364 days without you - chapter 9
KoKame
mrs_koki's request
Multichapter!
Rating: PG
Warning: Character Death
Summary: Every year a secret masked halloween ball takes place underground. Little do people know that this is actually the hunting grounds for a few creatures of the underworld. On Kame's first time there he meets Koki, who is not what he seems...
Notes: Unbeted, I suck at summaries.... for the Trick or Treat challenge. After about 3 rewrites, there is the next part :) but that somehow lead to a death, another new character, a bigger twist for the ending AND helped me work out how to finish this story!! I had an idea the whole time but I had no idea how it would work, but now its all slotting into place. So stop reading my Auther Note, and read the chapter! hee hee
Do you wanna dance?
You got lucky you know
I don’t want to kill you
I’m what you call an Incubus
My heart won’t let me
I’m sorry I hurt you with my existence
I don’t think you should come to the ball anymore, you should stay away.
Kame’s eyes fluttered open, the pain still echoing slightly in his chest. He rolled over onto his side, reaching for his phone. The light was bright in the darkness when he unlocked it and stared at the screen…
Nothing.
Since Koki text him after Halloween the year before, he had never text again. Kame could tell that Koki just listed off his worries in the texts to Kame, the first one starting with apologies, the second was begging for him to accept Koki, then the texts after that oozed with concern, asking if Kame was ok and then lastly, asking Kame to never come to the ball again. Even if it was Kame’s own safety, he felt anger at Koki for telling him to stay away, and pain because Koki didn’t give him enough time to deal with it all.
After all it was too much information in such a short period of time. But the more Kame thought about it, the more willing he was to accept Koki. Everyone had their own dark side, why couldn’t Koki have one? But then again, comparing Koki’s Incubus side to Kame’s not-a-morning-person or Ueda’s deceptive-sadistic-side was not really the same…
Kame sighed, there was only a few more weeks until the ball, and despite what Koki had said to him, he had to go, he had to see him.
He had to make things right.
-☯-
The doorbell interrupted their dinner. Kame raised an eyebrow at Ueda, but he simply shook his head in return. They weren’t expecting anyone. Reluctant to leave his food, Ueda stood up and went to answer the door. Kame continued eating, whoever it was, it was most likely for Ueda anyway. He didn’t expect Ueda to come back with two people behind him looking beyond worried. Kame stared in confusion as he recognised one of the guys, and his expression didn’t mean any good news was going to come from this.
“Massu right?” Kame brought their two guests coffee… as he placed the cups down on the table, he didn’t miss Ueda’s wide eyed reaction at him knowing one of them. “I met him at the ball last year” Kame supplied, but that didn’t stop the worry and slight panic in Ueda’s face. Kame frowned, why was Ueda so worried? Kame hoped that his suspicious last year weren’t true.
“Yeah, sorry to drop by on you like this. This is Tegoshi.” Massu indicated to the younger guy sitting next to him on the couch, who smiled brightly back at him but Kame could feel his eyes inspecting him, analysing him.
“Nice to meet you… sorry if I am being rude, but how did you find me?” Massu glanced down before he spoke.
“Kame… Kamenashi Kazuya… what I am about to say is to stay between us.” He glanced quickly at Ueda, “I’ve actually been looking for you for some time now. And I have some questions and favours to as you. I hope that you would be able to comply with them.” Kame stared back in shock, what on earth was Massu getting all serious for. Kame wasn’t even sure he could trust Massu. Kame nodded cautiously.
“Last year Yuichi went missing” Kame’s eyes widened in surprise, this was not what he was expecting.
“Wait… Yuichi went missing?” Even if he didn’t know them that well, it was still a shock.
“For the last 25 years, that we have on record that is, people have gone missing on Halloween night. Many people would say they were spirited away, but after some careful research we found that they all have a connection.”
“They went to the ball” Ueda supplied. All three looked at him, it was an obvious answer but Ueda was frowning. Kame could see what was coming before it happened and let out a small sigh before Ueda exploded, he jumped to his feet and got right up into Kame’s face.
“I told you!! That ball is dangerous and that we should avoid it. And look what happened, someone went missing again! First Jin, then this Yuichi guy. Can you really say to me that you are sure that Ko…” Kame slammed his hand over Ueda’s mouth.
“Koki was gone, left, went home in the middle of the night” Despite how composed Kame appeared, Koki was still a bit of a sensitive subject, “And I saw Yuichi after he left, so don’t you dare go and blame him”
“I’m sorry to interrupt, but I’m going to need you to explain this to me. Firstly, you know Akanishi Jin who went missing a couple of years ago? Can you tell me your relationship with him… and secondly, can you explain who this Koki guy is and how he is possibly related?”
“I’m sorry, I don’t think I could even if I wanted to. It’s personal…” Kame answered politely. There was no way he was about to tell a stranger that Koki was a succubus who killed his cheating ex. Speaking of which, how did they know Jin? This was getting suspicious. Kame narrowed his eyes at them, hoping to work it out before it was too late.
But he didn’t have to as he got his answer when Massu took a deep breath before taking something out of his pocket and placing it down on the table. Kame stared at it for a while, this put him in a difficult position.
“I knew something was off with you two last year” Kame answered, “But I didn’t expect you to be with the police” Ueda sat down next to him, clearly having calmed down now. Kame understood the panic that was on Ueda’s face when he let them in. They must have asked him to stay quiet in front of Kame.
“We actually wanted to ask you about Koyama” Massu said, finally getting to the point.
“Koyama?” Kame frowned, he didn’t get pleasant vibes from him.
“Who’s that?” Ueda asked.
“He’s the guy I crashed into when you tried to pull me out last time. I ran into him again”
“Well, it seems like Yuichi ran into him too.” With that, Tegoshi pulled out an envelope and emptied photos out onto the table. “These are all from Halloween last year… Tegoshi, you’ve messed them up by doing that” Massu reprimanded his partner’s ungraceful way of showing the photos.
“As you can see, Yuichi shared a drink with Koyama,” Massu held up a picture. The two could be seen sitting in the same booth which Kame sat in. “After that, it seems that Yuichi got a little sleepy part way through their conversation and Koyama helped him into one of the VIP booths” The next picture showed Koyama laughing as if mid-joke, he was supporting Yuichi and helping him towards the VIP area. Kame had a horrible feeling.
“Kame… you don’t think…”
“Not now Ueda” Kame kept staring at the photos that were handed over to him, as he scanned his eyes across the others that lay on the table, he could see a variety of people’s faces. There were even pictures of him in the car park on the phone where he met the two men for the first time.
“Kame…” Ueda nudged him, Kame wanted to ignore him for a moment as he thought over how smoothly Koyama had gained his attention, how he hadn’t even suspected anything until they went to the bar and Okura seemed weary of him.
“Oh god…” Kame muttered, if he didn’t get away from Koyama, it would have been him, not Yuichi.
“As you can see, we sought you out because earlier in the evening the two of you were together for a long time.” Massu handed pictures over to him, ones of him crying, talking with Koyama and sitting having a drink. Then one of him excusing himself and leaving.
Kame put the photos down, if all the information he learnt last year wasn’t enough. Finding out that Koyama was also a demon chilled him to the bone, after all that was the only explanation.
“Also, you were seen coming out of one of the VIP booths, so we were hoping you could give us some information about this so we can try and stop these incidents from happening.”
Kame glanced across the photos again, his eyes catching one in particular. He pulled it out from underneath another one. In the photo he could see Junno and Koki talking. Koki has his mask on but it didn’t hide the tears that were dripping down his cheek. He never realised how distressed Koki was, sure the other couldn’t lie to him anymore, but surely if he cared this much he would have text him back.
“Oh god was that freak wearing the same outfit again last year?” Ueda asked as he stared over his shoulder at the picture.
“Why? You interested in his constant vampire outfit or what lies under it?” Kame joked… then paused before looking back at the photo… If Junno was friends with Koki, that meant he too was a demon… and judging by how he never changes his outfit, he must either love vampires or be one.
“Oh god, no, look at him! I don’t think anyone would find that much dork attractive” Ueda answered, before returning to looking through the other photos. Kame slowly put the photos back on the table.
“And what is this favour that you want from me?”
“We want information, and your assistance.” Massu answered.
“You’d have to help us get into the club, assist us in the venue if we need it, and to give us any information which would be useful for the case.” Tegoshi further supplied. Kame could see Ueda frown next to him, but before Ueda could protest against going to the ball again, Kame chipped in.
“If… if I help you, would you keep me out of this case?” Kame asked quietly, he knew that they were only asking now to give him a choice, but if he refused he’d be asked by authority to help, which he couldn’t refuse. He wanted to go to the ball and fix things with Koki, but from the looks of it, this year something bigger was going to happen.
“You’d be classed as an anonymous assistance, plus we will do all we can to protect you.” Tegoshi supplied. Kame sighed… He better let the police know at least one thing.
“Yuichi is most likely dead” Kame supplied. “As are all the other missing people”
“And how would you know that?” Massu asked, raising an eyebrow at him.
“Because I was nearly one of them five years ago” Ueda froze next to him, wide eyes turning on him.
“WHAT?! Kame, you never said that to me before”
“I didn’t really know how much danger I was in until last year. I got away before anything…. bad happened”
“And what happened?” Kame bit his lip, unsure if he could tell this. He turned towards Ueda.
“I want you to understand it is different now, things are a lot different now. Right now we are talking about Koyama, not Koki, but… it probably started with Koki” Ueda’s eyes narrowed.
“You know don’t you?”
A long pause…
“I know.”