Sparrow

Chapter 2: The Collar

Riku pulled at the collar, glaring at Axel's back as they made their way through the sandy streets of Agrabah. The fresh air was addicting, even if it meant being with this man. Even if it meant demeaning himself with the collar. He ached for a bath, needing to wash the grime off of him...and those touches. He still remembered the darkness flooding into him. His blood was singing with it as he thought about how close he was to giving into this man...no...this thing.

"Why'd you touch me?" He asked him, the other quiet in front of him. "Don't give me that bullshit about me being pretty either." He murmured, using his blade to slice through a heartless.

"I heard a rumor." Axel said, spinning his blades as he sliced through some as well. "That you didn't like to be touched...I wanted to know why." He laughed. "Guess I found out, huh?" Riku blushed at that, attacking another heartless to avoid those eyes. "God I can't wait to get you in bed...find out all the wicked things I can get you to do."

"That's called rape, genius." Riku hissed at him.

"Earlier when we were in your room…"

"My prison!" Riku interjected with, but Axel ignored him.

"That wasn't rape Princess...that was you being very very hard up for it." Riku glared.

"Fuck you!" He hissed, hand gripping his weapon.

"That's kind of the point." Axel promised him. "The things I'm going to do to you when we get back...and you finally get your bath." Riku felt his cock pulse, hating the reaction as he ran up ahead, pulling at the collar that blocked his powers as he killed heartless after heartless. He could feel it just under the surface, the darkness itching to be ripped out as much as he wanted to tear off this collar.

Whatever this was, it had allowed him to summon the Keyblade. A fact he was sure the Organization knew very well. He knew he was playing into their hands, doing exactly what they wanted. But he couldn't go back into that room. He had to find a way out of here. He had to find a way back to Twilight Town, and to Sora, and if that meant playing along with the Organization, then he would play along for now. After all, what could happen from killing just a few heartless?

He stabbed through one's chest, the heart disappearing from its entrapment. They had been at this for ages. "I don't remember Agrabah being this infested." He said, wiping at his sweaty brow. He was now dirty, grimey, and even worse covered in sand. He'd kill for a bath at this point.

"Do you mean from the time you stole one of those pretty princesses?" Axel mocked, using his two spinning blades to slash through yet another one. "How does it feel to be a traitor?" He asked him.

"How does it feel to be a Nobody?" Riku shot right back, knowing Axel would get the double meaning.

Axel just laughed, slashing through the last one. "You know, you can't talk to me like that. You're my prisoner."

Riku turned on him then, keyblade gripped in his hands. "Funny. I thought you were the man that brought me out to the open and gave me a weapon." His aqua eyes narrowed at him target, grinning at him before he ran towards him. How stupid were they? Letting him out. He didn't need his magic. He knew how to use a blade.

Axel brought up his two weapons in a block, shoving Riku back. He had to block again as Riku swept for his legs. "Stupid Riku...this is so stupid. Stop now and I won't make you."

Riku laughed darkly at that. "I'd like to see you try." He said, going at him with all he had, slashing over and over again, strength and stamina returning to him. He forced the Nobody back, gaining ground, spinning and coming down hard enough to cut his cheek.

Axel flinched, falling to the ground and barely stopping the next strike. "You asked for this brat." He whispered between clenched teeth as he held Riku back as the other struck over and over. He pulled out some kind of remote, and Riku only had the startings of worry before Axel pressed the button, and pain unlike any he had ever experienced shot through him, electricity covering his entire body starting from his neck. He let go of the keyblade, falling back with a scream as he writhed on the ground, ripping at his neck, trying to stop the pain.

It stopped, and he slumped down on the ground, hands wrapped around the collar as he panted, tears streaming down his cheeks as every ounce of him hurt. He gasped, trying to move, but couldn't will his body to.

"You see what you made me do!?" Axel yelled, rubbing the back of his head. "Ah man, Saix is going to be so pissed off. He said to use it only in extreme cases, but this is extreme, right?" Axel asked to himself. "Ugh...don't you know you can't fight the Organization?" He asked, leaning over Riku, grabbing his face. "Stop fighting. We can help you."

"Don't want your help." Riku managed, vocal cords fried from screaming. "I won't betray him again. Not for anything."

"You will." Axel assured him, scooping the kid up and throwing him over his shoulder. "Everyone does." Riku passed out, telling himself he wouldn't. Not again. He would save Sora.

His eyes opened, waking up slowly as he heard the sound of water. He was laying on a towel, pushing himself up as he looked around. The bright whiteness of the room hurt his eyes, and he knew he was back at headquarters. Bleary aqua eyes scanned the room, landing on the gigantic bathtub in the center. It looked like a small swimming pool. Axel was leaning over the tub, checking on the water.

"What was that?" Riku asked, reaching to his neck to find the collar still there. "That pain." A pain unlike anything he had ever felt.

"The collar has a fail safe...in case you tried to kill us." Axel said, sounding almost guilty as he turned around. "I didn't exactly know what it was when I pressed it." He rubbed his spikes. "I'm sorry kid. I'll make it up to you."

Riku shot up as Axel got near him, backing up to the corner of the room. "Get away from me." He thought of the pain, of how he had caused it. "Take the collar off."

Axel sighed. "Well which is it Princess, you want me to stay away from you, or do you want me to take the collar off?"

Riku eyed him warily, debating the question. Finally he sighed, relenting as he scooted forward. "Please take it off." He begged.

"Please?" Axel asked, feigning shock. "You can be polite? I would never have guessed." He came close, holding out the remote, and Riku backed up further, convinced he was going to get shocked on. "Don't worry kid...not going to shock you." Axel hit a button, and the collar clicked open.

He ripped it off without a second of hesitation, throwing it across the room, eyeing it with hatred and fear. "Never. Never again." He looked to Axel. "Do you hear me?"

"Can't promise that." Axel said. "that depends on how you behave. Now go take your bath." He motioned to the tub.

Riku eyed the water, want showing in his eyes. To be clean….refreshed. He looked at Axel who was just standing there bored. "Leave."

The Nobody had the gaul to laugh at that, shaking his head. "Nah. Definitely not leaving for this part." He leaned in, grabbing the cloak Riku wore and pulling him close. "I want to watch you clean yourself...now strip."

Riku eyed him with revulsion. "No. Get out."

"No." Axel said again. "And stop looking at me like I'm so horrible. I'm a Nobody, did you think I would be nice to you?" His fingers went to the zipper of the cloak, unzipping it in one fluid motion, eyeing Riku's body underneath. Riku's stomach was heaving, revealed from the zippered shirt. "Oh yeah. This will be fun. Don't worry I'll get you off...might make you a little nicer."

"I don't want you to…" Riku tried, but he was yanked up by his arm, hissing as he tried to get away. "Don't...stop…" He said as Axel ripped at his clothes, ripping open his jeans as they fell low on his hips. He shoved him away, standing only in the low hanging pants, trail of silver hair leading down his navel. He was panting as his hands came down to slide his jeans the rest of the way down, refusing to be stripped as he threw them at Axel's face. "Don't touch me." He hissed.

"I'm going to do a lot more than touch you." Axel assured him, eyes raking over the thin frame. Axel slipped his gloves off one by one, grinning at the fear in Riku's eyes. "What do you think it'll take to get you to cum?" He asked him. "You think I even have to touch your cock?"

"You that desperate to get laid, Nobody?" Riku asked him, slipping off his boxers, letting him see everything as he calmly walked towards the tub. "What would Roxas think?"

He didn't look back, hoping that had worked as he got into the tub, sighing in pleasure at the warm fragrant water, groaning as he went all the way down and sprang up again, wet hair long down his back. He turned slowly in the tub, seeing the way Axel watched him. "Just leave. Save yourself a lot of grief."

"I want you. I can't describe what it is about you." Axel said, slipping off his cloak. "Maybe it's the way I know you'll react if I can just get one hand on you. Maybe it's because you remind me so much of myself."

Riku moved back in the water as Axel got in. Riku's eyes moved over that pale flesh, those abs. "You're gorgeous." He remarked, because what was the point denying it. "But please don't touch me." He knew he had to behave here...to play along, but if he got the darkness….if he became addicted again. He would fall.

"Don't be scared little bird." Axel assured him, getting closer. "I know you fear the darkness, but you don't have to. Embrace it...just for tonight." And every night after. Axel grabbed for the shampoo. "Let me wash your hair...if I can get you to cum from that alone. I get to fuck you in this bathtub."

Riku pursed his mouth, eyeing the bottle. He knew he shouldn't, but he knew the Nobody wasn't leaving anyways. "Gloves on?" He asked him, and Axel laughed.

"Not a chance Princess." He assured him, reaching out to grab Riku. Axel studied him. He didn't know what came over him. He didn't know why this kid got to him the way he did, but he wanted him. He was enthralled by him, and now he was naked and in the tub and he wanted him to take it easy. Like hell. He laid hands on him, watching the way Riku shut his eyes, a small mewl escaping those lips. It would be so easy, to take him now. But he didn't want Riku scared of him. He wanted to win this of his own doing. He was going to make that brat beg for this.

He couldn't stop thinking about how he had been on the bed, from just a single touch. How could he not think about it? Knowing someone could get that enthralled by just his hand? He hadn't told Saix about Riku...hadn't told anyone. He didn't want them to take away what was his.

Riku turned away from him, shivering with those hands on his shoulder. "Just do it...hurry." He managed, panting. Axel loved that breathy sound. Axel grinned, pouring liberal amounts of the shampoo on his palms, bringing it to Riku's scalp, kneading it as the filth from the past couple weeks washed away.

"You're gorgeous...you know that?" He asked Riku, the other pliable and weak under his ministrations. "No one wonder Sora wants you...no wonder everyone does." He told him. "And I don't just think it's because of your condition, though that certainly helps, wouldn't you agree?" He asked, hands sliding down Riku's neck, causing him to cry out and thrust back against him. "All this noise from a head massage?" He asked him, amused. He leaned down, mouthing along Riku's neck, causing the other to press back into his cock. Axel groaned at the feeling, only heightened as Riku reached back, running his hands down the backs of his legs.

Axel moaned, thrusting against Riku's ass as he pushed him up against the side of the tub, water splashing over the side. "Tell me what you want Riku?" He asked him, cock rubbing between those cheeks. "Tell me...I want to hear you say it."

Riku struggled with his words as Axel ran soapy hands down his body, cleaning him. Riku's reactions had his dick so hard it hurt. He grabbed the brat, dunking him under the water to wash his hair clean. Riku shoved at him then, breaking out of the water and Axel could barely react as he jumped forward, arms and legs wrapping around him. He caught him, going to say something but Riku didn't let him, claiming his lips, crashing them together.

Axel opened up to him, moaning at the way Riku kissed him, as if he had never wanted anything more in his life. He kissed back, fingers dipping down, pushing up inside the other. He knew it had to hurt...he knew he hadn't prepped him. But Riku thrust against those fingers, whining pleasure into his mouth.

"Fuck me…" Riku begged, moving on those fingers. "Now...before it's too late." He said, making Axel raise an eyebrow. "Now!" He demanded, kissing him again, and when Riku pulled away his eyes were glowing gold.

"Shit." He said, realizing he had taken off the collar, had taken off the chain. Riku was glowing with darkness, and Axel's eyes widened in almost fear. He could get away, he could kill him like this. ...And Axel felt strange...he felt...weak. "What are you doing to me?"

"Taking your darkness." Riku breathed, and when he spoke darkness flooded from his lips. He was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen in his life, even with the powers, especially with the powers.

Axel stared at this wondrous creature who had weakened him, who could turn him into a husk any time he wanted to. He was sure if he had a heart it would be pounding, looking at him for mercy as the room trembled. "Riku…"

Riku stared at him with those foreign yellow eyes, and he kissed him anyways, knowing he could get away. Axel kissed him back, his lips begging and thankful against the others, shoving him forward.

He lifted Riku up higher, just enough to lower onto his almost painfully hard cock, the other taking him in inch by inch as the light faded from the room and there was only him, only them in the universe, and Riku still kissed him.

Riku tasted like darkness incarnate, his skin glowing with it as Axel fucked him against the side of the tub. He didn't know who he was, but he knew this kid was special. He was the key. He pulled out of him, not able to take anymore of those world shattering kisses as spun Riku around, forcing him against the side of the tub, thrusting back inside as he kissed almost reverently at his shoulders. Is this what it felt to be alive? This power? This pain?

The world swam around them, a tornado of darkness swirling as he continued, never feeling this pleasure before in his life, never wanting to not experience it again. The water began floating around them, fire bursting in the room as Riku used his strength. It would burn them both. He didn't care. Not if it meant having to stop. Not if it meant ever having to let Riku go.

Water crashed down on them as they finished, putting out the fire as steam filled the room, Axel collapsing on top of Riku, weak as he wrapped around him, not wanting to let him go. "What was that?" He asked him, grunting as he was shoved off and back.

He could barely keep his eyes open as he looked up, Riku's skin almost purple with the darkness as it glowed, his eyes a deep golden. "You shouldn't have touched me." He said, droplets floating all around him, darkness leaking from his lips. "I am the darkness. I am death." He held his hand out, his dragon blade coming to his fingers as he spun it, staring down at Axel. "Die." He said, slamming the blade down, just at the last second making it go through the plaster.

Axel watched with wide green eyes, looking over to the blade that would have gone through his face. Riku reached out again, shaking with the effort as the collar flew to his hands. He spared Axel one more look, before snapping it shut around his own neck, the world exploding around them as light came back, Riku's eyes returning along with his color. He collapsed forward, and Axel reached out to catch him, staring down at what would have been his own death. What was Riku? What was he really?

He tilted the kid's face back, looking so peaceful in sleep. Whatever he was...if the Organization found out he could do these things they would either use him until he was dead, or kill him. His cock still ached from the most mind blowing, literally mind blowing, sex of his life, and here he was debating on if he should turn him in. If he was a good member he would. This wasn't in Riku's file. No one knew about this, and yet, what if he didn't? What if he kept it a secret? This could be the key to everything...and he didn't want to share right now. Not just yet. Not when he knew what this could feel like.

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Riku stirred, grabbing for his head. It felt like he had the worst hangover of his life, and that didn't include the night of Sora's 14th birthday when they had raided his mom's liquor cabinet. He groaned in appreciation of his head, sitting up in the white bed. His bed. His room. Hadn't he been with Axel? Hadn't he been in bathroom? He stretched, groaning at how sore he was. He wracked his splitting head to try to remember. He had kissed Axel and then…

"Shittttt…." He whined, reaching for his neck to find the collar back on. He looked at his foot, not seeing a chain, but then he supposed he wouldn't need one. They knew he would obey. He put his feet on the floor, noting that someone had dressed him. ...Probably the same someone that was the cause of the soreness between his legs. Dammit...how could he have let this happen?

He went to the door, surprised to find it unlocked as he slid it open. He looked down the hall, feeling his stomach rumbling as he made his way for food. Did they know he was just walking around? Did they know he could try to escape? Maybe the frequency of the remote only went a certain distance? Maybe if he got far enough away he would be free?

"Heyyyyyy you're awake." Riku started, turning around to see the mulleted blond. The dumb one. He could fight him if he had to. Surely he didn't have a remote.

"Yeah...I was…" He looked around to find a weapon, something to hit him over the head with. There was nothing. "I was hungry."

"You should have started with that!" Demyx assured him, walking over to wrap his arm around his shoulder, not noticing when Riku tried to get away. "I love food! Food is my favorite part of living. Have you ever had bacon? It is from the gods...if there are any gods." He finished with cheerily, laughing as he rubbed Riku's head. "Oh don't mind me...I talk too much sometimes. But you'll get used to it. I think we're going to be great friends."

"You don't even know me…" Riku tried, but was interrupted.

"And waffles! Waffles with strawberries...and eggs, can't forget the eggs!" He said cheerily, leading him down the hall, not caring that Riku was stiff and uncompliant in his arms.

Riku stared with wide eyes as a buffet of food was slapped down in front of him. "I can't possibly eat…"

"Oh this isn't enough! We need some coffee too! And juice! And tea!" Demyx exclaimed excitedly. "You are a real part of the organization now. We heard all about you using the keyblade, so we need to celebrate!"

Riku was staring with wide eyes as Demyx ran out to get their drinks, turning slightly as Axel sank down next of him. "Is he...Is he like a crazy person?" He asked the red head, staring once more at the mound of food in front of him.

Axel laughed. "Nah..that's just Demyx. You'll get used to him." He said. "He can't stop talking about you...I even heard him use the term 'besties' so watch out for when he hands you a friendship ring."

Riku just shook his head in disbelief, looking up towards Axel and then blushing as he remembered just what had happened between them. His head fell, looking towards the table. "Did you want any?"

"I want something quite different from you Riku." Axel assured him. "But alas...what happened last night" Riku clenched his hands in his pants, not wanting to hear this.

"It's fine. I know." Riku said, not knowing how bad it had gotten last night. "You don't need to say anything. Demyx talks enough for the three of us." He murmured. "Why am I allowed out? Aren't you afraid I'll run?"

Axel held up a remote, and Riku flinched, trying to scoot away before Axel grabbed at his waist. "No...I'm really not." He assured him. "And we aren't stopping...we just need to be more careful. If anyone found out what you can do Princess, it might not end well for either of us."

Riku watched him carefully, wanting to ask what exactly happened, but then that wasn't always wise. This Nobody was protecting him. He had made an ally. His hand slid out shakily, sliding along Axel's thigh, staring at him with aqua eyes. "We can be careful."

Axel stared down at the shaky hand on his thigh with a frown. "It's so different...this you...and the one from last night."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you." Riku snapped, yanking his hand away as if burned. "I won't touch you then."

"I didn't exactly say that." Axel mocked him, tilting up his chin. "You're so fiery...I like it." He assured him, leaning in to kiss him. "We'll be careful…." He promised him. "Now eat your breakfast or you'll give Demyx an aneurysm." He whispered, finally connecting their mouths.

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