The Eye (Your Lie In April/Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso Fanfiction)

Seven: Painful Reunion

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Miyazono Kaori POV:

For several days that I had begun my life in Nevada Elite Music School and its dormitory, I had noticed that Ashworth seemed so annoyed and angry towards the men who kept following him. There was also one time that he tried to outrun them but he was immediately caught and forced to get inside a car with another man who looked like him inside. 

I just pass through it and never truly thought any bad thing about why he was trying to escape his bodyguards until I overheard his conversation with a man who looks like him when Sam allowed me to borrow his car so I can go to an Asian restaurant a few kilometers away from Nevada Elite Music Dormitories. I hid near a huge pole so they won't see me.

"Father," Arima spoke up while facing a man older than him. "You promised to give me freedom inside the institution! I want to have friends!"

He chuckled. "You don't need friends."

"Maybe I don't need friends but I need allies," he answered him. "I don't want to be like you! You have more enemies than allies!"

"So what do you plan? Make friends with men who would eventually just leave you behind?" he asked him. "Arima, I am all you need. I took you away from the life I told you that you don't deserve. It's also good that you have stopped thinking that I abducted you."

"I'm thankful for what you did, father," he cried out. "Even so, I am not you. Loneliness is killing me."

His father began smoking and walked close to him. 

He handed him a small, brown package at the same time.

"Alright. I know that you hate the number of bodyguards you have. I'd take off eight of them so you can approach more people from now on," he answered him. "You know my company. I get more enemies due to selling guns and other war equipment. It's my priority rather than my other two businesses like that barbecue restaurant and private hospital."

"I want to make friends with my old friends," he told him. "I thought I'll never see her again."

"No," he answered him. "I can't risk you to tell them something."

"You can trust me," he told him as he walks closer to the black car. "I'm seventeen now. I want to have your company. Aren't you confident enough that I won't leave you behind and tell the police the truth of who I am? Why would I tell them? You've shown me your way of life and I had adapted to it."

"It seemed you truly have surrendered completely to me, Kousei," he told him. "I still need more time to see if I can trust you."

Arima's eyes widened when he heard that name. He seemed surprised that the older man in front of him said it. I was also surprised when he uttered that name. "It's been a long time that I haven't heard you say that name to me. You can trust me."

It was a shock to me in a short span of time to have known that Arima Ashworth and Kousei Arima were one and the same. I do understand now why he was lying and was staring out of the door when I approached him. He's still held by a man who brought him here in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Are you still surprised that I am a different person from the boy you have stolen?" Arima asked him. "I just want to be free to do something on my own. Give me a bit of freedom."

I wasn't able to stop my tears from falling. I kept listening to their conversation and forced myself to keep silent. I want to know what was going on and why he wasn't trying to tell anyone about his situation.

"Arima, you're twenty-one years old, now," he spoke as he gives him a cigarette as well. "There's one way that I'll be sure that I can trust you."

He clenched his fists and stared back again at him as he dried his tears, "Tell me how I can finally get out of my cell in your home. I hate living inside a gilded cage."

The man before him stepped closer to him and held his chin up. "Keep up with your studies and don't get distracted, my dear son! You'll be able to leave me when you're ready to get deeper in my organization."

I was supposed to leave already to report what I had seen today but at the time I stood up, I kicked a car out and that gave them the signal that I was eavesdropping on their conversation and so, even before I leave the scene wherein I saw them talking, they had caught me immediately. 

Kousei was just staring at me in disgust and shock that I may have heard everything they were talking about. "You can't tell anyone what you heard, Kaori. I can't believe we'll be reunited like this."

"You were hiding here in the USA for six years and you've become too different from the boy I know!" I screamed at him. "I don't even know if the boy I loved was still there with you."

"That boy's gone," he said to me. "You shouldn't have eavesdropped at whatever we talked about."

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