This isnt' exactly the greatest continuation but... well anyway... At least I have it more firmly cemented what my plans with Tatsuya are going to be.

Chapter 25: Sleeping Beauty in Pink

"Well, at least we know he's here. That's better than us not knowing right?" Ryuichi asked. He carefully pushed Narumi back down into her bed and covered her up with the blanket. It hadn't taken long for her to cry herself to sleep.

Ryuichi couldn't imaging just how horrible it had been always looking over her shoulder like that but he couldn't let things go on. He had a debt he had to repay, and even if there hadn't been that debt...

"I wonder how he found Narumi? It's been a while since the murder, right? If he didn't know she was in Tokyo than how did he find out now? It's kinda strange that all of a sudden he knows where she is."

Touya beckoned for everyone to go out into the hallway. He was more than a little worried that talking things out would only cause more problems for them all. Right now what Narumi needed was rest. Things had already been too stressful, the last things she needed was to not get any sleep at all.

"Is there anyway to hide from this guy?"

"You can't hide."

Ryuichi thought back to his Grandfather's lectures on manners how you should do you're best to repress you're self so you didn't hurt those closest to you, and he couldn't help but feel that that wasn't always true. That there were times when the only thing you could do was trust in another, and try to support each other through that. He didn't know if it was right or not, but he had to try. He could only hope that together even if things couldn't be fixed they could at least be over with.

"If we hide he'll only find Narumi again and again and nothing will ever end. I... I don't want to see her hurt like that. She... She would always be alone and sad."

He had to help her, that's all there was to it.

"You know, Ryuichi's right, and anyway we don't know that Aoi will come after Narumi anyway. I mean, maybe he doesn't know how much she knows... hopefully."

"Do you honestly believe that?" Tatsuya asked doubtfully. If they were this worked up over this guy than he probably was a major threat. The real question was how major of a threat was he?

"He probably suspects even if he doesn't know. Still we should try to at least play it cool. If he only suspects than he may not know so at least we have a little bit of an advantage."

"Either way it's a dangerous game. Sakuma-san you don't have to do this. You can still..."

"I do have to do this. Tatsuya-kun, go home. Pretend you haven't heard any of this. Stay as far away from us as you possibly can for a while. YOU are the one that does't have to be involved."

He called me Tatsuya-kun!

Hearing it just made his heart melt. He was in. He hated Narumi's guts, but for Ryuichi-kun, anything. Anythings at all!

"I'll stay. I won't let you get yourself killed. because of this 'woman'."

"Thanks. We're going to need a plan."

"Someone is going to have to stay with Narumi. No and's, if's, or but's. We don't know if Aoi's going to strike or not but if he does than Narumi's probably going to be his target. After all she's the one he's after, we're just the guys in the way of his victory."

"Ryuichi, you have my permission." Touya nodded at him.

"Permission for what?"

"We'll someone's going to have to take the night shift right? We'll I'm her bro, I'd rather not baby sit her. I think you friend here... Tatsuya was it? Would probably strangle her, so you can sleep with her."

"Alright."

Tatsuya could feel the bile biting the back of his throat at the mere thought of the two of them...

Tatsuya could barely keep the scream rising in his throat to the level of a groan, but Touya smiled knowing exactly how much fun it was going to be to torture this guy. Just like playing with a new pet.

to be continued...