Home Coming

After a few years of silence, Yuu Narukami finally makes his appearance back in Inaba after a more than unlucky life. Having been reduced to nothing, Inaba is all he has left as he goes down Memory Lane to accomplish one last wish in his true home. Will the others find him in time, or will their chance to see their leader and friend slip through their fingers?

Chapter Six

For the second time that day he froze. He could've sworn his heart stopped for a few seconds and wished it hadn't started up again. He stayed stock still, hoping that if he ignored the voice he knew all too well they'd leave him be. Taking this into consideration, he dumped a handful of pills into his palm and swallowed them dry. That was about a third of the bottle which was just enough, he thought with a shaky sigh.

He was suddenly grabbed from behind though, strong well built arms putting him into a full Nelson, causing him to drop the opened bottle as he gasped in surprise. "Ha! It really is senpai! See? I told ya!" A rather satisfied slightly deeper but still familiar voice said from behind him. "I never said it wasn't him!" Yet another familiar voice rang clearly, making his heart feel like it might beat right out of his chest.

Kanji and Yosuke. God really did hate him didn't he?

"Ha! I knew it was him when Daichi started talkin'!" Yosuke laughed at the taller man's words, nodding in agreement. "Yeah. My little brats couldn't keep their mouth shut about the 'old-haired guy' from the shrine. But man partner! It's been a while...hasn't..." His happy tone trailed off as his gaze wandered down to the scattered medication before them. The white pills that spread across the grass looked like a horde of maggots.

"...What the hell is this?" Kanji said, the surprise and confusion in his voice making Yuu flinch slightly. The grip on him loosened and he pulled away, his arms at his sides while his fingers dug into the palms of his hands tightly before kneeling down and trying to clean up the capsules that littered the ground. "Nothing."

Yosuke looked skeptical now, crouching down as well and swiftly grabbing the bottle before he could. The man's face turned white when he read the label, looking up at his long time friend with nothing but surprise. "Yuu...th-these...you didn't actually..." He'd seen these before. Chie was a cop after all and told him about these kind of things sometimes.

The gray haired man merely stared downwards in shame, guilt eating away at him as the two looked at him in shock. Yosuke finally was able to snap out of it, standing up and yanking the man off the ground to his feet as well by the collar."What the hell is this?!" Yuu refused to look into the other's eyes, starting feel a bit sleepy at the moment. His vision started to blur slightly before he looked at Yosuke, now seeing the passionate fury before his vision started to blur and the world started to sway.

"YUU! DAMMIT YUU! KANJI CALL A..." The angry voice faded away as everything started to grow fuzzier, his legs giving out before he suddenly lost conscious completely.

-!-

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

What's that sound?

The incessant noise continued to ring through his ears until it became annoying. Yuu tried to open his eyes but it difficult to come out of the black that surrounded him. "Hey, he's coming to!" A high pitched voice called out, covering up the noise momentarily before the sound of footsteps and conversation helped to drown out the noise.

He tried to open his eyes again but found he couldn't, instead his chest felt tight, but not in a good way. He couldn't breathe anymore and there were shouts and more yelling before he felt numb.

A cold numbness that spread throughout his entire body. It scared him. Despite all the years of loneliness he'd put up with, this was nothing compared to that. It was a definite and painful sort of lonely, which made think to himself 'if this is what Death really is...I don't want it anymore.'

"CLEAR!"

To Be Continued

Merc: Hey there! Sorry for the super late upload buuutt I had an air riflery match today and had dinner with my mom so it was a pretty busy day. ANYWAY, sorry for the depressing chapter again! But it'll get happy soon I promise! Also thanks for all the reviews and comments and views and all that! But really, reviewing would be lovely and help me improve if I'm lacking anywhere so don't be shy! Thanks for reading! :D :D :D

P.S.: I'm not really familiar with drugs and things so a few things may seen unrealistic so...sorry! And apologizes for any OOC-ness AND...I OWN NOTHING. O_O