𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚...:

"I got your backs, Hanagaki Takemichi and F/n." He smiled.

Then that means... we can work together... to bring back Mikey!

"Let's start by meeting old acquaintances!" He walked away.

"See you two later!"

"Sure!" We said unison.

No matter how it'll take... we'll save you, Mikey. I silently vowed to myself, and I'm pretty sure Take did the same. We Hangaki's will never give up.

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-June 19-

"It has already been two months and a half since our little plan was put into action, and we still don't have a clue.." My little brother muttered.

We were at Akkun's parlor tight now since me and my brother wanted to get a new haircut.

"You're always like this, don't too stressed out. Okay?" Scolded Akkun, obviously worried about us Hanagaki twin's.

"Mizo Middle dudes are also constantly searching for informatin in every corner, but any information about Bonten is extremely hard to get." Akkun continued.

"Well, maybe that's because Bonten is a dangerous topic to ask about..." i started with a sour expression.

"You can tell 'em to stop asking now.." Take briefly said, which his childhood friend.

"What- You're giving up?!" He semi-yelled in unison.

"No... No matter how long it'll take, we'll find and save Mikey." I said with nothing but determination etched on my face, Take doing the same.

Silence filled the room for a few second until Take's phone started ringing.

He looked at the caller ID first and saw that it was Hakkai calling. So he immediately answered the call, putting it on loud speaker. It's a habit we made.

Whenever someone calls, we put in on loud speaker so the other can hear what's on the line.

"What's up, Hakkai?"

"Oh hey Takemichi, Y/n-san, I'm back In Japan now. Let's open the time capsul!"
He beamed, I can practically hear the excitement in his voice.

(P.s. Hakkai know about your habit, since he witnessed it a couple of times and you told him about it eventually when he asked.)

"Oh?!" Me and Takemichi smiled.

Then suddenly a flashback of what happened 12 years ago came to my mind.

-Flashback-

March 15th, 2006, at the Musashi Shrine.

"What did you put in?" Hakkai asked to Taka-chan.

"Idiot, what fun would it be if I told you right now?" Said boy replied back.

"After so long...I might forget what I put in." I complained.

"Good! That's the real thrill of the capsul!" Peh-yan excitingly retorted, holding a shovel over his shoulders.

Mikey interrupted.

"Everyone, let's remember. 12 years from. Now on, the celebration of ToMan's formation, 19th of June, let's meet here again!"

We all just smiled at him, excluding angry. He just pouted cutely.

-fin-

-Back to the future-

Me and the gang were already by the tree where we buried our letters.

We waited there till night fall for Mikey's arrival, but he never came.

"Guess it can't be helped" Ken-chin started.
"Let's open it already."

"It's hard to accept." Said Peh-yan, and Pah-chin replied, "we haven't heard a peep in 10 years, you can forget about today."

"But hey even if we opened it now he'll still see what's in it." Fatty continued.

''So what'd you put in? Do you remember Taka-chan?" Kai asked Takashi, he replied 'not at all' with an unamused face.

Peh-yan dug up the letters and we all got the ones with our names on it. Chifuyu decided to open his first.

"Woah! Talk about nostalgia!" He beamed at the airplane magazine he put instead of a letter.

"An aeroplane mag?" Take asked, and Chifuyu replied with a hum.

"I used to dream of being a pilot back then" He explained.

"Hah! That's like a kid's dream!" Kai teased.

"Eh-?! You go on next then! Show us your amazing dream!"

"Hah! You're in for a surprise! I forgot mine actually..." he said the first sentence with a proud girl but muttered the last part almost inaudibly.

Kai opened up his letter and we all peeked over his shoulder to see what he wrote, only to be blessed with such an embarrassing message.

Shiba Hakkai!

12 years later..
Did you make it to space?
Is there air up there?
I'm looking forward to finding out!

We read the letter and saw a moon rock piece was with it.

"Ehhhh?!?!?" Kai exclaimed as he stared to the letter in shock and embarrassment.

"Now way Kai! That's even more of a kid's dream." I also stared at the letter in dissapointment and nostalgia.

Kai always did have those poster of space in his room, so I expected this a bit.

"..space?" He squeaked quietly, disappointment evident in his voice.

"You must have had some balls to have written that, since you got nothing to show for it." Takashi teased the boy whose close to dying of embarrassment.

"WELL HOW ABOUT YOU TAKA-CHAN?! LET'S SEE YOUR DARK PAST! C'mon!!" Kai countered, his face almost as red as Akkun's Pompadour-styled hair.

Takashi lifted up a bunny plushie as he stared at it longingly.

"This." He referred to the cute toy in his hand.

"A plushie?! No way! We're you the type who can't sleep without a stuffed animal?!" Exclaimed Kai, blushing even more.

We all stared at Takashi expectantly.

"No, you moron. This is really nostalgic though." He read his letter to himself.

To Takashi Mitsuya

To me in the future, Don't forget your motivation.

"Since I was poor, I was never able to buy toys for Mana and Runa. This is the first stuffed animal I made for them myself. Sewing became fun when I did it for others. I began to hope someday I became a tailor." He explained whilst me and Takemichi stared at the toy in admiration.

"Surely, If I'd never been poor, I wouldn't be where I am today." Takashi added.

A few sniffs could be heard from a certain Shiba.

"Daga-jann~" Kai slurred, brought to tears with his best friends story.

The elder Kawata twins opened his letter next. He chuckled nervously upon seeing his teenage selfish letter, he read it aloud for everyone to hear.

Are you popular now? I hope you let your hair flow. Are you a host?

"The hell?" The peach haired Smiling boy mentally scolds himself.

"Looks like bro wanted to be an operator." The blue ogre stated.

Then, said blue haired boy opened his letter next, he didn't show it to us though.

Make sure to do a good job looking after Smiley!

He read his short messaged and chuckled. And lemme tell you, his chuckles or laughs are rare!

"Did Angry just laughed!" My little brother beamed at a smiling Souta.

"Y/n-chin! You go next! We'd love to hear yours!" Chifu exclaimed.

"A-ah ok, mine probably isn't too interesting though." I warily reached for my letter and hope it would not be something embarrassing or childish.

The paper was folded nicely, I started to unfold it.

Dear Future Me,

I hope everyone's still together in the future.. I don't really have cool thoughts to write in here, si I'll just put my actual thoughts.

I wish, I just wish that I could've declined when Mikey decided to disband ToMan.
Being one of the founding members,it's... it's just hard seeing that the gang I devoted 4 years of my life to, just... disband so quickly. And as soon as we finally became the number 1 gang!

And I know, we've lost all too many people already... From big bro Shin to Lil Sis Emma, so if I were in Mikey's place, I would've disbanded ToMan to stop the deaths too

Tokyo Manji Gang was made to protect our members. We risk our lives just to save our comrades. That was ToMans main goal back then when us founding members made it.

But then Kisaki's rampage happened and I failed my duty as the 7th division captain! Our oath to protect each other was broken.... I couldn't save Kei, I couldn't save Emma I couldn't save Shin for Pete's sake!

I just wish I could save everyone, like Takemichi..

This may sound selfish in all but I'm sure even if I already have a nice life in the future, I'd still want ToMan back.

If we're all still friends in the future, let's remake ToMan and aim to be number 1 in Japan again. Okay?

P.s - I LOVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU! ToMan forever! ♡

I continued to stare at my letter longingly and sighed.

"Nee/Nii-chan..."

"Y/n-san's right! ToMan forever!" Peh-yan exclaimed a d put a hand on my shoulder.

"We all felt the same thing, Y/n, so let's make our own ToMan sometime later! We just think of another name a logo, and beat up some dudes and be the number 1 again!"

"And Taka-chan could make our uniform too!" Hakkai added.

"Haha yeah! Welp, I bet she/he/they ain't the only one with a cool letter! I'm opening mine next!" Peh-yan excitingly retorted.

Peh-yan then opened and read his letter next. He resd it aloud so that we all could hear.

"To Pah-chin, after this past half year it felt like I had a hole in my heart. Here's to hoping you could get out early so we can go back to our stupidity. From Ryohei Hayashi."

By the time he finished reading his letter me, Pah, and Take were in tears. Well, us twins were only tearing up but Pah was full on bawling his eyes out.

"P.S, I love you!" Peh-yan added, making the cherry on top.

"You're so awesome! Friends from down to the heart!" Fatty hugged the shounen manga (that peh gave gave him) closer to
his chest.

"You're crying like we're newlyweds!"

"I'm just so happy!"

All this little reminiscing session continued on, but Draken just read his letter silently.

I noticed this and decided to acknowledge him too.

"What'd you put in, Ken-chin?" I smiled.

"This." He showed a picture of us that we took when ToMan disbanded 12 years ago.

He then, read his time-capsul aloud.

To the future Ken Ryuguji,

How are you doing? Are you still into bikes? Did you get married? Do you have kids? Do you still follow Mikey?

I won't object the head's decision. I sain that in front of everyone, and I really regretted it. ToMan is all I have, though I'm unsure if everyone feels the same. I've been so anxious. I've cried. But I'm sure, Mikey suffered more.

So I'm writing all my regrets here. Just growing old... Even if I lost the feelings I held as a kid.... I hope I don't forget this. Always.... Emma is always with you...

By the time he finished reading his letter, everyone was crying. I was questioning whether or not Ken-chin was still a teen when he wrote this.

His letter sounded more like a speech written by a mature person. Actually he really is.

The air felt thick and only sound of the blowing wind and everyone sniffles could be heard.

Ken-chin decided to break the eyes and said something that I'm sure everyone wanted to say too.

"....Now... he didn't end up coming. Should we take a look?"

"Y-yeah" I managed to whisper out. "Let's see Mikey's letter."

We all agreed that I should be the one to read it out loud, as I was the one he was closest to since childhood, other than Keisuke.

To the future me, Sano Manjirou.

In 12 years, what will I be doing? I can't even tell. But I know for sure Mitsuya will become a fashion designer, he's gonna have a fancy office and make stylish clothes! That I can tell! And since Hakkai likes Mitsuya a lot, he'll probably work in a similar industry too.

He'll spend all his time on Mitsuya's workplace. Pah-chin's definitely gonna inherit his Dad's real estate agency. Mad respect! Peh-yan is gonna follow Pah-chin around. Of course, with no Pah, there's no Peh!

As for Smiley, I bet he's gonna go off and do some crazy shit. Well, he's gonna be fine as long as Angry's with him.

And there's one and only one choice for Ken-chin! He's totally gonna own a bike shop! I know him better than anyone so I can tell.

And Chifuyu, He's gonna do something that reminds him of Baji.

And Y/n-chin! He's/She's/They're definitely gonna be in the performing arts! I bet he'll/she'll/they'll be really famous one day! I hope I can attend a concert or two.

Then, Takemicchi, If you and Hina don't end up happy together, I'll kill you! Disbanding ToMan isn't only for your future Takemicchi!
But also for the others. ToMan isn't the right place for you to obtain the important experiences that'll help you grow into an adult.

So everyone, please get on that journey of finding your values. I will also pursue the journey of my own and find what's important to me. And I might not meet you guys anymore. But you'll understand, right?

No matter how far we are from each other,
We'll always be connected.

'The message.... he wrote it as if he really planned to leave us..' I thought as tears kept on flowing from my eyes down to my cheeks.

Pretty much everyone were crying now deeply moved with Mikey's letter.

-meanwhile at Mikey's P.O.V.-

I stared at the dark night, as sat on a water tank on our hideouts building.

One of my fellow executives, Kakuchou a few feet behind me also gazing at the stars.

"Are you sure about this? Today's the 19 of June, you know." He asked with a calm yet uneasy expression.

I looked down at the busy roads below me and replied.

"Yeah....It's better this way.."

Looking back up, I saw that the moon has risen to its fullest and shone brightly, better than any other star.

Reminds me of Y/n....

---back to your p.o.v.---

"No matter how separated we are, we're always connected." Peh smiled.

"It truly shows his maturity!" Added Nahoya.

"A journey to find something important, huh?" Asked Mitsuya in a somewhat teasing tone.

"Pfft- Takashi you sound like youre jealous that we aren't the important one!" I matched his tone, elbowing him slightly, making everyone chuckle but silently agree.

"I guess we are walking down the right path."

"I'm so glad I came here today. At first I was confused, thinking about how Mikey suddenly disappeared. But then again, no matter how separated we've become... I'm sure he's thinking about us right now." Hakkai said as he looked up at the beautiful night sky.

"Yeah that's definitely true."

"If he's thinking about us, the we definitely are connected to each other." All of us raised our chins and looked up. Thinking about our teenage misadventures and Mikey.

Sooner or later, everyone bid their goodbyes and me and Take were the only ones left at the shrine.

I looked back at the small wooden box we put our letters in and saw another letter and a video tape.

"Huh-? Take! Look, it's a video tape!" I beamed as I gripped the rectangular object and showed it to my little brother.

"What's that? Did we ever put that in there?" He inspected it.

"Wait! Take we forgot to read your letter!" The though suddenly crossed my mind.

"Oh yeah! Open mine up!"

"We all forgot about yours... sorry bro."

"I-it's alright, let's see what I wrote.."

"Wishing happiness to everyone." He read out loud.

"That's it? 😶" Not gonna lie, that was disappointing.

"Well, at least they forgot about it." I patted his back, knowing full well that he'd be really embarrassed that his letter was so short and it seemed that barely put any effort and emotion to it at all.

"All that aside, who put this video tape here? Was it Mikey-kun?" Rake asked, gently taking the object from my hands.

"Hmm.. maybe? Did he want to tell us something else?" I replied.

"Nee/Nii-chan, let's take this to someone that has a player. We could see what's in here!"

"But people don't really use those old video tape players anymore. We have phones now!" I complained.

"I might know a shop, let's meet at Akibahara tommorow?"

"Yeah okay, it's getting late anyway. I'll have one of my bodyguards pick us up." I smiled as I tapped his back.

"Yeah, Okay. Hina might scold me if I come home late again." He nervously scratched his nape, making me giggle.

"Pfft, Okay Sassan might do the same with me so I'll be going now. Bye, Lil Bro!" I waved.

"Okay, Nee/Nii-chan! Bye-bye!" He gave me back the tape.

And with that, we parted ways and I started walking back to my house.

Sassan greeted me when I entered entered house, and I greeted her back. The rest of the night I just confined myself in my room as I thought of my old memories of Mikey.

Tearing up a bit at the bitter sweet moments we went through. After doing that, my eyes felt droopy so I did my night routine and slept.

I woke up and saw a familiar figure I front of me. Everything was dark, but I could make up a few silhouettes of some people.

Suddenly the lights turned on, making me look around and see that we were at bowling alley.

My eyes feel upon 2 certain people in front of me.

It was Mikey and Takemichi...?! They were seated on the chairs. Takemichi in the front, he couldn't really see Mikey.

And it also seemed as though I was hiding behind one of the cabinets where they put the bowling balls, as if I was spying on them?

I couldn't really hear what they were talking about since they were talking so quietly, but after a few seconds, Takemichi stood up and I saw Mikey aiming a gun at him, shocking me instantly.

"Takemichi! Get away from there!" I jumped out of my hiding spot and ran to him, but I was too late. Mikey already pulled the trigger and shot my brother from the back. Luckily not near the heart.

"TAKEMICHI!!"

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"Y/N!" I jolted awake as Sassan yelled my name and shook me.

"S-Sassan...?" My voice sounded hoarse and shaky.

"Take- Takemichi! How is he?! Is he OK?! He got shot-"

"Y/n! It's alright! It's just a nightmare.. You're safe. Takemichi didn't get shot, Okay?" She comforted me as she pulled my face to her chest.

I was breathing heavily, obviously still not recovering from the horrible dream, however with Sassan whispering comforting sweet nothings to me, I eventually calmed down.

"You okay now?" She patted my head.

"Y-yes... Thank you Sassan..." I said as I hugged her back. After a few seconds she let go and told be breakfast was ready.

"Okay, I'll just go wash up first.. I'll come down later.."

"Ok.l, but Takemichi okay right now. I swear." She stated as she stepped out my room.

I did my morning routine and got down ro ear breakfast with Sassan, discussing a few things with her before calling my bodyguard to pick me and Take up.

After a few minutes, said bodyguard got to my house and we started going to my little brother's apartment.

"Yo Take!" I exclaimed as I rolled down the car window, unlocking the lock in the process.

"Good morning to you too, Nee/Nii-chan." He greeted as he opened the door and sat next to me in the back seat.

"Did you sleep well? How do you feel? Are you feeling fatigue? How's your chest?" Me bombarding questions at him made him confused a bit.

"Nee/Nii-chan, why are you asking me these questions?" He chuckled, nervously. "Of course I'd be alright. I don't even have a scratch right now. What made you seem so worried?" He rubbed my back soothingly.

"It's just that....I had a weird nightmare... we were at a bowling alley and we met Mikey.... you two were talking but for some reason when you stood up, he suddenly shot you from behind..." As I was telling the story, I had goosebumps and my hands and feet went cold.

The seriousness in my voice made Take shiver. He had goosebumps as well.

"... it's probably just means nothing, Nee/Nii-chan. Don't worry too much about it." He tried comforting me, but his voice sounded uneasy and shaky.

"Takemichi. I have a bad feeling about this. From now on, don't ever leave my side, Okay? Unless you're going to the bathroom of course." I stared intently at his eyes. As I gripped his shoulders.

"O-ok. I will, so don't worry, Okay?" He smiled warily but I could see the Hanagaki determination in his eyes, making me smile proudly.

'We're not giving up on you, Mikey.' The both of us silently vowed to nothing.

"Ma'am/Sir, We are here, would you like me to come with you two?" My bodyguard asked with gentleness evident in his voice.

He obviously heard our little convo, he knew how much we Hanagaki twins cared for each other.

"No, it's alright, Satoru-san. We can go on our on- wait... actually.. could you wait outside the door of the store for us?"

"As you wish." He unlocked the doors and walked with us to the cd store, we stepped inside asked showed the vendor the tape we found and fortunately, there was a crt TV and he let us use it.

"I wonder who's it from.." I mumbled.

"I hope it's not some porn clip." Take said skeptically, putting the tape in the place where you the tape. (Idk what it's called, sorry!)

We were shocked to see a young Shinichiro presenting an empty beer bottle to the camera.

'This seems familiar..' I thought.

"You better hit this one, alright?" The black haired boy said in an almost teasing tone to the young blonde.

"And now my little brother will do a high kick and will take the lid of the bottle!" He exclaimed, redirecting jis attention back to the camera, moving it to show his brother.

"Do your best, Manjiro!" My voice could be heard in the background.

"Yeah." He looked at me and nodded.

*Takemichi pauses the video.*

"Huh- Nee/Nii-chan, you were here?!" My brother asked.

"Oh yeah! Before Mom and Dad adopted me, big bro Shin would always take me to the Dojo to hang out with Manjiro and Emma-chan."

"O-oh.. okay"

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(Yall might be confused right now, Y/n is an orphan, but Shinichiro visits the orphanage often so they met and hung out a lot, so she new Mikey long before she new Takemichi. The hanagaki's adopted Y/n when she turned 11. Since you and Take were born in the same yearz people considered you as twins.)

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*Takemichi resumes le video*

"Don't get too scared and start moving around, Okay? Shinichiro." The young boy pointed at the camera.

"Yeah right who'd get scared by a four year old?" Shin retorted.

"Here I go!"

Young Mikey lounged near the bottle and successfully kicked the cap of with just one kick.

"Woah!!! You're amazing, Manjirou!" A young Me hugged the blonde.

Why is this in my letter..? Takemichi thought to himself as he coulntinued watching. He allowed observed his Twin's reaction, taking note of how longingly they stare at it.

T

he footage cut the scene and then showed Emma in in kitchen cooking something while humming a sweet melody with her back turned to the camera.

"Fufu" Mikey mumbled, Emma seemed to hear it as she turned around.

"Huh? Wait what did you record?! Stop it! It's embarrassing!" She charged at Mikey, trying to grab the camera.

A glimpse of Shin and their Grandfather could be seen since Mikey was moving around, trying to not get caught.

"These are clips Manjiro's family! Take, why is this in your letter?" I asked, confused as to why such a tape would be here.

"I.. I don't know myself.. Did Mikey-kun put this here?"

The footage cut again, then showed the 15 year old Mikey, sitting cross legged in his old room.

"To Takemichi and Y/n, in 12 years." He said quietly as looked up to the camera.

It's directed to us?

"I've said a lot in my letter, but there's something I want to address only to you two."

"When I can't control myself... it's like there's another me. A dark impulsivity. I'm scared of who I'll become in twelve years.
I'm definitely not pleasant to be around with. It's why I bid the ToMan members goodbye. You understand right? I don't want you all to be involved with me. Takemichi, Y/n. Promise me this, in 12 years stay away from me. Don't try to go to the past to save me or something. To walk down this path is my own decision. You two, we will not be meting again so let me tell you this for the last time."

At this point I was already brought to tears. I sniffed and but my lip to try to stop the waterworks, but I just can't.

"Please live a happy life." He smiled sweetly as if he wasn't stressed right now.

"Why...?" My voice cracked as I asked no one in particular. My brother looked at me and seemed to want to say something, but didn't no what to say.

"Why does he have to keep it all to himself?! Why does he keep pushing away the help that he obviously needs?! He's always been like this ever since we were kids..! Doesn't he trust us enough..?" I sobbed us I pulled me knees close to my chest.

"Nee/Nii-chan...." He teared up too, but he patted my back reassuringly and pulled me to an embrace.

I hugged back and continued crying for a few minutes. As I was busy bawling my eyes out Take put up the puzzle pieces to how Mikey turned put like this.

We walked out of the store and thanked the vendor. Satoru opened our door for us but I declined.

"Satoru-san, you can go home, me and Take will just take a walk for some fresh air." I bargained as Satoru took noticeof my red puffy nose and eyes.

"Okay Ma'am/Sir, please do be careful." He patted mine and Take's heads, before getting in the car to drive back to my house.

We kept walking down the empty road to my house in silence, and sooner of later, a familiar voice called put to the both of us.

"Takemichi! Y/n! Kazutora sprinted up to us. "I've got some leads at Shinjuku Ward!"

I smiled at him but Take just kept walking and didn't even look at him. And I know why.

"Kazutora-kun.."

"Yeah?"

"It's fine we don't need it." He finally looked at him and smiled. I took a few steps to catch up to him too.

"Wha- huh? Hey Hanagaki's! What's wrong?"

"Webdont want to meddle anymore. It's Manjiro's wish." I replied.

"Huh?! Whaddya mean?!"

----- a few days L8r -----

Hina-chan and Takemichi were out preparing for their wedding, and here I was, stuck at home, printing the invitations.

My phone buzzed and I checked to see that Takemichi texted me.

ᵗᵒᵈᵃʸ, 8:54

Hina looks so pretty! Want a pic?

Omg yass!!

Here.

I have been blessed 🛐

Nee/Nii-chan. Me and Hina are literally gonna get married already 😀 please back off.

No promises 😙

Oh- Nee/Nii-chan, Hina's calling me now, Gotta go. See ya later!

okay, tell Hina, I said Hi!

I will!

ˢᵉᵉⁿ

---- le time skip again ----

"Take!"

"F**k off man! Bonten this! Binetn that! Stop mentioning their name in front of our store!" A man continuously kicked my brother and I desperately tried to stop him but to no avail.

"Stop kicking him!" I kicked him in the side as strong as I can, making the man take a few steps back, tripping and screaming in pain as he clutched his side.

"Takemichi! Can you stand?!" Frantically, I carried him in my shoulders and was relieved to see he was still conscious.

"Y-yeah, let's run before they hurt you too, Nee/Nii-chan!" He stumbled but still managed to run.

We stopped once the man's yelling was out of earshot, and it just so happened that Kazutora was there too.

"You gotta take it easy, Takemichi, Y/n. You're all busted." He scolded.

"But-"

"Why are you rushing, anyway?"

"You know Kazu-kun, this is the 4th place! I went to all the Bonten's hideouts you suggested me, but I still couldn't get a single an clue! And in this place Take got hurt! There's no way we can take it easy!"
I screamed letting all my frustrations out as I clutched Takemichi's back.

"But.. those are definitely Bonten hideouts.." He mumbled..

"That's why we can't just stand by and lay low."

"If we mess with Bonten, it'll be a suicide mission. Let's end this, Takemichi, Y/n." Kazu sternly said.

Le gasp.

"Hold on! Kazutora-kun/Kazu-kun!" We yelled in unison.

"Takemichi, your wedding is in three days! Y/n, you're his elder twin, you should be the one telling him this! If anything happens to the two of you, I don't know how I'll face the others!" He turned his back at us and walked away.

"You two better lay low for a while!"

Me and Take looked down at the ground in distress.

"Nee/Nii-chan, let's find a place to rest for now, I think I saw an stable abandoned building nearby. We could go there to think and rest." He grabbed my hand and led me there.

This place looked.... familiar...

I looked around the abandoned bowling alley cautiously, not really seeing anything. I decided it was safe and sat down one of the chairs with Take.

"Take... Kazu's right... It's only a few days until your wedding. Hina's probably so worried right now. You're- no, We're focusing too much on Mikey than Hina. Your wedding is supposed to be the best day of you life! We should properly prepare for it."

"But Nee/Nii-chan! We're all laughing and enjoying here while Mikey might probably be siffering-" He couldn't finish his retort as he felt something pressed to his forehead.

His sudden silence made me almost turn to him if it wasn't for the gun aimed at my head right now.

My hands and feet got cold as flashbacks of my dream came to mind. I ever so slightly turn my head a bit to Take and saw a man.

"Don't move or I shoot." He stated coldly, with his deep yet eerie voice, I recognized him immediately. Haru.

My brother made a 'Huh?' Sound as my mouth agape in surprise.

Haru smiled and randomly started spewing crap about Take, making me wanna punch the living heck out of his face.

I really would've done it if only he wasn't only a millisecond close to killing Take.

"Who are you?" My brother said shakily, as he gave Haru the side eye, since he was not really able to turn his head.

"Take-"

Haruchiyo lifted his free hand to his face and pressed his pointer against his lips and made a shushing noise.

Then, slow but steady footsteps could be heard getting louder. Indicating that someone is heading to us.

My heart was beating crazily out of worry.

'Oh God oh God oh God. I hope this doesn't end up like my dream..." I squeezed my eyes shut, intertwined my fingers and started praying desparately in my head.

My trai of thought was cut off by Haruchiyo's voice.

"Listen up. The boss will speak."

My eyes shot open and I slightly lifted up my head, and so did Takemichi.

"It's the best future, Isn't it?"

A silent, tired voice announced, a familiar one at that.

"So, anything you wanna ask?"

I teared up, finally hearing the voice I kissed so much in these past 12 years. His voice sounded almost as empty as the way Izana's voice was....

"Manjiro-kun/Mikey-kun....." Me and Tame mumbled as the tears flowed down our cheeks.

"Here." Take lifted up one of his invitation envelopes.

"I want to give this to you."

"And that is?"

"An invitation to my wedding.I want you to come no matter what." He announced.

"Everyone's... doing well.... just like you promised 12 years ago, everyone including Hina-chan is happy..Everyone.. Except for you." I lowered my head again.

"Hey, shut your mouth or I'll kill you." Haru said, tilting my head with his gun, making both mine and Take's eyes to widen.

"Could you leave us alone, Sanzu? I want to talk to them. Just the three of us." Manjiro said.

"....got it, I'll be waiting downstairs." Haruchiyo pulled his guns away from me amd Takes head and put them in the waistband of his pants.

We waited until his footsteps were put of earshot before we started talking.

"Mikey-kun, what the hell is with this 'Drak Impulsivity'?" My brother asked as he propped his hands on his thighs.

"We thought.. the reason you snapped, was because of Kisaki or your brother's death-" he reasoned but I cut him off.

"But that doesn't seem to be the case. Manjiro, what did you mean back in the video?"

Said man didn't reply, and just stayed quiet, staring at our backs, occasionally taking glances at the surroundings.

Then Takemichi decided to break the silence yet again.

"I couldn't turn back time with the usual handshake with Naoto, because I've fulfilled my goal of saving Hina.." he started.

"It was all thanks to you. It's alright, you don't have to say anything. I understand.. this future is different, because you protected everyone.Therefore-"

"So Manjiro. You've done enough already! Let us help you now!" My voice was cracking, my hands were trembling, I was breaking down.

I stood up and was about to face Mikey, when the sound of 2 gunshots echoed through the abandoned building.

Suddenly, I felt pain near my heart. I raised my hand to touch the part to feel thick liquid glazing my hand. Blood.

I then realized that I only had one bullet qwound, so the other gunshot..

"Takemichi!" I immediately checked him and he had a bullet wound on the same spot as mine too.

He looked back at Mikey, who's gun was pointed to him.

"Takemichi! Are you alr-" I couldn't even finish my sentence as he fell to the ground. My vision started to get blurry as well.

"Take!" I ran to him and tried pushing him over, but Mikey shot me right at my ankle, making me fall face first in to the cold, dusty floor.

"Nee/Nii-chan..!" Mumbled Takemichi, short on breath. He tried to reach out his hand to me, but I tried getting up to loonat Manjiro, but I struggled greatly as strength was not existing at the moment.

"I didn't wanna meet because things would end up like this." He looked down at us before turning on his heel and just casually walking away to the balcony of this building.

"Your long journey ends here."

I managed to get up onto my knees and mutter up a few words.

"....Manj-..iro...accep-t the goddamn.. help you.. ob..viously need.. dumbass.."

"...we'll...save... you.. no matter what...." I heard Take mumbled too, as I tuned my head to look at him, and I smiled slightly.

"...Manjiro..for you..and everyone..I'll do it as many times as I could..."

He kept on walking until he reached the edge of the building.

"I will.. end everything here."

He was just inches away from diving of the tall building, and people on the streets took notice of this too.

Takemichi collapsed again, but we somehow managed to crawl to a flight of stairs and to him before he was out of reach.

He jumped, and thankfully, we managed to catch his wrist.

"Manjiro! I will not let you die!" I screamed and held his wrist even tighter, take reaches out his other hand for him to grab.

"Quick! Grab onto my hand!" Take yelled.

He again, stayed silent for a second.

"..this is stupid..I tried to kill you two
.. yet-"

"Manjiro! I'm losing consciousness... there's not much time.. grab onto my hand!"

"..Y/n, Takemichi.. let go.. I want to end everything here and now.."

I groaned.

"Come on...! You'll regret doing that!"Tkae yelled frustratingly.

I tried pulling him up, but due to the lack of blood and oxygen, it was quite a struggle.

"Manjiro...quick..let me... save you..noattee what... I'd even go back... to the past to save you..." I whispered.

"What are you talking about.. you can't go back to the past. This is why I didn't wanna meet you again..I didn't want this to happen..I literally just shot you, Y/n. Please... put me in Peace.."

"Shut up!!Why are you always like this!! ALWAYS AND ALWAYS YOU PUT THE BURDEN A ON YOURSELF! Manjiro! Just say it once! Just say "help me" for just once damn it!"

"Say it..! And I won't hesitate to save you, Manjiro..!" I smiled weakly at him.

And he starts to tear up too.

"Please... please help me..." Manjiro lifted up to grip Takemichi's, amd he tightest his grip on mine.

"Y/n..Takemichi..!"

I pulled him up, but white suddenly flashed in eyes. Thunder suddenly struck, and the annoying sound of an alarm clock could be heard.

I opened my eyes and I saw a ceiling my old dorm room that I shared with Takemichi.

"Hurry up! I made you breakfast already! You're high schoolers yet you still doubt like one!" Our mother yelled and closed our room door behind here.

I looked around around and saw Takemichi in his own bed with tears in his eyes.

"H-huh?!"

---- 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 ----

woo! So I finally finished this chapter! I'm so sorry it took so long! I was too busy with school since my mom doesnt allowe to use my phone until K finished one module per day.

but n e ways, it here and the next chap mught arrive sooner or later.

alsobig thanks to animeandya forgreat advice on writing!