Chapter Seven: A VERY Short Chapter in which Major Plot Things Happen
Tsukasa silently ate the cereal placed in front of him while Rin, his now acting mother, bustled around the kitchen making Kureno breakfast before he went to work. Apparently kidnapping little kids was not his day job, as Tsukasa had quickly discovered. He brought the spoonful of cereal to his mouth, managing not to grimace as his muscles protested movement. He was black and blue all over from Rin's beating. All of the bruises were conveniently hidden under his clothes.
Kureno stood up from the table, folded his paper, took a sip of coffee and kissed Rin on the cheek. Tsukasa wanted to throw up at the normalcy of this. To an outsider it would seem like a normal family, the husband going to work, kissing his wife and children good bye before leaving, giving his children a warning to behave and do as their mother told them. Tsukasa wanted to hit the man as he kissed the top of his head. Only Daddy was allowed to kiss him, not this psycho man who now held his life in his hands.
Mana had spent a fitful night in bed, having strange dreams about a house somewhere with a wife, husband, and a boy and a girl living in it. She didn't know if it was connected with Tsukasa's kidnapping, and if it was she had no idea where the house was. She forced herself to get ready, and trudged to school. The day seemed impossible knowing that Tsukasa was out there somewhere in trouble. She felt like she could go to him, but she didn't know where he was. Finally, during lunch, something happened and she knew where he was.
Tsukasa fearfully looked at the woman, with the knife in her hand. "Now, this won't hurt that much, I promise, and I don't want to do this, but you've been a naughty boy. You are now Omotashu, I am your mother, and Sakura is your sister. Kureno is your father, and you are to call us that and only that. This will teach you a lesson." Tsukasa remembered the scars crisscrossing the girl's, Sakura as he was to call, wrists and fear began running through his veins.
He managed not to grimace as the woman made the fist cut along his wrist. The knife was sharp, thankfully and cut the skin cleanly with the barest of the touches. It stung painfully, but as long as none of them were to much worse than this it would be okay.
But it wasn't going to be okay. Half way through the child's 'punishment' her hand slipped, her legs giving out beneath her. The knife slipped deep into the child's arm, narrowly missing his vein. Tsukasa screamed as pain flared up and down his arm, a three inch long gash now in his arms. The knife had also gone sideways, making the cut and inch wide. Tsukasa began to feel light headed as the woman grabbed a towel and tried to stem the flow of blood.
It was no use. The blood soaked through the rag and spilled onto the floor. Tsukasa was getting more scared by the second, and so was the woman. She was crying now, pressing down hard on Tsukasa's arm trying to stop the blood. Tsukasa's vision swam as everything began spinning, blending in with each other. He could hear the woman talking to herself, crying, and the saw the blood pouring from his arm, slipping onto the floor. There was so much of it, so much blood…
Mana gasped as an address flashed into her head. Kaname and Itsuki looked at her. "What is it? Do you know where Tsukasa is?" She nodded her head and jumped up, going to get Tomonori. The man had come to school that day, saying it was too painful to stay at home without Tsukasa. The teens ran to his office, burst through the door, gasping.
"I know where Tsukasa is!" Mana gasped as the man jumped out of his seat and followed them out of the school.
Author's Note: I apologize for the shortness, but I am leaving for camp on Sunday afternoon, and I do not have time to get a decent length chapter out. I know this is a horrible place to leave it, but it's the only want I can think to end it. THERE WILL BE NO UPDATED UNTIL THE 20TH. I will be getting back from camp on the 17th, but I don't usually write on the weekends and I'm going to tired anyway, so look for an update sometime around the 20th.
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