Chapter Six - Try and Find Me
Title: Try And Find Me
Pairings: Akame
Fandoms: JE, Gundam Wing and Weiß Kreuz
Summary: Jin cheated and Kame had enough. He decided to leave show business -- in extension, Jin -- for good but Johnny-san didn’t allow that to happen. As an alternative, Johnny offered Kame an indefinite leave. Kame accepts the offer but with conditions involved: name change, complete privacy, and no demand for his return. On his way to living his new identity, he gets in an accident and finds himself with assassins, psychics and good terrorists with no recollection of who he was.
Chapter Six
“Thank you--” Ryuu paused. “I’m sorry?” He felt very uncomfortable with the intense gaze his guests threw his way. “Uh, so what can I serve you today?” He asked as he approached the bar area.
One guest cleared his throat, and answered. “One Slow Death, please.”
“No, make that four.” The tallest of the four said. “We’re all going to need it, I think.” He said sheepishly to his companions, and then the others gave their consent to have that order filled.
“Alright, four Slow death coming up.” Ryuu started working on it, and couldn’t help but ask when the staring didn’t stop. “Is there a problem?”
“No.” The effeminate man answered. “Sorry, we know it’s rude to stare but you look someone we know.”
“Ah.” Ryuu nodded, understanding the reason now. “Yeah, someone’s bound to have a doppelganger or two.” He gave the four mean a quick smile. Once done with the drinks, he slid one glass to each.
“What’s your name, master?” The effeminate man asked as he took a sip from his glass.
“Ryuu Shibahara. Yours?”
“I’m Ueda Tatsuya”
“Tanaka Koki.”
“Nakamaru Yuuichi.”
“Iriguchi, deguchi, Taguchi Junnosuke desu!”
Ryuu smiled at the pun Taguchi said. “That’s a really good pun.” He was amused to see that Junno took the compliment to heart.
“Don’t encourage him. He’ll go overboard!” Nakamaru groaned.
Ryuu snickered, getting all comfortable with the boys. “Why? I think it’s pure genius.”
“It is, but when it’s sprouted every minute, it tends to grate on your nerves.” Tanaka shared.
“Yeah, you’re lucky you don’t see him every day.” Nakamaru uncharacteristically pouted at the injustice of seeing Taguchi every day.
“Mou~~ you guys!” This time, it was Taguchi’s turn to pout and sulk.
Ryuu felt sorry for the other, so he patted the taller man’s head. “There, there~”
Taguchi whimpered for effect, and that got laughs from everybody. When Ryuu withdrew his hand, Taguchi whimpered louder and Tanaka couldn’t help smacking the other in the head.
“So...” Tanaka started. “You weren’t here last night.”
“It wasn’t my shift last night.” Ryuu explained.
“Oh.” The man looked lost for words. “How long have you worked here?”
“Ever since the club opened, so about four years now.”
“How old are you?” Another question, this time it came from Nakamaru.
“24.” Ryuu grinned. “What is this, 20 questions?”
Nakamaru laughed. “Yeah, something about that.”
“So if it’s 20 questions, do I get to have a turn?”
“Sure. Fire away.” Junno confidently said.
“What do you all do? You guys don’t look like salary men.”
The four laughed at the question.
“Yeah, we’re not salary men. We’re...” Taguchi trailed... looking at the others for approval. “We’re idols. Maybe you’ve heard of us, we’re from KAT-TUN.”
Ryuu winced. “Sorry, I don’t follow Japanese Entertainment.”
“You don’t?” Ueda asked.
Ryuu shook his head. “Yeah, I don’t.”
“So you don’t have any idea who your look alike is?” Koki asked, laughingly.
“No.” Ryuu cleared his throat before answering. “I don’t really go out much, so this is the first time someone told me that I have a look alike.” He gave the others a guarded look. “What, this look alike of mine... did he do anything bad to you? Is he an asshole?”
“No, the opposite actually, he’s a softie.” Nakamaru smiled fondly. “Kamenashi Kazuya, that’s the name of your double. He’s our band mate. He’s... on indefinite leave right now for medical reasons.”
“Is it that serious?” Ryuu worried for his double.
“Oh, no, he just needs rest.” Ueda sighed. “We’re hoping he’d come back soon... but the chances for that are very slim.”
“Why?”
“He... uh, he overworked himself. He’s not allowed to work unless the doctor gives a go-signal.” Taguchi quickly covered it up. “Enough about Kame-chan; we still have 15 questions left for you to answer!”
Ryuu understood that the others were concealing something about this Kamenashi Kazuya, but since it wasn’t his business, he let it go.
“How do you want us to call you?” Tanaka asked. “Because we’re going to be regulars here, I think it’d be cooler if we call you by your first name.”
“Ryuu would be fine.”
“What about Ryuu-chan?” Koki negotiated, adding an endearing suffix.
“Er... that’s okay, I guess.”
“So Ryuu-chan it is!”
Ryuu wasn’t really getting the flow of the conversation, but since his customers were happy, then that’s okay.
“Call us by our first names too.” Ueda started.
“Okay. So Tatsuya, Yuuichi, Junnosuke, and Koki?” Ryuu listed, and the other four nodded blissfully when he got their names correctly.
Just then, Luke came out of the kitchen. “Ryuu, I’ll take over for you here. Nagi and Omi needs you.”
“Ryoukai.” Ryuu bid goodbye to his four new customers.
When Ryuu was gone, Luke gave them a smile seeing that their drinks are almost gone. “You want refills?”
“Yeah.” This time, they ordered different drinks for themselves.
“Will he be here tomorrow?” Koki asked.
“Ryuu?” Luke distractedly asked, multi-tasking because he was speaking telepathically with Ryuu at that moment. “Yeah, I think he has a shift tomorrow.” He answered, and then dole out the ordered drinks.
-----
At the Castle, Ryuu was furiously typing commands to counter and disable the security system that locked Omi and Nagi inside the enemy’s gas chamber.
Through the combined empathic-telepathic link Quatre and Schuldig set up prior to the mission tonight, Ryuu can feel Omi and Nagi panicking. That made him want to panic as well, but he needed to keep his head out of the clouds.
‘Stay strong. I will get you out there, I promise.’ He broadcasted to the two assassins that were far younger than he was.
After hitting the Enter key, his screen showed what he wanted to see.
SECURITY SYSTEM: DISABLED
‘Go!’ Ryuu instructed. ‘The most I can give you is five minutes.’
Nagi and Omi immediately scrambled out of the door.
Ryuu accessed the building’s security cameras, wanting to make sure that the two boys wouldn’t encounter a problem, but he suddenly lost access to the system.
“Shit!” Ryuu muttered angrily, trying to regain control of the security system. ‘They kicked me out of the system. You’re all on your own. Be careful! He sent out to the two, while fighting to reclaim access to the security.
‘Omi, Nagi, go back! NOW!” Brad suddenly ordered when he saw a strange ripple in the flow of future events. However, his warning came too late.
‘OMI!’ Nagi’s telepathic shout echoed through everyone present on the link.
Ryuu held his head in pain, trying to alleviate the strain caused by Nagi’s telepathic shout. He briefly heard Ken demanding what happened. They all felt Nagi’s intense pain... and that’s when they all realized Omi was no longer present in the link.
From where he and Trowa were situated, Quatre recoiled from the onset of Nagi’s unstable emotions. The uni-banged man took Quatre into his arms to try to calm him down.
At Schwarz, Schuldig stepped in and placed both Nagi and Quatre on different telepathic circuits so that the others will be able to concentrate on their respective tasks for this mission. Nagi, calm down. Panicking won’t help, you know that.’ He admonished young telekinetic.
‘How the fuck do you expect me to calm down when Omi has been shot, taking a bullet for me?’ Came the biting reply from the younger boy.
Schuldig smiled; at least the younger boy was swearing. That meant that Omi’s condition wasn’t as bad as they felt it was. ‘I’ll have Ryuu come to pick you up because I can’t leave the bar. Were you able to get the necessary paperwork?’
‘Yes we did, right before the security system managed to trap us down the gas chamber.’ Nagi replied, carefully dragging the fallen Omi to a safe place. Seeing Omi shot made Nagi lose control of his telekinetic powers. He made use of it by blasting the nearest concrete wall into pieces so that he could get them out of danger. ‘Omi needs medical care. Send Ryuu to the general vicinity of this area. I’ll contact him as soon as I find a secure place.’
‘Ryoukai.’ Schu answered, and sent Ryuu the details of his new mission through telepathy.
Ryuu didn’t need to be told twice; he grabbed Youji’s car keys, and left to find where Nagi and Omi were.
-----
Jin staggered out of the noisy club; the very same club where he got those quick one-night-stand-hoes he used to infuriate Kame by taking them back to their home.
He gulped, remembering the last time he saw Kame. ‘He was so upset with me...’ He thought, shaking his head a little, recalling the extreme hurt and anger on Kazuya’s face that night.
No matter what the others say, he loves Kame but being the idiot that he was, he had done nothing but hurt the only person in this world who was willing to accept him for who he was.
Except, of course, for his infidelity.
Not that he can blame the younger man.
Upon reaching the pedestrian crossing, he checked his right and left to see if it was safe to cross the street. Seeing that there were no cars present, he slowly walked across... only to have a speeding car almost hit him.
Almost, because the driver was able step on the car breaks at the nick of time.
Upset with an almost encounter with the grim reaper, Jin gave the driver the middle finger. After which, he walked his way over to the parked car to give the driver a piece of his mind.
Jin knocked on the driver’s window, prompting the other to open it. “Hey you idiot! This is the pedestrian crossing! Have the courtesy to slow down when passing one!” He irritably shouted when the driver didn’t open his window. Incensed, he knocked on the window again. “Open this damn window, or I swear I will--”
That did it; the driver’s window slowly opened, revealing the face of...
Back to Chapter Five / On to Chapter Seven
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A/N: Dun dun dun dun! Again, thus the plot thickens! XD
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!*huggles everyone who read this update*
Now, this is the first update of the year, and probably the last one I’m going to post until the school semester ends. I do hope it isn’t the last though! I mean, this semester won’t end until three months from now... I should be able to write updates in between classes, but just so that you won’t get... er... an empty promise, I’m saying this is the last update before April~ XD
I still owe many replies to your comments, so you would still receive comment notification from me... gomen ne? I initially wanted those comments cleared up before the New Year but things got busy with RL too. So! I’m going to make sure that those comments wouldn’t reach a year old because I haven’t been replying properly since April 2010~
Comments or violent reactions to this update are always ♥
Pairings: Akame
Fandoms: JE, Gundam Wing and Weiß Kreuz
Summary: Jin cheated and Kame had enough. He decided to leave show business -- in extension, Jin -- for good but Johnny-san didn’t allow that to happen. As an alternative, Johnny offered Kame an indefinite leave. Kame accepts the offer but with conditions involved: name change, complete privacy, and no demand for his return. On his way to living his new identity, he gets in an accident and finds himself with assassins, psychics and good terrorists with no recollection of who he was.
Chapter Six
“Thank you--” Ryuu paused. “I’m sorry?” He felt very uncomfortable with the intense gaze his guests threw his way. “Uh, so what can I serve you today?” He asked as he approached the bar area.
One guest cleared his throat, and answered. “One Slow Death, please.”
“No, make that four.” The tallest of the four said. “We’re all going to need it, I think.” He said sheepishly to his companions, and then the others gave their consent to have that order filled.
“Alright, four Slow death coming up.” Ryuu started working on it, and couldn’t help but ask when the staring didn’t stop. “Is there a problem?”
“No.” The effeminate man answered. “Sorry, we know it’s rude to stare but you look someone we know.”
“Ah.” Ryuu nodded, understanding the reason now. “Yeah, someone’s bound to have a doppelganger or two.” He gave the four mean a quick smile. Once done with the drinks, he slid one glass to each.
“What’s your name, master?” The effeminate man asked as he took a sip from his glass.
“Ryuu Shibahara. Yours?”
“I’m Ueda Tatsuya”
“Tanaka Koki.”
“Nakamaru Yuuichi.”
“Iriguchi, deguchi, Taguchi Junnosuke desu!”
Ryuu smiled at the pun Taguchi said. “That’s a really good pun.” He was amused to see that Junno took the compliment to heart.
“Don’t encourage him. He’ll go overboard!” Nakamaru groaned.
Ryuu snickered, getting all comfortable with the boys. “Why? I think it’s pure genius.”
“It is, but when it’s sprouted every minute, it tends to grate on your nerves.” Tanaka shared.
“Yeah, you’re lucky you don’t see him every day.” Nakamaru uncharacteristically pouted at the injustice of seeing Taguchi every day.
“Mou~~ you guys!” This time, it was Taguchi’s turn to pout and sulk.
Ryuu felt sorry for the other, so he patted the taller man’s head. “There, there~”
Taguchi whimpered for effect, and that got laughs from everybody. When Ryuu withdrew his hand, Taguchi whimpered louder and Tanaka couldn’t help smacking the other in the head.
“So...” Tanaka started. “You weren’t here last night.”
“It wasn’t my shift last night.” Ryuu explained.
“Oh.” The man looked lost for words. “How long have you worked here?”
“Ever since the club opened, so about four years now.”
“How old are you?” Another question, this time it came from Nakamaru.
“24.” Ryuu grinned. “What is this, 20 questions?”
Nakamaru laughed. “Yeah, something about that.”
“So if it’s 20 questions, do I get to have a turn?”
“Sure. Fire away.” Junno confidently said.
“What do you all do? You guys don’t look like salary men.”
The four laughed at the question.
“Yeah, we’re not salary men. We’re...” Taguchi trailed... looking at the others for approval. “We’re idols. Maybe you’ve heard of us, we’re from KAT-TUN.”
Ryuu winced. “Sorry, I don’t follow Japanese Entertainment.”
“You don’t?” Ueda asked.
Ryuu shook his head. “Yeah, I don’t.”
“So you don’t have any idea who your look alike is?” Koki asked, laughingly.
“No.” Ryuu cleared his throat before answering. “I don’t really go out much, so this is the first time someone told me that I have a look alike.” He gave the others a guarded look. “What, this look alike of mine... did he do anything bad to you? Is he an asshole?”
“No, the opposite actually, he’s a softie.” Nakamaru smiled fondly. “Kamenashi Kazuya, that’s the name of your double. He’s our band mate. He’s... on indefinite leave right now for medical reasons.”
“Is it that serious?” Ryuu worried for his double.
“Oh, no, he just needs rest.” Ueda sighed. “We’re hoping he’d come back soon... but the chances for that are very slim.”
“Why?”
“He... uh, he overworked himself. He’s not allowed to work unless the doctor gives a go-signal.” Taguchi quickly covered it up. “Enough about Kame-chan; we still have 15 questions left for you to answer!”
Ryuu understood that the others were concealing something about this Kamenashi Kazuya, but since it wasn’t his business, he let it go.
“How do you want us to call you?” Tanaka asked. “Because we’re going to be regulars here, I think it’d be cooler if we call you by your first name.”
“Ryuu would be fine.”
“What about Ryuu-chan?” Koki negotiated, adding an endearing suffix.
“Er... that’s okay, I guess.”
“So Ryuu-chan it is!”
Ryuu wasn’t really getting the flow of the conversation, but since his customers were happy, then that’s okay.
“Call us by our first names too.” Ueda started.
“Okay. So Tatsuya, Yuuichi, Junnosuke, and Koki?” Ryuu listed, and the other four nodded blissfully when he got their names correctly.
Just then, Luke came out of the kitchen. “Ryuu, I’ll take over for you here. Nagi and Omi needs you.”
“Ryoukai.” Ryuu bid goodbye to his four new customers.
When Ryuu was gone, Luke gave them a smile seeing that their drinks are almost gone. “You want refills?”
“Yeah.” This time, they ordered different drinks for themselves.
“Will he be here tomorrow?” Koki asked.
“Ryuu?” Luke distractedly asked, multi-tasking because he was speaking telepathically with Ryuu at that moment. “Yeah, I think he has a shift tomorrow.” He answered, and then dole out the ordered drinks.
-----
At the Castle, Ryuu was furiously typing commands to counter and disable the security system that locked Omi and Nagi inside the enemy’s gas chamber.
Through the combined empathic-telepathic link Quatre and Schuldig set up prior to the mission tonight, Ryuu can feel Omi and Nagi panicking. That made him want to panic as well, but he needed to keep his head out of the clouds.
‘Stay strong. I will get you out there, I promise.’ He broadcasted to the two assassins that were far younger than he was.
After hitting the Enter key, his screen showed what he wanted to see.
SECURITY SYSTEM: DISABLED
‘Go!’ Ryuu instructed. ‘The most I can give you is five minutes.’
Nagi and Omi immediately scrambled out of the door.
Ryuu accessed the building’s security cameras, wanting to make sure that the two boys wouldn’t encounter a problem, but he suddenly lost access to the system.
“Shit!” Ryuu muttered angrily, trying to regain control of the security system. ‘They kicked me out of the system. You’re all on your own. Be careful! He sent out to the two, while fighting to reclaim access to the security.
‘Omi, Nagi, go back! NOW!” Brad suddenly ordered when he saw a strange ripple in the flow of future events. However, his warning came too late.
‘OMI!’ Nagi’s telepathic shout echoed through everyone present on the link.
Ryuu held his head in pain, trying to alleviate the strain caused by Nagi’s telepathic shout. He briefly heard Ken demanding what happened. They all felt Nagi’s intense pain... and that’s when they all realized Omi was no longer present in the link.
From where he and Trowa were situated, Quatre recoiled from the onset of Nagi’s unstable emotions. The uni-banged man took Quatre into his arms to try to calm him down.
At Schwarz, Schuldig stepped in and placed both Nagi and Quatre on different telepathic circuits so that the others will be able to concentrate on their respective tasks for this mission. Nagi, calm down. Panicking won’t help, you know that.’ He admonished young telekinetic.
‘How the fuck do you expect me to calm down when Omi has been shot, taking a bullet for me?’ Came the biting reply from the younger boy.
Schuldig smiled; at least the younger boy was swearing. That meant that Omi’s condition wasn’t as bad as they felt it was. ‘I’ll have Ryuu come to pick you up because I can’t leave the bar. Were you able to get the necessary paperwork?’
‘Yes we did, right before the security system managed to trap us down the gas chamber.’ Nagi replied, carefully dragging the fallen Omi to a safe place. Seeing Omi shot made Nagi lose control of his telekinetic powers. He made use of it by blasting the nearest concrete wall into pieces so that he could get them out of danger. ‘Omi needs medical care. Send Ryuu to the general vicinity of this area. I’ll contact him as soon as I find a secure place.’
‘Ryoukai.’ Schu answered, and sent Ryuu the details of his new mission through telepathy.
Ryuu didn’t need to be told twice; he grabbed Youji’s car keys, and left to find where Nagi and Omi were.
-----
Jin staggered out of the noisy club; the very same club where he got those quick one-night-stand-hoes he used to infuriate Kame by taking them back to their home.
He gulped, remembering the last time he saw Kame. ‘He was so upset with me...’ He thought, shaking his head a little, recalling the extreme hurt and anger on Kazuya’s face that night.
No matter what the others say, he loves Kame but being the idiot that he was, he had done nothing but hurt the only person in this world who was willing to accept him for who he was.
Except, of course, for his infidelity.
Not that he can blame the younger man.
Upon reaching the pedestrian crossing, he checked his right and left to see if it was safe to cross the street. Seeing that there were no cars present, he slowly walked across... only to have a speeding car almost hit him.
Almost, because the driver was able step on the car breaks at the nick of time.
Upset with an almost encounter with the grim reaper, Jin gave the driver the middle finger. After which, he walked his way over to the parked car to give the driver a piece of his mind.
Jin knocked on the driver’s window, prompting the other to open it. “Hey you idiot! This is the pedestrian crossing! Have the courtesy to slow down when passing one!” He irritably shouted when the driver didn’t open his window. Incensed, he knocked on the window again. “Open this damn window, or I swear I will--”
That did it; the driver’s window slowly opened, revealing the face of...
Back to Chapter Five / On to Chapter Seven
-----
A/N: Dun dun dun dun! Again, thus the plot thickens! XD
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!*huggles everyone who read this update*
Now, this is the first update of the year, and probably the last one I’m going to post until the school semester ends. I do hope it isn’t the last though! I mean, this semester won’t end until three months from now... I should be able to write updates in between classes, but just so that you won’t get... er... an empty promise, I’m saying this is the last update before April~ XD
I still owe many replies to your comments, so you would still receive comment notification from me... gomen ne? I initially wanted those comments cleared up before the New Year but things got busy with RL too. So! I’m going to make sure that those comments wouldn’t reach a year old because I haven’t been replying properly since April 2010~
Comments or violent reactions to this update are always ♥