Generations:
Chapter Twenty-six:
"Kess…." Ryuu sobbed after being pried from his son by the nurse and ushered into the hall with Tohma. "Kess, I'm sorry please…please don't…." His eyes filled anew with tears, tumbling down as gentle arms wrapped around him.
"Ryuu, it'll be okay, we're in a hospital. The doctors will make Kess better." Tohma held his friend close, keeping his own tears at bay as flashes of the first time Kessuke tried to commit suicide swam through his mind.
'Darkness met him as he entered the room—darkness and an eerie silence; almost as though no one even breathed in the apartment. Looking unsurely around from the front door, Tohma glanced at the shoe rack by the door—only one pair of shoes graced the rack.
"Kessuke's shoes…." Tohma mumbled and slipped off his own shoes, stepping into the apartment afterwards. "Kessuke!" He called after turning on the hallway light. "Kessuke! I know you're here, you're supposed to be in school right now."
He heard a faint mumble from a room down the hall, one with the door open and the light off. Curious, he strode towards it, about to scold the teenager for ditching school—that's when he heard the large thump of something falling to the floor.
Immediately he rushed to the room and flicked on the light—gasping horrified at the sight that greeted him.
On the room floor lay Kessuke, sprawled out and unconscious—an empty prescription bottle near him on the floor.
"Kessuke…KESSUKE!" Tohma rushed to the unconscious teen and knelt next to him, his heart thumping wildly in his chest. Wrapping his hands around Kessuke, he tried to shake him awake, but the teen remained unconscious and unresponsive. "Kess…. No…."
Trembling, the N-G president took out his cell and dialed for an ambulance, still holding the teen close.
"Kessuke, why…?" He asked the unresponsive teen after finishing his call for an ambulance, tears of shock and pain falling from his eyes. That's when he saw the bruises on the pale teen's arms—dark bluish patches discoloring his skin. "God…."
Tohma's eyes widened as he lifted the boy's shirt a little and saw a bigger bruise on the teen's torso—a deep bruise going from his stomach to his side and somewhat on his back.
"Who did this to you, Kessuke? What prick…." The shacho trembled more as he lightly touched the marks on the pale skin, disbelieving everything.
"Don't…." Kessuke mumbled, still unconscious. "Don't Ta…ki…don't…."
'Taki? Taki? That….' Tohma clenched his teeth and held the teen gently closer to him, careful not to hurt him anymore. He stood there with Kessuke until the ambulance arrived and then rode with him to the hospital, leaving his side only when the doctors shooed him away.'
"Kessuke…why again? Aizawa's gone why…?" Tohma trembled as he tore his mind away from those memories, barely aware of his surroundings.
"…Again?" Ryuu's voice interrupted him, and he looked down to see teary yet serious cobalt eyes staring at him. "Again? Tohma, what do you mean…did Kess…did Kess try…before…? Did he…?"
"Ryuu." Tohma trembled more as he stared into those worried blue eyes.
A/N End chapter, I can't figure out what to write….I'm stuck between choosing what should happen to Kessuke—should he survive or should he not? When I wrote the previous chapter I planned on making him not survive, but…I still want to write scenes with him in them—plus I want him and Shinichi to get together. I don't know what to do…I think I may write two versions just to explore both possibilities, and also sometime soon in the fic I'm going to end this first part and make a second one since it's getting very long. Not many people read fics that are very long—I know I don't have to worry about the people already hooked to this story, but if I want new fans to read this, I need to limit how many chapters, since most people usually skip stories that are very long. I do the same thing myself sometimes.
Anyway, please review.