Notes: Yay! Action as promised! ^_^ And they are reunited!! *throws confetti* Enjoy it while ya can... I sense something coming up that could prove deadly.... ^_~

Warnings: AU, Sano/Saitou, lime, angst, Kaoru/Sano (barely there any more ^_^) violence

Reperio ac Diruo Terra Operation

By: Emmy and Anji

Part ten

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The colony was huge-- larger than the one he and Sanosuke had left behind. Saitou didn't feel any anxiety as his tiny ship approached the loading dock. All he felt was grim resolution, a determination to complete his task. Hajime Saitou never failed-- his only failure had been when he hadn't managed to get Sanosuke out of the ship safely. He was going to fix that mistake today, repair his perfect record. And get his ahou back. That was his primary motive.

"Colony Ship Deck to Unknown Ship," A formal voice sounded from his communication box. "Do you read?"

"This is Mibu Okami, flying in to be refueled," Saitou replied, "Requesting permission to land."

"Please send your license and identification."

Saitou pulled up the forged files he had perfected in the time he was waiting to arrive. He sent them to the man on the Ship Deck who promptly responded. "Everything seems to be in order. Permission to land granted. Enter Deck E2."

The screen went blank and 'Mibu Okami' sent the ship into a light decent. The thick metal door under the code E2 opened up leaving a large space which Saitou easily flew the ship through and land in the massive colony.

It was easy, this far. He thought that security would be tight, especially this far out where ships seldom went. But then again if this was a trap to get him inside...

He didn't worry about that. No matter what happen he was going to do everything he could and couldn't to fulfill his goal.

He was inside, surveying the brightly lit room and walking casually, dressed in the colony guard uniform that he had conveniently borrowed from the unconscious guard at the gate. His footsteps were paced well as he walked through the corridors, doors not standing a chance against the research he had done prior to the little mission.

He walked stealthily down the halls, and down another, not even earning himself a second glance from other guards (whom he had taken extra precaution to avoid). Security wasn't scanning his ID, they were... ignoring him.

That meant that his little mission hadn't been discovered. To be honest, he thought that Sanosuke may have given it away, judging from how connived the woman he was staying with was.

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It was time... it had to be time... why was he so late? It didn't make sense to me...

After all of my planning for tomorrow, he had to come.

He couldn't have changed his mind... could he?

No, that was just out of the question... at least I hoped that much.

I had given up pacing, my body ached too much to do so... everything still hurt so much. I frowned as I looked around the empty room. Kaoru had gone out to run errands, and I didn't know just what was happening...

I heard the air lock on the door open and I rose unconsciously. There was no knock on the door... that meant that it had to be...!!

I ran into the other room and froze, a smile slapped across my face.

There stood a single man wearing a guard uniform, face hidden by the shadow of the cap's visor. It had to be...!!

"Jime!!" I shouted and launched myself at him, arms latching around his neck instantly. "Damnit, Jime! I missed you so much!!"

I was actually expecting the cold man to push me away, even if the rational voice in my head told me that you shouldn't do that to an injured man. His right hand cradled my head, and his left had wrapped around my waist, giving me support in my bone crushing hug.

"Ahou," he muttered, but without his usual tone. I knew not to take it as an insult-- it was Saitou's way of saying "I've missed you too."

"Did everything go okay?" I asked, my head buried in his chest. "You're late."

"Sorry," he said sarcastically, "I guess that I shouldn't have bothered coming. I'll just be leaving now." But he didn't make any movement, as if he were ever going to leave now, or for any time in the next century, so I knew better than to take it seriously. Even in the most emotional moments he had to be sarcastic and cold.

I pulled away slowly, even if I didn't want to let go. I was hoping for something more. I leaned up, and closed my eyes, hoping that he would take the hint and accept me. I wanted him to, I wanted him too so much. I didn't have to wait long.

His lips crashed down onto mine, and I felt like melting as I tasted the cigarette smoke I missed over time. Now I would rather taste cigarette smoke than the gun smoke that seemed to be a resident of this little militaristic mobile colony.

My tongue caressed his lower lip as he kissed me deeply. His tongue countered and rubbed up against mine while his lips continued to kiss me with more passion than I had ever experienced before. I pulled him closer and wrapped my arms around his neck.

This was my heaven... Finally...

And the best thing out of it that I knew that this kiss wasn't out of pity, he must have genuinely missed me, even if he refused to show it.

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A guard was looking around on the security camera for a momentary watch. He grinned as he came to one in the main room of a Commander's room. "Woah, looks like it's gettin' hot and heavy in there!" he commented to himself snidely.

He leaned back in his chair as the show continued, and would have felt right at home if he had a side of popcorn in his lap. As the make-out session continued, the taller man's hat slipped off and the guard frowned. He hadn't seen him before.

He ran a quick ID check on the man and frowned as a bio on 'Hajime Saitou' came up. His jaw clenched as he recognized the name. Hajime Saitou was the man who had escaped from Hiradake's home colony!

His hand quickly reached for the intercom. But before he could press the button, his hand went limp, and the radio fell to the ground, shattering with a loud crash. A shadowed figure over the man sighed, "Damnit, Sano, you should know better."

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I had to restrain myself from ripping his uniform off right now, and I could feel the rise in his pants, indicating that the feeling was mutual. I was nibbling down his neck, and his hands were supporting me fully, both wrapped around my waist now. I groaned quietly as he continued.

Now my mouth was back on his, my arms around his neck. I pushed him slowly onto Kaoru's bed. Somehow I found it kinky to be kissing him on the bed where I had been tortured so thoroughly for months. I kind of wished Kaoru could see the way we are together-- it would undoubtedly make her jealous. That would be fun.

"Jime..." I whimpered as our mouths parted and he started kissing my neck. Ah, it felt so good...

"Sanosuke..." I heard a voice whisper. But it wasn't Saitou's. That was strange. It sounded feminine. It came from across the room. It sounded like...

"Kaoru!" I jumped, knocking Saitou off of me. Pity, too, we had just been getting into it; that bitch had to ruin everything. She was standing with a look of utter shock on her face, her mouth wide opened.

"Kaoru, would you like to join us?" I asked with a cruel smirk, lacing my arm around Saitou's waist. Her eyes were widened with shock, and in one swift movement, Saitou drew out a gun, attached with a silencer, and shot the girl in the leg. She fell to the floor, blood dripping from the wound. Before she could scream, Saitou leaped over and covered her mouth with his hand. In one, fluid motion, he ripped a strip of cloth from her shirt and warped it around her mouth. He proceeded to tie her to a wooden chair sitting at her desk, handcuffing her with the same ones she had used on me. They just conveniently happened to be sitting on her dresser, and Saitou thankfully didn't ask any questions.

She shouted screams through the gag. I grinned and Saitou looked down at her, glaring with a deadly tint in his eyes while looking at the dripping blood. Her tears were already drenching the gag, but he leaned down, cupping her chin in his palm. "You deceived us and planned to kill us. But above everything else, you hurt Sanosuke, and there is nothing that you can do to repent for that. I will kill you, but you'll be getting back a feeling that I had to live with for over three months. A feeling of utter hopelessness. Something that makes you aware of your fate, and your past decisions and knowing that you can't do anything about them."

His voice sent chills through my spine. He stood up and walked back over to me, grinning at her squeals of protest, but over everything else, he was grinning at me. He swung his arm around my waist and pushed me, slowly, back down to the bed, kissing down my neck.

I froze in my place as his hands tugged the bottom of the shirt I was wearing slowly peel it off. I nearly choked as I realized that my shirt was off, and his mouth with gently teasing my left nipple, making me instantly hard. I groaned against his touch, as gentle as it was, and suddenly forget that Kaoru was in the room.

Heh, served the bitch right. She asked for this, and Saitou was going to give it to her... but not before giving it to me.

I chuckled.

Score!

His hot mouth came back to my collarbone, raking his teeth across my sensitive flesh. I ducked my head down to meet his lips head-on, flicking my tongue across the roof of his mouth.

Kaoru was watching with a look that was a mixture of shock and pain. I wanted to laugh. I would have laughed that moment if Saitou hadn't moved from my lips to my neck. I couldn't help but moan. Kaoru had the exact same look on her face I imagined I had, when she sent those guys to rape me. Maybe I would send Saitou to kill them. Or maybe I would kill them myself.

I couldn't see how Saitou could be that experienced, I had never seen him with anyone, so as far as I knew he had never done anything like this. But he certainly seemed to prove me wrong as he moved his lips as if he were an expert. One minute he was on my cheek, making me groan, the next on my neck, the next on my chest, the next... damn! I had been hoping he would go lower, but he returned to my face. With his mouth touching my ear, he whispered, "I'm sorry that I left you. But I think I can make it up to you now." And then he smiled, not a loving smile, but a smile that made part of me want to run for cover and part of me want to... you know.

He reached down, in my pants, and gave a light squeeze. I moaned. Oh God, he knew what he was doing. I heard a dull thud and looked around to see that Kaoru had fallen off of her chair with a look of amazement on her face. I almost felt that it was unfair that she should get a free show, but at that moment I had more important things on my mind. On my mind and elsewhere.

He leaned down to me and whispered in my ear once again, "Is this what you thought it would be like?" He drew out his sentence agonizingly soft.

I swallowed and nodded, "Everything and more... please keep going."

He answered me by unzipping my pants the rest of the way. I replied by ripping my pants off to save him the trouble. I knew my grin was lazy, but his wasn't. It was a feral one, one that knew just what the owner was doing.

His hand reached down past the silk boxers Kaoru had given me. Thinking again, he let go of me and pulled the boxers off completely. I had to remember that thinking wasn't a big part of this...

It went on pure longing and animal instinct, I had to focus on the matter at hand.

I groaned as his mouth found my length. Kaoru had tried this before, but she had ended up biting me and then decided she just wanted to fuck. Saitou didn't bite. Well, not to the point that it wasn't kinky.

I had been a slave to Kaoru, but this time I was willing and ready, groaning as Saitou began sucking hard. I didn't bother to look around at Kaoru. She would have been crying and struggling pointlessly. Although that was something that was supposed to ruin the mood, it just made me want Saitou to do this even more.

At least my time with Kaoru had done something. I knew that if he had done this several months ago I wouldn't have lasted past the first kiss, but now I could go for longer.

But was this just him trying to make up for what happened? Somehow, from the aching in my groin and Saitou's hot mouth, I couldn't seem to see past this as love. Yeah, I wanted love this time around. I think that while I was on the ship with Saitou, it was cabin fever and a huge case of lust. Maybe it was the whole situation that I was now addicted to, but I wanted it.

I wanted him.

Luckily, though, he seemed willing to give himself to me, as was evidenced by the fact that his hands were now roaming freely on my body. His mouth was still working quickly, and I was going to come any second.

My voice let out small little, "Jime... Jime,"s with every breath like a mantra. "I want you... now... please..."

He smiled that maniac's smile again. It made me go weak in the knees. I groaned even more, gaining more of a voice. My breathing hitched as he sucked harder and slide my cock down his throat. And then, right when I could feel it coming... he pulled back. "What the hell?!" I yelled. "Don't stop!"

"Ahou. We're getting too fast, too soon. Besides, we don't want to waste you before we do what you've been wanting for the last couple of months."

I nodded with a knowing smile on my face as he held me close to his chest and slipped his hand under me.

I yelped loudly, my head shooting back in pain not pleasure. He looked at me, wildly concerned and withdrew his hand. "I didn't do anything, what happened?" He asked, voice low.

Fuck, it hurt so much where they...

That's right...

Where they raped me...

I clenched my fists and buried my face in his chest.

It hurt so much, nothing was healing. I nearly choked as a sob came to my throat, but I felt him soothing my hair softly. The pleasure was gone.

Reality hit, and I couldn't get the one thing that I had been trying to get for as long as I had been in space... There was no more fun in it. Both of us seemed to have lost heart in what we were doing, and slowly we both sat up and started to put our clothes back on.

Finally when we were both fully dressed, and with our clothes came the reality of our situation. We had to get out of there as soon as possible, before someone noticed that Saitou was there, either through something in his ship or those hidden cameras that they had hidden around the colony...

The hidden cameras! They could have been watching everything that we had just did... they could be on their way to Kaoru's chambers that very moment! I told Saitou about the cams hidden in the walls and he didn't reply, only began clearing any traces of them having been there at a quicker pace than before-- a much quicker pace.

The door to our left opened and my breath caught in my throat. They were here, they had to be!

A guard with long raven hair and sunglasses walked into the room, raising his gun as he walked into the room. I stood there, paralyzed. Saitou raised his gun just as fast, pushing me to the floor for cover. I looked the man over and stopped, grabbing Saitou's leg.

"No! Don't shoot! It's Katsu!!"

Saitou didn't take his eyes of my childhood friend neither did he lower his weapon. "Who is Katsu?"

"He's a friend of mine!"

"He might be working for Hiradake."

"He's NOT working for that bastard!"

Katsu slowly brought his gun to the floor in a sign of friendship.

"You trust him?" Saitou asked quietly.

"Yes." I said firmly.

Saitou put his gun back away. I had a million questions, so I settled for one that would sum up half of them. "What are you doing here?" I asked rather blatantly.

Katsu smiled. "Don't look too happy to see me?" he joked. I smiled back and then proceeded to run over and jumped on my friend, throwing my arms around him.

"Shit, it's been forever! Now what have you been doing?"

"Watching your ass." He stated, a serene look on his face.

I chuckled. "How so?"

"How the hell do you think you got away from your little 'shoot-em-up' two colonies back?"

"... you were the guard?"

"Right on! I was sent by Commander Aoshi to look after yer asses."

I blushed slightly, lowering my gaze to the ground. I didn't know I was such a chore. He ruffled my hair, and laughed, "Now how about we get your asses out of here, huh? I've got the camera problem covered. There'll be a glitch in the system for about five more minutes, and I need to get you out in that amount of time!"

"So what the hell are we standing around for!?" I demanded, and looked back at Saitou, who was still looking a little hesitant.

"Katsu, you take Sanosuke back to the ship, I need to take care of something."

My heart fell. Take care of something? What would that be? He couldn't mean...?

Saitou gave a glare to the girl laying on the floor and fired the gun one more time, squirting blood from her other leg. She yelped and fell to the ground, unconscious. I looked at the mass of flesh and bone that had been my torturer and glared. There, she got hers.

"Come on!" Katsu commanded and pulled me by the shoulder.

"But what about Jime!?" I demanded as I was pulled through the door.

"I'll meet you two back on the ship! Have the ship started up and as soon as I come back, we'll leave!" Saitou shouted, and took off down the hallway in our opposite direction, reloading the gun quickly. I shook my head. This was so fucking familiar! I can't let him go this time and risk separation again!

"Jime! Where are you going?" He quickly kissed me on the cheek, and then was running out the door. "Where are you going!?!?!" I yelled to his back, but he didn't turn. I wanted to go back into Kaoru's chambers, but Katsu stopped me.

"We're leaving now." He grabbed my arm and started to pull me in the opposite direction than that which Saitou had disappeared in. I didn't budge. I didn't even look at him-- I couldn't take my eyes off that empty corridor. "Come ON, Sanosuke, if you stay here you'll just be hurting his chances of making it back alive more."

Making it back alive... whatever Saitou was doing, there was a chance that it might kill him. This must be how Saitou had felt when he had had to leave me behind. I knew that I would be safe now, but Saitou might not be. I couldn't leave him, though. I had to stay here and wait.

But Katsu didn't give me that option. He pulled with all of his strength at my dead weight, and finally I gave in and walked with him, feeling like the worst person in the world, feeling like I was betraying him. I was leaving the wolf to the wolves...

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End of part ten