Something like Suicide

Day Twenty-one - 055

Friday

It came slowly. Far to slowly. The first day it was just an inkling that misted it's way around. People pushing it off claiming it was nothing. The men on the mountain trip were just taking to long. Otoya and Syo were just hanging out somewhere. But as the day turned to night, restless people became worried people, and everyone was a little sleepless that night. Worried people set out at first light to find their family and friends.

Then worried people found him. He was almost buried in snow. It they had waited longer they might have missed him. But they didn't...

His neck was torn to shreds, like a wild anime attacked him, his eyes glazed over, no longer able to see the light. And what little blood there was left there mixed with the snow and matted in his hair. Lips were blue, skin gone cold. That is when it started.

The panic. It took two long days after Otoya disappeared.

Kaoru wasn't there when they found him. In fact, he heard that they found them around midday but was looking for someone to tell Reiji. With the way they had found the youngest son, they fear for the oldest. His father was out there, probably dead, and no one wanted to break the news to him.

"I'll tell him." Kaoru said, the palm of his hand pressed over his eye as a headache throbbed. His ploys to get Natsuki to talk about his brother hadn't worked in his favor. He felt drain afterwords, which was expected. It was like he had given to much blood at the blood drives that his school rarely held.

"T-thank you." The man, Kaoru recognized as Otoya's neighbor, practically bowed to him in the snow. "Also..."

"Also?" Kaoru snapped his eyes open, taking his calmly hand away.

"With the state we found Otoya in w-w-we aren't sure how we might find Saotome."

The blonde teen sighed while he looked over his shoulder. "I'll ask my mom if I can stay there for a while." The man again bowed. Kaoru shut the door on him and made his way to the kitchen.

"Mother?" He said seeing her sitting in her normal chair.

She visibly winced, her head turned slowly her hands shook so hard that the youngest Kurusu though the tea cup she gingerly held would fall and shatter. "Yes?"

"Is it okay if I got to Otoya's..." He gulped hard just saying his deceased friend's name.

"No." She said sternly.

"But-"

"No!" She stood, her legs shaken as she did. Kaoru was surprised she could even stand, never mind the fact she had stumbled her way over to him. She letter her arms forcing him into her, strong gripped, hug. "No, you should stay home, my poor little Syo-chan."

"Mother, I'm Kaoru." He tried to pry himself away from her.

"No. My Kaoru never looks this pale. You must be Syo." She trembled vigorously. Her hand lifted from his back to pat down his blonde hair. "My Syo-chan."

"I'm Kaoru." He scowled.

Before the knock at the knock at the door came, before the worried look of Kaoru entered his sight, before those words escaped his tight frown, Reiji knew something was wrong. So when everything did happen, and it felt like an eternity when those words were finally spoken, he didn't collapse crying like he thought he would. He didn't try to kill his sickly looking messenger like he thought he wanted to. He just stood there, taking in the last little bit of daylight there was left.

"Come in." He opened the door wide enough for only Kaoru to fit through while his neighbor stood at the end of the yard with a pleading look on his face. His brown eyebrows arched angerly as he slammed the door shut.

"You must be worried about Syo." Reiji guided the blonde to the kitchen. One arm hung off the back of his shoulder and the other hand crossed over the brunete's abdomen to hold his other shoulder.

"Yes." Kaoru spoke.

"Have they stopped searching?"

"I believe so."

"I'll write Cecil and Camus a letter no to return. One your way home would you drop it off for me?"

Kaoru shook his head. "Cecil should return home."

"Father is probably dead."

They turned into the cozy kitchen that now was to big. The whole house was to big. Reiji, being the big brother and mother hen that he was, pulled out a chair and forced the latter to sit before making some tea for the two of them.

"Whatever... No whoever killed Otoya probably killed the men who went on the original trip to gather food or whatever they do out there. Then left a trap for the rescue team knowing one would eventually be sent." Reiji's sad gray eyes looked up over the counter at his brother's best friend. "I'm sorry your father was out there, wasn't he?"

Kaoru shrugged.

"But now that Otoya and father are gone what point is staying in such a large house?"

"Are you going to move away?"

"No. I'll live with the store owner. She could use a housekeeper."

"And Cecil?"

"Will stay with Camus. I know that this village is to cramped for his boyfriend. He can do the one thing I could never so for Cecil. Taking him away from the dull place. What about you?" He asked taking the kettle away from the flames.

"I'm not sure. Mother is not all there."

"I think it would be best if you two moved as well."

"Mhm," The blonde nodded. "But I don't tink mother will."

"Where you thinking of going to college?" The older man sat down with two tea cups and a pad of paper.

"No, not really."

"That's two bad. You should try for it. From what Otoya told me you have excellent grades. I'm sure you could easily get into any school you wanted."

Kaoru looked at the paper trying hard to read the scribbled cursive/ print mix that Reiji called handwriting. "I want to stay a little longer. I still have some friends here."

"Mikado? I'm sure he will talk his big brother into leaving soon. They were bother friends of Otoya."

"Who wasn't?" Kaoru mumbled.

"By the way Kaoru, are you okay? When you came to the door you looked so pale I thought you were Syo-chan at first."

"I guess I've been staying up to late waiting outside hoping Syo comes home."

Reiji looked up after folding the paper neatly. "I'm sure that he's okay. That chibi can take way better care of himself than my brother. Can you do me a favor and take this, I don't have any envelopes."

"Sure." He reached out for it. He noticed that the brunette gave his hand a squeeze before he fully let the paper go.

"There is a small part you should read, but leave it for a few days. I'm positive you'll know when to read it."

Haruka's heels clicked against the staircase as she descended down to the first floor where all but two of her family members waited. She wore a pretty blue and white stripped dress that matched her cloud like blue shoes.

She heaved a sigh her forefinger and thumb pressed against the bridge of her nose. Sometimes her boys could be so stupid. She just didn't know what to do. Call her indecisive but she really didn't want to go even though she knew that had to.

At the last step she saw them, all but the two, with wide eyes looking to her for advice.

"What do we do?" Ren was the first to ask, his hand firmly clamped on Masato's.

"This is the first time that Tokiya has screwed up this bad." The silver haired vampire growled.

"Like we all haven't mess up before." Eiichi shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.

"No like this." The harsh tone didn't come from Haruka but rather her obvious second in command, Natsuki.

With a another signs she readied herself. "Silence!" On her word even the hushed whispers between Masato and Ai, who had never experienced something like this died. "Tonight we stay away from the village. We hide until I monitor the situation in the morning. If it comes to it, we will leave nothing but as when we leave."

Her boys looked around at each other, whispers of worry and distress accumulating.

"What are you waiting for get packing." She sneered at them.

They went single file by her. Most looking away as they passed. The only one she gave a worried glance to was Ranmaru and he shielded his eyes with his silver hair.

"Not you two." She stopped both Ai and Natsuki. "Neither one of you mention what is happening to Syo yet. In fact, Ai go help him."

Ai nodded with a frown and left.

"Natsuki. You are not under any circumstances to have anymore contact with the other Kurusu boy."

"Why?" He looked at her with despair.

"We don't want to repeat what happened last time you disobeyed me."

"Good. Go help Toki, he's in the bad boy corner." She smirked as she turned to the kitchen leaving him alone.

Next chapter is an interval, any guess to the next vampire up?

Thank you so much Yuya, Guest, naigi02, Kiscia, and Miracross for all the lovely reviews.

Lately I've been watching a lot of prince of tennis. It's really made me want to finish the last seven chapters of this. So hopefully another update soon.

SK