Tohma flinched as a gunshot rang.
Masaru screamed as a bullet carved itself into his shoulder. He scrambled to his feet, pointing gun in the direction from which the bullet came.
There stood K with his magnum pointed at him. Beside him were Yuki and Mika. He couldn't see anyone else.
"If I were you, I wouldn't move," Yuki said calmly.
"Me?" Masaru asked amused, "You make another step and your precious boy is the thing of the past."
And with that he pointed his gun at Shuichi's head, making everyone freeze.
"So nice, you came to enjoy the show," Yuki growled at Masaru's comment, "But this was supposed to be only for our dear brothers, so you are kinda intruding, and I am not into broad audience."
He zipped up his fly, and discreetly slipped something from his pocket.
The three newcomers were too preoccupied with analyzing the brothers comment to notice it, until Masaru said: "So lady and gentlemen, au revoir."
And with that he threw what he had at those three.
It only took split second for K to shout: "Grenade!"
Yuki moved to shield his sister, but K tackled them both to the ground.
Next thing they knew, the world around them exploded in bright light and loud noise.
For several seconds nobody moved, than K jumped to his feet and murmured, "Flash grenade, damnit!"
He tried to run after Masaru, but quickly realized that the man was gone.
When Eiri helped his sister up K was already by Shuichi, checking on his vitals.
"He is alive," said K, "But what the hell happened? There is so much blood, he has probably broken nose…"
Mika quickly ran to her husband, who looked ready to faint, "Dear… Eiri quickly."
Eiri glanced between Tohma and Shuichi.
K stood up, "I will take care of that, you can carefully put him into stabilized position, besides, you don't have knife on you anyway, do you?"
Eiri looked worried and relieved at the same time, however he went to follow K's orders, while the older man pulled out a small pocket knife.
Mika pulled at the rope in frustration.
K approached her, "Allow me, Mrs. Seguchi."
He quickly pulled away the tape on Tohma's mouth, who groaned and whined: "Natsuki."
"Eh?" Mika blinked confused.
Tohma sucked in breath, "Is Natsuki okay?"
K and Mika looked at each other in surprise as K cut the ropes holding Tohma up, and the shorter swayed.
"Easy, Seguchi," K caught him, but Tohma pushed him away.
"I need to see if Natsuki is okay!"
He sunk to his knees beside Eiri, "How is he?!"
Yuki opened his mouth, but K's hand on his should stopped him. He looked up and when his and K's eyes met, he made a space for he American, so he could look at Shuichi.
"There shouldn't be much damage," K said calmly, "Some bruises and cuts, probably broken nose and concussion."
He took out his cell phone and turned on the camera light. Then reached towards Shuichi's face and pushed the singer's eyelid up, to see if the irises will react to light, but quickly pulled his hand away.
"What the fuck?!" he breathed out and looked towards Eiri, who was looking back at him with the same confused face.
"What it is?" Mika leaned towards them.
Yuki sucked in breath, "His… Shuichi's eyes… are green."
Mika looked at the singer with wide eyes and then back at her brother.
Then there was pained groan coming from the singer.
"Natsuki! Shuichi!" all four adults called and leaned to Shuichi.
The singer cracked his eyes open, and everyone started to yell all over each other.
"I am sorry," Shuichi whined, "Please don't hurt me, I'm sorry…"
"Shuichi, it's me," Yuki put his hand on Shuichi's shoulder, but the singer turned away and started vomiting and then passed out again.
K handed Yuki a handkerchief, "He has concussion for sure… We have to get him to a hospital. You take him and I will go in front in case that bastard is waiting near our car."
Yuki gently wiped Shuichi's face and then picked him up bridal style, while his sister helped Tohma. They headed in direction of their car, which was guarded by Suguru, with K walking a few steps in front of them with his gun ready
Seeing them, Suguru opened the doors and stepped out, "You found him? What happened?! How…"
Mika shook her head, "I am confused too, and want some answers, but not now. Both Tohma and Shuichi are hurt and we are going to the hospital."
Suguru nodded and about thirty seconds later they were all boarded and K slammed the gas pedal. They were at the hospital probably in half time it would normally taken, and as soon as the nurse at the reception saw Shuichi and Tohma, doctors rushed both injured musicians away.
But before the doctor in charge of Shuichi sprinted away, K leaned to him and whispered something in his ear. The doctor looked at him in confusion, but then he nodded and went after his patient.
K, Yuki, Mika and Suguru were left to wait. Which the novelist hated with utter passion. The hospital halls were dull and smelled with disinfectants, which only remainded him of his own stays in this dreaded building. He groaned and pulled out a cigarette but was elbowed by his sister.
"No smoking in hospitals or around pregnant women," she pocketed the cigarette.
"Right," Yuki rolled his eyes, then he realized Mika looked unusually pale, "Hey, you okay? Should I call someone?"
Mika shook her head, "No… I'm fine. It's only stress… it's not every day I get my husband kidnapped and your lover beaten half to death and almost raped."
Yuki in some sudden emotion hugged Mika, who looked ready to cry.
Soon a nurse came, "Family of Seguchi Tohma-sama? You can go see him."
As soon as they entered Tohma's room, Suguru made beeline towards his cousin, "What the hell happened? Are you okay? Who did such thing?"
Tohma sighed, "I… I am fine, just dislodged shoulders and some bruises, they only want me to stay here for a night on observation and I will be released tomorrow. . That bastard Tanaka came to get revenge and Natsuki had to suffer for that…"
The rest of the group looked at each other in remorse, before Mika rested her hand on Tohma's shoulder gently, "Tohma, it was stressful evening and you are confused…"
"What do you mean, confused?!" Tohma bristled, and suddenly someone knocked.
K pulled out his gun and opened the door, revealing a nurse, who froze at the sight of a gun, only relaxing when K pocketed it again.
"I… I am sorry sirs," she stuttered nervously, "I h-have message from doctor Matsuda, for y-you. He said, that there were no signs of any contact lenses whatsoever."
Then she bowed and quickly walked away.
"What does that mean?" Mika asked confused.
K ran his hand through his hair, "It means… that Shuichi has naturally green eyes."
"What?!" called Yuki, Mika and Suguru.
"How the fuck is that possible?" Yuki asked, "I never saw him with any other color but purple."
"He had purple contact lenses," Tohma said calmly, "I saw him pull them out of his eyes. It shouldn't be so surprising, most of our family has green eyes."
"Shuichi is not Natsuki," Yuki shook his head vehemently, "It's not possible! Natsuki was killed ten years ago!"
"Yes he is! How can you deny it in front of the evidence?!" yelled Tohma.
"What evidence?" Yuki and Tohma glared at each other.
"Calm down," Mika tried to calm them down.
"K!" Tohma turned to the American, "You said it yourself, Na- Shuichi's natural eye color is green. I am sure, you can see some physical resemblance to me. What is Natsuki's blood type?"
K sighed, already guessing where Tohma was heading, and was feeling kind of stupid that he didn't see the connection before, "AB minus, the rarest type, only 0,7% people worldwide have it, and only 0,1% Asians."
Tohma smirked triumphal, "And what is Shuichi's blood type?"
"AB minus," said K, "But I still want to make one hundred percent sure. I ask an acquaintance to do DNA test."
Tohma nodded, "You do that."
The other three stared at them in shock.
"How is that possible?" Mika whispered in awe.
"It can't be," Yuki shook his head in disbelief, "It's not possible. You are all crazy!"
Mika reached to him, but he shunned her away.
Then he marched out of the room, "I need a smoke."
Mika sat down on Tohma's bed, "It's too much… Everything is crazy… Maybe I am dreaming."
"Mika-san," Tohma rubbed her back to calm her down.
They stayed like that for a few minutes, everyone in their own thoughts, when a woman barged into the room, at which K pointed his gun at her, which she ignored and yelled: "Where the hell is my son?! What did you do to him?!"
"Your son?" asked Suguru, "You are crazy miss, we don't know anything about your son…"
"Where is Shuichi?" Hiro entered behind that woman together with Shuichi's sister, Maiko.
"Oh," everyone realized that it must be Shuichi's mother so K pocketed the gun again.
"Where is my son?" Midori yelled again.
Tohma glared, "Your son? You are mistaken. That's my brother!"
The newcomers looked at each other in confusion.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Midori was peeved that nobody was telling her if Shuichi was okay.
Maiko gasped, "No way! So he told you?"
Tohma looked at the teen, "Told me what?"
"That he is your brother," Maiko smiled.
"What are you talking about Maiko-chan?" Hiro asked her, "How can Shuichi be Seguchi-san's brother? Midori-san is too young to be Seguchi's mother… And you didn't say anything about more siblings or cousins."
Maiko rolled her eyes, "Shuichi is adopted, remember?"
Maiko blinked at Hiro's confusion, "Wait… Shuichi did tell you at some point that he is adopted, right? Right? Oh shit, he didn't, did he? Oh my god, I shouldn't have blurted it out like that!"
She quickly covered her mouth, but everyone was already trying to process this new information.
A familiar nurse from before walked in, to be greeted by group of confused and frustrated people.
"Uh, I thought, you would like to know that Shindou-sama has awoken," she said carefully, not wanting to get gun pointed at her again.
Immediately everyone started to yell over everyone, asking about his wellbeing, his room and so.
She bowed, "I am very sorry… but the patient has asked the doctor to refuse any visitors. "
She was bombarded again with: "I am his brother! I am his mother! We are family!"
She quickly shook her head, "I am sorry, but no visitors today."