[A/N] DAMN! There was something wrong with ff.net for two days! XD Darn! Okay, anyways, here's the next chapter...oh well, slightly delayed, but what the heck...it was gonna be longer, but I didn't wanna keep you guys waiting. *wink* Ne? Ha, ha...and for those who want the pics...please wait patiently, coz my com is a little nuts...So...I'm really sorry! Hontou ni gomenasai!

Anyways, thanks to all these peeps mentioned below:

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Keitsu Han'ei: O.o;; *backs far, far, away* But there was a reunion in this chapter! *wails*

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black luna: O.o;; Another Homura-hater? Wow.

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[Warning] Lime, Language, Rape... I mean heck, it's a PG-13. What did you expect?

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Of Golden Eyes

#11 – Divine Delusion

"You're useless," Homura whispered in his ear, and he cringed as warm breath tickled his earlobe. "You're naught but a good-for-nothing heretic. Tell me, Son Goku," the raven-haired one breathed, as Goku's fearful gaze connected with his enigmatic one. "Have you ever done anything in your life, anything to make your life worth living?"

Goku had whimpered in response, for then Homura had chosen to slowly slide the smooth edge dagger down his back, and the child blanched as he felt the cold contact on his skin. Homura lifted the dagger to his lips, and ran his bloodthirsty tongue over the tip, licking the thick, sweet blood that was Goku's.

"You are nothing, Son Goku."

"Which is why you might as well give yourself up to me now."

And Goku remembered nothing, nothing, for the excruciating pain that shot through him had been too much to bear. And as he screamed, one of pleading agony, Homura's arctic lips crashed down on his, silencing him, leaving Goku to writhe and buck wildly, as the cruel knife descended on his chest, creating a thin line of crimson in its wake. Goku sobbed, the tears flowing freely down his cheeks, and could do naught but lie there, crying noiselessly as he lay helplessly and utterly at Homura's mercy.

And for once, he didn't care - for he knew what Homura said was true.

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Two golden orbs flickered open, and Goku curled up in bed, his uneven breathing ragged and shallow, and a wet trail of tears on his face. His chest rose and fell with each breath he took, and Goku tried, and failed, to calm himself down as he recalled the horrifying dream. The young child raised a trembling hand to his chest, and instead of touching smooth bronze skin he felt rough white bandages.

'Yume...[dream]'

Dream or not, Goku found himself silently crying again, and he couldn't hold back any longer. 'I can't cry...Konzen will be ashamed of me.' But no matter how he tried, he failed to stop the tears, and they only began to flow more freely, as though spiting him with their actions. And before long, he began racking with quiet sobs, his body shaking silently.

I had given up...

"Konzen..." he whispered inaudibly, more tears making their appearance, and he brushed at them furiously with his fingers. "Konzen..." A soft whimper rose in his throat. "Konzen...doko da...? [Where are you, Konzen?]"

And as though to answer his question, two arms wrapped comfortingly around his waist, drawing him into a passionate embrace. Goku didn't need to ask whom they belonged to; there was only one person who held him this way, only one person who held him comfortingly and affectionately, the only one person who emitted the reassuring ...and Goku melted into Konzen's arms, as he turned around and hugged the elder one back, burying his head into the golden-haired god's chest, and held on like he would never let go.

Konzen did nothing, but embraced Goku tighter, and buried his face in the child's russet locks, relishing in the sweet scent that was Goku's. His gloved hands groped blindly at the child's chocolate hair, and as he did, he enveloped Goku further in his warmth, and sighed as the child relaxed in his hold. Tracing circles on the small of Goku's back, Konzen stayed silent, and let Goku cry himself to sleep.

And with his brown head leaning on Konzen's chest, Goku did. Konzen stroked the

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Tenpou lay back in bed, his green eyes gazing up at the blank ceiling, before adverting to the naked redhead that lay next to him. Kenren wasn't asleep; but strangely, he too had his eyes fixed to the ceiling, as though it were some very interesting specimen that he, of all people, had found interest in.

"What are you looking at, koibito [love]?" the brunette murmured, as he shifted to look Kenren in the face.

"Betsu ni [Nothing]," Kenren replied, before turning over to look at his emerald-eyed lover. "Homura's a bastard," he muttered angrily, his crimson eyes flashing with fury. "And anyway, it's lucky that Kanzeon managed to get permission for Goku to stay with Konzen for a while, otherwise..." his voice trailed off, as his mind began to contemplate the many things he'd like to do to Homura if he got hold of the slinking son of a bitch.

"Yes, it's true," Tenpou said quietly. "And Tentei only allowed it, for Konzen was Kanzeon's nephew, and also due to the fact that Kanzeon is one of the Five Gods who rule Tenkai, one who has contributed many a share in its upbringing. And he saw no harm in letting Goku stay for a few days. But," he paused. "Who knows what might happen after those few days. After all..." Tenpou faltered. "There are no limits to what Homura would do to get his way." The Marshal shuddered. "And he had already broken Goku this much...he could do worse. As long as it's something that Konzen wouldn't tolerate, something that would hurt Konzen deeply."

Silence rang quietly around the room, tracing the air with its quaint fingers.

Kenren shook his head, and leaned over to Tenpou to place a soft kiss on the Marshal's lips. "We can't do anything about it, Tenpou," he murmured gently, his scarlet orbs shining with something remarkably like defeat, before it suddenly shone with fragile hope.

"It isn't our battle, Tenpou," he whispered, and flashes of Konzen and Goku, together, crossed his mind - The brilliant blonde hair that shone like the sun; the amethyst eyes that penetrated the soul; the dark chocolate hair, and the innocent golden eyes that peeked out from underneath those brown bangs; and the immense love it held for the golden-haired one. And that love equally reflected in the blonde's eyes, love that was for Goku...and only Goku.

"It's theirs – and it is up to them to end it..."

Kenren stroked a hand through the Tenpou's hair, and felt a shiver travel down his spine as the brunette sighed in melancholy taciturnity.

"It's their battle."

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"Pitiful," Homura murmured, his rich voice laced with mocking sympathy. "Pitiful being you are, Son Goku. The powerful Seiten Taisen, Great Sage equal of Heaven...utterly at my disposal, at my mercy."

'What...what was he talking about? Great Sage equal of Heaven?'

Goku found no time for thoughts, however, as his chapped lips were captured in a bruising kiss.

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Goku shuddered in his sleep, and screamed, his cry rattling through the room, and he jolted Konzen awake. Konzen was at the boy's side in an instant, and tried to pry Goku from whatever nightmare he was suffering from.

"Goku, damnit, wake up!!" he shouted anxiously, his voice shaking with fear as Goku continued to shake uncontrollably, as tears broke through again.

****[NON-CONSENSUAL Lime! (aka the big R-A-P-E.) Don't read if you don't want to!]****

Homura plunged inside him, an expression of utterly no mercy on his face. His two-toned eyes shone with greedy lust, his desire rocketing as Goku screamed beneath him, wet tears staining the child's face as the unbearable pain shot through him, and sobbed as he felt the dirtiness inside him, hot and unclean.

That could be washed away.

But there would be the stain. The stain that would be forever left in his soul, the clenching tear of brokenness that wouldn't be washed away, wouldn't be left, wouldn't be cleaned.

Homura let out a scream of pleasure as he found his release, and finally stopped, collapsing on the ground next to Goku. The said child was too weak to move, too weak to cry, too weak to speak. And could only cry silently, the crystalline tears traveling down his cheek in an endless trail.

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"Wake up! Goku!" Konzen yelled, shaking the boy's shoulders desperately, as Goku continued to cry out in pain, his agonized scream shattering something in Konzen's heart.

There was the sound of the door slamming against the wall. Tenpou and Kenren burst in, and their expressions were more than slightly disgruntled; being interrupted in the middle of their lovemaking; but their features immediately underwent a dramatic change as their gazes fell upon Goku.

"What the fuck!?" Kenren exclaimed.

"Goku!" Tenpou cried, rushing over to the bed, his alarmed emerald eyes settling on the bucking, shaking form that was Goku.

"Wake up!" Konzen yelled again, a furious, pleading urgency in his violet eyes, and unconsciously, a tear found a way down his cheek. "Goku!!"

****[GAAAH! MORE NON-CONSENSUAL LIME!! .]****

It was too early for tears however, when Homura cupped his chin, forcing Goku to look up at him. Forcing Goku to look up at the hands of his rapist, the one who had forever broken that aura of innocence, that beautiful aura of innocence that Goku once possessed, the one who had hurt him immensely, body and soul.

"You are tainted, Seiten Taisen Son Goku," he whispered. "Konzen will never want you now."

Those sentences...they had shattered his heart like none had.

Konzen will never want you now.

And Goku surrendered quietly to the realms of unconsciousness, as he saw a glint of silver shine in the dimly illuminated room; and he couldn't find the strength to scream any longer, even when Homura chose that very moment to plunge the dagger into his very skin.

****[IT'S OVER! God bloody freaking damn it! I can't believe I wrote that!]****

Out of desperation, delirium or desire, Konzen didn't know.

But all that he knew was that, in that wild attempt to awaken Goku, he had captured the child's chapped lips with his own.

This drew an automatic response from Goku, and almost immediately, dark eyelids fluttered open to expose the enigmatic golden underneath them; reddened with tears as the droplets continued to fall, staining his perfect bronze face. And in that magical moment, as broken gold met frantic lavender, Konzen could have sword that he saw a flicker of shattered emotion in Goku's eyes, reflected within those golden depths.

But he didn't care, didn't care about it as he broke the kiss, brought Goku close to his chest, and let the child cry his heart out. Goku felt gloved arms holding him close, and he snuggled closer, and for once, felt a comforting warmth vibrate through his being as Konzen embraced him, the god's humidity seeping gently into his skin.

Kenren and Tenpou followed soon after, murmuring soothing words that calmed his soul, letting the torture he felt within him fade slightly. Kenren was brokenly gentle, his usually hard ruby eyes softened as its gaze lingered on the boy; Tenpou was horror-stricken, and shocked. His beautiful green eyes held inside them a quiet, soft expression, and he did naught to conceal it as he continued to whisper those words to Goku.

"It's all right, you're okay now..."

"Everything's okay, Goku!"

"Tomorrow...tomorrow, we can go for another picnic, ne?"

"Yeah, and this time we can see the cherry blossoms..."

But Goku blocked them out, his golden eyes dulling slightly as his tortured mind detached itself from his broken body. He didn't want anything now...nothing at all. All he wanted was to sink, drown in Konzen's loving embrace, to feel those silken arms grasping his own reassuringly, comfortingly.

Konzen stayed silent, before raising his violet orbs to Tenpou and Kenren. "Leave," he murmured quietly, his voice an unspoken command. "I'll handle it," he added further, as he saw Tenpou look at him with a wary gaze. Tenpou smiled at the last statement, and bent down to pat Goku's back gently. "I trust you, Konzen." He whispered. "I trust you. You're the only one who can calm his soul - his shattered self. Only you can bring back little of the innocence which he has lost...innocence, once broken, can never be restored...but," his green eyes sparkled, "with you, Konzen...he might have hope."

Kenren was quiet, Konzen scowled, but Tenpou could have sworn that a smile had tugged at the corners of his mouth. "Well, fuck that, Tenpou," Konzen muttered. "It isn't might with me..." he looked up, and challenged the brunette with his amethyst gaze. "He definitely has hope. Zettai. [Surely.] So don't you even question about it." Tenpou laughed, but his laugh didn't match his eyes as worry began to cloud them once more. "I leave Goku in your hands, Konzen," he whispered, and hooked his arm around his lover's waist, leading Kenren out of the room, despite the redhead's protest.

And as Konzen tended to Goku, he didn't hear the last words that were uttered by the Marshal, the last words before he left...

"Be strong, Konzen, Goku...be strong for each other."

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Tenpou and Kenren shut the door quietly behind them.

"They'll be all right," Kenren murmured. "They'll be okay..."

Tenpou leaned up against the redhead, and placed a soft kiss on Kenren's lips, reveling in the roughness of it, before locking his robed arms around the taller one's neck. "Yes," he responded, and a tear trickled down his cheek. "They'll be all right...everything will be all right..." he continued to whisper feverishly, and Tenpou bit gently into Kenren's bare neck, smiling quietly as Kenren begin to emit moans of pleasure. "Everything will turn out okay..."

And all was forgotten, everything, as Tenpou pinned Kenren to the bed, lips locking to the redhead's with such ferocity that it shook him. In the haze of passion and lustful desire, he could barely make out the General's blurry eyes as they fixed upon his green ones, before Kenren responded, attacking Tenpou's own lips with a rising aggressiveness.

"I love you," Kenren murmured into Tenpou's mouth, and his lips curved upwards as Tenpou buried a shaking hand in his hair, the emerald eyes behind the glasses glinting with faint tears at that honest statement.

"I love you too."

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"Konzen..."

Goku whispered in his sleep, his voice dry. Konzen winced as he heard Goku whimper his name, over and over again, sympathetically, shatteringly, pitifully, and heartbreakingly. He inched closer to the child, wrapping his satin arms around the child's small waist, giving him the warmth that he ached so much for, the warmth that he craved, away from the coldness of his nightmares. He brought Goku into an embrace, and said nothing as Goku continued to cry, those tears staining the delicate cheeks, the cheeks that had been stained with crimson blood just moments ago.

Konzen placed a kiss on the child's cheeks, kissing the tears away, tasting the fragile saltiness in the crystallized moisture. "I'm here," he crooned gently, his amethyst eyes softening visibly as Goku stopped shaking. "I'm here...I'm not going anywhere." Burying one hand in Goku's unruly hair, he brought the child close to his chest, and hugged the broken figure tightly.

Dark eyelashes fluttered open, and red-rimmed golden eyes looked up silently at Konzen, that excruciating golden gaze meeting sheer violet. Konzen felt a smile tugging at his lips, and he let it be as he placed a gentle kiss on Goku's temple. "You're awake," he murmured, and held Goku at arm's length. "I'm glad," he continued, and ignored the tears that were about to break from the corner of his eyes, the tears of happiness. "I was so fucking worried, Goku..."

And then, Goku captured his lips in a searing kiss.

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Taken by surprise, Konzen was pinned down on the bed by a very impassioned Goku. The child continued attacking his lips, and the blonde felt a pang of sympathy in his heart as he felt dire wetness on his cheeks, tears that were Goku's.

He continued to ravish Konzen's lips, entwining his tongue with Konzen's as they began to dance a sensual dance of passion, each unwilling to give in. It was Goku who was taking the reins right now, and taking advantage of the shocked god, slipped his agile hands under the purple silk.

Sighing in pleasure, Konzen collapsed on the bed, Goku on top of him as the child began to caress his neck, his lips brushing gently against the white porcelain skin that was Konzen's. Slowly, but deftly, Goku removed the piece of lavender silk that adorned Konzen's sleek form, disposing of the annoying garment as he threw it aside.

Slightly pleased now, Goku began to plant tantalizing butterfly kisses down Konzen's being, hot, teasing little kisses that sent shivers down Konzen's spine as those said kisses trailed down from his jawbone to his chest.

"Konzen..." Goku whispered between the kisses, his voice a silent plea, and he looked up, his eyes meeting Konzen's amethyst gaze. And no words for needed, for his eyes spoke all. Spoke of his need, his desire, his hunger – his need to be clean again. All were there, in his golden eyes, the reflection of passionate love that he held for Konzen.

"I need you," he pleaded quietly, and he peeled off his black top skillfully, tossing it aside. "Make love to me, Konzen. Make me forget everything," Goku murmured, before he crushed his mouth to Konzen's, ravaging those roughly soft lips that were his guardian's.

And Konzen was only too happy to oblige, as he responded feverishly to Goku's kisses, burying one gloved hand in the child's russet hair. And even as he locked his lips firmly with Goku's, his other free hand found its way down Goku's body, sinking lower, and the child squeaked into Konzen's mouth as the blonde found what he sought. Unhooking Goku's pants, Konzen dragged the irritating garment down, leaving Goku's legs bare, and he chuckled quietly as Goku began to flush an interesting shade of scarlet.

The golden-haired deity soon rid himself of his black pants, and pinned Goku to the bed. For one still moment, none of them said anything as they drowned in each other's gaze; gold dissolving in hazy violet, while soft amethyst penetrated light bronze. Running one hand up those tanned legs, Konzen smiled slyly as Goku let out a moan of shuddering pleasure. The blonde leaned down and captured that exquisite sound in his mouth as he locked his lips with Goku's.

Goku moaned softly into his guardian's mouth, producing unidentified animalistic sounds that Konzen found incredibly arousing. He continued to torture Goku with his tongue, and Konzen moved his skillful mouth from Goku's swollen lips, only to nibble teasingly at Goku's earlobe. But not before he started kissing Goku's jawbone, and a wet trail of kisses followed down Goku's neck, his shoulder, and his chest, his everywhere. Goku threw his head back in pure ecstasy, and let out a passionate cry.

What was left in his sane mind was rendered senseless, as Goku's cry of lustful desire echoed fervently in his head, and he pondered for a while, unsure of what to do next. Konzen thoroughly wetted his middle finger, and proceeded to let his libido decide.

And all hell broke loose.

****[WOO YEAH! ITS OVER! ^_^ Ne - my longest lime, I think.]****

They both lay on the bed, sweat-slicked skin against sweat-slicked skin as they collapsed, exhausted from their lovemaking. Goku's head rested snugly on Konzen's chest, fitting in comfortably in that little corner, his hand tightly entwined with his guardian's, his golden eyes closed, tranquil and serene. They were both hidden under the warm covers, peacefully silent.

Dull amethyst flickered for a few seconds, before brightening with love as they rested on the child's still form, blissfully placid and calm in his sleep. Konzen reached out one shivering hand, and stroked one loving finger down Goku's cheek, smiling as Goku moaned softly in response. But not before he felt the hideous cut on Goku's chest. He frowned, and Goku flinched as he touched that tender spot, letting out a soft cry of pain.

Konzen shook his head, and sighed in melancholy.

'Why did such a thing have to befall you...'

Gazing down at the beautiful form, Konzen sighed again, and caressed Goku's cheek tenderly.

"I love you, Goku," he whispered. "Forever."

He leaned back against the bed, and Goku snuggled up closer to him, murmuring something so soft, so gentle that Konzen almost didn't hear it, but he did.

And smiled.

"Anata wa aishiteru, Konzen. Zutto..."

To be Continued

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[A/N] Okay, damn! I wanted to make this much, much longer for you guys but I just ran outta inspiration! ;__; Anyways...hope ya liked it! ^^;; *glances guiltily at the Homura fans* But at least there was a reunion ne? Heh, heh *sweatdrops* I really owe some thanks to Serena, Kamen-ne-chan, and Pei San! ^^ Thank you so much! I love chatting with you guys on MSN! *glomps* Hope to see more of you guys fics soon, ne? Love ya! So...erm...*looks at readers* what should I say? Review? O_o;; Okay...uh...so, please review! *sweatdrops* I'm not good in these things...

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