"Do you ever think of just how disgusting you are?" Yuri says, his voice light, but Kaito knows he's serious. Kaito can't see what he's up to, but there's a splash of running water and the snap of surgical gloves.

"Well? Not in a talking mood? That's fine; Hato will soon squeal all of your secrets anyway. He's such a good pet. I can trust him to tell the truth. He knows what happens to those who disobey." Yuri steps into view and slides a surgical mask over his mouth and nose. His eyes glitter behind safety goggles.

Kaito wants to curse at him, but all he can do is bite down on the gag and hope he gets the idea.

"Ah… How I'd love to rip your tongue out first so you'll never be able to spit out filth and lead another one of my toys astray, but it's too early for such a thing." Yuri caresses Kaito's cheek. "One day I'll break you and you'll beg me to keep going. But for now… I think I'll take away something you won't be needing."

Kaito can't imagine what Yuri is talking about, but he knows it can't be any good. He can remember all of the horror stories Hato whispered to him in the dead of the night after waking up from nightmares. Yuri is just about the worst soldier Kaito could have been captured by. He knows this isn't going to end well.

"Oh? Would you like to know what we're going to be doing today?" No. "Well, a little dove –" Yuri winks and Kaito snarls– "told me that your eyesight is fading… If that's the case, then I thought I'd see what I could do to help. To show to you what a wonderful man I am."

Kaito doesn't buy Yuri's innocent smile or the fact that Hato snitched out his weakness. Hato would never betray him like that; Hato was family and will do all that he can to protect Kaito and the children.

"No point in playing around. Let's begin." Yuri first checks the restraints. If they had been loose before, Kaito would have broken out, but now they bite into his skin even without him fighting them. The one around his neck is especially painful, and he has to keep himself calm to prevent himself from yanking forward and choking.

Yuri steps behind Kaito out of sight, but he can feel Yuri's hand threading through his hair and tugging. It doesn't hurt any more than anything else, but it sends a spike of fear rushing through Kaito. He can't move his head at all because of the two boards on either side of his face holding him still. All he can do is gnaw into the gag and listen as Yuri hums what sounds like a patriotic song.

Yuri lets go of his face to poke the area around his eye. Then he pulls back Kaito's eyelid and tapes it down. Kaito's mind is too hectic to understand what's going on, but everything clicks as Yuri tapes down the bottom eyelid. Kaito tightens his jaw. There's no way to escape this. He's going to have to take what Yuri will give. Kaito swears to himself he won't make a noise, won't let Yuri enjoy this.

"Ready?" Yuri sings. "One, two, three, here we go!" Yuri jabs his thumb into Kaito's eye. The pain blinding – or is that the damage being done? He automatically struggles to close his eye but he can't because they're taped open. Kaito is too horrified to look away with his other one, to stop watching Yuri's euphoric expressions and his arm wiggling back and forth.

Kaito can't help it. He screams, trying to shake Yuri away, but he can't move and his voice is muffled. Even through the pain, he can feel Yuri's thumb moving inside his eye socket and the blood pooling down in it and rippling across his face.

"What was that? Are you enjoying this? Here, let me show you a better look." Yuri pulls his thumb out and the emptiness is somehow worse than having it in. Even with the restraints, Kaito is shaking. He can feel sobs building up in his throat and he can't tell if those are tears or blood tickling his ears. He doesn't have to wonder for long.

Yuri returns and holds up a mirror. Kaito squints at it, not recognizing what he's looking at. He doesn't recognize himself with the dirty, blood matted hair or the gouged out eye. He's baring his teeth around the gag, his good eye wide open and wild. He looks exactly as Fusion sees him as. A worthless rebel meant to be put down.

"I think it's quite a good look for you." Yuri reaches out again and slides his finger into Kaito's eye, this time his index finger. Kaito watches in horror through the mirror as Yuri pushes in deeper and deeper until he hits pure muscle. Even with the pain, Kaito can feel his finger gently stroking it and exploring the rest of the cavern.

"Hmm, I wanted to show you what your eye looks like, but it seems I got a bit over excited and made a mess." Yuri swirls his finger in the bloody slop that was once Kaito's eye. "Too bad…" Yuri sighs and pulls out again, moving the mirror away.

Kaito hears the slap of gloves being pulled off and more of Yuri's humming. Yuri's heels click on the tile floor as he walks away. A door opens, then closes.

The pain is worse than anything Kaito has ever experienced before, and there's nothing he can do to stop it. His eye is ruined, and this is just the beginning. Yuri will stop at nothing until he's extracted every bit of pain he can out of Kaito's body.

The door opens again with a cheerful, "Look, I've brought you a visitor," and a startled gasp of, "No… please, no," from a familiar voice.

Kaito closes his good eye as shaking fingers grip into his shirt and sobs fill the air.

He wishes he had done as Hato told him and killed himself before he was captured.

[bad end]