水汐吸血鬼：Chapter 5
Title: Suishio Kyuketsuki: Chapter 5, Saltwater
Author: Mide
Characters/Pairings: Jacob/?, Edward/?
Genre: Slash
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: minor foul language, graphic scenes, sexual themes.
Summary: Jacob Black begins his first year of public schooling at Forks High School at the persuasion of his best friend, Bella Swan. However, he is not the only newcomer to Forks; an ethereal beauty threatens the normal abnormality of this small Washington town.
Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight or the Characters, everything is for playplay.
Author's Note: Sorry for the forever long delay in updating. Also that the wait does not reflect the length. Hopefully it will reflect the content. School and family has been keeping me busy, but I don't think i'm that fantastic of a writer haha so hopefully none of you have been dying to read the next chapter. or have you? :3
Jacob jerked awake to the sound of the ocean crashing against the beach and the feeling of being submerged into cold, salty water. He realized he was in someone's arms and instinctively tried to struggle free, but his captor would not let him go. He looked up and saw it was Hye Ki who was holding him. Jacob would have protested more because he was apprehensive about any more physical contact with Hye Ki, but he felt like he had been hit with a tree.
"Hey. Hey, hey!" Jacob looked around frantically at the water surrounding him on all sides. "What are you doing? Are you trying to drown me?" Jacob looked over Hye Ki's shoulder longingly for the shore.
"Calm down, we have no time and you can't run or swim faster than me." Hye Ki looked intently forward at the setting sun. It would be too hard for him to move Jacob around underwater once there was no more daylight. He pressed forward into the sea; the water was up to his chest but they were nearly one hundred yards from shore. "I'm glad you're awake. We're going to go down from here, but it's not much farther. Any qualms you might have about the ocean – forget them. You'll just have to trust me, okay?" Hye Ki finally looked into Jacob's eyes reassuringly.
"Mm, Ok..." Jacob grumbled, disapproving of Hye Ki's equivocal request. He pulled himself closer in Hye Ki's arms and grabbed a piece of his shozoku for comfort. Jacob had no logical reason to trust Hye Ki and couldn't swim, but strangely enough Jacob didn't feel nervous under Hye Ki's protection.
They didn't sink, but plummeted into the ocean, coming to a suspension near the floor. The water was lit up in orange and purple colors, but Jacob could tell they were losing light fast. Hye Ki didn't make swimming miles through the ocean seem arduous at all. He soared through the water as if he was superman flying through the air.
I guess his people really do live in the ocean. Jacob thought to himself.
They swam around the corner out from the bay to the cliff side a few miles away from the beach they had entered from. Although Hye Ki was swimming fast enough to generate his own wave, Jacob really couldn't hold his breath any longer. Panicked, Jacob tapped Hye Ki's shoulder to inform him he needed to breathe—
"Like normal people do," his face said.
Hye Ki slowed down and stopped a few hundred yards off the shore of the cliff side. "It's just in there, can you make it?" Hye Ki's voice had surprising clarity for being a few hundred feet below sea level.
Jacob shook his head; his cheeks were puffed out and his fear of drowning was painfully lucid.
Hye Ki sighed and bubbles trailed out of his lips. He lifted up his right hand and pulled Jacob's face into his and their lips met rather forcefully. Jacob immediately turned pink and pushed Hye Ki's face away by the forehead, nearly exhaling the remaining breath Jacob had in him. Jacob had a look of embarrassment and discontent.
"What are you doing? Open your mouth!" Hye Ki reached up and grabbed Jacob's wrist and pulled it away from his forehead. "This is the only way. Do you want to die? My body can produce oxygen from water and there's no way we have time to go up to the surface. It's hard enough to keep the water pressure normal for you down here. Now come on. Trust me Jacob. I'm not trying to put the moves on you or anything." Hye Ki looked into Jacob's discerning eyes. This was the second time he'd instructed Jacob to trust him, and he felt a little guilty but Hye Ki strongly trusted his own judgment on the situation at hand.
Jacob pouted but turned to face Hye Ki nervously. Hye Ki placed a hand on Jacob's cheek again to reassure him and leaned in to plant his lips upon Jacob's. When their lips met Jacob felt like a fire had started underneath the darkening, chilly waters and he wouldn't mind if this was the last thing that had happened to him before he blacked out from a lack of oxygen. However, Jacob's mouth yielded to Hye Ki's command and Hye Ki exhaled deep into the young werewolf's lungs. Inhaling, Jacob clenched the piece of Hye Ki's shozoku that he had been holding on to and experienced a high from all the oxygen he was receiving. CO2 bubbles oozed out his nose and floated up toward the surface. It was as if Jacob had taken a breath of fresh summer air from his bedroom window. They parted and Jacob opened his eyes and looked into Hye Ki's mercury-colored spheres; he swore they were actually glowing this time. Jacob could still feel the fire burning in his cheeks and his lips tingling all over.
"There. That wasn't so hard was it? You better be able to hold your breath for another few minutes. Hold on."
Hye Ki zoomed off toward the cliff and dove down further near the base of it. It was hard for Jacob to make out much of anything underwater, especially at the speed they were traveling, but he could tell they were heading for an opening to a tunnel. Hye Ki spiraled into the dark, tortuous tunnel and then shot upward until they broke the surface of the water. Jacob gasped and was glad to be above water again but was confused because it was pitch black dark.
"Ahh, Where are we?! No, n.n.n.n.n. don't let go of me. Tell me where we are god damnit." Jacob was flailing around frantically to find something to hold on to. He finally found a side of the tunnel that led them here and clung to it for dear life.
Jacob heard a crack and then saw a big orange glow stick light up Hye Ki's smile where he was treading water."You're almost cute when you panic." Hye Ki held out at hand for Jacob. "Come on." He motioned his head toward the direction he was going, "Come here." Hye Ki grabbed Jacob's wrist. He was still wrapped in the sheet, but soaking wet and shivering.
The surface led to an underwater cave and the tunnel conveniently ramped up to the floor. Jacob was glad to stand on ground again but was extremely cold, causing him to walk awkwardly with nothing but a wet sheet covering his body over to a rock and pop a squat.
"Just wait for a second. I'll get a fire going and we can dry you off." Hye Ki peered around with the dim light of his glow stick and prattled to himself. "Doko ni oichatta kana..."
"Ki nara asoko ni nai? Mieru yo." Jacob pointed to a corner of a cave where there was random pieces of driftwood were stacked up.
Hye Ki stopped and stared in front of him at nothing in particular. He could have sworn Jacob just answered his question in Japanese again, and that it was become less nascent. He turned and the firewood was indeed where Jacob had informed him it was. "Oh yea, thanks ..."
Hye Ki got a fire going with some spark rocks and kept feeding driftwood to the flames, after he had sucked all the moisture out of them, until the fire was big enough to light the entire cavern. Jacob could feel the heat from where he was sitting. He particularly didn't want to be anywhere near open flames from the pain he experienced earlier in the woods, but he couldn't stop shivering.
"Ok, now stand up and take that sheet off so I can dry you off. You'll freeze to death if you don't get dry first." Hye Ki placed his hands on his thighs and stood up to face a chattering Jacob.
"Wait, I'm not getting naked in front of you! I'll just sit over here and dry. The fire feels nice." Jacob turned his face in defiance away from Hye Ki and insisted on shivering for the sake of his decency. His lips were turning blue.
Jacob's American self-consciousness was become destructively onerous and Hye Ki rolled his eyes. "Jacob. Stop being a little kid. We're going to stay here tonight so please let me help you. You can't get warm in that thing; it's soaked."
"No! I'm on to you ... first the kiss and now this!" Jacob stood up with the sheet around him refuting Hye Ki's commands pointing a finger in accusation. "I don't know what you're up to but I am old enough to take care of myself!"
Hye Ki's gaze ventured downward. He crossed his arms and covered his mouth, trying not to laugh in Jacob's face.
"What? You think my methods are funny?"
Hye Ki smiled. "I think your 'methods' are showing."
Jacob looked down and realized that wet fabric clings to the body and didn't leave his eight-pack trailing down to a sizable bulge to the imagination at all. He might as well be wearing blue body paint. Jacob's austere body blushed and he quickly sat back down, peeling the sheet away from his body.
"Fine ..." he grumbled, "but no peeking."
Hye Ki chuckled and tried not to watch Jacob again as he stood up and turned around so he was facing away from Hye Ki. He let the sheet fall from his shoulders revealing his muscled back and cute bubble-but.
"Just hurry up and do it so I can get warm." Jacob was sure his body must be tomato-colored at this point.
Hye Ki turned the other way for Jacob's sake, and waved the sopping boy dry. He grabbed a fur blanket that had been stored in the corner of the cave next to the firewood, brushed it off and handed the wolf a temporary coat. "Here take this, it's dry and warm. ... I'm not looking Jacob..." Hye Ki felt the weight of the blanket being taken from his hand and felt relieved that Jacob was finally beginning to cooperate. "Come sit by the fire over here. You're hurt."
Jacob dragged his feet over to Hye Ki's seat and sat down wrapped in the blanket with only his head, neck and fingers exposed. Jacob was dry, although his hair was still a little damp, and he was finally getting rid of the shakes. Hye Ki began twisting off the top of a tiny, cylindrical container. He dabbed a small amount of a dark green substance on to his fingers and then used the butt of his hands to hold Jacob's head still and push back the hair from his forehead. Jacob flinched and pulled away from Hye Ki.
Hye Ki's arms went limp. "What? I haven't even put the stuff on yet. Why do you always flinch like that? I'm not going to hurt you." Hye Ki grabbed Jacob's head again and began wiping the green stuff on the cut and bruise on Jacob's forehead from the head-butt with the tree trunk.
Maybe it's because every time you touch me a jolt pulses though my body. Jacob wanted to make Hye Ki feel uncomfortable too. Whenever they came in contact Jacob's body was screaming out in ecstasy and Jacob wasn't all too comfortable in his own skin at the moment.
"I don't know. I guess it's just .... well. Today was a rough day. I had public school for the first time -- ow! -- and then there was that fire, just now, and you and the Volturi, and it's just all too much for me to feel anything but overwhelmed right now. I'm sorry." Jacob couldn't believe he had just spoken to Hye Ki so openly. It was opposite from his reticent behavior in the classroom earlier today.
"Uh huh. Well don't worry about that now." Hye Ki had finished applying his goo and started to put the container away. "You'll get some sleep and tomorrow we will figure out what to do." Hye Ki pulled up a bucket of water to where they were sitting. "Now for your leg."
Jacob didn't feel like showing Hye Ki anymore of himself, but now that his legs were no longer numbingly chilly, the burn on his thigh was really starting to hurt, and gave him a bit more alacrity. Jacob exposed his leg for the healer. He supposed he would just have to play doctor with Hye Ki.
"Your forehead should be better by tomorrow, but this burn needs a bit more intimate attention." Hye Ki dipped his hands into the bucket and removed them with two glove-like blobs of water surrounding his palms and digits. He placed both hands on the outer side of Jacob's upper thigh and the water began to glow a bright cerulean color. Jacob's pain was quickly assuaged and after a few seconds when Hye Ki removed his hands, most of the charred flesh was no longer aberrant. The skin was still pink discolored and slightly tender to the touch, but it felt ages better than before the molestation.
Jacob blinked in disbelief, touching his thigh to make sure it was actually real. "Wow, sparkly water and green slime. You should tell the FDA about this."
Hye Ki didn't particularly find Jacob's joke funny, "It was seaweed from my tribe and hydro-healing techniques developed over centuries." Hye Ki pushed the bucket out of the space separating him and Jacob. He finally sat down. "You're welcome, by the way."
Jacob retracted his leg back into the blanket and sheepishly said, "Thanks. I really do appreciate you helping me. My leg feels a whole lot better."
Jacob took the opportunity to get a good look at exactly where they were now that the cavern was brightly lit by the campfire. The cave was a pretty decent size, and there was something about the walls that looked like someone had taken a big ice cream scoop and carved this cave right into the cliff side. There were some odds and ends gathered in a corner of the cavern making it clear that Hye Ki had definitely been here before. It almost looked like a primitive, bleak one room studio apartment complete with a kiddie pool.
"So um, where are we? What is this place? I'm still not sure why we even came here…" Jacob hugged his knees and looked over toward Hye Ki for answers.
"We needed to get somewhere where they Volturi couldn't follow us. They should be gone soon. Well, at least for a while. They need to regroup; I nearly killed one of their own. And this is where I stayed before … well before I was with the Cullens." Hye Ki looked away and began folding the sheet that had been covering Jacob – now dry and small enough to fit back in his suit.
"Oh…. ok." Jacob tucked his chin back inside the blanket.
"I still come here time to time to think and be alone." Hye Ki leaned back and rested his weight on his hands. "Makes a nice hiding place too I guess." Hye Ki was envious of the heat emanating from Jacob's body. He moved closer to the fire to try and get rid of his accustomed oceanic chill.
"So why did you even come here in the first place?" Jacob blurted out. "You don't seem to like it very much here."
"I don't really have a choice." He looked sternly over at Jacob. "I was banished here by my tribe."
Jacob looked down into his knees again, nervously rubbing his toes together. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to –"
"It's ok, Jacob. It's not a big secret and it's not like we aren't mutually aware of our supernaturalities." Hye Ki leaned forward and warmed his hands near the fire even though he knew their temperature would forever be the same. "Luckily I met the Cullens and they decided to at least let me spend exile in civilization."
"Oh. That's cool I guess."
Jacob was trying to process all of this information through his head. He wanted to know why Hye Ki was exiled – and why here of all places. For that matter, why had the Cullens agreed to let him stay? However, he already felt like he had had a bit too much of getting to know Hye Ki and decided to move to something more superficial.
"So, how old are you, really?"
"Would you like to know my shoe size too? Jesus, is this twenty questions?" Hye Ki smiled at Jacob. "I'm really only eighteen. I'm not some old perv like Edward."
"Oh." Jacob felt a little embarrassed again. "Aren't you cold? You're only wearing that ninja thingy."
"Ninja thingy?" Hye Ki's brow furrowed. "It's called a shozoku."
"Ninja. Thingy."
Hye Ki sighed and let a smile escape his face. "Ok well, my ninja thingy keeps me warm just fine. Besides I'm used to the cold." Hye Ki tried futilely to hide his desires to feel Jacob's warmth, shifting his eyes and scooting closer to the fire, mimicking Jacob's huddled position.
"Are sou? Chotto atatametai to omotta kedo."
Hye Ki shifted his eyes toward Jacob without pivoting his head. He was getting tired of Jacob's sporadic Japanese and decided the hell with it. "Datte, annta wa sore ga ieru no ni, ichiou shozoku wo ieba ii jann!"
Jacob wasn't shifting out of Hye Ki's native tongue this time. "What do you mean I can't say shozoku? I told you that's what it was just a minute ago. Are you sure you don't want to get warm? I think there is enough of this blanket to go around…"
Hye Ki could finally test the limits of whatever this chicanery was that Jacob was trying to pull off. "Are you sure? Just a while ago you were accusing me of being a pervert, and now you want to share your blanket with me?"
"Ok, ok. I officially recant my misconstrued preconceptions of you as an old pervert. I must have had the thought of Edward exploiting Bella in my mind." Jacob snickered.
"Right because that's something you should think about your best friend." Hye Ki pushed Jacob playfully. The contact made digits come alive. He wanted nothing more than to take up on Jacob's offer.
"Hey, I didn't mean it like that. I just," Jacob stifled a yawn. "I guess I'm just tired."
"Well I'll let you get some rest if you answer me one thing." Hye Ki drew a knife from out of his wrist.
Jacob swallowed and hoped for the best. "Uh… sure."
Hye Ki started to carve something in the cavern floor with his knife. "Tell me what this says."
Jacob looked down at the space between him and Hye Ki.
「 吸血鬼 」
" Vampire? Why do you wanna talk about them? You know what I am." Jacob just wanted to go bed. "How many times to I have to keep telling you that I can't speak that squiggle."
Hye Ki just shook his head and laughed. "You're a piece of work Jacob."
"I get cranky when I'm tired." Jacob suddenly felt himself being wrapped in cool arms. "Hey! Wait –"
"You answered my question correctly so it's time for bed." Hye Ki picked Jacob up and laid him out in front of the fire. "I'm afraid I don't have any pillows so you'll have to use my lap if you don't mind."
Jacob's body was worn out and his eyes were beginning to close involuntarily. "Well, I guess if there's no other way. It's ok then."
"Oyasumi nasai, Ouji-kun."
"Oyasumi…" As Jacob drifted off to the feeling of Hye Ki's icy fingers through his hair there was only one question on his mind:
Why can I speak Japanese?
Why indeed.
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