Please if you notice any instances where I revert to Ren/Kyouko inform me of them. I read through this 3 times and I think I got them all but I was just so tired that my brain kept putting them in Cain and Setsu's place
Kaik- funny thing is I thought the same thing but the story got away from me when I made them wait there was too much innuendo and sexual frustration and no end to the story in sight.
There are too many reviewers to thank individually or maybe I'm just incredably lazy. I'm really grateful for every review they make me smile when I'm sad. That's sad. But oh well I'm lame. Thank you every one.
"Sign here," the boss instructed Setsu to sign the paper in front of her. Not even caring to attempt to read it she signed it. Cain however was more suspicious.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I support love. Love is the purest most rewarding treasure us humans have. Love is," Cain ended Lori's speach with his own cynical tirade.
"Shut up old man. This isn't love it's incest. Setsu likes playing house so of course she's thrilled. I on the other hand know you too well to trust those documents. None of this is legal not even the adoption. You forged a bunch of documents and I wanna know why before I concent to anything on them." He ground his teeth wishing Lori would take his tiny woman and leave. Setsu was the only woman he wanted to see in their apartment.
"How you wound me Cain." Lori held his hand over his heart to cover his false injury. " Sign here and we'll leave." The papers looked authentic enough but he had refused to let Cain or Setsu read them.
Setsu pouted at Cain for pushing the document away.
"Cain sign the paper." She forced the pen into his hand. Even if he didn't want to marry her she was going to force him. She didn't care what the boss wanted from them, he wasn't as bad as Cain thought.
Cain threw the pen at Lori and tried to grab Setsu but she backed away from him. Tears in her eyes she slapped him and ran to the bathroom Lori's woman right behind her.
"If you don't give her what she wants she throws a fit. So. Cute. My. Daughter. Is. " Cain looked sick at the choice of Lori's words.
"Boss I know you've changed and become this love advocate but I will never trust you. Setsu will never be your daughter."
"My sister has forgiven me my crimes against her, why can't you? You of all people understand what it is like to love some one you shouldn't. To think of her long arms and legs wrapped around you in passionate embrasses. To hope she never falls in love as you are praying she does." Lori held a cigar to his lips. "I once felt for my sister what you feel for yours. Even now I imagine myself still in love with her but I did not have a chance to marry her. You do. I offer a life with the one you love."
"You offer a life under your thumb." Sneered Cain lighting Lori's cigar for him.
"I truly am sorry you ever had to witness what I did. I am truly sorry I did what I did but then again I am grateful for what I did. I love her too Cain."
"The only reason I didn't mind that they sent her to you is because I know all that. And try as I might I can never hate you. You gave me the one thing in this world that matters. But you still can not have Setsu." Cain ripped the documents into the ashtray. Most of the paper scraps landed on the floor but he was content to lite the few in the tray on fire.
"You and I are so alike. The only difference is Setsu doesn't fight her feelings. That woman of mine loved me with her whole heart and soul. She was just tainted by societies view of us." Cain stopped listening to him the moment Setsu emerged from the bathroom. She began packing immediately intending to leave with their uncle and the strange woman.
"You know Lori, I'll bet that tiny girl of your is unaware of all the facts. She has no idea she's dating a monster. At least your wife and son knew what you were. And Setsu knows what I am. You and I may be alike but I am honest. Can you ever make the same claim?" Swiftly he stood and flipped Setsu suitcase onto the floor. He took her clothes she was packing from her hands and threw them down.
"Goodbye Boss. I will be keeping Setsu." Cain held her wrist in an iron grip not caring if he bruized her.
"Ow." She whined scratching at his hand.
"Because you and I are so much alike." Lori said placing a new set of documents on the table. "It makes you wonder about that mother of yours doesn't it. Was it really unwanted?"
Jelly bowed to Setsu picking up Lori's coat and pulling it onto his left arm.
"Don't make her mistakes Cain. True love is the easiest thing to find. The most difficult gift to give some one. And the hardest thing to hold on to. In the end once it's lost even if regained, it can never really be pure again. My dear Setsu don't let that one push you around." The word daughter had been on the tip of his tongue but he knew better than to dream of her being his.
Two of the dark figures left the room leaving the remaining two immersed in their thoughts. Setsu held her breath as Cain pulled her in to his chest. She didn't want his smell to make her happy as it always did. If he didn't want he as his wife what did he want her for? He had called this incest and not love. Accused her of playing house.
"I don't wanna play house." She cried clawing at his arms to get away. She didn't want to love him if this was all a game he played to make her happy. None of it meant anything unless he loved her.
"Setsu there's a reason our mother pretends there is no down side to anything." She stilled her wrestling and looked up at him. " There are things wrong with her mentally. That's why she's so sensitive when it comes to you. That's why dad has always mistreated me for loving you too much and ultimately why he sent me away. It was all to protect you from the truth." He pressed their heads together and began to explain.
"Boss is in charge of mom's family. All the money belongs to him and back before you were born we lived in his mansion. He was hardly there so it was fine and when he did come home it was to give us our monthly allowance. We were dependent on him," Setsu closed her eyes imagining the three of them living in those mansion walls. Little Cain waiting by the door for uncle Lori. The boss would stomp in with his leather boots and black glasses hiding his eyes from the light for they were easily irritated due to a hangover. Money and presents would line his pockets.
"Mom and dad, they wanted another baby before I got to old to raise us close." Setsu looked into his eyes as he choked the word close. "Mom and the boss were raised so far apart they barely knew eachother. Seperate boarding schools you see. Dad saw what that had done to Boss' mind. It had warped him against his sister, in his mind she wasn't his sister but his property. He was the boss she his toy. So when mom decided to go and request an increase in our allowance he sent me with her. I was supposed to protect her."
Setsu could see it all as clear as if she were watching a movie. Their mother skipping down the lavishly carpeted hall of white. Cain slightly intimidated by the stern unhappy gandfathers lining the walls. It was as if their eyes followed you casting silent judgements. The wooden double doors with intricate designs carved into them loomed at the end of the floor. The gates to salvation from the angry grandfathers? The gates to the devil's office? The end of the road.
Their mom looked just like Setsuka only with a constant smile adorning her face. Skipping down the hall confident her brother would approve of her choice to conceive another child. He was a doting brother and would gladly increase their monthly allowance.
A gruff, "enter," welcomed them into his office. A giant portrait of his mother greeted Cain when he stepped into the elegant office. It was tidy and even compared to the rest of the mansion seemed expensive. He never quite knew what his uncle thought of him but he had to love him to keep that tiny framed photo of him on his desk. Cain was caught up in his own musings paying no mind to the adults in the room.
"What do you need another one for? That one will receive more than enough inherritance to keep that gold digger of yours happy." Lori pointed his cigar at Cain. He knew nothing of love except what he felt for the woman sitting before him. A woman he could never have. She had said as much years ago when she fell in love. She married that poor man and gave him a child then they had to move in here. He had grown weary of seeing their faces happy and carefree.
"Brother please don't say such things. I have always wanted two children and I feel now is the right time. You and I were born so far apart we never got to bond as children. I wish for Cain to bond with Set."
Lori snorted, "keeping with that theme? Name the child after me won't you. I too long for a child, ever since my damn son disowned me. Allow me to adopt Cain and I shall triple your monthly stipend." Cain was drawn into the conversation at the mention of his name.
"Brother no. I want my children raised as siblings not cousins and I will not have Cain sent away to some robot making boarding school." Lori did not like her defiant tone. He raised himself on his arms looming over her. "Anything else. Name it and it's yours. Just not my son." She tried to pacify him pulling Cain behind her. Not naive to her brothers lascivious gazes upon her body she had some inkling as to what he would ask. Still it gave her a start when his hand grazed down her arm.
"You know what I want? I want you to quit calling me that." Cain motioned for her to get rid of Cain then turned removing his heavy coat.
Even as she ushered Cain out the door and instructed him to go play she beamed brightly. The door shut leaving Cain in the darkened hall with the grandfathers who seemed more dishgusted than angry now. His mothers muffled cries compelled him to crack the door open. In fear he stayed hidden. Cain was disgusted by the sight of his mother's pale back. Her white dress scrunched up around her hips with tears and stains of red marring the flowy material. She was seated on the boss' desk with him in front of her. They were hugging only his mom looked more like she were crying. Lori seemed pleased with himself as he pulled her tighter against him. He held a knife at her make leaving marks all over it to ensure her husband would know? To make her remember every time she saw the scars?
"Ouch. No," she shoved at his broad shoulders tears streaming down her face. "Stop it already. You got what you wanted. Ow!" Lori barked a laugh cutting deeper into her back. Finding Cain he gave him a menacing look that sent the boy running to his room. Shame and guilt that he could not save his mother drove the boy to violence. He broke all the nice presents Lori had brought home for him. He trashed the bedroom no longer thinking of it as his.
"After that we moved out. Mom was never the same. Not even after you were born." Setsu was busy putting two and two together as Cain lit a cigarette.
She looked nothing like their father. There was some intangible bond she had always felt torward her uncle. Lori had raped their mother.
"Why did dad send me to him knowing what kind of man he is?"
"Don't ask questions you know the answer to. A smart girl like you has already guessed the secret of your birth. Dad didn't think even Lori was that depraved to rape his own daughter. I doubt he is as well." Cain let the words hang in the air as he thought of how alike he was to his uncle. Niether of them would ever dream of harming Setsu like that.
He stepped away from her and went over to sign his name on the dotted line. Lori had filled out everything and all that was needed was their signatures. They could turn these in and be lawfully married.
"He probably sold somebody's kidney for all this. Be grateful Setsu." Cain handed her the papers to sign again. She was confused but took the pen and scribbled her name. "I will always love you Setsuka."
I hoped you liked it. I think that's it for this one. There is however another Cain/Setsu story. It was the original but I felt it too dark so I'm not sure if I could post it. Think the rape scene only add child abuse and murder. I don't know why I'm such a morbid person. If you want to read that one it will be called My Beautiful Setsu. They might have been named wrong but meh. I feel bad for making Lori seem evil but he really isn't he's just like Setsu and Cain is like their mother. I woke up at 3 am and started writing this chapter. So tired. I feel bad because one reviewer I believe it was kitty.O said they would like to read the version of Cain and Abel I mentioned before and I always meant to tell them where I read it but I forgot. Truth is I read it on a website I found doing a google search and I don't recall which one it was it could have been their wiki page or scriptures and folktales: (www . pitt. edu/~dash/cain. html) but I honestly don't remember. Sorry.