Albatross

Snake

???-"shes there! Get her !"

A rally of running footsteps behind me fills my ears . The ground shakes under the pressure of at least 3 or 4 grown men with rage and aggression towards me.

Like predators chasing their prey.

It was like I had five feet , tripping over each foot like a deer.

My face landed in the dirt , the piercing pain in my leg was a nice distraction from the searing agony of my busted lip.

They were getting closer and closer and with every step I felt increasingly desperate,  gripping at the dirt beneath me as if it would somehow save me

Another figure emerged

The unusual glistening of sun on his left  hand was the Yanagiba knife im familiar with , watching the adults cut sashimi or descaling fish.

Only , this one would be used for a far more sinister purpose.

And I could only wait-

........

I wake up , gasping for air as usual.

My hand instinctively grasps my face where the scar stretches along my tan skin.

I find myself like this most days , waking up from the nightmares of my past that still haunt me to this day.

When I wake like this , I think of my life now , my friends and what I've become.

However

Y/N-"Yoki! "  I shouted,  my voice still raspy from the sleep , mixed with my natural voice which is quite void of emotion and lacks the typical "high pitched tones" of a girl .

He walks in casually with a grin.

I was looking down , rubbing my eyes still plauged with the residual sleep , so I only noticed his presence from the creak of the floorboards .

Not yet looked at him,

Y/N-"get Ryuki , Saiko and the others- "

I remove my hands from my face and start picking up the empty beer cans I assumed were left by one of my friends .

Y/N-"-then tell them to meet in room 46 , I have -"

Yoki-" Ryuki isn't here"

He interrupted me , something not many people have the balls to do , I respect that.

Slightly taken back i turned to look at him , furling my eyebrows slightly as a physical display of confusion.

Y/N-"the fuck do you mean he isn't here"

Yoki-"i mean since, last night he walked out and didn't come back"

Shit

I put my head in my hands and sighed , not from sadness but frustration.

It had been a few seconds since hearing that ryuki is missing and Yoki was probably waiting for his boss to come up with a solution. 

I bent back down and picked up yet another empty glass Asahi bottle

Y/N-" get Ujīru-san to hack the security cameras where Ryuki may have been last night"

Yoki-"where should I tell him?"

I had to remember past memories of me and Ryuki going on nights out in "aki" , getting wasted in the karaoke bar and high on the piers.

Y/N-"he most likely took the Tsukubaru line to Showa-dori Road and from there go to Ameyoko . One of thoes cameras must have spotted him at some point so Get him to hack thoes . Alright?"