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"Hey, piece of shit!!"

He woke from his sleep.

"Here is your meal, boys!!"
Two bowls, one with water and the other with something that Hanamichi could hardly describe as food, were shoved in front of him.

And Rukawa?

He spoke aloud his thoughts.

"Where do you think you are?! We're in some sort of hotel!! This is a prison and you will soon be dead!! You two eat from the same bowl, you piece of shit!!"
"My name is Sakuragi, anyway."
"Yeah, piece of shit!!"
The guard walked away and Hanamichi just shrugged.

"Hey, baka kitsune… there's meal!!"

The boy didn't move at all. He was about to shook him when he stopped.

Why should I wake him? To have my shin kicked for the second time?? And why I'm helping him? He betrayed us… I should leave him to a slow and painful death… But then those words when I asked him why he wasn't fighting back… 'I don't want to.' And that strange look in his eyes… was it defeat?

Unconsciously his eyes went to the other's boy neck where the bruise he made was starting to assume a shade of violet.

His skin is so pale, almost milk-like… he noticed How long has he been here, away from the sunlight?

"Why are you watching me?"
"Urgh!! Ehm… I… err…" Hanamichi became as read as his hair and he didn't know why.

"Do'aho." Rukawa was about to doze off.

"Wait!!" Hanamichi yelled "They gave me some… food…"
"Good, eat what you want and leave the rest to me." with that he went back to sleep.

But does he do something else other than sleeping? he wondered by himself.

He shook his head and started eating the food with his hands.

Not as bad as I thought…

He licked his lips and drank a bit of water from the other bowl.

He was about to start eating again, when it hit him.

How the hell is Rukawa going to eat his food with his hands tied like that?!
"Hey, kitsune! How are you going to eat?"
"What a stupid question… With my mouth of course!"
Sakuragi stayed silent for a second.

"I'll call the guard and I'll tell him to take of your handcu-"
"No!" Rukawa exclaimed.

"Why not?"
"No. Don't call him!"
Sakuragi turned in the direction where he supposed the guard should have been.

"Hey!! Guard!!! Guard!! Take this guy's handcuffs off!! He can't eat!! Hey, guard!! Did you he-oooofff!!"
Rukawa landed on Sakuragi and knocked the wind out of him.

"Shut up!"

"Hey!! Why did you that? I was trying to help you!!"

"I said shut up!!"

"Stupid kitsune!!"
"Let's hope he didn't hear what you said." Rukawa whispered more to himself than to Hanamichi.

"Take his handcuffs off, ne?" the guard repeated, entering their vision.

"Oh, no…"

"Yes." Sakuragi, who was still under Rukawa, replied.

"Were you two fucking?" the guard asked.

Hanamichi became red.

"Of course not!!"
Rukawa rolled on the floor, got on his feet and went hiding in the shadow.

"Where are you going?" the guard grinned evilly "How am I going to take your handcuffs off if you're hiding?"
The guard took out from his pocket a key-ring with eight keys on it and turned toward the dark hallway.

"Hey! Rick, Koji!! Come here!!" he shouted.

A few seconds later two other men were in front of the cell.

"This piece of shit wants us to take off his friend's handcuffs…" he told them.

"Of course we'll do that!" Koji smirked "Open the door, Jack."

Jack did as Koji had told him.

Hanamichi felt the impulse to jump at their necks and run away from that prison, but he told himself that it was too early.

"Rick, take care of the piece of shit." Jack said.

Hanamichi frowned and tried to fight back in vain when the enormous man tied to the wall.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt you…" the man whispered in his hear "Just stay here and enjoy the show."

Rick got back and reached his friends.

"C'mon, lil' boy… come here…" Jack said, pulling the chain. After a few seconds Rukawa came out the shadow, he was trying to run away, but his actions caused only his wrist to bled.

"Leave me alone!!" he cried out.

The three guards laughed.

A wild rage exploded in Hanamichi's body.

"Leave him alone!!! He is defenseless!!" he yelled.

"What? Now you want us to stop? It's too late, piece of shit!"

Laughter.

"You're vile!! He can't fight back, tied like this!!"

Fight back? So this is what Rukawa meant…

But the men didn't seem to hear him. They just pinned Rukawa to the wall and started to took his pants off.

When Sakuragi realized what they were going to do he just was too horrified. He wanted to do something, but he was tied to the wall; he wanted not to look, but he just couldn't close his eyes.

"My… God…" he could only said.

They raped him and beat him.

When they finished, they left him on the ground, covered with blood and semen.

"Did you enjoy the show, piece of shit?" Jack asked Hanamichi, but he was speechless. He felt someone freeing him and pulling him towards.

"Bye, bye…"

Koji closed the door behind him with a CLANG that woke Hanamichi from his frozen state.

He rushed to Rukawa's side, supporting him.

"Are… Are you okay, there?"

"Trying to help, right?" the kitsune replied.

"I… I didn't kwon… I'm sorry…"
"Never mind, they were going to do it anyway…"

Hanamichi sighed. So that's what they did to him.

"Rukawa…"

The kitsune-eyed boy turned towards him, his face was smeared with blood and he had a black eye.

"Yes?"
"Why are you here?"

The other boy looked at him with a curious expression.

"I mean… If you really betrayed us, why are you here? You should be in a big room, with girls and money… then why are you down here?"

"But, don't you understand?"

Hanamichi shook his head.

"I didn't betray anyone… I got caught and they tried to make me say something, but I didn't… They got bored of me and gave the order to kill me. Meanwhile a spy entered the Rebellion and told them that I was a traitor. I should be dead by now… Well I am officially dead, but this guards keep me here just for fun…"
Hanamichi froze in shock.

"So… So you are innocent…"

"As much as it matters now, yes I am."

"Kuso." the red-head cursed through his clenched teeth "C'mon… I'll wash your wounds…"

He ripped a sleeve from his shirt and dipped the piece of cloth in the bowl of water. He began to wash the other's boy wounds.

"I'll get you out of here, I promise."

Comments: hmmm… this is very, very, very dark… I'm sorry but I was really depressed when I wrote this… I think the whole story will become a tragedy (Romeo&Juliet-like I think…) Well… You can find my other stories at this URL: http://home.dencity.com/forbidden_heaven (sign my GUEST BOOK!!!), my e-mail is forrbidden_angelus@yahoo.com …. please R&R!!!