Pairings: BernardoXGian, IvanXGian, LuchinoXGian, GiulioXGian, AobaXClear, AobaXVirusXTrip, AobaXRen, AobaXKoujaku, AobaXNoiz, AobaXBakshi, VirusXTripXGian, AobaXGian
Warning: Contains minor hints of rape, violence, extreme swearing and heavy scenes of smut.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dramatical Murder or Lucky Dog 1. All rights go to the respectful owners
Chapter 6 - Violent Desire
An umbrella popped open with ease with its handle now resting on the man who opened it. It shielded him from the half moon that was in his line of vision and sat directly above his cloud colored hair. Clear had been pacing back and forth on the hotel's roof top for a while now and during so, he had heard Aoba's voice even though he was nowhere near him.
Although he was able to hear anything from far away to a certain length, when he heard Aoba's voice it was powerful and commanding tone-wise. But it was not like the one he was used to hearing back on the island. This kind of voice was scared and sad. Most of the time that he had heard the man's voice, it usually said something along the lines of 'destruction!' or 'destroy!'. But this time it became sentences like 'what is this?'.
He knew Aoba had another side to him but he also knew that Aoba and the rest of them had faced Toue and resolved the matter but he did not understand what had happened afterward as he had been badly damaged by his twin brothers and was getting fixed for two years straight. The third year was spent looking for Aoba along with helping Aoba's grandmother with groceries and keeping the house while she was gone.
Clear looked up into the night sky and saw that the night was slowly turning into morning. He guessed in just a few hours it would probably be five or six in the morning pretty soon. His goal for the day was to stick by Aoba's side as often as he was allowed as the area for him was new and unfamiliar. The people who were helping them had also stated that they should not wander for fear of becoming lost within the city.
Even though Clear was not human, he could understand why it was necessary for them to stay put as these people did not want to draw unwanted attention from their enemies. He went back to staring down at the now busy street just in front of the hotel. Guards or rather men with black suits and some with hats, were all gathering around a car that had just pulled up. He saw two men get out of it, both looking as though they seemed to be the bosses of the men standing around.
If he had remembered what the man with the glasses had explained, he called them 'Ivan' and 'Luchino', s they had been the only ones not present at the time of introductions. The men were certainly fearless in looks and he could not help but to stare at the way they walked with such confidence. He had no idea why looking at them made him feel regretful. He did not regret coming to Daivan but he felt guilty for not having looked for Aoba sooner just so that the man did not have to go through all this as he was now.
He put the umbrella back away into his long, white lab coat and jumped off the roof of the hotel with ease. Because he was not a human being he was able to jump across rooftops without hesitation and used to do this a lot back on the island. Clear landed onto the concrete with a loud THUD!. He landed just a few steps behind the two men who were about to walk into the hotel.
They were looked back in surprise and instantly pulled out their guns from their holsters. Clear put up his hands obediently and tried to show them proof that he meant no harm. "Sorry for startling you but my master is inside~!" He explained. Ivan and Luchino both looked at the man as though they had no idea of what he was saying.
Before either of them could say a word, Bernardo came rushing through the hotel's front doors. Clear looked up to the window where Aoba was resting in and assumed that the man must have seen the commotion from there or probably knew they were going to come back. Whichever the case, he was certainly out of breath and looked as though he did not take the elevator down. "This man...he's one of Aoba's friends...I really need to cut back..." Bernardo stated and continued to breath unevenly with his chest constantly rising and falling.
Both Luchino and Ivan put away their guns upon hearing the answer to the question in their heads. "But who is he?" Ivan asked. Luchino agreed with him with a simple nod of his head and looked at Bernardo.
Bernardo caught his breath, using his hand to try and calm his chest down before explaining as he walked back into the hotel, insisting they followed him, Clear included. They all went inside with the doors closing behind them and they made their way into the hotel's front lobby. Luchino and Ivan sat on one couch while Bernardo sat on one in front of them across a small coffee table while Clear just stood next the sofa that Bernardo was seated.
The green haired man gestured a hand in Clear's direction and finally answered Ivan's answer. "His name is Clear. He showed up with Mink not too long ago and in a few days we'll be seeing two more of his friends. We've also got word that they have managed to find Ren and he too will be making his way here shortly enough."
Just then, Mink, Gian and Giulio came down in the elevator and greeted them. Mink stood next to Clear upon realizing that he had come back from being outside while Giulio and Gian stood behind the couch that Luchino and Ivan were sitting on. Clear looked up at the taller man standing next to him with a surprised look. He though for sure that Mink would stay with Aoba for the rest of the night since he held the same feelings as he did.
"Aoba-san is...is he...?" Clear was about to ask Mink something personal but he decided against it and went quiet. As though Mink knew what he said, he answered his unfinished question. "Sleeping. His scrap power might be returning. Don't know why though." Although the man's voice sounded uncaring, his words sounded concerned.
Bernardo waited for them to finish. Because he had completed the goal of finding Ren, the only thing left was to find the men looking for Aoba. He felt like he had a lot to do while at the same time, feeling lucky because of the new achievement. "Master...no...Aoba-san, must be in pain...right?" Clear closed his gloved hands into fists but let them loose again. Getting angry would not server him well in this situation.
Mink closed his eyes instead of answering and put a hand to the top of his head, ruffling his already ruffled up white hair. "Just four more days and he'll be feeling better soon." Mink was thinking of when the rest of the gang would arrive and what kind of look Aoba would make when it happened.
"Master?" Luchino asked and questioned Bernardo with a single look of his eyes. Bernardo shrugged his shoulders. "I'm going to assume he means Aoba." He put a hand to his chin thoughtfully.
Clear suddenly regained his happy expression from his gloomy looking one. "Yes! Master is Aoba-san!" Mink had to mentally stop himself from smacking the boy for saying something so embarrassing for Aoba's sake. He wondered what sort of look Aoba would make if he heard the man saying things like that again.
Aoba had told Clear not to call him 'master' and to just simply call him 'Aoba'. But he let the issue slide since it had been quite a while since he last saw Aoba so he guessed that Clear must have made it into a habit. Mink removed his hand from his head and concentrated on the conversation they were having previously. "Name's Mink, basically Aoba's guardian for the time being until that red guy and tech maniac arrive." It wasn't so hard to say their names but he had thought it annoying to having to say someone's name. Everyone but Aoba anyhow.
"Ah..." Ivan was lost in his thoughts as he stared at Mink's body muscles. He had only dreamed of having a physique like his and to him, would make a big difference when he got into a fist fight. On top of all that, the man had a slightly more mature look about him compared to Clear.
"Ivan? Are you straying your eyes from me?" Gian asked and bent over Ivan from behind the couch, making it so that their foreheads were inches away from each other. Flustered, Ivan turned his head to the side while gritting his teeth together in annoyance. "St-Stupid moron! What are you getting so close for?!" Bernardo had to let out a laugh while Luchino did the same.
Although it was just a joke, Ivan had a problem of taking them too seriously despite being told they were jokes. Bernardo and Gian used to do this quite a lot while in prison together and had occasionally pretended to be in love just to get these same reactions that Gian had gotten just now.
Putting the jokes aside, Gian looked at the two men who had introduced themselves and smiled. "Don't mind him, he's a softy on the inside but a giant wuss on the outside. You just might have intimidated him." He was talking to Mink upon saying that last bit.
Ivan got up from the couch and began to heckle Gian, grabbing the man by the collar of his suit and pulled on his tie. "Bastard...!" Although the man was obviously upset, his face showed a different expression. He was blushing. Gian grinned and leaned a few inches closer to the man's face, kissing him on the lips.
This got both Bernardo and Luchino laughing like hyenas while Giulio was stuck staring like a deer in headlights. Ivan let go of Gian and backed away in a hurried manner, not paying any attention to what was behind him. He crashed into something and both he and it went crashing tot he floor. Mink and Clear both rushed to the being who Ivan had run into. Aoba had made his way down tot he lobby.
He was hoping to avoid contact with people and his hair but fate said otherwise as he held his head with one hand while trying to get up with both his legs and his free hand. "Aoba-san!" Clear rushed to the man's side after seeing his master being injured and unable to get up properly.
Gian let out a sigh and put a hand to his face. "Idiot Ivan..." Luchino and Bernardo stopped laughing and got off the couches as well and helped Ivan up from the floor. Aoba was still holding his head. His headaches were not increasing like they did in the past but they were not going away any time soon either.
"I thought that guy was gone." Mink then grabbed hold of Aoba's arm and pulled him up off the floor like he was picking up a bag.
Ivan brushed their hands off of him and got up from the floor by himself, putting his hands in his pockets while looking at Aoba with a sour expression. He hadn't meant to collide with the boy like that. "He isn't gone but...he's not here either. I don't hear him so much like before." Aoba clutched at his head again but had to let go of his hair because of the sudden jolt of pain.
Mink frowned and clicked his teeth with his tongue as he pulled Aoba under his arm but made sure not to touch the boy's hair. He parted Aoba's bangs gently and watched for the boy's expressions to change. He knew that touching his hair would just bring even more pain so the only way he could tell where to touch was to watch his face for any change.
Aoba's face soon softened as the pain became less and less noticeable while Mink began to feel his hair as though he were an expert. For whatever the reason, Aoba begun to think of Koujaku and his hair dressing shop and how it felt like you were sent to heaven after having it done. He was slowly starting to feel that but with Mink's fingers. They were gentle yet cautious as not to disturb the nerves in his hair. "But...?" Mink asked him. Aoba remembered he had not finished his sentence.
They watched the scene for a while but Ivan was slowly getting agitated and looked as though he were about to open his mouth to say something but Bernardo put a hand on his shoulder to stop him. It was rare for them to see such a medical problem exist as they had never heard of nerves going through someones head. "Let's see what he's talking about. Aoba told me about it but I couldn't grasp much of the details." Bernardo said and continued to watch their conversation.
Clear went to Aoba's other side and took off one of his gloves and began caressing his hair gently like he was petting an animal at a zoo. He was copying Mink but even though he was doing it gently, Aoba was still making pained faces. "Maybe you should tie it back for now. Until this is all over. I get the feeling those two might have something to do with this." Mink told them and stopped touching his hair.
But Clear did not stop and continued to pet it with care. "You mean Trip and Virus?" Aoba looked up at Mink expecting him to answer right away. But Mink stood silent. He wasn't sure whether or not they were the cause of it but he could see nothing else to fill that void of questions except for them.
"They kept you all this time didn't they? Who knows what they could have injected you with while you were there." When Mink said this, a horrible expression replaced the soft one that Aoba had on just a moment ago. How could he forget the torture they put him through? Trip was constantly feeding him candy while Virus made him drink alcohol during Virus's moment of 'private time'. At that way of thinking, anything could have been possible.
There was no need for needles and injections if you were not able to fight back and your kidnappers were a couple of people who loved to eat sweets and wine. They could have put anything they wanted in it and while it might not affect them it would certainly affect him because of his condition. One he thought was going away since the tower collapsed. His body shivered but he didn't waver. This meant that they had been messing with his medical condition aside from the regular abuse that they had done to him.
He balled his hands into fists and begun to walk away from them and back to the elevator. Clear chased after him and escorted him back upstairs leaving Mink, Gian and the others behind. "Bernardo, our men told us that the car has been spotted." Luchino sparked up a new conversation.
"Where was it last seen?" Bernardo was desperate for more news and it was written all over his face. Gian walked over to Mink and patted the man on the back for a job well done in helping Aoba.
Mink simply stared down at him and said nothing. "You remind me of somebody..."Gian said and soon found himself looking over at Ivan who had been glaring for a while now at the hotel doors. He laughed quietly to himself as he started to picture Mink and Ivan in his head. Their personality were almost alike and it was enough to make him question if Aoba's other friends were alike in some way.
"It's...been found in the ocean where the bridge crosses over. You know the one I'm talking about, right?" Bernardo nodded. He knew what Luchino meant and remembered Gian telling him about a friend of his and how they would walk across the beams of the bridge as a sort of game.
Bernardo pulled out a cell phone from his pocket. Although they had old telephone lines set up for him in his phone room, they had upgraded years later and were using cell phones. "Then that would mean we...can't do anything until Noiz arrives. He has exceptional skills when it comes to hacking computers and the like. We'll have to wait for our plan of action but until then, Ivan and Giulio will quickly sweep our streets from any G.D problems. Can I trust that to you, Ivan?"
The man twirled his head around and met with Bernardo's eyes with his own. "Business as usual, huh? Well that's why you depend on us to get a dirty job done." He started to walk away but Gian's hands pulled his arms back and out of the pockets.
"Hey, don't forget to get me some 'dogs!" Gian grinned and what looked to be drool, dribbled out from the corner of his mouth. He was hungry for hot dogs. Although he had just eaten sweets with Giulio earlier, Gian had a large stomach for food.
Ivan pulled his arms back from his hands while a blush appeared across his face. "Idiot! We're not going shopping! Come on, Giulio." The man with the light purple hair quickly chased after Ivan and walked beside him, looking back at Gian with a worried face.
He did not want to leave after only being with the man for just a few hours but he also knew it was important for both him and Ivan to finish off the goons before daybreak. Gian waved to them from behind but got the sudden urge to sneak away with them. He had been cooped up in the hotel since the whole mess had began and even though he was the head boss for the time being, he still wanted to be out and about.
He looked back quickly to see if Bernardo or Luchino were watching. They had gone back to talking privately to themselves while Mink had disappeared and must have gone back up stairs in the elevator. Gian smirked and pulled a piece of bubble gum from the stick in his pocket, happily chewing on it. He sneaked away out the door after the two and followed them up to their designated car.
"Giulio! Don't mind if I tag along do you?" Gian asked and paid little attention to the man yelling at him on the side. "But...signor Gian..." Giulio trailed off and watched as Gian got into the back seat of the black hummer.
Both Ivan and Giulio got in after some time of trying to convince the man to get out but gave up in the end. "Yahoo! Let's get all the hot dogs we can eat!" Gian raised his arms in the air as though he were a child. He annoyed Ivan but Giulio showed no sign of being displeased at the idea of Gian going with them. The car pulled out of the circular driveway and down the street with the three passengers on board.
The sound of tires rubbing against pavement caused a few island citizens to turn their heads at the approaching car. The light gray car pulled to a stop just next to a small kiosk that was set up near the docks of the harbor. A small but slightly elegant cruise ship was stationed at one of the docks with four men in gray suits and sunglasses standing around the front of its ramp.
Ren peered through the one-way window of the back seat of the car, trying to grasp the current situation. He knew he was going to be taken to Aoba but he never had been on a boat before. During the time that he had been sent across the seas was when he was an ill patient being sent to the hospital on the island.
The men riding in front and the two others sitting next to him, got out of the car and left the door open for him, one of them offering a hand to help him out of it. He ignored the hand and tried to act as though the pain was nothing to him. He grit his teeth and coped with the sudden pain he felt in his leg all the way down to his foot. It felt like he had just stepped on a bunch of needles at once.
It took a while for him to get used to it as they walked him to the boat. A man rushing out from the boat's cabin saw Ren and ran up to him with a towel held firmly in his hands. The rain was still not letting up causing Ren's body to shiver from the sudden chill of having been inside a warm car this whole time. He took the towel from the man's hands and looked at it curiously.
He had seen Aoba use it so many times when he was still a dog allmate and just remembering this brought a slight pain to his chest. He thought it might have been from the cold and the rain that had been coming down hard over their heads. "Please, sir. We're ready to depart so we should be on our way." One of the men told him and ushered him onto the boat while taking the towel from his hands and placed it over his head.
Ren was taken aback by how forward the man had become but because he could say very little since Aoba's disappearance, he did not say much except give out a small 'yes'. The men who had been guarding the ramp, went up with them and went inside for shelter from the rain.
And just like the first boat that had carried Noiz and Koujaku off of the island, the second cruise did the same and glided across the water, leaving the island's docks behind.
A/n: Hm, I didn't want to add too much of Ren in with this chapter as it was more about getting Gian and his captains to work together during such an important time for their new guest of honor. So I hope you will join me in the next one!