A/N
So before we begin, I'm going to clear up some things you might encounter in the chapter.
Italicized texts are flashbacks
[Texts like this is for Celty's speech/ dialogues]
[Texts like this are for chatting]
Bold texts are part of the movie which Shizuru and Yuuhei are shooting.
Shizuru ran as fast as her shapely legs could carry her – which was, very fast since she, according to Yuuhei, used to be her old high school team's track and field ace. Her mind spun and she began to feel dizzy. She had no idea whom she was running from – the thugs who wanted to do unspeakable things to her or the stranger whom she had just met. Her heart beat faster and she could feel the adrenaline rush through her veins as she pushed herself to run faster towards where her brother was – where she could think clearly and forget everything peculiar that had just happened.
"Shizu-nee!" the concerned voice of her brother that called from behind her forced her to stop. With too much force concentrated on her lower part, she failed to balance herself hence she fell on the dirty cement floor of Ikebukuro. "O-Ouch…" she mumbled softly when a stinging pain made itself known on her now very badly scraped and bleeding knees. Yuuhei saw the damage his sister had sustained and was compelled to quicken his pace towards his sibling. "Shizu-nee! Are you alright?" he practically screamed, ignoring the weird looks people gave them.
He could care less about public image when his sister was so close to crying!
After what seemed only a millisecond, Yuuhei was found kneeling beside a delicately sobbing Shizuru. "Y-Yeah, it just hurt a bit…" she smiled to reassure her brother, but Yuuhei was not to be fooled, he knew better than that. A normal wound would not be able to make his sister cry like she was doing right now. "You're lying, nee-sama." He whispered, his voice scared Shizuru a bit. She could tell he was mad, and he had every right to be. She left the fan-signing without permission, and undoubtedly made her brother anxious because of her sudden disappearing act.
Instead of the scolding she expected to come in waves, she felt two lean arms lift her, princess style. She glanced up at her brother whose face was now unreadable. "Y-Yuuhei?" she called out to him when she finally found her voice amidst her fear of her brother's wrath. Aforementioned man did not answer her; he merely walked towards what she recognized as their car.
Shizuru bit her under lip. She was in some deep shit.
Their ride back to the hotel was silent; Yuuhei had been seating beside her the whole time, looking out of the window. His face was emotionless as usual but the irritation in his demeanor discerned Shizuru from saying anything – she didn't even move. She didn't want to anger her brother further. For what felt like years, all she could hear was the sound of her own heart, the gentle rolling of tires and the busy city outside of the car.
When they reached the hotel, Yuuhei had proceeded to carry her once more, and instructed their driver to retire for the night, which the tired man obeyed whole-heartedly. After he gave specific instructions on what their schedule would be for tomorrow, Yuuhei entered the establishment, his sister still intact in his arms, even inside the elevator, he did not put her down; he didn't want her to strain her knees as she already did. Seriously, they were bleeding badly and he didn't like it. He hated – loathed the sight of blood on any part of his sister's body. Even though they were just small cuts and only a minimum amount of blood spilled, it still sent him on edge.
It scared him. It brought back memories of six years ago he did not want to remember.
"Heiwajima Kasuka?"
"Yes, this is Heiwajima Kasuka."
"Your sister, Heiwajima Shizuka is currently confined in Raira Hospital."
"What?" the message of whoever was calling him made his eyes widened slightly. It has been a while since his sister has been taken to a hospital. Was it because of broken bones? Impossible. He was sure he shipped gallons of milk to her apartment.
"Your sister -" whoever this was tried to repeat himself, but Kasuka cut him off. "I know. Why is she in the hospital?" he said in an unusually impatient manner. "She was hit by a car." The simple statement made him want to laugh out, but due to his indifference, his amusement was reduced to a small smile which was quickly changed into a look of complete horror once he heard the continuation.
"She is currently suffering both major internal and external bleeding, what's worse is that her brain has gone into a state of comatose. We would like to request a family member's presence -"
He didn't need to hear anything else to have him yelling at his driver and barking at him to hurry over to Raira Hospital or else he was fired.
Once his foot touched the ground, he raced towards the registrar and inquired about Heiwajima Shizuka, the nurse inside the registrar looked at him sadly before she led the panicking Kasuka towards the ICU. Kasuka had to deal with an antagonizing duration of worry for a minute which amounted to ten years of his life span before the doctor decided to show himself. Not thinking rationally, he almost assaulted the poor man with questions like "Is she okay?" or "What happened?"
It all seemed distant to him and he couldn't comprehend the words he had just said, but he persevered to understand what the doctor was saying. "Please calm down, Mr. Heiwajima."
Calm down.
This man was telling him to calm down when his only sister, his ONLY LIVING FAMILY in the world was dying. And he was fucking telling him to calm down. Needless to say, the normally emotionless Kasuka almost punched this unreasonable person who wanted him to calm the fuck down. The latter sensed his attack and managed to get away from the enraged actor. "S-She's s-stable…"
At that, all his rage dissipated. He let out the breath he did not realize he was holding ever since his fit. "B-But…" at the word of contradiction, the star's head shot up. "But what?" his voice questioningly demanded an answer. The doctor gulped and answered him. "H-Heiwajima Shizuka is in a coma. Also, her brain has been heavily damaged by the collision, and has affected a large part of her brain and -"
"Cut the fucking crap and just get to the point God damn it!" Kasuka shouted angrily. He could care less about those minor details; he wanted to know what was wrong with Shizuka.
"Even if she wakes up, she might not have memories."
This sent his world crashing down. His voice decided to become uncooperative all of a sudden as he only managed out to it came out in a husky whisper. "She… she'll have… amnesia?"
A nod.
"I-Is it p-permanent?"
"Judging from the damage, most likely."
For the first time he could remember, Kasuka Heiwajima cried.
"Yuuhei?" a weak voice brought him back to reality. "Yuuhei? A-Are you alright?" Shizuru's voice was shaking; he could tell she was afraid that he was mad at her. She shouldn't be though. He would never get mad at her. "Yeah."
"I'm sorry for sneaking out like that…"
He smiled a bit at her sincere apology and continued on tending to her scraped knees. "It's fine. I was just really worried. I… don't want anything to happen to Shizu-nee." He could not stop his voice from taking a turn for the worse. His tone oozed out fear, worry and regret and all other emotion he felt with the mere thought of something bad happening to her.
"Yeah… I really am sorry. I-It won't happen again." Shizuru blurted out. She just couldn't tell her over-protective brother about her run-in with hooligans and the peculiar encounter with the mesmerizing raven-haired man.
Izaya hummed a dark melody as he chatted away in the Dollars chat box.
[Kanra: I found my missing friend!~]
[admin: Good for you Kanra-san.]
[Kanra: I'm really happy but she's playing a very mean game with me! (sad)]
[admin: Oh, but as you've said in the previous chats, you did something mean to her before she disappeared. Maybe she's getting revenge? Not that I'm implying she might still be mad though.]
[Kanra: I thought of the exact same thing! I guess. All I can actually do now is play along, but not without my own kinks. Hahahaha!~]
[admin: It scary when Kanra-san says such things. I get the feeling something big is going to happen. Well, I'll be signing off now. Bye Kanra-san.]
[Kanra: Bye bye admin!~]
When the only person online other than himself logged out, he spun his favorite chair and laughed manically. It all made sense. Of course Shizu-chan was only human, and she'd plot something as humanely predictable as revenge. Why hadn't he considered that possibility? "Hah, I considered her as a special human – no, a monster, I never even expected something like this." He answered himself.
So after his harsh words, she left and disappeared for six years and upon her return, she still couldn't forgive him and thus the reason for her feigning amnesia upon meeting him. That has got to be it! Hah, secret's out and Izaya was excited to play along with the little plot his Shizu-chan has splayed out for him. He has got to admit, this was one way of getting revenge. He never expected something of such proportions from someone as protozoic as Shizu-chan of doing such a feat or even being able to concoct such a plan.
She really was interesting, and the best toy!
He kept telling himself that fact as he finally got an explanation for his actions the past six years – he had, admittedly been guilty, but that was because he thought he broke his favorite toy. But she hasn't completely broken down, and here she was, picking up a new type of fight with him. How joyous!
He just could not believe how strong she was!
He could not believe how she outwitted him, the god of all humans and got him to feel such petty emotions such as guilt, love and attachment.
But all of that was over now. He was going to play along her game and beat her with her own devices. And what other way would work than making her fall in love with him all over again?
He would make her fall for him again and destroy her once and for all for making him act so pathetically and feel insignificantly for six whole years.
He understood now. All of that frustration was certainly some sort of warning of his naturally god-like senses from her childish revenge.
"The games are on Shizu-chan."
From the far corner of the room where she was seated, Namie merely sighed and shook her head. "The idiot has mistaken relief for anger." She gave the still laughing and spinning Izaya an apathetic gaze. "You're going to regret what you're about to do… I can just feel it." She said mostly to herself, seeing as her boss was still in his own little world.
"What?"
"We're going to have our shooting in Shinjuku! Well, more specifically in Nishi-Shinjuku. You see, our script is an action movie. Shizu-chan and Yuu-kun are siblings who are fighting for what they believe is 'justice', of course this 'justice' they speak of are only diabolical schemes to get the two to fight because they are the last humans alive on Earth. Unbeknownst to them, the androids are trying to get them to kill each other. They are unaware of their humanity for they have been preserved for a hundred years, and androids, being the evil machines they were, decided to do something even worse than a quick death – they'd let the two destiny tied siblings kill one another – hence the reason we need to go to Shinjuku! It has the perfect setting, the other cast and the set are there!" Rokujo Chikage, their manager said in one breathing, his stoic face contorted into that of an expression of pure excitement.
Yuuhei heaved out a semi-annoyed, semi-impressed sigh, while Shizuru continued on with her meal. Once he calmed down, Chikage focused his attention on the actress which caused her to choke on her pancake. "W-What?"
Chikage smirked. "You look cute today as well Shizu-chan!~"
The nickname made her spit out the contents of her mouth on the unsuspecting man's face. Yuuhei's eyes widened in surprise, Chikage had an unreadable expression. Shizuru blushed from embarrassment. "I-I'm sorry Rocchi-san!" she choked out as she grabbed a napkin and wiped her manager's dirtied face. "Ahahaha! No worries Shizu-chan!" Once more, Shizuru was taken aback by the use of the nickname which led to her colliding harshly with the table abruptly making the glass of water near Chikage to fall on him, wetting his suit.
There was silence between them before Chikage laughed out loudly. Shizuru looked away, her face as red as a tomato while Yuuhei stared at his sister. "Nee-san, did something happen?"
"I just find the nickname weird. Even though it's the usual name Rocchi-san addresses me with, after last night -" her hand found its way to her face to cover her mouth. Oh shit. The innocent stare Yuuhei had on only recently was replaced with a probing look that held so much authority – his question was understood by Shizuka even though it was yet to be asked.
She didn't want to lie to her brother. It was her fault for slipping, so she might as well tell the both of them.
"W-Well… about last night…" she trailed off, both men nodded for her to continue. She breathed in and gulped before she continued. "I was being chased by thugs, then I found myself in a park where I saw someone crying. Without thinking, I… kind of… hugged him and sang for him. For some reason, that man seemed to know me and called me 'Shizu-chan'. Before he could tell me who he was, the thugs showed up again. I don't know what happened next, I just ran away. Then Yuuhei found me… and well you know the rest."
"Question nee-san, what did this man look like?"
"He had short black hair and piercing crimson eyes." She muttered out, the blush on her face worsened at the recollection of the charming features of the man. She closed her eyes shut before she stood up. "I'm going to the car now." Was all she said before she left a very serious Yuuhei and equally serious Chikage.
"Yuu- I mean Kasuka, I think Shizuka-chan met Orihara Izaya."
"Say what?" [What?]
Shinra and Celty reacted at the same time. Izaya marveled how the headless woman typed so fast. He nodded in response to their question.
[Where did you see her? What happened?] Celty asked him in a rather anxious manner which made Izaya smile a bit. She was really worried about Shizuka. She was, after all, her best friend. He can attest to that fact. Celty had hunted him down the whole city of both Ikebukuro and Shinjuku after Shizuka disappeared, when she found him, he was sure she would bring an end to his life, luckily for him, Shinra was with her and managed to calm her before she cut his head with her black scythe.
"Well, last night, when I was at the park she just appeared. Apparently she has amnesia. She doesn't remember me at all." He feigned hurt. "It seems that her name right now isn't Heiwajima Shizuka but Hanejima Shizuru!" he laughed out loud. Celty and Shinra sent glances at each other.
[Wait, you said Hanejima Shizuru, right?]
"Yep."
[Isn't Hanejima Shizuru the actress who has come with her brother to shoot a movie?]
"Oh?" This caught his interest. So his Shizu-chan became an actress. Not like it wasn't in her genes, Kasuka, her brother, was an actor. "Wait you said she was with her brother? So Kasuka-kun is with her?"
[Yeah. Her brother's name is Hanejima Yuuhei.]
"Isn't that Kasuka-kun's alias?" Shinra's brows knit together. Izaya nodded. "So Kasuka-kun is in the revenge as well?" Izaya mused, much to Shinra's chagrin. "Won't be surprising considering how you hurt his sister." Izaya coughed awkwardly over his best friend's statement.
[I don't think so. Hanejima Shizuru and Yuuhei were said to have been born in Japan but later on a rich business tycoon adopted them and took them to America it would seem, they've been training as artists ever since.]
Izaya and Shinra looked at Celty with raised brows. "How'd you know all this?" they asked her at the same time.
If she had a head, Celty would be blushing.
[H-Hey! It's not like I work all the time, I watch television at times, and I see Hanejima Shizuru on a lot of channels. She's pretty famous here. She modeled on a lot of Vogue magazines, but as for her movies, it is said that their company doesn't let Japan get a hold of them – under Yuuhei's request, he doesn't let his and her movies get aired in this country, but they say he's already an acting legend in America and other countries. It would seem that their debut six years ago in their first Hollywood movie was a blockbuster. However, Yuuhei, it would seem, vehemently rejected merchandises relating to their debut movie to be shipped in Japan. That's why not many Japanese people know of them. B-But I do… have a copy if you want to watch it…]
Her intense knowledge on the topic surprised both the informant and Shinra. Izaya was surprised by the fact that he knew of no such thing while Shinra was surprised that Celty was a die-hard Hollywood fan. They, however, did not voice out their shock to avoid embarrassing the Dullahan. Izaya could only wheeze out a soft "Yeah, let's watch it."
This should prove to be interesting. He's rather revved up at the knowledge he can get to see his usually stiff Shizu-chan displaying emotions on screen. Celty nodded and produced a CD from the shadows. She put it in the DVD player and the three of them sat down to watch the movie entitled "From Here on End".
"This is the end of our squabbles Altair."
"I couldn't agree more Cassiopeia!"
As the sun is at its peak, the two valiant warriors of the year 3000 once again face off to settle their long-fought battle. Emotions exploded, beliefs collided and untamed fury was unleashed by the destiny-bound rivals.
Thus, the fighting ensues. Who will win? Altair or Cassiopeia?
"Cut! That's it for the morning shoot. Make sure to be back after three hours every one! Enjoy your lunch!"
The shrill shout of their director succeeded in making the Heiwajima siblings stop their farce war against each other. Yuuhei dropped his mask of anger and once again did his face regain its composed features. His sister mirrored his brother's actions and relaxed when they felt the heat of the moment dissipate into calmness at the implied success of their filming.
A clap from not too far caused the two to face the direction where the sound came from to reveal their widely grinning manager. "Great job you two! I was completely speechless. We don't even have clips for bloopers." He said with fraud hurt at the last part, but immediately smiled after.
Shizuru smiled back at their manager while Yuuhei simply offered him a nod. "I'm going to go change now, I don't want to ruin the outfit, I still have to use it later, after all." The elder Heiwajima chuckled. "Wa, but it fits Shizu-chan so well! It shows off your figu -" before Chikage could finish what he was about to say, the younger of the two artists had effectively silenced him by hitting the back of his head with the script in his hand, which resulted to a fit of laughter from the cast, excluding Shizuru who had now run off to the set's changing van.
Once inside, she progressed to taking off her clothes, leaving only her underwear on. She was too focused on changing; she failed to notice the presence of another individual that was right behind her. Until, that was, soft breathing made contact with the back of her neck which sent shivers down her spine. There was someone behind her, she could feel it.
Her mind panicked. This wasn't good. Their van was sound proof, she was close to naked and there was a stranger behind her.
Her brain went down the drain when arms wrapped themselves around her bare stomach. What made her lose her senses and ability to properly react was the voice that belonged to none other than the raven-haired man from the previous night.
"Shizu-chan…"
A/N
I tried to make this chapter longer! I hope that it was long enough. So this chapter was inspired by my reviewers, as always. I would like to thank mika . siam . 71192 , AliceofDeath and Maru de Kusanagi for their kind reviews. I'm glad you enjoyed reading Forget Me Not, and I am hoping you will continue to support this fanfiction. Once more, thank you very much and until the next chapter.