CHAPTER XII

Ragna stood still as the scene before him unfolds to see a person by the door. A girl by the door. Of all the suspicious people he could encounter, it happens to be a girl with a platinum hair, onyx eyes, and a cute face. Her figure was pretty petite just as her body language was from her shaking as a gun was pointed to her direction. With himself beside Slade, he held a hand out to reach for the mercenary's gun and told him to wait. Slade eyed him before reluctantly putting the gun away to his holster. Slowly, Ragna raised his hands up as he took small steps to go towards the girl who became alarm of his presence.

"Hey, hey, it's okay, we won't harm you. See? I have no weapons on me," Ragna spoke in Japanese as he kept his hands up as he walked towards the girl. She stood still behind the door that was covering her body, then eventually tried to trust Ragna's words as she cautiously fully went inside the huge room. Ragna smiled slightly as she trusted him even just a bit and carefully puts his hands down as he approached her. He thanked her, then followed it with a question, "My name is Ragnarök Kamui. May I ask for your name?"

The girl stood still, eyes shifting from places in the room before staring up at him, "B-... Byakuya…" The copper-haired smiled, "Byakuya, nice to meet you. May I ask how you found out about this place?"

Byakuya was shifting her eyes before she stared at Ragna. She looked at her hands before looking back up again, "H-Home, uh, um, k-kicked… Go out and walked. Forest, good place. So, I… g-g-go." Hearing the unusual way of stuttering, Ragna and Slade knowingly looked at each other before they turned back to Byakuya. "Did you happen to have a stroke? Your stuttering and grammar construction seems to be off." Byakuya was stuttering, gesturing, and pointing here and there as she finally was able to answer, "T-t-trauma, here." She pointed her fingers in a form of a gun to the left side of her head, "S-shot. Yeah." Slade snorted before he finally relaxed and walked off to god-knows-where.

Ragnarök instructed Byakuya to wait, and though she could run away, she didn't. She might be shot. Again. Or so she thinks. So it's better to stay than to risk getting shot again. She watched as Ragna ran towards Slade and quietly talked to him, few gestures being thrown here and there, and the occasional glance towards her made her feel tense. What now, she asks.

"Can't we just let her go?"

"You'd let her go for reasons she has aphasia, or you wouldn't want blood to be shed?"

"Both!"

"Ridiculous."

"Slade!"

The two had been exchanging conversations as to what to do with the girl. Ragna wants her to go safely while Slade counters by deciding to just kill her. Ragna countered Slade, "you're not like that. You wouldn't do that." Slade's brow raised, "how can you be so sure of that?" It was at that moment when Ragna looked at Slade in probably the first time today. He remembered that lone blue eye staring at him with a sense of pride and kindness, and as it still does, there exist another kind he couldn't describe. Ragnarök spoke, "Because Slade, you are a man of principles. You will not commit to such things you find 'harmless' unless you feel threatened into doing so." Ragna's lips formed into a smile, "much like a spider."

Slade stared at this teen before him. Behind the firm look in his eye, he was surprised. To describe him a man of decency, in which he truly is, he was a bit caught off-guard when the boy looked at him with a firm stare. He had never seen them that vividly up until now compared to how he had first found the boy in the dark alleys, bruised and expressionless. Emotionless. And now, look at him. Eyes vibrant and full of confidence as to what he had stated. What a fool, the mercenary thought, what a tremendous fool. His own pride for the boy got the best of him as his lips formed a grin, chuckling and turning before his expression softened and just simply nodded at him. Ragna smiled as he gave the accurate answer.

"You know what, kid? Let her stay the night here." Ragna couldn't control the bigger smile he gave Slade as he ran towards Byakuya and told her exactly what Slade told him. Slade saw Byakuya beamed and looked at him, giving him a bow, then replied Slade with a nod before walking off. Ragna couldn't get any happier than this.


"Robin?"

"What is it, Star?"

"You seem to have been busy at most times. Other times, distracted. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, Star. I'm fine."

"... Okay."


"Wassup, Robin!"

"... Yeah."

"Dude, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine. Don't worry."

"O… kay…"


"Yo, Rob!"

"For the love of- What?!"

"... Woah, man, chill! I just wanna ask if you need anything! Like food, maybe?"

"I'm fine. I'll go and ask when I need something. Just don't. Disturb me. Any of you."

"Alright! Alright, sheesh…"


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"..."

"..."

"..."

"Don't tell me they sent you, Raven."

"They didn't. I am, however, slightly worried as to your 'busy' schedule just staring at your communicator the entire time for half of the day." Raven stood still as she eyes their leader sprawled over the couch just simply staring at his communicator. "It's just that- Nothing's happening! Not even a hint of secret messages is present in their conversations! It's just so suspicious! And it's driving me crazy!" Robin ranted off as he frustratingly scratches his head and pinched the bridge of his nose as he sighed.

"Maybe the actual truth is just that. Ragna was never doing anything wrong at all to begin with." Robin for the first time turned around to face someone eye to eye, "so you're siding with him now?" Raven, face remained expressionless, explained herself, "it's not a matter of side, Robin. He just didn't do anything that harmed anyone anywhere. If anything, it was us that made the move first. Most especially, you."

"I know," the black-haired teen mumbled as he turned away, "I know but… this is Slade he's involved with-"

"-And Slade he has never seen again." Raven cutted Robin's sentences short. "Robin, please. For the team. For your friends. Get over it as we all did with Slade. He's never coming back. Nor will he to Ragna." The girl's words struck the Boy Wonder, whose eyes squinted behind the mask as he went into silence, before speaking again, "I'll try," he stated shortly. Raven nodded before turning her back against Robin, leaving the room. "Hey, Raven?" Robin called out, to which she halted, "yes?" Robin stared before looking away, his voice sounding grateful, "thank you." The girl of Azarath smiled and finally left.

Exiting the room, Raven's smile faded as she wondered.

If only he knew that who they met was Slade.


Night time had stuck as it was ten in the evening. They talked with each other and got comfortable until she fell asleep. Ragna took Byakuya to where Slade had told him to go, which was explained to be her room, and so he did. He lay her on the bed and tucked her in with a white sheet, caressing her beautiful hair before standing up and quietly exited the room. Upon closing the door from the outside, he instantly felt a strong body heat crept up on his back along with an arm sliding around his waist, and another arm grabbing his wrist that got him pinned down between the body behind him and the closed door in front of him. In order for Ragna not to create a noise that will wake Byakuya up, he struggled to let himself free as he turned his head and glared at the man behind him, quietly going, "Slade!"

Behind him, he heard Slade chuckle, licking his lips before whispering, "ah, and what do we have here… a lone little Ragnarök, caught between myself and the door. How cute." He purred the last words next to Ragna's ear that sent tingles down his spine. "Slade, let go!" The younger male struggled still only to make it worse as a leg got between his own and started rubbing him down there. Ragna started panting, and Slade chuckled again. Right next to his ear.

Slade's mouth traced kisses down the shivering boy's nape and nipped down at the side of his neck, making Ragna gasp and stopped moving. Slade moved his mouth to Ragna's ear again and nipped on his ear as he called him again. "Ragna."


A make out session by the door,

Continued with caressing by the hallway,

And right before he knew it,

Slade and himself were in his room,

And on his bed.

.

And again, his mouth,

Along with his throat, was abused.

The elder man's seed was forced down

And into him it went.

.

His clothes decreased as the caressing increased.

The shivering never seeming to stop

As the lone eye that watches him

Was filled with a strong sense of lust.

.

He is afraid of this Slade.

His final thoughts went before blacking out.


A/N: Yaaaassss. I finally updated. I'm sorry if I didn't for a while, I was busy sketching and practicing, and animating, and all that. So yeah. I'll be updating this story once in a while as a new kind of schedule. As for "Imaginary Friend," since it's kind of easier to make an idea for that, it will be updated much more than this story, so feel free to check that out! :3