[In his Care] Chapter 18
Merry Christmas to everyone <3 Yes, I am a dork I waited up until it is past 12 and I have work in the morning XD... I wanted to update now before I’ll go to work and then to stay at my father’s place for about a day or two.
Thank you for all the support so far! And love to my aikata for the quick beta-ing she does so well ^____^ <33
Ps. I can’t wait to open my pressies~ X___X;; Goddammit, I’m curious! Cata, Miu, Sara!!
Title: In his Care
Pairings: Akame, RyoUchi, TxT, more.
Fandoms: JE, random Jboys, wFL, a bit of Gokusen (2) and tenimyu.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: AU. Kame’s two years in prison. I chose the perfect timing to give Jin a overdue Christmas depression and Kame does what he does best except for being with Jin and gets into a bit of trouble… ^___^;
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
We both wish you a Merry Christmas~!!
Chapter 18
It was snowing again. He didn’t think the snow flakes had stopped falling from the sky since the day Kame had told him the news about his departure, but he wasn’t sure. His attention had been set on the little figure that had lay snuggled in his arms and the days after that too, since Jin hadn’t felt like getting up.
Maybe it was a late Christmas depression. He remembered a year back around Christmas time when Kame had just gotten used to being with him and everything had been going his way. He remembered the way Kame had reacted when hearing about the new prisoner who was apparently supposed to take his place next to Jin. Now all of that would be in the past and less than two months from now Kame would be gone.
Idiot, he told himself. This is what you get for becoming too attached to a pretty little boy with soft pale skin, nice curves, beautiful blondish hair and eyes that could hypnotize. Not to mention that behind…
Jin allowed a small smile to spread on his lips.
How was he ever going to replace all of that? How was he supposed to find a boy who could match up to the standards that Kame had set for him?
Jin sighed where he lay alone on the lower bed, staring out through their window. Some mornings the cell would be lit up with this purple light, just minutes before the sun would rise high enough to cast its true reflection into their cell. Jin had always enjoyed waking up to see that sight, then wrap himself around Kame’s still sleeping form and fall asleep again for about an hour or two.
He wished he could wake up and see that purple a few more times before Kame would leave.
Removing his eyes from the window, he forced himself to get up. He wasn’t in the mood to lie in bed and sulk anymore. He was wasting the little time he still had with Kame to just lie in bed and not even do anything but be half asleep. Furthermore he had a reputation to uphold among the other prisoners!
…Okay so the cuddling was nice. Jin had showed up briefly for breakfast and for lunch, just now, but found the food to not really taste like anything and that was a first in his case.
He wished he could try to deny the situation again, but in truth he knew what had happened. He knew he had developed too strong feelings for the boy who had been supposed to be his toy and sex object, but Kame had never been just that. He had been a challenge, an obsession and as close to a real lover Jin had ever had, since he sort of lacked an understanding for relationships.
Stretching, Jin leaned back against the cell bars covered with the felt. He knew this day would come. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t known all along that one day their roads would part and Kame would no longer spend every night with him anymore. The boy would have his own life somewhere totally else. Though, Jin couldn’t ignore the evil desire in him that told him he had the power to keep Kame in his life forever. He could stop Kame from leaving now and he could get Kame to be his again even after they got out.
But he knew he wasn’t going to do anything like that. Kame deserved a chance to have a normal life again. After all, it wasn’t as if the boy hadn’t worked hard enough to earn it, being his boy toy for a year and a half. Sometimes Jin wondered if his little cellmate had forgotten himself during that time. He thought he knew Kame, but in truth he didn’t. He could understand everything he saw on the outside, but the inside was still a bit of a mystery for him…
Had Kame forced himself through this year and a half? Jin didn’t think so. Sometimes Kame would smile a bit when he pulled him close. Sometimes Kame would snuggle up, very carefully as if not wanting his actions to be noticed by him, into his arms and fall asleep there. Sometimes Kame would let out a sound in protest if he didn’t kiss the boy long enough. That wasn’t forcing, but instead Kame might’ve convinced himself that he liked it the way things were between them. That could be just as bad.
Jin shook his head, trying to shake those thoughts out. Why should it matter to him what Kame felt like as long as the smaller boy kept his end of the bargain? But in that case Kame would only be a boy toy to him, which he wasn’t.
Anyway, seeing things from the bright side at least now Kame wouldn’t have to stay two months later after Jin and his gang got out. That was a good thing. And Jin wouldn’t have to wonder anymore about what Kame thought. It was best this way, now he could protect Kame until the end. It was best…this way…
Still, what he wouldn’t give for just one more year with the boy.
A distant sound of cheering broke into his troubled mind and Jin stopped to listen to it. What could be going on now? The sounds most likely came from the dining-hall. Was there a fight? …Where was Kame? Last he had seen the boy was at lunch from where he had left pretty fast back to the west wing. Kame hadn’t followed him, probably realizing Jin wasn’t in the mood to do anything. Was Kame still there?
Jin hurried to start walking out of the cell and towards the main hall. He had a bad feeling and it only got worse the closer he got and the louder the cheers grew. If not for anything else he just wanted to make sure Kame and his closest friends were alright.
As he exited the west corridor he found over half of all the prisoners in the joint lined up around the railings, looking down into the dining-hall. From the side he spotted the rest of his gang.
“What’s going on?” he barely had time to ask them as his eyes fell upon the slender figure he usually held close at night, now lying in a heap on the floor in the middle of the dining-hall.
“Kame…” the sound of his voice got his friends to turn away from the fight and towards him.
“Uh, Jin-” Junno started, trying to come up with a good way to fill in the leader with the details, but Koki beat him to it.
“There were a couple of guys teasing him and suddenly, just out of the blue, Kame-chan attacked Jimmy.” the rapper explained and Jin could see Kame slowly move to get up one knee on the floor. “He isn’t doing very well against Jimmy.”
“They were provoking him, you know in the whole tease-but-don’t-touch-what-is-Akanishi’s way, but I didn’t think I’d ever see the day Kame-chan snapped.” Maru continued from where Koki had left off.
“Kame! Sheesh, Jimmy’s going to trash him!” Jin said, about to dash in the direction of the stairs when Koki and Maru grabbed him.
“Don’t. You can’t get into a fight that open. Johnny and Masa-chan are just waiting for a reason to nail us all since we got away with most of our unsolved crimes.” Koki reasoned.
“But he’s hurting Kame! Let me go!” Jin demanded and Ueda and Junno came to the two boys’ aid.
“I care about Kame-chan too, but everyone here can point out that he was the one to throw the first punch. You can’t get involved now.” Maru insisted.
“I could get away with it!” Jin insisted back. “You know I could!”
“They’re in the middle of the dining-hall; the guards are not far away. Let them stop this fight.” Ueda joined in.
“Then where are they? Someone call the fucking guards already! Haven’t they heard the noise?” Jin shouted, sending glares towards the end of the dining-hall where only bars separated the guards from the prisoners. Diverting his eyes back to the fighting pair, Jin could see Kame getting back onto his feet.
“Stay down, you idiot, you’ll only piss him off even more.” Jin muttered to himself and as if Kame had heard him, the smaller boy shot a look behind his back, eyes locking with Jin’s for a second or two before a rather hard punch had the smaller boy back down onto the floor again.
“And eyes on the opponent!” Jin added, struggling to get loose and making TTUN grab a stronger hold on him. He had to witness Kame take yet another hit and then another one before two guards finally managed to push their way through the crowd of boys surrounding the fighting duo and both Kame and Jimmy Mackey were separated from each other and taken away.
It took a while before the situation had calmed down and prisoners returned to other parts of the joint. Jin flopped himself down onto his usual seat in the dining-hall, being finally let go. The rest of his gang sat down around him, patting his back comfortingly.
“Would somebody please tell me what the hell he just thought he was doing? Who was with Jimmy at the time?” Jin asked in a tone that indicated he didn’t like waiting for an answer.
“We didn’t really catch who was with Jimmy at the time...” Ueda said, but Jin had a feeling the guys were just trying to protect Jimmy’s friends from receiving his wrath over what had happened to Kame.
“I have no clue of what went on inside his head. You know, Kame-chan can’t fight that well.” Koki continued, trying to change the subject. “On the other hand Kame-chan’s got a killer right-handed punch. One second Jimmy is laughing and the next one he is 180 degrees turned around, massaging his jaw.”
“…I know.” Jin mumbled, trailing his fingers over his own jaw.
“Jin, please don’t strangle Jimmy when he comes back…” Junno then pleaded.
Jin tapped his fingers against the table in annoyance. Adding to his good mood was Yamapi, who flew over to him and wrapped his arms around his neck.
“I never knew Kame-chan had such a wild side.” the News boy purred into his ear. “You two sure have kept that as a secret from the rest of us. He really doesn’t seem to want to be touched by anyone but you. Such faithfulness - that’s a very nice quality in a boy toy.”
“Jimmy touched him?!” Jin asked, turning towards the rest of his gang. “I thought you said in the whole tease-but-not-touch-what-is-Akanishi’s way!”
A couple of his gang members pressed back the urge to sigh and the will to kick Yamapi for teasing Jin, letting their leader in on what they had so carefully left out of the story.
“Jimmy didn’t really do anything. He might’ve flashed Kame-chan a bit…” Ueda confessed.
“Flashed?!” Jin repeated.
“Yeah, you know, opened his shirt a bit…” Ueda added and even Yamapi removed himself from Jin for a second there until the boy had seemed to calm down enough for the News leader to dare to put his arms around Jin again.
“It sounds worse than what it actually was.” Ueda pointed out.
“Uh-huh.” Jin answered dryly.
“Kame-chan is the one who really created the scandal. I mean, he attacked an ally of ours. Your own boy toy just insulted one of your allies. That has put you in quite an awful position. We need to deal with this as soon as possible, prisoners are already talking…” Koki said, once more trying to get Jin’s thoughts occupied with something else. “I see no reason why Kame-chan should’ve attacked Jimmy like that out of the blue, and even if he had a damn good reason he’d be supposed to come to you and let you take care of it in the way you see it best.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll talk to him.” Jin replied. “Just you wait until they get back…” the boy added, completely ignoring his gang mates desperate pleads of ‘please don’t do anything stupid’ and ‘don’t kill an ally of yours, it wouldn’t look good in the eyes of other allies’.
~*~*~*~
Kame sighed heavily as he was led back to his own cell that evening. At least they hadn’t decided to move him into a special cell for his actions today. His body ached with every step he took and his limp must’ve looked even worse than the one he had had after the very first night sleeping with Jin.
A small smile spread onto his lips as he remembered that, but it disappeared instantly as the guards opened the cell door for him and the sight of a very pissed off Jin came into view.
Kame had hoped against all odds that Jin would’ve gone to sleep, since it was already past the time prisoners were allowed to move around freely. Facing Jimmy Mackey in a fight was nothing compared to facing Akanishi Jin in a bad mood.
Jin’s eyes never left him as Kame limped his way over to the boy sitting with his legs crossed on the lower bed.
“Do you have any idea how much trouble you’ve gotten yourself into this time?” Jin’s question broke the heavy silence in the cell and Kame lowered his head a bit, shaking it. No, he probably couldn’t begin to imagine.
Jin groaned where he sat. That hadn’t come out as planned, when he had actually wanted to ask something more like ‘Do you have any idea of how worried I was?’
Kame carefully peeked at him through locks of blondish hair and Jin took a moment before continuing a little gentler this time, “What the hell happened?”
“Well… I was sitting by the table, just done eating lunch, when these guys showed up. They started saying and doing some stuff…and I just sort of lost my head. I’m sorry.” Kame said, shooting Jin with a quick look to see if that explanation had passed. It hadn’t.
“Uh-huh?” Jin said dryly. “So you just happened to suddenly lose it because some guys provoked you?”
“Well, the guy that was fighting me, he started touching me. He kept grabbing my shirt and opening it a bit for the others to see…” Kame did his best to explain and Jin gave a sigh, getting up to stroll over to their sink and wet a towel with some cold water before returning back to his cellmate.
“That guy happens to be a very close ally to me. Furthermore I still find it all hard to believe. You are not the type to start fights, I’d say you rather avoid them all together, and somehow the timing of this all disturbs me. So why don’t you just come out and tell me what it’s all about this time?” Jin demanded as he guided them both down to sit on the bed, pressing the cold piece of fabric against a bruise on Kame’s one cheek and making Kame wince at the contact.
“I…didn’t want to leave.” the smaller boy then finally confessed, shooting Jin a nervous glance before continuing, “I should’ve told you immediately after I heard about the news of my departure. It wasn’t fair I’d just sit around here and wait until the last minute to tell you, so that you didn’t have the time to properly change me in for someone else.”
Jin sighed again, pressing against another bruise on Kame’s face next.
“Idiot.” the older boy mumbled. “I already told you I wouldn’t let anyone take your place in my cell. You just might’ve bought yourself back the half year you worked so hard to get rid off.”
“I did.” Kame replied.
“What?” Jin asked, baffled. “You have to stay here for half a year longer because you got into one little fight?”
“Well, not exactly…” Kame then admitted.
“What did you do?” Jin asked, practically throwing the towel onto the bed. “Did you…Did you make a deal with Johnny? Did you do something so that he would let you stay here for six more months?”
“What are you talking about?” Kame asked and Jin eyed him suspiciously.
“You look so guilty.” Jin commented, moving in closer to stare into Kame’s slightly diverting eyes. “Did you…offer him something to get to stay here? Did you…and him…”
Kame looked at him confused, before it finally hit him what Jin was aiming at. “What? Are you implying that I let him..?”
“Yes!” Jin answered immediately. “Did you?”
“Of course not!” Kame replied immediately. “I would never!”
“Then what happened?” Jin asked and Kame flinched backwards. Jin was really serious. “Did he try anything with you?”
Kame couldn’t look the other boy in the eyes anymore. Would Jin hate him if he said Johnny had?
“He…did.” Kame confessed, almost falling from the bed when Jin suddenly got up to storm over to the cell door.
“That’s it, I’m going to see him! Guards!” Jin called, seeing no response.
“Jin, wait-”
“What did he do to you?” Jin asked, turning back to face him. “You knew what happens to those who are called into his office and still you got yourself into a fight on purpose!”
“Please, calm down.” Kame started, trying to walk over to Jin, who immediately met him half-way instead and pulled him into his body for support.
“What did he do?” Jin asked, at least sounding a bit calmer this time.
“He…I didn’t let him get anywhere. When I first realized what he was trying to gain from me, I told him not to touch me and that I…belonged to you. That seemed to make him think twice about me.” Kame said. “That’s when he called this detective into the room. The man who entered was older than me, with dark curly hair and…he was quite beautiful.”
“Masa.” Jin guessed immediately.
“That’s how he introduced himself.” Kame said with a small nod against Jin’s chest. “Masa started to question me about you and my relationship to you. I told him I was your cellmate and then…they told me they could help me out of this problem if I cooperated with them and told them what I knew about you, your gang and your contacts.”
As he had feared, he felt Jin’s figure stiffen around him. Maybe Jin was regretting now letting him be around him and his gang so much.
Kame hurried to continue, “I refused. I said I didn’t know anything. Then Johnny told me he could move me into another cell in the private section where I could be safe from you and get me out earlier if I helped them and told them something useful.”
“That old geezer, he is still on our back!” Jin grunted. “He would just love any reason to make us stay here longer.”
“But I thought Johnny hated the way you rule his prison?” Kame asked.
“He does, but he still benefits more from if he helps Masa-chan solve our crimes and keep us behind his bars.” Jin explained, taking a tighter hold around Kame’s form and leading him back to sit on the lower bed.
“I didn’t tell them anything.” Kame said as Jin placed him down and the older boy looked at him. “I swear.”
“So what else did they want to know? Did they persuade you to keep an eye on me and find out things about me while you are still my cellmate?” Jin then asked and Kame turned a little pale. “Ah, I thought so.”
“I wasn’t going to!” Kame panicked. “When I insisted I was only your boy toy and that you didn’t tell me anything they said that if I found out something about you, using my current position with you, then they would get me out earlier as promised and they would help me get back on my feet.”
“So how did you earn back those six months in the first place?” Jin asked, sitting down next to him and picking up the towel again to press it against Kame’s bruises.
“Well…before Masa arrived Johnny told me I had been stupid to start a fight in his prison just a little over a month before my release and he said he could not let this act go unpunished.” Kame started, wincing at the touches every once in a while.
“That’s usually what he says before offering a different choice; if you help me, I’ll help you.” Jin muttered and Kame gave a small nod.
“When I didn’t take his offer he started talking about other times I seemed to have been in fights in his prison.” Kame continued. “He referred to that time we had been in the east wing and then when Yamapi…had lured me into the kitchen. He wanted me to tell him what had happened and how those fights had started.”
“And what did you tell him?” Jin asked, pausing suddenly. “You took the blame for the whole thing, didn’t you?”
Kame nodded again. “I thought that if I said it was my fault and that I had started the fights, then they would make me stay for the full two years. I didn’t know then that he would use it against me to threaten me to, uh, be with him.”
“Idiot.” Jin commented.
“I know.” the smaller boy mumbled. “I just…didn’t want them to use those fights against you either. After all, it was because of me those fights started.”
Kame shut his eyes. Masa had been more terrifying than what he had imagined, after hearing about the man from Jin and the gang. He was very persuasive and his already existing knowledge on Jin and his friends made Kame worried.
You’re his weakness. He’ll never see you coming. You’ve won his trust. You can get revenge on him, on what he’s done to you, and get out as promised. With your help we can see to that he won’t hurt anyone anymore.
What will you do when he leaves? The other prisoners already want to get their hands on you. He won’t be able to protect you then even if he wanted to, which I highly doubt. Whatever you are to him now, you will be forgotten once he leaves you in here. Don’t let that happen. You can make him face the consequences of his actions if you cooperate with us. Of course, we guarantee your protection from him. You wouldn’t be the first one to do this.
Have they made their move yet? They are tired of him running the show. You are the perfect target. They will hurt you to get to him, because he’s kept you for way too long now. They will think you mean more to him than what you do. You have no idea what’s going to happen and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Masa had seemed so convincing, but Kame doubted someone could be after him. After all who could these gangs be that Masa had caught and were now getting more than tired of Jin? Did they even exist? Masa hadn’t told him much about them, just that he had known those gangs while still being a criminal himself. Maybe this was just another method of trying to mess with Kame in order to get him to talk. If Masa made him scared enough, fearing for his own safety, then maybe Kame would tell the cop everything he knew about Jin and his friends. That wouldn’t work.
He will try to save his long-termed boy toy if you’d tell him about this. That’s what they’re waiting for him to do. That’s where he will make a mistake. You cloud his mind and judgement, like boy toys have the habit of doing to their masters. You are his weakness and will lead to his fall. I don’t want to see anymore gang-fights take place in this prison. Cooperate with us, tell us how things are there from an insider’s point of view, and we can stop this all. The gangs will be split up, and no one will rule this prison and make a slave out of someone else like he has done to you.
“It was not because of you.” Jin’s voice broke into his thoughts and Kame opened his eyes to peer into his cellmate’s. “The fight with News in the east corridor was a cause of us presumably ‘trespassing’ on News’ territory. It had nothing to do with you. The second one, which sort of lacked a real fight but ended up becoming this big commotion anyway, was a cause of Yamapi fooling around. You are not the first one of my cellmates he’s succeeded to lure away with him…”
Kame just looked at the other boy. He couldn’t tell Jin. There was no need to anyway, Jin ruled this prison. He was safe with the older boy, besides who would try to hurt him and how would that really hurt Jin anyway?
Kame shook those thoughts out and concentrated on their current discussion instead, “Johnny and Masa certainly didn’t seem very pleased by what they had gotten out of me. Neither was my lawyer or family when I talked with them over the phone.”
“Your family must’ve looked forward to having you back earlier than promised…” Jin commented a bit thoughtfully and continued to treat his injuries again.
“I guess.” Kame replied.
“Have they come to visit you often during the time you’ve been here? You didn’t leave the cell very much in the beginning.” Jin then asked. After Kame had become his boy toy, Kame had barely left their cell for anything else than to go and eat or to go and meet someone who had come to visit the smaller boy. Jin had wondered then if Kame had told his family about what had happened to him and what kind of a cellmate he was staying with, but came to the conclusion that Kame probably lied and said everything was alright and not as bad as he had thought it would be in prison. The visits had become even fewer as time had passed and Kame’s family had seen that their son had settled in, but every now and then Kame was still called away to meet some visitors when hanging out with the gang.
“Sometimes. They have been mostly supportive…What about your folks?” Kame asked carefully.
“Mine? Are you joking?” Jin laughed. “They gave up on me when I dropped out of high-school. I was never interested in studying and they could still accept that, but I think my choice of career was the most difficult part for them to handle.”
“Sorry.” Kame said and Jin shot him a look, trailing a finger quickly down the smooth cheek before letting it disappear back into the towel.
“Anyway, let’s focus on the problem at hand: you endangered yourself by seeing Johnny and you seriously pissed him off as well. He will want to get even with both of us now.”
“Then…what am I supposed to do in a situation like that? Turn on you?” Kame asked and Jin shot him a quick look.
“For my best interest: no. For yours: …I don’t know.” Jin replied. “Depends on your priorities, I guess.”
“I would never betray you.” Kame then added, barely above a whisper.
“Thank you, I think you’ve proven that before.” Jin said.
“A-and to tell the truth…I didn’t really know what I wanted to do after this. The early release came as a shock to me and…I didn’t really feel like I had anywhere else to go. I needed a reason to stay and I just took the opportunity that dropped before me.” Kame said, as Jin had seemed calm enough for a while to hear that, but when Jin didn’t reply Kame glanced at him anxiously again. “Are you mad?”
“Jimmy Mackey is not only a close ally; he is also a close friend.” Jin started and Kame’s head sunk lower again, making it almost hard for Jin to press the wet towel against his face. “You attacked and insulted, although you were the more insulted in the end, someone I care about because you wanted a reason to stay.”
Kame gave a defeated nod, head still ducked.
“You disrespected me, you fought which you are not allowed to, and you endangered both yourself and him.” Jin lectured and as Kame refused to look at him Jin took him by the chin, lifting his face up so that their eyes locked. “You put me in a very awkward position as well. Jimmy is furious. He demands blood - your blood.”
Kame gave out something that sounded like a faint ‘yes’.
“So the next time you pull a stunt like that, I will seriously punish you.” Jin added and Kame’s eyes widened a bit. Fear written in those depthless eyes Jin had come to love staring into.
“I ought to do it to you now too, but in your current condition you couldn’t possibly handle it.” the older boy then continued. “So remember this the next time you find yourself about to get into trouble again, because the next time I will bend you over my knee and spank you. Do you understand?”
Kame hurried to nod a couple of times so that Jin’s hand shook in the process. A shade of red, different from the marks on his face, started to color his otherwise pale cheeks just thinking about what Jin had said.
Satisfied with a successful threat, Jin let go of Kame’s chin and continued to treat the wounds with the towel.
“You’re…not going to give him my blood?” Kame then had to ask. “Will he let it pass without it?”
“I hope so.” Jin answered. “Otherwise I’m really in a sticky place.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I know. Don’t do something like that again, I can’t promise you I’ll always cover for you if you start turning on my allies. I’ll lose them all if I let you get away with that.” Jin sighed. “So the next time you even think of getting yourself into trouble, just remember what I have in store for you…because the next time I really will.”
Thank you for all the support so far! And love to my aikata for the quick beta-ing she does so well ^____^ <33
Ps. I can’t wait to open my pressies~ X___X;; Goddammit, I’m curious! Cata, Miu, Sara!!
Title: In his Care
Pairings: Akame, RyoUchi, TxT, more.
Fandoms: JE, random Jboys, wFL, a bit of Gokusen (2) and tenimyu.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: AU. Kame’s two years in prison. I chose the perfect timing to give Jin a overdue Christmas depression and Kame does what he does best except for being with Jin and gets into a bit of trouble… ^___^;
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
We both wish you a Merry Christmas~!!
Chapter 18
It was snowing again. He didn’t think the snow flakes had stopped falling from the sky since the day Kame had told him the news about his departure, but he wasn’t sure. His attention had been set on the little figure that had lay snuggled in his arms and the days after that too, since Jin hadn’t felt like getting up.
Maybe it was a late Christmas depression. He remembered a year back around Christmas time when Kame had just gotten used to being with him and everything had been going his way. He remembered the way Kame had reacted when hearing about the new prisoner who was apparently supposed to take his place next to Jin. Now all of that would be in the past and less than two months from now Kame would be gone.
Idiot, he told himself. This is what you get for becoming too attached to a pretty little boy with soft pale skin, nice curves, beautiful blondish hair and eyes that could hypnotize. Not to mention that behind…
Jin allowed a small smile to spread on his lips.
How was he ever going to replace all of that? How was he supposed to find a boy who could match up to the standards that Kame had set for him?
Jin sighed where he lay alone on the lower bed, staring out through their window. Some mornings the cell would be lit up with this purple light, just minutes before the sun would rise high enough to cast its true reflection into their cell. Jin had always enjoyed waking up to see that sight, then wrap himself around Kame’s still sleeping form and fall asleep again for about an hour or two.
He wished he could wake up and see that purple a few more times before Kame would leave.
Removing his eyes from the window, he forced himself to get up. He wasn’t in the mood to lie in bed and sulk anymore. He was wasting the little time he still had with Kame to just lie in bed and not even do anything but be half asleep. Furthermore he had a reputation to uphold among the other prisoners!
…Okay so the cuddling was nice. Jin had showed up briefly for breakfast and for lunch, just now, but found the food to not really taste like anything and that was a first in his case.
He wished he could try to deny the situation again, but in truth he knew what had happened. He knew he had developed too strong feelings for the boy who had been supposed to be his toy and sex object, but Kame had never been just that. He had been a challenge, an obsession and as close to a real lover Jin had ever had, since he sort of lacked an understanding for relationships.
Stretching, Jin leaned back against the cell bars covered with the felt. He knew this day would come. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t known all along that one day their roads would part and Kame would no longer spend every night with him anymore. The boy would have his own life somewhere totally else. Though, Jin couldn’t ignore the evil desire in him that told him he had the power to keep Kame in his life forever. He could stop Kame from leaving now and he could get Kame to be his again even after they got out.
But he knew he wasn’t going to do anything like that. Kame deserved a chance to have a normal life again. After all, it wasn’t as if the boy hadn’t worked hard enough to earn it, being his boy toy for a year and a half. Sometimes Jin wondered if his little cellmate had forgotten himself during that time. He thought he knew Kame, but in truth he didn’t. He could understand everything he saw on the outside, but the inside was still a bit of a mystery for him…
Had Kame forced himself through this year and a half? Jin didn’t think so. Sometimes Kame would smile a bit when he pulled him close. Sometimes Kame would snuggle up, very carefully as if not wanting his actions to be noticed by him, into his arms and fall asleep there. Sometimes Kame would let out a sound in protest if he didn’t kiss the boy long enough. That wasn’t forcing, but instead Kame might’ve convinced himself that he liked it the way things were between them. That could be just as bad.
Jin shook his head, trying to shake those thoughts out. Why should it matter to him what Kame felt like as long as the smaller boy kept his end of the bargain? But in that case Kame would only be a boy toy to him, which he wasn’t.
Anyway, seeing things from the bright side at least now Kame wouldn’t have to stay two months later after Jin and his gang got out. That was a good thing. And Jin wouldn’t have to wonder anymore about what Kame thought. It was best this way, now he could protect Kame until the end. It was best…this way…
Still, what he wouldn’t give for just one more year with the boy.
A distant sound of cheering broke into his troubled mind and Jin stopped to listen to it. What could be going on now? The sounds most likely came from the dining-hall. Was there a fight? …Where was Kame? Last he had seen the boy was at lunch from where he had left pretty fast back to the west wing. Kame hadn’t followed him, probably realizing Jin wasn’t in the mood to do anything. Was Kame still there?
Jin hurried to start walking out of the cell and towards the main hall. He had a bad feeling and it only got worse the closer he got and the louder the cheers grew. If not for anything else he just wanted to make sure Kame and his closest friends were alright.
As he exited the west corridor he found over half of all the prisoners in the joint lined up around the railings, looking down into the dining-hall. From the side he spotted the rest of his gang.
“What’s going on?” he barely had time to ask them as his eyes fell upon the slender figure he usually held close at night, now lying in a heap on the floor in the middle of the dining-hall.
“Kame…” the sound of his voice got his friends to turn away from the fight and towards him.
“Uh, Jin-” Junno started, trying to come up with a good way to fill in the leader with the details, but Koki beat him to it.
“There were a couple of guys teasing him and suddenly, just out of the blue, Kame-chan attacked Jimmy.” the rapper explained and Jin could see Kame slowly move to get up one knee on the floor. “He isn’t doing very well against Jimmy.”
“They were provoking him, you know in the whole tease-but-don’t-touch-what-is-Akanishi’s way, but I didn’t think I’d ever see the day Kame-chan snapped.” Maru continued from where Koki had left off.
“Kame! Sheesh, Jimmy’s going to trash him!” Jin said, about to dash in the direction of the stairs when Koki and Maru grabbed him.
“Don’t. You can’t get into a fight that open. Johnny and Masa-chan are just waiting for a reason to nail us all since we got away with most of our unsolved crimes.” Koki reasoned.
“But he’s hurting Kame! Let me go!” Jin demanded and Ueda and Junno came to the two boys’ aid.
“I care about Kame-chan too, but everyone here can point out that he was the one to throw the first punch. You can’t get involved now.” Maru insisted.
“I could get away with it!” Jin insisted back. “You know I could!”
“They’re in the middle of the dining-hall; the guards are not far away. Let them stop this fight.” Ueda joined in.
“Then where are they? Someone call the fucking guards already! Haven’t they heard the noise?” Jin shouted, sending glares towards the end of the dining-hall where only bars separated the guards from the prisoners. Diverting his eyes back to the fighting pair, Jin could see Kame getting back onto his feet.
“Stay down, you idiot, you’ll only piss him off even more.” Jin muttered to himself and as if Kame had heard him, the smaller boy shot a look behind his back, eyes locking with Jin’s for a second or two before a rather hard punch had the smaller boy back down onto the floor again.
“And eyes on the opponent!” Jin added, struggling to get loose and making TTUN grab a stronger hold on him. He had to witness Kame take yet another hit and then another one before two guards finally managed to push their way through the crowd of boys surrounding the fighting duo and both Kame and Jimmy Mackey were separated from each other and taken away.
It took a while before the situation had calmed down and prisoners returned to other parts of the joint. Jin flopped himself down onto his usual seat in the dining-hall, being finally let go. The rest of his gang sat down around him, patting his back comfortingly.
“Would somebody please tell me what the hell he just thought he was doing? Who was with Jimmy at the time?” Jin asked in a tone that indicated he didn’t like waiting for an answer.
“We didn’t really catch who was with Jimmy at the time...” Ueda said, but Jin had a feeling the guys were just trying to protect Jimmy’s friends from receiving his wrath over what had happened to Kame.
“I have no clue of what went on inside his head. You know, Kame-chan can’t fight that well.” Koki continued, trying to change the subject. “On the other hand Kame-chan’s got a killer right-handed punch. One second Jimmy is laughing and the next one he is 180 degrees turned around, massaging his jaw.”
“…I know.” Jin mumbled, trailing his fingers over his own jaw.
“Jin, please don’t strangle Jimmy when he comes back…” Junno then pleaded.
Jin tapped his fingers against the table in annoyance. Adding to his good mood was Yamapi, who flew over to him and wrapped his arms around his neck.
“I never knew Kame-chan had such a wild side.” the News boy purred into his ear. “You two sure have kept that as a secret from the rest of us. He really doesn’t seem to want to be touched by anyone but you. Such faithfulness - that’s a very nice quality in a boy toy.”
“Jimmy touched him?!” Jin asked, turning towards the rest of his gang. “I thought you said in the whole tease-but-not-touch-what-is-Akanishi’s way!”
A couple of his gang members pressed back the urge to sigh and the will to kick Yamapi for teasing Jin, letting their leader in on what they had so carefully left out of the story.
“Jimmy didn’t really do anything. He might’ve flashed Kame-chan a bit…” Ueda confessed.
“Flashed?!” Jin repeated.
“Yeah, you know, opened his shirt a bit…” Ueda added and even Yamapi removed himself from Jin for a second there until the boy had seemed to calm down enough for the News leader to dare to put his arms around Jin again.
“It sounds worse than what it actually was.” Ueda pointed out.
“Uh-huh.” Jin answered dryly.
“Kame-chan is the one who really created the scandal. I mean, he attacked an ally of ours. Your own boy toy just insulted one of your allies. That has put you in quite an awful position. We need to deal with this as soon as possible, prisoners are already talking…” Koki said, once more trying to get Jin’s thoughts occupied with something else. “I see no reason why Kame-chan should’ve attacked Jimmy like that out of the blue, and even if he had a damn good reason he’d be supposed to come to you and let you take care of it in the way you see it best.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll talk to him.” Jin replied. “Just you wait until they get back…” the boy added, completely ignoring his gang mates desperate pleads of ‘please don’t do anything stupid’ and ‘don’t kill an ally of yours, it wouldn’t look good in the eyes of other allies’.
~*~*~*~
Kame sighed heavily as he was led back to his own cell that evening. At least they hadn’t decided to move him into a special cell for his actions today. His body ached with every step he took and his limp must’ve looked even worse than the one he had had after the very first night sleeping with Jin.
A small smile spread onto his lips as he remembered that, but it disappeared instantly as the guards opened the cell door for him and the sight of a very pissed off Jin came into view.
Kame had hoped against all odds that Jin would’ve gone to sleep, since it was already past the time prisoners were allowed to move around freely. Facing Jimmy Mackey in a fight was nothing compared to facing Akanishi Jin in a bad mood.
Jin’s eyes never left him as Kame limped his way over to the boy sitting with his legs crossed on the lower bed.
“Do you have any idea how much trouble you’ve gotten yourself into this time?” Jin’s question broke the heavy silence in the cell and Kame lowered his head a bit, shaking it. No, he probably couldn’t begin to imagine.
Jin groaned where he sat. That hadn’t come out as planned, when he had actually wanted to ask something more like ‘Do you have any idea of how worried I was?’
Kame carefully peeked at him through locks of blondish hair and Jin took a moment before continuing a little gentler this time, “What the hell happened?”
“Well… I was sitting by the table, just done eating lunch, when these guys showed up. They started saying and doing some stuff…and I just sort of lost my head. I’m sorry.” Kame said, shooting Jin with a quick look to see if that explanation had passed. It hadn’t.
“Uh-huh?” Jin said dryly. “So you just happened to suddenly lose it because some guys provoked you?”
“Well, the guy that was fighting me, he started touching me. He kept grabbing my shirt and opening it a bit for the others to see…” Kame did his best to explain and Jin gave a sigh, getting up to stroll over to their sink and wet a towel with some cold water before returning back to his cellmate.
“That guy happens to be a very close ally to me. Furthermore I still find it all hard to believe. You are not the type to start fights, I’d say you rather avoid them all together, and somehow the timing of this all disturbs me. So why don’t you just come out and tell me what it’s all about this time?” Jin demanded as he guided them both down to sit on the bed, pressing the cold piece of fabric against a bruise on Kame’s one cheek and making Kame wince at the contact.
“I…didn’t want to leave.” the smaller boy then finally confessed, shooting Jin a nervous glance before continuing, “I should’ve told you immediately after I heard about the news of my departure. It wasn’t fair I’d just sit around here and wait until the last minute to tell you, so that you didn’t have the time to properly change me in for someone else.”
Jin sighed again, pressing against another bruise on Kame’s face next.
“Idiot.” the older boy mumbled. “I already told you I wouldn’t let anyone take your place in my cell. You just might’ve bought yourself back the half year you worked so hard to get rid off.”
“I did.” Kame replied.
“What?” Jin asked, baffled. “You have to stay here for half a year longer because you got into one little fight?”
“Well, not exactly…” Kame then admitted.
“What did you do?” Jin asked, practically throwing the towel onto the bed. “Did you…Did you make a deal with Johnny? Did you do something so that he would let you stay here for six more months?”
“What are you talking about?” Kame asked and Jin eyed him suspiciously.
“You look so guilty.” Jin commented, moving in closer to stare into Kame’s slightly diverting eyes. “Did you…offer him something to get to stay here? Did you…and him…”
Kame looked at him confused, before it finally hit him what Jin was aiming at. “What? Are you implying that I let him..?”
“Yes!” Jin answered immediately. “Did you?”
“Of course not!” Kame replied immediately. “I would never!”
“Then what happened?” Jin asked and Kame flinched backwards. Jin was really serious. “Did he try anything with you?”
Kame couldn’t look the other boy in the eyes anymore. Would Jin hate him if he said Johnny had?
“He…did.” Kame confessed, almost falling from the bed when Jin suddenly got up to storm over to the cell door.
“That’s it, I’m going to see him! Guards!” Jin called, seeing no response.
“Jin, wait-”
“What did he do to you?” Jin asked, turning back to face him. “You knew what happens to those who are called into his office and still you got yourself into a fight on purpose!”
“Please, calm down.” Kame started, trying to walk over to Jin, who immediately met him half-way instead and pulled him into his body for support.
“What did he do?” Jin asked, at least sounding a bit calmer this time.
“He…I didn’t let him get anywhere. When I first realized what he was trying to gain from me, I told him not to touch me and that I…belonged to you. That seemed to make him think twice about me.” Kame said. “That’s when he called this detective into the room. The man who entered was older than me, with dark curly hair and…he was quite beautiful.”
“Masa.” Jin guessed immediately.
“That’s how he introduced himself.” Kame said with a small nod against Jin’s chest. “Masa started to question me about you and my relationship to you. I told him I was your cellmate and then…they told me they could help me out of this problem if I cooperated with them and told them what I knew about you, your gang and your contacts.”
As he had feared, he felt Jin’s figure stiffen around him. Maybe Jin was regretting now letting him be around him and his gang so much.
Kame hurried to continue, “I refused. I said I didn’t know anything. Then Johnny told me he could move me into another cell in the private section where I could be safe from you and get me out earlier if I helped them and told them something useful.”
“That old geezer, he is still on our back!” Jin grunted. “He would just love any reason to make us stay here longer.”
“But I thought Johnny hated the way you rule his prison?” Kame asked.
“He does, but he still benefits more from if he helps Masa-chan solve our crimes and keep us behind his bars.” Jin explained, taking a tighter hold around Kame’s form and leading him back to sit on the lower bed.
“I didn’t tell them anything.” Kame said as Jin placed him down and the older boy looked at him. “I swear.”
“So what else did they want to know? Did they persuade you to keep an eye on me and find out things about me while you are still my cellmate?” Jin then asked and Kame turned a little pale. “Ah, I thought so.”
“I wasn’t going to!” Kame panicked. “When I insisted I was only your boy toy and that you didn’t tell me anything they said that if I found out something about you, using my current position with you, then they would get me out earlier as promised and they would help me get back on my feet.”
“So how did you earn back those six months in the first place?” Jin asked, sitting down next to him and picking up the towel again to press it against Kame’s bruises.
“Well…before Masa arrived Johnny told me I had been stupid to start a fight in his prison just a little over a month before my release and he said he could not let this act go unpunished.” Kame started, wincing at the touches every once in a while.
“That’s usually what he says before offering a different choice; if you help me, I’ll help you.” Jin muttered and Kame gave a small nod.
“When I didn’t take his offer he started talking about other times I seemed to have been in fights in his prison.” Kame continued. “He referred to that time we had been in the east wing and then when Yamapi…had lured me into the kitchen. He wanted me to tell him what had happened and how those fights had started.”
“And what did you tell him?” Jin asked, pausing suddenly. “You took the blame for the whole thing, didn’t you?”
Kame nodded again. “I thought that if I said it was my fault and that I had started the fights, then they would make me stay for the full two years. I didn’t know then that he would use it against me to threaten me to, uh, be with him.”
“Idiot.” Jin commented.
“I know.” the smaller boy mumbled. “I just…didn’t want them to use those fights against you either. After all, it was because of me those fights started.”
Kame shut his eyes. Masa had been more terrifying than what he had imagined, after hearing about the man from Jin and the gang. He was very persuasive and his already existing knowledge on Jin and his friends made Kame worried.
You’re his weakness. He’ll never see you coming. You’ve won his trust. You can get revenge on him, on what he’s done to you, and get out as promised. With your help we can see to that he won’t hurt anyone anymore.
What will you do when he leaves? The other prisoners already want to get their hands on you. He won’t be able to protect you then even if he wanted to, which I highly doubt. Whatever you are to him now, you will be forgotten once he leaves you in here. Don’t let that happen. You can make him face the consequences of his actions if you cooperate with us. Of course, we guarantee your protection from him. You wouldn’t be the first one to do this.
Have they made their move yet? They are tired of him running the show. You are the perfect target. They will hurt you to get to him, because he’s kept you for way too long now. They will think you mean more to him than what you do. You have no idea what’s going to happen and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
Masa had seemed so convincing, but Kame doubted someone could be after him. After all who could these gangs be that Masa had caught and were now getting more than tired of Jin? Did they even exist? Masa hadn’t told him much about them, just that he had known those gangs while still being a criminal himself. Maybe this was just another method of trying to mess with Kame in order to get him to talk. If Masa made him scared enough, fearing for his own safety, then maybe Kame would tell the cop everything he knew about Jin and his friends. That wouldn’t work.
He will try to save his long-termed boy toy if you’d tell him about this. That’s what they’re waiting for him to do. That’s where he will make a mistake. You cloud his mind and judgement, like boy toys have the habit of doing to their masters. You are his weakness and will lead to his fall. I don’t want to see anymore gang-fights take place in this prison. Cooperate with us, tell us how things are there from an insider’s point of view, and we can stop this all. The gangs will be split up, and no one will rule this prison and make a slave out of someone else like he has done to you.
“It was not because of you.” Jin’s voice broke into his thoughts and Kame opened his eyes to peer into his cellmate’s. “The fight with News in the east corridor was a cause of us presumably ‘trespassing’ on News’ territory. It had nothing to do with you. The second one, which sort of lacked a real fight but ended up becoming this big commotion anyway, was a cause of Yamapi fooling around. You are not the first one of my cellmates he’s succeeded to lure away with him…”
Kame just looked at the other boy. He couldn’t tell Jin. There was no need to anyway, Jin ruled this prison. He was safe with the older boy, besides who would try to hurt him and how would that really hurt Jin anyway?
Kame shook those thoughts out and concentrated on their current discussion instead, “Johnny and Masa certainly didn’t seem very pleased by what they had gotten out of me. Neither was my lawyer or family when I talked with them over the phone.”
“Your family must’ve looked forward to having you back earlier than promised…” Jin commented a bit thoughtfully and continued to treat his injuries again.
“I guess.” Kame replied.
“Have they come to visit you often during the time you’ve been here? You didn’t leave the cell very much in the beginning.” Jin then asked. After Kame had become his boy toy, Kame had barely left their cell for anything else than to go and eat or to go and meet someone who had come to visit the smaller boy. Jin had wondered then if Kame had told his family about what had happened to him and what kind of a cellmate he was staying with, but came to the conclusion that Kame probably lied and said everything was alright and not as bad as he had thought it would be in prison. The visits had become even fewer as time had passed and Kame’s family had seen that their son had settled in, but every now and then Kame was still called away to meet some visitors when hanging out with the gang.
“Sometimes. They have been mostly supportive…What about your folks?” Kame asked carefully.
“Mine? Are you joking?” Jin laughed. “They gave up on me when I dropped out of high-school. I was never interested in studying and they could still accept that, but I think my choice of career was the most difficult part for them to handle.”
“Sorry.” Kame said and Jin shot him a look, trailing a finger quickly down the smooth cheek before letting it disappear back into the towel.
“Anyway, let’s focus on the problem at hand: you endangered yourself by seeing Johnny and you seriously pissed him off as well. He will want to get even with both of us now.”
“Then…what am I supposed to do in a situation like that? Turn on you?” Kame asked and Jin shot him a quick look.
“For my best interest: no. For yours: …I don’t know.” Jin replied. “Depends on your priorities, I guess.”
“I would never betray you.” Kame then added, barely above a whisper.
“Thank you, I think you’ve proven that before.” Jin said.
“A-and to tell the truth…I didn’t really know what I wanted to do after this. The early release came as a shock to me and…I didn’t really feel like I had anywhere else to go. I needed a reason to stay and I just took the opportunity that dropped before me.” Kame said, as Jin had seemed calm enough for a while to hear that, but when Jin didn’t reply Kame glanced at him anxiously again. “Are you mad?”
“Jimmy Mackey is not only a close ally; he is also a close friend.” Jin started and Kame’s head sunk lower again, making it almost hard for Jin to press the wet towel against his face. “You attacked and insulted, although you were the more insulted in the end, someone I care about because you wanted a reason to stay.”
Kame gave a defeated nod, head still ducked.
“You disrespected me, you fought which you are not allowed to, and you endangered both yourself and him.” Jin lectured and as Kame refused to look at him Jin took him by the chin, lifting his face up so that their eyes locked. “You put me in a very awkward position as well. Jimmy is furious. He demands blood - your blood.”
Kame gave out something that sounded like a faint ‘yes’.
“So the next time you pull a stunt like that, I will seriously punish you.” Jin added and Kame’s eyes widened a bit. Fear written in those depthless eyes Jin had come to love staring into.
“I ought to do it to you now too, but in your current condition you couldn’t possibly handle it.” the older boy then continued. “So remember this the next time you find yourself about to get into trouble again, because the next time I will bend you over my knee and spank you. Do you understand?”
Kame hurried to nod a couple of times so that Jin’s hand shook in the process. A shade of red, different from the marks on his face, started to color his otherwise pale cheeks just thinking about what Jin had said.
Satisfied with a successful threat, Jin let go of Kame’s chin and continued to treat the wounds with the towel.
“You’re…not going to give him my blood?” Kame then had to ask. “Will he let it pass without it?”
“I hope so.” Jin answered. “Otherwise I’m really in a sticky place.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I know. Don’t do something like that again, I can’t promise you I’ll always cover for you if you start turning on my allies. I’ll lose them all if I let you get away with that.” Jin sighed. “So the next time you even think of getting yourself into trouble, just remember what I have in store for you…because the next time I really will.”