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Chapter Four: Solving the Problem

By: Asura Mori

The pain you sought to instill in my heart has taken away all I've ever loved. Did you really think that I would let it stay and grow there until it festered? No, I will not sit back and become a pawn in your game of cat and mouse. I am done with your twisted ways and twisted love. You cannot hurt me anymore and you're not going to get away this time. I'm through with you and your pain.

I turned to look at Ayumu, the words I had been about to say catching in my throat. His eyes were fixated on me, a look of puzzlement there. "Eyes..." he looked away from me and towards the door, his voice betraying the look of calm on his face, "... Was that... him?" I looked away, a deep shame filling my heart. I still hadn't told Ayumu what had happened the other night, and now Kanone was calling my apartment, threatening my lover. "... Yes." I answered, catching his gaze, "... That was Kanone."

He bit his lip and stood, walking over to me. I extended my arms, letting him lie against my chest as he closed his eyes. "Eyes..." he whispered, "Please... don't go to him... whatever you do, please don't." He looked up at me now, his eyes filled with grief. I knew the conflict running through his heart, a conflict that I myself had been through several times before. "I have to." I pulled away from him, looking him straight in the eyes, "I have to finish this, before it gets completely out of hand."

Ayumu didn't answer me, just let his eyes fall to the floor. "I understand." he mumbled, walking over to the door. I watched him go, conflict raging inside my chest. "Ayumu...!" I called after him, hating how dejected he seemed. He turned to regard me slowly, his visage blank. "Ayumu... meet me at the park at five today. My problem with Kanone should be done by then. And then..." I didn't know how to continue without promising something that I might end up breaking, but the smile on his face was enough to make me realize that he believed in me and would come. I smiled back at him, realizing only now how important Ayumu really was to me. I reached out to him, drawing him into me and kissing him lightly on the lips, before letting him go. He smiled at me and walked out the door, not even looking back as I whispered, "I love you." I knew he hadn't heard me.

I walked out of the room, checking the clock besides the bed. It was four o'clock now. If I left right now, I could be at the park in thirty minutes, but that wasn't my intention. First, I had to make contact with Kanone. Just as I was walking out of my room, the phone started ringing. I looked over at it with a satisfied smirk. Kanone was so easy to play. I walked over to the phone and picked it up, "This is Eyes speaking. How may I help you?" I could hear Kanone breathing harshly on the other side of the phone, and stifled a chuckle. "We need to speak Eyes. I told you, warned you, and yet you still went ahead and let him touch you." he sounded pissed, which only made my smirk bigger. "What's it to you, Kanone, whether or not I kiss my lover? And how childish of you to be jealous when you were the one who let me."

"I didn't leave you. You refused to come with me. But all of that is about to change." I didn't understand what he was talking about. All of that was about to change? What was he gonna do? Drag me off to America? "Then why don't we settle this 'argument'?" I asked, propping one hand on my side, "Because I am tired of your little act." "Act, Eyes? Rest assured, this is no mere act." his voice was sad, chipping away at my own anger, "I will get you back, Eyes, even if I have to force you to love me again." I wondered briefly if he could possibly have split personalities, before I heard his voice go soft. "Why can't you understand, Eyes? I would give everything for you, even go into the depths of Hell for you, and yet you deny me your love. Why do you deny the love between us?"

"Kanone." I whispered, feeling my resolve deviating, "What we had was destroyed two months ago, when you decided to betray me to the Hunters. And now, due to your antics last night, there is no way in Heaven or Hell that I could force myself to love you again. Please, just let me be." Tears slid down my cheeks, wetting the clenched fist at my side. My nails dug into the palm of my hand, small drops of blood forming where the skin had broken. I clenched my teeth to stop myself from crying out, refusing to let this man know how he had hurt me.

I could hear Kanone through the receiver, his breathing harsh and ragged, almost as if he'd been running. "I don't think you understand the situation you are in, Eyes." he whispered, his voice menacing and cold, "I don't think you realize that if I can't have you, no one will. I will not allow little Narumi to take what is mine." "Kanone... just what are you planning?" I asked, feeling cold inside suddenly. Ayumu was in danger. "I told you, if that little boy touched you, I would kill him and those he holds dear. I wasn't playing, Eyes." "Kanone, don't you dare...!" I hissed, gripping the phone tightly, "If you have to settle anything, then settle it with me, not with him!" I could envision his smirk, him shaking his head as he held the phone against his ear. "You are really naive, Eyes. I'm done playing with you. Now is the time that I prove to you that I'm serious. Meet me at the park in thirty minutes. If you're not here by then, there will be consequences."

I started to say something, anything, but he hung up, leaving me standing there holding the phone tightly to my ear. "Kanone...? Kanone!" I screamed into the phone, before throwing it down in rage, "Dammit!" I grabbed my coat and quickly put it on, then opened the secret compartment in my piano. In there sat a gun, one I had never used before. I stared at it, remembering that this was the gun I had been going for the night Kanone had raped me. I grabbed it, stuffing it in one of my coat pockets, before flying out the door in a wind of fury. I was not about to let Kanone toy with me anymore, nor the lives of those Ayumu loved.

"You're so determined to get in my way, Kanone, and I will not stand for that. It ends now."

The happiness of those who believe,

Those of who few remain.

Where do you go,

When faith is all you have left?

To be continued...