Chapter 10

This was not up yesterday because I, truthfully, got too lazy. Gary also wouldn't leave me alone over a couple stories on my shared account on DeviantArt and for that I am sorry. Hopefully this makes up for it somewhat.

I don't own anything besides my OC's.

"Deep experience is never peaceful."

-Henry James-

~Kaoru~

"Kaoru, what happened?" I looked deep into my brothers worried face as he asked the question. I knew that it had been bugging him, but he hadn't asked it sooner do to various reasons. I had been rushed to one of the Ootori hospitals as soon as I woke up, and Hikaru hadn't left my side once. He would have stayed with me the whole time too, and I let him – wanted him – to stay as they did some blood tests; when it came to the physical I asked him to leave. I didn't want him to see how I really looked on the skin now. I wanted him to know, but at the same time I didn't for fear of what he would think. I knew he wouldn't cast me aside, but how differently would he think of me?

"I don't... I'm not..." I stammered, not looking at him.

"You can tell me, you know that." He said, and gripped onto my hand again. "I just want to know what this man did."

"I don't..." My voice was quiet when I spoke, and hoarse, but that was no surprise. After what I had been through you couldn't expect anything less.

"Please tell me. I can understand if you don't want to talk about it, but I need to know." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. Before I could even think to force the words to come out other voices were raised from out in the hall.

"Hurry up!"

"Get him into the room! We need to start the treatment or else we might lose him!" I looked out into the hall, and so did Hikaru.

"Dylan." I gasped quietly when the bed was rushed passed the door. If the door hadn't been opened I wouldn't be able to see who it was. It was easy to tell who it was when I saw the pale, gaunt skin and greasy hair.

"Wha-? That's Dylan?" Hikaru asked as he turned back to me. He had gotten a slightly better look at the older boy because of where he was sitting. "He looked almost dead!"

"That's Dylan..." I repeated. My heart clenched a little as I thought of him dying. I had felt immense relief when I had found Arai, woken up, and was brought here. I had felt like I couldn't have been touched again. Not by anything. Now the fear was back at me as I thought about Dylan. How could I have just felt happy about being safe why he was still with Dan?

"I hope he's okay. For himself as well as his brothers."

"He has to be okay." I stated. "He has to be." I had gotten closed to the other, and he couldn't just die when I was still alive. He couldn't.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." We both looked back again to see Kyoya standing there.

"Why not?" I know that Hikaru said that he looked dead, but that didn't mean he actually would die. Same with being treated badly. I had been treated badly, and I was still alive. That had to say something, right?

"Kaoru, you've been with him for weeks; you should have noticed how bad of shape he was in."

"Kaoru is in bad shape too!" Hikaru said indignantly. He didn't have a reason for sounding like that. Unless he thought what the raven said was unfair for some reason...?

"I am aware of this, Hikaru." Kyoya said with a sharp look at my twin. "He is in bad shape, but Dylan is in worse shape. Kaoru is in the shape he is after a month while Dylan has been in his place for a year. He is worse than Kaoru is by far."

"But, will he be okay?" I asked.

"I don't know." He gave a small sigh. "It will be a miracle if he is. He has all that you have, but even worse, and he even has more problems. If Arai hadn't pointed us in the direction that you came from we probably never would have found him in time."

"In time...?" Hikaru questioned, though he still didn't sound happy. I felt bile rise in my throat as I gulped at what the words seemed to mean.

"When we got there – Honey, Mori, Dean, Marcus, and myself – the man that had held you captive was harming him. If we hadn't gotten there sooner he probably would have been dead."

"What happened to the bastard that did this?" Hikaru burst out at the same time that I spoke.

"What kind of harming?" I questioned.

"Dan, as his name happens to be, was skinning him. When we arrived, Dylan was tied to the ceiling by bound wrists, and was having his skin shaved off his back. He lost a lot of blood, not to mention skin." The raven explained.

"But what happened to this bastard?" Hikaru practically growled the question out this time, and it left Kyoya no choice, but to answer.

"Honey, Mori, and Dean took care of him while Marcus and I got him down. I called my police force soon after and he is now in custody, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was in the hospital as well with all the injury's that he seemed to have."

"He won't get out, will he?" I asked quietly. I was feeling scared again, even with my brother and Kyoya in the room. I never liked feeling vulnerable.

"No." The tone in his voice suggested that if the man ever did get out he would make sure that he went back in. "He won't get out. Hopefully he rots."

"Kyoya, will you tell me what the tests say? I know that you know them." Hikaru was too overprotective, but it did make me smile sometimes.

"I suppose it won't hurt anything." He stated. "Kaoru is malnourished, and that is mainly the key to him being in here. Apart from the cold that has started to take hold in his system, and his bones would have became more fragile had he stayed there longer. Then during the physical... Do you want to save that for last, and tell him yourself, Kaoru?" He questioned when he looked at me, and his eyes weren't hard like normal. They seemed to be gentle, and soft if I could say so.

"What? What do you mean by that? Tell me. Now." My brother demanded.

"I don't really think I..." I trailed off.

"He needs to know." He said, and I gave a nod. I knew that he was right, but I didn't want him to think any differently of me. That's what I was afraid of, and I thought that if I just forgot about it maybe it would seem like a dream. A bad dream.

"Tell me, Kaoru. What is it?" I hesitated again. I didn't think I could actually tell him. I wanted to, but I didn't think that I could. Just thinking about it made me skin crawl. I gave Kyoya a pleading glance, receiving a nod in return.

"Hikaru, during the physical exam the doctors found signs of tears in the anal tissue."

"You mean...?" The question was carried into thin air, and he just looked from Kyoya to me, and to him again before his eyes finally landed on me. "You were raped." It was more of a statement, and I just gave a lame nod. My mouth had suddenly seemed to go dry.

"The doctors looked into it more, and they found that it only seemed to happen once."

"Once is bad enough!" Hikaru sounded shocked, and I couldn't find myself to blame him. "Is this why you didn't want me with you during the exam?"

"Yes." I managed to get out in a meek voice.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? I'm going to murder this son of a bitch!"

"I didn't think that I could tell you." I answered honestly. Then his last words caught up with me, and if I could I was sure that I would pale even more. Even with the way Dan treated me I didn't think I could wish him dead; not to mention he wasn't the one who raped me. "But you are wrong to say that." I started quietly, voice going meek once again. "It wasn't Dan who..."

"Then who was it? So I can find them, and kill them."

"Don't kill him... He said that he didn't see any choice."

"Who was it, Kaoru? I will make sure that Hikaru won't kill him."

"It was Dylan." I answered, and watched the blanket that covered my legs. I didn't want to see their reactions.

"Why would he...?" Hikaru started in a harsh voice. "You said that he was your friend."

"He is my friend." I said. I didn't care anymore if he was the one who raped me. I didn't care because he was still my friend. If he lived he would be.

"Friends don't rape their friends." Hikaru stated, and when I actually did look at him I saw the hard look in his eyes that I knew so well. I didn't want him to hurt Dylan at all, or anyone just because of me. That was when Kyoya spoke up.

"Hikaru, think about this." He started. "Dylan was held captive for a year, and was used to doing what Dan told him to do. He would do it without question. If he were to order Dylan to do something he didn't want to do, he would still do it. Maybe he ordered him to do it?"

"One of Dan's friends had come over, and paid for a show." I nodded. "After he said that he had no choice, because if he didn't Dan would kill him, and he would never see his brothers again. He said he needed to stay alive long enough to see them one more time."

"See, Hikaru? Try and put yourself in his place." Kyoya said. "Would you have done the same thing?"

"Never." He said, but he hesitated a little before saying it. Things change sometimes, and I wasn't the only one that thought so.

"Things always could change. Remember that." He said before another doctor stuck his head in through the door.

"Ootori-san, your father wants to talk with you, and you said that you wanted to watch the surgery." He said.

"That's right." Kyoya nodded. "I'll have a quick word with my father, and then I will meet you. Start when you must."

"Yes, sir." He took off without another word, and Kyoya turned back to us. To my shock he was giving a small smile, and this one was sincere.

"It's good to have you back, Kaoru. We've all been worried sick about you."

"I've been worried about you all too." I said with a smile before he walked out the door.

"You should have been worried about yourself, not us." The other ginger commented as he looked back at me.

"I'd rather worry about you than worry about myself."

"You're too selfless."

"I've been told." I hummed giving him a small smile. I was still worried for my friend, but I could deal with it as long as I had my friends and family with me. As long as I had Hikaru I was sure that I would make it through anything.

~Kyoya~

"Dan Wolfe." I watched as the woman seemed to stalk around the dark haired male. She was one of the most lethal people in my police force, and she would get something out of him. The day before we had gotten Kaoru and Dylan to the hospital; the latter having had to have surgery. He had survived it, but he was very week. I promised myself to find the reason why he would do this. I was watching from a different room connected to the holding cell by a window. "Are you ready to confess?"

"Why would I confess to such a beautiful women such as you? You are made for other things, and hearing confessions isn't one of them." He replied. His pale skin was covered with bruises, and his arms were still wrapped in bandages. In my mind Honey and Mori hadn't gone hard enough, and neither had Dean. I wouldn't have gotten them to stop, but he needed to be tried justly.

"Because if you don't you will find yourself in a position that you won't like." Her long hair seemed to gleam as she leaned over the table in a threatening manner. The male was still smirking in a cocky manner that I didn't like one bit.

"How do you know I wouldn't, babe?"

"Because, you will become an eunuch at my hand. Then you will tell us everything you know." The look on his face changed, but to one of slight confusion.

"What?"

"It means that you will be castrated at her hand." I said as I stepped into the room, and he just looked at me.

"Brat, go away. The adults are talking."

"I don't think so. I think I will stay in here until I get what I want, and then you will be moved someplace else."

"You got me stuck in here. Tell this bitch to knock off trying to be tough. I don't even know what you guys want." His voice was gruff as he spoke, and I just glared at him. I could see that Raven, the officer, was bunching up her fists.

"I want to know what you were doing with them, and who your friend was. Kaoru and Dylan both say that you had a friend that stopped by, and it seems that Dylan was familiar with him."

"If I tell you I will get moved now, and dropped of all charges."

"Whatever you say." Not a chance.

"His name is Josh Anderson. He has a brother named Shawn Anderson that does the exact same thing, but he is worse when it comes to these things." He spouted off quickly. I mentally smirked at the information. He was a traitor to his little friends, and a terrible person.

"Thank you for that information. Now, why do you do this to these kids?"

"It's part of the trade. We do it to make money, and it brings smiles to our faces."

"You disgust me." I said, and pushed my glasses up with my finger. "Raven, take him away. He has a flight to catch."

"Oh thank you! Do you know what they would do to me in pr- Hey! Unhand me! We had a deal!"

"No we didn't." I blinked at him. "You just assumed. I never said that we had any kind of deal. The years that you get here will be added to the ones the American government gives you, and you will serve them all once you get to the country. You will not be making it out of prison alive." Those were my final words before I left the room. I heard the other male yelling curses the whole while. Raven could take care of him if he got too out of hand.

"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

-Lillian Heliman-

An eunuch is a man who has been castrated, esp. (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court.

A little fun fact for you all.

I am going to stop making deadlines because I always break them. I won't give you an exact day, because I am somewhat busy this week, but I will have it out sometime within the week. My week is Sunday-Saturday, so by Saturday I should have it up. Maybe before then, but the next chapter is the last chapter.