Shaman King Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Paths ❯ Chapter 02 ( Chapter 2 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Chapter 02
In the middle of the night, I felt you moving, wrestling with the sheets and trying not to make noise so as not to wake me up. “Too late” I thought as I caught your wrist when you were about to leave.
“Stay…” I pleaded; my voice hoarse with sleep and our previous love making.
“You know I can't” You answered turning to face me, one hand dropping to caress my cheek. “They can't find my empty bed you know…”
I nodded though my heart clenched, I wanted to wake up beside you in the morning and by your eyes, I could tell you wanted it too.
“Will you be back?” I asked, not ashamed of the longing I put into my voice, no use to pretend in front of you anymore.
“Every single night if you want me to…” Your eyes sparkled and I saw your fear, even then, you thought I could reject you, you fool.
“I do…” I assured, and we closed for one last, passionate kiss before you left. “Thank you… love…” I whispered and drifted back to sleep.
OoO
The next morning was tough for me though. I woke up very late and to make things worse we hadn't cleaned the mess from the night before so I woke to a very gooey bed. A morning shower and a change of sheets were the first items on a long list of things to do during that day.
As I came out of the steamy bathroom, only a towel clad around my body I had the worst surprise I could ever have, Hao was waiting for me inside my room and his jealous expression told me he was not pleased.
“So… did you enjoy your whoring yesterday?” He asked sourly, an awful smile plastered on his face.
“I wasn't whoring Hao, now, what are you doing in my room?” I said coldly and stood defiant, as defiantly as a half naked man could stand.
Hao stepped forward and pinned me to the wall, holding my hands above my head and with one of his hands he turned my face to his forcefully and stole a disgusting kiss, his tongue clashing with mine, digging to the depths of my throat and I fought to remove that alien organ from my mouth.
“Did you resist him this much Ren?” he whispered biting hard on my ear.
“What are you talking about Hao?” I squirmed trying to free my hands.
“You see my precious one, that Ainu boy stole from me the one gift I wanted as much as the Great Spirit and that was your virginity…” he mourned.
“What…?”
“Come on Ren… I've been after you for a long time now, I said I was going to make you mine don't you remember?”
I shook my head unbelievably. “Well, perhaps I should refresh your memory then…” He stated staring at my neck where Horo-horo had left a hickey. Hao lifted his free hand, the one that wasn't pinning my arms to the wall and played with his fingers there for a while before digging his long nails to my flesh and trailing bloody lines over the mark until my bare chest.
I winced slightly. “I'll let you have fun with that boy for now Ren…” he stated, licking the blood that was coming from the wounds and smiling at me, “As soon as my work is done though, I will come back to claim you” He gave me yet another molesting kiss and squeezed the bulge between my legs leaving me alone in the room with not another word.
I feel to my knees on the floor, shaking in disgust trying very hard not to throw up.
After a while, I got dressed and, without even looking at those disgusting marks Hao had left on me, I went out, praying to the gods that I did not meet you, or Yoh, or any of those losers for the day.
Of course, I forgot to mention the gods I prayed to were deaf so I had barely stepped out of my dorm room when we ran into each other. You were with the others of course and as Yoh talked to me I tried to ignore your questioning eyes as they roamed over my neck and ear.
“What happened Ren; you have cuts and bruises all over you…” Yoh asked the question you didn't dare to ask and I could see from you body language that you were not sure you wanted to hear the answer…
I flinched but nobody noticed, only you, “I was training…” I explained lamely even to my own ears, but Yoh seemed happy with the explanation. You all laughed and made fun of me as I pretended to be offended, happy that it gave me an opportunity to leave.
I did just that, not caring about them… instead I was running from your sad insecure eyes… “Please be back tonight…” my heart stopped as I figured you might not… “you promised…” I thought childishly.
OoO
“Excuse me” You said as the door opened and you gracefully stepped in.
I was reading a book and my eyes lifted ever so slightly from the page I was in, you gave a small smile as you noticed the round glasses perched on the tip of my nose. People don't know I wear glasses and I hardly ever allow them to see me with them on… I consider it as some sort of weakness that my sight is not perfect, but strangely enough, I didn't feel the urge to take them off for you.
You carefully approached me and sat on the bed almost shyly. I could see pain in your eyes, you had cried and I knew I was the one responsible for your tears. “Not even a whole day as lovers, and I've already made you cry…” I sighed and lowered the book.
You crawled closer to me and allowed your eyes to fall back to my bruises, never repeating Yoh's question yet silently whishing for me to answer.
“It's nothing” I said reaching out, bringing you closer to lie on my chest. You sighed contently, “Have you taken care of it?” you asked.
“No…” I shook my head and held your hands as they came to open my shirt.
“Let me see it…” you pleaded.
“No…”
“Why not?” You tried to disentangle your hands from my grasp but I held tightly, as tightly as I could without hurting you, I shook my head again.
You kissed me then, roughly, our teeth and tongues clashing. You took me by surprise and as my grip loosened you dropped your hands to work fast on my shirt. When I finally realized what your intentions were, I already lay in bed, my wound fully exposed to your inspecting gaze.
“These were made by human hands Ren…” You stated darkly. “Tell me what happened” you weren't asking.
I turned away but you held me back by the wrist, “I was training…”
“Bullshit!”
I turned sharply just to see your beautiful face full of rage, and concern, concern for me. “I want the truth Tao Ren, and I want it now!” you whispered dangerously.
“How dare you!” I narrowed my eyes at your words, my voice had risen ever so slightly.
“Listen…” You sighed and stood, turning your back to me, “If we are to be lovers… and that is what I understood last night when you asked me to come back… you have to tell me the truth… at least about this… I can't go on without knowing what happened”
“Fine!” I gave in as the perspective of you leaving sunk into my stubborn mind, “Hao did it” I blurted and pouted slightly.
“What!?” You almost shouted.
“Shh! There's no need to freak out… he did nothing else… he was just…” I trailed off, walking away from the bed.
“He was just…” you urged me to go on.
“Jealous!” I spat, disgusted yet “He was jealous OK?”
You looked more then slightly puzzled now, “Why was Hao jealous of you?” you asked carefully.
“I don't know!” I turned and tried very hard not to blush, “He seems to think he's going to make me his or something…” I lowered my head and looked at your feet as you approached me again. I felt your hand on my chin lifting it and forcing me to look directly at your eyes, just like Hao had done that morning but, strangely enough I didn't feel nauseated when your lips touched mine. I could feel something else when you kissed me, something Hao didn't have; it was not only love, it was respect.
“Do you want him?” you whispered, not parting our lips entirely.
“Of course not!” I scowled and you closed in for yet another kiss.
“Good…” you spoke ending the kiss, “Come on… let's do something about those wounds before they get infected. Who knows what kind of germs do Hao's hands carry…?” I laughed at your comment and we headed for the bathroom.
OoO
A couple of hours later we lay in bed exhausted. You had decided to wash my wounds before you treated them and, fortunately, the wounds were not the only ones to be bathed. We had our way three times before we made it as far as the bed and now I couldn't as much as move a finger.
“That felt nice… huh…” you whispered, brushing my damp bangs away from my face to look me in the eye.
I merely sighed and curled closer to you, entangling our legs and moving closer to lie on your chest. “I bet that was a yes…” you mused.
…
“Ren…?”
“Hm…”
“I have to go back to my dorm you know…” I didn't answer but put my arms around your neck and held tightly.
You laughed. Gods I love your laughter!
“Ren…”
“No!” I stated, holding even tighter and probably hurting you.
“Shh… now Ren, be reasonable… do you think I want to leave? Of course not! But if I don't… well if I don't, they might suspect something…”
“Let them suspect then! I don't care… let them know we're lovers… let them know I lov…” so close, no I wasn't ready for those words yet, instead, “let them know I care about you…”
“That's very sweet of you…” you said, tears in your eyes as you read the hidden lines behind my speech. “But we can't let them know yet, and you know it… we have the Shaman Fight coming to an end, we need to focus on that and help Yoh… if he loses then there will be no “us” anymore for there will be no world for “us” to live in… God only knows what Hao is up to…”
I smiled at your words, “This is weird” I said, “in private you turned out to be the responsible one…”
You laughed, “Well I guess I can't be an idiot all the time…”
“Hm… Guess I can't be an uptight jerk all the time…”
“You're so right!” You agreed seriously. “So… how are we going to do this…?” you asked kissing the top of my head lightly and looking down at me with those big goofy eyes of yours.
“Do what?”
“Well… until we're through all this Shaman Fight stuff I guess we'll have to put this “us” thing aside…”
“What!?!”
“Shh… C'mon Ren… you know what I'm talking about… if we keep this up every night we won't e able to stand during the day…”
I laughed and you kissed me. “True” I said.
“Hm… guess this is good bye then…” you said and I flinched slightly. “For now I meant!” you added as you felt me shiver.
“I guess…” I managed weakly.
When you motioned to stand up from my now loose embrace I asked, my voice broken, “Horo-horo…”
“Yes?”
“Will you stay with me tonight?”
“Huh?” You turned to face me not quite understanding what I meant, “But I've already…”
“Till morning I mean…”
“But Ren, they can't…”
“Just this once…” I pleaded, fighting to keep my tears at bay, “Please…”
You sighed, and then smiled as you laid down again, my arms immediately enveloping you and threatening to never let you go. “I guess they won't even notice… just this once…” you whispered and I closed my eyes happy I would wake beside the one I loved at last.
