"You got five minutes."
Suguru nearly flipped when he was able to make progress in seeing Hiro. Five minutes wasn't nearly enough time, but he was still grateful. Hiro was in the same exact cell as before. When Suguru saw notice of him, his heart sank. It was no surprise that Hiro had completely given up on life, for as far as everyone knew, he would view his last sunset tonight.
He looked up quickly as the bar door was being unlatched and wiped his eyes quickly to hide the fact that he had been crying the whole time.
When Suguru came into view, his eyes went completely enormous and had trouble getting to his feet.
"How...why are you here?" he asked in a small voice as the guard left, but was also watching from a safe, unknown distance.
"Because I want to be," Suguru responded in an identical voice. "Hiro..."
Suguru placed his hand on Hiro's warm cheek. Hiro leaned into his touch and closed his eyes, trying to visualize themselves elsewhere.
"Just give up on me. I have no fight left. I'm weak, I'm tired, and I just want to end it all."
Suguru's heart bounced up into his throat at the words he heard from his lover.
"I don't ever want to hear that again, Hiro. I'll get you out even if I have to do it myself."
Hiro lowered his head. "Yeah right. What are you going to do, start a fire in the guard's room?"
Suguru gave him a tiny smile. "You just read my mind."
He threw his arms around Hiro to kiss him, but at the same time, slipped a set of matches into his pocket, sneaking past the guard's eyes.
"What do I do with those?"
"When we were talking in the room back at NG, trying to think of Tachi's accomplice, Ma-kun thought of it. His girlfriend I guess is a perfume freak, so she gets the really expensive stuff." He exposed the bottle. "And also the flammable stuff. I'll leak some out while I'm leaving, then when I'm gone, light it."
This idea was so incredibly asinine that even Hiro in his state had to laugh.
"Easy for you to say. What are you planning on doing, blowing me up with it?"
Suguru gave him a cross look.
"If they catch me, I'll be in here even longer!"
"You're not dying in here. We're getting out. We're leaving and moving out of this country and getting away from all this. Do you hear me?"
Hiro took one last look at his beloved, then kissed him most passionately. He closed his eyes and took in the wonderful warm feeling of his partner's mouth.
He sighed contently.
"Then we can have that candles and jacuzzi wish," Suguru said in a bit of a trance.
"Can't wait," Hiro said, brushing just his fingertips lovingly across Suguru's face.
"Yo, time's up. You're out of here."
Suguru closed his eyes and whispered a short, silent prayer before he turned around to leave. His stomach tightened. This plan was lame, but it had to work, it just HAD to!
The guard left first, expecting Suguru to follow. Suguru tapped the bottle against the wall a few times to release the top, giving Hiro a mental goodbye kiss, then let out one last breath of air before emptying the bottle's contents onto the ground as he left the cell area. Hiro watched from the front. Suguru managed to empty the whole bottle all the way around the room. Then suddenly, thought of something. Just how was Suguru going to get back into the room to get him out and how would he unlock the door? Hiro closed his eyes with a sigh. Guess it was too good to be true.
"Do it!"
Hiro whipped his head around to the tiny window in his cell. Suguru could be seen as clear as day.
"Use all of them!"
Hiro sucked back a breath of air and hated more than anything to do this, but more importantly, thought of succession. If this worked out, he could be with Suguru again and try to be happy.
Releasing the breath out of his lungs, he lit the first couple matches and threw it on the tiny puddle on the ground. Simultaneously, the perfume caught fire and burnt the rest of the trail like gasoline. It wasn't long before the other inmates caught notice of this and started wailing. Hiro did as instructed and threw the rest of the matches onto the flames, making him innocent of this.
What he didn't expect was the fire to spread so quickly. Before he knew it, the flames were coming up to his bar door, losing any hopes of him to escape and any hopes of Suguru being able to come back in here alive. He was finished, and so was his hope of survival.
"Hiroshi, hurry!" called a not so familiar voice from the window.
Hiro spun around to notice Ma-kun in the window, throwing down something so he could drag Hiro up and out of the room. During this short time, he had also managed to remove the thick bars that blocked the window.
Smiling to himself, Hiro grabbed the rope and had to do no work as they dragged him up the concrete wall and to the tiny window to squeeze him out. When he got up to the top, a pair of three hands gripped onto his arms to pull him out of the narrow window. Quickly taking notice, it was Suguru, Ken-chan, and Ma-kun who were his hero's of the day.
They didn't bother exchanging any words until they were out of sight. Ma-kun replaced the bars that were taken out of the windows with ease and ran off with the three just as the fire trucks had been heard. This was it. Freedom or failure. It could be either one.
"Ma-kun, hurry up!" Ken shouted with worry as Ma-kun was being held up for some reason. Soon, they all quickly discovered what it was he was fretting about. Before they could confirm it, Ma-kun had run back to grab the rope that they had forgotten in their time of haste.
When Ma-kun had made his way back there, the other three were able to duck into a hideaway for the time being, and still were able to view Ma-kun. Ken was a bundle of nerves as he watched his friend, silently praying he could get back without being seen.
Ma-kun wasted no more time. He ran faster than he ever had in his life when the sirens were coming so close now that his ears started bleeding. Making space for him in the tiny tunnel, Ma-kun took a running dive and slid into home base, panting.
"Thanks so much, Ma-kun," Suguru breathed, not wasting any time in hugging onto Hiro, and trying to prevent himself from having a heart attack. "Thank you."
"I owed you," he whispered, trying to catch his breath at a quick rate. "And besides that, I wanted to. I've always liked you guys, it was Tachi that didn't."
Everyone silently agreed. But it was no time to be celebrating, for they quickly got wind of their escapee. Hiro's heart pounded audibly in his chest, allowing the walls to echo.
"There has to be a way out in the back of this thing," Suguru whispered in an incredibly low voice.
Ma-kun made that assumption true by sliding further in and went down far enough so he could stand on his feet.
"Can you see anything?" Ken asked.
Ma-kun felt the area with his hands, unable to see a thing, but felt something beneath the concrete wall; something that could be big enough to fit them through.
"Looks like we have to crawl out of here," Ma-kun said. "But it's even smaller. We'll have to go one by one. I'll go first. Ken, go last."
He helped the next person down off the ledge, which was Hiro. He took Hiro's hand and allowed him to feel the small entrance of the duct, telling him where it was, since they couldn't see a thing.
"After I get through, come shortly after me, then Suguru, then Ken. We have to do this quickly."
"But Ma-kun, you don't know what's in there!" Hiro said in a concerned voice.
"We'll just have to wing it," he said, then ducked, preparing to crawl. Hiro knelt down and felt the back of Ma-kun's legs as he crawled through. When Hiro couldn't feel him any more, he stood back up and helped Suguru down. Suguru wasted no time in wrapping his arms around Hiro. It was no surprise of this action.
"Hiro, I want to go next," Suguru whispered.
"No. You need to stay behind. I'll be fine. Don't worry."
Suguru's grip got tighter. "But...we don't know what's in there! For all we know, it could lead us right back into the jail!"
Hiro just smiled and caressed Suguru's cheek in the pitch dark. "Don't worry. We'll see each other on the other side."
Suguru nodded reluctantly. "Okay," he breathed.
Hiro knelt down and followed Ma-kun's path. He tried to go a little quicker so he could catch up with him. It wasn't long before Suguru and Ken-chan followed in after them. The two stuck together, working through as a team. Hiro was having a hard time finding Ma-kun. No sounds could be heard from the front, only from the back.
"Ma-kun!" Hiro whispered, going a tad bit faster, but found himself making no progress in finding their hero. Hiro went as fast as he could without making a sound.
He started getting worried. The tunnel was going further and further on and no sign of Ma-kun anywhere. He gave it a try once more calling out for him, and to his surprise, he was grabbed by the leg and dragged into a different direction. With a yelp, he struggled to resist, but the force was too great.
"Shhh!" Ma-kun's voice said from behind him, putting a hand over his mouth so he couldn't yell out. "I found a way out, but we have to be silent, okay?"
Hiro nodded. Ma-kun removed his hand and waited for the others to come this way.
And so they all did, one by one, being dragged in here just like Hiro did, and being told the same thing. Hiro took a hold of Suguru while Ma-kun took a hold of Ken.
"Are you okay?" Hiro asked Suguru, able to see him now with the available light.
Suguru just nodded. Hiro could see how scared he was, just by looking into his eyes alone. Hiro just smiled, trying to take that fear out of his eyes and throwing it away. He placed a small kill on the boy's tiny cheek.
"You scared?" he asked in a low voice.
Suguru didn't lie; he was as scared as everyone down here.
"You don't need to be nervous, okay? We'll get out of here," he soothed, brushing a single knuckle against Suguru's soft facial skin. "And when we do, we'll be together."
Suguru only prayed then and there that they would get out of this mess.
Ma-kun was the first to break them out of their little world. There was a door to the warehouse they were in that lead to the outside, down the road from where the jail was.
"Shouldn't we wait?" Suguru asked, still hearing the sirens from a distance.
"Better yet, shouldn't we hide out in the pipe until they leave?"
Ma-kun just smiled. "No need. They won't come down this way. It's a one-way street, see?" he said, pointing to the street sign.
"They're cops, they can do anything they want," Suguru said wryly.
"If you doubt me, we can wait," Ma-kun said, walking around slowly, picking up a few pebbles and throwing them against the wall with nothing better to do.
"We could be waiting a while though," Ken-chan said, standing up against the wall and shoving his hands in his pockets.
"I'm not endangering Hiro's life any further if there's no need for it," Suguru said, stepping forth into this conversation, wrapping his hand tightly around Hiro's. "We wait."
The hairs on the back of Hiro's neck stood stiff. Suguru had a slight drop of venom in his voice. Why he sounded so cold all of a sudden was beyond him.
"If we stay here though, we're most likely to get caught," Ma-kun added. "There's no doubt that they will check every square inch of the place until they have nowhere left to search. We can't stay here very long. Is there anywhere else you two can go?"
Hiro and Fujisaki exchanged glances. They couldn't go back to his home, that's the first place they'd start looking after they found out his body was not among those who burnt to death in the jail cell. They most certainly couldn't go to Suguru's house. Heaven forbid that one. They couldn't go to Mika's. Her and Suguru's parents would be the first to turn them in. NG studios was probably under watch as well. Ryuichi and Noriko were probably looking for them with the cops; K was quite unpredictable on where he would be and if he believed Hiro, so he was out of the question. There was only one other place they both could think of. A place that might not be safe, but they would make a try for it.
"Shuichi's and Yuki's."
Suguru nearly flipped when he was able to make progress in seeing Hiro. Five minutes wasn't nearly enough time, but he was still grateful. Hiro was in the same exact cell as before. When Suguru saw notice of him, his heart sank. It was no surprise that Hiro had completely given up on life, for as far as everyone knew, he would view his last sunset tonight.
He looked up quickly as the bar door was being unlatched and wiped his eyes quickly to hide the fact that he had been crying the whole time.
When Suguru came into view, his eyes went completely enormous and had trouble getting to his feet.
"How...why are you here?" he asked in a small voice as the guard left, but was also watching from a safe, unknown distance.
"Because I want to be," Suguru responded in an identical voice. "Hiro..."
Suguru placed his hand on Hiro's warm cheek. Hiro leaned into his touch and closed his eyes, trying to visualize themselves elsewhere.
"Just give up on me. I have no fight left. I'm weak, I'm tired, and I just want to end it all."
Suguru's heart bounced up into his throat at the words he heard from his lover.
"I don't ever want to hear that again, Hiro. I'll get you out even if I have to do it myself."
Hiro lowered his head. "Yeah right. What are you going to do, start a fire in the guard's room?"
Suguru gave him a tiny smile. "You just read my mind."
He threw his arms around Hiro to kiss him, but at the same time, slipped a set of matches into his pocket, sneaking past the guard's eyes.
"What do I do with those?"
"When we were talking in the room back at NG, trying to think of Tachi's accomplice, Ma-kun thought of it. His girlfriend I guess is a perfume freak, so she gets the really expensive stuff." He exposed the bottle. "And also the flammable stuff. I'll leak some out while I'm leaving, then when I'm gone, light it."
This idea was so incredibly asinine that even Hiro in his state had to laugh.
"Easy for you to say. What are you planning on doing, blowing me up with it?"
Suguru gave him a cross look.
"If they catch me, I'll be in here even longer!"
"You're not dying in here. We're getting out. We're leaving and moving out of this country and getting away from all this. Do you hear me?"
Hiro took one last look at his beloved, then kissed him most passionately. He closed his eyes and took in the wonderful warm feeling of his partner's mouth.
He sighed contently.
"Then we can have that candles and jacuzzi wish," Suguru said in a bit of a trance.
"Can't wait," Hiro said, brushing just his fingertips lovingly across Suguru's face.
"Yo, time's up. You're out of here."
Suguru closed his eyes and whispered a short, silent prayer before he turned around to leave. His stomach tightened. This plan was lame, but it had to work, it just HAD to!
The guard left first, expecting Suguru to follow. Suguru tapped the bottle against the wall a few times to release the top, giving Hiro a mental goodbye kiss, then let out one last breath of air before emptying the bottle's contents onto the ground as he left the cell area. Hiro watched from the front. Suguru managed to empty the whole bottle all the way around the room. Then suddenly, thought of something. Just how was Suguru going to get back into the room to get him out and how would he unlock the door? Hiro closed his eyes with a sigh. Guess it was too good to be true.
"Do it!"
Hiro whipped his head around to the tiny window in his cell. Suguru could be seen as clear as day.
"Use all of them!"
Hiro sucked back a breath of air and hated more than anything to do this, but more importantly, thought of succession. If this worked out, he could be with Suguru again and try to be happy.
Releasing the breath out of his lungs, he lit the first couple matches and threw it on the tiny puddle on the ground. Simultaneously, the perfume caught fire and burnt the rest of the trail like gasoline. It wasn't long before the other inmates caught notice of this and started wailing. Hiro did as instructed and threw the rest of the matches onto the flames, making him innocent of this.
What he didn't expect was the fire to spread so quickly. Before he knew it, the flames were coming up to his bar door, losing any hopes of him to escape and any hopes of Suguru being able to come back in here alive. He was finished, and so was his hope of survival.
"Hiroshi, hurry!" called a not so familiar voice from the window.
Hiro spun around to notice Ma-kun in the window, throwing down something so he could drag Hiro up and out of the room. During this short time, he had also managed to remove the thick bars that blocked the window.
Smiling to himself, Hiro grabbed the rope and had to do no work as they dragged him up the concrete wall and to the tiny window to squeeze him out. When he got up to the top, a pair of three hands gripped onto his arms to pull him out of the narrow window. Quickly taking notice, it was Suguru, Ken-chan, and Ma-kun who were his hero's of the day.
They didn't bother exchanging any words until they were out of sight. Ma-kun replaced the bars that were taken out of the windows with ease and ran off with the three just as the fire trucks had been heard. This was it. Freedom or failure. It could be either one.
"Ma-kun, hurry up!" Ken shouted with worry as Ma-kun was being held up for some reason. Soon, they all quickly discovered what it was he was fretting about. Before they could confirm it, Ma-kun had run back to grab the rope that they had forgotten in their time of haste.
When Ma-kun had made his way back there, the other three were able to duck into a hideaway for the time being, and still were able to view Ma-kun. Ken was a bundle of nerves as he watched his friend, silently praying he could get back without being seen.
Ma-kun wasted no more time. He ran faster than he ever had in his life when the sirens were coming so close now that his ears started bleeding. Making space for him in the tiny tunnel, Ma-kun took a running dive and slid into home base, panting.
"Thanks so much, Ma-kun," Suguru breathed, not wasting any time in hugging onto Hiro, and trying to prevent himself from having a heart attack. "Thank you."
"I owed you," he whispered, trying to catch his breath at a quick rate. "And besides that, I wanted to. I've always liked you guys, it was Tachi that didn't."
Everyone silently agreed. But it was no time to be celebrating, for they quickly got wind of their escapee. Hiro's heart pounded audibly in his chest, allowing the walls to echo.
"There has to be a way out in the back of this thing," Suguru whispered in an incredibly low voice.
Ma-kun made that assumption true by sliding further in and went down far enough so he could stand on his feet.
"Can you see anything?" Ken asked.
Ma-kun felt the area with his hands, unable to see a thing, but felt something beneath the concrete wall; something that could be big enough to fit them through.
"Looks like we have to crawl out of here," Ma-kun said. "But it's even smaller. We'll have to go one by one. I'll go first. Ken, go last."
He helped the next person down off the ledge, which was Hiro. He took Hiro's hand and allowed him to feel the small entrance of the duct, telling him where it was, since they couldn't see a thing.
"After I get through, come shortly after me, then Suguru, then Ken. We have to do this quickly."
"But Ma-kun, you don't know what's in there!" Hiro said in a concerned voice.
"We'll just have to wing it," he said, then ducked, preparing to crawl. Hiro knelt down and felt the back of Ma-kun's legs as he crawled through. When Hiro couldn't feel him any more, he stood back up and helped Suguru down. Suguru wasted no time in wrapping his arms around Hiro. It was no surprise of this action.
"Hiro, I want to go next," Suguru whispered.
"No. You need to stay behind. I'll be fine. Don't worry."
Suguru's grip got tighter. "But...we don't know what's in there! For all we know, it could lead us right back into the jail!"
Hiro just smiled and caressed Suguru's cheek in the pitch dark. "Don't worry. We'll see each other on the other side."
Suguru nodded reluctantly. "Okay," he breathed.
Hiro knelt down and followed Ma-kun's path. He tried to go a little quicker so he could catch up with him. It wasn't long before Suguru and Ken-chan followed in after them. The two stuck together, working through as a team. Hiro was having a hard time finding Ma-kun. No sounds could be heard from the front, only from the back.
"Ma-kun!" Hiro whispered, going a tad bit faster, but found himself making no progress in finding their hero. Hiro went as fast as he could without making a sound.
He started getting worried. The tunnel was going further and further on and no sign of Ma-kun anywhere. He gave it a try once more calling out for him, and to his surprise, he was grabbed by the leg and dragged into a different direction. With a yelp, he struggled to resist, but the force was too great.
"Shhh!" Ma-kun's voice said from behind him, putting a hand over his mouth so he couldn't yell out. "I found a way out, but we have to be silent, okay?"
Hiro nodded. Ma-kun removed his hand and waited for the others to come this way.
And so they all did, one by one, being dragged in here just like Hiro did, and being told the same thing. Hiro took a hold of Suguru while Ma-kun took a hold of Ken.
"Are you okay?" Hiro asked Suguru, able to see him now with the available light.
Suguru just nodded. Hiro could see how scared he was, just by looking into his eyes alone. Hiro just smiled, trying to take that fear out of his eyes and throwing it away. He placed a small kill on the boy's tiny cheek.
"You scared?" he asked in a low voice.
Suguru didn't lie; he was as scared as everyone down here.
"You don't need to be nervous, okay? We'll get out of here," he soothed, brushing a single knuckle against Suguru's soft facial skin. "And when we do, we'll be together."
Suguru only prayed then and there that they would get out of this mess.
Ma-kun was the first to break them out of their little world. There was a door to the warehouse they were in that lead to the outside, down the road from where the jail was.
"Shouldn't we wait?" Suguru asked, still hearing the sirens from a distance.
"Better yet, shouldn't we hide out in the pipe until they leave?"
Ma-kun just smiled. "No need. They won't come down this way. It's a one-way street, see?" he said, pointing to the street sign.
"They're cops, they can do anything they want," Suguru said wryly.
"If you doubt me, we can wait," Ma-kun said, walking around slowly, picking up a few pebbles and throwing them against the wall with nothing better to do.
"We could be waiting a while though," Ken-chan said, standing up against the wall and shoving his hands in his pockets.
"I'm not endangering Hiro's life any further if there's no need for it," Suguru said, stepping forth into this conversation, wrapping his hand tightly around Hiro's. "We wait."
The hairs on the back of Hiro's neck stood stiff. Suguru had a slight drop of venom in his voice. Why he sounded so cold all of a sudden was beyond him.
"If we stay here though, we're most likely to get caught," Ma-kun added. "There's no doubt that they will check every square inch of the place until they have nowhere left to search. We can't stay here very long. Is there anywhere else you two can go?"
Hiro and Fujisaki exchanged glances. They couldn't go back to his home, that's the first place they'd start looking after they found out his body was not among those who burnt to death in the jail cell. They most certainly couldn't go to Suguru's house. Heaven forbid that one. They couldn't go to Mika's. Her and Suguru's parents would be the first to turn them in. NG studios was probably under watch as well. Ryuichi and Noriko were probably looking for them with the cops; K was quite unpredictable on where he would be and if he believed Hiro, so he was out of the question. There was only one other place they both could think of. A place that might not be safe, but they would make a try for it.
"Shuichi's and Yuki's."