The Roidmude that Cared

The Big Scare

After a day of not finding anything on Yoriko's brother, Gou decided it was a day and went to the appartment that he shares with Chase.

Once he got inside the appartment, Chase was laying on the couch all bandaged up. This sight had Gou worried about the Roidmude he was living with. He slowly walked up to Chase. The sleeping Roidmude looked so peaceful. Gou just could not stop looking at him. Chase was just peacefully sleeping like there was nothing wrong with the world and that he was finally human enough to live like one. Gou looked at the bloody bandages that Chase was wrapped up in.

"He will be fine," there was a voice from comming from the corner of the room. Gou turned to see Shinnosuke sitting calmly looking at his direction.

"What the hell happened to Chase?!" Gou kind of yelled as he stormed over to Shinnosuke. He just sighed and looked at the ground. Shinnosuke knew how much this news would hurt Gou.

"We ran into Seeker, Heart, and Brain," Shinnosuke replied shyly. After he told the young man what happened all he seen was Gou rush to chase's side and slowly pulled the bandages back from the wounds that the Roidmude had sustained. There was a large deep gash in Chase's chest. Gou just stared at it as tears began to threaten to spill over the sides of his eyelids.

"How could I let this happen to him?" Gou whispered to himself loud enough for Shinnosuke to hear.

"It is not your fault. You were doing your own thing as we were doing our job. I should have faught Heart instead of Chase," Shinnosuke told him. This made Gou turn his head in anger.

"Why didn't you stop Chase? He is hurt because of his facination of fighting his own kind," Gou told the older man in sadness. He hated seeing his aibou hurt.

"I couldn't, every time I would try, Brain would stop me from getting to him," Shinnosuke yelled before he looked down at the ground.

"This could have killed him instantly. It was almost to his core," Gou stated.

"I know," was all Shinnosuke told the younger man before standing up to leave. "I should be heading home. It's getting late."

"Good night Shin-niisan," Gou spoke to the older man as he knelt down beside Chase.after that, the older man walked out of the apartment leaving Gou with Chase.

Gou stood up and walked to the bathroom to change into his pajamas. He didn't have much clothes but his sweatpants would do. The bathroom was small for the size of the apartment but it worked great before Gou had Chase live with him. Gou looked in the mirror and seen something he wish he hadn't done. There were tears rolling down his cheeks due to Chase's condition. The boy didn't know what he would do if one day Chase never returned.

Gou hurried back to where Chase laid injured on the couch. The Roidmude was still on the couch but he was trying to get up. Gou rushed faster to try and stop him."Chase stop, you are badly hurt."

"I will be fine Gou," the Roidmude protested. Chase just continued to get up which caused him to be in even more pain then needed.

"What are you trying to get up for?" Gou asked his friend.

"I was going to try and get to our bed so then you won't have to sleep alone," Chase answered the only human in the apartment. Chase never considered himself human but Gou did.

"But you should stay on the couch, I don't want to hurt you even more," Gou told Chase. A single tear rolled down his cheek and he hurried to wipe it away. Chase was standing up now and slowly making his way to the bedroom. Every step he took, more pain shot through his chest Gou couldn't stop him even with his ribs aching from over use.

The soon got to the bedroom, Chase just plopped to the bed. Gou on the other hand just sat down on his side of their bed and looked out at the dark sky. All of a sudden, Gou had arms around his waist. He knew just who it was. Chase slowly eased Gou down on the bed and put his head under Gou's chin. The two boys laid there for a while. Gou could feel the warmth from Chase's head and that seemed to make him happy for once.

Chase was happy with where he was. This was the only time a Roidmude could ever feel so human unlike other Roidmudes like Freeze. All the warmth coming from Gou's body slowly made the Roidmude's eyes slowly close. Gou felt Chase's breathing slow to signal that he was now asleep. This gave the only human in the room the indication that it was okay for him to go to sleep. Hopefully the nightmares would stay away from the two for one night. The two needed the long night's sleep to hunt for Yoriko's brother. This was hoing to be a hard thing to do.