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In the back of the store Kakei attempted to extract some vital information from the young Kazehaya. Considering the state that he was found in, Kakei assumed that a more gentle approach would be more fruitful. "Kaze-kun what was wrong upstairs? You didn't appear in the store. Are you okay?" Kakei attempted, using the most caring voice he could muster.
"I've never done that before. Honestly. I have no idea what that was all about. I zoned out and … and I honestly don't remember what was going on. It was almost as though I was in a fog. Just lost in a fog really." Kazehaya attempted to explain. His thoughts and memories of that time where lost to him, 'fog' was the closest description he could get to the almost surreal feeling that he had upstairs.
"Do you know what caused it?" Kakei questioned simply.
"None, what-so-ever."
"I wonder how long you would've stayed like that…" Kakei muttered more to himself then to the blonde.
"How did I even get out of it?" Kazehaya wondered, only half expecting Kakei-san to reply since he had begun to mumble to himself.
"Well it was rather easy actually." Kakei began only to pause when Kazehaya's face lit up in expectation of some form of explanation to the odd situation. "I made a comment about Rikuo getting naked. It perked you right up." The older man finished with more than a bit of mirth in his voice. The expected blush followed the comment but there was a surprising lack of protest. Granted there wasn't much that Kazehaya could protest to, considering all of what he said was true.
"Well, just be careful not to fall into any sort of trance again. And be sure to get enough to eat and sleep. I don't want you to get sick again." Kakei concluded before sending Kazehaya back to work with instructions on what needed to be done. And with a flurry of his normal energy the younger of the two left to work for the day. Kakei, left alone for some time, began to ponder on the recent event.
'Normally I would ignore such an incident as the boy being weird but… considering how sensitive he is to others and his surroundings, I don't know if I should be concerned. I've seen nothing of the short recently regarding him loosing focus and falling into trances. I Suppose I can just chalk it up to some escalating illness. That is unless there is a repeat performance…' Kakei broke is train of thought with a sigh when a call came in regarding a recent shipment that got delayed due to weather 3 cities to the south. Trivial tasks detained him from his original intention for the day, but knew just how important these menial tasks were if he planned on keeping the drug store open for an extended time.
Bursting through the back door Kazehaya went to the alleyway and threw the past few days' load of garbage into the large receptacle. Before heading back to the store for his next task Kazehaya reached for the handle to close the door when he was flooded with memories of the past 2 years. Every moment of each person who entered, exited, and came in contact with the door and frame. He saw the robber's face from a year and a half ago.
He saw Saiga-san, Kakei-san, himself, and Rikuo-kun countless times. Though there was no substantial emotions that were left impressed on the door or handle, all of these images and memories still managed to worm their way into his mind. Stumbling considerably, Kazehaya managed to catch himself before shaking off the strange instance and making his way back to the store's main storage room determined to brush off the incident and finish his last tasks for the day before returning to his room.
He couldn't trouble himself to worry about some simple emotions and events that made no impact on his life when he still hade a rather large list of things that needed to be finished before the end of they day: Mop/sweep, Double check all the merchandise, Put away all checks, Lock the doors, Put away any remaining stock, and Finally count the cash in the register before putting all but $20 into a secure bag underneath the counter. Fortunately though at least he never closes alone. Perhaps because Kakei-san doesn't trust him enough to leave him be. And of course Rikuo-kun does the easiest tasks and leaves the more difficult ones for Kazehaya. Grumbling about the injustices of it all he set about counting the cash and organizing the credit card receipts.
After only a few moments Kazehaya's hands shook violently and dropped all the paper materials that he was holding onto the ground, creating a mess that would most defiantly require more than a few minutes to clean-up. He once again was flooded with millions of emotions, not pictorial memories per-say but instead overwhelming emotions.
Fear, joy, love, greed, exhilaration, trepidation, nervousness, frustration, relaxation, almost any and every emotion there was. His heart sped-up in ecstasy, skipped a beat is surprise and slowed in relaxation all at once, nearly causing a heart attack in the process.
Loosing balance in the onslaught Kazehaya fell to the ground moments behind the money. Barely missing the blonde, Rikuo dashed over in a vain attempt to save him from injury. Instead Kaze's head contacted with the floor with a jaw shattering bang. Heart racing, Rikuo cradled the boy's body to his own and rushed up the flight of stairs to their apartment. After gently placing Kazehaya on his bed and checking for blood, which there was an ample amount of, turned to rush out to grab towels and Kakei-san. Auspiciously he was interrupted by the bulk of man known as Saiga-san in the door way to the bedroom.
Kakei had moments before 'seen' the incident and send the man up to take care of Kazehaya while he went to get the nessicary bandages, medications and antiseptics. Giving Rikuo directions, to not only calm himself but to get a wet towel, dry towel and a blanket for the newly injured roommate, Saiga-san crossed the room to perform his own ability while Rikuo was preoccupied elsewhere.
Slowly leaning over the blonde youth Saiga noted the blood that began to collect on the pillow and sheets. Deciding that now was a better time than never he placed his hands over the wound after rubbing them together and attempted to ascertain what had caused this incident. He was sure the Rikuo could/would give him some idea of what occurred but Kakei had told him to take his own look. Peeking into the muddled memory of the boy from not 4 minutes ago proved to be more of a challenge than he had planned. He knew there wasn't much time before Kakei would be missing a serious amount of blood, but using one's weak psychic ability against a more developed one was bound to prove a challenge.
Finally breaking through his defenses, after pushing with nearly all his willpower, Saiga discovered that an enormous overload of foreign emotions lead to Kazehaya passing out suddenly. And that the money he was handling was the cause. Wasting no time, Saiga began to treat Kazehaya physically moments before Rikuo returned with Kakei in tow. All of this without removing his sunglasses once, nor breaking a single sweat.
Heh I've always loved Saiga-san.. soo fun. And he get Kakei! I acutally like them more then kaze x rikuo but I just can't bring myself to write about them. sigh Oh well. I re-read this and found a LOT of spelling errors. Sorry guys! I did this without a Beta or Word... that and I use sentance fragments a lot. Sorry . Please don't be mad!