[fic] The Red String Of Fate
Title: the red string of fate
Author: ringo_kurin93
Pairings: AKame, TegoMass, RyoDa, others
Rating: PG - NC15
Genre: Angs, Romance, AU, fluff
Disclaimer: I don’t own the characters; all of them are artist from JE. I only own the plot :)
Summary: Kamenashi is a young doctor having a common life in a common city. He believes that one day he’ll find a nice girl who is destined to be with him… but what would happen when his path cross with a dangerous man trying to kill his father? Maybe love is in the less expected place.
A/N: Hi everyone!!!! :D I returned, LOL well just for a while, I've been studying... BUT I GOT GOOD RESULTS!! *so happy :3* I hope you like this chap, is quite long and more AKAME situations -w-!!! *sorry for the mistakes U__U my dear Jess chan is really busy now, don't wanna disturb her :C * thanks for reading and douzooo!
Chapter 6
Once, I remember, I met a boy when I was five. He was two years older than me, probably from a wealthy family because of his clothes. “Can I play with you?” he said. Grandma always said it was dangerous to play with estrangers but he looked harmless. We played all the evening, he was really happy “I’m glad to find a friend” the kid beamed “I mean… a normal friend”
I was confused, what did he mean by ‘normal friend’? Was he a kind of alien or what? But before I could ask my question, a creepy man appeared and took him. He shouted from far “WE SHOULD MEET AGAIN!”… Unfortunately that was the last time I’ve seen him, I’d not even asked for his name.
I wonder where he could be now… But when I come to think about him, I always remember my great desire to meet him again. “Maybe he’s the boy who would be my best friend for life!!” I told my grandma, she just smiled and ruffled my hair “Maybe Kazuya… Maybe… Destiny is such a playful kid”
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Kazuya was stood up in front of Jin’s bed, while the older one was looking for something in his computer. He wasn’t wearing the kimono he wore the previous night; Ueda had dressed him into a “training uniform” which resembled so much as the clothes he used to wear when he did Karate during elementary school.
Kazuya wandered his eyes all over the room, it was huge as well as the others in the house; but, Jin’s room felt quite different. There was a cozy feeling... Maybe because of the many photo frames placed on the nightstands and on the walls. Each one had a woman, a beautiful woman smiling so brightly in the photograph, Kazuya wondered who she was.
“Today’s your combat training” Jin spoke and Kazuya snapped out of his thoughts “Koki and Tegoshi are going to teach you… at the end of the day I’m going to the dojo and evaluate you… so do your best. I’m not the heir of this gang for nothing…”
“Such a snooty boss” Kazuya mumbled under his breath, catching Jin’s attention. The brunette man raised an eyebrow “Did you say something? Kamenashi KUN” he was using the -kun again, Kazuya bit his lips trying to not explode because of anger and feigned a friendly face “Nothing amm.. aniki?” he remembered Koki called Jin like that, but Kazuya said it with a tone that didn’t hide his discomfort or express any respect “may I go now?” he hated Jin… and even when his acting skills were good in front of the yakuza his heart was like a thin and transparent material: it showed everything.
Jin chuckled and shook his head, Kazuya was acting like a spoiled brat making a tantrum… yeah he was so like his little brother Hiro “go now, the boys must be waiting for you in the dojo” he said and dismissed the young man.
Kazuya stepped out of Jin’s room sliding the door and making a big sound with that; he didn’t care though, he detested Jin. He hated him, but strangely, he was the only one he had that hatred for. Tegoshi and Koki were fearful for sure, but he didn’t dislike them and Ueda… Ueda was perfect, he sparkled in front of his eyes; he felt a little weird with that, like he had a crush on Ueda, but Kazuya preferred to think it was like finding the big brother he didn’t have.
Finally, after some minutes looking for the dojo he found the place near the garden. A wide room with tatami on the floor and many shodo* paints on the walls. He climbed the two steps and headed to the named room. Tegoshi and Koki were already wrestling with each other, both were really skillful to Kazuya’s opinion. The cute boy spotted him and stopped tackling Koki to the ground.
“Yo! Kame-chan! Ready for today’s lesson?” now Tegoshi was the one overfriendly with him, like the hospital crew used to be, definitely Kazuya hadn’t had the image of respect he wanted to demonstrate. Koki made a small bow and signaled with his head that practice should be starting in that moment.
Kazuya was afraid, he hadn’t do sports like karate or judo since he was 10 or 11, now having Tegoshi and Koki right front of his eyes ready to attack was stressful. Nevertheless Tegoshi was sympathetic and he taught the newbie the essential movements to at least protect himself.
After four hours of exhausting training and many punches, slams to the floor and bruises all over his body; the training session ended leaving a wore out Kazuya lying on the tatami. Tegoshi approached to him, with his face too close that it made quite nervous Kazuya, the younger one was a creepy guy sometimes, he noted, cute for a moment and the next second he was a monster. “Kame-chan! Aren’t you coming to lunch? You’ll need food if you want to win against aniki!!!” he said cheerfully.
Koki chuckled; it was imposible to win against him. Even when Koki was one of the best fighters there, Jin beat him up in less than ten minutes. Then, it was more than obvious that Kazuya haven’t the minimum possibility to defeat Jin, Tegoshi was giving to the newbie too much confidence. “Don’t be a liar Tesshi… this brat is too weak to even punch aniki…” Koki mocked but Kazuya didn’t seem to be bothered.
The young doctor didn’t care if they kill him now, it was nonsense to him. Having to practice this hard to become a something he never wanted to be. If he’d had the power he would have hit Jin in his beautiful face ages ago, but, unfortunately, Koki was right… he was a weak who only knew about science and medicine… nothing else.
Tegoshi patted his shoulder again, Kazuya lifted his gaze to him finding a pair of sincere eyes glancing him “don’t listen to this asshole Kame-chan! I’m pretty sure aniki will teach you a lot and won’t hurt you! So don’t be afraid!” with those words he left the dojo with Koki beside him. Kazuya remained there, looking the ceiling for hours, feeling the nice and cold breeze coming from the garden.
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He’d fallen sleep; he realized when his blurry eyes caught fuzzy images… the ceiling, a face… a fluffy hair…. JIN!
Kazuya snapped his eyes opened and found the yakuza sat next to him with his eyes glued on his face. “Finally… I thought you were dead” Jin joked but that wasn’t funny for Kazuya. Just the day before that statement wasn’t very far from reality. The tall man put on his feet and stretched his arms whilst letting a yawn escape “well… Kamenashi-kun lemme see what did you learn “ Jin was using a childish voice as a way to annoy the youngest, and his plan was really working.
Kazuya infuriated, it was like the mere presence of the gang’s boss made him a grumpy person, a thing he wasn’t aware of until he met Jin. He clenched his fist waiting for the right moment to attack, Jin, on the other hand, was walking around the dojo like what Kazuya was about to do were a small matter.
It was his opportunity, Kazuya was more than confident when he saw Jin with his back to him, apparently the yakuza was appreciating the beautiful shodo on the walls. He lifted his fist and directed him to Jin’s head; it was inches apart from hitting that stupid skull Jin had when a strong grip around his wrist stopped him.
Jin smirked; it was amusing to see the elated face of Kazuya. He twisted his wrist making an arm lock in him, a popular movement in aikido. Kazuya fell to the ground panting and whimpering because of the great pain in his right wrist, it was unbearable that his body squirmed under Jin’s hold.
“It hurst!!! Let me go stupid aniki!!!”he hissed and Jin’s grip softened. He put apart and regarded Kazuya with interested eyes, the guy was for sure brave to call him ‘stupid’ he was the yakuza’s head master and with a snap of his fingers Kazuya’s head could be cut. But he didn’t want that destiny for the young doctor; it was rare but Jin really like him… maybe because Kazuya reminded him of his little brother a lot, or maybe because he felt pity for him for leaving all he had in life in order to save his parents’ life.
He heard small sobs from down, and assumed those must be from Kazuya. He knelt before him with concerned eyes, just like he did when Hiro got hurt during his games “Did I hurt you so much?” Jin asked, Kazuya lifted his head and shot a glare to him “of course you did idiot!! I think I broke a bone…” a small pout formed on his lips… he was still a child in Jin’s eyes.
Not noticing it, his hand travelled to Kazuya’s hair and ruffled it gently as a way to comfort him. “I’m sorry… but I told you I was a strong man” his voice softened too, it wasn’t the husky voice anymore, Jin’s voice became gentler and assured. Kazuya felt a shiver down his spine and shoved the hand on his head immediately.
“Don’t underestimate me!” he protested getting on his feet “I’m gonna beat you up now!” again the small boy approached him with fists ready to punch and leave wounds on him. But Jin was more than well trained, He avoided every step Kazuya made to came closer to him and hit him in parts where the youngest didn’t wait to be beaten.
Finally, after two hours of non-stop fighting between them, Kazuya felt on his knees and flopped his body on the tatami, more than exhausted and hardly breathing. “You did really well to be the first time against me” Jin commented sit beside the slim body “You know, the first time Tegoshi tried to hit me he stayed in hospital for a week?”
That was surprising, he couldn’t believe the poor Tegoshi ended that bruised that he needed medical care “and also Koki, he had to be bandaged after our fight, his arm broke” Kazuya supported in his elbows and faced Jin with his eyebrows raised in astonishment “so don’t be that sad that you couldn’t even touch a single part of my body…”
“Who wants to touch your chubby body?” Kazuya mocked, he really wanted to piss the leader of but Jin didn’t seem to be the least angry with his comment “you don’t maybe, but a lot of girls die to touch me…” he glanced the youngest and grinned “they’ll kill to feel my fingers on their skin… lucky you to be touched by me”
Kazuya got to his limit, he couldn’t stand Jin anymore. He stood up rapidly and with the last strength he had he kicked the oldest making him stumbled to the ground. Jin whined whilst rubbing his tummy “That is my payment for your ´dreamed touch´ Aniki!” Kazuya used that tone again, disrespectful and angry. He headed out of the dojo and hurried to his bedroom… he needed a long bath… and dinner too.
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Jin was drying his hair, he was wearing a pair of sport pants and shirtless on top. He looked his reflection on the mirror from the bathroom and smiled when he noticed the small bruise on his abs. A small purple circle caused by Kazuya’s kick “He’s strong” Jin smirked and rubbed the small bruise.
Someone knocked the door and Jin allowed the person to come in, Tegoshi and Koki appeared in his room, both dressed in casual clothes *Tegoshi with horrible neon shirt and pants* “We found out that there’s a Chinese shop which don’t want to pay the quota” Tegoshi handed a file to Jin. The gang leader took it and opened the document “Wang Lee Hom…” that was the name of the shop owner, a man in his thirties, Chinese living in Japan for 8 years and one of the ‘clients’ of the Akanishi’s clan.
“As far as we know Wang made a deal with a gang from ‘The Red Dragon’ the Chinese mafia” Koki explained, Jin frowned with that. Red Dragon was one of the most dangerous and big mafia in Asia, in contrast with Yakuza, Red Dragon was a big group all around China, all of them worked together and their methods were bloodthirsty and merciless. Whereas, Yakuzas were many groups around Japan, each gang fighting against the other for power and dominance. Jin didn’t feel afraid of them though, but even when his gang was really powerful Red Dragon were upper in number.
Jin sighed and caressed his temples, mafia was such a difficult business he hate to deal with those measly people, and he hated his father most of them because his old man was the one who obliged him to enter in that shit. “We’re gonna talk with Wang tomorrow…” he dropped the file in one nightstand and sat on the edge of his king sized bed.
“Kame-chan is going to come tomorrow with us?” Tegoshi asked naughtily, the cute boy noticed the small bruise on Jin’s abs “I mean… Kamenashi must be really strong he can be useful” Jin narrowed his eyes and hit the neon clothed guy “Nobody ask for your opinion Tesshi!” the small boy rubbed his head whining whilst Koki witnessed the scene amused “But, yeah… he’s coming. He must learn something about the business and how it works” Jin turned his gaze to the two guys and dismissed them.
After his two subordinated left the room Jin returned to the bathroom and looked carefully his bruised mark. He pressed it and a jolt in joy with the small pain “Stupid kid” he smirked.
In the next room a worn out Kamenashi was lying on his bed, he couldn’t sleep. He wondered what was his parents doing, how was his mother? Was he sad or depressed? Maybe… but it was better to be apart from them than to have his father dead. “I miss my life” he whispered, Kazuya shifted his body and felt a terrible pain in all his muscles “Fuck you Akanishi… you’re a bastard” he hissed before fell asleep.
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Kazuya was dreaming with Anne, the beautiful girl was smiling to him lovingly. He raised his hand and poked the cheek of the girl “Anne… please marry me” the girl touched his face tenderly and when she lifted her face again she was no longer Anne, she was, or HE was Jin. Kazuya cracked his eyes open, he was panting; it was like he was having tachypnea. Kazuya touched his chest and he could feel the hard bumps of his heart under his hand. “Damn… that scared the shit out of me” he murmured.
The door banged open and not waiting for what came, Kazuya surprised when he found the face of Tegoshi right in front of him, with a creepy grin in his face and wearing a turquoise suit with a fuchsia shirt… his outfit definitely sucked. “Time to wake up Kame-chan♪” Tegoshi sing songed, the older boy closed his eyes again and rolled his body making Tegoshi flopped in the mattress beside him.
“Don’t want to… I want Ueda, he’s my trainer!” he whined, Kazuya had a fixing with the beautiful boy. Tegoshi pouted and tapped the doctor’s shoulder “Mouu… you sound like you don’t like me” Tegoshi acted as he was so offended. Kazuya turned to face the boy and sighed “ok... Stop the crying. What should I do now?”
Tegoshi’s wide smile appeared again, the cute boy hugged Kazuya tightly “that’s my Kame-chan!!!” Tegoshi let go and clicked his fingers, the next second Koki was in with a colorful suit in his hands, fighting the laugher that was threaten to burst of.
“Oh no… I won’t use that thing!!! It looks like a baby had vomit on it!” Tegoshi feigned sobs; the cute boy was such a good and manipulator actor. Tegoshi’s whining was driving crazy Kazuya, especially when he felt that grumpy and tired during mornings… an habit he managed to control in his shifts at hospital, but now that he was kept in that house Kazuya didn’t pitch upon the necessity to keep feigning his smile.
He put on his feet and walked straightly to Koki’s direction. He grabbed the outré suit and locked himself in the small bathroom of his room. Ten minutes later he was back, feeling like a stupid clown. Tegoshi nodded with satisfaction and Koki just turned his face to not laugh in front of the poor newbie.
The three men headed to Jin’s office, Koki knocked the door and when they heard a “yes” from inside they entered it.
“Wang doesn’t know we’re going to his shop… this will be a surprise attack” Jin was with his back towards his subordinates and Kazuya, his chair turned to the right and he finally meet them while keep talking “I know Kamenashi is still ne-“ Jin stopped abruptly, his eyes fixed on the ridiculous suit, his lips twitched and then he burst of laughing.
“What the hell are you wearing?!!! Hahaha!” Koki joined his boss and laughed as well. Meanwhile, Kazuya was feeling like a dumbass, a tricked idiot who fell in Tegoshi’s pranks. He was ragging, and the laugher around him made it worse. Kazuya took off the jacket and threw it with anger. Then he unbuttoned the stupid fuchsia shirt and threw it as well. He finally took the pants off and ended just in his underwear.
Jin’s and Koki’s laugher stopped, their faces turned into shocked ones. As well as Tegoshi’s face, the poor boy was wondering why people really make fun of his style, he thought it was very stylish and original!
Jin’s eyes were settled on Kazuya’s body, the white skin, the slim body, and the perfect muscles: there was no flaw in the youngest. A strange jolt in his heart made the world blank for a moment and the only thing he could see was the immaculate form in front of him; such beauty couldn’t be from this world.
“Are you listening to me idiot Aniki!!!???” Jin reacted and focused again in the conversation -“Sorry... I wasn’t listening” he answered and by the time he lifted his gaze to them Koki was almost throttling Kazuya “HEY BRAT!?? WHAT DID YA SAY ABOUT ANIKI?!!!” the gangster huffed.
“That your ANIKI is an IDIOT! YOU TOO! AND THIS CREEPY COLORFUL BOY TOO*pointing Tegoshi* I’m fed up of all of you!!!! I want Ueda!!!” Kazuya yelled and Koki got redder of fury, the blond haired guy tightened the grip in his collar. Jin stood up and walked lazily to them, then he took Koki’s wrist and shoved it off. Jin took off his coat and put it on Kazuya’s shoulders “Ok… go find Ueda and tell him to give you one of my suits… they might be a little big but it would be ok for the moment” Kazuya was surprised at first, but the short glimpse in his eyes turned into a dark glared after. He turned back and left slamming the door shut.
As soon as the trainee yakuza dashed Koki stared at Jin with disbelief in his eyes, that guy could get offended really fast “Aniki…” he said like broken, Jin decided to ignored him “Don’t become into the drama queen and keep on working… we need to set everything for our attack” Jin turned to Tegoshi before to continue with the plan settings “And you!” Tegoshi jumped “Don’t ever dress him like that again! If I were Kamenashi I would do the same! Tegoshi you’re cute… but seriously, your clothes suck!” The small boy pouted and nodded to his boss.
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Jin had explained him the plan during an hour, a long boring hour when the gang leader tell him about their plan, about his mission as a scapegoat and the dangerous Wang could be if he got tricked by him. But to the young doctor everything was like a common, and predictable, gangsters’ movie ‘At what hour will they start to shot?’ he thought by nudging his Chinese noodles.
A handsome man in his thirties appeared; he greeted the teenager girl in the reception desk, apparently this girl was his sister because she called him “gēge” which meant ‘big brother’ as long as Kazuya knew by his short time studying Chinese in university.
A bip in his ear made him to alert, Jin talked through the small microphone in his ear “It’s him Kamenashi, Wang. Go and talked to him as I told you” Kazuya sighed and approached the desk to pay for his meal to the girl who smiled at him sweetly, he wondered if Jin’s story about the Chinese gangters and the other crap he told to him.
Kazuya leaned in and smiled to Wang, the man was concentrated in something on his phone but Kazuya’s eyes weren’t easy to avoid, he noticed them and stared at him a bit confused “May I help you?” he said in a strange Japanese, sure he had an accent. Kazuya nodded and started up the plan.
He told Wang about his ideas of making his shop bigger, to buy the ones nearer and expand the business. The Chinese man seemed interested in Kazuya’s proposition “And tell me Odagiri san” Kazuya was using a fake name “why did you choose my small shop? Aren’t the others better than mine?”
Kazuya stiffened, they didn’t prevented Wang to ask for that, to Jin’s opinion Wang was such a greedy, he would accept immediately. “Shit” Jin whispered in his ear and the youngest gulped, feeling the cold sweat down his spine. “I made a question, Odagiri san” Wang inquired again and the desperation increased. Kazuya ignored the babblings of Jin, Koki and Tegoshi on the microphone and went on with his own plan.
“Well…” He leaned forward in the table, keeping his charming smile “I’ve been interested in… people with less opportunities you know” it wasn’t a total lie, Kazuya’s career was meant to help others “You have a small sister, and maybe it’s you and her only… I have the money so…” he couldn’t finish, Wang grabbed his hands and bond his fingers with him.
“You must be an angel Odagiri san” Wang’s facial expression changed, it softened “we do need the money… actually Wei Mei is ill” the man dropped his gaze to the table and Kazuya felt terrible for being playing that game. Wei Mei was probably the girl, his sister “What does she have? May I help?” Of course Kazuya could, he was a doctor.
Wang shook his head and patted his palm gently, locking his eyes with him “I don’t think so… she has a brain tumor… doctors say it’s incurable” Kazuya knew it too, when the cancer is advanced the methods were useless with terminal patients. “I’m sorry… I just need…” he stood up and hurried to the bathroom, threw the microphone to the bin and hit the restroom’s door. He was a lame person, doing those things to a man whose sister was dying! Kazuya wouldn’t listen to Jin anymore, he would do what his heart says and in that moment it was screaming to believe Wang and send to hell Jin.
Kazuya returned to the table where he was talking with Wang but the man wasn’t there, he turned confused to the girl and she beamed at him “My brother is at the back with some friends… you can go and join them, they’re nice people” Kazuya returned the smiled and headed out the shop, he looked for Wang but the man was not near in sight. Suddenly two arms wrapped around him, and Wang appeared in front of his eyes, smirking evilly “You’re too innocent Odagiri… or should I call you Kamenashi?” Kazuya froze ‘shit!shit!shit!’ he repeated in his mind, he didn’t have the microphone to ask for help… and his fighting skills were useless… he was going to die, and now it was for real.
TBC