Y/n really isn't the type of person who goes on and confront people who doesn't play any unwanted significance to his well-being such as planning to hurt him or so. He also have tolerance when people are awed to look at his breathtaking appearance and the like. Or even spare a glance to a person who wanted to get his number with such high and mighty attitudes.
However, today was a different case. Because he was blatantly being stalked... right in front of him.
He closed the book he was holding and looked at a few pairs of eyes that were staring at him.
"Blink." He slowly said, feeling the need to disappear.
Currently in the Shibuya Central Library, the group of boys followed him after finishing his class. He doesn't really mind if it's just following closely somewhere relatively far where he can't see... but it was right in front of him.
"Y/n-chan, I think if I blink, I'll miss a millisecond of not seeing your pretty face. Allow me to savor it." Takashi joked in which Y/n looked at him with a disgusted look. "Hey, I'm kidding." He defended.
"I know." The boy responded.
"Do you have anything exciting you want to do today?" Takemichi asked.
"Well as for me, I have none. But for you all, I'd like to suggest something." He said with a mirthless smile. "It'd be more exciting if 'you minded your own business' activity."
"Y/n-chan, I'd like to hang out and get to know you better." Mikey said.
"I suggest not, hun. It might give you more problems than you should have." He advised.
"That person who attacked you was part of Moebius now. Which means he's also our enemy and your safety is also our priority." Takemichi explained.
The boy raised an eyebrow. "Moebius, huh? I guess he's never learned his lesson." He picked up the book and decided to put it back on the shelves then left.
Four people followed closely behind like tails. Wherever he went, they were just on his face being all trying hard to be not ignored.
"What did Eiji tell you?" Y/n asked as they walked through the non-crowded area of the road.
"That you're an ex-gang boss." Draken replied.
"Ex gang boss, huh? I don't think that's the proper words to describe it." He said, stretching his arms up, hearing those satisfying cracks. "I'm just a regent waiting for the king to be ready. After all, managing a gang has never been my forte."
"So, who was the ex-boss? Why did you have to become regent?" Takemichi asked. He really wanted to understand Y/n, why he didn't ask for help and why he died in that library with a smile on his lips as if it was a fitting end for him.
He wanted to stop it. Stop him from disregarding his life so.
"The former one, huh?" he muttered quietly, but was just enough for them to hear. "He was stabbed, died with a beautiful and fulfilled smile on his face." he casually replied.
Takemichi froze when he heard that. Isn't that exactly how he'll die from what Naoto described? Did he see his future death or is he talking about someone else's death?
"What do you mean? Where did they find the body?" He asked carefully.
"Takemitchy, you're quite curious today." Takashi commented.
"I-I was?"
Y/n stopped from walking making the group stop as well. She turned to look up beyond the houses on the riverside where they are looking at now, as the sun was slowly setting. "There was something written by Hemingway: The Snows of Kilimanjaro... On it, among the snow white mountain near the house of gods there was a leopard carcass. He said if he imagined his death, it would be like that. He even told me that he was curious if it was facing back to return or up higher but now I recently found out where the carcass was facing."
He started to say some vague words. But something about it had made them think how deep this person had thought about his own death.
"He was facing an upward direction which indicated that he wasn't planning to return anytime soon, he didn't turn around and continued to climb that 19,710 feet mountain. But he still left a lot of questions tho. How did he get there-- why did he go there? I also wondered if he thought about the other leopard that was waiting for him to return or if he thought he was a lone leopard from the beginning and didn't turn his head around to see that there was a dependent leopard who was lost in the mountain as well, looking for him."
He placed both cold hands on his pocket with a tired sigh.
"Do you think the dependent leopard will be found as a carcass too?"
"Y/n-san, you're saying something so vague. Are you trying to say that you're the dependent leopard?" Takashi asked trying to confirm.
"Who knows? Either me or Eiji. I wonder who that dependent leopard is..." he hummed.
"Y/n-chan." Mikey took his hand and stared at him. "You're sad." He pointed out.
"I'm more than sad, Mikey." He sighed very tiredly. A look that had given up everything and had lost everything; that even the word misery couldn't describe it.
The boy pulled him into a tight embrace. It was warm, but not enough to make his soul reach back. He only kept his bored face as he watched the world be swallowed by the evening again.
Takemichi looked at him with a determined look. "Y/n, don't say it's over yet for the dependent leopard. You don't know, maybe it'll grow up independently to find that there are more places to see down the mountain than on top of it!" He exclaimed. He didn't know why, but there were tears threatening to escape his eyes.
He, who reached the age of 26 lived as a coward and a good-for-nothing. He always run away no matter how small a problem is and how pathetic he would feel later.
But looking at the fourteen year old in front of him who had a lot of potential to become someone bigger had actually discontinued his future at this age, he couldn't help but feel that he needed to do something. Not just let him be as a passing character to his memory, but a main character of his own pace of story and a person deserving of a happy ending.
The boy glanced at Takemichi's kind eyes. But he couldn't help but mock it somehow. Smiling at him sideways. "Don't show that pathetic face. It gives me the urge to kick you." He said.
Takemichi wiped his tears and pretended to look tough. Y/n could only sigh in defeat as he wriggled out of this koala who already stuck himself into him. Mikey's arms and legs held onto him like he was a tree.
"Hey. Get off. You're so heavy." He demanded coldly.
"I'm not Y/n-chin." Mikey insisted, snuggling to him and hugging him tighter. "Join Toman."
"No."
"Join Toman."
"This bastard..." Y/n can feel himself irked. He wanted to punch Mikey but for sure, Eiji will scold him for punching this self-proclaimed 'friend'.
"Y/n~ you should really Join Toman. Mikey will never give up on you." Takashi added. "Besides, all of us wants you to be part of the group."
"That's some ambition."
Y/n always knew that being smart isn't easy. It was better not to know a lot of things. For someone who had a high IQ, the things that could cultivate a path in the mind is the way their environment nurtured them just like any normal person. It's simple as being thrown to a good soil or a bad soil, good varieties or rotten ones. But when you remember every single detail of the bad ones, it might post a big impact.
But honestly, this gifted life... he wished he never had it.
For Y/n and Ash, because of one literature book that they can never forget; death has become comparable to that leopard in a snowy mountain. It was cold, harsh, unreachable, dangerous and deadly. There are a lot of mysteries surrounding the white coated mountain that could kill even a vicious animal.
Y/n began to walk off while there was a koala hung on his body. He didn't know where he should drop Mikey right now.
"A cliff or a bridge, Mikey." He started.
"Hm?" The lazy boy asked.
"Where should I drop your clingy ass off?"
"Oh, don't worry, Y/n-chin. I've already fallen for you." The boy bluntly confessed.
Y/n didn't react to that. But it did trigger an unsightly memory.
No matter who said it, it won't easily move him. No matter who, a random stranger blocked him on the streets and says it, a perverted man who pleasures himself atop and romanticized them being illusionary lovers, a stalker who holds a knife to obsessively admits his never dying affection, a friend who would jokingly tease him with love confession.
But unless he had any inkling attraction towards this person, he will not react or would feel disgusted otherwise; depending on how those terms were used.
"So, Y/n-chin. Join Toman." Mikey added.
"I refuse."
Finally, Mikey came down from clinging onto the boy which gave Y/n the opportunity to walk away but he was still blocked by the former.
"What now?"
Mikey smiled, and pointed to his cheek. "A goodbye kiss." He suddenly said in which stunned Draken, Takemichi and Takashi who thought he was only joking about that confession.
Y/n tilted his head just as confused.
"I'm chasing after you." Mikey added.
Oh. How bold. Y/n thought.
"If I kiss you, you'll step aside?" Y/n asked.
"Yeah." Mikey said with a smile.
Y/n sighed. Stepped closer to Mikey, held the back of his neck and guided his lips towards him. Their lips met as Y/n gave him an irresistible kiss and guided his tongue to play. The sensation of the piercing in Y/n's tongue tickled Mikey as he himself tried to savor it.
The three were even more shocked. Frozen in place after twenty seconds of watching this scene.
Y/n slowly departed, seductively licking the slit of his lips before letting Mikey's neck go. His expression went back to normal and stepped aside, passing through like nothing happened.
Mikey, who stood there blinked. He turned around to looked at the leaving figure. "I was just joking... but" he said. But that kiss... he wanted more of it.
"Damn, that was hot." Draken commented while the other two with him blushed so hard they began to question their own sexuality.
Who would have thought, Y/n was actually a good kisser.