Chapter 21: Broken Heart

A KuroFai Story

I spent most of the morning with Fai, trying to avoid my sadistic 'uncle/father figure' as much as possible. Which really isn't too hard to do when the man practically shut himself in his study all day.

"Are you doing anything next weekend?" Fai asked, as he stabbed a piece of the pancake that he'd made.

I chewed on a piece of mine, and swallowed. "Depends what is next weekend?" I asked, remembering that I had to go to that concert thingy with Kurogane on the 15th. And I really wanted to go to that…it sounded like it'd be fun.

"Ummm… I think it's the seventh and the eighth?" he replied, stuffing the dry pancake slice into his mouth. Fai, surprisingly, didn't like syrup, but I did, which is one of the reasons mine was currently swimming in the stuff.

"I don't think I'm doing anything, but I'll have to check my schedule first." I answered, adding more syrup, and noticed Fai grimace slightly. My schedule of course being Ashura, but I'm sure he'd have a problem with me asking for both next weekend and the 15th off… but it didn't hurt trying! "Why?"

"I was just wondering if you'd like to catch a movie or something. We haven't done many things together in a while… well that doesn't count as grocery shopping." He explained. "But if you're working its fine I understand."

"I'll see if I can request off, how about that?"

"Sure! How about Saturday? See if you can get that day off."

I nodded, and we continued eating, throwing out light conversation between bites.

Fai finished before me, and dropped his plate off in the sink, and rinsed it off in the water. I watched him lazily, with nothing else to do, but sit and chew on syrupy pancakes.

He glanced over at me, and grinned. He shut off the water, and practically skipped over to me. It seemed his natural sugar high was back.

"Yuui-bear!" He chirped, happily, and I raised an eyebrow at him. "I love you!"

"Yeah, love you too." I mumbled, taking another bite, chewing it, and swallowed.

Fais grin grew; he reached his hands out, and tilted my head up a bit. He leaned down and kissed me softly.

I closed my eyes, and relaxed my body, but didn't lean into the kiss.

Fai pulled back, and licked his lips. He grimaced, and pouted, looking like a kicked puppy. "Ehh! You taste like syrup!" He whined.

I chuckled, and grinned evilly. "That's what you get." I said sticking out my tongue, and taking the last bit of my half-eaten stack of pancakes.

He giggled, and looked over at the clock. "Crap I'm going to be late, again!" He cried and rushed out of the room.

"Morning, Asha-sama!" Fai cried from the hallway before the sound of him running up the stairs to go get ready.

I stood up and went over to the trash can to clear my plate as Ashura entered the kitchen.

I turned to him as I finished rinsing my plate off. "Hey what am I doing next week?" I asked.

He looked at me slightly confused for a second before he said. "Well if you're good tonight, I was going to let you get your tattoo filled, but if you have other plans…"

"Seriously?" I asked, a bit shocked, I hadn't thought that he'd let me get it filled in so quickly. I quickly shook my head, remembering that I was trying to ask something. "Fai was just wondering if I had this Saturday off. He wants to see a movie together." I explained. I decided that it was probably best to ask about the 15th later on. Hopefully he'll have another nice over some time during the week, but that was just wishful thinking.

He frowned lightly, and sat down in one of the bar stools, and rubbed his chin in thought. Finally he spoke up. "We'll see how you do tonight." He repeated. "And if you're really good, I'll let you do both."

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"So where are we going?" I asked, kicking my feet up onto the dashboard. Ashura glanced over at me, a little irritated, even though it wasn't his car.

"We're heading to the abandoned theater," he said, taking a right turn to get onto the main street. "That's the only place I could find that was big enough; we have a lot of people coming."

"Is that why you've been so busy lately?" I asked as I glanced out the window. The theatre was on the southern outskirts of the town, and a place hardly anyone went near. It was a smart place to hold something like this at. But if a whole lot of people were showing… well there's nothing more suspicious then a ton of cars parked in front of an abandoned building.

"More or less," Ashura replied, keeping his answer vague.

Ashura suddenly turned left and parked the car in the parking lot in front of some restaurant. "Get out," he ordered, unbuckling his seat belt, and turned off the car. I followed his example and got out of the car.

"What are we doing?" I asked, warily, as I trailed after him.

"We're walking," Ashura snapped. I pursed my lips and glared at the back of his head; I was getting a bit irritated myself with his vague answers. "And pull your hood up, you stand out too much as it is." He barked.

I rolled my eyes, but pulled my hood up anyway. It was pretty cold out, so it wasn't entirely unreasonable to have ones hood up. "Isn't that why you wanted me in the first place?" I grumbled.

Ashura was silent for the rest of the walk there. He'd parked quite a ways away, but it was interesting to see the houses go from poor, to poorer, to rundown.

It was interesting to me anyway…

Ashura turned down into the alleyway behind the theater, but I stopped for a second. I really didn't want to do this, but it was too late to get out of this. About nine years too late… well more than that actually. But either way, it was simply far too late for me to do anything about this situation.

I took a deep sigh, and followed Ashura into the alleyway. He was currently holding the back door open, and looking at me with suspicion.

I moved to where I was in the middle of the door, blocking his way in, and turned to him. He raised an eyebrow at me.

I steadied my nerves and looked up at him defiantly. "I'm going to say this now, so there's no confusion later. At midnight I am no longer on the job. At midnight I don't care if we're in the middle of sex, as long as I'm not tied down to the bed I am leaving." I said.

Ashura looked pissed for a moment, before he shrugged, a smirk lining his mouth. He looked at me with eyes filled with anger. "As long as I get paid I could care less what happens to you." He snapped, and pushed me roughly into the building.

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I stood in front of the crowd, naked as the day I was born, and didn't even bother to pay attention to the people who were bellowing out prices.

I frowned slightly when I saw Mr. Ruby sitting on the front row, and vaguely noticed, with great irritation, that he was trying to bet on me as well. I felt very sorry for Mrs. Ruby just then; did she even know that her husband was here? …probably not.

Really I could care less who bought me for the evening. As long as it wasn't Fei-Wang, which I doubt, or –

"Sold for 2,500 to Kyle Rondart." Ashura announced, voice echoing throughout the

I froze, my eyes widening, and I searched the crowd, feeling, more then a little bit panicked. Oh no… this was not good…

I finally found him as he was walking towards the front now, his glasses gleaming in the dim light, with a smug smirk on his face.

I glanced over at Ashura incredulously, but he was looking away from me, waiting for Kyle to get to the front so he could pay.

I slumped. "Fuck…" I moaned, and although it came out as a whisper, it echoed in the large room.

Tonight was going to be hell…