Chapter 10

Partners in Crime

Mika woke up the next day, feeling relatively happy. Yesterday she was a bit upset that Suke didn't spend anytime with her as he's been blowing her off a lot. For other a month now he'd made several excuses for things they had planned to do. At first, Mika didn't think much of it, of course, there were times dates would be cancelled and she respects he is his own person, he can do what he wants. But recently she'd been starting to doubt him. They'd hardly seen each other alone in nearly two months, they'd made plans like going to the cinema, just watching a movie at home, going out on a date to a café, just going out in general or cuddling. But they hadn't done anything - at all. A small part of Mika questioned whether he cared, but she reasoned he must, she knew she was worrying too much, she just felt a bit lonely.

Especially since when Suke cancelled or said he couldn't do something it was because he was playing games with Near and his brother, going out with Alex, Rico and his friends, or just going to see Alex because he had promised. She cursed at herself for feeling jealous, it just frustrated her how he always said last minute as well, it was always just as they were about to go out, or just as they were about to do something. Mika couldn't help but feel as if Suke wasn't interested in her anymore, he'd never made up for any of the missed plans, it seemed to her like he didn't want to spend time with her, which broke her heart a little. She'd always been scared he'd lose interest, they had been going out for two years now.

It made her upset that Suke couldn't even see a problem with cancelling on her all the time, and no one else seemed to notice, but why would they.

But today they planned to go out to watch a movie at the cinema. It was called Illusion and they had both been super excited to see this for ages. There was no way Suke could cancel today, he's wanted to see this for so long Mika convinced herself. They'd planned this a while ago as well, so Suke wouldn't have a reason to plan anything else today would he, when this is planned. Mika chuckled to herself at her thoughts - how ridiculous was she being, she was just over thinking.

She'd had breakfast and then went to see if Suke wanted to head out now to go to a café before the movie started or just go straight there a little later.

"Hey, Suke, did you wanna go out before the movie? Or just go straight there? I don't mind either really" Mika asked him as he came out of his room, his hair dishevelled from sleep.

"Movie?" Suke asked slowly "What movie?" He yawned

Mika's face fell, she already knew he was going to cancel again today "Illusion?" She said seeing if that would jog his memory "The movie, we were gonna see today, that we planned ages ago?" Disappointment laced her voice.

"Oh, uh, well I promised Alex I'd help with a few things" Suke said completely oblivious to how Mika was feeling.

"Can't you help her when we get back? The film is only two hours" Mika stated, she almost couldn't believe he was cancelling again, how foolish was she.

"No. I promised I'd help her" Suke said flatly "It's just a film, I can watch it anytime"

"Okay" Mika said, her voice was barely audible. It wasn't about the film though, it was about spending time together. He obviously didn't want to. It was clear to Mika now.

Suke had gone downstairs now, to have breakfast. Mika was thinking about what to say to him. She had to talk to him about this, it was making her too unhappy, she felt so distant from him, not how you're suppose to feel in a relationship. She loves him, but she's not sure he loves her back the same way anymore.

"Suke" Mika called as she saw him walking up the stairs "Can we talk?"

Suke sighed loudly before stopping in front of her "I'm going to help Alex now, can't it wait"

"It's important" Mika told him, waiting for his answer

"How important?" Suke sighed annoyed, moving on the balls of his feet to indicate he wanted to leave.

"Just important. But I see you don't want to talk now, you probably won't even want to talk later, not even tomorrow or the day after because you have more important things to do, good for you, but you can't even bare to spare a few minutes of your time" Mika swallowed the lump forming in "I think we should break up"

"What!" Suke raised his voice in surprise but spoke bluntly. He grabbed Mika's wrist, an act out of his heart wanting her to stay.

"I said I think we should break up" Mika repeated, she was trying to hold back the tears threatening to slip.

"Yeah, I know! But why?" Suke breathed confused, he definitely wasn't expecting her to say those words.

"And this is part of the reason why, you don't even know why I'm upset" Mika replied, laughing bitterly at his oblivious nature.

"This isn't because I cancelled the film today is it, because if so that's ing ridiculous if you want to watch it so badly go by yourself" Suke spat.

"No, It's not just about this time, but also every other time you've cancelled or made some excuse over the past two months. The film doesn't mean anything to me, What I'm actually upset about is that you don't want to spend anytime with me, if you don't want to spend time with me that badly then why didn't you break up with me! Why make me believe every time that I'd get to do something nice with you before you suddenly have made another plan and want to spend time with everyone but me! We haven't done practically anything together, I feel like I don't know you anymore. It feels like you don't want me to know you" Mika released what she'd been thinking, feeling.

"Mika" Suke tried to get her to calm down

She could taste salty tears as she went to speak again "I love you, Ryunosuke. But it doesn't feel like you love me back in the same way, that is whether you love me at all anymore. I can't tell anymore. But we're over. Okay" Mika breathed out, fresh tears wet her face. She pulled away out of Suke's grasp, turning away from him.

"Mika, I-" Suke tried to grab hold of her as she walked away, but she went into the bathroom and locked the door. Suke sighed. He knocked on the door "Mika" There was no response "Mika" He said again, starting to become angry. He knocked on the door again shouting Mika louder. After a few more attempts at trying to get the door open he gave up. She obviously didn't want to talk to him now, so he continued upstairs another level to Alex, where he was originally headed.

About 3 hours later Suke came back down the stairs, he was considering going to talk to Mika but he wasn't sure if she still wanted to be alone.

"Suke?"

Huh?" Suke turned round to see Near there.

"Do you know why the bathroom door is locked? I don't think anyone is in there" Near asked, completely unaware of the argument Mika and him had, had. If it was locked, she still had to be in there, had she really been in there for 3 hours, Suke felt guilty as he went to the door and knocked on it

"Mika" He asked quietly. Okay this was ridiculous, she couldn't just not answer.

"Shall I pick the lock?" Near asked "I was thinking of doing that anyway"

"Sure" Suke replied, he watched Near unlocked the door, only to be left with an empty bathroom.

"Huh, that's weird" Near said. Suke went into the bathroom, seeing the window open he knew Mika climbed out and down the guttering on the building. Why not just come out the bathroom once he'd gone upstairs. It then occurred to Suke that maybe Mika wasn't in the house anymore.

His heartbeat increased as he began to run around the whole house looking for Mika, he ignored the weird stare from Near when he left the bathroom. He couldn't find her anywhere, he'd checked every room. That meant she was out. Suke didn't even question if he should go out looking for her, he was. He was worried. After replaying the fight in his head he realised how upset she really must have been.

Suke had spent two hours how searching around town and places they went to, he'd left Mika hundreds of messages and called her phone but he didn't get any reply. He was seriously worried now, he was walking back to the house, he figured he should tell someone and they could help look, maybe they'd find her quicker that way. Oddly, Ryunosuke felt himself flashingback to when Mika was kidnapped 4 years ago. He was feeling the same guilt and despair as he did then, both times she was missing were his fault - great - he's such a great boyfriend, well ex-boyfriend.

As he walked up the driveway, he saw Alex coming out the house. "Suke!" She called "Where have you been? I couldn't find you or Mika anywhere"

"I've been looking for Mika" He confessed looking down, not wanting to see Alexa's angry expression.

"What do you mean looking for her?" Alex demanded

"We had a fight, earlier, about 5 hours ago, before we hung out and uh, we, well she broke up with me, and I don't know where she is, I'm really worried, I've looked everywhere, Alex, I-"

"Right, we're going to look for her now, and if we don't find her I will kill you Ryunosuke, there's no reason for me not beat you up now" Alex scowled, she scared Suke. A lot. Especially because she was a lot stronger now than the last time she beat him up.

Suke and Alex split up, covering some places Suke had already been to see if she had gone there and covered more of the city.

4 hours later Suke was on the phone with Alex "No I haven't found her, where the heck could she be!" Alex screamed down the phone to Suke.

"We haven't checked the west side, have we? By the train station, I'm closer, I'll go there, you look around the park again"

"Fine" Alex answered "If we don't find her in another hour I'm telling Near, Mum and Dad and calling the police" She then hung up.

Suke pocketed his phone, turning the corner to head towards the train station, the street was empty. He didn't expect to see a small figure sitting against the wall with their knees curled up to them, staring the opposite way of the entrance to the alleyway when he looked down it, glancing to his left. He immediately stopped. His heart pounded in his chest and he took careful steps down the alley towards the figure. It was Mika.

"Go away, Ryunosuke" She said not even turning her head in his direction. Suke stayed silent. He carefully sat down against the wall, next to her, she still had her head facing the other direction.

"I'm sorry" Suke spoke. "Mika, I- I'm so sorry. I've been such a jerk and and you were right, You feel like you don't know me, I feel like I don't know you because I've been pushing you away. I don't know why. I don't have an excuse for that." This is when the tears started to escape Suke's eyes. "I've been so selfish, I guess, in a way I was trying to spend more time with your sister to get one her good side, but then I wasn't spending anytime with you. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being an idiot and pushing you away and making you upset. I hate seeing you upset, it breaks my heart, but I didn't want my heart to break, so I didn't notice.  You've put yourself out for me so much, and I haven't returned that, I haven't made things up to you. I never meant to take our relationship for granted, but I have been. I'm sorry".

Suke wasn't sure what else to say, there were thousands of thoughts in his mind, but not a coherent one he felt he could speak. Instead, he waited to see if Mika would answer back. As he looked at her, he noticed her occasional shiver and took off his jacket, placing it over her shoulders as carefully as he could.

"I'm sorry, Suke" Mika answered, putting her arms through Suke's jacket so she was wearing it properly. "I overreacted. You're allowed to do what you want, when you want and hang out with who you want, I shouldn't be jealous. I've been really silly and childish and I'm sorry. I've made a problem out of nothing. I'm the selfish one" She kept her face pointed the other way still, afraid to look at him. By now, as forecasted it had started raining.

"Mika" Suke said in disbelief, he placed a hand on her cheek, cupping it and turned her to face him. "You have nothing to be sorry for. Please don't apologise. You haven't been childish or silly at all, and you didn't overreact, I've been so oblivous and stupid and selfish and all you did was react how anybody would. I've been a jerk, I created the problem, I blew you off for nearly everything, I'm suprised thinking about it now that you didn't say anything before, how rude I've been. I feel horrible, for everything and I hope you can forgive me. Because I love you, Mika, I really do" He stared at her tear stained cheeks and felt his heart tug.

"I love you too, Suke" Mika smiled up at him. Suke felt his heart skip a beat and connected his lips to hers. The kiss was gentle but soon became more passionate as it continued. When they pulled apart they were in love all over again. Mika wrapped her arms around Suke, snuggling her head into the crook of his neck. Suke wrapped his arms around her and they sat like this for a while.

"" Suke muttered

"What?" Mika asked lifting her head off him.

"I forgot to text Alex to tell her I'd found you" He said facepalming, quickly he got out his phone and typed fast before the rain soaked his phone.

"Alex?" Mika asked

"I got her to help look with me, we couldn't find you for ages! I was worried" Suke said defensively

"Sorry" Mika smiled at how protective he'd gotten.

"We should probably get out the rain before we both catch colds" He said standing up, and helping Mika up. He held her hand tightly as they began to walk. He suddenly had an idea "Shall we stop at a cafe for a hot drink?" He asked her seeing the sign for one down the end of the road they'd turned into.

"Sure" Mika smiled, she squeezed Suke's hand causing him to smile. "Y'know the last time we were on our way together to a cafe alone, at night was when I was kidnapped" Mika said thinking back

"Yeah, but this time you won't let go of my hand, will you?" Suke asked playfully, squeezing her hand.

Mika laughed "No. I won't" She said brushing her arm into Suke's in a playful action.

They had got in the cafe, sat down and ordered "Well at least we actually got to the cafe this time" Suke joked

Mika shot him a glare but broke out into a smile at seeing his gummy one. They were happy when their drinks arrived because they were freezing.

"Hey, isn't that the detective over there?" Mika questioned while they were in mid conversation. Suke immediately turned around at the thought of the detective being there. "Don't be so obvious!" Mika said

Suke turned back around after spotting him "I'm sure he hasn't seen us, heck he probably doesn't even know what we look like"

"I'm sure he knows what you look like thanks to your mint hair" Mika pointed out, laughing.

"I thought you liked it" Suke said with a frown, pretending to be hurt.

"I love it" Mika smiled back to him causing him to smile. The detective watched as the pair gulp down their drinks, he looked back down at his files. According to one of his contacts 4 years ago a boy with a similar appearance disappeared from Japan after his adoptive parents were arrested for neglect, around the same time at his school students were being murdered by an ex-teacher Maki Himura, the killer was discovered by L and soon after Ryunosuke Tanaka and his brother Tarou vanished to then suddenly reappear in England. 

Another one of the detective's sources had speculated that L's main headquarters were somewhere in England, Ryunosuke sudden appearance at both England and at the mafia main building cannot be a coincidence. Ryunosuke and that girl must be working for L and they were sent to gather information for him so they can shut down his employer's business. 

Mika and Ryunosuke stood up from their table and headed towards the door when Suke's phone went off. It was Alexa.

"Hey, I have found her" was the first thing Suke said once he answered the call.

"That's good, you heading back now" Alexa replied.

"Yeah, can you try and distract your parents, don't want them learning about the argument because I will be six feet under before I can say sorry" Ryunosuke said

"I have already told them that you guys when out on a date, so you should be safe for now" Alexa told him

"Thanks, Alexa" Suke answered.

"Welcome" the line went dead signalling that Alexa had hung up. Ryunosuke grabbed a hold of his girlfriend's hand, both were completely unaware that they were being followed. 

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