Alright babes, this is gonna be the last update for a while, I'm afraid to say. I'm leaving today to go to Japan (I don't know if I told you all this before) and I won't be back for a couple of weeks. Sorry!
It was cold, but Ayumu didn't care. No, he wasn't even thinking about that, because Sora had asked to meet with him. He was happy and scared and excited and nervous. This could mean everything for him. This could make or break him, really. He wondered what he would do if Sora... No, it hurt to even think about that. But that was probably what was going to happen. He tried to swallow a whimper, and failed.
And then arms were wrapped around him from behind, and Ayumu stilled himself.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Ayumu relaxed slightly. It was just Sora. He turned around and burried his head into Sora's chest. He knew that thiscould very well be the last time that he got to have Sora hold him.
"A-are... You gonna... Leave me?" He asked slowly, quietly, nervous and scared.
"What? No!" Sora said, and patted the other's head softly. "Look up, Ayumu, and then you'll see why I was away for so long."
Ayumu looked up obedianly and his eyes widened. He raised his hands up to feel the scales around Sora's eyes. He whispered, in awe, "What...?"
"Inui-san and I have been working very hard," Sora smiled, "I wanted to be one too, you know. To be like you, so that we could be equals in all things." It was funny, but he felt even more attracted to Ayumu now, and more in love than ever, something he hadn't thought possible.
"What are you?" Ayumu asked in that same whisper of a voice.
"I don't know yet," Sora said, "My body... My body wasn't ment to be this way, naturally, so most of the changes are coming slowly. Inui-san said that it should be obvious in a couple of days, at most."
"This is... Amazing," Ayumu breathed, a smile coming over his face. "So... All this time...?"
"I've been with Inui-san, figuring out how to do this," Sora confirmed. "I wanted..." He sighed, "Before, it didn't feel... Equal. I want to be able to be on the same terms as you, Ayumu, to be able to understand the things that you feel." He leaned down to put his lips near the other boy's ear. "I love you, Ayumu."
"Do you mean that?" Ayumu asked. Sora was a positive now... Did that mean that he had a mate as well?
"Of course I do," Sora said, kissing him softly. Ayumu kissed back, tears of joy streaming down his face.
Kaito had decided to do something bold. Something really bold. Something phenominally bold. Well, alright, so it wasn't that big of a deal, but, for him, it was. He was skipping school, hoping a bus across town and visiting Yasuo for a change. Yeah, really, he was. What, you don't believe it? Well, right at that moment, he was only a block away from Hyotei's actual entrance, and was approaching the point where he was to hope the gates soon. Then, by pure luck, he spotted Yasuo through the gates, taking a nap underneath one of the school's massive cherryblossom trees.
"Yasu--" Kaito's voice was cut off then, as a hand holding a cloth was placed over his mouth and nose firmly. Knowing how wrong this was and scared, he tried not to breathe in and struggled, but was getting no where. Yasuo had heard him though, and was looking at him with wide, terrified and angry eyes.
Kaito saw it as Yasuo stood up and headed towards him, shifting forms, at an incredible speed. However, before he could reach the fence, Kaito had lost his battle and had breathed in from the cloth, and unconsciousness had taken him. He would know no more for many hours.
Gakuto had a bad feeling. A really bad feeling. Like something bad had just happened, and something worse was about to happen. He tried to shake it off, but it just wouldn't leave him and the shadows crept out from him. He had learned to control them well since his youth, but when he had feelings like this, they still seemed to develop a mind of their own, doing as they pleased, but always defending him and those he held dear. The nightmares were few and far between these days, and when they came, he could rest assured that Yuushi would be there for him all the while, and of course when he awoke.
Then he heard it, a small scream from Narumi's bedroom, from his little baby. He was moving immediately, discarding the food he was cooking, the shadows turning off the oven with a quiet click as Gakuto ran into his baby girl's room. His heart was pounding harder than it ever had before.
There was a man in there, holding Narumi, his Narumi, and she was screaming her little lungs out. Gakuto didn't think, but acted immediately, and the shadows fell upon the man, startling him, and he dropped the little girl in his surprise. She was caught in a shadowy embrace and brought back to the safety of Gakuto's own arms.
"Who are you," He asked, his voice a deadly hiss. The man only looked at him, dark eyes and masked face appearing nothing but angry, and then the man did something suprising; He brushed the shadows from him like they were made of silk and he was out the window. Gakuto dropped to his knees, Narumi still sobbing, terrified, in his arms, shocked and trembling a bit himself. Realizing the state of his baby girl, he rocked her softly and cooed to her in a comforting way, hushing her cries as the shadows retreated back into himself.
He stood up, knowing that there wre now two things that he needed to do. First, he needed to get the the Trivial Property, where he knew that he and his baby could find security. Secondly, he really needed to call Yuushi. He didn't care if Yuushi could or couldn't come to them (though he probably would, even if he had to cancel all of his classes for the rest of the day), he just needed to hear his tensai's voice. And a hug would be nice. If Yuushi could manage. Gakuto really needed it just then.
Shizuka wasn't sure for zeveral moments exactly what was happening to her. She knew that the hands grasping her were holding too tightly, and that they were not familiar hands, but it took her mind a half a second to realize that this person was trying to take her. She tried to use her power then, to get the man to drop her, but he was behind her, and they had covered her mouth. Her powers could not be used without eye-contact or her voice. She closed her eyes tightly and tried to struggle. Finally, she was hit over the head and fell unconscious. Her nearby PE class somehow missed the entire thing.
"Kazuki Niou to the disiplinary office, please," The voice crackled over the announcement speaker. "Kazuki Niou, to the disiplinary office."
Kazuki grinned as his teacher gave him a 'what-did-you-do-now' look. He hadn't thought that they'd catch him this time... He'd been extra careful not to leve any evidence when he left those frogs in Mis Kiri's, the music teacher, desk, after all. Darn. Oh well, it was good for his reputation.
Jackal Kuwahara often wondered why he had decided to become a elementary school teacher, a job which really wasn't like him at all. And then he got a student like Kazuki, who was exactly like his father in so many ways, and he remembered that it was because he wouldn't wish students like that on anyone else. "Go, Niou-kun," he said, pointing to the door. With a half smirk, half malicious grin, Kazuki headed out, his messy hair bouncing about on his head lazily.
He took his time down the empty hallway, danving around, practicing his moonwalk and playing the air-guitar like a champion air-rockstar. When he finally got the the disiplinary office, he opened the door leisurely, ready to greet his favorite disiplinary teachers with a smile and a wave, like always.
What happened was that he had a bag placed over his head and was knocked unconscious. His final thought was that he knew they couldn't have caught him this time...
Atsuko had been having a somewhat normal day, really. At lest, it was normal until someone grabbed her as she was walking by a bush and had gagged her. No, that she had not been expecting. She didn't struggle. She knew better, that this person was much to large for her and she would only get herself hurt. She would wait for the right moment, and then escape. If she waited, there would be an opening.
"That's it," a man's voice said, her captor's, "Just be a good girl, I gots tah wait fer me partnah tah gets yer brother. Atsuko's eyes narrowed in hate and she vowed that if they hurt Ayumu she would make them rue the day they were born.
'12:30, The Rooftop.'
That had been all that the note had said, and Ryan had to admit that he was curious. It didn't look, or smell, Gods Ryan hated perfume on letters, like a love note or anything, so... It was interesting, to say the least. And so, when 12:30 came around Ryan had slipped away from Bade (not an easy thing to do) and was currently headed up the stairs. He opened the door and was met with...
A smiling Adrian McClain.
"Hello, Ryan," Adrian said, a close-eyes smile on his face, "I"m terribly sorry about calling you out like this, I hate to be inconvieniencing you, but we need to talk." Ryan was stiff and suspicious. Bade hadn't told him much about what Adrian had said to him, but Ryan had seen... "Please, come sit with me," Adrian said, still smiling as he patted the place on the roof beside him.
Ryan sat, still being cautious.
Adrian turned to look at Ryan, looking serious. "Since I met you and your brother, I've don't some things that I'm not proud of. Kissing Bade was one of them, and I'm sorry about that. I... I like you, and Bade too, but foolishly when I saw you come around the corner... I wanted to make you jealous. I wanted to put a wedge between the two of you and slip in, if I could." Adrian let out a humourless laugh. "Stupid, I know."
Ryan's eyes softened a bit and he opened his mouth to say something when a hand was put over his mouth and he breathed in involuntarily, falling unconcious almost immediately. Adrian sighed, his eyes apraising the unconscious body silently.
"I truely am sorry, Ryan," he said, stroking his hand through the other's hair, as ssaid boy slumped back into the arms of the lacky who drugged him. "But it will be alright. I won't let him hurt you, or Bade. Very soon the three of us will be together, and everything will be alright. You'll see."
He sighed, brought his cell phone out of his pocket and dialed Bade's number. The henchmen moved to stand at the door, ready to knock the positive out when he came.
And Adrian would make sure that he came.
See? I told you Adrian was important to the story. Any comments? I'd love to hear what you think of him. Is he worse than Ayame, from Trivial Pulse?