Chapter 5 - What happened ?
Author : me
Rating : pg-13
Disclaimer : just the story. .
Summary : Sometimes what you call ordinary is extraordinary
Author's note : i'm sorry for the late update ! ! i really wisy i have my own internet so i can update faster, but i don't. T_T
Chapter 5 - What Happened ?
Ryosuke wake up feeling pain in his body, especially his chest. His head is spinning and he finds it hard to move. He’s awake but his eyelids felt heavy. He can feel a masker covering his lower face to support his breathing. He also can feel something attached on his left arm, while something warm holding his right palm. As he finally manage to open up his eyes, he faced with yet an unfamiliar room which he recognizes as one of the Healer’s ward. He turns slowly and found his father sleeping on the chair with his head laying on the bed and hand gripping his right hand.
“He never left you since you passed out.” A sudden sound came from the other side of the room.
“Ko…” Ryosuke try to speak yet there’s no voice comes out.
“Your mother is now resting after Eisuke-kun told her to. She was a real mess back then. She’d been by your side for 20-hours non-stop without rest nor food, trying to heal you.” the speaker inform Ryosuke as he walks closer toward him until he stops once he’s standing by Ryosuke’s side.
Ryosuke is now staring weakly at the boy couple years older than him. He seems like he’d live a tough life for years. He has this expressionless look on his face, but his eyes shows curiousity.
“How’s your feeling ?” he asks the boy on the bed.
“I-I’m f-fine.” Ryosuke manage to answer with his hoarse voice. Ryosuke know that the other boy wanted more, so he choose to avoid eye-contact and staring at the ceiling instead.
“Mind telling me what was going on ?” he still ask the younger boy despite his unspoken denial of explanation.
Ryosuke just stay still after the older boy’s question. He indeed had no idea about what was happening, though he felt some weird feeling toward the girl they met, he can’t figured out the puzzle just yet. But he promise himself that he will, no matter what happen he will, figure it all out. And until he did, he doubt it if he can be able to tell the others about it. It was always his way of working, after he learnt of how it felt like for being betrayed.
Ryosuke can hear the other boy is releasing a deep breath. “I’ts alright if you don’t want to tell me now. But you know you can always tell me everything.” He speaks sincerely. “I guess I’ll be leaving now and let you rest more.” He starts to walk away.
“Kota…” Ryosuke calls him before he reached the door.
The boy turns to face his caller, “Yes ?”
“Arigatou. If you weren’t there last night, I might have …”
“Don’t mind that.” He cuts Ryosuke’s words as he gives the younger boy a tender smile. And with that, Yabu Kota leave the room.
Ryosuke curve his lips upward. Kota was never a warm person, yet he’d been kind and cared for Ryosuke a lot. He’s like an older brother for Ryosuke. He remembered how Kota used to lifted him to his shoulder so he could catch some dragonflies. Or how Kota was always treated him a strawberry ice-cream behind his father’s back when he was sick to cheered him. Kota was even more real than his real brother. But those were before Kota was promoted into an assassin of the Shadow Division. Ryosuke rarely met him out of assignments business. Now, come to think about it, Ryosuke realized how he missed those moments.
“Ryosuke.” A familiar voice snapped him back to reality.
Ryosuke turn back to face the now awake figure on his right. “Otou-sama.”
The man next to him smiles as he starts rubbing his son’s hair soothingly. “I’m glad you’re finally awake.” He speaks softly. “And did I always told you to not to be too formal to me ?” he adds.
“Aah.” Ryosuke replies weakly.
“So how are you feeling ?” the older man ask.
“Fine.” Ryosuke seeing his father’s face and found him frown. “Well I indeed feel weak and my whole body is aching, especially my chest.” He slowly touch his own chest.
“Tell me, what made you passed out before ?” his father ask again.
“I’m not sure…” Ryosuke frowns. “All I know is that when we fought, I began to feel exceptably tired and suddenly, I felt pain on my chest. I started to lose my breath. It was like air were sucked from my lungs. Just like the old days…” Ryosuke close his eyes.
Then Ryosuke can feel something warm touches his forehead and see his father is kissing him when he open his eyes. “Daijobu. You’ll be fine now. Me and your mom will make sure that.”
Ryosuke is smiling softly. “Anou, tou-chan ?” he calls up.
“hmm ?” responded his father.
“Can I go back to my room ? I don’t like this room. ” Ryosuke ask his father.
“Why ?” his father ask him back.
“It’s just, it felt uncomfortable here.” Ryosuke half-lied to his father. There’s another reason why he doesn’t like this room. Strangely, this room reminds him a lot with the room where he last saw his real father and it scared him. Unconsciously, he begins to trembling at the memory.
“n-no…” he whispers.
*FLASHBACK*
Little Ryosuke was happy that day since he got the perfect score in his math test as he promised his father. He skipped along the way home, couln’t wait to tell his father about this and hear him praise him and say that he’s proud of him.
He opened the front door happily and shouted, “Tadaima !” As expected no one was answering. His mother was out for ‘work’ and his brother was out with some random people Ryosuke didn’t even wanted to know. And his father was probably just out for some groceries or something else. It was just that his father was a bit reckless for not locking the door.
He ran straightly to his father’s small lab to wait him back. His father was a scientist, so he was almost always spending his time surrounded by his experiments in his white room. He gripped his test paper tight as smile just widened when he heard a familiar voices inside his father’s lab. It meant that his father was home, maybe he was just asleep or somewhat so he didn’t answered Ryosuke before.
Ryosuke eagerly opened the door behind him smiling. “Otou-san…” he called but then stopped at the sight in front of him. He dropped the paper he held as his smile was also dropped and turned into a shocked face. There was a man hanging in his white coat already lifeless right before Ryosuke’s eyes.
“OTOU-SAN !!!” he screamed.
Another white room. It’s just this room was empty. There was only a bed with a dead occupant on it. Ryosuke approached the bed and stared at the pale face of his father crying.
“N-no… Otou-san no… You said you won’t leave me…” he cried. “P-please don’t leave me…”
*END OF FLASHBACK*
“Otou-san…” Ryosuke unconsciously crying uncontrollably.
“Ryosuke !” his father hug him tight.
“D-don’t leave me…” he cries to his father’s chest.
“I won’t. You’ll be just fine. Don’t worry.” His father tries to comfort him.
Ryosuke keep crying, but then his sobs is decreasing little by little. Until he stops for good. His father slowly pulled apart and see his son is sleeping already.
‘He must be having flashbacks. Now he cried himself to sleep.’ The Paladin thought. He starts caressing his son’s hair slowly.
“I’ll protect you from now my son.” He whispers slowly.
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The next time Ryosuke awaken, he’s already in his room. His mother was there and she looked all tired. However, her face turn brighter the moment she saw Ryosuke opened up his eyes. She immediately grab some foods for Ryosuke and returned a few min later. She insists him to eat though Ryosuke refused to. But in the end, Ryosuke can’t resist his mother’s will as he starts to eat his meal.
“How are you feeling right now ?” she asks her still eating son.
“Much better.” Ryosuke answered between his chews.
“Good then.” His mother smile brightly.
“Ne, Ka-chan ?” called Ryosuke.
“Nani ?” her mother simply replies.
“What happened ? I mean, this kind of incident never happened again since you claimed me clean couple years ago.” He asks her bluntly.
His mother seemed hesitate first, but once she looks at those innocent eyes of his son, she decides to tell him the truth she knew.
“Dear, I don’t know exactly about what was happened, but I was quite sure you were poisoned, and I found the source is came from your wonded cheek. Whatever hurted your cheek, had power to somehow weakened your body system. Or precisely, it made your body remember the state of your most fragile times. That’s the conclusion that I can produce for now.” She informs her son. Seein the sorrow expression in his face, she immediately add, “But it will only last temporarily. For how long I’m not quite sure. But I believe it will be gone soon.” She smiles sincerely.
Ryosuke just smile back at her. “Arigatou, Ka-chan. For doing so much for me.” He tries to make his mother believe that he’s okay and that he’s grateful for her. However, deep inside his heart, he can’t deny that he feels helpless and weak. “Ka-chan.” He calls his mother.
“What is it dear ?” his mother respond.
“I’m tired. I want to rest up now.” Replies the boy quietly.
His mother give him another smile. “I’ll leave you then.”
“Mind if I ask you a favor ?” he asks without seeing his mother’s eyes.
“Of course you do sweetheart.” She starts caressing his hair slowly.
“I, I want you to sing me the song that you used to sang when I, was young, will you ?” he speaks in a bare audible voice, but that’s enough for his mother to hear and smile.
“Mochiron.” She says gently.
Ryosuke smile. “Arigatou.”
And after that, his mother starts to sing him a song while caressing his hair soothingly until he drifted off to slumber. Then his mother covered his body with his blanket and slowly leave him with a sad smile in his face.
~~~~~~~~~~tbc
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