Robotic City, Poetic Love
Chapter 10: Tsume comes, Tsume goes
Trowa looks at Quatre. Quatre says in a cold, harsh voice, "I told you it's over. Why don't you just let it go? What we had was a fling, nothing more. I don't love you anymore. Just accept it and move on. I will not go back to you."
"I will not give up. I will not love any one else but you. I will keep following you until we are together again."
"Stop being so stubborn, will you? You hate me, you just don't know it!!!" Quatre screams.
"I don't hate you! How can I hate you? What are you talking about?"
"Trowa, I am a robot." Quatre sobs.
"What?" Trowa can't believe his ears.
"I am a ROBOT! I'm the thing you hated most in the world." Quatre is crying uncontrollably now. Trowa stands there, shocked.
"I am a robot made with bio synthetic parts. Future Tech made me right here, in Future City, the place you can't stand." Quatre is crying so bad he can hardly speak.
Trowa just stands there, too shock to talk.
"Goodbye, Trowa. I'm sorry. I don't mean to lie to you. If I knew you hate us so much, I will never fall in love with you." Quatre turns to walk away, leaving the speechless Trowa there.
"Quatre! Wait!" Trowa shouts.
Toboe opens his pocket and realizes his kitty isn't in there. Kiba looks into his pocket and says, "did your kitty sneak out?"
Toboe nods. He takes out a tracker. Hige says to Kiba, "Toboe put a tracer on the cat's collar in case the cat runs off."
"Where is she now?" Kiba asks Toboe.
Toboe gives the tracker to Kiba. Kiba says, "it's at Quatre's room. I will go with you."
Toboe stands up and leaves. Kiba stands up and follows the boy. "We'll be right back." Kiba says and leaves.
Since Toboe and Kiba are gone, Hige is left by himself. Duo, who is next to Hige, is about to talk to Hige when someone drop something not too far from them. Hige looks up and sees Blue kneeing on the floor, trying to pick up her stuff. Someone has knocked her bag off to the floor and spilled everything inside her bag out of it.
Duo looks at Hige and asks, "Is that your girlfriend, Hige?"
"I wish." Hige stands up and goes help the detective.
"Hey." Hige knees down and help Blue picks up her stuffs.
"Hey, it's you, the crazy guy." Blue says.
"You remember me!" Hige grins.
"Well, you're kind of a hard guy to forget. Anyway, thanks for helping me. Sometimes I wish I'm not in Future City. People will just knocks things off your hands and walk away. No apologies, no helping you to pick things up." Blue says.
"Now you sound like my friend Kiba. He just came to this city about two weeks ago. He doesn't like this city at all. He hates the cold and inhuman feelings in the city." Hige says.
"Yeah, can't say I blame him. Thanks for helping me pick my stuff up, Hige. I'm gonna get back to work." Blue sighs.
"Hey, you okay? you look tired. Why don't you let me treat you for dinner? You look like you need it." Hige asks Blue.
"No, it's okay. I'm fine. I'm not hungry at all." Blue says, but her stomach starts grouching already. Her face turns red.
"Come on, you can't work on an empty stomach. I really want to get to know you. I mean, what are the chances of us running into each other like this in Future City. It's destiny!!!" Hige says.
Blue looks at the cheerful Hige. The detective can't help but smiles a little. "Destiny?" Blue asks.
"Yeah! like, this city is so big and there are so many people. I never see a girl so many time in such short period. Don't you think fate totally wants to put us together?" Hige says.
"That's just coincidence." Blue says.
"No, it's not. Think about it, how many guys walk into you so many times? There are like 100 restaurants in this building already, why would we both end up in this one?" Hige says.
"So we're star cross lovers who are destined to be together?" Blue laughs. Her tired face turns into a happy one.
"We're soul mate, I tell you."
"Well, will you tell me your name then? It's not nice to not know the name of your soul mate." Blue says.
Hige smiles brightly, "Hige, my name is Hige. Come on, since I'm your soul mate, you got to let me buy you dinner." Hige says.
Hige takes Blue back to the table and says, "hey, you guys, this is Detective Blue."
"Hi!" Everyone smiles to Blue. Hige lets Blue sits down and introduces everyone to Blue. He then gets Blue something to eat.
"Here, you need to eat more. You look like you are gonna pass out." Hige says with concern.
"Thanks, Hige. I needed this. It feels great to eat something nice and warm with friends. It had been a long time since I did this. My diet lately consists of nothing but nutrient drinks and vitamin pills." Blue says.
"You work so hard." Hige says.
"Detective is a 24/7 job." Blue says.
"I wonder where Kiba and Toboe are. They should be back by now already. They had been gone for a long time already." Hige looks at his watch.
"They should be back by now." Duo nods and says.
"Maybe we should go check on them." Toboe says.
"I'll go with you." Heroo stands up. Duo and Toboe heads out of the restaurant with Heroo behind them.
Quatre returns to the table. Wufei looks at the tears and Quatre's eyes and says, "you told him, huh?"
Quatre nods, "he must hate me now."
"No, he doesn't. He is coming for you." Wufei says. Quatre turns around and sees Trowa walking toward him.
"Quatre, I…" Trowa wants to say something when Quatre's cell phone rings.
Quatre picks up the phone and answers, "mushi mushi? Oh, hi, Omi-chan, what's the matter? No, Toboe-chan isn't here. What?"
"What's the matter?" Hige walks up next to Quartre and asks the young musician.
"Toboe and Kiba aren't in my dressing room." Quatre says.
"Maybe they're coming back, Omi could have just miss Toboe …" Ken tries to assure everyone.
When Omi, Duo and Heroo come back to the restaurant, Toboe and Kiba still aren't here. Omi tries to call Kiba's cell phone but no one answers. Quatre then calls the securities.
"The securities say they see Kiba and Toboe get into my room, but the two of them never get out." Quatre says.
"Where could they be?" Omi asks.
"I have a bad feeling." Blue says, suddenly, she realizes something.
"Hige, was your friend with you the last two times you saw me?" Blue says.
Hige thinks back and nods, "yeah, he is. The first time I saw you I don't even notice your name tag. I was too busy trying to talk to you. He is the one who saw your name tag and told me your name. And the second time I saw you I'm checking out the colleges with him. He told me to go talk to you."
Blue gives Hige the picture of a guy with short silver hair and asks Hige, "have you seen this guy before?"
Hige shakes his head, "no, I don't think so."
"Come on, Hige. Think carefully. This is really important. Your friend might be in danger." Blue says.
"Who is this guy?" Hige asks.
"He is the murderer I have been after for a long time. He killed a lot of people and he could be after your friend. We might not have met by chance. I am tracking this guy tonight but I lost him; he was here, in this restaurant. I was looking for him the last two times we met too. Maybe I kept running into you cause the guy I'm looking for is going after your friend."
"It has to be coincidence. Kiba just arrive at the city!" Hige says.
"You said your friend came to Future City two weeks ago, right? This guy shows up two weeks ago, too. It can't be that big of a coincidence." Blue says.
Hige suddenly remember something and exclaims, "Kiba mentioned something about seeing a guy looking at him. He said the guy looks angry and mad; scared Kiba too…"
Trowa, who is standing next to Omi and Hige, looks at the picture and says, "I think I saw him at the concert tonight, but I'm not sure."
"He was at the concert, I remember him." Aya says looking at the picture.
"What?" Omi shouts.
"When I was getting drink with you and Kiba, I saw him standing behind a post, looking at Kiba. It has to be him. He has the eyes of a killer." Aya says.
"NO!!! Kiba!!! Toboe!!!" Omi shouts.
"I'm calling the station." Blue says.
"I will go to the security room and look at the replays of the security camera. I should be able to find him. I need security clearance." Aya says.
"I'll go with you. I can tell them to let you look." Quatre says.
"I'll go with you, too. I saw him before; I should be able to help." Trowa says.
"You guys go and check the changing room, see if you can find something there. Let's move." Aya says.
They check everywhere in the changing room of Quatre, but they can't find anything. The gang goes back to the security room. Aya and Trowa are looking at all the security camera records one by one. The music hall is a couple hundred stories high and there are thousands of souvenir shops and restaurants, not to mention millions of people who packed the place. It's impossible to track one single person in the sea of people.
Hige and Blue sit down at the corner of the security room. The Detective is holding her cell phone tight, hoping the phone will ring and good news will come. The policemen on the street are all looking for Toboe and Kiba, but in Future City, the chance of finding a losing person is zero. It's just too big and busy of a place.
Everyone waits anxiously as Aya and Trowa look at the screens, trying desperately to spot the murderer. Quatre sits at the sofa, his arms shaking and his heart beating so loud the whole room can hear. Duo holds Quatre's hands, try to calm the boy down. Wufei and Heroo stand next to Quatre in silent.
Omi can't stand in the room. It's too small to begin with, and there are so many people in there now. Omi can't sits still while Toboe is missing anyway. The small floral conjurer is outside the door, pacing up and down the corridor. He wishes he can go look for Toboe, but where can he start? The building is so big and there are many places, and there is nothing to start on.
Aya and Trowa are standing there, watching the screen intensely. Everyone can feel the hopelessness of the situation. There is no way anyone can find a guy in that number of people.
"There!" Suddenly, Trowa shouts loudly, breaking the silence in the air. Everyone runs up to the screen. There he is, the man with short silver hair and leather outfit. It's obvious that the guy is trying to avoid the security camera, it's lucky that the security camera catches a glimpse at him.
"That's him! Tsume Koyasu!" Blue says.
The guy name Tsume walks out from the camera range. Aya says, "follow him, don't let him get out of sight."
"There!" Omi shouts, point to the footage shows at the next camera. Tsume walks out of the camera again.
"Next camera!" Aya shouts.
"He is not in here. The next camera didn't catch him." Wufei says looking at the camera.
"There!" Quatre finds him from the camera on the other side.
They keep following Tsume though all the recorded footage, everyone's eyes are watering from following Tsume. The guy is a little dot on the giant screen.
"He starts running!" Ken says.
"TOBOE!!!" Quatre screams.
"How the hell did Toboe and Kiba got there?" Hige shouts. Toboe is on the screen, with Kiba right next to him. Kiba is holding Toboe while running away desperately. Tusme sees the two of them and starts chasing after them.
"They run out to the alley. That's the last place the camera catch. This is taken about an hour ago. We might still be able to find something at the alley. Come on, let's go." Aya says.
Omi is running out of the room already. The rest follow them. Even the forever graceful Quatre breaks into a run. They arrive at the alley and see nothing but darkness and cold.
Quatre hears, or rather feels something, inside the darkness. It seems to be calling for help. The young magician steps forward, a strange smell enters Quatre's nose. He knows he smells it before, but he doesn't know where.
The lights senses motion in the alley and they all turns on by itself. Everyone's eyes flicker because of the bright light.
Suddenly, Quatre screams, a very high, very bone-chilling screams. Everyone jumps at suddenly screaming.
"Quatre!" Trowa shouts and runs toward the screaming blonde.
Trowa catches Quatre as Quatre falls to the ground. Quatre has fainted. Omi runs to Quatre and shouts, "What happened?"
Trowa looks up, so does Omi. Omi screams in fear at what he sees. Ken runs up to hug Omi tight. Youji shouts, "What the hell…"
Right in front of the fainted Quatre and shaking Omi, there is a totally wreaked place with blood all over the wall and floor.
Lots and lots of blood…
TBC…..