Keigo denied any statement. There wasn't anything he could tell them anyway. He confessed that he was aware of Ichigo's shinigami-powers and that they were pulled into some kind of 'interdimensional war'. But that was everything he knew. They never talked to him about it, punched him when he asked and so he decided to don't ask anymore and left to live his own life...
"You see..." Keigo said and took a deep breath. "...that's all I can tell you! Are we ready now? I still have some work to do!"
"No! You don't!" the channel-director said and lift off his chair. "As long as we don't get a full statement from you, you won't go anyway..."
"That was... the fullest possible statement I could give to you!" Keigo said. "So if there are no further questions, I need to go! And by the way, there are way other topics you may report about... our country is full of hushed up problems that may need attention!"
Keigo lift off too and prepared to leave.
"Asano-san, we kindly request you to not to leave the city in the next time. If we have further questions." one of the policemen said.
"Okay, if it's really necessary?!" Keigo said annoyed.
"As long as this investigation is running, you won't have any screen time." the director said. Keigo didn't care for it. "And... you are not longer part of the cast of 'Crime-Lab-Tokyo'!"
"Fine!" was everything Keigo was able to say. His whole career was shattering and everything he was able to say was 'fine'!
Full of anger he left the office. Everyone stared on him like he was an alien. Keigo just rushed to the elevator to get away from here... back in the lobby he passed the welcome desk, where a delivery-man talked to the man there. He pointed on Keigo.
"Ah... Asano-san... a rush-letter for you!" the man said and handed an big envelope to Keigo.
Keigo took the letter and signed on the man's pad before heading back to the studios to throw the letter to the other mail. Than he learned that he was replaced... in almost all his shows...
Present...
"Ouwch... sound's pretty hard!" Isshin said.
"Oh, yeah... it was... the following weeks were not very easy, too. For nobdy..."
"Yeah... I know what you mean!" Yuzu said. "At least I thought that I can act like everything is fine..."
"Well, you had your North-Korean-Terrorist, who let you feel like a loved one. I had a girlfriend who was afraid of her own reputation. And Yupa had two overprotective parents scared for his mental health." Keigo said and turned Yuzu and Yupa abashed.
10 years ago...
But what happened in the following weeks...
Keigo had to be very careful. He had to avoid reporters and curious people all the time. He shut himself in. He became depressive. Start to drink more and more and took more of this good-dammed pills. He still dubbed, but now only a few commercials. His voice disappeared out of the TVs more and more. At some times, he didn't left his apartment for days. Only talking with his plants. Akira became scared. When she found the lawyers buisiness card in Keigo's apartment she went there to ask for advice. The rest of that was already told... Keigo's craziness reached a new level, when he decided to 'safe' the souls of some animals from beeing send to the Soul-Society, when he bought and 'adopted' some living animals on the market, who were suppossed to end up in the woks of some restaurants... When he became the Soul-Society's main suspect, he was even visited by a member of the commission. But that evening, Keigo was so drunk that he didn't mentioned him. The Shinigami just took Keigo's smartphone with him and some documents. At one day, Keigo finally opened the letter he recieved from the delivery-man and was surprised to find an invitation for a class reunion...
Yupa spend some time in a clinic, tried to run away several times and was able to flee one day... only to be catched by his father's colleagues and brought back to the nuthouse... Luckily for him, he was not 'treated' with medicine or else. He denied to talk to anyone. Neighter to the doctors, nor to his parents, who saw no other solution than keeping him in the nuthouse. Hoping that the curse the Kurosaki's laid on ther son will somehow breaked thier.
Yuzu sucessfully hid under her new identity as long as possible. Hoping every-day that a nearby phone start's to ring, making it able for her to talk to her family again. Of course the Soul-Society tried to figure out why her soul-ticket failed. The reason was so simple that it was hard to find... But Yuzu was not interested in her soul-ticket, she was only interested in surviving. She had at least someone who let her feel like she was needed. Yoon (the South-Korean salesman who was in truth a North-Korean terrorist with a dangerous mission) went on several dates with her. She enyoed them. He was a gentleman. Polite, friendly, helpful... was he the right, one? Okay, he did not really understood what they talked but she was a good teacher and he learned Japaneze very well. But that was impossible, Yuzu thought. She was telling him one lie after the other... He even didn't know her real name. Several weeks passed, and the news revealed that Yuzu Kurosaki was still in Karakura. After that she did not leave her apartment anymore... Sure, she still had Keigo's adress, but she was well aware that he had enough problems on his own...
And so all three went on with thier broken lives. Until the evening of the class-reunion...
"Sorry Keigo, but I am not in mood to meet a bunch of foreigners you do not want to meet, too." Akira said with a harsh voice and hang off.
Keigo was not surprised about her reaction. She became a different person since his failed suicide-attempt, he tried to understand by consulting another therapist. But he broke up the therapy immediately. He didn't understand her anymore. She was avoiding to see him for some reason. Keigo didn't understood that Akira was to much hurt to see Keigo destroying himself. Anyway Keigo was really surprised that he was invited to a class-reunion. He was not 'the most popular-guy at school'. And there was still a risk that he could meet some old rivals or his sister. But why did they invite him? Because of Ichigo? Was it a trap? No, there was no reason. Maybe they figured out that he became a very sucessful Seiyuu and want to apologize or ask him about other actors, like do you know him or her, or else? Or maybe someone of them wants to get in TV, too?
Keigo looked into the mirror while using a comb to make his hair. Was he really ready for this? Was he really able to face all this people after so many years? Because he knew what they would think about his presence...
"I hope Asano is not so stupid to invite himself!" Ryo Kunieda said while she waited for Michiru Ogawa in her room.
"Why?" Michiru asked while she prepared.
"Oh, please... he is the most intrusive person in the world. And... he was aware of the... aw... you know lets change the topic. And now show yourself..." Michiru showed herself to Ryo in her new dress. She looked wonderful. "Wow... Ogawa-chan... you look incredible!"
"Really... I mean... is it not too... you know..."
"No! You look great!" Ryo said while her phone beeped and she read the message she recieved. "Come on, the girls are waiting... We will have a wonderful and funny evening..."
Michiru nooded. She had no clue that this evening was going to be one of the worst in thier lives...
Yuzu Kurosaki meanwhile carefully peeked out threw her window and into the darkness outside. There was this creepy silence all around. The people of Karakura were still afraid of the 'Soul-Eating-Kurosakis', so Yuzu could still see plates with apples everywhere.
"Why is everyone watching Death-Note now?" Yuzu grunted and went back to her TV to watch the latest news. Luckily the news didn't report only about the Kurosaki's but also about other stuff. It was pretty warm. She was afraid to turn on the air-conditioner, so people would see that someone was at home.
Suddenly someone knocked against her door...
Yuzu was so scared that she hid under a blanket at first, but she knew that it was ridiculous. No one knew that she was at home. But what if someone figured out her real name? What if someone figured out who she really is? What if they came to lynch her? The person in front of her door knocked again. Carefully Yuzu left her hideout and sneaked towards the window right next to the door, to peek outside. It was pretty dark outside, but she definetely recognized her new boyfriend Yoon, among the people outside...
Excited she opened the door to let them in...
Keigo meanwhile sat in his car and tried to not to think to much. Sure he was upset and excited to see these people again. But did he really wanted to? He could also say no and just stay away. But would it be coward? Not as covard as is failed suicide-attempt, he did not understood till today. One who was not really happy to see all this faces again was Holeigo, deep inside of Keigo's soul. But he had no chance to tell him his point of view, as he was to much repressed by Keigo's mind.
He thought about his former classmates. He didn't knew anything about them. He was pretty sure that many of them do not attend. Many of them left Karakura to work in other parts of the contry or even aboard. He did as well. But he was not sure what to expect over there.
Another one was pretty upset was Mizuho, who prepared for the class-reunion, too. She took a deep breath before she looked on a photo of her son on the wall. Her plan had to work. It just had to... After another deep breath, she took the phone to call her parents. She didn't want to admit it, but she needed thier help. Thier appearance would be really usefull.
"Keigo is going to attend our class-reunion tonight!" she told them. "I am afraid, he is planning to do something embarassing!"
"What do you think?" her father asked.
"I don't know... but I have a terrible feeling. You know how humiliating his behaviour was always. And now he want's to ruin the party. I knew it, because of that we even didn't send him an invitation."
That was a lie. It was true that Keigo's name was not on the list because of his 'connections' to the Kurosaki's, but Mizuho send him an invitation anyway without telling anyone else.
"Some people figured out that he is comming tonight. I know it is required at short notice, but... may you and mother come to the reunion to stop him. I think Keigo needs some education from an adult!"
"Hmm... you are right. There are really some things I would like to tell your brother!" her father said. "You know what... your mother and I will come, too. And before you say something, I know it might be strange when parents attend to thier daughters class reunions but you can rely on us."
Mizuho learned to never rely on her parents, but of course she didn't tell him that directly. She just smiled. "Aww... you would really do that for me...?"
A few blocks away, Yuzu was surprised to see the guy she was dating over the last weeks standing in front of her door with three other people.
"Yoon-kun? What a surprise?"
"Hello! Haruna, I need you... help us! We lost hotel... May we... join you?" he stuttered with his bad Japanese.
"Oh, come in... I cook something for you!" Yuzu said without thinking about it and let them in. "And who are they?"
"Ehm... this are my... comrades!" the Korean told and introduced his 'comrades' to his Japanese 'girlfriend'. "I hope we do not... bother you? We won't stay long!"
"Aww... you are welcome! You don't bother me! I love visitors..."
Present...
„At least until that evening..." Yuzu said.
10 years ago...
"Feel like home!" Yuzu said cheerfully. "Are you hungry? I will cook for you..."
Yuzu went into the kitchen and start to prepare dinner. She lived only from a very very small amount of money and didn't had enough food for all of them. But Yoon and his three friends gave her the feeling that everything was normal. She was not aware what was really going on in her apartment now.
"Okay, as long as she is here... we only speak Korean! What about our budget?" Yoon said in Korean, so Yuzu did not understand.
"We are out of money. We have to act now. The date is set."
"The airline will start operation with thier biggest jet in three days. Everything is prepared. The maiden flight with the..."
Yuzu entered the room with some cups to offer them tea... immediately they hid thier documents under the table.
"Is everything fine?" she asked.
"Yes... we are fine..." Yoon said innoncently and Yuzu went back into the kitchen. "We have to get rid of her when it is done!"
"That won't be a problem!" one of them said and lift a gun out of his backpack.
"Not here! Hide it..." Yoon hissed... "We still need her!"
Yuzu didn't mentioned that she was in danger... she was just happy to have guests to cook for...
Michiru Ogawa meanwhile met with the other woman to go to the reunion together. Some of them she haven't seen for years. She was happy. She admit that she needed that evening, just to calm down. Hiding from the world at work or at home was no solution.
Her friend Mahana Natsui was pregnant in seventh month and recently went into materny protection. Everyone was exited about her baby. And she was really exited about, too. Michiru was very happy for her, knowing that she will never know how it feels like...
Present...
"Well it was before I met you!" Michiru moaned to Kaneda next to her. She was still driving over the motorway trying to catch up to the Kurosaki's who drove much faster and had a long lead to them. "Nobody had a clue what will happen..."
10 years ago...
Together the group reached thier former school. The reunion was hold in the gym. Together they looked around. The school was renovated and modernized since thier graduation. They could smell the fresh white paint on the walls. More and more people entered the area. The sun began to set. The atmosphere seemed to be happy. Suddenly Michiru saw a plate with apples standing right next to the door.
"Even here?" she said and pointed on the apples.
"Of course,... I hope no one of them dares to appear here." Ryo said. "Don't talk about it... we are here to have fun..."
The group entered the nicely decorated gym. Less people came than expected. Because many of thier former classmates left the city and others were simply too afraid to attend. Not even the half of thier year appeared. There were way more people from the two other years. Together they reached the buffet and start to have fun...
In her hideout, Mizuho Asano prepared everything. She prepared a little surprise for her brother. She was pretty sure that he will appear here. She knew him, he was so predictable... but suddenly she realized that she forgot her camera and a really important video-tape at home...
"OH NO!" she screamed. So loud that one of her former classmates could hear her. And he was scared. "I need the camera for the evidence..."
Mizuho sneaked out to rush home to get her camera. She wanted to film Keigo's mental breakdown for the youth-welcare-office. While she sneaked away, her former classmate had to drink something to calm down.
"You know what..." he said to a friend. "... I could swear that I heared Mizuho Asano grumbling!"
"When she was not grumbling?" his friend said annoyed. "I hope she does not come, too. Do you remember her domineering behaviour?"
"Oh, please don't remember me! I would rather see Kurosaki here than her!"
Mizuho was not aware that she was not as popular as she thought. Nobody knew that she organized this evening. That they were all here because she wanted them to be here... they were her 'accomplices', what they didn't know.
Her parents meanwhile arrived at the school and looked around, while she left the building threw the rear door and jumped on a parked bike to race home. Of course the appearance of the elder couple was not unmentioned.
"Hmm... who are they?" Ryo asked while she, Michiru, Mahana and Chizuru sat on a table and talked. "They look... kind of familiar..."
"They are definetely not from our year!" Chizuru said sarcastically.
"Are they teachers here?" Michiru asked.
"No! But I think..." Ryo could swear that she saw this elder couple one time.
Several blocks away, Yuzu searched her kitchen for everything that she could use for the dinner. In her room she could hear them talking wildly in Korean. She didn't understand any word but she was sure they were just talking about thier business. Indeed they talked about thier upcomming attack on the flight to Dubai in several days. They talked about the aftermath when they blame the Iraqi to force the United States to move thier troups from South-Korea to the Middle East...
It was a small one-room apartment with a seperate kitchen and a tiny bathroom. Everything they talked was heared by Yuzu who decided to improvise for the dinner. While she went back to the living-room, the Koreans hid thier guns again...
Keigo had a very strage feeling when he stopped his car on the parking lot of his former school. A cold shiver ran down his back. It felt wrong. He didn't want to face most of them. And they maybe too. Especially since the Kurosaki's public exposure. But they had never invited him, if they blame him, too. He had no clue that it was going to be the worst evening in his entire life. With trembling hands he left his car and looked on the building. His memories, the good but also the bad, on this place returned. No, he thought. He hid long enough. But what he didn't know was that they already waited for him...
"Asano is here!" a woman whispered scared to her husband after returning from outside.
"Oh my gosh. Mizuho Asano! Oh no, she is a..." her husband, who was a classmate of Mizuho and suffered under her bossy behaviour, too moaned. But his wife, who never met her (she attend to another school) was not talking about her.
"Which Mizuho? No... I am talking about Keigo Asano..." she whispered. "You know... that guy from TV! The one with the Shinigami-connections!"
Together they spread the news in the room. After a few seconds it reached the table with Mizuho's group...
"... ehm, ladies... Keigo Asano is here!" one of thier former classmates told them.
"Keigo Asano?! Who invited him?" Mahana said and rubbed her baby bump worried.
"Who knows? But what does he want here anyway?" Ryo asked.
"What if..." Michiru began. "... he is here for the same reason as we? To have a nice evening?"
Her friends looked on her confused but understood it. Asano was always very naive. Maybe he was so stupid to think that everyone forgot that he belonged to 'the group'. Of course Keigo's parents heared about the appearance of thier son, too...
Present...
"We didn't want to..." Keigo's mother cried but Keigo used another Kidou to silence her and his father.
Just a second later, the door opened and Ichigo, Orihime, Tatsuki, Chad and Mizuiro entered the house after finally arriving.
"Okay,... we are here... what's going on here and... Oh my gosh..." Ichigo yelled when he saw the mess. "Keigo? Was that really necessary?"
"Yes, it was!" Keigo moaned. "Wait... and what did you did with Akira and Makoto?"
"Don't worry... they are fine. Ogawa and Ochi take care of them!"
"Woah... Kaneda is really here. So he finally got his permission back to enter the world of the living? Mayuri, congratulations! You're father is rehabilitated!"
"YEAH!" Mayuri cheered...
"So, what is going on here?" Ichigo asked again.
"We were just about to figure out what happened between the Asano's on the accursed class reunion, Uncle Ichigo!" Masaki told.
"I think this is the wrong moment now, to talk about my family?!" Keigo moaned and looked around. Including him, now totally 16 people (Keigo, Keigo's son, his mother, his father, Ichigo, Orihime, Kazui, Isshin, Karin, Yuzu, Yupa, Masaki, Mayuri, Renji, Rukia and Ichika), and when Ogawa, Kaneda and the ladies appear, the room will be overfilled much more than it already was.
"What happend on the reunion?" Isshin asked curiosly.
"I think we are not suppossed to hear that!" Ichigo said to his father and start to shoo out everone of the room. "That's something between Keigo and his parents..."
Keigo jr. was the last one to leave the room. "But I want to hear it..."
"Son, please!" Keigo said and pointed on the door. Keigo junior made is best 'offended' face and left the room before Ichigo closed the door with a smile that looked like he wanted to say 'please, be patient with them'.
Keigo was now alone with his parents, while the whole group went into the corridor between the living-area and the clinic. But nobody dared to leave. Instead everyone decided to do it like Isshin always did on Ichigo's door and use a glass to eavesdrop...
10 years ago...
Keigo felt like he was gaining more and more weight. Like something inside him tried to warn him... Holeigo was moaning again, but he was not able to interfere as always. Despite he could feel Keigo's fear.
"What the hell I am doing here?" Keigo asked himsefl before he reached the closed door to the gym. Squinting to the plate of apples next to it. "Luckily, I refused to play in that Death-Note-movie!"
Once again, Keigo took a deep breath. There was no reason to be afraid. The most of them never talked to him, and he was not here to talk to them, too. He was here to try to forget his problems. He could hear the music from inside, and people talking. The mood inside seemed to be happy...
Mizuho meanwhile was pretty angry when she drove back to her apartment to get the camera and the video-tape she needed for her plans. With squeaking tires she stopped in front of the door, jumped off the bike and ran upstairs. She hoped that she won't be too late... but she was going to miss everything...
"Okay,... Showtime!" Keigo said and opened the door to the gym.
The moment, Keigo opened the door and entered the gym... suddenly the music stopped and everyone went silent and stopped talking. Because everyone was gazing on him.
Keigo's heart stopped immediately. His face went pale and his body freezed when he realized that really everyone was gazing on him. That was the moment he realized: "That was a mistake!"
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