Kotaru tapped his foot impatiently from his seat. He was currently outside of the hotel his son was supposed to be at, sitting restlessly in the summer heat. He was sick of all the questions. In fact he had lost track of how long the local officers had spent questioning him and Hana, the girls who had last seen the missing girl and two boys who had been seen with Kyoya.
"Could you tell us the last place you saw your friend?"
"Erm...well, I guess we didn't see her after getting to the party." The dark haired one responded, Selen, he vaguely remembered her name.
"And what about the boy?"
"We didn't see him anywhere." Hikaru answered. The man hummed as he wrote a quick note down. He turned to Hana.
"Mrs. Amano has your daughter ever acted out in a way that would make you think she'd ever want to run off?"
"My daughter would never run off!" She gasped in a state of anger and shock. "She is a wonderful child! Straight A's, on her way to college- she would never!" Kotaru glaced at yer with crossed arms. There's no point in getting so worked up. He shuck his head.
"Please Mrs. Amano calm down. I didn't mean to offend, we just have to take into consideration every option." She flushed red at her little outburst. "Boys." The officer next turned to Yuki and his unnamed friend.
"Yes?" The boys asked.
"The last time you saw Kyoya was during the party, right?" They noded. "What was he doing? Do you know where ue went?"
"Well…" Yuki begun, looking over to his friend as if he were debating if they should fess up about their bullying antics. "Kyoya was…" We'll get into some serious trouble for pushing him off the boat and all the other stuff we've done over the years.
"Kyoya had been hanging around and drinking." The friend piped up. "He was really going at it too." Kotaru was a little shocked.
"He was really weird also, just glaring and fighting with people and I have no idea why." Yuki added.
"Though Kyoya's always been such a weirdo it wasn't very surprising that he decided to take a dip."
"He jumped into to water you see, we didn't see him after that " Kotaru frowned. "Ask anyone from school if you don't believe us, everyone knows what a spazz the guy is, remember his outbursts sophomore year?"
"That's enough!" Kotaru growled. "I don't see how any of this will help you find my son! You should be out there searching!"
"I agree!" Hana spoke up, "this is valuable time being wasted."
"We're doing what we can at the moment-"
"If money is the problem the I will personally cover whatever expenses, just please brings these kids home!"
"That isn't necessary Mr. Tategami, we will find them. For now I ask that you and Mrs. Amano return to your rooms, it's getting late and we must continue our work." The officer spoke as he began to usher everyone out back inside.
Kotaru stopped Selen in lobby. "Selen, doesn't my son have any friends? Surely they would have an idea of what my son was up to…"
Selen looked around the room nervously. "Kyoya never really had many friends to be honest I never saw him hanging around anyone. Well, they're are these two boys, Nile and some other boy, but they dropped out awhile ago."
Kotaru frowned "oh, I see…thank you for telling me." The older man spared her a sad smile as she hurried off to catch up with her friends. He sighed as he entered the elevator, leaning against the wall as his ride up began. He was learning quite a bit about his oldest son today, to bad it was under such sad circumstances.
Kyoya awoke the next morning to the sound of chirping birds and the feeling of the sun on his face. He groaned quietly as he sleepily sat up, stretching and shaking sand from his cloths. He looked over at Madoka who was still sound asleep a ways away from himself.
He stood up and shed his sweatshirt, leaving it crumpled up in the sand as he wandered of towards the line of trees. He stomach growled with a small pain. He hadn't eaten in awhile. So the teen decided to venture off into the forest. He left Madoka back to get some more sleep as he looked around. The ground under his feel was cluttered with leaves and twigs and the dirt was still a bit damp. Kyoya didn't spot many animals m except for a few interesting birds and rodents, though, it was probably for the best that he hadn't caught sight if any potentially dangerous ones. Kyoya eyes traveled up up one of the tree's when he spotted a bundle of yellow. He grinned at the sight of the bananas hanging high on the tree.
So after what felt like hours of wondering and and collecting whatever editable looking thing he could fine he decided to get back. He returned to the coast with arms full of bananas and mangos. Madoka was awake with an array of items in front of her.
"I found these in the boat." Kyoya looked down at the small first aid kit, worn rope and flare gun. "There's only three flares...so we better make them count." She looked up, eyeing the food he held. "Planning on sharing that?"
"Well, if I have to" Kyoya sighed playfully and dropped the food beside her, sitting down also.
Madoka smiled slightly and picked up a banana, peeling it and taking a bit. "So, what are we supposed to do now?"
Kyoya was silent. He wasn't exactly sure of what to do. "What else can we do but wait until someone finds us?"
"We could take the boat back out and try to find someone or somewhere with people?"
Kyoya paled at the idea, he was done with boats and just sailing around pointlessly. "It could be days before we found something. We could run out of food or maybe even next time it storms we might not be as lucky. We could drown." He looked down as he grabbed another mango. "Alot could go wrong."
"I guess you've got a point…"
"We should stay here, at least until we spot anyone. There's food and there's bound to be a creek or something around here."
"Yeah I guess"she mumbled, rubbing her burnt arm.
Kyoya awkwardly sat there. It was obvious that she was upset, but he really didn't have a clue what to say. "Er- you want to go explore around with me?"
"Sure."
So once both were fed they set off. Kyoya led their way through the forest with Madoka behind him, pointing out the names of some plants to herself, probably trying to take her mind off things. Kyoya seemed more interested in his surroundings than she did.
"We need to find a water source!" She blurted out randomly as they approached cliff. It was tall enough to climb and Kyoya looked keen on doings so.
"Wait! You can't just- Kyoya!" Madoka growled as the boy prepared to start climbing. "You don't even know how high that is, what if you fall?"
"Come on Madoka, don't you want to know what's up there?"
"It's probably just more woods!" She grabbed hold of his shirt collar before he had a chance to go on with his un-thought out plan. "Come on, the farther we go the more likely we are to find a creek or something." Kyoya reluctantly followed her, if she thinks I'm not coming back here she's wrong.
They walked on for awhile before finding anything. Madoka found her feet beginning to ache and Kyoya was stuck with a want for water.
"Come on there has to be one!"
"It's not guaranteed that there is one, stop whining."
"I'm not whining!" He defended.
"suuuree" she smiled when she turned back at him. He glared at her teasing.
"Oh look, I was right" he grinned as she turned back to see a small steam a few feet in front of the two.
"I never said you weren't." Kyoya walked past Madoka and up to the edge of the water. "Looks like we found our water source" Madoka smiled before cupping her hand in to cool water and bring it up to her mouth the take a small sip. Kyoya stared down into the flowing water. He heard something.
"Do you hear that?" He asked, standing up from his crouching position and looked down stream. The sound of water splashing heavily was distant.
"Yeah, it sounds like a- hey! Wait for me!" Madoka hurried after Kyoya as he followed the water. The current picked up as they went farther. Kyoya stopped with a look of awe.
"It's so pretty…" Madoka gasped as the two looked down from the ledge of waterfall. Below them the waterfall fed into a pool of crystal water. It was a serene sight of slick rocks lining the edge of water with long grass and somewhat beautiful weeds growing in between and around. Moss coated the rocks and the large branch that stuck out of the water's surface. Water plants were around either poking out of the shallow ends or sprouting from the shore. The trees surrounding the little oasis seemed to be growing more spaced apart even.
"Wow." Kyoya breathed, his eyes darting around to take it all in.
"Let's see if we can find a way down." Kyoya stood for a moment longer before following Madoka around the sight. Both carefully made their way down a steep hill of hardened dirt and stone. Kyoya made it down first much quicker than Madoka, who even though was more cautious about climbing down still slipped towards the bottom, leaving Kyoya to grab hold of her quickly and to help her all the way down. "Be careful" he growled, letting go and turning to get a closer look at the water.
"Thanks" She sighed in relief. "I don't think I've seen anything like this in person before."
"Me either" Kyoya spoke, looking at his reflection in the water. "I look terrible" he observed with a small laugh. He ran a hand through his tangled hair. He had dark under his eyes from the restless night spent in that awful boat and his cheeks were a slight red color and felt burned.
Madoka was in the same shape with tangled hair and dark under her eyes. She dipped her hand into the water to find that it wasn't that cold at all, in fact it felt perfect to her. It was just cool enough and gave a small relief in the burn on her arm."I want to swim in it" She looked to Kyoya for his input.
He looked up at the sky. The sun was slowly making its way down and the sky was getting darker. "Better save that for some other time. We should get back before it's too dark to find our way back. Probably should build a fire for the night." Madoka nodded in agreement as she stood up straight with a somewhat gloomy expression. For a moment there she had actually forgotten why they were here.
The twl made it back before it turned completely dark out. Kyoya piled a few sticks together and begun to try to spark a flame for fire. Madoka was neatly arranging the few pieces for fruit they had left close to where the both of them would fall asleep. Later on once the fire was going nicely and the two had eaten they settled to try and sleep. Madoka curled up on her side and watched Kyoya from the corner of her eye. Kyoya was on his back looked up at the starts with half lidded eyes.
"Kyoya?" Madoka said barley above a whisper.
"Hm?"
"I'm glad you don't hate me anymore…"
He replied after a small pause of silence, "I never hated you, I was just mad at the world around me." He said, his voice falling to a barely audible mumble as his eyelids grew heavy.
"Then why did you…" she trailed of as she caught sight of Kyoya's now sleeping body, eyes closed and shallow breaths escaping. She sighed and closed her eyes, deciding it was time for her to go to sleep as well.
I'm surprised I actually finished an update so soon! Hope you all liked the chapter.