Ch. 10: Burning Inside With Violent Rage
*Don't worry Tiger, this story takes place a couple years after BR: PF ^_^ *
Uriko could barely see with the tears that filled her eyes. She sat there, utterly speechless. She looked down at her boyfriend, Kenji, who had just asked her to make the biggest commitment of her life. Marriage. The word stuck in her head as hundreds of thoughts, questions, ran through. Despite all the questions she had, her answer was never in doubt.
"Kenji." she said as the tears that filled her eyes streamed down her face. "Of course I'll marry you!"
Kenji rose from his knee and Uriko jumped into his arms. They kissed, and then pulled away while Kenji slipped the ring onto her finger. She laughed, and kissed him with a passion that he hadn't known since their first. After she pulled away, she smiled and looked at Kane and Sarah.
"You two knew about this, didn't you?" She said through her tears of joy.
"Who us?" Kane replied, "nah!"
Uriko laughed a bit, then cried again. "Thank you. I'm sure you encouraged him, so thank you." Uriko buried her head in Kenji's chest, and cried.
An eerie glow filled the lab as a lone figure walked in. He was dressed in rags, torn shorts and a black T-shirt. He looked at a small computer screen, at the scene unfolding in the restaurant.
"Kanji and Uriko engaged to be wed. Ah, young love, how it sickens me so! Am I bitter? Jealous? Perhaps I am, for it reminds me so much of what I had and lost, and what I will regain, nevermore." The lone man said. He got up and moved to another screen, being monitored by a green-haired scientist in a wheelchair. "How is the research going?"
"Everything is going as you theorized. When the Menagerie agent is introduced to the cells of Kenji and Uriko, it produces some very. interesting results."
The man peered into the microscope, and grinned. "My father was a fool to let you go, Dr. Busuzima. My brother may have received RavenTech, but I've received something even better, my revenge on a silver platter. or petri dish, if you will."
He walked off, and Busuzima turned around. "Sir? If I may ask, why are you so obsessed with getting your brother and his friends?"
"I was born as he was," he replied, "with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had it all, until I changed, until I learned to think for myself. My dear father didn't like what I had become, so he had his goons throw me out, and sold all my belongings. These clothes, these are the cloths I was wearing when he tossed me on the street. I went from being in the high society to nothing! They once called me handsome, then they called me depraved, a degenerate, a FREAK! Do you have any idea what it's like to have to use a newspaper for a blanket? A cardboard box as shelter from the rain?"
"Um, no sir" Busuzima replied timidly.
"No, Hajime, you don't know. That is why I want to ruin Kane. I want him to feel my pain. I want to see him holding the shattered pieces of his life, to be whole, nevermore." He walked out of the lab, his words echoing in Busuzima's head. For the first time in his life, he was truly afraid.
As the limo pulled out from the restaurant, Uriko could barely keep her hands off of Kenji. Sarah sat at Kane's side, as always. "We better hurry up and drop them off," she said, "or they might go at it right here!" The limo pulled up to Kenji's house, and let out the two. They ran into the house, and the limo sped away.
Uriko pushed Kenji to the bedroom, stripping off his clothes along the way. He tripped over his own pants and landed on the soft bed. He smiled as Uriko's dress fell off her, and she lay across him. He opened the covers, and wrapped them around them. He held Uriko close and quickly went to work. The bed creaked loudly, partially muffing Uriko's cries. In all their years together, they had never made love with such intensity. Uriko was nearly overloaded, her orgasm coming so quickly and violently, she didn't have time to hold any of her screams back.
"I think we just woke up the neighbors," she laughed.
"The neighbors?" Kenji replied with a chuckle, "I think we woke up all of Japan."
Uriko giggled, nestled her head on Kenji's chest as his arm wrapped across her back, and closed her eyes. Darkness embraced her, but sleep would not come. For what seemed an eternity she tried to fall asleep, a futile effort. She opened her eyes, and found that only few minutes had passed. She looked up to her still awake fiancée. "Kenji, I can't sleep."
"Neither can I," he said as Uriko climbed back on top of him.
"How many times?!" Sarah said in disbelief over the phone.
"Seven," her friend Uriko said over the phone with a mixed tone of pride and bashfulness.
"Wow. Mine and Kane's record is only three," she said, still in shock.
"Well, we just couldn't help it.anyway, I gotta go. Alice and Yugo are coming back tomorrow and this place is a mess, and Kenji's with Kane at that RavenTech meeting. "
"Hey, I'll come over and help. I'll be there in a jiff." She walked out and looked in the driveway. "Great," she thought, "I forgot that Kane gave the driver the day off, and he took the motorcycle. Guess I'll walk."
Within a few minutes, Sarah arrived at the house. She gave Uriko a quick hug, and got to work. She grabbed the vacuum, while Uriko dusted and washed the clothes. Sarah washed dishes, and Uriko dried them. Hours passed, and the work was finally done. Sarah sat on the couch, and Uriko plopped next to her.
"I am exhausted," she said with a sigh. "When are the guys supposed to be back?"
"Who knows? Kane said that they were transferring ownership today. The old CEO's retiring as well, and Kane decided that Kenji would be better at handling day-to-day operations, that's why he went. This could take all day. Man, this is crazy. Kane inheriting his father's company, Kenji becoming the CEO, you two are getting married, it's been a crazy couple of days," Sarah replied. "Well, I'm heading home. I told Kane that I was making spaghetti for dinner."
"Wait a sec, can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Well, now that Kenji and I are engaged, we were talking about moving into our own place. We want to stay in the neighborhood, especially with Kenji becoming CEO of RavenTech, but we haven't found any houses in the area."
".So you want to move into our guesthouse right? I'll talk it over with Kane."
"Okay, thanks."
Sarah walked out, putting her jacket on, and headed home. Halfway there, she noticed a shadowy figure in her path.
"Scott." she said with the utmost contempt. She tried to hit him, but he parried her attack and ended up behind her. His stench was enough to make her puke, and his breath wreaked of old, fetid scraps of discarded food. He licked her across the check, and she felt like maggots had just crawled across her face.
"Tell little brother, I said 'hi,'" he said in that gruesome voice that made her skin crawl. He tried to lick her again, but she managed to kick her leg far enough back to nail him in the groin. She extricated herself, and hit him with a roundhouse to his head. He fell back staggered, and smiled depravedly. "Estuans interius, Ira vehementi, In amaritudine, Loquor mee menti, Factus de material, Cinis elementi, Similis sum folio, De quo ludunt venti, Feror ego veluti, Sine nauta navis, Ut per vias aeris, Vaga fertur avis, Non me tenet vincula, Non me tenet clavis, Quero mihi similes, Et adiungor pravis..." he chanted as he disappeared into the shadows.
Puzzled and sickened by his actions, Sarah made her way home, and started the spaghetti. By the time Kane walked through the door, it was 8:00. She hugged him, and told him what happened.
"That pig!" he exclaimed, nearly putting his fist through the wall. "Are you sure you're okay, he didn't hurt you, did he?"
"I'm fine," she replied. "But he said something as he left. I think it was in Latin."
"Estuans Interius, from the Carmina Burana. 'Burning inside with violent rage, with bitterness I mumble to myself / created from ashes, I am like a leaf played with by the winds... I am drifting away like a boat without an oarsman / like a bird in flight, chains cannot hold me, locks cannot imprison me / I search for my kind, and I join the depraved...' It's his favorite song. He says it all the time."
"What does it mean?"
"Mind games, they're Scott's specialty. He wants us to think it means something. He's been out to get me ever since our father disowned him. I've tried to help him, but he prefers to wallow in his own self-pity to anyone who'll listen. There's nothing we can do tonight, we should just forget about it for now."
If you say so," She said as Kane reassured her with a kiss. She couldn't help but feel nervous about what happened, but she felt safe in her lover's arms.
*Don't worry Tiger, this story takes place a couple years after BR: PF ^_^ *
Uriko could barely see with the tears that filled her eyes. She sat there, utterly speechless. She looked down at her boyfriend, Kenji, who had just asked her to make the biggest commitment of her life. Marriage. The word stuck in her head as hundreds of thoughts, questions, ran through. Despite all the questions she had, her answer was never in doubt.
"Kenji." she said as the tears that filled her eyes streamed down her face. "Of course I'll marry you!"
Kenji rose from his knee and Uriko jumped into his arms. They kissed, and then pulled away while Kenji slipped the ring onto her finger. She laughed, and kissed him with a passion that he hadn't known since their first. After she pulled away, she smiled and looked at Kane and Sarah.
"You two knew about this, didn't you?" She said through her tears of joy.
"Who us?" Kane replied, "nah!"
Uriko laughed a bit, then cried again. "Thank you. I'm sure you encouraged him, so thank you." Uriko buried her head in Kenji's chest, and cried.
An eerie glow filled the lab as a lone figure walked in. He was dressed in rags, torn shorts and a black T-shirt. He looked at a small computer screen, at the scene unfolding in the restaurant.
"Kanji and Uriko engaged to be wed. Ah, young love, how it sickens me so! Am I bitter? Jealous? Perhaps I am, for it reminds me so much of what I had and lost, and what I will regain, nevermore." The lone man said. He got up and moved to another screen, being monitored by a green-haired scientist in a wheelchair. "How is the research going?"
"Everything is going as you theorized. When the Menagerie agent is introduced to the cells of Kenji and Uriko, it produces some very. interesting results."
The man peered into the microscope, and grinned. "My father was a fool to let you go, Dr. Busuzima. My brother may have received RavenTech, but I've received something even better, my revenge on a silver platter. or petri dish, if you will."
He walked off, and Busuzima turned around. "Sir? If I may ask, why are you so obsessed with getting your brother and his friends?"
"I was born as he was," he replied, "with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had it all, until I changed, until I learned to think for myself. My dear father didn't like what I had become, so he had his goons throw me out, and sold all my belongings. These clothes, these are the cloths I was wearing when he tossed me on the street. I went from being in the high society to nothing! They once called me handsome, then they called me depraved, a degenerate, a FREAK! Do you have any idea what it's like to have to use a newspaper for a blanket? A cardboard box as shelter from the rain?"
"Um, no sir" Busuzima replied timidly.
"No, Hajime, you don't know. That is why I want to ruin Kane. I want him to feel my pain. I want to see him holding the shattered pieces of his life, to be whole, nevermore." He walked out of the lab, his words echoing in Busuzima's head. For the first time in his life, he was truly afraid.
As the limo pulled out from the restaurant, Uriko could barely keep her hands off of Kenji. Sarah sat at Kane's side, as always. "We better hurry up and drop them off," she said, "or they might go at it right here!" The limo pulled up to Kenji's house, and let out the two. They ran into the house, and the limo sped away.
Uriko pushed Kenji to the bedroom, stripping off his clothes along the way. He tripped over his own pants and landed on the soft bed. He smiled as Uriko's dress fell off her, and she lay across him. He opened the covers, and wrapped them around them. He held Uriko close and quickly went to work. The bed creaked loudly, partially muffing Uriko's cries. In all their years together, they had never made love with such intensity. Uriko was nearly overloaded, her orgasm coming so quickly and violently, she didn't have time to hold any of her screams back.
"I think we just woke up the neighbors," she laughed.
"The neighbors?" Kenji replied with a chuckle, "I think we woke up all of Japan."
Uriko giggled, nestled her head on Kenji's chest as his arm wrapped across her back, and closed her eyes. Darkness embraced her, but sleep would not come. For what seemed an eternity she tried to fall asleep, a futile effort. She opened her eyes, and found that only few minutes had passed. She looked up to her still awake fiancée. "Kenji, I can't sleep."
"Neither can I," he said as Uriko climbed back on top of him.
"How many times?!" Sarah said in disbelief over the phone.
"Seven," her friend Uriko said over the phone with a mixed tone of pride and bashfulness.
"Wow. Mine and Kane's record is only three," she said, still in shock.
"Well, we just couldn't help it.anyway, I gotta go. Alice and Yugo are coming back tomorrow and this place is a mess, and Kenji's with Kane at that RavenTech meeting. "
"Hey, I'll come over and help. I'll be there in a jiff." She walked out and looked in the driveway. "Great," she thought, "I forgot that Kane gave the driver the day off, and he took the motorcycle. Guess I'll walk."
Within a few minutes, Sarah arrived at the house. She gave Uriko a quick hug, and got to work. She grabbed the vacuum, while Uriko dusted and washed the clothes. Sarah washed dishes, and Uriko dried them. Hours passed, and the work was finally done. Sarah sat on the couch, and Uriko plopped next to her.
"I am exhausted," she said with a sigh. "When are the guys supposed to be back?"
"Who knows? Kane said that they were transferring ownership today. The old CEO's retiring as well, and Kane decided that Kenji would be better at handling day-to-day operations, that's why he went. This could take all day. Man, this is crazy. Kane inheriting his father's company, Kenji becoming the CEO, you two are getting married, it's been a crazy couple of days," Sarah replied. "Well, I'm heading home. I told Kane that I was making spaghetti for dinner."
"Wait a sec, can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Well, now that Kenji and I are engaged, we were talking about moving into our own place. We want to stay in the neighborhood, especially with Kenji becoming CEO of RavenTech, but we haven't found any houses in the area."
".So you want to move into our guesthouse right? I'll talk it over with Kane."
"Okay, thanks."
Sarah walked out, putting her jacket on, and headed home. Halfway there, she noticed a shadowy figure in her path.
"Scott." she said with the utmost contempt. She tried to hit him, but he parried her attack and ended up behind her. His stench was enough to make her puke, and his breath wreaked of old, fetid scraps of discarded food. He licked her across the check, and she felt like maggots had just crawled across her face.
"Tell little brother, I said 'hi,'" he said in that gruesome voice that made her skin crawl. He tried to lick her again, but she managed to kick her leg far enough back to nail him in the groin. She extricated herself, and hit him with a roundhouse to his head. He fell back staggered, and smiled depravedly. "Estuans interius, Ira vehementi, In amaritudine, Loquor mee menti, Factus de material, Cinis elementi, Similis sum folio, De quo ludunt venti, Feror ego veluti, Sine nauta navis, Ut per vias aeris, Vaga fertur avis, Non me tenet vincula, Non me tenet clavis, Quero mihi similes, Et adiungor pravis..." he chanted as he disappeared into the shadows.
Puzzled and sickened by his actions, Sarah made her way home, and started the spaghetti. By the time Kane walked through the door, it was 8:00. She hugged him, and told him what happened.
"That pig!" he exclaimed, nearly putting his fist through the wall. "Are you sure you're okay, he didn't hurt you, did he?"
"I'm fine," she replied. "But he said something as he left. I think it was in Latin."
"Estuans Interius, from the Carmina Burana. 'Burning inside with violent rage, with bitterness I mumble to myself / created from ashes, I am like a leaf played with by the winds... I am drifting away like a boat without an oarsman / like a bird in flight, chains cannot hold me, locks cannot imprison me / I search for my kind, and I join the depraved...' It's his favorite song. He says it all the time."
"What does it mean?"
"Mind games, they're Scott's specialty. He wants us to think it means something. He's been out to get me ever since our father disowned him. I've tried to help him, but he prefers to wallow in his own self-pity to anyone who'll listen. There's nothing we can do tonight, we should just forget about it for now."
If you say so," She said as Kane reassured her with a kiss. She couldn't help but feel nervous about what happened, but she felt safe in her lover's arms.