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Just a Kiss
Chapter 2
Shoot. Why she had to throw away the cake? Argh she would ruin the cake for God sake.
He took the cake and opened the box to see it. Thanks god it still in better shape. He exhaled in relief. If this cake was destroy, his mom would surely be pissed-off and he would surely gonna yell Kazuha for doing this. Speaking about Kazuha, where the hell is she?
He put the box on the bike. And as he turned around his head, searching for Kazuha, he heard a scream. Spontaneously, he looked into that direction. And suddenly his heart seemed to stop beating. There, not far from where he was standing, he saw Kazuha fell to the ground with her hand clutching onto her right stomach. Without a second thought, he ran to her.
What he saw, was killing him. Lying on the pavement on her right side was Kazuha, his beloved-childhood-friend. He ran through the crowd. Pushing everybody who got in his way to her. He then kneeled beside her. Shaking her body furiously and calling her name, asking her to wake up, but she didn't move a bit. Then he saw her stomach which was covered with blood and he got really scared. There were so many blood coming out of her stomach, he was afraid that she would loose to many blood and then... No, she can't be! Instinctively, he reached her hand that she had used to cover and pressed her wound. He breathed in relief as he felt a pulse. It's a faint one, but at least she still had the pulse. By now, he had just realized that there were so many people standing around them. Watching her like she was some kind of object or something. "What are you people looking at?" He glared and shouted at the crowd around him. People only stood numb and simply just looked at another person next to them. Trying to hand over the responsibility that each of them had to help the girl who was lying on the pavement and needing their help. Heiji hated it. He then shouted at the man who stood in front of him, "You! Hurry, called an ambulance and the police!"
The man that Heiji yelled at, gulped. He leered at the people who stood next to him before finally sure that it was him that Heiji referred to. He then pulled out his cell out of his pocket and started to dial the emergency number.
Heiji turned his head to her helpless body. This time he looked at her wound and started to examine it. He gasped. Somebody had stabbed her. But why? What had she done?
He felt a rush of different kind of emotions in his heart. Sad for seeing her lying helpless and unconsciously. Scared for imagining the worst thing that could happen to her. Regret for not being able to be there when she needed him the most, to defend her from anyone who had stab her. And angry to anyone who had stabbed her. Whoever he/she was, Heiji promised himself to find him/her and bring him/her to justice. If he wasn't a police officer, he would stab the person with his own hand. An eye for an eye.
Blood kept coming out of her stomach. Heiji pushed his hand to her wound, trying to stop the bleeding. He then knew it was useless once he saw his hand was also covered with her blood not long after it. The wound was just too deep. Heiji looked at her face. There, he saw a face of an angel. An angel who had accompanied him through the good times and bad times. And now this angel was lying helpless in front of him. And he can't do a thing to help her. It's killing him.
Heiji pulled out his hand and then scooped her head, lifting her a little from the ground and then held her close to his own body. He felt his own body trembled as he held her close. And he felt tears threatening to come out from his eyes. He looked at her, held her face with one of his trembled hand and smoothing it gently. "Hang on Kazuha. Please!"
oOo
Couple of minute later, the police and the paramedic came. The Osaka's polices, which most was his colleagues, couldn't uttered a single word. The sadness filled-out the air as they looked at their great detective, Hattori Heiji holding Toyama Kazuha, daughter of one of their director. No one dared to moved nor approached them. They only watched them in agony from the distance.
One of the paramedic came and touched Heiji's shoulder. He looked up. "I'm sorry but we had to…" Even the paramedic was afraid to talked to him.
Heiji nodded at the paramedic. Gently, put her body on the ground. Two other paramedics moved in front of him, ready to gave her the help. "Save her please!" Heiji beg them. His voice trembled. He never begged to anyone before, but this time he would. He was just so afraid of loosing her. The paramedic looked at him and then nod, "We'll try."
Heiji then stood up and step backward, giving the paramedic the space they need to healed her. He watched them as they were trying to save her.
"I'm sorry Heiji" Heiji turned around to saw the person who said it. Yuki stood next to his right. And as their eyes met, she added, "I hope she was okay"
Heiji snorted then look back at Kazuha. "She has to!" he shouted but then his voice drop into husky tone as he repeat his line, "She has to Yuki. She has to!" Because I can't imagine my live without her.
The paramedic began to lift Kazuha up to the stretcher and then taking her inside the ambulance. Heiji ran toward them. "I'll go with her!" He yelled.
"Oi Heiji, what about your bike?" shouted one of the officer to him
He was kind of puzzled, "My bike?" He turned around to the officer who stood beside his bike.
Oh yeah my bike. I totally forgot about it. Heiji then dived into his pocket, searching for his key. Once he found it, he threw it to the officer who stood beside his bike. "Ryoga, can you take it to the station for me please?"
The officer whose name was Ryoga catched the key. "Sure. But what about this…" Ryoga stopped as he looked at the box sitting on Heiji's bike. "Box?" he continued.
Heiji jerked his head toward the bike. Then he saw the box that Ryoga meant. And it all came back to him in a flash.
If only he remembered his mom's birthday, Kazuha wouldn't have to buy that cake for him. If only he hadn't kissed Yuki back, she wouldn't throw away the cake to him and ran off like that and then got stabbed. And if only he didn't worried more of how the cake's shape after being thrown away by Kazuha, and worried her more by trying to catched her once she flew away. As that feeling crept, he felt disgusted to himself. How in the hell can I be worried more about the cake then her?
"It's your mother's cake, right?" asked Yuki quietly. She had, again, stood next to him. He nodded weakly as a reply. He had told Yuki about it when they were at the café.
Yuki saw regret coming on his face. "It's not your fault"
"Maybe it is," He said weakly before yelling back to Ryoga. "You can have the box. It's a cake"
"Really? A cake? For me?"
"Yes, a cake for you. Just open the box if you don't trust me" With much delight, Ryoga opened the box. When he saw the cake, he shouted a thank you to Heiji. Heiji weakly nod.
"Detective Hattori, we're going to the hospital now. Are you coming?" Shouted the paramedic whose sitting inside the ambulance.
"Yes, I'm coming," shouted Heiji in reply. "Just wait a second," he then turned his face to Yuki.
"Do me a favor will you?"
"Sure, anything"
"Don't let anyone go. Start the investigation. I believe her stabber is still here, somewhere in the crowd" Yuki only nodded for she herself was taken aback by the death-look that Heiji gave in his sentence. It's a look that's said 'I will find the one who did it and have the revenge'.
"Thank you" said Heiji weakly before finally ran to the ambulance and hop on to it.
To be continued…
A/N : I'm sorry for the long wait and the shorter chapter. I had various ideas bout it but somehow I can't write it all down. Can u call that writers block too? Argh… My English is just sucks. Would somebody be kindly enough to be my beta and pointed my mistakes? RR pls. And do me a favor, if u want to criticize me, please be more specific. Don't hesitate to point out my mistakes.
