A/N: Sorry for the short chapter for part 16. This one is longer so I can make up for it ^-^ Hope you enjoy! Trigger warnings: Torture
Rin was awakened by a loud slam against his cage, making him jump. Panickngly he looked around to notice it was a metal bar on top of his cage. He sighed, but his stomach seemed to scream in pain. He gasped, lifting up his shirt to see the stoma bag cap had a dark almost purple tinge around it, leading Rin to know it is infected. Not surprising since it hasn't been taken care of in a hot minute. Just grate not only has he got one more day until he's sold like jewelry, but his Stoma bag is now causing problems. Just what he needed to start his day.
"That doesn't look too hot. You Should really get that looked at."Rikyu said, watching Rin poke at the area. Rin sighed, letting his Kimono drop.
"Its infected." Rin explained.
"No shit. It's kind of obvious. An idiot can tell that doesn't look healthy." Rikyu snapped.
Rin cursed under his breath, trying to straighten up as he leaned against his cage door. To his surprise, he fell right out, tumbling to the floor, hissing at the pain it caused both the slow healing injury on his back and the stoma infection. Rin groaned, shaking his head as he slowly looked up to see his cage door looked to be unlocked. He was suspicious but also relieved.
"They didn't lock your cage? What idiots." Rikyu said. "The guards sure have gotten sloppy."
Rin chuckled and slowly fixed his posture before crawling over to Rikyu's took all his demonic strength to get the lock broken as he slammed back against the floor. Rikyu chuckled, crawling out before breaking the chain from the cage. He stretched, finally taking a giant sniff of the air. Rikyu turned towards Rin and bent down, grabbing Rin in a bridal style hold.
"You sir, have kept your promise. Now I want you to take me to your safe place." Rikyu said, sending Rin a smirk.
Rin chuckled. "Don't say that just yet. We only got out of the cages. I haven't kept my promise until we are out of this place." Rin explained as he watched his tail wrap around Rikyu's hand.
Rikyu nodded before walking over to the door, fiddling with the handle to find it locked. He cursed, looking around before finding a vent next to Rin's cage. He gulped, knowing this was going to be a risk but he didn't want to be sold again and he definitely didn't want to see Rin go through this. The kid already looks so broken. Going through something like he did. But from what Alistair was saying Rin was going to be sold into sex slavery and Rikyu wouldn't be able to live with himself if Rin was caught and sold.
Rikyu walked over to the vent and placed Rin down onto the floor. "I'm gonna push you through the vent. Can you crawl?" Rikyu asked.
Rin gulped, before shaking his head no. "I can't move my legs. It would take hours before I reached the place we needed to be." Rin says truthfully. Rikyu cursed under his breath before he heard the door being fiddled with. His lips curled up in a wicked grin as he rushed over to the door and hid behind it. Rin gasped before going flat against the cold floor, his red and gold Kimono getting dirty against the dusty ground.
The door opened, revealing a beefy man with keys and a thick suit on. His eyes were closed as he whistled a tune. Rikyu looked down noticing the knife on the mans belt. He looked over at Rin and hinted for him to close his eyes. Rin didn't get the hint, but Rikyu knew he was wasting precious time. Rikyu rushed forward and wrapped his hand around the man's mouth before grabbing the knife. Rin knew what was coming and closed his eyes immediately. He has seen worse but for some reason the instinct to close his eyes was done from the fear and flashbacks of when he fought amaimon.
He heard a thud before he was being handled once again. Rin waited a moment before opening one eye, looking up at Rikyu. He had a small splatter of blood on his cheek and Rin with his curiosity looked behind. He spotted the beefy man feet on the ground, blood slowly spreading out. Immediately he turned back, placing a hand over his mouth, shaking. The image brought him back to Father Fujimoto, and how his corpse was just lying there. Rikyu must have felt Rin's violent shivers before his grip tightened.
"I signalled you to close your eyes." He said. "Was that your first time seeing someone die?"
Rin nodded slowly. He removed the hand from his mouth, coughing. "I usually kill demons. Not humans." He explained. "It isn't the first time I have seen a dead body…. My Father died in front of me after he was possessed by Satan." Rin explained, keeping his voice low.
Rikyu nodded, knowing the subject was touchy. They stayed quiet as they walked the hallways, occasionally hiding against the walls when someone came near. The place they were in seemed to stretch on endlessly, until they came to an exit door. Rikyu squinted suspiciously, before slowly reaching for the door.
As if spying on us, Rin felt the presence of Alistair emerge behind them, making his blood run cold. "My, My. Haven't you two become all chummy. And here I thought I had loyal merchandise." Alistair's cold, mellow voice spoke from behind Rikyu.
Rin looked over Rikyu's shoulder to see the piercing Red eyes staring into his soul. "Run." Rin managed to whisper.
Rikyu slammed on the door, hearing the alarm go off but didn't bother as he took off. Rin nearly slipped out of his arms, so he wrapped his arms around Rikyu's neck, watching as Rikyu, to Rin's amusement was pretty fast even with Rin. The adrenaline rush seemed to revitalize something Rin seemed to lose being paralyzed. The feeling of excitement. The adrenaline of being in a life or death situation. The chase. He missed this feeling and now that he felt like he was running with his own feet, feeling the wind in his hair, he felt more alive than ever.
Rin chuckled, looking back to see the building disappear in the distance, but his feeling of dread seem to slither its way back in when he noticed the shadows behind them going wonky. Rin smirked, remembering what Shura had said.
"Get somewhere with lots of lights! He uses Shadow magic. If you get somewhere with no shadows-" Rikyu cut him off.
"-he can't follow us! Kid you're a genius." He shouted, before taking a sharp turn. "I know exactly where we are." He said.
After what felt like an hour, but was really 10 minutes; they emerged into a city and were immediately engulfed in light. Thankfully it looked to be midnight so not a lot of people out at night. Rikyu rushed into the nearest subway, hiding both of them in the back, placing Rin on a bus stop seat. Rikyu was panting, almost out of breath as he bent down, trying to get air in. Rin on the other hand was staring at the street trying to figure out where they were at the moment.
"Where are we?" Rin asked.
"Close to Cho-dori avenue. That is where your hotel is, right? Isn't your cram school and sword there?" Rikyu asked.
Rin smirked, his smile reaching ear to ear. It was the first time in a while Rin was happy to know he was close to the cram school. They may hate him, but seeing familiar, safe faces made his heart melt. He rubbed his legs, feeling a small bit of sensation running down them for a split second before they went back to being numb. Rin couldn't make out if that was a good or bad thing, but he took what he could get.
"We should get going. Go around the alleyway. That's where Alistair captured me." Explained Rin.
Rikyu nodded, before bending down to pick up Rin. As Rin wrapped his arm around Rikyu's neck, he looked over his shoulder and immediately got startled. Alistair was leaning against a brick wall, puffing out cigarette smoke, before his piercing red eyes shot over to Rins. What made Rin alert Rikyu was the smirk that showed carnivorous canines.
"Rikyu! He's behi-"
Rin was slammed out of his arms, thrown to the ground, his back hitting the subway seat. He hissed, looking up through his disoriented eyes, to see Rikyu pinned at the neck by Alistair. What made Rin flinch was the sharp nails that dug into Rikyu's neck.
"Did you really think you could escape?" Alistair asked, clicking his tongue. Rin gulped. Only once in his life has he ever felt this afraid, and that was his first encounter with demons. Now he just wished he would have chosen execution. This just felt like the world was laughing at his fear, pain and abandonment.
"To be honest, yes." Rikyu snarked back.
Alistair glared. "You killed one of my best guards. Do you know how hard it is to come by such loyal guards?" Alistair got closer, practically swapping breaths with Rikyu.
Rikyu chuckled. "If he was killed by me, he wasn't a very good guard now was he? Looks like your going to have to scrounge around for a new one. Boy won't that be enjoyable." He taunted.
Alistair's glare intensified, before a very devilish grin made his way onto his face. "Not as enjoyable as it will be to see you get punished."
"Do whatever you want. I can take it."
Alistair nodded, before letting Rikyu go. "Are you sure you can? You may not be saying that very soon."
RIkyu coughed, rubbing the nail holes on his neck. He glanced over at Rin who had his eyes glued on Alistair. "You tried to torture me before. If that was all you had then yes I'm sure I can handle it."
Alistair's smirk grew even more before taking a few steps towards Rin. Squatting down in front of Rin, Alistair roughly grabbed Rin's chin, squeezing his cheeks tightly. "You hear that Rin? He said he can take it, but he didn't understand what he was agreeing to." Alistair side eyed Rikyu who still didn't understand.
"What are you doing?" RIkyu asked.
Alistair brought his face closer to Rin's so that their faces were close together. "And to think you were claiming to be clever." Alistair licked Rins cheek, causing a shudder from Rin. "Your punishment is right here." He leaned in closer to Rin who was frozen petrified. "You get to sit pretty in a cell, with the knowledge that you just sent such a beautiful rare beauty to figure out how harsh reality actually is." He turned to face Rin. "Looks like this punishment is going to be so much fun."
"Don't you touch him you son of a bitch! I was the one who came up with the plan to escape!" Rikyu snapped.
"I am aware. But you won't learn your lesson if you are the one to take the punishment." He let Rin go before standing up straight, placing his still lit cigarette in his mouth. "This punishment is to show that when you take it upon yourself to come up with an escape plan, everyone involved will be punished, not just you. Have fun with that on your conscious, my dear Takai." With that Rikyu was being engulfed in shadows, the last thing he saw was Alistair bend down in front of Rin, before sending a painful punch to his stomach, making Rin Wheeze. As he started to fade into the darkness, he heard Rikyu's voice before everything went black.
When Rin awoke, his eyes had to adjust to the moonlight shining in his eyes from a curtainless window. He ground, turning away from the light. Flipping over on the mattress, he froze. Mattress? Rin shot up, finally taking in where he was.
The room was decorated in old Victorian with a few shades of dusty pink. The bed was easily a king sized mattress with drapes falling off the sides of it, The room was dark, the only light source was from the moonlight and a couple of weak candles. Rin looked down as his body, before gasping. He was in a navy blue silk robe, with nothing but his trousers on. He had a chain connected to his ankle, that connected to a bolt in the stone floor.
Rin gulped, wrapping the robe around himself, before grabbing both legs and throwing them over the side of the bed, but before he could get farther than that, the door creaked open, making Rin freeze.
Standing at the door was Alistair in a dark purple and black suit, his hair slicked back. "Your awake, i'm glad." Alistair walked in, before closing the door behind him. Rin flinch at the loud sound the door made. His mind racing to a million different things, but the one thing it kept landing on made him wish he had his Koma sword. He didn't want to be in this position and without his sword, his friends and his legs he felt powerless.
"What? No harsh words? No questions?" Alistair asked, stalking closer to Rin, who tried to scoot back on the bed, but without the use of his legs he only fell back.
"Where is Rikyu?" Rin asked, surprised at how raspy his voice came out.
Alistair sighed, folding his arms. "Sitting in a cage, downstairs." He pointed towards his left, and Rin followed his finger to see a phone on the desk. "I brought it upon myself to make sure Rikyu can hear what will be happening. But he is on mute. So its just you and me." Alistair stalked closer to Rin, who tried to use the bed frame to help him scoot away, but Alistair was already at the foot of the bed. He grabbed onto Rin's waist and slid him closer to Alistair. Rin let out a startled scream.
Alistair grabbed a hold of Rin's arms, which felt like jello. He intertwined their hands before he brought them up above Rin's head, pinning him there. Alistair bent down so their faces were inches away from each other. "The screams are what I'm looking for. This is the exact punishment I put Takai through." He closed the gaps so there lips were brushing against each other, making Rin shudder as a tear escaped his eyes. "You can thank him later."
Alistair released one of Rins hands but he couldn't react fast enough when a syringe was plunged into Rins stomach, releasing liquid. Instantly Rin's blood felt like it was boiling on the inside, causing a strangled cry to escape Rin. the syringe was pulled out. "With that reaction it's clear you have never had holy water thrown on you. Such a pleasant feeling. Like lava burning those veens on the inside." AListair spoke, running a finger down Rins chest.
The feeling continued for a couple more minutes before it became an ebb of pain. Rin glanced up to see Alistair's smirk. "I'm surprised. The holy water left so fast." He whispered. "Seems like I'm going to have to up my game." Alistair pulled away from Rin, but because of the holy water, Rin could barely move, his head rolling to the side as his eyes landed on the cell phone.
"Rikyu… I'm sorry." Rin spoke, his voice sounding painfully weak.
Alistair appear next to Rin with a smirk. "Awe, so sweet. To think you two are inseparable now." He lifted a black knife that had some sigils on it and to Rins surprised, AListair was holding it with a thick glove. "Oh you caught sight of This. Well I shouldn't be rude." He pointed it at Rin. "This my dear Son of Satan is a knife that brings incredible pain to whoever is cut with it. Its meant to be a killing blade, but in this case… well killing the merchandise won't be good for business."He brought it down and the closer it got to Rin's skin, the more his heartbeat picked up. When it made contact with Rin's abdomen, the burning started immediately. The pain was unlike anything he has ever felt. The small slice felt like he was set on fire, doused with holy water and shot by demon killing bullets multiple times. It was beyond any pain he has ever felt and the longer it stayed on his skin, the more intense it became. His scream was deafening even to his ears. He's never heard himself scream like this. Never in his life had he ever felt this much pain.
As the blade was lifted, Alistair laughed maniacally as Rin sobbed where he laid. He tried to turn away from him, trying anything to get away. He grabbed for the sheets, turning over on his stomach trying to get to the other side of the bed. Immediately the pain was placed on his back. Not only was it on his other wound but it was so much pain, Rin was starting to black out.
"Hearing these screams are such a turn on." Alistair spoke, his voice so full of pleasure it made Rin shudder. "Oh blacking out already? But the fun is only just beginning."
As the darkness seeped into Rin's vision, his eyes spotted the knife next to his right eye. "Oh you will look so good with a scar. Buyers lover boys with violent experience." He brought it closer to Rin. "That's the one thing I love about this blade. The wound may heal, but the scar never fades."
As the blade neared his eye, Rin finally broke down. His hope crushing and his soul shattering. This is what he gets for being born as the spawn of satan. He was thrown out of his ordinary life, lost his friends, lost his father, his brother and now this torture. All because of his heritage.
As the knife pressed down, Rin let out an ear piercing scream before his body went limp and his eyes shut, accepting the darkness.