Heaven Cannot Wait
by Matrim
Part 1(a)
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He was falling fast.
His eyes were closed tightly, his mind whirling with incoherent thought
and fear and there was only one thought he could think of--I hope the sea
isn't so rough that I get killed--then something yanked at his arm, bringing
him back to reality.
Kaoru was hanging onto the edge of the high pier. He reached up with his
left to get a better grip and heard angry shouts. He heard a groan to his
left and he saw Kamijo, hanging on desperately just like he was. Kaoru's
temper returned and flared when he saw Kamijo shoot him a look of annoyance.
"What the hell, Kamijo?!"
"Nani?!" Kamijo demanded, dangling as best as he could. Somehow his hat
managed to stay on his head. "What are you bitching about now?!"
"What's the big idea?!! Shoving me off a pier? You had to wait for the
perfect cowardly moment to try and get rid of me?!" Kaoru demanded.
Kamijo clenched his teeth and shut his eyes tight. He opened them again
and a fury that probably matched Kaoru's own flared up in them. "Why is it
always my fault when something goes wrong?!"
"As if you didn't notice, this whole week was your fault?!!"
Kamijo snorted, "Yeah, sure. I just demanded God to make this week so I
could cause a lot of trouble to other people!! Get a life, Kaoru!! I have
better things to do!"
"You didn't answer my question!! Why did you shove me off the pier?!"
Kamijo rolled his eyes and said quite calmly, "If I shoved you off the
pier, then why--" his voice began to increase in volume and anger, "--the
HELL AM I DANGLING OFF THIS PIER WITH YOU?!!!!" Kaoru didn't answer and
Kamijo went on, "No--I'm not here because I wanted to die with you!! I'm
here because I was shoved off, too, dammit!!"
It was quiet again as the two men struggled to hold on and tried to
ignore the rain that fell harder, the wind that whipped around them and the
ocean that crashed below them. "Any idea who did it?" Kaoru asked, loudly,
trying to be heard over the elements.
"Well, I was getting up and I saw Mayu. He was yelling at me or
something and someone or something pushed me off just as he began to run to
me and I don't know what happened afterwards..." Kamijo grunted and
adjusted his hold on the pier. "Hey, maybe, we can call for help...where'
Hikaru?"
"He went into the restaurant, remember? I hope he didn't fall asleep."
Kaoru closed his eyes and yelled mentally at his angel. hide!! hide, drop
whatever you're doing and get out here!! I need your help!! Your human's
about to die and if you don't hurry up and save him, you'll die, too!!
Nonsense, came an amused answer, you've got ten minutes left. I don't
have to worry about you at all. You're a good boy. You can handle it.
Are you drunk? Kaoru demanded.
Slightly. Kaoru groaned as hide went on, But it doesn't matter. I still
can act like a good angel. Alcohol does not slow me down in the least!
Kaoru clenched his teeth. His arms were starting to get sore. Can you
do something constructive, while you're drunk?
Depends...
Put down the beer--
Crap. Okay.
Walk outside.
But you're dragging me away from the beer!
And find Mayu and whoever pushed us off the pier!! Kaoru told him
ignoring his protests.
Wakata. But you owe me one..
I don't owe you a thing!! You're my angel!! You're supposed to do this
stuff for me!! hide gave a mental grumble. Quick, hide-sama!! I don't
think I can hold on for long!!
If you think you can't hold on, what about Kamijo? hide asked in a
gentler voice--all bitterness over alcohol gone from his voice. Kaoru
looked at Kamijo. Then he looked at his hands. Kamijo was dangling by his
fingertips.
Kaoru adjusted his grip. "Kamijo!!"
"Nani?"
"Give me your hand!"
"I'd rather die!!"
"No, you wouldn't. Give me your hand!!"
"You're kidding, right? You don't mind having to put up with a fop who
threatens to break up relationships?" Kamijo asked. Kaoru winced at the
harsh words. Kamijo sobbed. And slipped a little further. Kaoru swung to
his left and caught Kamijo's hands just as he lost his grip. Kamijo
screamed and still sobbed.
Kaoru shook his head, trying to get used to the weight at the end of his
left arm. "You're so overemotional!!" He told the vocalist. He was
surprised that Kamijo's hat was still on his head.
"And you're a cutie..but do I point out your faults? Nooo." Kamijo
returned a weak smile on his face. Kaoru rolled his eyes.
"So, these are the two that are cause of all your troubles..." came a
voice that made the skin crawl. Kaoru shivered and looked up. A tall
muscular man dressed in a tan trenchcoat looked down at them, water dripping
off his oily mustache. In his left arm, he held a struggling Mayu, who also
looked down at them.
"Who is that?" Kaoru asked, looking down at Kamijo.
The other man tried to shrug as best as he could, "I don't know...I think
it might be Mayu's koibito, though."
Kaoru shivered again, looked up at the two of them and said, "You sure?"
"Yeah...he didn't like to talk about him much...always got angry when I
asked. Come to think of it...he never talked to me about him. Always
talked to Emiru and Machi about him. Odd, isn't it?" Kamijo said, rather
calmly now. Kaoru marveled at this.
"I told you!!" Mayu yelled, "I didn't want to hurt them!! I just--"
"What did you want, Mayu?" The other man demanded and Mayu shrank away
from his glare. "You can never make up your mind, can you? You know I'd do
anything for you!! And that I'd hurt anyone that would dare to hurt you!
Why are you acting so funny, now?!"
Mayu struggled and looked down at Kaoru and Kamijo, "I just--I--I don't
want them killed!!" The man sneered and shoved Mayu away, out of Kamijo and
Kaoru's sight.
"What an asshole," Kamijo breathed. "He doesn't deserve Mayu at all."
"I think he's that way because he's afraid of losing Mayu." Kaoru
returned.
"I'll give him that. Mayu is really pretty. In any case, he doesn't have
to take that from him!!" Kamijo's eyes held a determined look in them.
"Ne, Kaoru?"
"Hai?"
"Do you truly want to be my friend?"
You have five minutes left, my precious human. hide told him mentally.
Kaoru looked up and the man wasn't there anymore. It sounded like he was
fighting with Mayu.
"Hai!" Kaoru told Kamijo hurriedly
"Then forgive me all that I've done!" Kamijo yelled back.
"Hai!"
"Yank me up."
"Nani? I don't have that kind of strength!!" Kaoru yelled back.
"Just trust me!!" Kamijo snapped. Kaoru pulled as hard as he could, as
Kamijo got a hold of Kaoru's arm and then on his shoulders and climbed up on
him and landed back onto the pier in a crouch. He reached down for Kaoru's
hand. Kaoru gave it to him and Kamijo dragged the guitarist onto the pier.
They looked up in time to see the man hit Mayu, hard enough to send him
sprawling on the ground
Kaoru never thought he saw Kamijo so angry before.
Kamijo, for one second, looked like Carrie. (Mat: The movie...the Stephen
King movie..yeah, that one)
"Hey!!!" he snapped, all traces of the Break-up Fairy gone. The man
turned. Mayu looked up from his place on the ground. "He doesn't have to
take that crap from you!!"
One minute, my sweet human, hide told him.
"Ka-kamijo?" Mayu managed out. He obviously hadn't seen Kamijo so upset
before, either.
The vocalist smiled, "Bonjour, honey!!" he said and waved. Except the
way he said the greeting now, sounded like he was really hiding something
monstrous. His smile was sadistic. Kaoru began to worry.
The man sneered at him and took out a gun.
It made no difference to Kamijo. The vocalist took a step forward with
that same smile. Kaoru noticed the gunman's hands were shaking. Kaoru took
a step forward with Kamijo, to show that he supported him. (Well, not
really. He'd really rather be ten miles away at that point.) "Oh, big man
and gun...do you think that would scare me? I've gone through worse and met
people so much more frightening than you!!" Kamijo sneered. He jerked a
thumb at Kaoru, "I went on a date with him and met his band!! You can't get
any worse than that!!"
Kaoru glared at him. What the hell was that supposed to mean. Kamijo
winked at him to tell him that he didn't mean it but Kaoru still couldn't
get over it. The man took a deep breath and the gun right at Kamijo's
forehead. The man drew back the hammer. It made no difference. Kamijo
continued to advance. The man pulled the trigger just as hide whispered in
Kaoru's mind, 10 seconds...Kaoru yelled out at that point.
Time seemed to slow...
He rushed to defend Kamijo,--who was too far away, he knew he was going
to be too late--but Mayu was already there, eyes shut tightly, waiting for a
bullet that never came--
Because Kaoru stood in front of Mayu and felt the force of the bullet
hit him in the head. He fell back against Mayu, who fell against Kamijo and
they all crashed to the floor. Kaoru's head hit the floor but it didn't
hurt as much as his forehead...and--wait a minute...if the bullet hit him
where it was supposed to then why was he still thinking these thoughts?
Shouldn't he be dead?
Kaoru opened his eyes, experimentally.
"CUT!!" hide yelled, his face swimming into Kaoru's view. "And you had
three seconds. "You're such a lucky boy!! Come here...we need to
celebrate!! I've got a beer I haven't finished and one that you could
finish...if you're up to it!!"
"What just happened?" Kaoru asked weakly.
hide looked thoughtful, "Ano...lessee...the gun was fired, you were shot.
Simple, ain't it?"
"Why am I not dead?"
"Simple!!" Kamijo's face swam into view next to hide's. "You're wearing
my hat!!"
"Nani?!" Kaoru sat up and indeed, he was wearing Kamijo's hat. "Please
explain this to me..someone?"
Mayu knelt in front of him, the only who didn't try to shove his face
into Kaoru's view. "Well...I tried to defend Kamijo and then you defended
me...and then Kamijo reached over, quick as a flash and shoved his hat on
your head, just before the bullet touched you. There's something magic
about Kamijo's hats...it's why he always wears them...and why he's very
touchy when you steal them."
Kamijo snorted and tried to lit a cigarette as best as he could in the
rain. He finally (miraculously) managed to light it and began to smoke.
"Nah..he deserves to keep that one...he earned it. Besides, we're friends
now."
"Where's your koibito, Mayu?" Kaoru asked.
Mayu pointed at Kamijo, who noticed this and blushed, "Right there."
"No the other guy!"
"Oh, Hikaru here," hide tried not to strangle Kamijo as he said this,
"Had the police ready and crap. They dragged him off. He did something
wierd with his voice and they left us here alone with you. Hikaru said
you'd be fine once you talked to him." Kamijo eyed them suspiciously, "Ne,
you guys are really close friends...does Toshiya know?"
"Yeah.."
"Of course. I live with them!" hide said.
"Really close friends," Kamijo repeated.
"He's like a guardian angel," Kaoru stated and hide grinned.
"Whatever," Kamijo said, tilted his head back and blew the last of his
cigarette smoke out into the air. The rain had soaked his cigarette and put
it out.
Kaoru fingered the hat and let out a laugh. Toshiya was going to kill
him when he came home with this thing.
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End of Part 1
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