Jas: yea, chapter 2! I am so happy!
Misaki: I'd rather you'd do the disclaimer than cheer!
Jas: *sigh* Fine! I don't own anything! Other than my OCs. You're such a kill joy Misaki.
Misaki: just shut up, and tell them who's idea this chapter is.
Jas: oh yea! Well, I'd like to thank luluiscrazy for this one! They had sent this one in before I even had this story posted, that's what I like. I have to give a tiny warning, a tiny bit dark. Not enough for anyone for really worry though, oh, and as always, a perverted rabbit. XD Other than that, that's it for this chapter.
Chance encounters.
"Mi-sa-ki!" Was the only thing the college student heard before he was pounced on, and dragged to the floor by his lover.
"AH! Usagi-san!" He yelled, "The waters on! Let me go!"
"But I'm out of my Misaki, I refuse to work until I get my refill." The lazy author said, nuzzling his young lover's neck.
"Luna's still here though!" Misaki said, thrashing around in a feeble attempt to get free. This is the last thing he wanted the young girl to see this early in the morning. "U-Usagi-san!" He cried when he felt his lover lick his neck. "S-stop!"
"You mouth is saying no, but, your body is saying yes," The silver haired man whispered in his ear. "Just give up, Misaki."
"Whacta guys doing?"
Both lovers froze for a second, then, Misaki looked up, and saw Luna standing there, Toma standing beside her, his head cocked to the side. The young girl was rubbing her eye with the heel of her hand, and clutching her stuffed animal with the other. She looked adorable.
Misaki pushed his rabbit off, and hurriedly stood up. "Morning Luna!" He said, laughing nervously. "How do you feel?" He asked, picking her up, and rushing to set her at the table.
"M'tired," She slurred, looking like she was about to pass out once again at the table. Misaki smiled, and chuckled a bit. She was going to be a lot like his lover when she was older. She barely got out of bed as it was now.
He shuddered at the thought of when she'd become a teenager. Horrible.
"So, what are you thinking about doing today?" Misaki asked his large rabbit.
The silver haired man sighed, and said, "Avoiding the she-devil for as long as I can." Luna soft giggle from the words, made the man smirk behind the rim of his glass. "So, what about you and Luna? Any plans?"
Misaki thought about it, "Not really, I do have to go to the University though, I have Lit. class," he glared a bit, "Then, I have to go to and get some food for dinner, Luna doesn't have school today, some memorial day or something for the school," he shrugged.
"Can I go to and play with Kasai! Please!" The chocolate haired girl begged, giving her papa and father big puppy dog eyes.
"Sorry, Luna," Usagi sighed, "But, Nowaki and Hiroki are working all day, so, Kasai is staying with another friend."
"AW!" She pouted, making both men chuckle slightly.
"I'll take you out later tonight, alright?" Misaki said, "We can come with me to get some groceries or something,"
"YAY!" She cheered.
Both men chuckled once again.
Later at the University.
Misaki yawned as he walked out the building. He brushed the side of his head, and sighed; the devil teacher had thrown a book at his head, and barely missed the target by half an inch. He shivered a bit; that had been a really close call. Even Sempai had moved two seats away from the younger man.
Misaki walked out of the grounds, and took a long breath, he still had to go shopping, go home, clean, cook, and then struggle to put Luna to bed. Oh, and that didn't even include all the energy he had to put into pushing his lover off.
Suddenly, the young man hit something large, and fell back on his butt, "Ouch," He groaned. He looked over to glare at whatever it was he hit, and saw it was pair of legs, "AH! I-I'm so sorry!" He stood and bowed, not even looking up at the person to see who it was. "I-I didn't mean to run into you!" He said, hurriedly.
"You'll be sorry about a lot more when I'm done with you," the young boy's eyes widened at the voice. He looked up in horror, and saw the one person who actually made his blood boil.
"You're Luna's past guardian," He growled, and attempted to take a step back. He was suddenly swung around and pinned to the wall. He let out a yelp of pain as he collided against the wall. He glared up at the man, and struggled under his hands, "Let me go!" He yelled. "Let me go!"
"Ah ah," he chuckled, "Don't think so, young man, you took my little brat away, so, I think I'll take something of yours," He punched Misaki in the stomach, and the boy was winded. He coughed, and sputtered, gasping for breath. "Hmmm, that's a nice look on your pretty face," The man smirked.
Misaki tensed as his fist came back up again, and hit him right in the chest. Misaki was able to let out a small cry of pain, before the man covered his mouth with his large hand. "Shh, don't want someone interrupting us, now, do we?" His attacker growled.
Misaki felt terror fill his chest as the man lifted his hand once more. He closed his eyes tightly, expected the next blow to come. Which it never did.
"Let him go. Now."
Emerald eyes flew open when he saw Hiroki standing behind the man, looking more pissed off then he had ever seen the man before. He ripped Misaki's attacker away from his body. He punched the man swiftly in his face, Misaki winced when he heard a bone snap somewhere in the man's face. Not that he felt bad about it.
Hiroki hit the man several times, making sure he was bloody and bruised, and growled, lowly, "Leave. Now, before I fucking kill you,"
The man glared at the Professor before running off; running away like the coward he was. Hiro-san turned to his least favorite student, "Are you alright, Misaki?" He asked, holding out his hand to help the boy up.
"Y-yea." He said, holding his stomach a bit to try and stop the pain. "Sorry about that, sensei," he smiled slightly, "I-I didn't mean to cause you any trouble," He said, a sheepish smile on his face.
The man rolled his eyes, "Shut up, Baka, you should be more worried about yourself, and not that you were an 'inconvenience'. Which you weren't by the way." He added hastily. He noticed Misaki's pained look, and sighed, "Come with me, I'll ask Nowaki to check you out."
The burnet shook his head, "Thanks, but, you've already done so much, Sensei," He smiled sheepishly, "I don't want to be any more of a burden to you, thank you so much. Later!" He called, grabbed his bag, and ran off toward the store.
Hiroki sighed, and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Idiot boy." He mumbled, but, let it go and walked back to his classroom; no point in chasing after someone who doesn't want to be found; was there?
Misaki rushed to the store, grabbed the many things he would need for dinner, and tried very hard to ignore the pain in his chest and stomach, it was beginning to really hurt now. He winced as he tried to reach for a bag on a top shelf.
As he picked out things he knew Luna and Usagi-san would like, he suddenly realized that once Usagi-san found out about his injury, the rabbit would be more than upset. Actually he'd probably go on a murder rampage when he did find out. Misaki paled a lot more than he already was.
Usagi-san was going to kill everyone.
And probably lock Misaki away somewhere.
He shivered at the thought, but sighed, and made the long walk home.
Later that night…..
Misaki was cleaning the dishes, and trying not to flinch every time he raised his arms to high. He had been pretty lucky so far that Usagi-san hadn't jumped him yet. Luna had been a bit upset that she didn't get to shopping with Misaki, so, Akihiko decided to play with her and Toma for a bit to keep her happy.
This was a blessing in disguise really. The old perverted rabbit hardly ever let Misaki walk into the house without being jumped. And in the boy's current condition, he'd probably end up screaming a bit when Usagi-san hugged him. His chest was bruised that badly.
"Alright," He called when he finished the dishes, "Luna! It's time for bed!"
"AW!" She complained, "But Papa!"
"No, time to sleep, actually," The young man looked to the clock, "It's way past your bed time,"
Luna sighed, but stood up, with her puppy behind her, "Ok, fine." She went up to her room, and Usagi-san smirked when her door clicked shut.
"Oh Mi-sa-ki," He sang, slowly walking up behind the boy. "You never did give me a proper greeting when you returned home earlier." He told his adorable uke.
"Y-you were busy with Luna," Misaki answered, a bit shakily. Usagi noticed, and took it as a sign that Misaki didn't want to be molested at the moment.
He almost laughed at the thought, he'd change his little uke's mind very quickly.
He took a step forward, and caused Misaki to step back. This continued until Misaki hit the cough and fell back, lying face up. The perverted author laughed, and lend carefully over Misaki, not wanting to crush his lover under his weight, "Come on, Misaki, give up fighting, you know you want to," he breathed into the burnet's ear.
While Misaki could hear the words, he didn't understand them. The pain from his bruises was killing him. When he hit the couch, it caused pain to ripple through his small body. He shivered a bit when Usagi-san's hot breath trailed down to his neck, and licked him. The pleasure was making the pain dwindle away slowly. But he was still smart enough to try and fight back.
"U-Usagi-san," He whispered, out of pain or pleasure he wasn't sure at this point, "S-stop,"
"Oh, come on Misaki, don't worry, Luna's probably asleep right now anyway. Besides, I need my refill of my beautiful Mi-sa-ki," His rabbit purred in his ear.
Suddenly, a cry of pain filled the air.
Usagi-san's eyes widened quickly when he saw it was Misaki crying out in pain. "M-Misaki," he whispered, softly, "W-what's wrong?" he was panicking, Did I do this? What could I have done? I only put a little more weight on his chest…..was it too much?
Misaki hadn't meant to cry out like that, but, when Akihiko suddenly laid more weight on to his chest, he saw red. He was panting now, trying to get his breathing under control, and not scream again. He knew his lover was in the dark, and probably freaking out, but, he wanted to at least be semi-calm when he explained what happened.
Usagi-san placed a hand on Misaki's chest, in an attempt to calm him down, and he flinched again. The writer quickly put two and two together. His lavender eyes narrowed, and he carefully lifted his lover's shirt up, making sure not to touch him again. What he saw, angered and worried him.
His Misaki's perfect body was covered with large, ugly purple and black marks. His tan skin had been bruised badly, and judging by the coloring, it was very recent.
"Misaki," The author growled out, "What is this? WHO DID THIS TO YOU!" He demanded, making his lover flinch again.
"I-it was an accident," he lied, quickly, sitting up as his seme did. "I-I fell! That's right! I fell when I was walkin-"
"Don't lie to me Misaki!" Akihiko yelled, "Tell me now!"
Misaki's large green eyes filled with regret and he looked down, "I-it was Luna' past guardian, father, whatever the hell he was to her!" He yelled. Then calmed down, and looked at his lap, "He was outside of the University, and cornered me when I tried to get away. H-he hit me a couple times, b-but Sensei stopped him before he could do anything to bad."
Akihiko's eyes were full of pure rage, "Did he touch you anywhere else?" he growled, "if he did, I'm going to hunt that bastard down, and ki-"
"NO!" Misaki suddenly cried, and grabbed his lover's arm. Usagi-san's eyes widened a bit when he saw the tears in the younger's eyes. "Don't go after him! Please!"
"Misaki," the older whispered, shocked.
Misaki looked down once again, and whispered, "W-when I saw it was him, I was so s-scared." He admitted. "When he started hitting me, all I could think of was for someone to come and save me, I was scared I was going to actually die," more tears ran down his face as he looked up at the author, who was still in shock, "I don't want Usagi-san to get hurt! Please! I'd let that happen over and over again until the day I die, just as long as Usagi-san is safe! So, please!" he buried his face into his seme's chest, "Don't go."
Akihiko Usami had never seen his reaction from his lover before. It was almost…scary. But, he knew Misaki needed him right, now, and sure as hell wasn't going to leave him. He wrapped his arms tightly around the younger man, and pulled him into his lap. "I won't go, Misaki," he whispered to him, "I promise I won't."
For a moment, all was silent, and the only thing that could be heard was Misaki's shaky breathing. But, then, the front door slammed shut.
Akihiko swung around quickly, ready to protect his lover in a second, but, he saw that room behind him was empty. Misaki looked around as well, "What was that?" He whispered, semi-afraid that man would be there.
"I'm not sure," His rabbit admitted. "It looked like someone left not enter-" He cut himself off, his eyes widening as he realized what had just happened. "Luna!" He yelled, jumping up quickly, and pulling Misaki with him.
The door to the young girl's room was wide open. They rushed to see if she was there; but, it was empty.
"She must've heard us," Misaki whispered, suddenly feeling weak. "She ran away,"
The author nodded, "She feels as if you getting hurt is her fault," he ground out. "Come on, Misaki," he grabbed the younger's hand, "We have to find her."
With Luna…
The young girl lend back against the wall, and slid to the ground, panting. Her large lilac eyes scanned the snowy area she had run into. It wasn't an alley, she had enough experience to remember to stay out of those at this time of night. It helped that Toma growled every time they walked past one.
But, no, Luna was sitting against a large building, it looked to be a convince store actually. Her spot was hidden by the large boxes the owners had piled up around the back. This was actually a spot Luna knew well, it was the spot Misaki had found her.
The young girl's breath created small white clouds in her face as she tried to get her breathing under control, it was pretty cold, this time of year, and it was bad for the small girl to have left without a jacket. She felt kind of foolish for just running off with out grabbing any clothes or anything, the only thing she had enough sense to bring was Toma.
She shivered, and pulled her knees to her chin, and wrapped her arms around herself. It's all my fault Papa is hurt, she thought as she rested her head on her knees. If I had never come into the picture, I'm sure Daddu and Papa would've made in life just perfectly fine. Papa never would've even known about him and never would've gotten hurt.
Toma whined slightly, and nuzzled his young master's arm softly. Luna looked up, and smiled sadly, "Don't worry, Toma," She whispered, petting his snout, "I've dealt with this weather before, we'll make it. We just gotta stick together. I made it ok for about three weeks," she explained, "I had learned quite a bit for all that. So, don't worry, I'll make sure we don't starve, or get sick…or die….." she added as an afterthought.
The dog whined again, and laid beside her, trying to offer her some of his own warmth to protect her from the cold. She smiled softly, and laid against the dog. She snuggled against his fur, and let the weariness she was suffering from drift her to sleep. "This is for the better," she whispered, and fell asleep.
A couple hours later….
Usagi-san sighed in relief when his daughter finally opened his eyes. It had taken them about half an hour to find the girl, and when they did, she was almost blue from the cold, and would've died had she been out there any longer.
Nowaki had said she'd recover fully, but, they wanted to keep her in the hospital for the night just to make sure. Misaki was currently knocked out in the bed beside his daughter's and Luna was just waking up.
The young girl rubbed her eyes, and looked around, "Daddy?" She whispered, confused, "I-I thought I left,"
The man sighed, and nodded, "You did, Misaki and I found you half an hour after you left." He placed his hand on his daughter's head, "Luna, why did you leave?" He asked.
Luna looked down, and whispered, "Papa was hurt because of me."
Akihiko sighed once again, wishing he could smoke, but, he pushed the urge away and said, "Luna, do not blame yourself, understand? What happened to Misaki is not your fault, understand? Misaki and I know what that man can do, but, we don't care. We love you, Luna, and we want you to stay with us. Ok?"
Luna's eyes filled with tears, and she tackled her father in a hug, "Ok," she whispered her voice cracking a bit. "I'm sorry,"
Usagi-san smiled and kissed the top of her head, "Don't worry about it Luna," he whispered to her, "Just promise you'll never do this again, we were really worried."
She nodded, and buried her face into her father's chest, reminding Akihiko much of what Misaki had done only hours before, "I promise."
Jas: I've had several people asking me what inspired Luna's character, and I think it's time I actually told you all.
Luna's character is based, heavily on this little girl that used to live in my neighborhood. I was only eight at the time when I first met her, so I don't remember her name, but, she was sweetest little girl I had ever met. She was beautiful too. But, her mother abused her heavily. She would come to my house to play (she was 4 or 5) and I'd see the bruises all over her body, and feel horrible about them, she even told me about how her mother had one time locked her in the car or two days, and only gave her a water bottle.
New Life is dedicated to that little girl. I honestly wish I had done something for her. New Life is the life that I know she would've lived had her mother never treated her horribly. I made this story in memory of this little girl, and in honor of any and all children that are suffering though mental, physical and emotional abuse. Please, to any one of you who have seen child abuse, PLEASE REPORT IT! That child will finally have a chance they hadn't had before. Please. Out of respect for those children, and that little girl who I loved like a little sister please report it.
Other than that little announcement, I'll be updating New Life soon, thank you all for reading, and in requests.