Beloved Concubine
(A request by ByaltaSensei! This is a Byakuya/Ichigo/Tetsuya threesome with some non-con Orochi/Tetsuya (unedited version will be on AO3 today), and marks the beginning of the monthlong tidal wave of Tetsuya related fics. This month, our sweet Tetsuya will be 'loved' by Byakuya, Sousuke Aizen, Renji, Ichigo, Orochi, Koji, King Hiromi and the cute Rikichi, along with anyone else readers want to suggest. I will be updating any and all stories he is in, whether he is the main character or not. So, you will see stories like Heart Crafting, The Sacrifice, Chrysalis and Ice Blossom, as well as Bya/Ren's like Always My Taichou, Nightmare in Red, On Top, The Woman in Me, Whispers and other pairing stories, such as The Demon Inside Me, *new story* The Animal in Me, Blood Rain and Longings. Happy Birthday month, Tetsuya! And many happy and tormenting...ahem...'gifts' for you!)
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Chapter 1: Love's Tender Blossoming
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Love blossoms like a fragrant rose, unfurling itself and falling over the senses, wrapping around the soul. All along the way, thorns line the tender stem...there to protect, but a danger also to the protector...
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"You look very content, Cousin," Tetsuya commented, his dark sapphire eyes admiring the unusually happy expression that Byakuya wore as he climbed up behind the younger noble on the tall black stallion's back and wrapped his arms around Tetsuya's slim waist, "I take it that your Valentine's celebrations with Kurosaki Ichigo went well?"
"Better than that, actually," Byakuya said in an abnormally relaxed and pleasant tone, "Tetsuya, I took your advice."
"What advice was that?" Tetsuya asked, looking between Arashi's perked ears and down the pathway.
"I threw caution to the wind. I couldn't help myself, actually. When I arrived, Ichigo had the dining area and living room decorated and softly lit for our evening. And he had already made dinner for us. Dessert, we made together, amidst much distraction. Fortunately, the dish we made tolerated the interruptions quite well."
"And then?" Tetsuya asked, arching a delicate eyebrow.
"While his face was still decorated with strawberry glaze from our culinary foreplay, I asked him to marry me."
Tetsuya's bright smile warmed even more.
"Byakuya-sama!" he whispered.
"He was completely taken by surprise," Byakuya said, barely able to stifle a soft chuckle, "He just stood there, staring at me with strawberry glaze all over his terribly surprised face. Then...well, then we celebrated, of course."
"So, he said yes?" Tetsuya queried.
"He said yes," Byakuya confirmed softly.
A troubled look touched Tetsuya's features for a moment.
"And how did he weather the council's likely response? Did you warn him that they would likely oppose the marriage?"
"Yes," the clan leader answered, his eyes darkening slightly, "Fortunately, Ichigo is not one who scares easily. He assured me that between the two of us, we will convince the council to allow the marriage. After all, we are talking about Shiba Ichigo, the Shiba clan heir and savior several times over of Soul Society. The council has to look past the end of it's unsightly nose and see that!"
"One would think," Tetsuya agreed, blinking sleepily as weariness began to overtake him, "But they will also consider the fact that even though Ichigo is of very respectable blood, giving him your hand will mean that neither of you will bring children to your respective clans. He is the most powerful shinigami alive, and you are the most powerful leader ever to head the Kuchiki family. Do you think they would be mollified if you and Ichigo agreed to lie with clan concubines to preserve your legacies of power?"
Byakuya was quiet for several long minutes, then sighed softly and closed his eyes, his arms tightening slightly around his cousin.
"We spoke of that," he admitted barely audibly, "And neither of us can stomach the idea of doing something like that. We understand the desire, even responsibility to continue those legacies of power, but we could not bear the idea of being with someone we do not know...having children with women who will be used, but never named and honored by the clan. It seems wrong to us. But we must come up with another way. And we must think of that way quickly. The elders know that Ichigo and I have been secretly meeting. I do not know who said something, but word got back to them."
Tetsuya frowned.
"But I've watched over your meetings carefully. I haven't sensed anything, not anyone."
"And I have been exceedingly careful in who knows. I have only told Rukia and Renji and our attendants, of course, and I know none of them would do anything to let that information fall into the elders' hands. But it doesn't really matter how they know. All that matters is finding a way to appease them."
Tetsuya cleared his throat softly and started to speak, but stopped as he sensed a probing reiatsu somewhere in the forest, ahead of them. Byakuya tensed as he sensed it as well, then relaxed slightly as Tetsuya's shikai instantly engaged.
"Touei, Re-kuhime," he intoned very softly.
Instantly, the bodies of the two men and the stallion they rode, lost their natural color and took on the translucent nature of water. Barely visible and made silent, they moved forward cautiously, watching the trail ahead of them and listening for any sound of pursuit.
"Can you sense who it is?" Tetsuya breathed softly.
"No, it is well masked."
"Then, this is someone powerful, perhaps an elder."
"Yes."
"Byakuya-sama, you should return to the escape form I left in your bed."
"But use of the escape form registers in the reiatsu in both places. I would give away your position to whoever awaits us. I will not leave you alone to face whoever this is."
"Byakuya-sama, Arashi and I can handle this. We are your bodyguards. You must have faith in us."
"It is not a lack of faith, I assure you," Byakuya insisted, "I think it would be unwise to confirm for them that either of us was out here tonight. It will only fuel their suspicions."
"Ah, yes, there is that."
Do you want me to track them? Arashi whispered into their minds.
"No," Tetsuya answered, looking in the direction Arashi had been, "We cannot address whoever it is this way, with Byakuya-sama returning from a meeting with him. We must get Byakuya-sama home, and then you and I can worry about coming back out here in the morning and tracking the person or persons involved. It would be too risky to try to follow them right now. Byakuya-sama is supposed to be at home, in bed."
I did not sense any disturbance around the waterform you left in his place, Arashi noted.
"No, it has not been detected. And if anyone had come to wake Byakuya-sama, or an emergency had arisen, he would have returned to the waterform there instantly. I wonder how whoever this is, knew."
I cannot fathom it.
"Neither can I," Byakuya said softly.
"We've moved past them," Tetsuya reported, "But we will remain in this form until you are returned to your bed for the night."
"Very well," the clan leader agreed.
Arashi moved forward, his footsteps silent, and remaining carefully in the shadows. The waterform, he knew, was barely visible, but the bright moon could easily expose them. The three went quiet, listening to the cool night sound, the soft breeze through the trees, whispers of splashing water nearby, and the gentle noises of nighttime birds and insects. No sound reached them from whomever had been seeking them. And as Arashi passed through the rear gate, into the gardens, they breathed a sigh of relief.
The two men slid off of the stallion's back and walked cautiously back to their rooms, slipping inside and replacing the waterforms that Tetsuya had left in their places.
Tetsuya expected Koji to appear, his trusted attendant being deeply sensitive to his master's coming and going. But Koji's reiatsu remained quiet and distant in sleep, even as Tetsuya undressed, then laid down in his bed and began to drift off.
He had just fallen into sleep, when a soft footstep sounded, outside the open garden doors. A dark figure with carefully masked reiatsu slipped into the room and approached his bed. Dark, coal black eyes looked down on Tetsuya's lovely, sleep-relaxed body, and the man's lips curled into a wicked smirk. He reached down and touched Tetsuya's cheek, where a hidden seal flared, hypnotizing the younger man as he came awake, and keeping him from resisting or objecting as the intruder slipped out of his clothes and into bed with him.
"Miwaku, Kurohebi,"
Two large, black snakes slithered from out of the man's hands, and took up entrance at each door, turning their red eyes outward.
"That will keep us from having any interruptions," he said, looking down into Tetsuya's wide, confused blue eyes, "Now then, before we get to what I want to talk to you about, why don't you do something to relax me. It has been a long day."
He sat facing his younger cousin, leaning forward to taste his soft lips briefly, then weaving his fingers into Tetsuya's wavy hair and curling his hand around the back of the younger man's neck. Tetsuya flinched slightly in protest, but could not resist his cousin's insidious power, so slowly fell more deeply under his spell, and moved with the hand that guided him down to his cousin's nether region. The black-eyed man smiled cruelly, touching Tetsuya's lips to part them in preparation for him to pleasure his cousin.
Well accustomed to the frequent ritual, Tetsuya accepted his cousin's direction obediently, nearly mindlessly as he was flooded with compelling reiatsu from the hidden seal. The black-eyed man panted softly, gazing down at Tetsuya's pretty face and inwardly hating him for being so beautiful, so soft, so desirable. Looking at Tetsuya's face made him want to scream obscenities at the younger man, to hurt him in every way imaginable. But he knew better than to leave a single mark on Tetsuya's pale skin.
Byakuya would know.
And then, we would have no more of these lovely nights together.
It is ironic, no? That this dirty little half-blood can tempt a pureblood like me into this. But his face is so beguiling, his skin so soft. I have never met anyone who makes me feel like this. I hate him, yes.
But, I cannot resist him.
So, he will pay for luring me by serving me this way. And any who try to approach him will be repelled. No one but me will ever touch him.
Tetsuya is mine.
He slipped a hand under Tetsuya's chin and leaned back slightly, watching intently as they continued their interaction. Tetsuya's eyes remained glazed over and senseless, but his body moved at his wicked cousin's direction, until the elder man was on the verge of bliss. He gasped as climax engulfed him, nearly choking Tetsuya, even though he knew well enough to expect it. It seemed the sweet jolts of orgasm would never stop, as he defiled his too pretty, half-blooded cousin, then dragged him up into a barrage of hard, open-mouthed kisses, so that he could taste himself on the younger man's lips.
He looked down at Tetsuya's awakened member and nodded approvingly.
"You want me?" he asked softly, "You want me to grant you pleasure?"
Tetsuya panted feverishly against the disgraceful words that welled up in his mouth as his cousin released him.
"Y-yes, Orochi-sama," he breathed shakily.
Orochi smiled and sought his lips again, sliding a hand down to touch him as they kissed. Tetsuya winced as his cousin slid the tight restraining ring onto his aching hardness, then teased him mercilessly.
"You will have to earn it," Orochi hissed softly, "You know how. Tell me. Tell me what his plans are."
Tetsuya pressed his face into Orochi's strong shoulder, unable to comprehend what his cousin was doing to him, but feeling enough of a sense of wrongness about what was happening to fight the order.
"Come now, Tetsuya," Orochi whispered into his flushed ear, touching him in a way that was physically gentle, but mentally terrifying, "You know that I am stronger than you are. You can only resist for so long."
Tetsuya panted harder, groaning in distress as Orochi's fingers sought his mouth and he couldn't help but suck them wantonly, wetting them with his saliva. Orochi glared into his eyes in a way that made him shiver as he slowly removed his fingers from Tetsuya's mouth, then coaxed a piqued moan from the younger man by teasing his sensitive areas roughly, before seeking his well-used entrance. Tetsuya sucked in a pained breath as the fingers invaded. But he knew better than to make a sound.
"That's right. Be quiet," Orochi warned him, "Whisper to me what I want to know, and I will make you scream with pleasure. Hold back and you will scream from what I will do to you."
Tetsuya's teeth clenched and a sob escaped him as he tried to hold on to his own will. But growing impatient, Orochi leaned forward and bit down on his cousin's throat, invoking another of his powers and slowly infusing his gentle cousin with more controlling reiatsu.
"You are being exceptionally difficult tonight."
"I...Orochi-sama, I..."
"Give me what I want, Tetsuya," his cousin ordered him, "Or this will become painful."
He was surprised at how long the younger man was able to resist the overwhelming effects of the snake sigil on his cheek and the added infusion of controlling reiatsu. It was a testament to Tetsuya's increasing power, that he was becoming more and more unmanageable.
"Very well, then," he sighed finally, glaring into Tetsuya's glazed eyes, "You leave me no choice."
Orochi closed his eyes and carefully raised a reiatsu and sound suppressing cage around them, then shoved Tetsuya down and commenced with the promised torment. Tetsuya bit down on the scream that tried to escape him and braced himself as his punishment for resisting began.
He didn't want to feel anything. He hated the way his older cousin could arouse him and resisted to the ends of his strength. His upper body collapsed on the bed, and he closed his eyes, trying not to feel anything. And though it made him want to scream in fury, all that the charm that controlled him would allow were panting breaths and sounds of dark pleasure. It made him want to hate himself as much as he knew Orochi hated him.
But doing that would allow his older cousin to win complete dominance.
I...won't let him...
So, he shouldered the pain bravely, holding back saying anything and paying the price as Orochi's patience gave way and he abandoned all gentleness. Tetsuya was forced to yield cries of pain and his lips formed pleas for mercy and completion that he never would have willingly said. But, despite everything, they held back the information that Orochi so wanted to extract from him. And finally, his elder cousin cursed furiously and gave in to the wicked pleasure Tetsuya's body teased him with. He gasped as release shook his sweating body again, and he emptied himself into his younger cousin. He laid for a long time after, panting against Tetsuya's pale shoulder and hating the younger man for being strong enough to hold back.
But he knew better than to take things any further.
Byakuya would sense it.
No, I dare not push things any farther right now. I only wish that I had been able to learn what our leader and his dirty-blooded Shiba lover were plotting tonight! It would have been fulfilling to have something damning to use in the confrontation tomorrow. But, truthfully, we have all we need to corner him. He won't have a choice this time. He will either have to give in and impregnate a clan concubine, which I know he is loathe to do, or he will have to step down as leader. And if he does that, I am the next most powerful clan member.
He glared down at his, now sleeping, cousin.
And once I am leader, I can use that last secret that Tetsuya keeps to force him to become my concubine. I won't have to hide it anymore, the wicked things I do to him. As leader, he will be my servant. There will be nothing that Byakuya can do to protect him at all then.
He deepened Tetsuya's sleep, then removed the restrictive device from his resting body. With careful hands, he healed every visible mark on the younger man, leaving only the aches and pains behind as evidence. As he finished, he leaned down and kissed Tetsuya with unusual gentleness.
"You have been mine from the moment you came of age in the prison, and I laid with you for the first time. It doesn't matter that the prison walls are gone, and you are free of that place. You are not free of me, Tetsuya. I am a poison that lives on in your veins. And as long as that is true, no one else will ever love you. You are mine alone."
Orochi recalled the snakes at the doorways to Tetsuya's room, then masked all traces of his presence. He took a last look at Tetsuya's curled form and slipped out into the night, piqued at not having everything as he would have liked it, but still warmed by Tetsuya's attentions.
It is only too bad that he will think that our lovemaking was all a dream...or rather, a nightmare.
I want him to remember.
I want him to know.
I want him to know he has no choice but to love and obey...
Only me.
