_ Chapter 8 _
The housekeeper was really excited for her date today evening. Happily she was posing in her new jacket in front of a mirror when Keigo's ex-girlfriend came in, without knocking. She was so scared that she almost throw down the mirror...
"Where is my suitcase?"
"Please what?" she asked back an turned around scared. "You can't just come in without knocking?"
"There should be a suitcase here! It's mine! Where is it?" she asked cold.
"Oh, you are the lady with the suitcase... Asano-san took it back upstairs again!"
"What?!"
"Yes, he said that he wants you to pick it up upstairs personally. He was extremely enraged when he was just here!"
"Is he at home?"
"Yes, he should be!"
"So, why you can't tell him that I called to pick it up later and he brings it down?"
"But that would be a lie! I'm sorry but it's against my nature..."
"I don't care for your nature. I just don't want to meet him. Really... Today you can't even rely on the staff..."
The housekeeper was a bit offended when the women told her 'staff' like she was the queen of the house. She looked after he peevish. In her eyes, she looked cheaper than a whore. Keigo's ex went to a phone in the corner and dialed a number from a note.
"Hello, this is Asano speaking. I'm not at home so please leave a message!" Keigo's answering mashine said before there was a loud beep.
In his apartment Yuzu and Hanataro where to afraid to pick up the phone after Keigo's outburst of rage. But they listened carefully...
"Keigo, are you there... I thought you are at home. What did you did with my suitcase?..."
Keigo left the elevator and stomped threw the lobby in anger. The housekeeper came out of her office curiously and watched Keigo heading for the main-entrace. She could see the rage in his face while he pulled the suitcase behind him. She understod him. With a girlfriend like her, you have to freak out some day. Because of that, she denied to tell him that this woman was standing just a few metres away.
"... You seem to be really mad? Why? I just told the truth to the press. I knew it from our first meeting that you are able to see chosts..."
The lawyer hid in the footwell of his convertible in fear, when he saw Keigo leaving the building and heading for his direction. In his face he could see fury and anger. As quiet as possible the lawyer hid when Keigo passed his car and waved the heavy suitcase and the plastic bags into the building rubbish container next to his car...
"...so, I can't understand why you are so angry. Is it just because I told the press about you and your occult friends? You should be happy that the whole world knows you now! It's not my fault that they can't stand you now. Well, I leave. I have to say it was really nice with you. If the press wouldn't tear you apart it might be a..."
Keigo went back to the entrace after he disposed the 'trash' and went back into the elevator without looking around.
"...so it's over now. Definitely! And by the way, I know what you wanted to talk about with me. I will handle it by myself. You don't need to care about. Well,... Goodbye, Keigo!"
After these words, she hang off. When she looked threw the window she could see her new boyfriend, pulling her suitcase out of the container.
"What is she waiting for?" he asked mad when he got the suitcase out and rolled it over to his car trunk.
His girlfriend just left the building when she stopped in fear. Far away, beetween all the pedestrians she could see him: Her other ex-boyfriend... And he was more unpredictable than Keigo. Silently she hid behind a pillar and hoped to not to be seen by him.
"What does she do there?" the lawyer asked and shaked his head when he saw that she hid from something...
When Keigo entered his apartment again he could hear music playing from this stereo system... The memories came back!...
The beach-bar..., this evening they spend together with the whole crew from the set. They just screened this special episode for 'Crime-Lab-Tokyo' down in Okinawa. It was the evening she agreed to dance with him... It was a wonderful evening... Romance was in the air... It end with making love... and the result was that the doctor told him yesterday... It was thier song... This song was played that evening...
Keigo had to think about it. Everything was a lie. That she just played with him to find a way to tell the press above his connection to the Shinigami... Angrilly he went to the CD-player, put the disk out and throw it out through the broken window. Yuzu and Hanataro had to dodge from the flying disk and Yuzu shrieked...
The disk was shivering in the sunset when it glide down in a wide flight path and went down to hit the back of the lawyer's head. The lawyer, who was going to close the car trunk, groaned in pain when the disk hit him and he hold his head. Angrilly he lift of the disk from the ground and looked up to see Keigo's roof terrace.
"That was intention, wasn't it Asano? You'll regret that!" he threatened and made a fist before he looked down to shout on his girlfriend now. "AKIRA, COME ON!"
She peeked first to be sure that her ex-boyfriend was gone before she left her hideout and went back to her new one. When she crossed the street, a police-car stopped in front of the entrace...
Together with Yuzu and Hanataro, Keigo listened to the lastest message on his mashine...
"...I will handle it by myself. You don't need to care about. Well,... Goodbye, Keigo!" her words came out of the mashine before Keigo stopped it angrilly.
"I DON'T NEED TO CARE ABOUT?" he screamed angrilly. "NO, NO... I GOT HER TO THE DOCTOR AND I DON'T NEED TO CARE ABOUT! IT'S MINE!"
"But, it means that she told the public about the Shinigami?" Hanataro said after he understood the message. In fear he hold Keigo's arm when he start to go berserk again. "Asano-san, your girlfriend is..."
"SHE ISN'T MY GIRLFRIEND!" Keigo yelled. "THAT WITCH SHOULD BE BURNED ON THE PYRE!"
"Keigo..." Yuzu began while Keigo start to tear off the cables from the mashine.
"Asano-san, please..." Hanataro took Keigo's arm again and tried to calm him down. "...that won't help..."
Keigo smashed the damaged mashine back on the table and took a deep breath. It looked like he calmed down. Silently he went outside on the terrace. Yuzu and Hanataro were relieved but than shocked when Keigo returned with the sleeping Shinigami's Zanpakutou. In fear they ran away when Keigo used the Zanpakutou to smash the answering mashine like a golfball...
The answering mashine shattered another window, hit the balustrade and flew down on the street. In his convertible the lawyer and Akira wanted to leave as fast as possible...
"Really, what did you liked on this crazy..." the lawyer asked before Keigo's answering mashine crashed in front of them on the engine cowling. Both shrieked when the mashine was ripped into pieces and slipped of the car. Just the motherboard of the mashine was strucked in his wipers. Both were so scared that they remain silent for a moment. "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!"
"Aww, please come on..." his girlfriend said. She was shocked, too. But she wanted to leave as fast as possible.
"This crazy jerk will pay for that!" the lawyer was mad and on the verge. Keigo just damaged his pretty, really expensive convertible.
"Tora, please... We will miss our flight..." Akira murmured and forced him to drive away...
Upstairs, Keigo finally calmed down and looked on the Zanpakutou in his hand. He had a bright smile in his face.
"Hmm... Now I feel better! Good job, Zanpakutou!" Keigo said and hold the sword in front of his face to talk to him. "Do you want to tell me your name?"
"Asano-san... was that really necessary?" Hanataro asked when he picked up the phone from the ground. It was as broken as before. Keigo didn't pay attention to him and hold the Zanpakutou on his hear, trying to hear it's voice. "Asano-san..."
"Don't worry! I called the service hotline long ago!" Keigo said and placed the Zanpakutou on the coffee-table to pet it. "You did a great job! Why you don't tell me your name?"
"Keigo, I think you are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. You broke another window and..." Yuzu began and pointed on the broken windows before someone rang the doorbell. In fear she start to whimper: "AGHHHH... The police!"
Hanataro dropped the phone scared. Maybe they came because Yuzu called them not long ago. Keigo hid the Zanpakutou under the couch and told Yuzu to sit down while he got a board game from the shelv.
"Okay, stay calm... We play a little bit and act like nothing happend..." Keigo said and handed the game to Yuzu so she could prepare it. "Hanataro, they can't see your comrade, right?"
"No, he is not in a Gigai!" Hanataro explained when the doorbell rang again. "But I am and they will see me!"
"No problem! Hanataro, you open the door and let them in." Keigo said. "I think I have a plan..."
Everything had to be handled very fast now. The most important thing was to act like everything was allright. It would be difficult with all the damages in the apartment. Yuzu start to cry again. Keigo slipped with his fingers through his hairs and put on a smile. Hanataro just pulled his skirt straight and took a deep breath before he opened the door.
"Good evening!" he said with a bright smile to the two men and the woman in the corridor.
Two police inspectors, one male and one female, wearing suits stood outside. The other man was the one who called Keigo just a few minutes ago. Keigo recognized him immediately. It was the same guy he met in front of his ex-girlfriend's apartment. He was the one who stole the note.
"Criminal Investigation Department of Tokyo!" the male inspector said with a harsh voice and presented his badge. "We have some questions!"
"Please, come in! I help where ever I can..." Keigo said cordially when Hanataro let them in. Tears ran down Yuzu's face.
Although she hold her mouth, everyone could hear her cry. Keigo tried to shut her but it was useless. Fortunately the two inspectors first looked on the damages in the apartment. So Keigo had a few moments to calm Yuzu down...
"Are you okay, ma'am?" the female inspector asked when she realized that Yuzu cried.
"You have to excuse her!" Keigo said and stood up to talk to the inspectors face to face. He needed a good lie now. "She is one of my colleagues. There was a death case in the family. She just lost her brother!"
"Oh, I'm so sorry! You have my condolence..." the inspector said.
Now Yuzu could cry louder. Hanataro sat down next to her and tried to calm her down, too. They had to prevent that she exposes herself. Keigo turned back to the police.
"May I ask you what you want from me?"
"There is something we have to check." the male inspector explained while his colleague followed the other man into the half burned bedroom. There he found the torn photo of Keigo and the other and put it together. He saw that it showed Keigo together with Ichigo Kurosaki (also known as the Shinigami) and these other people.
"Oh my god... What happend here?" the woman murmured before she saw the photo the man found. It was this group of people the whole world was talking about. "Hey, that's Ichigo Kurosaki! So he is really 'the Keigo Asano'..."
The man start to get angry. So he was really this freak from the newspaper. The inspector meanwhile was really excited. She was really interested in this Shinigami-Story. Her coleague meanwhile, looked on Keigo and crossed his arms before he start to tell him the accusation...
"We are here... because a woman called the emergency-hotline one hour ago. She told that North Korean terrorists planned an attack at Haneda Airport today evening."
"And what I have to do with that?" Keigo asked.
"We traced this call back. And it came from your landline!" the inspector explained.
"One hour ago?" Keigo asked. He didn't knew that Yuzu called and was pretty sure that it was a mistake. "That's impossible! I ripped out the phone today morning and broke it..."
Keigo already turned away when the men in his bedroom start to shout: "That's a lie! I just talked with someone here a few minutes ago..."
"Well... My phone never rang!" Keigo lied before the doorbell rang again.
The female inspector went to the door and opened it. A man with a toolbox and workwear stood in the corridor and smiled. "Hello, I'm from the phone-provider. You called us today because your phone is broken?"
"Police!" the woman said and stopped the man entering the apartment. "Show me your ID!"
"First show me your badge!" the man replied a bit angrily.
The woman presented her badge while he put out his ID-card from his pocket and presented it, too. After that, she finally let him in. Keigo was happy and handed him the broken phone.
"OH... Hello! You're finally here!" Keigo said and pointed on the place where the phone normally was. "Here is the phone! The connection cable got damaged, I think! I had a little accident..."
"It happend today in the morning?" the male inspector asked.
"Yes, around 9 o'clock maybe! After that I immediately called the service from the phone in the lobby and left. I was out the whole day. I came back just five minutes ago. I invited my colleague and her friend..." Keigo pointed on Yuzu and Hanataro. "...after I found out what happend to her brother."
"Hmmm... I don't believe you! So... where did you hide them?" the foreigner asked and start to search Keigo's drawers.
"Hey, are you police, too? And if yes, you need a seach-warrant..."
"Sir, please stop!" the inspector said and ordered the man to sit down on the couch, too. Yuzu slowly start to freak out and made the inspector curious. "And what is your name?"
Yuzu wanted to open her mouth just when she start to cry again.
"Please, leave her alone inspector! You see, she is in a really bad condition now." Keigo said and took Yuzu's hand to direct her to the kitchen. He didn't want her to expose herself as Ichigo's sister in front of the police nor the girlfriend of one of the North Koreans. "Go and get something to drink! That will calm you down. Everything will be fine. Your brother is on a better place now!"
"Why I can't be there, too?" she cried loudly and scared all others.
"Come on! Hanataro, keep an eye on her..."
"Do you have some of this red Gazpacho soup?" Hanataro asked. He had a plan.
Keigo looked on the others and accepted: "Yes! Get a glass for everyone. May I offer you an glass of Gazpacho?"
"Gazpacho?" the male inspector asked. "What is that?"
"Something really tasty!" Keigo said and sat down on the armchair.
The both inspectors sat down next to the foreigner on the couch.
"So you claim that nobody was here the whole day?!" the female inspector asked.
"Yes!" Keigo answered. "Why? Do you not believe me? My housekeeper will confirm my story..."
"No, we are not talking about that! It's just..." the male inspector cleared his throat and pointed on the broken windows. "You have to admit that this is really weird..."
"Weird?!" Keigo asked.
"Yes, weird!" the inspector explained while his coleauge went outside on the terrace to look around. While she looked around she found the deck chair, the Shinigami was lying in.
The Shinigami slept deep and strong. So he didn't realized that a woman came closer to him. She didn't see him, but she could see that something had to be on the deck chair. The overlay was dented and the whole deck chair bend down like something was lying on it.
Carefully she went closer with her right hand to touch the chair. She didn't knew why, but she felt that there was something. And indeed she could feel something really strange when she touched the Shinigami. The Shinigami's energy flow threw her fingers. Her body start to tingle. She was pretty sure, there was a Shinigami on this chair. So it was true the press told about Keigo...
"Oh, don't sit down there. It's broken!" Keigo yelled from inside. He was afraid that she sits down on him.
"I would say it's occupied!" the woman said smiling when she went back inside. "Asano-san... is there a Shinigami on your terrace?"
Keigo became pale...
_ Chapter 9 _
Keigo went silent when the female police inspector stood in front of him and and asked him about the sleeping Shinigami on the terrace. The other inspector and the man gazed on him harsh and mad. Kegio became nervous... but maybe he could use the Shinigami to change the topic and distract them from Yuzu...
"Ehm... well... to tell the truth..."
"So it's true what they tell about you! You are really able to see ghosts and Shinigami!" the inspector realized.
The technician from the phone-provider looked up and interfered in the conversation: "Really? A real Shinigami?"
"Do you want to arrest me now?! I didn't invite this Shinigami! When I came back he laid there and sleept. And you look after my phone, okay!" Keigo murmured with crossed arms and forced the technician to continue repairing his phone. "There is no law that prohibits to be able to see them."
"Just answer one question... Do they really wear black Kimono's?" the curious technician asked.
"Okay, Asano-san... You tell us now what's going on here! This is very confusing here..." the male inspector grumbled. "There we have the broken windows, the burnt bed, a sleeping Shinigami, the broken telephone..."
"I admit that I ripped out the phone. I lost control today morning." Keigo interrupted him loudly and like his old teenager-himself. He continued slower and more calm like an adult: "And the other damages... I found them like this when I returned a few minutes ago. And as I already said, the Shinigami outside is uninvited and I don't know him...
"If you ripped out the telephone on purpose you have to pay for the repair yourself. I hope you know that?" the technician interfered again.
"Don't worry! I'll pay it!" Keigo moaned and forced him to continue work again. "Well, after I ripped out the phone I used the phone in the lobby to call the service and left. I was looking for a lawyer!"
"A lawyer? What for..." the inspector asked before the man interfered.
"Hey, don't change the topic!" he yelled. "I swear that I talked to someone not even twenty minutes ago. By phone... here!..."
While Keigo did his best to calm them down in the living-room, Yuzu tried to thin down the Gazpacho, that was spiked with sedatives and sleeping pills. She was afraid that someone will fall asleep by the soup. Her hands were trembling when she filled the jug with ice-cubes while Hanataro took some glasses from the shelves.
"I did my best to thin it down but I'm not sure. What if they really fall asleep? Then they lock me up in prison and I will spend the rest of my life in..." Yuzu cried and talked fast before Hanataro grabled her again and kissed her again... Yuzu shut off immediately and remained silent after... while she filled the spiked soup into the glasses...
In the living-room the situation was struck...
"What has that all to do with the call?" the female inspector asked. "Maybe the Shinigami called?"
"In the first place, the phone was and is broken since today morning. In the second, the Shinigami is unable to use it because nobody will hear him. And in the thrid, is the Shinigami a male, so 'he' can't be the woman!" Keigo replied.
"And your friend in the kitchen?"
"She couldn't call, too! I met her and her boyfriend in the city around an hour ago. I invited her for dinner to cheer her up. And when we arrived here... we found this chaos! And now 'you' tell me what you want here!" Keigo said and pointed on the man. "I met you yesterday in front of my ex-girlfriends apartment, or not!"
"She is 'my' ex-girlfriend!" the man replied. "How dare you to tell her your ex-girlfriend?"
"Is it so bad, to tell her my ex-girlfriend?"
"Who are you talking about? Who is your ex-girlfriend? Or yours?" the inspector asked while Yuzu came back to the living room with a tablet of full glasses.
"Gazpacho!" she called worried and offered everyone a glass.
Keigo took a glass. The both police inspectors and the stranger each took a glass. Hanataro handed one to the technician, who took it thankfully and drank it immediately. The others still wait before they drunk. Keigo looked on his glass with a groan. It was good that he was an actor so he could play for them the love sick...
"My girlfr... well... ex-girlfriend... Akira... She left me the day before yesterday. She wasn't able to face up with the fact that the press reports that stuff about me. You know... she thinks I'm not good enough for her image." Keigo explained and hold the glass on his lips. He pretend to take a little gulp. "Well...When I found out that she told the press this lies they published today, I totally freaked out. It's a lie. I never worked together with them! If I ever had I would be in thier world now, or not!"
"And the Shinigami on your terrace?" the inspector asked and took a big sip of the Gazpacho. "Hmm... Not bad!"
Behind Keigos armchair, the technician wasn't able to keep his eyes open. He drank just one-forth of his glass, but it was enough to set him out of action. He fell asleep, but the others didn't notice. So Keigo continued talking...
"I already said, that I didn't invite him and I don't know him. I really don't know anything about them. I just know that they excist and that I'm able to see them since I was 15." Keigo lied. He knew more than he told. "But as I told you, there is no law that prohibits spiritual awareness... So, when I realized that my ex-girlfriend is the reason for all this mess, I ripped out the phone in fury and went to the city to find a lawyer..."
"May I ask you, where have you been exactly?" the inspector asked and stood up to walk a little bit across the room. He drank more. His colleague did it, too. Both of them liked the unknown dish very well. Yuzu and Hanataro settled down on the couch and just hold thier glasses. Hanataro took a very little sip because he was curious.
"I tried to get Toranosuke Mota, the famous star-lawyer. Unfortunately,... when I was in his office, I found out that he is the new lover of my ex..."
"Owch... That's hard!" the female inspector murmured. She start to feel dizzy. She took one more sip. Nobody realized that the technician was already unconcious...
"Yes! Yes, it is! And it's not even the worst, both want to fly away today evening. They go for a little 'love-vacation'..."
"Where are they going?" the other ex-boyfriend asked mad. He had drank nothing by now.
"Is it so important to you?" Keigo asked.
Yuzu start to tremble again. She knew that the terrorists wanted to attack a plane to Dubai. She took a sip of the Gazpacho, hoping that it calms her down. Hanataro tried to stop her, although he start to feel dizzy, too...
Keigo had an idea... "You know... now that we are talking about her... Maybe she called!"
"But you have to explain that!" the inspector murmured and start to yawn.
Keigo lift up and walked up and down with his glass: "Maybe this is some kind of punishment, or a prank of her..."
"Prank?!" the inspector asked peevish.
"YES! She comes here, demolishes my apartment. And calls the police whyever for... what did you said... a bomb in Haneda? Maybe she just wanted to lure the press down there so she can pose in front of the cameras. I wouldn't be surprised...
"Where she is flying?" the other man asked angrier.
"We ask the questions, here!" the inspector said yawning. "...yawn... OH, sorry... Anyway, we already informed the airport-police and the border protection. Haneda is now the safest place in the whole contry... yawn..."
"All I know is that both want to fly today evening." Keigo said and continued walking up and down. He tried to remember the booking confirmation he saw in the lawyers office some hours ago. "Ehm... They wanted to go to..."
Keigo snipped with his fingers while he tried to remember. The other man start to get really mad now: "Come to the point!"
"I TRY TO REMEMBER..." Keigo groaned back. "Give me a second... There was a booking confirmation on the desk... They wanted to go to... Dubai!"
Yuzu shrieked and took her glass to drink it completly. She hoped that it will kill her. The both police inspectors where shocked. Hanataro gave up and blow up them all.
"What, Dubai?! But... why you didn't mention that?" Hanataro asked shocked.
"AHA!" the police inspector shouted and pointed on them.
"What AHA? Did I said something wrong?" Keigo asked.
"Sit down! NOW!" the inspector roared. Keigo sat down next to Hanataro and Yuzu. Yuzu already emptied her glass in panic. "We never said something about Dubai. The woman that called, told that the terrorists plan to attack the plane to Dubai! That means that someone in this room knew about the plane to Dubai before..."
Hanataro tried to take away the glass from Yuzu. But he finally gave up and took a big sip of it too. He didn't want to be awake when they all be arrested. Yuzu meanwhile was unable to say something or to run away, or even to walk... Sighing she wrapped her arms around Hanataros neck. He wasn't able to stay awake, too. His eyes were already closed when he laid down on the couch together with Yuzu and fell asleep with her together arm in arm. The inspector already prepared his handcuffs when he realized that he felt really tired. He sat down next to his colleague who already began to doze and placed her head on his shoulder. He realized that something was wrong and yawned again.
Yuzu and Hanataro already sleep deeply next to Keigo on the couch. It looked like they do it together. Keigo and the stranger were still awake. Yawning, the policemen tried to keep awake. "What... YAWN... is in this Gazpacho soup?"
Keigo put the other hand on the bottle to and hold it closer to his face. Emotionless he looked on the inspector and act like everything was normal. Although everything was out of control. Nervosly he start to tell him the indigrients.
"Tomato, paprika, some cucumber, bread... It depends on the right mixture..." Keigo hold for a moment when he saw that the police inspectors falling on thier backs sleeping deeply on the floor. Keigo continued: "...one or two cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, oil..."
The foreigner still sat on the armchair. It seemed that he didn't care that everyone around him was falling asleep. Keigo just continued talking.
"It's a Spanish reciept. I got it from the Internet. My ex-girlfriend likes it very much. It has less calories and many vita..." Keigo stopped talking when he saw that the man lift off the armchair and grabled the police inspector's guns to threaten Keigo with them.
"STAND UP!" he shouted.
Keigo stood up and hold his shirt with one hand while he hold the glass with the other. He just drank one drop off it. "WHAT THE... WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"SHUT UP! Go over there, or I shoot your friends!" she shouted and pointed one of the guns on the sleeping Yuzu.
Keigo followed his order and walked away from the couch and to the middle of the room. His heart stooped. This guy was totally crazy. He was afraid that he shoots and kills him or Yuzu, or the inspectors. He wasn't able to kill Hanataro, just his Gigai would be damaged. But at least he had to prevent that he shoots around here. The last time Keigo was in a situation like that was when he was a supernumerary in a hostage-taking-scene for an episode of a 'Dramamea'. He remembered the script, he had to calm this guy down and try to not to enrage him. Although he was in panic now...
"Okay... So, Akira is flying to Dubai today?"
Keigo nooded. "Yes! Today evening from Haneda! Together with her new boyfriend! But... why you want to know that?"
"Why? Do you know what I did for this whore?" the mad man asked and sweeped with the guns. "I did everything for her. I left my family to find a job in a clinic here in Tokyo so we can live here. I worked up to 20 hours per day to earn enough to pay her expensive lifestyle and our too big apartment. But she wanted more. She was never satisfied... More and more... and than... I got Karoshi (Japanese name for death and/or sickness in effect of overwork) and wasn't able to work anymore... and so... she left me. Because I wasn't able to pay for her lavish life..."
"Listen... I know how you feel. I feel..."
"You know nothing! But there are some things we two have in common!" he said shaking on of the guns next to his face. "Both of us suffered because of her and both of us had to bear her. After my Burn-Out, she put my into the psychiatry and took everything I had. I wouldn't be surprised if she does the same with you... And today... I am unable to work as a doctor, get income support and my family abadoned me... Thanks to this ungrateful jinx. That her next boyfriend will be a drug-addict, mediocre actor wasn't a surprise for me!"
"D... D... Drug-addict, mediocre actor?" Keigo was shocked when he was called this way.
"Eyes suffused with blood, pale skin, sweating, extremly emaciated..." was his diagnosis when he looked on Keigo. "Why did you start to take drugs? Some kind of childhood-trauma?"
"My violent sister, false friends, betrayal..." Keigo explained. "But what ever happend, there is no reason for me to shoot someone."
"Who says that I want to shoot you, Asano?" the man asked with an insane smile on his face and went a step closer to Keigo. He hold the guns now directly on his face. Keigo had just one free hand and was never able to grab both guns at the same time.
"And what..." Keigo shrieked when he had to think about and tried his best to not to get unconcious. "...do you... want to do now?"
"Hmm, very easy... I go to Haneda and give this story an end!" the man told normaly like it was the most common in the world.
"So, you want to shoot her?"
"I have two guns now. They can't arrest me... When they find out that I was in the psychiatry the put me in again and that was it..."
"The airport is full of police and security now." Keigo said when he realized that this crazy guy was really willing to do this and go to the airport to shoot Akira. "You'll never be able to get this guns into the airport terminal. They will shoot you before you even realize what's happening."
"You don't need to care about. I will handle everything. Neither you, nor your Shinigami-friends, or whoever will stop me to get revenge for my dignity." the man put one of the guns into the pocket of his jacket and took his glass from the table. "Cheers!"
Keigo remained silent when the man in front of him took the glass closer to his face. That was his chance. When he drinks it, he will fall asleep and Keigo could call the police to arrest this crazy maniac. He had to prevent that he shoots her. Whatever she did, however evil she was and however her soul was spoiled... But killing her was not a solution. And the worst thing would be that she won't be die alone. Keigo knew things, this man didn't know...
"COME ON! I SAID CHEERS!" the man screamed with the finger on the trigger.
"Okay!" Keigo said quietly. "Together!"
Keigo looked into his eyes and tried his best to keep calm. Every little twitch could reveal that the Gazpacho was spiked. Both men had thier glasses in front of thier faces, the man was ready to drink. Than he could smell it. He was pretty sure. He knew the scent. He was an doctor, so he knew the scent of morphine... Suddenly, he spilled the content of his glass into Keigo's face...
Keigo dropped his glass scared when the soup splashed into his face and start to burn horribly in his eyes.
"AGGHHH... MY EYES!" he screamed and went back...
"I AM A DOCTOR! I KNOW THE SMELL OF MORPHINE!" the man screamed while Keigo staggered into his kitchen, holding his eyes.
He couldn't see anything. His eyes were burning. Tedious he finally reached the sink in his kitchen, after he fell over one of his chairs and opened the faucet to pour water over his eyes to get the soup out of them. It was deathstill in his apartment. Keigo realized that this guy must have left and was on the way down. With wet face and hairs and his clouthes spattered with Gazpacho he ran out of his apartment. Leaving the sleeping people alone. The building had just one elevator. This one the crazy maniac used to drive down. Angrilly Keigo pressed the button ever and ever again. But he knew that it was useless and he couldn't speed up the progress. Angrilly he hit with his fist against the elevator-doors and ran down the stairs.
"AWWW... HE LET THE DOOR OPEN!" he screamedn angrilly. The man maybe placed a chair in the elevator door, down in the lobby to prevent that he comes up again. As fast as possible Keigo ran down the stairs.
Down in the lobby, Keigo's housekeeper winked to her boyfriend, who just arrvied in front of the building on his motorcyle. Ready for thier date. She was excited and winked before she went inside again to get her jacket and to lock up her office. The armed man meanwhile, walked threw the lobby and called the airport-information with his smartphone.
"Excuse me, is there a flight to Dubai, today?"
"Yes!" the woman from the airport-information said. "It's flight Emirati Airways 1312. Sheduled time of departure is at 11:30 pm. Check-In opens in approximetely five minutes. Shall I connect you to the ticket-counter?"
"No, thank you! You already told me everything I want to know!" the man said friendly and hang off before he went to the motorcyclist. Ready to pull out the guns he hid in his pockets. "Hey, you... on the motorcyle! Take me to Haneda Airport!"
The motorcyclist looked on the stranger with big eyes and shaked his head. "Hey, I'm not a taxi. I have a date and I won't drive to the airport..."
"You will!" the maniac said and pulled out one of the guns to point on the man's chest with it. The motorcyclist lift his arms scared to surrender.
"Hey, keep cool guy..."
"Just, get me to Haneda and nobody gets injured!" the maniac said when he sat down on the motorcycle behind his hostage and hold the gun into his back. The man was so scared that he just followed his instructions. He even didn't put on his helmet again, he left on a bollard next to him, before he raced away with squeaking tires and tried to find a way threw the heavy traffic...
_ Chapter 10 _
Keigo's housekeeper was locking up her office when she could hear the motorcycle race away. She ran out shocked and realized that the guy she was waiting the whole day was leaving her behind. Angrilly she screamed after him... not knowing that the guy in the brown jacket, who sat on the bike, too, just take him hostage...
Keigo's enhanced speed allowed him to reach the lobby within a minute. There he saw that he was right with his suspicion: There was a chair in the elevator-door. He could hear the motorcycle race away. He ran out worried to look where they gone, even though he wasn't able to keep his hurting eyes open normally. When he saw his mad housekeeper standing there he ran to her direction. She screamed in fear when she saw Keigo, believing that he was bleeding when the red soup dropped from his clouthes and his hairs.
"SAKURA-SAN!" Keigo screamed when he finally reached her. "SAKURA-SAN... WHERE IS THE MAN WITH THE BROWN JACKET?"
"AGHHHH... YOU ARE BLEEDING!" she screamed in fear.
"THAT IS NOT BLOOD!" Keigo screamed back and ran on the street to stop a taxi.
The taxi driver had to fulfill a emergency-breaking to not to overrun Keigo. He and the housekeeper entered the taxi as fast as possible.
"Follow this motorcycle!" Keigo yelled after his housekeeper was finally inside.
"You again?" Keigo recognized his voice. The same driver Keigo drove two times in the last two days turned back to him and was shocked to see Keigo ful of something red, that looked like blood although it was just vegetable-soup. "What happend to you..."
"DRIVE, PLEASE! IT'S ABOUT LIVE AND DEATH!" Keigo screamed.
The driver turned and drove as fast as possible. Keigo hold his burning eyes and tried to open them.
"ASANO-SAN, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" his housekeeper screamed in fear.
"A crazy maniac stole the guns of two police officers and wants to shoot my ex-girlfriend. He is armed and fiercely..." Keigo wailed full of tears.
"What happend to you?"
"AGHHH... I have Spanish vegetable-soup in my eyes!" Keigo continued crying.
The driver watched everything threw the rearview mirror and grabled the little box on the seat next to him to hand it to the housekeeper. She opened the little box and put out a little bottle with eye drops and carefully dropped them into Keigo's burning eyes.
Keigo put his head back while the taxi drove threw the heavy traffic on the freeway to the airport so his housekeeper could drop the liquid into his eyes. They worked very well and his eyes felt better after a few seconds.
"Ohh... You bought some eye-drops?!" Keigo asked satisfied and remembered.
"I do everything for my customers..." the driver said before he saw the motorcycle again. They finally reached them. "Hey, there they are! Tell me, is this guy really armed?"
Keigo did not answer. He stood up, climbed over his housekeeper to the other side and opened the window. The traffic was very heavy, but it was easy for the thin motorcycle to get threw it. The crazy one pressed the gun into the motorcyclists spin and yelled on him to drive faster.
"STOP! YOU WILL NEVER REACH YOUR TAGET!" Keigo screamed from the taxi.
The maniac looked to see Keigo left of him sitting in a taxi.
"AW, SHUT UP, ASANO! YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THAT YOU WANT DO SEE HER DEAD, TOO!"
Keigo's housekeeper put her head out of the open window, too.
"HONEY, ARE YOU OKAY?"
"GET THIS INSANE GUY AWAY FROM ME!" he screamed full of fear and start to loose control over his bike.
"HEY, LOOK WHERE YOU DRIVING!" the man screamed and pressed the gun much harder in his spin. "GO AWAY, ASANO!"
"STOP!" Keigo screamed back and turned to the driver. "Do you have a gun?"
"What, a gun? Hey we are not living in the United Staates here!" the driver said with big eyes.
"OH MY GOD, HE WANTS TO SHOT US!" the housekeeper screamed when she saw that the maniac was pointing his gun on them.
Keigo looked back to the motorcycle and realized that she was right. Now he hold the gun in thier way. Keigo grabled his housekeeper and pulled her down and out of the line of fire to protect her. The first shot missed the taxi and hit a street-lantern. Keigo and the others start to scream. Cars honked when the taxi start to lurch. The second shot hit the taxi-sign on the roof and ripped it off. Keigo laid over his housekeeper protective while she screamed.
The next shot hit the right front-tire of an uninvolved car. The driver lost control immeditely and crashed into a deliver-van. The driver of the van lost control too and breaked forcing another car to crash into his van. Cars start to honk when the traffic start to jam behind the crash-site. Inside the taxi, Keigo risked a view out to see that the man still shot on them. Keigo hid again when he shot again and the bullet shattered the rear-window of the taxi.
The taxi-driver screamed and start to break. Keigo screamed back to him to prevent that he stops. Then he saw that the maniac got out of bullets. He pulled the trigger ever and ever again, but the gun was out of bullets. Angrilly he throw the gun against the taxi and pulled out the other gun of his jacket to press it into the spin of the motorcyclist, again.
"DRIVE FASTER!" he shouted angrilly when they start to disappear in the traffic.
Behind them, the taxi got into a traffic jam and went forward very slowly.
"We will lose them!" Keigo screamed and saw the motorcycle disappearing in a tunnel.
"Asano-san... who is this guy?" the driver asked in shock while he watched the big hole in the rear-window.
Keigo did not notice him. He asked himself where his mobile phone was. There was no chance to contact Akira and tell her that there was someone comming after her. Maybe she wouldn't even pick up. Right now, she entered the international terminal of Haneda airport together with her new boyfriend. At the same time her crazy ex arrived at the other end of the terminal and climbed off the motorcycle to enter the terminal threw the next door.
"Thank you!" he said before he hid the gun in the pocket of his jacket again and entered the crowded terminal.
The motorcyclist was out of breath. He was to shocked to react or to call for help. Actually, he just need to tell someone that there is an armed men in the building. But he was unable to speak. Everything he was able to do was falling from his motorcycle unconcious by the shock...
The man walked threw the terminal as cool as a cucumber and went to the next information-desk. He passed the long queue of waiting people to ask the lady at the counter directly.
"Excuse me, where is the plane to Dubai?" he asked innocently.
The woman pointed on the other side of the terminal: "Oh, you have to walk to the other check-in all till the end of the building. You can't miss it!"
"Thank you!" he said unemotionally and continued walking threw the full and crowded terminal. Passing hundreds of people looking forward for thier holidays, businesspeople traveling away or comming back and various visitors.
Keigo's taxi raced over the street in front of the terminal and stopped right in front of the right check-in hall. It stopped at the curb and Keigo and his housekeeper jumped out. She screamed for her boyfriend while Keigo ran to the entrace...
In the queue in front of the first-class-counter Akira was checking her make up in the mirror of her powder tin and realized that her boyfriend was some kind of nervous.
"Something wrong?" she asked defiantly.
"I think that it was not right, what you did!" he said. "You may have tell it to him personally. And not by a message on his answering mashine. The press will tear him apart now."
"Less than an hour ago you cried that he punched you and now you are on his side!" she moaned and put her make-up back into her purse. "Tora, may we change the topic?"
"You are very cold, Akira!" Mota said. "But there is something... I can see it... You have something with Keigo, you don't want to see..."
A few metres away, her ex-boyfriend saw Akira standing in the queue. And this lawyer was standing next to her. They were talking. She had this ugly emotionless view on her face. He hated it so much. Carefully, he grabled the gun in his pocket, put it out and point it on this woman, he once loved, but now hated more than anything else on this world. It will be over here and now...
Keigo stormed into the hall, he was just a few metres away from the man and could see that he was ready to shot his ex-girlfriend. Keigo wasn't thinking, his mind switched off once again, so he ran towards him... and knocked him over...
The man screamed when Keigo pushed him down and tried to grab the gun. Some people around them finally realized that one of them was armed. Keigo's ex-girlfriend turned around and saw how Keigo tackled her other ex-boyfriend...
"AGGHHH... HE HAS A GUN!" a man screamed shortly before a shot came out of the gun...
The loud bang triggered a panic in the terminal. Hundreds of people around them ran away. Keigo's ex and her new lover went down to the ground while the people around them fleed to all directions. Keigo finally grabled the other man's arm but he punshed his ellbow into his face. A second shot came out of the gun.
Groaning, Keigo fell down unconcious while three security-guards were able to overpower the other man and pressed him to the ground and disarmed him. The screaming inside the terminal was over. Keigo's ex looked up and saw her both exes just a few metres away. One of them unconcious and bleeding and the other one with three guards sitting on him and crying. In fear she realized that it was an murder attempt. And she was the target... Keigo just saved her life. Stunned she lift up and went to the injured Keigo.
Blood was dropping out of Keigo's nose. His face was full of scratches. His hairs and his clouthes full of red soup. Worried, she kneed down to him to look what happend to him.
"Keigo, Keigo..." she was really worried. "Are you okay?"
Keigo opened his eyes, dazed. He had horribly headache, he could feel that he was bleeding out of his nose. He was dizzy when he slowly lift up and looked into the face of his ex. Dozens of people looked on them while the maniac was arrested by the police. Keigo felt in some kind of shocking and didn't say any word. He looked worse than normal. It was to much for him. But the main thing was that nobody was injured seriously.
"Are you okay? Wow... You... You safed my life!"
Keigo looked on her silently. He never saw her like this. For the first time she really seemed to be distraught. The whole thing seem to worry her pretty much. But Keigo didn't care for her anymore. He knew what kind of person she was.
"Keigo? Please, say something!"
"Hm... Are you injured?" Keigo asked quietly.
"Wha... I... No! No, I think I'm okay!" she stammered. "Keigo... What's going on?"
"Nothing! I go now... I don't bother you anymore."
"Keigo, wait!"
Now she was confused. She exepted Keigo to be really mad on her. And that he shouts and insults her here and now in front of all this people. But it was really surprisingly that he just left her alone after all this mess. More and more people arrived to look at them.
"Keigo, I know you want to talk with me! Okay, so we talk!"
"No!"
"No?"
"No!" Keigo said again and turned to her again. "I tried to talk to you since the day before yesterday. I'm really tired to try to run after you. There were enough chances to talk but I finaly realized that it's useless to talk with you, or try to satisfy you. So do what you want to do! I don't care!"
"So why,... did you safe my life?"
"I didn't did it for you!" Keigo said shaking his head and looking down on her.
His ex-girlfriend looked down and realized what Keigo was talking about: "Oh... so you know about it!"
"Yes! When did you want to tell me about? If you ever wanted?" Keigo asked, but his ex was unable to answer. "But that's not the point now. More important is... what you did! Before I go home I have just one question: Why did you revealed my friends to the press?"
"I didn't revealed your so called friends!" she said emotionalless and cold. "I admit that I told the press everything what was in the newspaper today. But I have nothing to do with the Kurosaki-clan!"
Keigo looked into her face. She was worried and surprised. She was a really bad actress, so Keigo believed her everything she said. It was difficult for him and he didn't want to. But it was pretty sure that she was really innocent: He never told her about Ichigo, nor mentioned the name Kurosaki in any way. He never showed her the photos. They might be exposed by another reason. But that was another story. But it didn't changed the fact that there was something that still connect them two...
"I believe you... But let me just tell you that I won't sit at home useless and look what happens... The last word in this thing isn't spoken yet. I don't want to discuss it here and now in front of all these people. Because of you I maybe have to talk in a talk-show about it. I don't want to think about it. But I promise you something... If you really have something to do with it, you can hope that the Shinigami will be merciful to your soul!"
After these words Keigo left. Around him more and more people gathered. Dozens of smartphones were filming him. Keigo didn't care abou them. He was white as a sheet when he passed the crowd. Some people lowered thier phones when they realized that Keigo was in a really bad condition. Other people just zoomed closer to him when he left his ex-girlfriend alone in the crowd. Every possible camera pointing on him.
A police officer offered help, but Keigo refused. A doctor offered to look after Keigo's broken nose but that he also refused. A reporter from an overregional newspaper wanted to interview Keigo about his heroic action in this rampage. But a police officer scared him away, he should respect that that Keigo was to shocked to talk.
Keigo staggered outside, everyone was gazing on him when he reached the taxi, he used to came with, and asked the shocked driver to get him home. The driver was still looking for the damage, but he accepted to take him home. Another police officer congratulated Keigo for his heroic action. But Keigo didn't felt like a hero. He just didn't want to life with the memory that he permitted that someone gets killed. Keigo saw his housekeeper far away, looking after her boyfriend who was carried into an ambulance. At least he had a girlfriend that cared for him, Keigo thought and smiled.
Keigo entered the damaged taxi and and drove home. He wanted to leave this airport. Away from all these gazing people ...
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