So...New chapter. I'm thinking of a new Vocaloid Story soon, cause this story is a bit too sad for me. You'll see what I'm talking about in a minute. And...I'm not good with...well, sadness, if it doesn't have a happy ending. (Shameless foreshadowing) And as of now, I'm not sure that this story has one of those. So read the chapter, let me know what you think.
Disclaimer: This chapter contains sexual violence and an extreme use of curse words. Please move forward with extreme caution.
Ayase POV
He felt something in his mouth, small, round. That's when he woke up completely. The hands held him fast as he fought, but his arms didn't act on his own.
"Stand up." The voices said, swimming in his head. He stood. He couldn't control his own body. They took away his clothes, did something to them, put new ones on. He felt something on his head, a hat perhaps. "Walk." He walked. As he looked over to his side, he saw Kanou-san laying there silently. He tried to sleep, but his mouth slipped, wouldn't work on his own. Stairs, carpets in the hallway. The guard at the desk stared at them. "Smile." He smiled, added a wave. The guard relaxed, nodded at them. His mind screamed no, his eyes blinked behind the glasses.
See me! See me! Help me, I'm Ayase...
The hands were at his back again, pushing him into a car. The sky was dark. How late was it? The door closed. Ayase wanted to beat at the huge boulders sitting at his sides, but instead his head rolled forward. He felt tears behind his eyes, but his hands wouldn't even raise to wipe them away. The voice spoke once again:
"Hello gorgeous."
Ayase screamed.
Kanou POV
He woke because something wasn't right. The condo was cold, and the lights were off. He shivered, and walked to the thermostat.
49 degrees, what the fuck Ayase?
He turned it up to 78.5, just the way it was always supposed to be and stopped. The door at the end of the hallway was open, the light on. He walked toward it slowly, as if in a trance. As he stopped just adjacent the doorframe, he took a deep breath. At the time, he was being paranoid. Later, he knew. As he stepped into the room, he noticed one thing only.
The bed was a mess.
Why was this such a big deal? Ayase was in the bathroom. Why did the state of the bed matter?
Because this bed was never a mess. Never. Even when Kanou would leave it to use the restroom, he would return to it with smooth sheets, Ayase blinking up at him through long, dark blonde lashes. He would smooth the sheets again, then smile.
Kanou sprinted into the living room and turned on all the lights. Where was he? His heart began to pound, then he sighed a breath of relief when he saw the slip of white on the table. Ayase had left him a note, of course, because he'd gone out.
At 11:00 at night.
Kanou snatched up the slip, expecting to see a happily scrawled message from the teen, but his heart dropped. The note held a number.
528-4911.
Ayase.
Kanou grabbed his work phone and dialed the number.
Please, please, not again.
"Hello Kanou. We've been waiting for your call."
The nightmare had started again. "What have you sick bastards done with him?" He growled, but the voice only laughed. He heard a scream in the background and lurched.
"You obviously don't care, you don't even sleep in the same bed as him." Kanou's hand tightened on the paper.
"I've got money, is that what you want?" He forced the cracks from his voice, keeping it smooth and neutral. The voice chuckled again.
"Oh no, we don't want that." There was another scream. Ayase. Kanou blinked. "We just want you to suffer."
"Kanou-san!" The line went dead. Kanou stood in the living room, heaving in deep breaths. All that was in his mind was Ayase. What was the last thing he'd said to him?
"The class was stupid..." Memories came flooding back. Ayase with his hands in his lap, not looking at him. He, staring at the T.V. screen, ignoring him. Why...why would you do that to someone that you loved?
Kanou immediately called 3 numbers.
"Someya, I need you to check your bar and call other ones around. Ayase's been taken again."
"Kuba, you and your brother need to drive the streets now. Ayase's missing."
"Gion, all the cameras in the city. Or as many as you can. No, all of them, Ayase's gone."
Of course they were all on it in seconds. Of course, because of him, and also because of the fact that...it was Ayase. And they loved Aya-chan.
Kanou grabbed his jacket, a loaded revolver, and headed down the stairs.
The security guard nodded at him, then laid down the magazine as he came closer.
"Yes, Kanou?" The man said deeply. He happened to know about him, which was why he was at this builiding.
"Ayase left out that front door with someone else, and you didn't stop him?" The man blinked. Kanou was on him in a split-second. "He was taken," He said in the man's face, fistfuls of his collar in his hands,"I need security tapes."
The man nodded, then sputtered. Kanou released him as they made their way behind the desk, and into the back room. The control room.
"Only 2 people left the building in the last hour, sir." The man squawked, and Kanou bent low over the screen.
"Then show me those two people."
The man fast forwarded, and then stopped. 2 woman walked out, talking loudly. They were both tall, with huge purses over their arms. Kanou shook his head, the man fast forwarded some more.
2 men walked out, on either side of a young girl withl brown curly hair. The man said something in the girl's ear, and she smiled and waved at the security guard. He nodded at her, and returned to the computer.
"Pause it." The guard complied. Kanou leaned in. The men were holding the girl's arms.
Duh.
Kanou slammed his fist on the desk. He breathed out. "Thank. You." He said slowly, and then tore out of the room, and the building.
...
At the office, Someya held a recording device, and Gion was ready to trace the phone call. Kanou picked up his cell phone, and called once more. It rang an agonizing 4 times before someone picked up. Gion was ready on tracking it, and Someya held the recorder closer.
Ayase whimpered out unintelligible words, and Kanou's stomach twisted.
"Let me speak to him." Gion looked up at him sharply. Voices whispered, and one answered him. "You have 1 minute." Someya sighed out, and leaned it in closer.
Ayase's voice broke through. "Kanou-san? Is-is that you?" Kanou like his heart was on overdrive.
"Ayase, it's me baby, I'm coming for you. Wait, can you see right now? Say yes or no."
"No." The voice was hardly audible, and background people laughed.
Kanou cursed in his mind, and then spoke again, softer. "Ayase, I'm going to need you to say good-bye in a minute, and soon as he has phone, yell out everything you can touch or hear. Understand? This will help. Okay? Now."
"Good-bye, Kanou-san." There was some sort of shuffling over the phone. Kanou listened close. Gion nodded. He laughed in his head. They had traced the phone. The voice laughed again. Kanou tensed.
"He's going to die. You are never going to see him again." Shuffling again. "Any last words, Ayase?"
"Kanou...American Freddie, N-Nightmare, Ha-Halloween, Skyscapers! Skyscapers on Ju-"
The line went dead. Kanou cursed, and threw the phone across the room, where it hit the wall and fell to the ground.
Homare burst into the room, breathing hard. "Misao is coming, we just drove the whole city, no trace-" Kanou roared, and the coffee table lay in 2 pieces. All 3 others in the room stared. Kanou's rage turned to embarrassment, and he grabbed at his laptop. Someya silently picked up the recorder and played back the audio. "American Freddie...Nightmare...Halloween..." Kanou searched Freddie. An American movie popped up immediately. He clicked on it, and it told of a man who killed children in their dreams...but only the children on Elm street.
"Ayase is in the June Skyscraper on Elm Street!" He shouted, causing everyone to jump.
"How do you..." Homare started, but Kanou just shushed him.
"Let's go." Everyone peeled out of the office.
Ayase POV
Hurt. I hurt...all over. Why are they slapping me again? What did I do? I was still...I let him in...Kanou-san...help me, please, I know what they're going to do when they're done. They do want you to suffer...Oh Kanou...soon...
Kanou POV
"Someya, what did you say about the room?"
Someya coughed, and answered, "My cousin lives in America. Halloween occurs on the 31st, which is 13 backwards."
Homare blinked as they silently picked their way through the back door. "How do we know that he's on the 13th floor and not the 31st?"
Kanou sighed out exasperatedly. He was so sick of these idiots. "Because why Someya?"
"Because the hertz measurement of frequency was lower than what it would be in a large spacious room. And on the 31st floor, there would only be large rooms since that's the penthouse. So Ayase is in a small room on the 13th floor."
Homare looked around the corner, then signalled for them to continue. "How do you know this?" He whispered.
Someya rolled her eyes. "Hertz-frequency of sound, you use it to-never mind."
Kanou felt himself floating, lifting to where Ayase was. Could he feel him? Did he know he was being rescued? Did it matter now?
Ayase POV
"Ohhh wow," The larger man groaned. Ayase felt tears running down his face as the man whispered something in his ear. "You sure are pretty, you know that?" Ayase's body trembled. Pain. In his back, again. Searing, awful horrid pain and as soon as the man was finished, he suddenly was aware of the blood running down his back. The man finally left, and there was suddenly shouting. No, was it starting already? No, noo, no, Kanou-san help...
Kanou POV
There were six. He recognized only one. The one who was an assisstant for a member in the yakuza. His blood boiled as he knocked two of the heads together. They slid to the ground. Homare shot one in the leg, while he cracked the rib of another. The men crumpled, and the last two held up the guns as if they were really going to live. Kanou's mouth twitched, and he shot each in the hand. More yelling. Homare kicked one in the head with some kind of kung-fu move, and then stared at the other until he too, joined his friends on the ground. Gion filmed the entire thing, while telling Misao over the phone that this was the right building.
Kanou pulled the assistant to his feet. He'd been to meetings, seen Ayase no doubt. He felt his arm already cocked back, and he knocked the shit out of him.
The man groaned on the ground, clutching at his stomach. Kanou grabbed him up by the collar and threw him against the wall.
"Where-the hell-is he?" He spoke lowly. The man's head raised, and he laughed wildly. Kanou punched him across the nose. The vessel broke, and blood stained his hands. He ignored it. "Where is he?" The man's head raised slowly again. He rolled on his neck to look Kanou directly in the eyes.
"You're not gonna want him anymore." He said softly, and a smile spread slowly over his face. He let his head drop once again. "Look behind the door." Kanou dropped him an walked toward the door.
The only thing behind it was an empty room. He almost punched a hole in the wall when he noticed the other door in the room. He looked back. Homare and Someya looked down, and Gion clutched his camera. Kanou turned back to the door. It was a closet of some sort. He turned the handle.
Ayase POV
Hurt. Again. Is that all anyone can feel? Hurt? Names, they said. Kanou wouldn't want him because of the names. His back hurt like hell. He wanted to call out, but his voice was frozen, or dry, or just taken away from him. Even if he could cry, would anyone hear? Would anyone care anyway? Or...would they even help?
How long has it been? He thought. The next one...he would have entered by now. He moved his eyes beneath the blindfold.
Help.
Suddenly he heard the door open again. He shifted in the metal chateau, trying to move his wrists before the man opened the door. Tears filled up again behind the blindfold and he tried hard not to let them fall again.
Kanou POV
He pulled open the door and all his breath left him. He thought he might vomit.
Ayase hung in the closet like some sort of animal. His wrists were tied behind him, and he was blindfolded and naked. That wasn't even the worst part. Dried cum and saliva covered his body, with small bruises covering his arms, chest, and torso. Ayase's legs were decorated with scars and cuts. His lips were bruised and raw. Kanou felt his stomach turn. Ayase's jaw moved.
"I'm...y-yours." He gasped out. Tears trickled out from underneath the blindfold, and he bit his lower lip, choking on sobs. Kanou silently pulled out his knife and cut his bonds. Ayase began to hyperventilate, and he fell to the bottom of the metal closet. He slowly reached up and removed the blindfold. As he looked up at Kanou, his hand came up to cover his mouth. He began crying harder, and slid onto the floor in a crumpled heap.
Kanou stared at his back in horror. Carved into his back were two names. The cuts were open and bleeding, the skin pink and grotesque next to it. He'd never seen anything like it in all of his days in the yakuza. His legs buckled, but he held steady. His stomach thumped, and threatened to empty itself onto the picture.
Ayase sobbed on the closet floor, his body curling into itself. Kanou took a breath, and knelt down next to him. He covered the boy's body with his jacket, and Ayase screamed with pain by the touch of it on his back. Kanou held back his tears as he took his lover's naked body into his arms. Ayase clung to him, and Kanou felt his heart pounding again. He carried him out of the room, and everyone looked up at him. Homare's eyes widened, then his face slid into noncomittal again. Someya stopped kicking the man on the ground and stared at Ayase, mouthing words. Kanou covered Ayase loosely again, and they all looked away. Kanou stared straight at Gion. He gulped, and took 2 pictures of Ayase's back. Kanou silently left the room.
He stopped, and turned back to look at Someya. "You know what to do." He said softly. And he was gone.
...
The condo was silent, except for Ayase's whimpering everytime Kanou touched the medicated cloth to his back. He tried not to let Ayase see him cry, but the boy's tear-filled eyes and delicate body caused him to just wipe them away angrily. Ayase blinked up at him slowly, and Kanou kissed his forehead.
"Ayase...," He started, but his voice cracked, and he looked away in shame. "I'm so, so, so sorry." He whispered. "I-I didn't mean to..." He didn't realize that he was crying until he felt the tear on his hand. Ayase crawled slowly toward him. His eyes told him everything.
"Kanou...they...took turns." Kanou stared at him. "You can't do this alone." With five words, Kanou understood. Silently, he pulled loose sweatpants over Ayase's cuts, and a huge t-shirt. Together, they headed down the hallway toward the car outside.
Wow. I should really just die, huh? Hmm... I just read the reviews. Maybe not. Anyway...
READ THIS NOTE:
For anyone who didn't understand: Ayase was raped by two of the six men. They were going to take turns with him. The two men who'd taken their turn already got to carve their names into Ayase's back. This was going to continue until everyone had...done that. Sorry, it was so brutal...
Okay, responding, time to put on my happy happy joy joy mask...
Chapter 1:
Onige-a: I'm glad to hear about M-preg. I wasn't a big fan of it because I had no idea where the baby came out, but it's super cute anyway, isn't it?
Cerberus: I LOVE YOU!
Romanovna: What the hell is your username saying? Seriously, I've been wondering for about 10 minutes. Get back to me on that.
VDay Bear: Lol. Great to know.
spinel: Get a picture on your username thingie. And why the hell would Aya-chan cheat on Kanou, he's hardly allowed outta the house! And he's too shy to come onto someone anyhow...thanks for reviewing.
ALOVETOKILL: YOU ARE NEVER TOO LATE!
Mini Blue Skirt: Oh yes. Ukes for the FUCKING WIN!
Chapter 2:
Cerberus: I apologize for lack of lemon...*bats eyes and types furiously*
aoshi139: I like your cat...and thanks.
Onige-a: I ALREADY APOLOGIZED FOR THE LACK OF LEMON!
8GreenMoon: You are so professional, like me when I'm reviewing someone else's story...Hahaha, thanks dude!
Mini Blue Skirt: Gee, I'm glad that I did the different points of view now. Aweeesoooome.
If you see this, mention the word bananas in your review. Heehee, let's catch who didn't see. X333
Chapter 3:
Onige-a: Are you always trying to be the first to review...? Anyways, thanks! I totally thought they were out of character, so I'm glad they weren't portrayed as such!
Don't Preach: Oh goodness, thank you so much! And as for the birthing class...haha...ltook that idea and ran with it...if that's totally okay.
ALOVETOKILL: Your username is gonna piss me off man...so hard to type...and thanks.
lenkagamine133: I 3 LEN KAGAMINE. I assume you do as well. And thank you for loving :)
Oashisu: I know right? It turned out differently than I thought it would.
superfan8: Thank you, I know you're my superfan. X3
Mini Blue Skirt: You so get these characters...we should totally talk. And I should stop saying totally, I've said it like, 3 times in this chapter response already...
Chapter 4:
superfan8: I know right! That was sooo my favorite part!
Onige-a: I know right? I FREAKING KNOW RIGHT? I was like,this is so sweet, I'm gonna die of a heart attack! ( I didn't, btw.)
Mini Blue Skirt: Haha, thanks. I'm just naturally sarcastic and slightly snotty. And I know, poor Kanou...
Okay, those of you who made it down here, I made a few references to other movies, books, and stories in these chapters. Anyone who can reference all of them (they're kind of hard) will get something...well, I'll tell ya when someone wins.
Here's an example of one...
In this chapter, Kanou tells Ayase to scream out everything he heard and could see when when they say goodbye. This is a reference to Taken. In that movie, the girl's father says, "They are going to take you. When they do, shout out everything you can see...". These are hidden, and they're kinda everywhere. When you think you found em all, PM me, and we can chat. Lolz. I'm out. The contest ends when the second to last chappy goes up, okay? I'll tell when that happens. Bye bye, loves!
EstelleJ