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"Fuck, Kai!" Rei yelled out as he ground down onto Kai's hips with epic force. They were both sitting up with Rei's legs wrapped around his lover, his head tilted back as they rocked together. Kai was sucking on the sweet spot on his neck, making him shiver in pleasure and the cool of the morning air. They were still at the campsite beside the river, the fire burnt down to a pile of black ash. The sounds and smells of the jungle were all around them, all the colours bright in the clear morning light.
When Kai had woken up he had forgotten where he was. Being naked and outside had caused him a few seconds of panic, before he turned his head and saw Rei sleeping on his side with his head resting on his arm. Rei was a beautiful sight when he was asleep, so peaceful and still. Kai stared at him for ages and lightly ran his hand down his naked form, drinking in the sight of his light olive skin, his soft black hair, and his toned body that was both slender and muscular at the same time.
Rei woke up as Kai's warm fingers roamed over his skin, groaning sleepily and slowly opening his eyes. When he saw Kai lying next to him an array of surprise, embarrassment and longing flicked across his face as the memories of last night flooded back to him. He blushed profusely. "Morning," he said. Their faces were inches apart. Such proximity immediately awakened desires within Rei as the smouldering red eyes of his team captain appraised him lustfully. Rei hoped Kai wouldn't notice his arousal, but given that he was naked Kai noticed straight away, and he seemed happy about it too.
Ah, to hell with it, Rei thought, an uncharacteristically naughty smile creeping onto his face. He was always horny in the morning, why should he hide it? He reached out with one finger and touched Kai's lips, tracing sensuously over his chin, down his neck, and back up again. When he returned to his lips Kai held his hand still, took the finger in his mouth and sucked on it. Rei's eyes grew wide. Kai looked so fucking sexy. Here he was, naked, lying next to the one person he could never have imagined he would be here with. He had no idea how his luck in life had changed so fast, but he was extremely glad it had.
It didn't take long for them to resume the activities of the previous night. Kai gripped Rei's hips to guide his motions as Rei rode him energetically. Kai had never known that another person could cause sensations like this to flood through him with such magnitude. His body was burning up, but he wanted – no he needed – more. Rei seemed gripped by the same insatiable craving. Their movements grew wilder. Rei started moaning. Kai couldn't take it anymore and shot his load inside of him as his teammate tightened around him. They barely heard the primitive noises that escaped their throats over the deafening thrumming of their heartbeats in their ears.
When they finished climaxing together Rei collapsed, leaning exhaustedly onto Kai who held him tightly. They breathed raggedly, all senses heightened. Rei pulled back to look at Kai and saw the left-over look of ecstasy written all over his face. He had never seen Kai with such an open, raw expression, and Rei couldn't help it - he tried to hide his grin behind his hand but a small chuckle escaped, growing bigger and bigger until he burst out laughing.
Kai was perplexed.
"Why are you laughing?" he said, out of breath.
"It's just that," Rei said while giggling, "I didn't know your face could make that expression! I've only ever seen you look like this…" he tried to imitate Kai's serious stare and failed because he couldn't stop sniggering.
At first Kai was offended, then a realisation hit him. He'd just made Rei laugh. The sound was pure joy – it was everything Kai had hoped for. He tried to describe in his head how it made him feel, but he couldn't find the words. He wasn't very good at this whole emotional thing. He had tried to shut away his feelings for so long that he was afraid he might never be able to use them again, like he'd be unable to experience what other people did if he ever decided he wanted to - if he ever found something that was worth trying to rewrite years of mental training for.
Now he had found something – someone – who was worth it, and he wanted to experience him fully in every way humanly possible. Rei was awakening things inside of him that he couldn't put names to; he only knew that they made him feel good, terribly good, and he was hungry for more.
Kai pushed Rei off of him playfully. "Hey!" Rei protested, still laughing. They both got up to find their clothes which were scattered on the ground, a few pieces hanging from tree branches overhead. Rei's red headband with the yin yang symbol had been tossed high up in a tree, way out of reach. Unconcerned, he coiled his body and sprang nimbly into the lower branches, climbing as easily and as gracefully as a jungle cat. Kai watched, amazed. Rei dropped back down with a light thud and gave Kai a look that said, 'what?' As he was putting on the headband, he gasped in sudden horror.
"What's wrong?" asked Kai.
"Mei!" Rei shouted, panicked. "I forgot about Mei!" and he took off running, out of the jungle and up the hill to the little house. He burst through the back door and ran to Mei's room. The petit, fragile woman was sitting up in bed reading an old book and she looked up surprised when Rei came running in and flung himself at her bed.
"Mei! Are you all right? He didn't hurt you did he?" It all came out in a rush.
"Rei," she said, reaching out to stroke his cheek. "You didn't come home last night." Her soft words were full of concern.
"I know. I'm so sorry. Are you ok?"
Mei smiled reassuringly. "I'm fine."
A sigh of relief swept out of him. Jin hadn't done anything to her in his absence, but that could mean that he would be even more volatile today. Apprehensively, he asked, "Was he mad?"
Mei always knew who he was talking about. "I didn't see him, but I heard him pacing all night in the kitchen." She held his chin in her hand like a stern mother. "You be careful around your father, young man. Don't you go putting yourself in harms' way because you think you're protecting me. You know I don't want to see you get hurt. Not for my sake."
Rei stood up. "Jin is not my father," he said. Then he took Mei's hand. "But you are my mother, Mei."
The brightest smile lit up the woman's face. It faltered for a moment. "Who's this?" she said, looking at the doorway. Kai stood there watching Rei, his eyes flicking between their hands and Mei's face. He looked uncomfortable, knowing he'd entered the house uninvited and interrupted a scene.
"Oh! Mei, this is Kai. He's the captain of my beyblading team." Rei went over and pulled Kai into the room. "He came to visit me," he explained.
Mei was fascinated by the blue-haired young man with skin as white as the snowy mountain peaks outside, fully displayed by the fact that Kai was still shirtless. He tried to give a respectful hello but the language barrier left them both unable to communicate, so Kai just stood there looking awkward; and adorable, Rei thought. He didn't know if Kai had ever had a loving relative like what Mei was for him. Trying to encourage him, he forced Kai to sit on the side of the bed and when Mei reached towards him he begrudgingly let her run her hands through his hair.
All three of them smiled a little and the atmosphere became friendly. "I'm going to go make some tea," said Rei to each of them in turn, switching between languages effortlessly. He left to go to the kitchen where he found some herbal tea hidden in the top cupboard. He put some water on the stove to boil since they didn't have a kettle. He waited, and as the pot heated up he heard the sound of cascading water start up in the bathroom. Was Kai having a shower? He might need a clean towel, Rei realised, and got up to find one for him.
The bathroom door creaked open and Rei entered holding a fresh towel. "Kai, I brought you a…" he jumped and his hand flew to his mouth. It wasn't Kai in the shower at all, it was Jin. The tall, bearded man stood naked under the water, and when he saw Rei a malicious smile took over his face. Jin had clearly just been handling himself as his erection stood proud and tall.
"Rei! What excellent timing! I was just thinking about you," he said.
Oh no, Rei thought. He tried to make for the door but Jin's dangerous tone made him stop short.
"Where were you last night, Rei?" he demanded. "I was waiting for you and you didn't come home. I was very disappointed."
With deliberation, Rei turned to face him. "I can go out whenever I like, Jin." He said defiantly.
"Except you know I like to have you home for dinner," Jin was really angry, Rei could tell by how low and controlled his voice was. "Did you think you could skip being my special toy for a night? Have you forgotten who pays for that pathetic old woman's medication? You know what I want, Rei, and if you don't give it to me I will let that old cow die."
"Don't you dare talk about her like that!" Rei shouted at him.
"Careful now, young tiger. I am at the limit of my tolerance for your disobedience, and as you can see I am more than ready for you to make it up to me."
Rei swallowed.
"Either get in the shower with me now, or I'll be dragging your foster mother in here instead."
"No," said Rei, defeated. "Just don't hurt her."
The towel fell from his hand as Rei took a tentative step towards his foster father. Impatient, Jin grabbed his arm and pulled him into the shower. Rei was still fully clothed under the spray of water, and his clothes started getting wet as Jin turned him around forced him to bend over. Rei put his hands against the slippery tiled wall for support. He was being handled very roughly this time – Jin was trying to teach him a lesson about who was in control. The grip on his arm was going to leave a bruise, but that thought got blocked from his mind when Jin pulled Rei's pants down just far enough to allow him to enter him, which he did - forcefully.
Rei tried to muffle his cry of pain because he didn't want Jin to see how much he was hurting him. He didn't want to give the man any more control over him, but this proved difficult as Jin started thrusting inside him with the stamina of an ox, his noises of pleasure reverberating off the bathroom walls. The shower water ran across Rei's back and through his hair, plunging to the floor. Jin was fucking him with great speed and Rei couldn't keep a proper grip on the wall. Animalistic grunts came from behind him and suddenly Jin slapped a hand across Rei's butt cheek with a painful 'thwack'. Rei yelped.
"That's it!" Jin said, and he slapped Rei hard on the other side. "I want to hear you scream!"
Jin continued to hit him and Rei cried out reluctantly each time. Also, the feeling of being penetrated, despite the roughness of it, was starting to make Rei feel giddy. A heat was drawing together in his lower region, and he cursed his natural reactions to the treatment he was getting. The memory of the first time Kai had made love to him suddenly rushed back to him. The tenderness and the perfect way in which he had made Rei feel pleasure with every touch was so juxtaposed against his current situation that it brought tears to his eyes. This was the complete opposite of what it was like to be with Kai. This was pain with forced pleasure, whereas Kai had given him all pleasure and no pain.
What was going on between him and Kai anyway? They had had an amazing night – and morning – together, but Kai had never said that it wasn't more than a once-off. Sure, he had said those wonderful things about him that Rei had had no idea his captain had been feeling, but what did that even mean? That Kai admired Rei more than he realised? Or could it be – Rei wished it could be – something more? Suddenly Jin's hand reached forward and gripped Rei's hair tightly, yanking his head back so that he was looking at the ceiling, his back arching painfully.
"You really are a sexy bitch, Rei," Jin growled. "You're my sexy bitch. Don't you ever forget it."
Rei really hated Jin in that moment. Really, truly hated him for everything that he had done to him and for what he was doing right now. Rei had always accepted Jin's abuse blindly, knowing that other families were not the same as his, knowing instinctively that what went on at home was a secret he should never tell. But now, for the first time, someone else knew about it all, and that someone was a person Rei really cared about. The fact that that person had been through the same things as him had made Rei start to feel like he wasn't alone in his suffering.
He used to think he was completely alone in the world when it came to having to deal with all this, that he alone had to be strong, but yesterday Kai had showed up out of nowhere and changed everything. Suddenly Rei could start to see just how sick this all was, and he couldn't believe he hadn't been able to see it before. It was like he'd woken up, and now Rei's resistance to his circumstances was crumbling. He could no longer imagine it was Kai inside of him when really it was Jin; he could no longer stop himself from flinching at Jin's touch, which Rei knew his foster father hated. He didn't want to be Jin's bitch; if he had to be anyone's, he wanted to be Kai's.
But Kai had been through this too. Rei could see it in his mind's eye: Kai at an age where he was vulnerable and small, too weak to fight off the horrible man who had raped him. What had that man done to him? Had he held him down while Kai screamed in pain and terror? Had he tortured him? These thoughts were so awful that Rei felt sick. He started to hate the unknown person who had done those things to Kai, that beautiful boy who had always seemed so strong and indestructible, so confident and powerful. Such strength comes at a price and now that he knew the truth, Rei couldn't believe he'd never guessed that Kai had endured such dreadful things to become the hardened person he was now. How had he not realised?
"Fuck, yeah…" Jin moaned, getting closer to his end. Rei's face was screwed up in pain and all he could see was the ceiling rocking back and forth above him. Then he heard a sound that made his hairs stand on end - the creak of the bathroom door opening. He wrenched his head against Jin's grip so that he could look to the side. The door had opened a few inches. Maybe no one was there, maybe…
"Rei?" Kai's voice floated through the doorway. Rei bit his lip to stifle his whines of pain. He didn't want Kai to see him like this, bent over and at the mercy of another man. Jin hadn't seemed to notice that there was someone outside and suddenly increased his pace. This startled Rei and before he could stop it he had let out a loud, pain-filled yelp.
There was silence for a second, then Kai came bursting through the bathroom door.
Time seemed to slow down for Rei as he watched Kai take in the scene before him, his expression changing from worry, to shock, to anger. His hands clenched slowly into fists, his eyes burnt with rage. Jin looked up at Kai in shock, his motions inside of Rei ceasing abruptly, allowing Rei to finally pull away from his grip.
"Who the hell are you?" Jin said, but then a suspicious look came over his face as he noticed Kai's angry stance, his shirtless torso and the worried way in which he glanced at Rei. Jin may have been an uneducated brute, but he wasn't stupid. He could put two and two together.
"You little WHORE!" He screamed at Rei, and in one dramatic motion he hit Rei hard across the face.
It was then that Kai moved - so quickly that Rei didn't get to see it; he could only stagger back into the corner of the shower as Jin fell to the floor with a crash. Kai had lunged across the space between them and punched the man right in the face. Jin tried to get up, his hand holding his nose and blood streaming down his chin. Kai stood there panting with adrenaline, then he moved in and kneed Jin in the stomach. Jin swore his head off at his unfamiliar attacker, but a barrage of assaults from Kai knocked the breath out of him. He kicked and punched and beat the naked man into the floor until he lay still, his face and head bloodied.
Rei watched completely stunned as Kai bent down to check if Jin was still breathing. "Is he alive?" he asked him.
Kai nodded once, then he stood up and looked at Rei, who suddenly remembered that his pants were still down and scrambled to pull them back up. Rei turned the shower taps and the water stopped flowing, then he stood there looking at the floor in shame. He couldn't believe Kai had seen that happen for a second time, and Rei had allowed it to happen, even after he and Kai had made love. Kai really must think he was a whore.
Slowly, with the tiny steps that one would take to approach a frightened animal, Kai walked over to Rei. He stood very close to him, so close that they were almost pressed up against each other. Rei was shying away from him, but he was backed up into a corner and couldn't move away. Kai took Rei's chin in his hand and raised his head.
"Look at me," he said. Rei's eyes flicked up to his. Kai was only slightly taller than him, though his more muscular build made him seem bigger. His eyes were soft and full of kindness, which was a look Rei had never seen in those eyes before. A hint of anger crossed his face when he saw the bruise on Rei's cheek from where Jin had hit him.
"That bastard," Kai said. "I can't believe he did this to you."
"I'm sorry Kai," Rei said. "I'm sorry that it happened. I'm sorry you had to see…"
Rei didn't get to say any more because Kai leaned in and pressed his lips against his in an all-consuming kiss. When he pulled away again Rei was left in a daze, the feeling of warmth still lingering on his lips.
"It's not your fault, Rei," Kai said. "You don't have to explain."
Kai's warm voice broke something inside of Rei and before he knew it there were tears streaming down his face. Kai pulled him into a hug and Rei clung onto his shoulders, shaking with sobs. Kai just held him there, one arm around Rei's waist, the other on the back of his head. No one had ever told him that none of this was his fault, and he realised now that until this moment he had always believed that it was. As he cried into Kai's neck part of that guilt washed away. Suddenly it didn't matter if Rei felt dirty and used because of what Jin had done to him; right now he felt like a real person, not just a toy, because Kai was here with him.
Even as Jin lay unconscious on the bathroom floor, Rei felt like the world had suddenly become a stronger, safer place. Kai pulled away to look at Rei. "Okay, stop crying now, you stupid jungle cat." This made Rei laugh and he tried to dry his tears.
"I'm taking you away from here," Kai said decisively, and he took Rei's hand and led him out of the bathroom, out of the house, then suddenly they were on the dirt road and they were running. Kai pulled Rei along, their hands bound together tightly. Both boys were incredibly fit and running was no effort, even in the heat of a spring day in China. They passed through the village centre where the markets had been the previous day. The locals watched them pass with astounded and curious faces. Rei knew they must look strange; he was soaking wet from head to toe and Kai was a shirtless foreigner, both of them running hand in hand down the street in the middle of the day.
They reached the point where Kai had got off the bus when he first came to Rei's village. As luck would have it, there was a bus already there. It was waiting as a small group of elderly people climbed aboard, getting ready to go into town for an outing.
"Where are we going?" Rei asked.
"To my place," said Kai.
Rei asked the bus driver to let them on, and since he recognised Rei as the world-famous beyblader from this tiny village he let them have a seat right up the back of the bus where the two boys wouldn't disturb the elderly passengers. This was good for them because they wanted some privacy. The bus was only half full and everyone else was sitting at the front, so Kai took this opportunity to turn to Rei and say, "I'm so sorry Rei. I shouldn't have let you out of my sight."
"What? Don't be! It's not your fault either." The amber-eyed boy exclaimed, looking out the window as the bus started to move down the jungle-sheltered road. Rei was still very red in the face and his breathing was abnormal. Kai noticed, but he couldn't see the reason, until he looked down. Rei was aroused - the bulge in his pants was quite large even though it was half-formed. The effects of the treatment that Kai had interrupted had not yet worn off, but Rei was ignoring it out of embarrassment. This made a wave of guilt come over Kai even as heat gathered in the crotch of his pants.
"Rei," Kai whispered seductively as his hand moved to rest on Rei's upper thigh. The Chinese boy looked down at Kai's hand in surprise. Kai leaned in close to Rei, his other hand moving to stroke his hair. "You've got a hard on. Do you want me to take care of it?"
"What?" Rei gasped. Kai's hand moved slowly up Rei's thigh, up and up, until his palm was pressing on Rei's arousal and he felt the sexy boy twitch.
"Kai!" Rei tried to protest. "Stop! You don't have to do that…"
"But I want to," Kai replied as Rei started to harden fully under his massaging hand. "It's my fault you were forced to get so worked up. Let me help you finish."
Rei opened his mouth as though he wanted to protest again, but when he didn't say anything, Kai leaned down over Rei's lap. Rei was stunned when he realised what Kai was going to do. He also realised that several of his fantasies were about to come true, and that's exactly what happened as Kai released Rei's arousal from his pants and took it into his mouth.
Rei moaned in bliss as Kai's mouth swallowed his aching length, sucking slowly up and down. One of his hands flattened on the glass of the window as his head tilted back, the other snuck into Kai's soft hair. The warmth and the wetness of Kai's mouth felt incredible. Rei had to bite his lip to keep from screaming in elation in case someone turned and saw, but the risk of being seen made it all the more exciting. Damn it, Kai was really, really good at this. How had he learnt to suck cock so fucking well? He was leading Rei through a world of pleasure, and he didn't know how long he would last.
Kai's hands ran up and down Rei's thighs as he went down on him. He had done this so many times in his own fantasies, imagining what Rei tasted like and how big he was. Kai wanted to hear him moan with every slick of his tongue, and he was annoyed that Rei was biting his lip. Experimentally, Kai slipped off Rei's shaft and licked the tip fervently like a dog lapping water. He heard Rei's swallowed groan resonating in his chest. It gave Kai satisfaction to torture Rei with pleasure, and he went down on him again, this time faster, harder and deeper.
Both Rei's hands gripped Kai's hair as he felt a huge heat grow in his lower region. Kai's motions were making him weak with building pleasure and he couldn't escape it now, he couldn't stop it. With a cry he couldn't control Rei's release overpowered him. It seemed to last longer than any release he'd had before, and when it was over he slumped against the window, exhausted and deeply gratified.
Kai sat up with a satisfied smile. Seeing Rei in post-orgasmic bliss, and having brought him to that point himself, he thought this might be the most sensual point in his life so far. He had always been attracted to Rei, since the first moment he set eyes on him. Now finally he could be with him, he could make love with him, and most important of all, he could protect him from that bastard called Jin.
Kai pulled Rei over to him so that his head was resting on his shoulder. Rei's hand gripped Kai's knee in a silent thank you. The bus drove on and in only a couple of hours, they had reached the nearest airport.
Kai bought them each a first-class ticket on the next plain to Moscow and waited patiently in the airport seats for Rei to join him. Over at a phone booth, the ebony-haired beyblader spoke in low tones, thanked the person on the other end, and hung up. Kai looked up as Rei came and took the seat beside him.
"How'd it go?"
"Well, Jin's being taken to hospital. He's in quite a state. The paramedics say he's in a coma and the chances of him waking up any time soon are slim. Also, the nearest hospital is in Beijing, so even if he does wake up soon he's going to be far away."
"Then we'll have plenty of notice," Kai concluded, "and we can come back and stop him before he can cause any more harm to the people around him."
Rei smiled. "I can't believe you put Jin in a coma."
"I can't believe I didn't put him in Hell!" Kai said. "He should be thankful he's still alive."
An announcement came over the loudspeaker. "That's our plane," Rei translated. "We'd better join the queue."
They stood up to board the plane.
"Hey," said Kai, "what about Mei?"
"Oh, I've asked one of the mothers to take care of her while I'm away on an 'urgent family matter in Paris'. I have an uncle in Paris, so she wasn't suspicious."
"One of the mothers?" Kai asked.
"Yes, one of the mothers of the White Tiger team. Mariah's mother, actually. You remember, the one with…"
"Yes, I remember her," Kai said while rolling his eyes. How could he forget the girl who wore so much pink? She was the one who was jealous that Rei had switched teams to join the Bladebreakers. Kai used to think that maybe she and Rei had been together in the past, but now that he knew for sure that Rei liked boys he was greatly comforted and his petty hate for Mariah was diminished.
"What's your place like?" Rei asked Kai.
"You'll see soon enough," he said mysteriously.
As their plane took off from the ground, Rei looked out the window and watched as the countryside grew further and further away. He couldn't see his tiny village, buried as deep in the mountains as it was. I'll be back for you Mei, Rei promised. As soon as you need me, I'll be back. Jin will never lay a hand on us again, I promise you that.
Kai put an arm around Rei's shoulders and the young tiger leaned into his embrace. In the space of two days, Rei had gone from dreading his holidays to being excited about spending them all alone with Kai at the secret place where he lived. If so much had happened in the last two days, he wondered how jam-packed the rest of the holidays were going to be. Kai only thought about how lucky he was to have Rei all to himself for the foreseeable future. It was going to be fun.
He was sure of it.
Will Rei be able to keep his promise?
I knew exactly what was going to happen in this chapter as soon as I finished chapter 2, but it took much longer to write because I got so freakin' busy! It is so frustrating when that happens. Oh well.
Still, I hope you're enjoying reading this as much as I'm enjoying writing it! :D
Love and hugs for you all!
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