A/N: Hey guys! Sorry this was so late xD
Finaaaallllleeeeeyyyy! My college entrance exam is long gone…it was (sorry for the term) Fucking hard! University of the Philippines is not just something huh? I don't think I'll pass the exam T_T I'm hoping for a miracle wahhhh….plus the exam is right minus wrong! God! Anyways…its Sunday here and my quarter exams in school is on Tuesday, but sadly I don't have the motivation to study Physics so here I am writing a new chap xD.
Noll: Che, that exam is like alphabet to me…
Me: Shut up Noll! And if its alphabet it's probably an ancient one to me.
Noll: Because you're stupid
Me: You….*takes hamster out of the cage*
Me: Noll, meet Boomer. Boomer, meet your dinner.
Noll:…
P.S. if you are ever wondering…I really named my hamster Boomer, because he's too big to be called a Siberian hamster xD
Chapter 8: Sato Arashi & Yamada Aoi
"Your eyes, they're beautiful"
I said unconsciously as I kept on being drawn to his amethyst orbs. I felt his hands caress my cheeks and unknowingly I leaned into his palm until I heard a begrudgingly icy voice behind me.
"Mai" Naru said with a dangerous tone causing my heart to skip 2 beats. 'Ah shit…tea' was all I concluded.
"I didn't pay you to flirt around with students" he said and glared menacingly at the boy with beautiful eyes. I even flinched at the way he tried to mentally kill the poor guy, and hell! We were not even flirting!
"Looks like your boss wants you badly now…" the violet-eyed boy declared, I was totally amazed at how he seems to cast off Naru like he wasn't even in the background. He handed me the paper and gave me a very small smile that only I could see.
"I hope we'll see each other again" he said, and strangely as I watch his back become distant, I could feel somewhere inside me that we will.
I set Naru's cup beside him where he's having and glaring contest with the screen. He didn't look up nor move an inch when I did, and there was this suffocating aura that he kept on releasing that made everybody in the base not dare to breathe.
'Oh man, he's mad. Am I gonna get fired?'
"Uhmm….hello?" a high-pitched voice tore the silence. I saw Hikaru hesitantly poking her head inside the base.
"What do you want" Naru said icily, I saw the poor girl flinch at his tone.
"N-Naru she wants to talk to me" I said, hoping that he would just stop asking.
"Why not tell everybody?" he crossed his arms like he's some evil prince in a cursed kingdom.
"Please Naru, she has problems and I want to help her. don't take out your wrath on the poor girl and if its someone it should be me because I'm the useless person in the team who can't do her job properly, sleep during working hours, loiter around the campus "Flirting" as you call it and most of all cause nothing but trouble. So let me hear this girl out and then you can fire me later, got it?" I said in a calm sarcastic voice and grabbed Hikaru out of the base and walked inside their classroom.
"Mai, I'm sorry I-"I hushed her with my finger and smiled.
"I'm sorry, I forgot our deal and I was in a kind of "base-arrest" at that time. But anyway, let's not talk about that. What's bothering you Hikaru?" I held her hand comfortingly and I saw her relax.
"Uhmm-will you believe what I say?" I gave her another smile and squeezed her hand.
"Trust me"
"A-Arashi is a kind person! He-he would never do this kind of things!" she said
"But Why..? Why does he keep attacking women? Is he seeking revenge?"
"Arashi-sempai is looking for Aoi-sempai…"I saw her tears trail down her cheeks.
"Aoi? The girl who died before Arashi?" she nodded.
"Arashi-sempai and Aoi-sempai are lovers. It's true that Aoi-sempai has a weak body but it's not the reason she died and Arashi-sempai knew that. Aoi-sempai was abused by a teacher with the help of some students. He raped her and hid her body somewhere in the school. That's why Arashi-sempai keeps on asking his victims "where is she?"Arashi-sempai tried reason out with the administrators but he has no evidence to prove it and that night while he was looking for some traces in the classroom. He-he" she sobbed hard and I hugged her and rubbed her back.
"But how come you know all of this? Why didn't you tell us before when we were interviewing you?"
"I was scared! Because I was the one who was supposed to be molested that time but a Aoi-sempai saved me! All I cared about was myself, I should be the one who's dead and not Aoi-sempai!"
Bang!
We both looked up startled by the noise and saw a boy with dirty blonde hair and brown eyes.
"Hikaru!" he hurriedly grabbed Hikaru from my arms and glared hard at me.
"What did you do to her!" he hissed but Hikaru gripped his wrist and shook her head.
"Mai was helping me out! She wasn't doing anything bad to me Arata!" I was about to say something when the temperature dropped all of a sudden. Mist slowly began to seep from holed and open spaces.
"Where is she"
I heard and eerie voice. The guy called Arata quickly took a protective stance in front of Hikaru, while I slowly backed myself to the door just in case.
"WHERE IS SHE!"
And with that, a strong gust of wind blew the desks along with the chairs away. Hikaru gave a scream while Arata shielded her from whatever may fly in front of the. As for me, I was about to be hit by a wonderful desk until a bright white light shun the damn desk a few meters away. I exhaled the air I was holding in a few minutes ago and clutched the bracelet with my free hand.
"Thank you…and I have to remind myself to thank Lin-san later…" I whispered to myself. When I looked up I held my breath again coming face to face with the ghost called Arashi. Silver hair, three scratches on his left cheek and hateful yet scarred brown eyes were looking at me, somehow pleading. The door opened revealing the rest of the gang with frantic faces.
"Matsuzaki-san, Takigawa-san, Brown-san" Naru immediately ordered. But I screamed.
"NO!"
They stopped chanting immediately and looked at me with shocked faces. I focused on Arashi, he's bangs covered his eyes and was not moving an inch. I slowly tried to reach for his face hoping he wouldn't get violent.
"Arashi…" I whispered not a single sound, not a single flex on his muscles. He was still as a rock. I slowly cupped his cheek and thankfully, he didn't try to eat my hand away. I gently caressed it with my thumb and spoke as lovingly as ever.
"I'll find her, I promise." He looked up and to my shock, I saw him crying silently, his eyes hoping a lot from those words.
"I can't leave this place no matter how much I wanted to look for her. I just couldn't take it anymore, Aoi never deserved this." He said quietly. I gave him a warm, reassuring smile.
"So do you…" he placed his placed hands on top of mine and whispered.
"Thank you…"
I was sitting quietly at the base. Bou-san sent Hikaru and Arata to the main gate for safety. Hikaru told the rest of the gang about what really happened to Yamada Aoi and Sato Arashi. Naru immediately talked to the director about this matter and to his shock, he was never informed about this part of information.
"Mai"
I knew that voice. Only one person could say my name like that and make me look up to him like reflex. But tonight I didn't, I felt so light inside. All I'm thinking about is finding Aoi and bringing Arashi to rest. I didn't flinch nor blink an eye, just like a stone. Minutes later I could hear more murmurs all around me but I didn't bother to entertain it. I could feel nothing, my mind is drifting and though my eyes were staring at the floor, it was not the red carpet that I could see. Instead I was looking through a bunch of doors. I was opening and closing each one of them hoping that I could find the right one. After minutes of looking through doors I finally found it.
"No! Please don't do this to me sensei!" I saw the younger version of Hikaru trying to pry the teachers arm away. She was pale and her breathing was ragged. Then there was a girl who was carrying a metal bar and pointing it to the molester in front of them. Long chestnut hair and big brown eyes just like mine glared bravely at the teacher trying to lay his hands on them.
"Hikaru! RUN!" She screamed as she threw the metal bar hitting the teacher's forehead in the process causing blood to gush out from the wound. Hikaru who was completely paranoid at that time ran for life leaving Aoi alone with the culprit. When she was about to leave as well, a pair of big hands gripped her ankle causing her to fall. She tried to kick him in the face but he blocked it successfully.
"Oooh~ trying to be a heroine aren't we?" he said maliciously, licking her thighs with his disgusting tongue. She fought like a cat, but it was useless, she felt weak. He beated her endlessly, pulled her hair and making her do things that violates her innocence, and she couldn't fight back. With one last thrust and the teacher was finally satisfied and whispered in her ear.
"Try and show all these things and you would experience living in hell" he licked her face one last time and left Aoi sobbing on the floor. She felt a sudden pain in her chest and vomited some blood, she's having an attack now and she couldn't even feel the pain anymore, she became numb. She let her last tear fall and whisper.
"I'm sorry Arashi…"
It's probably the next day since the teacher entered the classroom very early in the morning and was shocked to find Aoi dead on the floor. Consumed by fear, he carried her body away and wiped out all the blood leaving no trace of evidence.
The scene shifted and I saw Arashi pick up a hairpin that seemed to belong to Aoi. The moment he made contact with the hairpin, he collapsed to his knees and an overwhelming pain flowed through his body. He was seeing obscene images containing Aoi and his homeroom teacher and he wasn't even there to protect her.
He started looking for some traces of dried blood but he couldn't see any. He tried to complain to the teachers but they shoved him away saying that he has no evidence. He tried to talk to Hikaru to be a witness but she was too traumatized and her parents as well as her childhood friend casted him away. One night he overheard a group of girls talking.
"Ami! What will we do! What if the police found out! I'm so scared Ami!"
"Shut up! Nobody will know that we were bullying Hikaru and helped sensei capture her. Sensei even said that we shouldn't be worried since he took care of everything and all would stay a secret…our secret."
Arashi ran from that place and went back to the classroom and slammed his desk hard. Unknowingly, he was caught off guard when a baseball bat hit his head from behind sending him half unconscious. Although it was blurry he saw the teacher's face who was smirking evilly holding a knife. He slit his wrist and blood flowed out of him.
"Okay Romeo, you should commit suicide since little Juliet died and you couldn't take the loneliness anymore 'kay?" he grinned like a mad man as black welcomed Arashi's sight. With the last of his strength he whispered.
"Where are you Aoi?"
"I'm right here…" I quickly shifted my gaze toward the voice and run past doors.
"WHERE! WHERE ARE YOU AOI!" I screamed. Something cold grabbed my ankle and I looked below, there was a purplish hand gripping my ankle, its cold skin pressed through mine sending chills down my spine. I was behind the school building in a small container beside the incinerator.
"I'm…here…"
Suddenly, I flinched earning gasps from the gang.
"Mai!" Ayako hugged me like there was no tomorrow.
"Jou-chan! What the hell happened to you! You weren't responding to anything that we do or say! You weren't moving, FUCK! You weren't even blinking!" he groaned covering his face.
"Young lady! You scared me beyond death now! Your eyes were void of any emotion! It was blank! If it weren't for your pulse and warm temperature I nearly thought you were dead!" Ayako screamed while caressing my brown locks. From the corner of my eye I could see Masako hiding her mouth behind her kimono, Lin-san wiping sweat off his face and Naru relieved sigh, which was weird, I never thought he's be worried. I suddenly stood up startling everyone once again. 'Man I'm becoming a girl full of surprises' I though inwardly. I could see Naru about to retort but I beat him to it.
"I found her"
I was standing near the incinerator, looking at the police taking Aoi's body away. The director took care of everything after that. The teacher was sent to a lifetime imprisonment while the girls…I heard something about expulsion. But oh well, case closed. I looked sadly at the place.
"I'm sorry" I said, but it came out as a whisper. I felt something cold wipe stray tears from my face. When I looked up I saw Arashi with a gentle smile.
"Don't be, thank you very much Mai. We can finally be together…" I saw Aoi beside him with a beautiful smile on her face. Her hands laced with Arashi's and I breathed out, something heavy was lifted out of my chest. I returned them a smile and a faint glow surrounded me and they were no longer in sight…
We were now back in the base tidying things up. I was rummaging through the wires when I felt hands grip mine.
"Mai we need to talk…" oh it was everybody's stuck up narcissist.
"Oh, yeah, when will get my things from your condo Naru?" I said straightforwardly.
"Mai…" he warned and yanked me out of the base earning malicious stares from the team, minus Masako her's were menacing.
"Naru you're hurting me!" I said and pried away from his grasp. I saw him sigh and pinch the bridge of his nose
"I'm sorry…" he said and my eyes went wide.
"Please...I-"
"Shibuya-san" Naru was cut off by an elderly tone. We both saw the director with his ever unpredictable smile sprawled across his wrinkled face.
"Is something wrong Yamamoto-san?" he said trying hard to hide his annoyed face.
"Well, first of all I would like to thank you for the job well done, second I have a new favor to ask from you" he grinned. 'I don't like that…' I thought.
"What might that be Yamamoto-san?" Naru said tapping his foot. 'impatient bastard' I said inaudibly.
"We would like you to collaborate with EPA on their case. Unfortunately, things have escalated there that I'll have to suspend classes according to their request. I told them that I'll request the assistance of SPR since they are already done with their case so that the case will be solved even faster. The other members seem hesitant but their leaser said it would be very helpful. So Shibuya-san, I'll be adding another ¥500,000. Can I count on you?" he grinned.
"Very well Yamamoto-san, if you would give my team some time to prepare…" Naru said crossing his arms.
"That would not be necessary, I already have everything ready, trust me" he said he walked away but then stopped and turned to us again.
"Oh, and please ask Rain if you ever need assistance. I will not be here for a while apparently" he smiled, a black clad butler came and bowed to us.
"My name is Rain Shibuya-sama, this way to the elementary building." He said, I called the team and told them about the news, they were shocked at first but they couldn't do much about it anyway. We boarded a limo and all our equipment was handled by the staff. Riding from this car, we realized…I mean, they realized how big the campus was considering it was a 20 minute ride from the highschool department to the elementary department. And as I was looking at it now from afar, a wave of nostalgia rushed though my body.
"Mai neechan" a sweet little voice emerged beside me. I realized I was in a fluffy bed with lots of stuffed animals, a frilly pink blanket and a cute dark green-haired child with black eyes lay beside me.
"Hmmm…" I said sleepily.
"let's play hide and seek" she said, her eyes showed a hint of excitement
"okay" I yawned ,'damn I'm too sleepy for this'
"Come find me 'kay" she smiled.
Suddenly I was awakened by a loud noise. Everybody went out of the car ad say a newly collapsed building and a bunch of teens, one has dark green hair and onyx eyes who was helplessly shouting through the pile of rubble.
"NAOMI!"
I only noticed it now, but I also saw apricot hair and porcelain skin wearing a bright yellow uniform with flower embroideries. It was only then I realized who they are.
"Sensei? Kyouya?"
A/N: whahahaha I'm done! Yeah! O finished it within a day! I broke my record oh my god! Inspiration can be something xD
So again I'm sorry for keeping this too long and after exams I finally have the free time again WEE!~
Hey let me think if this chap is boring…I look forward to reading your reviews everyone LUV YA!3