Wolf's Rain Fan Fiction ❯ Italian Sushi ❯ One Last Chance ( Chapter 13 )

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

The party was a complete success and all of them even Tsume and Kiba managed to get along really well conversating and messing around in the pool while arguing over pizza toppings that were chopped earlier in the day. None of the guest ever had grilled pizza so the treat was a nice one and the cake was incredible to look at and really delicious having fruits and liquor poured over it and baked in. Faye didn't make any promises to solo the birthday song but as a request from Hige and a go ahead from Toboe she sang a song for them, a lighter, happy one unlike her usual cool demeanor to sing dark and dreary songs, she even got them in on it like she were at some gig.

Soon the gathering was coming to a close and a video was to be watched but only after they cleaned up a bit.

"I have to go to the bathroom, my stomach kinda hurts." Toboe announces heading for the hall.

"Are you alright?" Asks Kiba.

"Yeah, I'm sure its just a bathroom trip. Remember when Faye cooked for us?"

Eye twitching the woman tips her glass of tea saying. "Watch it kid, or you'll be having my stew tomorrow."

Laughing Toboe waves his hands as an apology before heading down the hall.

Hige snickers shaking his head. "Suddenly the runts working the room. Watch out Kiba you'll have a puberty monster on your hands."

"Hn. I'd rather he be into sports, cars, money than...." He glances at Tsume.

"That again?"

"Nope. I'm fine, perfectly fine." Kiba carries the cups and plates into the kitchen to drop into the sink; Tsume follows him close enough to alarm the Wolf teen making him spin around. "What are you doing?" He asks a little too high toned and quick.

"I'm leaving for Rome, I wanted to ask you to tell Toboe that for me since you'll be gone by the time I come home again."

Exhaling when the model backs up a step, Kiba nods in two curt bobs of his head. "....Is that ALL you want to say?"

"Honestly? No. But I don't really think its appropriate to say such things to someone you're related to- even if its just passing on a message."

Anger flaring, Kiba balls his fist swinging it at the man but Tsume side stepped it. "God damned, shit!" He barked.

Hige and Faye turn their attention to the kitchen but neither made a move to go in since they're both familiar with what happens between Tsume and Kiba when they're alone together. Its really better to just be an observer and hope they stop before teeth come out.

"Hnhnhnhn." Tsume snickers. "Will you calm down, damn you're easy to work up, tch, you'd almost think that you liked me, or something, and you're jealous of Toboe."

"You wish." Turning back to what he was doing, he places the dishes into the sink, wishing that he'd chose to drop them- and why not? They aren't his, let the arrogant bastard pay for new ones, he buys everything else like its a sneeze.

"Toboe told me what it is about me that's bothering you."

"Did he? And what's that?" He leans against the counter same way Tsume is, arms folded over his chest.

"Its because I can give him the love that you can't."

Kiba's fine brow twitched hearing that, but nothing more in response.

"You've given him shelter and the love of a brother, mother, and father... but you can never love him the way I can and it bothers you."

"You're sick if you think I want my brother romantically, and he's wrong to think that way as well. I love him and want the best for him, so is it so wrong to see to it that he doesn't have to feel the pain that I feel everyday? I miss our parents every damned day that passes and Toboe... he can barely remember them. I can talk about them but, would he really want the pain of never having known them like I do- hn, even I wish I had more time with them." He closes his eyes. "And as far as romance goes, my brother can have anyone he wants- just not you. You're too old for him, don't you see that?" Tears start to well in his eyes. "I could see if you met him when he's in college or something but.... damn it, Tsume, I'm tired of wondering what the hell is wrong with you. Why? Why do you do this? Why can't you be with someone your own age?" Fist slamming onto the cabinet beside him, he asks. "Why Toboe?"

Tsume looks sincerely at Kiba's hunched form then shakes his head. "Not that I owe you an explanation, but anytime someone 'my own age' touches me I feel a little sick- weird, right? And in your eyes that makes me an even bigger pervert doesn't it?"

Kiba couldn't deny that he thought exactly that. Who wouldn't? He just outright admits to being a child molester.

"It isn't like that," Tsume goes on seeing that Kiba wasn't planning on defending himself or offering a bark that Tsume doesn't know shit about how he feels. "I've never made Toboe uncomfortable, ask him, I've been nothing but kind to him since day one. You need to start thinking about him as the age that he is and not the age you want him to be. He's not some damned six or ten year old curious about sex and having some dirty oldman feeding his questions. Toboe is sixteen-.."

"But he was fourteen when you first met!" That got him fighting. "It didn't stop you did it? You just had to have him."

"That's not entirely true, I saw him at thirteen and damn it if I didn't battle myself everyday with how wrong it was to feel that way for him. But come on, Wolf, think about what you were doing at that age."

Flashes of the blow up tent came to mind, this locked door and that with Hige. "Its none of your damned business what I've been doing."

"Mhm. And compared to my life, drinking, smoking-... basically cussing away my vocabulary while trying to destroy myself, you think thats a better option for Toboe than having one sexual encounter and a few kisses? Tell me, how many times have you had sex before the age that you are now?"

Again Kiba's blue eyes flick back and fourth as he recalls all the times with Hige and a few alone.

"Hn. If he copied anyone's lifestyle better it be your own, right?" Eyeing Kiba hard Tsume says calmly yet with a tint of ice in his tone. "You say you miss your parents everyday, you probably wonder how they would handle all the things that you have to now? I can tell you they'd of had my ass locked up long ago before we got this far." He meant being in Italy in his home. "So why haven't you?"

"I... I have my reasons... I told you before."

"Right. I suppose social services has a part in your reason as well. Couldn't that blonde woman have adopted the both of you?"

She could have. "I want Toboe to be happy-..."

"You want Toboe to be under your thumb while you carry on doing whatever."

Kiba's jaw clenches, but he steadies himself until he cracks a bit and a tear drops to the floor. "Its not like that... its not like that at all so don't you stand there and act as though you understand me. Toboe, is all I have, I really feel that way- sure, I have Hige and I would never want him gone from my life but with Toboe its different... if he's gone.... if he's gone.... I would be nothing- I would have nothing." Looking into the mans eyes he says sternly. "I am scared, Tsume.... I'm scared that no one will take this side of a person, this side of me.... no one but him. My dad said take care of him, look out for him... but really he's been that for me.

Without Toboe, I will crack and be gone."

Tsume looks at Kiba then, slowly, he takes the remaining few steps over to him and pulls him into a hug.

".......Worthless shit. ...Let go of me."

"No. You need this, even if its from someone like me." He hugs him tightly, yet, loosely. "My parents hate me and what sucks about that is that I don't even know why. ....One minute I'm an adventurous little shit getting into everything then I'm a model for catalogues making more money than my old man. I didn't even notice the sudden change in the way they spoke to me it was so subtle and building that I just ignored it anytime I was home."

"Why are you telling me this?" Kiba sobs. He just can't turn off his tears.

"Suddenly my mother became sick with some disease- it was a lie. My parents were already getting my paychecks because of how young I was but they took it upon themselves to be greedy and want more, my agent fed that greed and got me this shoot and that.... that's when it happened. I overheard them talking about moving and leaving me behind, broke on the streets for all they'd care. I turned on them, talked to some lawyers and took my money for myself and moved with my agent to Italy but that shady bastard was just as money hungry as my parents... if it weren't for Faye I never would have survived so many betrayls and lies. So I get that you look to Toboe to always be there, I feel the same way about her."

"So if you understand then why-..?"

"She never put a collar on me, Kiba, she never heard my sorrows and treated me like a wounded animal, you should do the same for Toboe. Trust him that he is the person he is because you helped him be that way, but he won't stay that way if you don't evolve with him when he chooses too." He fights his own tears. "He'll rebel, anyone will when they realize that the life they live hasn't been their choice and they feel there is no chance it ever will be. Hn. Take it from me all things in life are good when they're natural, anything put upon or forced is seen with tinted eyes whether you're enjoying it or not."

"You're too old for him." Kiba still argued.

"Not to Toboe or myself. The first time I had sex I was seventeen, I had slept with a twenty eight year old."

"Really?"

"He was good looking, I thought I'd go see him for a minute and the next thing I knew we were on the floor of his dressing room."

"Tch. So why didn't you stay with him?"

"He looked at me like I was a toy, he even said it to my face. I couldn't take being someone's play thing again, not after my parents and my old agent. I never looked back to him but he's always been after me. I haven't had many encounters with romance after that, I felt sick- hell, anytime someone older than me or my own age touched me I felt sick and the taint would not wash away." He pulls away. "Toboe never made me feel like that, I always thought the way to love someone was exactly how life has been loving me but... Toboe never made me feel like that. Looking at him, it was like looking at Faye he became a face of comfort, so I watched him for a year becoming more and more in love with him until I felt like that dumb little fourteen year old all over again. I don't know, maybe I should see a shrink."

"Maybe you should." He lowers his eyes to the floor.

"But you're right, we can never work out. I'm leaving now; have a safe flight back." He leaves the kitchen.

Kiba can hear him saying goodbye to Faye and calling Hige something before saying the same to him as well. Then he was out the door, out of the house and hopefully out of their lives. At least until that stupid movie comes out and Toboe asks him to buy it. But thats better than seeing him in person. Returning once he was sure the car has gone down the street, Kiba looks around for Toboe whom he thought would have come out of the bathroom by now.

'I'd better tell him so that he doesn't freak out and ask where he is.' Heading down the hall, Kiba knocks on the door. "Toboe, Tsume left. He wanted me to tell you goodbye." No reply. "Did you hear me? ...Toboe?" Turning the knob the door pushes open. "Shit," He looks through the other rooms hurriedly then returns to the living room. "Toboe's gone, he snuck out of the house."

"That little brat! What did he do that for?"

"Alone time with Tsume."

Cocking a brow considering the Wolf male is just standing there, Faye asks. "Well aren't we gonna go after him?"

He shakes his head swallowing hard. "No. As much as I hate to say it, we're gonna let him go. He'll be back in time." He nods. "I know he will. He just, needs to get all of this out of his system and hopefully this will be the end of it."

"Hey," Faye touches Kiba's shoulder. "You feel like its wrong what your brother is doing and even though I love Tsume to death, you can call the police to bring your little brother back."

"I should have called them a long time ago.... but back then... I was breaking the law just as much as Tsume by being a minor on my own doing the things I did, lying about my age.... no, social services would have come and split us up and who knows I might have never gotten to see my little brother again."

"Oh kiddo." She puts her hands on her hips. "I have his number, though, cell and home over there. I'll give them to you so you can check up on him. Okay?"

"Thank you."

She grips his shoulder rubbing it gently. "So... who's up for bowling?!" She asks still in the party mood.

Kiba cocked a brow, Hige got his sneakers.

In the car. Tsume flips through CD's hidden under the arm rest; the lights in the city give him enough to see what he's touching occassionally but any shaded area has him momentarily blinded of them. He seemed decided on one; one handing the case open he pops the disk out then slides it into the player. After three presses of the skip button a song starts to play; its light and sweet.

In the backseat on the floor behind the mans seat, Toboe is sure that he's going to fall asleep- at least, until Tsume started to sing. It wasn't amazing, it wasn't meant to be elaborate but he is singing. Curling his lips in, Toboe smacks a hand over his mouth and prays to whoever keeps laughter back will give him a break and not blow his cover. He wants to surprise Tsume not spoil it all before they even get out of the city and end up being brought back to the house with his brother and Hige. But boy, the gods were testing him desperately because a small laugh slipped out when Tsume hit a bum note and tried it again by taking the song back. This is gonna be a long ride.