After fifteen minutes of waiting, the ambulance and the police arrived with paramedics in tow. The police broke into the ex-in-question's house and retrieved an unclothed, unconscious Akito. Kazu, Onigiri, Buccha, Emily, And Yayoi all had horrified looks in their eyes. It was bad enough seeing their two closest friends getting shot and potentially killed but now it was possible that Akito would face the same fate as one or even both of them. As they all rode in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Kazu had been completely shaken up by the whole thing. He didn't know how much more he could take.
Please Kami-sama. He thought. Please let all of them pull through.
Somewhere in the sky Agito had finally awaken from his hibernation in the sky. And he was in a terrible mood. The worst mood that he could possibly be in after seeing what has happened back on earth.
"THOSE BASTARDS ARE FUCKING DEAD!" He screamed before vanishing from the higher plane.
Meanwhile, back on earth, Ikki, Ringo, and Akito were all rushed into the emergency rooms. The doctor kicked all the others out of the room and they waited in the waiting room until the doctors were done. Hopefully everyone would be okay. Hours passed and there was still no word from the doctor. More time passed and Kazu just couldn't take it anymore. He left the waiting room and found a nearby bathroom to go in. once in there, the blond began to let all of his emotions go through the roof. He let out a loud scream while he was pounding his fist into the wall at the same time. This continued for a long period of time. He kept pounding the pavement in the wall, screaming at the top of his lungs until eventually, all of the pounding caused his fist to draw blood. Then he began slamming his head into the chipping pavement. Eventually he stopped hurting himself, and the wall. The young blond was in a mess of anger thrown on devastation thrown on depression thrown on a great deal of fear. It seemed like no time at all passed since Ikki set up that blind date. But it had been almost two years since then, and in those two years so much has changed. Not just for his friends but for him, too.
Flashback- one year ago
Kazu had just purchased a bouquet of daisies and it seemed like he was going to give them to someone. Emily, without his knowledge was following him to find out who he was giving the flowers to. Could he have a girlfriend or were they for his sister? She followed him to what looked like a graveyard. He placed flowers on a headstone that read
HERE LIES THE BODY OF
EIKI MIKURA
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
The blonde's older sister had a daughter sometime before, his niece. He was so attached to the little girl and loved her dearly. Unfortunately, one day, Eiki fell terminally ill and died after six weeks of her diagnosis. His niece had signs of severe pneumonia. She had actually been born with it. It would go away for a while and then come back; eventually it became too much for the baby and she had circum to the disease. From that moment kazu took an oath that he would never lose anyone else like he lost his niece.
"I miss you Eiki." He said. "I'll do everything I can to make sure that I don't have to bury anyone else here." End flashback.
He went back to the waiting room, bruised by the damage that he did to the bathroom wall. Everyone else stared at him and his bandaged hand. They wanted to tease him about his temper like they usually did but instead all they cared about was whether or not their friend will make it through the night. The doctor exited the ER with some news, good or bad it was news.
"How are they?" Yayoi asked.
"The little one is awake now. He'll have to stay here for a week but for right now he's okay. The worst injuries were those whip marks on his back." The doctor replied.
What about Ikki" Emily asked. Everyone was especially concerned for the lovable, idiotic crow.
"That bullet pierced his main artery, we managed to repair it. Right now he's in stable condition but we should still keep an eye on him. The girl however, we did everything we could her, but she has lost too much blood. The only thing we were able to count on was an emergency blood transfusion but after doing some tests. And checking all of your blood types, none of your blood types matched hers. I'm afraid she didn't make it."
"What?" shouted Emily. "You mean Ringo is…dead?"
The doctor nodded. Oh no! She thought. Hearing those words sent her into the five stages of grieving. First was denial. The black haired girl grabbed the doctor's jacket and slammed him against the wall. "There's no way in hell she's dead! GO IN THERE AND DO SOMETHING DAMMIT!"
"I wish that I could but I cant anymore, it's too late." The doctor said. Yayoi ran and tried to calm her friend down and maybe help her cope with the loss of her friend. Then she hit stage two, Anger. Emily pushed her down on the floor.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" She cried. Then she completely lost whatever sanity she had left. She had fallen on the floor, pounding her fists into it and screaming her friend's name to the heavens. Tears were streaming down her brown eyes as she continued to assault the pavement in the waiting room. The distraught girl was so out of control that it took about four people to hold her down. Kazu and Yayoi took her back to the waiting room and sat her back on the chair. This is where the third stage began, guilt.
The others were all grieving over the death of their red-haired friend. Emily was still in her own world. "We should have gotten here sooner." She started. "We should have known that that creep would pull this stunt. If we just got here sooner, maybe none of this would have happened. It's our fault, it's all our fault." The guilt continued with her saying the same things over and over again. The redundant phrases only made it more annoying to her friends. And yet she was not the only one on a guilt trip. Kazu was too. He felt like if he could have tried to find Akito sooner, maybe neither of his friends would be hurt or killed. The biggest difference between these two was that Emily was letting her feelings out, Kazu however kept them bottled in until it would eventually explode. After being comforted and smacked around by her friends. She went into the fourth stage of grief: responsibility.
I have to be strong, for everyone's sake. She thought. I know that I couldn't protect her, but I need to be strong for everyone else. If Ringo were alive, she would want me to stay strong.
The doctor came into the waiting room and made an announcement.
"Your friend Akito is awake now. You all may go see him if you wish."
Kazu took the opportunity to go and see his injured friend. So he opened the room door and saw Akito sitting up, with no signs of emotion in his face. The jet walked into the room and took a seat near him on the hospital bed, at first he didn't say anything for fear he would be kicked out, but he knew he had to get to the bottom of what happened.
"How are you feeling?" he asked,
"I don't know how I'm supposed to feel." Akito answered. "I mean sure, I'm alive and all but for what? I was kidnapped and tortured and all I could do was cry for help but no one showed up to help me! I was all alone again, just like before! Only this time no one was there to help me!"
"Exactly what did he do to you?" Kazu asked. Akito hesitated to look at his friend. He wanted to tell Kazu the details of his torture but then the words of his ex entered his thoughts.
"What does it matter? You belong to me again. And if you want to live, you'll leave Ikki and come back to me."
"If you tell anyone, I will kill Ikki."
Those same words echoed in his mind over and over again. He was afraid of the danger that he and Ikki would be in if he disobeyed his former lover. But to hell with that; What if that psycho came back for more?
"I-I can't tell you." Akito said.
"What-why not?"
"He'll hurt him if I do!"
"Who, Akito? Whose gonna hurt who?" the blond then held his friends head close to his injured friend.
"I'm here for you, you can tell me, okay. I won't be angry. And nobody's gonna hurt anybody."
"Daisuke raped me!" Akito cried. "He raped me and said that if I ever told anyone that he'd Kill Ikki! Kazu-kun, promise me you won't tell anyone."
"I don't know if I can do that." Kazu said.
"Please kazu you have to!" the bluenette shouted.
Kazu had to think about Akito's request. On one hand he wanted to protect him but did it mean keeping his rape a secret from everyone including his unconscious best friend? He couldn't keep secrets from Ikki, but he wasn't one to break a promise either. There were already three casualties on this day; there was no room for anymore.
"I promise." Kazu replied.
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