Jeez, it's cold in here! The heater's on...but my fingers are frozen, and it makes it a bit hard to type! (searches for gloves)...nothing! Oh well, maybe typing will warm them up...
CeTe: You are a god! Er...goddess...! Finally, an idea! Now, why couldn't I think of that? Maybe I'd just lost all hope for this fic, and didn't want to waste time thinking on it. Anyway, that's all done now, and I finally have an idea. (slaps mouse away from anyone who tries to read CeTe's review to see what I'm talking about) No, you must wait! Of course, I'll have to modify it a little bit so I can still suprise you as well. Anyway, you know what's funny? I really hate hospitals! I think that there is a slight, tiny,miniscule possibility that I might just enjoy hurting Eyes and he always ends up in a hospital because of that...and yes, that was all very sarcastic. Yeah, I had fun writing the TV scene. At first I was just going to have him be interested in the actual torture chamber, but then decided why not bring their sex life into this? Heh, Eyes probably wouldn't mind... I think Kanone's kinkiness is rubbing off on him. Wow, this response was really long, thanks for reviewing!
And thanks to Yuumei for reviewing Photograph!
Warning: Due to the path that I have decided to take with this story, I will be forced to hurt Eyes a little. But it's just a tiny bit, so if we can ignore that, I won't be violating my don't-hurt-Eyes-in-this-fic rule. That's all!
Kanone was sitting in his living room, waiting impatiently for Kalelle to call, "What's taking so long?" He wondered, looking from the phone to...the other phone.
Eyes saw this and walked over to him, sitting down next to him, and wrapped his arms around his lover, "Don't worry, Kanone, it's just a few stitches, they'll have it taken care of in no time."
Kanone honestly tried to relax into Eyes' embrace, but just couldn't, "Then why is it taking so long?" He demanded, checking the clock once again. It had only been 20 minutes since they took Kalelle away.
"Well it will take some time, Kanone, be logical. It's a 10 minute drive to the hospital, and do you want them to rush through the operation?"
Kanone sighed, defeated. Damn Eyes and his logic, "No." He replied, finally settling in to the hug.
Eyes felt his lover's tension drift away, and nuzzled his neck, "Kalelle will be fine, you should know that better than anyone." Kanone said nothing, but leaned his head back to rest on Eyes' shoulder and nodded.
20 minutes later, just as Kanone was drifting off to sleep despite his worry, the phone rang and jerked him out of it. He answered the phone, "Yes?" He asnwered.
"Hey, Kanone." He heard his brother greet him on the other line.
"Kalelle." Kanone sighed, relieved, and visibly relaxed, "Are you ready to come home?"
"Yeah, they just restitched me and sent me off."
"Alright, I'll be there in a minute." The two said goodbye and Kanone turned to Eyes, "You can stay here if you want." Eyes nodded in agreement, and kissed Kanone goodbye.
As Kanone left, Eyes knew it would be at least an hour before he returned, and tried to find something to do to keep him occupied. He found reading didn't keep his mind occupied, and watching TV accomplished that even less. Eyes leaned his head back and tried to relax when he heard the door open. He smirked, knowing it was Kanone. As brilliant as the man was, he could forget the simplest things, like his coat. Not bothering to even open his eyes, the younger boy called out to the person he supposed was Kanone, "Forget you coat again?" He asked, smirking.
The response he got was not the one that was expected, though. Instead of Kanone's alluring, silky voice replying that Eyes knew him too well, he heard a gruff, unfamiliar voice, "Not exactly." Eyes had just enough time to open his glance at the intruder before the other one brought down his weapon (some kind of bat or club...something blunt) upon the unsuspecitng one's head. Eyes immediately sank into unconciousness, and the stranger chuckled, "Well, that was easy."
Kanone got to the hospital in 20 minutes, and looked all around for Kalelle. He finally spotted his twin eating some kind of granola bar that he msut have gotten from one of the vending machienes, "That isn't real food, you know." Kanone commented as he approached the older one.
Kalelle looked to his brother and grinned, "Better than anything I could whip up, and seeing as how there's no kitchen here, it's pretty much my only option."
Kanone laughed, "Well how about you get rid of that awful stuff and we'll go home and I can cook you some real food?"
Kalelle seemed to like this idea very much, and accordingly deposited the "awful stuff" that he had been eating into the nearest trahscan. Kanone smiled approvingly, and led the other out of the hospital. On the way home, Kalelle turned to his brother, "Is Eyes really as okay with this as he seems?" He asked, thinking back to eralier when the Blade Child had asked him if he would be alright.
Kanone considered this carefully, "I think he's trying to be. I must be hard for him, though, to put this much trust in someone he's so unsure of. And to have the others doubt him as well, even if they don't say anything." Kanone looked away, "I feel so horrible putting him through all of this, and he's only going through it because he loves me..."
"I could say the same for you, Kanone." Kalelle pointed out, "You're only helping me and putting this strain on your relationship because you love me."
Kanone opened his mouth to object, but reaized that Kalelle was right. He slowly nodded, "But I love you, so it's worth it." He replied.
Kalelle smiled and nodded, "And you're worth it to Eyes."
Kanone laughed and looked up to the sky at this realization, "When did our lives become so complicated?" He asked no one in particular, though he knew Kalelle would answer.
Which he did, "A very long time ago. Our lives have always been complicated on some level. Even when we were little, before we became Hunters, our lives were more complicated than normal childrens'. Perhaps we were just destined for a life like this."
Kanone smiled, he missed just talking with Kalelle like this. It reminded him of back before they even knew what the Blade Children were, when he and Kalelle would just walk around the woods behind their house and talk about anything that came into their heads. Once they became Hunters, they still talked, but it was always business. They never had any time to theirselves, and Kanone only now realized how much he had missed it, "Will our lives ever be that carefree again?" Kanone silently asked his brother, but knew that he would get no answer.
Instead, Kalelle moved on, "Think about it, though, Kanone. Were you really happy back when our lives were considered simple?"
Kanone was about to reply that of course he was, and that he missed the simple days of them just talking with one another. Then, he realized that wasn't true, "I suppose not." He replied. Once he really thought about it, their lives were just this side of boring back then. Now they hardly had time to even think about being bored, and it left Kanone feeling fulfilled; knowing that he wasn't just wasting his life away. There were other aspects to consider as well, like Eyes. He was much happier now with Eyes than he had been all alone. He suddenly felt sorry for Eyes as well as the rest of the Blade Children. Unlike Kanone and Kalelle, the Blade Children had no choice in thier fate. They couldn't refuse their fate, and even though Kanone didn't back away from his destiny, he had had that luxury.
The two brothers walked the rest of the way in silence. When they finally reached their apartment, Kanone noticed that Eyes wasn't where he'd left him. Checking their bedroom and then Kalelle's just in case, Kanone came to the conclusion that his boyfriend wasn't home, "Eyes?" He called out, just to be sure he han't missed the Blade Child.
Kalelle looked at Kanone's worried face, "Would he have gone somewhere? Maybe he decided to follow you to the hospital."
Kanone shook his head, "Eyes said he was waiting here, and besides, we woould have passed him if he was walking there." Pulling out his phone, Kanone quickly dialed Eyes' number.
After it rang a few times, a gruff voice that Kanone recognize all too well answered, "Yes?"
Kanone narrowed his gaze at the voice, "Where is Eyes?"
"Ah, Kanone, how good of you to call. Your precious boyfriend is right here. Unfortunately, he's unavailable at the moment, can I take a message?"
"What have you done to him?" Kanone growled.
The Hunter on the other line really wished someone else had been assigned to this job right about now. It was well known that Kanone had always been the most ruthless of the Hunters, and very protective of his friends. Seeing as how he had kidnapped the other boy's boyfriend, it didn't bode well for the man. Still, he couldn't let Kanone see this weakness or he'd rip him apart, "What makes you think I've done anything to him?" He replied, knowing Kanone hated people who avoided his questions. Maybe if he got him angry enough, Kanone would slip up, though that wasn't likely. Kanone wasn't like other people, and his anger only made him more focused.
"Mason..." Kanone silently warned him.
"I've been instructed to offer you a trade, your boyfriend for Kalelle."
Kanone hesitated, "What does he have to do with anything?"
"He's the one Kanzaka wants. If you've got a problem with that, take it up with him. Bring Kalelle, you should know where. You can tell him anything you want to, though it won't do any good, you should know that as well." Mason chuckled a little bit, "See you soon." Without another word, Kanone flipped his phone shut and looked to Kalelle.
"So Mason took him?" Kalelle asked. Kanone nodded, "Why, though? Why not just kill him, what do they want?"
"You." Kanone answered bluntly, "Mason said he was instructed to offer me a trade; Eyes for you. We're supposed to meet him at the hideout." Kanone informed him.
Kalelle nodded, "I had been half expecting them to pull something like this." He sighed, "So what are we going to do?" Even if Kalelle had been willing to give himself over to the Hunters so that Kanone could have Eyes back, he knew Kanone would never go for it.
Kanone shook his head, "I don't know. We can't just go in there and start attacking them, they'll obviously have it heavily guarded."
Kalelle chuckled, "Kanone, you know very well that every single one of them fears us individually, I'd be suprised if Mason wasn't pissing himself while he was on the phone with you." Kanone smirked at this, he had been thinking the same thing, "If we go in there together, do you think they'll try anything?"
Kanone nodded, "There's no way they would arrange it this way if they didn't have something up their sleeve. There's no doubt they have traps set somewhere, but that's not what's bugging me."
Kalelle understood, "Why do they want just me?"
Kanone nodded, "How can we be sure that they haven't already killed Eyes, and are planning on just having a sniper pick us off as soon as we get too close?" Kanone hated the idea of Eyes being dead, but these were Hunters and he was a Blade Child.
"You're not considering not going at all are you?" Kalelle asked, half-joking.
Kanone simply stared at him, "Of course not, but we need some sort of plan before we just go charging in there."
Kalelle nodded, and the two thought for a few moments before Kalelle started thinking out loud (must be genetic), "What about the other Blade Children?"
Kanone looked at him, "I had considered that. If we tell them the situation, one of two things will happen. Either they'll insist on going with us, or they'll kill us and then go after Eyes themselves. If they go with us, though..." Kanone trailed off.
"Then Kanzaka and the others will have all of us rounded up, we'd be an easy target." Kalelle finished for him.
Kanone nodded, "Perhaps it would be best to tell them." Kanone said after a minute. Kalelle looked to him for an explanation to this sudden decision, "We can't get you and Eyes out of there by ourselves. If we have any chance of all of us getting out of there, we'll need as much help as we can get."
Kalelle nodded in agreement, "There's always the possibility that they don't think we would go to the others, too."
"True, though we shouldn't rely on the element of suprise. These are the people that have known us the best for most of our lives." Kanone pointed out, and then stole the words from Kalelle's mouth, "Though, the same could be said about us."
Kalelle grinned, "Whatever we decide to do, we should do it soon. The longer we make Kanzaka wait, the more impatient he'll get, and that most likely won't end well for Eyes."
Kanone nodded and took out his phone, dialing a number, "Rio? It's Kanone, we need to talk."
Yay, I think this is going somewhere now. Ugh, too tired to ramble. Review!