A/N: I can't remember what color eyes Tohma has, could one of you please tell me? I'm too lazy to hunt down pics of him that show his eyes clear enough.

Generations

Chapter Six:

Kessuke awoke five minutes after Shinichi left, unable to sleep any longer from the sound of Tohma speaking on the phone.

"That doesn't matter, you need to…."

Kessuke shifted his gaze to the blond man, making sure not to attract attention to himself.

"That man is trouble; you can't keep seeing…Kessuke is…." Tohma paused mouth pursing as he listened to the person on the other end, eyes gleaming. "What the hell are you saying! You can't just do that! Kessuke's your son…Ryuu…."

Kessuke turned away then, loathed to listen anymore to the conversation once he found out it was his father on the other end. He knew Tohma's talks with the man wouldn't help—the shacho had tried everything before to keep his father from seeing the man who hurt him, but his father refused to give the man up.

'Maybe if Seguchi actually told father why he should stop seeing that prick instead of trying to shelter him from it.' Kessuke thought bitterly, 'If Seguchi didn't insist on putting up with my father's childish antics I would have a real father, instead of one who needs me to baby-sit him.'

The black-haired teen felt the tremor rise within him again, he needed to do something instead of staying still—he wanted his blades, he wanted to be left alone to do whatever he desired. Why did everyone always insist on stopping him? Didn't they see that it'd be better that way?

His father was too childish, too fuckin blind to see what was happening to Kessuke—he'd always been that way; always leaving Kessuke with Tohma or Noriko while he did whatever he wanted. And that'd been okay until a few years ago when Kessuke turned eleven—that's when two things happened: One—Seguchi finally decided to make Ryuuichi act like a father to Kessuke instead of shielding him from the responsibility, and two—Ryuuichi met that man.

Kessuke shuddered as he remembered that day—he'd been so excited to meet his father's new friend, hell, he was excited just to be with his father instead of being ditched at Seguchi's. What hurt the most was that the man seemed so nice at first, but as soon as he was alone with Kessuke, he turned violent.

At first it was only one or two slaps when Kessuke got on his nerves, then it progressed up in degree, leaving bruises—the man had even burned him a few times. And always, always he made sure Kessuke never told anyone.

And Kessuke never did, he kept silent about it all until he was fourteen—that's when he swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills, wanting to get away from everything, to no longer have to feel.

"Kessuke?" Tohma's voice surprised him, so did the light touch on his forehead. "Kessuke, I know you're awake."

"…Yeah? So what?" Kessuke glared at the blond, a few moments of silence rising between them.

"How are you feeling?" The pale-blond man asked with his customary smile printed on his face.

"Cut the polite shit. Your smile's so false anyone with half a brain can see through it." Kessuke surprised himself with the viciousness in his words. "What the fuck are ya gonna do about this, this time? Gonna threaten him again? First time you did that he was back after six months, the second was three—and this last fucking time he was back after not even a week!" The black-haired teen's voice rose with each sentence.

"This time's it's going to turn out differently, Kessuke, I promise."

The teen scoffed. "That's what you said the other times, but my dad always gets back with that prick—without you knowing, let me remind you. So what the FUCK do you think you can do about it?" Kessuke felt himself shake as he sat up, the urge to attack Tohma rising dramatically through him.

Tohma looked calmly at the teen, seemly oblivious to the malice in each word; then he sighed, closed his eyes briefly before looking at Kessuke with softened eyes.

"Make you my ward."

"What?" Kessuke's angry expression faded in shock, his blue eyes riveted on the blond man anew.

"Ryuu is obviously not responsible enough to be your father, so I'm going to see about making you my ward—and eventually adopting you. That way that man can't hurt you again."

"That's it! What about getting that prick put in jail for beating me! You're gonna let him get away with that! Just because you can't bring yourself to tell my father the truth about him? You're more afraid of hurting my dad than concerned about helping me! GODDAMN YOU!"

"Kessuke calm down, please."

"NO! YOU have no FUCKING idea what that PRICK put me through! I want him dead goddamn it! GODDAMN IT! The beatings aren't the worst things he does, he…." Kessuke immediately fell silent, turning away from a shocked Tohma.

"Kessuke, what…what else did he do to you…? Kessuke….?"

"Just leave me alone." The teen closed his eyes tight, ignoring everything around him.

"Kessuke…."

"LEAVE!"

A/N: End of chapter, please review.

I love this story, it's my favorite right now and it seems to have no end in sight since after exploring Kessuke's problems and life, I will explore Toya's and Shinichi's.

For those who want to know about what Tatsuha's doing, I can't really say 'cause I haven't decided yet. But I'll try to put him in the story sometime soon.

How many of you want Kessuke and Shinichi to hook up? I read one review that wanted that so I'm curious who else thinks they should.