I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this up! Late Christmas, early New Year's present! I own nothing but the plot!
Hiyono showed up the next morning to see Ayumu. Good news: he was awake. Bad news: he wanted out of the hospital, pronto. And considering he couldn't move much in the condition he was in, that was not hardly a good thing.
"Lay back down before you have to be tied down." Hiyono said for about the fourth time. She gently but firmly grasped his shoulder and pushed him back down on the bed and put his oxygen mask back on.
He sighed and complied reluctantly. "I don't like being here. I need to find something about that freak who knows Aniki. And I can't do that from here!"
"Don't worry, Narumi-san." Hiyono smiled sweetly. "I brought along someone who might." Ayumu looked at her quizzically.
Enter Rio from the left. "Hey, Narumi-Otouto!" She waved to him as she came to the side of his bed. "I have some good news for you. We caught the guy who tried to kill you. He came here last night to finish you off but me and Kouske took him down."
Both Hiyono and Ayumu blinked at her. "Wait." Hiyono said slowly. "You knew that he'd come back to kill Narumi-san so that means…You used Narumi-san as bait without his permission!!" A vein stood out on Hiyono's head that could tow a car.
Rio just grinned like a cat. "Yep and we have him. Kouske's questioning him as we speak."
"You mean torture, right." The way Ayumu said it, it wasn't a question. He shook his head in amazement at how cruel the Blade Children could be.
"Only if it comes to that." Rio said, wagging a finger at him. "If he's smart, he'll talk without Kouske having to do anything more than question. If he won't Kouske could try and get in this guy's head but quite frankly, I'd rather not. If that fails, then we go to the rack and thumbscrews."
"You sound almost happy about the prospect." Ayumu remarked dryly, then yawned.
"Well, I can see you're not really here, so I won't be either. Good day, Narumi Otouto!"
Rio was about to skip out the door when Ayumu said blearily: "Will you tell me what he says, about Aniki?"
Rio turned around and looked at Ayumu's pleading eyes, and nodded. Ayumu fell asleep almost immediately afterwards. Hiyono quietly left Ayumu and headed after Rio, stopping the girl by grabbing her arm.
"I want to know, why? Why do you constantly use Narumi-san, and to what ends?" Hiyono hissed out at the smaller girl.
Rio was not intimidated. "Kiyotaka-sama has told us all we need to know, now we need Narumi-Otouto to help us do it, or we Blade Children will be lost."
Hiyono was almost frightened by how calmly Rio said this, almost. "If you need him so badly, then why can't you tell him what you need him for, or even why you people are constantly trying to kill him?!"
Rio turned full around to face the blonde. There was no light in her eyes at all, just coldness. "Because, we need him to be strong. He has that strength somewhere inside him, we're only trying to bring it out. And as for telling him, even we don't entirely know what part he plays. It's up to Kiyotaka-sama to tell him his full purpose." With that said, she walked away, leaving Hiyono standing shocked in the hallway.
Eyes' Apartment:
Kouske had the hunter in a basement of sorts, tied to a chair, while he sat on a sofa flipping a knife in the air and catching it expertly.
"You know, it'd save me a lot of time and effort if you'd just tell me what I wanna know." The red head said casually. "Trust me, if you don't start talking, me and my knives are gonna be the least of your worries." The hunter said nothing, just glared at Kouske with murderous intent. Said boy just sighed. "Oh, well. At least I can have some fun before Rio and Ryoko show up." He stood up, knife in hand, and nonchalantly started the torture.
First, he slowly cut off one ear. The hunter whimpered but didn't talk. Next, he sliced off a finger, causing the man to cry out. And so it went on, pain after new pain, but he still wouldn't talk. The man now had only 1 eye and ear, no fingers and no nose. He no longer looked entirely human.
At the end, Kouske sighed. "Well, I guess I can let the girls have you now, they need some fun too." He cleaned his now bloody knife on the hunters coat and walked out the door.
Pathetically short, I realize. But I can't think right now. And I think it's only fair to warn you that I have no idea where I'm going with this so any and all suggestions will be appreciated and considered thoroughly.