Delicious Torment
Ch 3
"Ok uncle Cye, now will you tell me why she won't teach me that technique?" Sian asked as he and the other Ronins were in Kaye's office.
"Sian, the reason why Kaye won't teach anyone that particular technique, is well, it's forbidden." Cye replied as he looked at him.
"Wait a minute, forbidden? Then how come she knows how do it, and no one else," Sian asked. "Also, why was she doing it in the first place if it's forbidden anyway?"
"Those questions are kind of hard to answer, Sian. But for now you have to try and understand something. If Kaye teaches that particular technique, then she and whomever she taught it to would be challenged to a fight to the death." Ryo said as he looked over to him.
"A fight to the death? Uncle Ryo, you can't be serious!" Sian replied in disbelief.
"Ryo's very serious, the only reason she can demonstrate it, is because she altered it a bit so that way it wouldn't be easily detected." Sage said as he folded his arms across his chest.
"Then why didn't she tell me about it? She trusts me, doesn't she?" Sian asked somewhat hurt.
"Of course she trusts you, Sian. That's not the issue and you know it." Kento replied as he looked at him.
"Yea, you're right, I guess," Sian sighed. "Then I suppose that I better go and talk with her, huh."
"Now you're using your head, Sian." Rowen said with a smirk. Sian rolled his eyes, and then gave a small laugh before he went out to find Kaye.
Outside...
Kaye was looking towards the setting sun, "I wonder how hurt Sian will be when he finds out about why I can't teach him that technique?" Kaye wondered.
"Mrs. Faun, are you ok?" a little girl asked as she came up from behind.
"Cassie, you scared me." Kaye replied with a small smile as she sat down next to the little girl.
"Sorry, but when I saw you out here, and you looked sad. So I came out here to see if you're ok." Cassie said with concern.
"You're sweet, Cassie. Yea I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind lately, that's all." Kaye replied.
"You shouldn't keep things bottled up inside, if you do, you might just blow up." Cassie said with a smirk.
"Why you little, you're throwing my own words back into my face, aren't you." Kaye asked as she messed up Cassie's hair.
"Yep!" Cassie replied with a small laugh.
"Thanks Cassie, I feel a lot better now." Kaye said with a smile.
"Yea?" Cassie asked.
"Yea, I do." Kaye replied as they hugged each other.
"Aw, what a sweet picture. Doesn't it just tug at your heart strings Jakobe?" Dante asked as they showed up out of nowhere.
"It would, but only if I had a heart to begin with." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Cassie, get inside!" Kaye said sternly as she stayed between her and the two men.
"But Mrs. Faun..." Cassie began to say.
"Go!" Kaye replied as she pushed her towards the door. Cassie did a quick look back, and then ran to find someone that could help.
"Why are you here? What do you want?" Kaye demanded as she shifted into a defensive position.
"You know it would be a real shame if something happened to the center, the kids, or even you, if you know what I mean?" Jakobe asked with a dangerous smile.
"I'm not going to give into your threats, Jakobe. I don't care what you try to do to me, but if you even try to lay a hand on any one of the kids, or this center, I'll make sure that you'll be sorry." Kaye replied angrily.
"You definitely have spirit, I like that. I like that very much," Dante taunted with an evil glint in his eyes. "I'm not sure what it is, but people for some reason that have a high spirit taste very good to me."
"You're sick!" Kaye replied as she glared at them.
"So I am, I just love taking a fighter's spirit and devouring it. You know Jakobe, it's been so long since we've actually fought someone." Dante said as he glanced over at him.
"You know, Dante, I think that you're right. I'm actually looking forward to a fight as well. I just hope that I'm not too rusty." Jakobe replied as they both got ready to fight.
Inside...
"Help, someone help!" Cassie yelled as she ran.
"Cassie, whoa what's the matter? What's wrong?" Sian asked as he knelt down on one knee to her.
"It's Mrs. Faun, she's in trouble, two men from yesterday showed up, and they..." Cassie started to explain as tears were starting to flow down.
"It's going to be all right, Cassie. Don't worry, you did well, I'm going to go and help her. You stay in here ok." Sian replied as he took off towards the back.
"AAHH!" Cye yelled as he grabbed for his arm.
"Cye, what's wrong?" Kento asked in concern as the guys looked over to him.
"I'm not sure, but I think that Kaye's in trouble." Cye replied as he got up and ran out of the office. The others followed Cye, and then they started to scan the building. They couldn't see any trace of Kaye anywhere. Then they saw Cassie crying, as some of the older kids tried to calm her down.
The guys ran over to her, "Cassie, what happened?" Ryo asked as he was trying to get her to tell them.
"In back, the two men from yesterday, Mrs. Faun told me to go inside, I think that she's fighting them." Cassie explained as she was trying to calm down.
"Sian went to look for her," Rowen said in alarm, "Let's get going, they need our help!"
Outside...
"They're moving too fast. I can't get a fix on them." Kaye thought in frustration as she tried to follow their movements.
"What's the matter, can't keep up?" Dante taunted as he quickly kicked towards Kaye's stomach.
The impact of Dante's kick made Kaye double over as she fell.
"OOF!" Cye grunted as he also fell to the ground holding onto his stomach.
"Cye!" Kento said as he quickly slid over to him.
"I'm ok, just hurry. Kaye is going to need some back up." Cye replied as Kento leaned him against the wall.
"Kento, go with them. I'll stay here with Cye." Sage said. Kento nodded and then took off after Ryo and Rowen.
Outside...
"As much fun as this is, I think that it's time to put it to an end." Jakobe said as he was going to deliver a blow to the back of Kaye's head.
"NO!" Sian yelled as he dove for her. The two rolled out of the way of Jakobe's blow just in the nick of time.
"Sian?" Kaye asked as she winced.
"The one and only," Sian replied with a smirk, but then he got serious. "Are you ok?"
"Yea, thanks to you." Kaye replied as she gave him a small smile.
"Sian, well done my boy. Well done, I'm impressed." Jakobe said while he and Dante stood their clapping.
"You'll pay for hurting her!" Sian warned angrily.
"OOh, the kid has guts." Dante taunted.
"Don't call me that, I'm not a kid!" Sian replied as he glared at them.
"Touchy, touchy the kid also has a short temper." Dante said as he gave a small laugh.
"I'm warning you. Call me a kid one more time, and you'll be going head first through the nearest window." Sian replied as he got into a defensive position.
Dante glanced over at Jakobe, Jakobe gave a quick nod, and then Dante looked back at Sian, "let's test that theory shall we...kid." Dante said with a smirk. That did it, Sian's temper hit the roof, and he charged towards Dante at full speed. Just as Dante was about to get out of the way, he was surprised on how fast Sian moved. Because the next thing Dante knew, he was flying through the air, and crashing through the nearest window head first.
"Whoa, watch out!" Ryo warned as Dante smashed into the wall.
"Ow, what hit me?" Dante asked in a daze.
"Dude, I would have to say that it was the wall," Kento replied as they surrounded him. "Now, I'm only going to ask this once. Where's Kaye?"
Before Dante could answer, "Sian! No!" Kaye yelled out as she tried to stop him from fighting Jakobe.
"There's your answer, Kento," Rowen replied. "Let's go."
When they finally got there, they saw that Sian was fighting head to head with Jakobe, while Kaye was using the railing to try and get up. "Kaye, are you all right?" Kento asked as he rushed over to her.
"Kento?" Kaye said quietly as she winced from the pain.
"Easy there, everything is going to be all right." Kento replied as he tried to reassure her.
"Damn, reinforcements. I think that it's time to take our leave." Jakobe thought as he and Dante disappeared.
"Sian, are you ok? What could you have possibly been thinking? You should have waited for us, why did you take them on like that?" Ryo scolded as he frowned at him.
"What did you want me to do, just sit back and watch him kill her? Because that's what Jakobe was going to do. If I didn't dive for her, then she would have been dead." Sian shot back.
Before Ryo or anyone else could speak, Cassie ran outside with Cye and Sage right behind her. "Mrs. Faun, you're ok." Cassie said as she tackled Kaye making her lose a little of her balance.
"Oof, Cassie." Kaye replied with a small laugh as she looked down towards the child. Cassie looked up; she had tears running down her face. Kaye knelt down and picked her up, while she did that, she winced a little bit. Cassie saw the pain on Kaye's face, and then she got scared. When Kaye realized what was happening, she gave her a small smile showing the child that she was just fine.
"Cassie, why don't you go ahead inside? We'll be in shortly, ok," Kaye said as she put the child down and ushered her to the door. Cassie took one final look back before she headed inside. "Go on."
"Sian, would you please fill in the other kids of what happened. I'm sure that they want to know." Cye said as he saw the look that Kaye was giving him.
"But uncle Cye." Sian started to say.
"I wouldn't argue with Cye if I were you, Sian." Sage replied sternly. Sian sighed and then headed inside, leaving Kaye and the Ronins to talk.
"Cye, how are you feeling, any better?" Kento asked in concern.
"Yea, I'm feeling much better. I guess that the link that Kaye and I have is still there." Cye replied with a small smile.
"I guess so, and for once, I'm glad that we still have it." Kaye replied as she returned a smile of her own.
"Come on, let's get inside, it's starting to get cold, and besides I need to look you over, Kaye, just to make sure that everything is ok." Sage said as they started to go inside. After all of this time, she knew better than to argue with him, but then again, every once in a while, it was still fun.
A few hours later when no one was paying attention. Sian decided to sneak outside to the roof. "If they don't show up soon, then I'm going back inside." Sian thought as he was waiting for them.
"Sian, you were very impressive today." Jakobe said as he and Dante appeared.
"What do you two think that you were trying to pull? I have everything under control," Sian replied hotly. "And what's with the idea of attacking Kaye like that? You've could of killed her!"
"Yes we know that you do, but we just decided to make things a little more interesting," Dante said with a smirk. "Besides, we had to make it look believable, didn't we?"
"Yea well, don't try anything like that again, ok!" Sian replied as he kept the two in sight.
"And don't you forget why you're here in the first place!" Jakobe shot back angrily.
"I remember, all right. So just get off my back!" Sian said angrily.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen, we shouldn't be quarreling with each other. Especially, since we have a mission to complete. Now Sian, is everything in place?" Dante asked with an evil grin.
"Of course." Sian replied as he rolled his eyes.
"Good, now I would suggest that you go back inside, before anyone becomes suspicious, and comes out looking for you." Jakobe said.
"Yea, ok." Sian replied as he went back inside.
"Jakobe?" Dante asked as he stole a glance towards him.
"Yes, Dante." Jakobe replied.
"Do you think that we can trust him?" Dante asked.
"I guess time will tell, but if worse comes to worse, then we'll have no other choice." Jakobe replied.
"You mean that we can?" Dante asked as his eyes lit up.
"Yes, if need to be we can eliminate him." Jakobe replied as they disappeared.
Ch 3
"Ok uncle Cye, now will you tell me why she won't teach me that technique?" Sian asked as he and the other Ronins were in Kaye's office.
"Sian, the reason why Kaye won't teach anyone that particular technique, is well, it's forbidden." Cye replied as he looked at him.
"Wait a minute, forbidden? Then how come she knows how do it, and no one else," Sian asked. "Also, why was she doing it in the first place if it's forbidden anyway?"
"Those questions are kind of hard to answer, Sian. But for now you have to try and understand something. If Kaye teaches that particular technique, then she and whomever she taught it to would be challenged to a fight to the death." Ryo said as he looked over to him.
"A fight to the death? Uncle Ryo, you can't be serious!" Sian replied in disbelief.
"Ryo's very serious, the only reason she can demonstrate it, is because she altered it a bit so that way it wouldn't be easily detected." Sage said as he folded his arms across his chest.
"Then why didn't she tell me about it? She trusts me, doesn't she?" Sian asked somewhat hurt.
"Of course she trusts you, Sian. That's not the issue and you know it." Kento replied as he looked at him.
"Yea, you're right, I guess," Sian sighed. "Then I suppose that I better go and talk with her, huh."
"Now you're using your head, Sian." Rowen said with a smirk. Sian rolled his eyes, and then gave a small laugh before he went out to find Kaye.
Outside...
Kaye was looking towards the setting sun, "I wonder how hurt Sian will be when he finds out about why I can't teach him that technique?" Kaye wondered.
"Mrs. Faun, are you ok?" a little girl asked as she came up from behind.
"Cassie, you scared me." Kaye replied with a small smile as she sat down next to the little girl.
"Sorry, but when I saw you out here, and you looked sad. So I came out here to see if you're ok." Cassie said with concern.
"You're sweet, Cassie. Yea I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind lately, that's all." Kaye replied.
"You shouldn't keep things bottled up inside, if you do, you might just blow up." Cassie said with a smirk.
"Why you little, you're throwing my own words back into my face, aren't you." Kaye asked as she messed up Cassie's hair.
"Yep!" Cassie replied with a small laugh.
"Thanks Cassie, I feel a lot better now." Kaye said with a smile.
"Yea?" Cassie asked.
"Yea, I do." Kaye replied as they hugged each other.
"Aw, what a sweet picture. Doesn't it just tug at your heart strings Jakobe?" Dante asked as they showed up out of nowhere.
"It would, but only if I had a heart to begin with." Jakobe replied with a smirk.
"Cassie, get inside!" Kaye said sternly as she stayed between her and the two men.
"But Mrs. Faun..." Cassie began to say.
"Go!" Kaye replied as she pushed her towards the door. Cassie did a quick look back, and then ran to find someone that could help.
"Why are you here? What do you want?" Kaye demanded as she shifted into a defensive position.
"You know it would be a real shame if something happened to the center, the kids, or even you, if you know what I mean?" Jakobe asked with a dangerous smile.
"I'm not going to give into your threats, Jakobe. I don't care what you try to do to me, but if you even try to lay a hand on any one of the kids, or this center, I'll make sure that you'll be sorry." Kaye replied angrily.
"You definitely have spirit, I like that. I like that very much," Dante taunted with an evil glint in his eyes. "I'm not sure what it is, but people for some reason that have a high spirit taste very good to me."
"You're sick!" Kaye replied as she glared at them.
"So I am, I just love taking a fighter's spirit and devouring it. You know Jakobe, it's been so long since we've actually fought someone." Dante said as he glanced over at him.
"You know, Dante, I think that you're right. I'm actually looking forward to a fight as well. I just hope that I'm not too rusty." Jakobe replied as they both got ready to fight.
Inside...
"Help, someone help!" Cassie yelled as she ran.
"Cassie, whoa what's the matter? What's wrong?" Sian asked as he knelt down on one knee to her.
"It's Mrs. Faun, she's in trouble, two men from yesterday showed up, and they..." Cassie started to explain as tears were starting to flow down.
"It's going to be all right, Cassie. Don't worry, you did well, I'm going to go and help her. You stay in here ok." Sian replied as he took off towards the back.
"AAHH!" Cye yelled as he grabbed for his arm.
"Cye, what's wrong?" Kento asked in concern as the guys looked over to him.
"I'm not sure, but I think that Kaye's in trouble." Cye replied as he got up and ran out of the office. The others followed Cye, and then they started to scan the building. They couldn't see any trace of Kaye anywhere. Then they saw Cassie crying, as some of the older kids tried to calm her down.
The guys ran over to her, "Cassie, what happened?" Ryo asked as he was trying to get her to tell them.
"In back, the two men from yesterday, Mrs. Faun told me to go inside, I think that she's fighting them." Cassie explained as she was trying to calm down.
"Sian went to look for her," Rowen said in alarm, "Let's get going, they need our help!"
Outside...
"They're moving too fast. I can't get a fix on them." Kaye thought in frustration as she tried to follow their movements.
"What's the matter, can't keep up?" Dante taunted as he quickly kicked towards Kaye's stomach.
The impact of Dante's kick made Kaye double over as she fell.
"OOF!" Cye grunted as he also fell to the ground holding onto his stomach.
"Cye!" Kento said as he quickly slid over to him.
"I'm ok, just hurry. Kaye is going to need some back up." Cye replied as Kento leaned him against the wall.
"Kento, go with them. I'll stay here with Cye." Sage said. Kento nodded and then took off after Ryo and Rowen.
Outside...
"As much fun as this is, I think that it's time to put it to an end." Jakobe said as he was going to deliver a blow to the back of Kaye's head.
"NO!" Sian yelled as he dove for her. The two rolled out of the way of Jakobe's blow just in the nick of time.
"Sian?" Kaye asked as she winced.
"The one and only," Sian replied with a smirk, but then he got serious. "Are you ok?"
"Yea, thanks to you." Kaye replied as she gave him a small smile.
"Sian, well done my boy. Well done, I'm impressed." Jakobe said while he and Dante stood their clapping.
"You'll pay for hurting her!" Sian warned angrily.
"OOh, the kid has guts." Dante taunted.
"Don't call me that, I'm not a kid!" Sian replied as he glared at them.
"Touchy, touchy the kid also has a short temper." Dante said as he gave a small laugh.
"I'm warning you. Call me a kid one more time, and you'll be going head first through the nearest window." Sian replied as he got into a defensive position.
Dante glanced over at Jakobe, Jakobe gave a quick nod, and then Dante looked back at Sian, "let's test that theory shall we...kid." Dante said with a smirk. That did it, Sian's temper hit the roof, and he charged towards Dante at full speed. Just as Dante was about to get out of the way, he was surprised on how fast Sian moved. Because the next thing Dante knew, he was flying through the air, and crashing through the nearest window head first.
"Whoa, watch out!" Ryo warned as Dante smashed into the wall.
"Ow, what hit me?" Dante asked in a daze.
"Dude, I would have to say that it was the wall," Kento replied as they surrounded him. "Now, I'm only going to ask this once. Where's Kaye?"
Before Dante could answer, "Sian! No!" Kaye yelled out as she tried to stop him from fighting Jakobe.
"There's your answer, Kento," Rowen replied. "Let's go."
When they finally got there, they saw that Sian was fighting head to head with Jakobe, while Kaye was using the railing to try and get up. "Kaye, are you all right?" Kento asked as he rushed over to her.
"Kento?" Kaye said quietly as she winced from the pain.
"Easy there, everything is going to be all right." Kento replied as he tried to reassure her.
"Damn, reinforcements. I think that it's time to take our leave." Jakobe thought as he and Dante disappeared.
"Sian, are you ok? What could you have possibly been thinking? You should have waited for us, why did you take them on like that?" Ryo scolded as he frowned at him.
"What did you want me to do, just sit back and watch him kill her? Because that's what Jakobe was going to do. If I didn't dive for her, then she would have been dead." Sian shot back.
Before Ryo or anyone else could speak, Cassie ran outside with Cye and Sage right behind her. "Mrs. Faun, you're ok." Cassie said as she tackled Kaye making her lose a little of her balance.
"Oof, Cassie." Kaye replied with a small laugh as she looked down towards the child. Cassie looked up; she had tears running down her face. Kaye knelt down and picked her up, while she did that, she winced a little bit. Cassie saw the pain on Kaye's face, and then she got scared. When Kaye realized what was happening, she gave her a small smile showing the child that she was just fine.
"Cassie, why don't you go ahead inside? We'll be in shortly, ok," Kaye said as she put the child down and ushered her to the door. Cassie took one final look back before she headed inside. "Go on."
"Sian, would you please fill in the other kids of what happened. I'm sure that they want to know." Cye said as he saw the look that Kaye was giving him.
"But uncle Cye." Sian started to say.
"I wouldn't argue with Cye if I were you, Sian." Sage replied sternly. Sian sighed and then headed inside, leaving Kaye and the Ronins to talk.
"Cye, how are you feeling, any better?" Kento asked in concern.
"Yea, I'm feeling much better. I guess that the link that Kaye and I have is still there." Cye replied with a small smile.
"I guess so, and for once, I'm glad that we still have it." Kaye replied as she returned a smile of her own.
"Come on, let's get inside, it's starting to get cold, and besides I need to look you over, Kaye, just to make sure that everything is ok." Sage said as they started to go inside. After all of this time, she knew better than to argue with him, but then again, every once in a while, it was still fun.
A few hours later when no one was paying attention. Sian decided to sneak outside to the roof. "If they don't show up soon, then I'm going back inside." Sian thought as he was waiting for them.
"Sian, you were very impressive today." Jakobe said as he and Dante appeared.
"What do you two think that you were trying to pull? I have everything under control," Sian replied hotly. "And what's with the idea of attacking Kaye like that? You've could of killed her!"
"Yes we know that you do, but we just decided to make things a little more interesting," Dante said with a smirk. "Besides, we had to make it look believable, didn't we?"
"Yea well, don't try anything like that again, ok!" Sian replied as he kept the two in sight.
"And don't you forget why you're here in the first place!" Jakobe shot back angrily.
"I remember, all right. So just get off my back!" Sian said angrily.
"Gentlemen, gentlemen, we shouldn't be quarreling with each other. Especially, since we have a mission to complete. Now Sian, is everything in place?" Dante asked with an evil grin.
"Of course." Sian replied as he rolled his eyes.
"Good, now I would suggest that you go back inside, before anyone becomes suspicious, and comes out looking for you." Jakobe said.
"Yea, ok." Sian replied as he went back inside.
"Jakobe?" Dante asked as he stole a glance towards him.
"Yes, Dante." Jakobe replied.
"Do you think that we can trust him?" Dante asked.
"I guess time will tell, but if worse comes to worse, then we'll have no other choice." Jakobe replied.
"You mean that we can?" Dante asked as his eyes lit up.
"Yes, if need to be we can eliminate him." Jakobe replied as they disappeared.