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Chapter 2 : Shindou, Hikaru, Ogata and Seiji
The Gosei was taken aback by the strange question," What do you mean? Of course, I see you, Shindou Hikaru,"
" I mean, right here, right now, who is sitting in front of you?" All Ogata saw was a pair of bright green eyes kept searching into his cold gray eyes.
" Shindou Hikaru, a 1 Dan," he repeated his answer.
" You're just like the others then," Turning away, Hikaru said it painfully.
"….."
" You don't get it, do you?" Smiled sadly, he knew what the indifferent man thought.
" You're getting drunk," He drinks too much.
" Now, it's not Shindou that talking to you, offered you a can of beer and a lighter. It's Hikaru," the two-toned-haired boy clarified.
" I don't get it," Ogata took another sip of his beer. What the hell is he talking about?
" That's exactly the problem. No one understands," the sunny boy laughed bitterly. That's the problem…
"….."
" You see, everybody wants Shindou, the 1 Dan," He paused a little, "Nobody wants Hikaru," he whispered inaudibly.
" I still don't understand what you mean," the man with silver glasses absolutely had no idea what the other was talking about.
" Shindou is alive in front of the goban only, the rest is Hikaru," Hikaru inhaled the smoke before he continued," All Shindou wants is playing Go but Hikaru wants more than that, Hikaru wants to go karaoke, playing latest games at the arcade, listening music in the park, eating ramen...sort of that. Hikaru is more fun but no one wants to know Hikaru. All they care is Shindou, nobody cares how much Hikaru has been suffering,"
Ogata was getting the whole picture, " What Hikaru has been suffering from?" He questioned firmly as he brought out his second cigarette.
"Do you still remember what happened last year? That I stopped playing Go," the stylish pro knew what to do.
"How can I forget?" So did the Jyudan, he lowered his head as the blond lit a cigarette for him.
" Do you know why I wanted to quit?"
" No, I don't but I want to know badly," he accepted.
" I have lost someone...someone close to my heart, someone important…" Hikaru looked straight into Ogata's eyes. The 2-titles holder was sharp…very sharp, he knew who the boy was talking about. Sai!
" He passed away," Looking at the river, the poor boy took a long swallow of his beer.
Sai is gone! Sai is dead!
" I was in pain. I couldn't handle the loss. I shut myself from the rest of the world," he took another long swallow until the can was empty, " I was lost, I didn't know which way to go. I didn't see the reason to play if he's not there beside me," Hikaru took another can from the bag," But when my friends met me they just wanted to know why I had missed the game," he sipped a little," No one noticed that my eyes were red because I have been crying all along, " he laughed ironically.
" Not even Akira?" asked curiously the silver-haired pro.
" No..not even Touya," the punk continued, " He came to my school, you know? Can you guess what the first thing he asked me when he met me?"
" He asked you why you missed the game, didn't he" Since he knew Akira very well, The cold Jyudan hit the right answer easily. It's so like him.
" Shindou is the one Touya cares, as long as Shindou plays Go, he doesn't want Hikaru,"
" That's why you come here ? Far away from the Go world, so you can be Hikaru?" Ogata Seiji was sharp indeed because he just hit another right answer.
" I won't let Hikaru die," the blond declared intensely. I swear I won't.
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" I'm interested in Shindou, I accept…But I don't want Hikaru to die either, I think I like him a lot," the 10 Dans gave the young boy a smile, not his arrogant smirk but his rare caring smile.
" You do?" that speech surprised him.
The grey-eyed man shrugged his shoulder," No one has ever offered me a can of beer or lit cigarettes for me before,"
" Haha, Is that what he's for?" Hikaru almost choked on his beer," Thank you anyway,"
" Nothing at all,"
" And where is Seiji?" he questioned nosily.
" Seiji …died many years ago," the silver-haired pro spoke noiselessly.
" How did he die?"
" He and Ogata began to play Go. At the beginning, they were very happy to be together," Thinking back into his memory, Ogata began narrating his story. Yeah, it was fun back then.
" Then?"
" Then Ogata had became a pro, everything changed. Ogata just wanted to be a top player and completely forgot about Seiji. He gave him a cold shoulder. All he did was playing Go, Seiji was left alone. In the end, Seiji died because of loneliness. Ogata was left alone instead with his fancy car and an aquarium," he ended the story regretfully. Yeah, that's all I have.
"….. Maybe Seiji didn't die," Hikaru marked.
" ……"
" Maybe he's just sleeping," he pointed out optimistically.
" And what should Ogata does?" The Gosei asked enthusiastically.
" Call him, tell him it's time to wake up," the blond suggested.
" What if Seiji can't hear Ogata? What if he forgot all about Ogata?" It has been so many years.
" Then Ogata comes to Hikaru, Hikaru will help Ogata," the 15-year-old pro smiled mildly.
" How?" How?
" Hikaru will find Seiji for Ogata. And when he finds him…" he grinned suspiciously.
" When he finds him?"
" He'll kick Seiji's ass," he simply said it like it was the most common thing to do.
" What!" the older man exclaimed loudly in shock.
" So he'll be sure that Seiji will wake up," The blond smiled kindly.
"….Good plan,"
" Thanks, Cheers!" Hikaru raised his beer.
" Hikaru?"
" Yes?" the boy was quite surprised that Ogata-sensei called him by that name.
" Let's find Seiji together," Lifting his beer, Seiji said cheerfully.
A/N : I like both Hikaru and Otaga so I wrote this fanfic. I just want them to become closer. So what do you think about the Duet? Love them? Hate them? Don't forget to leave a comment.
In this fic, Hikaru is 15 and Ogata is 27. Why 27? Well, I think that Ogata is about the same age as Kadowaki. I'm sure that Kadowaki is 12 year older than Hikaru. That's why in this fic Ogata is 27.
From now on, there'll be: Shindou, Hikaru, Ogata, Seiji, Touya and Akira…Don't get confuse, you know what I mean, right?
