Warning: Reference to adult theme.

~Kaoru's POV~

It was strange living at camp. Everything that was missing out of his life seemed to be making more sense lately.

The camp was great. Everyday he would walk to the arena and train… on some days he was lucky enough to actually get to see Kuruma who had come to watch him. He had been hearing rumours around the Aphrodite cabins that there was trouble in paradise.

He had had to listen to that stuck up cow Drew all morning till she finally caved and finally gave him the information he wanted; why the couple were arguing and how could he get into Kuruma's heart?

Apparently the innocent boy who had stolen his love away from him had started pressuring Kuruma for the next level of intimacy which Kuru wasn't yet ready for. It was only a matter of time before they split up. Kuruma and he were meant to be together. The fates themselves had promised it!

That however. That was one of the lucky days where Kuruma was sat in the stands in his shorts which barely went past his thighs and a tight orange camp half blood shirt. Oh gods did Kaoru want to grab him and pull him into a kiss which his lips hungered for!

Kuruma was lay back on the stone holding a leather bound journal… since when had he got a journal!? This could be how I could get close to him. Kaoru grinned as he walked over and took a seat next to the handsome boy. "Kaoru if this is another one of your attempts to try and get me, then just back off. I am not in the mood today."

Well from what I hear from your troubles with your boyfriend; your never being in the mood is the problem. He grimaced at the rogue thought which had allowed itself through his head.

He sighed a took edged a bit further away from Kuruma before he let the tension die down and allow himself to speak again. "I heard you were training with Percy now… all by yourself."

"Yeah. So?"

He looked into those emerald eyes which had once held such a passion and deep love. Now they were barren and cold. Oh Kuruma… what happened to you. In his thoughts Kaoru reached out to touch that beautiful face. If he had done it himself he probably would have gotten punched in the face. "Kuruma you know you can always talk to me."

"Yeah. I get my voice back and the first thing I'm going to do is waste my words on the guy who broke my heart? Get real Kaoru." He frowned as he began to write more into the journal.

Not once had he even looked up to acknowledge that Kaoru was even actually there. Was that all he had become to the handsome boy he loved? A shadow to be ignored. "Kuruma… What is wrong with you." he reached out and lent forward to lay a innocent, comforting touch on the boy but as soon as those emerald eyes moved and rested on his outstretched reach, Kaoru froze as though he had suddenly become like stone and the whole inside of his body was being held still and forced into one place.

Why couldn't he move?

Kuruma lingered that gaze on him and in the pits of those jewelled eyes Kaoru saw something dark shifting. It was like that saying 'The eyes are the window to the soul'. What Kaoru now saw? Something which had been stained with darkness, blacker than ink.

Kuruma placed his journal to one side and Kaoru felt pure fear run through his veins. It felt like all the blood in his body was now holding him still. Every vein and muscle full of his life substance was now under someone else's influence… It couldn't be. "If you ever. Ever. Try to touch me again. "I will kill you without hesitate." Kaoru couldn't even move his jaw to answer. "And it would be such a shame to kill you." Kuru reached out and ran his hand along the air just before he could touch Kaoru's lips. "I remember when you actually made me happy and made me feel loved… But now?" He stood with a grin and turned away his eyes lingering on the finished journal. "You're as good as dead to me… or soon will be anyway unless you have something which could." His eyes half closed as he lent in closer so that his sweet scented breath filled Kaoru. "Persuade me." The boy let out a dark laughter as he began to walk away and Kaoru collapsed forward feeling himself finally released.

His whole body shivered and convulsed as he felt his heart slowly come back into a steady pace and his whole form settle back. It felt as though someone had touched him and shaped him. He couldn't have…. That's… that's impossible! He snatched up the journal quickly and began to flip through the pages as quick as he could. There were some pages where he could see his own named as Kuruma talked about him.

2/09/13- dear diary, I met the most amazing boy today. He saw me for what I really was… he even helped with the attacks. Just him being there seemed to calm them though I don't think he really understands how I feel for him. I love him, with all my heart.

He stared at the page. Kuruma had actually really loved him? He had spent that day all by himself only to be bullied by Kyouya. But what he soon read next made his heart feel like breaking. It was dated a year ago from today.

6/3/14- It's been four months. I was told I had been passed out for four months, found out I was a mute and saw Kaoru cheat on me by kissing Tamaki all on the same day. All on my birthday. For the last two years it seems that this day has only be a reminder of pain and suffering that I go through. It seems solitude and hatred are now what hide and will soon become me.

He began to flick through the pages more furiously looking more towards the latest dates.

5/8/14- I can't even leave this camp. They call it sanctuary. I call it prison. I have already faced monsters far worse than any myth I have heard so far; my own personal demons. Gods I love Honey and yet. He asks for what I am not ready to give...maybe it's not that it what I'm not ready to give but cannot give because he is not the right person.

He looked up and saw Kuruma walking into the forest with a calling gaze. Think with your head. Think with your head. What am I kidding? A chance to win Kuruma off Honey. This is what I have been waiting for!

He took off sprinting into the tree cover. Hearing the faint whisper of Kuruma's voice haunt and posses the dense area around him. "Come to me. Come save me. Wake me from the darkness that claimed me. Come get me my hero."

"Hold on Kuruma!" he shouted but soon came to a halting stop as the voice had drew him to the edge of a waterfall which dropped down into a massive pool bellow where the boy bathed.

"Come on Kaoru. Save me." the soft voice reached up and filled me as the boy fell from the height into the vice grip of the son of the sea god.

What followed.

Haunted him even more so.

~Kuruma's POV~

How had it lead to this? I and Honey had only just broken up this morning! Yet somehow I had found myself in the forest on the floor with Kaoru after… oh gods. Of all the people, why that bastard?! Why it is the one who had stolen my heart and broken it, had now also stolen my innocence I will never know. Maybe this was just some sick irony by the gods. "Aphrodite. If you really can hear me. You. Are. Not. Appreciated for this!" I hissed and stood moving away from the foolish boy who had come running to my call.

"Happy Birthday." Kaoru purred as his eyes slowly opened. He beckoned me from the bed of blankets which had covered us, but I was already pulling my clothes back on.

"This was a mistake." I growled walking over to the river beside us and running the water through my golden hair.

"I beg to differ." He grined.

"This is wrong. You know why Kaoru? Because I don't even like you." the lie sat heavy inside me as I fought against it. "You are just tool to make Honey jealous. You were just an easy way to make myself feel good."

"You're lying." He reached out and I locked my gaze on him feeling every ounce of blood and water in his veins come to a stop as his hand stopped still in mid air. He tried pulling on it but it was no use. Under my power it would be like trying to pull a pillar of marble. "Kuruma let me go."

"Aw, but why?" I held out my hands and began to flex my fingers as he was pulled to his feet and began to be moved to my will as.

He was my puppet.

This stupid life I had lived. Having to work for those idiots at the host club. Having to be everybody's lap dog. That came to an end now.

I watched with dark satisfaction which mingled with horror and sorrow as he began to cry and plead. "Kuru this is not you! Stop it!"

"How would you know? None of you actually cared to get to know me long enough!" I snarled and watched as I slopped my arms down and his body forcefully dunked his head into the cold water of the river.

I waited a couple of minutes before I moved him back out of the water and he began to gasp for breath. I had to cut all bonds to this place before I could leave. This would be the hardest one to sever.

He coughed up water and I turned his face to look up at me as I crouched down under his pitiful gaze. Part of me wanted to crush him and part of me yearned to take him again as he had taken me. "The gods promise what they cannot give, you fool." He pulled away from my grip so instead I just flicked my fingers up and his head shot up to look at me as I took a firmer grip on his blood.

All that water in his body which had been changed to blood which was so much easier to control. "You never read the last pages did you?" I mocked as I pulled my journal out of the pile of his clothes. 6/3/15- In the darkness of my slumbers I plan the downfall of those around me who could challenge my power. The host club will still see me at the school we are being forced to attend but I will make sure that they and anyone else who stands in the way of the dark man in my dreams will fall. He is worse than hell.

I finished reading out. "When the time is right. You will know what to do. But for now?" I raised my hands and watched as he was lifted off the floor. "Give my regards to the others." I punched forward a hand and watched as he was launched through the clearing and I turned towards the shadows which waited to take me into a darkness which would now corrupt me beyond anything.

"KURUMA!" Kaoru's voice screamed but I looked away as the shadows latched onto me and I fell screaming as they began to infect me and change me. I will bring him back. The shadows grasped into my spine infecting my whole body. I shall destroy those who killed me. My body began to convulse as I felt my heart slow down. But I will not be alive any longer to see it.

"Join me boy." The cold voice filled me as its conscious filled my mind pushing me back into a sealed cage where I could watch but feel nothing but numbing pain as my whole body and mind were taken away from me.

As his voice laughter cleared out the area as animals and monsters alike began to flee from the dark aura my tainted body now rose. I began to remember that morning how I had hugged and gave my brother a goodbye kiss on the cheek asking that he look after the others. I wonder if he would ever figure it out.

But now Kuruma was just a figment lost in a mind of darkness.

All that remained now.

Was Tartarus.

Okay. So making this clear. No longer promising a happy ending because with whats happening with me lately I kinda figured out i'm not so sure i believe in happy endings anymore. I will try and not let my life interfere with my writing. I know it's a short chapter but the next one will be longer. Review and let me know what you think is going to happen now. Does Kaoru know what Kuruma feels. What else was in Kuruma's journal? What does Percy really know what is going on? What happens when Kuruma appears at the borders of camp which are fighting to keep him out. Will they figure out what has happened? Find out in the next chapter.

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