Notes: Yahoo!!
Fun time! Even though they're apart ya still get the memories!
=^_^= ... and then a bitchy Kaoru comes with the package ~_~
Warnings: Sano/Saitou, Sano/Kaoru (against our poor baby's will ~_~) angst, AU
Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation
By: Emmy and Anji
Part Seven
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He had planned out strategy after strategy, but none of them seemed to want to work when he put some thought to them. Whenever he even thought of what those men were doing to Sanosuke, hurting... touching him... it clouded his mind over in anger and he lost himself in that cloud. Possession wrecked his mind as he indulged the hate in a fantasy where he ripped their throats from their bodies.
But even after doing that, it didn't make the hate go away. He became even more lost in his thought, and became even more angry with himself because he let this happened. In this turmoil the only thing that he could feel besides the isolation of the ship was their cold, phantasomic blood running down his finger tips and trickling onto the floor.
Finally, after about a good week of trying to strategies, he received another message from Kaoru. Her voice was mellower this time, but that look in her eyes hadn't faded. This time it was clouded by doubt. With an abrupt start, he leaned in closer to the video comm. and chose his words carefully, trying to keep his voice from betraying him.
"What happened to Sanosuke?"
Something must have happened, judging from the look in her eyes and the direction of her eyes, downcast the floor. He voice cracked as she tried to speak. "I... I really do-don't know how much longer they can continue this... They said... they said..." She stopped for a moment to regain her bearings and attempt to finish he sentence.
"They said that they would keep him alive for you... because you were a key figure and without him the-they had no control over you... But it's just impossible! They're trailing him a-along on this thin strand of life, practically killing him to get information t-that he doesn't have!" Her voice was raised in anger and her fists fell onto the table, her face hiding in the comfort of her crossed arms as she choked out a sigh.
"I-I can't do an-anything! And as we're ge-getting closer to, whate-e-ever it is we're going to, he's getting weaker! They won't even let a doctor help him! When he bleeds, they just laugh! The only thing keeping him alive is his will power and the torn clothes he had been wearing for months, and those are soaked in blood! Please hurry! I beg of you! Help him! I can't stand watching this happen!! You have to do something!!"
Her words echoed in his head ten fold before fading into the depths of his imagination, where the words continued to fuel his hate for the men even further. He turned his eyes back onto the live connection between the two ships and he asked one small questions.
"How far away are you?"
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Saitou pushed the small ship mentally. Even though its speed was nearing that of light, which could be disastrous if reached, nothing was fast enough. He had to hurry, he had to get to the colony before they could finish Sano off.
Saitou stood in front of the classroom. He always hated this part of his job, the teaching part. He was trying to teach how to maneuver a A46-99 space-jet when a certain rooster-headed boy started talking animatedly to another student. Glaring at him, Saitou spoke loudly, "What, Mr. Sanosuke, is the difference between a A46-99 and a B46-99 space jet?"
Without hesitation, Sanosuke replied, "The first one's got an 'A' in it." He smirked as the students surrounding him burst out laughing.
"Detention, Sagara, tomorrow."
Sano raised his eyebrows seductively. "I'll see ya there." More laughs. More glares from the teacher.
He had been so annoying, so disruptive, so... self-centered. How had things changed so much? How come he was hurtling through space at supersonic speeds just to be able to see him again, just to protect him?
Protect him... since when had he become so possessive about the young rooster? When he started throwing himself utterly and completely vulnerable at Hajime Saitou's feet? Was that it? Or was it when he realized that someone else was getting Sanosuke attention, like that unsuspecting victim by the name of Kaoru Kamiya? Or, being incredibly stubborn, was it when he realized just what he had lost when the young man had been taken into custody?
That day he found the young man wandering around in the restricted area wasn't the first time. Sanosuke always had an uncanny knack for getting into trouble and going against all colony orders. There was one such day when the colony specified that no one touches their CPU for one hour because the network was going through some major remodeling, and what did that young man do? He decided to hop into everyone of his friends rooms and turn their computer on because he had an 'unfathomable urge for a good game of solitaire.'
The urge than continued from room to room for countless hours, until the computer technicians began to wonder why the system wasn't operating the way they had planned. Not only did he get thoroughly chewed out by the authorities, his friends' CPU were rendered inoperable until those computer technicians came back to the colony. In another two months.
But that was far from the best little scandal he pulled. The most memorable was a prank that he pulled on Seijirou Hiko. One of the highest officers on the entire colony that just happened to have a top-secret relationship with Sanosuke's room mate.
It had been a long, tiring week for the colony as a whole after some internal issues and not being able to make ends with the exporting demands to the partners in trade, and it just happened to be Kenshin Himura's birthday. Sanosuke had wanted the group to "kick back and relax" and before they had the little surprise of the redhead, Sanosuke decided to give Hiko a little bit more than his fill in sake, shots, and Bloody Mary's. No one knew how he had gotten the man so drunk, but as the time drew nearer to the surprise party, Sanosuke had grabbed a camera for the memories.
The memories turned out to be more than a quarter trillion dollars worth of blackmail. Black mail that included full grown men in playboy bunny outfits, Hiko jumping out of a cake and a rather large mess to clean up the next morning after everyone had "kicked back and relaxed."
Looking back on that Saitou smiled to himself. At the time he had thought it stupid and juvenile, but now he found it cute and clever. His memories only served to upset him more, as he imagined Sano broken and alone. He had to get him, whatever it would take.
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I sat in the corner of my cell. It was cold again. Maybe I would be spared today. No one had come in to see me yet, which I took as a good sign. My backside hurts like hell. Maybe she had decided that I had had enough and decided not to have them come to me everyday. But that was wishful thinking. Kaoru was the ultimate kind of psycho, the criminally insane that stops at nothing. It was really quite scary to know that she was perusing me...
A bulky looking guy walking into the room interrupted my thoughts. I instantly knew what was coming. They had even upgraded, I thought sarcastically, looking at the size of this guy's biceps. Instead of pro-wrestler, now it was sumo wrestler.
The guy walked in, unlocked the cell and jerked his head outwards. That was strange. Normally we just took care of it in here. But instead of having his way with me, he told me harshly, "The lady wants to see you."
Assuming he meant Kaoru, I braced myself for the worst and tried desperately to get my tattered clothes to cover as much skin as possible. Sure enough, it was Kaoru waiting for me in her father's office.
She smiled at me sweetly. Definitely insane. Then she grabbed my hand and started leading me to her room, saying excitedly, "I got to talk to you! We have some matters to discuss!"
I didn't say anything, but let her drag me like a little puppy dog. When we finally got to her bedroom, she sat on the bed with her legs crossed, looking like some teenager anxiously waiting to share the latest bit of gossip.
She showed me that sadistic smirk one last time before I sunk to my knees on the floor, my legs giving out. She wrapped a piece of navy soaked raven hair around her finger and giggled out loud. "Guess who I just talked to?"
"Who?" I growled lowly. Everything hurt so bad and I wasn't in the mood for this fucking guessing games.
"Hajime Saitou. But you know what the funniest part is?"
Saitou!? My mind cleaned up, my eyes shooting to her. "What did he say?" I said groggily, trying not to sound too anxious.
"Oh, if you really want the information, you're going to have to do some begging, my pet. And since you have so much practice with all those other -men- that showed up in your cell, I thought you might have some fun with -me-." Her grin turned feral again. Goddamnit, was I really going to have to indulge her nympho fanatics just to get some information about Saitou?! The thing that made me sick the most was the fact that I was about to do anything to make sure he was all right... and coming for me.
"Just tell me what he said, please." I stated, more than begged. Yeah, I could be beaten and battered, but I was never gonna be knocked into submission. She sat up and then knelt down by my side. I didn't realize that I was shaking until she rested her hand upon my shoulder and began to vibrate slightly from the touch.
"How much do you want that information, puppy?" She asked, drawing her other hand to my bruising jaw and pinched the ripped skin. I bit my already injured tongue to keep from yelping at the touch.
"Well? Are you going to answer me?"
"I'd rather not."
"Don't think that's going to work this time! I gave you a couple weeks to think about it. Either you do what I tell you to, or you get another month of guys, and maybe I'll make it twice a day, just to get you to obey me. So just give in now. Do what I tell you, and I'd be more than happy to tell you about Mr. Saitou!"
I sighed. I would much rather spend one night with her than have the visits multiply, but it was at the point where I didn't want to give in for sheer stubbornness and to show her that I wasn't some-- puppy. "I'd much rather be with those guys than you!"
"Sano, Sano, Sano my love. You can't lie to me! Not once did you enjoy my friends, and I know that for a fact! With me, on the other hand, you were beginning to become quite aroused, and you can't say that for those men."
I didn't know how to reply. Knowing it would have absolutely no effect, I firmly stated, "What did Jime say? Let me talk to him."
"Let you talk to him? Now why would I do something like that? It would take all the fun out of this situation. No, I think I'll stick to the original plan."
"The original plan? What was that, Kaoru? How come I wasn't informed?"
"The original plan is not for you to know. At least not for now."
"If I'm part of the plan I think I should be informed SOMEHOW."
A playful smile played over her lips and she leaned down onto me, knocked me backwards onto the floor. "If you have fun now and play, I'll inform you later. Promise, darling."
"Stop it, Kaoru! I want to talk to Jime!"
"Hmm, you really are obsessed aren't you? It's OK I can make you forget all about him." She whispered against the shell of my head, causing my body to shutter violently.
"You see the truth is," Her voice changed to a saddened one, "Saitou doesn't want you. Why do you think he's not coming for you? Sanosuke, I love you. He thinks you as nothing more than a pain in his side... a pain that he thanked me to get rid of. But Sanosuke, darling, I can make all that pain go away, and I can show you real love."
"Get away from me, you psychotic bitch." I growled and summoned enough strength to push her up off of me, slamming into the wall nicely put next to the both of us. I have to admit that I would never hit a girl, but that trickle of blood trailing down her cheek didn't make me feel one bit of resentment.
"San...o...suke..." She blinked and then drew her fingers to the warm liquid.
She pulled them away after taking a swipe and fondly looked at the blood coaxing her fingers. A grin appeared on her face. "My beloved Sanosuke. Maybe taking it up the ass so many times made you a little feisty." She waltzed over to me. I couldn't move.
"Oh, baby, it looks as if I'm going to have to humble you a little more if you really think you can overthrow me."
She walked over to her dresser and busied herself looking for something. At last she found it and happily pulled out her handcuffs. I didn't resist when she walked over to me and pushed me on to the bed, but when she started to take of my pants, I got a little bit worried. I pushed her away, and she began to pout.
"Why won't you let me undress you? You know we could have so much fun. Handcuffs are the best to play with!"
"Stay away from me!" I shouted, genuinely terrified. Not only did I not want her touching me, I couldn't get what she had said out about Saitou out of my mind. What if she was telling the truth? What if he didn't want me any more?
"Sa-no! Just give up! You've lost! You got caught, and this is your punishment! You should be happy! This is a great punishment, getting to be with me. I just wish you would enjoy it, for your sake!"
I didn't reply.
"You know, if you would start listening to me I could use my influence to get better conditions for you! I could get you nice clothes, and let you go out at night, and maybe you could stay in my room…"
But she was obviously getting impatient and decided not to finish her thought. Instead she continued taking off my clothes and I decided not to resist. What could I do? This girl was dead-set on having me, and I really wanted the daily visits to stop. Some of the conditions she proposed, I have to admit, tempted me sorely.
I couldn't bring myself to move against her touch, nor could I bring myself to touch -her-. If I just sat there, she could have her way and I could get the information out in the end. So as I lay there immobile. I began to think about the recent conversation, instead of registering the touches and the responses my body was giving -to- those touches. She couldn't have been right about Saitou...
But it hurt so damn much to think about...
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As he sat down to yet another quiet dinner by himself he could help but think about how very becoming brooding was. And the answer to that was not very. He spent next to an hour examining every detail of his food, not even bothering to note the fact that it was cold. He was already too caught up in thought. The only thing that snapped him out of his thought was a beeping asking for permission to start a visual communication connection in real-time.
Saitou held his breath, hoping for good news from Kaoru, but expecting the worst.
"Saitou-san?" The girl said as a calm introduction.
"Kaoru-san."
"Umm... Sanosuke decided that he doesn't really... want you to come rescue him."
"Excuse me?" Saitou asked, narrowing his eyes in question and blinking a few -more- times.
"Its just… well, I didn't want to tell you, but he told me too… he said it would be for the better if you knew… Sanosuke and I have been together for the last month. I'm… I'm just really sorry you had to find out this way… Sano-- Sano told me that he didn't want you to come, simply because he's just not interested in you any more. God! I can't do this!" She began to cry, but Saitou felt no urge to comfort her. He was too torn between disbelief, and anger. What was going on?
"Let me talk to him," Saitou said after a long pause while she wept.
"He…" She continued, sobbing, "He said that he didn't want to talk to you and make things harder! Don't come, please. It'll only get you both killed! Just stay away, he needs to be here with me."
Without another word, he cut the communication. Right now he had to be alone to analyze what he had been told. Why would Sano change his mind like that? Was Kaoru lying? He seriously doubted that. She had proved trustworthy, if not always intelligent, up to this point. But still… the thought of Sano not wanting him anymore… it was just too much…
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I lay on the bed, for the first time in months actually warm. My night with Kaoru hadn't been fun, but at least now I had a nice bed, free roam of the Unrestricted Commander's Halls, and really nice meals. I also wasn't being raped by the men anymore-- Kaoru had decided she wanted me all to herself, I guess.
At the moment she was off eating; even though I wasn't locked up anymore, they still couldn't let me go out and eat with civilians. I had my plate in front of me, but wasn't particularly hungry, so I decided to "explore" her room.
First I looked in her dresser drawers. Nothing interesting there, except the handcuffs that I was already well acquainted with. There was nothing in her closet except a bunch of clothes. Surprisingly there wasn't anything in the whole room to show how crazy she was, except, that is, the handcuffs. I was about to get back into bed where she had told me to stay when the computer at the other side of the large room caught my eye.
A computer.
I hopped onto the chair in front of it like there was no tomorrow. If this computer was hooked up to the cross-colony network, then that meant communication with the rest of the universe. Communication with Saitou...
I had never really been tactful, and even if I was sick to my stomach with worry about Saitou hating me that much, I had to hear it from his lips. And this may be a way of doing it... I clicked onto the mainframe network and checked for the necessary equipment. Cable hook up.
Check.
Audio-visual communication.
Check.
Power.
Check
OK, good! Now if I remembered right, Saitou's ship was...
I quickly typed in his ship number and offered up to him a communication request. I crossed my fingers as I waited for him to accept or decline. If he was even there. With my luck he might have been taking a shower. "Come on, Saitou. Come on... accept it!" I hissed to the computer that still read across the screen:
Waiting for other party to deny or accept communication request.
Come on! Accept it!
I kept chanting those words over and over again, looking at the screen, waiting for him to answer. Accept it! Please!
After I sent the message through a few more times, the request was finally accepted. The screen quickly turned into the comm. link and a man with a slightly angry look on his face answered. It was Saitou...
But the expression on his face quickly melted from one of anger to shock, as he looked at me. His eyes scanned along the bruises, scratches and scars I had from this little stay. His voice was uncertain, like I wasn't there, "Sanosuke?"
"Jime! Thank god you answered! You had me so fucking worried! And I thought that... well, that you hated me." I said, unsure into the comm.
"What are you talking about? I thought that--" Saitou stopped as a look of realization . Kaoru must have told him a lie... if she told them both something different...
"What did Kaoru tell you?"
"That you weren't coming. What the hell did she tell you!?"
We figured out just what happened in a matter of fifteen minutes... everything made perfect sense... I looked to the floor, and then back to the computer.
"Goddamnit, Jime! Hurry up! I don't know how long I can stay here without going fucking insane!" I shouted, running a hand absently along the edge of the screen, briefly touching Saitou's face. The man on the other end nodded. My face softened. "How long has it been, Jime?"
"Honestly," Saitou started, speaking carefully into the screen, "too long, for my tastes."
"I give that one a fucking amen!"
There was a lull after that comment, and he scanned his eyes along my battered body. He came to one conclusion and one course of action. "Sanosuke, where are you now?"
"Kaoru's chambers, why?"
"Could you look through her computers files and find me a map of the ship?"
I blinked, but nodded, keeping the comm. open, even if I had to resize it a little bit to go through the ship's files. I flipped through the cross-colony network quickly, trying to find a picture map of the gigantic ship.
"OK, found some, I'm bringing it up on the screen now."
Saitou smirked as he looked over the map. "What section are you in?"
"D203."
"Wait in there and I'll come for you at 9:46 tomorrow."
"Really, Jime?!"
"I've left you there for too long, it's time to get you back."
I had to resist the ridiculous smirk tugging at my lips.
"You should go before she gets back."
"I will, and Jime?"
There was a pause, he looking me over.
"Thanks."
The comm. screen darkened and then fell totally black.
I grinned, leaning back into the blackness, looking around the shadowed room. I froze as I heard a sound coming from my rear.
"Sanosuke? What were you doing?"
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End of part seven
Warnings: Sano/Saitou, Sano/Kaoru (against our poor baby's will ~_~) angst, AU
Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation
By: Emmy and Anji
Part Seven
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He had planned out strategy after strategy, but none of them seemed to want to work when he put some thought to them. Whenever he even thought of what those men were doing to Sanosuke, hurting... touching him... it clouded his mind over in anger and he lost himself in that cloud. Possession wrecked his mind as he indulged the hate in a fantasy where he ripped their throats from their bodies.
But even after doing that, it didn't make the hate go away. He became even more lost in his thought, and became even more angry with himself because he let this happened. In this turmoil the only thing that he could feel besides the isolation of the ship was their cold, phantasomic blood running down his finger tips and trickling onto the floor.
Finally, after about a good week of trying to strategies, he received another message from Kaoru. Her voice was mellower this time, but that look in her eyes hadn't faded. This time it was clouded by doubt. With an abrupt start, he leaned in closer to the video comm. and chose his words carefully, trying to keep his voice from betraying him.
"What happened to Sanosuke?"
Something must have happened, judging from the look in her eyes and the direction of her eyes, downcast the floor. He voice cracked as she tried to speak. "I... I really do-don't know how much longer they can continue this... They said... they said..." She stopped for a moment to regain her bearings and attempt to finish he sentence.
"They said that they would keep him alive for you... because you were a key figure and without him the-they had no control over you... But it's just impossible! They're trailing him a-along on this thin strand of life, practically killing him to get information t-that he doesn't have!" Her voice was raised in anger and her fists fell onto the table, her face hiding in the comfort of her crossed arms as she choked out a sigh.
"I-I can't do an-anything! And as we're ge-getting closer to, whate-e-ever it is we're going to, he's getting weaker! They won't even let a doctor help him! When he bleeds, they just laugh! The only thing keeping him alive is his will power and the torn clothes he had been wearing for months, and those are soaked in blood! Please hurry! I beg of you! Help him! I can't stand watching this happen!! You have to do something!!"
Her words echoed in his head ten fold before fading into the depths of his imagination, where the words continued to fuel his hate for the men even further. He turned his eyes back onto the live connection between the two ships and he asked one small questions.
"How far away are you?"
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Saitou pushed the small ship mentally. Even though its speed was nearing that of light, which could be disastrous if reached, nothing was fast enough. He had to hurry, he had to get to the colony before they could finish Sano off.
Saitou stood in front of the classroom. He always hated this part of his job, the teaching part. He was trying to teach how to maneuver a A46-99 space-jet when a certain rooster-headed boy started talking animatedly to another student. Glaring at him, Saitou spoke loudly, "What, Mr. Sanosuke, is the difference between a A46-99 and a B46-99 space jet?"
Without hesitation, Sanosuke replied, "The first one's got an 'A' in it." He smirked as the students surrounding him burst out laughing.
"Detention, Sagara, tomorrow."
Sano raised his eyebrows seductively. "I'll see ya there." More laughs. More glares from the teacher.
He had been so annoying, so disruptive, so... self-centered. How had things changed so much? How come he was hurtling through space at supersonic speeds just to be able to see him again, just to protect him?
Protect him... since when had he become so possessive about the young rooster? When he started throwing himself utterly and completely vulnerable at Hajime Saitou's feet? Was that it? Or was it when he realized that someone else was getting Sanosuke attention, like that unsuspecting victim by the name of Kaoru Kamiya? Or, being incredibly stubborn, was it when he realized just what he had lost when the young man had been taken into custody?
That day he found the young man wandering around in the restricted area wasn't the first time. Sanosuke always had an uncanny knack for getting into trouble and going against all colony orders. There was one such day when the colony specified that no one touches their CPU for one hour because the network was going through some major remodeling, and what did that young man do? He decided to hop into everyone of his friends rooms and turn their computer on because he had an 'unfathomable urge for a good game of solitaire.'
The urge than continued from room to room for countless hours, until the computer technicians began to wonder why the system wasn't operating the way they had planned. Not only did he get thoroughly chewed out by the authorities, his friends' CPU were rendered inoperable until those computer technicians came back to the colony. In another two months.
But that was far from the best little scandal he pulled. The most memorable was a prank that he pulled on Seijirou Hiko. One of the highest officers on the entire colony that just happened to have a top-secret relationship with Sanosuke's room mate.
It had been a long, tiring week for the colony as a whole after some internal issues and not being able to make ends with the exporting demands to the partners in trade, and it just happened to be Kenshin Himura's birthday. Sanosuke had wanted the group to "kick back and relax" and before they had the little surprise of the redhead, Sanosuke decided to give Hiko a little bit more than his fill in sake, shots, and Bloody Mary's. No one knew how he had gotten the man so drunk, but as the time drew nearer to the surprise party, Sanosuke had grabbed a camera for the memories.
The memories turned out to be more than a quarter trillion dollars worth of blackmail. Black mail that included full grown men in playboy bunny outfits, Hiko jumping out of a cake and a rather large mess to clean up the next morning after everyone had "kicked back and relaxed."
Looking back on that Saitou smiled to himself. At the time he had thought it stupid and juvenile, but now he found it cute and clever. His memories only served to upset him more, as he imagined Sano broken and alone. He had to get him, whatever it would take.
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I sat in the corner of my cell. It was cold again. Maybe I would be spared today. No one had come in to see me yet, which I took as a good sign. My backside hurts like hell. Maybe she had decided that I had had enough and decided not to have them come to me everyday. But that was wishful thinking. Kaoru was the ultimate kind of psycho, the criminally insane that stops at nothing. It was really quite scary to know that she was perusing me...
A bulky looking guy walking into the room interrupted my thoughts. I instantly knew what was coming. They had even upgraded, I thought sarcastically, looking at the size of this guy's biceps. Instead of pro-wrestler, now it was sumo wrestler.
The guy walked in, unlocked the cell and jerked his head outwards. That was strange. Normally we just took care of it in here. But instead of having his way with me, he told me harshly, "The lady wants to see you."
Assuming he meant Kaoru, I braced myself for the worst and tried desperately to get my tattered clothes to cover as much skin as possible. Sure enough, it was Kaoru waiting for me in her father's office.
She smiled at me sweetly. Definitely insane. Then she grabbed my hand and started leading me to her room, saying excitedly, "I got to talk to you! We have some matters to discuss!"
I didn't say anything, but let her drag me like a little puppy dog. When we finally got to her bedroom, she sat on the bed with her legs crossed, looking like some teenager anxiously waiting to share the latest bit of gossip.
She showed me that sadistic smirk one last time before I sunk to my knees on the floor, my legs giving out. She wrapped a piece of navy soaked raven hair around her finger and giggled out loud. "Guess who I just talked to?"
"Who?" I growled lowly. Everything hurt so bad and I wasn't in the mood for this fucking guessing games.
"Hajime Saitou. But you know what the funniest part is?"
Saitou!? My mind cleaned up, my eyes shooting to her. "What did he say?" I said groggily, trying not to sound too anxious.
"Oh, if you really want the information, you're going to have to do some begging, my pet. And since you have so much practice with all those other -men- that showed up in your cell, I thought you might have some fun with -me-." Her grin turned feral again. Goddamnit, was I really going to have to indulge her nympho fanatics just to get some information about Saitou?! The thing that made me sick the most was the fact that I was about to do anything to make sure he was all right... and coming for me.
"Just tell me what he said, please." I stated, more than begged. Yeah, I could be beaten and battered, but I was never gonna be knocked into submission. She sat up and then knelt down by my side. I didn't realize that I was shaking until she rested her hand upon my shoulder and began to vibrate slightly from the touch.
"How much do you want that information, puppy?" She asked, drawing her other hand to my bruising jaw and pinched the ripped skin. I bit my already injured tongue to keep from yelping at the touch.
"Well? Are you going to answer me?"
"I'd rather not."
"Don't think that's going to work this time! I gave you a couple weeks to think about it. Either you do what I tell you to, or you get another month of guys, and maybe I'll make it twice a day, just to get you to obey me. So just give in now. Do what I tell you, and I'd be more than happy to tell you about Mr. Saitou!"
I sighed. I would much rather spend one night with her than have the visits multiply, but it was at the point where I didn't want to give in for sheer stubbornness and to show her that I wasn't some-- puppy. "I'd much rather be with those guys than you!"
"Sano, Sano, Sano my love. You can't lie to me! Not once did you enjoy my friends, and I know that for a fact! With me, on the other hand, you were beginning to become quite aroused, and you can't say that for those men."
I didn't know how to reply. Knowing it would have absolutely no effect, I firmly stated, "What did Jime say? Let me talk to him."
"Let you talk to him? Now why would I do something like that? It would take all the fun out of this situation. No, I think I'll stick to the original plan."
"The original plan? What was that, Kaoru? How come I wasn't informed?"
"The original plan is not for you to know. At least not for now."
"If I'm part of the plan I think I should be informed SOMEHOW."
A playful smile played over her lips and she leaned down onto me, knocked me backwards onto the floor. "If you have fun now and play, I'll inform you later. Promise, darling."
"Stop it, Kaoru! I want to talk to Jime!"
"Hmm, you really are obsessed aren't you? It's OK I can make you forget all about him." She whispered against the shell of my head, causing my body to shutter violently.
"You see the truth is," Her voice changed to a saddened one, "Saitou doesn't want you. Why do you think he's not coming for you? Sanosuke, I love you. He thinks you as nothing more than a pain in his side... a pain that he thanked me to get rid of. But Sanosuke, darling, I can make all that pain go away, and I can show you real love."
"Get away from me, you psychotic bitch." I growled and summoned enough strength to push her up off of me, slamming into the wall nicely put next to the both of us. I have to admit that I would never hit a girl, but that trickle of blood trailing down her cheek didn't make me feel one bit of resentment.
"San...o...suke..." She blinked and then drew her fingers to the warm liquid.
She pulled them away after taking a swipe and fondly looked at the blood coaxing her fingers. A grin appeared on her face. "My beloved Sanosuke. Maybe taking it up the ass so many times made you a little feisty." She waltzed over to me. I couldn't move.
"Oh, baby, it looks as if I'm going to have to humble you a little more if you really think you can overthrow me."
She walked over to her dresser and busied herself looking for something. At last she found it and happily pulled out her handcuffs. I didn't resist when she walked over to me and pushed me on to the bed, but when she started to take of my pants, I got a little bit worried. I pushed her away, and she began to pout.
"Why won't you let me undress you? You know we could have so much fun. Handcuffs are the best to play with!"
"Stay away from me!" I shouted, genuinely terrified. Not only did I not want her touching me, I couldn't get what she had said out about Saitou out of my mind. What if she was telling the truth? What if he didn't want me any more?
"Sa-no! Just give up! You've lost! You got caught, and this is your punishment! You should be happy! This is a great punishment, getting to be with me. I just wish you would enjoy it, for your sake!"
I didn't reply.
"You know, if you would start listening to me I could use my influence to get better conditions for you! I could get you nice clothes, and let you go out at night, and maybe you could stay in my room…"
But she was obviously getting impatient and decided not to finish her thought. Instead she continued taking off my clothes and I decided not to resist. What could I do? This girl was dead-set on having me, and I really wanted the daily visits to stop. Some of the conditions she proposed, I have to admit, tempted me sorely.
I couldn't bring myself to move against her touch, nor could I bring myself to touch -her-. If I just sat there, she could have her way and I could get the information out in the end. So as I lay there immobile. I began to think about the recent conversation, instead of registering the touches and the responses my body was giving -to- those touches. She couldn't have been right about Saitou...
But it hurt so damn much to think about...
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As he sat down to yet another quiet dinner by himself he could help but think about how very becoming brooding was. And the answer to that was not very. He spent next to an hour examining every detail of his food, not even bothering to note the fact that it was cold. He was already too caught up in thought. The only thing that snapped him out of his thought was a beeping asking for permission to start a visual communication connection in real-time.
Saitou held his breath, hoping for good news from Kaoru, but expecting the worst.
"Saitou-san?" The girl said as a calm introduction.
"Kaoru-san."
"Umm... Sanosuke decided that he doesn't really... want you to come rescue him."
"Excuse me?" Saitou asked, narrowing his eyes in question and blinking a few -more- times.
"Its just… well, I didn't want to tell you, but he told me too… he said it would be for the better if you knew… Sanosuke and I have been together for the last month. I'm… I'm just really sorry you had to find out this way… Sano-- Sano told me that he didn't want you to come, simply because he's just not interested in you any more. God! I can't do this!" She began to cry, but Saitou felt no urge to comfort her. He was too torn between disbelief, and anger. What was going on?
"Let me talk to him," Saitou said after a long pause while she wept.
"He…" She continued, sobbing, "He said that he didn't want to talk to you and make things harder! Don't come, please. It'll only get you both killed! Just stay away, he needs to be here with me."
Without another word, he cut the communication. Right now he had to be alone to analyze what he had been told. Why would Sano change his mind like that? Was Kaoru lying? He seriously doubted that. She had proved trustworthy, if not always intelligent, up to this point. But still… the thought of Sano not wanting him anymore… it was just too much…
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I lay on the bed, for the first time in months actually warm. My night with Kaoru hadn't been fun, but at least now I had a nice bed, free roam of the Unrestricted Commander's Halls, and really nice meals. I also wasn't being raped by the men anymore-- Kaoru had decided she wanted me all to herself, I guess.
At the moment she was off eating; even though I wasn't locked up anymore, they still couldn't let me go out and eat with civilians. I had my plate in front of me, but wasn't particularly hungry, so I decided to "explore" her room.
First I looked in her dresser drawers. Nothing interesting there, except the handcuffs that I was already well acquainted with. There was nothing in her closet except a bunch of clothes. Surprisingly there wasn't anything in the whole room to show how crazy she was, except, that is, the handcuffs. I was about to get back into bed where she had told me to stay when the computer at the other side of the large room caught my eye.
A computer.
I hopped onto the chair in front of it like there was no tomorrow. If this computer was hooked up to the cross-colony network, then that meant communication with the rest of the universe. Communication with Saitou...
I had never really been tactful, and even if I was sick to my stomach with worry about Saitou hating me that much, I had to hear it from his lips. And this may be a way of doing it... I clicked onto the mainframe network and checked for the necessary equipment. Cable hook up.
Check.
Audio-visual communication.
Check.
Power.
Check
OK, good! Now if I remembered right, Saitou's ship was...
I quickly typed in his ship number and offered up to him a communication request. I crossed my fingers as I waited for him to accept or decline. If he was even there. With my luck he might have been taking a shower. "Come on, Saitou. Come on... accept it!" I hissed to the computer that still read across the screen:
Waiting for other party to deny or accept communication request.
Come on! Accept it!
I kept chanting those words over and over again, looking at the screen, waiting for him to answer. Accept it! Please!
After I sent the message through a few more times, the request was finally accepted. The screen quickly turned into the comm. link and a man with a slightly angry look on his face answered. It was Saitou...
But the expression on his face quickly melted from one of anger to shock, as he looked at me. His eyes scanned along the bruises, scratches and scars I had from this little stay. His voice was uncertain, like I wasn't there, "Sanosuke?"
"Jime! Thank god you answered! You had me so fucking worried! And I thought that... well, that you hated me." I said, unsure into the comm.
"What are you talking about? I thought that--" Saitou stopped as a look of realization . Kaoru must have told him a lie... if she told them both something different...
"What did Kaoru tell you?"
"That you weren't coming. What the hell did she tell you!?"
We figured out just what happened in a matter of fifteen minutes... everything made perfect sense... I looked to the floor, and then back to the computer.
"Goddamnit, Jime! Hurry up! I don't know how long I can stay here without going fucking insane!" I shouted, running a hand absently along the edge of the screen, briefly touching Saitou's face. The man on the other end nodded. My face softened. "How long has it been, Jime?"
"Honestly," Saitou started, speaking carefully into the screen, "too long, for my tastes."
"I give that one a fucking amen!"
There was a lull after that comment, and he scanned his eyes along my battered body. He came to one conclusion and one course of action. "Sanosuke, where are you now?"
"Kaoru's chambers, why?"
"Could you look through her computers files and find me a map of the ship?"
I blinked, but nodded, keeping the comm. open, even if I had to resize it a little bit to go through the ship's files. I flipped through the cross-colony network quickly, trying to find a picture map of the gigantic ship.
"OK, found some, I'm bringing it up on the screen now."
Saitou smirked as he looked over the map. "What section are you in?"
"D203."
"Wait in there and I'll come for you at 9:46 tomorrow."
"Really, Jime?!"
"I've left you there for too long, it's time to get you back."
I had to resist the ridiculous smirk tugging at my lips.
"You should go before she gets back."
"I will, and Jime?"
There was a pause, he looking me over.
"Thanks."
The comm. screen darkened and then fell totally black.
I grinned, leaning back into the blackness, looking around the shadowed room. I froze as I heard a sound coming from my rear.
"Sanosuke? What were you doing?"
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End of part seven
