"Yes. Right there. Nnn."
Moans and ragged breathing filled the room. "Harder. Ahhh. Y-yesssss. Ohhh. Now Kai."
Reita threw his head back as the dark haired drummer gave him exactly what he asked for. As the blonde came his muscles clenched around Kai's cock causing him to reach his orgasm. Spent, he collapsed onto the other until he was able to see straight again. He pulled out slowly, enjoying the way the blonde shivered under him and rolled onto his back. Reita flung one arm up over his face and the other blindly reached out towards the drummer.
Kai laughed, knowing that the arm wasn't searching for him but the pack of cigarettes on the night stand. He took the pack and lit one for each of them, carefully placing one in the still seeking hand. The blonde grunted his thanks as he brought the smoke to his lips and inhaled deeply. When he finished smoking he finally lifted the arm covering his eyes to crush out the butt. He stretched gingerly, testing to see how sore he was, before moving up to recline against the pillows. "Okay, spill it," he said as he looked pointedly at Kai.
"Nani?" Kai asked with a confused laugh.
"I know that something is going on between Uruha and Aoi. I'm betting you either knew what it is or at least have a pretty good idea."
"Oh that. Well, neither of them has come out and said anything to me yet. I'm guessing they have a little something going on though."
"What kind of something though?"
"Didn't you notice that Aoi was walking a little funny yesterday?"
"Yeah. What of it?"
"It wasn't that long ago that you used to walk around like that you know."
"Eh? You think that Uru and Aoi are, uh, together like that?"
"Hai. Although it seems like something isn't going right between them. It looked like Aoi was ignoring Uruha as much as he could at the shoot."
"I guess we'll see if they've worked it out in a little while. Shouldn't you be making dinner though? You did invite everyone over tonight."
"I know, I know. I'll grab a quick shower and get started," he said. As he moved to leave the bed his phone rang. "Moshi moshi."
"Hey Aoi. What's the matter?"
"Oh that's too bad. If you want I can make a plate up and bring it to you later."
"Aoi, shh. Aoi, calm down. That's it, I'm coming over right now."
"No. I'll be there soon. No. No. I'm coming over whether you like it or not. Alright, just try to relax until I get there." He hung up and turned to Reita, who was eyeing him curiously. "Get dressed babe. There's something wrong with Aoi and we need to go check on him."
"Do you think it has anything to do with whatever's between him and Uruha?"
"I hope not. Aoi sounded like he was in really bad shape and if Uruha's behind it I might have to kick his ass."
The couple arrived at Aoi's and Kai didn't even bother knocking. He took out his key ring and used the spare he had for each member of the band. As they entered they noticed that none of the lights were on even though evening was approaching. Kai reached out and flipped the switch for the entryway and stared in horror. There was dried blood on the wall leading into the living room and pooled on the floor below it. He raced towards the guitarists bedroom, calling his name. What the hell had happened here? He tried the bedroom door but it was locked. "Aoi? Are you alright?" he waited a few seconds but got no response. "Aoi? Answer me or I'm breaking this door down."
They heard a muffled scream and that was all Kai needed to act on. He took a step back and kicked as hard as he could sending it flying in and banging against the wall. Aoi was laying awkwardly on his stomach above the blankets of the bed. One look was all that was needed to see exactly where the blood in the other room had come from. Both men rushed to the bed to soothe the injured raven. Reita climbed onto the bed as gently as he could and brushed the hair out of the dark haired guitarists face. Kai knelt on the other side of the bed so he could look at Aoi's face. He could see the bloody and bruised bite mark on the ravens neck and the puffy, red, tear stained eyes. His gaze flickered to his lovers face and he saw the distress mirroring his own in them. "Aoi?" he asked softly. "What happened?"
The guitarist shook his head mutely.
"Did Uruha do this to you?"
The look of surprise followed by fear confirmed it. "You leave this to me. I'll go have a little chat with him," he said menacingly as he opened and closed his fists.
"Kai?" Reita called.
"Yeah babe?"
"Don't kill him. I'd miss you if you ended up in jail."
"For you then. I'll just make him wish he were dead," he said as he dropped a kiss on the blondes head. "Take care of Aoi while I'm gone."
"I will."
When he heard the front door slam a minute later he stretched out next to the older man and held him close as he sobbed. After the raven had cried himself out went into the bathroom and ran a hot bath. He couldn't even imagine the agony the other man was in after being treated that harshly. Regardless of the rocky start they had been through, Kai had never done that to him.
Once the bath was ready he returned to the room and helped the battered guitarist across the hall and eased him into the streaming water. He sat on the side of the tub and waited while the raven let the water offer what relief it could. "If you want to talk about I'm here," Reita said after a while.
Aoi opened one eye and peered up at the bassist before shaking his head. This wasn't something that the blonde would understand. His relationship with Kai seemed like a good one. He didn't think that the other would be able to understand what something like this did to a person. "That's fine. If you change your mind later that's an open offer," Reita said as he absentmindedly rubbed the scar on his left wrist. "You know, you've never said exactly how you got those scars," Aoi said quietly.
"Yeah. It's not exactly the kind of thing you share," he gave his standard answer. After thinking for a moment he changed his mind. "Kai gave me these."
"Kai?" "Yeah. When we first got together. The first few days he was pretty much an ass. Then one night he lost his temper and he had this paddle," Reita said as he lifted the back of his shirt. There were very fine lines crisscrossing his back. "There's more of those on my legs, too. Then there was this, uh, leather strap thing. It had these cuffs that went on the arms and here," he said as he lifted a leg and rolled down his sock, showing a similar scar on his ankle. "If he did that, then why in the hell did you stay with him?" Aoi asked incredulously.
"There isn't really an easy explanation for that. Part of me was afraid that if I left he'd do something even worse next time. That was only a small part though. After this happened and he saw what exactly he had done he changed. I was kind of out of it when he came back in and cleaned me up afterwards. I'm not even sure if he knows this but Kai was crying when he bandaged me."
The two men sat quietly for a while after that, each lost in his own thoughts. The water had started to cool by then so Reita helped the other man out of the bath and back to bed. He pulled the covers down and then tucked them in around the raven. Pleased, he noted that Aoi hadn't leaned on him quite so much as before the bath.
He went to the kitchen and made toast and tea for the guitarist. It was one of the few things he could manage without burning anything. When the elder tried to refuse the light fare, Reita pouted and told him that if he didn't eat anything Kai would think the blonde hadn't cared for him properly. With a sigh the guitarist the raven picked at the toast at least finishing the tea. "This wasn't the first time," Aoi said when Reita brought him a second cup of tea.
"When did it start?"
"The other day. He was out drinking and the bartender called me to come pick him up. I've done it so many times before that I didn't think anything of it. Once I got him out of the bar he just started acting funny, you know?"
Aoi went on to describe, briefly what had happened that night. With only a little prompting on the bassists part he talked about the events of last night. He almost made it through without breaking down again. Almost. Reita sat closer to him and ran his hand over the ravens back as he finished talking and then cried himself to sleep. He crept out of the bed and Kai, he needed to know about the other night.
"Kinda busy right now Rei-kun," Kai answered.
"I know. There's more though."
"More what?"
"Remember when Uruha called early the other morning?"
"Yeah. Why?"
"Well Aoi just told me that he was raped that night too. In the parking lot across from the bar. By Uruha."
"Fucking bastard!" Rieta heard a sickening thud followed by Uruha groaning. "Are you sure I can't kill him now?"
"Not yet. I'd ask Aoi but he's resting right now."
"Fine." Another punch connected followed by muffled curses. "Is that it?"
"That's it."
"All right. I'll see you in a little bit baby. Oh and can you call Ruki," smash, "and tell him we're going to have to reschedule dinner?" thunk.
"Sure thing."