"Well isn't this quite the drama party," Sho Sakurai's voice echoed in the room, yet only a few heads turned to find the brown haired man now walking in the doorway inwards. The brown haired man looked at the scene in front of him and could only sigh a bit to himself in mild irritation. The body of Emiko was now being propped up on the opposite couch thanks to Elle and Aiba while it appeared the dark haired man had suddenly gone particularly silent. Rubbing his temples more, Sho looked directly at Nino. "I see you've regained yourself, Nino," Sho sighed outwards walking towards the dark haired man until he was standing directly over him and staring down. It was what was on the face of the dark haired man that caused Sho to freeze.
Fresh hot tears were moving down Nino's face, yet he made no sudden scream to cry. They simply moved straight down the side of his face while his eyes remained wide and his mouth only half open. Matsu... Nino thought to himself internally feeling what had happened to the white haired man by was unknown to anyone in the group including Sho Sakurai. After... after I promised... The sudden memories flashed before the dark haired man's eyes.
"You nearly killed him, yet you wish to see him?" a voice asked. The exceptionally young teen face, not a child yet not an adult either, of a dark haired boy looked up into the now stern face of his mother who stood before the hospital door with her arms crossed in front of her.
The woman, now cold by the actions of her son, could only find a dark place in her heart now for the boy she had once adored beyond the recourse of measure. She had been asked to watch the room... the room where the white haired boy lay now barely managing to fight for his life, and she was the one to decide whether or not the dark haired boy could enter.
"Please.... Mother...." Nino's voice begged. "I just.... want to...."
"You have five minutes," the woman cut him off and sighed to herself. Despite the fact that she was cold to the boy, the 'mother' card never ceased to harm her and bend her will.
Stepping through the door, the dark haired boy found the face of the white haired boy. The bandages across the white haired boys' face caused the dark haired boy to freeze. He had done those... made those scars... that would probably never be healed.... and he would be forced... to look at them always... that was saying that he would ever be able to see the face of Matsu ever again. Sudden hot tears ripped their way from Nino's eyes, and teh dark haired boy found himself suddenly right next to the white haired boy's head that still rested peacefully on a pillow.
"I'm sorry..." Nino's voice broke again into fresh sobs. "I'm sorry.... I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...." Fresh sobs broke out. The dark haired boy had all but shoved his face into the bed sheets trying to silence himself but failing. "I'm.... so sorry...." he cried quietly.
"Nin-o....?" Matsu's hoarse voice breathed outwards quietly in the room causing the dark haired boy to look up suddenly. The white haired boy's yellow eye had slid over and had met the dark haired boy. "Nino...." Matsu breathed out again. "I'm.... glad..."
"How can you be glad!" Nino's voice suddenly cracked again as a fresh wave of sobs broke on him. "I nearly killed you... I nearly killed you... I... I... Aoi... and you...and...." However, in that moment, Nino felt a hand on his face. It was bandaged all away around. Matsu had forced his arm up despite the fact that his muscles screamed in agony at doing such a feat.
"I'm... glad you came to see me..... Nino..." Matsu tried to smile but found the bandages that were warped across his lower jaw and across the horizontal division of his face were too tight to allow such movement. "I... was lonely..."
"How can you be glad I'm here...." Nino suddenly cried again burring his face in the bed again. "I'm sorry... so sorry... I'm sorry...." he breathed out through tears. "If I had never been born... if I had never existed... you wouldn't have...."
"If... Nin had never existed..... I'd be sad.... very sad...." Matsu answered back roughly. His throat was coarse, and it pained him to speak so much. Yet he would do it... because Nino was there... "Because.... you're my friend...." Mastu sighed the last words out.
"I'm not worthy of it..." Nino sobbed more. "I'm not worthy of you to say that... Matsu how can you say that...I killed you... I killed so many.... I killed Aoi... why... who don't you hate me... why don't you want to kill me... why Matsu...."
"I... could never hate, Nino....." Matsu's voice answered back. "Because Nino... is my friend." Nino froze and found himself lean up again to stare at Matsu who simply stared back. "Because... Nino didn't kill me.... I'm alive... Nino..."
Nino simply broke down into a fresh wave of sobs and didn't stop until his mother finally seized him by the collar of his shirt and dragged him out.
After that, Nino came every day. Just came... and sobbed.. and said sorry... day after day after day. However, during this time, something changed in the dark haired boy. To the point that when he appeared before Mastu, he neither cried or said anything. Just stared darkly back at the white haired boy who stared back at him... still forgiving him... as if it was ok... as if everything was ok..... And in those days... the dark haired boy made a vow to himself. No one would ever harm Matsu again. This was the vow that would never be spoken... would never be believed by others.... this was Nino's decision, and no one, not even Matsu himself, would know this.
After they had started traveling, Nino made no tries at saying sorry. However, it continued to eat at him... the fact that he had killed... it ate at him slowly... painfully.... and would tear him apart on certain occasions. However, he would never speak it... and he refused to run to death as an answer... because he had made that promise that had never been spoken....
Nino continued to just lay there, wide eyes, and tears moving slowly down his cheeks. Sho, seeing this, turned his head sharply and said nothing on the matter. It was not his place, nor would he try to comfort such a thing. It was not his being. "Aiba and Elle, neither of you go near Nino. That is an order," Sho said darkly causing both to look at him and then look at each other before finally nodding.
Time passed like a dream. Sho said nothing but paced like a bear ready to tear something limb from limb. Aiba and Elle tried to arouse Emiko but found it impossible. Nino... just lay on the couch... not saying anything but slowly tearing into himself like a grave digger. A silence mused its way into the room and became a comfortable cat as it lay there waiting for someone to shatter glass or something of the nature to beat it away again.
However, almost as though shattered glass had really broken the silence, a light broke forwards in the center of the room, and Ryuu came falling outwards followed by Matsu. Nino turned his head a fraction, and teh dark haired man's body froze. Matsu....
“Matsu…needs…a…hospital.” Ryuu breathed before all but collapsing forwards. Aiba moved yet again and caught the late haired boy.
"You're just Mr. Catch-It today, aren't ya?" Elle tried to muse a laugh from this but found it pained in the end.
"Matsu...." Nino breathed out, and almost instantly his body was up and had taken hold of the white haired boy. "Matsujun...." he said aloud again looking at the stained blood that continued to move across his eye. The dark haired man's eyes grew. He was no healer... Looking directly at Sho, the dark haired man challenged with his eyes any attempt to stop him from picking up the white haired man and running to the nearest hospital. Sho said nothing but gave a nod. Before anyone else could move, Nino had already picked up Matsu and was now running down the street towards the nearest hospital.
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Sho sighed outwards and looked at Ryuu and then Emiko still sleeping on the other couch. Rubbing his temples, the bear man picked up Ryuu and then Emiko. "These two should be looked over at the hospital as well," he said aloud. "Both of you come with me." With that, the brown haired man led the way towards the hospital. Aiba looked at Elle. Elle looked at Aiba. Both nodded again and started off with Sho.
"This day.... can't possibly get any weirder..." Elle said as they were now jogging down the street trying to keep up with Sho. Aiba turned his head and shook it.
"Don't say that... it can always get weirder," he said aloud suddenly smacking straight into something. The sound of vibrations rang out in the air, and Aiba stared somewhat dizzy trying to get his sight back. Elle had stopped and was now looking confused. However, Sho had kept moving and was still carrying both Ryuu and Emiko to the hospital. "Ow...." Aiba said aloud. "What the heck did I hit?"
A ghost who had fallen backwards as well was rubbing his head just the same was Aiba was. Both stared at each other for a second. Elle looked still confused. "I don't see...." she tried but appeared to see the outline of something of the sorts. "wait... what..."
"Sorry..." the ghost said averting his eyes. "I didn't think anyone could touch me..." Aiba laughed a fraction causing the ghost to look back.
"No it's my fault... I didn't look where I was running," he smiled back. "Sorry."
"A... ghost?" Elle tried. Aiba looked back and suddenly broke into a grin.
"Ya of course, silly," he smiled lightly. The ghost looked back and let out a sigh. Aiba turned his head. "What's wrong?" he asked.
"I.. can't find my mom...." the ghost answered back. Aiba's eyes grew again.
"We'll find your mom!" he said suddenly growing what could only be described as stars in his eyes. Suddenly standing up and all but forgetting the fact that Sho and Nino had run off to the hospital, the somewhat self riotous shaman flailed his arms a fraction. "Come on Elle! Lets find his mom!" Elle looked confused a bit and suddenly sighed outwards.
"Um... ok..." she finally answered back.
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"Hm... hm hm...." Ohno mused aloud looking down at his paper before up again. "Thank you for the information, Ryoen-kun." The red haired demon lord shrugged his shoulders and then grinned back.
"Whatever, kid," he answered fading away again.
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Ryoen appeared in front of the cell again and crossed his arms in front of himself acting as though he had been there the entire time. Hah.. so he managed to get out then.... the red haired demon lord half grinned looking in the cell to find neither Ryuu nor Matsu. Ah the humor....He actually thought the cell would fall apart in two hours. he chuckled to himself more before hearing the footsteps of someone coming up. Looking into the face of Asa, Ryoen smirked a bit.
“What are you so happy?” Asa asked looking at the red haired man darkly. Ryoen smirked back and shrugged his shoulders before motioning into the cell itself.
“Your son is a quick learner.” He pointed more in the cell as Asa looked inwards. “He got both himself and Matsu out of there.” He smirked aloud“He hit the wall a few times though.”
“Well did you tell him what time to be here tomorrow?” Asa asked looking at Ryoen with somewhat of a stern face. Ryoen just smirked back and shook his head a fraction.
“No I figured he could use a break.” Royen answered forcing himself to stand straight upwards. His human form was a monster of a man to say the least of things.
“RYO!!” the sudden childish voice screamed outwards, and as Ryoen turned his head, he found the young girl go flying towards him and all but tackle him to the ground. Laughing a fraction, Aeirin turned her head a bit now in Ryoen's arms. “Asa where were you today I wanted to play?” Aeirin asked feeling her face puff up a bit as her childish nature took over. After a minute, she jumped down and flailed her arms a bit more making sure that he saw her.
After a minute, Asa sighed outwards and placed a hand on the orange haired girl's head. “I’m sorry I had things to do today how about we play tomorrow?” he offered after a second. This brought a sudden healthy smile onto the face of the girl. She grinned and nodded a bit.
"Tomorrow then!" she answered back laughing lightly.
Ryoen looked at Asa a moment before simply smirking to himself. "Alright, Aeirin... How about we play some air tag?" Aeirin's face light up, and she nodded smiling to herself.
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Sho Sakurai walked into the hospital with a bear like step all but startling those in the lobby. "Get these two into beds and check over them, now," he leered causing the doctors to suddenly nod and rush to get beds and rooms set up. After both Ryuu and Emiko had been taken to beds. Sho turned his head and found a nurse of sorts. "Has a dark haired man come in here as well?" he asked. The nurse nodded a fraction.
"Are they from the same car wreck as the white haired man?" she asked. Sho nodded a bit sighing to himself that Nino couldn't have thought up a more logical excuse.
"Yes," he finally answered back.
~*~
Matsu lay in the bed of the hospital room, and all Nino could do was stand in the corner. It had been several hours since he had rushed the white haired man to the hospital. The doctors and preformed a surgery in order to keep the veins that had been ripped apart from internally bleeding Matsu to death, and now the white haired man was simply resting.
Bandages were wrapped out his face once more... just as they had been six years previous, and all Nino could do was stare at them. He wouldn't cry. He refused it. He had already shown that weakness while he lay on the couch. Yet the dark haired man found himself unable to do anything constructive, so he remained standing there as if frozen in time. I'm sorry... Matsu.... Nino sighed outwards. I failed you..... For the first time from the point he walked into the hospital, Nino looked away from Matsu.
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This took me a long time to write *sighs* Not sure why, though seeing as I basically just took people to a hospital and that was it. >_>;
