Disclaimer:Read the other chpters to tired t think of disclaimer.

WARNING: Child abuse. Descriptive. No like no read

AN: for those of you who didn't read my other story Hisao is Dr. Onishi's given name

Chapter 8

Magnus slammed the door to the meeting room closed, silently thanking his brother for not having sliding doors installed. Sliding doors didn't allow you to vent your frustration as much as regular doors did. Probably the reason Optimus had installed them.

"Autobot! Get back here." The cause of Magnus' frustration yelled after him. After his dear brother had had to go see what was wrong the job of placating the Predicon leader had fallen to him. After a few minutes of watching the Predicon leader rant about why they should attack the Deceptacons immediately Magnus had had enough.

"Leave me the hell alone!" Magnus yelled back.

"Why you-"

"Unlike my brother I don't give a damn about peace or relations or whatever so just shut up and leave me alone!"

"Magnus-"

"WHAT?" He yelled into his communicator.

"Uhh could you check on Koji?" Optimus' voice came back over the line.

"Why?"

"Sideburn's got ambushed around the corner and I'm busy trying to get Prowl and X-brawn to calm down. I don't won't Koji walking around unattended he tends to be a little umm… self-destructive when he's upset" Optimus sounded worried and exasperated.

"How upset are the stooges?" Magnus asked. He liked the kid but with his mood he'd probably make things worse.

"Prowl just told me to shut the f up and mind my own business" Optimus said sounding stressed.

"Alright I'll take care of Koji." If Prowl was talking back to his superior in that manner he needed a lot of calming down.

"Autobot-" Megatron tried to start again.

"Shut up" Magnus said one last time before heading off in search of his human friend. He hoped the kid wasn't too upset. As far as Magnus was concerned Koji had had to cry enough for one lifetime.

Optimus sighed. The two conscious Autobot brothers had finally calmed down enough to just sit by their brother's side. Of course it had taken them awhile to get to this point. And a few words he hadn't known were even in Prowl's vocabulary. He sighed again.

He was about to take advantage of their calm to sneak off and check on Koji but fate seemed to want him to stay in the infirmary a little longer.

"Optimus take a look at this" X-brawn said looking at some scratches on Sideburn's arm. Looking closer Optimus noticed that the scratches were in a certain pattern. After a minute he realized that it was Japanese character. He quickly translated it and read it. If it had been possible his optics would have widened. Koji hadn't seen that had he?

"Magnus-" Optimus didn't even have to activate his communicator.

"Optimus I can't find the kid!" Magnus said coming through the infirmary door.

"Where could he be then?" Prowl asked getting serious. Once he'd been certain that his little brother was going to be ok he'd become his usual self again.

"His house" Optimus said.

"But that's where the Sakas are. Why would he have gone there?" X-brawn asked getting worried.

"Because he doesn't want this happening again" Optimus said pointing at Sideburn.

"But what-"

"There's something that Koji isn't telling us and I'd like to know what it is", Optimus said before turning and running out.

"What did he mean by that?" X-brawn asked.

"I don't know but if Koji really has gone back to the Sakas we shouldn't just be standing around here" Magnus said running after his brother.

Prowl and X-brawn stood there for a second before coming to their senses and running after them.

SNAP

Koji tried not to cry out but the pain was too intense.

"AHH!"

"Shut up brat if you didn't want this to happen then you shouldn't have run off with that damn Autobot. Now are you going to answer my question or not" Hao Saka yelled at the boy over the music he was playing. He always played loud music when he was beating the kid so the neighbors didn't hear the screams. There was also tall wall surrounding the backyard so nobody could see in.

Luckily for him the kid hadn't fought when he'd tied him to the make shift whipping post. The child was growing and would soon be able to take Hao in a fight if he tried. Good thing they wouldn't have to deal with Hisao's bastard for much longer. After today they would never have to see him ever again, finally being freed from Hisao's presence. Koji had always been there to remind him and Misa that Hisao would be coming home and they wouldn't able to be together. Seeing Hisao in Koji's face made Hao feel like he was still just a trespasser in another man's home with another man's wife. Now they'd finally have everything they'd always wanted but Hisao had always stood in the way of.

When Koji didn't answer Hao brought the belt down on Koji's bareback again. This time Koji didn't even try to hold back the scream. He knew that in a little while his back would go numb and he would pass out soon after that. Hopefully Hao would realize that he was unconscious and stop when this happened. Once Hao hadn't noticed and left him hanging by his wrist for an entire night as punishment for ignoring his commands. The ropes had left a deep scar on his wrists but Koji was able to hide them with a pair of wide wristbands he'd bought soon after that.

"Did you or did you not tell those Autobots!" Hao yelled throwing down the whip and spinning the boy around to face him. He slammed Koji's back against the post. "Answer me!"

Koji stayed silent despite the pain he feltat having his back slammed into the wood. He wasn't telling them. Optimus would figure everything out soon and be able to stop it. If Scourge found out that his plan had been discovered he'd change it and everything Koji had found out would be useless. If there was no proof that anyone on the other side knew Scourge wouldn't change anything. Scourge had put to much time and energy into this plan to risk it.

"Tell me", Hao emphasized this with a slap.

"Hao the Deceptacons will be here soon. They won't be to happy if he can't even talk" Misa said walking up to her husband.

"I don't think that they'll be happy either way" a voice said as the musicwas shut off.

AN: R&R I've had the week from hell and today isn't much better