CONNECTIONS, H. Kazutora

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Third Person's POV

(name) has her hands clasped together and her eyes closed with Kazutora doing the same. After a minute they opened they're eyes and smiled at Baji's gravestone. "Sorry I haven't been visiting you for a while now, Baji" (name) said as she stared at the vase of flowers that her and Kazutora got for Baji. They started telling Baji about how their life has been going, until (name) had to go visit Emma and Shinichiro's gravestone next. "Kazu i'm gonna go visit Emma and Shinichiro next, you 'comin?" She asked, Kazutora looked at her then gave a gentle smile "I'll just stay here and talk to Baji for a bit more".

Walking towards Emma and Shinichiro's gravestones, she noticed a man with a white bob cut standing between the two gravestones. Immediately her eyes widened as she stopped on her tracks, eyeing the man. "Mikey..." She mumbled under her breath.

"She really miss seeing you guys... Don't worry though. Pretty soon i'll bring her to you."

Mikey's words sending shivers down (name)'s spine, she took a step back about to run back to Kazutora but then accidentally stepped on a pile of old leaf making a crunch noise.

Mikey quickly turned around about to reach out for something in his pocket but stopped after seeing that no one was behind him. Probably was just his imagination. He then walked away disappearing into the city behind the cemetery.

(name), standing behind a tree with eyes widened full of fear and hands covering her mouth. What the hell did he mean by 'Pretty soon i'll bring her to you' ? Is he talking about (name)?? He still had the same creepy aura from the last time he bumped into her at the city. So many questions echoing in her head as she removed her hands off her mouth. She peeked over the tree and saw that Mikey was gone, she let out a sigh of relief then walked towards the elderly Sano's gravestone first.

Standing in front of Shinichiro's gravestone as she stared at the flowers in the vase, memories of that incident came flying back to her.

Flash Back

Walking down the dark streets late at night as she kept on thinking about what to get for Mikey since his birthday was coming up real soon. "Should I get him 2 boxes of dorayaki..? No that would be too boring.. Ooh!— wait no that would be boring too... I should ask the others what they're going to give him—" As she was talking to herself she noticed a crowd of people and a police car. "Huh? Did something happen?" She squinted her eyes then realized that they were crowding around in front of Shinichiro's bike shop. She began to panic as she ran as fast as she could there. Pushing herself through the crowd to get to the front, her eyes widened in shock to see Kazutora and Baji with ropes tied around their hands at the front as they were being escorted towards the police car.

"Kazu!" She called out for him as she panted. Kazutora turned his head, staring at her panicked form with his dull eyes. He muttered out a 'It's Mikey's fault.' then stepped foot into the police car.

Here she is now, staring at the elderly Sano who now has a big black bruise at the side of his head. Lifeless on the hospital bed. She couldn't even shed a single tear. She was so shocked about the whole situation that she couldn't cry.

Shinichiro was like a big brother to her. He would always be welcoming whenever she visited the Sano's home or his motorbike shop. He was a good guy. But why. Why can't she cry? Why? WHY?

"Shinichiro!" Emma shouted out her older brother's name as she barged into the hospital room to see him lying on the bed. Tears sliding down her cheeks uncontrollably as she fell to the ground, sobbing. Mikey on the other hand was sitting outside not doing anything. He just had these lost eyes.

(name) slowly approached Emma and crouched down. She engulfed Emma with a tight hug, allowing Emma to cry on her shoulder.

End of Flash Back

(name) clasped her hands together with her eyes closed. "I hope you're doing okay, Shinichiro." She said then turned her head Emma's gravestone and smiled brightly before walking back to Kazutora.

When she got back, she noticed that Kazutora's eyes were slightly red as if he just finished crying. "Kazu? Were you crying?! What happened?" She asked as she cupped his cheeks with a worried expression. "Nothing, I just got a little emotional while talking to Baji, that's all" Kazutora carefully removed her hands from his face, grinning at her innocently. "Did you visit Emma and Shinichiro?" , "Mhm! Should we go to work now?", Kazutora gave her a smile and nodded then they both said their goodbyes to Baji before heading back to their car for work.