OH MY GOD
I AM CRACKING UP SO HARD RIGHT NOW XD
Guest, your inappropriate and *wonderful* pun in your review to chapter 2 has made my freaking /week./ I love it, hahahaha! xDD
*cracks knuckles* I'm totally encouraged to write up the next part in this fic immediately, from that awesome comment! :D
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Rin balanced her packages in both hands with difficulty as she walked up the drive and tried to fumble with the door. Giving up after dropping some of the packages in a spectacularly embarassing manner, Rin put some of the things from the store down onto the porch, blushing, and taking a quick glance around to see if anyone spotted her accidental clumsiness.
Rin opened the door, one of her arms still full of bags, and leaving the rest on the porch for the moment.
"I'm home, Master!" Rin called out cheerfully, and placed the items from Master's shopping list on the table inside the house. She peeked her head into the kitchen, hearing the sound of water running. Master stood at the sink, washing some dishes.
Master turned around and smiled at Rin, putting the soapy plate in his hands down into the sink with a soft clatter.
"Welcome home, Rin," Master smiled, a little strangely. Rin smiled back, and exclaimed in excitement.
"Master, guess what? While I was out getting your things, I found that a new ice cream place has opened! I thought maybe you would like to take me, and Kaito, as well, at some point, or maybe, even tonight?" Rin grinned at the thought of Kaito's exuberence when it came to the sweet, frozen treat.
"Ah, yes, that's a good idea, Rin," Master seemed about to say something, but then stopped himself, smiling strangely again, and turning back to the sink.
"I'll go tell Kaito, right now!" Rin said, feeling excited at the thought of an outing together with the three of them.
"Ah, wait, Rin," Master called out to her as she turned to go down to Kaito's room. "Kaito isn't, ah, home right now, actually."
"What? He's not? Where did he go?" Rin frowned, a little confused.
"He went out with... some friends," Master lied smoothly, and smiled again at the petite blonde Vocaloid female. "He said they might be out very late, and not to wait up."
"Oh!" Rin's frown increased a little bit. "I... didn't know Kaito had any friends outside of the house. I've never seen him go to visit with anybody before."
"Yes, well..." Master seemed a little flummoxed at this, but recovered quickly with another little smile that Rin didn't return immediately. "He has them, but he doesn't always visit with them, all the time. You know how it is, Rin."
With that, Master seemed to dismiss her presence there, and returned his attention to the sink once more, rinsing off the soapy plate and placing it in the dish drainer. Rin cocked her head and nibbled on the inside of her lip for a moment, then shrugged her small shoulders and went back towards the front door to retrieve the rest of the packages from the porch.
Outside on the porch, Rin picked up the remaining bags, glancing around the neighborhood for a moment before heading back inside. It was a nice day outside, sunny, but not harsh, warm, but comfortably so, and not too humid. There were big, fluffy, white clouds in the robin's egg blue sky, and a slight breeze that felt refreshing blew across her skin and ruffled her hair.
Rin's eyes caught for a moment on the house next door. The front door was slightly ajar and moved a little bit in the breeze. Rin blinked, remembering that their neighbor in that house was on vacation at the moment. Master had mentioned something about keeping an eye on their house while they were away. Not that anything was likely to happen. It was a quiet neighborhood, and there was hardly any crime.
Rin wondered if she should go fetch Master, to point out the door being open on that house, but she shrugged to herself slightly, thinking, 'Why bother Master when I can just go over and take care of it for him?'
Rin trotted over to the partially open door, her arms still full of the remaining bags from the store. As she reached out with one hand to close the door, Rin paused, and a naughty, cute little smirk pasted itself across her small, feminine face.
After all, how many times did you get to check out other peoples' homes, when they weren't around? Rin allowed herself a little grin as a thrill went through her. It's not like anybody was watching, after all... right? Rin's head moved and her eyes quickly scanned the neighborhood. Not a person in sight. Rin grinned bigger and slipped inside the house.
It was bigger inside than it looked from outside. Rin's eyes wandered across the plush carpeting, noticing the color of the paint on the walls, the few random photographs and art pieces hanging up. She wandered a little further into the house, quietly exploring, allowing her sense of curiousity to get the better of her.
Rin peeked in the bedrooms, flopped down on the comfy couch in the living room for a moment, and played with the faucets in the kitchen sink, giggling slightly to herself, feeling as if she was doing something forbidden. Her eyes caught on a red door that looked like it might lead outside, or perhaps to the neighbor's garage, and she reached her small hand forward to grab the handle, turning it, a sense of fun expectation tickling her senses as the door opened.
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Kaito couldn't stop himself from crying helplessly as he remained trussed up on the cold cement floor. His bottom hurt, his arms hurt, his chest hurt. And his mind couldn't grasp the horrors he had just experienced. The mental images of Master nibbling on Kaito's cooked fingers, of Master smiling down with an insane light in his eyes, of Master flipping Kaito over and pushing into Kaito over and over again, overlapping themselves in his head.
Kaito was gasping for air, but no matter how deeply of a breath he took, his chest felt like it was being crushed around his lungs. He felt dizzy, disoriented, sick. But his widened, terrified eyes moved in short, jerky motions towards the door as his ears heard the soft sound of the handle turning again.
Kaito panted in abject fear. Master was coming back. Kaito keened to himself, unable to stop the sound, as the door slowly swung open and a malignant, shadowy figure appeared in the doorway.
"Noooo," Kaito moaned in that same keening tone, and curled up his body even further, cringing away from the horrible realities Master was sure to bring back to him this time.
"...Kaito?" A soft, high, feminine voice sounding shocked, spoke his name. "Oh... oh my... oh my GOD! Kaito?!"
Rin's body was frozen as she took in the image of Kaito's body on the ground, his legs tied up in his scarf, his pants and underwear down around his hips, and the bloody bandages that were tied around his hands. Rin's eyes adjusted in shock as they focused on those bandaged hands, on the ends of Kaito's arms, which seemed just a little too short for their normal length.
"Oh, oh, my god," Rin whispered in horror, dropping the bags in her hands, her body breaking out of its temporary paralysis to run over to the tortured Vocaloid male, her knees hitting the cement with a meaty sound that she failed even to notice. Rin grabbed Kaito's shoulders and tried to turn him to look at her.
Kaito hiccupped loudly and cringed away from Rin's touch. Rin's face had a horrified expression on it, as she demanded, "Who did this to you? Kaito!"
Kaito's body was shaking like a leaf in Rin's grasp as he sobbed and bent his head, ashamed and disbelieving of his own answer to her question. "M... Master," Kaito croaked out in a horrible, abused-sounding voice.
"Of, of course! I'll get Master! Just, just wait right here, Kaito!" Rin started to stumble to her feet again, her shock numbing her extremities so that she felt very unbalanced. Her blue eyes were wide as she turned to run to the door.
"N-NO! NOO!" Kaito shrieked bloody hell as Rin started to sprint away from him. "NO!" Rin stopped in her tracks, turning around with a white face, as Kaito flopped brokenly on the floor, trying to stop her from leaving.
"Kaito, Kaito, please... please calm down!" Rin started to feel like she was going into hyperventilation, but she had to remain strong, for Kaito's sake. "Master will, Master will know what to do, I-"
"No," Kaito sobbed again, "Rin... it, it was... it was Master. It was Master! You, you have to get away. Run away, Rin!"
Rin felt like the floor dropped out from underneath her, and she swayed slightly as she looked at Kaito's pleading, terrified face, his eyes that were drowning in tears, his lack of... hands... Kaito bowed his head once more, his beautiful blue hair falling over his face as he sobbed loudly.
It was impossible. Master did... this? Rin's horror was overwhelming, but she couldn't not believe Kaito, after the tortured, honestly terrified expression he had given her. She took a hesitant, unsteady step back towards the bluenette, then another.
Rin knelt back down by Kaito's prone body and touched against Kaito's soft hair. Kaito flinched and just kept crying.
"We have to get out of here," Rin said in a breathless voice. "We have to run, Kaito. I, I'm not leaving you here. Come on. We have to go."
Rin struggled with the knots that were tying Kaito's legs together for minutes that felt like hours. Rin was sure that at any moment, Master might come barging through the garage door. If that happened... Rin's fingers shook and she cursed her own nervousness that was keeping them from getting away any more quickly.
Finally, finally, the scarf came undone, and Kaito's legs were freed. Kaito's wracking sobs had started to quiet a bit, as Rin was working on helping Kaito to escape. His legs were wobbly as he tried to stand, without the use of his hands.
Kaito stumbled against his own legs and started to fall, but Rin caught him by the shoulder and helped him balance as he gained his footing. Kaito's face was a mask of pure fear as he regarded the door, and Rin could imagine his thought process as she followed the bluenette's line of sight.
"H-hold still," Rin stuttered as Kaito leaned against her for balance. Her hands shook badly as she pulled his pants and underwear back up to their proper places, and she fumbled anxiously with the zipper and button, cursing her hands again, that they didn't want to obey her.
"Come on, Kaito. We have to hurry," Rin whispered urgently, and helped the bluenette walk towards the door, his steps stumbling all the way. Rin placed her shoulder underneath Kaito's armpit, acting as a support for him, and being careful not to touch the bloody, bandaged stump that was the end of his arm, as she did so.
"I have a friend who can help us," Rin continued, feeling like she needed the support of her own voice speaking aloud, in order to retain her sanity. She wondered whether she and Kaito would escape safely from this place.
'But,' Rin thought, 'Escaping in /safety,/ now, is impossible for Kaito. His hands... oh god. I just have to get him out of here before something worse happens to us.'
Rin knew in the pit of her stomach that if they were caught while getting out of here, it was going to be much, much worse for her, than it already had been for Kaito. Her nervousness made her legs feel like pure jelly as she guided the traumatized bluenette through the layout of the house and towards the front door... and, hopefully, out into freedom.