Chapter 4. Shaking Hands
Interesting. Interesting, indeed. Here he was listening to a proposal that should have never been placed on the table in the first place. It was his fault, actually. He miscalculated the movements of his pawns, now he had to endure the help from a supposed enemy. Though there was one thing that he learned from his mistake. This wasn't some normal kid that he swiped off the streets. Instead of babbling with relief on release, he wanted to stick to him and use him. His audacity was off the charts and maybe even admirable.
"Oh, and what condition would that be?"
"You give me all the money that you collect from my family."
Katsu arched his eyebrows in a mixture of confusion but there was a touch of impressment somewhere between all the creasing. The request was simple, really. He could easily agree to the boy, after all, he wouldn't be in need of it when he would be locked down in solitary confinement.
With a flick of his wrist, he noted blandly. "You don't look like the greedy type."
"You don't look like the murdering type either." Kyo rebounded back just as quickly. "I need it for something."
"And what would that something be?" In all honesty, his mind had already agreed to the boy's wants. But he wanted some listed bullets from the boy to sedate himself.
Kyo shrugged his shoulder, seeming to not mind the deeper divulge into his should be own personal usage.
"I need to run away from this hellhole."
Katsu snorted. Great, this kid had parental issues. The gesture of exasperation was quick to rifle up Kyo. The solemnity of Kyo's situation was obviously not understood by an outsider that stood outside the zodiac. Living with Akito would only cause him lacerating pain that would only wind down to a horrific expiration of his existence.
"You don't know me." Eyes narrowed, Kyo spat, "The head of my family will kill me by the end of this year."
Kyo might have colored it a deeper shade than it was but he sought it was deemed perfect. He had to sprinkle the sadistic nature of Akito somewhere and let it be known by his kidnapper.
Ridiculing thoughts instantly stopped riffling around in Katsu's head at Kyo's words. His words were too sublime for Katsu's taste. He didn't like it. "Don't lie to me."
"I'm not." Kyo gave him a hard look and if possible leaned even closer to him. The rails that Kyo leaned against whined in protest but Kyo ignored it.
"Then," Katsu straddled the chair again. "Humor me."
"You could say it's tradition." Kyo leaned back as the scent of absinthe wafted off of Katsu's presence. It was a scent that Kyo was far from finding fond. "Within our family there are fourteen people who are born that will each hold a burden of …certain attributes. Of those fourteen people, one is the master of us all – he controls us."
"What attributes are you referring to?"
"I can't tell you that." Surprisingly, Katsu took Kyo's narrowed platform of information quite well. He just nodded and made an indication for him to continue. "So, you can say that I hold the worst attributes and, because of that, I was sealed with the fate of death."
Kyo felt odd. Panic did not overcome him like it should be when he was so nonchalantly setting the parallels of their family's curse. He felt like he was telling a faint story dashed with some silver fairytale dust.
"These attributes can't be corrected?" Katsu was giving Kyo a look that almost seemed as if he cared about his condition. Who knows, maybe he does. Internally, Kyo laughed. The first time he received even a touch of care, it was from his kidnapper.
"My fate was sealed the day I was born."
A/N: I'm so sorry that I haven't updated this story in so long. Rest assure, this isn't the whole version of chapter four. It's just that I felt bad for not updating this for so long that I decided to give you a little 'treat' per se. I haven't been feeling inspired as of late thus I haven't really been writing.
Once I do feel inspired (hopefully, soon), I will complete chapter four and post it. I will take this down, and replace it with the completed chapter.
I might change the content of this chapter (I might change the plot a little too) a little since I don't really like this chapter too much either.
If you like "Checkmate" then you might like my other story "Hostage". Kyo also gets kidnapped in there as well though the scenario is slightly different.
Please R&R. Reviews inspire me and make me happy. No flames please. Constructive criticisms are always accepted with open arms.
Once again, I apologize. I hope you enjoyed this even with its brevity.
6/21/2013