BP: School has reopened, you know what that means. That means I have a lot of homework to do, tests to study and therefore, I have writer's block and my writing skills are slightly rusty. Well, I'm sorry I haven't updated this, but due to the above reasons, I can't. So I'm just closing my eyes and writing whatever that came to my mind.
"Argh! I had enough! So many girls are confessing to me, hoping I'd leave you for them! Hah! As if!" Ryoma spat. They were in his house, and Ryoma was stomping around, ranting about his annoying fangirls, during a break in a movie they are watching. Tezuka was sitting on the bed, his hazel eyes were staring at his lover amusingly. "I think they can't accept you liking boys, that's why they are doing it." said Tezuka calmly. Inwardly, he really wanted to pull a Ryoma and shoot at Ryoma's fangirls.
"Yes, I know what you mean, Kunimitsu." Ryoma sighed before sitting on the bed next to Teuzka. "Momoshiro was ranting to me that I should date that Ryuzaki girl because he thinks she's faultless. Really, he is mada mada dane." He took the popcorn and stuffed a handful in his mouth, and gulping down his Ponta.
"Oh, the commercial break is over." said Ryoma. They leaned back and watched the movie. After the movie, Ryoma said, "Oh geez. I thought the protagonist was a good person. But ends up, he kidnapped the daughter, and influenced her to steal time from time banks." (For those who don't know, they watched the movie called In Time)
"True. But in the movie, as the rich have the power to simply increase the cost of living in the lower time zones, maintaining the status quo of wealthy and poor. They realize they would need a million years to cause any significant damage to the system. That's why they stole time. To save the world."
"You really read into things, Kunimitsu."
"Of course. How else will I find out about your occupation?"
Ryoma chided himself for his stupidity of not noticing this. He is an excellent tactician in combat, proving himself to be fairly good at finding an enemy's weak spots in a fight, he can calculate accurate odds in the midst of a fight and in mere seconds and his predictions are usually exact. He is also adept at finding an enemy's weak spots and exploit them, learning the pattern of their movements before they attack and formulating plans accordingly. Furthermore, he is a quick thinker. Also, he has provided wise suggestions more than once, sometimes proving himself even smarter than Shizuka. But when it comes to Kunimitsu, his intelligence sort of went down the drain….many times.
"It's getting late. I got to go."
"So….I'll meet you at the forest near my house tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow." Tezuka confirmed, before kissing Ryoma on the lips.
Saturday. A day where everyone is resting at home, feeling contented that there is no school on that day. The day where everyone is resting at home, doing nothing. Well, not for Ryoma. He was at the forest near his home, sharpening his arrows with his knife, waiting for his boyfriend. 'I think I came a bit too early.' Ryoma thought, while sharpening his arrows. A bird was perched on the tree branch, chirping relentlessly above him for the past few minutes. Ryoma, finally tired of waiting for the bird to keep quiet, finally strung his arrow in the bow, stretched the bow string, and released the arrow. The arrow hit the bird in the throat, killing it instantly. The bird fell to the ground with a soft "thud". Ryoma removed the arrow from its throat and proceeded to wash the arrow, which is stained with the wretched bird's blood.
"That wasn't very nice, killing the bird." said a voice behind him. Ryoma started, nearly dropping his arrow into the river. He turned, and saw his boyfriend standing behind him. Ryoma shrugged. "That's true, Kunimitsu." said Ryoma. "But they do make good practice targets."
"Ryoma!" Teuzka reproached him. Ryoma cut him off by giving him a kiss on the lips. It quickly turned to a battle of dominance.
After the broke the kiss for air, Ryoma said, "Ok, sorry. I promise not to kill innocent animals anymore."
Teuzka softened. "I don't blame you, though. You have been trained all your life to kill after all. It's hard to change your habits."
Ryoma nodded. "That's true. I like this forest though. Shizuka and I always come here to train. Sometimes, she picks up herbs to make medicine."
"Really?" said Tezuka, looking interested.
"Yeah. Also, she sings when she does this. One of the songs she likes to sing is The Hanging Tree. She even taught me how to sing it. Listen." Ryoma took a deep breath, and began singing sweetly like Shizuka.
"Are you, Are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree
Are you, Are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree
Are you, Are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.
Are you, Are you
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Strange things did happen here,
No stranger would it be,
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree."
"I didn't know you can sing." said Tezuka, after Ryoma finished singing.
"Nah, I am not as good as Shizuka. She sings so well she makes the nightingales jealous."
When he was younger he didn't know what it meant, but after the many missions he went, he eventually understood that the person singing the song was a dead man calling for his lover to come join him in death. It meant that a life of torture must have not been worth living. At one point during his mission that Shizuka actually died completing, he really understands what this means, because he knew that losing someone you love is a much worse fate than death.
Just then, Ryoma glanced over and saw the thin red light. He gasped before pulling Tezuka towards him with one hand, and with the other hand, he took out his gun and shot at the direction of the sniper. The bullet apparently hit its mark as he heard a yelp. He let go of Tezuka, and walked towards the direction of the sniper. The sniper was still alive, but she was injured at the shoulder. He pointed his gun at the sniper. The sniper widened her eyes. "R-Ryoga? Why did you trick me? You said you will love me if I shoot Tezuka."
What?
At that instance, Ryoma realized who the unnamed leader of the Political Devils was.
It was his brother.
BP: I really got rusty. My chapters are getting shorter and shorter.