Chapter 6

The Destined Friendship

Dashing down the busy traffic and turning own the alley at top speed in the summer morning; Ryuichi was late for school again. Drenching with sweat, his hair was sticking onto his face when he reached the closing school gate.

"Please, Suzumiya! Just let me in for this once." Ryuichi pleaded the schoolmate who's closing the gate. Suzumiya looked at the brunette in disgust, then wrote something in this little notepad, tore out the page and gave it to Ryuichi. "Sorry Sakuma, but you have to be suspended for lessons. The sun's rays were burning his hair; Ryuichi wished the summer vacation to come soon so that he can stay all day long in air condition or preferably at Kori's place playing today in detention room. That's the school rule."

"Damn!" Ryuichi said as Suzumiya allowed him to enter the school ground music with his best friend.

The brunette reported himself at the detention room. He greeted the teacher-in-charge and settled down on an empty desk in the room. He took out the pink bunny from his bag and stared at it. "Kuma chan, we're going to miss lots of fun today. Nanoda." He placed the bunny on the desk and gazed blindly into its eyes, which seemed to understand how its master felt. Ryuichi rested his head on the desk and sighed, "You know what, Kuma chan? Kori was my bested best friend."

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The glaring rays of the sun shown through the leaves of the tree, forming dots all over an elementary student that was lying under it. His hair was brunette and his eyes were crystal blue, so blue that it seemed dead to the world.

The young brunette stared at his wound on his wrists he created earlier on. It was still fresh and bleeding, making him sigh at it in dismay. This was the second attempt of suicide this year and it somehow the wound seemed more fatal than the last one. Hopefully he would finally die this time round. Ryuichi was thrown out of the house by his stepfather with no money and no necessary first aid.

His body was covered with the red crimson blood but nobody seemed to be willing to help him. To them, the boy looked absolutely disgusting and cast out that even kids ran away from him. Ryuichi laughed at the ignorant crowd and laid head on the trunk of the tree. The tree seemed so beautiful to him that it would be the best choice of his place of death. The more he thought about it, the more he could feel his conscious leaving him. The loss of blood is pulling him away, making him think that he was finally able to die, not noticing someone approaching him.

When he finally woke up, he saw someone hovering over his body.

"Are you an Angel?" He asked the shadow over him. "Are you here to take me away?"

"No." a voice replied, "I'm not an angel and no one's going to take you away."

Ryuichi opened his eyes slightly more and looked at the shadow above him. The shadow or whatever it is had a pale creamy face with beautiful green emerald eyes, long bleached blonde (or was is white) hair? "Are you sure you're not an angel? You looked so beautiful."

"Positive." The gentle voice answered to his dismay, cruelly breaking his heart.

The owner of the voice helped Ryuichi up to lie by the trunk of the tree into a sitting position, making sure not to touch the wound that had stopped bleeding. Her fingers slowly brushed the wet fringes that covered his eyes and knelt before him. Placing something soft into Ryuichi's lap, she continues bandaging the brunette's wounds with great care.

"Sakuma, you should have died long ago if God hate you that much." The voice snapped and Ryuichi's heart skipped a beat. He shot up and looked at the girl before him. The girl had been with him for the past an hour and he didn't even notice? The girl did nothing but smiled at the shocked brunette politely.

"When did the hell did you get here?" Ryuichi yelled at the confused girl.

"About an hour ago. You seemed like you needed some help." The girl replied and approached him.

"Get the fuck away from me!" Ryuichi yelled as he pulled his arm away from the girl.

Instead of backing away from the lunatic, the girl moved closer to the brunette and stroked his hair. Ryuichi stoned at her confusingly though he hated the fact that she was trying to calm him down. The girl seemed a lot younger than him, more of a grade school student and yet her maturity masked her chibi sized look and her innocent smile.

"Want something to eat?" she asked and Ryuichi's stomach let out a sudden growl, making a positive respond to her words. The girl giggled and Ryuichi blushed in embarrassment. Then, reaching her hands into her little bunny backpack, she took out a box of chocolate biscuits and lay down next to the brunette, offering the food to him.

"My name is Kori Seguchi and this is Kumagoro." The girl said and took the bunny from the brunette's lap back into her arms.

"Thanks." He replied reluctantly and accepted the biscuits, "You know my name already, and so I won't repeat."

"Okay." She replied and made the bunny nod.

There was a moment of quietness then the girl spoke again. This time straight to the point.

"Why do you want yourself dead, Mr. Suicidal Masochist?"

Ryuichi kept quiet and allowed himself to form a perfect answer that would satisfy the 'child' before him. It was difficult to answer anyway if he had one. He was not that cruel to stain her pure innocent mind with bloodshed and suicide. In the end he decided to ignore Kori and bit hungrily into the biscuits.

Kori looked at the brunette with a slight frown, hating Ryuichi's attitude. She grabbed Ryuichi's hand and placed in on her arm. Slowly, she used it to pull up her long loose sleeve, revealing many terrifying bruises, wounds and burn marks that were on the arm. Ryuichi stared in disbelief, finding the girl being not so pure after all. Some of the wounds were tortures while some are clearly self-inflicted. The brunette quickly pulled down the sleeves but was stopped halfway.

"Can you tell me now, Sakuma?"

The sense of lost, he felt after seeing the injuries and scars broke him.

"No Seguchi…I lust for pain. The pain that'll return my freedom that was stolen by others." The brunette stopped and then asked an irrelevant question. "How old are you, Seguchi?"

"I never knew you were this dense."

"Huh?"

"You've seen me before, Sakuma. I was in the class next to yours."

"13? Seriously?" he gasped and stared into her face. "It can't be, you mean you're Touma Seguchi's sister?"

The girl nodded smiled. "Here take Kuma-chan with you. Happy Birthday!"

She passed the bunny to the shocked brunette, bounced up and left. Ryuichi himself had forgotten his birthday and yet a stranger knew.

"Maybe having a birthday on April Fool's day wasn't that bad after all."

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Ryuichi was gone to the washroom for an hour already. Too long, too long for Kori to stop being worried about him. Ryuichi's parents just died and in just days after the funeral, the brunette had some seriously cutting done already. Kori's heart was pumping hard, something is amiss. She stood up immediately from the yard and ran into the school building to look for the brunette.

"RYU!" She yelled, "Where are you? Stop scaring me."

Tears ran down her face but she didn't stop. She had to find the brunette, had to find him before she regret everything in life. She ran as fast as she could till she reached the doorstep of the gents. The door was locked (when it shouldn't be since it's still school hours during the day).

"Ryu, open up the fucking door!" she cried and turned the knob violently, trying as hard as she could to open the door. "Sakuma Ryuichi, I'm warning you. Open up the fucking door!"

Then, a metallic smell drifted out of the gents and tickled her nostril, making her panic even more. It was the same smell that fused out of her body when the red plasma flowed out of her body, the smell of human blood.

"Ryuichi, open up. Onegai. You're scaring me."

With one last turn, the knob broke, including the lock in it (luckily). Kori bugged into the room and as she had expected, Ryuichi was covered with blood.

"RYU!" she screamed as soon as she caught sight of the brunette lying in a pool of blood that spilled all over his body and a bloody razor blade lying close to him.

"What do you think you're doing, you moron. How can you leave me like this?"

Ryuichi opened his eyes a little to focus, "Gomenasai, Kori chan. I really couldn't help it…" He replied and coughed choking onto the blood.

"What do you mean by that? I'll kill myself if you die!"

"Ko...ori…"

Before Ryuichi had the time to react (he can't react really much to this anyway), Kori quickly picked up his blood-covered razor and pressed it against her neck, threatening the thumping pulses to freeze. Kori felt herself losing more and more, with one last hesitation, she pressed the razor down and sliced into the flesh of her neck.

"Kori…please stop…"

But the girl couldn't hear him. Her soul was lost, lost in the pleasure of pain.

His vision was blurring out and the light caught his eyes. The last thing he really saw was reddish spilling all over his body, some covering his face. Then, a crying body crashed onto his bloody one.

"KORI!" he could hear voices busting in, covering the silence of the washroom. "Kori! Wake up!"

The brunette could feel the girl's body being pulled away. The weight was lifted but he was still worried; about his end and Kori, his best friend.

"Ko…ri…I'm really…sorry…"

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"Ryu, Ryuichi Sakuma! Wake up!" Kori yelled at the sleeping brunette who was drenched in sweat.

"Huh? Kori chan? What are you doing here?" Ryuichi asked as he snapped himself back into reality. "What time is it now?"

"School's over Sakuma, want to go back to rock some music? I'll prepare an extra futon if you want to."

"I'll love to!" Ryuichi replied and packed his bag in top speed, hugging onto the toy bunny the whole time. Kori was confused by his behavior, but nonetheless, the both of them left the room hand in hand as they continued to be friends forever.

End

This is my personal favorite chapter!

Okay back to something serious…. I'm having some difficulty in letting the story flow. So after this pathetic chapter, I don't think I'll be uploading very soon. I'll start to upload again once I find the solution to this problem. I'm very sorry. Gomenasai minna san (bow).

If anyone of you have something to say or any suggestions to my problem please review…