It had been quite a long time of staring into space. Quite a long time of
thinking. Quite a long time, long enough that my torture can be slow and
drawn out. Quite a long time of hell.
It had been months on months. Or so it seemed, but the time tracker built into the system told him that it had been three months, five weeks and two days. Quite a long time until they reached the Earth.
He had received transmission from different colonies and reports. He hadn't heard anything about Sanosuke's whereabouts, but he had detected a ship traveling within close proximity of his own. Very close. That had to be the ship where Sanosuke was. He had planned everything out so carefully. But the thing that he was planning out wasn't the destruction of Earth. It was the rescue of the youth, Sanosuke.
Saitou laid his head down on the table within the cold, quiet ship. It had been so long since he heard from anyone, and although he could replay Sanosuke's every move in his mind, that didn't make up for the fact that he was no longer here. And that was his fault.
He briefly fiddled with the idea of going insane from the deafening silence. Sanosuke things were still there. His clothes, his toiletries and even the Mortal CD that Saitou had tried to destroy at one point or another. Everything of his was there, except his actual person. Trying to and drown out the silence, Saitou had actually put that rock CD in, just to escape the ship's insanity.
"I should be planning out the courses to Earth, not worrying about that kid..." Saitou reasoned to himself, looked across the room and eyes landing on Sanosuke's cot.
He had developed a habit of talking to himself as well. Maybe it was out of denial. He didn't know, but that kid did something to him that justified the common law, "No human can live without other humans."
Maybe he could have at another time, but that was before he found himself spending more than more time with Sanosuke. And now that he was gone, in the three months that was one of the only thoughts that occupied his mind.
"That's it..." Saitou stated aloud, standing to his feet. "I may thinking that I would be more apt to successfully complete this mission without him, but I can't plan anything if I can't get him out of my mind..." He trailed off again and walked over to a window acting as a porthole to the infinite depths of space.
"This is ridiculous. When did I become so infatuated with that brat?"
"Well I was thinking that ya might have felt somethin' for me, ya know?"
"I don't know where you get these idiotic thoughts. I'm drawn to men. You're nothing but a boy to me. The son I never had,"
"How could I have said that to him...?"
Now Sanosuke wouldn't know how he felt. He would spend his time thinking that Saitou was a heartless bastard, and though it was partially true, he had the wrong idea of what Saitou thought about him. Why did he have to be so cold? More importantly, why did he care if he was cold? These things used to not bother him. Space and being alone were changing him, but for the worse or the better he had no idea.
Why did it have to be so cold? I was a dead man anyway, the least they could do is keep me warm. 'A man's final wish', I though sarcastically to myself, to be in even slightly humane conditions. But then again, I didn't even know why they were keeping me alive. Obviously they had already convicted me without a trial, so what was the point in letting me live?
Saitou. He was keeping me alive without any effort. Well, maybe with effort. All he had to do was keep away from the government and I would be spared. I didn't know whether to accept my life in the dungeons of this colony or to hope he comes back to save me. The latter was more risky, but anything-- even death-- was better than this mindless existence.
There were no other prisoners to converse with, I was in high security cell, and the guards, two rough looking men, kept me no company. The only time they ever spoke to me was to announce meals, and once to tell me the Commander wanted to see me.
In that incidence, the only time to that point I had been out of my cell, I had been led through the spotless white halls to the very center of the colony and in through a door with the name Suzuki Kamiya engraved on a copper plaque.
There was no one inside. To my surprise the two guards left, but I guess that even they weren't supposed to know about the government plot. I was alone for a long time. Maybe this was a test to see if I would try to escape or steal anything, I thought insanely. Yeah. Right.
That theory, however, was proved wrong when from another door I had taken for a closet, came Kaoru, obviously in a hurry and obviously not supposed to be there. "Sanosuke!" She shouted eagerly and came to my side, kneeling from where I was handcuffed to a chair. I blinked as she kept her eyes locked on me, and fumbled with a chain of keys.
"Woah, Missy... what are ya plannin'?" I slurred suddenly.
"What does it look like! I need you get you out of here!"
"Yeah... but where the hell would I go?" I snapped bitterly. Saitou hadn't come back for me, it was obvious that he didn't want anything to do with me. Finally he had gotten ride of me...
"Don't think like that! You can catch up with Saitou-san!"
"Don't be fuckin' ridiculous! He finally got rid of me, I don't think he's gonna want me to come back and annoy him some more."
"Sanosuke!" She shouted back as she pulled out a single, rough key from the deck and I heard a click from my handcuffs as she disappeared from behind my back.
Yeah, I didn't wanna be locked up, but this was gonna get Kaoru in some serious shit, and it probably wouldn't do a damned thing for me... At the same time I admired the eighteen year old's tenacity.
"Follow me!" She commanded and pulled me back into that closet-like door. We rushed down a pair of halls, and then into another room. I suspected this to be her room. I looked around at the wall paper and sighed. A standard girl's room. But then one question entered my mind.
"Kaoru? Why are you here?"
This was Hiradake's ship... even if Suzuki Kamiya had come along for the ride, why the hell had he brought his daughter!?
"Because daddy wanted me to come along for the trip. He thought it would be a good... learning experience." Her voice was a little lower than what I would have expected. She looked back up to me as I took a seat down on a little cushioned stool surrounded in pink fluff... not my best look... She walked over in long, drawn out steps and watched my face intently. She bent down, giving me a good look at her cleavage through that little uniform. I must have been gawking, because the next thing that I knew was her lips on mine, and her tongue slipping past my lips and into my mouth.
I backed up abruptly, scooting back into the chair quick, but no matter how far I scooted back, she leaned in forward and kissed me harder. I ended up taking a spill onto the pale pink carpet, and even when I did that, bar stool crashing down onto my fallen form, she leaned down and held my shoulder down on the tiled floor.
"Woah, what are you doing, Kaoru!?" I demanded, pushing her off of me.
She grinned coyly and swiped her tongue across my cheek. "I'm finishing what you started three months ago, Sanosuke."
Her weight came down onto my body hard, straddling my form. What the hell could she be thinking!? Well... I was sorta the one that induced it... but that was beside the point! I couldn't let this continue, because it would be my fault for leading her on if she actually thought something was going to happen... I had to end it now!
"Kaoru... I'm really sorry... but I love Saitou... I should have told you sooner, but I couldn't..." I trailed off when I heard a cold metal encircle my wrists and a click. I looked up to the sound and found my hands cuffed together above my head, tied to Kaoru's desk leg.
"What the--!?"
"Ahh, Sanosuke! I don't think you understand this. It doesn't matter how you feel about me, I want you and I'm going to get you. Daddy said that you were an early birthday present, and I intend to use my birthday present to its fullest. Daddy said that the only thing I had to do was keep you in one piece and keep you as bait for Saitou-san. But he did specify that if I needed to use force, I could." She empathized her point with a quickly drawn dagger brushing its razor-sharp edge across my neck.
"Shit... Kaoru, I don't know what you plan on doing, but stop, OK? Stop before you do something that you regret!"
"Why would I regret this?" She trailed her soft, moist lips against my neck and down my chest, using the knife to tear the fabric of my shirt to ribbons as she worked her way down.
"Kaoru... come on... please?" I tried to sound as confident as I could without choking on my words. This girl had problems. A lot of them, and I didn't want to awaken any of the ones that I hadn't already. Maybe this was a really, really bad idea... Kaoru tore and cut my shirt open and let the cool air invade my bare chest. Defintely a bad idea.
Shit! As much as I wanted her to stop, hell, I was a guy, and there are some things a guy can't control! Kaoru kept stripping me. Any second she would see... aww shit, she was already there. Smiling at me she said, "So you're in love with Saitou, eh?" She stuck out her lower lip and pouted. "Too bad..."
Yeah right. Like she was going to stop. But she did for a moment. She stared at me with very calculating look. "If I uncuff you," she began after a moment's silence, "Will you stay put?"
I stared at her, wide eyed. After a moment, I started "I don't think that this is a very good ide--"
"Ahh," she smiled, "That's not what I asked you! Will you stay put?"
I blinked. What was there to loose? "Yeah."
She pulled out the key chain she had used earlier in the office and unlocked the hand-cuffs which she had done rather tightly. I began to rub my wrists but she grabbed my hands and placed them on her shoulders. "Undress me." She commanded.
I stared at her for a second. Then, not wanting to make her even more upset, I stiffly did what she said. After her shirt was off, the psychotic brat grabbed my hands and angrily said, "More passion!"
This was making me mad. I was being thoroughly taken advantage of. "Don't you think it's a little pathetic," I asked rudely, "that you can't get a man by yourself so you have to get your dad to buy convicts for you?"
She looked outraged. Standing up, she pulled me on to her bed and then grabbed the handcuffs. "What are you doing?!?!?" I yelled. I didn't want to feel that vulnerable again!
"I changed my mind!" She snapped. And then I found myself hands bound (tightly, might I add) to the headboard. Fuuuck... this was not some place that I wanted to be... shit, shit, shit, shit shit.
She grinned and pulled the hair ribbon from that high pony tail and left raven locks dipped in sapphire flow freely down her shoulders and curve out at her covered breasts. I closed my eyes, wondering just how long that bra was going to stay on. The only thing that could keep me from moaning under her expert hand was the fact that I didn't want this from her, I wanted it from Saitou!
.... but then as she continued I kept forgetting that it was her and began to imagine the touch flowing over my body was Saitou's and not this little brat's. And that was when a groan escaped from my lips.
"Hmm, you're enjoying this too, aren't you? Why not just give in, then I may be able to uncuff you." She gave me a feral grin.
"Heh, why the hell would I want to--!?" Before I could finish what was supposed to be a kick-ass slam, the ribbon that was previously binding her hair wrapped around my mouth, gagging me. I choked violently as I tried to finish my sentence. Why that self-centered little bitch--!!
All I wanted right now was to be back with Saitou. No matter what he was doing, even if it was physically and/or mentally abusing me... I loved him and I would be able to take this for much longer. I wasn't going to be able to control my body for much longer, and even if she couldn't technically rape me, it left me feeling violated beyond belief. Saitou... where the hell are you!?
I turned away from her and closed my eyes, but she pulled it back angrily and commanded, "Look at me!"
I glared at her as evilly as I could, considering the circumstances, and tried to say, "I don't feel like it!" Childish, I know, and sure to piss her off, so it's probably a good thing that I didn't get any further than, "I don't--" she stopped me and snapped,
"There's nothing you can do! I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, and you don't have a choice!"
"What makes you so special?" I retorted.
"My dad is the commander! I told you, I can have whatever I want, whenever I want!"
"Spoiled brat." I muttered. Big mistake. Next thing I felt was a hard slap across my face. For a little chick, she sure could slap hard; that would definitely leave a mark!
"You're such a jerk! I used to think you were actually nice. Well fine, if you don't want me now then you won't have me now, but I think that a couple more days in jail will change your mind! Remember: I can do whatever I want with you. If I tell them not to feed you, they won't feed you. If I tell them the rough you up a little bit, that's what they'll do. I'll see you in a couple days, Hiradake!"
Without uncuffing me or dressing me, she pushed a button on the wall, told the guards to come get me, and then left. She left! She left me to the guards, hand cuffed to her bed and completely naked! Bitch!
The guards rushed in, and a couple gave me a good look-over. There were five in all, and it took one to get the handcuffs off, and then the other four to restrain me. I was pissed off, and that's what they needed to restrain me! Fuck her! Fuck the guards! Fuck the colony! And whatever else you wanted to! I hated this so much I didn't even pay mind to the punch I received for being a little too rowdy from a guard. But when I tasted the blood in my mouth I knew that something must have happened. They tossed me in the jail cell, tattered clothes in with me as well...
Or at least what remained of my clothes... which wasn't that much.
This time they didn't bother to hand cuff me, and I could actually put the remains of my clothes back. I closed my eyes once more and tired to get ride of this ... dirty feeling I had. I hadn't heard a word of Saitou, or seen him in such a long time... it kinda really sucks...
"Sanosuke?" I heard a voice call from the other end of the cell.
I tried in vain to cover up regions south of the border as a man walked into my cell.
"What the hell is it?"
"Kaoru-san asked me to come here and do... something."
Shit.
Saitou awoke to a beeping screen, and what looked to be a transmission coming to his ship. Suspicious. The only place he could think of getting messages from would be nearby colonies to check what he was doing, but there were no colonies in range for that.
Eyeing the screen cautiously as if it were going to attack somehow, he held down the communicate button to receive the transmission. A recorded invitation to conversation came on as he heard Kaoru's normally cheerful but now downright hysterical voice.
"Mr. Fujita! I mean-- Mr. Saitou. This is Kaoru Kamiya-- from the colony. I really need to talk to you… about Hiradake-- I mean Sanosuke! Reply! It's urgent!"
The voice stopped and Saitou's heart skipped a beat. What was wrong? What were they doing to Sanosuke? Without further hesitation, he entered the code for Kaoru's room. Almost immediately Kaoru showed up on the TV screen looking like a total mess. Her hair was all over the place, and her eyes were red and puffy as if she had been crying.
"What's going on?" He asked, voice contrasting with his normally cool and refined tone.
"It's Sanosuke! I--I don't know how much longer he can hold out! They're doing all kinds of terrible things to him… starving him, beating him…" she paused and then whispered, "raping him."
Saitou tried to breathe, but breath didn't come. They were hurting him like that! And it was all his fault…
"I--" Kaoru continued in a frightened tone, "I don't know how much longer he can hold out." He saw a tear running down her face. "Please hurry and save him, Mr. Saitou!"
"Tell him… tell him that I'm doing my best. Tell him I'll be there soon. Tell him to hang on." Saitou's voice cracked on those last words, and mentally slapped himself for showing such weakness.
"I will. Goodbye, and I'll tell you if anything else happens." She gave a sad but encouraging smile and stated, "I'm sure he'll be fine." And then her image and voice disappeared.
Saitou sat paralyzed staring at the screen, his mind blank. Miles and miles away Kaoru's face bore a smirk.
It had been months on months. Or so it seemed, but the time tracker built into the system told him that it had been three months, five weeks and two days. Quite a long time until they reached the Earth.
He had received transmission from different colonies and reports. He hadn't heard anything about Sanosuke's whereabouts, but he had detected a ship traveling within close proximity of his own. Very close. That had to be the ship where Sanosuke was. He had planned everything out so carefully. But the thing that he was planning out wasn't the destruction of Earth. It was the rescue of the youth, Sanosuke.
Saitou laid his head down on the table within the cold, quiet ship. It had been so long since he heard from anyone, and although he could replay Sanosuke's every move in his mind, that didn't make up for the fact that he was no longer here. And that was his fault.
He briefly fiddled with the idea of going insane from the deafening silence. Sanosuke things were still there. His clothes, his toiletries and even the Mortal CD that Saitou had tried to destroy at one point or another. Everything of his was there, except his actual person. Trying to and drown out the silence, Saitou had actually put that rock CD in, just to escape the ship's insanity.
"I should be planning out the courses to Earth, not worrying about that kid..." Saitou reasoned to himself, looked across the room and eyes landing on Sanosuke's cot.
He had developed a habit of talking to himself as well. Maybe it was out of denial. He didn't know, but that kid did something to him that justified the common law, "No human can live without other humans."
Maybe he could have at another time, but that was before he found himself spending more than more time with Sanosuke. And now that he was gone, in the three months that was one of the only thoughts that occupied his mind.
"That's it..." Saitou stated aloud, standing to his feet. "I may thinking that I would be more apt to successfully complete this mission without him, but I can't plan anything if I can't get him out of my mind..." He trailed off again and walked over to a window acting as a porthole to the infinite depths of space.
"This is ridiculous. When did I become so infatuated with that brat?"
"Well I was thinking that ya might have felt somethin' for me, ya know?"
"I don't know where you get these idiotic thoughts. I'm drawn to men. You're nothing but a boy to me. The son I never had,"
"How could I have said that to him...?"
Now Sanosuke wouldn't know how he felt. He would spend his time thinking that Saitou was a heartless bastard, and though it was partially true, he had the wrong idea of what Saitou thought about him. Why did he have to be so cold? More importantly, why did he care if he was cold? These things used to not bother him. Space and being alone were changing him, but for the worse or the better he had no idea.
Why did it have to be so cold? I was a dead man anyway, the least they could do is keep me warm. 'A man's final wish', I though sarcastically to myself, to be in even slightly humane conditions. But then again, I didn't even know why they were keeping me alive. Obviously they had already convicted me without a trial, so what was the point in letting me live?
Saitou. He was keeping me alive without any effort. Well, maybe with effort. All he had to do was keep away from the government and I would be spared. I didn't know whether to accept my life in the dungeons of this colony or to hope he comes back to save me. The latter was more risky, but anything-- even death-- was better than this mindless existence.
There were no other prisoners to converse with, I was in high security cell, and the guards, two rough looking men, kept me no company. The only time they ever spoke to me was to announce meals, and once to tell me the Commander wanted to see me.
In that incidence, the only time to that point I had been out of my cell, I had been led through the spotless white halls to the very center of the colony and in through a door with the name Suzuki Kamiya engraved on a copper plaque.
There was no one inside. To my surprise the two guards left, but I guess that even they weren't supposed to know about the government plot. I was alone for a long time. Maybe this was a test to see if I would try to escape or steal anything, I thought insanely. Yeah. Right.
That theory, however, was proved wrong when from another door I had taken for a closet, came Kaoru, obviously in a hurry and obviously not supposed to be there. "Sanosuke!" She shouted eagerly and came to my side, kneeling from where I was handcuffed to a chair. I blinked as she kept her eyes locked on me, and fumbled with a chain of keys.
"Woah, Missy... what are ya plannin'?" I slurred suddenly.
"What does it look like! I need you get you out of here!"
"Yeah... but where the hell would I go?" I snapped bitterly. Saitou hadn't come back for me, it was obvious that he didn't want anything to do with me. Finally he had gotten ride of me...
"Don't think like that! You can catch up with Saitou-san!"
"Don't be fuckin' ridiculous! He finally got rid of me, I don't think he's gonna want me to come back and annoy him some more."
"Sanosuke!" She shouted back as she pulled out a single, rough key from the deck and I heard a click from my handcuffs as she disappeared from behind my back.
Yeah, I didn't wanna be locked up, but this was gonna get Kaoru in some serious shit, and it probably wouldn't do a damned thing for me... At the same time I admired the eighteen year old's tenacity.
"Follow me!" She commanded and pulled me back into that closet-like door. We rushed down a pair of halls, and then into another room. I suspected this to be her room. I looked around at the wall paper and sighed. A standard girl's room. But then one question entered my mind.
"Kaoru? Why are you here?"
This was Hiradake's ship... even if Suzuki Kamiya had come along for the ride, why the hell had he brought his daughter!?
"Because daddy wanted me to come along for the trip. He thought it would be a good... learning experience." Her voice was a little lower than what I would have expected. She looked back up to me as I took a seat down on a little cushioned stool surrounded in pink fluff... not my best look... She walked over in long, drawn out steps and watched my face intently. She bent down, giving me a good look at her cleavage through that little uniform. I must have been gawking, because the next thing that I knew was her lips on mine, and her tongue slipping past my lips and into my mouth.
I backed up abruptly, scooting back into the chair quick, but no matter how far I scooted back, she leaned in forward and kissed me harder. I ended up taking a spill onto the pale pink carpet, and even when I did that, bar stool crashing down onto my fallen form, she leaned down and held my shoulder down on the tiled floor.
"Woah, what are you doing, Kaoru!?" I demanded, pushing her off of me.
She grinned coyly and swiped her tongue across my cheek. "I'm finishing what you started three months ago, Sanosuke."
Her weight came down onto my body hard, straddling my form. What the hell could she be thinking!? Well... I was sorta the one that induced it... but that was beside the point! I couldn't let this continue, because it would be my fault for leading her on if she actually thought something was going to happen... I had to end it now!
"Kaoru... I'm really sorry... but I love Saitou... I should have told you sooner, but I couldn't..." I trailed off when I heard a cold metal encircle my wrists and a click. I looked up to the sound and found my hands cuffed together above my head, tied to Kaoru's desk leg.
"What the--!?"
"Ahh, Sanosuke! I don't think you understand this. It doesn't matter how you feel about me, I want you and I'm going to get you. Daddy said that you were an early birthday present, and I intend to use my birthday present to its fullest. Daddy said that the only thing I had to do was keep you in one piece and keep you as bait for Saitou-san. But he did specify that if I needed to use force, I could." She empathized her point with a quickly drawn dagger brushing its razor-sharp edge across my neck.
"Shit... Kaoru, I don't know what you plan on doing, but stop, OK? Stop before you do something that you regret!"
"Why would I regret this?" She trailed her soft, moist lips against my neck and down my chest, using the knife to tear the fabric of my shirt to ribbons as she worked her way down.
"Kaoru... come on... please?" I tried to sound as confident as I could without choking on my words. This girl had problems. A lot of them, and I didn't want to awaken any of the ones that I hadn't already. Maybe this was a really, really bad idea... Kaoru tore and cut my shirt open and let the cool air invade my bare chest. Defintely a bad idea.
Shit! As much as I wanted her to stop, hell, I was a guy, and there are some things a guy can't control! Kaoru kept stripping me. Any second she would see... aww shit, she was already there. Smiling at me she said, "So you're in love with Saitou, eh?" She stuck out her lower lip and pouted. "Too bad..."
Yeah right. Like she was going to stop. But she did for a moment. She stared at me with very calculating look. "If I uncuff you," she began after a moment's silence, "Will you stay put?"
I stared at her, wide eyed. After a moment, I started "I don't think that this is a very good ide--"
"Ahh," she smiled, "That's not what I asked you! Will you stay put?"
I blinked. What was there to loose? "Yeah."
She pulled out the key chain she had used earlier in the office and unlocked the hand-cuffs which she had done rather tightly. I began to rub my wrists but she grabbed my hands and placed them on her shoulders. "Undress me." She commanded.
I stared at her for a second. Then, not wanting to make her even more upset, I stiffly did what she said. After her shirt was off, the psychotic brat grabbed my hands and angrily said, "More passion!"
This was making me mad. I was being thoroughly taken advantage of. "Don't you think it's a little pathetic," I asked rudely, "that you can't get a man by yourself so you have to get your dad to buy convicts for you?"
She looked outraged. Standing up, she pulled me on to her bed and then grabbed the handcuffs. "What are you doing?!?!?" I yelled. I didn't want to feel that vulnerable again!
"I changed my mind!" She snapped. And then I found myself hands bound (tightly, might I add) to the headboard. Fuuuck... this was not some place that I wanted to be... shit, shit, shit, shit shit.
She grinned and pulled the hair ribbon from that high pony tail and left raven locks dipped in sapphire flow freely down her shoulders and curve out at her covered breasts. I closed my eyes, wondering just how long that bra was going to stay on. The only thing that could keep me from moaning under her expert hand was the fact that I didn't want this from her, I wanted it from Saitou!
.... but then as she continued I kept forgetting that it was her and began to imagine the touch flowing over my body was Saitou's and not this little brat's. And that was when a groan escaped from my lips.
"Hmm, you're enjoying this too, aren't you? Why not just give in, then I may be able to uncuff you." She gave me a feral grin.
"Heh, why the hell would I want to--!?" Before I could finish what was supposed to be a kick-ass slam, the ribbon that was previously binding her hair wrapped around my mouth, gagging me. I choked violently as I tried to finish my sentence. Why that self-centered little bitch--!!
All I wanted right now was to be back with Saitou. No matter what he was doing, even if it was physically and/or mentally abusing me... I loved him and I would be able to take this for much longer. I wasn't going to be able to control my body for much longer, and even if she couldn't technically rape me, it left me feeling violated beyond belief. Saitou... where the hell are you!?
I turned away from her and closed my eyes, but she pulled it back angrily and commanded, "Look at me!"
I glared at her as evilly as I could, considering the circumstances, and tried to say, "I don't feel like it!" Childish, I know, and sure to piss her off, so it's probably a good thing that I didn't get any further than, "I don't--" she stopped me and snapped,
"There's nothing you can do! I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, and you don't have a choice!"
"What makes you so special?" I retorted.
"My dad is the commander! I told you, I can have whatever I want, whenever I want!"
"Spoiled brat." I muttered. Big mistake. Next thing I felt was a hard slap across my face. For a little chick, she sure could slap hard; that would definitely leave a mark!
"You're such a jerk! I used to think you were actually nice. Well fine, if you don't want me now then you won't have me now, but I think that a couple more days in jail will change your mind! Remember: I can do whatever I want with you. If I tell them not to feed you, they won't feed you. If I tell them the rough you up a little bit, that's what they'll do. I'll see you in a couple days, Hiradake!"
Without uncuffing me or dressing me, she pushed a button on the wall, told the guards to come get me, and then left. She left! She left me to the guards, hand cuffed to her bed and completely naked! Bitch!
The guards rushed in, and a couple gave me a good look-over. There were five in all, and it took one to get the handcuffs off, and then the other four to restrain me. I was pissed off, and that's what they needed to restrain me! Fuck her! Fuck the guards! Fuck the colony! And whatever else you wanted to! I hated this so much I didn't even pay mind to the punch I received for being a little too rowdy from a guard. But when I tasted the blood in my mouth I knew that something must have happened. They tossed me in the jail cell, tattered clothes in with me as well...
Or at least what remained of my clothes... which wasn't that much.
This time they didn't bother to hand cuff me, and I could actually put the remains of my clothes back. I closed my eyes once more and tired to get ride of this ... dirty feeling I had. I hadn't heard a word of Saitou, or seen him in such a long time... it kinda really sucks...
"Sanosuke?" I heard a voice call from the other end of the cell.
I tried in vain to cover up regions south of the border as a man walked into my cell.
"What the hell is it?"
"Kaoru-san asked me to come here and do... something."
Shit.
Saitou awoke to a beeping screen, and what looked to be a transmission coming to his ship. Suspicious. The only place he could think of getting messages from would be nearby colonies to check what he was doing, but there were no colonies in range for that.
Eyeing the screen cautiously as if it were going to attack somehow, he held down the communicate button to receive the transmission. A recorded invitation to conversation came on as he heard Kaoru's normally cheerful but now downright hysterical voice.
"Mr. Fujita! I mean-- Mr. Saitou. This is Kaoru Kamiya-- from the colony. I really need to talk to you… about Hiradake-- I mean Sanosuke! Reply! It's urgent!"
The voice stopped and Saitou's heart skipped a beat. What was wrong? What were they doing to Sanosuke? Without further hesitation, he entered the code for Kaoru's room. Almost immediately Kaoru showed up on the TV screen looking like a total mess. Her hair was all over the place, and her eyes were red and puffy as if she had been crying.
"What's going on?" He asked, voice contrasting with his normally cool and refined tone.
"It's Sanosuke! I--I don't know how much longer he can hold out! They're doing all kinds of terrible things to him… starving him, beating him…" she paused and then whispered, "raping him."
Saitou tried to breathe, but breath didn't come. They were hurting him like that! And it was all his fault…
"I--" Kaoru continued in a frightened tone, "I don't know how much longer he can hold out." He saw a tear running down her face. "Please hurry and save him, Mr. Saitou!"
"Tell him… tell him that I'm doing my best. Tell him I'll be there soon. Tell him to hang on." Saitou's voice cracked on those last words, and mentally slapped himself for showing such weakness.
"I will. Goodbye, and I'll tell you if anything else happens." She gave a sad but encouraging smile and stated, "I'm sure he'll be fine." And then her image and voice disappeared.
Saitou sat paralyzed staring at the screen, his mind blank. Miles and miles away Kaoru's face bore a smirk.