To Stare At Nothing
Fire Injection
Ritsuka sighed when he heard his fifth long lecture of the day. He gripped his pen hard and beside him Yuiko had fallen asleep five minutes after their teacher had started talking.
"Strawberries… Maybe Ritsuka-kun will eat some with me aga-"
"Yuiko! Wake up, he's glaring!" Ritsuka hissed by her ear. The pink haired girl jolted up and her wide, blue eyes locked with Keiru-sensei's dark, cold ones.
He had walked up to stare at her personally.
"Detention, if this keeps up. For the both of you. Now be quiet and listen." The man said angrily. Ritsuka smiled sheepishly back at his teacher, then opened Yuiko's light pink notebook to a blank page. He quickly pushed an extra pencil into her empty hands. She blinked at him and smiled, nodded to the teacher, who nodded back. He walked back to the front of the room and started lecturing once more.
Ritsuka sighed with relief since he really didn't need any more detention.
Class passed for another twenty minutes uneventfully, though Ritsuka was dozing off, while Yuiko doodled on her paper.
Without warning, the room seemed way to warm to the cat eared boy. He tugged on the collar of his white school uniform, whishing that he could remove the tie without getting in any trouble. He could feel sweat dripping down his face, his cheeks felt hot, as did the rest of his face and neck.
"It can't be possible that this is happening. Mother didn't do anything wrong, you're the ones!"
"It isn't fair to do this at such an age. The others did well, you say? Does well constitute not becoming a corpse?"
"She'll be angry if this works. Can you really accomplish anything this way?"
"Maybe we are different, but is it really such a horrid thing. Does death always become the answer? Answer me!"
Glazed, violet eyes stared straight forward. Ritsuka abruptly cried out as the images, voices, and long forgotten pain assaulted his body in a instant.
The teacher's lecture came to a stop when he saw Ayogi-kun passed out on the floor. The young girl beside him stared at him in shock. She then looked up to show teary eyes that seemed to beg for help.
Time seemed to freeze for a moment as the teacher though of plently of consequences this day could have.
"Calm down everyone!" Keiru shouted out, and then ran over to the still unmoving boy, gently picked him up, and then proceeded to the nurses office down the main hall.
Soubi glared out into the darkness. It had been two hours since the two men had gotten back from their small journey. Seimei had been pacing the living room wondering when his little brother was planning on coming home. It was, Seimei checked his watch for the fourth time, ten o'clock. It wasn't like Ritsuka to do this. To be missing from his life.
Piercing blue eyes trailed over to his cell phone, wondering if Ritsuka would call him back. Seimei's laid a few feet away on the coffee table. The ringing would have calmed both of them down.
Soubi sighed as the clock changed to 11pm. He picked up his phone and tried Yayoi number once more. The tired artist glared at nothing in particular as it rang, and then became more alert when the young man answered.
"Is this your number, Agatsuma-san?"
"Yes, have you seen Ritsuka? Did he say anything about where he'd be tonight?" Soubi asked, his voice testy and serious.
"Umm, oh, yeah! I though you would have known? Ritsuka passed out in class today. I think he was picked up by his mother, since he called out for her when he was delirious. Yuiko said they didn't have other family listed, so I though…" Yayoi said drifting off as he nearly fell asleep on the phone.
"His mother? Alright, thanks." Soubi said.
His voice seemed hollow in Seimei's ears.
Note: I know it's shorter than the last chapters but I split my plan for chapter 2 up as well.
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