Ever Strong Love
Chapter 12 -
Naruto was sat in Victoria's office pouring through information about loop hole and ways to get his sentence revoked, his eyes were hurting and his brain was throbbing. He was never a good reader or learner in school he'd always been the clown, Sasuke was the over achieving student.
As his mind started to think of the raven the blondes head slid onto the table and Naruto welcomed sleep, his dreams were peaceful and calming.
In Vladimir's office Giles downed his fourth glass of whiskey; Vladimir was on his ninth glass of vodka. A record player was playing a old song, the Italian women's voice that was singing was slow ands sad. Vladimir was recounting the old days and his greatest moments of life, from the state wars to the crushing of the rebel factions. Giles listened silently his own mind thinking back to the rebel uprising, a lesser man would have been brought to tears at his thoughts but Giles simply drain the rest of his glass and poured another one.
"I remember when i held off a whole battalion of rebels with a single rifle, all i had to do was..." Vladimir stopped Giles had gotten up from his seat and was moving around the room. Vladimir hurt a clicking sound and the Giles retuned to his seat, Vladimir instantly knew what Giles had picked up.
"She was always a beauty" Giles said as he examined the scoped rifle in his hands, the metal polished to perfection and the wood varnished.
Vladimir tensed up fully knowing what Giles was doing; his heart rate increased and his breathing became shorter.
Giles loaded a bullet into the chamber and coked the rifle; he aimed down the sights and pointed the gun at Vladimir's forehead. After a moment he pulled the gun away, resting it in his lap.
"It's been nearly thirty one years since we first meet, i can still remember how you were shaking when they brought you off the bus" Giles said smiling to himself.
"Yes! And i remember you; you were a dirty little manipulative bastard. Even back then you were flirting with the guards. I was their for petty theft and you were their for three counts for first degree murder, yet you were calmer than me" Vladimir said his tension subsiding for a time as he thought back to his earlier life.
Giles smirked as he thought back and remember how he'd took a hold of the older teens hand and lead him up to their cell, Vladimir had squeezed his hand and keeping him from crying.
"I remember our first night in the cell" Giles said looking at his gloved hands.
"So do i my friend, Oni-Shi was never a welcoming place even back then" Vladimir said as he down another vodka.
"Don't blame the old girl I've always felt right at home here, safely away from the world. Safe and sound with only..." Giles trailed off in his speech.
"Giles?" Vladimir's voice was laced with despair.
"Why do i live?"
Giles question came as a shock to Vladimir, he tried calming his old friend but Giles was to drunk and too saddened to think.
"Why do i live on when all i loved in the world is dead, all my friends lie dead, my family even you are getting closer to the reapers grasp. Why do i have to live on? Why can't i just die?"
Vladimir herds the clicking of the gun and stood quickly racing around his desk to Giles. His hand could fell that the rifle was lodged under the other mans chin, Giles fingers tensing on the trigger.
"Listen to me, you have to live...Live for yourself, your needed here to look after this place when i am gone that's why i brought you here. Not to mourn my passing but to keep this place open and running. I know that i have no right to ask for your help, you who saved me not only from death and insanity but also lossed your innocence because of me. In all the world their is not a man more deserving than you, please don't condemn yourself to hell for us as well" Vladimir said taking the gun in his hands and genital wrenching it from Giles hands, Giles released the gun as tears started to fall from his eyes.
Finally Giles collapsed onto Vladimir's shoulder crying his sadness pouring out of him, so Vladimir's shoulder were wet with tears.
"I don't believe in god, Vladimir and hell is here on earth"
Giles said as he fell to sleep on the older mans shoulder, Vladimir simply knell their and held the younger man. His blind eyes wishing they could see the other.
"When they came to me i should have let them take me, you were the younger i should have protected you. I should have been me...but you didn't scream of beg you were braver than me...I wish i could be more like you my friend..." Vladimir was silently weeping now.
After what seemed like hours Victoria came in and helped Vladimir move Giles from the old mans shoulder onto the desk, then Vladimir put his rifle away on the wall and pulled out a blanket covering his sleeping friend.
As the two of them left the office Vladimir locked the doors leaving Giles to sleep off his sorrows, and Naruto to sleep off his own worries.
"Vlad are you Ok sir?" Victoria asked as she helped the older man to his bedroom.
"I'm fine my dear just thinking about Giles scar, its a war wound you know" Vladimir said, felling his way to his bed.
"Its the scar from where i shot him"
Vladimir's words echoed around the large deserted room, nothing but the blackness and the frail old man.
TBC
Fenribane -
Sorry about the slow update but had a very important event to deal with.
But what is with Giles and Vladimir, anyone else getting mixed feeling
About them
Well till next time folks.