Draw Again

Chapter 7

How did I get here?

Grabbing my pounding head I sat up on what appeared to be a cell cot. It creaked under my weight as I slid my legs over the edge of the bed. Rubbing the left side of my neck something bubbled up in the back of my mind.

"Saru-kun," I breathed.

Lowering my hands I jumped up and dashed across the small area pressing myself against the bars. I tried to see where I was but all I could make out was a wall of cells across from me.

"Saru-kun!" I called out.

I definitely remembered seeing him. He had to be here. I had to talk to him. Racking my brain for answers I wondered, What happened again?

***

Totsuka and I had been walking back to the bar after all my job applications. He was humming happily at my side while I had been nursing my burned hand that had started to ache. It was already past noon and I was starving.

We were only a few blocks away from Homra when I was grabbed from behind and pushed down onto my knees. I yelped insurprise, and groaned when my knees hit the solid ground.

"You are under arrest by Scepter Four's Fushimi Saruhiko for involvement in illegal clans activity," a man announced.

I knew that voice, it had deepened over the last couple of years, but it was unmistakable. I glanced over my shoulder at who was twisting my arm behind my back, and standing there was the bored looking glasses guy from that gym roof years ago.

"Saru-kun?" I gaped.

"Who-," he stopped. Eyes wide and hands loosening on me. "Nao?"

"Nao-chan?" Totsuka called.

He ran over to where I was held down, shooting daggers with his brown eyes at Fushimi. I didn't think Totsuka could even get mad, but there he stood with a deep crease in his brow.

"What illegal clans activity?" Totsuka demanded. "We haven't done anything like that today."

"What're you doing with Homra?" Fushimi asked. He completely ignored Totsuka's presence as he stared down at me. His tone was still as superior as when we were younger, but I was happy to see he hadn't changed just like Yata.

"I just bumped into them a few days ago. I'm catching up with Totsuka-kun, and Yata. Where have you been?" I said calmly.

Totsuka stared at me like I had gone crazy. "Nao-chan, he's arresting you," he stated.

"Why?" I asked Fushimi. Totsuka had a point, whether I knew Fushimi or not he was still taking me in for something I didn't do.

"I am just following orders," he answered.

His grip tightened on me again and he pulled my arm farther behind my back. The motion yanked on my bullet wound and I hissed at the sting.

"Let her go, you're hurting her," Totsuka said. He knelt down in front of me and asked, "Is it your side? We'll patch it back up once we get back, okay?"

"Saru-kun, I can walk on my own. I'm not going to fight," I bargained.

"You're just going to go along with him? You haven't done anything wrong though," Totsuka said.

Fushimi continued to ignore the brunet's presence as he allowed me to my feet saying, "Let's go."

I wasn't going to fight him, especially not when I had been wondering how he was doing since literally bumping into Yata at the bar. Fushimi and Yata had been inseparable since the day I met them, so why were they apart now? It didn't make any sense.