Find Your Voice

A/N - I AM SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT!!!!!! *begs for mercy*

Chapter 7 is up and after long wait it's time for the gangs plan to be put in action!

Warnings - violence, yaoi, foul language, AU, OOC-ish.

Disclaimer - if I did own Sukisho it would be rated R, and that R isn't for 'Random' either! XD

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CHAPTER 7: The Melodic Voice

Ran's POV

It was the end of school and Yoru, Sora, Sunao and I where standing outside the school gates, we were all going home to pack our things for Yoru's escape tomorrow night. I was nervous, I really hoped Yoru wouldn't get beaten by his father from now till then. But some things were unavoidable I guess.

"Try not to get hurt okay Yoru." I said, waving quickly to Sunao and Sora who where already half way up the street and heading home.

Yoru nodded his head and smiled at me, he looked so beautiful with the setting sun behind him, it made him look like a fallen angel. I hugged him tightly with tears in my eyes, "tomorrow," I whispered, "tomorrow it all ends, you'll be free." I pulled back from Yoru with tears streaking my face, Yoru lifted his hand to wipe away a fallen tear on my cheek, I squinted my eye shut before opening it again, I blinked up at Yoru, he had a somewhat troubled expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He blinked and smirked slightly at me, I blinked back, before I knew what was going on his hand was resting on my cheek and he drew me into a chaste kiss, light and simple but I found my eyes flying open at the shock. It was my first kiss. He drew back, hand still cupping my cheek, his thumb was gently stroking my cheek. I felt a deep blush cover my face, he had obviously noticed because he smiled and let go of my face.

"We should get going, don't want your dad to get suspicious." I said.

He nodded and we both walked our separate ways, I had much to do tomorrow. I had to pack but I also needed the appropriate things to help Yoru escape. I started to pick up my pace and jogged all the way home. By the time I got home I noticed Sunao had already started packing, right it was time for me to pack as well. I dragged out my pink suitcase from my closet, I opened it and sat it on my bed. I had to pack everything I needed and wanted to bring. Essentials first I told myself, I took as many clothes as I could fit in my suitcase, after all I could buy more later. Next up was just little mementos I was attached to, one thing I had to take with me was my plush pink bear, I've had that since I was born and he has sat on my bed every since. I placed him in my bag and looked at everything in my room, I was definably taking my photo album, it had a ton of photo's in it from when I was little right up until this year, once we were safe I'd have to take some of Yoru and me, oh and the new home I'd be living in. I looked in my suitcase, it was neatly packed with my bear and photo album sitting on top. Now, I just had to get it to close! After some effort I got my suitcase to close.

"You done packing?" I saw Sunao poke his head around my door frame.

"Yep, all we have to do now is get Yoru and it's all over!" I said smiling brightly.

"When you get Yoru tomorrow, be careful okay?" Sunao said with concern in his voice.

"I will, I'll go to his bedroom window and get him out that way, that's the plan, it might be a bit harder is it's a two story house." I said, tomorrow I'd get the address off Yoru.

"You should sleep now, you have a big day tomorrow, we both do." said Sunao.

"Your right," I said, "I'll see you in the morning, then."

"Yeah, night Ran." he said closing the door.

I hurriedly stripped off my clothes and put on my pyjamas before slipping into bed. Tomorrow my plan would be put in action and Yoru would be safe for now and forever…

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I was awoken the next morning by the sun blaring into my room, I obviously had forgotten to close my blinds last night, I had been too focused on packing and the plan…

Tonight I'd be able to save Yoru from that hell hole he was forced to call home, and everything would be perfect Sunao and Sora could be together and me and Yoru… I paused mid thought, did Yoru even think about me that way? He must other wise why would he have kissed me yesterday? Love life later, I told myself, helping Yoru first! I threw back the covers and headed to the kitchen where I knew my brother would be. As soon as I entered the kitchen I smelt it, my brothers specialty breakfast, it was…

"WAFFLES!" I cried latching on to my brother and squeezing him telling him what a good younger twin he was.

"Okay, now let go!" he wheezed I let go of Sunao and let him regain his breath.

After a short while the waffles were ready to eat and I happily ate mine with a lot of maple syrup on them, after I had finished I checked the clock, yikes! It was late and I didn't even have my uniform on!

"Oh no! I'm late!" I cried dashing up to my room, I heard my twin laugh at me as I hurriedly ran up stairs to get ready.

Quickly pulling on my uniform , brushing my hair and teeth I managed to get ready fairly quick I thought. Once I had come down stairs Sunao was standing at the door with a stopwatch.

"Not bad," he said, "that was your quickest yet."

I pouted, "come on I need to get Yoru's address for the plan tonight."

Sunao nodded and we both began walking to school, when we arrived at the school gates I was surprised to see Yoru leaning against the wall waiting for us, Sora was with him too.

"Hope you guys weren't waiting too long." said Sunao.

"Don't worry about it." said Sora.

I cast a glance at Yoru and Sunao had obviously noticed I wanted to talk to Yoru, "come on Sora let's go."

"Sure, we need to organize car travel with Nanami and Shinichirou." said Sora, "see ya later Yoru, Ran."

"Yep." I said Yoru nodded to his long lost twin and Sunao and Sora left.

"Yoru, did anything bad happen to you last night?" I asked once the pair were gone.

He shook his head, I sighed deeply and slouched slightly before straitening up again, Yoru gave me a puzzled look before he smiled and ruffled my hair. I smiled pathetically and blushed at the action. I slipped my school bag around in front of me and pulled out my notebook and pink fluffy pen, I held them out to Yoru.

"I need your address remember." I said with a smile.

Yoru nodded and took the book and pen off me to scribble down his address. He handed them back and a smiled.

"Oh right!" I said a thought crossing my mind, "is your house a two story house?"

Yoru shook his head and I sighed, "thank God."

He crocked a smile and gestured to the school gates, "right! We still have to go to school."

Today was going to go really slow, I just new it.

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I was right by the time it was lunch time, it felt like I had been sitting in class for an eternity. Yoru and I were on our way to the roof where the others would be waiting, we decided it would be a good spot to discuss tonight's plan without being heard by nosy students and troublesome teachers. We finally reached the top of the flight of stairs that led up to the roof and found everyone already there and waiting.

"Nice of you to finally join us." said Shinichirou.

"Uh yeah, sorry if we're a bit late." I muttered, I didn't like being put on the spot like that.

"Don't mind Shinichirou Ran-kun, Yoru-kun, he's always like that." said Nanami smiling lightly.

"So, the plan," said Sora, from his spot next to my twin, "what's happening with it."

Now it was my turn to explain, "tonight I'll take my suitcase and get a taxi to Yoru's. I'll tell the driver to wait a few houses down so Yoru's dad doesn't get suspicious. Then I'll go to Yoru's bedroom window so he can get out that way, then we make a run for it to the taxi!"

"Seriously! That's the plan!?" exclaimed Sunao, "Ran, listen to me, You'll get caught!"

"I'm not finished, don't interrupt," I said, "after that we'll drive to the hotel Nanami booked a room for us and wait there until morning when all of you will come to the hotel and pick us up, and then, we'll all drive to our new house…" I smiled lightly at the end of my sentence, "we can be a family."

Sunao's eyes softened and he smiled at me, "You just want everyone to be happy don't you Ran," Sora spoke up.

"Yep! I know after all this is over we will be." I said firmly, I glanced at Yoru, he was smiling at me and he patted me on the shoulder fondly.

"Well everything's organised here, I think Nanami and I should be going, we don't want any other teachers getting suspicious of our absence." said Shinichirou.

"Sure, we'll see you -ah well tomorrow morning." said Sora.

They nodded and left the four of us up on the roof to actually have our lunch. I could hardly eat I was so nervous and excited about tonight.

"You guys do realise anything could happen if we pull this off." said Sora.

Sunao, Yoru and I looked over to him, "come on guys think about it, we're technically kidnapping someone, do you think our father just gonna sit back and let it happen, he might even send people out looking for us! We could all be thrown in jail!"

I frowned, I hadn't thought about that, I glanced at Yoru, he obviously had thought of this as he was relatively calm about the situation, "Yoru do you think you father would look for you?" I asked.

He shook his head and quickly scribbled a note on a notepad, he handed it to me and I quickly read over it.

My father wouldn't give a damn even if I died, so I don't think you guys will be thrown in jail. Don't worry about it love, no ones going to hurt you, well, not if I'm with you they won't.

My faced burned red, that last comment was obviously solely for me to read. I regained my composure, "Yoru thinks we'll be okay." I said after awhile.

Sora and even Sunao sighed with relief, I saw Yoru smile at them. Yoru's personality had changed greatly since I met him, he went from quiet and even somewhat depressed to what obviously was a true personality, a cocky flirt, I laughed in my head, those two words summed him up in my opinion. Although there was more I could say, Yoru's brave, smart, kind, and actually a really romantic guy. He seemed like the kind of person that would whisper kind words in your ear as you fell to sleep, and I hoped that when Yoru got his voice back, one day he'd do the same thing for me.

The bell rang, signalling the end of our break, one more period then at eight o'clock I'd be stealing Yoru and hightailing it outta there to the Sakura Saku hotel, just out of town.

"See you guys after class!" I called as Sora and Sunao left for their classroom, the two waved.

"We should go too." I said to Yoru, he nodded and we headed downstairs to our classroom. We finally made it to our classroom and luckily the teacher wasn't there yet, so we wouldn't get in trouble. We took our respective seats at the back of the classroom just as our teacher came into the room, this is going to be a long lesson I thought dimly.

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I glanced up at the clock on the wall for probably the tenth time during the lesson, aahh! I was going to go nuts! I looked over at Yoru he was just gazing out the window, I wondered if he was thinking about tonight's plan. I frowned slightly, what if his dad busted us? What if his dad hurt him so bad tonight he couldn't move? Then what would we do?

"Ahh~! I can't take it anymore!" I yelled standing up out of my seat. The chair fell to the ground with a loud clatter.

"Ran-kun! Why do you constantly insist on disrupting my classes!?" my teacher yelled, I flinched looking down at my desk.

"Well!? Answer me!" my teacher yelled I felt tears welling up in my eyes, I don't like being yelled at, Yoru make him stop it.

I heard the loud screech of a chair scraping across the floor, I looked up at saw Yoru standing up. I saw him holding something shiny in his hand he looked up at our teacher with the scariest look I had ever seen, he looked like he wanted to murder someone. His hand moved at lightening speed, I looked to our teacher who's eyes were wide open, I didn't know why until I looked at the wall. There, wedged in the wall, was a pair of scissors, if they had moved in any further they would have lodged into my teachers face. Before anyone could even react, the bell rang loudly signalling school was over. Yoru walked over to me and took my hand.

"Yoru…?" I whispered.

He looked at me with a small smile on his face and we walked out of the classroom together, hand in hand. When we got to the front gate of the school I stood in front of Yoru.

"You did it for me didn't you?" I asked, "you knew we wouldn't be coming back so you gave him the ultimate punishment."

He nodded, I hugged him tightly, "thankyou," I murmured, "I'll be at your house by eight, okay? So be in your room and ready to leave by then."

I let go and backed up, "I'll see you tonight then."

He smiled at me before walking away to his house, as we parted ways I felt the butterflies in my stomach sink in, I was nervous now and the reality of the situation kicked in. We had to make it out otherwise God knows what will happen, it all counted on me, I swallowed hard. I could do this, I had planned this for so long and I would not let everyone down now! I picked up my pace and ran the rest of the way home.

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It was now almost eight and I had just called a taxi to come pick me up from my house, I was sitting in the lounge room with Sunao waiting for said taxi to show up.

"Be careful tonight okay Ran." Sunao said, he was trying to hide the worry in his voice I could tell.

I stood up and hugged him tightly, "I'll be fine, don't worry about it." I let go and gave his shoulders a reassuring squeeze, he smiled lightly and the taxis horn sounded.

"See you in the morning, okay?" I said dashing out the front door and jumping into the taxi.

"Where to kid?" asked the driver.

"23 Orchid street*," I said firmly, "but could you park a little further down the street and wait for me to come back?"

"Sure thing kid-o," he said driving off.

It was silent for a few moments before the taxi driver spoke up, "you and your lover running away?"

I made noise of surprise, "s-something like that." I said.

He chuckled, "good luck kid, I'll do what I can to help."

I smiled widely, "thankyou so much."

The car stopped and I looked out the window, "the house you want is 4 homes up from here."

"Thankyou again, I'll be back soon, keep the engine running, I want a quick getaway." I said getting out of the car and closing the door as quietly as I could.

Slinking up the street I tried to stay in the shadows to conceal my presence, I counted the houses as I went, 1, 2, 3, I thought 4!

I hurried around the right side of Yoru's house, second window with the black curtains I remembered Yoru writing. I was there. Carefully peeping into the window I saw Yoru sitting on his bed, I tapped the window gently and Yoru looked up I smiled through the window. He got up and opened his window carefully.

"Ready?" I whispered, he nodded passing me his bag, before hoisting himself out the window, shutting it once he was outside.

He looked at me and I noticed the serious look on his face, I mimicked it and nodded.

"We'll dash, okay?" I said quietly, handing him his bag.

I felt something warm encircle my hand and I realised it was Yoru's, he squeezed it and then we dashed. I had never ran so fast in my entire life, I practically slammed into the taxi as I opened the door and the two of us piled in.

"Driver quick!" I commanded.

"Right-o kid," he said, "hang on!"

We sped off out of the street so fast I felt myself jolt backwards. Once we were within a few kilometres I whooped pumping my fist in the air.

"MISSION SUCCESSFUL!" I cried out in joy, I was almost crying I was so happy.

"Congrats kids." said the driver, I had to give him a big tip for this.

I felt Yoru's arms slip around me in an embrace, I sighed and snuggled against him, almost there I thought almost at the hotel.

15 minutes later we arrived at the Sakura Saku hotel, I tipped the taxi guy big time and he promised not to tell our location, it was only then I realised I had never asked his name. With out bags in toe we walked into the reception and got the keys to our room, 5th floor room 44. After the rather quick trip up the elevator I unlocked the door to our room and turned the lights on. Setting my suitcase down I saw Yoru lock the door and dump his bag on the nearest bed.

"We did it!" I said running over to Yoru and hugging him tightly, I felt him kiss the top of my head and I blushed a deep shade of red. Once we got to our new home, I could then focus on helping Yoru get his voice back, the thought made me giddy.

"Thankyou, Ran…"

My eyes flashed open wide in shock.

Now way, I stared up at Yoru.

I couldn't believe it.

Yoru just spoke…

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A/N - I AM SOOOOOOOO SORRY THIS IS SO LATE!!!!! FORGIVE MEEEEEE~~!!! T_T teehee, cliffy, yay, Their plan worked and Yoru spoke, what will you do Ran? ^_^ READ and REVIEW please ne?

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