✅ Banana Fish - altenative ending [ENG]

Chapter 7

Yut Lung burst into Ash's room. He was in his own home, so he did not feel obliged to knock or otherwise inform his arrival. Ash annoyed him by "asking" to come at his call. For Yut Lung, it was unthinkable. He stood in the centre of the room, hands on his hips. Single hairs that had escaped from the bun fell over his cheeks and neck, tickling him unpleasantly. Ash immediately turned to him, interrupting the conversation with Blanche. The boy examined Yut Lung from head to toe, not hiding his surprise.

"Stop making such a silly face! What do you want?" Yut Lung snapped back.

Ash took a deep breath and shook his head, trying to formulate a rather graceful request.
"I was just wondering if ... Sing, are you here too?"

"I should have asked you this question," replied Sing, standing in the open doorway.

"Wait, I don't think I understood something." Blanca raised both hands, drawing the attention of the people in the room. "I thought it was you, Sing, who asked Yut Lung to take care of Ash."

"No! Where did you get this from?" 

Yut Lung had already lowered his hands. He didn't have to look up; he could feel the stares of three pairs of eyes waiting for an explanation on him. He disregarded it and turned to the exit, which was unfortunately blocked by Sing.

"Let me go," he hissed.

"Okay, I'll do it, but first, explain to us what's going on here."

Yut Lung gritted his teeth and was about to hit him with his open hand, but at the last moment, he stopped himself hitting the wall.
"It was my idea, satisfied?"

"What?" Sing blurted out.

Yut Lung turned to face the others, his hair was barely clinging to the recently made bun.
"I was the one who found Ash on the street. I was supposed to go to Chinatown the same day and... Stop staring at me like that!"

A servant entered the room, knocking appropriately beforehand.
"The Young Master, Max Lobo is here; says he wants to see Ash Lynx."

Before Yut Lung could answer, Blanca passed him in the aisle, picking up Sing along the way.
"I'll bring him here personally," he said to the servant. "And you guys talk to each other during this time." He winked over his shoulder at Ash. "We're going Sing."

"You don't have to drag me, I can walk on my own, big man!"

The door closed and there was an awkward silence in the room.

"Why?" Ash's whisper broke the silence violently.

"You probably think I got soft, huh?" Yut Lung snorted in response.

"I don't think so."

"So what do you think about me?!" He suddenly shouted at the boy lying in bed.

"I'm angry with you," replied Ash calmly.

"Because... Come on, go on... I'm dying of curiosity."

Ash shifted on the bed.
"By making me indebted to you. It would be better if you left me there." Ash laughed silently.

"And here I agree with you." Yut Lung stepped closer and sat down in the place previously occupied by Blanca.

"Funny what happened to us," said Ash after a moment. "Do you think we're getting old?"

"Don't get too familiar with me just because I saved your life. It doesn't mean that I can't take it back now."

Yut Lung looked at the cell phone on the table. Without asking, he picked it up and dialled the number.

"What are you doing?" Ash asked.

"That's not what you wanted when you called me here?" Yut Lung looked at Ash from under his raised eyebrows.

"You want to say that..."

"This is the number of the motel where Eiji Okumura and Shunichi Ibe are staying. Their flight was cancelled due to the weather conditions and they are in the city of Los Angeles now. I didn't want to check exactly which room they stayed in."

"Why are you doing that?" Ash finally choked out.

"I don't know, maybe it's another trap... Maybe I want to secretly poison you and kill... Maybe..."

"Maybe you want to change?" Ash noted.

"I doubt, for someone like me, there is no help anymore." Yut Lung started to get up but was stopped by Ash's hand, which grabbed his wrist.

"Thank you" Ash said.

Yut Lung snatched his hand from him and headed for the door.

"You don't have to be here in the morning." - He threw as he left, and slammed the door behind him.

***

"Hi Ash, what happened to put you in bed again?"

Max entered the room with Blanche.

"It's a long story," replied Ash. "Listen, do you know when the next flight to LA is?"