Chapter 2
Heartless
An older looking man holding the hand of a younger looking man glanced at the small studio, he knew the people in there though only one of them really knew him the other just had heard of him. The cool Febuary air blew through the older mans silver hair causing it to obsucre his face. A hand tightened on his and he looked down at the younger man. His shaggy black hair fell down a face almost as emotionless and cruel as his heart. But the older man knew that there was love in his lover. Love for him no matter how twisted it was. A pair of old ladies walked by them murmering and glancing there way shakeing their heads. The younger one smirked how much pleasure he derived from the pain and fear of others was almost unbelievable.
Soubi's POV
I awoke very suddenly as though there were dark eyes watching me, but there was no one...no one? Where was my Ritsuka, I glanced down at the table at a small note; I'll be back soon I went to the store to get some things for dinner, you rest if your not in bed when I get back you WILL be punished! I laughed but thought it better to just lie down...or lie back down cause I have to use the bathroom or I'll bust. What time is it, I looked at the clock but it was turned off...odd, maybe Ritsuka couldn't fing the snooze button and just pulled the cord out. I pulled out my cell phone it was almost five. Odd agian all kinds of strange things happening today, I never sleep late thats always Ritsuka...all well enjoy the down time, I chided myself. I felt myself sliping into a light doze, am I really so exahusted? The world turned black as sleep claimed me.
Ritsuka's Pov
As much as I tried to deny it I had this strange feeling someone was following me I could faintly feel a battle system as though they were taunting me bacause they knew my fighter was not with me. It was starting to get annoying though...really. As I turned the next corner I felt a hand over my mouth pulling me into the alley way. I struggled untill a fist conected with my gut, looking up there were cold eyes staring into mine, cold blue eyes that chilled me to the bones. The more I tried to get away the tighter the hands on my mouth and hands became the more painful. The man with the cold eyes removed the badages from my neck that Soubi had put there the night before. His hand as cold as his eyes ran over the scabs on the marks that, even though they were new to my body, they were not new to my mind. I pulled away frightened my heart racing and my mind calling for Soubi, tears slowly forming in my eyes from the pain.
"Be quite Loveless and we won't kill you, this is to mearly see if the dream had worked." He said his voice was like snake venom coursing through my veins. My voice seemed to become brave suddenly.
"If Soubi finds out what your doing he'll kill you all!" My mind was yelling for my mouth to shut up but it wouldn't listen. The cold man laughed it was sharp and harsh and slapped me across te cheak. It stung I knew from years with my mother that it was already begining to bruise.
"You think Beloved will save you...you are Loveless, one without love, you can not love, it is against your destiny and you will fulfill your destiny. That is a part of life deal with it. You can never love it is foreign to you...why do you think Seimi died...hmmm...because you loved him and Loveless can not love." The words stung more than the slap did. I closed my eyes not wanting to believe that his words were true. The one behind me laughed, it was even colder than the other mans and suddenly I was let go and the two men had gone.I clutched the bags of food to my chest leaving behind the broken eggs my eyes stung with tears and cold wind. I dreaded going home but it was much to cool to stay out I would just have to avoid Soubi the best I could.
Soubi's POV
I was becoming restless. It was getting late and still Ritsuka hadn't come back. It wasn't like him to take this long. I wanted to get up but reminded myself that if I did that would be the moment Ristuka walked through the door and I would be in alot of trouble, so in bed I remained worried sick. About twenty minutes passed and I heard the lock click, a gust of cold wind and a door slaming. He was back, I was about to say something, when I noticed he didn't look all that good. He was hunched over his hair obscuing his face, there was an ever so slight limp in his step and his breathing was uneaven. That plus, he walked from the living room to the small kitchen without so much as looking at me. I heard the sound of things being put in diffrent cabinets and cuboards and the sound of supper starting...ok body time to forget about being tired and find out why my Ritsuka is totally avoiding me. I winced as my feet touched the cold hard wood floors. One hand on the wall for support and the other running throuh my tangeled hair I made my way to the kitchen. Ritsuka was standing by the cabnite chopping vegetables I still can't see his face, the chops are violent and swift as though he were taking his anger out on the carrot. I move behind him wrapping my arms around his waist laying my head on his shoulder. I felt him stiffen at my touch..something was so very wrong.
"Ritsuka, whats wrong love?" I asked but he didn't answer instead he just dropped the knife to the counter and stood there letttng me hold him. I could feel that he was shaking but it was ever so slightly I was lucky to pick up on it at all. I turned him around to look at me but his gaze feel quickly to his feet. Gently lifting his face up I took in an ugly bruise forming on his cheak, the missing bandages from around his neck and upon further more thurough inspection I reliezed that there was a bruise on his somache as well. The newly formed thorned markings around his neck were bleeding. He didn't say a word as I cleaned up the wounds on his neck yet again and made sure there were no life threating injuries. I turned away to put up the first aid kit when I heard a silent sob echo through the room, turning I saw him crying, abandoning the task of tidying up I took him in my arms and something happened that usally didn't. He clung, he clung for dear life as though he would die if he let me go. I wish I knew what had happened but he couldn't get words past the cries. So I held him there wasn't much I could do besides that. When he had calmed down he picked hisself up off me and turned away ashamed it seemed. I pulled him back onto me but he pulled away. Turning he faced me but he didn't look at me. So very odd.
"Soubi you love me right?" He asked suddenly I was taken back, what an odd question he should know that I love him.
"I love you more than life itself Ritsuka, you know that..." I told him my voice a contrast to his weak one.
"But how can you love me, no one can love Loveless." He said. My eyes grew wide this was something we had already been over and something we avoided talking about like the plague. Forcefully I pulled him to me not letting go not letting him pull away.
"I love you Loveless I will always love you, who did this to you Ritsuka, what happened?" I asked he was begining to relax into my embrace. But he was still relcutant to talk about what had happened, he knew that I was worried but it seemed even he didn't really understand what had happened. Sighing he closed his eyes and leaned back into me almost completly lying down.
"I was almost home, I only had a few more blocks to go, I felt as if I was being followed, I felt a battle system but it was only mocking me like it was saying we know your alone then when I turned the corner I was grabbed there were two men but I could only see one of them...he had cold blue eyes and short hair it was silver I think he was well dressed, he was the fighter I could feel it, I couldn't see the one holding me...he told me if I kept quite he wouldn't kill me he just wanted to see if the dream had worked what ever that means, my mouth got brave and I snapped at him and he punched me...I think I mentioned you somewhere admist the yelling, he laughed...he called you Beloved...he said...he said Seimi died because he loved me, and because I am Loveless...no one can ever love me...if you love me you'll die." When he finished there was a lone tear streaing down his face, and in my shock I couldn't kiss it away. Cold blue eyes and siliver hair well dressed and venom kisses...Ritsu-Sensei. He had attacked Ritsuka threating him and hurting him touching him. Part of my goal was to keep that vial man away from my fragile lover and who was the one with him. And he was never the fighter before things were getting twisted.
"I'm not trying to constrict your freedom, but I don't think its safe for you to go out by yourself anymore, that man I think I know who you are talking about and hes dangerous very dangerous so where ever you go outside this house I go with you from now on...at least untill these attacks and dreams stop." My hand finally moveing down to wipe his tears away. He nodded turning into me sleep weighing him down. I picked him up laying him in bed gently and covering him up. My mind was reeling. So many thing the apperance of the scars on my loves neck Ritsu-sensei's return. This was going to get bad, I had this feeling I was being watched by cold eyes again. I shook it off and cleaned up the mess. Turning to the kitchen I finished up the supper that Ritsuka had started. The knife dropped from my hand, my heart had litteraly stopped beating at the sight before me. Seimi, in my kitchen smirking at me, there was something diffrent about him though...his ears they were gone.
"Hello Soubi, its been a while." The voice came from behind me, I turned and was frozen...Ritsu-Sensei! He walked past me my body unwillingly turning with him. Each breath was like fire my eyes took a nervouse glance towards the living area, hopeing, praying that Ritsuka was still there. I heard Sensei's cold laugh it chilled me ever more than I already was. What I saw next sickened not only my gut but also my heart, Sensie walked next to Seimi who promptly wrapped a loveing, if such an emotion dwells in this demons heart, arm around his shoulders. It made me want to throw up. It made me want to scream and yell and throw things at them it made me hate them even more than I already had. Finally I found my voice.
"What are you doing here what do you want from us!" I was surprised to find that my voice was actually choked with emotion. Seimi smiled and moved close to me alomost touching but not quiet. Smiling he moved away, and went into the living area Ritsu followed, panicing I ran in after after them Ritsu was in the corner and Seimi was sitting on the bed loveingly stroking Ritsuka's ears. I pushed him away he was still smiling.
"You deny me the right to see my little brother?" He asked innocently. Moveing back next to Ritsu.
"You were the ones who hurt him, your the one who carved thorns in his throat, you don't have the right to even look at him." My voice was hushed but harsh. I didn't want to wake Ritsuka to this horrid sight.
"Rest assured Soubi my brother will be mine again, no force on this earth or any other will change that...but who knows maybe you'll be part of that happy little family too." He leaned in on me kissing me on my neck. I pushed him away, but he grabbed my hand pulling me into him. Ritsu came up behind me holding my hands securly behind my back. Cold hands on my face, brought my secure world to an end. Seimi was pressed so tightly against me I could feel his cold heart beating and I felt so many other things things that I didn't want to feel but I was. Things that when he was my sacrifice I would dream about but now it just disgust me it made me want to hit him. He pressed into me harder and I gasped...what was he doing..what was he going to do, slowly fear surficed in my mind, he knew he had complete control over me and he was useing that to his advantage. Faster and faster my heart beat grew, knowing that if he wanted he could do just about anything to me. Basically I was screwed and what of Ritsuka, was this what they had done to Ritsuka had they violated him like this? My heart was raceing, but my breathing was hitched. Shivers ran through my body. He was so close, closer than he had ever been when he was with me. Smiling he lay his head on my shoulder and pushed me, I felt Ritsu move and I conected with the wall, he was holding both of my hands pinning them to the wall, he was so close our bodys were touching every part of our bodys it was driving me mad. His breath was hot on my throat my breaths were deep suddenly as though I had been running, I could feel a wetness, and the room filled with the smell of blood. I knew from experiance that the scars on my neck were bleeding. There was a sudden sting of a slap across my face and the unmistakable feel of a fist in my gut and they were gone and I was on the floor out of breath and bleeding. The sound of me falling must have woken Ritsuka because I could here my name being called faintly. But my thoughts were still to mixed up to answer the poor boy.
Ritsuka's Pov
The sound of something hitting the floor woke me up, I don't even remember going to sleep, looking out across the dark room, I saw Soubi. He was on the floor breathing heavily and there was the smell of blood in the air. I sat up worried he looked so shaken.
"Soubi...Soubi can you hear me are you ok?" I asked but he didn't answer, I got out of the bed and knelt down beside him. He wouldn't look at me his eyes were wide with shock and were locked to the floor. His neck was bleeding from the thorns and the Beloved scar. I gently touched his face and he looked up at me, blinked a few times, and pulled me into him holding me so tightly one might think it was the last time he was ever going to touch me. I looked up at him pulling back a little bit, my shirt now thuroughly soaked in blood. His eyes were now looking at me in sorrow as though something had happened to me, but he was the one bleeding and freaking out. I got up and grabbed the first aid kit. Suddenly very glad we kept the thing fully stocked at all times. I wrapped up his wounds and sat him on the bed. I walked into the kitchen, it looks like he had started dinner where I had left off, and was interupted by something the knife was on the floor, I picked it up and put it in the sink. Pouring some tea I wondered how he had gotten from the kitchen to the living area in the state hes in at the moment. Walking back in the living room I gave him the tea he took a small sip and sat it aside. But I still hadn't figured out what had happened.
"What happened Soubi...whats wrong, your acting so strange." I sat down in his lap makeing him look up at me. He seemed so confused like a little lost child. Closeing his eyes he breathed in a deep sigh as though he were trying to collect his thoughts. When he opened them they wern't as confused or dazed as they had been, they were still shaken, but they were calm.
"We are not safe Ritsuka, there are forces at work that would destroy us given the chance...we must never leave each others side, never leave the room without one beside the other, if you wish to bathe tell me I will sit in the bathroom with you untill you are done, but we can never look away from each other." At first it seemed ridiculas but the amount of fear that was in Soubi's voice as heavy and thick as it was I believed him, every word of it I believed him, he hadn't told me exactly what had happened but something told me even if tried he wouldn't be able to put it into words. If something had scared my fighter my brave tall standing fighter this badly I wouldn't push him for the whole truth even if I wanted to. Instead I just nodded, he pulled me off his lap and onto the bed laying us both down. He wrapped his strong arms around me and I felt safe. And I felt guilty, he didn't have any one there to make him feel safe no one to wrap there arms around him and hold him tight when demons threatened the peace. He must have sensed how I felt. His arms tightened around me makeing me look up at him.
"You don't need to worry about me Ritsuka, I feel secure knowing that you are safe, thats all I need to be happy...you are all I need...all I will ever need." That seemed to relax me we both feel asleep in each others arms.
Little did they both know that there was a pair of cold eyes watching them, in blatant satisfaction, they had scared the great Soubi and his small lover, and they had planted the seed, only a little longer now a little longer and that peacful world of theirs was going to shatter around them in the most horriable way. Cold eyes shined with glee the deed was done.