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Title: Jellyfish Love [Chapter Nineteen]
Author: Matrim Email: [email protected] Warnings: *blinks* Huh... Comments: I ain't got nothing. I kept forgetting to post this ^^; I didn't beta it, I never do :D And don't yell at me because you're going to feel bad for yelling at me when I totally redeem myself. ++ It's been a long night. Mana and Dada left right after they took their bows and Yura knows exactly where they were going to go. It was good, he supposes. It was a little strange. Yura always thought Mana would be the one who'd be quiet, distant and maybe just a little wierded out by the entire thing. In fact, it was the opposite. Dada was wierded out. Mana just gave his tiny little smile and tugged Dada around. Yura thinks that Dada, perhaps, had no idea how a relationship was supposed to work and maybe Mana had more experience in that matter. Yura zips his bag shut and makes his way out of the small dressing room. The club was beginning to close up and there were only a few of Shinya's people still milling around. Seek went off somewhere and told him to stay there. He also said that if Yura wanted to go anywhere, he had to have someone drive him home along with two other people in the car. Yura wanted to ask him if there was anything wrong but Seek had that look on his face that reminded Yura of Die and so Yura hadn't asked at all. There was also another reason why Yura stayed in the dressing room. He didn't want to see Aya leave with his new boyfriend. Aya left the dressing room the same time as Mana and Dada so Yura thinks that he's okay to leave now. He closes the dressing room door behind him and moves out into the club's main floor to ask Sanaka or one of the others to drive him home, but a pink haired man sitting at the bar catches his attention. Aya is facing him and waving at him with a smile. Yura is confused for a moment but he makes his way over to his friend, anyway. "I thought you left a long time ago." Yura tells him. Aya shakes his head. "I thought you did, too. But I'm glad you're here. It means I don't have to go home alone." A lesser man would've asked Aya about leaving with his boyfriend but Yura knows when not to say anything like that. "Seek said we should leave with other people anyway. I just didn't want to leave while there was a crowd still around because you never know what might happen, right?" Aya smiles. "Right. It's so late�Katsura even left before I did." Yura nods and smiles back. Aya hops off of his bar stool and as they begin to head toward the door, Sanaka stops watching people clean up. He tells them to wait while he gets the car to drive them home. It's drizzling when Sanaka opens the door and goes outside. Yura can smell the rain on the air. When the door closes, Yura stares at their reflections in the glass. He wants to be able to say that he loves Aya. He wants Aya to confess that he once loved him. It doesn't happen. Yura doesn't want to cause Aya any more distress and even if he wants to be the type to wrestle Aya's love away from Kengo, he knows it won't work. After all, he's supposed to be vain and he isn't supposed to care. Maybe he should've asked Mana for advice before he left with Dada. More than anything, Yura doesn't want to go outside but it's the only way to go home. Sanaka is opening the door for him. They are quiet as they move outside and Yura begins to notice that Seek, Lida and Daishi are surrounding them as they move toward the car. Usually, this sort of thing didn't happen unless they were leaving the club when it was still crowded and people could easily hurt them. Yura opens his mouth to ask Seek but there's something about him that says he's not in the mood to be questioned. The car door is open and Yura motions for Aya to go forward. Aya shakes his head. "Go ahead." So Yura does. A knife buries itself in the door upholstery-two inches away from Yura's body. He stops two seconds after Seek shouts--"Get them back in the club!" Someone grabs Yura away from the door just as gunshots ring out. Lida ducks his head down and makes him run to the club just as more people pour out of the doors. As soon as they are inside, they are hustled up the stairs they're never allowed to go to and into the office. They can see out over the club but one of the men tells him not to go near the windows. Yura sits next to Aya on the couch and stares off into space as Aya grabs his arm. "What's going on?" He asks, his voice betrays his fear. "Yura, are you okay? You were almost-are you sure you're okay? Why aren't Die and Kaoru here? Why did they try to hurt you? Yura? Yura? Answer me!" And Yura wants to tell him that yes he's really okay but all he can think of is the knife in the door and how much it would've hurt if it actually penetrated his own flesh. Aya shakes him in his frustration then pushes him away when Yura still can't speak. He watches as Aya stands and paces the room. Yura stands but it's shaky. He knows that he's been hired to work at a club owned by a dangerous man but he's used to being threatened. He's never actually seen the danger present. Shinya told him he'd always look after him and that they were all his boys. He'd always protect them. He did as he said but the problem now is that Shinya's not here. Neither is Die or Kaoru. None of them are safe. Yura looks around. He knows this must be Shinya's office since they're never allowed up the stairs. Aya turns, sees him, asks again, "Are you okay?" Yura nods because he still can't speak. Aya is about to say something again but suddenly the lights go out and he screams like a girl. Just as Yura is about to burst into nervous hysterical laughter, he hears the sound of someone running up the stairs. Aya grabs for him in the dark and Yura finds himself dragging Aya into the corner. They can't be sure if it's one of Shinya's men or whoever, but it's best to be safe. "Yura!" Aya whispers in his ear. "Yura! Can you see outside the window?" Yura shakes his head, hoping that Aya can feel the motion since it's too dark to see it. The door slams open and Yura can hear Aya hold his breath in order not to say anything to give them away. Yura, by contrast, is panting and his heart is racing. He doesn't know how Aya can stand it. There is a gunshot, louder than the ones that could be heard outside and a man cries out into the darkness of the office. A body falls and the strange gurgling noise of a man drowning in his own blood could be heard. Aya wiggles behind him and before Yura realizes what's happening, Aya breaks free from behind him and runs toward the door. Yura runs after him and they make a racket on the stairs but everything is loud to Yura. Gunshots sound like fireworks but they look nothing like it in the dark. Yura doesn't know where Aya has gone after he hits the bottom of the stairs but on a whim, he runs toward the door that takes people to the backstage. Before he can reach the door, the lights flash on. It happens abruptly, making Yura stop in his tracks. He is temporarily blinded and too late does he realize that he and Aya have wandered into a warzone. Yura managed to spot Aya and grabs him and tries to protect him. It's the last and only thing he can do. With his arm around Aya, he pushes the other man's head down and they both run low to the ground toward the door. But something in black knocks him aside with a furious animal-like growl. Seek shoves Yura aside and does his damndest to protect him from whatever it was so Yura scrambles upward and runs to Aya. But Aya isn't paying attention to him. He's staring at some far-off point with a face of horror and realization. "Kengo." He mouths and time seems to slow when he finally turns to Yura and yells. "Yura! Run!" And he does run but not without dragging Aya with him. He doesn't trust the others to keep Aya safe, not with Mr. Psycho around. Rough hands grab him, a gun is pointed at Aya and the lights go out again. Yura twists hard so whoever is fighting with him is farthest away from Aya. He tries to grab for the gun even if he has no idea how to use one--but it can't be that hard-- --A shot rings out. Yura hurts too much to scream. ++ To Chapter Twenty Jelly Home Fics Home |