Hourglass Love

Chapter 3: I love you

It's less than 30 hours left before the deadline. Early in the morning, [Y/N] made her way somewhere. She walked into a building and went upstairs. Knocking on the door gently, she entered the room. "Hello, how may I help you?" said one of the attendants who's walking by. "Hello. I'm here to look for a person who's called Dazai. Is he here?" [Y/N] replied back nervously as she gripped tightly to the handles of her red backpack. Yes, she went to visit the Armed Detective Agency early in the morning at 9am on 29th June.

"Oh, give me a minute to call for him. In the meantime, how about you wait here? Take a seat, I'll bring you a cup of tea as well." said the attendant with a sweet smile. [Y/N] took a seat, placed her backpack beside her on the sofa and waited patiently and anxiously for the man she wanted to see. "Oh, oh my! Who do we have here?" sang Dazai as he's making his way towards the opposite sofa in front of [Y/N]. "Here's your tea, enjoy." said the attendant who came soon after Dazai sat down. She placed the cup of tea onto the table and gave another sweet smile to [Y/N] before leaving her and Dazai alone. Turning her attention back to Dazai, [Y/N] begged, "The specialist that you had mentioned before! Can I see her? I don't know her name that's why I called for you instead. Please, I really need her help!" Tears started to flow out of her eyes. Dazai's expression changed immediately after hearing out [Y/N]'s request. While [Y/N] rubbed her eyes with her hands, for the first time, [Y/N] heard Dazai spoke with a serious tone. "And why do you need to see her?" With the glaring hazel coloured eyes staring straight into her like it's invading her mind, [Y/N] said while sobbing, "Chuuya... I need her help to heal Chuuya!"

"Oh, and why do I need to help a member from the Port Mafia?" an unfamiliar voice was heard from the side of the sofa. [Y/N] turned her head to see who is it. A mixture of surprise and relief emotions took over her tears. It's the specialist that she wanted to see. Desperately wanting to save Chuuya, [Y/N] stood up and kneeled in front of the specialist with her forehead touching the floor despite the pain she felt on her right knee. Last night, she covered the wound with some bandages, hoping to ease the pain and the bleeding. [Y/N] begged once again, "I may not know what happened between Chuuya and the Armed Detective Agency, but! The current state that Chuuya's in was all because of me! I'm the one who caused him to be that way! I want to save him!" [Y/N] paused while she tried to catch her breath when tears started to flow out again. "The only way is to have you to heal him up! During the first time when Chuuya got admitted to the hospital, Dazai mentioned that you're a specialist! Before, Chuuya told me some stories about your ability as well! This may be a burden to you but you're my only hope! Please! I want Chuuya to get well soon. Time is running out..."

Dazai and the specialist took glances with each other in confusion before the specialist decided to voice out, "Fine. Let me go and gather my items first and then we can make our way to Chuuya. Don't expect this to happen again." [Y/N] immediately looked up at the specialist with her messed up face and replied with a thanks. However, she states, "I'm so glad that you're willing to help. But you can't attend to Chuuya right now. It'll only work if it's at midnight. I need to gather the other things to make Chuuya feel better too. Will you please visit him only at that time?" The specialist who has her doubts initially wanted to refuse [Y/N]'s request so that she can get this over with but with the azure coloured eyes of [Y/N]'s filled with determination, she could only agree. "Thank you! Thank you so much!" cried [Y/N] as more tears came out. The specialist then helped [Y/N] to get up on her feet and directed her back onto the sofa. As [Y/N] sat down, she went and took out a white envelope from her bag and placed it onto the table. "This is the payment for your kind assistance in helping me. I do hope that this is enough for you. Lastly, may I know your name?" [Y/N] spoke in a gentle tone while she used a tissue to clean up her face. "Ahh, its Akiko Yosano." Yosano replied as she took a seat beside Dazai. "Yosano! Thank you so much! I'll be seeing you in the hospital at 11:15pm tonight! This is Chuuya's room's number. Thank you!" [Y/N] spoke cheerfully as she handed Yosano a small piece of paper before making her way to the exit. "Hmmm, why must the healing process be done at midnight? If it's midnight, why do you need to report to the venue at 11:15pm? This doesn't make sense at all." complained Dazai after [Y/N] exited the room as he went to grab the envelope that's on the table. "I need time to heal him, you idiot. So being there before 12 is reasonable. And hey! Why are you the one who's opening that envelope?! Isn't that suppose to be mine instead? Cause I'm the one who's going to do all the work!" yelled Yosano as she whacked a light punch on Dazai's head and grabbed away the envelope that's on his hand. Yosano then went ahead to open the envelope with the curious Dazai looking from the side. When Yosano pulled out the cheque from of the envelope, that single piece of paper made both Yosano and Dazai opened their eyes and mouth big. Dazai screamed, "That's a lot of zeros!"