Cross my heart and hope to die
a/n: This is my literary lovechild with 07-Ghost. I had fun writing this, and may be subject to not update so much because I may be stuck with this story. Grr I may need a beta later on, so if anybody wants to or knows somebody,. TELL ME! Ok, so its easily apparent that I have given up on titles, I now just use song titles whether they fit or not -_- if anyone wants the title to change, just Review or PM me but since I saw a REALLY great amv with this song by Toffeequeen on youtube, I decided to do that. Everybody check it out! She is Really good with yaoi too if anybody is interested, and since I haven't done it in a while-
Disclaimer: I don't own any songs, videos, anime : 07-Ghost, or ANYTHING for that my on. atter in this story. Carry on.
"Where are you going you damned brat?" the blond teenager called after the emerald-eyed toddler, wobbling on unsteady limbs to a fully bloomed daisy, the only one for miles. the blond rolled his cerulean orbs, his mentor chuckled and ruffled rambunctious spikes. "Leave him be. You worry to much!" The dark haired man commented, bringing a blush to the younger boy's cheeks. "Tch! Of course not." his blue eyes narrowed, looking away and at the toddler under his lashes, complely disregarding his earlier words.
Like the calm before the storm, it was peaceful. The emerald eyed boy stared transfixed by the flower, and the teenager had his eyes transfixed on the boy who sat in the grass. The only thing that could be heard in the grassy field was the soft exclamations of a child and the distant chirping of birds. Finally gathering the courage to pluck the daisy, he snapped the stem in delight , not noticing the silhouette before him. A boot came down to trample the once perfect flower. The young boy cried out, tears pricking his astoundingly vivid eyes, meeting cold violet ones.
He remembered it in slow motion, the dark haired man had run out in front of the young boy, The spray of red colored the toddler's cheeks as the man fell, keeping a protective stance, even in what appeared to be deep rest, the dull eyes still open, continually staring into his soul. The boy turns back, seeing the familiar blond run towards him with an outstretched hand, eyes widened beyond belief. Without thinking, the green eyed boy reached out, Their fingers grazed, the strangled cry of- "TEITO!" (1)
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Green eyes gazed at the recently fallen snow dismally. He lifted the fur-trim hood over his face, sighing in relief as the warmth enveloped him, blessing his reddening cheeks. The sounds of a harsh string orchestra flooded through the white buds in his ears, (2) distorting the chatter of people on the street, the light traffic. His eyes turned to the clock tower, its antique western-styled hands ticking scarcely, the frost clinging onto the slow moving hands as if freezing time itself. the city's sights distracted him as he let his eyes slipped closed. The sudden,sweet, burning of chloroform erupted in his nostrils, a meaty hand clapping over his mouth, silencing him in their tempting depths. The darkness suffocated him, the last thing he saw; a trembling sidewalk.
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-"TEITO!" a fist that is unmistakably Mikage's raps on his skull and yells out his name again. "Teito!" He groans and unceremoniously whips the blanket none to gently at the voice's face. burying his face deeper into his pillow, desperately needing sleep, which looked a lot more like suffocating than rest. "Wake up you lazy short person! Today we leave!" he acutely glares at the blond, curling himself into a ball deeper into the boarding school's barracks, feeling completely miserable.
"You mean you're leaving." he muttered pessimistically, trying to smother himself with the pillow once more. Mikage sighed and sat down by him, brushing a hand through chocolate strands. "Don't be that way bud," he says softly, and Teito doesn't relent in his suicide/sleep attempt any less, his fingers still combing through the hair. "I'll miss you." the words are muffled on Teito's part, trying his hardest not to feel the unwelcome burn of something foreign behind his eyelids. "Hey! You can visit." Teito looked up from the pillow with glittery emerald orbs. What the honey-eyed teen hadn't expected was for the boy to bare his teeth and throw himself to his arms as a writhing, crying, mess. "Stupid,Stupid,Stupid!" the boy cried, Mikage's arms wrapped around him, already consoling the tearing teen. "You idiot! I won't be able to visit- like Miroku's going to let me get out of this hell hole." Mikage smiled sadly in realization, his departure begun to sink in, no longer with giddy delight, the thought of going back home not as kind anymore.
Last week had been the boarding school's graduation. After that, the graduates could finally go home to their families and pursue their careers. ( 3 ) Teito had been bought by Miroku at a young age, he had been a modern slave of human trafficking, and he had been too young to remember what he had done in those years, but they distanced him from everyone, including Miroku. What a cold hearted ex-military official wanted with him (and not for but rape) never really crossed his mind. He saw the man liked the rest of the students did, a strict principle capable of any form of punishment. Mikage had been the first to open up to him, when they were assigned roommates as kids. He still remembered the boy's refreshing smile, the almost imperceptible scar on his left cheek as he introduced himself. Mikage didn't know then, and especially not now, that Miroku would never let Teito would ever leave the boarding school's walls. For good measure, he squeezed the life out of Mikage. Not knowing it would be his last. His heart clenched and pulsated painfully in his chest at that thought. His heart skipped a beat. He wasn't ready to let go of Mikage.
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Sandy beaches and salty waters beckoned him through the large bay window. Sharp cerulean eyes suddenly widened as he grabbed at his chest, just positive he had felt a clench and pulse. His heart had started up, and it skipped a beat.
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A year had passed since the graduation. Miroku had finally informed why he adopted (bought) Teito to begin with. He hadn't wanted to father any children, or have a mate because it would shake him of his cold ways. He wanted to raise an heir just as distant as he was, to take over everything he had left behind. Including his secretly sponsored military squad called 'The Black Hawks', as well as the school which actually gave you the choice to become one of them. Teito had been given no choice to decline, so he asked for the impossible : he wanted to go outside. He had always been out on campus, as far as it could take him. Never had he gone into town, but he would marvel at the tales Mikage told him of his trips there on weekends. He had always wanted to go, and he knew how to use a map. To his surprise, the man had accepted. He knew that Teito wasn't trying to run away, he needed time to think. To accept his new fate. " be back by six-thirty." he said over folded hands, looking pointedly into his own eyes, seeing something he had never seen in Miroku's eyes before...understanding, pity.
He missed Mikage terribly, as he walked around the Town Square, Mikage's desciptions not doing any justice to the real beauty of the city. Teito should have known there was a reason Miroku never let him go outside. The man had leered at him when he awoke from his chloroform-induced sleep. "Those eyes of yours will make us a fortune someday." the face was familiar and he found his lip curling in disgust before even knowing who this person was. he had been bound by chains at his wrists and ankles to the wall, glaring at the man through the thin metal bars. 'Those eyes' glared at the less than pleasant man left, closing the heavy doors as all the other 'slaves' silenced themselves.
He peered down at the chains he had been so used to seeing throughout his life. In reality, it had only been seven years since he had been a 'slave'. The need to escape had dissipated long ago. Who was going to miss him, Miroku? he could find another heir. Mikage? He would never know that he had disappeared in the first place, and he had a family to support. Mikage was a friendly guy, he had plenty of friends, he could be replaced by someone who wasn't wasting their life away at the bottom of a boat, taking him to god knows where to be sold as some collateral.
"I can't forgive myself." an elder woman with a greasy brown hair and a worn, once beautiful face spoke, breaking the silence. Under all the guilt she wore, she couldn't be a day over thirty. Tears filled her dull brown orbs but he couldn't find it in him to move anymore, to give comfort. "Ever since we've fallen into debt, I lied to my son, all the time. Once I started, I couldn't stop. I convinced myself that I was doing it for the both of us." she curled into a ball, rocking herself forwards and backwards as her tears escaped. It was obvious what she had done to get the money. She took a shaky breath, her bony shoulders trembling with inner turmoil. "We had cake on our last day together. I had to sell the both of us. My son and I."
Teito felt disgusted, he couldn't grace the woman with his emerald eyes as they fell to his dirtied feet, the dull gaze once devoid of life sparked to life with fury. Bile rose in his throat at the thought of what she had done. The woman didn't seem to notice because she placed her hands on his arm, he flinched away in retaliation and caught sight of her face, so humiliating and shameless he didn't no what to say. Tears streaked all over her face, snot smeared above her upper lip as she sniffed continuously, trying not to let out her hysterics. " If you ever meet him, he's blond. Has blue eyes, five years old. Cutest boy alive. His name is Capella." she let go of him, losing it as she uttered her son's name. It was if she had never let go as his closed his eyes,wanting to shut out the world. 'Capella huh?' sleep beckoned to him again.
'...what a beautiful name.'
( 1 ) So this has been divided into several parts. The first part was when Teito was dreaming of his past, and when his name had been called, it was Mikage that called him that to wake him up. So no, the 'mysterious blond-haired-blue-eyed guy' was NOT the one who said it ;)
( 2 ) The song is Iris covered by Vitamin String Quartet. :D they are SO awesome and I can imagine Teito having a taste for classical music but with a modern twist. And I will reveal how he got the iPod in a later chapter (hiint, hint!)
( 3 ) Since this is an AU, this story starts off at Barsburg Boarding school, which is coincidentally for grades K-12. meaning that he starts off at 17, as oppsoed to 15 in the manga.
On another side note, I have so many musical related ideas to writing nowadasy that I will give 'tracks' for each chapter. This time, there are two:
Iris by The Vitamin String Quartet
Never be the same by Red
Shattered by Trading yesterdat
;) UNTIL NEXT TIME DEAR READERS!