Chapter 7 "Explosion"
Chapter 7
Explosion
Siko blinks in confusion. “Why were we kissing?”
Ketsu smacks himself in the forehead. He should have known it all along! “So, that wasn’t you… what is the last thing you remember before you, er, blacked out?”
“Um, I remember you saying that you could stay at my place…”
“Aw shit! Katuo is so pissed off,” Ketsu shakes his head and grabs his own hair. “What am I supposed to do?! He is going to kill me for sure!”
Siko frowns in concern. “Um, Ketsu… What's going on? Do you know what happened to me…?”
At this rate, Ketsu is starting to feel panicked. What to do?!
“That’s it!” Siko exclaims, almost startling Ketsu. “I was sleepwalking, right?!”
“Y-yes!” Ketsu laughs nervously, completely relieved. “You’re right. You were sleepwalking. I know that you did not mean to say and do such things!”
“Oh no!” Siko cries as soon as he checks the clock. “I’m late for school!”
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“That bastard!” Katuo yells angrily, causing the students to stare at him and to make quiet comments about him. His last class recently finished, and he is on the way to the parking lot.
He could not concentrate in school at all. He could not stop thinking about the kiss between his friends.
Just as he reaches his car, he spots a certain person whom he truly wants to kill. “Ketsu? What are you doing here?”
“Eeps!” Ketsu almost jumps at Katuo’s voice. “K-Katuo… I forgot that you also go to Siko’s school…”
Katuo narrows his cold eyes at him. “What did you do to him? He wasn’t his usual self this morning.”
“N-nothing.” Ketsu blushes lightly. “He was… sleepwalking, I think?”
“You’re lying.”
“N-no, I am not.”
Suddenly, Katuo grabs Ketsu’s shirt. “I know you did something to him. Stop lying or else I’m kicking your ass!”
“I can’t tell you,” Ketsu simply says.
“What the fuck? First Tezuka wouldn’t tell me, and then now you too? Tell me, what’s going on?”
Ketsu remains silent.
“Tell me!”
“Katuo?! What are you doing to Ketsu?” Siko yells, running toward Katuo and Ketsu.
Ketsu gives a dark chuckle. “What did I tell you? I would take Siko away from you. You keep hurting him over and over… and now he’s mine!”
“T-this…” Siko gasps at Ketsu’s different voice.
“You’re not Ketsu anymore,” Katuo frowns. “Who are you?! Why do you keep possessing his body?!”
“At first you believed that I was a psycho, and then now you believe that there’s a ghost taking over this body, eh?” Ketsu laughs darkly. His eyes are completely green instead of his usual dark brown eyes. “I’m sorry, but Siko doesn’t like you the way he likes me!”
“Ketsu!” Siko cries.
With his full angry power, Katuo punches Ketsu in the face so hard that he sends him flying across the parking lot. Ketsu crashes into a random car.
“Katuo!” Siko shouts. “What are you doing?! I thought we weren’t supposed to use our full strength?! You could have killed him!”
“Good!” Katuo snaps at him. “Go to him and feel him up!”
“Katuo!” Siko snaps back. “Why are you acting like this?! Man, I should have known! You’ve always been jealous every time Ketsu and I are together!”
Katuo is speechless at this moment.
“That h-hurts!” Ketsu whimpers in pain. His eyes are now dark brown once again. “This is the first time I’ve ever felt pain in a long time!”
“Ketsu!” Siko runs to his injured cousin. “Are you ok?! I need to take you to the hospital!”
“No, it’s fine.” Ketsu smiles at him.
Siko turns to Katuo and gives him a hard stare. “Katuo… why are you acting like that? That isn’t like you!”
“I’ve been like this since you and Ketsu kissed!” Katuo yells. “Don’t you realize how much it hurt me?!”
“That wasn’t me!” Siko shakes his head. “I don’t like him like that! He’s like a big brother to me!”
“Fine,” Katuo sighs. “I don’t think we should be friends anymore. Ever since we became 16 years old, we’ve done nothing but hurt each other. This is exactly why I’ve been avoiding you.”
“Katuo… no…” Siko looks away from Katuo. “I hate you!” He turns to run away from him.
Katuo does not say anything as he watches his best friend running away. That is it. It is over.
Suddenly, he spots the same young boy with cold black and white eyes that he saw when he was trying to rescue Gus from the traffic accident. But as soon as he blinks, the child has vanished from his sight.
All of sudden, he hears a very loud boom at the gas station near the parking lot. “Sikoooo!”