Escape Plan
Touma looked at himself in the mirror, touching his reflection. The room was not lighted, only the light from the stars and the moon shone in. It reflected into Touma's dirty green eyes. The eyes sparkled as the blonde's tears flowed down his beautiful face.
Guilt.
How much guilt did he accumulate in his life? How much to kill the relationship between him and Kori? Eiri told him to take it easy. How? How much must he atone to his debts to regain the love that was in before?
"Fuck." Touma said as he looked at the tainted face.
Yeah right, you're such a morbid fucking idiot to get your sister to be this mad at you. You're not even fit for her to even call you 'brother'. Anyway, you're not eve fit to be one.
"Shut up."
His conscience ignored the suggestion, chuckled and continued.
Oh, then what will you do to get her back into your arms? Kill your parents to redeem Kori from their torture? You can't, you don't even dared to. You're just there to let her die.
"This has nothing to do with mom and dad, okay?"
Oh, really? Why didn't you save her the time she was slash with the belt? Why didn't you save her when she was scaled by the boiling water? Why didn't you save her before she self-inflicted wounds on herself before Sakuma? It's because you're coward, coward.
"I'm not a coward! It's just …it's just that…I…"
Touma stopped. He could not finish his sentence. Why? Why didn't he stop or save his helpless little sister from the torture? His father never laid a finger on him, why?
The blonde's head probed in pain as he thought more about it. In frustration, he punched onto the mirror, cracking it in the process, as tears flowed freely down his face. He knew his knuckles were bleeding but he ignored. He picked up his mobile phone and dialed the number of his best friend.
"Hello? Eiri Uesugi speaking."
"It's Touma."
"Is anything the problem? Your voice sounds hoarse. Have you been crying or something?"
"Yeah something like that."
"Are you okay?"
"I think so."
"What do you mean by that, Touma? I'm pretty serious here ya know?"
"Okay, okay…stop being this pissy. You sound like Yamaguchi Sensei."
"Ew…that's disgusting. Anyway for what God's sake are you calling for?"
"I need your help."
"Ya sure, what do you want to do? As long as it does not involve killing or robbing, or any other things against the law, I'm in."
"Hahahaa…Okay."
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The stationeries were all over the desks, messy papers, and almost torn textbooks with lots of notes in them. Kori laid her head on the table, hoping the boring lecture would end soon. Ryuichi was already yawning away and the lecturer had caught him over and over again. The class was as well as dead, as each of the students waited for the school bell to ring.
"Uesugi kun!" The lecturer shouted all of a sudden, startling the whole class. "What are you doing? Playing video games in my class! Do you have any shame on yourself!"
"Yamaguchi sensei, I'm really sorry about that. But, your lesson is so damn boring." The blonde replied in his usual easy-going tone, angering the lecturer even more.
The lecturer was speechless as the crowd cheered for their brave 'warrior'. Eiri did not take much notice from the cheers. But instead, smiled at Kori to get her attention. Kori was stunned for a moment, then decided to smile back to the blonde.
Eiri, like Kori, was born with colour deficiency. The both of them had pale appearances that made them the odd ones out in school. But ironically, the both of them never had been friends; they never even spoke to one another before. Kori was always together with Ryuichi, but Eiri was always with Touma, not to mention Kori's worst enemy.
Kori smiled at the blonde with her cheery smile. Confusingly enough, Kori hated the guy as much as she hated Touma Seguchi and his family, but she was happy.
Eiri walked towards Kori, looking intensively at the girl with his sexy golden eyes, making the girl blush in embarrassment.
"Can we talk, Seguchi kun?"
"Don't call me that Uesugi," Kori replied in her cold tone as she heard the name, " 'Kori' will do."
"Okay Kori kun, but we really need to talk."
"About what? Homework?"
"No, it's about something else…"
Kori stared at the blonde in silence.
"Please."
"Okay, when and where?" she said in defeat of the innocent face.
"Today, after school, at the indoor basketball court… you can bring Sakuma kun if you want to."
"No, I won't. I'm coming alone."
"Thanks, see you then." Eiri said as he turned around to return to his seat.
"Till then." Kori replied reluctantly as she waved at the blonde.
Eiri went back to his seat to be punished by the lecturer. But all the while, he was looking at Kori, worrying every second that she might go against her promise. Then again, he wondered what Touma told him last night over the phone was going to work or not. Nonetheless, the first challenge was over. Now all he needed to do was to make sure that Kori had this talk with him no matter what.
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Sound of track shoes squeaking and basketball bouncing filled the space. Recent whistles could be heard from the couch whistle. The school's female basketball team was intensively practicing for their tournament that's due in a few months time. Their sweat seemed to be flowing like tap water, dripping onto the ground as the players raced across the court with the orange ball with them.
Kori watched the team practice as she waited for Eiri in patience. She wondered what the blonde wanted to talk to her about, most probably, about Touma Seguchi. She regretted to agree for the talk, but still she waited for the blonde's arrival to see what he has to say.
Eiri arrived a few minutes later, shocked as to see that the girl had arrived before him. It got him a little tense. After all a gentleman shouldn't make a girl wait for him. He walked towards the waiting girl and apologized, relieved as he found the girl actually smiled at him. Eiri plucked up a little courage and sat beside the female, not looking at her, he started the conversation.
"I know that you would assumed I'm going to talk about Touma. But unfortunately, I'm not."
Kori stared at disbelief but did not reply as the blonde continued to speak.
"I was wondering about how much you like music and Sakuma kun, and how much you hate me Eiri Uesugi, the freak."
"You're not a freak." Kori yelled at the blonde.
"Maybe," Eiri replied and laid his back against the sit, "But I always wanted to move to somewhere people would accept me for what I am. Have you thought about that Kori kun?"
"Not really, but you really made me think thoroughly about it this once."
"So…Kori kun would you like to go to New York with me?"
"What!" Kori gasped.
"I mean, I'm leaving for New York in the end of the year and I was wondering if you would leave with me." Eiri blushed as he finished the sentence. It sounded more like a love confession than a normal persuasion. He began to look around the court leaving eye contact with the girl. But instead of calming himself down, looking around made his blushing worse than ever. Kori chuckled as she stared at the funny and cute expression. She placed her right hand under Eiri's chin, forcing as much eye contact as possible with the guy. The blonde stared into Kori's soft emerald green eyes, finding it too attractive to resist. She looked a lot like Touma, except for her fair and pale physical appearance that made her looked so different. But above all, she was really beautiful.
"Uesugi kun, I do not really get you. But I'll think about it."
"Thanks."
"I'll give you an answer a month before you leave."
"Yeah sure, I'll wait for your answer."
"Thanks for the answer then," Kori said and stood up to leave, "Jaa…mata aimashou."
End
Did you people see that! Eiri was in love with Kori chan!
Anyway for your information Eiri wasn't a gay before he met Shuichi, you should know if you've seen or read the manga or anime. Anyway if you people want to know what Touma told Eiri over the phone, he only asked Eiri if he wanted to leave Japan and bringing his sister over too. Eiri of course agreed, so he chose to leave for New York where he can be able to stay there in peace from the disturbances from Japan.
Be prepared for the next chapter, which I think I'm going to update in the weekend if I got the time to type the crap. So…see you people again in Chapter 3: Too much of a relationship.
Ah…one more thing…about 'Gravity' I don't think I'll be updating that any sooner, I've run out of juices in school because of so much stress. Gomenasai.
Reviews please…minna…