Len curled up against the seat at the bus stop, under the shade from the relentless rain falling all around him. Although it could hardly be seen in the dark of the night, he had a few big, dark purple bruise all over the side of his face and arms and scratches running all over his body, mostly visible along his arms and neck. His arm was also bent at out an odd angle and he was hardly even aware of it. His shirt was torn open slightly, revealing a little of his chest. His eyes were empty and showed no emotion as he just stared at the ground.
He had been jumped earlier today. Although they didn't rape him or something like that, he had been almost beaten to death and had everything stolen from him, although they had left his bag and Len had absolutely no idea what their motive could have possibly been. After they had left, probably thinking that he was dead, he stayed there, unmoving, until it got dark enough that no one would see him, and now here he was.
He sighed a little, his breath light but ragged, not wanting or even caring to move. His entire body was numb apart from his head and he had gotten a headache quite a while ago, but he wasn't even sure when or even the time right now. He just sat there, his empty bag resting on his lap, his head pounding and the rain not threatening to let up, even for a second.
Len wasn't even aware that everyone else had been looking for him all day, to no avail. The police even had to be called when he failed to come home when he was supposed to and most of them were at home right now, discussing what they think could have happened, all of them extremely worried.
All of them except for Kaito. He hadn't stopped looking for Len the minute he found out that he was missing. Losing Len would be like losing a little brother and he didn't want that. No one would want that. Len was someone he cared about and if he was gone, a part of his lie would be gone. Although searching in the pouring rain couldn't be that helpful as sight was limited, he wanted to find Len and he wanted to find him soon.
Turning a corner, Kaito slammed on the brakes when he saw a small figure slumped against the bus chair. There's no way that could be Len. But just in case… He turned off the gas, reached into the back seat to grab an umbrella and slowly got out of the car, shivering at the cold. He walked at quietly as possible, squinting a little to try and make out some of the features of the person. It was definitely male, Kaito concluded as he kept walking.
Kaito's mouth dropped open and the umbrella flew from his grasp as he ran forward and knelt beside the small frame of a boy, "Len!" He exclaimed, noticing the injuries instantly and wincing, knowing that they would surely hurt, "Are you alright? What happened to you? We were all so worried!"
Len slowly brought his eyes up, ignoring the pain that shot through his neck as he did so, "Kaito-nii…?" He murmured, still unmoving, although a little shocked at the sight of him there.
Kaito's expression softened as he brought his arms up to Len's face to examine the bruises. Len didn't move but winced slightly at the touch, although he didn't let it show. By now, he was exhausted and couldn't care less about what happened.
Kaito stood at sat down next to the boy, cradling his arm, trying not to hurt him more than he already had been, "Come on, we need to get you home and fix you up before these get any worse than they have to be," Kaito stood and held out his hand but sighed when the younger one didn't make any attempts to move. He must be exhausted. Kaito thought and bent down, wrapping his arms around Len's small frame and lifted him up.
Len huffed a little when he felt Kaito's arms lift him but he didn't complain. He reached up his arms and wrapped them around his neck to cling to Kaito so that he wouldn't fall, shaking slightly and he curled up against his chest.
Looking down at Len, his eyes full of concern, Kaito wrapped his arms tighter around the shivering boy and began to walk to the car. The rain pelted down on them and Kaito speed walked, trying to shield Len as best he could, unlocked the door and placed Len in the passenger side seat. He helped him buckle the seat belt as he wasn't entirely sure that he was able to do it by himself. With that done, he shut Len's door and climbed into his side.
He caught a quick glance at Len and turned the key, the car instantly jumping to life. He instantly turned on the heater, wanting to get them both warm as quickly as possible.
Before starting to move the car, Kaito reached back behind them both and grabbed a blanket from the back seat and wrapped it around Len, saw he was quite close to falling asleep and ruffled his hair lightly, then turned back to the wheel, starting to move the car.
The ride back home was silent, apart from Len and Kaito's constant breathing and that rain beating a fast paced and quite loud rhythm on the windows. They passed no other cars and Kaito was hardly surprised. It was a Sunday and most people were at home sleeping, it being the late hour that it was.
Finally reaching the house, Kaito pulled into the driveway and turned off the car. He turned to Len and found him sleeping, his head dipping forward slowly. Sighing, Kaito leaned Len's head back against the seat and got out his side. Walking around to Len's, he opened the door and pulled the small boy out, keeping the blanket wrapped around his torso.
He skilfully shut and locked the car and walked up to the door. Without even having to knock, the door flew open and there stood a teary eyed and hiccupping Rin behind a wide eyed Luka. They quickly hurried him inside and Kaito laid Len down on the couch carefully and unwrapped the blanket slightly.
Luka had already come with a first-aid kit and sat down next to the couch, eyeing his injuries closely. Standing behind Luka were Rin, Miku and Gumi, Rin still crying, the other two threatening to break into tears at any moment. Meiko knelt down beside Luka and winced when she saw the way his arm was bent.
"Gakupo, could you go get me some ice? It looks like his arm is either broken or really badly sprained," Luka called, lifting up Len's arm, thankful that he was asleep or else he probably would have screamed out and she didn't want him to stress out more than it looked like he had.
"Yeah sure," Gakupo nodded and walked into the kitchen, returning moments later with an ice-pack in hand. He walked to Luka and handed the ice to her and she carefully placed it on top of Len's injured arm.
"I-is h-he o-okay?" Rin stuttered out, trying to wipe away the tears that seemed to be endlessly spilling onto her cheeks. Miku lightly patted her back and Gumi leaned over a little more so she was able to see Len a little better.
Meiko stood up and turned to Rin, "He'll be fine Rin don't worry. It just a few cuts and bruises, maybe a sprained wrist. They'll heal so just relax and let Luka do her thing,," She walked up to her and embraced her in a warm, reassuring hug, trying to get her to calm down.
Rin just continued to cry but eventually calmed her breathing and the tears slowed down, eventually coming to a halt.
Luka eventually finished bandaging up Len and stood, turning to Kaito, "Do you know why he's like this? It's not normal for a teen to come home with cuts and bruises, not to mention that his arm was very close to broken,"
Kaito merely shook his head and looked down at the sleeping teen, "He wouldn't say anything. I'm not sure what happened and I don't think that he would even want to talk about it. I found him sitting in the rain at a bus stop Luka. Whatever happened seems to have been pretty bad,"
"Well for now he needs rest. Can you take him up to his room, Kaito?" Luka finished packing away the first-aid kit and handed it to Meiko who went to put it back in the bathroom, awaiting the next injury.
"Yeah, yeah, sure," Kaito stood up from the couch and walked over to Len, leaned down a little, then wrapped his arms around him and scooped him up, glad that he was quite light, even for a boy his age.
He walked to the stairs and began heading towards Len and Rin's shared bedroom when he felt the boy in his arms stir. Kaito walked a little faster, opened the door with little difficulty, and then pulled back the covers and plopped Len down, pulling them up to his chest, then began to tiptoe towards the door.
"Kaito-nii…?" Kaito heard a mumble and turned back around to see Len, his eyes only slightly open, craning his neck up slightly to be able to look at Kaito from the angle that he was at, "Wh-what happened…?"
Kaito walked back to the bed and sat down on the edge of it, making it dip slightly. He reached up his hand, lightly patting Len's head, "I'm not sure. You'll have to tell me and all the others. You know that we were really worried about you, right Len? But we won't discuss that today, yeah? When you wake up tomorrow, then you can explain. If you feel up to it of course. We don't want to push you, okay? Now get some rest," Kaito smiled down at Len who nodded and closed his eyes.
He was only able to mutter a small, "Thank you," to Kaito, just before he drifted off, deep into sleep.
Well that's the end of chapter one. I'll try to update as quickly as I can. That's if I don't get writers block just like every other time I try to continue a story. That's why I've never uploaded until now. I dunno, I guess I was just having a good day. Other than my stomach making me want to curl up and die, I hope you enjoy what this suckish fanfic has to offer you. Although that may not be much anyway. This is also my very first fanfiction so please don't be too harsh on the criticisms. I even don't know how this is going to turn out and it might not even make sense at times so just bear with me, I came up with this idea when I was really close to falling asleep and I wrote it down, thinking that it might be good. I dunno if it is or not so I'll just let you guys decide. I hope you enjoy.