Try Understanding without words

Chapter Four: Friends?

By KellyQ

Takuya never felt so happy and complete in his life. Last night Kouji stayed with him the whole night, holding him close until Miss Right and the others found them. The feeling of being held the way Kouji did, made Takuya feel safe. He had never felt the light inside turned on; a warm light that was still inside of him. Takuya let out a lonely sigh. Izumi watched her friend for a moment before she decided to join him at the table. She tapped on the table to get Takuya's attention. The brown-haired boy adjusted his gaze so that they were staring at each other. The blonde-haired girl puckered her lower lip, asking if he was alright. The deaf boy looked away, saying that he got to know Kouji a little more.

Izumi smirked. 'I know,' she responded in sign Language. 'Miss. Right told me.'

Takuya's cheeks turned scarlet. Kouji, at that moment, walked in and the first thing he saw was Takuya talking to Izumi. The blonde girl smiled and giggled, making Kouji feel sort of jealous.

Izumi turned her head and beamed. "Well, I heard that you were a hero last night."

"Will everyone quit saying that! I didn't do anything but made sure that Takuya was alright!"

"Well, I don't know." Izumi smirked, a teasing look in her eyes. "I was told the best way to make friends is to be alone with that person."

"Are you saying that I need to be alone with Takuya? I don't know how to even communicate with him!"

"Takuya and I can teach you," Izumi offered.

"Yea. Like I'm ever going to know what this means," Kouji said waving his fist up and down.

Takuya watched with confusion. He tapped on the table to get Izumi's attention, asking what was going on. A playful look made its way to Izumi's eyes. Kouji watched the seen before him. He glared at Izumi - assuming that she was calling him mean names in sign language. Takuya looked back at Kouji. He got to his feet and stepped in front of Kouji. The deaf boy took his hand and tried to position them in an alligator mouth shape. Takuya brought the side of Kouji's hand to his head and closed the gap between his fingers as his hand went back and forth twice.

"Awww. Isn't that cute. Takuya is trying to teach you how say "boy" in sign language," Izumi said, the smirk still on her lips.

Boy? I think I can handle this, Kouji thought, hearing Takuya make sounds from the back of his throat. Takuya pointed to himself making same gesture. The dark-haired boy cleared his throat, positioned his own hand like an alligator mouth, doing the same motion Takuya showed him. The brown-haired boy nodded his head a, flicker of hope showed in his eyes.

That wasn't so hard, Takuya thought, it would be cool if we could talk without someone besides Mrs. Right and Izumi to do all the talking for me. Takuya tapped his chin for a moment, wondering what other words he could teach Kouji. He then ran his thumb on the side of his chin, pointing at Izumi.

"What is he saying about you?" Kouji asked, with slight interest in his voice.

"He's saying that I'm a girl in sign language ..."

"Ohhh ..." Kouji breathed, mimicking the same movement.

"See? It's that hard ..." Izumi teased.

"Yea ... well ..." Kouji said, trying to get the right words out. "You make it look so easy ... and ... I all ways thought the movements was beautiful ..."

"You just hate being nice don't ya?" Izumi teased with a 'you-are-so-cute-' expression.

Izumi liked Kouji, but nothing more than a friend, and she had a strong feeling that Takuya liked Kouji ....

Takuya just got done with talking to Izumi when something caught his eye. He turned to see a boy with long hair that was pulled back by his bandana. A long sleeve thin blue jacket, yellow shirt and blue pants, and head-phones drapped over his shoulders. At first, Takuya couldn't help but stare. The new boy was sending off a glow, causing Takuya to stay paralyzed in place ...

Ever since that time, Izumi had a feeling that Takuya was attractive to Kouji. It wasn't up to the present moment that the dark haired boy started to see Takuya in a new way.

"Alright you three," Mrs. Right said walking in. "Why don't you guys go outside and play ball? The weather man said that it was going to rain during the rest of the week."


Izumi passed the ball to Takuya. Takuya passed the ball to Kouji. This was not the most fun game in the world, but there wasn't much to do outside. Kouji passed the ball to Takuya, who ended up having to run after it. The ball rolled out onto the street with Takuya fallowing after it. The deaf boy dashed right onto the road, just as a car came toward him.

"Takuya!" Izumi cried.

She ran up and pushed Takuya out of the way just as the car smashed right into her. Takuya rolled to the side and looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened in complete horror. Kouji was shocked too at the seen before him as he stood there, unable to move either.

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