Kingdom Hearts Fan Fiction ❯ Dirge ❯ Sick ( Chapter 18 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

: Dirge

Pairing: CloudXRiku!

Rating: M

Warnings: Yaoi , and violence, and bad language, lots of language.

Music: L`Arc~en~Ciel - Driver’s High

Prompt: Sin

A/N: I REDID THIS CHAPTER, SO IF YOU THINK YOU’VE ALREADY READ IT, YOU HAVN’T READ ALL OF IT! PLEASE KEEP READING TO GET THE WHOLE THING!

The group made it to the East side in one piece and without any problems. Sora complained about Cloud accompanying them at first, but he stopped after the first few minutes, after all, it’s not like he could chase Cloud off by complaining about him.

Instead of getting off on the roof they had jumped off before, Sora led them to a different building, a taller one. Centered in the middle of the roof was a cement staircase leading down into the building and on the opening was a metal door that could be shut and locked from the inside. It was a strange structure for anyone to have on the Outside, and Riku figured the owner of the building had to be rich, much like Namine`.

“Where are we?” Riku asked as they approached the staircase. Cloud only smiled at him.

“You haven’t been to a House yet have you?”

“A House?” Riku’s eyes widened in surprise and he took a step back from the building’s entrance. “I’m not going in there.”

“Oh come on Riku!” Sora piped up. “It’s not as if it’s going to kill you.”

“The Houses are the main form of entertainment out here, you’re gong to have to enter one sooner or later.” Cloud continued as he grabbed Riku’s hand and began forcing the teen down the steps. After a few awkward moments of almost falling, Riku gave up and let himself be swept into the House.

The inside of the building smelled, no, reeked of sex and cheap perfume. 20 or so people were stuffed into the confined space of the common room, where the stairs led down to. At the base of the steps was a table where a young man in a long black coat was sitting in a chair, half-asleep. Cloud walked over to the man and thumped his hand on the table, causing the dozing youth to jump awake and fall on his ass.

“C-can I help you?” he yelped as he picked himself off the floor, straightening when he noted the three people in front of him.

“We want in.” Cloud responded, jerking his thumb in the direction of the two boys behind him, the young man behind the counter only nodded.

“5 coppers each admittance fee.”

“We won’t be long, I’m just here to see one person.” Sora interrupted as he squeezed his way past Cloud.

“Doesn’t matter, if you have any business in the House, it’s five coppers.”

“But-”

“Five coppers.”

Riku walked forward and placed a small coin on the table, pushing it toward the young man. “One silver piece that you can keep, and we all get in for a few minutes to take care of business. Then we get out and no one’s the wiser.”

The young man’s eyes seemed to grow larger than dinner plates at the gleam of the coin on the table. He didn’t want to take it, if he was caught it could cost him all his money, and possibly his life, but then again a silver was worth a week’s worth of work, and they were only going in for a few minutes…

“Deal.” he replied, snatching the coin away quickly before anyone else could see. “But make it quick.”

Riku Cloud and Sora all walked past into the main room of the building. Nearly 10 men were sitting around, either at small tables or wooden benches, and most had a boy or girl partner of varying ages on their laps or engaging in sexual behavior. A few were just talking, while others were on the verge of having sex right there in the middle of the room. Riku found the scene repulsive as well as a little erotic. The House employees were almost all exceptionally good-looking, if a little dirty. Most of the patrons were not.

Sora abandoned the group to walk down another flight of steps. At the bottom he grabbed the arm of a man in his early 20’s, talking to him in a hushed voice. Riku hadn’t noticed the absence of his friend, as he was too busy gawking at a pair of girls who were making out, he couldn’t tell which was the customer and which the servant, but the scene was exotic and arousing to him nonetheless.

“I’m going to go check on Sora.” Cloud said. Riku didn’t hear him, but waved him off anyways, he was too entranced by the scene before him. Cloud took the gesture as a sign of acknowledgement, and proceeded to head down the stairs to talk with Sora.

As Cloud neared he caught pieces of Sora’s argument with the older man. “What do you mean she’s with a client? She’s pregnant!”

“I’m sorry Sora, but that’s where she is, and you know the rules, no one can disturb someone who’s with a client.”

“Who’s the client Marluxia?”

“Um…” the older am bit his lip and shook his head. “I uh…am not at liberty to say?”

“Tell me…”

“You aren’t going to like this….”

“Who is it?”

“Um……Ti-” A crash interrupted Marluxia’s words, causing both Cloud and Sora to look up to the second floor. One of the tables had been knocked over, and near it, pinned against the wall, was Riku.

An old, bald, ugly man had the younger boy pinned to the wall with one hand on the silver-haired teen’s crotch. Riku looked pissed as hell and tried to struggle against the older man, but the older man had an advantage in size and strength, not to mention he was squeezing Riku’s crotch rather hard. Riku could smell the alchohol on his breath as he whispered: “Come on….I’ll pay you good…”

“Let go of me!” Riku choked, fighting the terror and bile rising in his throat.

Cloud was there in a flash, his hand on Riku’s attacker’s wrist. He squeezed hard, pressing the right pressure points to make the man’s hand open and release Riku. Before the bald man could yelp, Cloud had his hand secured behind his back and a knife to the man’s throat. “Touch him again and I’ll kill you.”

“Hey…what….what are you doing? Let me go!”

“Cloud! What the fuck are you doing? Let go of him!” Marluxia bounded up the stairs behind the blonde and grabbed his arm, as if he could restrain Cloud so easily. Cloud responded with a sharp glare.

“Come on Cloud…just let him go. I’ll kick him out now, just, don’t kill him ok?”

By this time the entire room was watching the scene before them. Cloud had a murderous glint in his eye, with a knife to the man’s throat. The man was shaking, scared into sobriety by Cloud’s actions, and, behind it all, sat Riku, who was huddled up, his arms around his legs, shivering at the thought of being touched in such a way. It had felt so…wrong.

“Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill you.” Cloud hissed in the bald man’s ear, causing his eyes to roll up in terror.

“No…don’t…kill me….I’m…I’m an Insider! I can prove it! You kill me, and I’ll have the entire security force in here to kill you and your little pet off!”

Cloud hesitated. He hadn’t expected anything like that, and though he normally wouldn’t have hesitated to ignore the plea, something struck home in him. It, for some odd reason, reminded him of Riku.

Cloud dropped the man and shoved his knife into his pocket. As he turned to help Riku up, he caught a glimmer out of the corner of his eye. The glimmer of a drawn weapon. He glanced up, expecting to see the bald man with a knife or some such thing, but was surprised to see Tidus standing there, his sword drawn.

“What are you doing in my territory Cloud?” he growled.

“I could ask you the same question Tidus, seeing as how this is part of my territory.”

“Excuse me?” the boy laughed. “I don’t think so. I thought I taught you bitches that when you got your asses kicked last time.”

“You lost that match!” Sora growled. “Riku won! You just turned around and shot at us like a coward an-” Sora was cut off by a warning growl from Tidus.

“Get out.”

“I don’t think so, not until we finish our business.” Cloud turned away from Tidus, the ultimate insult in terms of fighting, it was as if he was telling Tidus he wasn’t a threat, and squatted down by Riku. “You ok?” he asked quietly. Riku shook his head.

“He kissed me, and…he touched me… I….I feel sick…”

“Hey! Asshole! Face me!” Tidus’s voice seemed to fade in the background as Cloud focused on Riku’s fragile form. All he seemed to care about was easing the revoltion that was spreading through the youth’s body.

Cloud reached out a hand and set it on Riku’s head, gently rubbing the silver hair. “It’s okay Riku.”

“No!” Riku growled, jerking his head away from Cloud’s touch. “It’s not ok, I…I feel sick….”

A shadow and a yelp from Sora alerted Cloud to Tidus moving right behind him. He whirled to find the younger man jumping at him, ready to slash with his sword. In one smooth move, Cloud dodged the attack and slammed Tidus in the spine, knocking him to the ground with a dull thud. Before the younger blonde could move, Cloud was on him, kicking the weapon away and pulling the boy up by his collar.

“Get the hell out before I get mad.” Cloud growled. Marluxia slinked his way over to Cloud and gently put his hand on the blonde’s arm.

“Let him go Cloud.” Marluxia ordered softly.

“Why should I?” the blonde replied, venom dripping from every word. “I’ll kill him.”

“You wouldn’t dare.” Tidus spat.

“Wouldn’t I?”

“Just let him go Cloud…I want to go home…” Riku stood slowly, edging his way toward the older man hesitantly. Cloud cast him a asking glance.

“I’m going to settle this-”

“Please Cloud?”

The look in Riku’s eyes was enough to win the older man over. Frowning, he dropped Tidus to the ground and pinned him to the floor with his foot. “Come anywhere near me or my boys again and I’ll gouge out your eyes and shove ‘em down your throat, you got that?”

“Running away?” Tidus squeaked as Cloud’s shoe pushed harder on his ribcage.

“Not a chance,” and with that, Cloud turned away, wrapping his arm around Riku’s waist and nodding for Sora to follow.

“Should we just leave him in there?” Sora questioned as they reached the top of the building. He was nervously rubbing his hand through his hair and looking in all directions, as if expecting to be attacked.

“He won’t hurt us, I’ll deal with him. Sora, from now on, you can’t come down here, and neither can anyone else. I’m pulling everyone out of the East side.” Cloud pulled Riku a little closer to him, letting their bodies touch for a moment, then slid his hand to the teen’s back. “I’m not going to have another gang war on our hands.”

“But-”

“No buts. Zack made the mistake of trying to control the whole Outside, I’m not going to do that, I want as few people killed as possible. You stay away from here, I don’t care what your reasons are.”

Sora looked to Riku pleadingly, as if asking for some kind of backup in the argument, but Riku only shook his head slightly and averted his gaze. “Aren’t you going to say anything?” Sora demanded.

“I just want to go home.” Riku whispered back, pressing closer against Cloud, his protection.

Tears welled up in Sora’s eyes and he backed up away from the two people in front of him. “You ass! I thought you were my friend!”

“But Sor-”

“Shut up!” Sora rubbed the tears from his eyes angrily and bolted out across the roof-planks in the direction of home, leaving Cloud and Riku standing alone on the House roof.

“Don’t take what he say’s literally…” Cloud said softly, gently patting Riku’s head with his free hand. “He’s just upset…”

“I don’t care.” Riku replied as he laid his hands on the one Cloud had placed around him. “I just want to go home. We never should have come out here.”

“You’re mad about…”

“No. You saved me, I’m glad. I just….well, I’ve never been attacked like that before. I’m just a little…”

“Shocked?”

“I guess.”

“He didn’t hurt you did he?…”

“No…”

“GoodR 30;”

“Cloud?”

“Hmm?”
“This…is all going to turn out ok right?. Sora will calm down, the gang will stay together, you’ll be able to keep me….right?”

“Everything will be fi-”

“Don’t say it. When you say it bad things happen, just….just say yes…”

Cloud hesitated a moment, staring down at the boy who seemed so strong at times, yet so fragile at others. He was a strange young man, and he caused so many mixed emotions. Cloud couldn’t help but notice how different he seemed now from when they’d first met. His aqua eyes didn’t seem so innocent, his skin not quite so smooth. When he’d come, he’d been like a china doll, but now, he’d been sandblasted by the dirt streets of the Outside, but that didn’t make him seem any less precious. Like a buried treasure.

Suddenly, Cloud felt like taking a risk, felt like he wanted, no, needed to be closer to this strange boy who had stirred up old emotions.

Cloud grabbed onto Riku’s shirt and pulled the younger man close, so that he was pressed against his chest. “Yes…” he said, hugging Riku as close to him as he could. “Yes, I promise. I won’t let anything bad happen, I won’t let anyone go. Alright? Anyone.”

Riku grabbed at the fabric of Cloud’s shirt, bunching it up in his clenched hands. Dimly he was aware of tears streaming form his eyes and landing on the dirt-streaked shirt, staining the grains and turning them dark.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered, and though Cloud didn’t know why, he didn’t question. He just held him tighter.

“I’m sorry too.”

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Revised chapter, I’m in a better mood. So ….yea…..
No more slitting people’s throats!
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