Another chapter. Wow I got it done faster than I thought.
Disclaimer: CLAMP's not dragonfairy16's
Rikuo tossed and turned in his sleep trying to escape the nightmarish memory that was currently plaguing his head. He was walking through the park with Tsukiko. It was a warm spring night and the full moon was shining brightly. Tsukiko laughed.
"What's so funny?" Rikuo asked watching Tsukiko look out across the river they were walking next to.
"One of the fireflies tickled my ears." She laughed again. Rikuo smiled and looked around. He couldn't find any fireflies in the park. Looking back at his older cousin he watched as she spun around and tripped falling into the cold water.
"Tsukiko!" He screamed and jumped in after her. It was too inky for him to see even his nose let alone his cousin. He reached out and felt an arm. Grabbing it he began to pull up the limp body to the surface. Pulling himself onto the land he looked at the person he dragged up and found himself holding a blond haired boy instead of the black haired girl he was just with. He didn't even think twice as he pressed his lips to the cold blue lips of the boys and began to attempt CPR. This feeling in his gut was something that he had never experienced before. When Tsukiko had fallen in the river in real life not just in his dream he was scarred but not like this. (1) When he lifted his face he moved back in shock as to golden eyes were looking up at him. The boy smiled and lifted his hand up limply. He placed his hand on Rikuo's cheek and without thinking Rikuo grabbed it and held it against his face. He didn't know why but the guy's hands felt wrong somehow.
Rikuo jumped awake sweating and panting. He jumped again when he realized some one was sitting next to him on the bed.
"Tsukiko what are you doing here?" Tsukiko in her blue nightgown and limp hair down looked up at Rikuo with a sad smile.
"Your dreams were keeping me up."
"What were you doing in my dreams?" Rikuo asked slightly annoyed.
"Nightmares drag me into people's dreams even if I don't want to, gomen." Rikuo looked down in shame.
"Iie, I should be the one apologizing." The two relatives sat there in silence. The digital clock next to the bed changed to 2:34 am.
"I guess I'll go back to sleep, seeing that your better…I just have one question."
"Yeah?"
"Were his hands cold?" Rikuo looked at her strangely.
"I can barely remember the dream let alone if some ones hands were col…" He stopped in surprise as Tsukiko stood up and placed her hands gently on his face.
"Just try and remember were his hands cold. Even if you can't remember what he looked like, or sounded like, or even what the entire dream was. Just remember that feeling when he put his hands on your cheeks." Rikuo stared at her eyes for a moment and then closed his own.
"They…they were so familiar…so warm like the sun…but his finger tips…they were so cold." He opened his eyes and looked at Tsukiko. "That's not good is it?" He said in a serious tone. She smiled and let go of her younger companion.
"Good night Rikuo." She began to leave the room and was stopped by Rikuo's hand wrapped around her arm.
"If it was bad you would tell me right? Who he is and…theirs just…I felt something that I never felt before. My chest ached." Rikuo said placing his other hand on his chest. Tsukiko turned around and placed her hand under his eye. Rikuo gasp slightly realizing that tears were falling from his face.
"Good night Rikuo." Tsukiko said again kissing on the head and left the man in the dark trying to piece everything together.
~Next day Green Drug store~
Kei walked into the back of the store whistling a tune to a new song she heard on the way.
"Hey Rikuo." She chirped as she passed him stocking gone of the aisle. She then backed up and walked up to the non responsive boy. "Hello anyone home." She said waving her hand up and down until Rikuo finally blink and realized the real world around him. "You have black bags under your eyes…Did you get any sleep."
"I just had a bad dream. A cup of coffee and I'll be fine."
The back door opened and Kakei came out smiling.
"Good morning my employees."
"Ohayo gozaimasu," The two answered back.
"I have a job for the both of you. Do you want it?"
"Hai!" Kei jumped up quickly.
"Sure." Rikuo said. "Let me just grab a drink." And he grudged his way to get his coffee.
~in front of an old building~
"Ok so this is where the book is supposed to be?" Kei asked. She looked at the sign 'Toto book shop.'
"It just seems so…I don't know run down."
"Yeah but we are here to get what we came for not admire the store. You know what to do right."
"Yeah," Kei answered back uncomfortably. She was fidgeting with a tight white dress with sleeves that hung off her shoulders and went down to her elbows. Rikuo rolled his eyes and entered the shop.
The bell on the door rang as he entered and the middle age man at the counter watched him suspiciously. Rikuo nodded and began walking to the back. A few minutes later Kei walked in and walked up to the owner of the story.
"Konichiwa." She said seductively. The man looked up and with the catch of his eyes she went in for the kill.
"Do you think I'm beautiful?" She asked sweetly. He was caught in her web, her power bring up the feelings of lust and love from the bottom of his heart.
"You're gorgeous." He answered back in awe. Rikuo watched from the back and saw Kei giggle. Good, the man was occupied time for the book. He walked along the wall and found the painting Kakei said it would be behind. He moved the painting of narcissus, but stopped for a second and looked at the picture again. They were just flowers and he wasn't a flower type of person but he just had a feeling, a feeling that he was forgetting something again, something important. Did he leave the oven on? (2)
He placed the painting on the ground and placed his hand on the safes lock. With just a thought he cracked it open with a load bang. Rikuo cursed to himself as the store owner woke from his trance. Thinking on the spot with her telekinesis Kei made the shelf full of book behind the owner fall down to the ground.
"What!" He shouted at the load bang behind him.
"You should probably fix that." Kei laughed. When the owner turned to the shelf Kei looked at Rikuo placed her finger to her lips. Rikuo glared and flip her the finger. Reaching into the safe he pulled out a bunch of books. Searching through them he found the book he needed.
'The Gathering Gale.' Rikuo smiled and tucked it into his jacket pocket. Placing the other books back he put the painting back over the safe and grabbed another book from the table behind him.
"I would like to buy this." He said as he came up to the counter. Kei laughed behind him holding her sides with her arms and left the store. Wondering why she was laughing he looked down and found himself buy a book on kittens and the proper care for them.
He left the store quickly and met up with Kei down the block.
"Well he didn't expect anything right. He just thought you were buying a…a…kitten book." She laughed again and Rikuo pushed the kitty book into her arms. "You got the book?"
"Yeah right here." Rikuo opened the book and flipped the pages open. "What the hell." Kei tried to look over Rikuo's shoulders but he was too tall. She pulled his arm down and gasped. She grabbed the book from his hands.
"What…all the pages are blank. I just seduced a pervert for nothing. You know how dirty his thoughts were. I'm going to kill Kakei." Rikuo snatched the book from her hands and began walking again leaving her standing there seething a big blue agitated vein upon her head. She looked up and wailed trying to catch up to her partner.
As they walked a black car passed them and parked outside the book store Rikuo and Kei just left. Two men in black suits and sun glasses walked out of the front of the car and one opened the back door of the car. A man in a grey suit walked out and he and one of the men walked into the store leaving the other man outside.
"Can I help you?" The owner said staking the books back on the shelf. He turned around and came face to face with a gun in his face. "Wait don't shoot take whatever you want." The man in the grey walked up to him slicking back his black hair and casually placed his arm on the counter his brown eyes staring at the owner.
"We are not here to steal anything. I just want what is rightfully mine. I'm Morioka and I want to know where 'The Gathering Gale' is?" The owner pointed to the back of the store.
"Behind the flower painting." The man in sunglasses kept the gun on the owner as the other one checked for the book. A few minutes later Morioka came back.
"Give me your hand." The owner looked confused and gave his hand to the man. The grey suited man grabbed it and twisted it. "Do you take me as a fool? Where is it?"
"I don't know it should be there." The owner gasped in pain. Morioka let go of the owners hand and slicked back his hair again. He turned to the suited man and nodded. He handed his boss the gun and went outside. A little bit later he came back with the other man in a suit and in between them a man in casual jeans and a green shirt that said 'Loser' and tan leather gloves walked in.
"We are just going to help jog your memories. Come in Kudo-kun." The young man walked in further peeling off his gloves in the process. Morioka put an arm around Kazahaya.
"Do me a favor and find out where the book is." Kazahaya smiled softly and placed his hand on the owner's cheek. The man pulled back.
"Your hands are so cold."
"Don't be such a wuss." Morioka complained holding the gun up. "Stay still." Kazahaya closed his eyes placing his hand on the man's face again.
"He didn't know it was missing." Kazahaya opened his eyes. "The Green drug store has it." He answered in a monotone voice putting the gloves back on.
"Tsukiko." Morioka sneered. He held up the gun and shot it in the owners head three times. The blood splattered around the store including onto Morioka and Kazahaya's face. They stood there for a few seconds in silence. Putting the gun in his pocket he smoothed his hair back. He turned to Kazahaya who just stared at the now faceless dead man with wide eyes.
Morioka placed his hand on Kazahaya's face and wiped a splash of blood of the boys face.
"Aw you still have emotions." He slapped Kazahaya hard who fell to the floor. "We will have to ask Ishikawa to fix that when we get back." He walked out the two other men pulling Kazahaya up and helped him back to the car and drove away.
He talks about how Kazahaya brought back memories when he fell into the river in volume 1 so I'm playing off that
Narcissus- the flowers from volume 2 that Kazahaya knows
Yay another confusing chapter. Promise things will clear up soon.
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