Tsubasa paced the room feeling helpless, Natsume was in pain and there was nothing in his power he could do to stop it. It had been a long time since Natsume had said something except murmuring a little as his fewer started to raise. It had been a long time since they had given the injection, Tsubasa wondered if the effects didn't stop soon.
The next time Tsubasa laid a hand on Natsume's forehead he found it a little lower. Then lower. Then lower. The temperature was falling bit after bit. Soon Natsume opened his eyes to look at Tsubasa.
"Oh thank god!" Tsubasa exclaimed. "Are you still in pain?"
Natsume shook his head tiredly.
Suddenly the door went up and the boss came into the room. Tsubasa didn't know if he had had someone to watch them and tell him when the effects were over or if he just had a really good timing. Natsume looked at them and pushed himself off the ground only to find out that his legs couldn't carry his weight and fell down again.
"Take him." The boss said and pointed at Natsume.
Tsubasa saw two men grabbing Natsume and forcing him on his feet. Natsume looked like he was about to faint. Suddenly he couldn't stop himself.
"Take me instead."
Every man in the cell stopped moving. The boss grinned at him, "What did you say?"
"I said take me instead."
The boss laughed as if it was a joke and then said to his men, "Take both of them." He smiled and went ahead. All the men smirked and transported Natsume and Tsubasa after him.
They walked through corridors until they came to a room. It was dark inside, an empty except for the shackles on the wall. They led Tsubasa and Natsume over to the shackles and bound them to the wall by their hands. Tsubasa glanced over at Natsume, he was panting clearly exhausted.
"Do what you want with them, just don't kill them." The boss said and left the room.
The others looked smiling at each other, then at Natsume and Tsubasa.
"We're going to make you tell us everything about the academy." One of them said and walked towards them with another. One for Tsubasa and one for Natsume, they stood before them. Giving no warning they just started punching then literally pounding them. It was just raining hits, never giving a break.
Minutes went by and Tsubasa got ready for the next punch, but it never came. He opened his eyes and saw that they were finally going away. He felt sore all over. Tsubasa looked at Natsume and met his eyes immediately, Natsume looked about just as bad as he thought he looked himself.
"You look pretty ugly, shadow." Natsume smirked.
Just as Tsubasa was about to answer him back, one of the men came forward and punched Natsume in the stomach. "No talking unless it's information on the academy!"
Natsume coughed and then smirked, "And what makes you think I'll give you any?"
The man hit Natsume again and then went back to his companions, Tsubasa could feel round two coming, and rightly so. Soon two others stepped up to them; apparently they had the pain alice. They immediately started drilling them with pain. The minutes started to flow together as the pain became never ending. Suddenly he could feel the pain slowly decreasing. The two men stopped at the same time, panting. They looked tired from using their alice's consistently. Tsubasa's body ached all over, and he felt like he couldn't even lift a finger. He was hoarse from yelling at them while the pain was highest. He cursed them. The thing that worried him most was that he hadn't heard a sound from Natsume. He looked over there, Natsume was panting, and his face was feverish and sweaty. Yet he still glared at them. The leader looked annoyed at Natsume, probably wondering when he would break. He smiled and got a whip. A crack sounded through the air. Tsubasa hadn't seen it but he heard Natsume grunt and looked in that direction. Natsume had a cut on his stomach where his shirt had been sliced. But Natsume still glared at him so he struck again. And again. And again. And again… He didn't stop until Natsume's head slumped down on his chest.
"Oi, you! Wake that fellow up!" the leader said and pointed at Natsume. The one he said it to went over and got a bucket of water. He threw the water on Natsume, but he didn't open his eyes.
"What the? Is he dead?" The man stuttered.
"Why don't you go over there and check?" The leader said, "If he is dead the boss won't be happy."
The man gulped and then went over to Natsume, Tsubasa followed his every move. He went closer and put his finger on Natsume's neck to find his pulse. He was first pale, but then he took a deep breath and said: "He has a pulse, but it is feint." He then moved his hand up towards Natsume's forehead, "He has a high fever. Never felt anything this high. What should we do?"
"I knew this would happen. To give a kid a drug with so many side effects just, on top of all we did to him the other day. Tch. So much trouble! You two drag them back to the cell!" The leader said and was about to step out of the room when.
"What did you do to him the other day?" Tsubasa asked angrily.
"Ho…" The leader smiled and turned around to look at Tsubasa, "We have a curious one here guys. Let me guess that is your junior in school, and you are his senior? Isn't it embarrassing to be protected so much by your junior? Look at how wounded he is compared to you his senior. You want to know what we did to him? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how we cut him, beat him, drowned him, gave him pain and the most fun thing electrocuted him. Oh, I enjoyed that moment, so fun to se him writhe in the pain of electric shock. We also did other things, but I don't remember boring things."
Tsubasa gritted his teeth "Damn you!"
"Oh, you want to know the side effects from the injection we gave him also? I was just getting there. I only remember a few: Dizziness, pain in the muscles, slight numbness, failure of lungs. But don't worry he strong for an eleven year-old. Who would have thought that someone so small could endure so much pain?" He went close to Tsubasa. "Has that stilled your curiosity?"
Tsubasa thrashed in his chains wanting to hit him. The leader just laughed and went out of the room. The other tied them down from the wall and dragged them back to their cell.
Tsubasa grunted as he felt his back hit the stone hard floor of the cell. He could hear Natsume get thrown in beside him, but he heard not further movement. He raised his head and looked at Natsume tears welled up in his eyes as he saw the kid lay there with sweat on his brow and a faint uneven breathing. Just thinking about how must pain he probably was in. Tsubasa inched closer to Natsume and curled up by his side crying because of the cruelty of it all. Soon he fell into an exhausted sleep.