Back to earth
After about an extra thirty minuets for breaks, coffee and trying to convince Toby to use his cane, they finally made it to the gate where Yuki and Shuichi were getting off. They had planned the extra thirty minuets and were ahead of the plane. Touma sat next to Touma as Ryuichi and Sora stood across from them leaning on the wall.
"How are you gonna explain this to Yuki and Shuichi" Toby asked taking a look at Touma. Touma let his head fall into his hands and he rocked his head side to side as if that was going to help him solve the question.
"I don't know" he finally said, "I'll half to say something when we have to take breaks and the reason you have a cane" Touma said, "I never knew you were born with problems" Touma said
"I lived with my dad till he died, you should have known, he said something to you twice why I couldn't go to the park with you all" Toby said watching the plane come up to the dock.
"Must have slipped my mind. I rid my self of all the memories of Kitazawa." Touma said as Ryuichi darted off, Sora not to far behind. Touma was the next to get up and then Toby went to get up but Touma put a hand on his shoulder, "Just stay here" Touma gave him a smile and patted his shoulder, before walked over to Yuki and Shuichi.
"I hope you had fun" Touma asked acting like the gay slut everyone thinks he was.
"It was the best time of my life" Yuki said, "You weren't there" Yuki said and Touma giggled.
"You hate me that much then" Touma asked still with the pep in his voice
then Shuichi was the first to notice that some one was missing, "Where's Toby" Shuichi asked. There was a long silence.
"Um you see" Touma said and Toby got up walked over with his cane and sat in a seat near them, "Child hood illness" Toby said, "Just popped back up and drained the energy out of my body."
Then Yuki noticed his arm, "what the hell happened to your arm?" Yuki asked and Touma was the first to speak up, "It was my fault I got mad at him, and he looked so much like Kitazawa I though he was him" Touma said.
"And why did you get mad" Yuki asked. This time Toby was the first to speak up, "Remember last year, when you left us home alone on that stormy night and told us we could watch any movie in the house" Toby asked
"Yes" Yuki replied keeping a smooth tone with them.
"Well we watched the ring. and I got scared" Toby added
"So"
"So" Sora said, "I tried to comfort him and ya we sort of" Sora was looking at his finger as if something amazing happened to them.
Yuki just looked at him.
"Remember when I couldn't sit down" Sora added at you could see the lights come on in Yuki's head.
"You didn't" he asked
"We did" Replied Sora and Toby
"Your lying" Yuki added
"Nope" They said and Yuki lit a cigarette walking away.
"Well what ever" he said grabbing there things and getting ready to leave.
"Your not mad" They both asked and Touma joined in.
"Nope" Yuki said, " I could care less. Mistakes make mistakes, and that were what the two of you were last time I checked." Yuki pointed at Sora, "You are Ryuichi's mistake. Your birth wasn't planned" Then he pointed at Toby, "And you were Kitazawa's mistake. And caused him nothing but grief." Both boys looked a little sad, "You mite be mistakes, but that makes you stronger that the rest" The boys looked up a little happier that when the conversation first started.
It had only take Yuki three days to get used to the new cooking schedule of cooking but he still had problems with the cooking. Toby only paid attention to the cat. it was only four weeks old now but still his family should be of some importance.
Toby was making a fast recovery, he could walk with out the cane and his neck wasn't so bluish black. "Toby set the table" Yuki yelled at the boy trying to get his attention for the fifth time, "TOBY" he yelled and Toby shot up looking at Yuki, "Set the table" Yuki said watching Toby get up and grab everything to set the table, "Thankyou"
Dinner consisted of plane things for everyone, or all natural things Sora and Shuichi didn't want to eat, "eat it Shuichi" Yuki said but Shuichi just stared at it while Sora proceeded to see if it was editable. Yuki tried to start conversation, "So what did you do when we were gone" Yuki asked Sora continued the conversation.
"Went to Ryuichi's grandparents, went to your parents, told Touma why we left and Toby apparently from what Touma said imitate his dead father well. Sure pissed Touma off" Sora said taking a bite.
"Ya but I'm still to short" He said in the soft voice Kitazawa used and smiling like him.
"I think Touma was right, the voice and the smile, the way you do everything the way you even show me how you did your work was the same way Yuki taught me" Eiri said, "Just took this to notice it, and now that your growing up you look just like him" Yuki said resting a hand on his head, "and its cute"
By the next week the two boys had been left home again. Only this time it was different. It was day light out side, and they were in the living room. And Toby had a package from Yoshiko for a get well gift. Japanese had been abandoned at Toby read another page of the three hundred and sixty-five day calendar out loud.
"Okay get this one" Toby said for once using English.
You mite be a red neck if... You ever tired to go down your porch steps on a pogo stick" Toby laughed and so did Sora.
"Did it" Sora said, "Well Ryuichi did that when I was five and trying to teach me to pogo. He fell and twisted his ankle. it was the last time I ever say a pogo stick" Toby laughing at being able to see Ryuichi actually doing that, "Read another" Sora asked trying to kill time.
"Okay. you mite be a redneck if... when the teacher asks your child, "what your dad likes?" He answers, "Beer and Pamela Anderson" Sora started laughing.
"Michel Winchester did that when he started kinder garden" Toby and Sora broke out laughing. Just then Yuki and Shuichi came into the house and say the two boys laughing.
"What's so funny" both parents asked at the same time.
"This" Toby said reading another one and translating it into Japanese in the process, "You mite be a red neck if... Your cigarette lighter is your stove" All broke into laughing but Yuki who smiled.
"You want to know what I used before I bought lighters" Everyone looked at Yuki with surprise, "The reason I stopped was one time the cigarette caught fire and singed my eye brows off" Everyone laughing as Yuki sat on the other part of the couch that Toby was not occupying right then. Shuichi followed and sat on Yuki's lap and Yuki leaned backwards.
"You mite be a red neck if... Your favourite kind of wine is strawberry" Everyone laughed. Shuichi stopped first, "we had that at the wedding so I'd drink the wine" Then everyone started laughing again.
"Okay, okay" Toby said, "Last one. You mite be a red neck if... You drive the car you were conceived in" Everyone laughed but Toby who looked in horror.
"What dose conceived mean?" He asked and Yuki was the first to reply.
"That's when your parents have sex and the egg is fertilized" Yuki said and Toby's face became more discussed, "What" Yuki asked.
"The car that my dad and I drove was the car I was conceived in" Toby looked like he was going to be sick, Yuki looked like he was getting there.
"Oh god I rode in that car twice a week" Yuki said running away.
Toby was due for another exam. This one was for his arm. The doctor was impressed with Toby and his recovery with his arm and his illness, he was getting to the point where he could walk some distance with out the cane and he could walk farther. It could also be that Yuki bought a treadmill so Toby could get exorcise.
"Well your certainly looking better" The doctor said, "You get your cast off are you happy" Toby shook his head yes, "Now I can take baths by my self" Toby said and the doctor laughed, "Good, good" he said. Toby just gave a crapy smile and a faint laugh.
Shuichi gave the man a weird look, "Are like some kind of gay pervert?" Shuichi asked, "Are you trying to pick up my son?" Shuichi asked from his seat next to the examination desk.
"No no I'm trying to make a joke" The doctor said taking out the tool to get the cast off, "Now just keep your arm still" The doctor took a small blade and ran it down the cast a few times, then on the back, then he took something to spread the cast apart and Toby pulled his arm out, "Now you arm may be sore and will take a while to go back to what it did before. I suggest some light exorcise with some light weights. And I'd like you to use something different that a cane for walking" The doctor said throwing the cast away.
Shuichi and Toby looked at him. "Like what?" Shuichi asked and the doctor grabbed what looked like a long stick but had a part at the top to rest your arm and a place a little lower to hold on to it, "There called sticks" And the doctor gave one to Shuichi, "You rest your arm in the holder and strap it in then hold on to this bar and you use in like a cane but its easier and will help Toby. I personally think Toby is as good as he's gonna get but I have been proven wrong before and I hope to again" The doctor grabbed the chart and handed it to Shuichi, "He'll only need one and you can leave now it you'd like"
That was what Shuichi did but Toby was having trouble getting used to the new cane he was using, "This is like hell" he Whispered to Shuichi who had slower down to match Toby's walking pace, "Just be happy you can eat more normal foods and your doing better" Shuichi whispered back then checked Toby out.
Shuichi and Toby walked across the street to get some ice cream and Toby walked around till he got the handle on using his new crutch.
"Toby can I ask you something" Toby looked up from what he was eating.
"Ya what" Toby asked back
"Would you act like Yuki Kitazawa for the rest of the day" Shuichi asked the boy, "You've grown to my height at Touma said that Kitazawa was taller that him and I'm the same height and" Shuichi stuttered on.
"You know Shu when ever I'm with you I act like him, He was a man scared of what the world would do to him, and his family, he hid behind his boy friends and Eiri when they were dating" Shuichi smacked the table.
"Your kidding" Shuichi asked
"Nope. I got really pissed at them cause Eiri took my dad's attention way from me" Shuichi looked even more boggled eyed
"Did. Touma know" Shuichi asked trying to milk the kid for all the info he could.
"Yes and as long as they didn't have sex he was okay with it because Touma was with Ryu at that time, and Ryu was different then even after Sora was born. Noriko looked after Sora and Ryu went out with Touma" Toby said sipping some coffee.
"Oh your god" Shuichi said not believing in god but hearing the boys say oh my god got him saying oh your god, "Tell me more"
"Well" Toby said, "Alright just in till Touma gets here. Al right" Toby thought for a moment, he knew so much of the missing past about Eiri that Shuichi never knew, granted that Shuichi was now thirty two Eiri still never spilt the beans.
"Well there was the time that my fathers (I'm using Yuki for Kitazawa and Eiri for Eiri) first boy friend raped him and Eiri was so freaked out,
(Flash back)
Eiri snatched the newspaper up almost as soon as it hit the floor. He tore open the bindings, flipped it open, and thumbed through the pages so fast, Touma could hardly see his fingers move. "Eiri, what on earth are you looking for that's so important?"
"Kitazawa-sensei hasn't even called for days. I'm making sure nothing happened to him."
"Eiri, it hasn't been long."
"Yes it has!"
He opened the section on crime, then slammed it down on the table.
"So, what are you looking in? The obituaries?"
"Don't even say that, Touma."
"You're the one looking to make sure he hasn't been murdered!"
Eiri glared. "Or robbed, or something else terrible like that!" he snapped. "I'm worried about my teacher, okay?" He continued scanning the paper, though now his roommate had joined in - for lack of better things to do.
Touma's eyes caught it before Eiri's. "Hey...there's his name!"
"Where!"
Touma pointed.
Eiri followed his finger and immediately began reading the column. "It says he was found in a car parked in some deserted alley...and he was..." Eiri's eyes went wide. No. Surely he misread that. There was no way Kitazawa was...
...he read it again.
"Raped..?" he croaked hoarsely. "It says the person who did it escaped, but...Kitazawa was raped..."
Touma's eyes also went wide. "What?"
Eiri looked up, looking to be on the verge of hysteria. "Kitazawa-sensei was raped! And the person who did it to him got away with it!" he said. His voice was freakishly calm and quiet, but it was shuddery. It scared Touma.
"Look, calm down, Eiri. The point is, he's not dead."
"But he was raped!"
(End flash back)
"Eiri ended up getting me up and asking me all these stupid questions and yelling at me." Toby started to laugh, "I thought some one had died.
(Flash back)
Eiri stormed into the bedroom that Toby was staying in, Toby was staying there because Yuki was low on money and was worried about his boy friend freaking out when was going to ask if they could break up.
Eiri jumped on the bed waking the sleeping three year old who had more knowledge because of what he was and his mother, "Toby who the hell has Yuki been hanging around and what the hell was he planning to do last night" Eiri yelled.
Toby woke with a jolt, "What? Why?" he asked
"Toby Yuki was raped" Toby just rolled over, "it was probably his boy friend" and with that Toby started to get up. Eiri was furious and decided to drag Toby and Touma to the hospital to see Yuki.
(end flashback)
Shuichi sat there with a dazed look on his face.
"My father was a wreck after that. Touma looked after me a raised me from that point on, Yuki didn't have the mental ability to raise me" Toby looked away, "that was until Yuki died. Eiri and I were both mental hurt and Touma did his best till my mother came for me" Shuichi gave Toby a saddened look.
"I'll tell you another" And Toby once again searched his mind for a happier memory.
(Flashback)
Touma walked out of his room the next morning, beaming proudly. He hummed, closing his eyes against the sun's brightness, and walked into the kitchen. "Eiri-kun, I think life just went up a couple notches, but we gotta cut back on the spending, okay? Start looking for a job now, and no more strawberry cheesecake for my little barbarian."
He looked over at the table and lost his appetite.
Eiri had been feeding Kitazawa strawberries from between his teeth.
"What the - you two - I thought you were traumatized, Kitazawa!" Touma sputtered.
"I was," Kitazawa said, pulling closer to Eiri and snatching a strawberry form between his teeth, letting the juice run down his chin. "I recovered pretty fast with Eiri right there next to me...though I'll still run away screaming if I see that...that creature..!"
The mention of Yuki's boyfriend had made Kitazawa's pupils go tiny. He had slid back into a terrible memory, and both blondes could see him trembling. Eiri grasped his shoulders. "Kitazawa!" he said sharply. "Kitazawa, snap out of it!"
Kitazawa blinked and his head jolted. "Sorry, Eiri..."
"It's okay, Kitazawa." He grinned. "Still hungry?"
Noting the look on Touma's face, he said, "Actually, I'm rather full..."
Touma sat down with a bagel and a square of strawberry cream cheese.
"You seemed chipper," Eiri noted.
"Pay raise," Touma said, smiling. "K just called me up and he practically gave it to me!"
After a bit of screaming and blackmail... Touma thought to himself.
"Awesome!" Eiri bubbled.
"Very awesome. Perhaps you two will be able to manage on your own, but I'm not sure yet."
Kitazawa looked up, confused. "Huh? What do you mean?"
"Eiri didn't tell you?"
Kitazawa shook his head.
"NG leaves for Michigan in two weeks. We're on a USA tour, and I've already had to postpone it for one month because of Eiri. I can't hold any more, and you have to take care of him. I can afford to send you your usual pay, plus a fair amount of support money. Eiri's going to get a job."
Kitazawa stared at Eiri. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought I'd tell you later. When you were a bit more recovered."
"Eiri, I'm fine."
"No you're not. You're still terrified at the mention of - well, yes, I'm sure I don't need to say it."
Kitazawa bit his lip. "I'm sorry..."
(end flash back)
Shuichi Just looked at Toby as he nodded his head, "Yep those are just something's that happened. They were fun times"
"Fun" Shuichi said watching Touma walk up, "Um hi Touma" Shuichi said as Touma walked up tipping his hat.
"Sorry I'm late" He bowed, and took a seat, "So How are you doing" Touma asked looking at Toby out of the corner of his eye. Toby raised his arm and the crutch, "Well batter as I can tell. So you ready to spend the day with me" Touma asked Toby just looked at him.
"Hun, what? I never heard about that" Toby asked.
"Well I sort of forgot" Shuichi smiled.
Toby tried to speed up his walking to catch up with Touma who was walking at an irregularly fast pace, "Touma slow down" Toby yelled. Toby and Touma spent the rest of the day at the amusement park doing who knows what till Toby had to go home.
Everything was going alright.
"Toby I'll walk you home" Touma stressed. Toby looked over his shoulder.
"No I'm fine don't worry" Toby said and they both went there own ways.
Every body was happy and fine till some one pulled up behind Toby and pulled him into the darkness. No one knew. Only Toby. Every one was happy that night for no one knew that Toby wouldn't be home in the morning.
(end)
Tibus: (gets shot with a gun by fans she didn't know she had) Ow, your god, cows! Look its set up for another story. And something cool happened, I drew a picture of Sora and Toby, I need to get a friend to scan it in then I'll post it on live journal so you can all see, also with story layouts and stories that mite come to be, you can write comments on if you think this would be a good story or not see you later.
Next story
Fly Me Too The Moon.
A story about Toby and his disappearance.
Tibus: you didn't think I'd end it with Toby being kidnapped and killed or something like that, but I am thinking of killing Toby so he can be with Yuki Kitazawa, his father, he would reappear as a run away shinigami, or a dog or something like it... May be a kitty. So some one vote and decide, please these storys can't be perfect at all!