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Chapter 12: Perplexing Circumstances
We stared at the random crab woman that stood in the center of the room, who was she? What does she want with us? Fuck, why does she have claws?
"Who are you? " asked Daiichi to the woman who remained unexpressive
"I´ve been watching you three for the past battle" said the woman ignoring Daiichi´s question, seems like he didn´t press by asking again and just stared back at the woman
"For boys that have no idea how to fight, it was pretty decent, I can´t say I´m impressed but you did fair out there" said the woman for what I squinted my yes at her
"Fuck, really, who the hell are you? " I asked her while snarling for what she stared at me and sighed
"It seems you´ve been raised in a rough environment, my apologies" said the woman riling me up
"That wasn´t the goddamn question for fuck´s sake" I said irritated
"Hmm…"she murmured as she stared at both of us "I see… there´s one boy missing" she said for what I glared at her
"That doesn´t concern you" I said as she sighed
"I can´t explain anything with your missing brother"said the woman puzzling me
"We are not siblings, miss" said Daiichi as he remained calm
"Where is he? " she asked as I noticed that he ignored Daiichi´s rely, did she come here to fucking ignore us?
"In surgery" Daiichi tried again
"Surgery hmmm… well that seems to be a problem" said the woman as she continued to irritate me
"Can´t you explain why the fuck you came? He´s not coming back any time soon" As I said that, I noticed how Daiichi´s aura grew even more upset even when Daiichi´s face expressed nothing
"Well, I guess we´ll have to postpone this then" said the woman as she sighed resigned
"I get it, you don´t want to explain twice but is it that fucking troublesome or you are that fucking lazy" I said while snarling as I watched her taking out a remote and pressing a button "Why the fuck you need a re-" I said as I felt how a pot smacked me on the head "Fuck! That hurt you bitch! " I yelled as I saw her pressing the button one more and felt how a frying pan smacked me and decided not to yell anything else to avoid another fucking kitchenware thing hitting me
"Well, I recognize you as the eldest brother" said the woman to Daiichi who didn´t bother to say we weren´t related twice, he just stared back at her curious on what she wanted to say
"You seem to be very protective of your brothers"she started, fuck why is she so stubborn on making us siblings? Shit, that makes no sense
"What I can tell you right now… what I want to offer you is an increase in power, I know you are worried about your little brother, but after this you won´t even need to look after him all the time" said the woman gaining Daiichi´s interest to whatever he meant
"If you decide to hear more from about this matter when your brother comes out from surgery, just think about me and I´ll be there" she said puzzling even Daiichi who looked thoughtful of what she had just said
"I presume you won´t reject the offer but anyway, just think about it"she said as Daiichi stared at her
"Also, keep an eye on your brother here, I can feel something terrible will happen to him, again, I apologize" said the woman to me, what the fuck did she mean?
"Well then, I´ll be going, think about it. Barricade. "Said the woman to Daiichi as she vanished in red smoke, I turned to see him who was now wide eyed, surprise could be clearly seen in his eyes just as if he had seen a ghost "Uh… did she just call you Barricade? " I asked puzzled as Daiichi remained unmoving
"Earth to Daiichi…! Hey, Barricade, hey…!" I said jokingly but surprisingly I got him to turn to see me
"I´m not that person, not anymore"he said as he lay down facing the other way, not that person anymore? Well fuck, what troubles me even more is that woman, what the fuck was she doing here? Why the fuck she smacked e with kitchenware, why the fuck she kept on taking us for siblings and why the fuck she had claws for hands, those seriously were creeping the shit out of me.
We stayed here for like two days, Daiichi didn´t say a word like about anything and even less when Makoto had been put in our room, for our relief, the surgery had been a success, he was heavily bandaged and I noticed how his skin was slowly regenerating, I suppose it´s thanks to those weird lights that struck us but still Makoto hadn´t regained consciousness, he kept being asleep but at least Daiichi had turned back to his stoical self, of course, with Makoto safe and sound he had nothing to worry about, unfortunately for me, that man found of my whereabouts and took me out of the hospital, just great. I just got out of a beating to endure another fucking beating which included worse things than the punks could think of doing, if I had to choose whether to be beaten by a trio of girls or get the shit kicked out of me in inhuman ways possible by my so called ´´Father´´, I would choose the girls any day, fuck, I don´t care how pathetic it looks to be beaten the crap out by females, I just don´t want to be close to that man in any way. And I was right, just as we got home, he started to beat the shit out of me, so much for the hospital huh, on the brief time he stopped abusing me physically, he made me swallow a pair of pills that soon caused me to drift off into unconsciousness.
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"Rage…" murmured Raze from his bed aside of Rage´s
"Makoto? How are you feeling…?" asked Rage as he looked slowly at Raze
"I´m fine… I told you to call me Raze, geez… "Murmured Raze weakly "I´m sorry about what happened"
"Huh? "
"I´m sorry, since I involved you in an undesired fight…"said Raze trying to make his voice louder
"It´s alright, don´t struggle, we have super hearing now so you can murmur"said Rage as he stared at Raze´s pale face
"I´m sorry you had to run around with the punks chasing you because of me…"said Raze as he murmured, Rage only stared at him and kept listening to his apologies
"If it hadn´t been for-"
"You are whiter than usual"said Rage flatly as he looked at him
"Hey, I´m trying to apologize here"said Raze while pouting at him
"There´s no need to apologize, idiot, I´m just glad you are doing better now"said Rage as he smiled slowly at him
"Uh…"uttered Raze as he stared at Rage smiling "And improving hehe"
"That´s good news alright"said Rage as he stared at the ceiling thoughtfully "How are your arms? "
"They feel better now hehe nothing to worry about"said Raze as he mimicked Rage and stared at the ceiling "Rage… is something else bothering you? "
"Somehow"
"Oh, true… where is Rave? "Asked Raze now looking around the room
"He was taken by his dad"said Rage as he sighed
"What? His dad? "Asked Raze as he sat down shocked
"Yeah… lie down, you´re too injured to even be sitting" said Rage as Raze lay down again "I´m worried too, I´m thinking on going to get him"
"Rage… how´s your back? Are you sure you can move? "Asked Raze as he turned to see him worried
"It doesn´t matter it is like this but I´ll wait a little more to regenerate enough to go out and bring him back" said Rage
"Alright… hope Rave is doing fine in the mean time…"murmured Raze concerned as he closed his eyes
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I woke up slowly then noticed I couldn´t move my arms, my mouth was wrapped by some old rag and my sight was kind of blurry but steadying, I gazed at my house´s basement, I can´t believe I´m back down here… last I remember, I was lying down aside of Daiichi at the hospital… I glanced down noticing I was naked and had bruises all over my body, what had happened? I wasn´t sure but it was kind of obvious what had gone on when I stared to the floor and looked how blood was spreading under my butt, when did this happen? My mind was blank or so I thought , when I looked around the room I looked fixatedly at a pair of chains coming from the ceiling, I closed my eyes in an intent of recalling something and so a sudden disgusting image flashed in my head, I winced at the memory of how I was staring scared at him when he approached me, my wrists were securely locked as the chains were pulling my arms upwards and my feet were chained to the floor, I looked as if he had already beat me physically and I was now watching tearfully how he approached me while unzipping his pants, I frowned and opened my eye in disgust, whatever happened afterwards I was okay not knowing… I then focused my attention to a note that was placed some distance away from me; I lifted my body as much as the chains allowed me since I was restrained by being chained to the tube in the basement, I focused all I could on the note, there was barely any light but I managed to read "I´ll be back at five with some friends" as I finished reading, I widened my eyes in complete dread, with some friends? He planned to abuse e using his friends? I grew desperate as I tried to break free from the hold of the chains, both my wrists and ankles were being held backwards around the tube allowing me no kind of movement, I glanced at the clock on the wall and read "4:55" I widened my eyes once more, just how much had I been out of it? I didn´t plan on staying a second longer, my heart throbbed like crazy awaiting the fearful arrival of my father but no, I couldn't stand it anymore of this so I tried taking deep breaths as I tried to think on a way to get out, of course and idea came, I just needed to calm myself before attempting to try it, my powers seem to always betray me when it comes to anything related to my father… I closed my eyes and froze the chains of both my wrists and ankles and forced my way out by shattering them and undid the rug freeing my mouth, I proceeded to run to the stairway towards the entrance but I tripped, I was in terrible shape as my body shivered uncontrollably, I stood up and headed for the entrance, my body threatening to collapse a few more times but I could keep from falling for the fear of being discovered escaping, I guess that´s what one could call a rush of adrenaline… I made my way to my room and dressed as fast as I could then hearing the keys opening the entrance, thing I could manage to catch with my super hearing, after that, I opened the window escaping through there and made a run for it to the street, I couldn´t go back after this, I just couldn´t and worse to know he would be waiting with some of his friends to hurt me even more, I thought on going to the shop and buy something to calm my nerves and to change the disgusting flavor I had in my mouth, it was something between sour and salty, had it been blood? No… that I know, blood doesn´t taste that way, I´d know, he´s hurt me before to even be able to distinguish blood from something else I couldn´t place… I went in the shop and bought some ice cream bar along with some cookie packages and cake for when I got back to the hospital, I unwrapped an ice cream bar and nibbled on it, at last I could relax now… away from my father and enjoying the sweet taste of ice cream in my mouth, I then turned to see how a swarm of girls ran on the other side of the street yelling "Mitsuki…!We love you!" followed by more screams, I watched tem run and noticed an aura coming from an alley for what I then crossed the street approaching the source, as I peeked, I noticed the aura coming from a big trash bin so I walked towards it and lifted the lid slowly noticing how someone was inside lowering his/her head with his/her hands covering it "Uh…" I murmured as I observed the hidden person who then turned to see me, he had tanned skin, a scar on his right cheek, brown hair and amethyst colored eyes, gazed at them for a little while, it was odd to find someone which had such colored eyes and I have to admit they were really beautiful… as I kept staring I was then distracted by another swarm of girls who passed running screaming "Mitsuki! Marry me! " one of them stood still looking at me suspiciously for what I threw my things in the trash bin and closed the lid as a reaction, the girl sighed disappointed and left probably to catch up with the girls, after that sudden event, I leaned against the trash bin, I blushed on the memory of those beautiful odd amethyst eyes then looked around the alley noticing a poster with a singer names ´Mitsuki Chesney´ and remembered that I had thrown my things in the trash bin, I turned around and opened it watching the scene of him rubbing his forehead with my things on his lap.
"I…I´m sorry…" I said as I lowered my head for what he looked at me and offered me the bag with my things, I took it from him and said "I´m really sorry"
"Everything is fine, don´t fret about it" I stood there perplexed as I stared at him speechless, I wasn´t used to being talked to in such a sweet and polite way like he just had, I sincerely expected him to complain or to call me an idiot… after a while of just staring at him, he curled his lips into a smile, he seemed to expect for me to say or do something about it so I just said as I lowered my head "I promise to compensate this the next time I see you! " I said as I blushed for the embarrassment of having hit him with my things, he stared at me kind of confused but before he could think of saying something I closed the lid and left that place in a hurry stopping in my way to the hospital to contemplate the poster of the same singer as before, I briefly wondered if I had seen him somewhere before and lowered my head newly blushing, I remembered the gentleness of his words and the way he had smiled at me… he sure looked like a nice and kind person and also wondered if I would meet him again some other day, as I thought that I crashed with someone letting my things fall and scatter on the floor "I-I´m so-" I said widening my eyes at the sight of the person I had apparently failed to escape, my dad then got a hold of my wrist making my eyes blear by welling tears threatening to fall "No…" I murmured as I shook my head in denial while he yanked me to follow him "No…" I murmured again this time while tears trailed down my face, I couldn´t go back there… I couldn´t…
"What did just say…"the man said snarling
"…No! I don´t want to go! " I managed to yell and started to try and flail myself to hopefully loosen his grip
"Heh, you´ve been pretty reckless lately, we can´t take that much time since after all… my friends of work are waiting back at home" as he aid that I widened my eyes in terror of what that meant
"No! No! Let me go! I don´t want to go! " I yelled making icicles thrust from the ground, for my dismay none seemed to have made contact with him and he just snarled at me and pulled me up by my hair
"It´s not something you have a word on"said my father as he then smothered me with a cloth which had a strange substance causing me to slowly lose consciousness… when I woke up, I was newly naked and heavily chained around the same tube I had previously escaped just that this time I wasn´t gagged and there wasn´t just my dad, there were four guys staring at me in a disgusting way and my only way to escape wasn´t even working… How I wish I was back at the hospital…
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I hurried to Miharu´s house after explaining the mysterious appearance of that woman to Raze, my back still hurt but I could ignore the pain enough to go out after him, if it hadn´t been because I hurt my back even more when lifting that doctor enraged, I would have gone after Miharu just after knowing of his disappearance but well, I just hoped it wasn´t too late to go save him of whatever he was put to do or was going through. I stopped briefly to stare at a bag on the floor which had cookies inside, there was cake as well as an ice cream bar laying outside, the ice cream seemed to have melted and had gotten stuck on the floor, that made me think it could have been Miharu´s though it was a surprise it was still there and no one had come to mess with it, there could have been more stuff inside but that couldn´t be it since why would someone snatch something else and leave the cake and cookies in there? It was also possible the bag hadn´t been dropped that long ago, reason why someone didn´t take it but then again, there was no one outside and if that bag had been just dropped why would the ice cream had melt as well as gotten stuck on the concrete? After thinking all that, he picked the bag after putting the cake inside and resumed his way to his house coming to the conclusion that he had probably ran away from his house thankfully and after going to the shop and heading back to the hospital, he had been caught by his father and taken back home if it could ever be called that, he didn´t transform to avoid unnecessary confrontation since that would only delay him instead of being a method to get there faster, so he hurried to his house by running like a normal person would do, he got to his house after a while of running, fortunately, his house wasn´t at the other side of the business zone, it would have taken hours to cross it by foot, that place was so ample it was necessary having a car or be able to fly which was even faster, he walked around the house scanning for an entrance, he spotted an open window successfully allowing him an entrance to the house , he looked around the room and briefly stared at a picture of Miharu with his parent when he was younger, he then proceeded to the hall and scanned the place with his x-ray vision surprisingly revealing no one, as he wondered if he may not be home after all, he hear cries coming from the basement for what he opened the door and made his ways downstairs to stumble upon the terrifying and grotesque scene of five men probably one of them his dad, having fun abusing Miharu in disgusting and cruel ways that were enraging to even reflect on, how could such sick people exist? It was even more frightening not mentioning heartbreaking to see Miharu like a tattered doll enduring the several tortures, the only sign of life coming from him were probably the countless tears that continued to trail down his face, in that moment he cursed under his breath feeling a twinge of guilt in his heart for not arriving sooner and as the guys darted their attention towards him, he started to beat them up one by one focusing more on his dad and lastly freed Miharu who didn´t turn to see him at any moment, he carried him upstairs and rummaged is closet to dress him with whatever he could find, as he headed back to the hospital with Miharu on his arms the only thing e heard was a low "Thank you" making him fly towards the hospital regardless of encountering the punks, Miharu was in such bad shape he desperately needed to go back to the hospital.
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"Oh god…" murmured Brute as she starred at Rage flying with a blond boy on his arms probably heading to the hospital "You have to be shitting me" Thought Brute as she stared angry at the red boy, didn´t he learn to not fly around after what happened? What if Berserk had seen him instead of her? Fortunately for him, Berserk was window shopping with Brat, one of the few civilized things they did, they had grown out of the habit of stealing money or clothes since their father had kind of imposed the rule of paying since their doings were ruining the whole city and so They´ve been stopping criminals from robbing banks and such since they weren´t allowed to do it themselves, Brute secretively liked this better, after a blurry event from her past or well, after many events which consisted on conversations with a certain kid in prison, she started to disagree in many things and had preferred to do other stuff like buying instead of stealing. As she watched them pass she as mentally ushering them away before Berserk could see them.
"About what? " asked Berserk making Brute try to avert her sight before she could set eyes on a particular boy who had kissed her before
"Remember that wrestling show I told you about the other day? " asked brute trying to find something reasonable to cover what she just saw, she was covering for the again, fuck just fuck she thought
"Yeah…" said Berserk as she squinted her eyes suspiciously at her
"Well, apparently one of the guys quit wrestling to dedicate himself to his matrimony, seems he is having a kid for fucks sake, a kid! Do you know how annoying those are? "Said Brute trying to quickly change the subject, that last statement was a lie too, she secretively liked kids, she sometime thought about having a kid in the future, thing Berserk would totally frown upon but then again…was her way to cover someone to lie even more? Well, fuck, whatever, she could care less, she was a good liar and if her sister bought her lies then she was satisfied with it
"Oh really…"murmured Berserk still suspiciously "Where did you see such news…"
"On TV just now on some stands over there" Brute said not pointing at any direction
"Over there, where? " asked Berserk decided to go see for what Brute turned her back at her and rolled her eyes at her annoying sister, why was she being such a skeptical bitch? That had gone on days ago, couldn´t she get over it?
"Oh look! Recipes on how to do pancakes! "Said Brute as a way to trail off the subject and approached a cooking stall successfully ignoring Berserk and leaving her to just roll her eyes and dismiss her as she went back to where Brat was, the only thought bugging her was how lies tended to backfire and with Berserk´s stubborn personality, that was just a matter of time
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I was staring fixatedly at the ceiling as Rage took his time getting back until I heard the door opening with Rage walking in looking kind of upset
"Hey! How did it go? "
"Not good, but the doctor is looking at him right now"said Rage as he walked back to his bed and sat
"What happened? " I asked concerned
"Raze… I was thinking about this when I was carrying him over and well… would you mind him moving with us? "Asked Rage ignoring my question but I really had to struggle not to attack him with a hug when he said that, I was honestly happy about it but was worried about what condition he was in to urgently need to move in with us…
"Of course I wouldn´t! Oh god! That´s so awesome! I´m so happy! "
"I´m glad… I would feel better with him living with us from now on"said Rage making me smile at his apparent concern
"We could turn my room into his room then since I´m always sleeping with you" I said happily while thinking about everything we needed to do
"Yeah, that would be nice…"
"Let´s get his stuff when his dad isn´t home alright? " I asked Rage still happy "It´ll be such a nice surprise"
"Yeah, that sounds good too" said Rage as he smiled to me, afterwards the door opened and the doctor walked in calling for Rage, I stared at him approach the doctor as the doctor asked him to go with him
"I´ll be back in a while, alright? " asked Rage for what I nodded and saw how the door closed then stared back to the ceiling and giggled in happiness, Rave would be living with us from now on! This is going to be so fun! And I´m kind of curious to meet that woman, he said she was all red and had claws for hands, maybe a supernatural being?
