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Didn't plan on writing a second part to this, but my creative side just sort of flurished and now it might get a couple of more chapters to it. Its still only going to be short. Enjoy xD
Tokai road was a long straight stretch of about seven kilometres that ran down from the town, all the way to the provincial lake where it ended at a T-junction. It had two lanes and on either side there was nothing much else but fields and woodlands. The only exception to the fields down Tokai road was a single house.
It was a modest house of three rooms, a simple sitting room, a kitchen that included their dining space and two bathrooms. Arguably, the only immodest part of the house was the garden, which was spacious, although this was mostly due to the severe lack of property in the area meaning that the garden extended as far as they wanted.
The largest issue with the home was its distance from anything.
For lack of better words, Yuya and her siblings lived a ten day camel ride from civilisation.
The town for groceries and for anything to do was five kilometres away, and her school another three on top of that. If Yuya was to walk to and from school it would take her almost two hours just to go one way, meaning she would have to leave at six in the morning daily. Which was a horrendous thought.
Thankfully her brother would drive her most places, and if that wasn't possible her trusty bike was the next best alternative.
Today, however, was an exception.
For Yuya had done the unthinkable.
Lied to her precious brother.
Truly, it was only a minor lie. When considering the outcome, it probably wasn't really a lie at all, just more of a fib. Still, that morning when she had told her brother, as he dropped her off at the school, she wouldn't be needing him to pick her up at the usual time, because she had an afterschool event and that a friend would be dropping her off. Guilt had wracked her body for a good hour afterwards.
Her kind and loving brother that had raised her to be honest and caring, and she had lied to him.
Except it was all in good faith, as Yuya had a plan.
After all, it wasn't every day that your older brother turned thirty.
Getting off her bike, Yuya took hold of the handlebars and guided it in the alley way between the grocery store and a coffee shop. There weren't any bike racks around town, something that annoyed her endlessly, so she always parked it here and would lock up her bike against the drain pipes. After pulling out all of the contents of her bag, Yuya realised with an annoyance that it wasn't there. Frowning, put all her stuff back in her bag.
Thinking back, Yuya tried to remember where she would have left her bike lock. After a moment's thought, she released that she might have just forgotten it hanging on the bike racks at the school.
Deciding that she wasn't going to be gone that long, and that crime in their town was near non-existent, Yuya leant her bike up against the wall and moved quickly to the grocery store.
Electronically activated door opened with a sound and Yuya stepped into the store and grabbed a shopping basket, eyes looking around for the aisle that would hold the first thing she was looking for.
Ten or so minutes later and Yuya was looking down at the shopping basket held on her arm and then the shopping list in her hand. Quickly concluding that she had found everything to make her brothers birthday perfect, she made her way over to the counter to pay.
As she paid, the loud sounds of a roaring engine could be heard and Yuya frowned at whoever was making such a racket in the afternoon. Likely some show off with their car was the direction that Yuya's thoughts where taking her.
The commotion from the car left her mind as he collected her change and receipt, then began putting all the items into the reusable shopping bag she always carried on her.
Chimes of the door signalled her exit, and Yuya walked onto the pavement, taking the turn to the alley street next to the shop and paused when she face the imposing back of a long haired man facing down the alley. Yuya took a step back when she realised that this man was lunging forward and punching another man in the jaw. With a cry he fell to the floor while Yuya was grace with a side glance of the attacker.
"Kyo?" Yuya took a few steps to get closer to the confrontation that was occurring, her brain still not quite catching up, even as Kyo took hold of the back wheel of her bike (that she just noticed was lying on the ground) and advance towards the floored man. "You idiot!" She screamed just as she read the man intentions as he lifted her bike right over the head of an already beaten thug and swing it right down. Her bike crashed into the man, but mostly the pavement and bounced off with such force.
The thought of the eggs was all that stopped Yuya from dropping her shopping bag.
"My bike!" Yuya howled at him, anger and annoyance sky-rocketing. Storming over to him to turn him around and grab Kyo by the shirt. "You. Broke. My. Bike!"
Looking utterly unabashed at her, he looked down at her bike before back to her. "Hm."
Shocked, Yuya stared after him as he brushed off her hand and turned to picked up her bike and tried to stand it up. The front wheel was dented and wouldn't stand straight, one pedal had snapped off and the frame looked a little twisted, matching the bent wheel.
Completely wrecked.
"Kyo," voice low as she tried to maintain hold of her temper, "I really don't care too much about your fights, as long as you don't start picking on people weaker than you, but don't just drag in other peoples stuff unnecessarily!" She lost it a little bit towards the end there.
At that Kyo looked annoyed, his eyes narrowed and his stance became taller as he crossed his arms over his broad chest. "It wasn't unnecessary. He was trying to steal your bike, which you left unlocked. Stupid."
At that Yuya laughed, a rich laugh. "So your logic is that it's better for my bike to get trashed in stopping the criminal than just letting him take it."
Shrugging, a cocky grin formed. "Same outcome either way."
All energy left Yuya in once second and she slumped a little. "Great. And now I have to walk." Muttering to herself as she turned away from Kyo and began walking in the direction of her house. Before she would have complained at having to cycle the five kilometre journey home with the heavy shopping load of flour, potatoes and milk, and just about everything heavy. Now walking? Yuya wanted to sob in misery.
As for her bike. Well the criminal already had a dent on his forehead in the shape of her peddle. He might as well keep the old bike.
This Friday afternoon was turning out to be hellish.
"Dogface. Where you going?"
"Where else? Home." She sounded miserable, at which Kyo did feel the beginnings of guilt to emerge. Kyo glanced down at the heavy looking reusable shopping bag slung over her shoulder. Stamping down on that guilt before it thought it could make itself an apparent emotion, Kyo sighed out.
"Fine dogface. I'll give you a lift."
He said it like it was a privilege, rather that something he kind of owed her.
Yuya, now having no desire to inflate his already swollen ego from his victorious fight, politely rejected his offer in a not so polite way. "Go away you stupid moron."
Kyo appeared out of the corner of her eye, having caught up with her easily he moved in front and acted as a block. "It's six or seven kilometres for you to walk home, it'll be dark well before you get home."
"Well then, you had better think before you start breaking other peoples bikes then."
"I didn't know it was your bike."
"Bullshit, I've had the same bike for ten years. Of course you knew it was mine, why else would you have tried to stop that man from stealing it?"
Yuya didn't even want to see the embarrassment that she doubted was present on his face, even though it should be! "Fine dogface, go do stupid shit then."
She stormed onwards with nothing other than a "Stupid Kyo!" and "My names not Dogface!", wanting to make a good start so that it won't be too dark by the time she made it home.
Half an hour in as he feel began to hurt and her back too, Yuya really wished she had thought this through. She could have been home by now if she had just agreed to let him take her. He even owed it to her for trashing her bike, but no, she had to let her own pride but in.
Yuya decided then, that she was likely just as bad as Kyo was on the pride front. The thought hadn't even properly formed itself before she was passionately rejecting it. Stubbornness was more appropriate.
Feet were now hurting and her arms strained from carrying the heavy bag on each shoulder and hand. It was hard to find the one way to happily carry a shopping bag for a near two hour walk.
Yuya paused at a sound.
It was faint, likely far in the distance, but rapidly approaching.
Turning to look, Yuya could barely make out the shape of a car through the heat waves and the dust. The thundering rumble of the car's engine was fast approaching.
Frowning at whatever idiot thought he was racing down Tokai, Yuya moved a little further off the road to definitely be out of the way. The car now was hurdling down at un undoubtable illegal speed. It made Yuya shiver a little at the thought of driving at the speed. It must feel exhilarating.
The car was near now and Yuya wasn't quite ready to look away as she noticed the make and the drivers place.
It drove past her in such a rush that she shut her eyes as the dust flew everywhere. The wind pushed by her so fast her skirt flew up past her hips and Yuya nearly dropped everything in her efforts to push it back down.
She knew exactly who that car belonged to.
"Kyo, you idiot." He was determined to grate on her last nerves today.
Spinning around she watched the car continue driving off further down the road till tail lights lit up. He was slowing down. Grumbling, Yuya really hoped he wasn't going to do what she thought he might be.
Unsurprised when she saw that Kyo was making a very illegal rapid u-turn and then revving the car up to drive back down the way he came. And did it again, shooting right past her at a dangerous speed.
Yuya could not believe that idiot. What did he think he was achieving here? Impressing her? He had pissed her off too much today to get away with that.
If something where to run out on the road and he had to break suddenly, he would die and likely kill someone.
Yuya could not have that. Not to mention the thought at getting back at him not just today, but years of being a annoying, admittedly attractive, thorn in her side… she could just pass it up.
Pulling out her mobile, Yuya dialled the three numbers.
"119. What's your emergency?"
"Hello. There's a man driving recklessly up and down the Tokai road. I think he might hurt someone or himself."