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The Moon	By : theProphet Category: Dir en grey > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 1373 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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CHAPTER 12
He didn’t feel his hands anymore. Everything up from his numb shoulders disappeared as if he never even had hands. His legs hurt as well after having tried many different positions of standing, but with every agonizing hour less and less of them were even remotely comfortable.
But Kyo dreaded the moment they would take him off this pole and drag him back to the cell. He knew that then his hours will be numbered pretty soon.
And yet, he didn’t regret a thing.
Under the guidance of Ryuu he did a lot. He never knew that exposing how the whole Moon project works would benefit the resistance fighters so much. But it did. He won them a few very valuable allies who were still hesitating to join. And now the resistance fighters were more powerful and had a much better financial support than ever before. And they were ready to deliver the final blow.
To kill the Emperor.
Kyo closed his eyes, trying to will himself to stop trembling from cold.
It was God knows what hour of the night. The stars were out, the moon hung low in the sky, but Kyo didn’t want to see it. Not now, not ever again. The guards were pacing back and forth the length of the square. The others were standing at the gate. And having been tied to the pole for the third night, Kyo knew there was no way to escape, especially when each and every muscle in his body ached and hurt.
He prayed Ryuu would change his mind and try to save him. He hoped somebody would force their way through the gate, unchain him and take him away to safety. It was all he could think of over and over again, because he couldn’t do it himself. As much as he hated it, he was helpless.
And humiliated.
They took pleasure in every second when they told him all channels in the whole Japan showed only one thing – they showed him, Kyo, naked and chained to a pole like a God–damned dog, translating this live 24/7. And even if a small part of him hoped that was a lie, he couldn’t let himself fall apart. He had to remain strong on the outside, even if inside every muscle in his body screamed from pain.
He hoped Toshiya was OK. He knew his family was well hidden, but Totchi was all alone. He hoped that Toshiya was resilient enough to withstand any accusations that would be thrown at him.
Kyo shifted his position for the hundredth time, looking for the one that hurt the least. He felt his bladder was almost full again, but he pressed his legs tighter, keeping it all in. They were giving him plenty of water and no food and Kyo wondered if they did it on purpose. Letting Kyo to just piss all over himself was another way to humiliate him.
Kyo closed his eyes and tried to get as much rest as possible in this situation.
Tomorrow was another day and even thinking about one more day like this, with angry citizens who loved the Emperor coming to spit at him and throw rocks whenever the guards wouldn’t see, he felt like crying.
But he squeezed his eyes shut and prayed.
He prayed for strength and endurance for himself.
And he prayed for Toshiya to be safe.
***
Die stood tall and motionless, in black trousers and black long–sleeved shirt slightly puffed because of a bullet proof jacket underneath, a short jacket tightly wound around his slender waist, his hair tied behind in a ponytail. In his hand, as if it was a mere mobile phone, gripped loosely between the long lean fingers hung a black heavy gun.
His lips were tightly pressed together and his brows furrowed in concentration. He didn’t see the bleeding sky in the horizon and the morning sun just peeking out from the very depths of the concrete jungle, its peaks painted orange.
They had perhaps just a few more minutes to wait. Then they’ll get into a van and go to the Palace.
It’s been two days since they stopped showing Kyo on every TV channel and Kaoru feared it might be too late. But there was no other way to know, only to go and see for themselves.
Kaoru looked at Die, standing in the faint morning light, chilly air numbing their fingers, but Die didn’t notice any of those things. He stood there like a statue, silent and unmoving. And Kaoru was afraid to know what his lover was thinking.
Toshiya was just a few metres away, leaning on a wall, gun in a holder on his right hip, another gun on his left, lots of spare bullets in a belt wound around his waist. He wasn’t yet very confident with a gun, he didn’t like it, but he never said a thing about it. Kaoru knew him well to know Toshiya wasn’t in his element, but the determination Toshiya had to go save Kyo was alive like a huge bonfire – the only driving force seen burning in his eyes for days.
Kaoru suspected for a while now, listening to Toshiya talk, watching him, but he felt like now was the right time to ask.
“Hey, Totchi?” he said softly, catching Toshiya’s attention.
“Hmm?” Toshiya turned to him slightly, looking like he still was in his own thoughts.
“What is it that you and Kyo have between each other?”
Toshiya blinked, as if not sure he heard it right, but then turned fully to Kaoru and starred at him.
“That’s a very good question” finally he said, looking regretful.
“Don’t you know?”
“No… not really” Toshiya said, suddenly looking crestfallen.
“I thought” Kaoru uttered, looking a little embarrassed now. “I thought that you two… you know…”
“I do love Kyo” Toshiya said as if that was the only thing he knew to be an absolute truth about the world. Sun rises every morning. He is in love with Kyo. “But Kyo still has feelings for you…”
Kaoru felt an unpleasant shiver run through his body. He knew Toshiya wasn’t implying anything by that, but it sounded so much like accusation to Kaoru’s ears.
“We had sex every night” Toshiya said, suddenly looking somewhere in a distance. “And I was ready to wait as long as was needed for him to get over you and erase you from his heart.”
Kaoru pressed his lips tightly together, not knowing how he felt about it.
“But now I just want to get him back” Toshiya said, finally looking back at Kaoru. “And I’m very grateful you both are coming with me.”
Kaoru nodded, glancing at his motionless lover in the distance.
“Whatever it takes, we will get him back.”
Toshiya held Kaoru’s gaze for a long time. It was Ryuu who broke it, coming outside and telling them it was time to go.
They all boarded the van and sat in silence. Die was composed and grim. Toshiya’s fingers trembled slightly. And Kaoru just sat there, going over the plan of the Palace grounds and inner rooms and floors in his head.
***
The short and gentle Ryuu, who always spoke quietly and kindly, who Die would never have counted as any threat, was fast and ruthless with his guns. He was slippery and hard to catch like a weasel and strong and accurate like a panther. Compared to him, Die felt heavy, big and clumsy.
So far they stayed behind Ryuu and his other men, watching for anything that moved outside Ryuu’s range of sight.
To get into the Palace proved to be much harder than Die imagined. There were too many Palace soldiers guarding it, all of them alert and ready to strike back. Led by Ryuu who apparently knew every centimetre of the Palace, they went for the secret entrance which supposedly was less guarded.
It took them a bit longer than they expected to get into a dead–end street, go over a tall fence, go through a lake of storage houses and gardens, cross a shallow river and break through a barely visible tiny door in the wall surrounding the Palace. It was less guarded, because Ryuu was almost certain nobody knew he had any knowledge of this entrance. Not even his people. And it was impossible to find and to get there unless you knew exactly where it was and how to get there. You had to go through all the obstacles, because both sides of the door were surrounded by a wall so wide and thick that even the resistance fighters would have lots of trouble and waste lots of time to get through. And you couldn’t go completely unnoticed any other way apart from that one and only path that led to the door.
Inside they found themselves in a small garden, full of tall and fat bushes that easily covered them from sight. There were a handful of guards, but Ryuu, without saying a word, disappeared in the maze of these bushes and a few moments later a silent grunt and a thud was heard. Without thinking Die ran after him, but he only found Emperor’s guard lying on the ground, looking unconscious. Die didn’t waste time checking if he was just knocked out or dead.
He ran further and managed to see Ryuu lifting his hand and sending a silenced bullet in another guard’s head. This one managed to let out a startled scream and as soon as his body hit the ground, the last three men appeared. Ryuu slipped in the middle of the three men without them even noticing how it happened. One man’s wrist was horribly bent back with a crunching sound and he released a gun out of his hand, falling to the ground together with his weapon. Another two didn’t even manage to get a good aim at Ryuu when they also fell to the ground, shot dead to their heads.
Slowly Ryuu turned back to look at Die and nodded with his head to the man lying on the ground, gripping his hand and moaning in pain. And Die understood Ryuu wanted him to finish the guy off. But another second the rest of the group caught up and Ryuu as if nothing had happened aimed his gun at the man and sent a bullet through his head.
Quietly they hurried along the path and found themselves standing before the entrance of the house that was a part of the Palace. From then on, guns drawn out, they slowly made their way forward through unlit silent halls of the early hours of the morning.
And when Ryuu suddenly stopped, Die knew that was it. Ryuu pointed straight forward and looked at his three companions.
“That’s your path. It leads straight to the main entrance, from there you’ll get to the hall that leads to the dungeons. But by that time, I’m afraid, you’ll have to watch your backs for bullets.”
The three guys nodded and Ryuu wasted no more time.
“Good luck to you.”
He turned left and soon disappeared round the corner together with a handful of his men. They knew he went straight for the Emperor. And they knew they had maybe five minutes at best before the entire Palace would know it was under attack and before the Emperor would start running away.
Die, Toshiya and Kaoru silently made their way down the hall, but soon, out of nowhere, suddenly screams and shooting could be heard, as if someone suddenly turned on a movie in the middle of a fight scene.
They halted for a second, but then Die reassumed his pace and the other two followed. A scream was heard on their right and a bullet sank in the wall just next to Toshiya’s head. Die was the first one to turn and see a solder with a gun, now pointing at Kaoru’s head instead.
And Die’s heart fluttered, missing a beat, and he didn’t really think about lifting his hand and pointing his gun – it happened all on its own accord. And the next second the solder fell to the ground, clutching his bloody shoulder with his hands.

They quickly ran down the hall, trying to avoid more solders coming from their right. But the closer they got to the main entrance hall, the more noise of a fight could be heart.
They were running straight to the heart of the massacre.
And the first thing they saw were the backs of the countless numbers of Emperor’s soldiers who were fighting with the attackers coming through the main entrance. And they knew they had to get past them all in order to get to the hall they needed.
After hesitating for a couple of seconds, Die was the first to start running. They managed to get past a few of the soldiers unnoticed, but their luck would stretch only that far. Somebody aimed their gun at them, somebody tried hitting them, somebody drew a dagger and Toshiya merely escaped with his whole right hand. But the soldiers were facing attackers from the front in increasing numbers and a commotion behind their backs was taking them by surprise.
The entrance hall was enormous. Resistance fighters were pouring in through the main door and through the one on the side. The noise of a fight was heard coming from the corridors within the building as well.
Die, Kaoru and Toshiya managed to get to the hall leading to the dungeons, but to their horror Emperor’s soldiers appeared in front of them, running to help the others in front.
Toshiya aimed his gun and shot randomly at the men in front of him, somebody fell to the ground with a scream. Kaoru grabbed Toshiya’s arm and pushed him to the left, forcing him into another adjacent hall which also led to the dungeons, but took longer to reach them.
They ran not looking back, but soon footsteps of people following them were heard. The corridor went deeper and deeper into the Palace, but Die suddenly found it hard to remember the plan of the building that he so meticulously tried to memorize. He knew they couldn’t outrun the soldiers following them, so he halted abruptly and froze to the spot. It took him all of four seconds to aim and push the trigger.
One man fell to the ground and stayed there, motionless. The other four stopped and aimed straight at Die. But Kaoru and Toshiya were right next to him and already shooting at their attackers. Another two soldiers fell to the ground and the two still standing were still firing back.
Die heard Toshiya suddenly scream from pain and drop to the ground with a sickening thud. Blood shot to Die’s head and for a second he felt as if his mind and his body were two separate things. His body was firing back with a doubled hatred and effort, but his mind was frozen from fear and he didn’t even know who made his fingers and hands move. The weakness that overcame his body was all–consuming and for a few moments all he heard in his ears was a loud cacophony of sounds – an obnoxiously loud buzzing in his ears that overlaid even the sounds of a fight.
Only when the last two men fell to the ground unmoving did Die finally hear Kaoru’s voice.
“Toshiya! Totchi!”
Die turned back to see Toshiya lying on the ground, clutching his leg with his trembling hands, his face pale and eyes huge from fear and pain.
“Can you stand up?” Kaoru screamed, tugging at Toshiya’s jacket.
Toshiya tried to push himself up, but as soon as he put a bit of his weight on his injured leg, he screamed again and fell to the ground. Die kneeled next to him, looking at where exactly the blood was coming from and as soon as he saw a hole in Toshiya’s trousers right above his knee, he felt sick.
“You have to try standing up, Toshiya, there’s no other way” Die said, feeling like the situation fell out of his control in just a few minutes inside the building. Perhaps he never had any control over the situation in the first place.
“I can’t” Toshiya cried out, his face looking consumed with pain. “You two go alone!”
“No, Totchi, for fuck’s sake, no!” Kaoru immediately protested.
“You need to get Kyo!” Toshiya choked the words out. “I can’t… I can’t even stand up!”
“But we can’t leave you here like that” Die shouted, getting frustrated. “They’ll kill you!”
He looked around desperately, as if trying to see if more people were coming after them. Kaoru stood up and also looked around.
“We’ll hide you in one of the rooms!” he suddenly said and looked at Die eagerly. “D’you think he’d be safe there?”
“He should” Die nodded frantically and looked at Toshiya.
Toshiya just nodded weakly and then Die and Kaoru leaned down and lifted him by his armpits. It was a long and painful journey down the hall and even though they went only a few meters, for Toshiya it felt as if they were walking for tens of kilometres. The pain in his leg only intensified and almost made him faint – it was that strong.
Thankfully the first door they found was unlocked and Kaoru cautiously glanced inside – it was empty. They dragged Toshiya together with themselves inside and closed the door. There weren’t many things in the room, just a drawing table with a chair, a sofa and two big bookcases by the walls. There was a window, but the curtains were drawn tight and the room was sunken in shadowy darkness.
Die and Kaoru dragged Toshiya to the sofa, but at the last minute Kaoru suggested laying Toshiya behind the sofa on the floor, so that if somebody would glance inside, they wouldn’t immediately see him. So they took the two cushions from the sofa and laid Toshiya on the floor behind it.
Die took out a second gun from Toshiya’s holder and thrust it in Toshiya’s hand.
“Don’t close your eyes” Die said harshly. “You have to watch out for yourself. If somebody comes in, just shoot them.”
Toshiya nodded, but as soon as Die left the gun in his friend’s hand, Toshiya’s fingers loosened around it. Die glanced worriedly at Kaoru, but there hardly was any other option. Time wasn’t on their side.
Ryuu was very straightforward in explaining them what will most probably happen to Kyo if they were too late. As soon as any attack on the Palace would start, a certain group of soldiers would go down to the cells to kill all captives. And in this case, Kyo would be their first target. The Emperor would make sure he will strike anywhere he can even if it hurts his enemies just a little.
Kaoru looked at Toshiya’s leg and then with some difficulty ripped the hem of his shirt and tied tightly around Toshiya’s knee. Toshiya bit on his hand hard to prevent himself from screaming, instead some tears escaped his eyes. It was hard for Die to watch his friend in pain. He stood up and looked at the door. There was a trail of blood coming from there to the sofa and Die hoped that in this commotion nobody would go checking where this blood trail went.
“Let’s go” he said to Kaoru and Kaoru nodded. He stood up and rubbed his bloody palms on the sides of his trousers.
“As soon as we get Kyo, we’ll come back for you, Toshiya” Kaoru said, trying to sound reassuring.
Toshiya nodded weakly and watched them leave. As soon as Kaoru and Die found themselves in the hall again, Kaoru led the way as he knew exactly where they were. The noise of a fight was louder than ever and Die was constantly glancing back over his shoulder to check if nobody was pursuing them.
A sound of explosion rattled the whole building and for a moment both of them stopped, looking at the direction where they heard it. Neither Die nor Kaoru ever in their lives heard an explosion, but they knew the very instant they heard it of what it was. It came from their right, from deep within the Palace.
Ryuu never said anything about exploding the Palace and Die wondered what other things he kept secret. Suddenly he felt Kaoru tugging at his hand and he made himself move forward.
They ran the hallway, turned right, climbed down the stairs, turned right again and with every turn Die felt how they got deeper and deeper into the Palace.
“It’s not far now” Kaoru said, sounding out of breath from all the running and the adrenaline pumping his veins.
First they smelled something burning, then slowly the hall they were in filled up with greyish smoke. Soon Die felt Kaoru taking his hand, because the visibility became very bad and they had to slow down noticeably, because they didn’t really see where they were going.
Kaoru led the way now, as Die was at a loss of where they actually were. And when Kaoru suddenly stopped with a yelp and Die ran into him, he was taken by surprise. He felt Kaoru’s hand disappear and heard him grunt in pain.
“Kao?” Die screamed agitatedly.
Suddenly a man appeared right before him and for a moment Die was taken by surprise, but the next second he saw man’s fist flying into his direction and he dodged it. Die kicked man’s leg as hard as he could and then pointed a gun at him. The bullet went through the man’s shoulder and he fell to the ground, screaming in pain.
Die stepped over him and went forward, looking for Kaoru.
“Kaoru!” he screamed, not seeing his lover anywhere. He opened his mouth again, but the smoke was too thick and too poisonous now. He pressed his hand over his mouth and half–closed his eyes. He struggled down the hall, one hand on the wall for support, because he couldn’t see where he was going. He felt dizzier with every second.
But after a while he thought the smoke was thinning. And to his relief soon he was out of the range of fire that was producing all this smoke. He found himself in a dark, barely lit corridor. And no sight of Kaoru.
“Kaoru!” Die screamed at the top of his lungs, looking around. “KAORU!”
For a moment he just stood there, listening to the distant sounds of the fire and the fight. They were hardly reaching him now. There were no sounds of footsteps anywhere, Die felt like finally he was away from any living being – enemy or friend.
And all he could think of was Kaoru. What happened to him? Did he just get lost in the smoke or did he lay somewhere wounded? It was as if Kaoru was snatched away in a few seconds – gone without a trace.
But there was no point in going back, he couldn’t see a thing through all the smoke and he had no idea where to look for Kaoru. So with a very heavy heart that screamed in protest with every step he took, he moved forward. He was damned if he gave up now. There still was Kyo, deep in the dungeons of the Palace, locked in a cell, humiliated and hurt. And Die had to get him.
Though the further he was going, the need to turn back and check if Kaoru was anywhere in sight only strengthened. But Kaoru was nowhere to be seen and Die knew he had to hurry up if he wanted to save Kyo. Maybe Kaoru will catch up with him and he was just side-tracked.
Die continued going and he thought he might actually have an idea of where he was. He went with the map in his head and followed it, going even deeper and deeper. It was suspiciously quiet here. Maybe everyone went upstairs to fight?
When Die finally saw the big heavy doors lining the walls on both sides, he knew he found what he was looking for. He went past all these doors and found another big room with two other hallways going two different directions. He took the left hallway and soon was descending down the stairs. He knew now from the preparations that he was going down another four levels and finally he’ll be in the cells of the Palace.
The dim lights on the ceilings were just enough to not let him trip and fall and Die descended the stairs in no time. He looked around for a guard but saw none. No sight of Kaoru as well. There was a small table with a little pile of papers on it, but there was nothing valuable in these papers. Die looked around the small room which was the entrance to the cells, but found nothing that could indicate where exactly Kyo was.
He did hope Kyo was still here, otherwise he was deeply and thoroughly screwed.
So Die opened the doors and stepped inside. He found himself in a very narrow hall, leading straight forward and doors on both sides of it. Die slowly stepped forward, looking at each door, wondering how on earth he was supposed to find Kyo here.
Only a few seconds later he noticed a very small peephole and he looked through it – he could see the inside of the room perfectly fine through it. So he started going to every door and looking inside every room. The majority of them were empty, but in a few rooms he did see some people, but none of them were Kyo.
When the hall ended, there was another door, bigger and heavier, there was no hole in it and when Die tried opening it, it didn’t move. But that was the last door in the cell and the hall didn’t have any other ways out except the one Die came in.
“Fuck!” Die swore, wiping the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand.
He took out a master key from his pocket and put it in the lock.
“Here goes nothing” he murmured, turning the key around. Ryuu got one for each of them, because he knew there would be locks on each cell and he knew neither of them had any time looking for keys.
For a moment it looked like the master key was useless, but a gentle click startled Die to no end. He grabbed the handle and pushed the door open.
And it did open widely and silently, and Die was met with a complete darkness inside the room.
“Kyo?” he called hesitantly. The room looked completely empty, not a single piece of furniture, nothing.
Suddenly he heard a faint sound in the left corner deep in the room.
“Kyo?” Die called again, stepping inside.
Very slowly in the furthest corner of the dark room Die finally could single out a silhouette of somebody curled up in a corner. He hesitated yet again, not sure if it was Kyo or not, but then a soft strained sound as if he was in pain escaped the person’s mouth and Die recognized Kyo’s voice.
“Fuck, Kyo!”
Die flung forward and dropped on his knees in front of Kyo. He could see now that Kyo held his head completely covered in his hands and he tried to pry the hands open so that he could see Kyo’s face. But as soon as he touched him, Kyo drew back, even though there was no way he could shrink further back into that corner. Kyo was completely naked and when Die touched his skin, he felt it was cold to the touch. Kyo was freezing there with nothing to cover himself with.
“Kyo, it’s me, Die!”
Die forced Kyo’s arms off his head and then grabbed Kyo’s chin with his fingers and made Kyo lift his head. There was not enough light coming from the open door, but Die was able to see that Kyo had his eyes shut tightly. He was trying to turn his head away from the forceful fingers and beat off the hand holding his hands.
“Kyo, come on, look at me!”
Die let go of Kyo’s chin and grabbed him by the arms. He stood up and started forcefully dragging Kyo out of the room to the light.
“N-no…” Kyo whimpered, curling in on himself more and trying to stay glued to the floor. “Please, no more…”
Die dragged him out of the room with barely any effort – Kyo was very light compared to him. When they were out of the cell, Die let go of Kyo and Kyo immediately moved away from him, curling next to the nearest wall.
Die wanted to move closer to him again, but he stopped midway. The dim light of the hall now exposed Kyo to Die’s eyes and Die was horrified to see that all over Kyo’s naked body there were marks of severe beating – bruising all over his legs, arms and torso, his left arm looked horribly swollen and bluish, the fingers on that arm were curled in an unnatural way. Kyo looked like it hurt him even to breath.
“Kyo–kun” Die uttered and tried approaching him again, but Kyo shrunk under his touch like a wild animal.
“No, please… no…”
Die looked at him exasperatedly. He was at a loss of what to do. He couldn’t just fling Kyo over his shoulder and carry him like a bag out of the Palace. He had to have his hands empty, ready to defend himself and Kyo. He had to think of something and do it right now.
Die grabbed Kyo’s face in his arms again and forced Kyo to look at him.
“Kyo, listen! Toshiya’s sick worried about you! Me and Kaoru as well! We need to get out of here, Kyo, while we still can! Do you understand?”
He shook Kyo with his last words and stared at his face. Slowly, so painfully slowly, recognition was seeping in Kyo’s damaged mind, but he still just sat there and stared. Finally he caught Die’s eyes and held his look there, starring Die in the eyes so intensely that Die almost wanted to pull back.
“D–die?” Kyo stuttered, looking bewildered.
“Yes, yes it’s me!”
“Why are you here?” Kyo asked meekly, looking confused.
“I’m getting you out of here!” Die said, barely holding back his impatience.
“But you… I mean Kaoru…”
“Kyo, please, just get up, we need to go!”
Kyo didn’t look like he was about to move and Die wanted to just grab him and drag him back through the halls, but he held back, trying to be patient.
“Kyo, we need to go right now! And we need to go get Toshiya! He’s hurt and he can’t escape on his own! We need to help him as well!”
“T-totchi’s h-hurt?”
“Yes! And if we don’t go, he might be found and killed! We’ll be screwed as well, Kyo, if we won’t hurry!”
Maybe it was the despair in Die’s voice, maybe the pleading look in his eyes, but finally Kyo relax under Die’s touch and let himself be lifted off the ground. But soon Die found out that Kyo was too weak to walk on his own. They probably didn’t even give him food as long as he’s been here. Kyo put his arm over Die’s shoulders and Die supported him by putting his hand around Kyo’s waist. And finally they slowly started moving.
In the distance, though still rather faint, Die heard the sounds of footsteps approaching and he paled, his heart sank to his stomach.
He was too late.
All Die managed was to point his gun at the doorway and wait, his heart beating hundreds of miles per hour. Kyo’s grip on him tightened almost painfully and he heard Kyo take a deep breath and hold it, waiting.
In what felt like just a few seconds later solders poured in the room and Die without waiting or hesitating started shooting. Two fell down immediately, one managed to get a good aim at Die, but fell to the ground as well. Then two more came through the door and Die missed, too agitated and eager to shoot them all.
A sharp pain in his shoulder made him scream and he fell to the floor, clutching it, Kyo almost tumbling down over him, unable to stand on his own without any support. For a few moments Die’s eyes darkened and he didn’t see or hear a thing, but then vision came into focus again and through a buzzing noise in his ears he could hear Kyo screaming.
He looked up and saw Kyo standing over him, barely supporting himself with his swollen left hand on the wall, his right hand outstretched, Die’s gun in it.
And the last two solders fell.
Die stared at Kyo’s naked back. He looked small and vulnerable without his clothes on and with all the signs of brutal beating marring his skin. But then he looked over his shoulder at Die and Die was met with a hard, cold look in Kyo’s eyes, a harsh contrast to the childlike complexion of his body.
Die somehow stood up on his shaky legs and clutched his bleeding shoulder. Kyo looked like he was about to slump back down on the ground, his tired muscles trembled violently from simply just trying to remain standing. They both stared at each other for a moment, breathing hard.
But there was no time to recover – more footsteps and noise could suddenly be heard approaching and Die had to try to defend them both.
“We need to get out of here” Die muttered through gritted teeth. Kyo immediately took a hold of Die’s healthy arm, because Kyo himself was having a very hard time standing.
“Why did you come, Die?” Kyo asked weakly. “Now you’re in danger as well.”
Die shook his head, clearly showing it wasn’t the time for questions like that. He was trying to decide what to do. Going back to get Toshiya was too risky. There was too much noise and gun shots, and screams and explosions in that direction. And with a heavy heart Die had to admit that he had to get Kyo and himself out the shortest way. He could just hope that both Kaoru and Toshiya will be all right. Going to look for them in that chaos was pointless and he knew it.
There was no way of knowing where Kaoru was. And trying to get back to Toshiya meant he and Kyo would be in terrible risk of getting shot without even going half-way.
“Let’s go” Die finally said and moved away from the wall, dragging Kyo with himself.
They stumbled down the hall and Die tried to recreate the path he came here, so that he could remember the plan of the Palace he memorised and could take both of them out of the dungeons safely through a different path. Kyo struggled with every step and Die could see how he screwed his face in pain with every step he took, but Kyo didn’t say a thing, didn’t complain. His small naked form most of the time was glued to Die’s side for support. Die realised he should have at least given Kyo his jacket.
“Is Toshiya still far away?” Kyo asked suddenly, looking up at Die’s face.
Die couldn’t stop himself from frowning and he turned his face away from Kyo’s sight, but Kyo managed to see the uncomfortable expression that his question brought.
“Is he far away?” Kyo repeated with his shaky voice.
“He is” Die said, trying to make his voice sound steady. “We’ll be taking another way out of the Palace.”
Kyo stopped and Die was forced to halt as well. He looked down at his former band mate.
“Kyo, we have no time, let’s move!”
“I can’t leave Totchi here!” Kyo screamed almost hysterically, clutching at Die’s side with his hand like his life depended on it. “You said he’s hurt!”
“We can’t possibly go back, there’s barely any chance we’ll both make it alive to where he is, not to mention get him out of here together with you. You can’t walk, Toshiya can’t walk and I have only two hands, one of them not working properly!”
“How can you be this cruel?” Kyo screamed.
“Kaoru’s here as well!” Die shouted, not able to hold back the panic suppressed in his chest anymore. “Kaoru got separated from me and I have no idea where he is!”
Kyo stared at Die dumbstruck.
“He’s all alone surrounded by people ready to kill him and there’s absolutely nothing I can do!” a slightly mad look in Die’s eyes caught Kyo by surprise. “But we came here to get you!” Die gripped Kyo’s hand painfully and Kyo winced, suddenly also getting a little afraid of Die.
“And I’ll be fucking damned if I’ll let them get you again! I am not letting another friend die! Kaoru would do the same thing! I don’t know where he is and going to look for him now would be foolish! Same as going back to get Toshiya, who’s surrounded by our enemies! So don’t tell me I’m cruel, Kyo! You have no idea what it took me to decide not to look for Kaoru and go get you instead!”
Kyo stared at Die, completely taken aback. The silenced stretched for some time, until an explosion somewhere deep in the Palace startled them both.
“We need to go” Die said, loosening his grip in Kyo’s hand finally. Kyo nodded weakly, looking down at his naked feet on tatami floor, his toes on his left foot painted with fresh blood still coming out of Die’s wound. For the first time Die noticed Kyo’s nakedness for what it was and got embarrassed. With difficulty he shrugged off his jacket and then leaned down, offering it to Kyo.
Kyo lifted his eyes and Die saw how much guilt there was in those deep black orbs, and immediately Die regretted his outburst.
“Here, I’ll help you put that on” he said and helped Kyo put his swollen and painful hand in one of the sleeves, the other hand getting in easily after that. The jacket didn’t cover Kyo’s modesty or his behind, but already with this piece of clothing Kyo felt more human than he felt in many long and torturous days.
“Let’s go” Die said softly and Kyo nodded.
They struggled down the hallway. The noise of the fight now seemed to come from every direction. When they got out of the basement, they were met with a slight layer of smoke everywhere they went and Die had to admit to himself that most probably there was fire everywhere in the building.
Kyo started coughing not long after that and Die himself had a harder time breathing than he should. At least for a while they met nobody and Die was already starting to believe his good luck. But when they were finally nearing the main exit that Die wanted to use, people started to appear from all directions.
Die managed to escape a few of them by simply hiding. Everyone was running or fighting between themselves, so nobody noticed two guys hiding behind the big cupboards or corners of the halls.
A few times Die had to stop for a moment because the vision in his eyes got blurry all of a sudden and he hoped they were close enough to escape the building. Most probably he was losing too much blood and wouldn’t be able to hold on his consciousness much longer.
The smoke thickened and Kyo started coughing.
“We’re very close” Die muttered, trying to keep it together.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, somebody jumped on them from behind and circled their hands around Die’s throat. Die’s hands on reflex abandoned everything else and grabbed the hands of the attacker, trying to pray them off. He heard Kyo fall down to the ground without support – his body was exhausted by days and days of torture, and his swollen, painful hand was of no use either.
The pain in Die’s shoulder screamed him to stop, but he grabbed onto the attackers hands with all he had. For a few seconds it didn’t help, but then he felt the hands slacken just a notch and Die used the opportunity. He tightened his hold on the attacker’s hands and ran backwards, smashing the attacker to the wall and crushing him with his body. The attacker released all air from his lungs and his hands slackened even more.
With all the force he had, Die finally was able to throw the hands off of himself and faced the attacker.
The man had no gun, but he was one of the guards and he had a mad look in his eyes. Probably lost his gun during the battle, but it didn’t stop him from defending the Emperor.
Die wanted to grab his gun, but for a moment he got completely confused, because his hands were empty and there was no gun on him anywhere. He probably lost it when the guy attacked. Die was about to look around, but the man kicked him in the knee and with a scream Die fell to the ground. He had no time to recover as the man kicked him in the face with his heavy shoe. Die thought he heard his nose break.
The man grabbed him by his hair and started dragging him. For a moment Die was completely unaware of what was happening as pain overwhelmed him. But suddenly he felt heat and smoke surround him and he opened his eyes to look through his bloody fingers.
All he managed to see was bright red flames and the next second he was thrust face-forward to the centre of all of it, his right cheek hitting the burning tatami. His hair caught fire immediately and Die in panic struggled to push back, but a foot on his back pressed hard on him and pushed him back down.
Die heard himself scream, he thrashed in panic, trying to push the weight off his back and pull back, but the pressure remained, the flames ate at his face and hair, the pain in his shoulder only intensifying.
For Die it felt like this was happening for long, very long minutes, far too long that any human being could endure.
Then the weight on his back was suddenly off and he scrambled back, immediately trying to put the fire out from his hair with his hands. Somebody suddenly covered him with something heavy and thick and for a moment Die thought he was being strangled, but the flames went off, the heat slightly drew back and the material was lifted off his head.
Die felt somebody grabbing his arms and dragging him. He couldn’t open his eyes to look at the person and he couldn’t resist as well. His whole body felt like a giant piece of meat that had nothing to do with his mind inside it. It didn’t listen, it was in horrible pain, it numbed his senses and his mind, preventing him to even lift his hand and place it where he wanted.
Die thought he heard a voice, but in the midst of the noise of fire, the fight somewhere in the distance, still reoccurring small explosions and excruciating pain, Die couldn’t distinguish a word. And it felt as if somebody put earplugs in his ears.
He tried to push the hands off himself, but with every second the pain in his face got stronger and soon not only darkness in front of his eyes, but also in his mind overcame him.
***
The gun fell down from Kyo’s loose fingers and fell next to his leg where he was kneeling. Kyo grabbed the jacket Die put on him not long ago and started desperately pulling it off of himself. His bad hand hurt, but he managed to take the jacket off and throw it over Die’s head. He held it there, tapping his hands all over Die’s head, trying to desperately make it work.
When he pulled the jacked off, the view in front of him made him sick in his stomach. But Kyo didn’t dwell on it, he grabbed Die’s arms and started dragging him away from the fire. Die faintly resisted for a moment, but then his body slumped and Kyo almost slipped on some amber-coloured liquid under his feet and Die’s body.
Kyo just continued with his task, trying his best to hurry, not to collapse himself, not to give up. He dragged unconscious Die as best as he could while he was on all his four legs like a dog, crawling down the hall and dragging Die away from more harm.
He didn’t know where he was going or where the exit was.
And when there was no strength left in his limbs, Kyo crawled up Die’s body, hugged him and pressed his head to Die’s chest, trying to listen to his friend’s heartbeat. Die lay by the wall, pressed tight to it as if in hope of somebody coming past them and not noticing them. And Kyo clung to him, his eyes closed.
But this time Kyo wasn’t praying. He didn’t know anymore what he could pray for.
TBC

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