Yamato
"Oh! It's you! Hi." I glare at him. He ignores my silence.
"Do you play soccer? Aren't you cold? Where's your jacket? Is this your dog?" He bends down to pet the black and white puppy, but she's in my arms before he knows what happened.
"Leave her alone. Leave me alone." I snap. I go to walk away, but he stops me with a touch of his hand on my shoulder. I knock his hand away. A spasm of fear shoots through me.
"Don't touch me." I hiss, and then I keep walking. He has to run to catch up, and he touches my shoulder, I turn so fast I startle him, and in the same second there's a cracking noise, and his nose is bleeding. In his shock, he falls backwards. I glare down at him. His mouth is still open from whatever he was going to say.
"I said don't fucking touch me." Baby yips at me, and I put her back on the ground, and we walk away. I don't look back. I rush back to the house, and hide in my room. I expect the police to knock on my door, and my heart jumps every time I hear a car. At five pm, Natsuko appears.
"It's dinner time.." She says. I glance at her, but say nothing. I'm really not that hungry.
"Please eat," She says, she's almost begging. I sigh and pull myself up. She's right, in the week I've been here, I've eaten a box of crackers and nothing else...Which, you know, is alright, because the whiskey I had only lasted until the 26th. I follow her through the house that I still barely know. I seat myself beside Takeru, away from Natsuko and Hiroaki. I eat plain salad, fresh veggies, and some bread. Natsuko is pleased that I've eaten a decent amount tonight. Takeru opens his mouth, probably to ask another question, but a loud banging on the door makes us jump. I breath out heavily. It is the knock of a police officer. Hiroaki is the first to move.
"Hello, officer." I hear him say. Takeru looks at me. Natsuko's eyes widened and she goes to see what's happening.
"What did you do?" Takeru hisses at me. I shake my head. He doesn't need to know I punched his friend in the face, I'm sure he'll hear all about it tomorrow, anyway.
"Takeru, Yamato, come here please." Hiroaki's voice is hard. Takeru and I go to the door, where the officer is standing. Before he looks at me, I take a deep breath. I am a good actor. I had to be my whole life, because everything was just fine. The officer looks at Takeru, then at me. He chooses that I'm the better option, me being the almost the same height as Taichi.
"Someone said today that you punched Taichi Yagami in the face. Broke his nose, too."
There's no beating around it. He wants to know what happened. My eyes go wide.
"Me?" I say, my voice cracks, proving once again that I'm in shock. What a time for my voice to screw up. The officer nods.
"You have a dog?" I nod my head, and look behind me, where Baby is patiently awaiting orders.
"The dog even matches the description." I don't know what to say to that. I didn't even think about that. I had even changed, so that no one could point out what I was wearing, just in case. Takeru rescued me.
"There were seven other huskies that went the same day she did, so it could've been anyone! Besides, who did you get this information from?"
"A witness."
"Not Taichi, himself?" I asked, real shock hit me as the officer shook his head.
"Said he'd never seen the boy before."
"Well then it couldn't have been me, I met Taichi on Christmas eve." I inform the officer. He eyes me for a minute, then nods.
"Thanks for your time." My heart is pounding in my chest as the door closes. Three pairs of eyes on me.
"I don't...feel..." I mumble, before turning and fleeing to my bedroom. I lean against the door. Takeru was hurt I had punched Yagami. I didn't particularly care, but..if he told Natsuko? Vincent would be here in under an hour. As soon as my body relaxed, my laptop was flipped open. The website I chose is one of the only ones I'd ever use. A blog, for abused kids. This is where I had met Billy. I chose to make a new entry.
I don't know what to do. For the first time, ever, I am unsure about who I am. I find myself worrying about a dog, named Baby, and a little brother I never wanted. What's wrong with me? I'm almost excited to go to school. The one thing that hasn't changed is I broke someones nose today. I felt nothing. I even looked a cop straight in the eye and denied it, and got away.
I stare at the words on the screen, but I don't post anything, I just shut it the internet down. I decide, that tonight is the right time for me to find some trouble. I pull out clean clothes, and then climb into the shower. It takes half an hour for my body to feel clean enough to get out. I get dressed, and make me way back to my room. I walk past Takeru's open door on the way, and he looks at me, but doesn't say anything. I'm very good at the waiting game. I know I have to leave after eleven, if I don't want to get caught, so, it's into bed with my eyes closed. When Natsuko comes to check on me, she leans over me. I hear her breath out, and a few seconds later, my door closes. My eyes open. I am safe for now, as long as I am quiet. I'm very good at being quiet, as well. Having your jaw broken for speaking makes you not want to speak. Being hit every time you make a sound makes you learn to be quiet, whatever you're doing. The only issue I was going to have was Baby. After thinking about this problem for nearly an hour, the best thing that came to mind was to take her with me. So I did. Creeping around this house almost makes me feel bad, in little over a week, this family had spent almost 2,000 on me. That's the most anyone's spent on me in my entire eighteen years. As the door clicks shut behind me, my heart begins racing in excitement.
Yamato
I'm creeping back into my house at 2:30 in the morning. I have enough speed on me to last me a month, and enough in my system to get me through the day, at least. My heart won't relax, I don't know if it's just the speed or if I'm being paranoid. I head for my room, almost silently, and nearly have a heart attack as I bump into Takeru. The urge to bond with my little brother hits me. I push it away.
"What're you doing awake?" I ask. Even I can hear the slur in my voice. Drunk more then I thought. Oh well.
"I had to pee." He says, yawning. I nod my head.
"Well, see you in like, four hours." He says slipping back into his room. I follow suit, and strip into boxers before jumping into my bed. Thinking about what I had to do in order to get this speed makes me shake. I'm finally away from all that, and I still do it. What's wrong with me? The places, and people and sex it took to get my body what it needed was disgusting. I needed to stop, but..I had nightmares all night. I always did after sex. Sex is not something my brain finds okay. It is not natural, it is wrong. Natsuko shakes me awake too soon, and I'm fucking bitchy. In the kitchen Takeru is bouncing around like a fucking ball.
"Aren't you excited!" He asks me, grinning.
"No," I say. Toneless. My heart is still pounding, so there speed is still there.
"Nervous?" Natsuko asks, noticing how sweaty I was.
"No."
"Is 'no' the only word you're going to say today?" Hiroaki. I think about saying yes, just to see what he'd do.
"No." He glares at me. I beam at him. I glance at the clock. Almost time to go. I debate on taking more speed, but, no, that would not be a good idea.
"Okay, let's go." Natsuko spoke, Takeru leaps up and grabbed his bag. I followed, with no bag.
"You're not bringing anything?"
"No," Natsuko doesn't say a word as Takeru and I climb into her car. I'm going to Takeru's school to take a test, to prove what level my brains at. I'm smart, so I'm not worried. I taught myself more then enough. As soon as we pull up to the school, Takeru's gone. I watch as he joins up with Hikari. He's also with a boy with brown hair, and brown eyes. He kinda looks like Taichi, only smaller. Hikari notices me getting out of the car and waves. I ignore her. I follow Natsuko into the school. She's talking, but I'm not really listening. I haven't been inside a school in almost four years. It's strange to be back. Natsuko does all the talking to the principal, and I'm lead to another room. The room is empty except for a table and one chair. We're on the second floor, so the windows just show other buildings. I sit at the table. A book is put in front of me, with a pen, and a calculator.
"Any questions?" I skim through the book, and notice the math. Never do math in pen. Ever.
"Can I have a pencil?" I'm given what's been requested.
"Take as long as you want." The principal informs me.
"I'll be waiting in the office for you, okay, Yamato?" Natsuko says. She's trying to act motherly, so I ignore her. It takes me all of half an hour to finish the 50 page book. I bring it back to the principal.
"Finished already?" She's in shock. She checks my answers, then looks up at me.
"When did you stop going to school?" She's trying to hide the surprise in her voice, but is failing.
"Just before I turned fourteen."
"Can I talk to your mom alone, please?" I roll my eyes at the word 'mom', a fact both notice. I leave the room, and sit in the office, waiting. The secretary keeps smiling at me. It's driving me insane. It seems like forever, and eventually my mother emerges from the lair of -a-lot. That's not really her name, but I got bored in the ten minutes it takes for them to 'talk'. It's Natsuko who looks shocked now. She approaches me.
"What did I do?" I ask, slightly annoyed no one has told me yet.
"You're at a grade 11 level, so you'll be going to high school."
"Oh." It's really no surprise to me, but, hey. Natsuko thanks the principal, and we wander back to the car, where I'll be driven to the high school. I feel like I'm on auto. I follow, I speak when spoken to, I do as I'm told. When I realize this, my heart nearly stops. My air won't come in fast enough and I start to choke.
"Yamato?" Natsuko is thrown to mother mode at the look on my face. Then, within the next second, it's gone and I'm okay. I push Natsuko away from me.
"I'm fine." I say. This new principal is eyeing me funny, and I glare at him. He looks back to Natsuko.
"Well, anyway, I guess it's time for him to join second class." He looks at a list of the courses he's randomly thrown together for me, and then leaves the room momentarily.
"Sorry, I'm just having a student in all of his classes brought down to help him around."
"Oh, thanks a great idea!" Natsuko seems so happy. Happy people really bother me. It makes me queasy knowing that I'm the only one in everyone else's perfect life that's so fucked up. There's a knock on the door.
"Come in!" The principal calls, a boy walks in. Tan skin, brown hair, brown eyes, and a broken noise. I groan, loud enough that all eyes turn to me. What the fuck is this? Taichi Yagami is in all of my classes, and is now to show me around the school. Life really hates me.
Chapter four done! Reviews would be beautiful! Thanks for everyone that's favorited this story, or added it to your story alerts! You guys are amazing (= ALSO, are the chapters too long? Are they too short? I'm scared that if I make them any longer you'll lose interest!
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