The Red Thread of Fate

Chapter 5: Aniki Why....?

'No way!! How is he my fated!?!?' I screamed in my head. No, no, no! There's no way that this gorilla-face freak is my fated! There's just no way, there was to be some kind of mistake, right?! Right?! Hajime looked at me weirdly as I tried to rationalise everything in my head. It was right there and then did I noticed the position we were in. I felt my face grow warm as I quickly pushed him away, roughly. "What the hell? What's wrong with you?" He looked at me with confusion in his eyes. 

I couldn't say anything to him. I was too engulfed into my thoughts, trying to make sense in what's happening now. But the more I stared at him, I'm reminded that the red thread is connected to him and my face keeps heating up. "Hey, what's wrong with you, your face is red?" Before I knew it, I quickly ran away from him. I refuse to talk to him. Hell, I couldn't even look at him right now. This is crazy!

I ran all the way back to my building, back to my office and slammed my door shut. I leaned against the door and took time to catch my breath. I then slid down the door and held onto my head. "That gorilla is my fated? A mean guy like him? I can't believe this..." As I began to rethink everything, I suddenly had a flashback. A certain event that happen in my childhood... Have...have I met him before...? I must have... Yeah, now I remember, when we met...we were still kids. I remembered that he had that huge cut on his face. I had no idea on how he got that, but I do know one thing. 'That scar just makes him more handsome that he already is!!' 

My eyes widen. I began to punch my head as I tried to get rid of what I just thought. 'Wait?! How could I even think that?! Why did I think that?! No stupid, don't think like that! This is Hajime were talking about. You hate his guts! Don't you?!' I was interrupted when I heard yelling going on outside in the field. Sighing, I got up and walked to my window to check on what's going on. I opened up the window and looked outside. And lo and behold, I saw Ruka and Kiji arguing about who's more beautiful. Ugh, again with this? Rolling my eyes at their stupidity, I quickly closed my window. I am NOT letting them drag me into their little fight again. 

I sighed and decided to do more paperwork to get my mind off things. It seemed to have work cause, I've nearly forgotten about what made me so upset. However, as time seems to pass by, I honestly couldn't get rid of this terrible feeling I've had for the past few months. It was like something was telling me that bad was going to happen. That nothing was going to be the same ever again. I don't know why, but it's beginning to scare me. I just hope that I'm wrong. 

Hours passed by and I looked out the window, the sun finally set and the sky was an awful shade of red there were no stars. You can't even see the moon. I saw dark clouds coming in, indicating that a storm might be coming. Seeing that, made the feeling in my stomach worse. I don't like this. This is getting creepy...very creepy. After finishing my work, I got up and did a quick stretch. I stepped out of the office and locking it right after. I have to go find my brother. I'm sure that if I talked to him about what's going on with me, I know he would help as best he can. He always have. I know he'll be there for me. That's the kind of person he is.

I started walking through the empty hall lost in thought, while also looking for my brother. I looked down at the necklace Aniki gave me and I smiled at it. I have to be the luckiest girl in the world to have amazing big brother. I held the crystal in my hands and held it close to me. That's when I felt the the chain slowly sliding down my neck. What the..? 'That's weird? Did the chain break? That's not right.' I tried to see if my chain was broken but then the crystal somehow slipped out of my hand and crashed to the floor. Breaking it into millions of pieces. My eyes widen. I kneeled down and stared at the pieces. 'Somethings wrong...awfully wrong..'

I reached out for the pieces, when all of a sudden the alarms started going off and thunder outside struck, causing me to flinch. Everything was red as the alarms continue to ring all throughout the building. My eyes widen and my whole body just froze up. I didn't want to believe what I was hearing. "Apprehend Building 5 supervisor at once! Do everything in your power to subdue him!"

 'What....? What...?' What's going on? Oh God, please... Please, don't let this be real. This can't be happening! None of this real! "Enki Gokuu has murdered one of his inmates." As soon as those words were spoken, my world shattered. 'No....he couldn't have! My brother's not like that!' Just then, I heard some people screaming off into the distance. I got up, left the pieces behind, and ran to where the screaming was being held. So many thoughts were running through my head as I was trying to convince myself that none of this was real. Once I made it to the scene, I froze in place. My fast beating heart was ringing in my ears. 

There. Right there before me, laid a dead body of an inmate. And standing right in front of him with blood dripping down was arm was Aniki... My big brother... My hero... I looked up at him as he stared down at me looking deep in my eyes. The cold, hard glare in his eyes bore into my soul. "Aniki...why...?"

I couldn't move. I couldn't think. I couldn't say another single word... I just stared at the man in front of me. This stranger.... Whoever this was.... He wasn't my older brother, not anymore. I took out my staff and pointed it at him. Despite, positioning myself to attack, I started shaking uncontrollably. 'Why...why...I can't move...? I can't fight him.' Tears swelled up in my eyes. Who was I even kidding...? There was no way I could ever... 'I can't do it.... He.... He's still...' Right then and there, thunder struck once again and a figure walked by me without so much a sound. I looked up to see who it was. It's Hajime... When did he..? The next thing I knew, everything around me faded into darkness and I collapsed onto the ground.