Chapter Two
I awoke to the sound of clanging and I groaned, pulling the thin cover over my head.
"Wake up, prisoners! Breakfast." I heard an officer say. I sighed and opened my eyes. My neck felt stiff and my back was cold. I had apparently fallen out of the bed during the night. Then I heard another gruffer voice above me. I tensed and looked up, visibly relaxing when I saw that it was just Kyouya.
He growled at the officer who was banging his stick on the bars of the door and slipped his glasses on. His hair was tousled and his eyes were still heavy with sleep. I couldn't help but notice that he looked rather cute like that.
We walked out of the cell once the officer opened it and I noticed that Kyouya growled and glared at any prisoner who got too close to him. I choked back a chuckle, instead looking at him and asking, "How come you're so grumpy when you wake up?" I was cautious, not wanting his bad mood to be turned onto me.
His onyx eyes turned to me and he replied, "I have a hard time waking up in the morning due to being AB." He let out a big yawn and rubbed his eye under his glasses.
I nodded in understanding and then looked around at the other prisoners and the officers walking by us. "By the way, Kyouya…where are we going?"
Kyouya looked at me, "To the cafeteria, of course." He replied.
"Oh, right. Breakfast. So is the food any good here."
"Define 'good'," he replied, a disgusted look crossing his face.
I gulped and turned with everyone else to the place we were headed. I walked to a line for food, picked up a tray, and glided it down the surface for the food. First, bland grits plopped on the main course section of the tray. Then burnt toast was dropped on one of the sides. Then something with hair was put in the last section.
"Umm…just what the hell is that, Kyouya?" I asked nervously.
"No one knows." He replied, sitting down at one of the steel tables. "But just for the record, don't eat it."
I gulped again and glanced down at my tray, shocked to find that there was no drink. Not even water. I sighed and sat down next to Kyouya. I noticed that when he sat down, the others who were already sitting at the table picked up there trays and rushed away from them. When I looked around, I could see them trying to squeeze into tables that were already full. I felt kind of bad for Kyouya. Everyone was scared of him because of what he did, not even bothering to listen to the reason behind his actions.
I sighed again and began eating. With my first bite, I started gagging. The food was nasty and I wished with all my might that I could have a glass of water. Kyouya slapped me on the back as I continued coughing. After a few minutes, I finally got the food down.
"Are you okay, Tamaki?" He asked.
"Why do they not give us water?" I asked, tears running down my face from my coughing fit.
Kyouya shrugged and started to eat his own food. I started eating again, shuddering with each bite. I looked to the side while trying to choke down the burnt, dry toast to find a muscle-head staring at me. I leaned forward to whisper to Kyouya.
"Who is that?"
"Who's who?" He asked, looking up at me.
"That guy who's staring at me. Is he planning on beating me up or something?" He looked where I was looking and went back to eating. "That's Shuya, and that particular look is the look of wanting to take you."
"W-WHAT?! T-TAKE ME?" I clamped my hand over my mouth at my outburst, noticing that almost everyone was staring at us then. Kyouya ignored them and continued eating.
"Be more quiet, baka." Kyouya hissed to me. I nodded and finished eating the slop called food, not even bothering to eat the fluidly stuff with hair.
After breakfast, Kyouya explained that now we go to the showers.
"Uh…do we have to take a shower?" I asked nervously, remembering that Shuya guy in the cafeteria.
Kyouya nodded, "Yes, unless you want to spend the rest of the day in the hole." He gestured out the window toward some chicken houses.
I gulped and sighed. Kyouya smiled at me reassuringly. "Just don't drop your soap and you'll be alright." He said.
I nodded, "T-thanks…"
We entered a white room with shower heads on the walls. As I walked towards one by Kyouya, all of them started at once. I sighed in relief as warm water pounded my skin. I was expecting cold water. I got my hair wet and reached for the soap when it, magically, slipped off the holder right when I was going to grab it. I looked around and blushed deeply while staring at the bar of cleanliness lying on the tile floor. I looked over at Kyouya for help, but he was too focused on getting done with his own shower. I gulped as I heard someone with a gruff voice whisper behind me.
"Are you actually going to leave your soap on the floor? For shame." I jumped, looking over my shoulder to find that guy, Shuya, looking down on me. He smelled like cigarettes and grits.
"Well, uh, you're standing pretty close to me, so that's one reason I don't feel comfortable picking it up…and…uh…" He got closer to me and gripped my ass.
"Pick. It. Up. Hoe." He growled, stabbing my thigh with his erection. I whimpered and began to pick it up when I heard a grunt and a thud, feeling the disturbing objects leave their place on me in between. I turned sharply to find Shuya knocked out on a tile wall. I looked over to find Kyouya huffing, fists up and they looked pretty broken.
"Don't call him a hoe again, trash." He growled, pulling Shuya up by his hair. Everyone was looking at us with wide eyes. When the guards ran in, they acted like they didn't notice.
"What seems to be the problem here, inmates?" One of the guards with a crew cut asked, looking at us three.
"I-inmate Kyouya started beating me up for no reason." Shuya lied innocently. I glared at him.
"No he didn't! Let me tell you the story. You see-" I tried before the other guard interrupted.
"We don't want to hear it. For this unruly behavior, I'm ordering both inmate Kyouya and inmate Shuya in the hole!" Two more guards came in and pushed Kyouya and Shuya out the door and made them get dressed.
"As for the rest of you, showers are over! Now get back in your cells." The crew cut officer yelled, leaving the room. We followed and got dressed.
As I laid in my cell, in my bunk, I thought about what had happened in the showers and suddenly got angry. They didn't even ask for poor Kyouya's side of the story! They just push him around. It makes me sick! I kicked the top bunk angrily, and then I heard the familiar clanking on the cell door.
"Hey, new guy, it's time to go outside. Maybe you can work off that anger problem." A guard growled, opening my cell. I followed everyone to the field. I didn't even know what to do and with Kyouya not around, what am I going to do? I sighed and sat down on a bench in the shade while everyone else went for basketball or something else. I thought some more before I heard a familiar voice.
"Hey, Suoh! What're you doing sitting over here?" It was that guy I talked to when I first came here.
"Oh, hi! I guess I'm just not in the mood to do anything right now." I replied with a shrug.
"Well, you better be soon or the guards will beat you to do something."
"Ugh! No rest, huh? By the way, I didn't catch your name." I looked at him as he sat down beside me.
"Tohru Misami." He answered, tilting his cap with the prison's emblem on it.
"Nice to meet you, Tohru."
"You too, Tamaki."
"Wait, how do you know my name?" I asked, cocking my head in a questioning way.
"I walked by when you got assigned your number."
"Oh."
"Yeah. And I've noticed you and Ootori got close." He chuckled.
"Yeah. He really is a nice guy."
"Really? But I heard he beat some guy up in the showers today."
I gulped. "The guy he beat up started it."
"Yeah, I heard. Shuya, right? He tried to deflower me as well when I first came."
My mouth dropped open. "What?! Doesn't he know that caused AIDs?"
"I think that's why he does it." Tohru shrugged. "Anyways, gotta get back to exercising before I get into trouble. Bye!"
"Bye!" I waved back.
After the activities I got forced back into cell 47 and I paced around, hoping that Kyouya was alright. I began to think about what Tohru said to me and sighed, laying down and falling asleep when they said 'lights out'.
~~~~Line Break~~~~
After a week, Kyouya came back to the cell exhausted. I stood up and smiled.
"Hey, Kyouya! Welcome back." I said, trying to cheer us both up. He smirked a little.
"Hey, Tamaki." He said before he climbed up to his bunk and laid down.
"Um…" I began, feeling awkward. "Was it hot in there?"
"Yeah. I swear they have nothing better to do than to make us suffer." He sighed, rolling over to look at me.
"That's so right! I mean, it's only been a month and I already feel like going on a rampage!" I growled, glaring out of the cell. I looked back at Kyouya when I felt him staring. After I looked at him I noticed he was smiling, almost chuckling. "What's so funny?" I huffed, crossing my arms in front of my chest.
"It's just that you act so serious, but then you act like a kid who didn't get what he wanted." He chuckled.
I glared at him, "I am not a kid!" I blushed angrily. He sat up and jumped down, walking towards me to stroke my cheek.
"Oh really? Then why don't you stop getting so flustered at my comment." I blushed deeper at the close proximity and the contact I was receiving and I flinched away.
"W-why did you do that?"
"What? Did that scare you? Oh, you must still be shaken by what Shuya was trying to do."
"N-no, it didn't scare me. I was just surprised!" What was going on? When Shuya was doing what he did to me a week before I just felt scared, but with Kyouya I feel…hot. I gasped, I couldn't be…falling in love with my cellmate, could I?
~~~~Kyouya's POV~~~~
I looked at the flustered blonde in question. If he wasn't scared, but surprised, then why does he look so flustered? He does look sexy. I blushed myself at how cute he was. I realized something after he was rubbing his forearm nervously, he had a bulge in his jail slacks. I smirked and moved closer to him.
"Could it be that you are falling in love with me, Tamaki-kun?" I cooed. He blushed another shade of red and stuttered.
"U-uh…well…I don't know." He whispered huskily.
I sighed and kissed him.
~~~~Tamaki's POV~~~~
W-what?! Kyouya…is kissing me?!