A/N: Sorry this took so long, I'm very lazy and procrastinate literally 90% of the time. But it's here now so yay~ Also next chapter will be the last chapter so look forward to that!
Kuroko's POV:
"It's time for you to wake up, Tetsuya." I faintly hear a voice calling out to me, but I don't answer it. I go to open my eyes but they ignore my efforts, too tired to do anything but stay closed.
"I said, it's time for you to wake up." The voice tells me again, more forcefully this time. I try to ignore it , tuning out the sound and falling back into sleep.
"Don't say I didn't try and do this nicely." The voice continues, and a second later I am hit by a blast of freezing cold water, ripped away from sleep instantly. I burst up in the bed and sit up, staring wide eyed at my surroundings. I am in Akashi's room, and right in front of me, Akashi is holding a now empty bucket.
"Finally decided to grace my with your presence, Tetsuya?" It takes me a moment to register what Akashi is saying, trying to remember what I am doing here.
"Akashi, why am I in your room?" I drawl out in confusion. Akashi looks down at me and smirks.
"You really don't know? I guess I do more damage than I thought when I knocked you out. But that doesn't matter now, it'll be easier for me if you don't remember. " His words trigger something in my mind, a memory. I try to use the fragments of memory to create an image in my mind but its no good. It's like trying to put a puzzle together when you only have half the pieces; it just doesn't work. I look around the room for something that that will make me remember. My eyes fall upon a mirror and I see myself; short hair, a few scars. I remember these scars, they're from the three men! The ones who tried to… to rape me. But they didn't. Why didn't they?
"Anyway, it's nice to have you all alone like this, we haven't gotten to have sex in such a long time and it's made me quite impatient." Akashi purrs out, but something's not right. His voice... It's too harsh. When I look up at his eyes, shining with evil intent, the final pieces of my puzzle come into place. It was Akashi who saved me from those men, but not the same Akashi standing before me now. This Akashi, he took me away when I left the hospital, he took me here against my will. His fingers run up my legs, I shiver in fear before bursting into action.
No! I remember you, you fiend. You're not Akashi." I pull my legs away from the imposter and sit up, looking to see whether the door is locked. It isn't. I sweep my legs over the side of the bed and hit the ground running, one thing going through my mind; "I have to get away from this man'. I make it two steps before I am ripped back, a hand digging into my arm. I hit the bed with a thump, but the soft surface cushions the impact.
"Did you really think you could get away from me that easily? I may not be the Akashi you know but I'm just as strong as him." He gives me a sadistic smile.
"I didn't want to hurt my Tetsuya too much, but I guess I'll have to if I want you to be properly disciplined." He says to me, feigning reluctance. It is painfully obvious how much he wants to hurt me, how much pleasure it will bring him. He tries to resume his actions from before but I struggle as much as I can, making it difficult for him. Despite my efforts though, he is in total control of me. His hands are firmly holding down my arms, his legs lie over top of mine trapping me. I feel so helpless. I am lying here with someone kissing me but I just feel so alone. I feel bursts of pain from my jaw to my neck and realise that he has started biting me. He looks up for a moment to look upon the pained expression on my face and chuckles.
"Oh Tetsuya, you're so pretty when you're scared." He laughs as he forces my clothes off, I fight against him but am left naked in almost no time. He stares at the faded scars and bruises still on my body, reaching into his pocket as he does so.
"Look at this, all your injuries are pretty much healed, I can barely see them! But don't worry, I'll fix that for you." Akashi waves the pair of scissors he pulled from his pocket in the air before bringing them down to my stomach. The cold touch of metal stings, but it gets much worse than that. The blades dig into my skin, following the barely visible lines of old scars.
"Aaaah! Please, s-stop!" I yelp out as the man above me ignores my cries, continuing to open up my skin. None of the cuts he makes are too deep, they only go just below the surface-enough to cause me immense pain, but not enough to threaten my life. His smile widens as I continue to scream, it is a sickening sight. It is not the smile I love, it is evil and sadistic and it scares me. To be honest though, I don't know how I should be feeling; terrified or enraged. I want to be angry, to muster up my courage and knock this monster off of me, but I am too afraid to. All I can do is cry out for help.
"Please Akashi, don't let him do this to me." I weep out pathetically, begging my lover for the hundredth time to save me. I know how pathetic it is that I can't protect myself, but right now I don't care about my pride or anything like that.
"I thought I told you to stop crying out for his help when I took you from my work, he's not going to save you." The imposter snaps out in annoyance, not happy about the mention of his counter part; the owner of the body he has stolen. I can use this, I think to myself. I am to afraid to speak the bold words at first, but I do manage to spit them out.
"What, are you afraid that you won't be able to stop him if he fights you? Because you should be, Akashi is strong; and he always protects me." I am surprised by my own confidence, but regret my words almost immediately. I had hoped that my words might have shaken his resolve and let the real Akashi take back over, but if anything I've done the opposite.
"What did you say to me?" He demands from me, a look of pure insanity on his face. My fear returns instantly.
"You dare to speak against me? You are mine. I own you, you are nothing but my toy." He starts to shake me violently as he screams. My head bangs against the wooden head rest at the top of the bed again and again. A slight trickle of blood starts to drip from the back of my head. I go to scream in pain, but all that comes out is a low continuous moan.
"You would be nothing without me! You are my possession, so I will do whatever I want to do! I don't love you, I don't kiss you or make love to you. I fulfil my own pleasure, and you are simply a way to do that. If I want to have sex with you then I will, but it is not for your pleasure. You're just my slut. Someone like you has no right to talk back to me." He screams at me, he yells at me. His voice rings in my ears and hurts me. I know it's not my Akashi, I know that. But it hurts so much to hear those words come out of his mouth. I love Akashi, he is the most important person in the world to me. So seeing him brought to this level, hearing him tell me all these horrible things is something I simply can not deal with. I start to cry and don't even bother trying to hold back my tears; I know it wouldn't work anyway.
"Akashi, how can you say that?" I mumble out with tears in my eyes, ready to just give up on the world, on everything. I find it harder and harder to remember that this isn't the real Akashi, and all I can pay attention to is the fact that his mouth is the one saying these things. I don't care what happens to me now. I don't care what this imposter does to me. I don't care about anything anymore, I just feel hollow.
Akashi's POV:
"Akashi, how can you say that?" His words break my heart. I shriek out; 'It's not me! I would never say anything like that to you!' But my words just aren't strong enough, they don't make it through. I can see my arms moving without my volition. They stop banging Tetsuya against the bed and move down to unbuckle my belt and take off my pants. The demon inside me takes his erection and shoves it roughly into Tetsuya's mouth, forcing him to suck him off. I hear Tetsuya moan in discomfort as he chokes. I want to help him but I can't even move a finger.
"Akashi, please…" Tetsuya groans out half-heartedly, as if he knows his cries of help will be pointless before he even says them. It hurts me to think that he has that little faith in me, but I can't blame him for it. He's been calling out to me again and again, begging me to save him, to rescue him from the monster inside me. But I haven't been there for him, all I've done is watched pathetically as he is assaulted. He might have lost his faith in me but that doesn't mean I can just give up. I have won this battle before. When Tetsuya was being attacked by those horrible men I was able to take my body back. I can do it again now. I struggle to take back control of my body, taking advantage of the other me being distracted by Tetsuya. I feel the sensation of cumming into Tetsuya's mouth, and I hear him cough up the liquid.
"Don't you dare cough it up. You're my slut, you'll drink it." Tetsuya starts to cry as he licks up the white liquid from the bed. He's in so much pain, so much agony. I can barely stand to watch this, I need to stop it now.
'Get out of my body!' I hiss out, finally finding my voice. The other me snaps to attention the instant I do, aware of my presence.
Oh, you're still conscious? I thought I'd gotten rid of you for good last time. Tch, just shut up and let me have my fun. I feel a stinging in my head as he talks back to me, but I ignore it. It is nothing compared to the pain Tetsuya is going through.
'No! I won't let you have Tetsuya any longer, and I won't let you control me!' I declare, fighting back. I can visualise myself running desperately through a dark corridor, pushing past all the obstacles that come my way, when finally I see a light just up ahead. I squint and see the light is a gate, the gate to my mind. Standing in front of it is someone who looks very much like me, in almost every way. But his eyes are not mine, in this world of fantasy within my body I see his eyes as deep black holes void of any light. They are the eyes of a demon.
You're interupting my time with Tetsuya, I won't forgive you. The demon spits out at me, hatred practically dripping from his words. I don't waste time on words, I leap onto him; pushing him down to the ground before he can defend himself. I completely overpower him, when he struggles underneath my weight I simply crush my elbow down on his neck, stiffing his resistance.
How can you beat me? How?! I tore down the walls you had in place and snaked my way inside! I tormented you for years, how do you still have enough strength to fight back? The vile being below me is dumbfounded, not understanding how I all of a sudden have mustered the strength to kick him out of my mind.
'You made me weak, that's true. You tortured me endlessly, and after a while I just couldn't take it any more; and I lost to you. I let you take control, but no matter what you did to me; I never lost myself entirely. I stayed locked up in the depths of my mind, only able to watch you use my body. When I saw you hurting Tetsuya though, it gave me the strength I needed to take my body back. The sight of the person I love so much being hurt by some demon like you moved me to action, I knew that whatever I had to do; I had to save Tetsuya.' The feelings I would usually never admit come bursting out of me, ending up as a rant directed at my demon. My hands grip onto his throat and strangle him. I watch as the life drains out of his face, and his body fades away into my subconscious. I do not feel remorse for exterminating him. This, this thing was never alive to begin with, it was just a parasite preying on my mind, no one would feel sorry for something like that.
"Tetsuya, it's me." I bring myself out of my subconscious world and back to real one and go to speak to Tetsuya but find myself more tired than I had thought. I guess taking back your body from an evil demon, second personality, parasite- whatever you want to call it- takes more out of you than you'd think. I lean forward and lay my head on Tetsuya's chest for a minute, ignoring the blood seeping down it and simply enjoying his warmth. I am too tired to talk to him, but finally being able to touch him again like this is enough for now.
"Akashi? Is that really you?" My lover asks me with enthusiasm. I raise my head just high enough to see the smile lining his face and nod at him, managing a smile of my own.
"You did it! You really did come and save me when I called out for you! I knew you would, I knew you could beat your inner demons." Tetsuya congratulates me, but I'm only half listening. The other half of my attention is focused on the feeling of Tetsuya against me, something I've missed for so long. When was the last time I touched him like this? Fully in control of my body, without fear of someone coming to take it away from me? At the least, months ago; but maybe even longer than a year ago. The memories are fuzzy in my mind; I can't remember exactly when the demon took me over for the first time. But I don't need to linger on those thoughts now, those days are behind me. Tetsuya forgave me for it in the hospital; back then I didn't accept his forgiveness, but I feel like now; I finally can. I let myself lie down for just a little while longer before sitting up and looking upon Tetsuya's battered body. Every single scar which had been left on him from the three delinquents has been opened back up, fresh blood slowing to a trickle seeping from the wounds.
"I need to get you back to the hospital." There are so many other things I need to say, first and foremost being; 'I'm sorry.' But that can wait until I know Tetsuya is safe.
"I am in pretty bad shape aren't I? But just promise me that you'll come and visit me at least once a week while I'm there!" Tetsuya laughs back to me in a surprisingly cheerful tone. For him to smile at me and laugh like this so soon after the terrors the other me put him through, it just shows how strong he really is. It makes me so proud to be able to call him mine.
"I'll visit you every single day Tetsuya, like I should have from the start. I promise that whatever happens, I'll never leave you alone again." I say with conviction, knowing that I will do whatever it takes to keep my promise. Tetsuya tries to stand up to gather his clothes, but I gently push him back down onto the bed, ensuring him that I can get them for him. I first put my own pants back on, and then help Tetsuya into his clothes; wiping down all his wounds with a wet tissue beforehand. Once Tetsuya's wounds are clean and we are both clothed, I find my phone and dial emergency services; asking for an ambulance to be sent to my address.
"Hey Akashi, tell me one thing before the paramedics get here; and you're not allowed to lie about it. Is the other you gone for good this time?" Tetsuya calls me over from the bed and questions me.
"He's gone Tetsuya. I finally managed to get rid of him for good. It hurt me so much watching him treat you so terribly, but then when I avoided you it hurt just as much, even though I knew that me doing so was keeping you safe. We won't ever have to go through something like that again." My words make Tetsuya smile even brighter, but I'm not done talking yet; I have more that I need to say.
"There's still something I need to tell you though. I know that I don't deserve your forgiveness, but I need it. I'm sorry Tetsuya, I'm so sorry. For letting myself be controlled by someone else, for hurting you, for everything." I look Tetsuya in the eyes as I plead for his forgiveness, but he doesn't give me an answer in words. Instead he just leans forward and brushes his lips against mine in an intimate kiss. His lips are impossibly soft and just feel so right against mine.
"Does that answer your question?" Tetsuya pulls away for a second to ask me and I nod in return, in too much of a hurry to say something back. I bring my hands to his back and bring him back to the same distance we were at before and he lets me without hesitation. I start to kiss him again with more urgency this time, but I am still carefu to be gentle and not hurt him. We spend a while like this before we hear a knock at the door and are forced to split apart. I stand up to get the door but feel a slight tug on my shirt. I look down to see Tetsuya holding on to me, stopping me from going.
"Tetsuya?"
"When I'm out of the hospital. The instant I can go home we'll continue from where we left off. Ok?" My cute lover half asks me, half commands me, and oddly; I don't mind him telling me what to do.
"Whatever you say, Te~Tsu~Ya." I retort in a teasing voice, already planning what I will do to him the instant he is free from the hospital. Yes, we are definitely going to continue; and I am going to make sure it is a perfect night.