116Title: To Find the Finder
Chapter: 3 Friends and Confusions
Suoh woke up from a nightmare that he can't make out of, not knowing what just happen, he notice that he's panting very hard and there's cold sweats all over his body. Closing his eyes to calm himself down, feeling more worse than better at it. Finally, decided that he need to get over it, he start to breath very hard in and out, wanted to get it out off his systems as soon a possible. All he knows is that he need another shower. Turning to look at the clock, he notice that he's only been sleeping for three hours, not feeling tired but scared for a minute, Suoh decided to get up and went to the bathroom. Ten minutes later, coming out with wet hairs and feeling better.
Suoh try to think as to what just happen in his dream that can make him this scare. Even when his boss loses his temper is not this bad. The shiver that he feel in the office can not be compare to what he feel right now. All he knows for sure is that things are going to change and fast too. The fear and the feeling that whatever is coming is very powerful and its in need of help can not left Suoh's mind. Takaba-kun. Suoh thought.
Shocked that the first person to come to mind is his relative's son. He knows that whatever is going to happen to Takaba-kun is not going to make him happy, knowing the young man's personality very well. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, he let of a breath that he didn't know he was holding on to. Just as he started to clear his mind off this matter, the phone ring.
"Hai, Kirishima-san?" Suoh answer after looking at the caller ID.
"Suoh, Asami-sama wanted to know if you have anyone in mind to guard him for the next three days" Kirishima asked.
"Iee, Kirishima-san. I leave that matter to you." Suoh answer firmly.
"No, Asami-sama wanted you to come in the office in an hour. He said he need to talk to you. Is properly something that he want you to look at." Kirishima told him with a concern voice with a stunt mask on.
"Hai, I will be there in forty minutes," wanting to get over this feeling of fear and the feeling that his relative is in trouble as fast as possible. The only thing that can make his mind drift to it with concentrations is work. Hanging the phone. He take a quick breath before getting ready. In five minutes, he's out the door with all the necessary for the night. He notice that outside is getting rather cold, which is weird. After all, is the hottest month of the year, July. Taking a deep breath, he notice that he can see his breath smoking out off his lung. Feeling that something's going to happen and whatever it is, Suoh knows it that he will need all the energy in his body to counter its.
Walking to the basement for the limo that Asami-sama give him the key for. He start to drive to club Shion with little concentration. Thinking over what Asami-sama had told him this afternoon and his nightmare, he decided to answer whatever questions that Asami-sama might have for him but not any secrets. He needed to asked Takaba-kun before he answer anything, but decided against it. He knows that the boss is not going to like what he told him. Suoh is a half-wolf-half-human after all. His survival instinct is higher than all the full wolves because of the hard ships that he'd gone through in the past. Being a half being is very bad especially because of the power that he'd born with, higher and more uncontrollable then all the others. That alone make him a target.
At least until he met Asami-sama. Things happen and before he knows if, he's working for the hell lord with unquestioned royalty. Knowing that he will have to tell his boss the truth whether he likes it or not. With a firm decision, he park the car in the back of the club as he went to the back door and the guard there opens it for him, knowing who he is. With a head held high, he left for the boss's office with full concentrations and confident. After all, he is Asami-sama's loyal bodyguard and knowing the business they're in, no concentration is suicide.
Find him, my son. Find your soul-mate, for he will be the one who you need and needs you. Find him before they find you. Find him and seek him out. For that, you will face the up coming obstacle with him. He will protect you whether you wants it or not. The prophecy need to be fill and the both of you need one another. Follow your heart and make your decisions not on logic and reasons, but with your very soul on the line, my son. The times has come for you to fulfill your unanswered promise. Don't leave him. Don't die for him and don't let he die for you. Good bye, my son. Don't forget this promise that you made today. You will need it.
Akihito Takaba wake up from the dream like instance panting with tears in his eyes. He can feel that something is wrong is the voice in his dream, like its fading away and he can't do anything about it. He start to cry silently as the tears in his eyes come from his emotion. Feeling very hot and sweating from the night, he look to the window and notice that is almost morning. Getting up and shaking his head to clear his thoughts, smacking his face to calm himself down. He make his way to the bathroom for a quick showers, not noticing that his headache is long gone.
When he come out of the bathroom, he looks at his hand and notice that the wound there is gone. No scar whatsoever can be found in his palm, feeling confuse and looking at his left hand. Was it a dream? He thought. Coming to the kitchen, he notice the blood on the kitchen floor and make his way to the living room, finding the bloody cloth in the table where he eat dinner last night. Sketching his head, feeling confuse as he seat in the couch. What happen yesterday? He asked himself. As memory started to come back, he stand up fast and notice that his headache is long gone. Touching his head like his looking for wound, he breath out loud thinking that he's lucky to have the headache gone, not noticing that his hair is a different color.
Making his way to the kitchen for breakfast and to make a bento for lunch, while there he take the bloody cloth from the table and stare at it. Where did this come from? He thought. There's no wound on me at all from yesterday, so where did this come from? Ah!, the knife in the kitchen! I didn't put it away! As he curse himself and walk fast to the kitchen, the memory from the accident flow back to him as he stare at his hand. What just happen? Where did my wound gone to? He asked himself, feeling confuse. Ah! Whatever! I don't care anymore! He told himself as he clean away the blood on the floor and throw the bloody cloth away in the trash.
After making his bento and breakfast, he eat as he look around the room for his phone, noticed that the phone's right by the TV table, he get up and grab it along with this backpack beside the TV table. Coming back to the couch and just as he finish eating. He's phone ring. Forgetting about the dream.
"Hello, Kou? What's wrong? Why are you calling me this early?" he ask his friend on the phone.
"Aki-chan! I forgot my homework for first class! Can I copy yours?" Kou asked desperately on the phone. Akihito can tell on his phone's that Kou's almost in tears screaming out his desperation.
"Oh shit! I forgot mine, too. I still have two hour to finish it. I'm doing it right now. So, come over. And call Takato if he wanted to come, too." He told his friend as he clean the table off his breakfast.
After finishing cleaning and washing the dishes, he open his backpack and take out his first class homework putting it on the while opening it to the page that he need to do. Akihito read the notes and the questions that he need to write for today. Taking out another notebook for clean sheet of line paper, he started to write and answer the questions with full concentration. After ten minutes he put his pen down and start to read his writing, checking and correcting any mistake. Then reread it again to double check the paper. Just as he finish checking the paper, the door open and Kou ran from the door to seat across him, rushing out his supplies.
"Kou! Take off your shoes first!" Takato yield from the hallway.
"Ah! I forgot!" Kou called out as he make his way back to the hallway to take off his shoes, while Takato come seat beside Akihito.
"Are you finish with that? Cause I want to work on the homework from first class" Takato asked, noticing that Akihito is not working on Calculus but Writing in stand.
"What? You didn't do your homework, too? I thought that for sure you wouldn't forgot." Akihito response with a smirk in his face.
"Yeah, I didn't finished it. I don't know how to do the last four problem. The professor didn't explain it clearly enough on how to do it." Takato complain while getting his supplies out of his backpack.
Kou and Takato both know that math is nothing for Akihito at all. After all, he passes all the require math classes with straight As plus, the only things that he has problem in is biology. Yet, he pass that class with B plus. It wasn't hard but he couldn't even understand of what they learned. Every other science class is 'No Problem' zone. A straight zone. Finishing all high school classes with As and B's, making it to the top fifteen is a miracles for Akihito Takaba, considering that he misses almost one class per day for all of his high school days. The times that he went for his part times jobs and photographing for some money and for personal curiosity. Yet, he made it to the top fifteen. Making all the teachers and classmates gap at him, except for Takato and Kou. Who knows him since childhood, especially his personality and temper.
There was one times that a guy approach Akihito and make Kou and Takato very protective of him. He start dating that guy for a couple of months and then break up because of him cheating on Akihito for a girls, but Akihito didn't even budge when that happen. It makes Takato and Kou thinks that their friend didn't even know what jealousy mean or that Akihito didn't even like the guy in the first place. Which wasn't truth, Akihito really like him but there's something that's just missing and he can't bring himself to love the guy like a boyfriend but rather friend. After that time, he dated a couple of girls but didn't last long either. It will always end with they apologizing for cheating and or that they don't think that they are meant to be together. Akihito just stare at the girl and walk away from them, not wanting them to feel bad for hurting him with their words. After all, he didn't hate them nor thinks that is their fault.
"Aki-chan! Help me with Calculus! The professor sucks at explaining the general information in class. I can't even understand half of what he meant. Can you explain it better?" Kou asked in desperation while taking a seat in front of Akihito.
"I can try. The professor doesn't understand it fully either. Okay, hey! Open your textbook first!" Akihito told them with authority. As Kou and Takato open their textbook, Akihito begin explain slowly about each examples and notes. With Kou and Takato taking notes very concentrated, rising hand when have questions, and then having Akihito shows them in easily understand terms on how each problem can be solved. Kou was taking notes with little details while Takato take full notes on what Akihito told them. After twenty minutes, Akihito stop talking and do his own homework while his friends did their own. In ten minutes, Akihito was finish. As kou asked for help on how to do the last two problem, Akihito shows them how to do the other twos already, Akihito explain the steps and the hows and when to use them steps. In ten minutes, Takato finished and then fifteen minutes later, Kou finished too.
"Ahh! Finally finish!" Kou and Takato both cheers. Making Akihito laugh at them.
Looking at the clock in the wall, Akihito notice that they will have to leave in ten minutes to go to school.
"Hey, is almost time. If you guys want to use the bathroom then use it before we go" Akihito remind them. As Kou and Takato take turn to the bathroom, Akihito prepare his stuff.
"Oh my god! Aki-chan! What happens to your hair?!" Takato asked in disbelieve and shock, looking at Akihito's hair.
"Huh? What do you mean my hair? I don't have bed hair." Akihito asked knowing that he never get bed hair. Feeling confuse at what Takato mean, when Kou come from the bathroom with shocked eyed.
"..." Akihito look at his friends as if they have gone crazy. Not knowing what they meant, Akihito make his way to the bathroom when Kou stop him and pull him to the couch, slumming him against the couch with full force.
"Oh shit! Akihito, what the hell did you do to your hair?!" Kou asked Akihito while shaking his shoulder.
"Ouch! Guys, what the hell's your problem! That hurt!" Akihito yield making Kou stop shaking him. Looking at Kou and Takato in shocks, wondering what the hell do they meant.
"Aki-chan! Your hair's RED! And your eyes!" Takato told him in shock and desperately while Kou looks at him in confusing.
"what they hell do you mean? My hair is blond and eyes are hazel color! Not red!" Akihito snap back to his friend.
Kou and Takato look at each other in confusions and then turn to Akihito, looking at him in confusions and Akihito can tell that somethings off. Staring at his friend in confusing and fear at what the mean, he snap and ran to the bathroom slumming the door open and stare at the mirror. In confusing, Akihito stare at himself in shock and disbelieve. When both Kou and Takato come in the bathroom with him, he stare back at them in confusions and shock, making this friend feel sorry for him.
"Aki-chan, what happen? I didn't even notice that your hair's red when we came in here." Takato barely whisper.
"I noticed it. But is wasn't red. It was golden, making me think that maybe because of the lights in the room making it look like that." kou reply in soft voice with confusions.
"what do you mean by that?" Takato and Akihito asked at the same time.
Silent sink the bathroom as three friends stare at each other in confusions and in shock. Just then, they both notices that Akihito's hair change to dark blue from the tips of the hair to the root while Akihito's eyes changes to light blue. Staring wild eyed at Akihito in shock, Kou and Takato look at each other then at Akihito then back at each other before they both scream at the top of their lung.
As Asami was about to called for Suoh, a knock come from the door. Giving permission for the entrance, Suoh come in looking very as white as a sheet. Blinking at Suoh, Asami give him a surprise look on his face at Suoh. Noticing the look that his boss give him, Suoh look back confusion.
"Asami-sama? Is something wrong?" Suoh asked hesitantly in confusion.
Asami look at Suoh in a 'I can't believe what I see' look, making Suoh more confusing. As Suoh stare confusedly at his boss, a light knock sounded from the door as Kirishima come in. Upon seeing Suoh, Kirishima gasp and the files in his hand slips and hit the floor. Looking at Kirishima and Asami in confusing, Suoh can only stare back and ford between hiss boss and Kirishima.
"Suoh, what the hell did you did to yourself? You look as white as a sheet. And what the hell happen to your hair? Is gray." Kirishima asked in disbelieve and stunt at what the bodyguard had changed.
"What do you mean, Kirishima-san?" Suoh asked while looking back and ford between his boss and Kirishima. Just as Kirishima was about to answer, Asama press something in his table and a mirror replace the painting in the wall too Suoh's left. Suoh look at Asami in confusing before looking at Kirishima.
"Seeing is believing" Asami say in amusing while pointing to mirror. As Suoh steps toward the mirror, seeing his reflections on the mirror. Suoh simple stare at himself in shock and fear. Sensing this, Asami glare carefully at his bodyguard, noticing that the fear in his eyes are more than from his own hair color or his expression. Sensing that there's a faint magic from the hair. He knows that Suoh can not use magic so something must happen.
"Suoh, explain." Asami command coldly as he glared at Suoh.
"Asami-sama, I don't know what happen." Suoh answer weakly with confusion.
"Suoh, you can't use magic so why are there a faint smell of magic in your hair?" Kirishima asked cautiously while looking at Suoh's expression. Staring at Kirishima in confusion as he look back to his reflection.
"Suoh, come here." Asami signal for Suoh to come and kneel in-front of him. Working with Asami for so long, Suoh knew why he have to kneel down. Not that he minded at all. Kneeling down looking at his boss's brand shoes. Head down and bowing while kneeling. Asami look and stupid the hair carefully before telling Suoh to get back up.
"Suoh, I know that you don't know magic. Of course, you didn't you it to your hair because the magic in your hair is natural." Asami explain while looking really amusing at his bodyguard causing the bodyguard to look at him, making him smirk;
"Asami-sama, I don't understand what you mean by that. I'm sorry" Suoh reply looking rejected. Before Asami answer, he signal for Kirishima to answer in his stand.
"Asami-sama mean that it happen naturally and you didn't do anything to it. Natural magic can not be erase and no one can conjure it. Meaning that no one did it to you, and you didn't do it too. Is simple that your getting old." Kirishima explain with a smile making Asami smirk at the explanation.
Blinking at what Kirishima had said, Suoh frown at the explanation. Is impossible because he's a half and can not age like the full ones.
"That is impossible, Kirishima-san. I am half. Natural doesn't apply to me, beside I am only forty two years old. You will have to be in the sixty for your hairs to changes color in natural. Unless..." he trail off as the fear that he felt in the dream came back full force making me shrink in shiver. Sensing this, Asami frown at Suoh, making the air tense in the room.
"Suoh, spit it out. All of it." Asami glared at Suoh and frown, not feeling happy at all. The smirk from earlier is long gone along with the amusement. He didn't like it when his employee didn't understand that absolute loyalty to him mean absolute no secret can keep from him. He will use his power if necessary, after all, is already night times.
Suoh look at his loyal boss, not wanting to explain but knowing that he can not hide from him. Making up his mind and take a deep breath before starting the explanation. He look at Kirishima before clearing his mind to tell his boss and Kirishima.
"Is a curse and prophecy that happen one hundred and twenty years ago..." he began before realizing that someone else at the door.
"Who's there?!" He snap at the door while Asami attention caught to the door with Kirishima. Cursing were heard from the other side of the door before Suoh and Kirishima move so fast in a spite second. Opening the door and running to the intruder. In a second, Suoh was already in front of the intruder face, smacking his face with full force, knocking him out in three second; the times that it take for Suoh to move from Asami's office to knock out the intruder.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here. A spy and a traitor." Asami walk slowly after Kirishima. Anyone who work with Asami can tell that the boss is very amusing and will be looking forward to the punishment that he plan to give out later. All the employees in the club suddenly shivers as they can tell that someone's going to die at the hand of the hell lord's hand in no time at all. Even the staff in the kitchen can feel the cold shiver, where is the hottest place in the club.
As Asami walk down the hall to where Suoh had knock out the intruder with a smirk and a smile on his face, making Suoh and Kirishima look at each other, knowing full well at what's going to happen.
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