Seven Murders and One Salvation. (Chapter 4)
Title: Seven Murders and One Salvation.
Of the fatal stealth
Pairing: (This chapter) Matsumiya, JunxYamapi and JunMa theme overall
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Weird storyline
Disclaimer: Plot and names mentioned are not mine.
Summary: The path to finding love is full of thorns. Thorns that sting. Thorns that shed blood. Thorns that kill. And amidst the stinging pain, it's there, what you are looking for.
Note: Don't ask about the summary. It's Part of A Multichapter so won't make much sense otherwise.
Jun grew distant from then on.
With no funeral to mark the end of his last relationship, it was as though Jun still dwelled on it. He’d grown a stubble which had never happened before. Toma quite liked it. It made Jun look rugged and pensive. Like he’s seen and done many things in life. Which he has and this is the Jun he leaves behind when he leaves for college in Aoyama.
Jun wants him to be a doctor. That was the only time since Sho’s death that Toma’s seen Jun’s face light up to look like the young sprightly person he loves so much. When he told Jun he’d gotten into college, Jun had smiled and looked young and happy. He told him that he wanted Toma to be a doctor and discover some way to stop his precious hair from turning grey. Toma looked through Jun’s hair and so no grey hair.
Jun had a mischievous smile on his face. Toma played along. ‘Found one!’ he had screamed and the smile was wiped off his face, instead rushing off to the mirror. Toma laughed seeing the fool Jun made of himself and Jun stomped back and hit him. They looked at each other and started laughing.
The image was printed in Toma’s mind. He photocopied one into his heart and took it to college. That’s the Jun he remembers, the Jun of that particular moment; the Jun who knew how to laugh and have fun.
In the meantime Jun’s ever admirer constable Yamashita Tomoshisa, showed up at the house with a worried look and Jun had not extended the courtesy of last time. They spoke at the door.
“About the Sakurai Sho missing case.”
“I know nothing.” Jun grunted and had almost shut the door when desperate Yamashita cried out, “Where is it futile to look?”
Jun opened the door a crack, “What do you mean?”
“I’m not on official visit.” Yamashita pleaded with a hand on the door slowly prying it open, “I’m here to tell you the search warrant for your house has been sanctioned already.”
If Jun was scared he didn’t show it, “Took you long enough.” He snorted.
“Well you are an affluent person. It’s hard to lay a finger on you but the super is intent this time.”
The only interest Jun showed was not to shut the door on Yamashita’s face. Yamashita took the opportunity to press on, “Where is it utterly futile to look?” Yamashita looked at Jun intently.
“There is just one mango tree on my grounds.”
Yamashita’s smile broke out like a sun through dark rain clouds, as though the favour was being given to him instead of the other way round.
For all Toma knew up until the beginning of sophomore year Jun had continued on his self destructive path but one day while he was typing out a particularly annoying and lengthy draft of how he wanted to switch to the forensics team from cardiology he received a mail.
A name he had long forgotten acknowledged his existence.
Opening the mail he found all there was, was a picture attached, no message, no salutation, know see this or anything. Just the one picture and a blank mail. His only interaction with Jun since he had come to college.
Jun with a man, a young man by the looks of it with a pointed chin and small mouth. His expression on the picture was annoyed, or at least pretending to be annoyed as Jun nuzzled his cheek, like a brat. Toma would have almost not noticed it but he had seen Jun after so long, his eyes had swept across every corner of the picture and he did notice it. The bare shoulders.
Toma sighed, he didn’t want to analyze why Jun would send him this. He simply cropped out Jun from the picture and deleted the mail.
Jun had met Ninomiya at a corporate sponsored horse race. It was as a thank you to their shareholders. Jun had a private booth due to his considerable patronage. Until of course Ninomiya had walked in all puppy-eyed and pretty smiles and taken the empty seat beside him. Jun tried to throw him a dirty look but Ninomiya only smiled in return and not only that started conversation. It started with little things like horses and money but went on to more personal matters. The conversation flowed smoothly and by the end of the race where Jun had won and Nino had lost all he had bet Jun had to admit he was enjoying himself.
Jun wouldn’t be able to tell you why exactly he agreed to go to dinner with Ninomiya. But it was something along the lines of, “I need to win something today”. Jun would later say he had felt pity for the heartbroken and in generally broke man. He never explained the reason to the second date. Or the third or fourth for that matter.
Maybe why Jun was so attracted to Ninomiya was because Ninomiya treated him right. Not overly pamper, or shower with compliments, not take advantage of. Despite Jun being loaded Ninomiya always paid for dinner. Then cribbed about how Jun was burning a hole in his pocket. But it’d be done with a humour that Jun could never take it the wrong way or even stop Ninomiya from paying. Even the first time they had sex was at a normal time. Not too soon, not too late. A month from when they had first met.
He had taken a picture of them in bed together. He saved a copy in his computer folder and before deleting the picture from his camera he had sent a copy to Toma.
He’d lost touch with Toma and Jun didn’t know why but he felt that maybe this would bring them together. That maybe in the summer of his sophomore year, Toma would come back.
Jun had many a times contemplated on sending a mail to Toma to remind him who it was that was paying for his education but in the end the first attempt he makes at contacting Toma is by sending him a picture of him in bed with Ninomiya.
Taichi had however done what Jun had failed to do and Toma always ignored the invitations to come home. Especially now that Ninomiya was around. Taichi’s mails grew more and more concerned. More and more about how hard he found it to trust Ninomiya whole heartedly, Ninomiya took an interest in Jun’s financial matters that bothered Taichi. Taichi thought the last thing that Jun needed was another betrayal and that too for his money.
At the end of his mails Taichi would say, ‘we love you’ and Toma would be tormented buy the ambiguity of it all.
He didn’t return home the summer of his sophomore year. The forensics team was going to Prague for training and he took the opportunity to backpack around Europe. The last mail he had read was from Taichi now doubting his own suspicion.
Toma was glad of Jun’s unbroken heart.
What Toma didn’t expect in his journey around Europe was one of his seniors on the team, Oguri Shun ask him out. There were many girls who had asked him out. And they were politely rejected by Toma who simply had no time. This was however the first boy. Toma felt that it was time to accept.
Christmas of his junior year Toma received two invites. One of which he accepted. Maybe if he knew that Jun’s heart was breaking when Taichi informed him Toma would not be coming home for Christmas he would have chosen otherwise.
Shun’s house was a cozy Japanese style house on the outskirts of Fukuoka where his family owned farmland. They were affluent farmers and Toma enjoyed their simplistic, straightforward personalities. It was a family he was jealous of. No mysteries, secrets, darkness or forbidden love. He was welcomed with open arms and a playful nudge by Shun’s sister. Toma had smiled embarrassedly rubbing the back of his neck.
What he hadn’t expected was to see the reason for his grief strutting hand in hand with a girl and child as he went out for a morning stroll with Shun along the streets. That annoyed bratty face cooing at a child with a similar face with more roundish features. Toma’s heart raced. He didn’t know what he wanted the outcome to be when he called Taichi.
Taichi was duly surprised, the last time Toma called was four months ago when Taichi had sent him a mail saying Jun was sick.
However, all the inquiry was cut off from Taichi’s side as Toma almost brutally asked about Ninomiya’s whereabouts. Toma’s heart sank as Taichi told him Ninomiya was called away to Fukuoka on business and that Jun was so pissed. Toma hung up and didn’t hesitate before grabbing the camera clutched in Shun’s fist.
His heart clenched at the picture of him and Shun that flashed on display as he turned it on.
Toma receives another mail from Jun on the first day of the New Year.
This time it’s an attachment of a newspaper article titled, “Further inquiry into the death of Ninomiya Kazunari Reveal him to have been a Corporate Spy”
And a single line that says:
Happy New Year
A/N: Sorry for the wait.
Cam and Syu. You were right again :D
Of the fatal stealth
Pairing: (This chapter) Matsumiya, JunxYamapi and JunMa theme overall
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Weird storyline
Disclaimer: Plot and names mentioned are not mine.
Summary: The path to finding love is full of thorns. Thorns that sting. Thorns that shed blood. Thorns that kill. And amidst the stinging pain, it's there, what you are looking for.
Note: Don't ask about the summary. It's Part of A Multichapter so won't make much sense otherwise.
Jun grew distant from then on.
With no funeral to mark the end of his last relationship, it was as though Jun still dwelled on it. He’d grown a stubble which had never happened before. Toma quite liked it. It made Jun look rugged and pensive. Like he’s seen and done many things in life. Which he has and this is the Jun he leaves behind when he leaves for college in Aoyama.
Jun wants him to be a doctor. That was the only time since Sho’s death that Toma’s seen Jun’s face light up to look like the young sprightly person he loves so much. When he told Jun he’d gotten into college, Jun had smiled and looked young and happy. He told him that he wanted Toma to be a doctor and discover some way to stop his precious hair from turning grey. Toma looked through Jun’s hair and so no grey hair.
Jun had a mischievous smile on his face. Toma played along. ‘Found one!’ he had screamed and the smile was wiped off his face, instead rushing off to the mirror. Toma laughed seeing the fool Jun made of himself and Jun stomped back and hit him. They looked at each other and started laughing.
The image was printed in Toma’s mind. He photocopied one into his heart and took it to college. That’s the Jun he remembers, the Jun of that particular moment; the Jun who knew how to laugh and have fun.
In the meantime Jun’s ever admirer constable Yamashita Tomoshisa, showed up at the house with a worried look and Jun had not extended the courtesy of last time. They spoke at the door.
“About the Sakurai Sho missing case.”
“I know nothing.” Jun grunted and had almost shut the door when desperate Yamashita cried out, “Where is it futile to look?”
Jun opened the door a crack, “What do you mean?”
“I’m not on official visit.” Yamashita pleaded with a hand on the door slowly prying it open, “I’m here to tell you the search warrant for your house has been sanctioned already.”
If Jun was scared he didn’t show it, “Took you long enough.” He snorted.
“Well you are an affluent person. It’s hard to lay a finger on you but the super is intent this time.”
The only interest Jun showed was not to shut the door on Yamashita’s face. Yamashita took the opportunity to press on, “Where is it utterly futile to look?” Yamashita looked at Jun intently.
“There is just one mango tree on my grounds.”
Yamashita’s smile broke out like a sun through dark rain clouds, as though the favour was being given to him instead of the other way round.
For all Toma knew up until the beginning of sophomore year Jun had continued on his self destructive path but one day while he was typing out a particularly annoying and lengthy draft of how he wanted to switch to the forensics team from cardiology he received a mail.
A name he had long forgotten acknowledged his existence.
Opening the mail he found all there was, was a picture attached, no message, no salutation, know see this or anything. Just the one picture and a blank mail. His only interaction with Jun since he had come to college.
Jun with a man, a young man by the looks of it with a pointed chin and small mouth. His expression on the picture was annoyed, or at least pretending to be annoyed as Jun nuzzled his cheek, like a brat. Toma would have almost not noticed it but he had seen Jun after so long, his eyes had swept across every corner of the picture and he did notice it. The bare shoulders.
Toma sighed, he didn’t want to analyze why Jun would send him this. He simply cropped out Jun from the picture and deleted the mail.
Jun had met Ninomiya at a corporate sponsored horse race. It was as a thank you to their shareholders. Jun had a private booth due to his considerable patronage. Until of course Ninomiya had walked in all puppy-eyed and pretty smiles and taken the empty seat beside him. Jun tried to throw him a dirty look but Ninomiya only smiled in return and not only that started conversation. It started with little things like horses and money but went on to more personal matters. The conversation flowed smoothly and by the end of the race where Jun had won and Nino had lost all he had bet Jun had to admit he was enjoying himself.
Jun wouldn’t be able to tell you why exactly he agreed to go to dinner with Ninomiya. But it was something along the lines of, “I need to win something today”. Jun would later say he had felt pity for the heartbroken and in generally broke man. He never explained the reason to the second date. Or the third or fourth for that matter.
Maybe why Jun was so attracted to Ninomiya was because Ninomiya treated him right. Not overly pamper, or shower with compliments, not take advantage of. Despite Jun being loaded Ninomiya always paid for dinner. Then cribbed about how Jun was burning a hole in his pocket. But it’d be done with a humour that Jun could never take it the wrong way or even stop Ninomiya from paying. Even the first time they had sex was at a normal time. Not too soon, not too late. A month from when they had first met.
He had taken a picture of them in bed together. He saved a copy in his computer folder and before deleting the picture from his camera he had sent a copy to Toma.
He’d lost touch with Toma and Jun didn’t know why but he felt that maybe this would bring them together. That maybe in the summer of his sophomore year, Toma would come back.
Jun had many a times contemplated on sending a mail to Toma to remind him who it was that was paying for his education but in the end the first attempt he makes at contacting Toma is by sending him a picture of him in bed with Ninomiya.
Taichi had however done what Jun had failed to do and Toma always ignored the invitations to come home. Especially now that Ninomiya was around. Taichi’s mails grew more and more concerned. More and more about how hard he found it to trust Ninomiya whole heartedly, Ninomiya took an interest in Jun’s financial matters that bothered Taichi. Taichi thought the last thing that Jun needed was another betrayal and that too for his money.
At the end of his mails Taichi would say, ‘we love you’ and Toma would be tormented buy the ambiguity of it all.
He didn’t return home the summer of his sophomore year. The forensics team was going to Prague for training and he took the opportunity to backpack around Europe. The last mail he had read was from Taichi now doubting his own suspicion.
Toma was glad of Jun’s unbroken heart.
What Toma didn’t expect in his journey around Europe was one of his seniors on the team, Oguri Shun ask him out. There were many girls who had asked him out. And they were politely rejected by Toma who simply had no time. This was however the first boy. Toma felt that it was time to accept.
Christmas of his junior year Toma received two invites. One of which he accepted. Maybe if he knew that Jun’s heart was breaking when Taichi informed him Toma would not be coming home for Christmas he would have chosen otherwise.
Shun’s house was a cozy Japanese style house on the outskirts of Fukuoka where his family owned farmland. They were affluent farmers and Toma enjoyed their simplistic, straightforward personalities. It was a family he was jealous of. No mysteries, secrets, darkness or forbidden love. He was welcomed with open arms and a playful nudge by Shun’s sister. Toma had smiled embarrassedly rubbing the back of his neck.
What he hadn’t expected was to see the reason for his grief strutting hand in hand with a girl and child as he went out for a morning stroll with Shun along the streets. That annoyed bratty face cooing at a child with a similar face with more roundish features. Toma’s heart raced. He didn’t know what he wanted the outcome to be when he called Taichi.
Taichi was duly surprised, the last time Toma called was four months ago when Taichi had sent him a mail saying Jun was sick.
However, all the inquiry was cut off from Taichi’s side as Toma almost brutally asked about Ninomiya’s whereabouts. Toma’s heart sank as Taichi told him Ninomiya was called away to Fukuoka on business and that Jun was so pissed. Toma hung up and didn’t hesitate before grabbing the camera clutched in Shun’s fist.
His heart clenched at the picture of him and Shun that flashed on display as he turned it on.
Toma receives another mail from Jun on the first day of the New Year.
This time it’s an attachment of a newspaper article titled, “Further inquiry into the death of Ninomiya Kazunari Reveal him to have been a Corporate Spy”
And a single line that says:
Happy New Year
A/N: Sorry for the wait.
Cam and Syu. You were right again :D