Chapter 8
WARNING ! : few comments or none at all will make my lazy ass even lazier
NOTE: this chapter is all formed of memories but instead of putting all in italic I preferred keeping it in normal writing since it's easier on the eye
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH fuck what the hell.
"Move your lazy ass before I shove this up it" I see Kaito trying to fit his gun up my nose. For the last days Agito has been infiltrating a smuggling group and yet I didn't get a night's rest since I am his link to the Special Forces and always have to be available… I could get some sleep sometimes if Kaito didn't kick me awake every single time… better forget about the two sore ribs and get moving. I get my jacket, pull the hood up and go to the set location. I really like this job, waiting for him every night at a hidden place in the shadows… the waiting part is kind of boring but I love hearing his AT's coming… like now.
"What a bunch of pitiful auspicious people… They really think I'm their friend." Hmm you are a cold blooded person that never cares about other people's feelings… yah the perfect liar. "For our business tonight, it seems like… there'll be two or three difficult things. So don't mess up Akira." Oh… forgot to mention that besides being the middle man and having Kaito that never lets me sleep, we also take branches of an organization out.
"Geez… Hmm… Shouldn't you tell that to yourself, Agito?" you look kind of tired.
Agito leave's my side and I wait a while before going into position and passing the message to Kaito nii. "Arms, final check – all members, get into position!" damn he sure took his sweet time… what the… fuck they noticed us. I look to the right and see all the AT riders go over the special force's heads…
"Evacuate! Evacuate!" and all the plans from the last 2 days have been in vain, fuck this is annoying.
"DAMN THEY NOTICED US!"… you don't say...
"Damn, this is why… whenever we're not around, you can't do a thing!" really… in the end it's always me and Agito that do all the work, so why do we need all these loud soldiers that always end up doing nothing…
"DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE, AKIRA!" if only one of those guys escapes we end up working for who knows how long to recapture him and fix the damages he may bring… and I need SLEEP.
"I'll definitely do it. Having even one of them escape and pulling overtime? I don't think so either." Ok… go go go go go… they all fall under my AT's one after the other… No one can withstand Shinjuku Crocodiles' Udou Akira hahahahaha.
"YOU!" haha a gun… you have to be kidding… sigh these guys just never learn.
"Hm… So you took care of them. If so, I guess Akira alone is enough." I hear Agito saying from the back… such a lazy ass… we'll I guess after a while of not fighting I do feel a little charged up… now let's see who's next… I look at a guy waving… did he say something…? I couldn't quite hear it… Probably some weird language… NOOOOOO… THIS IS BAD! THEY'RE… GOING TO TAKE THAT GIRL HOSTAGE!?
I have to go faster… I can't let that girl get hurt. One after another fall under my strength … 5 weaklings that thought they could hide behind an innocent girl. Hah… haa… ha…! Fuck I'm not a speed rider, this took a lot of energy…
"Damn! Ah… Are… Are you fine? Are you hurt? They were a bunch of criminals rampaging all around…"… this time… I made it this time… I managed to protect…
"… Bro…"… what?... what did she just say?... "BROTHER!" … no… "Brother! Bro…! Ugh! Ah… Ahhhhh! Waah!" I… no… how can …
"Ah… no… hm… they… no… hmm… these people where dangerous… hmm…" I manage to bluter some words… did they even make sense?
"Akira." It takes me a while to realize that Agito was talking to me" They were smuggling the content of this box. Look…" yah… of course… they were criminals… so… I was right to stop them… they were definitely smuggling… a… a baby bird?...
"B… bro… brother… today… my birthday… my… leg, do… doesn't move… so… present… TO BE ABLE TO FLY… SKY! SMALL… BIRD… PRESENT…! Brother… he not understand Japanese… so… he ran away… The police are so frightening… he ran away…!" I feel like my world just shattered in a thousand pieces… did… did I make a mistake?... "I… just understand me a little… so… this 'confusion with things not done'… … I'm came here to explain it…" I… but… I thought…
"Don't mind her, Akira. Didn't I tell you already?"… but I… I just killed her brother right in front of her… on her birthday… "They aren't supposed to be in this country in the first place. No one will know if one or two disappear."… monster… as much as I care for Kaito nii… he scares the hell out of me. "let's go , our job is over." I drag myself after Agito and Kaito towards the trailer… I feel sick … how could all that have happened?... I look at the ambulance that came to take the injured and memorize the name of the hospital… it's the one on the other side of the city… are the doctors planning to let them die on the way?... couldn't a closer hospital take them?
I move numbly around the trailer taking clean clothes and preparing to take a shower. Kaito is on the steering wheel smoking like nothing has happened… I know that he's a self-centered bastard… but how can he just act so calmly? I get under the shower… it feels so nice… if it could only take this guilt away too… I stay under the shower a while before hearing Agito almost beating down the door.
"Fuck how long are you gonna take?" I finish washing up so I go upstairs without even saying a word.
"Fucking idiot. If u used up all the hot water I'm gonna kill you." I don't even bother to answer… how can they not care about what we did?... I can't take her crying explanation out of my head… her words are hunting me and they won't stop. I sit on the bed and close my eyes… I see her… crying over the body of her brother… I remember the face of the girl that fell off the building… why am I not capable of doing anything right?... what the… I feel a slap on the back of my head and when I look up I see Agito's eye scrutinizing every part of my body… he's trying to figure out what I'm thinking… I hate it when he tries to get in my head like that.
"Get to bed it's 5 in the morning, you look tired." I lay down and look at the ceiling… 'Brother'… 'to be able to fly… small bird… present…!'…'the police are so frightening…' …'confusion with things not done'… I can't stay like this… I just… can't…
I look over at Agito's bed and see that he's sleeping… it's 6 in the morning and no matter how tired I am I just can't get to sleep. I get up, go downstairs, take my jacket and AT's and head towards the hospital… I know that I risk getting in trouble doing this… but the brothers are sleeping so I just have to return before they wake up.
When I reach the hospital I see the girl sitting on the bench near the emergency room… I don't know what to say… but… I have to do something… I get inside and move towards her. At the sound of my AT's she jumps up and positions herself in front of the door with arms open.
"Don't hurt anymore… leave!" I guess she thought I was going after her brother… I look at her eyes fill with tears, hate and fear…
"No… I'm sorry… I just came here… I apologize for the misunderstanding… I'm really sorry…" I move back and go to the cafeteria to buy something to eat and hot tea. When I come back she is seating again but at my sight jumps on her feet.
"Here… you must be hungry" I show her the things I bought but when I see she doesn't look like she intends to take them I slowly put them down on the bench…
"I'm really sorry… I really didn't understand… I know it's not an excuse but…"
"Leave us!" I look at her and understand I'm not wanted here… I knew that from the beginning though… what the hell was I expecting?... I take a piece of paper and write my phone number on it before putting it near the food.
"If you need anything please call… I'm really sorry… I hope your brother will get better.. "
When I get back to the trailer I move quietly towards the ladder.
"Did it help?" I turn around and see Kaito looking at me from the mirror… I turn back and get in bed… no… it didn't help… but it was something I had to do… I feel Agito's eye on me but when I look towards him I notice he's sleeping so I turn around and try to sleep too.
I'm getting a migraine… Kaito nii is one of those people that are capable of yelling for hours… well you should be scared when he's serious and silent.
Some days ago we got a request from the police. A team of 5 AT riders have been robbing jewelry stores all over the country. They wear Siamese cat masks and call themselves the IceCats… apart from the lame name… they are really skilled riders. Agito went after the 4 that seemed the strongest and played the role of the bodyguards while I've been running after this guy for 2 hours straight with Kaito bitching like crazy in my ears… I can't even cut the connection since he's organizing the ground troops and I need to stay up to date. The guy I'm following is the one that always caries the loot… well with this insane stamina and speed it's understandable … I almost lost him a couple of times… but damn I'm dead tired, every fiber of my body is aching but it's not like I can let him escape… what the?... Where the hell did he go?... fuck! I hope I didn't lose him.
I hear a door sliding open and I see someone pass an angle to my left left… that's the guy I've been tracking… I gain some speed and follow him… I can't let him escape. A girl comes out of the door and the guy is going at her, I jump towards them and catch his hand… "BROTHER" I see that girl again… crying… clenching desperately to her dieing brother… I block myself right in front of them… I can't move an inch…
"HA HA !!! He's just a kid" laughs the girl before pulling out a gun and pointing it at my head "Sorry kiddo but you have to die"… move… I have to move or she'll shoot me… MOVE…
"Fuck!" is all I hear before seeing a shark shred mercilessly the 2 people in front of me to pieces… I still can't move when out of the now blurry shark I see Agito standing victorious over the bodies, he faces me and with a punch sends me flying some meters back before landing on my ass. He slowly comes to me and sits on my abdomen pressing down my chest with his left hand while his right one grabs my hair painfully… he lowers his face and hisses in my ear.
"Stop thinking about that bitch, you useless shithead, or I will kill you myself"
He's pissed of… I don't think I ever heard him talk like this… my blood just froze… this is the first time I am truly scared of him… I feel trapped… a sharks prey… I'm afraid of moving… he'll kill me…
He gets off me but I still feel him… I still feel the pressure… I'm not breathing… I can't breath…
I feel a kick in my ribs and a whip mercilessly beating me.
"… What are you waiting for?..." I look at Kaito and try to process the phrases that come out of his mouth… I get on my feet and look towards Agito… I'm reluctant to believe what just happened. I've felt his killing intent many times… but this was… terrifying…
I take a shower and rest my still aching body… this last chase has taken a lot out of me. I hear the cell phone ring and see that I received a message from an unknown number.
"Thank you for leaving me your number. I would really appreciate it if you could find the time to meet with me . Ren"
So that's her name… Ren…
I write during the boring hours at school… but always lose the paper I write it on… and it's really annoying to rewrite it again -.-