Chapter 20

Winter Dream

The weather was much colder as it soon marks the end of autumn. The leaves were almost gone and weather reports had predicted that it was going to snow soonest by the end of the week. The dried leaves filled up the streets and days in Tokyo were freezing, even though it was yet to be winter. Nittle Grasper was in the resting room, with all the members lying around the place restlessly.

Eiri was gone. The news was spread to all of the members once they stepped into NG; Eiri had cancelled his contract. It was a very depressing news for all of them to accept, even for those who knew this would happen. Even though K was pointing his new toy at them, none of them wanted to do anything.

Still holding onto the magnum gun, he growled and flicked his long blonde hair. His blue sharp eyes scanned the figures in the room, then grabbed a chair near him and sat down. "Will you people just stop it? What's wrong with Eiri leaving, life still has to go on, the sun will sill rise everyday. Why can't you people just pull yourself together? I had spent a lot for this shooting. Can you all, Masters and Mistress, just go on with it and end it soon, so that you can just continue to sulk there?"

No response.

K was so fed up. He put the gun onto the table and sighed, waiting for miracles to happen.

You know what? It happened.

A few minutes of silence passed by, Touma finally gave in. He stood up and grabbed Ryuichi, lifted him over his shoulders and pulled Kori by her wrist. The astonished two looked at Touma, then at K, who finally smiled, and at last at Sora, who took got of the being depressed matter and stood up. And soon their hearts lit up and struggled free, so that they can move at their free will. Then, excitement and laughter joined into their beat, happening to take over their upset tone as if they had forgot all about Eiri's existence.

"That was the Nittle Grasper I know." K laughed, "Now let's move people!"

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At the Tokyo International Airport, Eiri was resting on the seat (not gone yet) since his flight was delayed due to some technical problems with the plane itself. Bored, and clearly irritated, he took out a novel from his bag pack and began to read. Flipping through the pages and reading the line of words, Eiri tried to take his mind off the world he was in. The blonde took his time, but the words seemed to be playing games with him. It took a long time, and multiple times of reading the sentences before he could work his way with only the pronunciation of a particular word.

Finally after reading a particular page for seven times without knowing what was going on in the story, he gave up reading and slapped the book shut. His mind was too distracted and it made him really difficult to get other things into his mind; his family, Touma, the delayed flight and Kori.

In order to get himself relaxed, he took a few deep breaths and shut his eyes, focusing on the breathing exercise. His muscles became less tense and his body began to slide down onto the seat like a rage doll. Soon he realized his eyes were leaking, he wanted to speak but it came out into a wail with gibberish words with no actual meaning.

The wail became louder every second and it soon attracted strangers to try to comfort him. His eyes could not see in the tears and talking was useless, all he knew was that there were voices surrounding him and it was making him very uncomfortable. The more he tried to stop the wailing the louder it became.

It's hopeless, just like as I am.

Then thoughts came gushing into his minds, lots and lots of negative thoughts that torn him apart piece by piece. The crying could not stop once it all came to him that he needed some space to really think it over but he could not. There were lots of regrets, lots of pain, that he just hope that someone he knew would just appear in front of him and just simply call his name. His eyes scanned the strangers frantically searching for hope, but there was just no one he knew or even has to do with his life somewhat or another.

His heart sank into the deep ocean instantly, but just when he felt that he should end his life, someone shouted his name, "Eiri Uesugi!"

The crowded cleared for the man to pass through and it took no time for the brunette to reach Eiri just to put a beige-coloured shawl over his neck and around his face. Eiri stopped crying and stared at the man, who was holding a photo of him in his left hand and wiping Eiri's tears using the shawl with his right hand. Dazed, his stares became so obvious that the brunette got nervous.

"My name is Yuki Kitazawa." He introduced, "I'll be your sensei in New York. Seguchi san told me about you, I want to meet you earlier so I took a flight here so that we can travel to New York together. But it seems that you're a little too nervous. Don't worry much, I'll take care of you from now on okay, Eiri?"

Eiri nodded and grabbed onto the shawl, when suddenly, Yuki lifted him up from the seat in a doll position that he sits right on top of his left arm. (Eiri was a Chibi that time and Yuki was so much bigger and taller than Eiri.) Using his right arm, he took Eiri's bag pack and took off to the counter knowing that the flight was ready. Embarrassed, he grabbed onto Yuki and lay onto his shoulder. Yuki stroked his hair gently not to break his fragile soul.

"Come' on, let's go."

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"STOP! CUT!" the director roared. It was already the eleventh time he was unsatisfied with the band since they started the filming. He had clearly given the instruction for Kori to strip off the jacket once the instrumental comes in and Kori was not willing to do so.

First, they were filming outdoors in front of the public. Secondly, the weather was god damned cold; about two degrees below zero. And lastly, she did not want anyone to see what's under that jacket.

It got the director so angry that he eventually screamed at the whole band till Ryuichi dragged Kori away from the scene. (Actually stopping her from starting a fight with the whole filming crew.)

"Stop dragging me Ryu, that baka director is so…" She screamed and struggled even if she knew that Ryuichi was too strong for her. "Sakuma Ryuichi! I demand you to let go of me!"

"Calm down, Kori." Ryuichi cooed. "Here, I have an idea."

He brought the girl out of the building and right into a taxi. In the taxi, he took out the phone to call K, telling him to postpone the filming. K screamed at him of course, threatening to blow his head if he did not return in that moment. (Ryuichi end the call to stop more blabbering and threatening.)

"Where are we going, Ryu?" Kori asked and lay back onto the seat, knowing that there would be no more working till the end of the day. "Somewhere fun or somewhere to just run away from K."

"Both, for you, I think." Ryuichi laughed and put his arm over Kori's shoulder, "I hope you'll like it. So just wait till we reach the place."

It was a quiet trip for the two. They both fell asleep as soon as they started to relax, due to the lack days of overnight working, only be awakened by the driver's call when they reached their destination.

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"Yuki…sensei." Eiri grabbed onto Yuki's coat and looked into his eyes. "Have you ever been in love?"

Yuki jumped; it was weird for a person you know hardly for a day to ask a question like this. "Why…what?"

"A…ah…nothing." Eiri looked away and to the window of the plane, "Forget that I asked."

"You're funny." Yuki laughed and stroked onto Eiri's head. "Love huh…it's like a good dream actually."

"A dream?"

"Yeah. It felt like a dream. When I first was in love, it came really unexpectedly. Then it felt so happy, but of reach when I can't really touch it…erm…I don't know how to give an actual explanation, but yup, it felt something like this."

Eiri did not answer. Just a simple nod he lay onto the cool window and sighed.

"I wonder if it had started in snow back home."

End

I also wanted this to end soon so that I could go back to my other story.

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