Ai No Kusabi Fan Fiction ❯ Forever Caged ❯ Chapter 17 ( Chapter 17 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Ai No Kusabi nor do I make any money from this fanfic.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Iason/Riki, Raoul/Katze
Parts: 17 Of ?

 

~~**Forever Caged**~~

 

Luke squatted a few feet away from Guy watching as he worked, the ingredients to make a home made bomb spread out in front of him. The amount and weight of all the things Guy bought had made it impossible to carry all of it to the hatch after Guy found out what exactly he needed from Sky. They ended up splitting all that scary stuff till they could carry it the extra they didn't need on their backs and made repeated runs to hide it at “Home Base”. Now they were at the ruins of Dana Bahn and he was watching Guy fill plastic jugs half way full with rubbing alcohol.

 

Biting his thumb nail Luke kept a lookout for anyone that may be passing by, which was a long shot. No one dared to come near this cursed place and not just because Guy blew the place to shit but because it was a symbol of how Ceres got the way it was now, how they fell from Jupiter's good graces. Cracking his neck he spit the nail he had been chewing on and cleared his throat loudly. “Ahh…you doing this shit here…its not like some sick meditation or ritual is it?”

 

“What the hell are you going on about?”

 

“Well you're making a bomb and you're at the site of the place you blew Riki and his Blondie up.”

 

“Dumb shit the reason why I choose this place is because hardly anyone ever comes down here, same reason why I picked this place the first time and don't refer that fucker as “Riki's Blondie.”

 

But that's what he is Luke thought. “Why couldn't we find another place to do this?”

 

“Were you not listening to me? Holy shit would you please stop asking me stupid questions.”

 

Luke glared at guy's back and took to throwing rocks to pass the time.

 

“Could you please stop fucking throwing shit? You'll draw attention to us.” Guy said throwing an empty bottle at Luke's head.

 

Dodging easily Luke pointed to the rubbing alcohol bottle that made loud clunking sounds as it hit the twisted metals and concrete behind him. “Thought you said no one comes down here and not to throw shit?”

 

Guy put the funnel he was using to pour the rubbing alcohol through and shook his head. “I said no one hardly comes here not no one comes here. Two fucking different things aren't they?”

 

Calling Guy and asshole under his breath Luke sighed in boredom and swatted away a mosquito that buzzed around his ear. Clucking his tongue he looked at the burnt ruins around him before loosing interest and turning back to watch Guy. “Soo…what you do'n?”

 

“What does it look like?”

 

Luke rolled his eyes. “I can see what your doing but why are you doing it? Why don't you just buy a real bomb? Why mess with this shit?”

 

“What the fuck is with all the whys?”

 

“Cut me some slack will you? I don't wanna be sitting in the dark with alright? I wanna know what's going on, what the plan is.”

 

“Fine. Real bombs cost money, a lot of money. But that was in the past. Now days it's impossible to just walk up to your local shady dealer and buy it. Not even that prick I shanked could get his hands on one and he worked in the Black Market.” Guy laughed humorlessly. “Seems like that fucking Blondie has made sure no one without a valid reason, that reason being if you're a contractor that needs explosives for a job site or your in the military, they are the only ones that can buy them. You can't even buy parts that might contribute to building one. Anyone that does are immediately tagged and hunted down.”

 

“Shit…how do you know this?”

 

“I did my home work.”

 

“What about that shit?”

 

“That's reason why I went searching to see if the rumors of Sky's return were true. I knew that is anything he would know how to make something without getting flagged.”

 

Luke kept quiet for a few minutes thinking. “Your not thinking to do to Eos what you've done here are you?”

 

“Moron. This shit can't really do much but make a hell of a loud bang. Granted that's what Sky told me but hopefully the large quantity I'm using will cause some damage.”

 

Confused Luke scratched his head. “If it won't do any damage then why do it?”

 

“It might not do any damage and its all about the distraction.”

 

“Okay…so how will you set it off?”

 

“I wont me setting it off you will.”

 

Luke laughed nervously. “Stop jerk'n my chain man.”

 

“You and I will be putting these in four locations, close to one another, and at a certain time you'll take these.” Guy held up one of the fat vials of yellow liquid off the dirt floor. “And pour them into these jugs.”

 

“No way man. I don't wanna be anywhere near that shit. What if they suddenly go off while I'm doing it?”

 

“That's why I'm using this instead of the chloride. This yellow shit when mixed with the alcohol will turn a bright red. It's not instantaneous so you'll have more then enough time to get all four and get gone before they go off.”

 

“That's it?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Nothing else?” Luke asked in disbelief. He had thought his part would be more then just this.

 

“Nothing else.”

 

Happy that all he had to do was pour some piss looking shit in those large plastic containers, Luke ignored Guy's high and mighty attitude and lay back on the flat concrete behind him, putting his arms behind his head content now to just watching the clouds roll by.

 

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Guy smiled to himself as he poured the last of the rubbing alcohol he planned to use into the last jug. Smiling at Luke's stupidity and as the more time that pasted the larger Guy's smile became. The fool lay there happy as a clam not thinking that the task he gave him would land him in a cold dark cell. A bomb was a bomb no matter what is used to make it. Luke setting off the bombs would be his fall guy, the one that they would be throwing in a dark cell and beating the shit out of while he sneaked into Eos to get Riki.

 

The fact that he was selling out his friend this way didn't faze him in the slightest. Loyalty and brotherhood meant jack shit to him, he stopped caring about such things a long time ago.

 

The past and all the memories of Luke and the gang were gone, dead. Nothing mattered to him other then getting to Riki. It ate at him every day that Riki was chained to that Blondie. Chained to his side…to his bed.

 

That day when he thought he had killed Riki, and that fucker of a lover of his, he had mourned. Mourned the loss of Riki and it killed a part of him. That scary ass, redheaded, scar face Katze had told him that Riki loved that Blondie and for a while he beat himself up with guilt with what he did to them. But that guilt faded and in its place anger and hate grew. Anger at him self because he hadn't tried hard enough to break the hold of slavery from Riki's mind. Hatred to the Blondie for brain washing Riki into thinking that he loved him.

 

He had been told that Riki walked back into the compound as it burned. Walk back to die with the Blondie that supposedly saved his life but he couldn't believe it. If anything it was Riki that saved him that dragged his ass out of that place and he was going to repay his love by doing the same. He was would do all he could to remove the taint, the shackles the Blondie placed in Riki's mind. He'd free him and then they would be free to be together again.

 

He wasn't losing his mind like Luke and everyone thinks. For the first time in his life his thoughts were clearer then they had ever felt before. From the moment he found out Riki was alive he knew that he had been given a second chance to get Riki back, to hold him just like he had in the past and no matter what he had to do, no matter who he had to cut down he would make it happen.

 

“Tomorrow will be an explosive day.”

 

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Riki sighed and put his feet up on the table top, nursing a bottle of beer. Today wasn't ending fast enough for him. He'd seen Jade this after noon…Kid looked bad. Sickly pale and jumpy but would tell him what spooked him to get him like that. Only that he would be needing to leave this place soon, that his services as a pet was coming to a close but he didn't think he would be sold to a harem. He would need to find a way to escape Eos first and then have Katze help him after that.

 

The only plus side was his puppet had some info on a strange Mongrel seen leaving Midas from the direction of Eos towards Ceres the night of the party. It wasn't much but it was soothing. Eos was the one place no Mongrel would go near. The possibility of getting caught was too high so they had always stayed clear of the place.

 

Sadly whatever magic Jade did to the waiter he couldn't do it again, not the same way, not without Lilly it seemed. Lilly, Jade said, most likely would not be making an appearance for a while because of the commotion he supposedly caused at the party. Riki still didn't know what Lilly did and Jade wasn't saying anything. What he did know without a margin of doubt was that Lilly's Blondie, Mikhale Tain, did know what he could so, his reaction that night said it all but why he was hiding it as well was also still a mystery.

 

Riki tapped the long neck of his beer bottle with his finger nail. It had been five days since he'd seen Luke and in that time Iason and Katze has been slowly pissing him off to the point that he was about to attach them. Iason is treating him like he's glass, like he was some cancer patient about to die and Katze, that fucker, has been looking at him like he was about to sprout another head. The only person that hasn't been treating him any different was Raoul.

 

Katze had been coming over with his Blondie the past three nights leaving him to entertain, aka ignore each other, while they both wait while Iason and Katze take off to have a chat in Iason's office. He couldn't stop the feeling that Iason and Katze's “work” had something to do with him. He had heard nothing that might suggest that it was true only their strange behavior. He thought about stirring up trouble by telling Raoul that Katze was talking about him but nixed that idea since it required him to talk to the fucker. The most he and Raoul could do was nod to each other in greeting and that was an improvement then just ignoring one another like they normally did.

 

They actually were more civil to one another then before ever since Dana Bahn but even with this new found truce between them they could still only tolerate each others presence but he was bored irritated as hell and the only entertainment available to him was sitting right across from him.

 

Bringing the bottle to his lips Riki looked at the Blondie who arrogantly stared back at him. Riki gave a mental shrug and smiled at Raoul causing the Blondie to stiffen and narrow his emerald eyes suspiciously at him.

 

Riki chuckled, Iason and Katze should have realized that sooner or later he wouldn't be able to resist needling the Blondie so the little mischief he was about to do was their fault really. And what he was about to do might also get him some information if he did it just right.

 

“So Raoul…I hear you and Katze have been going at “it” every day.” Riki said wiggling his brows.

 

Raoul hisses, the wine glass he held creaked in protest. “It never occurred to me that Iason would speak to you about my private life.”

 

Riki didn't correct Raoul that it was in fact he that told Iason not the other way around and he doubted that if Raoul confronted Iason that Iason would tell him he told him. Iason wouldn't want Raoul to know that he had heard such big news from him and not from his many spies he just continued to smile at the angry Blondie. “Soo…have you tried using food in you and Katze's bad play?”

 

“That is none of your bus-“

 

Riki inwardly laughed evilly, ohh Katze was going to love him for this when the Blondie cut him self off and a look of barely concealed interest popped up on his face.

 

“Food?”

 

Riki took his feet off the table and leaned forward. “Ya like deserts. A little bit of cream and chocolate can make for an interesting night.”

 

Raoul was silent for a long time. “I can't believe I'm having this conversation with you.” He mumbled.

 

“Hey it looks like we'll be here by ourselves for a while and no offence but from what I know what you do if we were to talk about that it would be the shortest conversation in history. Besides Iason wants me and you to be friendly what better way then talking?” He wasn't lying about that. Iason did want the animosity between them to end between his lover and the only one he could call a true friend and he was happy to oblige. “I tell you what. You can ask me anything you want and I'll answer it truthfully as I can. This goes both ways. If a question is more then you can answer then you can pass on answering it but you only get three passes. If you use all three you'll have to pick one of the two penalties I give you.”

 

Intrigued by this new game the uncomfortable feeling Raoul felt faded rapidly. “And these passes do you get more?”

 

“Nope. Three passes is all you get after that if you don't want to answer a question you take a penalty.”

 

“And if I don't want to take any of the penalties that are presented to me?”

 

“They wouldn't call them penalties or dares if someone wanted to do them. If you don't take the dare then you lose and I win.” Riki grinned wickedly at Raoul. One thing a Blondie hated was losing. “We got a deal?”

 

“What's the purpose of playing this game?”

 

“To get to know one another?” Riki laughed at Raoul's disbelieving look. “Ok and maybe to also see the other act like a fool when they lose.”

 

“This game might prove to pass the time much more quickly so yes we do.”

 

Putting his bottle down Riki rubbed his hands together then thought of something. “This game is between me and you only and not to be mentioned to Katze or Iason.”

 

“And why is that?”

 

“Its part of the game and also a little payback for keeping us in the dark of what they have been discussing for the past three days. Don't try and make like you know what's going on behind those closed doors either.”

 

“And?”

 

“And also to get back at one another for all the shit we've given each other though out the years. Iason does want me to be on friendly terms with you.”

 

Raoul nodded his head. He also did not want to fight with the Mongrel any longer but the past did get in the way of doing that. So many years of essentially spitting on his existence had become an obstacle that he, they, couldn't get over. He no longer felt the same ill will towards Riki so maybe humoring him in this game would clear the air. Allow them to be…accepting towards one another. “We are in agreement then.”

 

“Awesome. Now its one question per turn. Blondie's first.”

 

The question Riki posed that started this whole thing came back to Raoul and the words almost rushed out of his mouth. “Have you and Iason had sex the way you described? The one with food?”

 

Riki snickered, ya he knew the Blondie was going to ask this. “Depending what's on the dinner table we have on numerous nights. Hell Iason has also used me as his dinner plate.” Willing or unwilling Riki silently added but now days it was all willing. “Are you planning on using Katze then throwing him over to the side once your curiosity is over?”

 

“Absolutely not.”

 

“Care to say more then that? I gave you a better then answer.”

 

“…What I feel towards Katze is more then just mere curiosity. If that was the case I could have broken the law many years ago and done so. With Katze its…different that's all I can say. I don't plan on “throwing him over to the side” ever. He is mine and that is all there is to it.”

 

“Don't get upset just looking out for my boy that's all.”

 

Still a little miffed Raoul now thought of ways to get the Mongrel to use his question passes. “What are your feelings toward Iason?”

 

“I love the controlling bastard.” Riki grinned.

 

“Short answer.”

 

“Does it have to be long? I love him that's all there is to it even with all his faults and yes he has many no matter how perfect he is.”

 

Raoul `hmph' at that and waited for his question.

 

“Elites can't have sex but Iason and now you have swum in forbidden waters. Technically you were both virgins but if you're anything like Iason, and I don't want details, but if you are then when you slept with Katze I bet you were down right an expert and knew what to do to get it feeling damn good. How do you know how to do it and so skillfully if you've never done it before?”

 

Raoul was taken a little back by this one. Furrowing his brows he answered as honestly as he could. “I don't know.”

 

“Bullshit!”

 

Raoul chuckled. “I don't. When the time came the knowledge was just there.”

 

“Downloaded in your brain like I thought.” Riki mumbled.

 

“What do you think of your current sate now?”

 

“I hate it and I don't hate it. I hate that I'm a pet and imprisoned here but I don't hate it because Iason is here.”

 

“Resilient little creature aren't you?”

 

 

“You already had your question.” Riki then grinned. The object was to get the other to not answer and he got a good one. “How did feel burying your self deep inside Katze? What sexy little moans did he make?”

 

“That is none of your business!”

 

“So you refuse to answer?”

 

“Of course I refuse!”

 

“Lovely.” Riki purred.

 

To late Raoul realized what he did.

 

“So here are your options. You can run down the hall naked.”

 

“No.”

 

“Ok then when Iason comes out you have to tell him he has pretty hair and eyes.”

 

Raoul considered what it would be like to run down the hallway but he couldn't do it. “Option two.”

 

Riki howled in laughter, clapping his hands. “The game is starting to get good.”

 

“Have you no shame?”

 

Wiping a tear from his eye Riki grinned. “The object of the game is to get the other party to use their passes and gain control over them by forcing them to do what they want.”

 

“Fine…What did Guy do to you when he took you?”

 

“Pass.” He wasn't about to tell this Blondie that he got unmanned.

 

“This game is getting good like you said.”

 

“Ya, ya hot stuff just spit out what you want.”

 

Telling the Mongrel to run in the nude down the hall like he told him wouldn't work…mostly because he might do it. “Tell Iason you love him in front of me and Katze or kiss another pet in front of Iason.”

 

“Those aren't options! You've only given me one thing to pick!”

 

“Take it or leave it.”

 

“Fine! I'll tell him.”

 

Raoul saluted Riki with his glass.

 

“If I wanted to escape what would be the best way to do that?”

 

“There is no escape.”

 

“So you're refusing to answer the question?”

 

“I gave you my answer.”

 

“No you didn't. There is a way to exit this place besides the front door. What I want to know is where those exits are.” Riki didn't want to escape he just needed to know for Jade.

 

“Then I pass.” Raoul began to wonder if humoring the Mongrel by playing this game and not telling Iason about it was a wise decision.

 

“Then you have to say “Riki is the greatest person in the whole world” or get on the table and dance topless.”

 

“I'll take the declaration.” Raoul narrowed his eyes. “What is that clever mind of yours planning? Why the sudden need to know how to get out?”

 

“What if there is a fire or something? Knowing how where your exit points are is the best way to stay alive, being prepared and all that.”

 

“All answers must be truthful remember.”

 

“That's assuming that I'm not answering truthfully.”

 

“And I say that your not, not unless you want Iason to know of this.”

 

Riki glared at Raoul for a second before relaxing and grabbing his beer taking along swallow. “What are my options?”

 

“Ask Iason the same question you asked me or bow respectfully to me and call me Sir Am not Raoul.”

 

Riki whistled. “Can I get a third?”

 

“Pick one.”

 

“Second one.” Riki thought hard and just when he was about to open his mouth they heard Katze and Iason return. Raoul and he exchanged looks. “Blondie's first.” Riki grinned, standing when Raoul stood and followed as they met their lovers in the middle.

 

“Iason thank you for your hospitality but it is late and I would like to turn in. It was nice to see you and I have to say that you have very pretty hair and eyes.” With that Raoul grabbed Katze by the shoulder and kissed him long and hard, holding the redheads struggling body in his arms while his were trapped between them. Releasing Katze Raoul kept an arm around his glaring pet's waist and looked down with a smug expression at Riki, raising his brow and waited.

 

Grimacing Riki turned to Raoul and bowed. “Thank you for coming to our home Sir Am I hope you enjoyed yourself.”

 

“Riki?” Iason looked between his friend and Riki.

 

Riki straightened up and looked Iason dead in the eyes. “I love you Iason.”

 

“What the hell have the both of you guys been doing while Iason and I were talking?” Katze asked his face flushed with embarrassment.

 

“Nothing much.” Raoul steered Katze towards the front door but stopped when Riki let out a loud cough. Narrowing his eyes he sighed. “Riki is the greatest person in the whole world.”

 

Grinning Riki's black eyes shined with wicked amusement. “Why Raoul I didn't know you cared so much.” Then mouth the words “I win.”

 

Curling his lip Raoul pulled Katze behind him and marched in the direction to the front door.

 

Iason pulled Riki to him and lifted his chin up to meet his eyes. “What have you been doing?”

 

“Nothing. Raoul and I had a fun time while waiting for you and Katze to finish doing what ever it was you were doing.” Riki pulled his chin out of Iason's grasp.

 

Iason searched Riki's black eyes then sighed. “Tomorrow I'll be gone until late. Katze and I will be going to the Black Market to personally review what has been going on while he was away. Although I have been up to date with everything there are some things that can only to be taken care of there. Don't get into trouble. No one will be able to contact me for a few hours while I'm there.”

 

Riki rolled his eyes and grunted as Iason squeezed him tightly. “What could possibly happen tomorrow?”

 

 

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Jupiter went over the latest report and request to terminate the experiment named Jade. The only successful birth they were able to create from Riki's DNA, it was just one of the reasons why she held off any actions of killing him. Just because it seemed like he was a failure didn't mean anything.

 

Long ago when the war was still new Riki's people had evolved to the point that they could hide themselves from discovery from her Elites by hiding that extra chromosome so they could disappear into the crowds of normal humans.

 

It was only when the humans around them started to change that their locations were discovered. The possibility that this child wasn't doing the same thing instinctively, that he wasn't special in any way was hard to believe.

 

The first four fetuses they created were females. Fetuses that she had terminated once she found out about them. The specimen that they took from Riki had an unnatural high amount of X chromosomes, so high that it took a year before they had enough Y chromosomes to begin a true experiment on creating a male child.

 

Only males could be born. Females of Riki's species were a danger that she could not afford to bring into creation. The males were enough of a hardship to deal with. Fast, feral and unbelievably clever the females were the main protectors able to control another's will with only their voice alone. Their roll had only, at first, been to protect their young and control their males from fighting amongst themselves but as the war raged their talent had evolved, had changed giving them the ability to control every living thing. The only ones safe were the two species they were allied with.

 

It was also lucky that the third races DNA sample had been stolen twenty-five years ago. The females of that race together with Riki's would be unstoppable. Controlling them might even have proven impossible even as advanced as she and her elites have become now from back then.

 

Alasozians were similar to the males of Riki's race though less wild but their females were more dangerous more so then Riki's race of females. A voice controller around their mouths could stop a female from Riki's race but a female Alasozi didn't need to speak to control another. They emitted special scents from their body scents that could make anyone do what they wanted. Hate, anger, love, lust, fear, just one female without a dominate partner controlling her could cause more havoc then a female from Riki.

 

Alasozians just like Katze's people the Ura'zenians had been infected by Riki's people successfully. Benefiting and gaining the strengths of his kind, strengths that she needed for her children.

 

Tomorrow she would be going to pick a new lead scientist. It was not what she wanted to do but something that must be done. She would be cut off for a substantial amount of time from Jupiter Tower and Eos. To keep the lab from discovery she made sure she had no connections to it, no links to be traced back to her. So to go there she would need to withdraw from every where and use all her power to go down into the abyss.

 

The fluttering of something passed through her the same feeling she got when Dana Bahn lite the sky with its radiant flames. Unease. A forecasting of disaster maybe? Or just the unease of stepping back, of leaving her children, even for a few hours if that, all by them selves for the first time in four hundred years. Her children were more then capable of taking over without her supervision. It would only be a few hours she would be completely cut off from them tomorrow. Only a few hours.

 

TBC… ^( `.' )^