Hi again, minna, I've finally finished chapter two! I'm sorry it took so long, it's just I knew what lyrics I've wanted to use for this one, but I just kept forgetting to get them off the internet whenever I sign on. But it's a nice and long one, I even have scene six in there! Yeah, the scene where nobody even talks was turned into a pretty big paragraph. ;; I wasn't planning on doing that, but I want to put some things that weren't in the movie, but could still be considered to have fit in that doesn't change the movie or anything that happened… that's worded kinda screwy… but you get what I mean, don't you? ;; Well, I'm sure you're confused, so just read and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Anyways, a few notes to remember:
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Sho is VERY OOC in this chapter, just to let you know, mostly in the last part, but he's meant to be this way, so if you have a problem with it, just stop reading.
I didn't change ANYTHING in the movie, except maybe their personalities a bit in their POVs, but so far it's not that bad, and none of what I write will have any dramatic effect on the movie, I haven't changed anything other than that.
As you might be able to see after reading the end to this chapter, I HATE YII-CHE!
Disclaimer: I don't own Moon Child and I don't own any of it's characters, if I did, that would mean that I'd own Gackt and HYDE, and if I owned them, I'd have a heart attack and die happy. Also, this song is Coming Closer by L'ArcenCiel.
Sho's POV:
Coming closer
Hurry on, hurry on time It's going so fast
Hurry on, I can't save you
Can't slow it down You know this is your fate
Are you feeling lonely? So lonely, lonely
Cry to the wind
We arrived at our destination to find the guards were still awake, and of course I was the one, yet again, to risking my ass! Oh well, at least it's a good way to work out my stress from this morning, I guess…
"To your right!"
"Okay, I got it!"
And of course Kei was just sitting up on some box, out of the way of the danger, occasionally spotting me. "Here he comes. Hidari." I dodged left. "Migi." and then right. "Hidari." left again. "Sho, are you concentrating?" Hah, that's easy for you to say! "Next watch your left." I kept shooting, but didn't manage to hit anyone. Goddammit, die already!
"This gun's no good…" I complained, blaming it all on the gun.
:click click click:
Shaking his head and sighing, Kei jumped down and walked over to me. I tossed the gun to him and dodged another bullet just in time. "Ouch."
"Oi."
"Huh?"
"There's a hole in your jacket."
I looked down, and surely enough, there was the goddamn hole. Why do they always have to take it out on my poor clothes! First they had to bleed on me, and now there's a friggin hole, what next, are they gonna dip my clothes in acid! Are they gonna set them on fire! Hell, they could even trap my clothes in an abandon mine and blow the goddamn thing up!
"That cost me a lot, bakayarou!" I stored off while shooting and heard Kei say something along the lines of "Here we go again."
Anyhow, I had successfully managed to on ducking behind some crates like a moron. Kei walked up to me, and still trying to keep what little pride I had left, I snapped "Stay out of this."
"What about some gratitude?" they continued shooting and Kei dodged a bullet that nearly missed my head.
"Bullets can't hurt you, so stay still." They continued to dodge and shoot and I mumbled "Ano baka…"
"They still hurt, though."
"Hai, hai." I jumped up and shot another guy while doing a nice flip in mid air. Nothing wrong with a little showing off, ne?
"You can do it is you try."
"It's easy to say…" I glared at him, then walked off shooting again, "when you can't be killed."
Furisosogu hikari wo abi Te wo nobasu doko made mo takaku (Basking in the light raining down, I stretch my arms as high as the limitless sky)
Tada kimi wa kaze ni yurarete Mitsumete wa hakanaku hohoemi (You're just in the wind, looking off, with a sad smile)
Nemuri no toki wo shitteru no? (Do you know when it's time to sleep?)
Eveyone was dead, not including Kei and I, of course. Not a single one of the guards had been knocked out. I should have known that Toshi would screw up again. I looked around, nothing much to see. There were a bunch of empty toy car boxes and Toshi's pizza, but that's about it… "Kei. Kei." I called to him. "Let's go."
Mallepa South Ward:
Coming closer
Hurry on, hurry on time It's going so fast
Hurry on, I can't save you
Can't slow it down You know this is your fate
Are you feeling lonely? So lonely, lonely
Cry to the wind
Toshi finally arrived, it seemed like we've been waiting for hours! I wanted so badly to just scream right now! He slammed the money on the table and took of his ridiculous looking 'Happy Pizza' helmet as he said "Not as much as I thought…"
"You checked all the bodies?" I asked, examining one of the wads of money.
"Of course. I didn't waist time with toy cars."
"Very fishy." I tossed the wad to Kei and gave Toshi the best death glare I could manage.
"Get lost."
"Ah, most suspicious…" Kei finally joined the conversation.
"See."
"Piss off. I'll make it up to you. Got a big project lined up."
I sighed and got up to sit at another table a few feet away, hopping a little distance would stop me from strangling him right here and now. "You're all talk." Although I'm not really one to talk. "You didn't put enough drugs in the pizza. The guards were still awake!"
"We all make mistakes…" That's it! Attack mode! I'm going to kill him! We all make mistakes my ass! I swear one of these days he's gonna get what's coming to him! I rose my hand. "Kei, tabako." He tossed me a pack of cigarettes… which hit me in the face…
"What are you doing?"
"It should work." I mumbled to Kei, ignoring Toshi's question.
"Trust me, Sho."
"I do."
"What are you two doing?" I still continued to mumble something incoherent. Sighing in defeat, he put hit helmet back on and said "I'm going back to work."
I turned to him. "Watch. I'll get it. Oi, Toshi, take care." I waved that special wave we always used. When I was little Kei would do it, said Luka taught it to him, and I thought it was cool so I made him show me how, too. Toshi waved back and rode off.
As I turned back to Kei, I couldn't help but grin as I saw the cigarette that landed in between my index and middle fingers. "Pretty cool, huh?"
Back At the Apartment:
Me wo tojita kimi ga kirei de Unmei ni boku wa sakende (You look so pretty with your eyes closed, I screamed at fate)
Afuredasu nagare ni nomare Tachitsukusu nasu sube mo nakute (Swallowed by the flow spilling over, no way to stop.)
Kono te wa kimi wo iyasenai? (Can't these hands ease you?)
It was daylight by the time that Kei and I had settled down at home again. Kei was sleeping in the living room and I was looking at all of the money that Kei and I had collected in the past few jobs. I was in a much better mood now. Maybe it was because Toshi was gone… oh well… Hmm, maybe I'll try and tell Kei how I really feel again today. Perhaps today will be my lucky day, if you know what I mean, eheheh. But I suppose I shouldn't get my hopes up. Something always manages to screw my opportunities up. I looked into the next room at him and my smile faded. He was breathing hard and tossing his head a bit. His eyes shot open a few seconds later. I walked over to him and said "Doushita no?" He just sighed. "Daijyoubu?" I came over to sit next to him. "That same dream?"
"I'm fine." There was a short silence as I grabbed a cigarette. "Sho. You should get out more."
"It's fine. I don't want a tan."
He slipped his shoes on and got up. "Let's spend some time apart."
"What do you mean?" I questions, agitatedly, as he poured himself a drink.
"Don't adjust your life to mine. Enjoy yourself while you can…" he took a sip and then started walking towards me again. "…before you get old. Remember, I wont age."
"Not this again!" I snapped. "Mallepa is full of immigrants… different races, all coming and going, minding their own business. And that's how we get along…" Okay, so much for my good mood, now I'm pissed! How could he say such things!
"I've fed on so many evil men… I'm becoming like them." He eyed the reflection of himself in his glass. "I might turn on you."
"As if you'd dare. Jerk."
Coming closer
Hurry on, hurry on time It's going so fast
Hurry on, I can't save you
Can't slow it down You know this is your fate
Are you feeling lonely? So lonely, lonely
Cry to the wind
Anyhow, seeing as Kei wanted so badly for us to "spend some time apart" (Which is code for: Go away.) I was up and on my way to Nii-chan's fish shop. Heheh, fish shop, every time I say it, I can't help but laugh my ass off. I mean, who owns a fish shop these days? I wonder how he can even stay in business with how slow things go in that place; and then there was the money he blows on drugs all the time. It figures, out of the thousands of people in Mallepa, I just had to get stuck with the stoner as a brother.
Ah, and then there was the matter of my little Taiwanese stalkers on the way there. I spotted them following me a few blocks away from Nii-chan's "fish shop." One of which was wearing a bright red pimp coat (Never thought I'd in a million years utter this word, but: Egad…) and the other had absolutely no aesthetic sense. Anyhow, I quickly lost them in the crowded streets and headed the other way. Looks like I had to head the long way there. That'll really cut into my time… I guess it'll just give Kei a little more "alone time."
Kami-sama, I've come to dislike these words too. Why does he want to get rid of me so badly? Do I really bug him that much? That's kind of depressing… it's kinda funny if you think about it, it's anger without the enthusiasm… I have no idea where that came from…
Isoideyukeba haha naru kimi ni... (If I can hurry you, Oh holy mother.)
Well, after a little while, I'd finally managed to get there… I say it as if it were some heroic feat… it was more like: 'left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot' but that seems to repetitive, ne? But of course, like a child I couldn't help myself and stopped to look at the fish. I had always wondered, were these animals aware of the fact that they were caged? Did they just decide to ignore it and live meaningless lives? Or was it that they had just stopped caring? I could have stayed and pondered on that a while longer, but decided against it as I saw Geshi crouching over a little, umm… plastic bowl…? And she looked pretty upset.
"Hi, Geshi." I said, childishly, leaning over sideways in the view of the doorway. "What are you doing?" I said, a little more seriously as I walked over and bent down next to her. There was a fish in the bowl, barely half covered in water. "What's wrong with him?" I motioned to the fish.
"Poor fish. He's ill. He'll die." Ah, Geshi, not really one for words, that girl. It's really a wonder that she's still alive in a town like Mallepa. It's because of her "good looks" I suppose, or at least that's what Nii-chan tells me. Around her, he acts like such a pedophile…oh, come on, you can't tell me that's not what you're all thinking! Seriously though, she's about my age, if not younger, and Nii-chan's at least six or seven years older than us both.
"Chuck him then. It might be contagious." We exchanged glances, then she looked away in disbelief and stood up as if to say something cliché like: "That's heartless, get out of my sight before I throttle you!" but it came out a little nicer as a cold: "Your brother's on the roof."
"No need to get upset." I snapped at her as I got up and went to the roof.
Coming closer
Hurry on, hurry on time It's going so fast
Hurry on, I can't save you
Can't slow it down You know this is your fate
Are you feeling lonely? So lonely, lonely, lonely,
Surely enough, there was Nii-chan sitting alone at a table on the roof of the store. "Ni-i-cha-n."
"Oh." was all I got out of him… what a nice, warm welcome… He got up and added "What's up?"
"What the hell are you doing?" Did I mention he was using his bong again?
"Nothing much." he said, then limped away. I picked up said abandon bong and fought the strong urge to through it onto the next roof over. Of course he'd be doing drugs, I should have known. This is why I rarely go visit my brother, I always get so damn worked up over it. Letting out a heavy sigh, I dumped it into a nearby trashcan. "How convenient." I thought out loud.
I came to find two butt-ugly men waiting for Nii-chan as I walked back into the shop. Nii-chan was obviously high off his ass and greeted them with "Oh, hi." and an idiotic grin.
"Stay still."
"Pardon me."
"Where's the cash?"
"Huh?"
"Today's takings…"
"Oh, umm… it's been kind of slow…"
"How dare you!" one of the men yelled and pushed Nii-chan down onto the ground. Deciding that this was enough, I pushed them away and took a wad of money out of my pocket to shove in their faces.
"What's this?" One of them yelled.
"Take it and go." I yelled back. I was not in the mood for this today and was just about ready to kick everybody's lazy asses, but no, I had to be the responsible one.
"Speak Cantonese to us." he demanded, but being the asshole I am…
"Take it and fuck off." I yelled. Yup, I'm so polite, aren't I?
"Shut your mouth!" the other yelled, snatching the money out of my hand and pushing me out of the way of the exit.
"Watch yourself." the first one said, warningly, to Nii-chan, but the other man stopped short and said "Did he say what I thought he said?" He turned to me and waved his index finger in my face. "He thinks he's got balls." He shoved me back again. Good thing too, I was about to bite his fucking finger off if I'd been given the chance… and I do have them, thank you very much…
"Let's go." And they're off! (a/n: Can't you just taste the sarcasm dripping out of his words… ;;)
After they were out of sight, I bent down to try and help Nii-chan up, but he slapped my hand away as he said "Let go. Don't pity me." Getting up for himself, he also left. Oh, a lot of thanks I get, rejected two times in less than an hour! And yet, all I could do was kick the poor, defenseless wall in frustration and storm off. That fucking bastard, sometimes I just can't stand him!
Then, as I came back to the apartment, I found that Kei was already gone. It was already dark, so of course he'd be gone, probably trying to keep away from me as long as possible… Well, like a good, little, lovesick roommate would, I went to stalk-- I mean…… "follow" him…
I went to the park first, he usually goes there for walks, so I figured that there was a good place to start looking. Immediately, I found him looking up at a girl who was currently in the midst painting a mural on a random wall… yeah, looking up at a girl of all things, really figures, doesn't it? Things just weren't going my way lately, and that pisses me off… She turned to look back down at him, and already I could feel my blood boil. I was just about to scream "Get the fuck away from him, you whore, that's my Kei!" until I examined her face a bit better only to realize that I'd seen her before. She was that girl, Yii-Che, in the adoption agency that I'd met shortly before running away with Nii-chan. I believe she was there with her brother, umm… what's-his-face. Yup, good ol' what's-his-face. Thankfully, though, my thoughts where cut short as she broke eye contact. That's right, be a good girl and go back to your painting… My eyes followed Kei as he walked off, but out of the corner of my eyes, I could see her watching him too. Something told me that this wasn't just going to be a one time thing…
No one hears, no one hears you
No one cares what you do
Can't slow it down You know this is your fate
Are you feeling lonely? So lonely, lonely
Cry to the wind
So how was it? Go tell me in a review, or I'll have Kyo from Dir en grey come and eat you alive! Buwa ha ha… . … . anyways, I'd better get going now, so see you in the next chapter, minna!