Not What It Seems
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Not What It Seems
~Part II~
"I'm sorry, Totchi."
"You hate me now, don't you, Kaoru?" I whispered. That's why you're sorry, you can't bring yourself to love me anymore because... "I'm ugly."
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What?! I can't believe he just said that! I released him
from my embrace and grabbed him by the shoulders, "Toshiya!-"
But all my anger melted at the sight of his tears...what can I say to make him believe me? I can't think of anything right now, so I did the only thing that came to my mind.
I kissed him.
Finally, after I think he got my message, I reluctantly pulled back.
"Totchi, aishiteru."
He eyes widened, but he blushed nonetheless. I smiled... he smiled...
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A knock on the door disrupted the cozy atmosphere in the room. At the sound of the door opening, Kaoru stood up and all attention was directed at the people entering the room.
A tall dirty-blonde man entered first. "How are you feeling, Toshiya?" he asked the blue-haired bassist.
"How am I supposed to feel, Yoshiki-sama?" Toshiya replied a bit angrily.
Yoshiki moved into the room a bit uncomfortably, and following behind him were two police officers. Die raised an eyebrow at that.
At times when Kaoru is unfit to play the leader role (which was rare), and this was one of those times, Die automatically takes on that responsibility.
"These gentlemen have a few questions for Toshiya," Yoshiki answered Die's unspoken question.
Kaoru moved back to Toshiya's side protectively when he sense the bassist freeze.
"Just a few quick questions," one officer, the older of the two, added quickly.
The younger one --clearly the higher ranking one- who, having climbed to his position at such a young age, carried with him an air of snobbish arrogance, insensitively got 'straight to the point.' Ignoring Toshiya's discomfort, he bluntly asked the question, "Do you remember the face of the person who raped you?"
Toshiya's head remained bowed, but his grip on his blanket tightened. Both Kaoru and Shinya's eyes harden at the question, and both sent killing glares at the officer. The rest just stared at him, disbelieve scribbled all over their faces.
"What are you all staring at? You want us to catch the creep? Then we need answers," he continued with his indifferent tone. He turned to his elderly subordinate 'partner' with an irritated expression when he felt the older man nudge him in the arm. "What??" his demanded in a voice that didn't bother to hide the irritation. After rolling his eyes at the older officer, he turned back to the bassist, once again demanding an answer to his question.
Kaoru was ready to get up and knock the lights out of the self-satisfied bastard when Shinya spoke up in an unusually harsh voice, "Get out."
"Excuse me?" the younger officer snarled.
"I said 'Get. Out.'!" Shinya enunciated each word through clenched teeth. "You're not welcomed here."
The officer took a menacing step toward the frail-looking drummer. "I'm not going anywhere until I get my answers, and I doubt you will be able to make me," the officer gestured at his stronger build, "leave."
"I'm sure together we can," Kyo spoke up glaring at the jerk.
"LEAVE!" Kaoru repeated Shinya's order, while Die held the door open.
Still, the officer did not budge, casting an expectant look at Yoshiki: expecting the producer to say something to make the band members cooperate. Yoshiki opened his mouth to speak, but what came out was the opposite of what the officer expected, "I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave."
"ExCUSE ME??"
"You heard me," the producer replied calmly. "I thought that you, being an accomplished officer at this young age, would know how to deal with situations like this one, obviously I was wrong." Then, turning to Toshiya, Yoshiki said what no one would have ever thought he'd say in a tone no one would've ever thought he'd use, "I'm sorry that my misjudgement of character put you through such an embarrassing and undeserved interrogation by an all-in-all JERK!" By the time, he reached the last part of the sentence, he was sending glares of death at the younger officer.
All DEG members were so surprised at their producer's newfound apologetic tone that they had, for a moment, forgotten about their task of shoving said jerk out the door, but only for a moment. By the end of Yoshiki's apology, Shinya was already pushing the young officer towards the direction of the door with surprising strength. With one final shove from the drummer, the officer stumbled out into the hallway as the door slammed shut behind him.
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"Well, well, well, rojin-sama ¹," Die turned to the remaining older officer. "Are you going to wisely step out by yourself? Or would you rather us hurl you out the door like we did to your partner?"
The officer cleared his throat indignantly. "First of all, Die-san, you can address me as Nagamoro-san. Secondly," Nagamoro-san turned to face the bassist, "I apologize for my partner's lack of concern and sensitivity to your position." He bowed slightly to emphasize his sincerity. "But nevertheless," he continued, straightening his back, "you're cooperation is crucial to our successful completion of this assignment. Since you're the victim and the only who knows what really happened, you're our only link to capturing the scum. I hope you understand, Toshiya-san."
Toshiya's head was bowed during the Nagamoro's speech, and his head remained bowed after the speech was over.... Kaoru took that as a sign that says his lover is not yet ready to face questioning. The purple-haired guitarist was about to say just that when the figure in the bed quietly said, "I understand, I'll try my best to answer all your questions."
Nagamoro-san smiled reassuringly, "Arigatou,...well catch that bastard!"
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"Do you remember the face of your assailant?"
"Assailants," came the whispered reply.
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
"Assailants... it was more than one person that attacked me..." A tightening of his hold on his lover's hand.
"Do you remember how many?" Gentle prodding.
"Three... maybe four.. I can't remember that well... I had a few drinks and was a bit tipsy when they suddenly jumped me out of nowhere." A shudder.
"Then...do you think you remember their appearance? Or maybe what they wore? Things like that?"
"...."
"Toshiya-san?"
"No... not really... the only thing that stood out vividly in my memory was a bright-orange, hooded sweater..." the humiliation... and the pain....
"Erm... do you... can you recall how many of them... 'violated' you?"
The slender figure stiffened. "I. wasn't. raped." Each word was forced through clenched teeth.
"Toshiya-san, I understand how upset you are...but you need to snap out of your denial and--"
"I'm NOT in denial! I. Wasn't. Raped!" Eyes flashing in anger.
To be continued...
(1) Rojin-sama: old person (we all know what "-sama" means, ne? ^_~)
POST-FICCIE RAMBLINGS: well, well, well... what a surprising turn of events ne? >)
Hmm.... what DID happen? Bwahahahahah! >D... wait for the next part to find out! (Hopefully x__x;)...
Neways...C&C are desperately begged for! ::PLEASE SEND C&C! PLEASE!::
Okies now! Till next time!
~Gackt no hime
to be continued...
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