LOOK! Déjà vu!!
Really twisted déjà vu…
15 – The Second Flight
"Um… Aya?"
Aya looked up from his book and raised an eyebrow at the doorway. Even before when Ken was after him the same way he is with Omi now, Ken never came into his room unless it were utterly important. Either that or he had once again become insane. Such a pity because Ken seemed a whole lot better that morning and afternoon after Yoji had found him and Omi together.
Ken fidgeted a little, adjusting the collar of his shirt. "Ah, well, Aya… I was just… Well… I was wondering…"
The eyebrow remained raised, slightly motioning for Ken to spit it out already.
"Um. Have… have you seen Omi or Yoji anywhere? I can't find either of them."
Aya merely shook his head, and returned to his book.
Ken paled almost immediately, "Shit… Don't tell me he did it again!"
He ran for the stairs.
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"Thanks again, Yoji-kun. This… This means a lot to me."
"…… Actually, Omi… The reason I brought you here…… I… wanted to…… talk to you… about something…"
"Hm?"
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"A note," Ken mumbled to himself. "He left a note last time. Maybe…" he ran down further into their mission room. He looked at the computer, but there was nothing. The tables, the shelves, he even looked at the viewing screen. There was nothing.
"Where, where, where, where?!! Damnit!!" Ken ran back upstairs, searching through tables and chairs and shelves, shoving aside books, papers, tossing back pillows and other miscellaneous objects. Still there was nothing.
He stopped in the middle of the room, staring into nothingness for a moment. It took him another ten seconds before he yelled in complete frustration.
"SHIT!!"
"Ken…"
Ken finally looked up, and saw Aya had just come down. The redhead glanced around the room, suspecting that a typhoon had gone through, named Hidaka. He didn't say anything though, just sent Ken a warning glance.
"I'll… clean it up…" Ken tried to say. But Aya just raised an eyebrow in question.
"… Yoji and Omi are missing, Aya… I… I was thinking that Yoji must have taken Omi out so I was…"
Aya cut him off. "Yoji did what?"
"I… I said that Yoji must have taken Omi out! H-he did the same thing with y-…"
Ken stopped again. Violet eyes were flashing with something that he could not place. Suddenly, Aya looked pretty dangerous.
"……Ken, grab your coat."
"Aya?"
"We're going after them."
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"I… I don't know what… to say, Y-yoji-kun… I…"
"I'm sorry I brought it up, Omittchi… It's just… Well, it's been eating me up inside…"
"…It's… It's okay, Yoji-kun…" A weak smile lit up on the boy's face. "You don't have to apologize. I understand…"
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Aya came out of the umpteenth restaurant that night… the last one that he knew Yoji would go to in that area. With an angered growl, he got back into his car and slammed the door.
Ken's eyes were bugging out of his head. "Well?!!"
"…… They're not in there either…"
"Damnit, Aya!! Where the hell are they??!"
Aya shook his head.
Ken pulled back his fist and hit the dashboard hard. "SHIT!!"
Aya raised an eyebrow, sending a warning glance at Ken. Ken just growled and put his arm down. "Sorry……" he looked back up at Aya. "There are other places right?? What if… Yoji brought Omi to a bar? Or to the park? Hell, there could be a carnival in town!"
"Ken…"
Ken turned and practically screamed. "Don't you fucking 'Ken!' me, Aya!! I'm not going back until we find them!! And I'm damned sure you want to find those two as much as I do!!"
Aya was silent, thinking to himself. Finally, he started up the car again and put it into drive.
"Aya?" Ken asked, trying his best to calm down… Not very well succeeding.
"There's a bar Yoji likes to go to two blocks from here…"
"…… Thanks, Aya…"
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"… Omi… What are you going to do about this?"
"… Don't worry, Yoji-kun. I know exactly what I have to do."
Green eyes widened, "You mean?"
"… Hai…"
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Ken and Aya were still quite unsuccessful. There was only one last remaining park in the area. Ken was hoping beyond everything that Aya could find them there. He was blowing warm air into his hands when he heard the car door slam shut once again. He glanced upward, watching as Aya sat beside him.
"So?"
Aya shook his head.
"Shit!! Aya!! Where the fuck else could they be??!!"
That was the fifteenth time you said that tonight, baka. As if you were helping… Aya didn't know what to answer him at first, which was not good because Ken looked ready to rip out his hair. The redhead just glared at him, How do you think I feel, you baka? Yoji could be off molesting Omi by now…
That's when it hit him.
"Ken…"
"What??" Ken grumbled irritably.
Keep that tone, and I'll kick you out of the car to fend for yourself. But that wasn't what Aya said. Instead, he asked slowly, "Where does Yoji bring his dates?"
A loud snort. "The same place everyone does! Bars, restaurants, parks…"
"And after?"
The soccer player thought for a while.
He paled.
"No… No way… Yoji couldn't have brought Omi to… NO! Omi wouldn't let him!!"
Aya nodded, trying to hide the fact that he was gritting his teeth. "Where's the nearest hotel?"
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"Omi… are you sure about this?"
"Yoji-kun… You don't have to worry about me…"
Yoji ran a hand through his hair, "But Omi… I just… well…"
"Hai, Yoji-kun?"
A sad sigh.
"I just don't want you to end up regretting anything."
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"Thank you, again."
Aya turned around and headed back out of the lobby. He exited the hotel with a frustrated groan before returning into the car.
He sat there for a few moments, waiting for Ken to burst out yelling again.
When Ken didn't, he sighed and said aloud and abrupt. "They're not there… There's another one not too far from here."
There was no response. Aya looked up to see what Ken was doing this time.
Nothing….
Ken was doing absolutely nothing…
He was staring out into the open in front of him, just… watching…
"Ken?"
"……… He doesn't want me…"
Aya stared at him. Ken was barely shaking his head, still staring off.
"He'll never want me…" Ken whispered again. "Just friends. That's it."
Were those tears in his eyes? Nah… It couldn't be…
"Ken…" Aya said sternly.
"Don't you see Aya??" Ken shook his head. "He picked Yoji. That's what this morning was all about. Omi doesn't want me to touch him that way or think of him as anything else…"
Ken looked away, trying to hide the fact that he was crying, even though Aya already knew that he was. "I'm his friend… That's all… I'm never gonna be anything more with him… no matter how much I want to be…"
"Ken," Aya sighed. "This is the potion talking…"
"Aya…"
Ken looked up at him through tears, and yet the look on his face was serious. His voice was just a whisper as he spoke.
"…………What if it isn't?"
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"Omi… Won't it hurt?"
"…… I… I know… But…" a very weak smile, "It's… It's all gonna be better in the end, nee?"
"Omi……"
"Y-yoji-kun… Stop talking me out of it…… This is what I want."
"……… All right then. If you say so, Omittchi…"
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Aya leaned back with a groan. He was exhausted. Not to mention totally pissed. He had been to practically every place on the district and there was no sign of Omi or Yoji. And Ken wasn't being much help either, at first screaming at him every time he came into the car and now this unnatural silence.
He looked beside him. Ken still hadn't moved. Not since that strange cry session he had. Not since he had said those strange words.
"What if it isn't?"
Aya shook it out of his head. He was still determined to find them. He put the car into drive and kept going.
"Ken, where next?"
No response at all, not even a peep.
Aya was getting fed up with this. He didn't know which one he hated more… the hysterical, screaming Ken before, or this uncharacteristically quiet one.
I should've kicked him out two blocks back.
Still, he decided to give Ken one last chance. He slammed his foot into the brake on the next hotel that he found and turned to Ken. "Oi. Ken. Go in there and see if they checked in."
Still nothing. Ken didn't even flinch. In fact, he seemed to not have heard at all.
"Baka. Are you listening to me or do I have to kick you out?"
Silence.
That did it.
Aya promptly leaned over, opened the door, pulled up a leg, kicked Ken out of his car, slammed the door shut again and drove off.
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"Shhh… Omi… It's all right… You said so yourself, nee? It's all gonna be better in the end… It's going to be fine…"
There was no response at first, just silent sobbing and whimpering.
"Shhhhh….. It's okay… Don't worry… I'll make it better for you…"
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Aya parked in front of the last hotel that night. If they weren't in here, he definitely didn't know where else to look.
He got out of the car and looked up.
He got into the hotel.
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Okay… here's the thing… I am holding the next chapter hostage until Aphrael updates When in Rome… When I see a new chapter for that and find it worthy, I will upload the next chapter for this…
……………I'm still trying to decide if this is a joke or not…
…… Probably is and I'm just finding an excuse for my mental block for the next chapter…
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