[Multi Chap] Mud Baby (Aiba x OC) Chapter 12
Chapter 12
(English conversations in Orange)
Saturday Midnight, Tokyo
It had been fifteen minutes since they all got into Sho’s red Mazda. Nino was in the front passenger seat with Sho, while Ohno and Jun were seated at the back. He had been driving around the city aimlessly, with nowhere to go.
He remembered Nino’s voice just a while ago.
“I don’t want to be alone tonight, can we go somewhere?”
He sneaked a sideways glance at his friend. Nino had his face turned to the window. His legs were up on the seat, folded against his chest. His long, think neck exposed and vulnerable.
Nobody said anything after his question. Then Sho took control and said “Come on, let’s go”, leading the way out of the green room. On the way out of the studio, many of the staff greeted them with “Otsukaresama!” but none of the members replied. They all walked quietly and didn’t meet anyone’s eyes. Pretty soon, people stopped calling out to them, sensing a negative aura emanating from them.
Then they all climbed into Sho’s car without a word, and here they are now.
Looking in the rear view mirror, he found that Ohno and Jun were also preoccupied in their own thoughts. Jun’s phone rang once, he answered it and ended the call shortly. Seemed to be a friend enquiring about his time off.
Sho sighed. This is not the first time we’ve had this kind of absolute silence before, but it is the most painful and terrible one.
The radio was turned on to a local radio show and nobody actually paid any attention to the music coming from the downturned speakers.
Sho was thinking about Aiba, and what the jungles of Malaysia were like. Can’t be that bad, it was a small country, development had taken away most of its natural forests. They’re just not looking hard enough, that’s all. He bet that he was just there, under their noses.
After an hour of driving, he found himself on the highway. Heading in the direction of Chiba.
Sunday Morning
Aiba was now drifting in and out of sleep, he had a dreadful dry cough breaking the silence around them. His breaths were shallow and fast, and there was a strange smell coming from him as well.
Ria dug around in her backpack and found one last snack bar. Slapping Aiba’s face till he woke up, she handed him the snack bar. While he ate slowly, she got their things ready and prepared for another hike, to get them somewhere with people and help around. Aiba was sick, they had no food, and at this rate, they were both going to die. Him from his injury and wound infection, and she from hunger.
Pulling Aiba to his feet, she was thankful that he had just enough strength to keep him from weighing her down.
The rain had stopped completely about an hour back, and under normal circumstances, their view point would have one of the most beautiful sights, enough to cause envy amongst nature lovers the world over.
In the white early morning light, the two stepped out of the cement platform into a green world covered with undisturbed dew drops on leaves and small plants. The beautiful sound of silence interspersed with the occasional chirp of a bird somewhere high up as they took one step by one step on the overgrown path.
After a few minutes, Ria heard a soft rush of a stream somewhere to her left. Aiba had begun dragging his feet and was leaning more heavily on her. Taking a big huff of breath, she tightened her grip on his arm over her shoulders and steered him towards the sound of the water.
Ten minutes later, they had not reached any stream, but it could clearly be heard now. A few more steps! Ria steeled herself and ploughed forward. Suddenly, Aiba slumped and fell down on the path before them, pulling Ria with him face first onto the soft earth. The arm around her shoulder was now limp and weighed a tonne.
Whimpering, Ria could not believe her luck. We’re almost at the stream, don’t die now please! She scrambled to her feet and hooked her hands below Aiba’s armpits and started dragging him backwards towards the sound of the stream.
Aiba’s head lolled from left to right as she continued to drag him roughly and as fast as she could over the ground. Tears were streaming down her face as she repeated in her head, Be Alive, Be Alive!
A minute later, the trees around them disappeared and she came out on to an open space, a shallow stream of about 6 feet wide lying between two banks. Seeing the stream, she dropped him onto the now rocky ground and ran towards the water with her empty plastic bottle.
She struggled to fill the cold, refreshing water in through the small mouth of the bottle. Filled, she ran back to Aiba and splashed some water onto his face and poured some in between his lips, which trickled out by the side of his mouth. He didn’t move. The bottle totally upended over his face, she dropped the bottle and screamed weakly. Her failure made her lose strength twice as fast and she covered her face as she sobbed noisily over Aiba’s wet chest.
A few seconds later, her sobbing subsided and her body fell limply next to his.
******
“This is Delta Team reporting from Section 5, the area is clear. Over” An old security officer rasped into his walkie talkie. He was getting ready to gather back his 6 men who had dispersed over the perimeter of what they called Section 5 of the forest reserve, when he stopped dead in his tracks.
He heard a woman’s scream. Chilled, he radioed his team to ask if any of them heard anything. All 6 replied back negative. His long years of training kicking in, he radioed them his position and asked them to gather immediately. Looks like he’s found something.
While waiting for his men to gather, he walked towards the place where he heard the scream, keeping his ears alert for any further sounds, which was really very difficult, because of the loud noise of the stream running through the border of Sections 5 and 11.
His 6 men with him now, they all tracked swiftly down the sloping track leading to Section 11. As soon as the stream came into sight, one of his men yelled out. There were two bodies lying on the opposite side of the stream.
They jumped down the slope and ran towards the two people covered in mud and dirt. The old officer, being team leader radioed the security radio post outside the forest reserve with accurate description of their find.
“Delta Team reporting, two bodies found in Section 11. One is reported missing person, male, approximately 6 feet in height, brown hair, brown rain coat, white tshirt and brown khaki pants. The other, female, approximately 5 feet 5, black hair, dark green tshirt, brown khaki pants. Over.”
He paused as he waited confirmation from his team. The junior officers were checking their pulses. After a few seconds, the officer checking Ria gave a thumbs up and immediately after, Aiba got a thumbs up as well.
“Both unconscious, and alive. We are bringing them out. One in need of medical assistance and one in need of ambulance. Over and out.”
******
Kimura and Yonaga watched in a daze as the police officers and security officers jumped into a flurry of action before their eyes.
“Did something happen?” Yonaga asked Kimura in a hoarse voice. Both men had kept their position at the entrance to the park’s restricted area for the past two days, leaving only for meals, phone calls and the toilet. They slept outside as well.
"I don’t know, but they look like they’re excited over something.”
Yonaga nodded and unconsciously clutched tighter the towel he had been holding since Friday.
“Yonaga san! Kimura san! They found him!” Suzuki was running madly towards them, stumbling over the policemen’s gear in his haste to get to them.
“They’re coming now!” He said, shaking the two men from their stupor.
Kimura started laughing feebly and hugged Yonaga who had a shocked expression on his face, his mouth hanging open.
*******
The five Japanese men stood in front of the police line, along with Mr Lee and some staff from the forest reserve office. The sirens and loud voices had attracted some tourists as well, and quite a crowd had gathered along the cordoned off area.
An ambulance had arrived five minutes ago, and was waiting tensely for the patient to come. The road in front of the ambulance had been tentatively cleared.
Then, everything happened instantly. A group of men emerged from the jungle, carrying two bodies. A woman was laid on a stretcher on the ground next to the ambulance. Three people from the forest reserve medical clinic immediately attended to her.
"Ria?!" Mr Lee saw the mud covered unconcious girl on the stretcher.
The man was carried into the ambulance, and Yonaga san had started yelling and hitting when the police held him back. Mr Lee asked them to let him on, and Yonaga san got into the ambulance together with Aiba. The ambulance immediately sped off down the road.
Inside the ambulance, Yonaga san saw Aiba’s face and started crying, lunging for the unconscious body. Before he could get any closer, a paramedic pushed him back roughly to sit on one of the seats on the other side of the ambulance. A doctor and two paramedics were working on Aiba, cutting off his clothes and removing all plasters and foreign matter from his body.
Yonaga san could only look on while they fixed tubes and masks and wires onto his blood covered charge.
******
(English conversations in Orange)
Saturday Midnight, Tokyo
It had been fifteen minutes since they all got into Sho’s red Mazda. Nino was in the front passenger seat with Sho, while Ohno and Jun were seated at the back. He had been driving around the city aimlessly, with nowhere to go.
He remembered Nino’s voice just a while ago.
“I don’t want to be alone tonight, can we go somewhere?”
He sneaked a sideways glance at his friend. Nino had his face turned to the window. His legs were up on the seat, folded against his chest. His long, think neck exposed and vulnerable.
Nobody said anything after his question. Then Sho took control and said “Come on, let’s go”, leading the way out of the green room. On the way out of the studio, many of the staff greeted them with “Otsukaresama!” but none of the members replied. They all walked quietly and didn’t meet anyone’s eyes. Pretty soon, people stopped calling out to them, sensing a negative aura emanating from them.
Then they all climbed into Sho’s car without a word, and here they are now.
Looking in the rear view mirror, he found that Ohno and Jun were also preoccupied in their own thoughts. Jun’s phone rang once, he answered it and ended the call shortly. Seemed to be a friend enquiring about his time off.
Sho sighed. This is not the first time we’ve had this kind of absolute silence before, but it is the most painful and terrible one.
The radio was turned on to a local radio show and nobody actually paid any attention to the music coming from the downturned speakers.
Sho was thinking about Aiba, and what the jungles of Malaysia were like. Can’t be that bad, it was a small country, development had taken away most of its natural forests. They’re just not looking hard enough, that’s all. He bet that he was just there, under their noses.
After an hour of driving, he found himself on the highway. Heading in the direction of Chiba.
Sunday Morning
Aiba was now drifting in and out of sleep, he had a dreadful dry cough breaking the silence around them. His breaths were shallow and fast, and there was a strange smell coming from him as well.
Ria dug around in her backpack and found one last snack bar. Slapping Aiba’s face till he woke up, she handed him the snack bar. While he ate slowly, she got their things ready and prepared for another hike, to get them somewhere with people and help around. Aiba was sick, they had no food, and at this rate, they were both going to die. Him from his injury and wound infection, and she from hunger.
Pulling Aiba to his feet, she was thankful that he had just enough strength to keep him from weighing her down.
The rain had stopped completely about an hour back, and under normal circumstances, their view point would have one of the most beautiful sights, enough to cause envy amongst nature lovers the world over.
In the white early morning light, the two stepped out of the cement platform into a green world covered with undisturbed dew drops on leaves and small plants. The beautiful sound of silence interspersed with the occasional chirp of a bird somewhere high up as they took one step by one step on the overgrown path.
After a few minutes, Ria heard a soft rush of a stream somewhere to her left. Aiba had begun dragging his feet and was leaning more heavily on her. Taking a big huff of breath, she tightened her grip on his arm over her shoulders and steered him towards the sound of the water.
Ten minutes later, they had not reached any stream, but it could clearly be heard now. A few more steps! Ria steeled herself and ploughed forward. Suddenly, Aiba slumped and fell down on the path before them, pulling Ria with him face first onto the soft earth. The arm around her shoulder was now limp and weighed a tonne.
Whimpering, Ria could not believe her luck. We’re almost at the stream, don’t die now please! She scrambled to her feet and hooked her hands below Aiba’s armpits and started dragging him backwards towards the sound of the stream.
Aiba’s head lolled from left to right as she continued to drag him roughly and as fast as she could over the ground. Tears were streaming down her face as she repeated in her head, Be Alive, Be Alive!
A minute later, the trees around them disappeared and she came out on to an open space, a shallow stream of about 6 feet wide lying between two banks. Seeing the stream, she dropped him onto the now rocky ground and ran towards the water with her empty plastic bottle.
She struggled to fill the cold, refreshing water in through the small mouth of the bottle. Filled, she ran back to Aiba and splashed some water onto his face and poured some in between his lips, which trickled out by the side of his mouth. He didn’t move. The bottle totally upended over his face, she dropped the bottle and screamed weakly. Her failure made her lose strength twice as fast and she covered her face as she sobbed noisily over Aiba’s wet chest.
A few seconds later, her sobbing subsided and her body fell limply next to his.
******
“This is Delta Team reporting from Section 5, the area is clear. Over” An old security officer rasped into his walkie talkie. He was getting ready to gather back his 6 men who had dispersed over the perimeter of what they called Section 5 of the forest reserve, when he stopped dead in his tracks.
He heard a woman’s scream. Chilled, he radioed his team to ask if any of them heard anything. All 6 replied back negative. His long years of training kicking in, he radioed them his position and asked them to gather immediately. Looks like he’s found something.
While waiting for his men to gather, he walked towards the place where he heard the scream, keeping his ears alert for any further sounds, which was really very difficult, because of the loud noise of the stream running through the border of Sections 5 and 11.
His 6 men with him now, they all tracked swiftly down the sloping track leading to Section 11. As soon as the stream came into sight, one of his men yelled out. There were two bodies lying on the opposite side of the stream.
They jumped down the slope and ran towards the two people covered in mud and dirt. The old officer, being team leader radioed the security radio post outside the forest reserve with accurate description of their find.
“Delta Team reporting, two bodies found in Section 11. One is reported missing person, male, approximately 6 feet in height, brown hair, brown rain coat, white tshirt and brown khaki pants. The other, female, approximately 5 feet 5, black hair, dark green tshirt, brown khaki pants. Over.”
He paused as he waited confirmation from his team. The junior officers were checking their pulses. After a few seconds, the officer checking Ria gave a thumbs up and immediately after, Aiba got a thumbs up as well.
“Both unconscious, and alive. We are bringing them out. One in need of medical assistance and one in need of ambulance. Over and out.”
******
Kimura and Yonaga watched in a daze as the police officers and security officers jumped into a flurry of action before their eyes.
“Did something happen?” Yonaga asked Kimura in a hoarse voice. Both men had kept their position at the entrance to the park’s restricted area for the past two days, leaving only for meals, phone calls and the toilet. They slept outside as well.
"I don’t know, but they look like they’re excited over something.”
Yonaga nodded and unconsciously clutched tighter the towel he had been holding since Friday.
“Yonaga san! Kimura san! They found him!” Suzuki was running madly towards them, stumbling over the policemen’s gear in his haste to get to them.
“They’re coming now!” He said, shaking the two men from their stupor.
Kimura started laughing feebly and hugged Yonaga who had a shocked expression on his face, his mouth hanging open.
*******
The five Japanese men stood in front of the police line, along with Mr Lee and some staff from the forest reserve office. The sirens and loud voices had attracted some tourists as well, and quite a crowd had gathered along the cordoned off area.
An ambulance had arrived five minutes ago, and was waiting tensely for the patient to come. The road in front of the ambulance had been tentatively cleared.
Then, everything happened instantly. A group of men emerged from the jungle, carrying two bodies. A woman was laid on a stretcher on the ground next to the ambulance. Three people from the forest reserve medical clinic immediately attended to her.
"Ria?!" Mr Lee saw the mud covered unconcious girl on the stretcher.
The man was carried into the ambulance, and Yonaga san had started yelling and hitting when the police held him back. Mr Lee asked them to let him on, and Yonaga san got into the ambulance together with Aiba. The ambulance immediately sped off down the road.
Inside the ambulance, Yonaga san saw Aiba’s face and started crying, lunging for the unconscious body. Before he could get any closer, a paramedic pushed him back roughly to sit on one of the seats on the other side of the ambulance. A doctor and two paramedics were working on Aiba, cutting off his clothes and removing all plasters and foreign matter from his body.
Yonaga san could only look on while they fixed tubes and masks and wires onto his blood covered charge.
******