Fake Fan Fiction / Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Cherry Bomb ❯ The Sad and Bitter Truth ( Chapter 6 )

Hello...A lot goes on here...I do hope to hear what you all think of this so far, I look forward to constructive criticism. A lot of this chapter is D's father's flashback...It does not follow the ending of the series, but I think you will find it interesting...

Cherry Bomb 6

Leon felt D tremble violently beside him as he stared in horror at his father. "I only ever met him once." D said in a weak voice that sounded nothing like his usual smooth tones. "he kissed my forehead and told me I was beautiful, he told me that you were my father, then he ran off and I never saw him again...I swear I didn't...I did not kill him...I would not kill my own brother."

"I never said you killed him." D's father ground out. King Zarro took hold of his arm as he took a step towards his distraught son. "I said it was your fault that he was dead."

"You go too far Count." Zarro reprimanded.

"I threw that name away as easily as I know throw away any relations to you..."D's father paused, trying to block out D's shocked and hurt look. Leon noted D's tense stance, the way he trembled and balled his hands into tight fists at his sides. Leon saw a drop of blood fall from where his nails had punctured his delicate skin.

"It's double edged isn't it?" A small voice asked. D's father turned to glare at Andy. "Every time you stab him, you doubly wound yourself. Why....Why do you persist if it hurts so much?" Andy reached to lay a trembling hand on D's father's robe; he snatched his arm back and shoved her away from him. Andy lost her balance and fell onto the marble floor. Leon moved to protest her treatment and left D standing rigid...before he could take another step he heard a feral hissing sound coming from behind him. The sound made the hair on the back of Leon's neck stand on end.

Leon froze and turned to seek out the pissed off animal only to be chilled by the sight of Nestoir, his hair seemed to stand on end, two abnormally long incisors showed through his sneer and his eyes had taken on a cat-like quality. The hiss turned into a growl. D's father's eyes widened and he clutched his middle. He opened his mouth to gasp and smoke came out as if he were burning from the inside.

"Nes...No..."Andy mumbled and stood to her feet. Leon moved to help her stand and was surprised when she moved to stand in front of D's father. "He hurts."

"He deserves it." Nestoir ground out. "I was there..." Nestoir turned to D. "Child...you are innocent of any wrongdoing. Your father..."

"It is not for you to tell him," Zarro interjected.

"Baby?" Leon grew worried as still D did not move or acknowledge anyone. Leon placed his hands on D's shoulders and shook him. D seemed to blink out of his daze and stare up at Leon. "You want to go home, forget this mess...?"

"If there was something in your family, would you not wish to know the truth?" D asked. Leon nodded and vowed to remain by his side, no matter what anyone else said.

D's father looked at Andy, he tried to fight the burning compassion he saw there and tears that incongruously fell...For him? "I do not wish an audience for the disclosure." He informed Zarro.

"My wife's salon will do, I must insist that I be present...you understand my worries." Zarro looked at D's father. "I do not trust you to not harm him."

"No worries your majesty, I'm not leaving his side." Leon said and wrapped his arm securely around D's waist. D's father said nothing and led the way to the Queen's salon. Inside were deep red curtains and wall hangings. There were no chairs only large pillows strewn about in an organized messy way. Fragrant flowers the like of which Leon had never seen stood in tall vases about the room. Leon turned and glanced around the large throne room and saw Nestoir pick his wife into his arms. He would never understand her mercurial moods. One moment she wanted to kill D's father and the next she looked like she wanted to hug him.

Zarro shut the door and stood away from the group keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings. "Sit child," D's father commanded. D arranged himself on one of the larger pillows. His father frowned when he realized that D had purposefully chosen one that would have enough room for Leon to sit beside him. Leon plopped down and pulled D's hands into his lap. Leon pressed his handkerchief into the deep gauges from his nails.

"A long time ago," D's father began. "I was very much like you." He said to D. "I took care of all creatures' great and small, including humans. I loved them, and I thought one loved me." D gasped, he thought his father hated humans...what could have happened... "I met him," D's father paused as one of Leon's brows shot up. "One day while I was out watching the stars. He seemed lost, so I directed him. He was not lost in the physical sense; it was more that his soul needed direction. He smiled at me and it was the most beautiful smile I had ever seen. Even D-San's mother could not compare and she was full Kami. She had lost her life while giving birth to D-San; I treasured him as I had once treasured her."

"The man proceeded to court me despite the fact that he already had a wife of his own. It was not uncommon by men of class to have a wife and male bed-partner if the need should be there. It took him two years before I would even allow him to kiss me. Another year before I allowed him into my bed. He said he treasured me all the more because I made him wait. He hurt me, and could not bear the sight of my tears. He spent weeks trying to atone for his brutishness. I had never known a man's touch and have not been so used since." D cringed from the bitterness that crept into his father's voice.

"I was fearful that his wife would hate me, for he proceeded to spend more time in bed with me, than he did with her... D-San teased me often, and yet he was happy, because I was happy. He had even dragged me away to introduce me to the girl he had hoped to take as his bride, he was afraid to introduce us because the girl was human, but in light of my own love..." D's father sighed, "she was a beauty, she was unrefined, and yet you could not doubt her love of my son...though she could be considered crude, I gave my blessing. She was a ninja, from a family who had long protected China."

"One afternoon, several years after I had been involved with my human, his wife came upon me in my garden. I thought surely she would harbor bitter feelings towards me, and yet it was to him that her ire fell. Why should he keep me all to himself? I felt I should placate her, since the night before he had left for a war, he had visited her true, but he left her bed and crawled into mine, it was my lips he kissed upon his departure. That was a mistake I have regretted ever since. As with her husband, once was not enough. Every night until his return she would visit me. I felt bad, but there was no turning her away."

"A month passed and when he came home he was greeted with the news of his wife's pregnancy. The time frame supported his departure. I thought all was well. He began to split his time more equally between us, but as her time of delivery grew near and her stomach grew ever rounder, he found himself more in my bed, than in hers. He was with me when the servant found him to alert him to his wife's impending delivery; he left my bed at once and was not seen for three days. It was a difficult labor."

"On that third day he startled me by slamming into my room. I stood to congratulate him on the birth of his child. He threw me to my bed and took me roughly I suspected that he was trying to hurt me...He did. He dragged me to his wife's room by my hair and threw me to the bed beside his deceased wife. The birthing had killed her. I was then pulled into his room and beaten severely. He left me on the floor and shoved..." D's father paused and looked up at D... "He shoved you into my arms." D's father could not bear the horrified look that covered D's face. Leon was in shock as he held D close he noted his unnatural stillness as he listened to his father continue his tale.

"He promised me, that as I had hurt and betrayed him, so he would hurt and betray me. In his bed, bound hand and foot was D-San. I could do nothing. He tied me to a chair, you lay at my feet and I could hear D-San scream as my lover raped him. I can still hear him crying for me to help him, to make the man stop hurting him. I do not remember much after that, I only remember waking up outside in the cold cradling you in my arms. D-San was no where to be found. My father found us and dressed my wounds; he took care of you because I was incapable of even looking at you." D sobbed silently beside Leon as his father continued.

"I searched every where for my son, or his corpse, either would have ended my madness. I found out that D-San was still inside my lover's house; every now and then the servants would hear him screaming. D-San was not the only Kami captured and kept there, after my betrayal, he hated our kind, he kept them and he...took them repeatedly, his own personal harem." D's father sighed. "My father came here to plead for the king's aid, even though he had ignored our plight."

"I never ignored your plight, I knew nothing of it." Zarro said. "I only heard of the Kami that were happily mixing with humans, not of the others...no one told me or you know I would have put an end to it. As I did as soon as it was brought to me." King Zarro glowered at D's father's accusations. "I defended you and your family, your son was returned to you within a day of my finding out what was happening, and the man you had taken as YOUR lover was killed on sight."

"Yes my son was returned to me, his body healed, but his mind never did." D's father said. D felt a pang of regret as he remembered the first and only time he had ever seen his brother. He had been in his grandfather's garden...He had found out that the man he thought was his father, was not...and then... D frowned as his memory grew fuzzy... He had kissed him...on the forehead...and told him he was beautiful...he would... D stood and placed a hand to his head as more memories flooded him...He would help him... D-San promised to make sure to protect him. Leon stood and followed D who looked paler than Leon had ever seen him.

"The real memories of that day are coming back, are they not?" D's father taunted as D's breathing increased in speed. "Your Grandfather insisted that we take them from you." D's father continued. Leon grew worried as D began to hyperventilate. His eyes dilated and he fell unconscious in a crumpled heap in Leon's arms.