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Previously
Yuki didn't quite understand but he nodded to the man. "What's his name?"
The man led him to the new prisoner's cell and motioned toward it. "Lord Yuki, this is Kyo
Now
Yuki looked into the cell that they stood in front of. When he first looked into it, all he saw was a pitch black cell, cold, musty, and as it looked at that moment empty. Though from the darkness of the cell he could see some movements then a voice. "What the hell do you want?" came the voice from within.
Yuki looked over at the man who took him here. He gave Yuki and shy smile and shrugged his shoulders. "Heh, told ya he had a mouth on him," he said.
"That should be corrected. Should it not?" Yuki said in a stern voice. His face had turned hard and his fist had balled up. Yuki turned and held a dead stare into the dark shadow in the corner. "You should have been brought up better mongrel. No one in your status should talk to their superiors with that kind of language."
The man's face dropped. "Please Lord Yuki. I told you not to judge him up front; if you do you will only have a bad impression on him. And he really is a good kid," the man said, hoping his words would have some sort of affect on the lord in front of him.
Yuki turned back to the man and glared at him. "Sir, I'm not sure you are aware but first impressions are very important to me. Especially," he turned to the cell, "a low class peasant's."
"Shut the hell up," the voice said again. "You have no right to talk to Shishou like that!"
"Speak for yourself!" Yuki yelled at him. "Listen to how you talk to me! And you won't even come out from hiding in the darkness!"
No words came from the darkness and Yuki was satisfied he had one the first fight but that thought was dismissed as an image became clearer before him. Out of the darkness of the cell the body of a young man started to emerge. A smirk crossed Yuki's face as he thought of the guts this Kyo guy had to stand up to him. But, something changed when he came out of the darkness, something that didn't set easy with Yuki.
The first thing to come from the darkness was his messy, dirt covered hair. But no matter how much dirt Kyo had in his hair, its bright orange color still looked like a blazing fire. It caught Yuki a little off guard. He had never seen anyone with bright orange hair. Sure Momiji had blonde hair, and he himself even had a different color tint to it, but orange? He was expecting to see a grungy, scared little boy, looking just a mess, but that was the total opposite of what came into view. No, this guy, though a bit grungy, held a firm, hard face, his fire hair setting off his angry aura as he walked up to the bars. When the torch's shadow cleared his face all Yuki could do was stare at those red, crimson eyes, glaring daggers at him. His torn up outfit helping out his pissed off look.
"Alright," he said in a cold voice, "I'm out, something else you want to say?" He crossed his arms and didn't take his glare from Yuki, staring straight into his amethyst eyes.
Yuki was still trying to take in what the boy looked like. As he was glared at by Kyo he couldn't help but feel something stir inside him. He didn't know what it was; he never had this kind of feeling before in his life. But he wasn't able to ponder on the question of why he was feeling this way because of a small tap on his shoulder. He tore his gaze away from the fiery fellow in front of him to look at who had touched him, though he already knew it was the man the boy called Shishou, but otherwise known as Kazuma by all the others in the castle.
"Please," Kazuma said hopefully. "Don't pick a fight with each other. There is no need for that. And besides if you two starting fighting who knows what the other prisoners will start doing."
Yuki took in what the man said and considered it. He did have a good point. What was the need to pick a fight with a mangy peasant anyway, no matter how he makes himself feel, and the prisoners might even start their own riot. Yuki closed his eyes and sighed knowing that Kazuma was right. "Alright," he said. "I won't start a fight; hell knows what will happen when I do. Just keep this thing out of my way." He pointed towards Kyo, who was still glaring but upon hearing that note got even angrier at the lord.
"Why you son of a…"
"Kyo please," Kazuma said putting his hand on the bars in front of Kyo to hush him. "We don't need this right now." He turned back to Yuki. "Please come back to the desk and I'll give you a key to the cells. Follow me please."
"Shishou…" Kyo said. Yuki looked over at Kyo and caught a face of Kyo that he would have never suspected to see on him, ever. His face had become almost sad, like a little kid not getting his way. It made Yuki want to laugh, but he held in his wanting laughter so to not disrupt his outer exterior. Kyo saw Yuki looking at him and gave him a smartass smirk.
Yuki felt the blood rushing to his cheeks when Kyo did that to him. He quickly turned away and started walking back to the desk. Damn it what's wrong with me? I couldn't even help my reaction when he looked at me, and why the hell did he look at me like that? Yuki turned to look over his shoulder. He could no longer see inside Kyo's cell, which made him a bit relieved. He didn't know what else would happen if he continued to stay there, good or bad. Still, that smirk suits him. Gah, what am I thinking? Damn it, now he has my mind thinking bullshit. When Yuki got to the desk he stood in front of it and placed his hands on it, leaning his weight on it.
Kazuma was walking up to the desk and went around to the other side. He pulled out a drawer and took out a ring with three keys on it. "Alright, this is all you'll need for your week down here," Kazuma said. "One is the master key to all the doors down here, the other one is one to just to the prisoner's cells, and the last one is to the ID room."
"ID room?" Yuki asked. He had never heard of that room before.
"Yes, that is the kingdom's Important Document room," Kazuma explained.
"Oh, I see," Yuki said. "I guess this job won't be too hard."
"Nah, it's actually the easiest job in the whole castle," Kazuma said. "Here." He reached into the top drawer of the desk and pulled out a piece of paper. "This is all you have to do." He handed the paper to Yuki.
Taking the paper Yuki read it over. "That's it?"
"Yep, and don't worry if you need any help I come in every day for a few hours."
"Wait, wait, wait you mean I have to stay down here all day?"
"Ah, yeah all day, but you don't have to come down as soon as the sun rises or anything. Just as long as you're here in time to watch the lunch barer, they some times need protection when delivering the food."
"So I guess be here from lunch until late?" Yuki asked. He was actually dreading the hours but since it was a high order from the king he had to do it.
"Yep, but you can also come earlier and stay later if you choose, as long as you're here between those two times."
"Alright," Yuki said with a sigh. "Wait, what about breakfast?"
"Oh, don't worry about that. Most of the prisoners are still asleep in the morning so the deliverers aren't afraid to give them food. Kind of complicated if you ask me."
"I see," Yuki said. "Did you already take a count?"
"Yes, actually I have already done everything on the list that I could do so far, so you can walk about the dungeon and get use to the surroundings until about dinner time."
"But isn't this the whole dungeon?" Yuki asked pointing down the hall.
"Oh, no, no actually there's a door at the end of the hall where we just were. It leads to where you can take these guys for some free time if they want. And there are other doors that lead to places I don't even know about. It's a great big mystery down here."
"I guess that brings it up a little," Yuki said.
"Even if it brings it up just a smidge." Kazuma smiled at Yuki. "Well, I'm going now, but please remember what I said about Kyo." He lightly bowed to Lord Yuki and then exited through the door.
Yuki watched him leave then looked back down at the paper he was handed. "Prisoner check, lunch, afternoon free time, prisoner check, dinner, and prisoner check," Yuki read to himself. "Wow, not a lot. Lots of holes in agenda too. No wonder Kazuma said this was a lonely job." He walked to the back of the desk and sat down in the chair. He put his elbows on the desk and intertwined his fingers to hold his head. He closed his eyes trying to think of something to pass the time. The silence was nice, but he couldn't sleep, and even if you could he didn't think he actually accomplish it. With all the prisoners up and talking to each other, some louder than most, no one could sleep. The silence was there and gone.
He opened his eyes and leaned over the desk to look down the hall. He saw some of the prisoners had gotten livelier and were moving about their cells, others were hanging on the bars of their cells talking to people across hallway or next to them, but there was one he didn't see, he couldn't even see into his cell, the one that made a very interesting impression on him, Kyo.
Yuki sat back in his chair and ran a hand through his hair. This is unreal. I don't understand any of this. Why can't I stop thinking about him? These thoughts rattled his head a bit longer until something brought him out of them. Some one was calling him. Yuki got up and started walking down the hallway of cells. He stopped in front of a cell with a guy dressed in very worn out clothes hanging on the bars of his cell. "Yes?" Yuki asked.
"We haven't had our free time yet in the prison garden," he said. "And trust me; you don't want some of us to be locked up in here all day. We've been spoiled so much by Kazuma and Lord Haru that if we don't get what they have treated us to, then we go a bit crazy."
Yuki didn't like the fact to be bossed around by a prisoner no less, but he had to consider what he was saying. "Fine," Yuki answered. "Where is the prison garden?" Yuki had never heard of such a place, so when the prisoner spoke of it so casually of it he had to find out what kind of place it was.
"Just like Kazuma said through the door at the end of the hallway," the prisoner explained. Yuki looked at the prisoner vigilantly. He didn't know if he could for surly trust these prisoners yet. "What?" the prisoner asked crossing his arms over his chest and giving Yuki a cocky smirk. "Can't trust us yet? Think we're going to make a break for it?" He let out a hmph. "Trust me, we've had plenty of times to escape when we were brought to the garden and we took them, but not one time did any of us accomplish that task of escaping. Trust me Lord Yuki, none of us will try anything funny."
Yuki thought over what the prisoner had said and thought it might not be a bad idea. He took the keys that hung loosely on his belt. Taking the cell key in hand he unlocked the prisoner's cell. "No funny business," Yuki said.
"Of course not Lord Yuki," he said. He turned to the guys in his cell. "Free time guys!"
Once Yuki opened the door the prisoners walked out and, like they said, walked toward the other end of the hallway and opened the door to the garden. Yuki did the same to all the cells then he came upon the one he wasn't exactly looking forward to, Kyo's cell.
Yuki let out a light sigh and walked up to the cell door. He stuck the key into the lock and turned it. When it clicked Yuki knew it was now opened. He took out the key and put the key ring back on his belt. He opened the cell door all the way and stood in the middle of the door way. "Come on Kyo. Time for you to get out of the cell," he said.
Kyo had hidden himself in the dark corner of the cell again, and was doing a fine job of not moving so as to make it harder for Yuki to find him.
"Come on," Yuki said again. "I can't let you stay in here. You have to go to where I go and I'm going with the other prisoners. Now stop sulking and get your ass outside."
Still there was no movement and a few more seconds went by without anyone moving or talking. Yuki was starting to get tense and he didn't like it one bit. So, finally, Yuki stepped into the cell and walked toward the dark corner. He had no idea where Kyo was at in there. "Get away from me," a voice came from the corner. Yuki knew it was Kyo's.
"Stop this foolhardy grudge you have on me," Yuki said crossing his hands over his chest. "Do you know that by acting like this you seem even more childlike?"
"Then what do you care?" Kyo asked. "I just don't like you. You're 'I'm better than everyone here' attitude just pisses me off. It shouldn't matter where you were born, how you were brought up, who your parents were, what kind of job you have, or where you are now in life. We're still people and people like you, lords, ladies, and the king, you people think you're better than everyone just because of the fucking honorifics in your name that people 'have' to use to prove you are in a high stance than they are. I learned long ago that not even a stupid honorific means you are the best person in the world." Kyo had stopped talking and Yuki was taken aback by his sudden out burst, but for some reason he wasn't mad that Kyo had yelled all of this at him, it was as if he knew that he had to get it off his chest and it didn't matter who was listening.
There was movement in the dark and then, just as before, Kyo emerged from it, though this time something didn't seem right. His face looked a bit paler than when Yuki had first saw him today. "Kyo are you okay?" Yuki asked.
Kyo took a staggering step forward toward Yuki. "Its people like you…" he started to sway a little, "people like you…" He took another step forward and then, just as he was going to take another step, he fell forward straight at Yuki, who was still standing there.
Yuki was a bit surprised when Kyo started to fall forward. He reached out his hands and caught him in his arms. "Kyo get a hold of yourself," Yuki said. Kyo's head fell on his shoulder. With the weight of Kyo in his arms Yuki fell down to his knees. He grabbed Kyo's shoulders and started to shake him lightly. "Come on Kyo. Knock it off. Get up." Kyo didn't stir. Yuki sighed to himself and turned Kyo over on his back. Getting into a more comfortable position, Yuki let Kyo lay against him. "What's wrong with you?" Yuki brushed some of his bangs out of his face and in doing so touched his forehead. "Kyo! You're burning up!" Yuki turned him so he could pick him up. He put his arms under Kyo's neck and knees, then picked him up and placed him on his bed.
Yuki pulled the sheets on the bed over Kyo and left to get some water and a cloth. It took a little bit to find his way around the dungeon but he did find his way to a washroom and was able to find what he was looking for.
He went back to Kyo's cell and knelt down by his bed side. He dipped the cloth into he water and placed it on his head. "How did you manage to get a fever? You seemed fine a few minutes ago." He looked down at Kyo. Though his face was pale the fever in him was making his cheeks red. He even started getting sweaty. "I'll have to see if Hatori can come and check on you tomorrow," Yuki said. "Shit. The men outside, I forgot all about them." Yuki ran out of Kyo's cell and toward the door just a little ways away. As he opened the door a person was standing in his way. He looked up and saw it was a guard.
"Lord Yuki," the guard said. "Can I help you?"
"I thought I had to watch the prisoners," Yuki said.
"Oh, no there are prison guards already here, and plenty of them you don't have to watch them, but you're welcome to come out if you like," he said.
"Well, actually I have some business to take care of in here if you don't mind," Yuki said.
"Of course not," the guard answered. He bowed to Yuki as he closed the door.
"Well, at least I don't have to worry about them," Yuki said. "I just have to worry about Kyo." He walked back to Kyo's cell and leaned over the bed to look at him. "You're unreal," Yuki said in almost a whisper. "You back talk, you hate me, you have a huge attitude problem," he looked down at his closed eyes and brushed some more hair out of his face, "but I can't stop thinking about you."
Yay! Chapter 2 done! It seemed like forever since I actually updated last, but it hasn't even been a week, or maybe it has…I forget.
Well, the good part of the week is that I have started a new fanfiction which some people who have read like. The bad part…spring break just ended. My whole week and 1/2 is gone! I don't wanna go back to school tomorrow! But then I can use their wireless so there is a good reason to go back, if only one.
Just so all you guys know, since I'm going back to school I probably won't be able to update as often, considering the fact finals are coming up soon…so I hope you can bare with me through these next four weeks till it's over, then it's summer vacation!
Alright everyone, you know what to do. 5 more reviews till I will update the 3rd chapter!
