When I Don't Remember

By: Atsureki

Disclaimers : They are not mine! I'm not saying another word about it! *crosses arms*

Warnings : Yaoi, OCC, angst (as usual), short sucky chapter, probably should be more warning but we'll leave it at this.

Notes : Stuff written in Italic are thoughts.

Chapter 11. Second Encounter

None of the four men in the truck said a word. Ran moved his eyes from the road to Ken and didn't like what he saw. The brunette's eyes were sad and hurt, his face locked in an unhappy expression. Before they had left Ken's house the brunette had gone to talk to Kate again. Ran didn't know what had been said but it was obvious it wasn't anything good. The truck rolled into Great Falls after having spent the intire night on the road. Ken stopped at the first hotel he saw and they all sighed with relief as they got out from the truck.
"My ass is killing me," Yoji complained bitterly as he stretched his lanky body, popping a few joints.
"Let's get some rooms," Ken sighed and lead the way inside. Ran frowned deeply and followed his lover. That damn woman was so lucky they weren't in the same town anymore! The brunette talked to the man at the desk for a while before he came back looking very tired. "You two are going to have to share a room," he said quietly and handed Omi a key. The small blonde took it and shrugged.
"As long as I get a bed I don't care." Yoji and Omi headed for the elevator while Ran and Ken took the stairs. Their rooms weren't on the same floor but the brunette had given the bigger one to the blondes since the probably wouldn't want to share a bed. In silence they walked down a long corridore and Ken let them into their room.
"Ken, what's wrong?" Ran asked softly and watched his lover more or less throw himself on the bed. Brown eyes looked at him shining with tears that threatened to spill over.
"I rather not talk about it," Ken answered slowly. The redhead sat down beside him and looked at him. Ken placed his head in Ran's lap and sighed deeply. "Are we gonna make it through this alive?" Ran frowned at the question and stroke away a tear that managed to escape Ken's eye.
"What kind of question is that?" The brunette avoided making eye contact and buried his face against Ran's stomach.
"She wouldn't even let me say good bye to Matt." Ran gritted his teeth. That stupid idiotic woman! "She said that people like me don't deserve to live, that I would end up in hell," Ken said with a hint of a dry sarcastic laughter in his voice. "Like I didn't already know that?"
"Stop it Ken!" Ran spat out and pulled his lover up to face him. "So Kate turned out to be a narrow-minded bitch! Why do you even listen to her? You know she's wrong." The brunette cowered from the hard tone in Ran's voice. "Ken, we both know that you're no more a child-molester than I am and we both know that there's nothing wrong with our love. Or are you having doubts about us?" At that Ken's head snapped up. Ran smiled inside. If there was one thing the brunette couldn't stand hearing it was that he had doubts about their love.
"Of course I…" Ken interrupted what he was about to say when he saw the soft smile in the redhead's eyes. Ran shook his head and pulled his lover's face close to his.
"Sometimes you can be such a baka, koi," he murmured with affection. The brunette smiled a little at that and leaned in for a kiss.
"Ran no baka," Ken breathed into his lover's mouth. Ran deepened the kiss and smiled. Yes, Ken was his idiot and he wouldn't want him any other way. The kiss broke and amethyst eyes looked into chocolate. "Ran make love to me." The soft request had a shred of desperat need in it. Slender fingers brushed over tanned skin and swiftly removed the brunette's sweater. Ran knew that Ken wanted a destraction and that might have offended others but he'd never deny his lover anything, especially not if the brunette needed it to feel better. Slowly and gently he made love to the brunette until he fell asleep and then Ran spent most of the morning watching his lover sleep unaware that he was being watched as well.

Ken forced his eyes open and held Ran closer. The hotel room was chilly even though it was summer. He pulled the quilt tighter around them and rubbed his nose against the redhead's hair. It always made him smile when Ran slept on his chest because it was rather unusual. Normally it was Ken who curled up against the redhead and used him as a pillow but sometimes, just sometimes, Ran needed to be held too. Not that the brunette complained though, not at all. The room was dusky which meant that they had slept through the entire day but Ken didn't care. After Ran had made love to him he had more or less past out. Ran shifted slightly in his sleep and entangled their legs. The redhead was possessive in bed which Ken found so adorable and it felt safe. With a yawn he decided to go back to sleep again, there was no reason for him to force himself to stay awake. Besides, the brunette was comfortable and Ran didn't show any signs of waking up any time soon.

It was almost in the middle of the night when the four men headed back to the hotel. Omi and Yoji were walking a few paces ahead of the Ran and Ken. When they suddenly stopped the redhead almost walked straight into Omi's back.
"Dean," the small blonde hissed. They all froze and stared at the tall green eyed man who was standing a few meters away from them with a smile on his lips.
"Hello there," Dean smirked in english and came closer, a gun aimed at them."You're turning into quite a problem." Ran frowned.
"What do you want?" he asked harshly and put himself between Dean and what he was after, the brunette.
"Yes, what do I want indeed," Dean laughed and tilted his head. "First I want him to come over here," he stated and pointed the gun at Ken.
"Why? He doesn't have the information you want." Dean laughed again and seemed to find it all very amusing.
"Information? Who said I wanted information?" Ran froze and felt Ken's hand on his arm.
"Ran?" The redhead's thoughts raced.
"I thought…" Dean interrupted him by raising his hand.
"Hattori wants the information but who cares about him? At first I wanted it to squeeze Hattori out of his position as Oyabun but then I got a better offer," the green eyed man smiled. "This, however, has nothing to do with Hattori, the yakuza or Weiss, this is personal."
"Personal?" Omi asked and widened his blue eyes.
"Your friend over there messed up some very, very good plans!" Dean growled. "Not to meantion the fact that he's responsible for Hitoshi's death."
"But I didn't kill him!" Ken objected and took a step forward.
"That's a matter of opinion."
"You're insane!"
"So I've been told," Dean grinned. "Now hand over the brunette or this is gonna get ugly!"
"You're rather cocky aren't you?" Yoji asked with an eyebrow raised. "There's four of us and only one of you. Even with that gun you won't be able to take out all of us." At that Dean's grin widened.
"Who said I was alone? Boys!" Six more men stepped out from the shadows. "So, Blondie still want to fight?" Ran could see Yoji jaws clench together.
"Kudou calm down!" the redhead hissed under his breath and mentally tried to force Yoji to step back.
"Listen up!" Dean said loudly and scratched his head with the barrel of the gun. "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Either Ken comes over here and the rest of you are free to go or I kill Red, Blondie and Shorty and Ken comes with me anyways… What's it gonna be?" Ran clenched his hands into fists and cursed. It was a no win situation. Dean and his men were armed and Wiess was not, unless…
"Yoji." The lanky blonde turned around and gave Ran a questioning look. With a tap on his own watch the redhead asked him if he was armed.
"But of course," Yoji smirked. That was good but was it enough? Yoji couldn't take out seven men on his own, especially not when they were armed.
"Ran," Ken said softly. "It's no use. Let them take me before anyone gets hurt. After they're gone you can get your weapons and come after me." The redhead winced at the calm tone in his lover's voice.
"No!" he objected. "I'm not just gonna…"
"Yes you are. It'll be okay Ran." Ken's hand took a hold of the long black coat the redhead was wearing. "There's no point in all of us dying."
"But Ken-kun," Omi objected quietly and gave his friend a worried look.
"We're not just going to allow them to take you!" Yoji agreed and frowned. "We've already lost you once dammit!" Ran met his lover's brown eyes and swallowed. Ken was right, it was killing him to admitt to it, but Ken was right. His own life the redhead could gamble with but not Omi and Yoji's.
"We'll come after you koi," Ran sighed. The brunette pulled his face down and kissed him softly.
"I know you will…" With those words Ken walked over to Dean and lowered his head to show that he wasn't going to fight.
"Clever choice Ken," Dean chuckled. "Let's go." The six men around them backed up and the green eyed man pushed Ken infront of him. "Oh one more thing before I go. Ken took someone rather important from me so I think it's fair that I return the favour." Two shots cut through the quiet night just before a loud heartbreaking scream echoed between the houses.

~TBC~

Oh major cliffhanger *gasps* I'm so evil! Who did Dean shoot?!? I wanna know *yells* Oh dear! Now, I want 10 new reviews or I'm not telling *crosses arms and glares* Just kidding minna!! *hehe* Even if you take reviews from me I'll still pester you with another chapter *evil laff* Ja/Atsureki