[fic] Messenger - Chapter 24 part 2
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“Hmmmpf.” Jin hissed when Kame pressed another soaked cloth over the bleeding cut on his collarbone. His upper body was bare so the younger could treat his wounds.
Jin refused to cry out. He refused to show the pain he was feeling all over his body. He refused to show how fucking exhausted he was. He refused to voice how drained he was from the way his life seemed to kick him against the head every single day.
And he refused to show any emotion about the new development and the fact that, even after all they went through, Kame had forgotten to mention that his father was a fucking ruler of the south when it came to underworld laws.
The name Takano had finally dawned on Jin, when his mind had been clear enough again to connect the dots.
‘My childhood wasn’t an easy one’ Jin repeated Kame’s words from a few days ago sarcastically inside his head. It wasn’t the exact words but the gist of it.
And suddenly Jin had to chuckle. This whole thing was so fucking bizarre, he couldn’t keep it together anymore.
Kame, who had never been afraid of him or what he was and the world Jin was living in. It now all made sense.
He basically had grown up in a world like this.
Heck, Kame’s father was more or less the same as Johnny had been. A high ranked underworld boss, controlling a part of the country. He possibly had even been in close contact with Johnny all this time.
“Jin?” Kame leaned down a bit to look Jin in the eyes, confused about the sudden amusement in the other’s face. Getting his wounds treated didn’t usually lead to laughter.
Jin didn’t take much notice of Kame. In his mind, all the possibilities and scenarios turned downright hilarious.
He maybe should’ve cried or be frustrated but his brain just wouldn’t follow the normal cause of action so he just started chuckling more.
Jin got up and paced across the room. Leaning with his hands onto a desk, he lowered his head, shaking it slightly from side to side as if he was trying to clear his mind. And maybe stop the ridiculous amusement in the process.
But he couldn’t stop. He couldn’t focus and he couldn’t wrap his damn mind around it, not if he tried as hard as he could.
He didn’t feel the pain from his muscles, from his open wounds and not even his bruises. What was there still to come? Would this ever stop? Could he ever be at peace?
A hand on his shoulder disrupted his swirling thoughts.
“Jin?” Kame’s voice had gotten even more hesitant, as if the younger feared he had lost his mind completely. And he wasn’t far off.
Jin turned to Kame, looking at him with his amused, slightly unfocused eyes, lips curled up in a smile.
“Anything…” Jin tried to get his facial muscles under control and to stop being so damn ridiculous. “Anything else I should know?”
Kame’s expression changed from concerned to guilty. His voice lowered, knowing he had done something he wasn’t supposed to.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. I never thought this would be relevant and we already had too many other problems. I thought this could wait.”
“Well,” the amusement still evident in Jin’s eyes but his voice more sarcastic now, “I kinda think it could’ve been relevant for a moment, say, when he was about to cut my dick off?”
“Oh, Jin. I’m so sorry.” Kame reached for Jin’s face to cup it between his palms.
But Jin suddenly grabbed for his wrists and shoved Kame around so he was pressed against the desk edge and further back so he had no other choice but to lean over it.
“So let me ask one more time.” Jin hissed, clearly angered. “Is there anything else you might want me to know, Takano Kazuya?”
Kame was shocked but more surprised about the sudden movement. He knew Jin had every right to be angry at him and in a way, he expected Jin to let his frustration out. He needed to at one point or another, otherwise he would burst. And there was a lot frustration stored under Jin’s surface. That much Kame knew.
The last big revelation had already passed a bit too easily, Kame thought. He doubted Jin was coping as easily as he had let on. This, right now was just a small indication for it.
“This was all, I swear.” Kame pressed through his teeth from the uncomfortable position, back painfully twisted over the edge of the table.
“Mmmh, sure.” Jin hummed with that dark voice of his. He wasn’t convinced at all but nothing Kame would say could ever do the job right now.
Kame knew he had disappointed Jin and one too many times at that in the past few days. This wasn’t just ‘not telling someone you forgot to feed the fish while he was gone’. And Kame regretted dearly that things came out on the open like this, especially in rough times like this where they couldn’t need any more bad news.
But he couldn’t bring himself to reveal this part of his life the last time under the eyes of everyone and when he’d barely gotten away with hiding one big secret. He simply had been scared.
And he knew Jin would let it slide again this time. Because he needed Kame right now and without him this all wouldn’t make sense anymore.
So they would keep going and would fight about it when the time was right.
Jin leaned even more of his weight onto Kame, pressing him down and squishing his wrists, dark, narrowed eyes piercing right through him.
“I can’t even decide which is worse. The cop-brother out to jail and hang me for being a runaway mass-murderer who kidnapped and banged his baby brother or the underworld-lord-father who’s out to torture and kill me for, surprise, kidnapping and banging his baby boy.”
Jin leaned down so his face was at the nape of Kame’s neck, breathing into his ear. “Which do you think will hurt more?”
“Jin. My father won’t do anything to you. I won’t let him.” Kame reasoned. His father had agreed to let Jin go so he trusted him at least this much. Even if he wasn’t consenting to their relationship, maybe not even believing it or at least not wanting to, he wasn’t out to kill Jin anymore.
Jin pulled back a bit, taking Kame with him so he wasn’t as much bent over anymore but still pressed against the edge of the table. His wrists remained in Jin’s steel grip.
“What makes you sure he isn’t just pretending to make you happy and stabs me in the back any moment?”
Jin kept his face close, inhaling the reassuring scent of his lover. Even if he didn’t know who he could trust anymore and he had completely lost the ability to feel safe and relax, the scent gave him some sense of familiarity.
“He wouldn’t do that. He might not trust you but he knows that you wouldn’t hurt me, otherwise he would’ve never agreed to let you free.” Kame tried to be calm and collected about this so Jin would gain some trust back.
Jin bit into the warm skin of Kame’s neck, roughly enough to make the younger gasp. “You trust him a lot for the fact that you ran away from him a few years ago?” Jin concluded, not knowing the ties and the past those two had, just trying to figure out his share.
“Despite us…ah,” Kame couldn’t contain the moan at a particularly harsh bite, “…us parting ways, me not wanting to live with the shadow he’s casting, I still know he loves me and wouldn’t hurt me either. He just…urgh, Jin…wants to protect me.”
“What a lovely family you’re having.” Jin growled against his skin. He pushed further against Kame, making him sit on the edge of the table, letting go of one of his wrists to grab a fistful of Kame’s hair.
Jin’s grip was strong, his whole body tense and he was slightly trembling. He pressed his forehead against Kame’s, his eyes boring intensely into the younger ones.
Kame knew Jin was restraining himself. He wanted to do things, he wanted to make Kame pay for the pain and suffering he had to endure, he needed a scapegoat for all things going wrong, he needed to vent and then he didn’t, because he loved Kame and he needed him and he would always forgive him, whatever he would do to him.
“Jin. I’m so sorry. I never meant for things to turn out this way.” Kame whispered, holding the impossibly intense eye contact.
Jin knew Kame never had meant to hurt him by keeping things from him. He knew it and he would forgive him and he couldn’t even be mad at him for it because this wasn’t something you just go on about on a date and then there must’ve been a point where Kame had been scared to lay out the truth and things just went on like this. He knew all this.
“Stop saying you’re sorry, you fucking bastard.” Jin pressed through his teeth. He launched his lips onto Kame’s, sucking and biting roughly.
Kame couldn’t help but groan as pain shot through his lips but he welcomed Jin’s teeth as much as his lips.
“Ji…aaah…n.” Kame hissed as the older didn’t seem to calm down. But this was nothing considering the shaking of Jin’s body from the restrains he was trying to keep over himself.
Kame latched his free arm around Jin’s back, fingernails digging into his bare skin subconsciously.
“Do you…”Jin growled, leaving Kame’s lips with a harsh pull of his teeth to descend to his neck to continue the treatment. “Do you know how fucking scared I was for your life all the damn time?!”
A rush went through Kame’s body and he wasn’t sure if it had to do with what Jin said or if it had just been the older’s teeth cutting through his nerves.
“The fucking guilt because I wouldn’t be able to protect you, because I had just promised you…” Jin’s voice was stained and before he let it break, Jin pushed even harder against Kame. The hand in the younger’s hair dug deeper, leaving him no choice but to submit and have his neck bent backwards, exposing his throat fully.
Without the needed balance, Kame instinctively wrapped his legs around Jin’s hips to gain some hold.
“They hurt you.” Kame breathed out, not finding his voice when his throat was attacked like that.
“I didn’t care.” Jin grunted into the skin underneath Kame’s jaw, heating the patch of skin before bruising it mercilessly. “I didn’t know what was happening around me or to me but it didn’t matter.”
Jin felt Kame’s Adam’s apple move when he gulped for air.
“Not when I didn’t know what they were doing to you, if you would be safe.”
‘My fucking life is meaningless when you’re not safe and OK,’ was what Jin wanted to say
Kame wanted to cry out. How could someone be so desperate to hurt him and confess his undying love to him at the same time?
Jin wondered for a brief moment where his strength had gone to. He was nothing without Kame. How had he managed to pull through his life before he had met the younger?
From the fateful encounter onwards, even if he hadn’t known it back then, there was only two ways left for his life. The one with Kame or the short end of his road.
With his hand still around Kame’s wrist, he pulled his whole arm under Kame’s back, trapping the younger even tighter in his hold while pushing him down at the same time. Kame had no other choice but to lean back with Jin, clinging to him for support.
“I…ah..can’t imagine how you must’ve felt. I didn’t know where you were or what they’d been doing to you but at least I knew who I was dealing with.” Kame tried to soothe but it rather seemed to have the opposing effect if he took the bruising scratch of teeth on the other side of his neck as an indication.
Jin’s body moved when he shifted his weight and Kame wasn’t surprised when he felt a steeled hardness brush him through the confines of their jeans.
Pulling Kame’s head up, Jin pressed their foreheads back against one another. He was breathing heavily, eyes narrowed and voice grim with restrain. “You don’t…know…”
And Jin felt like ripping apart from the inside when he thought about all the things that could have happened. He was going mad with the fear of losing Kame, even if he would’ve died first, he couldn’t grasp the thought of Kame dying a slow and painful death without a chance of getting saved.
Jin released a strangled sigh that bordered between desperation and rage and he bent them both to leave another possessive trace on Kame’s flawless skin that would turn as red and blue as Jin’s own bruised skin.
The sudden, loud clearing of someone’s throat from the open door startled both of them out of their world.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?!” Takano’s growling voice left no doubt how pissed he was at the scene he just ran into.
Kame’s torso sprung up when Jin wasn’t holding him down anymore, grabbing for the collar of his own shirt as if that could cover him from any unwanted looks.
Jin remained with his head at the crook of Kame’s neck as if he could hide there, to his convenience at the side that wasn’t facing Takano senior.
Kame started to search his mind for any excuse, feeling like a child being busted by their parents for the first time, doing something forbidden. And he wasn’t all that far off.
“F-father, I…”
“I didn’t spare his life to witness him chewing on you the moment you’re alone for 2 minutes!” Takano roared.
Jin was tensing up even more. He couldn’t decide if he was embarrassed or threatened. He probably couldn’t leave a worse impression at this point anyways, shirtless and in a compromising position with the underworld boss’ son sprawled over a table after he had just gotten off death row for ‘abusing’ the same guy.
He would probably never start learning to switch his brain on before he went along with the moment.
“I’m sorry, Sir but I just can’t keep my hands off him.” Jin turned his head just enough from his position to smirk at the man.
Kame hit him against the shoulder, hissing at him. “You’re not helping, idiot.”
Takano pointed his finger at Jin, seething in anger. “Two words from me and no one will ever find even the slightest traces of DNA from you.”
“Father, stop it!” Kame interrupted the two hot-headed men. “Jin can’t for the life of him talk himself out of a sticky situation so spare us the threats. We didn’t mean to provoke you or disrespect you. I didn’t think about it.”
“But he~!” Takano was still pointing at Jin disapprovingly.
“’I’, father! I have a life of my own, I’m not a lifeless puppet without a free will or the motor skills to make choices or defend myself. Whatever he does,” Kame nodded his head at Jin, “I’m equally as guilty of.”
Takano looked grimly at his son but didn’t answer right away.
“Then get him off of you and make him wear clothes.” He waved his hand dismissively, turning away as if he couldn’t stand the sight anymore.
Kame rolled his eyes at the behaviour. When did his father start behaving like a temperamental teenager more than a reasonable man and leader?
He turned to face Jin who had drawn back a bit, glaring after the man.
“You heard him. We better try to not step on his toes even more. I think he’s not taking it so well that I’m dating a guy, we rather not rub it in his face this blatantly.”
Jin turned back to Kame, raising an eyebrow. “I think it’s rather ‘me’ than ‘guy’, what makes the difference here.”
Kame crooked his head. “I don’t know. We kind of surprised him with the whole package. ‘Hi dad, oh, by the way, this is the guy I’m dating. Oh, and he’s a criminal, I think you’ve heard of him.’ We basically threw it in his face.”
“No.” Jin grumbled, reaching for his shirt to pull it over his head, ignoring the pain. “He threw it at my face. With a baseball bat, to be precise.”
Kame’s features softened apologetically and he brushed Jin’s cheek affectionately before he helped the other into his jacket.
Jin’s body stayed tense though and he didn’t jump on Kame’s attempt to soothe him. The scene they had been interrupted by still wasn’t finished and there were enough unspoken words and emotions pooling that needed release.
But they had to store that for later. Like so much else that was piling.
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The look of disdain was prominent on Takano’s face when Kame and Jin came back to the underworld leader and his henchmen.
Jin’s face darkened every passing second, an unbelievable surge pulled his every string and made his fingers twitch.
The fact that he had been tortured and terrified for his life not even an hour ago apparently took a greater toll on his conscience than he would admit to himself. Now it made his body react to the presence of the men around him so strongly he didn’t even know what was happening to him.
Kame and Jin approached Takano but stopped a few meter in front of him, the goons slowly surrounding them in their typical protective manner, securing the situation.
Jin couldn’t focus on the events in front of him, his gaze staying down, observing the men around him from the corner of his eyes just like a carnivore that was being surrounded.
Kame sensed Jin pulling away, being alerted and tense and before he could voice his observation and could ask Jin what was wrong, the older had spun around and punched one of the men straight across the face.
Kame couldn’t react as fast when he saw Jin basically jump the man, tearing him down and rain a series of hard blows down on him.
The startled other henchmen took a moment to react and instantly a commotion broke loose.
“Stop!” Kame shouted immediately at the top if his lungs, not wanting a dozen of bloodthirsty goons to attack his already injured boyfriend.
Naturally, they didn’t listen to Kame and went for Jin who fought them off like a berserk, all the while furiously punching the living daylights out of the one man on the ground beneath him.
“For fucks sake! Do something!” Kame glared at his father.
The surprised man only now reacted. “Stand back!” He raised his voice before turning back to his son. “You, get your rabid beast off my man!”
Kame glared back. “May I remind you why Jin is a bit sensitive and his nerves are on edge?”
Takano just huffed annoyed but his men drew back.
“Jin, stop it!” Kame urged his boyfriend but the other didn’t seem to hear him.
So Kame went over there and grabbed for Jin’s arm, dragging him back. “That’s enough.” He hissed at Jin.
Kame could understand the other. Hell, he wanted to beat them up himself for what they had done to Jin but they needed to get away from here and as much as he didn’t want to admit it, he’d need his father’s consent.
Jin let himself get dragged back. He spit on the ground, still glaring at the bloody man on the floor, rage and revenge clouding his senses.
None really seemed to care about the man’s condition, not Takano at least, when Kame and Jin stood before the man again.
Takano pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing exasperatedly, as if it would cost him a lot of self-restrain to overcome his aversion against what he would have to do.
“I really hate to say this, but I need you to get off this island.”
Jin raised an eyebrow, challengingly. “You want me out of your sight. Shocker.”
Takano narrowed his eyes at Jin. “No, dumbass. You as in you two.”
Kame and Jin looked equally surprised at the words that left Kame’s father’s mouth. “’s that so?” Jin inquired.
“As I see my imprudent son won’t make a step without his snapping appendage, I suppose I’ll have you leave together.”
“’You’ll have us leave together.’” Jin repeated mockingly in the same way Takano had said before. “As if anything you do or say would matter to me. If I should remind you, we were on our way off this damn island if you hadn’t gently asked us to stay just a little longer.” Jin spat sarcastically.
“Really now?” Kame looked back and forth between his father and boyfriend, both acting like teenagers in puberty.
Takano rolled his eyes, gathering new strength. “I will shoot myself for saying this. But I need him to be alive.”
To their surprise, it wasn’t Kame, Takano’s finger was pointing at.
Jin stared at the man open mouthed as if Kame’s father was the one who had lost his mind now.
Kame as well wasn’t sure he was hearing right. “What…what do you mean?”
Takano sighed again. “Honestly, I don’t know why I am doing this. But you’re the one who killed Johnny. So you’ll have to be there to take his place.”
Jin’s jaw dropped. He hadn’t expected this, not in a million years. The man who’d wanted him dead rather than alive just moments ago now was telling him to go raise as one of the most powerful underworld lords?
A laugh escaped Jin’s lips that made Takano’s eyes narrow again. “The fuck are you talking about?” Jin felt like laughing even more but he took Kame’s nudge as a warning.
“I’m talking about the fact that this country is one ruler short, thanks to you being all trigger happy.”
Jin’s amusement had vanished now. “For your information, Johnny is gone because his existence was a threat to the one most important to me. I think you call him ‘son’.”
The two men glared at each other for a moment until Jin could see the eyes of the man soften. The change surprised Jin, he hadn’t expected that to happen without a fight. He hadn’t expected that to happen at all, to be honest.
“You need to be alive so you can take your place and do what the fuck you’re supposed to do.” Takano spoke up again, not as angry anymore as before. “And I guess I need my son to keep an eye on you so you don’t make a mess.”
Kame gaped at his father. This was as much of a concession as they would get.
“What I’m supposed to do?” Jin repeated disbelievingly. “How am I supposed to do anything or even come back at all? My face is plastered all over the country and in heavy rotation on the 8pm news, in case you haven’t noticed.”
Takano sighed again as if he really couldn’t help Jin’s dumbness. “You will let things calm down and wait. Get healed, gather strength and get your head together. And then, when there’s some time gone by and people forget about you, you come back. It’s called ‘underworld’, just so you know. You’re not supposed to be seen by anyone who’s outside your close circle, idiot.”
He really couldn’t help lashing out one more time.
Jin looked at the man, not sure if he should shoot back or keep trying to process that the man wanted from him.
He was supposed to come back and be some kind of a leader? Did he know who he was asking?
Jin didn’t want to come back. Ever. He wanted to lay under palm trees and slurp down cocktails from coconuts, getting sunburnt and sand into his ears while rolling around with Kame in his arms.
“Why?” Was the only dumb thing he could muster instead.
“Because it’s your fucking duty, moron. If you don’t take your place, someone else will and then everybody will be after you, your children and your grandchildren because you’re their greatest threat. And they won’t go easy on you, trust me. I suppose I don’t need to go into detail, your imagination and repertoire of experiences is colourful enough to figure out for yourself what that means.”
Jin and Kame looked confused and shocked alike at Takano.
“So,” Jin started after a while, still not having entirely managed to wrap his head around what has just been said, “you wanted me alive all this damn time?”
Takano chuckled slightly not surprised that this was Jin’s answer to all those revelations. “Yes, but I would’ve changed my mind, depending if what my other son, Yuichiro told me would’ve been true or not.
Jin crooked his head, thinking. “How can you be sure that I didn’t kidnap him and forced him into some kind of Stockholm Syndrome?”
“Jin!” Kame protested immediately. “Stop feeding him this bullshit!”
Takano smiled at his son reassuringly before he turned his gaze back at Jin. “As much as it sickens me to say this, you two seem much too close.”
This time, they were both quite dumbfounded with Takano’s statement.
“To be frank, my reasons are a bit more selfish than that.” Takano corrected himself. “My son never wanted to be part of the family business and never accepted his rightful place. I see this as a chance to keep him close on the long run. As much as you.” He looked intensely at Jin.
“See it as some kind of a marriage of convenience.”
Kame glared at his father. That was so him to turn this to his favor.
After a short silence, Jin spoke up again. “You know, I would be thrilled about what you just said, if I wouldn’t be seeping through my jacket.” The sarcasm was so obvious in Jin’s voice.
“Oh, I’m sure you can take it.” Takano rolled his eyes as if Jin was a prissy bitch and hadn’t just been tortured at his command. Seeing his own son’s warning gaze, he hurried to continue.
“Not only am I going to let you go, I’ll also make sure you’ll get my son out of the line of fire.” The sound of Takano’s righteous voice made rage boil inside of Jin. As if he was being too generous and he should bow down to the older man.
“The ship that you were supposed to board, I made sure they didn’t leave without you.”
Kame’s eyes widened in surprise whereas Jin stayed unperturbed. He didn’t even know how much time had passed since he had been knocked out, only that it was still dark outside. But it could very well also be dark again.
“What? You expect me to bow down in gratefulness?” Jin snapped when Takano was expectant of a reaction.
Kame set his hard gaze at Jin this time, hoping those two would finally let it go. But when he thought about how it must be boiling inside of Jin, his eyes softened.
“Come on, Jin. We should just take the chance and get out of here.”
To this, Jin agreed, even if he let go of his whole urge for revenge only reluctantly.
~*~
In the end, they weren’t able to leave as fast as Jin would’ve wished for. He had retreated back to leave Kame and his father some space and time for whatever twisted family reunion they were having.
He didn’t want to take part in this. Not in the least. But he wouldn’t step into Kame’s way either, even if his mood was dropping steadily into the pits of hell.
Instead, he spent his time distracting himself by digging through the old kitchen cupboards in the back of the warehouse, in search for painkillers or any other medications that would numb his senses.
“Looking for drugs?”
Jin jumped. He had been too distracted in his task to realize someone was leaning against the door frame.
“Yeah.” Jin just turned back when he had seen who the intruder was.
“You might want to have a clear mind when you’ll keep my son out of trouble and bring him to safety.”
Jin rolled his eyes and huffed annoyed at the accusing tone. “I might not want to feel every inch of my body in pain, while I’m getting your son into safety.”
“Are you using?” Takano stayed with his always disapproving and sharp voice, drilling holes into Jin’s back.
“Because I’m a criminal?” Jin finally turned to the other, leaning against the kitchen board way across the room, holding Takano’s gaze arrogantly. “Are you, then?”
Takano’s eyes narrowed. “Because you look like a bad boy kid. Grown up on the street, gone the wrong line, never managed to make something out of your good for nothing life.”
Jin straightened, his arrogant smirk vanished when his gaze hardened. He pushed himself off and slowly walked up to the other. His whole posture didn’t only harden but it looked like he was growing taller, standing firmer against the older man.
“I wouldn’t say I never made anything out of my life now, wouldn’t I? And if I may remind you, you were the one who just told me I have a place to inherit.”
Takano broke the tension by smiling and shaking his head. He had to give Jin credit, the other wasn’t as dumb as he had thought.
“If this is some kind of ‘is he worthy of my son’s affection’, cut the crap. I know what I’m doing and I wouldn’t make him go through all this if I wouldn’t want him, need him by my side. And you can be assured that he wouldn’t stick with me for all this shit, if it wouldn’t mean anything to him in return.”
‘Definitely not that dumb’, Takano thought.
“You want me to hook you up?” He said instead, leaving Jin raise an eyebrow.
“Now you want to sell me drugs?” Jin looked rather freaked out at the turn of events.
“Something for the pain, idiot.” Takano chuckled, as if it would’ve been the most ridiculous thing for Jin to even ask. “It’s already hard enough to accept a man, and a killer on top of that. But a junkie would be a bit too much, trust me.”
Jin scrunched his nose in disapproval and annoyance alike. He really didn’t like this whole ‘needing daddy’s approval’ thing. He never had made much experience with the whole parent’s-stuff so he was feeling uncomfortable enough right now.
“Where’s Kazuya?” He decided to ask, since he couldn’t be eager enough to get out of this awkward situation.
“He’s out, getting some supplies from my men. Figured you wouldn’t want to be part of this.”
Jin completely agreed with this. He knew he would crack some skulls if he would interact with anyone else of Takano’s men. And they didn’t seem too eager to do the same ever since Jin had been cut loose from his restrains on the chair.
“I don’t have to tell you that I’m having your head when you get my son into trouble, am I right?”
Jin knew, time for friendly banter was over.
“And I’m quite literal with this.” Takano felt the desire to add.
“I don’t doubt that, Sir.” Jin nodded. “I’ll protect him with my life. He’s more important to me than anything.”
His voice was soft but resolute and after a long gaze from the older man, he let it go and nodded as well in a quiet understanding.
“You should be aware that under my protection, he’s in the safest position possible.” Jin felt the need to add. “I killed to protect my friends in the past. You can’t imagine what I’d do for him.”
Takano studied Jin for a moment. “But you brought yourself into a sticky situation here. You’re Japan’s most wanted now. Tell me about ‘safest place’ again.”
“I wouldn’t be here if I wouldn’t be aware.” Jin grumbled, not happy to be reminded of his dilemma. Fortunately, they were interrupted.
“What are you two up to?” Kame looked around the corner, past his father into the room.
“You two alright?” He asked hesitantly as if it came as a huge surprise they hadn’t shred each other to pieces by now.
The other two nodded.
“Let’s go.” Jin took the strap of the duffle bag he recognized as his own from Kame’s shoulder.
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A/N:
There you go. Told you guys the last big secret of Kame's background would be revealed soon. Did you expect that?
Quite a difficult family situation there. The underworld-lord father, cop-brother and assassin-lover. Way to go, Kame-chan~
Poor Jin. He got quite a beating AGAIN. I should seriously stop torturing the poor boy so much. If only I wouldn't enjoy it that much. Ah, I'm sicksadistic~~
Sorry for that, Jin __orz
The peace didn't really last for long I guess. But what to expect with them on the run. At least they somehow have a powerful supporter now. Even if it's in a weird, twisted sense.
On another note, I've started falling for the Teen Wolf fandom. Damn, how did that happen? Don't worry, not in a 'I stop writing Akame and switch to that' kind of way.
And if you haven't seen, I'm on twitter now. Add me if you feel like it. SilverRain184