"A Star without his Director" (Ruikasa fanfic)

Chapter 2: The Rooftop

⚠️ Mentioning of Character Death, Self-Harm⚠️

‼️Read at your own risk‼️
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"Saki is... What?" Tsukasa said, as he dropped to the floor. Tears starts to come out of his very eyes, trying to not accept the fact of his only sister's death "T...That's not true! Saki said she'll keep going right, Mom?!" Tsukasa said, crying as his very own mom was lost for words.

The two gave each other a hug, trying their very best to calm down and stop crying. Tsukasa stood up and went to the bathroom, looking at the mirror and tried to smile "Hey... You're a World Future Star.. You have to smile for everyone...! I have to..." Tsukasa wasn't able to finish because he immediately thought of the time. It's 7:00AM in the morning - he cleaned himself up and tried to breath in and out, calming his own self down since it's just the start of the day...without Saki.

7:15AM, Tenma Household

Tsukasa gets out of the bathroom, all ready to go to school. He went close to his mom and gave her a warm hug "Don't worry mom! Whatever we face... I'll always be there!" Tsukasa said as his mom smiled, feeling comforted from her son's words. She gave a him a kiss on Tsukasa's forehead; telling him to enjoy his day at school with his friends. Tsukasa nods as he went out of the house; thinking about Rui.

"Rui... I hope you're okay.." Tsukasa whispered, staring at his phone screen. He opened social media and noticed that Rui hasn't been online since last night. It made Tsukasa worried but he tried to think positive that Rui might have been busy for another experiment.

Tsukasa presses Rui's chat icon and tried to send him a message.

Tsukasa to Rui:

Tsukasa 💬: Good morning, Rui!
Tsukasa 💬: I'm sorry about what happened the other day...
Tsukasa 💬: See you at school.

When Tsukasa was about to lock his phone, he got a notification. "Rui?! O-Oh... It's Nene."

Nene to Tsukasa:

Nene 💬: Good morning Tsukasa, thank you for replying... I'll meet you up the rooftop with Rui.
Nene 💬: Emu will sadly not come along, she has club activities today..

Tsukasa 💬: Okay, Nene! I'll meet you there!
Tsukasa 💬: Is Rui...doing alright?

Nene 💬: ...
Nene 💬: He said he's alright.. He'll see us there later.

Tsukasa 💬: Thank you, Nene!

Nene 💬: See you later..

Tsukasa 💬: Bye bye, Nene!

Tsukasa turns off his phone and he's off to school!

Timeskip... 8:00AM, Kamiyama High School:

Tsukasa arrives at school, he enters the building and walk on his way to his classroom, before entering his room. He took a peak of the classroom next door, the classroom where Rui is in. Unfortunately, his classmates told Tsukasa that Rui was going to be late for school. He sighs as he enters his own classroom and listened to class.

As Tsukasa has his discussions at class... He couldn't stop thinking about the fact of Saki dying first thing in the morning "Tsukasa Tenma... Calm down.." he said in his own thoughts "you have to focus on class.."

After class

As Tsukasa packs his bag, his class adviser went close to him and asked if he was okay - "Tenma, are you alright? It looks like you weren't with Kamishiro today."

Tsukasa smiles a bit saying that everything was alright. The teacher felt concerned but let Tsukasa's answer be.

Tsukasa gets out of the classroom and immediately ran up stairs, going to the rooftop at the same time typing at his phone.

Tsukasa to Nene:

Tsukasa 💬: Nene, I'm on my way! Wait for me!

Tsukasa continues to go upstairs as fast as he could. He enters the rooftop door and sees the sun setting. It was windy and the sun had a nice touch... Tsukasa pants from all the running to het upstairs and looked around; seeing Rui standing by the rooftop, looking down below.

"... Rui?" Tsukasa walked closer to him, Rui looks back and smiled "Hello, Tsukasa-kun."

"Rui! Are you okay?! You didn't seen or reply to any messages at all after what happened yesterday... I- I'm sorry for everything I said!" Tsukasa said, he felt like tearing up.

"Tsukasa-kun... I.." Rui looked down, gently holding Tsukasa's cheek - Rui caresses his cheek, feeling the blonde boy's soft cheek makes Rui chuckled. "Tsukasa-kun, I should be the one apologizing.."

Tsukasa blushed as he felt Rui's hand on his cheek, he looked at Rui in the eye and sighed "No, Rui, I should be the one apologizing... All of us did what we could! I shouldn't say all those things like yesterday.. I am... I'm not worthy of a Star without... His Director." Rui gasped, he smiled warmly as he put Tsukasa close; giving him a hug.

"Tsukasa-kun, it looks like you've been... Facing a lot lately.." Rui nodded no, "No... It's alright, we all face something, Rui! We can always fix our situations together-"

"How's Saki, Tsukasa-kun?" Rui cut off what Tsukasa was going to say. Tsukasa felt silent and continued to smile as best as he could "Saki? She's doing alright...!" As Rui heard Tsukasa's voice, it sounded off.

"Tsukasa-kun, don't lie... You don't sound honest at all." Rui said as he looked at Tsukasa with a concerned look. - Tsukasa felt scared, he didn't know what to say or do... But held Rui tighter, making it a hug. "She's..-"

Rui held Tsukasa's lips with his finger, "Shh... No need to finish it, Tsukasa-kun... I- I understand.. I'm sorry for what happened."

Tsukasa was about to burst into tears as Rui tried to comfort Tsukasa, the two continue to hug at the rooftop.

As the two hugged, Tsukasa noticed something off with Rui. Rui's sleeves aren't tucked as usual. "Rui.. Let me see your arm."

"W-What? Why is that, Tsukasa-kun? I just wanted to try a different style~" Rui said, trying to change the topic. Unfortunately, that doesn't convince Tsukasa. - he lets go of the hug and grabbed Rui's arm, pulling up the sleeve. In which made Rui silent, as for Tsukasa...

"R-Rui... Did you...do this?"

Rui's wrist were full of cuts, they don't look old at all, it looked like it was freshly cut yesterday. Tsukasa looked even more concerned as Rui immediately back off and covered his wrist with cuts with his sleeve.

"Rui..."

--Chapter 2, End--

Hello, it's Author! I hope you like the very second and chaotic chapter! I am sorry that Nene and Emu didn't show up in this chapter... They'll be showing up by the next chapter.

"Rui, what's wrong?"