"Well, how it is going?" Asami spoke into his phone to Suoh.
"He is still inside his friend's apartment." Suoh responded.
Asami gazed at his watch, ten thirty at night. Was the kid going to stay there tonight? Asami could not imagine why Takaba would stay so long. He showed up before dark.
"Suoh, check on him. I'll hold." Asami replied.
"Yes sir."
"Kou, someone's at the door," Aki yelled at his friend who was getting them each another cold beer. They had not been drinking long however, because they had to be sober to compete against one another in a play station snowboard game that took a few hours.
"Okay," Kou said when the knock came again, harder this time. He dropped off the beer at the coffee table and headed to the door.
"Oh my God," Kou said obviously stunned by the huge man engulfing the doorway.
"Who is it, Kou?" Aki giggled as he took another drink of his fourth beer and then turned his head to find the reason for Kou's shocked voice.
As soon as Aki saw Suoh he rolled his eyes. Then he stood up from his perch on the floor, only to stagger due to his alcohol soaked brain.
"Shit!" Aki laughed as he tripped on the game console cord nearly falling.
"He is drunk sir," Aki heard Suoh say into his phone.
"Give me that," Aki said yanking the phone from Suoh before he had time to react.
"Sir, is it? I am not drunk and I don't need a babysitter so call off your oversize gorilla!" Aki shouted into the phone, his words a bit slurred.
"Suoh will drive you home Takaba," Asami's voice was low, even.
"I am twenty three years old, bastard! I will come home when I am ready. You can't give me a curfew." Aki shouted.
"Takaba, you can stay as long as you like but Suoh will drive you home. You will not get on that motorcycle drunk." Asami replied in that deadly even tone of his.
"Whatever bastard!" Aki shoved the phone back to Suoh.
Then as he turned to make his way back to the living room he said to Suoh, "You might as well have a seat. It's going to be a while."
Kou sat down on the floor next to Aki and they leaned back against the couch, grabbing their controllers. They continued to play while Suoh sat at the kitchen table.
Kou was use to Aki having guards so it didn't phase him that Suoh was there. What did make him wonder though, was who Suoh was?
"So Aki, is that a new guy?" Kou leaned close to whisper.
"Yeah, but Kou you don't have to whisper. I could care less if they hear us, bunch of goons." Aki said loud enough for Suoh to hear.
"Yeah, but that one is kind of scary. They've never been scary before." Kou said concerned.
Aki shrugged, "just think of him as a big teddy bear," he said and smiled mockingly at Suoh.
Suoh watched as the two young men drank, laughed, screamed at the TV, and stumbled around the apartment. They were so wasted that they could not keep their snowboarding guys from running into signs or off cliffs and that only made them laugh more.
After three more beers, Aki could not even stand up without Suoh's help. Kou was all but passed out on the couch mumbling something incoherent that resembled a goodbye.
In the Escalade, Aki leaned up between the seats to talk to Suoh while he drove.
"Hey, gorilla guy, do you think Asami is mad at me?"
"People do not cross the boss. You would do well to remember that." Suoh said without emotion.
"He sounded pissed off on the phone." Aki replied.
Then Aki sat back and started crying. Suoh had to look in the rearview mirror because he didn't want to believe it. He hated kids who couldn't hold their liquor. One minute they are mad and the next, crying, then happy.
"I walked out on my dad." Aki slurred and sniffled, "I let him down I could see it in his expression. He's going to be so mad at me for lying to him and running out on him."
"I'm sure Asami-sama took care of it." Suoh said casually.
"Do you think so?" Aki perked up, his eyes sparkling with hope.
"Yes, Takaba-kun."
When the door opened, Asami watched Suoh walk in with one drunk Takaba Akihito thrown over his shoulder. As they made their way past Asami's raised brow, Aki smiled and waved.
"Happy now," he said, "I got a ride." Aki said giggling all the way up the stairs.
Suoh tossed him on his bed and turned to Asami with a disgruntled look.
Asami just smirked, this kid is quite amusing, he thought.
"That will be all Suoh. I'll take care of the rest." Asami said.
After Suoh exited the room and shut the door, Asami turned to Takaba who looked like he could pass out any second. His eyes were half closed and he was lying flat on the bed with his limbs stretched out.
Asami proceeded to start taking off Aki's shoes and socks when the atmosphere of the room suddenly changed and Aki started blindly swatting Asami's hands away.
"No, stop." Aki insisted, but Asami ignored the young man's futile protests as he removed the second shoe and sock.
"Please, stop….don't touch…me," Aki was suddenly begging and his wide eyed look gave away his fear.
Aki was too drunk to comprehend reality, all his thoughts were jumbled and he thought he was back with the kidnapper on that night.
"Please…don't hurt me…again," he begged and the tears started flowing down his cheeks.
"Takaba," Asami said sternly, "You are safe."
But when Asami's hands found his belt, then the zipper on his jeans, Takaba started thrashing about on the bed. The kid was fighting for all he was worth.
"Let me go…stop it!" Aki yelled.
Asami remained calm and moved over Takaba, pressing the weight of his body onto the younger man's to stop his movements.
"Takaba," he said again and supped Takaba's head in his hands to force the younger man to look at him, eye to eye. His body covered the entire length of Aki's to keep him trapped beneath him.
"Look at me," Asami demanded, "Akihito, look at me, only at me."
Aki shook his head with his eyes squeezed shut, "No, no, no, no, no…" he ranted but Asami tightened his grip on Aki's head and crushed his mouth to Aki's to shut him up.
He fought against the kiss at first while his muffled protests went unheard. Asami took the opportunity to push his tongue past Aki's teeth to delve into his mouth.
As the intruding tongue explored and tasted Aki's mouth, he could taste cigarettes with whisky from the older man. It was a sweet taste that made his senses come to life. His mind was taking in the musky scent of the man on top of him. Sandalwood cologne and a slight coconut smell filled the immediate air around Aki. His body relaxed of its own accord while the assault on his mouth continued.
When Asami broke the kiss, both gasping for air, Aki's head was immobile so he had no choice but to look at Asami. His eyes met the glowing golden ones above him. Those golden orbs were mesmerizing and Aki was lost in them.
The kiss had clamed him down if his expression was any indication. His eyes were glazed and half closed. His wet lips were glistening and his head tilted slightly to the side. The sultry wanton look in his hazel eyes and the blush of embarrassment coloring his cheeks made for quite a seductive sight. In that moment Aki was at his utmost vulnerability.
Asami's cock twitched in response to the delicious feast slayed out before him. Takaba had no idea that his expression was begging Asami to fuck him.
But reality hit all too soon and like a bomb going off, Takaba's face changed. His eyes widened and his brows dipped in the middle. There it is, Asami thought, that glare of anger, eyes lit up in defiance.
"What the…you…you kissed me." Aki said, shocked. Then he wiped his mouth off with his arm, "I'm a guy…we're both guys," he hissed.
Aki could not believe that another man had just kissed him. It was bad enough that another man had raped him but this, now, confused and irritated him.
Of course, Aki was not immune to guys, though he preferred to think of himself as straight. There were only a few BL (boy's love) magazines mixed in with his playboys after all and girls were always fawning all over him at the club when he, Kou, and Takato went out.
He would dance dirty, grinding with the girls, never once considering a dance with a guy. Then again, he never took the girls up on their offers to sleep with him. They would kiss and make out a little on the dance floor but that was the extent of it.
He was not interested in guys. Why his body betrayed him during that kiss was something foreign to him. During his rape he felt nothing for the man other than anger and humiliation, aside from the excruciating pain.
"And?" Asami asked.
"And…and that's…LET ME GO!" Aki shouted.
Asami had known by Aki's performance in front of his father that the kid had in fact been raped but his responses to Asami's undressing him confirmed it. Not only that, they showed that he was affected by it far more than he was letting on. To think that someone had touched Takaba at all was filling Asami with rage beyond his own comprehension. Now the question was, how to make Takaba's pain go away?
