YOSHIKI/佳树 英文版 自翻

Prologue May2nd,1998 The death of HIDE
On that day, YOSHIKI was sitting in his Lexus,on the driver seat.Normally,his cars are driven by his assistant or secretary,while he sits on the rear seat. The reason is that in his business, he always calls or gets called, he can't enjoy the leisure time even sitting in car. But that day was quite abnormal. He had plenty of time, because the recording would start till the night and there wasn't emergency on his hand either.
It takes only 30 minutes by highway to reach the stadio located in the North Hollywood, however on that day YOSHIKI unconventionally chose a common road to drive on. In the evening of May 1st ,1998, the sky of Los Angeles was still bright, and the warm sunshine could get through the windows of car. Overlooking the blue sky in front of his eyes,YOSHIKI enjoyed the transient funny time of driving.
The mobile in car suddenly rang.
Not many persons knowing that number, so when YOSHIKI answered the phone, he spontaneously thought it should be his American secretary Emmy.
"Hello, this is YOSHIKI."
TO his surprise, the voice in the other side on phone was a young stuff of his stadio rather than Emmy.
"What’s the matter?"
Before YOSHIKI's further inquiry, the stuff continually said "I got this phone number from Emmy. There was an emergent call from Japan. It was really urgent. Please call back to this number.
That number belongs to one of YOSHIKI’s well familiar friend.
Hearing the nervous voice of his stuff, YOSHIKI lost the blue sky in front of his eyes.
"Emergency..."
Is it possible that his families or stuffs had some trouble? Or maybe it was the matter in business. Hang up the phone,YOSHIKI dialed to someone familiar.
"What happened?"YOSHIKI listened carefully.
"In this morning, HIDE has passed away."
Maybe his friend told him something else,but YOSHIKI couldn't hear anything. He even forgot when the conversation was ended.
Has HIDE died?
The news that he heard just now kept echoing in YOSHIKI's mind. So he lost his direction.
HIDE has died...

The moment he hearing those silent words, the train of his thoughts seemed to be cut. No matter how he endeavored to figure out, he failed.
His finger, holding the steering wheel, turned icy, and his eyes were hurt by the harsh sunlight from the west side.
His body became stiff, which was uneasy like floating on the ocean. Actually, it should be comfortble in black T-shirt and sport training pants.
Losing his breath,YOSHIKI open the car window. The road leading to his stadio which he had seen hundreds of times before, seemed to be completely unkonwn foreign view at that moment.
After a while,YOSHIKI find himself lose the way. Now matter how he drove, turning left or turning right, he couldn't reach the main road.
Driven for a few minutes, he stopped the car at the roadside and had a deep breath. With his vague mind,he started to consider the possibility of this issue.What happened to HIDE? Perhaps HIDE was involved in a certain accident. Even though, how could he believe the death of him on condition that he didn't know what was going on? Maybe the word DEATH just means a degree of confusion.Yes! It must be that way
.
Although thinking in that way, YOSHIKI knew that his friend would never lie to him.
What hell is going on?
Clenched his chilly hands together, YOSHIKI decided, no matter what happened, he must go back to the stadio right away, to find the truth by himself.
Reastarting the engine, holding the steering wheel, this time YOSHIKI found his way to stadio. But his body couldn't help trembling.
30 minutes later, the broad parking lot of stadio appeared. He opened the door, ran to the entrance and told stuff his arrival by transmitter.
The stuff opened the heavy gate to meet him.Gone through the winding hallway, he ran to his own office immediately.
Once sat down, he called the general agent of X JAPAN, a man who was in TOKYO in the meantime.
That moment was Japanese time 10 am of May 2nd.When he was dialing, YOSHIKI decided to figure out what the reality was by that call. After that call, he would relievedly go back to recording again.

The familar voice of that agent came into his ears, and it seemed to come from the next door.
"Just a moment ago, I got a message about HIDE. But I haven't figured out what really happened?"
"Oh…Actully, we have just got that sad news. In this morning, HIDE passed away." The agent calmly said.
Japanese time 7:30am,May 2nd, in his own apartment, HIDE who loss of consciousness was found by his lover, the girl who lived with him. HIDE just seated,with his head hanging to a door handle by a towel. After the discussion with the families, they decided to prepare for his funeral as soon as possible.The negotiation of how to inform and deal with the medias was proceeding.
"What..."YOSHIKI couldn't speak more words. HIDE's girlfriend is also YOSHIKI's friend for a long time.
HIDE was confirmed death at 8:52 in the morning. In the ambulance, his heartbeat had stopped. When he was sent to the hospital, it was unable to save the situation.
Informed by such a news,YOSHIKI kept silence,and the only words he could speak was" I will go back to Japan today."
Hang up the phone,YOSHIKI felt all his strength was pump out. He caught the black desk, then leaned back, sinking into the black leather chair, with desperately consideration.
Firstly,the recording man should get his call to cancel the work schedule. Maybe this calling job should be given to the stuff, while he should call Emmy.
"Please order the earliest Flight ticket to Narita Airport for me.
Eventually he would take the plane which would take off in next day (May 2nd,1am).
From the stadio back to his house,YOSHIKI sat in the sofa of the spacious living room for a whole night, unmoved. He was just in a trance, surprised by the sense of reality.
"HIDE's death is impossible."
Just a month ago,YOSHIKI talked with HIDE by the international call. YOSHIKI still remembered his hearty laughter.
"YOSHIKI,what's up?"
HIDE always speaks in his frank and funny voice.
"What are you doing recently?"
YOSHIKI, who producing music for YIKO, the daughter of KITANO BU,told that piece of music would be great.
"You seem to be more and more fantastic."
"It'll be so exciting."
YOSHIKI couldn't find anything abnormal, and they didn't talk anything important to each other.
"See you then." Then they hang up the phone.

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