Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Here With Me ❯ Schwartz's POV ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Here With Me

Author note: first time writer, not first fic I wrote but the first one up. Anyway, animation's not mine, characters' not mine, the song's not mine; I'm poor, so don't sue me... ...anything I forgot to mention?? Ahh... the story!! It's MINE!!

Part 2

"Schu, are you alright?" I nodded absently. I could feel the chibi's worry and concern flooding through the link. But I didn't know what to say to him. I myself was still in shock about what I found at the apartment.

I had never believed for a second in the playboy's love for Ran as genuine. How could I, when he had practically slept his way through with half the female population in Tokyo?

I had been reluctant to search for him when Ran had asked me to. Call me selfish, if you will, but I don't want to see him hurt. I love him, goddamn it, even if the kitten is too blind to see it.

I didn't want to believe that that playboy would be good for my kitten. That he could make him smile and forget all his pain and guilt that burdened him. But he had. Ran was virtually glowing with happiness when they finally got it together.

I was jealous. And so I manipulated that playboy's jealousy of what I had been to Ran and made him follow the kitten out on his mission, hope against hopes that it would show Ran who truly loved him for who he was.

What I hadn't counted on was the playboy's willingness to stop the bullet with his own body for the kitten. And I hated myself for that mistake. Ran would have cried his eyes out and then kill himself if the playboy hadn't made it.

Since then, I made it my mission to see to that playboy's welfare. So I would never have to see him cry again.

But I got careless. How could I be bother with that playboy when Ran went MIA on us? Kritiker and Schwartz had tried their very best to locate the missing Abyssinian, but both failed to track him down miserably. It was by accident that we found him when the chibi gave it a try and checked the hospitals' database, only to find an empty shell in the hospital weeks later.

I failed him. Worst yet, I had failed to anticipate the playboy's reaction to the kitten's disappearance. By the time I finally dragged myself up to the apartment to check on Balinese, I found him incoherent and half-dead in their bed. He didn't even response when I tried to rouse him with his favourite image of Ran's smiling face...

"Schu-kun, how's Yohji-kun?" Omi nearly crashed into me in his anxiety. But the chibi managed to get a hold on his lover before that happened. Looking at his panting face, I found my tongue all tied up. There's no way he would accept the truth!!

"Schu-kun?"

I averted my sight away from the anxious young man. I could feel the frozen fear he was drowning in, but I couldn't do a thing to ease that. What could I do, when it was crystal clear that Balinese would NOT survive without his beloved Abyssinian? That Abyssinian, my beloved Ran, was nothing more than an empty shell lying in that bed?

If we were lucky, Kudou would probably hold out for a few more days. But I doubted he would live after that. Hell, he would most likely be killing himself right now if he found out Ran's beyond us now.

~ Arigatou... Schudich... for bringing me back to Ran's body... Sayonara...~

I jerked violently and blacked out, as I received Balinese's last message. When I came to, the chibi and Omi was struggling to drag me to a nearby bench.

"Daijoubu, chibi, daijoubu..." I whispered hoarsely. I couldn't stop the whimper that torn through my throat. He was gone. Kudou had pulled the plug, and... and...

"SENSEI, HAYAKU... FUJIMIYA-SAN JUST FLATLINED."

Omi fell on his ass at the shout. Then he jumped up and sprinted toward the room so fast he was anything but a blur passing before my eyes. I pushed the chibi after him immediately. "Schu?"

"Go, Nagi. He needs you more than me right now."

"Demo..."

"Balinese... Kudou... is gone as well. Omi won't be able to take it," I pushed the chibi a bit harder, "go, damn it!"

The chibi stared at me for a second before using his power to shove me down the bench. Then he rushed after his lover just in time to catch his fallen body when he found out the loss of his two 'brothers'.

I cried. I could do nothing but curled into myself and brawled like a baby. I thought... I had hoped... Ran might be able to find his way back like Aya-chan...

Ran...

Ran, aishiteru...

Aishiteru... Itsumo...

Until you're resting here

Until you're resting
Here with me