Chapter 2 – Mizuki's secrets
It has been a few days since Yuuta's had met his target, Hajime Mizuki. The businessman had spent all the days at his office.
As Yuuta predicted, Mizuki was a workaholic.
But that had been the only thing predictable about the guy.
The first shock at been the his transportation, has a healthy man, Yuuta spent most of the first day trying to guess which one of the cars in front of the building was the one the other owned. He was divided between the Mercedes and the BMW that were parked at the front of the office.
When they got out, he waited to see Mizuki stop in front of one of the cars.
And he did stop, at the Mercedes… to use the left mirror to arrange his hair. Continuing his walk after it.
Until he finally arrived to a small building of four floors
"What the? Don't have a car?" Yuuta asked to Mizuki, while he searched his home keys.
"Why would I? My house is right here." Mizuki answered, finally finding his key on his trousers.
"YOU live HERE." Repeated Yuuta, astonished, looking to the kind of old building that his target was entering "You are kidding, right?"
"Is there something wrong with it?" Mizuki looked to Yuuta, extremely annoyed, while going up in the stairs to the second floor.
"Hum… weren't you supposed to be rich?"
"I am kind of, but I don't like spending money on things that I don't use." He justified "Besides, I live alone. I don't need a palace… and I hate seeing people going over my stuff, so I prefer a small house easy to clean."
Yuuta roll his eyes.
"You sure are a weird guy."
Mizuki tossed.
"Well, I am like I am.Don't like it, leave."
Yuuta looked down.
'Has if I had a choice…'
He opened the door to a small T2 apartment, his living room was connected with kitchen, and a small hallway that lead to two bedrooms, side by side. His decoration in the room was rather simple. Beside the real size poster of a man holding a tennis racket, he had a couple bed and a shelf where he had a lot of books…and some fluffy toy's.
"I suppose that angels don't need to sleep…" Mizuki commented, while taking off his tie, Yuuta was still seeing Mizuki's room, with an open mouth.
"I sure wasn't expecting this to be your room…" Yuuta's commented.
"You don't like it, you can leave."
"It's not that… but… it looks like a kid's room." Yuuta looked to Mizuki, expecting a cold answer.
But to his surprise, Mizuki looked a little embarrassed.
"Well, I always wanted to have my own room has a kid, so I suppose that when I finally had it, I ended decorating it with my childhood fantasy's.
Yuuta looked at the poster.
"You like tennis?"
"I am a fan since I was a child, I was a really ace back in the orphana…" Mizuki stopped the phrase.
"Hum… what were you about to say?" Yuuta asked interested.
"None of your business" Coldly responded the businessman, now without a tie and the coat.
"It's better for you to tell me… I can perfectly get to know your past though the "Angels Network", it has all the information of all the humans on the planet."
Mizuki looked to Yuuta with rather sad eyes, trying to look scary.
"Try it and I will make your life miserable."
Yuuta didn't search it, not because of the weak threat, but… there was something on those sad eyes that made him unable to, he became afraid of what the truth could reserve. So he decided not to think about it for the time.
"So, do you have any more hidden features?" Yuuta changed the subject, carefree putting his hands on the back of his head while floating around the other guy "Like a cat or maybe a crocodile in the closet."
"I am a good cooker for start." Mizuki smiled, going to the kitchen.
Yuuta as an angel didn't have the need to eat. So he just made company while the other guy ate. Mizuki revealed then a surprising feature on his personality, he was extremely curious guy.
"So… this angel's network thing… How does it work? Is it like the internet?" Mizuki spoke after Yuuta had answered his last question.
"Well, kinda like… But it's like our brains are the modem and the computer itself. I can access it at any moment." The angel gesticulated to better express himself, he had a happy face, liking a lot of the complete attention that he was getting from the companion.
"That would be something useful to have…" the human commented "What do you say? What to be my partner"
"No, no, no, no…" Yuuta repeated in a serious mode, not seeing the teasing look that Mizuki carried "I am not allowed to interfere in human's life like that…"
"Ohhh, toooo badddd…nfufu" Mizuki made an exaggeration in the disappointment, smiling with all his teeth's while massaging his chin, making Yuuta understand that the other guy had said it in a joke, turning red from his innocence.
"You really are a little pure angel… aren't you?" Mizuki smiled even more from the embarrassment reactions of the young angel.
'I don't know why but I love to manipulate his emotions, he is so simple that makes easy to tease and turn his white cheeks into red ones.' Thought the young businessman while admiring his effect on the angel.
"No…" Yuuta turned his face away from the enjoyed smile that Mizuki had "If you keep teasing me I won't tell you anything anymore."
"Okay, okay…" Mizuki laughed, finishing his meal and leaning back on the chair, while leaving his chin and playing with his curly hair "Just tell me more about this network… like, can you communicate with the other angels also?"
The questions continued until night, Yuuta had to admit, it was enjoyable to talk to the human. Mizuki had a unique kind of way of thinking, maybe because of that that he was considerate a genius, but there were other unique characteristics, for example, his ability of detecting a standard in the other persons movements and create a counter measure, Yuuta had given up playing chest with the human because of that. But his main interest was discovered when they went to the side that had a small television and a video on the kitchen, where he programmed the video to record the scheduled matches of tennis, seeing the recorded video after work. Yuuta had never saw tennis, so after a while ended asking to Mizuki about the game that they were viewing for almost 20 minutes, to his surprise, the human gave a his first passionate reaction, stopping the tape, explaining the basic rules of tennis, after it continued watching his recorded match with the angel by his side.
"See that, that is the twist serve…" Mizuki explained the details of the attack to the angel, with enthusiasm.
The angel, at the beginning, didn't show a lot of excitement on the game, it looked stupid to him to put such efforts on catching a single ball with a racket. But after starting to assimilate the rules he slowly began to be interested.
At the end of the match, Yuuta understood the love of Mizuki by the game, and was his partner in addiction.
Those days passed in a flash. Yuuta loved when Mizuki went home, they often talked about tennis at dinner, and Yuuta's night normally ended with Mizuki falling asleep seeing the reviews of the games that gave after the "night journal" end.
But that day, the match was stopped at the pause button when Mizuki looked at the clock.
"Ops, it's 10 already." The businessman noticed, he went to fetch his jacket on the hallway, it seemed strange to see Mizuki in such a non formal cloths. Yuuta couldn't avoid laughing a little.
"Have to go…" Mizuki looked to Yuuta "Hum, maybe it would be better if you stayed."
"I have to follow you whenever you go… Why?"
"Well, let's just say that the place where I am going is not exactly the kind of place that an angel would want to go…"
Mizuki had got that right, Yuuta looked to the neon plate in front of the small bar. It had written:
"Strip Bar, the stranger" Yuuta read, he had his normally white face in a tomato colour. But Mizuki didn't made fun of it this time.
"You really don't have to come with me…"
Yuuta swallowed, he took a deep breath.
"I told, I will follow you to everywhere you go." He concluded, making a weak smile "I suppose that it will be… an experience…"
Mizuki opened the door, Yuuta saw a bunch of man, of many ages, drinking throughout a long balcony, that occupied the three walls of the squared sized establishment. At the center of the bar, there was upped floor, about seventy centimetres higher than the normal level, with three poles, forming an isosceles triangle with a lot of space between them.
Mizuki didn't sit on the balcony like Yuuta expected. Instead, he leaned at the left side of the door, and looked at the watch.
"It's time." He concluded.
There was a huge noise at the balcony, everyone seemed to be expecting the same thing that Mizuki. The three girls appeared and the ruckus began. The men shouted, towards the three girls wearing policemen uniform, with an extremely reduced miniskirt, walking towards the upped floor, where the dances began.
Mizuki stayed with a cool face towards the girls, Yuuta was feeling completely out of place. His eyes looked to Mizuki and the girls. He wasn't expecting to Mizuki to be interested in this kind of… shows.
And for some reason, this though was turning his stomach upside down.
'Oh, please… He is a full grown man. How could I expect that working and seeing Tennis were his only things in life…He has probably a lot of girlfriends also.'
Yuuta's started to feel tears on his eyes. He made an effort for them not to fall.
'Why am I in… this mess...?' Yuuta putted his hand on his heart 'Why am I so sad… this is not… he is going to die in a few months anyway.'
His tears began to fall, the reality that Mizuki was going to die had proven even more painful to Yuuta.
'Stupid tears…just go…away!'
Then, a hand caught his shoulder, pulling him to a soft warm chest, strong arms surrounded his back, hugging him.
Yuuta looked above, his eyes were a little clouded with the tears and it was dark, but he knew perfectly the scent that the body carried.
"Mizuki san…" he voiced.
"Sincerely, if you are so weak in this kind of environment you should have said so, we could have waited outside." Mizuki talked, not looking to Yuuta's face "I don't even want to think about what is the vision of the other humans that are here… they must think that I am getting so excited that started to touch an imaginary person."
"Sorry… hum? What do you mean waiting outside?" Yuuta asked, he wasn't crying anymore.
"Oh, I am meeting a friend of mine that works here." He this time looked to Yuuta's face, laughing "What, don't tell me that you though that I fancied this kind of place?"
Yuuta hid his face on the other guy chest, he new that his face was completely red and didn't wanted that Mizuki's teasing spoiled the happiness that he was feeling.
'I wish that we could stay like this forever.' He though. But as he realised what he had just desired, he suddenly pushed Mizuki's away that looked to the angel with a confused look.
"Oh, I am okay now… Don't worry." Yuuta answered the question that Mizuki's blue eyes demanded. He returned to his previews position, next to Mizuki.
'What am I thinking…He is going to die in a few months, I cannot attach to him…'
He looked up to the show, the girls were almost naked, it was about to end.
'If that happens, his death will be the small of my problems.'
One of the dancers, a red haired one, spotted Mizuki and smiled, the show had ended at a few minutes and she was dressed in casual clothing, running towards the guy.
"It has been sometime since we last saw! What have you been doing." She asked, kissing him on the cheek. Yuuta made a jealously look that even his own self didn't noticed.
"Oh… you know… business here and there… I am always occupied." He made his typical teasing smile "Why? Missing me?"
"Oh please… I only do it to get your money! Although I must admit that I love hearing you screaming and begging me to stop."
"In your dreams, like you could make me scream." Mizuki laughed, starting to walk with the dancer towards the door.
Yuuta was too shock to follow them for a moment. The conversation that they had…
'Could she be… a prostitute?'
He heard the door to shut, awakening from his thoughts, reminding him to follow the couple.
"So… were did we ended last time?" asked the red girl with a big naughty smile, she was walking right next to Mizuki, in the place that was usually occupied by the angel that saw himself in the back of the couple, felling completely left out.
"I think that you were about to surrender to me…" She laughed at his sentence "Begging me not to take your toy."
"Oh, come on… I know that I love it, but I wouldn't exactly beg for him."
Yuuta looked to Mizuki with anger. He wished that he could punch his face until it was black, but he forced to stay calm.
Mizuki's looked over his shoulder. He saw the angel with a pretty upset expression.
'Jealous of not getting the attention' He smiled to himself 'Let's make the little angel suffer a little more'
Mizuki putted his arm around the girl shoulder.
"You might get a cold, let me warm you."
The girl giggled.
"Always so considerate, Mizuki kun…"
He looked again over his shoulder and made his teasing smile to Yuuta, which carried a very furious face… all the way to his house.
Yuuta almost felt like hitting his head on the wall when Mizuki took a deck of cards and started to play with the girl.
The "toy" that he had talked about, had been in fact a teddy bear that belonged to the girl, apparently she was a childhood friend, called Anna, that spent some nights in his house to play and relax in the company of each other, but their relation was of pure friendship, as Yuuta easily noticed later.
'I am such an idiot' Though Yuuta for the eleventh time 'How could I let him tease me like that.'
"Ahah!" Shouted the girl, with enthusiasm "Eat this!"
She showed her cards, with a triumphant look. But Mizuki maintained his smile.
"Oh, I won again" He shown his cards, and the girl thrown a pillow at his face.
"Grr, don't make that smile… makes me want to squeeze you to death."
But the encounter had proven fortunate, as Mizuki couldn't shut up Anna that talked a lot about the past of them.
"The nuns of the orphanage had constantly asked about you… They are concerned that you have become a workaholic because of your good will." Commented Anna.
"It's called "paying back" they were the ones that paid my education, so I'm returning the favour." He responded coldly, trying to cut the subject, looking to me at the side of his eye.
But Anna was rather in a past mood.
"You continue the same kid that helped everyone without telling." She smiled "That's my little adoptive brother."
"Strange… I don't remember being adopted" he looked to Yuuta with an annoyed look, becoming even more annoyed with the commoved smile that angel had.
"Oh please… You were the one that said that you would be there for me like the brother when my real one died…" she looked at the floor for one moment, with sorrowful eyes "You really helped me back there… if hadn't supported me… I could…"
"Oh please…" Mizuki played with his hair, looking annoyed "I use you like I use everybody else… You are a good spy to the competition of my company. No one can put a chef slipping every business that he has like you, your only pay is to be with me sometimes to play these silly games and talk a little, which come rather cheap."
"Yes, you can put the mask of "I am an evil man" to the others and fool them… But I know you since the orphanage…" she paused "And know that you have a caring heart, although you refuse to show it."
Mizuki putted cold eyes when she said that, smiling with evilness.
"I'm an evil man, but if you want to think that I am not its fine by me.'
The game went on, but it started to become late.
"Well, look at the time… it's time to hit the sack." Mizuki looked at the time, sounding happy about not talking about the past anymore "I still have work tomorrow"
"Oh… okay…" she seemed disappointed.
Mizuki accompanied her to the room next to him.
'So the other room is for her...'
"Oh… by the way… I have been told that I started to develop a talking somnambulism… don't worry if you hear me talking okay." The human added as he walked towards his room.
"As if… I sleep like a rock when I am here." She closed the door saying a weak good night before closing the door.
Mizuki entered and closed the door of his room.
And received a flying pillow on his face.
"You big idiot! Why didn't you told me that she wasn't… oh gosh! You big moron!! You!!" Yuuta was flying to one side and another with two more pillows in both hands. Mizuki smiled.
"Sorry, it's not everyday that you see a angel having indecent though…" Mizuki avoided the second pillow "You are truly funny to tease Yuuta"
"And why do you try to make people think that you are a bad guy… you are such a… moron!"
"But I am a bad guy…People who don't believe in it are the morons…nfu"
Yuuta was about to make a direct attack to Mizuki, but the guy saw it coming and caught both is arms, immobilizing him against the floor.
The angel looked to the human, as hypnotized by the dark blue tone, Mizuki's eyes changed while they were being observed. Such a look in the blue eyes, looking so caring, he had never saw that expression on them… What was he thinking? What was he seeing in his grey eyes?
Mizuki was admiring the love expressed in the grey vivid eyes of the angel. Smiling, he came closer to the angel's face, his hand left the angel's arm and played with his companion hair.
Yuuta couldn't breath at this moment, as the human mouth approached his left ear.
"I love you, Yuuta… I am in love with you, my little angel."
Yuuta's eyes filled with tears, both of sadness and joy, as he let the other guy kiss his mouth.
He closed his eyes. Tasting Mizuki's mouth to the full…
'Don't know what is going to be my punishment, but at least I will have one happy moment to remember when I face my near ending future.'
Try to not think about the many errors of the fic,
This is one of the best fics I ever made, hope everyone is enjoying so much reading it as I was writing it.))