Bffimagine: Alright. Please go easy on me, this is my first attempt at a mystery/suspense fic!
Kai: You probably suck at it like you do with the rest of your fics.
Bffimagine: HEY!
My Nostalgia
Mystery/Suspense
Synopsis/Summary: When Kai's memories are a key factor to a murder investigation, the cookie begins to crumble rather messily…
Pairings: Rei/Kai, Kai/Rei
Warnings: Blood, torture, murder (of course), yaoi, that's pretty much it.
Happy Reading!
Caution tape was plastered around the abbey like yellow fences. Rei and Kai walked by the scene with a mix of horror and curiosity on both their faces.
Tala came out of the interrogation room with tears on his face. Kai ran to his side.
"Yuuri? What happened?"
Tala dried his face on his sleeve.
"Boris was murdered."
Rei gasped and Kai's face turned to stone.
"They forced me to tell them everything. They hit me and cut me as bad as Boris and Voltaire do."
Kai's eyes turned to ice. Bloody, crimson ice.
"What did you tell them?"
"I had to name every child Boris mistreated in the abbey. They strapped me to a lie detector and if I lied they'd hurt me. I had to name us all."
"KAI!"
Kai's head whipped around to see the rest of the former Demolition BoyZ. They were covered it drying, freezing blood and their clothes were torn. Their faces were contorted in severe pain.
"Kai, you remember how the drug Voltaire gave us made us lose our memories? Well, it has a permanent effect. You, however, seem to be able to remember bits and pieces, but they slip away. This drug has a neural toxin that will make you severely ill if you try to remember too much. Be careful in there, Kai." Tala gave Kai another careful glance, and then Kai walked toward the interrogation room.
"No! KAI!"
Rei grabbed Kai's arm and clung onto him tightly.
"Don't go. They'll hurt you!"
"I have to go Rei, otherwise you might be juggled into this somehow. I wouldn't forgive myself for that."
"I don't want you hurt."
"Don't worry about me, koishi." Kai pressed a chaste kiss on Rei lips and ran off.
"Bryan! Spencer! Ian!"
"Kai, they want you in the interrogation room. It's a good thing you were walking this way," Bryan was relieved and worried at the same time.
"I had to come by here in order to get to the airport. I was going to go back to Japan today, but it seems I'll be stuck here for a while."
"It's a good thing the tourney was here then," Spencer added in, "Otherwise you'd be in another country and they'd track you down. At least now your team members are safe."
"That's all that matters," Kai agreed.
"Hiwatari Kai? You're wanted in the interrogation room right now," a young lady with blonde hair beckoned Kai into the room impatiently.
The walls were completely white and a solitary black chair was facing Kai as he walked into the room.
"Hiwatari Kai?" the man in the chair asked matter-of-factly.
"Yes." Was Kai's curt reply.
"Strap him up."
Two burly men grabbed Kai roughly and chained his wrist and ankles with the shackles on the wall. The chains were about a metre long each, and Kai was granted a little mobility.
One of the hulking men stuck a needle attached to a wire into Kai's arm. Kai didn't even flinch.
"Alright Kai. Do you know who Boris Balkov was?"
Kai didn't answer.
"Give him the whip."
The huge men each pulled out a whip, and they began lashing Kai very hard with them. Kai didn't even blink as his flesh was torn to bits.
"Let's try again. Do you know Boris Balkov?"
No answer.
"Take the knife to him."
The taller bulky man slid a dagger out of his belt. He made deep, bleeding gashes and cuts all over Kai's body, not even sparing his back.
"Last chance. DO YOU KNOW BORIS BALKOV?"
Kai refused to answer.
The shorter burly man with blonde hair and fair skin nodded after some sort of signal from the interrogator. He too took out a dagger, and it gleamed maliciously in the bright light.
He made twin incisions, one on either side of Kai's body and underneath his ribcage.
Not a sound brushed by Kai's lips.
"Fine. You want to take it the hard way."
Both of the tormentors cracked their knuckles and landed punch after kick after punch into Kai's body. Four ribs snapped and Kai's right leg was twisted in a nasty way, not to mention his left wrist was snapped backward and his lip was split.
Blood had begun to pool around him.
"Fine. I'll talk," Kai said finally.
The interrogator was slightly surprised considering Kai had not made even a sound after being tortured. He was not even a hairsbreadth from death and he still had a defiant smirk on his face.
"I know Boris Balkov. He was my caregiver at the Balkov abbey. There were only five boys he was determined to make perfect: myself, Tala Valkov, Spencer, Ian and Bryan. He tortured us all and gave us a drug that made us unable to retain memories for an expanded amount of time. We only knew this because he repeated it to us over and over. We all hated him.
"My grandfather was in leagues with Boris. None of us had anything to do with his murder, but you may want to see what my grandfather has to say."
The lie detector had a long, perfectly straight line across it.
"Are there any reasons for Tala, Spencer, Bryan or Ian to kill Boris besides hatred?"
No answer. One of the tormentors shoved his dagger up the incisions under Kai's ribs and tore at his insides.
"Are there any reasons for you to kill him?"
No answer. The shorter tormentor pulled out a gun and shot Kai in his good leg.
"Are there any reasons for your grandfather to want to kill Boris?"
"I… I can't remember any."
The second tormentor also took out a gun and shot Kai in his right arm.
"Where were you at the time of Boris' murder?"
"At a beyblading tournament."
"Why were you at the crime scene?"
"I'm the leader of my team, and one of the team members was curious to take a look. Then I realised Boris had been murdered."
"Was Boris ever kind to you or the other boys?"
"I… I can't remember."
Both tormentors pulled out swords and cut an 'X' on Kai's torso, from the nape of his neck to his lower waist on the left, and from his shoulder to his lower waist on the right.
"What about your team-mates? Would they have any reason to hate Boris?"
"KEEP MY TEAM OUT OF THIS!" Kai seethed.
Daggers stabbed into his abdomen.
Kai spat blood onto the ground.
"Why did Boris want you particular boys to be perfect?"
"I… I can't remember that."
The tormentors cut a diagonal line above Kai's right eyebrow, and then sliced a slash on both of Kai's cheeks.
"Why do you have those triangles on your face Kai?"
Kai was about to pass out. The pain was becoming almost overwhelming. Dranzer pulsed hotly in his pocket.
"I can't remember."
Kai thought hard. Why did he have those blue triangles tattooed on his face?
"I… I… can't remember…"
A well-placed punch to the face knocked Kai out cold.
"He should have a concussion after that," the tormentor grinned smugly.
"Doesn't matter. This one's useless now, unless he can remember some more."
"LET ME IN THERE!"
Rei was pulling against Tala and Bryan. Kai had been in the cursed interrogation room for over an hour.
Tears were rolling down Rei's cheeks in perfect little spheres.
"He could be dead by now," he sobbed, "They could've killed him."
Tala and Bryan loosened their grip on the Chinese boy. He made no attempt to go after Kai.
Suddenly, with a burst of speed, Rei was already at the door of the interrogation room. He began to bang on the door.
"Alright Driger. I'm counting on you!"
Rei blade left the launcher with speed matched only by lightning, and it tore away the steel hinges of the door.
The door fell to the ground and Rei gasped at what he saw.
Kai was still shackled to the wall, and two huge, bulky men were electrocuting him. One was tall and had a lot of his muscle in his upper body, the other was shorter, fair-skinned and blonde with stronger legs than arms. The taller one had a mop of brown hair on his head, and both men had dull blue eyes.
"What are you doing in here?" the interrogator asked, furious.
"You can't kill Kai just because he can't remember! It's not his fault!"
"I have every right to kill him. And with my very high immunities to court, I can kill twenty men and no one will be able to put me in jail."
Rei turned to Kai as the tormentors were putting salt and lemon juices in his cuts. Kai showed no signs of pain, and he was only semi-conscious. The blonde man laughed and applied mercury, while the other smiled and dripped poisons and acids onto the exposed, pale flesh.
Finally, Kai gathered the last of his strength and balled his long, thin fingers into fists. He pulled the chains right out of the wall, the steel bending and breaking. Once he was free, he knocked out the tormentors with inhuman speed.
The interrogator was now more than a little aggravated. He stood up and punched Rei across his cheek.
This drove Kai completely insane with rage. He kicked the interrogator in the head, knocking the thin man out.
"Rei, are you alright?"
"Yeah. Are you?'
"I'm fi—" Kai collapsed into Rei's arms, a broken, bloody body that couldn't take any more abuse.
"Well, the neural toxins have been released. I examined them and recorded some information. There are fifteen in all: ten are poisons, three are sleep-inducers, one is a disease and another is a trigger virus. The trigger virus causes different cancers and the disease has quite a few symptoms. One is a high fever which lasts for about a month without complications, there's nightmares, trouble with blood clotting and… extreme blood loss and fatigue. This disease is pretty much permanent, but it doesn't stay that severe forever. Sort of becomes anemia and hemophilia after a while." Tala closed his book.
"Well, the fever's already arrived," Rei sighed.
"None of our injuries were this severe," Bryan muttered, placing a cool washcloth on Kai's forehead.
"Ta—la," Kai breathed laboriously, "I… I lied."
"Of course you did," Tala smiled reassuringly, "All of us did. I think you did more than the rest of us though."
"He… he thought I was telling the truth," Kai clenched the white sheets on the bed in pain. Ian was removing the bullet from his leg.
"What did you tell him?" Spencer inquired softly.
"I told him you guys didn't have any other reasons to kill Boris besides the fact that he abused us."
"Well, that definitely isn't ALL of the truth."
"I couldn't remember most of what he asked me," Kai murmured, almost sadly, "The only memory I have of the abbey up to seven years ago was that you guys were always with me. I can never forget that."
"Wow. Kai almost looked nostalgic there."
"Yes," Kai smiled, but his eyes were squeezed shut in pain, "It's my nostalgia."
Kai let out an almost inaudible sound of pain as soon as Ian pulled out the bullet. He set it beside the one from Kai's arm.
"You aren't going to be healed fully for quite a while," Rei gently brushed his fingertips over Kai's fevered face.
"Where am I?" Kai looked around the unfamiliar place.
"This is where I stay while I'm in Japan," Rei explained, "It's my uncle's old clinic. I keep in clean and his tools are always sterilized. He keeps quite a stock of medicine in here as well, for a place that he's abandoned."
"Your uncle lived here?" Ian asked incredulously.
"There's a sort of house in the back."
"Oh."
That night, Kai didn't have his normal nightmares of everyone he held close to his heart dying by his own hands. That was horrific enough, but these nightmares were different. He saw himself and the Demolition BoyZ when they were about seven, seven years ago (A/N: I think Kai is fourteen anyway).
"I hate Boris so much," Tala seethed.
The rest of the Russian-born orphans nodded, along with Kai, the one born in Japan but transported into Moscow to live in the abbey.
"I wish he would go away."
"Be careful what you wish for, Tala," Kai warned.
"I don't care. I hope he dies."
Spencer bit his lip.
"Good thing he didn't hear that."
Rei sat by Kai's bedside, unable to sleep in the cot to his right. He listened to Kai, who was delirious and talking in his sleep. He was saying how Tala wanted Boris to die and other things to that effect. Rei held tight to Kai's hand.
"So this Tala boy wanted Boris dead," the interrogator mused aloud, an ice-pack held to his head. He was a thin, wiry man with thin black hair and pasty skin. His eyes were an unreadable black, and he had a cold edge to his voice.
"Interesting. The redhead is now our prime suspect."
bffimagine: DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN. To be continued.
Kai: I hate it when that happens.
Bffimagine: Well, this was less of a cliffie than I had in mind, but ah well.
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