trauma

13

"You can stay here for the night." Isan says to Chisuke, holding open the door to Tsuki's old room.
"Thank you." Says Chisuke.
Isan leaves the room and lets him settle in, as he starts for the stairs he catches Mochika's eye, glaring at him from across to hallway, standing in front of the window at the end, he stumbles from her random appearance, but continues down downstairs.
she continues standing there for some time before walking to Tsuki's room, opening the door, and walking in.
Chisuke turns to face her sudden entrance, but she pins him against the wall, and says fiercely,     "What the heck, Tsuki!"

"Don't shout, they'll hear you." says Chisuke, calmly.
"I'm not shouting, and you have a lot to answer for, this wasn't the plan, Tsuki!"
"Stop calling me that, someone will hear you."
"Do you think everyone is a bat here?! They can't hear us, WE'RE UPSTAIRS!" She shouts in his ear, grabbing his jaw.
"No," He answers, "Now, do you mind letting my face go, you're smudging my makeup."
She sighs deeply and lets go, but doesn't move away from the wall.
"You haven't answered my question."
"What question?"
"What the heck." she repeated, calmly.
" About what?"
Mochika stares at him for a moment, emotionless, then grabs his jaw again, and says, "This!"
"Oh, right." He answers, used to Mochika's impetuous behavior.
"Well?"
"Well, after you left, and since the plan was for me to dress up as Chisuke, I got everything prepared for him, but then he got a call, and the ransom date was changed, to today."
"Why?"
"I don't know, it was out of the blue as well."
Mochika stroked her chin and thought for a minute, "Do you think they're onto us?"
"I doubt it, but it's better to be safe than sorry,"
"Definitely," She moved away from the wall and walled to the window, "I'll go out tonight and look around."
"Are you sure?"
"About what?"
"Going out, it is going to be nighttime, after all, you are a girl."
Mochika glares at him, "Do you have a death wish, or did spending two years apart weaken your trust?!"
"No, no, of course not, sorry, I spent a lot of time with Chisuke."
Mochika looks confused, "Chisuke is a guy."
"No, he told me that."
"I'm too confused to even start to understand."
"What do you mean, he told me that when I went to, ahem, dispose of someone, you know, if someone might capture me."
"Okay, and what does me being a girl have anything to do with it?"
"Because I don't want to be the one to clean up the bodies." He smirked.
"Why would you need to do that?"
Tsuki walked to the middle of the room and stood in front of her, bending down ever so slightly, even though they were the same height, and smirked, "Because when you, dispose, of people, you don't have any feeling of regard for anyone and, dispose, of everyone who saw you, or anyone you saw."
"Is that a bad thing?" She asks, not moving, though disturbed by Tsuki's hot breath on her face.
Tsuki smiled, "Not in the slightest."
"Good, now get out of my face."
He tilted his head slightly and obeyed.