Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Love On A Leash ❯ Back In The Hands Of The Devil ( Chapter 10 )

Love On A Leash

By: Atsureki

Disclaimers: This is getting real old. /Sighs/ They aren't mine I'm just using them to satisfy my twisted imagination.

Paring: Ran/Ken

Warnings: AU, Shounen-ai. OCC, Angst, Slavery, Me being a bastard again/still ^_^;, Stupid chapter *mutters and pouts*

Notes: Stuff written in Italic are thoughts.

Chapter 10. Back In The Hands Of The Devil

Pain. Everything was pain. A white, scolding, mind numbing pain that threatened to rip him apart. With a groan he opened his eyes and was greeted with a sharp light that almost cracked his skull in two. More pain, more flashes that caused his body to twitch in agony.

Exhausted he closed his eyes again and moaned weakly. What the hell had happened to him? Where was he? Brown eyes popped up in his head and the image was soon followed by a mop of chocolate colored hair, a tanned handsome face and a well-trained strong body.

For a moment his confused brain fought to connect the young man he saw with a name. Ken. He swallowed and used his swollen tongue to wet his dry lips. Again he forced his eyes open and squinted to spare them from the harsh light. White walls, a white door and a woman with red hair. Confused he blinked a few times.

"Manx," he said hoarsely and winced at the strange sound of his voice.

"Ran." She came up to him and took his hand. Why was she there? His head hurt but he searched his memory anyway. He had been shot twice by Kase.

"KEN!" he exclaimed and tried to get up.

"No Ran, lie still!" Manx muttered and carefully kept him down.

"Ken, I have to check on Ken!" he insisted and fought against her. A man in his late forties ended his struggle with a big meaty hand on his shoulder.

"Well now Fujimiya-san you better calm down or I'll have to sedate you." Ran scowled at him but stopped trying to get up. "That's better. Let's see… Ah, you were very lucky Fujimiya-san." The redhead snorted and narrowed his amethyst eyes.

"Lucky?" Where the hell was the luck in getting shot twice?

"Yes. The first bullet went straight through you and didn't do too much damage. You caught the second one in the chest but it missed your heart with barely an inch."

"Hn," the redhead snorted and tuned out the man. His thoughts were on Ken. Kase had said that he was going after the brunette and he couldn't do a damn thing about it!

"We are glad to see you awake Fujimiya-san. For a moment we feared that you might have slipped into a coma." The word coma made Ran wince and he groaned in pain as it doubled with the sudden movement.

"How long have I been here?" he asked cautiously.

"Five days and you will be staying for quite some time. By the way I'm Doctor Ishida." Five days?! Kase had had five days to get his sleazy hands on Ken?!?

"Ken!" Ran insisted again and tried to sit up ignoring the pain that almost caused him to black out. "You have to let me check on him!"

"Whoa there Fujimiya-san! You are not going anywhere at the moment. I didn't spend hours stitching you up just so you could tearing your wounds up again!" Ishida muttered and pressed the redhead down on the bed.

"Damn it! I have to check on Ken!"

"Calm down Ran. It's just a slave, where do you think he's going?" Manx frowned with annoyance in her voice. It threatened to knock him into the blackness but Ran lashed out and grabbed her blouse anyway.

"Don't ever, EVER say that he's just a slave!" the redhead growled in anger. "If anything happens to him I'll… I'll."

"Ah cousin Aya." A slender hand removed Ran's fingers from the woman's clothes and shoved her to the side. "I think that'll be enough now." Amethyst eyes turned to green and narrowed but Yoji's voice calmed him down a little.

"We'll leave you and your cousin alone," Ishida nodded and pushed Manx out the door with small smile at the lanky blonde.

"We need to talk Aya," Yoji muttered and sat down. "I went to your apartment the minute I heard you'd been um robbed." Robbed? Ran raised a thin red eyebrow. Well that was a nice dodge from Manx.

"How's Ken?" He tried to sound normal but the worry snuck into his voice anyway.

"When we find him I'll be sure to ask him," Yoji frowned with concern and pulled out a cigarette. Ran closed his eyes and swallowed. Ken was gone.

//

He was curled up on the floor and it was cold and hard. Shivers ran through his body and made him whimper in pain. It wasn't the first time he had been there and it was starting to dawn on him that it wouldn't be the last either.

He sobbed and carefully rubbed his arms to get some warmth back. It hurt. Most of his body was covered in bruises and cuts but he was used to it, or rather he had been used to it. For 8 years he had been beaten daily and still just a few months without it made the pain so much worse.

He carefully made himself smaller and pressed his bruised face against the cold surface of the floor. A wet rag was placed on his chin and he tried to flinch away.

"I'm sorry," a low voice mumbled but the rag didn't move. He opened his eyes and focused on a young face close to his own. The boy kneeling in front of him reminded him of Omi. His hair was a little darker though and his eyes a deeper shade of midnight blue.

"Who are you?" he whispered and scooted away a little.

"My name is Nagi. I won't hurt you," the boy said quietly.

His face was blank, emotionless but he didn't look like someone that would hit him. Nagi did look a lot like Omi but he seemed younger, more delicate in a fragile way. While Omi was cute and sweet this boy was simply beautiful with a chiselled face that boarded on girl-like. The small blonde slave had innocent wide eyes but this little brunette's eyes, although just as wide, held none of the energetic innocence in them. There was no sparkle, no joy in them either.

"What's your name?"

"K… Ken." Nagi gave him a small nod and started cleaning his face with the rag.

"My Master wants to take a look at you so I have to wash you," the boy mumbled and rinsed the bloody rag in a bowl of water. Did Nagi belong to Kase too? Ken didn't think so since the boy showed no signs of bruises. He had never seen a slave that belonged to Kase that didn't have marks of abuse and beatings.

//

Ken was alone again. Nagi had cleaned him up and then left quietly. He was still cold and still in a lot of pain but he stayed in his curled up position on the floor. If Nagi didn't belong to Kase that meant that some other man wanted to take a look at him, but why? Did his former owner intend to sell him? But he still belonged to Aya, didn't he?

Kase had said that he didn't but the brunette refused to believe him. Ken whimpered when he thought about the redhead. He wanted Aya there, needed the calm man to hold him and tell him that everything was going to be fine. Crying quietly to himself the brunette remembered what had happened a few days ago.

***Flashback***

He carefully searched the apartment just to find it empty. His owner was nowhere to be found and it concerned the slave. Aya had never left him alone without letting him know before. Perhaps his owner was angry with him about the previous day?

Ken swallowed and wrapped his arms around himself. He hadn't meant to upset the redhead, he really hadn't. Lost about what to do he went back to the bedroom and sank down on his knees. Until Aya returned he would stay there in that position and pray that his owner showed him mercy even though he didn't deserve any.

He had been sitting there for quite some time when the doorbell rang. Ken hesitated for a moment before he rose to his feet and padded over to the door. He thought it might be Aya so when he opened and was faced with his former owner his whole body froze.

"Hello there Kenken," Kase smirked at him and walked in. "Figured it wouldn't be long before I saw you again." The slave trembled and couldn't convince himself to move.

"A… Aya," he whispered in panic.

"Sorry Kenken it seems like the redhead grew tired of the way you behave. He gave you back to me again." Ken closed his eyes and sobbed. No it couldn't be true, could it? Had he really been that bad? For a moment he met Kase's eyes and winced at the cruelty in them. "Now aren't you supposed to be kneeling?" The brunette didn't move, didn't even hear what the other man was saying.

"Aya help me," he whimpered as tears ran down his cheeks. A hand grabbed his neck and threw him to the floor.

"I said kneel you little whore!" Kase barked at him and gave him a hard kick in the back. "I'll teach you how to obey again Kenken. And when I've got you nice and obedient I can finally fuck you again."

A fist smashed into his face but Ken didn't make a sound. Aya had put him back into the hands of the Devil. He refused to believe that, couldn't for a second think that the redhead could be so malicious.

***End Flashback***

Ken pulled away from the memory when he heard voices outside the door. He recognized Kase but the second voice was unfamiliar.

"That's all of them," his former owner said. The second voice said something in a language Ken didn't understand.

"Iie Master." That was Nagi. The brunette blinked a little and swallowed. So there was some stranger there.

"You holding out on me Kase?" the stranger asked flatly with his nasal voice.

"Not at all, but there aren't anymore slaves." It was quiet for a while before he again heard something he couldn't understand. Nagi answered in the same strange language.

"Nagi here says there's one more slave."

"Um well that one isn't for sale," Kase muttered and Ken could tell he was annoyed.

"You told me all of them were for sale! Now show him to me!" The door opened and Ken cowered on the floor.

"You won't want this one anyway. He has a serious problem with obeying and will need training," Kase snorted and walked up to the brunette.

"Why don't you let me be the judge of that?" A red-haired stranger came into Ken's view. His green eyes eyed him slowly. "He doesn't look all that disobedient to me."

"Not now but when he's feeling a little better he'll show his true self again."

"Nagi?" The boy said something that Ken didn't catch and the stranger frowned.

"I can see that. Kase you might get more out of your slaves if you didn't beat them half to death." Ken's former owner scowled.

"What I do with my slaves is my business! This one is precious to me and I will do whatever it takes to get him back in order." The stranger huffed and kneeled beside the trembling brunette.

"Punishing a slave is one thing, this is something else. I should buy him just to get him away from you!"

"Schuldig, he's not for sale! He's mine, he's always been mine!" Kase growled and narrowed his eyes in anger.

"Ja, ja. Something tells me you didn't get him legally. Tell me Kase… Is stealing another one of your bad habits?" The brunette whimpered in fear and flinched backwards at the sight of his former owner's face. Kase was literally fuming in rage.

"I didn't buy him no but his owner is dead so he was up for grabs!" Ken winced. Aya was dead? No it couldn't be true.

"Aya?" the brunette whimpered and clutched his hands. Kase smiled wickedly at the slave.

"You're beloved redhead is dead Kenken. He's not gonna save you this time!" The man called Schuldig, Nagi and Ken's former owner turned around to leave. "I'll be back later Kenken, it's time you went back to doing what you do best."

The brunette didn't move. If Aya was dead then no one was going to save him, no one was going to keep Kase away from him. With tears flowing down his bruised cheeks Ken curled up on the cold hard floor.

~TBC~

Poor Ken /sighs/ Kase is such a damn bastard!!! Is anyone going to help Kenken or is his fate sealed???

I picked Nagi and Schuldig at random and I'm not sure if they're going to pop up again but if nothing happens to the idea I have now they do make a second appearance later on. Please note that since this is AU Schu is not a bad guy, um at least not like in the anime.

And about the way I compare Omi and Nagi in this chapter. I did it by using a pic of each boy and those are the differences I found. To me (in those pics at least) Omi is cute and stuff but Nagi is more on the beautiful side. He looks a bit feminine in it and so sad and lost. And just in case I was clear in the chapter, Nagi is Schu's slave /nods/ There's something so 'slavey' about Nagi /rolls eyes at herself/ Sorry I'll stop babbling now. Ja/Atsureki