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Chapter 3: I have to.
Kise's chin was resting on one of his hands while the other was playing, rolling the pen between his fingers drawing circles and little tricks which cut the stagnant air of the classroom making whispering sounds imperceptible to Kise.
Kise had his eyes lost into nothingness with a face that might well be of fatigue or incessant nuisance.
Kasamatsu didn't know. With the supreme hot into the classroom, and the sun radiating all its light through the window Kise didn't budge of the seat one bit. Through the collar of Kise's uniform Kasamatsu could see the beads of sweat who traveled Kise's skin mischievous. Deliciously mischievous. W-w-wait a minute! . Kasamatsu felt his throat dry. Am I currently thinking that Kise's sweat is deliciously mischievous?! What the fuck? Why now?. Kasamatsu pulled with his hands what he could of his short black hair. Furious he hit his face against the desk as if this could erase from his mind the treacherous images, he looked with resentment Kise by the corner of his eye. The cause of all his troubles. And the bloody Bastard plays to be ignorant of his behaviour. How I can stand him?!
"Kiseeeeeeeee!"
Kise awoke from his thoughts removing his hand from his chin to look at his side "Wha-?" His husky voice was cut off by the bitter taste of the book hitting his face. Kise rubbed his forehead and cheeks "What the heck?! What did I do?!"
"Nothing! You never do Nothing!" Kasamatsu yelled loud at Kise as if he was not sitting at the desk next.
Kise scratched his hair absentmindedly "Kasamatsu san I really don't understand"
Kasamatsu deep breath "Do you see what I mean?!"
Kise doubt whether he should respond. Kasamatsu san seemed really angry and dangerously close to start kicking Kise's ass anytime. What is it that he had made to his sempai to bother him? .Kise frowned from so much thinking opening the buttons of his shirt to cool off, when he catch the swift movement of a book towards him coming again. Kise barely avoided the sudden blow, but, yeah! He could! His senpai was not so mad after all! Kise showed a huge smile to his senpai and radiant eyes. "Senpai I'm fine… I don't know what I have done to bother you, but I'm okay".
"Bastard! Pay better attention to yourself! Wan't you?!" Kasamatsu replied breathing hard but feeling quieter.
Kise was about to answer when he looking behind Kasamatsu.
"Kasamatsu Yukio"
The teacher's voice flip instantly Kasamatsu "The break end, please control your words and, please return to your classroom. Now"
Kasamatsu nod and go without seeing Kise.
The bell rang announcing the midday break. And knowing this Kise decided to move quickly and sneak up the stairs down the hall, his mind was still unfocused and his body still trembled with anger when remembering that something was missing. He clenched his fists and started up the stairs, he expected that the rooftop was empty, really prayed that there was no couple trying to reconcile.
The door opened with a creak. Kise tentatively look inward, his prayers had been done some good. Slowly he directed his steps towards his favorite wall. He let his body droop on the floor supporting his head on the wall, the feeling of losing the only thing his father had left him beat him constantly. That was his little treasure .Stolen by a thief.
"Sooner or later as well as I dislike this I will have to find what's mine" Kise raised his left hand to his neck sliding his fingers down his throat nailing his nails with anger and obfuscation. It hurt but not enough. Never was enough. Only when he felt his skin burned for the damage inflicted, Kise closed his eyes and let his hand fall over his lap letting his thoughts enter as rodents in his dreams...
Lightning flashed every time they appeared in the corridor where Kise was. The last kid in his class had already left leaving him alone with his bag and his fears. He didn't want to be alone but neither wanted to get wet in the rain without his mom. Kise couldn't take his eyes from the rain, the rain could be scary but it could also be beautiful, which together with wind, clouds and rays formed a unique spectacle of nature, he chilled to the bones know that something so beautiful could also be dangerous. Kise felt his skin prickled.
"Kise?" a sweet voicewas heard behind "Darling what are you doing here?"
Kise turn his head and look with hope those sweet blue eyes that offered confidence and relief. He clenched his shirt with his hand waiting for his mother to return soon.
"Kise? Why are you here at the entrance of the school? You shouldn't be here" his teachere xclaimed with bewilderment.
"Teacher..."Kise muttered. He looked into her eyes wishing that his teacher waited and hear him.
His teacher raised an eyebrow deciding to kneel to get a better view of Kise's eyes "You must not be afraid, nothing will happen to you or your mom, sure she will be here any moment, let's go inside" She started getting up "C'mon Kise" she grabbed Kise's arm to enter but fail to move him.
Kisewas stiff stuck to the floor, he didn't want to enter. His mom didn't come and she was never late, something had to have occurred, something that I don't know but I can feel and I can't explain. Even in the worst rainy day his mom didn't come late. Okay, maybe she had a setback and can't be on time, but she would call. And, today she didn't. It was so strange and out of the normal...
His teacher smile and try again "Kise you're getting wet...let's go inside where is not cold and the rain doesn't touch us. C'mon!"
Kise don't moved. Ignoring the words of his teacher Kise tilted his head and looked his teacher's smile "Are you an honest person teacher?"
His teacher smile again and stroke Kise's shoulders slightly "Mmm I think I am Kise"
Kise looked to the floor. "Then why are you lying to me?"
The teacher frowned without dropping her smile "Lying? Why you said that?"
"My mom...she didn't call today... Sheis never late...I don't think she's fine"
The smile fell "Kise, I'm not aliar, you know me, I know your mom is fine!"
Kise didn't want to look up. Of course he knows his teacher, from the time he have four years old she was the one who introduce him in the world of kindergarten
Now, after six year, still, he met with his teacher sometimes. Always patient and loving towards him. Kise felt his stomach contract.
"Kise" She said. Kise turn his head to the view of the rain "I'm telling you the truth, your mom is fine, everything's all right"
With someone else Kise would have started to scream and refute these words because he felt it was untrue. Something waved in his nerves...but for this person...he had to know...give her another chance...
"You swear?"
"Yeah my little Kise" She replied caressing Kise's cheeks.
Kise swallowed "You swear Sakuracchi?" he couldn't help but want to ask one more time.
Sakura narrowed her eyes. She knew the kid from six years ago, she played with him almost every time she saw him, so, she knew that when he caller her by name and with that suffix he was being serious. She was a bit worried about Kise's mother too but she didn't want to worry Kise.
"I swear"
Maybe this was nothing. It was an insignificant response.
But for Kise it was different. It could have meant the world to him at that moment.
Meant choose to trust.
"All right. I believe you"
Kise shook his head rising on his feet with a jump "What the Hell?" He felt a slight tingling that bothered him not only his hair but also on his back. "What's this?! What-?"Kise don't complete the sentence after hearing a loud laugh around him. He look up scratching his hair "Senpai?"
"Ki-Kise...Kise" Kasamatsu san was doubling his knees for the laugh.
His cheeky smile did Kise frown "What do you do to me?"Kasamatsu couldn't answer yet "My hair...itches me and my back... Jesus! it's annoying!"
"Idiot! it's all your fault" Kasamatsu declare pointing at Kise.
"My fault? How is this my fault?! I can't even scratch my back well!"
"I told you" Kasamatsu answer this time more serious "If you came back to miss classes I was going to take reprisals"
Kise's face turned green "You didn't...you Bastard! you too are losing classes!"
"This time doesn't count"
Kise turned more green every time he scratched it was getting damage to his skin "Still...powders picapica ...Be warned: Don't cry later"
"Shut up. Let's go to the baths. We have to wash you"
Kise smile leaning his steps to his Senpai "Pervert. You want me out of my clothes so fast?"
Kise receive a hit in his shoulders by response "Ouch! Ouch!"
Once out of the bathrooms and on the rooftop again. Kise was quiet with the idea tentative to smoke what one of the girls had given him last week. A little happiness wouldn't hurt.
"Kise..."
Crap. He wasn't alone "Huh?" he asked innocent.
"I dare you to smoke that shit in front of me again"
Kise swallowed scratching his hair a bit "Um...Okay"
Kasamatsu look to Kise's eyes and seat at his side "Whatever. I didn't come here just to joke with you... I have a match later in the C-zone" Kasamatsu looked carefully Kise's movements, although Kise avoided looking at him he was paying attention. His eyes were focused on a single point. A sign.
"...So, if you want to come with us..."
"Us?" Kise cut him.
"Yeah...Hayakawa will come too"
"Mmm you know he have a big mouth"
"I will handle him...You know it's been a while since we all play together" Kasamatsu continued. He didn't want to discuss the past but it would be a liar if he didn't say he was worried about Kise "Don't worry Hayakawa and the others too much" Kasamatsu sigh and stood up. He shook Kise's hair leaving Kise's eyes covered. He turned towards the door.
"Kasamatsu san" Kise exclaim looking to him "Please be careful"
Kasamatsu look those helpless worry eyes...he found himself defeated. He blushed a cheek and answer from the door waving his hand "And when I'm not?"
Just a couple of minutes passed when Kise buried his face between his arms. So...Senpai was worried about me...I'm too, although for different reasons. "What a douchebag. I'm fine...I'm fine" Kise muttered.
The rain was still in the edge when Kise looked through the window. He saw that Sakura was distracted looking for phone numbers in a notebook.
Kise turned his eyes to the door. He had to go home. Find that his mom was fine. He couldn't wait more time. He ran to the door and didn't stop running until he was out of the school. Kise didn't think about anything but getting home. It wasn't so dark after all and he remembered how to get home alone.
Kise walked through the streets nothing caught his attention except one thing. smell of food made his guts restless stirring. He looked into the restaurant across the glass. He felt saliva in his mouth. All he wanted to do was stare inside. He didn't notice the time passing or that he was wet. Only when he felt his body trembling he realized the hour. It was night currently. The rain had calmed but there was more wind. Kise sigh disappointed and started to walk again.
He remembered his mom's words.
"Kise, Kise stop to play! Here, here, come here...well, you see this map?"
Kise nodded smiling.
"I want you to remember this because if sometime you are alone, just sometime" his mom added seeing Kise's eyes " And there is no adult looking after you, then you have to be smart, yeah! more smart of what you are, and get home"
Kise stopped laughing and began to study the map with his eyes.
"Only one thing" his mom continued "I want you to never, never walk into the D-zone"
"D-zone? What's that?" Kise asked seeing the map. Copying it in his mind.
"It doesn't matter, what matters is if you see in a corner the black statue of an angel with a flute praying to God, you walk away. You run to the opposite side, okay? You can remember that?"
Kise blinked returning to reality.
He didn't know how or why in the end he was in front of that black statue. At what point he got lost? .He look at the structure of the wings, the undulating movement of the dress, the barefoot upon the thorns, the long wavy hair to waist, the delicate facefacing the noticing Kise had walked to the same statue. If he wanted he could lift his arm and touch it.
People walking around didn't look at Kise.
Wrong. They noticed but they ignored him. They preferred not to look.
The sounds of the cars called Kise to return. He remember he have to go home. He remember his mom. He took a step toward the street when he noticed a movement for the corner of his eye. A shadow reflected on the wall...like waiting.
Kise stare the shadow. Suddenly the shadow started to move away.
Kise froze thinking two options.
First option: Go home, and find that his mom was well. Do the right thing. Or.
Second option: Go behind that shadow and know what was that.
Curiosity and anxiety ate Kise. He wasn't afraid. He was smart. He would investigate fast and the he will go home. He had to know.
Kise forget the first option.
When Kise woke up for the second time he noticed that his neck ached. The marks that his nails had left while he was sleeping ached.
He stood up and looked to the sunset.
"By this time Kasamatsu san should have ended the match"
Kise yawned and scratched his hair absentmindedly "It's time to visit him and maybe see some annoying people...I guess"
A/N: Let me introduce Kasamatsu san in this chapter! I like him in the manga and how is his relation with Kise...I think he is very courageous and really cares for his friends, especially Kise...so that's it for today until the next week or before this weekend, I really don't know since Sunday it's my birthday! Review! ^^