Secret (shinsoukoku)

Chapter 2

A few weeks later, Akutagawa noticed how much more... emotional Jinko has become. He cried in almost every mission, but then a few seconds later he was yelling at Akutagawa. As if he hated him even more than before. The diablo answered with the same aggression which resulted in more injuries than on their regular missions from a few weeks back. They've gotten many warnings already, from both the agency and the mafia, but it never seemed to work. Especially for Jinko. It was as if he got a new personality with the shortest temper.

„Jinko, stop crying and help me!" Akutagawa yells as he's almost getting crushed by the huge piece of stone that started falling because of a large explsoion that one of their enemies launched. However, the weretiger wasn't too worried about that. He was currently crying over a pigeon that got hit with a small rock. He took the bird into his hands and put it to his heart.

„But maybe it'll survive..." Atsushi tries and that's when the diablo can't take it anymore and with his rashomon he rips the bird out of the weretiger's hands and throws it away. He looses sight of it very fast because of all the earth and dust and takes a look at Jinko.

„Why did you do that?! You monster!" Atsushi screams and turns into a tiger. His face, especially his teeth, are getting nearer and nearer to Akutagawa's neck, but the mafia executive rushes to the side. Unfortunately, that makes him lose the hold on the rock he was holding and the stone falls on top of them.

Well, only if it weren't for the fact that Akutagawa's insticts weren't trained for many years. He attaches a part of his rashomon to a small metal pipe and escapes the rocks.

When he's sure he's in a temporarily safe space, he glances at Atsushi.

„Only one arm this time? Impressive, weretiger" He says in an ironic voice and the weretiger rolls his eyes. His right paw is missing but it regrows in a matter of seconds. But Akutagawa still doesn't look away to try and find an exit. No. He's observing the weridly round bump on the tiger's belly.

„...Have you started eating more?" The diablo asks as the curiosity takes the better of him. The tiger tilts his head to the side, not understanding how this question would be relevant in this kind of situation. He turns back into a human.

„Since when do you like small talk?"

„I don't... You know what? Forget I asked."

„...Ok?"

Atsushi looks at his partner a bit confused but his thoutgs go to other places when he hears his stomach grumble.

„Is anyone coming to save us? Or should we get out ourselves?" Atsushi asks and Akutagawa shrugs his shoulder, but starts to throw the rocks away with his rashomon, making a hole big enough to fit him.

„Don't know and don't care. We can leave through here" Akutagawa says and points to the obvious hole in the wall. Atsushi stares at it for a while.

„...sure, why not" He answers and starts laughing. Akutagawa ignores it.
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I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. The updates will probably be very irregular and there's also a chance I might lose all motivation, but for now I'll try to upload a few chapters in the next few days.
-Nat