Bungou Stray Dogs AU

Chapter-13

Past

"Hurry up and get away, Aki" a boy with a similar face with a girl named Aki said that. To the girl, she couldn't hear his voice. Sure there was some voice coming from behind her too....from her brother telling her the exact same words. But the girl was so horrified and stunned with the scene in front of her. The boy was trapped under the rumbles of the burning house with only his head and hands in her vision. She could not move. She could only stare with her eyes wide open, tears that she did not realize streaming down her cheeks and voices muffled to her ears. It was that time she realized the world was not fair, a painful truth.

They were just so close from running out of the burning house but God just had to make the entrance fall the exact moment when they were about to be out. The boy pushed himself to make the girl out of the way. The nipple of light the girl seen was just plucked when she just seen it.

"...ki...AKI!! LOOK AT ME!" shouted the boy. Aki snapped out of her trance by his loud voice and looked at the boy. "Listen to me closely, Aki. You still have Shuji. You haven't lost everything yet. Just think of it as a clean state to restart your life" smiled the boy, squeezing Aki's hands in his. "Wha.What are....you saying, Haru?" the girl questioned, not really understanding what he meant. "I will give you.....I will give you my everything. Originally, I was only born for you. So it is natural that my everything is yours" laughed Haru softly. Even though the boy laughed, it only made the girl sob harder. "Wha...What are you saying...at a time like this?" the girl cried harder.

"Because it is a time like this that I'm saying it. Listen to me. I'm giving you my life. I'm giving you my name. I'm giving you my ability. I'm giving you my everything. From now on, you are not Tsushima Aki. You are Aikawa Haru. At this moment now, I'm going to take the name Tsushima Aki and her life with me. You will be living with the name Aikawa Haru. And you will be taking my ability and never use your ability again for I promise that my ability will protect you. You gave me this ability so I'm just giving it back to you although I'm pretty sure it will lose some of its functionality but nevertheless protect you. I will not be gone. I will always be with you. You just won't see me physically that's all" The boy tried to soothe the girl in front of her in his own way with a tone to lighten the atmosphere. "Shuji will be there with you too, won't you, Shuji?"

Shuji was now beside his sister kneeling down to see his one and only friend with his usual smile on his face, not caring the fact that he was underneath a ton of flaming rubbles. "O...Of course. I will also keep her safe." Shuji tried not to choke on his words, not letting his tears fall down for the sake of his sister who was now a crying mess. "Hurry up and do it, Aki. Haru doesn't have much time."

"Y...You...You know what you....are asking me to do, right? If I use......my ability, you will..."Aki was trying to speak between her sobs. It was so painful. She couldn't bear to do it. "Of course, I do. I no longer have any feeling in my lower half. I know how my body works and how much time it is left. I'm not letting this rubble kill me and then leave you alone. So, to ease my mind, for my selfish desire and my last wish, take back my ability." Haru pleaded her. He knew that it was a selfish wish. It was only to satisfy himself. The fact that his ability will always be will with her unless she uses her ability again somewhat comforts him, knowing that he will be there to protect her.

"Hurry up, Aki. Haru won't last for longer. We have to run away farther too. Please Aki. Don't let.....Don't let Haru die like that." Shuji couldn't hold back his tears anymore. Tears began streaming down his face, pleading his sister to do as his friend wished her to do. He knew it would cause his sister to carry a heavy burden on her shoulder, reminding her every time that her life was not hers alone. It had many, many dead bodies piling upon it including their father. She could not just sit there and do nothing. They would be like sitting ducks to a herd of predators.

"I....I...got...it. Ability Activate Queen Bee"

Somewhere near Port Mafia

Haru woke up with a panting breath. She didn't have that dream for a long time. She looked around her surroundings and realized that she had passed out. "Are you okay, Haru?" A voice rang out. She looked up straight to the owner of the voice who she knew. "You are sweating. Were you having a bad dream?" Dazai asked, crouching down next to her.

"I.....I'm okay" Haru answered, scared to look at him straight in the eye, knowing that he would be angry or pissed for breaking her promise. "I'm...I'm sorry. For...breaking my...promise." Haru still kept her eyes down on the ground, refusing to look anywhere else. Dazai sighed. "So you do realize that you broke your promise. Well, whatever. All it matters is that you are safe. And you also didn't think that you would meet Chuuya of all people, did you?" Haru shook her head.

"It's still a little early for you to be facing him in a fight. You are not yet prepared to face any member of the Port Mafia that you know well in a fight." Haru could only agree to his words. It was true. She couldn't hurt them. Even if the other party was willing to. She hadn't chosen yet. She was still hesitating. "Well, don't do it ever again. Now, go back to the agency. The others will be worried about you and stay put. Just stay there. Everything will over soon." Dazai stood back up and started walking to his destination, leaving Haru to obey his words and headed back to the agency.