"The hell was all that about, Kaito?" Meiko asked as she walked up to Kaito, who for the past three, maybe five minutes hasn't move from that spot. He probably hasn't even blinked an eye since Haku jumped from his arms and ran off back to the sewers.

"Um, Kaito?" Meiko took a closer look at him when he didn't respond. She cocked an eyebrow, leaning in to take a closer look at him to see if even the smallest muscle on his face twitched, "Kaito?"

When she got to close, Kaito cracked a smile, making Meiko step back in surprise at his sudden movement. She regained her composure and smiled herself. "Yeah, what was all that about? You finally got Haku?" She chuckled. Kaito turned to face her. His movements where always so sudden that it always caught Meiko off guard, making her take a few steps back like he was gonna snap her neck.

"No, not yet." He responded, his smile returning to that unsettling childlike one, "If I did, she wouldn't run off like that, right?"

"Yeah, I guess not." Meiko scratched the back of her head. She may have worked side by side by Kaito in the earlier years, but they drifted so far apart it was like awkward small talk with a complete stranger. She looked back towards Miku, whose eyes were just asking 'What are you doing?'

She looked back at Kaito and gave another nervous chuckle, "Yeah I should get going."

"Meiko."

His words stopped her dead in her tracks, not just his words but also his hand gripping tightly on her shoulder. She tried tugging herself from his grip but was only met with the hold on her shoulder getting stronger. Cautiously, she looked over her shoulder, "You're gonna stay out of the way, right?"

Meiko gasped, and when she felt Kaito's grip falter for a splint second, she slipped from his hold and faced him, her scrunched up and her teeth bare, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means are you gonna get in the way with me and Haku? Are you and Miku gonna tie me up and shove a gun up my rectal cavity again? Or perhaps some other phallic object?"

"Don't use big words with me, no one talks like that."

Kaito hummed, crossing his arms, "Yeah, but who knows what all that alcohol has done to your brain."

"Oh shut the hell up." Meiko spat. Kaito let his head fall, nodding and he clicked his tongue.

"No need to get angry, I'm just saying you seem awfully protective of Haku and hate everything about me, so I was wondering if you had any intention of keeping me from her."

"Was beating your ass in the bar not enough of a sign." She clenched her fist and got into a fighting stance, "If another round is what gets the message through your thick skull, lets do it, right here, right now."

Kaito disregarded her offer with a chuckle, "Oh Meiko, I think we all - even Miku knows that if I actually fought back, I'd kill you." He reached over and put his hand on the area on her shoulder closest to her neck. "I'd snap your neck and burry your corpse out in Gumi's garden patch."

She furrowed her eyebrows together and swatted Kaito's hand off of her and got on her tip toes, their faces close enough to where their noses where touching, "Stay the hell away from Haku, you got that you sick fuck? Because the next time me and Miku shove a gun up your ass, we'll be sure to pull the trigger." At that she got back down to her level and walked away with Kaito looking at her with a fiendish smile before her turned away, and began to laugh.

"Oh you bitch." He began to walk back to his room, every so often he put a little skip into his step, "You stupid, stupid bitch, she doesn't even know." As he walked back into his room, he saw all of his siblings were gone, "I'll show Meiko sometime in her stupid bitch life." He opened the door to his room, which was not as empty as it seemed, "Sometime in her worthless life." As he said this, he was to his walk in closet and opened the door, and without the sound proof door being closed, the sounds of muffled groans and insults where now audible, but that didn't make Kaito's smile falter in the slightest.

He reached over, and turned on the lights, reveling two people shoved in his closet, Lapis, who was currently stuck in a jar with both of her wings not-so-carefully ripped out, with two grisly gashes in her back to show this. And Iroha -the Hello Kitty Vocaloid – with her hands tied behind her back and her legs tied together. Some duct tape covering her mouth to muffle any of the vulgarities she might spout at Kaito.

"I'm trusting you still remember the predicament I'm in." Kaito said as he walked into the closest, being sure to close the door behind him. Lapis was to weak to respond, and Iroha just sat there shooting him a dirty glare. He sat down in front of Iroha and ripped the duct tape off her mouth, making her groan out in pain as the surrounding area of her mouth turned a bright shade of pink.

"Yeah, I remember your situation, you were trying to rape this Haku girl?"

Her response earned a harsh slap across the face, her cheek now turning a matching shade of red, "Now Iroha, we went over this, I want her to love me, not hate me. What I was doing earlier wasn't rape, she wanted it, but kept insisting she didn't. I just kept her high and not so dry." He gave her a wink, making Iroha give him a disgusted look, despite the threat of another slap across the face. "Kind of like what I do with you."

"You have me tied up like this, I'm surprised you haven't actually screwed me."

Kaito chuckled, cupping her chin, "It's fun watching you squirm. I'll let you in on a little secret, I like being a tease, making you suffer. In fact I should do that right now, me teasing Haku like I was doing, I'm still a bit excited from that."

Iroha looked at him, fearful of what might happen. Will he actually go through with it or will he just continue to tease her like he always does? Instead he just chuckled, standing up. "But I have something to ask you, and maybe if you have something useful to say I can do more than just tease you."

Iroha groaned, disgusted at Kaito's offer, "Well, you and me are out of luck because I don't have any advice for you. I never plotted to rape some girl I don't know." Kaito growled, bending to his knees to give her another quick slap to the face.

"I could always make this painful for you. Cooperate with me and it doesn't have to be."

"Sorry Kaito, I got nothing." She shrugged her shoulders, Kaito narrowed his eyes, as if to milk information she didn't even know she had. Iroha squirmed under his gaze, kicking her legs, but trying not to hit him, lest she get another slap to the face. Finally he pulled back, standing with his back facing her. "I guess maybe you don't have any advice, that's okay… I had an idea of my own, maybe you'll have advice if I told you it?"

"Forget it, I want nothing to do with this."

Kaito let out a dark chuckle, facing her with a malicious grin on his face, "Oh, you will have a part in this, whether you like it or not."

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The doors where still barricaded with stuff that made the rest of her room look naked, her wall covered in a pattern of rectangular pale spots where the furniture originally sat. Once she stopped crying, took a cold shower, dressed up in her regular clothing and collapsed on her mattress, already missing the comfy, soft mattress the woke up in this morning.

Making this comparison, she started thinking about Kaito's offer. That maybe she was overreacting. At the expense of his unsettling presence, and having to be called his 'lover, she could get used to living like that when she hated this lifestyle of horrible food and rat filled rooms. She buried her face into the foul smelling pillow, rubbing her face into it; no… she'd be giving into him, something she was avoiding from the start. But…

If he got that far with her, wouldn't she have given in already? The places on her body where he touched, kissed- began to tingle so badly she couldn't ignore the feeling of his hands and lips on her pale skin. She groaned, pressing her face into the pillow as she tried to ignore the sensation.

"Kaito…" She moaned; no one has ever made her feel like this. Even if it was unsettling, it's the most romantic thing someone ever did to her, not counting the many times Meiko was drunk and tried to hit on her. She dug her nails into the pillow. She couldn't help but remember Kaito's touching her, going further than he got before. She couldn't contain these thoughts; she let them take over, "K-kaito…"

She turned onto her back, her hand cupping one of her breasts to mimic Kaito's. She clenched her eyes shut, moaning quietly as she fondled herself, "Please… Kaito, I need…"

She snapped her eyes open, and yanked away her hand, realizing just whom she was calling for. What the hell was she doing? This was exactly what he wanted. Even if he couldn't hear her cry out his name, he was still winning.

She sighed, he face scrunching up as she brought her knees to her face. What was she gonna do?

There was a knock, Haku gasped as she looked up from her knees and towards the dressers that still piled up against the door. She lifted herself from her bed, not taking her eyes from the entry way, "Who is it?' She asked loudly so her voice can be heard through the furniture. No answer, she asked again, no noise at all. Haku began to get annoyed, what if it was Kaito? Though why would he bother knocking anyway?

There was a pounding noise against the dressers as the person on the other side tried to open the door, giving up on being polite. "You should just give up." Haku sighed.

"Can we just talk?"

The unnaturally deep voice made Haku gasp. Hirane! That explains why he didn't answer her the first time. Or anytime after that. Haku dashed towards the door and somehow moved the furniture that was a pain to move in the first place with ease, pushing the furniture back to their respective places, she ran back towards the door before Hirane could even open it and lunged herself into his arms.

He gasped, the hug Haku threw around him was so tight that he couldn't even ask what was wrong. Not that he would with his actual voice. It was one of those rare instances where he had to speak.

Hirane quickly pulled away from Haku, if she wanted to talk to him, he couldn't do it if she was wrapped around him like this. Haku looked at him, confused a somewhat hurt, but when she saw him take out his PDA she understood why he pushed her off of him.

[What's the problem?]

Haku sighed, rubbing her arm, "Kaito…"

Hirane raised an eyebrow at her vague response, and began to type.

[What about him?]

"I thought you would know why that's a problem off the bat, aren't you the keeper of secrets?"

[Well, I here that he is a bit of a creep]

Haku scoffed, "Creep isn't the word, psycho is a better way of describing him."

Hirane hummed, but then he squinted his eyes and tilted his head a bit. Haku looked at him, confused before she noticed where he was looking. She gasped, and quickly moved her hand over the hicky on her neck.

"What is that?" He asked, sounding a bit crossed. Haku slouched her shoulders, seeing no point in lying.

"Kaito gave it to me."

"What?" Hirane barked, grabbing Haku by the arms.

"Hey, ow!" She whined as Hirane forced her to look in his eyes.
"Why the hell did he put that there?" He brought his face towards her, Haku groaned, squirming in his grasp.

"I have no clue why he does any of this, he took me from my room last nigh and then…" Haku stopped, tears forming in her eyes as she was forced to remember the shameful events of today. "Then…"

Hirane's grip then went from angry to protective as he wrapped his arms around her sides and held her close.

"How long has this been going on for?"

"The day before yesterday…" Weird, it seemed so much longer than that.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Haku sighed, hugging Hirane back, "Because I thought no one would care…"

"That's stupid…" Hirane chuckled, rocking Haku gently in his arms, "I know I don't talk much, but I thought I'd show enough kindness towards you to show I care." Talking through a PDA and showing no emotion is better than acting mean spirited and miserable all the time.

"Yeah… I guess it is kind of stupid."

"Listen Haku, I'll protect you, if you said something sooner, then maybe none of this would've happened."

"Don't remind me…" Despite that being the depressing truth of the matter, she found it oddly soothing. Now she has someone that was actually protecting her, with that in mind, Haku had felt at peace for the first time in years.

I was so proud of how the next chapter came out in my old version that I was thinking about using that. But then thought that would be lazy...