Title: Banshee
Rating: T (it may go up, I haven´t decided it yet)
Resume: "Banshee: Spirit in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a family as a sign that one of them is about to die." It is an old legend that almost nobody keeps hearing or believes in. But what if they are real? What if they are not spirits or only women who wail at the sight of death? What if you were one, but everyone confused the signals and thought you were just crazy?
Nagisa Centered
Notes:
Bold: The voices talking
Italic: Nagisa´s thoughts.
Chapter 3
Look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under it.A year later Rin returned. It was a big shock for everyone who knew Rin from before but Nagisa wasn't surprised at all, the voices had warned him about that. Nagisa thought would go back to normal. They would become friends again and maybe...maybe the voices would finally leave him alone. But reality was different.
As soon as he returned, Rin became curious about Haru. They barely talked but Nagisa could see how Rin's face would change whenever Haru was around, the way his smile went wider and his eyes got that sparkle that didn't appeared when he was with Nagisa. Adding to that, Rin was now in the same group with Haru and Makoto so they spend even more time together. Not that Nagisa was jealous or anything, it was more like he felt like an outsider. But the worst part of the picture wasn't that. It seemed as time went the voices grew louder and stronger. They didn't show him deaths or ugly stuff but they talked and talked about Haru and Rin.
"So why did you moved?" one day Makoto asked after practice.
"What?"
Nagisa also blinked surprised. Haru remained serious.
"Yeah, Nagisa told us you used to go to Iwatobi when you were younger."
"Well, I used to but then we had to move, not a big deal."
"You are evading the question so it means you are hiding something." added Haru. Nagisa's blood went cold as he saw the expression of Rin's face. He looked between hurt and scared.
"I am not!"
"Yes, you are. And your anger just reaffirms it."
"Haru!"
"If he doesn't want to say it's his problem, not yours Haruka!"
The older ones stared at Nagisa surprised. He barely talked and when he did it was always cheerful and about incoherent stuff. "You think you can go around thinking you know everything but you don't! You don't know a thing!"
We warned you, didn´t we?
"Nagisa?"
Now the voices weren´t mumbling just whispers, they were talking, mocking him. The younger one took a deep breath and tried to push them away but he found it almost impossible. The three boys around him stared at him in shock, none of them sure how to act or what to do.
Haru will be the cause, and when it happens, there will be no turning back.
He covered his ears and took several deeps breathes. He felt like he was about to have an attack and the voices weren't helping. "Why don't you just shut up!"
You think this was bad?
He was going to scream.
You don´t know a thing!
He was going to scream, he was...
Suddenly a pair of arms surrounded him. The embrace was soft but firm and suddenly the whispers became a word.
Rin, Rin, Rin, Rin...
"It's okay." said the redhead boy. Makoto had warned him just like the coach that Nagisa was a little bit special. Haru had gone to the point and described the boy as crazy. "I'm not mad. It is okay, you don't have to mad. Just relax."
Nagisa rested his head on the boy's shoulder and closed his eyes. His hands left his ears and his whole body relaxed making him almost fall on his knees. Te voices didn't stopped talking but they weren't as loud as before.
"I'm taking Nagisa home." said Rin as he turned to Makoto and Haru. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"
Nagisa didn't walk home that afternoon. When Rin let him go the boy instantly fell on his knees shaking. Maybe he had stopped the scream but the rest of his body was suffering the after effect of the attack. So instead Rin decided to carry him home. It took a little longer and Rin had to stop a couple of times but at the end, Nagisa reached his house before 8.
"Safe and sound." said Rin with a huge smile on his face. Nagisa returned the gesture.
"Thank you Rin."
They stood in an awkward silenced for a couple of seconds. Nagisa wanted to say something but he felt odd, like if it was the wrong thing. Rin on the other hand wasn't going to leave his spot until he saw Nagisa enter to his house.
"I guess I should get going."
Nagisa looked down; it was now or never,
"Rin?"
"Yeah?"
"Why don't you talk about your father's death?"
Rin bit his bottom lip but didn't lowered his eyes.
"How do you know that? Who told you?" He hissed. Nagisa shook his eyes.
"No one."
"Liar!"
"I swear!"
"What do you know?!"
Nagisa thought if he should tell him he knew everything.
"What do you know Nagisa?!"
"He drowned!" He berated out. "He was sailing when the stormed hit!"
Rin's face relaxed but Nagisa saw another change. His eyes became watery and his cheeks turned bright red.
"How?"
"I don't know, I swear that I don't know."
Rin nodded and a couple of tears fell from his eyes.
"It doesn't matter; it's the same at the end. He is dead and talking about it or not it´s not going to bring him back."
Nagisa tried to hold the sob that was threatening to leave his throat. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."
For the second time in that evening Rin hugged Nagisa. "It wasn't your fault. And I don't care if you know about my dad...just..." He pulled Nagisa's chin up and made him look into his eyes. "Don't tell anyone, okay?"
Nagisa nodded and Rin planted a soft kiss on the forehead.
Rin never asked again how Nagisa knew about his dad.
Nagisa never touched Rin's father's topic again.
"I´m going to Australia next year."
Nagisa nodded as he kept playing with the sand with his feet. He knew he was the first person Rin told about his scholarship and he couldn´t feel more proud of his friend. Rin was the one that was always pushing himself harder in order to get better and better, he wasn´t like Makoto, Haru or him that they just do it for fun. The blonde one was aware of Rin´s dream and maybe that was the only way to make it real. The problem was that he had a feeling it was a bad idea. He could sense that something bad would happen the moment he left Japan and his family and friends behind.
"For how long?"
"Maybe only for middle school, if I get another scholarship I could stay for high-school too."
Nagisa nodded. "Six years. If you don´t just decide you want to go to college there."
Rin sat next to Nagisa and put an arm around his shoulders. "I will come back during breaks, like in winter and summer. It´s not like I will be gone forever."
When he turned to see the older one he felt a tear slip from his eye.
Take a good look, maybe a picture.
Rin washed away that tear and the rest that kept running down his cheeks. He was sobbing softly and suddenly his head found steadiness on Rin´s shoulder. The sea behind them was calm but Nagisa knew a storm was coming. Not too strong but he could sense danger; or maybe it came from Rin.
"I don´t want you gone. I need you."
"You still have the other guys. You will not be alone. I promise."
He is so naïve.
Nagisa looked up and shook his head. "When are you telling them?"
Rin smiled. "After the race, I don´t want them to lose focus."
"Then why you told me before?"
Rin thought about it for a moment making Nagisa uncomfortable. Now he was afraid of the answer.
"Because you are like me best friend." Rin suddenly blushed. "You are like my little brother."
Nagisa couldn´t help to smile at the comment but he didn´t add anything. He let himself fall over Rin´s shoulder again and there, in silence, sitting in the empty beach, waited for the sunset. The sea is calm now but the storm is coming. Nagisa hugged his legs closer to his chest and focused his attention on Rin´s hear beating instead of the voices that were talking between each other making no sense between them. Some talked about the storm, others about Haru but the louder ones were warning about Rin´s danger. He closed his eyes and let the salty breeze hit him in the face.
Rin will come back, he thought, he will always come back.
Please leave your reviews and comments :D
