::Tonight:: - Shounenai

“This night is Different…”

The words rumble through my mind, tracing over past memories until reaching long term memory for me to remember with a jolt of de’javu.

“How so?”

He asks me with a questionable expression pointing at me. I smile at him awkwardly realizing I said it out loud before replying,

“Because we’re here together, duh. We haven’t been alone for weeks! My parents making me watch my stupid little brother…he’s so annoying!”

“Dude, you know Kat. He looks up to you just give him a break he’s your little brother.”

I glare at J.D. for a long while before sighing and falling onto his lap, my arms spread across his legs and head on the other leg turned towards his knee.

“I know…but he’s such a pain.”

I let out another large sigh, before turning over and reaching up to pull J.D.’s head towards mine. I slide my fingers through his brunette hair as I touch his lips to mine. You see, our love is kind of different from most “normal” couples, since well, J.D. being a boy, and Me, Ken-ji being a male as well. We couldn’t let the parents know, nobody really, especially my little brother, Kat. He would automatically tell the parents with out a second thought of empathy. We break from the kiss as we both heard a very disturbing new report on the television sitting in front of us.

“We, of the News at 11 station have never seen something, something so mortifying.”

This completely caught our teenage attention and we just had to turn up the T.V.

“We go now to Mr. Midgetinabikini, for live coverage.”

I raise from J.D.’s lap to watch the screen in the upright position, The screen feel into a another scene, switching to a tall man in a generic brown suit and tie outfit with a disturbed facial expression. Around the announcer were about ten police officers examining the surrounds; a small dark room, blood splattered and hand prints formed with dark blood across the wall. The man covers his mouth for a few seconds as they came near the wreckage of bodies.

“The smell is horrible, rancid even.”

He walks in further into the room avoiding being in the police officer’s path. He looks down at the bodies his eyes widening as his face goes white, his cheeks puff and he runs towards a corner spraying out chunks of today’s breakfast. The camera man zooms onto the bodies, mutilated and raped. The one body’s chest split open, with body pieces missing, legs twisted back wards, arms ripped off of the body using pliers, which are found lying next to the head of the victim. Obviously they were used again to rib the eyelids off of the female’s body. Her whole body hairless, the shaved hair lying across the floor, razor blade scars around her whole body. The body had obviously by the smell and decaying flesh been there for a while. Two more bodies where found, a bit more fresh then the first through out the abandoned two rooms, one bathroom house. The two bodies even more gruesome to describe specially to fragile little minds of the sheltered.

The newscaster man hurriedly came back over to the camera wiping his mouth with a handkerchief from his pocket.

“Back to you Tom.” He pushed out barley holding back more vomit.

“Thanks Mr. Midgetinabikini, I’m afraid to inform you, the viewers that the killer is still on the loose. Keep your doors locked and windows closed. Thank you and Goodnight.”

I quickly grab the remote from J.D., pressing the big red button to switch off the T.V.

“I guess we better be carefully huh? Hold me.” I playfully say with a smile acting as if none of this affects me at all. I felt bad for the people who were killed but I felt more indifferent, what’s it have to do with me? It’s not like this killer will get me or J.D. so what do I care? I shrugged off the news report while I wrap my arms around J.D.’s neck giving him a kiss, or two, or three, maybe ten or so.

After a few minutes a, creak, creak can be heard coming from the kitchen directly behind the room J.D. and I resided in. Thinking nothing, I continue my affectionate cuddling as if I haven’t heard it at all, we were to busy watching the ‘Pick of Destiny’ boot leg. I ignored it, until the noise appeared behind me poking my shoulder finding my little blonde brother,

“What!” I shout at him.

“You better be nice to me.” Kat teases holding my camera in his hand. I sit up from cuddling and reach over the couch for my camera only to have it pulled away,

“Give that back, its mine. What the hell are you doing with it?” I growled at him angrily.

“I took some pictures, of you and J.D.” He teased again, sticking his tongue out of me making sure to keep the camera out of reach.

“What? You didn’t!!” I reached over again, my arms not long enough to grab a hold of the camera or Kat to punch the living day lights out of him. “Give it back!” I hissed, J.D. sitting there on the couch turning off the T.V. turns around to Kat.

“Come on, Kat. Just give it back” he offers calmly.

Kat shakes his head wildly, “No! You’re the reason why I’m doing this!” he huffs walking back into the kitchen turning around to stick out his tongue, “I’m telling Mom and Dad.”

He starts running for their bedroom, knowing his older brother was about to chase him. J.D. also stood from the couch, eyes open a bit wider. We both started a chase for our parent’s door. It’s too bad that I slipped on the kitchen floor running into the counter falling to the ground. Kat had one, and my ankle was killing me. J.D. ran to me bending down and comforting me. I guess it was more important to take care of me to him. How sweet. Bleh, but now Kat is going to tell our parents that J.D.’s my boyfriend and then I’ll be grounded for life, never to be able to see him again. I leaned forward and placed a kiss on his lips right before my parents opened the door and Kat showed the picture of us kissing to them. As expected they began to flame, stomping towards J.D. and me huffing and screaming, my Dad blamed my Mother and in a flash J.D. was in trouble. I stood up quickly almost falling to my feet to try and get to J.D. before my Dad threatened him with bat forcing him out of the house. Once J.D. was gone the only thing left to do was lecture and punish me. I dazed out through most of it but the gist of it was mostly about “How could you do this to us”, and “Never see him again”. Of course after that I was sent to my room, my cell phone and laptop taken away, and my heart beaten and broken. Sounding clique but it really hurt damn it, and its all that brats fault.

7am

Morning had come and it was time for school, I had gotten dressed and was now eating breakfast. My soon-to-be-dead brother, Kat enters the room sitting down at the table grabbing a bowl of cereal.

“…I hate you.” I groan standing from the table and grabbing my backpack heading towards the door to walk to school before my parents stopped me.

“Where do you think your going?”

“To school…” I sighed rolling my eyes.

“No you don’t your grounded, and you’re not going to school with THAT guy.” My mother growled at me. The only thing she would let me do was go back into my room. Sitting there I heard the car drive off, Mom driving Kat to school and my Dad watching T.V. in the living room. I was stuck with no way to see J.D. this sucked.

A few hours have passed and the phone kept running every two, I wasn’t sure who it was for I was allowed to answer and my parents had already gone to work. They would have known if I used to the phone.

8pm

He should be home by now, Kat that is. School got out five hours ago. I heard rushing coming from the living room, doors being slammed. I wasn’t sure what was going on. I open the door seeing my Dad slamming the door shut with jacket in hand, “I didn’t see him anywhere.” He says towards his wife. Mom was walking back and forth near the phone, she looked over at me, peeking my head out of the door.

“Kenji, Kenji come here!” She yelled, her voice quivering sounding as if she was about to cry.

“Um, Yea? What is it Ma?” I wondered over to her, her eyes red and lips dry from smoking just a little earlier. She stared at me for a while before asking,

“Have you seen Kat? Or heard from him, he has gone missing and nobody knows where he is.” Her voice cracked as she spoke, she was really freaking out. I guess they called his friends houses already and checked the school as well. I kind of started to feel a bit worried as well, as I remembered the killer J.D. and I heard about earlier on the news. Now, now, don’t jump to conclusions, he could have just gotten himself lost on the way home and his cell phone could have died as well. Yea, that’s it, just lost.

10pm

The parents left looking for Kat, still no word from or about him. We, even counting me, were really worried about him. I left the house heading down the street to J.D.’s place. I just needed some comfort. I locked the door, and headed down the dark and damp street. The thought of Kat wondering these streets alone and cold frightened me, I know I know, I said I hated him…but he is still my brother. I wrapped my arms around myself as the cold seeped into my jacket chilling my chest.

The next thing I knew I was on a dampened wood floor, it smelled horrible, like…like, I really don’t know, just something rotten and moldy. I covered my nose quickly before even opening my eyes. I slowly opened my eyes to see a dark room, dimly lighted by a candle on a night stand about arms length away from me then I uncovered my mouth to put my hands on the ground and to try and lift my body, I tried to move my legs but to no avail. It felt like I had something wrapped around my ankles. I looked down at my legs to find myself chained to something, it was to dark to move, but it was really big, well not big, but taller in length. I have no idea where I am…I just want to get away, get to J.D. be near him. My eyes watered with tears as I thought about him but suddenly I remembered Kat. What if…what if he was here too?

“Kat?? Kat!! Are you here!?”

I screamed into the darkness, glancing around the room quickly from one side to the next. I didn’t get a reply.

“Kat!? Anybody!! Please answer me!”

I cried out in frustration, I was glad Kat wasn’t here but I was scared to death. What was going to happen to me? Was this the killer that was on the news? Maybe it’s just a prank. Yea, a prank, one of my friends just wanted to kid nap me for a joke. I grabbed at the chains around my ankles, tugging at them as hard as I could until I heard something. I stopped, listened. Coughing? Its coughing.

“Hello? Kat? Somebody? Whose there?”

I called again trying to get an answer, nothing again. This was even worse…knowing somebody is there…watching or waiting. It gives me a shiver. I shook the thought out of my head. Or it could be somebody who can help me.

“Hey!! Hey!! Person who coughed!!! Please say something!!”

I listen closely to at least hear another cough but nothing this time. I hear something, a thumb over in the corner.

“…Kenji?”

The coughing person talked, and sounded exactly like-

“Kat???”

“Oh god…Brother…help me. He..He…did…I’m so scared. Kenji.” Kat’s voice sounding very unstable as he spoke, I heard him sobbing far away from where I am but in the same room. “Kenji…please….Kenji…”

My eyes began to burn like I was going to cry too, I had to stay strong. I held back the tears from my eyes and my voice,

“Ok ok, I’m going to get us out of here. Don’t worry. I’ll protect you. That’s what big brothers are for.”
“Kat…Kat are you chained up?”

I could hear Kat sniffling in a corner but no reply. I rolled my eyes with a small laugh trying to keep my spirit high.

“Stop shaking your head and answer.”

“N-no…He…he unlocked me.”

“Great! Now come towards my voice. I need you to help me before we can get outta here. Ok?”

Now reply but I guess that Kat shook his head again, I heard creaking noises as he crawled closer towards me. I finally saw him Kat, bloody Kat. What!? What happened to him? His clothes were torn and his face was bloody as well as his legs and arms. His shoes were missing and a scar around his neck. Was he strangled? I had to ignore this for the moment asking questions would be best for after we got out. He made it to me sitting right next to me. I stared at him worriedly for a while.

“Ok now we gotta find a way to unlock these…um chains.” I sit up and give a smile to Kat to reassure him just a little. I look down at the chains at my ankles and bring my body to my ankles as close as they can get to my feet without pulling on the chains to much. Kat watches, his eyes red and still flowing with tears.

“Now how did he get yours off?.....” I froze seeing a figure behind Kat. My eyes widened and my heart pounded with fear. My instincts reacted and I reached for Kat grabbing a hold of him bring him down to my chest hugging onto him tight. The man, I couldn’t tell any details about him but I did notice his tall stature, bulky mass, and blood stained and ripped clothing. It is the killer. He has touched my little brother and now he has me captive. I closed my eyes holding onto Kat as hard as I could with out hurting him to much. The man leaned forward, a large grin plastered across his face. I began to sob with my brother. The man stuck a large needle into my arm, and after that. I can’t remember anything but Kat’s cold tears soaking into my shirt making the fabric stick to my skin, and the grip of his hand on my forearm and back.

I awoke; don’t know what time it is. All I know is, I need to get Kat out of here. My back covered in sweat I lifted up from the ground. My legs have been freed, what did he do to me? I ask tracing my body with my hands to find if I was missing anything but nothing. Then I remember-Kat! Where is he? I stand hitting my head on the ceiling. Where am I? I ask again. Was the man really fitting in this room? He must have been on his knees. I looked around the room again grabbing a hold of the candle stand with the candle, the wax was almost gone. I don’t know how much longer its going to last. Walked with my back bent forward, hurrying towards anywhere.

“Kat!”

I yelled trying to find my brother. My eyes burning again, I had to keep my tears, be strong, be strong. I keep telling my self. Must be strong for Kat. Gotta find him. Suddenly my face is met with a wall. I rub my nose quickly before looking at the walls with the candle to find a door of some kind. How did the killer get in here? Suddenly it hit me, what if this is a basement or attic? I started to look at the floor for an opening when I saw a latch. Yes! I celebrated shorted. I wasn’t sure what was beyond this door but I don’t care. I have to find him. I grabbed the latch and slowly and quietly I flipped open the door. When I opened it a ladder came down to the ground below. I was right, its an attic. Well it was my second guess-that doesn’t matter at the moment. I can’t let my mind get side tracked. I shook my head one more time finding when I did that my head hurt horribly. Remind self; never shake head again. I rub my temple shortly then climb down the stairs. I look around the area; it looked exactly like a normal house; horribly decorated, a child’s room, and the master bedroom. One thing wrong though, there was nobody home. I started to quietly run around the house looking for any sign of life, hopefully Kat’s when I hear a scream. Oh god, it sounded like Kat. I closed my eyes shortly and ran after the scream. Slowly down I look beyond a corner into the kitchen finding Kat laying on a cutting bored like a piece of meat. Slices from a knife were spread across his chest, bleed slide down his chest from the cuts. They weren’t deep enough to kill him though. I wanted to run in there and grab him, comfort him but all I could do is watch while the Man took the meat cleaver and slides it across Kat’s cheek leaving another wound. The man started laughing; his insane laugher was enough to drive anyone mad. I had to do something, anything. I looked around the room for any kind of weapon and only saw a couch, flower pot with was on a coffee table. I grabbed the flower pot and while the man sliced another marking onto Kat’s chest, his laughing making it hard to hear anything else I walked up behind him, raised up the pot when Kat’s eyes widened seeing me. He screamed again, making me jump a little but I bashed the pot on the man’s head as hard as I could. He stumbles a little dropping the knife. I grabbed Kat and pulled him off the table. I hold him in my arms as I run towards the front door. Kat held onto me tightly. My legs buckled, what was going on? I could carry him before. I quickly fell face first to the ground. The man came back over towards us with the meat cleaver he must have picked it up. Kat crawled from underneath me trying to hurry me.

“Lets go! Kenji get up! Come on!” He sobbed.

“My legs…I can’t…I can’t move them.”

“Yes you can!! Get up!”

That needle…he must have put something in me that. Poison. The man was behind me now laughing hysterically. I pushed up with my arms; Kat helped me to my feet. Kat grabbed the front door knob opening the door. I smiled at Kat when I saw the sky again. Kat’s eyes widened, I looked down and saw a knife sticking out of my chest. My eyes widened and blood coughed out from my mouth onto Kat’s face.

“Run…Run Kat…run…” Tears strolling down my face as I fell to the ground. The man pulled the knife out of me and the last thing I saw; Kat mouthing the words.
“I love you brother” then running off as fast as he could. I’m so glad he will be ok. The man quickly dragged my body back inside of the house before anyone could see. And after my head slide off the wood door stop he closing the door.


“Run…Run Kat run…”