Chapter 2
"I have to go," said Shuichi, standing up.
Both Sakano and K grabbed his shoulders and forced him back into his seat. "You aren't leaving without writing a song!!"
Shuichi struggled against them. "Yuki needs help!! I have a bad feeling about him!!"
"Nothing will happen to him!!" bark Suguru. "Now write that damn song!!"
"But I-"
"How about he starts to write a song," said Hiro. "Then we'll let him go?"
K let go of Shuichi. "Good idea!! Now get to work!!"
Shuichi gave Hiro a grateful smile before grabbing a pencil. At this point they wouldn't care what he wrote, just as long as he wrote something.
Yuki I'm coming, he thought as he started writing. I hope nothing is wrong, but I'm coming nonetheless!!
***
The woman started shaking with anger. "'Who am I'? You damn well know who I am!!"
Yuki stared blankly at her.
"It's me!! Mayumi!! I went out with you four years ago, you bastard!!"
Yuki thought about it before she finally came to memory. "Oh yeah. I only went out with you because you were great in bed. Still ugly, though."
Mayumi struck him in the face with her fist. It cut the inside of his cheek and blood filled his mouth.
"I don't see why you're so angry," continued Yuki, spitting out the blood. It hit the floor and he cursed himself for it. "You were only with me to get a part in that horrible soap opera."
"Two and a half years," sneered Mayumi, standing up. She started pacing. "I put everything into that role. I wasn't the prettiest girl, but I had better acting skills than those blonde sluts that had bigger roles than me. Two and a half fucking years!! I put my whole life into it!! And you know what happens?!"
"I don't really care," said Yuki, and immediately regretted it.
Mayumi picked up something next to her and swung it. It was a golf club, and Yuki had no doubts that that was the object she used to knock him out. She swung it as hard as she could, slamming it into his chest. Yuki couldn't help but wince as three of his ribs broke.
"I got fired!! My character, a single mother, was shot to death in the show!! My character was killed off to make room for another blonde slut with big boobs and no brain!!"
Yuki coughed up blood, struggling to get air. He knew he shouldn't agitate her any further, but the words slipped out of his mouth. "And this is somehow my fault?"
Mayumi swung it again, striking his ribs again. "They saw it!! That interview you gave six months ago!! How you said I wasn't a great actress!! It was YOUR influence that got me fired!!"
Yuki couldn't hold back a gasp of pain. He didn't know why but he kept talking. Inwardly he knew it was a defense mechanism to show he wasn't afraid. "I highly doubt that. Stop wasting your time on me and go after them if you must. I didn't tell them to fire you, so it's not my fault."
Mayumi raised the golf club again. "Shut up!! You had this coming, so don't try to talk yourself out of it!!"
Yuki winced as another blow came.
***
"Done!!" cried Shuichi, knowing the piece of paper into the air.
"Okay, you can go," said K.
"Thanks!! Bye, everyone!!" then Shuichi was gone.
Sakano grabbed the paper as it floated down. He started to read, then freaked out. "This is just scribbles!!! He didn't write anything!!"
Suguru rubbed his head. "I'm getting really sick of this..."
K brandished a loaded shotgun. "It's hunting season!!!"
Hiro shook his head. He knew Shuichi was worried about Yuki. It wasn't often he wrote nonsense and pass it off as a song.
I guess something is wrong, he thought. Well, whatever it is Shuichi will try to remedy it, though Yuki would probably stop him.
***
Shuichi ran as fast as he could towards Yuki's apartment. "Hang on, Yuki!! I'm coming!!"
***
"I can't even get any other acting jobs!!" fumed Mayumi. "I apply and they say that they don't have availability for me!!"
Yuki tried to glare at her through a swollen eye. "It's not my fault. The opinion of one writer does not have the power to influence television and movies. You're being delusional."
"Stop acting so high and mighty, you bastard!!" she raised the golf club again. "My mind is set!! My career is over, and it's certainly not my fault!!" she swung it down, striking Yuki in the head as hard as she could. Yuki fell to the floor, but she wasn't done. She raised it and hit him in the head again. "You ruined me!! So I'm going to make sure you won't have the mental capacity to write another novel!!" she continued to hit him in the head.
Yuki lay there through the haze of pain. The pain was becoming unbearable. He knew he was going to die, but he felt oddly calm about it. Then again, there's hardly been a time when he was fazed by anything.
He knew he had one regret, though. Because of his own arrogance, he could never tell that idiot how he felt about him. Now he wouldn't ever be able to tell him.
She stopped beating his head in, but the pain was still there. Before he black out he managed to choke out a single name.
"Shu...ichi..."
***
Shuichi stopped in his tracks. A horrible cold numbness spread throughout his body.
Something happened, he realized. Something worse than I had thought!!
He began to run faster, faster than he had ever run. He could feel that Yuki needed help.
"Hang on Yuki!!" he said through clenched teeth. "I'm almost there!!!"
After running for five minutes he finally saw Yuki's apartment, but he didn't stop. He had to see Yuki. He had to make sure he was all right...
As he reached the apartment building's door, he ran right into someone. The force of the collision caused them both to fall over.
"I-I'm sorry!!" gasped Shuichi, jumping to his feet to help the woman up. "I wasn't looking where I was going."
The woman forced a smile. She had black hair and was faintly pretty, but her face was too flat. "It's no problem. I'm in quite a hurry myself."
Shuichi nodded and started running past her. "Well, I gotta go!!"
He was so wrapped up he didn't see the smirk that crossed the woman's face before she left.
The elevator took too long so he started running up the side stairs. Fear was consuming him, sending him into near panic. After five minutes he finally reached the floor where Yuki's apartment was. He was out of breath and close to collapsing, but he couldn't stop. He bolted for Yuki's front door and twisted the knob. He was shocked to find it unlocked.
He pushed the door open and rushed inside. "Yuki?"
The smell of copper filled his senses and dread fill him. He knew it was the smell of blood, but he couldn't see anything. The apartment was completely dark.
"Yuki?" he called out again, his hands feeling for the light switch. They found it and flipped it. Light filled the room, nearly blinding him. His eyes scanned the main room. What he found tore a scream out of him.
Yuki lay motionless on the floor. His hands were bound behind his back. Blood covered his face, staining his blonde hair. A puddle of blood lay underneath his head, pooling out.
Shuichi ran to his side, tears spilling down his face. He was almost afraid to touch him. But his hand shot out to his neck, feeling for a pulse. It was faint, but it was there.
"Hang on Yuki!!" he choked out. He tore at his shirt, applying the pieces to his bleeding head. His other hand sought out his cell phone, and he dialed the emergency number. "Hello? I need an ambulance out here right now!! I came home and my lov...I found the guy I was staying with on the floor!! He's bleeding from his head and he's unconscious!!"
"Calm down!!" said the operator. "Stay by him. Give me the address of your location and we'll have an ambulance down there in no time."
Shuichi gave the operator the address for Yuki's apartment and hung up. He continued to apply pressure to Yuki's wounds.
"Just hang in there," he told him, tears still spilling from his face. "Help is coming."
The ambulance came a few minutes later. Shuichi watched as the loaded Yuki onto a stretcher. Never in his life had he ever felt so helpless.
"Are you a relative?" asked a paramedic.
"I'm his roommate," said Shuichi. He didn't know why he wasn't telling them that he was Yuki's lover.
"Do you know where we can contact family members?"
"I-I'll call one now," said Shuichi, pulling out his cell phone. He followed the paramedics as they went out of the apartment. He didn't know Mika or Tohma's numbers. He only knew one person in Yuki's family's number and Shuichi was grateful that he was in Tokyo.
"Tatsuha-san, you won't believe what happened!!"
"I have to go," said Shuichi, standing up.
Both Sakano and K grabbed his shoulders and forced him back into his seat. "You aren't leaving without writing a song!!"
Shuichi struggled against them. "Yuki needs help!! I have a bad feeling about him!!"
"Nothing will happen to him!!" bark Suguru. "Now write that damn song!!"
"But I-"
"How about he starts to write a song," said Hiro. "Then we'll let him go?"
K let go of Shuichi. "Good idea!! Now get to work!!"
Shuichi gave Hiro a grateful smile before grabbing a pencil. At this point they wouldn't care what he wrote, just as long as he wrote something.
Yuki I'm coming, he thought as he started writing. I hope nothing is wrong, but I'm coming nonetheless!!
***
The woman started shaking with anger. "'Who am I'? You damn well know who I am!!"
Yuki stared blankly at her.
"It's me!! Mayumi!! I went out with you four years ago, you bastard!!"
Yuki thought about it before she finally came to memory. "Oh yeah. I only went out with you because you were great in bed. Still ugly, though."
Mayumi struck him in the face with her fist. It cut the inside of his cheek and blood filled his mouth.
"I don't see why you're so angry," continued Yuki, spitting out the blood. It hit the floor and he cursed himself for it. "You were only with me to get a part in that horrible soap opera."
"Two and a half years," sneered Mayumi, standing up. She started pacing. "I put everything into that role. I wasn't the prettiest girl, but I had better acting skills than those blonde sluts that had bigger roles than me. Two and a half fucking years!! I put my whole life into it!! And you know what happens?!"
"I don't really care," said Yuki, and immediately regretted it.
Mayumi picked up something next to her and swung it. It was a golf club, and Yuki had no doubts that that was the object she used to knock him out. She swung it as hard as she could, slamming it into his chest. Yuki couldn't help but wince as three of his ribs broke.
"I got fired!! My character, a single mother, was shot to death in the show!! My character was killed off to make room for another blonde slut with big boobs and no brain!!"
Yuki coughed up blood, struggling to get air. He knew he shouldn't agitate her any further, but the words slipped out of his mouth. "And this is somehow my fault?"
Mayumi swung it again, striking his ribs again. "They saw it!! That interview you gave six months ago!! How you said I wasn't a great actress!! It was YOUR influence that got me fired!!"
Yuki couldn't hold back a gasp of pain. He didn't know why but he kept talking. Inwardly he knew it was a defense mechanism to show he wasn't afraid. "I highly doubt that. Stop wasting your time on me and go after them if you must. I didn't tell them to fire you, so it's not my fault."
Mayumi raised the golf club again. "Shut up!! You had this coming, so don't try to talk yourself out of it!!"
Yuki winced as another blow came.
***
"Done!!" cried Shuichi, knowing the piece of paper into the air.
"Okay, you can go," said K.
"Thanks!! Bye, everyone!!" then Shuichi was gone.
Sakano grabbed the paper as it floated down. He started to read, then freaked out. "This is just scribbles!!! He didn't write anything!!"
Suguru rubbed his head. "I'm getting really sick of this..."
K brandished a loaded shotgun. "It's hunting season!!!"
Hiro shook his head. He knew Shuichi was worried about Yuki. It wasn't often he wrote nonsense and pass it off as a song.
I guess something is wrong, he thought. Well, whatever it is Shuichi will try to remedy it, though Yuki would probably stop him.
***
Shuichi ran as fast as he could towards Yuki's apartment. "Hang on, Yuki!! I'm coming!!"
***
"I can't even get any other acting jobs!!" fumed Mayumi. "I apply and they say that they don't have availability for me!!"
Yuki tried to glare at her through a swollen eye. "It's not my fault. The opinion of one writer does not have the power to influence television and movies. You're being delusional."
"Stop acting so high and mighty, you bastard!!" she raised the golf club again. "My mind is set!! My career is over, and it's certainly not my fault!!" she swung it down, striking Yuki in the head as hard as she could. Yuki fell to the floor, but she wasn't done. She raised it and hit him in the head again. "You ruined me!! So I'm going to make sure you won't have the mental capacity to write another novel!!" she continued to hit him in the head.
Yuki lay there through the haze of pain. The pain was becoming unbearable. He knew he was going to die, but he felt oddly calm about it. Then again, there's hardly been a time when he was fazed by anything.
He knew he had one regret, though. Because of his own arrogance, he could never tell that idiot how he felt about him. Now he wouldn't ever be able to tell him.
She stopped beating his head in, but the pain was still there. Before he black out he managed to choke out a single name.
"Shu...ichi..."
***
Shuichi stopped in his tracks. A horrible cold numbness spread throughout his body.
Something happened, he realized. Something worse than I had thought!!
He began to run faster, faster than he had ever run. He could feel that Yuki needed help.
"Hang on Yuki!!" he said through clenched teeth. "I'm almost there!!!"
After running for five minutes he finally saw Yuki's apartment, but he didn't stop. He had to see Yuki. He had to make sure he was all right...
As he reached the apartment building's door, he ran right into someone. The force of the collision caused them both to fall over.
"I-I'm sorry!!" gasped Shuichi, jumping to his feet to help the woman up. "I wasn't looking where I was going."
The woman forced a smile. She had black hair and was faintly pretty, but her face was too flat. "It's no problem. I'm in quite a hurry myself."
Shuichi nodded and started running past her. "Well, I gotta go!!"
He was so wrapped up he didn't see the smirk that crossed the woman's face before she left.
The elevator took too long so he started running up the side stairs. Fear was consuming him, sending him into near panic. After five minutes he finally reached the floor where Yuki's apartment was. He was out of breath and close to collapsing, but he couldn't stop. He bolted for Yuki's front door and twisted the knob. He was shocked to find it unlocked.
He pushed the door open and rushed inside. "Yuki?"
The smell of copper filled his senses and dread fill him. He knew it was the smell of blood, but he couldn't see anything. The apartment was completely dark.
"Yuki?" he called out again, his hands feeling for the light switch. They found it and flipped it. Light filled the room, nearly blinding him. His eyes scanned the main room. What he found tore a scream out of him.
Yuki lay motionless on the floor. His hands were bound behind his back. Blood covered his face, staining his blonde hair. A puddle of blood lay underneath his head, pooling out.
Shuichi ran to his side, tears spilling down his face. He was almost afraid to touch him. But his hand shot out to his neck, feeling for a pulse. It was faint, but it was there.
"Hang on Yuki!!" he choked out. He tore at his shirt, applying the pieces to his bleeding head. His other hand sought out his cell phone, and he dialed the emergency number. "Hello? I need an ambulance out here right now!! I came home and my lov...I found the guy I was staying with on the floor!! He's bleeding from his head and he's unconscious!!"
"Calm down!!" said the operator. "Stay by him. Give me the address of your location and we'll have an ambulance down there in no time."
Shuichi gave the operator the address for Yuki's apartment and hung up. He continued to apply pressure to Yuki's wounds.
"Just hang in there," he told him, tears still spilling from his face. "Help is coming."
The ambulance came a few minutes later. Shuichi watched as the loaded Yuki onto a stretcher. Never in his life had he ever felt so helpless.
"Are you a relative?" asked a paramedic.
"I'm his roommate," said Shuichi. He didn't know why he wasn't telling them that he was Yuki's lover.
"Do you know where we can contact family members?"
"I-I'll call one now," said Shuichi, pulling out his cell phone. He followed the paramedics as they went out of the apartment. He didn't know Mika or Tohma's numbers. He only knew one person in Yuki's family's number and Shuichi was grateful that he was in Tokyo.
"Tatsuha-san, you won't believe what happened!!"
