Chapter 14 everyone. Please read and review! This chapter will be longer than the others, so please thank me for the effort! (Bows to imaginary applause)
CHAPTER 14
Shuichi was sitting in the dark surrounding of his house, his eyes shut slightly, rocking himself sounding in his chair. Some could say he was meditating, some could say he was merely thinking. Thinking about what, I do not know. But his fingers were rubbing against a small photo in the grasp of his hands, the colour faded by the possible droplets of rain, or the excess supplement of bleach.
Suddenly his eyes flickered open, and he turned around sharply to glare at the door behind him. There was something out there. He would almost feel the murky air surrounding him at the sense of it. It was placid, and was covering the atmosphere with another stench of betrayal.
" You filthy, lying hypocrite." Shuichi muttered, getting to his feet, kicking his chair backwards. He propped himself against the door, listening intently. He looked at the clock on his wall. It was just seven at night. Mighty early for Miyano to do this at this time, wasn't it? Twelve was more like his style. . .eleven, tops.
There was the dull sounds of the creaking of floorboards and a small grin lifted on his face. " That's the fifth step." He whispered to himself. " The floor will moan on the thirteenth."
As if on cue, there was a groaning on the ground and he burst out, hitting three men unconscious at once, rolling onto the ground, one of their guns in his hands, and he surveyed the area with raised eyebrows. " Come out, dogs of Shishio Miyano." He called out loudly, hitting off the light switch, hearing it whisper to itself as it turned off with a soft click.
Silence.
" Have it your way." He muttered, knocking against the ground softly, and hear the soft tinkering of kitchen utensils. He smirked to himself as the sound quickly subsided. " That was very stupid of you." He muttered to himself, dashing for the kitchen and grabbed the sole person who was inside and pinned him to the wall hearing him gasp out in pain. " How. . .did you know I was here?" he wheezed.
" The sound stopped too abruptly." Shuichi said, a twisted smirk on his face. " If you were hiding you would have desperately tried to stop the noise wouldn't you? But that's not the point now, is it?" he continued, the gun pointed directly at the ambusher. " How many more people are inside my house?"
" Twelve. . ." the person choked out.
" That's a lie, kid." Shuichi said, further choking the person. " Truth."
He was coughing. " T. . .Thirty-six."
Shuichi grimaced. " Crap." He said.
It was then when around twenty of them burst at him, hitting him at all sides. Cursing his own stupidity, he elbowed one in the jaw, bringing down around five, and butted his way through, ignoring the stabbing pains in his back as he felt a metal club slam itself against his back and dashed for the front door. There were gunshots that followed him, and he gasped in pain as a shot burst into his left leg, and he limped out, slamming the door behind him. He ducked behind the grass patch just outside his house, and the minute he rested in there, clutching his leg, the door burst open.
" Damn it." He muttered under his breath.
" Where did he go?" came a voice.
" He can't have gone far." Said another.
Silence.
" Let's search the area."
" Right."
Inside, a lone man stood there, a rifle in his hand when he noticed a picture lying on the ground, slightly damp. The colours of the picture was peeling, water soaking it lightly. He picked it up, and saw what it was. It was a picture of Akai Shuichi and Shiho Miyano, laughing, posing for the camera.
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" Alright, who wants to go first?"
" Ran, you're being a LITTLE too high over this whole ordeal, aren't you?" Sonoko asked wearily, while the six school girls giggled to themselves, seeming to share some private joke of their own. " The karaoke has barely started, and already you're like a schoolgirl on high."
The girls sobered up immediately.
Ran blushed and sat down. " Well, who wants to. . .?"
" We'd like to take a shot." The six girls said automatically, before giggling like crazy. Shinichi and Shiho exchanged a glance.
" What song are you planning on singing?" Yoro asked curiously.
" You'll see." One of them said, while the others burst into giggles again.
" I swear, they're on high." Shiho muttered, and Shinichi sniggered.
" Like Sonoko said." He said back.
" Here we go." One of them muttered, clicking on the machine.
" I wonder wha- - -" Shinichi started, but was cut in immediately.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. . .
You give me something out of nothing, I'm totally into you,
Fro your face up to your waist down, and you don't have a clue.
I'm breathing. . .
And needing. . .For myself to be with you. Now if I could lose my patience,
You would see my presence, and when you do. . .
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Cos you make me feel. . .
Yeah, yeah yeah. . .
You walk in the crowd and I see you there,
You notice my presence but you don't even care. . .I love you from your toes to your hair. . .Bringing joy to my life like a woman to her heir. . .
Cos you make me feel. . .
Yeah, yeah yeah. . . .
They ended with coy smiles at Shinichi before bursting into another fit of giggles, huddling into a circle, sneaking glances at Shinichi before bursting into laughter once more. Sonoko and Ran sneaked a look at each other and grinned.
Shiho smirked at Shinichi. " Well, YOU'RE certainly popular." She said.
" Shut up." He muttered, blushing. Somehow, he was secretly disappointed. At the least, he had expected her to be jealous or something. He sighed and raised his eyebrows at Yoro, who winked at him. He managed a small smile back.
" Who's next?" Ran asked.
" ME!" Yoro called excitedly, jumping on the balls of his feet.
" Right." Ran said, startled by his enthusiasm. " What are you going to sing?"
" Silence, baby cakes." Yoro said, winking at her. " This song is dedicated to you."
Shinichi smiled in Ran's direction, who blushed but smiled back, the girls in the corner bursting into a fit of giggles once more. " I never knew that Yoro would be a serious type of singer." Shinichi said to Shiho, folding his arms. Shiho shrugged.
" I wonder what he's going to. . .?" she started.
My
milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
and they're like,
its
better than yours,
damn right its better than yours,
i can
teach you,
but i have to charge
I know you want it,
the
thing that makes me,
what the guys go crazy for.
They lose
their minds,
the way i wind,
i think its time
la la-la
la la,
warm it up.
lala-lalala,
the boys are waiting
My
milkshake brings all the boys to the yard,
and they're like,
its
better than yours,
damn right its better than yours,
i can
teach you,
but i have to charge
i can see youre on it,
you
want me to teach the
techniques that freaks these boys,
it
can't be bought,
just know, thieves get caught,
watch if your
smart,
la la-la la la,
warm it up,
la la-la la la,
the
boys are waiting,
My milkshake brings all the boys to the
yard,
and they're like,
its better than yours,
damn right
its better than yours,
i can teach you,
but i have to charge
And they watched him with their jaws hanging open, his voice droning on, a huge grin on his face. It was then when Sonoko started to laugh. She was laughing so hard that tears were falling from her face, and Sanshriyuki looked at her, alarmed. But somehow, there was a small unknown grin on his face. The others started to laugh, finally joined in with Shinichi. Shiho and Shinichi exchanged a glance, and the two burst into laughter. Yoro finished with a standing ovation., and bowed and bowed for the many minutes onwards. Ran was the only one who wasn't laughing.
Her mouth was hanging open, spluttering.
" THAT'S your song dedication to me?" she asked.
He grinned. " Yeah." He said. " What do you think?"
Her mouth opened to say something before sighing and smiled. " Great." She said.
" Just don't sing that song in public, Yoroshodaki-kun." Shiho called out to him. " It's meant for a girl to sing it, but then again. . .whatever makes you happy."
Shinichi grinned while the others laughed.
" Is it alright if I go up next?" Sonoko asked, getting to her feet. " Ran, up and at them."
Ran raised her eyebrows. " Since when was I in the picture?" she asked.
" You are now." Sonoko said, grinning broadly. " Come on, it's not fun if I sing this song by myself."
" Like that's going to stop her." Sanshriyuki muttered, and Shiho's lips twitched.
RAN: Boy you're so hard to believe
Boy you're so hard to believe
SONOKO: Just a friend
That's all I've ever been to you
Oh just a girl
Who wants to be the center of your world
But I ain't got much to offer
But my heart and soul
And I guess that's not enough
For you to notice me
I'm just a girl
And I guess that's all I'll ever be to you
To you
RAN: I try to smile when I see other girls with you
Acting like everything is ok
But ohh
You don't know how it feels to be so in love
With someone who doesn't even know
My secret love
SONOKO: In my dreams
I see us both together constantly
Why can't you see
This love that's here for you inside of me
Ohhh
What do I have to do
For you to notice this
You look at her with love
With me it's just friendship
I'm just your girl
And I guess that's all I'll ever be to you
To you
RAN: I try to smile when I see other girls with you
Acting like everything is ok
But ohh
you don't know how it feels to be so in love
With someone who doesn't even know
My secret love
SONOKO: What do you see in her
You don't see in me (don't see in me)
Boy you're so hard to believe
Why do you show her love
But there's none for me
Boy you don't make sense to me
Cause I don't have much to offer
But my heart and soul
And I guess that's not enough
For you to notice me
I'm just your girl
And I guess that's all I'll ever be to you
To you
RAN: I try to smile when I see other girls with you
Acting like everything is ok (everything ain't ok)
But ohh
you don't know how it feels to be so in love (so in love with
you baby)
With someone who doesn't even know
My secret love
Boy you're so hard to believe
The others were speechless, before clapping.
" That was a nice duo." Shinichi said admiringly.
" Yes, I always knew that Mouri was good, but I didn't think that the rich girl would be great too." Shiho said, nodding her head in approval. It was at that second when she blinked as a streak of lightning blinded the sky for a moment. She looked up to the heavens.
Shuichi?
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Miyano was carefully looking through his paperwork calmly, and was about to pack up and leave for home when the hairs on his back stood to an end. His eyes widened before shutting his eyes, clenching his teeth. " You managed to escape, Akai." He said.
Shuichi, half of his forehead totally covered with blood now, held a gun up to Miyano's head. His eyes were bloodshot, face contorted with fury and stanching with disgust and hate. He was taking shallow breaths, and Miyano couldn't stand but notice a patch of blood dampening the shirt on his shoulder. " You piece of scum." Shuichi growled, his fingers on the trigger. " We had a deal. I keep away from your daughter and you leave me alone. One of us didn't uphold the deal, didn't we?"
" It was you who broke the rules, Akai!" Miyano hissed. " What the Hell were you doing with Kudo Shinichi? He's the one chosen to be with my daughter, not you!"
Akai grabbed Miyano by his collar and slammed him into the wall behind him, hearing him choke, hearing him gasp for breath. " Let's make this very clear between the two of us. . ." Shuichi hissed. " I have no intention of killing or hurting him. Which is pretty much the direct opposite of what I want to do to you right now."
The gun in his hand traveled to Miyano's heart.
" I could kill you now." Akai whispered. " And nobody would give a damn."
" Then do it, you coward!" Miyano hissed. " Useless piece of crap! You're supposed to box out your emotions, yet you still pine over a past girl-friend!"
Akai's gun hammered into Miyano's chest and he winced in pain.
" That GIRL-FRIEND, happens to be your daughter, Miyano." Akai growled.
" Not anymore, she isn't." Miyano managed to gasp, a smirk on his face. " I should have ditched her years ago. That slimy piece of filth, just like her sister too. . ."
Shuichi slammed him face-first into his desk, and Miyano yelled in pain, the gun on the back of his head now, blood dripping from his nose. " Don't you dare call her that." Shuichi said coldly.
" And what would you do if I do?" Miyano said with gritted teeth.
" I'll murder you." Shuichi said.
" You wouldn't." Miyano said, smirking with as much dignity as a person could with his face almost plastered onto the table before him. " You're not as stone cold as you were before you met my daughter. She defrosted you didn't she?"
Shuichi grabbed his head upwards before hitting it onto the table once more. " You ditched her, didn't you?" he said, his fingers once again clenched on the trigger.
Another flash of lightning crossed the sky.
He looked at the sky.
Shiho?
He shook himself, the gun on Miyano's head. An unknown tear fell from his face. " Goodbye, Miyano-san." He said quietly. " I didn't want to kill you, I really didn't."
There was no gunshot, but the soft sound of a cracking backbone. The principal screamed before falling to the ground, unconscious, almost dead, barely alive. " And I still don't." he finished, walking away from the limped body. " You'll be awake soon. . .I didn't hurt you that bad. Not as much as you did to me, anyway. But you'd probably never walk normally again."
Silence.
" I hate you, Miyano." He said. " Someday you're going to kill me, I just know it. But when that comes I'm going to have to drag you to the death tomb with me. . .and Shiho's not going to be involved."
In he felt the principal's office.
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" Miyano-sensei?" Shinichi asked, and Shiho was brought back to earth.
She rubbed her forehead tiredly. " I'm fine." She said, answering his silent question. She looked up, and noticed Sanshriyuki coming back from the stage with Yoro, looking sulky yet rather pleased with himself. She raised her eyebrows at Shinichi. " Did the two of them go?"
" Yep." Shinichi replied. " Had a double collaboration. It wasn't half-bad."
" What did they sing?" she asked.
" It's My Life by Bon Jovi." Shinichi replied. " They were nothing compared to Ran and Sonoko, but hey, it was good. I can't believe you could miss it, they were singing loud."
Shiho nodded, then sweatdropped as she noticed everyone staring at the two of them.
" It's your turn, Miyano-sensei." Ran said slyly.
Crap.
Shiho tried vainly to make excuses but Ran and the rest were too sharp, and she was forced to the stage. She bit her lip as she fiddled with her collar, scanning through the songs when she blinked. This scene seemed familiar. She remembered the first time that she sang was. . .
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" Akai, let's not do this." Shiho said.
" Come on, Miyano." Shuichi said, a small grin on his face. " I already sang something, it's all in the way of a two-person karaoke if you sing too."
" I wanted to watch a movie." Shiho said huffily.
" Come on, sing something." Shuichi said, lounging in his chair.
Shiho glared at him before looking at the tracks. It was around twenty minutes when Shuichi rolled his eyes and bobbed his head up from his nap. " Come on, Miyano." He said. " We don't have all day. Look, I'll pick something out for you, alright?"
" Please, Shuichi." Shiho said, almost begging. " I'm not much of a. . ."
" . . .Pleader?" he said, grinning.
She glared at him and he chuckled, before his fingers rested on a particular song, and he clicked on it. The tune sounded around the room, and she raised her eyebrows at him as she listened to it intently. " This song sounds like rubbish." She said.
" That's not very nice." He said. " I like it."
" Which says a lot about your taste in music." She said.
" Come on." He said, finally giving her a true smile. " Please."
She bit her lip, trying to conceal her smile. " Fine." She said.
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Shiho licked her lips.
' This is dedicated to you, Shuichi.' She thought to herself.
Ever
since the day you went away and left me lonely and cold
My life
just hasn't been the same ohh baby, nooo
When I looked into your
eyes the moment that I let you go
I just broke down (down)
Baby
if I ever get the chance to be with you again I would sacrifice
Cuz
the feeling that I feel within
No other man would ever make me
feel so right
Its nice to smile when I get your phone call at
night
But I'd rather have you here with me, right next to me
I
miss the way you hold me tight
I gotta let you know I feel so
weak without your touch
I never thought that I could ever love a
man so much
I gotta let you know I think that we are destiny
For
you I'd cross the world, for you I'd do anything
Thats right
baby I'm going crazy
I need to be your lady
I've been thinking
lately
That you and me, yes we can make it
Just ride with me,
roll with me I'm in love with you baby
Break it down now I'll
tell you what I feel
From the moment that I met you its been so
damn real
My heart seems to skip another beat
Every time we
speak, I can't believe I feel so weak
Tell me that you really need
me and you want me and you miss me
And you love me I'm your
lady
I'll be around waiting for you I'll put it down be the woman
for you
I'm falling so deep for you crazy over for you
Im
calling, calling out to you what am I going to do?
It's true, no
fronting
Its you and no other i can no longer go on without you
I'll just break down (down)
I gotta let you know I
feel so weak without your touch
I never thought that I could ever
love a man so much
I gotta let you know I think that we are
destiny
For you I'd cross the world, for you I'd do
anything
Thats right baby I'm going crazy
I need to be your
lady
I've been thinking lately
That you and me, yes we can make
it
Just ride with me, roll with me I'm in love with you
baby
Ohhh, ohhh...
Crazy... lady... lately...
Ohhh
ohhh...
Ohh ohhh ohhhhhh
Baby...
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Along the corridors, Shuichi heard her.
A lone tear fell from his face as he smiled.
" Baka." He whispered. " Baka."
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She blinked to herself, tears threatening to fall but she held herself. That was funny. She never knew she missed Shuichi so much. She looked at Shinichi, and he was smiling at her. She walked down, ignoring the cheers and claps from the others and sat down beside Shinichi.
" You still miss him, don't you?" Shinichi said quietly.
Shiho bit her lip once again, and nodded.
He shut his eyes tightly before getting to his feet. He walked away and moved to the stage, straightening up. The others stopped clapping and listened intently.
You
don't run with the crowd
You go your own way
You don't play
after dark
You light up my day
Got your own kind of style
That sets you apart
Baby, that's why you captured my heart
I
know sometimes you feel like you don't fit in
And this world
doesn't know what you have within
When I look at you, I see
something rare
A rose that can grow anywhere (grow anywhere)
And
there's no one I know that can compare
What makes you
different, (alright) makes you beautiful (alright)
What's there
inside you, (alright) shines through to me
In your eyes I see,
all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh girl
What
makes you different, makes you beautiful to me
Hey, yeah yeah
yeah
You got something so real
You touched me so deep
(touched me so deep)
See material things
Don't matter to me
So come as you are
You've got nothing to prove
You won me
with all that you do
And I wanna take this chance to say to you
What makes you different, (alright, yeah yeah) makes you
beautiful (alright)
What's there inside you, (alright) shines
through to me
In your eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh girl
What makes you different, makes
you beautiful
You don't know (you don't know) how you touched
my life (touched my life)
Oh in so many ways (so many ways) I
just can't describe
You taught me what love is supposed to be
You saw the little things that make you beautiful to me (so
beautiful)
Oh yeah, yeah
What makes you,
What makes
you different, (what makes) makes you beautiful (to me)
What's
there inside you, (there shines) shines through to me
In your
eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh
girl
What makes you different, makes you beautiful to me
Everything you do is beautiful (so beautiful)
Love you
give shines right through me (shines right through to me)
Everything
you do is beautiful (ooh, ooh ooh ooh oh)
Oh, you're beautiful to
me (to me)
Silence.
He grinned at the others, and he noticed Shiho's eyes brimmed with tears. His eyes widened. ' Damn, did I let the cat out of the bag already?' he thought desperately. He ignored the other looks of the others, his eyes catching Shiho as he walked over to her, and stood before her, She wiped her tears away, and looked up at him. His heart was beating faster than never before, and he gulped.
" Miyano-sensei?" he asked.
Did she. . .
Did she. . .
Did she. . .
Did she know?
" Kudo. . ." she started.
He gulped once again.
" Yes?" he asked.
Silence.
" You suck at singing." She said.
END CHAPTER 14
What do you think? To say myself, I'm not really fond of this chapter. It doesn't flow too well, in my opinion anyway. But if you liked it, I thank you in advance! Please keep reading and reviewing, and I'll post as quick as I can! Are you glad that Shuichi lived? Or do you wish he died? I already have Shinichi's confession planned out. It'll be less than five chapters before he tells Shiho he loves her, I guess. See you in chapter 15!
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AmazonChick73- - -Whoa, just reach out for my hand and you'll be alright.
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