More Than a Silent Treatment【IDOLiSH7 Fanfiction】

♪#6: Silent Change【1】

Nanase Shintarou, a man that has everything in his hands. Power, wealth, beautiful wife, handsome sons, comfortable lifestyle and more. But he always felt never enough. He always never content with his life. Everyone looked up on him. Either in fear of respect, they still not looked at him like an ant but somewhat a king. No one have the guts to disrespect or even talk-back him.

No one.

Except for the redhead in front of him.

The one-eyed glare looking at him in hatred, red sunset glowing at him dangerously.

This is the first time someone ever looked at him like that. He felt threatened by the eye. He was so used to look at people's eyes looking at him in respect and fear. Not hatred. That's why he felt threatened. He didn't like it. He didn't like it at all. And he's going to change that.

Riku looked at him sceptically before stood up from the ground, properly facing his supposed to be stepfather. He was sick with this man's way of taking care of him. Every time he got an opportunity to hit him, he would use it to the heart-content. Riku hate him. From the day that Shintarou took him in to the Nanase Family, Riku thought he'll have a new family that would took care of him properly like his previous family did.

But it turned out he was wrong. Shintarou only took him in because of his wife's wish. She wished to have a free-worker that would take care all of the houseworks for her stead.

A 'slave' is the right word to it.

But not only work as housework, a stress-reliever too. Every time the family having a bad day, they would come to him and used him as a thing to lash out their moods. Riku has already sick of it.

"Hoho, so you have the guts to glared at me like that, huh?" Riku narrowed his eyes at the man.

Shintarou smirked at the redhead. He composed himself a while ago, trying to gain the courage back. There's noting that this small mouse could do to him. He can't even hit a fly. At the thought, Shintarou's smirk widened. That's right.

He'll teach this small mouse his right place.

Shintarou run towards Riku, intending to give the boy his punch. Riku saw this coming and swayed his head back to dodge the attack, albeit clumsily because he never have the experience of dodging an attacks or attacking people before. He was to kind of his enemies, resulting him being beaten badly.

But Shintarou were different. After the first attack didn't succeed, he quickly swung his leg straight to Riku's stomach, sending him flying across the room. Riku coughed and gasp. He needs to breathe. He needs to calm down or else his illness would attack him.

'Strong...' Riku thought as he looked at Shintarou's satisfied face warily. '... He's too strong...'

Shintarou laughed at the redhead struggling face just to breathe. "You know, you have the potential to beat me. But you're too scrawny and inexperience to do so. It's a shame, really... I was shocked that you could read my movement earlier. Where did you learn that?"

Without missing a beat, Shintarou didn't wait for Riku's answer as he made another strike. Riku, on the other hand, waited for the strike to come and focusing on the timing. Somehow he would know what the elder is trying to do.

The time seems to be slowed down and so Riku quickly stood up to dodge the incoming attack. He turned his back and swung his leg once again, giving the elder a kick on the face.

'I didn't learn it, I've read it.' He thought, answering the question as he watched Shintarou's face kissing the ground. 'Payback time...!' he cheered slightly in his mind.

That would be enough time to buy Riku some time to get away from Shintarou as far as possible. But before Riku could reach for the door knob, his right leg is caught by Shintarou, making him fell down. Shintarou pulled Riku's leg and threw him towards the table like a rag doll, successfully forcing his breath out of his system.

He was too close on having the attack now. The sound of heavy footsteps echoing through his ear even if in the reality, Shintarou didn't even make any sound as he approach the redhead. Riku looked up at Shintarou, one eye closed, trying to hold the pain at his entire body. He's so vulnerable at this rate. His body aching all over, he can't do anything now and he even out of energy to stand up and run away from Shintarou.

Shintarou smirked. He reached his hand towards Riku's neck and tighten it slightly. Riku shut his eyes close as he struggling to breathe. "You know what? I'm so impressed by your action just now." Shintarou started. "But it's a stupid thing to do. And I bet, the reason you were being taken care at that filthy orphanage is because you were dumped by your parents. Is that right? Ri-ku-kun...?"

'No... No you're wrong...! They died because of an incident! You know nothing, old man...!' With the remaining energy he have, Riku glared murderously at Shintarou.

Shintarou's eyes widened. The sensation came back freezing him like an ice. He's a shaking mess. 'That eye... That damn eye...!' Shintarou didn't like it at all. 'I'll destroy it...! Don't look at me like that...!' Feels threatened, Shintarou reached for the alcohol bottle and open the cap with his teeth.

Riku's eyes widened in terror as if he already knew what will Shintarou going to do. Shintarou grinned as he sees the fear reflecting on the once glowing red sunset. 'Yes... Shows that to me...' he thought and poured the alcohol on Riku's left eye.

Hurts...

... It's hurts...

Please stop the pain...!

Someone...!

Tenn-nii...!

At that time, because of the unbearable pain on his left eye, Riku has forgotten to keep his voice silent and unconsciously screamed in pain. The scream were too loud but not loud enough to reach the neighbours' ears. Shintarou let go off Riku's neck and threw the bottle away. He smirked and then turned into a crazy laugh as he watched the poor redhead curled into a ball, trying to muffle his screaming but failed miserably. Satisfied, Shintarou walked out of the room to go somewhere.

Riku's consciousness started to fade away. 'Ah... In the end, I'm still going to die... The pain is getting numb...' Suddenly, Tenn's face came into his mind and then, the rest of his new-found friends. They were smiling at him. 'Tenn-nii... Sorry...'

Before he could close his eyes, a blur of brown came into his view and then everything turns black. Letting his body and mind succumbed into the endless darkness.