☆ KAZENOSUKE ☆

Yeah, Denise did not pick up.

Straight away anyway.

Destiny had tried calling her phone like twenty or so times but she hadn't picked up once at all.

Kazenosuke and Destiny were locked up in his car at the moment, with both of them just apologising to each other.

Kazenosuke for being rude to Destiny even though she was just trying to help.

And Destiny for getting involved into Kazenosuke's problems, even though he didn't want her to do so.

Kazenosuke could have honestly seen how stressed out Destiny was over calling her mum, and he had actually felt quite guilty because he didn't want her to go through this much hassle, especially for someone like him.

Aka an ex thug.

"Destiny, you don't have to do all this, you know. Thanks for the offer but I really don't want to cause any trouble for you."

"But then you'll have nowhere to stay." Destiny reminded him. "You said that your mum died, didn't she? And there's no one to look after you as well, so it's the least I could do."

Eventually though, Denise had picked up the call, partially infuriated that Destiny had the audacity to call her this many times.

She didn't mind people calling her a lot of times, but there was a difference between spamming someone and calling them a decent amount of times.

"This better be good," Denise had whispered to Destiny, when she had picked up. "And where are you right now? You were supposed to be at home a long time ago."

Destiny hadn't exactly told Denise that she was coming here, because she knew if she had told her that, then she would have been completely against her plan to go to Castellaneta's hospital from the start.

And she didn't want that for herself so she had just kept her mouth shut about it.

Destiny had apologised for not being at home right now, although for security reasons, she still hadn't told her mother where she was right now.

Although when Destiny had asked Kazenosuke to stay over...

Denise was not happy, at all.

"Kazenosuke? Ex thug Kazenosuke? I am not living with an ex criminal in my house!"

What other Kazenosuke was there?

His name was as rare as it was.

In Denise's defence though, she didn't exactly know that Kazenosuke's mum had just died, which Destiny was going to tell her about...

Apparently "when the time was right".

When the time was right?

Was this war or something?

That wasn't right.

She could have just told her that now.

"He's changed mum," Destiny admitted truthfully. "He's not like that anymore. I promise."

She wasn't wrong though.

She was telling the truth.

But besides this?

Denise still hadn't really believed her much at all.

Kazenosuke's behaviour had really changed a lot since both Kiandre and Kassandra's deaths, in the sense that he had become more introverted and everything.

He had stopped his criminal behaviour entirely, because he knew that crime wouldn't have gotten him anywhere, especially when he was mourning over two people in whom he had loved dearly.

Kazenosuke was quite tired of Destiny and Denise talking on the phone (without Destiny explaining to Denise that his mum had just died), so he had decided to take matters into his own hands.

So therefore, when Denise and Destiny were somewhat arguing about Kazenosuke staying over and all of that, Kazenosuke had nicely asked Destiny to take the phone away from her and explain why he wanted to stay over her house to Denise.

"Look, Mrs Ryan, I know this is all kinda spontaneous right now, but please. My mum just died and me and my sister Candi Rose have nowhere else to go. You're my only hope, and Destiny just told me that Israel's gone back to university now, so hopefully there's still some space in your house."

Denise had sighed, just thinking about it.

She already had four children, now dealing with two more?

She didn't know if she could have been able to live with that.

But then again...

Castellaneta had just passed on, and she didn't want to be a killjoy so she had therefore let Kazenosuke stay at her house.

"Gosh, if Destiny had told me that from the start then maybe we wouldn't have had to argue, but yeah. Y'all can stay over."

Apparently, Destiny had told her that from the start, Denise just didn't pay attention... or she had only heard what she had wanted to hear, but Denise didn't want to hear it.

She had hung up after that, before telling both of them that dinner was in precisely an hour so if they hadn't made it back home by then, then they would have missed out on it... and Destiny didn't want that.

Kazenosuke had given Destiny her phone back after that, before pretty much unconsciously staring at her as she had put it away and saying something once and for all.

"Thank you so much for this, Destiny. I don't know how I'll ever repay you. Hands down, this is one of the nicest things anyone's ever done for me."

"No problem, man, you know I love helping people out when necessary. And if you ever need anything, just let me now."

Kazenosuke nodded at that, before there was kind of silence in the car for a minute as both of them had just kind of stared at each other but no one had actually said anything.

Then before either of them knew it.

Something strange must have happened.

Because they kissed each other for like ten seconds.

Unfortunately though, whilst they were doing that, Kerazin, Trevor and Candi Rose were surrounding the car but neither Kazenosuke or Destiny had realised this.

"So you two are a thing now?" Trevor joked around, laughing his head off.

When Kazenosuke and Destiny had heard that, they had freaked out internally, before stopping what they were doing.

They had told each and every one of them that it wasn't what it had looked like, although everybody else thought otherwise because they weren't stupid and they knew what they saw.

"Ignore him, he tripping," Kerazin said to both of them. "Anyway, the reason we're here right now is because my sister's getting pissed over how long we're taking, so me and Trevor have got to head off- she's dropping him off at home. Bye."

Kazenosuke and Destiny had waved at them simultaneously, with Candi Rose getting in Kazenosuke's car, with her brother telling her the good news.

Before they had all gone to Destiny's house though, they had first gone to Kazenosuke's, where they had both packed their clothes and everything else for like forty or so minutes, with Destiny helping Candi Rose out.

Luckily, Kazenosuke had his house keys on him at the moment, because if he didn't then that would have been kind of disappointing (and anti climatic, in a way) and Candi Rose's didn't have hers...

And Castellaneta's was in her bag...

Which was in the house.

Kazenosuke was quite upset to be honest, as his mother's death kind of meant that him and Candi Rose were never going to visit their house again, but it wasn't really that deep anymore.

They had found a new house to live now, and that was all that had mattered.

Rest in peace, mum, Kazenosuke had thought to himself as he had switched off the light and was about to head out of the house, because he had finished packing his clothes.

You will be missed.

"Mum... I don't know if you can hear me or not, but if you can, then I hope that everything will turn out OK and you make it out alive."

That was coming from Kazenosuke as him and his younger sister Candi Rose were standing in the dark, right in front of his mother's hospital bed, looking seemingly lifeless as there was a breathing tube near her.

Hopefully though, she wasn't lifeless, because if she was then that would have honestly sucked.

The heart monitor had said that she was still breathing and hopefully it was actually working because Kazenosuke was not in the mood for games.

He never had been.

And he never would have been.

Especially now so that his mother was on the verge of death.

Kazenosuke had nicely told Candi Rose to place the flowers and chocolates near their mother's bed, with Candi Rose hugging him tightly because she was really scared over everything.

"I'm scared, Kazenosuke. What if mum doesn't make it out alive?"

"Don't say that, Candi Rose," Kazenosuke had hissed rudely. "We don't want you to jinx anything, so just keep your mouth shut."

He didn't mean that in a rude way, but the kid was just trying to protect himself.

Sadly, Candi Rose was right.

It was Castellaneta's time to die, and they couldn't have done anything about it.

Who would have thought?

Kazenosuke's last words to his mother was that he had wished that she had made it out alive... and she didn't.

And he needed to get to Destiny's house before it was too late (as in before they had missed dinner and all that).

They had made it back to Destiny's house just in time, with Destiny's siblings and mother being really nice to them and everything, until Destiny wanted to show Kazenosuke his new room.

Kazenosuke had heard of how nice Destiny's house was before, yeah, but he had never actually been in there (Denise had a no criminal policy), let alone sleep there either.

Either way, Israel's room was actually pretty cool, although it wasn't really much of a bedroom at all.

It was more like a gaming room to be honest.

What the room had looked like?

Here:

"Dangggg, Israel has a flat screen TV?" Kazenosuke had gasped in amazement, when he had entered his room. "He must really be living his best life here!"

Israel had loved playing video games and his room had really shown that.

"He does, but he also has to be studious as well, because he can't be playing games 24/7."

How would he have done well in school and all of that if that was the case?

Kazenosuke honestly didn't know how to thank Destiny over what she had done, and at the same time, he had felt as though saying thank you to her wasn't enough, but it was all he had.

Him and Destiny had gotten really close to each though, and four weeks after living with each other?

The two of them were officially boyfriend and girlfriend, with both of them pretty much forgetting all about Kiandre.

But then.

One day.

Kazenosuke was gone.

No, he wasn't dead.

He just wasn't there anymore.

And it was up to Destiny as well as her friends and family to find out why and put a stop to it before it was way too late for them to do so.