Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Twilight Sky ❯ Get Out! ( Chapter 3 )

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Twilight Sky



Chapter 3
Get Out!




Sh'ten-





'Damn! Why does that bag of hot air only calls when I'm in the middle of something important?'
Sh'ten was sulking as he stomped down the hallway of his palace home. His footsteps echoed
loudly as he walked with his arms crossed over his chest in an almost childish pout. 'Some stupid
war, AGAIN! We always win, why bother worrying about it? As if that's at all important when
compared to Anubis!'

Sh'ten paused and searched for Anubis in his mind, only to find that Anubis had gone to the
Ningen Sekai to look for food. In the mind's eye that Sh'ten and his three brothers shared he
could see and through Anubis' eyes.

The sensation was natural now, but Sh'ten could still remember when it had frightened him
terribly. He'd worked hard his whole life to hide his...er...sadistic tendencies from the world and
suddenly there were three people that he could hide nothing from. He had been young enough
that he wasn't able to control his mind properly, like the older ones could. They had instantly
known everything about him and, the really scary part was that they didn't hate him.

"Hate you?" Rajura had asked, puzzled, when Sh'ten had questioned him about why none of
them had reacted badly when they found out about the things he liked to do. "Why would we
hate you? Just because you get your thrills in a slightly different vein than the rest of us doesn't
mean a thing." Rajura shrugged Sh'ten question away. "Go back to bed, child. You're worrying
about nothing."

Sh'ten shook his head to get himself away from that memory, one of his first in this world. 'How
strange.' He thought with a thin smile. 'It's still hard to believe they actually like me. I never
thought anyone would really like me if they knew me.' He felt that he owed his brothers a lot for
that friendship and Sh'ten was perfectly willing to repay it anyway they wanted.

Anubis' mind's eye was foggy, showing that he wasn't thinking entirely straight. It was like
looking though a spy-glass that was foggy around the edges and there was a boy that Anubis was
focused on, small and thin; the boy was waif-like in appearance. Well, he would have been waif-
like in appearance had it not been for the fact that he was obviously trying to look as seductive as
a fifteen-year-old boy can look.
YUM. Sh'ten heard the echo of the thought that drifted though Anubis' mind while he watched
the boy from a distance. HE LOOKS LOVELY.

'Oh, double damn!' Sh'ten felt like crying. Anubis would fill up on mortal blood and then sink
into a happy little sleep, leaving nothing at all for Sh'ten. Sh'ten sniffed and brought his mind
away from Anubis and his current hunt. 'It's just not fair! And I got all worked up, too!'

Sh'ten slammed the door of his chambers open. 'He could have at least taken me along to play!
He never lets me have any fun. Just because I'm the 'baby' of the family doesn't mean he can treat
me like one! Damnit! I'm the general!' slumped down at his desk and glared at his blank papers
for a minute before he whined, 'I wanted to play with the yummy little boy, too. It's not fair.'






Not even a half an hour later when Sh'ten felt a flare of pleasure/pain from Anubis. Sh'ten, now
in his bedchambers and sitting at his desk, shot to his feet when he was to late to block the
unexpected sensations flowing though not only his mind, but his whole body. Like a raging river
of flames burning every nerve in his body, Sh'ten stiffened and was completely helpless.

Sh'ten could feel Rajura and Naaza's rude awakening and knew that they were laying in bed,
prone and frozen, due to Anubis' harsh reaction to...whatever had upset him so much. They both
quickly shut their minds to Anubis. Whatever it was had been enough to shock Anubis into
forgetting to shield his mind.

'Oh, please,' Sh'ten clenched his teeth and felt his eyes starting to water. But the sensation was so
excruciating, so mind bending, so horrible that Sh'ten prayed, 'Don't let it stop!' He'd never even
touched so beautiful pain as this and deliberately left his mind completely open to what Anubis
was experiencing.

Suddenly, the sensation vanished and Sh'ten doubled over, falling to his knees. Panting heavily,
Sh'ten blinked the tears out of his eyes to find Anubis laying in front of him, curled up in the
fetal position. Anubis was shaking slightly, and didn't respond to any of Sh'ten's gentle mental
probes.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?! Rajura demanded. He was shaken by whatever
had just affected all of them and wasn't at all happy. SH'TEN DID YOU DO SOMETHING TO
ANUBIS?

I DIDN'T TOUCH HIM. Sh'ten defended himself as he made his way to Anubis. Now that
Anubis had remembered to shield himself, Sh'ten could feel nothing from his brother. HE WAS
IN THE NINEN SEKAI AND ONLY JUST APPEARED. HE LOOKS UNINJURED, BUT
SOMETHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED.

As he was thinking about this, Sh'ten rolled Anubis gently over so he could look at him better.
"Anubis?" Sh'ten frowned at the state his brother was in. Anubis had his hands to his stomach
and his eyes tightly shut. His face was flushed, looking as if he'd just had a good meal, but he
still didn't look quite right. "What's wrong? Anubis? Can you hear me?"

Anubis' eyes fluttered open slightly and he took a moment to focus on Sh'ten. "He was so
beautiful. I want him, Sh'ten. I want that beautiful firefly." Then Anubis' eyes closed again and
Sh'ten knew he was sleeping.

Who could affect Anubis like this? Surely, not some mere human.






Seiji-







Ryo was limping heavily; still looking depressed, as he walked beside Seiji. 'I think the first
thing I want to talk to mom and grandfather about is what Ryo said about hurting mom. He
seems to think that it was his fault for some reason.'

'Of course it was his fault.'

Seiji didn't want to listen to that voice. It first appeared tonight, when Ryo had found out his
granma had died. Listening to voices was what had made his dad hurt his mom and gotten him
locked up in a funny farm. 'I don't want to be like him. I don't want to hurt people.'

'Whether you want me or not, I'll always be here, Seiji.'

'I'm not listening. Go away.'

'Denial is a sign of weakness.'

'Fuck off.'

The voice was silent for a moment and Seiji hoped that perhaps it had taken his advice and left.
Sadly, he was proven wrong. 'Take care of Ryo. He's weak, right now. Weak and vulnerable. He
needs to be taken care of.'

'Any idiot can see he's feeling weak, I don't need you to tell me that.' Seiji looked at Ryo out of
the corner of his eye. Ryo did look weak. Washed out, like the life had been just drained out of
him. 'I'll always take care of him.'
"Seiji. I'm sorry."

"Huh?" Seiji focused on Ryo, finding that he'd been paying so much attention to the voice in his
head that he'd been ignoring Ryo. "Sorry for what?"

"For setting your m-mom on fire."

"You weren't even near her, Ryo." Seiji didn't like the way Ryo said that, as if he really believed
he could have had something to do with the fire.

'But,' Seiji's unrelenting voice said, 'If Ryo didn't do it, then who did?'

"But..."

"No buts, mom's fine, Ryo. She wasn't hurt and nothing was damaged." Seiji turned to look at
Ryo. "Please, just come home."

"Where is my h-home?" Ryo stopped walking and looked at Seiji seriously. "I d-don't want to
take a-a-advanta-age of your family."

"You aren't." Seiji sighed and wished he could get this through Ryo's thick skull. "You're my
friend and my family loves you. Your home is with us." He reached out to take Ryo's arm, but
Ryo jerked away without thinking.

Ryo wrapped his arms around himself and looked away, but Seiji had seen the frightened look in
his eyes before he'd turned away. "S-sorry." Ryo muttered.

'What was I thinking?!' Seiji yelled at himself as they started walking again. 'I heard what Ryo
told Shin! I should have known that he wouldn't want to touch anyone!' It did hurt, though. Seiji
had thought that he was maybe Ryo's closest friend and the thought that Ryo didn't trust him
anymore hurt. It also made Seiji angry. 'Some jerk out there was touching Ryo. Made him hurt,
from the looks of the way he's walking. If I ever get my hands on the pervert who did this to
Ryo, I'll make him regret that he was ever born.'

"Seiji?" Ryo said softly. "Do...do you think I could take a bath when we get to your h-house?"

"You should go to the hospital first, Ryo." Seiji told Ryo, knowing that Ryo wouldn't like it.
"You need to get examined."

Ryo frowned, but didn't look up from his shoes as they walked. "I'm not h-hurt, not really."

Seiji blushed. He really didn't want to have this conversation with Ryo, but he knew it had to be
done sooner or later. "You might have caught a disease, Ryo. You don't know what this person
was into. They could have had any kind of disease, even AIDS." Seiji had heard far to many
horror stories from his mom about STD's. That was why she was always insisting that he and
Xiu get tested before they do anything more than kissing.

"AIDS?" Seiji saw Ryo gulp hard. It was clear that he hadn't thought about that earlier. "The d-
doctor's are gonna have to...look at me."

"Maybe, but I don't think so. My mom can probably do all the blood tests, if you want her to."
Seiji was hoping that this would relieve Ryo's anxieties, but it didn't seem to help. He hoped that
Ryo had at least thought to make whoever it was use a condom.






Shin-





Shin watched Ryo leave under Seiji's protection and sighed. 'Now, I just have to get Touma
though the next few days.'

"Shin, I'm going home." Xiu told him. "Mama and papa were kind of worried when I just ran off
after you called." He put a hand to his head and gave a kind of lopsided grin. "I'm not feeling so
good, suddenly. I think I'll go to bed." He left without another word leaving Shin and Touma
alone.

"I didn't think he'd do anything like that." Touma muttered, sitting heavily on Shin's bed. "I knew
Ryo was having a rough time, but I didn't think he'd really do -IT-." Touma was pale and looked
terrible. If Shin hadn't known better, he'd have thought that it was Touma who'd just been raped.
"Ryo seemed so proud of himself and strong, I thought he'd have found another way."

Shin sat on the floor near Touma's feet and looked up at him, thoughtfully. "He thought he didn't
have any choice. You know he wouldn't have done it if he saw another way to get the money for
his granma." Shin liked talking to Touma for the simple fact that he could speak English and he
knew Touma would understand him.

"And she died anyway. Life sucks."

"Yeah."

Touma sat back on Shin's bed, pulled his knees up to his chest. "If I'd done something like that,
would you still like me, Shin?"

"What?"

"If I...did what Ryo did, would you still be my friend?" Touma started shaking slightly. "I want
to go to college, Shin. How can I afford it? I don't have any money and I thought that maybe I
could get it the way Ryo got his money. When I ran away from my dad a few days ago, there
was this guy and he...offered..."

Shin shot to his feet furiously. "Don't you even think about it!!" He practically screamed in
English. "How can you think about that when you saw Ryo and how hurt he was? I don't care
how much money you'd get, don't you ever let me catch you street walking or I'll bust your ass
myself!" Shin switched back to English as he was yelling and Touma flinched away from him.
"You can get a scholarship or take out a loan, you are NOT whoring yourself!"

"What if I don't get the scholarship? What if I can't get a loan? If my dad goes to jail for good, I
might as well be an orphan." Touma's voice held a painful note of desperation and it was clear
that this had been weighing on his mind for some time.

Shin thought of Touma's mother, the one time he'd seen her, but didn't think it would be wise to
bring that subject of her up at the moment. "You're the smartest guy at our entire school, Touma.
You can get a job and go to college part time, if nothing else." Shin took a deep breath and sat
next to Touma, putting his arm around his friend. "Don't make Ryo's mistake. Please?"

"So," Touma smiled brightly to change the subject. "Are you going to come to my trial?"

"Depends."

"Depends? What do you mean?"

Shin gave him a hard look. "On what you're going to say. Are you going to tell everyone that it
was some kind of -mistake- or are you going to tell the truth?" He was still half-worried that
Touma was going to ignore his intelligence and try to get his dad out of jail. 'Please, let that ass
rot in prison, for your own sake, Touma.'

But Touma didn't answer, just huddled himself further into a ball and leaned into Shin. "I just
need you to be there."






Ryo-






Ryo felt his face burning when Seiji made him sit on the floor in front of Dr. Date. He could only
thank whatever god there was that Mr. Date was busy with a class at the moment. The last thing
he wanted to do was to talk about his adventure last night with Mr. Date. They were an
intimidating duo and Ryo thought that maybe he should just die on the spot, because he knew
what Seiji was going to do to him.

Seiji nudged Ryo. "Tell her."

Ryo bit his lip and looked at the floor. He knew that Dr. Date deserved to know what he'd done.
After all, Seiji said they were going to give him a home. Not just a place to sleep for a day or so,
but a real home. They wanted him to stay. They didn't care that he couldn't talk quite right or that
he wasn't very smart or that he wasn't even there for his granma when she died. They still wanted
him.

"Ryo!" Seiji hissed, giving him another nudge when Ryo stayed silent. "Tell her!"

But Ryo just couldn't make his mouth work. He felt like he was frozen and he only stared at the
floor.

"Ryo?"

Ryo looked up at Dr. Date who'd spoken.

"If you really don't want to tell me what's going on, then that's all right. But I want you to think
about it carefully. Seiji is very sensible, most of the time. If he thinks there's something you need
to talk about, I think you ought to listen to him." Then she smiled brightly. "Besides, Seiji can't
keep his mouth shut, so he'll probably tell me himself in a few days."

But, he'd burnt her up. Well, almost.

The voice in Ryo's head was strangely quiet, considering how happy it had been so happy to set
fire to Dr. Date earlier. When Ryo found his voice, even he was a bit surprised about what came
out of it. "I have a tiger!" He blurted out, feeling the need to tell her at least one secret.

"What?"

"A tiger." Ryo wanted to at least tell her something important, even if Seiji was shaking his head
next to him. "Bya-akuen lives with me. He'll c-come here soon." He was pretty sure that Dr.
Date wouldn't want to wake up one morning and find a tiger in her kitchen without warning.

"Where is he now?" She asked cautiously, looking around as if he'd pop out of nowhere.

Ryo could only shrug. Byakuen had a habit of vanishing for several days at a time, probably off
hunting or something, but Ryo honestly didn't know where his friend was.






The next day-



Ryo paced the living room impatiently waiting for Dr. Date to wake up. He'd been awake since
four in the morning and had nothing to do. He was so used to waking up early to help Sister Jo in
the shelter or go looking for work that he'd just gotten up early today out of habit. He rather
wished that he'd been able to sleep, though.

Ryo rubbed his sore bottom and hoped that it wouldn't hurt for long. 'It all ready feels a bit
better.' But Ryo wasn't sure. The first time when Bishop Brannon had raped him, when he'd been
younger, it had hurt for a very long time.

"Ryo?" Dr. Date came in, dressed for work in her white doctor's coat, and looked at him
curiously. "I thought you'd still be asleep, Ryo."

Ryo swallowed hard. 'Come on, this is what I've been waiting for! I can do this! Seiji said awful
things might happen if I don't tell her.' "Seiji said I h-have to tell you w-w-what I did to get the
m-money." He was about to continue when Dr. Date smiled gently.

"It's all right, Ryo. I have a pretty good idea."

"You do?"

She laughed, though not very happily, and wheeled her chair further into the room, coming to a
stop beside him. "I'm a doctor, Ryo. I've seen a lot of very bad things and I know there aren't a
lot of ways for young boys to make so much money in just one night." She took his hand and
patted it comfortingly. "I was waiting until you wanted to tell me."

"I had s-sex with a g-guy." It didn't seem so hard now that said she all ready knew. Especially
not since Seiji had let Ryo cry on his shoulder last night when he'd had such a horrible
nightmare. It had been some strange, dark dream about a blue haired monster with blood all over
it's mouth.

Dr. Date nodded. "That's what I thought. I presume you all ready told Seiji and that's what he's
been pestering you to tell me."

Ryo nodded, thankful for her understanding. It made him wonder, though, how many times she'd
seen people like him in her hospital.

"Seiji told you you'd need to get some blood tests done, right?"

"Yes, ma'am." Ryo was most definitely not looking forward to that.

"And a through exam."

Ryo cringed.

"I know it's bad, but it has to be done. I can have one of my male colleges do it, if you're more
comfortable with a man than me."
Ryo shook his head quickly. 'I don't want some guy putting his hands all over me! At least with
Seiji's mom, I know she's not going to hurt me.'







Xiu-





After all of the excitement yesterday, mama Faun had said that it was no wonder Xiu had gotten
sick. How running around the town could make him sick, Xiu had no idea, but his mama was
rarely wrong about this sort of thing. That and the fact that he couldn't stand up without getting
dizzy, was the reason why Xiu had skipped out on school and was spending the day in bed.

'Boring, boring, boring.' Xiu thought, staring at the ceiling of his bedroom. It was almost
bizarrely quiet, what with all his little brothers and sisters gone to school. There was only the
muffled noise from the restaurant downstairs to give Xiu anything to listen to. He couldn't listen
to the radio because he all ready had a headache that was refusing to submit to aspirin. Xiu
whimpered and rolled over in bed, pulling the blankets with him to try and chase away the cold.
He'd all ready turned up the thermostat several degrees, but nothing helped. 'I hate being sick, I
HATE it more than anything else in the world!' He just felt so darned weak!

Xiu heard the bedroom door swing open and he didn't both to roll over. "Not now, mama. I told
you, I can't eat." Just the thought of food made Xiu want to throw up.

"Hrumph! And here I went and brewed up some potion for you."

Xiu rolled over, surprised to find Seiji standing in his doorway with a thermos in one hand.
"Sei-chan!" He tried to sit up, but instantly felt dizzy again and groaned when his head spun.

"Your mama said you weren't feeling well when I called." Seiji said, walking in and closing the
door behind him. "I thought I'd brew up a magic potion to make you feel all better." He shook
the thermos meaningfully before sitting next to Xiu on the bed. "Is my darling coming down
with something nasty?"

"Mama says the flu." Xiu replied, looking at Seiji's thermos. "What are you doing here?"

"I told you. You're mama said you were sick, so I came to visit. Besides, no one's home. Ryo
went with mom to the hospital to get some blood tests done and grandfather's got a class to
teach. I came to cheer you up. I couldn't do much for Ryo. He woke up last night screaming. Not
that anyone could blame him."

"Poor guy. So, what'd you make me?"

Seiji widened his eyes dramatically. "Eye of bat and mold from the underbelly of a turtle. Boiled
blood from a newborn lamb mixed carefully with the sliced eyes from an old hog."

Xiu just smiled. "You made me chicken soup?"

"Yep." Seiji unscrewed the cover of the thermos, but Xiu turned away, putting a hand to his
mouth.

"Don't do that, Sei-chan. Honest, I appreciate the thought, but food is definitely not what I need
right now. Oh, God, put it away!"

Seiji was quiet for a minute before asking, in a hurt voice, "You don't want my soup?"

"No, it's not that Sei-chan." Xiu said quickly, very sorry that he'd hurt Seiji's feelings. "It's just..."
He looked again at the thermos and felt his stomach churn wildly. "I really think it would taste
better when my stomach stops trying to kill me. You understand, right?"

But Seiji scowled. "You don't want my soup." He pulled a spoon out of his pocket and started to
stir the chicken soup with it.

"Awww, Seiji!" Xiu whined. "Don't be mad! I'm sick."

"You're whining." Seiji told him flatly. "Your mama told me you haven't been eating and that's
not healthy. You have to eat."

"I don't wanna!" Xiu just knew he was going to throw up all over himself if he tried to eat
anything or, worse, he'd throw up all over Seiji.

Seiji leaned in close enough that their noses were touching and Xiu could see both of Seiji's
eyes. "You will eat." There was fearsome determination in Seiji's eyes.

"No."

"Yes."

"No. You can't make me."

"Yes, I can."

"Want to bet?" Xiu pulled the blankets up closer to his face, covering his mouth.

Seiji sighed. "You're acting like a child, Xiu."

Xiu made the mistake of pulling down the blankets far enough for him to open his mouth and tell
Seiji to go take a flying leap, but never got the words out of his mouth. Seiji leaned in quickly
and kissed him.

It was such a pleasant kiss, that Xiu relaxed his guard long enough for Seiji to shove a spoonful
of chicken soup into his mouth and Xiu swallowed reflexively. Xiu blinked at Seiji, surprised
that Seiji had tricked him and that he didn't throw up.

"See?" Seiji smiled the smile that was for Xiu alone. "Little Xiu is a big boy and can eat up all
his soup."

"Sometimes I could really hate you."

But Seiji's smile only widened. "Yes, yes. Now open your mouth and say 'ah'." He held out
another spoonful of soup. "Your mama said she was trusting me to get some food into you."

"Damn. Betrayed by my own mama." But Xiu was smiling now. It felt good just to have Seiji at
his side. "You should be more careful, though. You know my family doesn't know about us,
yet."

"So," Seiji leaned in again. "Does that mean I can't use kisses as payment for eating your soup
like a good boy?"

'ARGGGG!' If Xiu had been well and in his right mind, he'd have said no. It was to dangerous.
However, he was sick and Seiji's lips were so close. So tempting. "Maybe just a few spoonfuls."
He conceded as he opened his mouth for the soup.

It continued like this for a short while, take a bite of soup and get rewarded with a kiss. It almost
made the nauseous feeling bearable and Xiu didn't throw up once, a fact that he was very proud
of. In the end, Xiu felt his eyes start to droop and the warm soup started to take its toll, sending
Xiu to sleep. The last thing he was aware of was Seiji pulling the blankets up over him.

"Sleep tight, Xiu."

"Thanks, Sei-chan." Xiu yawned, thinking how lucky he was to have someone love him enough
to bully him around.

Seiji chuckled softly. "Get some sleep, Xiu. I don't want you getting any worse." He gave Xiu
one last kiss before Xiu drifted into sleep.







Seiji-





'Hmmmm. I just love him to pieces.' Seiji thought, watching Xiu fall asleep. He was going to
leave as soon as he got one last kiss. After all, he'd come all this way and practically had to beat
Xiu into eating his soup, so Seiji thought he deserved one last kiss for the day. Just when he was
leaning back from the kiss, Seiji looked up and saw a most...intimidating sight.

"Date Seiji, Leave...my...house!" Papa Faun was standing in the doorway of Xiu's bedroom and
glared at Seiji with something very close to hate. His arms were held stiffly at his side and his
eyes narrowed and dark with barely contained rage..

'Oh, damn' Seiji thought, starting to sweat. 'He saw me kissing Xiu.' "Papa Faun..."

"Don't!" Papa Faun hissed angrily. "Don't call me papa! You don't have the right anymore! Get
out of my house! Now!" Seiji could very clearly see that Papa...er...Mr. Faun was trying very
hard not to do anything stupid. He looked like he wanted to hurt Seiji. Badly.

"Sir, I just..." Seiji started as he stood up, deliberately leaving his thermos on the floor near Xiu's
bed.

"You just took advantage of my son while he was sick." Mr. Faun growled. "Xiu trusted you,
Seiji! He's always said that you were closer to him than a brother, that he'd do anything for you.
This is how you repay that trust! How dare you?!"

'I guess he's not in the mood for any explanations.' Seiji thought ruefully. 'I think I should go
before he decides that I was trying to rape Xiu while he was asleep.'

Seiji started walking passed Mr. Faun and the man said coldly as he walked by, "Don't ever
come back to my home, Seiji."

"As you wish." Seiji turned his voice cool, the tone he used for strangers and people he really
didn't like. Mr. Faun had just declared that he didn't want Seiji as a friend and that was fine by
Seiji. He didn't need Mr. Faun to like him. 'Just because he's known my since third grade.'

Seiji left the restaurant as quickly as possible, ignoring the customers and managing to get by
Mama Faun without being noticed. Seiji made it to the street and kept walking. He didn't really
know where he was going, but he knew he had to get away.

'The way he looked at me you'd think I'd just led his son into Hell.' Seiji's mood didn't improve
as he walked. 'I suppose I should try to save as much of my dignity as possible and get home
before I burst into tears.' Seiji wiped a tear away from his face. 'I'm am NOT going to cry in
public! What if Xiu's dad won't let him see my anymore? Xiu really loves his mama and papa,
what if he stops seeing me just because they tell him to? What if he hates me because his dad
might find out I didn't steal the kiss, that we've been dating for months?'

Deep inside his heart, Seiji felt a warm glow and the strange voice spoke to him again. 'Xiu's
father will have no say in the matter. He won't be able to stop you from seeing Xiu.'

Seiji stopped walking and started running, desperate to get home so he could cry in private. 'I'm
not crazy, I'm not crazy! Stop talking to me!'

'You aren't crazy, that I can assure you of. You and Xiu belong together.'

'Leave me alone!'







To be continued...