Reita Sighed as he stepped out of the shower. He was sweaty and burning up from the hot water. He wiped the foggy mirror and stared at himself for a bit. It really was only a matter of time before they noticed his poor health. He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around his waist. He walked out of the bathroom, to the small refrigerator and opened it up.
"I told you never to wear that towel out of the bathroom!" A deep voice yelled making the blonde drop the water he had grabbed. He turned to find a tall man, wearing a brown trench coat with a large hood that hid most of his face.
"W-who the hell are you? How did you get in here a-and what do you want?" Reita's voice shook.
"My beautiful Akira, isn't obvious? I mean I send you flowers and letters every week. Yet you won't even reply. Since you won't give me your love, I guess I'm just gonna have to make you give it to me." The man said walking towards him. Reita saw his pocketknife in his pile of stuff on the table to his right and ran to grab it, but the man leaped for the bassist before he could reach it. Reita dodged him, but as the blonde tried run past him, the man grabbed the bassist's arm, pulled him onto the ground, and twisted his arm behind his back.
"Get off! Help! Hel—" The man punched him, cutting him off. The bassist grunted as he tried to focus his vision.
"You're so beautiful." The man licked Reita's neck as he pulled the towel off and threw it across the room. The blonde felt the man's hand going down his back and lower.
"Your disgusting!" The blonde yelled, elbowing the stranger in the side, forcing the man to let go. Reita got up and tried to run, but the man was faster. He grabbed the blonde by the neck, pushed him against the wall, and held him up off the ground.
"St-op." Reita gasped.
"I'm gonna make you regret not giving me a chance." The man punched him in the stomach countless times. Just as he was going to punch Reita in the face, the blonde kicked him between the legs. The man let go and Reita stumbled for the door, but was tackled and the other's hands wrapped around the his neck again, strangling him. The bassist was kicking with all his might to get free, but it was useless. As Reita started to pass out, he heard the door open and seeing Ruki, he reached out for the brunette as everything was going black.
"Akira!" The singer yelled. He ran in and kick the man off his friend, then kneeled beside the blonde. "Akira. Wake up."
"Why you little twerp!" The man yelled as he got up. The singer lifted up his unconscious friend and dragged him back.
"What's all the commotion?" A maid asked from the door.
"Hey does someone need help?" Asked an old man walking down the hall.
"Call the police!" Ruki yelled. The man pushed the brunette down and ran out the door, pushing the maid into the wall.
"Rei?" The singer's voice shook, checking the other's neck. "Thank god." He sighed in relief finding a pulse and his friend breathing fine. He picked up his phone and started dialing,
"I just called the police, they're on their way." The maid said.
"Thank you." The singer said starting dialing again. "Kai, you guys get up here now, Reita was attacked"
"How?"The brunette asked.
"I don't know just hurry up." He said then hung up and lifted his unconscious friend.
"Here let me help," Said the old man as he came in. Ruki glared at him. "Don't worry, I'm a retired doctor." He took Reita out of the brunette's arms and laid him on his back. The brunette took his jacket off and laid it over his friend's lower half while the old man was checking his neck and ribs.
"What happened?" Uruha asked as they ran in.
"Well he doesn't seem to have any broken bones, he passed out from the lack of oxygen. His ribs don't seem to be broken. He'll still need an X-ray to be sure." The old man said.
"What?" Aoi asked tilting his head as Kai walked over to Reita, but the old man stopped him.
"We can't surround him, he might not get enough air."
"Ruki what happened?" The raven asked.
As the singer opened his mouth to speak, the old man interrupted. "You should wait for the police. That way you'll only have to explain it once."
Ruki shook his head and looked down at his friend and saw him waking up. "Rei!"
The blonde started sitting up, but jolted as he grabbed his ribs and whimpered.
"Lay back down" The old man gently pushed him back down.
Kai grabbed the blanket off the bed and laid it on top of the bassist. "We don't need you to catch a cold too."
"They're coming." The maid pointed out still standing in the hall.
She moved out of the way as two men walked into the room. A tall man with military cut light brown hair and a shorter man with shoulder length black hair. "I'm officer Holland and this is my partner, officer Reto. We're going to have to get all your statements before you leave tonight. Who was the one attacked?" The taller one said.
"I was." Reita whispered as he managed to sit up. The taller officer walked over and kneeled. "Are you ok to make a statement before you go to the hospital?"
"Yeah. Um…I…c-can I put some clothes on first?"
"Hey grab him some boxers or something." Officer Holland said to Kai. The drummer grabbed a pair of boxers out of one of the suitcases and gave them to Reita. The maid was talking to the other officer with the old man outside so he put them on under the blanket. Then he put on Ruki's jacket and stood up with the help of the officer. He sat down on the couch where the singer and Kai sat on both sides of him.
"Are you ready now?"Holland asked impatiently.
"We all went to the bar, but I decided to come back up early to take a shower and go to bed. When I got out of the bathroom, I went to the refrigerator. All of a sudden I heard a man yell at me." Reita watched as the officer finished writing.
"I need more details like where he punched you, did he sexual assault you?" Holland asked as he looked up to find the blonde shaking and looking down. "What did he do?"
"H-he…when he pulled me down he l-licked my neck and called me beautiful and…" The bassist got quiet and wrapped his arms around himself.
"And?" The officer asked. Reita's face turned red and he closed his eyes holding back tears.
Uruha bent down beside him."He needs to know."
"H-he pulled my towel off and he…he…"
"He touched you?" The officer asked heartlessly. The blonde shook his head shamefully.
"Where?"
"My back and then o-on my…" Reita was mumbling.
"Ass?" Holland asked. The blonde shook his head as a tear rolled down his cheek.
"Ok where did he hit you?"
The bassist continued to tell what happened up until he blacked out, then the cop questioned Ruki, then the others.
"Ok do you remember what he looked like, what he was wearing?" Holland continued. Reita shook his head no.
"He was maybe 6'2-6'3, um...He was buff, twice the size of Rei. He was wearing a brown cloak and a hood over his face." Ruki said closing his eyes trying to remember.
Officer Reto dismissed the maid and the old man and came in with Sakai. "The maid said he either had black or dark brown hair, had a scar from his forehead to the middle of his neck. She said he was between 6 to 6'4 and big. Also, this man says that he's your manager."
"Ah, yes he is." Kai said standing up.
"What happened Reita?" The manager asked ignoring the drummer. He walked up to find him sleeping on Ruki's shoulder.
"Do not wake him" Ruki said harshly.
"He needs to go to the hospital." The manager said reaching to shake him.
The leader grabbed his arm. "We're waiting for the officers to finish. Reita said so."
"When are you officers going to be done?" The manager asked interrupting Uruha.
"When he's done with his statement. We have and ambulance already headed here. Also we need to switch your hotels so don't all of you go to the hospital yet." Holland said turning back to the honey blonde.
"I'll find another hotel."Sakai said leaving the room. After they finished the paramedics came in and woke up Reita to put him on the stretcher. Aoi walked out with him.
"Aoi," Kai called "I'll pack your stuff so go ahead with Reita"
"Ok." Aoi said getting into the elevator.
"We're going to place officers outside his hospital room." Reto said sincerely. Kai and Uruha left to pack their bags as Ruki started packing the blonde's bags. When he was doing so, he saw a crumbled piece of paper on the floor. He picked it up and after he read it he got the officers' attention.
"Hey. I think this is from the man that attacked Reita," The singer said handing the paper to Holland, "There's another paper like it in the trash. Reita wouldn't let me read it earlier when I saw it. I think the roses came with it."
Reto inspected the trash can pulling out the paper and opened it up. "Yeah this man is a stalker."
"We need to get to the hospital and ask Reita about these." Holland said heading out.
"I'm coming with you" Ruki said putting Reita's things down. " Yo, Kai , Uruha, I'm going to the hospital with Holland. We need Reita to explain something to us."
Ruki got into the elevator when Kai came out. "Wait you have to help us—" the elevator doors closed before he could finish "—pack. Or not. Looks like we're on our own to pack everything Uruha." The brunette waited for a response. "Uruha?" He went in the room to find the other sleeping on the couch. "Ok, I guess I'm on my own."
Ruki, Holland, and Reto walked into the emergency room to find Aoi buying candy from the dispenser.
"What room is he in?" Holland asked.
"Room 304. Why?" The raven asked. Holland walked past without answering. The guitarist grabbed the officer's arm. "Wait he just got back to sleep, don't wake him up."
"He forgot to tell us something very important. Now let go of me." Holland said yanking his arm away.
"Aoi it's ok." Ruki put his hand on his friend's shoulder and followed the officer. Aoi and Reto walked behind them. When they got to the room the guitarist got in front of the door and stopped.
"Before we go in, what did he forget to tell you?"
"We found two letters. Both from the stalker." Said Holland as he pushed Aoi out of the way and flipped the lights on. "Hey, wake up." He ordered, but the blonde continued to sleep silently. He growled. "I said wake up!" He started shaking the bassist.
"Hey knock it off he's hurt!" Ruki yelled as he pulled Holland's hand off.
"Mmm." Reita moaned as he awoke.
"How long have you've been receiving these letters?" The older officer held up the papers. The bassist was shocked to see him holding them."What? You think we wouldn't find them? I see these letters all the time. Now how long have been getting these?"
"For the past two and a half months." Reita said, sitting up putting his hands together.
"What? Why didn't you tell us?" Aoi asked.
"I didn't want to risk the tour being stopped. I thought the letters would stop when we left Kyoto. But they didn't." He said, clenching his hands together. He looked up to find Ruki's hands in fists and a pissed expression.
"How many have you gotten?" the singer was trying to hold in his anger.
"About three or four every week with a vase of red roses. Except for the first letter, it came with other fanmail."
"You should have notified the police when you got the second or third letter. It might not have escalated this far if you had." Said Reto.
Reita looked down. "I'm sorry. I just…I didn't want the tour to—"He was silenced when Ruki punched the wall beside him.
"Who cares about the damn tour! You were in danger, you should have told us. If that man had attacked you at a different time, he could have raped and killed you!" The brunette's face was as red as his bloody knuckles. Reita started shaking and his face went pale. All of sudden, he jumped out of bed and ran in to the bathroom where he started puking
"Akira." the singer whimpered as he ran in to help.
"Excuse me, but you can't shout, there are other patients in here!" a nurse walked in and snapped at them.
"Sorry ma'm we'll be quiet," Aoi said
"Do you still have any of the letters?" Holland tried to continue questioning.
"No, I throw them away when I receive them." The blonde whimpered over the toilet
"Here let's get you back in bed." Ruki said, helping him up. Aoi went in and helped lead Reita out.
"Excuse me," A different nurse interrupted "We're ready to take x-rays. Would you help me get him get into that wheelchair?" She pointed next the bed where the chair was at.
"Yes." The singer said. He put Reita's arm over his shoulder as Aoi brought the wheelchair around. The blonde sat down and then the nurse pushed him out.
"We're gonna go and find a hotel for you." Reto said
"Wait our manager was already doing that when we left. Maybe you should talk to him first." Aoi said
"Ok, give us his number." Holland opened his pad ready to write. Aoi felt his pockets for his phone. "Um. Ruki do you have your phone?"
He checked his pockets. "Oops. I left it at the hotel."
"That's ok," the officer closed his pad. "We'll go back and talk to him at the hotel."
"Uruha. Uruha. Wake up!" Kai was shaking him.
"Huh? Did I doze off?" The honey blonde asked, rubbing his eyes. "I'll finish packing."
"Too late for that. I got it done already."
"Why didn't you wake me?" He asked standing up walking to the packed bags. Then Holland and Reto walked in looking around.
"Where's your manager?" Holland asked.
"In the next room grabbing the rest of Ruki's things." Kai said. "So what did you have to talk to Reita about?"
Holland ignored him and walked off to the next room to talk to Sakai.
"We found letters in Reita's room and it seems the man that attacked him, was stalking him. For about two months now he has been receiving letters and roses." Reto answered the question.
"What? No that can't be, he would have told us." Said Kai.
"He said he didn't want the tour to be stopped."
"Why would he..." Uruha mumbled to himself, but shook his head. "Anyways, is Ruki and Aoi still at the hospital?"
"Yeah I think they might stay the night there."
"Did you find a hotel?" Holland asked walking into the next room.
"Yes, I got a whole floor reserved. We're about to take the bags there and then check on Reita."Sakai said.
"I don't think you'll see him if you go. They had just took him for x-rays when we were leaving. He also was vomiting, so he might not be up to talking." Holland said picking up the bags.
"That may be, but we're still going." The other said as walked out."Ok, Uruha. Kai. You got everything?"
"Yeah." They came out with their bags.
"Ok. Let's go. Do you mind helping with the bags officer, since you already have them in your hand."
"We're heading down there anyways." Holland said walking towards the elevator.
They all went down put their bags in the cars and then headed out. The officers headed to the station while Uruha, Kai and their manager headed towards the hospital. When they got there they meet up with Aoi.
"Where's Ruki?" Kai asked looking around.
"He fell asleep in the room. Reita is still getting x-rays."
"You should all go to the hotel and rest. Holland said that there are officers outside his room, he'll be safe. Aoi go get Ruki." Sakai said.
"No. Ruki said he wanted to stay the night with him. They said he could so he's going to." Aoi said.
"I'm going to take you three to the hotel then. I'll come back to see how Reita is doing." Their manager said walking back out. The three of them followed him out and headed to the new hotel.
As the nurse put a blanket over Ruki, he woke up.
"Oh. I'm sorry I didn't mean wake you." The nurse whispered.
"Mmm. It's ok." Ruki looked around to find Reita sound asleep. "So is he ok?"
"He doesn't have any broken bones, but one of his ribs has a hair line fracture. Also, the muscles on his rib cage are bruised. He kept passing out during the tests. We believe it's from stress, lack of nutrients, and sleep." The nurse said.
"Lack of nutrients? Does that mean he hasn't been eating?"
"That or not eating enough. It's probably from being stressed out." The nurse said. "Now , you should lay down and get some rest. That bed is free if you would like to lay on it."
"Ok." Said Ruki walking to the bed. He laid down and the nurse turned the light off and closed the door.
"I thought it was my imagination when I saw you with that towel on, but you've lost a lot of weight and gotten weak. What kind of friends are we? You've been hiding your pain and we should have noticed that something was wrong. But we didn't. We didn't even see how tired you've been. I'm sorry."
"It's ok," Reita said, surprising Ruki. "I-I should have told you about the letters."
"How long were you awake?"
"Since the nurse said you could sleep in the bed. I didn't want to open my eyes because the lights were on."
"In any case, why haven't you been eating?"
"Because every time I ate I would just puke it up. I don't know why I did."
He slowly sat up."So when we had pizza and you went to the bathroom, you puked."
"Yeah."
"How did we not notice?" Ruki asked, slapping himself on the forehead.
"We were having a lot of fun."
"Yeah but still—"
"There's nothing you could do about it now." Reita said. There was a long pause.
"Go to sleep. You need your rest." Ruki said laying back down.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Hey what about the concert tomorrow night?"
"We'll probably cancel it."
"We can't, not when it's so close!"
"Your health is more important right now than the concert."
"I don't want to cancel it. I don't want to give that man the pleasure of scaring me out of a live."
"Rei." Ruki whispered.
"I want to Ru. So please, don't have them cancel it." Reita mumbling falling asleep.
"Ok Rei, I'll try." Ruki whispered, turning over to sleep.