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back to part one Part Five: Special night
The first thing Pi felt was a throbbing pain in his back when someone pushed him hard against a wall the minute he entered his room.
His boyfriend/friend with benefits had a problem, or a virtue, depending on your point of view, but the actual deal there was that said person was an S; a huge, big and unmistakable S that made him want to convert to any existing religion on earth and pray to every available God known in human history for mercy.
But that wasn´t an option, not when Ryo was pissed off at him for something. Anything that made him believe that he was the actual boss of that weird relationship they had was a huge lie, cause Ryo didn´t like to be bossed around, to take him for granted, or as a matter of fact nothing that gave anyone the tiny clue that Pi had any advantage over him, when it fact, in Ryo´s mind, Pi didn´t have any.
His mind felt tipsy when Ryo pressed his lips against his forcefully, it was a silent claim over Pi´s body, because as it was mentioned before, Pi didn´t have any rights in that relationship, not even the right to dispose over his own body.
No, it wasn´t his body, it was Ryo´s property. Not that he would complain about it though, not when he had Ryo´s tongue playing with his in a wet dance of passion.
He could feel hot fire spreading in each extremity of his body, pure blaze boogieing through his skin until it gripped its burning claws on his heart.
If love had a physical form, pi analyzed, it would be of flames, because that was the way he always felt when being with Ryo, at the verge of searing in pure sweetness, fervor and hot, wild madness.
His lungs scalded from the lack of air; air was a vital thing to survive, but in situations like this one he was ready to give that up just for the sake of kissing Ryo until he felt that faintness was reaching his being.
Ryo parted for a second from the heated kiss to take his and Pi´s shirts off, resuming their kiss once more. Never breaking body contact, they fell on the bed in a passionate embrace where desperate hands searched every inch of hot boiling skin they could reach. Frantic motions and anxious breathing urging them to take all they could from that moment. A moment they were happy to dilate as much as it could be, but end will eventually come and make them explode into each other´s arms. And that same notion was the one that had them yearning for that feeling.
Naked bodies were struggling to win a battle that they both knew they were going to lose. But that was probably the sweetest defeat on earth.
Pi moaned lustfully when his lover bit his clavicle and went down until he reached his nipples. Ryo licked and nibbled them with expertise, knowing by heart what buttons needed to be pushed to have Pi squirming and yelling his name beneath him.
He continued his torture until Pi´s sweaty body was begging for release. He let his tongue travel on the muscular body, biting Pi´s belly bottom and thighs in the process.
Thousands of fireworks appeared at the back of Pi´s eyelids when he felt Ryo shoving his shaft into his mouth. He could feel how Ryo´s saliva lubricated his tensed member to facilitate the entry into the back of Ryo´s throat, deeper and deeper by seconds. The tip of his member made contact with his lover´s uvula, provoking the blast of his white pleasure. Ryo continued sucking him off eagerly and leisurely until his member was hard, strong and ready for him once again after some minutes.
Pi´s heart hurt from so many emotions at once, bliss and divine twinges of hot pleasure tingling on his body, drums playing on his ears and difficult breathing capability in his lungs.
He turned them around so he was now on top, with no hesitation he replicated Ryo´s efforts, willingly consuming Ryo´s member in one move. Ryo screamed in delight, caressing Pi´s hair and encouraging him to take him in more.
If love had a sound, Pi pondered, it would be Ryo´s whimpers and moans. Those delightful noises that escaped involuntarily, Pi loved when he managed to make Ryo a mess of involuntary movements.
He tortured his member and put one of his hands on Ryo´s hole teasing it, he stopped for a second just for the sake of seeing Ryo´s silent complaint at the loss of contact. He reached for the lube on the side table and coated his fingers with it.
Once again he took Ryo´s member in his hot cavern while his fingers coaxed Ryo to open his entrance for him. Slowly but steadily he made Ryo´s body relax under his touch until he was pushing his round ass against those fingers that were making him see stars.
He pressed his long fingers against Ryo´s most wanted place, making his lover groan in satisfaction. He felt how Ryo´s breathing picked up, making his chest go up and down with a looming orgasm.
He hovered over him, and positioned himself. He opened Ryo´s legs widely, put on a condom and then rubbed his hole with his shaft teasingly. As a reward for not letting him come, Ryo painfully pulled his head in a frantic kiss while Pi began his invasion.
If love had a sight, Pi thought, it would be Ryo under him, opening his walls to him, letting his guard down for a bit and letting Pi in, not just physically but emotionally. That was the most arousing and beautiful thing that Pi had ever seen, and will ever see because he was sure, he wasn´t ever going to feel this way about anyone ever again.
It was slow at first, so slow it almost hurt, and they could feel the spiral of sensations building up stronger and stronger by the minute, sweat gathering on their foreheads and backs.
Ryo put both of his hands on Pi´s lower back, and allowed them to roam until he reached his ass and squeezed it. Scratching with his nails the soft skin and creating a deeper contact where their bodies were united. Pi shoved his head back and threw a guttural growl to the ceiling.
The peace increasing faster and faster by the moment, both torturing each other and enjoining the agony of that raised craze within their bodies and hearts.
Pi kissed Ryo with all his might, conveying with his kisses all those emotions creepingin his heart.
If love had a taste, Pi considered, it would be Ryo´s lips and the way salty drops of sweat gathered on his upper lip when they were making love. A silent pleafrom those lips to kiss the daylights out of them, until that salty taste developed in a sweet product of the afterglow of orgasm.
He changed the angle to give sharper pounds on Ryo´s sweet spot, that resulted in a screaming Ryo, not able to control himself anymore.
His lover scratched his back, digging his nails while meeting him half through every thrust to make the friction almost impossible to bear. He hugged Ryo with force, not able to contain his own explosion anymore, they embraced each other with vigor, not wanting to finish but unable to hold back, not even a second.
They screamed one another´s names. They flew to heaven just to go back to earth a minute later and encounter paradise in each other´s arms.
They kissed sweetly this time, bodies still tickly with the power of their orgasms. They lay tangled in a mess of arms, legs, and the sticky essence of their love.
If love had a smell, Pi knew, it was the one after they made love, because then his scent was printed on Ryo´s skin, marking him as his, and that was an unmistakable testament that Ryo belonged to him.
Like usual, calm follows the calamitous storm, they hold one another close and drift into sleep...
…
“I thought someone was dying last night,” Jin commented casually the next morning.
“Well I was murdering some ass,” Pi said and chuckled at his own joke.
The two were having breakfast while the other two members of their family were still sleeping.
“Dude, you two give me so much porn material that I´m going to give thanks to you till next century,” Jin smirked naughtily at him.
“Why?” Pi asked surprised at his friend words.
“Well you left the door slightly opened, and I´m not the type of guy that rejects watching a good show when it´s in front of his nose,” he explained and laughed at Pi´s scandalized face.
“You what!?” Pi asked angrily, feeling violated at the possibility of someone watching him making love to Ryo.
“I lost count of how many times I came by jerking myself off,” Jin continued.
“You are not allowed to see that!” Pi yelled in rage.
“Damn, you do love him, don´t you?” Jin asked all of asudden, ignoring Pi´s outburst.
Pi blushed intensely.
“……….”
“Man,” Jin started “Don´t get me wrong, I love you like a brother,” he clarified and stared at Pi for a second, straight in the face, “but I envy Ryo, it´s not easy to find someone that could love you the way you love him, you can tell by the way you acted last night,” he ended and munched on a piece toast.
“What do you mean?” Pi asked frowning. It wasn´t usual for them to have this type of conversation, especially when he didn´t know if Jin was as cool with Ryo´s and his relationship as he appeared to be.
“I have seen the seven seas, I have experienced everything that life has to offer, and I have never met someone that professes love for me,” Jin stated and smiled sadly at him.
Pi´s cup stopped half way to his mouth.
“I love you,” Pi replied in a matter of fact tone.
“Yea, but you know what I mean,” Jin said and drank some coffee.
“You will find it,” Pi said and smiled at his friend fondly.
“With this life style?” Jin asked him and chuckled without grace, “Don´t think so, but it´s ok. I guess I will take what life gives me and not expect anything more”.
“That´s a sad way of thinking,” Pi answered frowning, he didn´t add pathetic, because that wasn´t what Jin wanted to hear.
“Why bother?” his friend asked him again.
He was about to answer when Ryo entered the room followed by a sleepy yawning Shige.
“What are you two love birds talking about?” Ryo asked smiling ina good mood.
“Pi was telling me he loves me,” Jin said with indifference, sending a challenge look at Ryo who immediately glared.
“Eh? It wasn´t like that,” Pi excused himself.
“Like I care,” Ryo mumbled. He served himself a cup of coffee and left the room in the blink of an eye, his tensed back giving away how pissed he was.
“What did you do that for!?” Yamapi asked angrily at Jin. He stood up and clenched his fist, already thinking about the hell waiting for him with Ryo and that stupid comment.
“It´s about time he realizes what he has. If he doesn´t then we have always been two, and we´ll continue being a duet till we die, well with Shige it will be “Two and a half men,” but that´s ok right?” Jin answered grinning, totally ignoring Shige´s glare. He looked at Pi once more, giving him a pat on his back before leaving.
Pi analyzed Jin´s words, is that what will happen? If Ryo rejected him once more, Ryo will leave all of them for good? He wasn´t sure if that was the answer, because even if Ryo wasn´t his lover, he still was his friend and his brother.
After this entire job ended what will happen to them? Pi had promised himself that they were going to get clean about their relationship after it all ended, but what if Ryo didn´t love him like he thought? What if Ryo was indeed indifferent to his feelings?
His heart clenched at those painful thoughts.
“Not even the best of actors can pretend as he did last night,” Shige said out of the blue, looking at Pi pointedly, apparently reading his thoughts, he smiled at Yamapi´s interrogative eyes, “Well Jin wasn´t the only one that heard both of you last night,” he said and then grinnedmischievously, “or saw you….”
Pi was scarlet all day after that statement.
Part Six: The Bank
1st Minute
It was eleven o´clock and all the surrounding area of the bank was a phantom city. They were wearing black clothes, covering every inch of skin, only their eyes were covered by night lenses. No words muttered between the team, every one of them too nervous and concentrated on their own jobs.They had left the karts at the back door of the bank. Jin punched two guards and climbed a wall in less than ten seconds. His friends could never get used to this efficient Jin, his ninja side was beyond cool, so they couldn´t help but look on in awe as he left unconscious the guards and disabled the security camera.
Ryo took the two guards, tied them up and took all electronic devises off their bodies. Shige took his computer out of his bag while Pi unscrewed the mechanism next to the door. Shige put a chip attached to a wire connected to his computer in to the mechanism and ran the virus. The door was finally open.
2nd Minute
They entered the bank and shoved the two guards into the first store room they saw and lock it. Then they went directly to the security door next to the manager´s office, they logged the password and the second door was opened. Jin stood there as the look out while the others entered.
3rd Minute
The vault was big, circular, built in a concrete wall; it was made of modular concrete panels using a special proprietary blend of concrete and additives for extreme strength and steel rods for reinforcement. The concrete had been engineered for maximum crush resistance. Panels were so thick that it couldn´t be poured. The vault door wasmade of steel armor 15cm thick. The lock had a dual-control combination lock, meaning it took two people to open it. This lock was connected to a time lock which meant that both keys had to enter the lock at the exact same time or itwouldn´t open. This was the new "theft proof" vault.
And again, it wasn´t enough to stop them.
Pi unscrewed the two lock systems and Shige made connections with two other computers. They had to enable them to open the vault because they didn´t have the keys. Ryo took the little laptops in his hands and typed codes fast. Time was against them.
4th Minute
The two locks were deactivated finally, and Ryo started to put the explosive paste on the gears at the left of the vault door. Explosive paste was made of Iodine crystals and Ammonium Hydroxide, which can be found in any drugstore available everywhere.
He attached Non-Electric Detonators that were linear signal transmission devices designed to transmit an energetic signal through shock tubes to a specific detonating output. A shock tube is a hollow protruding tube containing a thin layer of energetic material on its inner diameter. Once initiated, the shock tube transmits a signal to a detonating output charge, typically incorporating an instantaneous output or a pre-determined pyrotechnic event.
Ryo also addedtwo In-Line Initiatorswhich were threaded adaptersthat had the main purpose of detonating the explosive at the same time in a chain reaction.
And finally he covered the ads with sound muffling devises.
5th Minute
Two mute explosions and a strange smell were the only proof that someone was robbing that bank. The door was now finally ready to be opened.
Jin entered and helped them to open the thick door; it took them a while because it was extremely heavy.
6th Minute
They finally entered the vault, they saw gold ingots and jewelry but those were too heavy to be carried on the karts so they could only took the paper money, portable actions, or any asset that was light.
They were frantically putting all the money they could reach with both hands onto the bags,
One bag was now full.
7th Minute.
A little box that fell to the ground took Pi´s attention away from his task. He opened it and it had two white gold rings carved with little black diamond stones all around it. He observed his partners and saw them filling another bag.
He took another look at the rings in his hands.
I own your soul and you own mine
I own your heart and you own mine
Those words were engraved on each ring. Unconsciously, he put them in the box again and saved it in his pocket.
The second bag was now full.
8th Minute.
“Pi what the hell are you doing, come here and help damn it!” Shige hissed irritated.
Pi and Jin were left to the task of filing the bag while Shige and Ryo started to gather all the equipment. Even if they used gloves, and were entirely covered, if police found anything and followed the manufactured codes of the electronic devises they could track suspicious things, and eventually it could be dangerous for them.
They couldn´t leave a single hair in there.
The third, and last, bag was now full.
9th Minute
“Two minutes till the alarms activate and the doors close,” Shige warned after checking his computer. Thanks to Jin´s and Shige´s effort by providing codes and software improvement they had gained another minute to their mission. It wasn´t much but it helped, because now they could leave easily and more tranquilly from there.
They put all the rest of the equipment in a fourth bag and left the vault, each of them with a huge black bag on his back.
10th Minute
The vault was sound proof so they didn´t hear what was happening in the next room; they heard a deafening gunshot directed at them. By instinct they ducked and hid behind the counter of the manager´s assistant.
“Fuck,” Ryo cursed.
“Who the hell is that!?” Shige yelled in fear.
“I think it’s a third guard, he wasn´t supposed to be here until midnight,” Jin explained.
“Jin, you take care of him, we will distract him,” Pi instructed.
Jin nodded.
11th Minute
59 seconds to general lock
Another gunshot when Ryo threw a bag in the middle of the hall, between the police man, the door, and them.
47 seconds to general lock
Jin jumped and stood at the top of the counter, he saw the police man staring at him with wide, frightenedeyes, in the blink of an eye he directed his gun at Jin and shot. Jin was fast and eluded it.
40 seconds to general lock
Pi, Shige, and Ryo ran to the back door and the policeman shot at them once again. He then heard Jin running at him and pointed his gun again at him, Jin jumped to the wall and ran through it and finally kick the guard´s head with his foot.
29 seconds to general lock
The policeman stood up and pointed his gun again at Jin, who kicked that hand and the gun fell from the guard´s hand noisily on the floor.
18 seconds to general lock
“JIN!” his friends urged him,
Jin threw one, two, three punches at the policeman face, making him fall on his knees painfully.
10 seconds to general lock
Jin left the hurt man on the floor and ran to the exit where his friends were waiting for him.They took the bags and ran to the door that was going to lead them to freedom.
The doors started to shut down, they hurried their peace desperately.
1 second to general lock
BANG.
Part Seven: Crisis
Pi screamed at the same time the door locked at his back.
“Pi!” Ryo frantically yelled. He hovered over him and searched for the injury.
“That bastard shot him!” Jin cursed in panic.
“We need to get out of here!” Shige told them.
Sirens could be heard in the distance, and they could almost smell jail.
“I can´t see anything, there´s too much blood!” Ryo complained eyes tearing visibly.
“Oh my God!” Jin whined.
Ryo and Jin were incapable of taking the lead in this situation; Pi was at the verge of fainting/dying so it was Shige who took the responsibility.
“Jin, you and me are carrying the bags, Ryo you will take Pi with you, I´ll throw acid in the area,” He said and the other two listened to him attentively.
“Acid?” Ryo asked confused.
“We don´t want police to take Pi´s DNA from a blood sample right?” he said exasperated, taking out a bottle of said liquid from his back.
“But you don´t know how to drive,” Jin stated worriedly.
“It´s ok, I have enough hours of NASCAR on my PS2, I think I can handle it,” he said with confidence.
“Pi, hang on please,” Ryo begged and put Pi at the back of his Kart.
Jin and Shige put the bags at the back of their Karts and started the race.
The race of their lives, the one that would determinate if they lived or died, the one that would tell if they were going to live the rest of their existence in jail, the one that could decide Pi´s fate.
…
Six police cars, one helicopter, and ten motorbike policeman were at their backs.There was a festival in town, so the streets were full of people, full of colors, and full of troubles.
They pushed their horns in an attempt to unblock their way, it was difficult.
Ryo activated the first bomb at that point. It was a greasy paper bomb. Thousands of oiled confetti flew up in the air. The tremendous sound helped force people to move, andahuge amount of it landed on the motorbikeswheels making them slip on the floor due the grease, so they managed to lose some of them with it.
Jin was blocked by a truck, but thanks to the small size of the kart and the fact it was so close to the ground helped him to pass under the truck in a fast, but dangerous, move.
After that bomb they gained speed.
The second bomb was a mud one. They passed through the point with two pillars under a bridge; all the upper part of the bridge was full of mud, when Ryo activated it, tons of it landed on the police vehicles and the rest of the motorbikes, covering their respective windshields and wheels full of stinky mud, making them impossible to advance due to the lack of visibility.
The speedometer marked 260km per hour when they reached the highway. Two police cars and the helicopter were still chasing them; they were avoiding cars, trucks and all types of vehicles, trying desperately to avoid them.
“Time for plan B!” Shige yelled through the traffic. He took out his phone with one hand, half of his attention on the dangerous road now.
“Shige, be careful!” Ryo screamed in horror, when he saw how a car passed a millimeter near Shige, at that speed the tiniest move could make them lose control and end up crushed.
Shige continued his task, and suddenly the helicopter above them started to make erratic movements at the left and right, to and fro. The wings, started to low their speed, and the next thing they saw was how it went off course and was now unable to go after them anymore.
“Good job!” Jin yelled.
“Two more to go,” Shige mumbled. “Ryo!” he screamed.
“On it!” Ryo replied. “Line up!” he ordered his two friends, who did what he commanded.
A second later, thousands of metal studs began to fall from the bottom of the karts, causing all the traffic behind them to have punctured tires. Cars started to crush against one another. The last time they saw police cars was when they flew over another car.
…
They reached the sewer exactly at midnight, after everything went wrong and they almost died, they needed to hurry up and leave that place as soon as they could. Nobody was talking. Pi´s condition had worsened considerably due the quantity of blood he lost; he was pale, cold and about to fall unconscious due to the drop in blood pressure or shock.
Ryo had put explosives in the warehouse that activated in an implosion system with a computer bottom he prepared beforehand. Jin put all the bags in plastic bags to protect them from the fetid drain water. While Shige prepared the new equipment and left the ones they´ve been using at a side for Ryo to burnlater on.
They needed to put onthe professional swimming suits and the oxygen masks so they stripped from their clothes in silence and Ryo helped Pi with his; Yamapi stopped him when he was about to take his pants off and took the box from it. He put it in Ryo´s hands with weak shaking hands.
Ryo opened the box and saw the content. Pi took one of the rings and put in on Ryo´s finger; he was so weak that Ryo had to help him.
Ryo was crying. He hugged Pi with force, so tightly that he felt he might die just by his strong grip, but he couldn´t help it. Unbelievably marvelous feelings and fear rose up and claimed his heart, too strong and powerful to ignore.
He saw how Pi´s vision and movements decreased and he was slowly closing his eyes, like life was escaping him leisurely.
“Pi, don´t leave me,” He said, tear drops falling onto Pi´s face, “I´m sorry for not saying it before, but I love you with all my heart,” he finally confessed with a lump in the back of his throat, “You can’t leave me when I finally say it!” he yelled desperate. Pi smiled sweetly at him, and gripped the ring in his hand.
Then it was all black.
Part Eight: I Love You
Pi woke up with a terrible headache and a throbbing pain on his right shoulder. He felt dizzy. He slowly found his bearings and sat up.
He observed his surroundings; he was sitting on a giant bed with comfy satin bed sheets. It was an incredible, spacious room. It had large windows and if he lifted his head a bit he could see the sea. He heard the waves and smelled the salty scent proper of coastal places.
He slowly removed the eiderdown and stood up. He put a quilt around his shoulders and left the room. The first thing he saw was a large hallway with paint on its walls, wood frames carved with gold and he could also feel the cold marble at his feet.
He walked thorough long corridors until he reached a wide stairwell with a soft fabric carpet that lead to the first floor. He descended a little suspicious. What was he doing in such a high class place? Was he dead? His body hurt like hell, so that was improbable.
He turned to the right and saw a huge living room with a 46 inch plasma TV and the newest stereo on the market. He continued walking until he came across a huge play room, it had both a poker and a pool table and another plasma TV with tons of video games scattered on the floor.
The next room was full of computers and video surveillance cameras that showed every room of the house and aerial view of the entire place. After staring for a while he reached a conclusion: he was on an island.
He ordered his feet to move, he could feel panic at the unknown emerging from his gut, making his stomach twinge in fright.
He began walking as fast as he could, his injuries aching and sweat creeping over his features. He saw an enormous kitchen and an old lady bending over an oven. He tried to turn around and escape but he bumped onto an enormous man.
“Oye chico estás bien?” The man said, he couldn´t understand his words, but his appearance gave him the creeps. He forcefully pushed him away and started running frantically.
“Oye, espera! No te vayas! Puedes lastimarte!?” the man screamed at his back.
He ran with all his energy until he saw a big double door and light behind it, he followed his instincts and opened it. His eyes hurt due to the sun light, he half-closed his eyes and covered them creating a slit with his fingers to peak out of.
Then he heard what he thought was the most amazing sound on earth, a core of angels: Ryo´s laughter.
He went after the source of the noise, stumbling over his own feet. He reached a big fountain in a staggered terrace; he continued his way down and observed a heavenly beach full of palms and coconuts lying freely on the sand.
Finally his sight landed on his friends in the middle of the beach playing baseball.
Jin was the first one to see him.
“Pi!” He yelled, half happy to see him, half preoccupied with his health.
“Pi!” Ryo said and his eyes popped out.
The three ran in his direction, and were at his side in a second. They helped him to a deckchair under in the shade. They anxiously checked his state and sighed in relief when they confirmed that Pi was finally ok.
After assuring them a thousand times that he was ok, and taking some medicine, plus two litters of water, his friends were now at his feet, lying lazily on the soft white sand.
“Where are we?” Pi asked confused. He didn´t remember this place, was it a new hidden place?
“Home,” Shige answered with a content smile.
“What?” Yamapi frowned in distress, getting less and less of all that by seconds.
“All of you were worried that I could blow our cover, but in fact I was in negotiations to buy this place,” Kato explained in proudly.
“Ah?” he muttered puzzled.
“I bought this island for us,” Shige repeated.
“We own an island!?” Pi asked, gladly surprised.
“This is home Pi, we finally have one!” Jin said excitedly and hugged Pi tightly.
“Could you please stop that, you are going to suffocate my boyfriend!” Ryo glared.
“Boyfriend?” Those were the only words that captured Pi´s attention. He looked Ryo in the eyes and observed how an expression of pure love was plastered on his features. His eyes caught the sight of a ring on Ryo´s hands and he immediately looked at his own hand, perceiving for the first time the twin ring on his fingers.
Happy fell short as a description of how he felt, he smiled brightly at Ryo with glassy eyes and the latter smiled at him. Ecstasy spreading all over his cells, Ryo stood up and hugged him, claiming his mouth passionately next.
“One has to be dying to get a confession here!?” Pi said annoyed once they parted, his glittering eyes contradicting his words.
“What can I say, I like to play hard to get,” Ryo answered and kissed him once more, this time moans escaping from their throats.
“Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. I know you are happy to see each other, but as I always say, leave your relationship in the four walls of your room, it is a bigger room now,” Shige complained.
“I could watch some more,” Jin stated amused, making Shige roll his eyes.
They all laughed. The old lady he previously had seen appeared with a huge tray full of food, delicious and sophisticated dishes like caviar, tartlets of carp, truffles, and a bottle of mature wine. She put it on a table and they sat properly to eat, all that classy food didn´t match their bodies full of sand and covered by swimsuits, not to mention their manners of course.
“So how did we end up here?” Pi asked with his mouth full.
“Well after you fainted, Jin gave you an adrenaline shot,” Ryo explained while taking his hand. Pi looked at Jin, in silent gratitude, “Then we put you in the swimming suit and we carried you through the drains for half an hour. When we got under the airport drains, we went out and put on our customs, Brazilian dudes this time around, and Jin asked for a wheelchair to carry you with. We told people you were sick and that was why we needed a private plane, so we put you on a private plane. We arrived to Brazil two weeks ago, and a day later we took another plane to come here. We are in Central America by the way you have been unconscious all this time, but it was only because you are lazy, because you have been perfectly well since a week ago,” Ryo ended in a childish tone, glowering at him. “I´m not going to forgive you for making me worry,” he said with a slight pout.
The only thing Pi could do after a weird discourse of public display of affection such as that one was to ravish Ryo´s mouth eagerly, it was a huge thing coming from his now boyfriend.
“But who took the bullet out?” Pi asked curious, he didn´t know that his friends were talented surgeons.
“Well in Brazil a guy from a ¨favela¨ helped us in exchange for some fake ID´s, you didn´t have a bullet, it was a clean shot and it only affected your muscle, you didn´t even lose that much blood,” Shige said nodding to himself.
“You see? You are a pussy,” Ryo stated, making Jin and Shige chuckle. Pi glared.
“Anyway, Ramon also helped you,” Jin continued, “Cleaning the wound every day”.
“Ramon?” Pi asked.
“Yeah, that guy with scary face, he and his wife Maria have worked here all their lives, they don´t have children and were hired by the previous owner of the island,” Jin explained.
“They speak in another language,” Pi said, remembering the previous encounter.
“Oh yeah, Spanish, but the best part is that they are discrete and they hardly ever leave the island, they are two tombs of secrets,” the eldest of the group answered.
“How are we going to communicate with them?” Pi asked once more, giving orders or talking in such conditions wasn´t very practical.
“It is an advantage that they don´t speak English, they won´t understand a thing of what we are talking about when we prepare for the next job, besides,” Jin said,“I speak Spanish.”
Everybody looked at him, and laughed out loud after.
“You don´t speak Spanish, you speak Spanglish,” Ryo mocked.
“So? It´s the same,” Jin replied, not slightly offended. They rolled their eyes.
“Are we far from civilization?” Pi asked. Thousands questions kept creeping in his mind, he couldn´t help but want to know everything he could and as soon as he could.
“Well the nearest big city is ten minutes on Yacht,” Shige explained.
“We have a Yacht!?” Pi asked dumfounded.
“We sure as hell do!” Ryo answered happily.
“This job made us realize that all we do is work, we didn´t have a home and we should get a proper one. We were spending our money on more jobs and in poker, and that isn’t healthy,” Shige pondered. “And after what happened to you it would be nice to take some long, long vacations,” he ended smiling.
“So this is home?” Pi asked again, testing the unfamiliar word on his tongue. He took a look at his brothers and their content faces, at the breathtaking mansion at his back, and finally the paradise landscape surrounding him. But what warmed his heart the most was that he could feel Ryo´s fingers entwined with his.
“It is,” Ryo replied and locked eyes with him, his eyes holding promises of a future together.
As a couple.
As a family.
As thieves of each other´s hearts.