Warning: Rape…it could be unpleasant for some readers.

Chapter 10

One month later…

Kagetora was still flustered between the two clans, no matter what choice he made he would have to betray one. He had never thought of disobeying a direct order from the Hojo clan, but this last assignment was out of the question. How could be possibly wield his sword against Naoe again? The last time he tried, it was a complete failure. Why? He didn't understand why, but there was definitely something, something unseen to the naked eye, yet strong enough to hold him back.

During this time, the Uesugi had gathered in great numbers. Kagetora had been occupied with training and gathering his soldiers in preparation for battle. With this going on, he was able to avoid Naoe as much as possible, so he didn't have to think about the man.

The time of hiding had come to an end. The day had come. A new battle awaited for them. The Uesugi had just learned that the Takeda army had camped about 30 miles away from the Odawara castle. This meant war and they were prepared and ready for another hard on combat.

Lord Kenshin sent his finest Generals along with 12,000 men to greet their enemy. He intended to get rid of the Takeda's army once and for all. Kagetora, Naoe and Nagahide would each command one-third of the troops; soldiers armed with swords, archery and Calvary were all in line formations and ready to march forward.

Forward they marched and set camp nearby a river within 5 miles of the enemy range where they could use the tall and bushy trees as their camouflage. Night fell and everyone settled down for a brief rest until their Commanders gave them specific order to advance.

The three Generals gathered together to confirm their strategy. From a reliable source, they knew the exact location of the enemy where about. The plan was simple, old but still commonly used. Kagetora and his men would sneak in while it was still dark and penetrate the enemy's force early in the morning, creating a diversion to split their army apart into two or three smaller groups. Naoe and Nagahide would follow behind and wait for Kagetora's signals.

After the brief discussion, Kagetora needed some fresh air to calm his suffocated lungs from holding his breath in Naoe's presence. Standing under the moonlight, he inhaled the cool air. 'What's wrong with me?' He asked himself silently while staring at the brightness casting over his shoulders. 'I can't avoid this situation forever. What should I do now?' He heaved a sigh.

Stepping out of the tent, Naoe found his young lord standing in the dark by himself. "Is something wrong My Lord Kagetora?"

"My Lord?" He snickered softly at the choice of words before turning around to give the older man a reply. "I want to enjoy a peaceful moment before walking into another battle."

"Are you okay with this setup? I mean it would be better for either Nagahide or I to infiltrate the enemy and you stay here at camp and wait."

"No, it's my duty as an Uesugi's soldier and Commander. I have to do it."

"But… it's too dangerous."

"When is war not dangerous?"

"…" The question left Naoe with nothing else to say, but to stare at his lord.

A sly smile found the younger man's face. "Are you worried about me?" He asked teasingly.

"I… of course, I'm worried. You're safety is crucial to our clan. You're the heir of Lord Kenshin Uesugi."

"So that's it. The only reason why you've been so protective of me is because of father." Kagetora's voice sounded a bit sour.

Naoe couldn't understand what was triggering his lord's recent attitude. Whatever it was, it was making him feeling a bit uneasy as well. "Yes," he answered, "Lord Kenshin has asked me to follow you and the make sure that your safety is guarantee. He loves you."

"I know." Kagetora agreed quickly, yet he didn't sound very delighted. "Father is… loving. He cares for me as if I'm his natural born son. Well, then… I guess it's time for me to depart now." With nothing more to say, Kagetora left Naoe standing behind and gathered his soldiers.

The battle began…

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"Naoe, are you ready?" Haruie asked the man sitting in the center of the triangle formation.

"I've been ready for 400 years." He replied.

Two days past and Kagetora still had no sign of recovery. The soul retrieval spell was their last option to save their lord. The triangle formation was set with Haruie and Chiaki sitting diagonal, facing Naoe's front and Lord Kojiro sitting exactly behind facing Naoe's back.

"Naoe, once we send your spirit inside of Kagetora, you have three days to pull both Kagetora's soul and yourself out." Lord Masamune advised.

"I understand."

Lord Masamune continued, "We'll keep your bodies together, so when the soul returned they won't get lost."

"I'll save him no matter what." Naoe said while casting another glance at his lord. 'Wait for me; I'm coming in to get you.'

"Naoe, you remember the chanting for the spell from Lord Masamune's instruction, right?" Chiaki asked.

The man in the center nodded.

"On my count of three, we'll concentrate our energy and send them into your body. You should also start chanting the spell at the same time."

"Understood." He complied and closed his eyes.

"Okay. One. Two. And three!"

All three person at each angle started generating their energy. Naoe sat in the center waiting patiently for the triangle to generate its power. Spiritual waves of pink, magenta and green generated from the three bodies and fused together as they spun a circle of rainbow and rose above the triangle formation. The circle spun its way down rotating around Naoe's body and back up, as it levitated past Naoe's head, it decreased in size and once the circle was a size of a tiara above Naoe's head, it disappeared completely. A pillar of energy immediately blasted from the center above Naoe's head and poured down directly into the man beneath it. The power was successful transferred into Naoe's body as he chanted the spell and relaxed his soul. Upon completion of the spell, Naoe's body fell backward and broke the triangle formation, pushing everyone from each angle against a wall. An orange spirit parted from Naoe's body and instantly found its way to the boy lying in bed.

It disappeared into the Takaya's body. Inside Takaya's body, the spell brought Naoe directly to the boy's conscious state; his other universe.

Naoe couldn't see anything not even his own fingers. He couldn't even feel his own feet touching the ground. He felt light as if he was a feather shifting slowly with the change of wind. He continued to flow, allowing the darkness to take him wherever it desired.

"Kagetora! Lord Kagetora!" He called, hoping to hear a response from his lost Kagetora. While calling out for the boy, Naoe tried to adjust his vision to see if there was any hope in seeing anything at all. There was no hope. It was just too dark, complete blackness.

After what seemed like forever, Naoe remembered that he could possibly sense his lord's spirit with his own. Believing in their 400 years of bondage, Naoe closed his eyes and concentrated his spiritual energy to locate Kagetora. An orange wave generated from his body as it twirled around its host like a snake and lighted up the darkness atmosphere.

With Naoe's energy rising, he was able to pickup another energy wave close by. Opening his eyes, he was able to see something sparkled from afar, weakly, but enough for him to notice it lay directly ahead of him. He quickly focused his power toward the spotted light and immediately his body was transported to it. The spark was nothing more that a ball of light somewhat like a crystal ball that shined so bleakly with vague images that made no sense to him at all.

Naoe touched it and immediately the ball brightened up and lay beneath it was a soul of whom he seek. He instantly directed his energy to manipulate the surrounding and aided him to his lord. Floating right on top, parallel to his lord's body, he eagerly touched his lord's face, "Kagetora…"

At that very moment when Naoe made contact with his lord's body, the ball of light shattered and the darkness pulled him down onto his feet. The shattered light gathered its particulars and the darkness became big screen right in front of his eyes. As the man looked at it, a display of Kagetora's memories were fast forwarding from the screen. "This is… This is Kagetora's memories." Disbelief seeped through the tone of his voice as he continued to stare at the huge display. "Are you seeing this right now? Is this why you've been sleeping so long, drowning in your own memories?" He asked the body in his arms. "Does this means that your memories are coming back to you?"

Naoe hugged Takaya's body tighter in his arms. Being unsure of the situation, he didn't know whether he should be happy or terrified that Takaya would soon remember everything and regained his entire past of Kagetora.

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"Look General! There's the signal." A soldier pointed his finger up into the dark sky where a sizzling flare had colored it with a smoke of red mist.

"No! Why is it red?" Naoe couldn't believe his eyes; the signal should have been green.

"Something is wrong. No! It can't be." Nagahide turned his horse around as he quickly realized what was happening. "I'm going back to the castle. This must had been a trick to lure us out here. Lord Kenshin is in danger."

"Wait! What about Kagetora?" Naoe asked.

"He's given us the signal to retreat, so there is no reason why we should stay. We shouldn't delay any further. Lord Kenshin needs us!" Nagahide mandated with words with influence and directed their priority back to assist their lord in danger.

Naoe agreed with his comrade, but he couldn't leave Kagetora behind. "Take my men with you. I'm going after Kagetora."

"Naoe!" Before Nagahide was able to stop his companion, Naoe had ready galloped away on his horse toward his lord's direction. "You fool!"

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Kagetora lay unconsciously on the field of battle; the last thing he remembered was a rain of arrows. Shooting arrows from nowhere fell down from the sky as they slaughtered his troops like insects. They had no time to react to the sudden ambush. It seemed as if the enemy were expecting them and knew the exact time and place to attack.

The plain was painted with a color of red, the redness which poured from the merciless death of his soldiers whom died in vain. Every single one of them killed. He failed to carry out this duty and brought death to everyone. Lying hopelessly on the field of four thousands men's death, he felt wretched. Why was he still alive?

It must had been hours before he heard foot steps and horses approached the horrid scene. Gathering his strength, he stood up leaning on his sword.

"So, you're still alive, Kagetora."

Greeted him was someone he didn't expect, "Ujimasa?"

The man snickered, "You should have been dead with the rest of them. That way you wouldn't have to witness such a horrible tragedy."

"Why, Ujimasa? Is this your doing?"

"I can't take any chances with you. I knew that you were too soft to kill anyone from the Uesugi clan. They had been too nice with you, so I plotted this whole scenario with the Takeda to lure your army here, too bad it's only about a third of you. I guess the rest of your army fled back to the castle, but don't you worry. I have a special treat for them there as well."

"No! How could you?" Kagetora could barely keep his knees from bending over.

"This is for the good of Hojo."

"Bullshit! This is wrong! You'd betrayed our alliance."

"Shut your mouth! You have no right to talk! You betray your clan! You didn't carry out your duty as required. You failed, Saburo. You're a disgrace to the Hojo clan."

"No! I've never betrayed Hojo. If father is still alive, you'll never get away with this."

"Father? Don't you ever think that he's any better than I. He used you just the same, to get what he wanted and to expand his powers. He doesn't care about you. Think about it. Why is it that it's always you, whom he sends away as a hostage to secure our alliances? It's because you're a worthless piece of shit. A plague, a son of bitch that father had fooled around with one heated night. You're nothing more than a trading tool for our clan to reach its ultimate goal…, to rule everything!"

Almost breaking in tears, Kagetora held his place. He couldn't believe that his own father would lie to him. "No, it's not true! You're lying!"

"But, it is. I've made peace with the Takeda and as we're speaking the rest of your army is probably struggling to find an escape route. Kenshin is also being under attack at the castle. First, I'll take back our castle, then I'll take Kenshin's head and then I'll get rid of all the other opposing armies and claim this entire kingdom as my own."

"You bastard!" Kagetora tried to wield his sword, but in his condition he couldn't even walk; the tip of his sword buried itself into the soil between him and his brother. He fell down on his left leg resting it on the ground while the other one was holding his position upward bending his right knee forward.

"Look at you. How pitiful you are? All you were ever good for was being a whore just like your mother." Ujimasa snickered. "That's probably how you got to where you are by fucking all the men in the Uesugi clan to climb the latter."

"Shut up! SHUT UP!"

"Good bye, Saburo. I don't think that our path will ever meet again." Still wearing a smug on his face, Ujimasa kicked his defenseless brother to the ground. "Do whatever you want to him. Just make sure that he's dead. I don't ever want to see him again." He ordered his attending soldiers and galloped off on his brown horse.

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Feeling used and worthless, Kagetora had no more will to live, "Kill me!" He demanded from the Hojo's soldiers.

"You're a traitor to our clan." One of the three soldiers said. "We're not going to let you die that easily."

"Lord Ujimasa did say that we could do whatever we want with him." The second soldier said playfully as his eyes observed Kagetora's slender form.

"He must have something special to have come this far. Let's play with him a bit before he dies." The third soldier said and licked his lips. "We don't often come across such a rare exquisite like this one."

"Yeah…" The other two agreed hungrily.

"He's going to die sooner or later. Look at those arrowheads' wounds; he should be an easy prey." The second soldier stated the obvious.

"I wonder how good it would feel to be inside of him." The first soldier pondered as he licked the blood on Kagetora's cheek.

"You bastard! What are you think you're doing?" Unable to lift his limp, Kagetora managed to shook his head away from the soldiers.

"Shut up!" The first soldier slapped the cussing boy. "Take his hands!" He ordered the other two soldiers while he sat on the boy's legs and ripped off the remaining suit of armor.

"Take your filthy hands off me! GET OFF ME!" Kagetora tried to struggle, twisting, squirming his arms and legs, but the force of the three men against his weak and wounded body was too much for him to fight back. There was no way he was going to let this happen to him again and worst of all by his own people, men whom he once called family and men whom he suffered his first defeat and lost his innocent to protect them. He rather died than to endure such pain. Just as Kagetora was about to bite his tongue to end his miserable life, the soldier sitting on top of him had already rip off his undergarment and thrust it into his mouth.

"Stupid whore!" The man slapped him again on the other cheek. "Don't think that you can die on us that easily. We haven't had our fun with you yet."

"An easy death is too lenient for you. You're a jinx to our Hojo clan. A plague like you should suffer greatly before you die." The second man said.

"That's right! We'll fuck and humiliate you to your grave!" The third man laughed.

'MONSTERS!' Kagetora cried his heart out, but no one could hear him.

The monsters continued to laugh hideously at the boy. "Don't you ever blame us. It's your brother. He gave you to us. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for your own failure."

"That's right. You're brother orders us to get rid of you."

"Don't you worry; we'll be nice and give you a little pleasure before you die."

Lifting the boy's legs up, the men spread them apart. "You worthless whore! No one is going to save you, so stop struggling!" Each man held onto the boy's arm and legs, licking them, sucking them and securing them down for the first intruder to thrust his evil lust into the unprepared entrance.

"Don't get too tight now." The first lowly man snickered as tongued the boy's inner thigh and probed the entrance with his fingers. "This will be fun. He's credibly tight! Oh yeah…"

"Stop playing around and fuck him already!" Another rogue impatiently said as he ached for his own release and couldn't wait for his turn while observing another man playfully having fun.

Immediately, the violation was made. "…!" The boy couldn't scream nor could he yell for help. Only soundless muffles were made from the unwanted movement. He could feel his own pain crying, his flesh burned from the intrusion and his stomach sick from the constant force against his prostate. The monsters continued to move in and out of his body. Unwanted touch continued to explore his body; hands of different men were rubbing his skin, twisting his nipples, squeezing his arms and legs and kissing him sloppily. Trails of saliva crawled on his skin. He felt dirty. He felt his life was less than a crawling insect.

As the men took turn invading him continuously; he stopped struggling completely.

"That's a good boy."

What was the use? He couldn't move, he couldn't fight back and he couldn't think anymore. All he wanted right now was for this nightmare to end and for death to find him. The only way for him to forget this sinful act of betrayal by his own blood and his own people was for him to die. Not even a single drop of tear was left in him to shed for the pain he endured at this moment.

"That's the whore of Hojo! Just lie still and enjoy the good time that we're giving you."

"You should be grateful that we didn't kill you right away."

"Yeah! Let's use him again… and again… Fuck him until he drops dead!"

Kagetora remained frozen, lying still as if he was a piece of stationery, a corpse with no feeling. His eyes had been shut closed for quite some times. He didn't want to see anymore of this nightmare. As the pain lessened, his mind drifted slowly from his reality. 'Death.' It was the last word that he thought of before he lost total conscious and fainted away completely.

"Damn it, he passed out!"

"There is no fun in torturing a dead man."

"Yeah, let's go ahead and get kill him."

"He's as good as dead. Just leave him. No one will come for him."

"Yeah you're right. Let's catch up to Lord Ujimasa."

The three cold-blooded monsters left the bloody field, leaving behind them a pasture of war and a subject of hurt waiting for death.

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Bitterness and tears of sorrow found Naoe's eyes as they ran down his face. He held onto Takaya's unconscious body in the gruesome darkness as he swallowed those tears, "I'd always known from my gut feeling that you'd endured something like this that very day. You had told me once yourself, but seeing it happened… This is too much, too much to bear. Is this what you wanted me to see, Kagetora? To see and to feel your pain?"

The boy's eyes also lingered some tears as they soaked Naoe's shoulder where his head was supported in the crying man's hand.

"Kagetora…" Naoe cried and tears wouldn't stop leaking from his eyes.

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End of Chapter

Smile: That's it for now. I didn't want to be too explicit on the rape scene. I hope that's okay. Next chapter will focus on Kagetora's dilemma.

KaraQ – You're cute as always. I hope you like chapter 10. Sorry, I couldn't update faster. With the little time that I've got, I can only do so much.

vegetasprincess1 – It has always made me feel good to get a review from you. This helps me know that you're still interested in reading more of my story.

Kairiucci – I'm glad that you like the flashbacks. I enjoy writing them. The relationship of Naoe and Takaya is so complicated and the Anime didn't really portray anything about their 400 years past, so I thought since it's my story now, I could create one for them. I'm mostly focusing on their original life before they become possessors. Once they become possessors, I'll stick in some random scenes from here and there.

Radcat38 – I sympathy with you. Whenever I find a story which I enjoy, I would have to wait patiently and check my e-mail everyday after work to see if there is any update.

crimsonbloodvampire – Thanks Hon! And there you have it, more and more flashbacks to come.

The Invisible Fan – I'm glad that you think my fic is developing. I agree that Kagetora isn't as cruel and heartless as he is described, but there have to be a certain point in time, a shocking event or misunderstanding which turns him out to be that way. From the anime, when seeing him sitting on the tree with his brother, Ujiteru under the moon; he seemed to be a peaceful and loving boy. Something bad must have happened and I'm thinking that it have to do with Naoe. I'm trying to interpret that into my story.