I Will Win You Back(Completed)

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Day 20

Karma woke up in a small round room. He became aware of the unusually low temperature, and hugged himself for warmth. He pushed himself up to a sitting position. He looked around. The room was windowless, and his only source of light was the flickering light bulb hanging above him.

He stood up and walked up to the metal door and kicked it. Not that he expected it would do much

He started kicking the door repeatedly, but eventually the red head stopped. He started cupping himself in search of his phone or anything that can help him in his situation.

Nothing. Valentine must have taken his phone while he was asleep.

Valentine, that sicko, the mad man who tied him down to an operating table and was about to cut him open. Karma lifted his shirt in search of cuts and stitches but there was nothing, his stomach was smooth and untouched. Maybe Valentine took blood from him through an IV drip instead? Yeah, that might be the case.

"Gakushū" he whispered the name of his boyfriend...no, his husband. Gakushū must be worried sick and looking for him.

"Don't worry... Gakushū is smart, he'll find you" he assured himself. "There was a CCTV at that alley, Gakushū must have checked it out. And he'll follow the bread crumbs left behind, trace it towards me"

But he can't just sit still in this cold room and freeze to death(the temperature probably isn't low enough to kill him because they still need him alive, but it's still bad for him) he has to find a way out of his situation.

Karma should start by getting attention from Valentine. Learn him inside maybe. The man displays some psycho vibe in him but Karma can sense a bit of dimwittednesss. As seen when Karma easily got some information as to who hired him to kidnap Karma. So the red head began kicking and hitting the metal door, creating loud banging sounds while screaming like a mad man.

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Sometimes she thinks Chiyo's condition was her fault.

Everytime she looks at her baby, she'd feel pain like never before. As if her heart was being ripped to pieces. As if someone reached into her chest, tore her heart out and ate it. Her beautiful Chiyo deserves a good long life, she was so young, and has too much to live for.

Chiyo hasn't even made any real friends yet, or been to an actual school because of her delicate condition and Layla and Kagami's protectiveness of her. The girl is taught by her parents, and when she isn't studying, she plays by herself in her room.

Layla, Everytime she looks at her daughter, would sometimes see images of an older Chiyo being surrounded by lovely people. An adult Chiyo getting married.

But then the images would be replaced with a dead Chiyo lying on a hospital bed with a sheet covering her

And then a marble stone woth Chiyo's name on it.

But Chiyo can still live. She can live and have a normal life, they just need that transplant, they just need Akabane Karma.

Layla looked at her husband who was at the balcony talking to someone over the phone. She felt her heart clench as guilt and shame threaten to swallow her whole. Karma, Chiyo's half brother, she remembered the look of anger on his face when he found out the real reason Kagami and her even sought him out. She saw the pity in his eyes when he looked at Chiyo.

"He's a good person, despite his coldness towards us which is very deserving and understandable. He's a good man with a good heart" she thought about the momentary pain that would flash in his eyes as if he was suffering behind everyone's back.  "He's a good man..." She bit her lip hard. She looked at her husband again.

She remembered when she  found out Kagami was actual a match for Chiyo and a possible donor. They were packing up to visit Japan to find his ex wife and son, and were having an argument about it.

Layla was adamant about leaving Natsuki and Karma alone and out of their business because she thought it wasn't fair to suddenly barge into their quiet life and bring Chiyo up to them.

Kagami was insistent that Karma would be a perfect match, that this was their only choice to save their little girl. He and her had a screaming, both adults were incredibly stressed and scared for their daughter, and then Kagami said something that shocked her

"I'm scared of the operation, of surgery, I'm scared of possibly dying in an operating table. I'm a horrible man I know that...I'm sorry Layla! I would offer myself as a donor but I can't, I'm sorry...But Karma can save her. I can't"

Such a selfish man. A selfish and cowardly man, does he really even love her and Chiyo?

Layla placed her hands to her face. She does not know what to do anymore.

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Gakushū's trail of clues ended at an alley. He gritted his teeth and punched the wall in frustration.

Yesterday was spent entirely on searching for 'bread crumbs'

Or rather, cameras and clues. He had five witnesses who told him they saw a van that fit the description he gave them, go to this and that, he searched in a frenzy with no breaks until the sun set, the moon rose, the moon set, and the sun rose again.

He's scared for his husband, but also feeling particularly homicidal.

"When I see those sons of bitches I will make them regret taking my husband" he thought.

He prayed that Karma is untouched, and unharmed

Or else....