Behind the glasses

CHAPTER 2

Shinobu

It was midnight and young Shinobu was still wide awake looking at the dark night with passion behind the window of the hospital he was staying. He loved the night because it reminded him of those days that his mother was still alive and of those nights she will go outside with him and sing for him, just him alone. His mother had a beauty that it could not be compare to no one, but unfortunately her health was weak, including her pale skin. Making her not to be able to walk under the sunlight and because of this, Shinobu was born at night in a fool moon at her own house.

When been small Shinobu didn't go outside, he prefer to stay inside with his mother making people to think that he was just like his mother, but no. he will never forget the day he first went outside in the light of the sun and saw the beauty for the first time in his short life. And so he started to go to school and actually made friends with other kids, mostly girls because the other boys bullied him by his feminine looks.

But Shinobu never forgot about his mother. Every time he came back from school he went straight to her room and stayed there for the rest of the day and night.

But one day when he was arriving to his house with the hopes of telling his mom that he had A+ in all his grades and she will smile for him and fill proud of him. But instead he found an ambulance in front of his house and saw how they took his mother inside the car, asleep. He was never able to show her his good grades nor was he going to be able to hear her sing again.

A tear fell out of his eyes and didn't bother to brush it off. He was too concentrated in watching the stars.

BAM!

He heard the door next door that led to the stares close suddenly making him to jump in surprise

"Who the fuck will be awake at this time…? Oh, right, me"

He heard sounds coming from the stairs that sounded more like a voice, a voice singing. He knew it was a bad idea to see who it was, but his curiosity was so big that he just had to know.

He slowly got off his bed and walk towards his door, and once out of his room he walked towards the door of the stairs and as quiet as he could he opened it slowly making him to be able to hear the voice more clearly and was surprise by a boy sitting down in the second stair with one eye cover, a rap arm, and a broken leg. He looked so hurt physically and mentally, creating his voice to give more emotion to the melody. But what surprise Shinobu the most was the song he was singing

Yesterday I died; tomorrow's bleeding
Fall into your sunlight
The future's open wide beyond believing
To know why hope dies
And losing what was found, a world so hollow
Suspended in a compromise
But the silence of this sound is soon to follow
Somehow sundown
And finding answers
Is forgetting all of the questions we call home
Passing the graves of the unknown

Shinobu knew the song perfectly, it was one of his favorite songs and he knew that not everyone knew about it. Just him and…. And his mother.

As reason clouds my eyes with splendor fading
Illusions of the sunlight
A reflection of a lie will keep me waiting
With love gone for so long
And this day's ending
Is the proof of time killing all the faith I know
Knowing that faith is all I hold

The boy sighs softly and smiled with pleasure and looked up the white roof and closed his eye. And started to sing again but this time his voice became louder and louder.

And I've lost who I am, and I can't understand
Why my heart is so broken,
rejecting your love, without,
love gone wrong; lifeless words carry on
But I know, all I know's that the end's beginning
who I am from the start,
take me home to my heart
Let me go and I will run,
I will not be silent, all this time
spent in vain; wasted years wasted gain
All is lost but hope remains and this war's not over
There's a light, there's a sun
taking all these shattered ones
To the place we belong
and his love will conquer all

And I've lost who I am, and I can't understand
Why my heart is so broken
rejecting your love, without,
love gone wrong; lifeless words carry on
But I know, all I knows that the end's beginning
who I am from the start,
take me home to my heart
Let me go and I will run,
I will not be silent, all this time
spent in vain; wasted years wasted gain
All is lost but hope remains and this war's not over
There's a light, there's a sun
taking all these shattered ones
To the place we belong
and his love will conquer all

Yesterday I died; tomorrow's bleeding
Fall into your sunlight

The boy finished with a soft tone and he looked pleased and tired. Shinobu was so amazed with the boy's voice that he didn't notice that he had sat down close to him, still staring with his big bright gray eyes. The boy turned his head toward Shinobus way and smiled kindly making Shinobu to realize how close he was to the mysterious boy and see his eye that was bright green like the spring causing him to blush a little

"I-I was just…. I heard you and I-I umm"

The boy just kept smiling and turned his whole body towards Shinobu

"Did I wake you up, umm?"

"Shinobu, and no I couldn't sleep and then I heard you"

"Oh, haha, looks like I wasn't the only one that couldn't sleep… I'm Misaki by the way"

"Nice meeting you Misaki"

"Same here… so why are you here, you look fine to me, even with that bandage in your head you look fine"

"I'm okay,; it's just that some months ago I got into…. Some trouble"

"Hmmmm… well as you can tell from my appearance I did as well get in 'some' trouble"

Misaki gave another sweet smile to Shinobu who blushed even more. But yet he couldn't look away from those eyes or eye that enchanted him. So pure, beautiful, with a glimpse of pain and regret. What could this boy have done to be here? What pass could he be hiding behind that smile? So many questions crumble up in Shinobus brain that he didn't hear Misaki calling him

"Hey shinooobuuu~"

"Eh? Oh, umm yea? What is it?"

Misaki chuckle by the reaction of the boy in front of him, he was cute, though he didn't dare to say that to him. He himself didn't like it when his gang members called him cute, pretty, or some feminine way. So why do it to him.

"When did you get here? I mean, like I said before you look fined to me, except for the bandage in your head, so you might be already goanna live the hospital"

"Oh, no… I have been here for 5 and a half months and I still need one more"

"5 Months!? O damn, you had to do something really bad to stay that much time and still look like a new born"

Both guys laugh at Misaki's random comment for some minutes until they heard someone shouting "Shut up!," Making them to laugh even more but more silently. And then Shinobu started to talk again

"I don't think what I did was as bad as whatever you did to end up looking like this! Really, what you did? You look out of a cat fight!"

"Haha yea something like that, but instead of cats they were thirst dogs"

"Seriously?"

"No"

"Oh… then, what happen?"

The atmosphere suddenly became series and quiet between the two guys. But it was a convertible silence. And then Misaki started to explain his story in a short version

"I was indeed in a fight, in a fight I was in charge of, the leader you can call it. More than 100 guys and me were supposed to fight and win, but we lost because of me. I was attack by behind and fall, but even if I was already on the ground they continue beating me up till I passed out. And here you see me now."

Shinobu was astonished at what he had heard. It was short but understandable. And jet he couldn't believe it but at the same time he did because he was in the same boat as him

"When did that happen?"

"ummmm around 8 and half months"

"WHAT!? You have been here for 9 months!"

"uuhh, yea, you can say that, and I still need half more till my leg is completely heal"

"Holly shit! And you said I have been here for too long! How did you survive?"

"I really didn't fill the first 7 months pass, I was in coma"

"Oh, I-I didn't know, sorry I was just-"

"Don't worry about it. Not even I knew I was in a coma. It felt more like a short nap"

"if a short nap for you is half a year I don't want to know what's a full nap,"

"Hahahaha, okay, okay, and what about you?"

"What about me?''

"How did you ended up here? Well, that if you want to tell me"

"Oh, no, it's cool, you told me your story so I'll tell you… Well, just like you I was in a little fight,"

"Little?"

"Okay compared to yours I'm pretty sure mine was smaller, but like I was saying I agree to fight too. The difference of your fight and mine is that I didn't really had a reason to and I was alone

"…How many did you-"

"10 or 15 I didn't really count, I just know they were a lot,"

"And what went wrong?"

"I didn't know it was a trap,"

"A trap!? How?"

"I'm pretty used to getting into random fights with whoever but this people that were from my school had their own reasons,"

"That were?"

"I rejected one of them"

"O damn… so the girl or dude wanted revenge? How's that a trap?"

"Yup, you see the school I used to go is full of rich kids who think they can get whatever they want or whoever they want with their parents money, and well its true in this occasion cuss this guy bought the principle to let them attack me and even… Rape me if they wanted to,"

"The fuck! What school lets that happen!? 'Rape you,'

Like come on! That's too far…!"

"I know, I know, but they didn't rape me, I run away before that happen. I had beat up most of them but like I said, it was a trap, so the remaining just out of no were started to run away and one guy that I thought I had knocked out jump in front of me and heat me on my neck"

"A vital spot"

"Yes, when I woke up I still had my clothes on so they hadn't done anything to me, but then I realize I was tied to a pole with metal chains and I was losing too much blood. I tried to look my surroundings but it was hard with blood on my eyes, I just could hear the sounds of chains and smell metal and gasoline. I was so scared that I could hear the chains on my wrist shaking with my trembling body. and if it wasn't worse enough I heard a similar sound of a saw working. so I-I panic and didn't know what to except to try and pull my hands free of the tight chains. I could heir my bones cracking and fill the pain so intense, but it was my life that was at stake..."

Shinobu started to tremble at the thought of the memory and started to cry quietly while touching his wrist that until now was unknown to Misaki, that they were marked. the long sleeves of the shirt that Shinobu was wearing were covering the ugly truth behind the bandage in Shinobus head. Misaki got closer to Shinobu and hug him carefully like if he was going to chatter in many peace's if he hugged him too tight. for some minutes he let Shinobu cry his pain out and Shinobu was grateful for that. At his home, since a year of his mother death, no one cared about him, his older sister, his fathers wife, his grandparents and his own father. They all ignore him, but when he started to cry his father always came to his room to shut him up with screams telling him to grow up, or insulting him by acting like a girl, and sometimes he even slap him. Everyone knew what his father do to him, and yet no one said or do something to help him. he was alone. His childhood was not one of his favorite memories to remember. At the age of 10, in his beginning of 5th grade, his aunt that was the younger sister of his mother came to visit them once, but for her surprise she caught her seen his father slapping him so hard in the face that you could see blood running down his little mouth. When his aunt saw this she herself punch his father on the face making him fall on his butt and to both Shinubu's and his father surprise she took Shinobu to live with her.

Shinobu thank god for giving him his aunt who was the only living creature that cared about him. But even if he was safe from that abusing family his inter wounds couldn't heal. He felt all kinds of negative fillings growing inside him and the only way he found to heal them was fighting with random people at random places. The years went in a flash without his Aunt finding out of his fights at school and instead giving her good grades in all his classes. everything had a balance, but then, everything got fucked up in just one day and in one fight. And now you see him now at a hospital. The last months his aunt have pass by to see him on how he was doing, but in every visit she never asked him if this fight was his first; even though she had seen his wounds on the back she had thought they were product of his father abuse when he still lived with his father years ago, well not much years ago cuss right now he was 14( 4 years ago)

all those years he had not cried his filling out, not even his aunt, but right now this boy Misaki was hear hugging him with care and gentleness. Like a mother would. Shinobu could tell that Misaki had pass by something similar as him, maybe that's why he felt somewhat free to cry in his shoulder.

some more minutes pass till Shinobu was calm and the only thing was sniffing sound coming out of him.

"better now?'' Misaki asked

"yea, thank you,"

Shinobu slowly separate himself from Misakis arms and rubbed his sore eyes that still had some tears falling down. But by his surprise Misaki stopped him and gave him a tissue,

"If you rub your eyes with your hands you can damage your eyesight''

at the moment Shinobu took the soft tissue of Misakis hand he slightly had contact with the others hand and surprisingly they were as soft as feathers. Misaki catch this sight and question him if something was wrong

"its just that, your hands are so soft that its impossible to believe you know how to fight,"

"oh, hahaha, I use leather gloves when I fight, that might be why I don't have rough hands"

Both boys began talking about their experiences in fighting and exchanging some tips for wining. when they finish talking about that topic they went to talking about their life, which both didn't like the topic but somehow they felt okay talking about it each other. the topics keep changing and sometimes they come back to an old one and start over again. And slowly the forgot the mental pain they were fighting alone all their life's.

This how they pass their nights for the pass month, talking about life and random stuff, until they were charge out of the Hospital, but with different warnings; First Shinobu couldn't be in really hot places because of his head been sensitive and should use some kind of cream for his wounds in his body that were not just in his wrist and he couldn't do sports. For Misaki, he had to wear glasses for his eye which was still being treated and he couldn't get to much light on them because they were sensitive, as well he had to be careful with his arm that was now full of technology because it was 5 times stronger than a normal human arm, and lastly he couldn't do sports either.

But the most important thing for them to be completely heal was that both couldn't get into any fight within two and a half year

Note: I'm finally done! I didn't know how to end this chapter so YAY I'm happy! Sorry if I miss spell a word or something, English is not my first language sooooo yea. By the way Misaki & Shinobu wont have nothing romantic going on , they are just really close, goody, besties, frends (you get what I mean). In the next chapter I'll try to put them in High school including Akihiko and the other pairs (like the egoist and Miyagi) I hope you like this chapter and pleas review :D

tell me is it good, bad, etc. pleeaaasss XD i'll love you if you do (jk)

sorry, I'm a really hyper person hahaha

Allrriigghhttyy then, thank you for reading :)