Chance By Fate
A/N: I am sooo unbelievably sorry for how long this has taken... ::sigh:: I've just been uberly uber busy, and unmotivated towards any of my fanfics... But I'll try and be more constant with my updates... Just keep pestering me if you want to see anything get done, cuz, yea, I'm on spring break this week. :D BTW, Nevyn, I fixed the errors.. And thank you sooo much for pointing them out to me… I thought I fixed them… ^^ Sankuu!
Chapter Three
That night I was haunted my images of that dead house and a frail boy with eyes that called out in a way that words couldn't possibly describe... Needless to say when my alarm clock went off the next morning I awoke startled and scared... I didn't need any more stress in my life, but... It didn't look like I'd been given much of a choice... Besides I wasn't going to fail two friends... Because that was what I wanted Shika to be. My friend.
Shika was late for class that day, I noted with apprehension... Why did I care so much? I mean after all, I was just supposed to help him get accustomed to the grade, not be his baby sitter or anything... Maybe I just cared about people to much.
When the pale boy finally did show up his pale ivory hair hung down into his eyes , covering most of his perfect face. He tried to slide into his seat unnoticed, but tripped over one of my notebooks I'd left on the ground to free up some of the space on the wooden desk that was mine for the hour. Shika landed in an awkwardly twisted position and the hair that hung in front of his eyes had flew away revealing long tear tracks and watery cerulean eyes. He looked a mess to put it frankly... And the whole class was staring... God, for someone like Shika that had to be the worst thing that could ever happen.
I stood up and offered him a hand up with he hesitantly took, using my strength to pull himself from the cold tile ground. When his feet had regained their position of being on the ground, Shika slipped into his desk, nervously pulling on his hair to cover the trails of water that lingered around the circles that looped under his eyes. That little action of self consciousness sparked an anger inside me that could not be stopped. Why would Shika be sobbing so early in the morning?
Shika didn't talk to me for the rest of the day. Not once did he meet my searching gaze or open that small mouth of his to answer my questions. And so I let it go, for the moment. And only for the moment. I wouldn't be so easily ignored after school where there were no teachers to tell me to stop interrupting their pointless lessons.
I didn't run into Shika for the rest of that day, nor the days after that. He was out of school for the week before he came back once again, looking a little better though the rings under his eyes had yet to vanish. But at least he was back, and looking better... But still I couldn't forget the way the watery lines that had run down his face had looked... It seemed frozen in my mind.
The day he came back I lost Shika during the masses of hungry kids waiting for lunch... There were way to many kids for be to be able to keep track of such a small boy even with his uncanny yet beautiful hair... Waitasec... Gah... Well he was pretty, in a feminine sort of way. Someone that needed a hero. But I wasn't going to think about that sort of thing. Shika knew where I ate lunch, so... He'd have to turn up eventually.
I grabbed my lunch taking a seat in between my friends Raine and Kiki, Yasuhiko's girlfriend... Just by looking at her face you could tell she was in a world of pain... I wondered what she would think if she knew that I had been there at the very moment that Yasuhiko had become comatose, even if it was in the game. It was a secret I'd kept from all my friends, that I had been there and that I continued to live in that virtual reality more than this one.
"Where's Shika?" Raine asked glancing around curiously. I merely shrugged, "I don't know.. I lost him in the crowd. He'll turn up though, I'm sure..." Even as I said those words I wasn't all that sure.. But I was hoping and that was something wasn't it?
"He was crying in first period on Monday," I confided, the words coming out suddenly, though I hadn't even thought about telling anyone... But it had escaped out of my lips, like a fire that needed to be spread. I was concerned although I had been repressing it. Shika had been part of our group and then vanished so suddenly... He'd been easily accepted, and I was decently sure that my small circle of friends were fond of him... So it would be okay if they knew, wouldn't it? After all, my whole class knew about it.
"Really?" Raine said, though she didn't seem that surprised. "My little sister used to be friends with him, a few months ago. I was asking about him... She says that he wasn't always like this, but he has been for the last few months... Ever since he broke off his friendship with Kaerir, this boy in his grade... He's been hassling him, and stuff..." Raine shrugged, sighing. "Maybe the kid said something that made Shika-chan brake down."
I blinked, slowly taking in all the information that my friend had just provided. I was surprised that Raine had more information on the boy than I had ever had access to in all the times I'd spent with him... And still he had yet to tell me anything about him... I nodded slowly, suddenly know that I needed to find Shika. He would have been here by now... And if he was being hassled... I had to do something about it. Not another friend was going to get in trouble if I could prevent it. Not again.
I scrambled up from the table startling my friends, and knocking over my Coke... Oh well, it wasn't important... They could clean it up if bothered them that much, I thought as I walked through the now deserted outdoor corridors of the school, looking for Shika, or that guy that was really beginning to irritate me... I wouldn't let Shika cry again.
As I walked around the corner, a flash of silver caught my attention and I twirled around, to find Shika and that boy, Kaerir, it had to be. "Please... Why don't you just leave me alone? I've done enough, won't you just stop?" Came Shika's frail voice that was obviously afraid.
The boy shook his head, a grin that was malice filled covering his lips, "These opportunities are just to convenient to let go of," He replied laughing.
"Fuck off," I hissed at the boy, walking steadily over to the two, and pushing the taller boy, so that his grip on Shika's wrists faltered. I wasn't one for cursing like that, but nonetheless, I was annoyed. No, that was an understatement. This kid was doing something to Shika, some sort of deal or something... And I wasn't going to let it go on anymore.
"What are you going to do about it? You don't even know the half of it, so stay the fuck out of it... Or wait, has Shika even told you? Told you about our little bargain, about his parents?" The boy's grin turned even crueler, if that was even possible... What could possess someone to try and hurt Shika, to turn him into this weak and self conscious being that he had become...
"I don't care about any of the circumstances. I just want you to leave him alone. There's nothing to justify the way you're harassing him," I said my tone cold and steady. I wasn't going to back down.
"Well, blackmail can be handy. Don't tell me you've never used it to get something you've wanted...? You can't be so perfect, that you wouldn't understand. He could go tell someone if he really wanted to..." Kaerir shrugged, my words obviously having no impact on him... It figured.
"I wouldn't do that. Don't you see what you're doing?" I demanded, my hands reaching out for Shika's and pulling him close to my side, to show that I wouldn't allow him to stay here.
This only seemed to amuse the boy further, "I knew I was right. You see he doesn't mind being that close to you... But you would have me to thank for that wouldn't you? Oh wait, that's right, Shika never told you. Wouldn't want you to think badly of him, or anything..."
"Shika..." I whispered, as he pulled on my hand, trying to get me to walk away... His eyes were watering again, though this time in pure sorrow... He knew what the boy was going to say, and he didn't want me to hear it.
"Please.. Kaerir.. I'll do whatever later... But... Can't you just leave Kite out of it? Just this once, please..." He was near sobbing now, showing the most emotion I had ever seen him display, in all the time I'd known him... He looked beautiful in his agony, his face so expressive and pleading...
"What? Are you worried he'll think you're a slut? Or maybe it'll ruin your friendship?" He laughed coldly, "But that can't be all you want after being with me... I mean he does have a certain attractiveness to him, wouldn't you say, Shika?"
I blinked, trying to put all of these things I'd heard together... God...
"You raped him, didn't you? For some secret, Shika never told... God..." I felt so numb like my body was frozen... Shika...
A/N: Reviewwww! And I'll update soon, cuz, I'm gonna be home allll weeeekkkk! :D
A/N: I am sooo unbelievably sorry for how long this has taken... ::sigh:: I've just been uberly uber busy, and unmotivated towards any of my fanfics... But I'll try and be more constant with my updates... Just keep pestering me if you want to see anything get done, cuz, yea, I'm on spring break this week. :D BTW, Nevyn, I fixed the errors.. And thank you sooo much for pointing them out to me… I thought I fixed them… ^^ Sankuu!
Chapter Three
That night I was haunted my images of that dead house and a frail boy with eyes that called out in a way that words couldn't possibly describe... Needless to say when my alarm clock went off the next morning I awoke startled and scared... I didn't need any more stress in my life, but... It didn't look like I'd been given much of a choice... Besides I wasn't going to fail two friends... Because that was what I wanted Shika to be. My friend.
Shika was late for class that day, I noted with apprehension... Why did I care so much? I mean after all, I was just supposed to help him get accustomed to the grade, not be his baby sitter or anything... Maybe I just cared about people to much.
When the pale boy finally did show up his pale ivory hair hung down into his eyes , covering most of his perfect face. He tried to slide into his seat unnoticed, but tripped over one of my notebooks I'd left on the ground to free up some of the space on the wooden desk that was mine for the hour. Shika landed in an awkwardly twisted position and the hair that hung in front of his eyes had flew away revealing long tear tracks and watery cerulean eyes. He looked a mess to put it frankly... And the whole class was staring... God, for someone like Shika that had to be the worst thing that could ever happen.
I stood up and offered him a hand up with he hesitantly took, using my strength to pull himself from the cold tile ground. When his feet had regained their position of being on the ground, Shika slipped into his desk, nervously pulling on his hair to cover the trails of water that lingered around the circles that looped under his eyes. That little action of self consciousness sparked an anger inside me that could not be stopped. Why would Shika be sobbing so early in the morning?
Shika didn't talk to me for the rest of the day. Not once did he meet my searching gaze or open that small mouth of his to answer my questions. And so I let it go, for the moment. And only for the moment. I wouldn't be so easily ignored after school where there were no teachers to tell me to stop interrupting their pointless lessons.
I didn't run into Shika for the rest of that day, nor the days after that. He was out of school for the week before he came back once again, looking a little better though the rings under his eyes had yet to vanish. But at least he was back, and looking better... But still I couldn't forget the way the watery lines that had run down his face had looked... It seemed frozen in my mind.
The day he came back I lost Shika during the masses of hungry kids waiting for lunch... There were way to many kids for be to be able to keep track of such a small boy even with his uncanny yet beautiful hair... Waitasec... Gah... Well he was pretty, in a feminine sort of way. Someone that needed a hero. But I wasn't going to think about that sort of thing. Shika knew where I ate lunch, so... He'd have to turn up eventually.
I grabbed my lunch taking a seat in between my friends Raine and Kiki, Yasuhiko's girlfriend... Just by looking at her face you could tell she was in a world of pain... I wondered what she would think if she knew that I had been there at the very moment that Yasuhiko had become comatose, even if it was in the game. It was a secret I'd kept from all my friends, that I had been there and that I continued to live in that virtual reality more than this one.
"Where's Shika?" Raine asked glancing around curiously. I merely shrugged, "I don't know.. I lost him in the crowd. He'll turn up though, I'm sure..." Even as I said those words I wasn't all that sure.. But I was hoping and that was something wasn't it?
"He was crying in first period on Monday," I confided, the words coming out suddenly, though I hadn't even thought about telling anyone... But it had escaped out of my lips, like a fire that needed to be spread. I was concerned although I had been repressing it. Shika had been part of our group and then vanished so suddenly... He'd been easily accepted, and I was decently sure that my small circle of friends were fond of him... So it would be okay if they knew, wouldn't it? After all, my whole class knew about it.
"Really?" Raine said, though she didn't seem that surprised. "My little sister used to be friends with him, a few months ago. I was asking about him... She says that he wasn't always like this, but he has been for the last few months... Ever since he broke off his friendship with Kaerir, this boy in his grade... He's been hassling him, and stuff..." Raine shrugged, sighing. "Maybe the kid said something that made Shika-chan brake down."
I blinked, slowly taking in all the information that my friend had just provided. I was surprised that Raine had more information on the boy than I had ever had access to in all the times I'd spent with him... And still he had yet to tell me anything about him... I nodded slowly, suddenly know that I needed to find Shika. He would have been here by now... And if he was being hassled... I had to do something about it. Not another friend was going to get in trouble if I could prevent it. Not again.
I scrambled up from the table startling my friends, and knocking over my Coke... Oh well, it wasn't important... They could clean it up if bothered them that much, I thought as I walked through the now deserted outdoor corridors of the school, looking for Shika, or that guy that was really beginning to irritate me... I wouldn't let Shika cry again.
As I walked around the corner, a flash of silver caught my attention and I twirled around, to find Shika and that boy, Kaerir, it had to be. "Please... Why don't you just leave me alone? I've done enough, won't you just stop?" Came Shika's frail voice that was obviously afraid.
The boy shook his head, a grin that was malice filled covering his lips, "These opportunities are just to convenient to let go of," He replied laughing.
"Fuck off," I hissed at the boy, walking steadily over to the two, and pushing the taller boy, so that his grip on Shika's wrists faltered. I wasn't one for cursing like that, but nonetheless, I was annoyed. No, that was an understatement. This kid was doing something to Shika, some sort of deal or something... And I wasn't going to let it go on anymore.
"What are you going to do about it? You don't even know the half of it, so stay the fuck out of it... Or wait, has Shika even told you? Told you about our little bargain, about his parents?" The boy's grin turned even crueler, if that was even possible... What could possess someone to try and hurt Shika, to turn him into this weak and self conscious being that he had become...
"I don't care about any of the circumstances. I just want you to leave him alone. There's nothing to justify the way you're harassing him," I said my tone cold and steady. I wasn't going to back down.
"Well, blackmail can be handy. Don't tell me you've never used it to get something you've wanted...? You can't be so perfect, that you wouldn't understand. He could go tell someone if he really wanted to..." Kaerir shrugged, my words obviously having no impact on him... It figured.
"I wouldn't do that. Don't you see what you're doing?" I demanded, my hands reaching out for Shika's and pulling him close to my side, to show that I wouldn't allow him to stay here.
This only seemed to amuse the boy further, "I knew I was right. You see he doesn't mind being that close to you... But you would have me to thank for that wouldn't you? Oh wait, that's right, Shika never told you. Wouldn't want you to think badly of him, or anything..."
"Shika..." I whispered, as he pulled on my hand, trying to get me to walk away... His eyes were watering again, though this time in pure sorrow... He knew what the boy was going to say, and he didn't want me to hear it.
"Please.. Kaerir.. I'll do whatever later... But... Can't you just leave Kite out of it? Just this once, please..." He was near sobbing now, showing the most emotion I had ever seen him display, in all the time I'd known him... He looked beautiful in his agony, his face so expressive and pleading...
"What? Are you worried he'll think you're a slut? Or maybe it'll ruin your friendship?" He laughed coldly, "But that can't be all you want after being with me... I mean he does have a certain attractiveness to him, wouldn't you say, Shika?"
I blinked, trying to put all of these things I'd heard together... God...
"You raped him, didn't you? For some secret, Shika never told... God..." I felt so numb like my body was frozen... Shika...
A/N: Reviewwww! And I'll update soon, cuz, I'm gonna be home allll weeeekkkk! :D