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The Moon	By : theProphet Category: Dir en grey > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1373 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER 4

There was nothing to do about it.
Kyo was gone. The band no longer existed. The life he was used to was taken away from him. He had to start a new one. He had to move on, even if it left him feeling immensely guilty. As if moving on meant completely forgetting Kyo and adjusting his life so that he wouldn’t feel the absence of his dear friend at all.
But it was hard to accept that. It was hard for Shinya to calmly look at his childhood friend being taken away for something so terrible and not being able to protest. The Emperor took so many freedoms away from people, but these missions were the worst thing ever, the only thing Shinya hated with passion.
Everyone knew what lay behind the pretence pride of the families and friends of men who were taken away and yet, nobody could say a word.
Shinya looked out the car window in disdain, knowing full well he couldn’t yet see the moon at this hour.
It’s been a year and five months since Kyo has been sent away and all he got was one message. He knew Kyo could record one message per month to a person of his choice and they would send it to that person. So it usually was Kyo’s parents or his sister that he kept in contact with. He and the other three – Die, Toshiya and Kaoru – just got a couple of messages dedicated to all three of them during that whole time.
Shinya got his personal message from Kyo eight months ago and already back then he didn’t like the sound of Kyo’s voice and the look of complete loneliness and tiredness on his face.
Maybe this was the reason that finally helped him to decide. Apart from the fact that he was missing Kyo badly. But seeing Kyo, their lively and energetic vocalist, reduced to skinny, tired and lifeless, soulless being, made his heart ache and made his need to reach out to him grow ten times bigger than it already was.
He said it was perfectly safe. Nobody will find out, as long as the three of us will keep quiet about it.
Shinya knew he was just trying to convince himself he wasn’t taking any risks. But Haku said there was no risk. Haku said he finally nailed it. Haku said he can break into Emperor’s communication with the moon system – break through their security and have a direct face time call with Kyo.
Which sounded insane.
And at the same time exciting.
“It’ll be fine” Shinya said to himself. Of course there was a risk – they were trying to outsmart the Emperor, after all. But Haku was a computer wizard, he could do anything!
“Right” Shinya nodded, agreeing with his own thoughts.
When he finally reached his friend’s house, he felt a little bit more reassured. And very much excited.
“Shinya, finally!”
Haku opened the door to him and rushed Shinya inside.
“Come on, everything’s almost ready!”
“Really?” Shinya asked, surprise evident in his voice. “I thought it will take hours before we get in the system?”
“It does take hours, but I started early – I couldn’t wait! It’s such a challenge!”
Haku’s eyes were shining with excitement. It was most probably the biggest challenge he ever had.
“Haku, are you sure it is really safe?” Shinya asked.
“Don’t worry, I know what I’m doing!”
Seeing Shinya still look at him hesitantly, Haku smiled.
“I was preparing for this for almost two months, Shinya. I thought about everything. We’ll be safe. Kyo will be safe as well. Not a soul will know about it.”
Shinya breathed easier despite himself.
“That’s good to know” he said silently, but smiled to his friend at the same time.
“So let’s go! No need to waste precious time!”
Haku headed straight to his office where his computers were. Shinya watched his life-long friend, watched his eager steps and his small, but firm body clad in jeans and a simple t-shirt, his black as night spiky hair. And he hoped that by asking Haku if it was possible to reach Kyo he didn’t put him in a fatal danger.
But Shinya knew that after mentioning this to Haku there was no turning back. Haku was an obsessive hacker and he met this idea as a personal challenge. After Shinya planted the idea in his head without meaning to, there was no turning back.
“Sit, Shinya! Now look at the screen and when you see right here in this table the red light turn green, press this button” Haku pointed his finger at the screen “and your job is done. If I did everything right, Kyo would answer the call in a few minutes.”
Shinya nodded and sat down. He started starring at the screen intensely and with every passing minute was getting more and more impatient. He heard Haku typing away at his computer, heard him swear a few times, then snigger, then snort and finally – silence.
Few more seconds later the red button suddenly turned green and Shinya pressed the mouse with his finger with such carefulness and speed as never before in his life.
At first nothing happened. But then the screen turned black and the green button in the middle of the screen started flashing.
“We got through to him” Haku whispered.
They both held their breaths and waited.
Every second dragged forever. Kyo could simply not pick up – he might not know how, he might not hear, he might not even be anywhere close to his control room.
And then, just like that, the screen turned white and slowly instead of a colourful blotch in the middle of it, Kyo’s face emerged into focus, looking utterly confused.
“Kyo?” Shinya couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Sh-shinya?” Kyo stammered, looking shocked.
“Kyo, I’m so happy to see you! We managed to get through to you and call you! Can you imagine?!”
Kyo looked dumbstruck, but gradually some colour was coming back to his face. And tears were gathering up in his eyes.
“Shinya, it’s really you here, right at this moment? Not just a message?”
“Yes, it’s really me!”
Haku managed to blend into the background, watching his computer screen in case they had to immediately stop the call and save their asses. Kyo could only see Shinya and Haku was perfectly fine with that. He only saw Kyo a few times before at Shinya’s birthdays and after the concerts Shinya invited him. Kyo would even hardly remember him.
“Kyo, how are you?”
It was a stupid thing to ask, but Shinya sincerely wanted to know. It’s not like Kyo could tell what was really happening in his recorded messages. Each and every one of their messages was always checked and anything that wasn’t liked by the emperor’s dogs was just simply cut out.
“I want to go home, Shinya” Kyo said, his voice breaking already. “I want to go home badly…”
“You’re doing great, Kyo. Almost half of the time has passed. Just hold on and you’ll find yourself stepping out on Earth. You’ll see!”
Kyo was silent for a moment, watching Shinya’s happy face and finally smiled a little.
“How are you, Shinya? How is everybody else doing? How’s… Kaoru?”
“Everyone’s fine. We all found new jobs, so we still keep going – paying the bills and having a drink on Friday nights. You know, the usual stuff. But Kyo, how are you feeling? How are you holding up?”
“I’m… I’m trying not to give up…” Kyo admits silently. “But it’s… it’s very hard…”
“Kyo…” Shinya wants to comfort him, but knows there’s nothing he can say to make Kyo feel better.
“I’m turning into a proper insomniac. And when I do manage to fall asleep, I wake up feeling like I’m suffocating – it takes some time for the panic to go away. And all this celibacy is driving me crazy. I started talking to myself on regular basis.”
“Don’t you have any sleeping pills?”
“Even if I had any, I couldn’t use them. I have to always be aware when the alarm goes off.”
Shinya wants to ask what alarm, but it means wasting precious time they have. One way or the other, it has to do with the job Kyo is doing there. And no one really knows what exactly Kyo does up there.
“We’ve got only a few minutes.”
Kyo nods.
“Shinya, please, can you give Kaoru my message?”
“Of course.”
“Please tell him I’m trying very hard to keep my promise to him. Will you tell him that?”
“Don’t worry, Kyo, I will.”
“Thank you.”
“Kyo… I want you to know I always think about you. We all do. We never forgot you and we’re waiting for you to come back. Even if you’re all alone up there physically, you’ve got all of us praying for you and waiting for you.”
“Thanks, Shinya…”
Shinya looked at Kyo more closely. He didn’t like that general feeling of acceptance on Kyo’s face. Kyo used to be a fighter. But this Kyo looked like he was on the verge of giving up.
“Kyo, I need you to promise me something.”
Kyo nodded.
“Do everything you can to survive. Everything! You have to come back home!”
Kyo hesitated a moment, perhaps thinking it wasn’t the kind of promise he could make, but determination to fight in Shinya’s eyes made him feel a little bit less hopeless than he was feeling for the past months. And just seeing Shinya for real made him feel like not all was lost yet.
“I promise.”
Suddenly Shinya felt Haku nudge his side.
“Time’s up, Kyo” Shinya said, regret seeping in his every word.
Kyo leaned in and put an arm on the screen as if trying to reach Shinya through it.
“Thank you so much, Shin-chan” he whispered.
“Stay strong, Kyo. I know you can. I’ll be seeing you soon. Don’t forget that.”
“I won’t.”
And just like that the screen went black and the red light came to life again.
Shinya sat frozen in his seat for some time, starring at the screen. Then slowly a few tears found their way out of his eyes. Shinya wiped them with the back of his hand silently.
“He looked so… it’s just… it’s terrible…”
Haku put a hand on Shinya’s shoulder in comfort.
“Some people do come back. Why Kyo can’t be one of those?”
Shinya nodded.
“Yeah, you’re right. It’s just…”
“I know.”
They were silent for some time.
“I’ll get something to drink” Haku finally said and stood up.
Shinya just nodded, still starring at the black screen, wishing those few minutes they had were longer. Wishing he would have said that he always loved Kyo as a friend. Wishing he said he valued Kyo’s friendship as much as he valued his family. Wishing he would have come up with something more reassuring and comforting to say.
A distant sound of something heavy falling startled him from his thoughts.
“Haku?”
Shinya kept still and listened. Suddenly he realized it all was very quiet. Haku was supposed to be in the kitchen, browsing through the bottles and looking for the bottle opener, getting the crisps from the cupboard. Or at least doing something else.
“Haku?!”
Suddenly Shinya heard silent footsteps, but instead of relaxing, he tensed. It didn’t sound like Haku’s bare feet on the ground. It sounded more like heavy boots on the wooden floor.
Shinya stood up, hastily thinking what to do.
He only managed to take a couple of steps backwards when a man dressed in black stepped into the room.
He saw the man lift his hand and point a gun at him.
In one moment, as quick as a blink of an eye, Shinya felt terror, panic, fear, he felt cold sweat break through his skin, his legs turn into jelly, he felt his breath getting stuck in his throat, he had a terrible picture of Haku, lying on the floor in the kitchen, bleeding to death, he had tens of stupid ideas of what to do to save himself.
And then the last thing he ever saw – a bullet flying through the air directly at his head - and realising at the same time that this was the last precious moment of his life.
And then…
…nothing.

TBC

Ummm… Yeah, that’s how it ends…
So what do you guys think? :) I don’t want you to start saying things you don’t really mean, but just an honest opinion :) Is it ok? A little better than ok? Ahhh, I don’t know… I push myself too hard over something like fanfiction…
Anyways, hope you enjoyed reading this :) I’ll do my best at making this as good as I can :)
I didn’t want to go into too much detail in this chapter about how they reached Kyo, who’s Haku, etc. The point of this chapter was the call and its consequences… So I think this chapter turned out alright… Hopefully :D lol
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