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Chapter 2: The Thief.
Kise rubbed his face, his eyes. After spending five hours on his knees he felt his knees creaking in protest and his mind tired of depression. But, not only for this Kise decided it was time to move, for some time he began to have the feeling that someone was watching him.
He looked around and behind him shamelessly ' I have no desire for this' he thought. Even so he waited a while but saw nothing strange or abnormal, just a couple of people beyond walking among the graves of the dead. Kise shrugged 'I'm tired, that's all'. He stood slowly and looked one last time his father's grave. He tried to smile but couldn't. Kise sigh a goodbye until next year.
Once out of the cemetery and walking down the streets Kise returned to feel uneasy, he was still having that feeling. Three times had to turn around and look at his sides.
Kise looked at his watch.3 o'clock.
Kise sigh bitterly and continued walking. He had his mind so absent that he almost falls more than five times while walking, stumbled with people every minute in every block.
It was getting late but his feet kept carrying it through different streets and different paths. The sky was turning into a mixture of dark blue with gray.
Kise's eyes became blank. Contrary to other people. Kise whenever feel depressed he feels his neurons stunned, and his senses switched off, resulting in a constant need for sleep. At some point he was about to fall asleep while walking, not that previously he was paying much attention, he could have been sleeping and walking with eyes open currently.
Kise had to cross the street. The rhythm of people around leading him to the crossing. The light change to yellow. Kise blink and stop. He was lost in his mind but not enough to forget the semaphore.
A couple of minutes before a uniformed man was leaving work to go to the market. He was going to buy some ice cream and some juice. He felt his cellphone in his pocket vibrating. The man answered. He was slowly but progressively reported about an armed robbery at a Bank in the downtown consequently resulting in the deaths of about 6 people including the death of his wife and his daughter.
The man didn't feel his fingers. Didn't feel his tears sliding down his cheeks. Didn't feel the phone falling to the ground "Alo? Alo? Kakashi? Kakashi?!" Didn't feel the people driving him to the corner. The man didn't see nothing. Only Darkness.
The one only thing that he could see were the faces of his only family moving away.
The one only thing that he could heard were their voices, the sound of their smiles destroyed in pieces.
The one only thing that he could feel was his heart screaming and grieving for the loss.
The man ran, ran, and ran. He couldn't deal with this. The man had to escape. He looked to the semaphore and found the solution. Soon the light will exchange to yellow and then to green.
Kise stopped when the light changes to yellow .Kise scratched his hair while their droopy eyes looking straight ahead. He heard some screams and began to turn his head when Kise felt a shock on his shoulder and arm pushing it into the cross, he swinging in the air balancing to avoid falling. Kise look forward and felt he was paralyzed to see the cars coming…and then…a pair of arms grabbed his waist from behind strongly almost furiously pushing it in a jump to the pavement.
Kise felt a current of electricity flowed through his body, he trembled and felt his hair into his eyes open beginning to fill with people's faces with their mouths open. What? What do they say? .Kise felt trapped and began to pant subconsciously. He closed his eyes trying to calm down. He only needed a bit of silence.Please,silence,please.
Boyare you okay? Are you hurt?Did you hit in somewhere? Boy? Boy? Boy!
Kise opened his eyes and let out a roar of frustration. People look at him and each other with shocked and angry faces. What an unfriendly and rude boy. He's a fool. Poor,I feel sorry for him. He should go to a psychologist.
Kise then stopped panting, and feeling a bit more relaxed he noticed recently that his body still continued to be supported by the person who had saved him before. And that if it weren't for those arms he had fallen at some point.
Kise also noticed that the people who were not jumping over him were jumping over the corpse of the man or the remains. The sounds of traffic approaching and an ambulance began to be heard. Kise contained a chill. He did saw the man die in front of him. He did felt in that shock in his shoulder and arm some pain and frustration from the man.
"Hey, damnit. Wake up. My arms are very precious, Can you stand at once?" An annoyed voice spoke near the ear of Kise.
Kise flushed and jumped quickly releasing his body. Kise turned his head and found the sight of a tan and tall guy with a bullying look in his eyes (or so it seemed). But what amazed Kise was that this guy was actually taller than him. And Kise was tall enough. "S-Sorry I-thank-"
"Look at you" The guy cut him off "You're a mess".
The blush of Kise vanished. Kise frowned. Somehow the guy's words made him feel insulted "I saw a man die in front of me. I almost died too. How could I not be a mess?!"Kise replied.
"For the way you were moving I could have thought that you wanted to die too" the guy answered severely.
Kise's respiration increased a level. He looked at his sides. Is not there someone else? How could this have been the person who had saved him? Who was this guy to talk like that?. "How the hell can you-?"
"Are you hungry?"The boy asked suddenly over Kise's voice.
"W-What?" Kise asked surprised.
"It's almost six. I'm hungry. Aren't you?" The guy asked putting his hands in his pockets.
Kise didn't understand the sudden change of subject and for some reason he didn't want to agree on something that the guy said. "I'm not" Kise lied, because he was starving without eating anything since breakfast in the morning.
The guy fixed his gaze on Kise's face analyzing not only his face but his body.
Luck doesn't help much Kise. His eyes inadvertently focused on the corner bakery and their delicious cakes. Kise swallowed. And his stomach betrayed him.
It sounds loudly. The guy heard it good and strong. The guy smirk. "You are an idiot. I will eat at the restaurant on the next street" The guy turned, put his arms behind his head and started walking.
Kise made a step and stop. He had doubts. He should eat with this guy? Is not as if he were afraid or something (Hell, he could defend on perfectly) what bothered him was the guy's attitude, but…
The guy stopped and turned his head slightly "Hey! Walk fast. You don't want the cops behind you making questions".
But…he saved me after all.
Kise looked around. The traffic was still stopped and affirmatively the cops began to ask questions to some people. Kise no doubt more. He followed the guy to the restaurant.
"How many hamburgers you eat?" Kise asked astonished.
"I'm hungry. I told you" The guy answered while eating.
"I understand. I was too…well, I'm full now, but…you are still eating!" Kise exclaim looking to the plate.
"Something's wrong with that?" The guy replied looking to Kise.
"No, nothing. I just asked" Kise answered. This guy sure eat too much.
The guy was not the type to talk too much and Kise didn't felt the spirit up to force a conversation. Not now. Kise put his hand under his chin and looked through the glass window. Just to pass the time he vague his eyes through the dark sky and the lights of the passing cars.
"What's with that suit?" The guy asked suddenly staring at Kise.
"Huh? The suit? Well…" Kise turned to the guy and thought in him visiting the grave of his father, his mother moving away from the flower shop, the unproductive hours becoming depressed, the man's suicide in front of him, he almost dying after…wow has been a long day. Kise sigh tired "I don't want to be rude but I don't want to talk about that"
"I see" The guy stood up of the seat "Long day too. I have to go now"
Kise blinked in surprise. "What? Now? So sudden…ok, but I need the part of your money"
"What money?"The guy asked confuse. Kise was too.
"The part where you pay what you owe for your food" Kise clarified from his seat.
"Oh, that money. I will not pay. Where are your manners? I save your life. This is your gift to me".
Kise opened his mouth processing the information. This couldn't be true. Kise try again "I'm grateful for what you did, really, but this pay back is…"Kise didn't find the words.
The guy stood patiently. "Look, I don't mind what you think, it's just your life for a couple, well, maybe three couples of hamburgers. It worth for me"
Kise felt angry to see the ironic smile on the guy's face, he was tired. And only if it wasn't for that he would have replicated. Maybe he would have beat him in the face. But not now. He preferred grit his teeth and say nothing. In fact he shut his mouth, he accommodate on the seat and and focus his eyes to his side on the glass window.
The guy smirked and approached the side of kise "You are an I-diot. You know?" The guy whisper in Kise's ear.
Kise froze for a moment and by the time he react and turned around the guy was gone.
Kise sigh.
He just wanted to go to a place at this point.
Kise's mother sigh relaxed when she saw his son come into the kitchen. With tired and droopy eyes his beautiful son was safe. She finished taking his coffee and saw Kise sitting at the table to read something. She saw his mussed hair and wanted to pet him. But, she didn't. Not tonight.
Kise closed the door of his room, took off his clothes, got some short, sit in his bed and began to check the pockets of his suit, when he notice painfully a detail.
He wanted to scream. This couldn't be possible!. He check again and again. He wanted to die for his stupidity.
The golden chain that his father had given him the day of his birthday was gone.
He was really such an Idiot!. In what moment? How?. Kise was blushed with anger. Kise could only think of one person. The one person that support him from behind when he was in shock. The tanned tall guy.
A bastard thief!
A/N: New chapter here! I'm very happy for the people who review, fav and follow, give me the courage to continue! Wait for more soon! :-)