshmallows.
Naozumi continued, "Sana, there must be a way for me to get into that compound. I don't want any of your girls getting hurt without a man in charge."
"Oh, hmm. Wait here " Sana disappeared into a dark room at the back. The house started shaking. Moments later, she came back to the living room from what seems to be upstairs. In one arm, it looks as if she held a blue uniform. The other, she held a holster belt to which it had a small firearm in it. "Sir, try this on."
Naozumi stared at it, and his face analyzed the clothing. "Good idea." Fuka took him to change at the closet room while Sana waited.
Aya sat beside Sana on the couch.
"Sana, may I ask you what is the uniform for?"
"It will disguise Naozumi as a soldier, so no one notice he's still an innocent rookie yet to be taken by the government. Akito bought the whole set from a clothing shop of a museum. The gun that's in the holster is not real; it's just a toy he got on one of his birthdays."
"Oh, I see.." Aya said.
Sana was dropping her head for the first time in years staring at the living room table. "Akito.....", Sana whispered.
Sana looked back at Aya, who was sitting foward watching at nothing. Aya started thinking about Tsuyoshi. She had never been so silent these days ever since Tsuyoshi and she have gotten married. She visions him getting beaten up by the drafters. Drop by drop, her tears started pouring out of her eyes. "Please, not Tsuyoshi!"
"Aya, it's ok, we're in for this together. Don't cry."
Aya sniffed, got up, and swiped her face with a handkerchief in that was in the kitchen. "I know, it's just that it all happened too quick. We were just kids back then, but now things have changed."
A while after, everyone was at the Tokyo recruiting center. While the girls waited in the SUV van, Naozumi disguised as a soldier talking to a head council member in an office room.
"Please, sir I need to talk to Tsuyoshi and Akito. At least tell me where they are..."
"I'm sorry, but unless you have the yellow card, I cannot let you through our network computers. And shouldn't you be outside doing your duty at the front gate?"
"No, it's my break time sir."
The officer looked at his watch and wrinkled his eyes. "Uhh, no..."
"Well, my sergeant gave me a special time off."
"Really?" said the officer. He picked up a phone and dialed the gate sergeant.
Naozumi, upset, pulled out Akito's toy gun and pointed at him, who noticed.
"Do you want to shoot me? Please go ahead " The officer looked up at Naozumi and bellowed.
"Don't make me.." Naozumi responded, shaking his hands on the fake weapon. Outside, he could hear footsteps coming to the door behind him.
"Hello?" someone said.
"Rei? Is that you?" Naozumi said.
"Akito? Naozumi? Huh?"
"It's Naozumi for gosh sakes! I need some help!"
The officer was confused. He never heard of a employee called Naozumi. A tall figure came into the room. It was Rei and he was in his early 40's.
"What's going on here?" Rei asked.
"Rei, do you remember me? It's Naozumi "
"Oh, right.... I remember you. Of course I do!" Rei picked up Naozumi and brought him on his shoulders. He seemed to be hugging him.
"Uh.. ugh.. You're crushing me, sir..." Naozumi said gasping for air.
The officer at the desk expressed a shocking face. His head spun to which seemed like a baseball had slammed at his head at 200 miles per hour. He rolled over the chair, fell to the carpet, and was no more. Rei laughed as the high class member fainted on the ground.
Naozumi was astonished by Rei's intimate trick. Rei seemed to have grown stronger everyday. He couldn't believe his physical abilities to be able to lift adult humanoids onto the shoulders.
Rei sat down on the office chair while Naozumi explained, "Akito and Tsuyoshi were conscripted into the army, and I need your help. I don't think they are fully prepared for the war."
"I see what I'll can do. Meanwhile, do you need their locations?"
"Yes, please. Do you know how?"
"Come with me. You're in the wrong zone. This is the duty post office, not the radar control room."
Naozumi felt misplaced. He should have known better than to go to the head office. He knew Rei was an experienced belligerent of the army. Rei had told everyone that he wished to join the military someday, and for that, he pretty well did. Luckily, Rei did not have to go to war.
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What will happen next? Find out in the next chapter! This author needs a total of 10 reviews to continue the storyline. (The creation of this series is dedicated to Tina.)
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