“So tell me, why did you kill that man?”

“And what's in it for me if I tell you...huh?”

“Right about that, if you tell everything truthfully then you will be spared and won't have to stay here in the cell”

“Tell me something Mr Policeman, do you believe in righteous judgement? ”

“Yes, I do since I’m a police officer....”

“I see”

“But why do you ask me that?”

“Didn’t you want to know if I killed him or not?”

“umm....”

“You see I’ll tell you this much for now that I didn’t kill that man,

I didn’t even know him and you can even check my call history or

anything you want, you have known me since childhood why won't you

believe me?”

“We didn’t meet for 6years and I don’t what you have been up to so I

can't say that I trust you since I didn’t know you for that long, time

changes everyone you know”

“I...I have nothing to say to that”

“I see, so would you continue with what you were saying?”

”I~”

...

Life is not good for all people, I’m one of those unlucky people.

I had a perfect life until I turned 8, my mom and dad got divorced

and my mom married a new guy. I had made a mistake of choosing my mom

and not my dad...I often wonder if I had chosen dad would my life been

much simpler and better? But then if I went with dad I wouldn’t have met

him.

My name is Watanabe Reo. I have this best friend who always treats me

gently when I have scars that I get from my step-father every day, his

name is Kobayashi Asahi. My best friend who I had gradually fallen in

love with and I was sure that if I told him he would still be my friend

and not be like most of the other people(like spreading rumours). I had

gathered all my courage to tell him, but once I see his smiling face I

get so nervous that I can’t tell him and I end up telling him that I was

just fooling around.

Right now I’m at his house sitting right next to him and playing

video games, he is too close, I can smell the shampoo that I had given

to him. Summer vacation rocks man!

“Hey, I know I’m handsome but if you don't focus on the game you’re gonna lose, you know”

“You and handsomeness are worlds apart dude”

“Yeah, yeah but the popularity of mine in school says it all”

“Right”

GAME OVER

“Looks like I won again”

“That’s not fair, even though you were not concentrating on the game you still won, are you sure you’re a human Reo?”

“What else would I be? Look at the time, I need to go home now, see you later”

“Bye”

That was the last time I saw him, the 17th summer. I had spent the

entire time with him playing games and reading mangas. I never knew what

horrors were there after I left his home that day. I enjoyed it while

it lasted and hence starts our story.

The horrors I felt were not worth mentioning as I wanted to bottle them inside me forever, but nothing lasts forever.

After 6 years I met Asahi again, in a pub.

“Hey man, how have you been?”

“REO? Where have you been all these years? You suddenly disappeared you could have at least called me or something”

“Uh, yeah but you know I was really busy”

“Hmm, busy with what?”

“I went out to study, my step-father made it happen suddenly so yeah...”

“All is forgiven, So tell me did you find yourself a woman or something?”

“Ummm, who would love an idiot like me Asa”

The one I like is you, you idiot

“what?? seriously?”

“Yeah, so tell me how’s your life been?”

“Good, nothing worth mentioning except that I’m a police officer now and sometimes I work with this gentleman here who is a detective”

“Wow, You made your dream come true man, I wish I could do mine though, but you know my linework is a little bit risky, hehehe”

“Risky, huh? What do you do these days?”

“I’m just a, a yeah I’m just a factory worker”

We chatted away like good old buddies again and exchanged our new numbers, as we said goodbye to one another. As I walked back home I felt uneasy so I decided to go back home for the night.

“Something feels off, I haven’t felt like this for a while now, looks like someone is on my tail, I need to be more careful from now on”

My sense of danger never fails to be wrong even for just a minute, and that's what I had felt when I met Asahi again, I wonder if he will be an obstacle in my course of work.

I looked out of the window and surely there were two men in Black suits talking among each other just below my apartment, they are from ‘Sentosa organisation’ How I know that? The pin in their ears act as communication transmitter, oh well they won’t try anything, maybe I should move.

...

Maybe I should call Asashi over tonight in case try anything, having a police with me would be safe right?

*ring ring*

“Asa do you wanna come to my house tonight?”

“Dang you beat me to it, I though I was going to be the one to call first anyways, Why do you want me to come to your house in the middle of the night? Is something wrong?”

“Nothing’s wrong, just for old times lets drink in my house I will be busy from tomorrow so I won’t be having much time to talk to you or meet you so I thought if it’s for today we could catch up since 2 hours was not enough to do all the talking”

“Sure, text me your address since I don’t know it”

“Did, before calling you!”

“Wow, do you think 10 steps ahead? You never change....I’ll be there, oh your place is quite near to mine”

“hehehe, come then”

“yeah, 5 min and i’ll be there”

*click*

I kept the phone down and looked outside the window again, they were still there, I wonder if Asahi will talk to them to ask what they are doing there.

....

I heard some bickering noise outside in about 3-4 min, I looked down to find Asahi and the two guys arguing with something I wonder what its all about. Then I saw Asahi come inside the building as the two men went away.

*ding dong ding dong*

“Coming just a minute”

I opened the door and Asahi came in with a cheerful smile on his face

“Hey there, Reo I bought some snacks to go with the beer”

“Welcome”

He entered and straight went to the kitchen, he put his snacks down and took out all the beer cans I had.

“Will you be able to drink all of them?”

“hehehe! Let’s see”

“Competition in drinking too? geez You never change as well”

We sat down in front of the TV and started talking about the old days and what happened to us in our lives when we had been separated,

“So, what happened during your stay in China Reo?”

“N-nothing m-much”

“Hmmm...are you hiding something?”

“Nah, say what were you talking to those guys down there?”

“Oh those people from the Sentosa Organisation?”

“Y-you know them?”

“Nah, but I know where they come from since I have met them a lot of time during my cases”

“Oh”

“Well I was asking them why they were here and they said it was none of my business and then I showed them that I was a cop they told me they were looking for some person with the code name Routaru or something like that”

My eyes widened and I almost spit my drink out....thank god he doesn’t know my code name.

Code names are given by the leader of the yakuza tribe and followed through and through and somehow the three different organisations in Japan the Sentosa, Kiragan and Shimura organisation found out all of the code names but thankfully they don’t have our faces yet.

“Hey watcha thinking?”

“N-nothing, look at the time, stay over tonight”

“Yeah, I planned on doing that, look I got my PJ’s as well, hic”

“Are you drunk already?”

“Nah, I just.....need to go to the restroom”

“Oh sure”

He got up and stumbled a little I offered him a hand to help him.

“I told you I’m alri~~~”

We fell together me on top of him. He looked sexy with his shirt a bit open and his pants loose, He was drunk and he looked a bit flushed.

“Umm, I’m sorry I’ll get up right away”

“N-no its ok”

i looked back and got off of him at that time he pulled me by my hand and I fell back on him.

“Can we stay like this for a moment longer?”

I looked at his face, it was red, it was hard to tell if he was red because of being drunk or was he blushing, I knew that if he was drunk then maybe just maybe I could take advantage of that as he would not remember the next day.

I took the chance I bent down and kissed him.

My head hurts. I found myself sitting upright thinking back what had happened last night.

*blush*

No way!!!! The secret that I had decided to keep it until I went to the grave has been revealed. Wait, wasn’t he drunk? Maybe he just doesn’t remember atleast that’s what I have read.

Ahnn

“Oh, hey goodmorning did I wake you up? I’m sorry about that”

“Ah, my head hurts”

“Here, some water”

“Thanks dude”

“Umm, about last night...”

“Oh, you mean when we made out? It’s cool, I dont mind, I mean I knew your feelings since the begining, I was wondering when you would tell me”

“W-wait, you knew all this time?”

“Yeah, duh. How won’t I find out when someone is always staring at you with an erotic look”

“Uh, arent you grossed out?”

“Nope, cause to tell the truth I have also always lo~~”

*ring ring*

I woke up with the alarm ringing on the bedside table. I sat on my bed and rested my hand on the bed, only to find it cold. Where did he go? I came down the bed and walked towards the restroom to freshen up. That was all a dream. Don’t forget that, there is no way he would feel the same about you, see he even didn’t tell you that he would be leaving in the morning. There must have an emergency thats why he didnt tell you, no then he could have left a message or called me up. Come on stop overythinking everything.

“Hey, goodmorning”

“Umm, h-hey”(Surprised)

“What would you like for breakfast?”

“You can cook?”

“You doubting me?”

“Oh no no, I’m just surprised that you can cook now”

“Well yeah I had to”

“umm, eggs and bacon then please”

“Hey, are you alright?”

“What do you mean?”

“You just said please, which you had never done before, I mean we are still friends, so no need to say please and sorry”

“Oh, sorry abt tha~”

“Again?”

“hehehehe” we both laughed, i went into the restroom and freshened up, I came back and smelled the lovely aroma of the bacon frying.

“Smells yummy”

“Just wait to taste it, it’ll blow your mind away”, he chuckled and said.

Did I just say that aloud? I blushed as my stomach grumbled. Asahi laughed again as he heard it,

“Just a minute ok...”

I sat down at the dining table. He got the food and we munched it down.

Flashback:

“I have been really busy working on this case”

“Can you tell me what it is about?”

“It’s top secret, but since your my best friend I’ll tell you”

“Ok!”

“Well you must have reading the newspaper right? about the increasing in crime rates and all the yakuza fights among them. My team and I have been given to capture one of the yakuza group”

“really? That’s really dangerous, which group by the way?”

“Sumiyoshi-kai”

“Wh-What??!!”

“Do you know them?”

“Well I have heard their name, and that they are really cruel cold blooded killers or something like that ahaha”(awkward laugh)

“Well, its all true, how do I know? We have a spy in their clan and he has been reporting us all of their movements, who they meet, who they kill, where do the go and their schedule and everything”

“Do you know his name by any chance?”

“Hmm, you’ve been really interested in this discussion, well whatever, his code name is Shizukani”

“Shi-Shizukani?”

“Oh yeah he had told me that his boss’s code name was Routaru and those guys were looking for him in this building, it’s rather odd, you know ”

“hehehe really?”

Flashback ends.....

The sub division second in command Shizukani? There must be a mistake, it can’t be him, he’s my subordinate....well whatever(angry). He’s gonna pay for that. I walked faster and finally reached the end of the xx alley. I walked down the stairs and entered the dark room.

“Welcome home Boss”

“Where’s Shizukani?” Taking off my coat and handing to one of the guys.

“He, said he had some work to do so he.....”

“Fuck, call him back right now, the work can wait for afterwards.”

“Is something wrong boss?”

“Oh yeah, you bet, he’s gonna get killed today”

“Contact Aniki as well”

"Yes boss!!"

*ring ring*

"What's it Routaru?"