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Remember, this is Kyuu reliving his experience, not his actual story he is telling his visitors (with mentions of Ryuu belonging to Pluto left out).

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Kyuu had refused to join Pluto so many times, he lost count of the number of treatments he endured, when Odin suddenly put down his last instrument of torture-a whip now stained with blood. "My, my, it seems that you are just too stubborn for your own good. I suppose we have no choice but to use our last resort."

Kyuu cringed. What could be worse than electrocution while you were still dripping from the waterboarding, in addition to the multiple brandings and chemical burns that occurred after that? However, after a few moments when nothing happened to him, he opened his eyes, only to find them automatically focused on a pendulum swinging back and forth directly in front of them.

Hypnosis?

"Now watch carefully…"

Kyuu tried to look away, but found himself unable to. Against his will, he felt his eyes starting to close. However, as Odin droned on and on, something clicked in his mind.

Didn't they try this with Dan-sensei when he was kidnapped and left on the ship? Of course, it didn't work on him, a brilliant detective, but the fact remained that he was able to resist it.

Armed with that thought, as well as the knowledge that hypnosis only worked with willing or susceptible victims, Kyuu became increasingly determined to resist Odin's spell. However, a crazy thought came to him. Would it be better to pretend that he had actually fallen under the spell, so he could see what Pluto's plans were and have a chance to stop them? Besides, it wasn't like he could escape in his current bruised-and-battered condition…

Odin, unaware that the hypnosis wasn't working, said, "On the count of three, you will obey all orders from King Hades, and help to plan the foolproof crimes that our clients pay us for. One, two, three!"

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Kyuu blinked awake. As Odin let him out of the chains hanging on the wall and led him to an infirmary, he registered all of the hallways and rooms that seemed to surround them with a bored expression. Escape wouldn't be easy, he thought grimly. It would be a long time before he could see his friends and family again.

Over the next month, after he had healed from the torture session and had been tattooed with Pluto's symbol, Kyuu was trained physically and mentally, all while acting like an obedient little soldier. As he built up his strength and speed through many difficult exercises and sparring sessions, as well as his mental prowess by coming up with plans that Pluto's clients could use, he found himself thinking about Ryuu and understanding more of his actions during the beginning of their friendship. How he had described his childhood, how emotionally distant he was from the rest of Class Q, and why he had chosen to run away and ask Kyuu if he could live with him. He felt sorry for the blue-haired boy, and vowed to keep his past a secret from the rest of DDS when he returned to them.

For the next four months, Kyuu was sent on missions to ensure that the plans he thought of went successfully. Because Pluto was confident that Kyuu had been successfully hypnotized into becoming an obedient member of Pluto, the leaders didn't find it necessary to send supervisors to ensure that he didn't run away. He was even taught how to hypnotize clients so that if they were caught, they wouldn't implicate Pluto in their confessions.

However, what Pluto didn't know was that he would always add flaws to ensure that his planned crimes went wrong somehow, and that any murder victims would escape from their deaths. He would also hypnotize the clients into confessing peacefully, instead of killing themselves or making them go insane, when they failed to carry out their planned crimes successfully.

Eventually, five months after Kyuu had been kidnapped, Pluto caught on to his actions when the media, which usually kept quiet about Pluto-related events at the request of DDS, uncharacteristically leaked that the police suspected Pluto's involvement in a high-profile kidnapping that failed. It didn't take long for Pluto to trace the criminal's plans back to Kyuu, and he was punished, with more beatings, electrocutions, and burns, for a month.

To teach him the lesson of obedience, Pluto made him suffer more than he had before he became a Pluto member. He was kept alive, but just barely. After each torture session, he was hooked up to an IV and a heart monitor in a laboratory, where they had plenty of chemicals to drug him with to keep him from escaping. As it turned out, they were unnecessary, since Kyuu was so weak from the pain and starvation that he didn't even have the strength to stand.

As he laid there on the table in the laboratory, recovering from Odin's most recent punishment, he felt his eyes close. The constant punishments were taking a toll on his body, and he felt it harder and harder to wake up. However, that didn't mean he wasn't aware of his surroundings. He heard his heart monitor slow down and rushed footsteps going out of the lab. He deduced that Odin had left due to someone (probably law enforcement) discovering their hide-out, and that Odin didn't expect him to survive his latest torture session.

"...The next thing I remembered, there was someone shaking my shoulder, but that's it."

As he finished his narrative, Kyuu looked down at his lap covered by blankets, hoping to avoid the looks of pity. He fidgeted, waiting for someone to say something. Anything.

Silence reigned in the hospital room for a few moments as everyone absorbed the information. Varying degrees of shock and horror was on their faces.

Dan-sensei spoke up gently, saving Kyuu from the painful silence. "Thank you for informing us about your experiences. I'm very sorry you had to go through that, but we have taken steps around it by placing guards at the door."

Kyuu nodded in acceptance as Dan-sensei continued. "Well, I believe that is enough for today. Class Q, we'll see you tomorrow at school, bright and early. Katagiri-kun, I believe we should return to DDS and see how Hongou-kun and Nanami-kun are doing in my absencd."

Kyuu waved as Katagiri-sensei and Dan-sensei said their goodbyes and left.

As soon as they were out of the door, Kinta lightly bopped Kyuu on the head. "Don't worry us like that again, Kyuu."

Kyuu looked sheepish as he rubbed the back of his head, "Sorry…"

"Well, I'm glad you're back," Megu beamed, giving him a large hug. To the others' amusement, they could see his cheeks turn pink at the contact. It seemed like that, at least, hadn't changed.

After she released him, Kazuma gave him a high-five. "It looks like you've finished your first undercover job as a detective, at least."

The others flinched along with Kazuma as the insensitivity of the comment hit them. Before Kazuma could apologize, Kyuu smiled at him, not at all offender. "Yeah, I guess so." Before he could say more, a yawn escaped him, and the others (except for Ryuu, who was going home with Renjo-san) took the hint and left.

Now alone, Ryuu sat in the chair by Kyuu's bed. Noticing that Kyuu was still awake, Ryuu smiled and said, "I'm glad that you're safe. Renjo-san and I were very worried about you."

"Yeah, I'll have to make it up to both of you somehow…" Kyuu gave him a grateful smile.

Ryuu was about to protest that that wasn't the point he was trying to make, but Kyuu cut in before he could. "Ne, Ryuu…"

"Yes?" Ryuu asked, taken aback by the serious tone Kyuu was using.

Before Kyuu could continue, however, his mom burst in with a joyful smile, giving Kyuu another hug before moving on to Ryuu.

Kyuu was surprised at how Ryuu simply accepted it. Before he was kidnapped, Ryuu had always stiffened whenever Renjo-san hugged him, like he wasn't used to it. But now...

He smiled. It was good to see Ryuu enjoying life, especially since he had seen a glimpse of what his must have been like for years before he met Class Q. He decided that bringing up Ryuu's past with Pluto could wait.