Hey everyone I'm back! I've survived my first full week of school, though not without tons of homework, but I've squeezed some time in to make an all new chapter!
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Onward!!!!
Ch. 2: The Dreaded One!
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Soubi allowed himself to be dragged back him accommodations by his smaller counterpart, loathing his former teacher ever more so than previously. Once they arrived at the room, a noticeable change caused expressions of shock to cross the face's of Ritsuka and his fighter.
Kio was still sleeping, just like they had left him, but it seemed that everything else had been changed dramatically. The Zeros were shuffling about with colorful fabrics, turning the room into more of a dollhouse. Frills, ruffles, and lace covered every inch in a pink, purple, and white collaboration.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Ritsuka screamed at the perpetrators. He had just been denied freedom unless he fought for it, he was not in any mood to put up with the Zeros games.
"Nagisa-sensei wanted to make your room cuter, so she handed us this stuff and told us to decorate your room." Natsuo replied, while Youji snickered, both continuing to redo their temporary living space.
Ritsuka, in his evening of irritation, had almost forgotten about that women, that….that…horribly ignorant women. Ever since the raven haired boy arrived, she's done nothing but hunt him down, glomp him, attempt to dress him up in effeminate clothing, and talk about how he should go to his real fighter. She was the epitome of what he hated most in a person, and was becoming very intolerance of her shenanigans.
"Take this stuff down now!" Ritsuka shouted, not as loud as previously, as he attempted to get his emotions under control.
"We can't, direct orders." Youji stated, while waving his hand off in Ritsuka vague direction.
The neko boy could no longer handle it; he had been through enough of this school for one day, or better yet, a lifetime.
"SOUBI! GET THEM OUT!"
The fighter followed the order, and immediately picked up the Zeros by the back of their shirts and threw them out of the room. Banging and protests could be heard from the other side of the door, but were ignored.
"Clean this up, please…" Ritsuka whimpered, as he hopped onto the pink, frilly bed, sprawling out onto his stomach. He buried his face into the pillow and allowed the tears he'd been holding back, to flow freely. He was so frustrated with his current situation, and the words that Ritsu had stated so bluntly, continued to replay in his mind, "Soubi is merely yours based off Seimei's orders, your actual fighter is waiting for you." His real fighter, the other half of Loveless, was waiting for him, but what really hurt, was that Soubi wasn't his, but Seimei's. Everything always managed to belong to Seimei.
The blonde haired adult, while beginning to get rid of the hindrance decorations, noticed his beloved sacrifice weeping on the bed. He slowly crept to his side, reaching a hand out to wipe the tears away.
"Ritsuka…" the boy seemed to be lost in his thoughts, in a trance.
The younger one, finally aware of Soubi's presence, slapped his hand away, "I told you to get rid of this shit….just, make it… go away." He sobbed.
Soubi, though extremely taken aback by the vulgarity and despair his sacrifice's words held, nodded his head and continued working; throughout the night, after Ritsuka was long ago asleep, leaving Kio to be ignored the rest of the night.
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The next morning, an irritated Ritsuka awoke to a knock at the door, and with complete disregard to the questioning glance his fighter was giving him, trudged to answer the banging.
Upon opening the door, he noticed a fighter pair, both adults, one male one female. He gave them a glare as they walked in.
"We're here to pick up Kio Kaido." The man said.
Everyone's vision then focused on the huddled sleeping mass, slumped on one of the two bed in the room, drooling over the pillow he was hugging.
"Can we assume it's him." The women smirked.
"Yeah."
With that consent, the two preceded over to the bed, the man picking up Kio in a rough manner, causing him to wake up.
"Hey! What's going on here? Sou-chan!" the pierced one squealed.
"Kaido-san, you will be taken back to your home. We have the personal responsibly of making sure your venture is completed safely." The man carrying him replied.
"Sou-chan! Rit-chan! You just going to let them take me away like this!?!" he shrieked, trying to squirm himself out of the man's grasp.
"Sorry, Kio, I really am. Trust me, if I could leave, I'd be going with you." Ritsuka muttered.
The unknown unit then walked out the door, followed by our two favorite protagonists. The five reached the front of the school, after endless cries from Kio. A car pulled up, and the man and woman placed Kio in the back seat, hopped into the front themselves, and before the neko and the blonde could give proper goodbyes, they had driven off.
"Kio isn't going to be too happy." Soubi sighed.
"No he's not, but there isn't really anything we can do about it now, huh."
"I suppose not. So my Ritsuka, what would you like to do today."
"I'm not yours first off and secondly…" as if on cue, Ritsuka's stomach growled loudly.
"Perhaps we should go get some food." Soubi smiled
"Um…" though the little one was genuinely hungry, he wasn't too fond of the cafeteria; though it wasn't the food that turned him off, it was the chance he might encounter the dreaded one…Nagisa.
Soubi chuckled at the expression on his sacrifice's face; anything regarding Nagisa contorted the features of the amethyst eyed boy, to that of utter repulsion.
"Would you like me to get food and bring it back to the room?" he suggested, Soubi didn't like being near the others on the campus of this academy anymore than Ritsuka did, but for the sake of the one he love, he would tolerate it.
"You don't have to; I mean what the worst that could happen?" Ritsuka forced a giggle.
"Just go back to the room, I'll be there soon." The blue-eyed fighter leaned down, kissed his sacrifice's forehead, and walked off.
Ritsuka sighed; he was left alone, with nothing but his thoughts. He began walking back in a trance-like state, thinking about the upcoming exams Soubi and himself would have to participate in. "I should talk to Soubi about it tonight, I wasn't very nice to him, I should probably apologize to. I wonder what the first part of the test will be like…" Ritsuka contemplating multiple scenarios for the time that followed until he reached his room. He was in such a daze, that he hadn't even notice the pile of books in front of the door, causing him to trip and fall, his arms catching him.
"What are these?" he questioned to himself.
One the front of the top book of the stack was a note, the young boy then stared at it inquiringly.
'Loveless
For the exams, you should have basic knowledge of a fighter and sacrifice. Here are some text books to study from, use them as you please.
I am extremely curious to see how you fare during the tests, as is your fighter; he is looking forward to meeting you.'
The note had no signature, but it was obvious Ritsu had sent it as well as the books. Ritsuka was so overwhelmed by the letter; he ripped it to shreds, pulled himself into a ball and started weeping uncontrollably on the ground in front of his room.
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Soubi had gotten the food, barely avoiding an incident with Nagisa. Whenever Soubi was around, she now demanded he tell her where Ritsuka was located, which always resulted badly on both parts.
He turned the corner, only the stop momentarily. His sacrifice was in sniveling mass on the ground, crying miserably. Soubi dropped the food, allowing it to scatter across the floor, and dashed to the boy.
Soubi crouched down in front of his sacrifice and reached a hand out, placing it on Ritsuka's chin, and pulled his face up to meet his, "Ritsuka…" the fighter comforted.
What happened next almost sent Soubi into a state of shock. Ritsuka took both of his hands, and placed them over the hand his fighter had placed on his cheek. Ritsuka grasped Soubi's hand with both of his, and stared at it with blurry eyes. After a few minutes of silence, excluding Ritsuka's sobs, the small sacrifice flung himself at the older man, weeping irrepressibly.
"You're...mine…no one…else's…please…don't ever…leave me." The boy continued to whimper as he bawled his eyes out.
Soubi wasn't quite sure how to respond, Ritsuka never allow any mild feelings toward him show, but regardless, the blonde wrapped his arms around the boy, rubbing circles in his back, and chanted over and over, "I love you Ritsuka, I could never leave you."
Finally, when Ritsuka was more in control of his emotions, Soubi stood, carrying his sacrifice with him in one arm, and the text books in another. He managed to open the door, dropping the books at the door step, and then placing Ritsuka gently on the bed.
Ritsuka refused to let go of his fighter, his fighter, Soubi was his and no one else's, he didn't care if some other stranger was waiting to meet him, he didn't want to see the other half of Loveless, he wanted Soubi.
Soubi concern rose when the neko went into yet another fit of hysteria, but continued comforting him none-the-less, and Ritsuka continued clinging to him until no more tears would fall, and he drifted off into unconsciousness.
This is the reason Soubi hadn't wanted Ritsuka involved in the exams, they emotionally, mentally, and physically tore you apart; and if this was how Ritsuka was before hand, Soubi was terrified of what would happen during the test.
"It's alright Ritsuka, I'm here, I'm not leaving. I love you." Soubi muttered to the sleeping form, before he, himself, drifted off to sleep.
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Okay, not the most eventful chapter, but there was frills, and the dreaded one!
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