More Than a Silent Treatment【IDOLiSH7 Fanfiction】

♪ #13: Two Shadows

Beta-ed by Alitheia13

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Tenn looked out at the window of his classroom. From his seat, he could see the rain falling, mercilessly wetting the city with its clear water. He noticed that lately, the sky has kept on raining and making the air feels colder than before. Crossing his arms on the table, he put his head on it while sighing, eyes still glued towards the window. He wondered what has happened to Riku yesterday. The redhead looks so happy when the last time Tenn saw him. Or maybe it was just his natural emotion whenever Riku sees him. It was always like that ever since they were just a little kid.

“Kujou-san.” A voice brought him back to the reality as he turned around to see Iori. Tamaki and Nagi were busily chatting at the back of the class, seemingly oblivious of Iori’s absence from their conversation. He raised a brow when Iori raised his phone. When Tenn read the content of the phone clearly, it was a message from the brunette that had saved Riku the other day.

“Inumaru-san asked you to meet him at the park after school.”

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The windy autumn caressing his cheeks gently as he pulled up his red muffler until it completely covered his mouth. A small bag slung securely on his shoulder and he started to walk away from that place, hoping that he will never return as he braced himself to go back to the place where he forcefully called it as ‘home’.

Walking alone without a single person escorting him home, he just keeps silent without uttering a single word like always. The doctor has asked him to wait for someone to come and pick him up but he just waved it off with a smile. He doesn’t want to be a burden to anyone. If he could do something by himself, then let him do it. He understands how busy people could get. Gaze looking ahead but it was blank without emotion, not even a single spark of emotion present on it.

Snapped out of his daze, he realized that he has arrived in an unfamiliar place. A sudden clanking sound make him jumped and turned towards the source of the sound. He was wondering what that was about so he peeks behind the wall at a corner.

A group of wild looking adults seems to be having fun, laughing loudly while beating three teenagers. Riku widened his eye when he sees what the adults do to those teenagers. They were screaming for help but no one heard their plea. Suddenly an image of him on the three teenagers’ place surfaced on his mind.

Blood were everywhere. Big hand raised, ready to hit him in any moment. All he feels is pain and agony throughout his body. Physically and mentally, hurt all over.

But he was never uttering a single note. It’s useless after all…

He needs help…

But no one was there to help…

Riku looked at the front. The image of himself reached out his hand towards the redhead, seeking for help. Seeing this, he stepped forward, unconsciously walk towards the group of adults.

When they sense a presence, they stopped their beatings on the poor teenagers and turned around. A redhead stood at the entrance of the dimly light ally with a bag on the floor. They couldn’t see properly his face, the redhead looked down, hiding his expression but if they looked more closely, there were signed of terror in his eye, lips forming a thin straight line. Bloodlust went everywhere, suffocating them with it.