See Into the Eyes of a Medium

Chapter IX “Pirates of the Contemporary”


Rukia looked around and she pointed to the life boat at the side of the ship. She hung onto him and he climbed up to the rail and unhooked the rope. Rukia cut it short and gathered it up and they slipped around the side and jumped into the life boat. They lowered it down and paddled it around the front of the boat. Suichi latched onto the side and stopped their boat when they saw a huge schooner tethered to the side of the boat.
“I’ll be damned…” he muttered, “Pirates.”
“Not just any pirates…check out the guy at the helm.” She returned and pointed to a guy with an Uzi at the helm, “That’s Osaka one of my dad’s men. They ransack rich boats like this. I think it might actually be a coincidence, but there is no way we can let any of them get in contact with my father if they find one of us.”
He nodded and she reached into her back pocket, but she sighed at her wet gun.
“Brilliant.”
“Use your…telekinesis or something.” He told her.
She snorted, “Let’s see…he’s got an Uzi so it’s a one shot thing…”
She looked around and he pointed to the bow sprit holding the sail out. The wind was catching it strong and it was being held by a rope. She grinned and she concentrated on the rope and narrowed her eyes. He kind of chuckled as he watched the knot come undone. He grinned widely as the man turned towards their direction. He spotted them just when the rope came undone and the bow sprit was thrown right into his face. He hit the deck and they both laughed silently before he rowed them over to the boat. They both climbed on and looked around. They went over to the unconscious watch guard and she took his two guns and his Uzi. She also took a combat knife from him and handed it to Suichi and he stuck it in his belt. They tied him up before they found more weapons and loaded up.
Suichi jumped up and he tore up the sails while Rukia jammed the motor.
“Did we forget anything?” she asked.
“…The radio!”
“Right.”
They demolished the radio in the control room before they cut loose the ship. They both climbed onto the side of the ship and pushed it away. Rukia held out her hand and the ship turned and she gave it a hard push. When it was well away they turned to their ropes. Suichi stuck the knife in his teeth and they climbed the sides of the boat and went up. They looked over the side and saw two guards at the helm with guns and one at the top over looking everything. Then there was one guarding the entrance below deck to the rest of the ship. They looked at eye level to the second deck where they had dove from. The people in the dining room were under their tables while four guys with guns held them up.
“Ok…can you get up there with out being seen?” she asked him.
He nodded, “As girly as you may think it is gymnastics paid off.”
She snickered as he slipped onto the lower deck. He staid down below the windows and crept back to the side. He got to a solid wall and he looked up. He jumped up and latched onto one of the riggings and he pulled himself up and grabbed onto the top deck. He crawled up and he walked slowly and quickly ducked down before the guy holding up the captain saw him. He crept under the window and he climbed up onto the side at the top. He looked over the edge and saw the man standing next to the mast with his gun. He stood and walked behind him. As fast as he grabbed the gun and held the trigger as he brought his knife around to the man’s throat.
He froze and Suichi muttered, “Let go of the gun.”
He did and Suichi took it.
“Now hands around the mast.”
He put his hands back and Suichi ripped off his tie and he gagged him with it before he tied his hands around the mast so he could get away. He took all of his weapons and tucked them away. He walked over to the head of the helm and looked down at the two next to the door. He swallowed hard and looked down and Rukia she nodded. He took the gun with a silencer and he pointed down and winced. He shot right into the head of one of the guys. The other one jumped and looked around and Suichi shot him too. He felt a little sick killing two men, he just reminded himself who they worked before to strengthen his resolve and he slipped down to the door. He grabbed the handle and he turned it and let it slowly open.
“What!?” he heard the guy from the inside.
He held his breath and waited. The guy inside of the helm stepped out and he saw one of the guys and cursed. He pushed the door back and Suichi’s gun was right to his head and he gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger. The man fell and Suichi came around and he breathed hard surprised seeing the three men he just shot and he swallowed. Rukia climbed up and she patted his back.
”You ok big guy?”
“…I’ll throw up at a more appropriate time.” He said unevenly and they went in and untied the captain and his first mate.
The captain sighed, “Thank you, but we have to save the passengers and they trashed the radio system.”
Rukia nodded, “About how many of them are there?”
“There’s gotta be two dozen of them.” Replied the first mate.
“Ok…every one with the artillery is in the dinning room being held up…all we got it what we stole…we have to find a way to take them by surprise.” Mused Rukia trying to think of something.
Suichi looked up, “Is there any way to get below deck other than the entrances?”
The captain shook his head, “No back way, the only way into any of the other rooms from another stand point is the air ducts.”
“Wonderfully cliché.” Sighed Rukia, “Do they just plan to rob every one?”
“For starters. Underneath the guest levels we have a big shipment of goods. Clothes, furniture, antiques…” Said one of the deck hands.
Rukia sighed, “…We need a map of the ship.”

* * *

Rukia was army crawling very carefully through the air ducts with a rope tied around her waist. She got to a duct that went straight down to the bottom level. She gave her rope three tugs and started to slip down.
On the other end the deck hand and the first mate had the rope and they were slowly lowering her down so she wouldn’t fall. The captain had a portable radio and Raharu and Suichi both had one as he looked at the map.
“Ok Rukia…the second duct from the fan will bring you into the cargo hold. Most of them should be their preparing to move the loads.” Reported the captain quietly into the radio.
“Got a ways to go. Tell them to speed it up a little.” She replied.
He stuck his head out of the cabin and told them to lower her faster and they did. She soon made it to the second to last air duct and she caught edge of it and pulled herself in. She gave the rope three more tugs and she took off the rope and they pulled it up.
“Ok, now you need to travel about ten yards forward and to your right you’ll see an exhaust tube that goes down at an incline. Take it straight down and it will bring you to the furnace.” He told her.
“…Come again?” she asked incredulously.
“Not the actually part that burns, it’ll take you to the chimney. There are two more metal exhaust pipes that cross it, there’s a grill at the end if you can get it off it’ll let you into the engine room.” He explained.
“Ok, but if I get burned some one else up there is getting burned too.” She told him as she headed down.
It started getting hotter as she headed in and she was sweating and panting. Half way down she stopped and sighed.
“It’s a million degrees in here, what the fuck?” she asked exhaustedly.
The captain sighed, “It is a heating exhaust duct. It doesn’t just let out smoke it also carries heat to the bottom levels.”
She growled to herself and kept going. She stopped when she heard a small scream. She crawled over to a vent and she looked down into a dark metal room full of crates and pipes. Her eyes widened when she saw Yataro tied to a chair in the cargo hold with blood dripping down his face from a cut on his head. Kyo was bloodied up and unconscious next to him no longer in drag. He was tied up on the ground and gagged. She looked straight down and saw a man with an Uzi keeping watch while his sick partner was over with Yataro.
She narrowed her eyes and got a grip on her gun. The man grabbed Yataro’s face and he whimpered shaking.
“You’re one cute little fuck aren’t you?” he said evilly with a lusty grin on his face.
Yataro turned his head from him fighting back tears of fear from his scared hazel eyes.
“That’s Gushinken’s kid brother ain’t it?” asked his partner looking him over.
His eyes widened and he looked up as the man who was before him chuckled.
“Oh yeah, now I remember…the new kid we got.”
The man stepped back from Yataro and walked over to Kyo.
“…What are you doing?” muttered Yataro as he grabbed his ropes and dragged him away from the wall.
He looked up at him with a cruel grin, “I think he’ll go first…and you can watch.”
Yataro gasped and his eyes widened as the man took his gag off. Yataro started to struggle against his bonds.
“Don’t! Leave him alone!” said Yataro desperately.
He lifted a knife and brought it down and cut Kyo’s underwear off rather than slip them down. Rukia clutched her gun and aimed it through the vent, but her eyes were on the man with the Uzi. The second she shot him he knew he’d either open fire on herself or Yataro. She gritted her teeth and she looked up as she heard Yataro scream.
“Don’t touch him! Don’t you fuckin’ touch him you sick bastard!” screamed Yataro angrily at the man.
“Shut him up.” Said the man to his partner.
The man with the Uzi moved over to him. Yataro struggled, but he stopped when he heard Kyo groan a little. He looked up as Kyo slowly came too.
“Live prey, they’re so much more entertaining when they’re awake.” Muttered the rapist.
His partner shook his head, “You’ve got a sick mind.”
Kyo blinked hard and looked up at the man. He saw his bonds and struggled against them as the man advanced upon him. He tried to push himself away with his feet, but the man grabbed them. He started kicking and the grabbed a rope and had one lopped around his ankle in a second and tied it to a pipe on the wall. Kyo kept struggling and jerking against the ropes, but the man punched him in the face and then grabbed another rope and lopped it around his other ankle. He shoved him back against the wall hard and Kyo yelled as his head made contact with the wall. He took the other rope and tied it to the wall so Kyo’s legs were tied back spread eagle and he was against the wall quite exposed to his attacker.
He tired to get away from the wall, but he punched him again and then tied his bonds to the floor pipes. Kyo shook his head and his eyes widened when the man started unbuttoning his pants.
“Why are you doing this!? Let me go…I’ll do anything, just let me go!” he screamed.
“Kyoshiro!”
He looked up and saw Yataro tied to the chair and the blood on him.
“…Yataro…you hurt him…you hurt him you son of a bitch!” he shouted angrily, “When I get out of this I’m gonna rip you apart!”
He was suddenly seized by the throat and he started choking.
“Not before I do.” He growled into his ear.
He released his throat and pulled down his pants and grabbed his cock. Kyo didn’t even have a chance to gasp before he jammed his cock into him hard. Kyo threw his head back and screamed as pain erupted in his mind. He wasn’t even a part of the way in yet before he gave another hard thrust. Kyo screamed again as he felt himself tear, his face was contoured in pain and his fingernails were digging into his own arms. He thrust in the rest of the way and Kyo screamed again and started sobbing as he felt blood running down his backside. The man laughed darkly clearly enjoying his screams and his tears, but he froze for a second. He heard a strange cracking noise and looked back.
Yataro had his head lowered and his eyes closed, but he was straining against his bonds again and the cracking noise was coming from his chair.
“…You…touched him…you…hurt him…” he muttered through his gritted teeth.
He chuckled again and looked at Kyoshiro who was still crying silently and shaking, “Yeah and what are you going to do about it?”
Rukia blinked and she squinted down at Yataro. She was startled to see the muscles in his arms slowly bulging. His eyes snapped open now a striking amber. Rukia gasped as she heard him roar suddenly like a feral beast and the back of the chair was crushed like a pile of match stick and the ropes snapped like thread. The man with the Uzi screamed and jumped back raising the gun. He opened fire at Yataro, but he ducked the fire amazingly and he launched himself at his middle and body checked him to the floor. Rukia half screamed and quickly crawled back as his gun aimed up and shot into the duct.
She looked down and Yataro rose from the man his hands dripping with blood. The man with Kyo pulled out and stood. He swung around his gun and opened fire. Yataro wove in and out of the bullet and he let out a feral cat like roar and tore into his throat with a set of newly grown claws. The man gave a death rattle and a disgusting gurgle as he hit the ground dead. Kyo looked up at Yataro with a look of utter disbelief on his face.
“Y…Yataro?” he whimpered.
Yataro was standing before him, claws dripping with blood, fangs that kind of sunk over his lower lip. His eyes were bright green and his pupils were like that of a cat. In fact…sticking out of his now black stripped blue hair was a set of black cat ears. Yataro swallowed hard and wiped some of the blood off of his face. He went over to Kyo and he quickly untied his legs and then his arms. Through the pain of just being raped Kyo still couldn’t take his eyes off of him. Yataro stood and he reached back with a grimace as he pulled a black cat tail from his jeans and that was the last straw. Kyo’s eyes rolled back and he passed out.
“Kyo?”
Yataro knelt by him. Rukia sighed and she took off the vent. Yataro jumped and looked up. Rukia lowered herself out of the vent and jumped down.
“R…Rukia…uh this…I…uh.” He started trying to explain this strange phenomenon.
“Just forget it; we need to get Kyo some help.” She told him.
She grabbed a tarp and Yataro took it and he wrapped Kyo up. As small as he still was, Yataro was able to lift Kyo very easily now. She shook her head and touched her ear piece.
“In the cargo hold through stranger means…but it’s a lot smaller than I thought. Plus there were only two guys.” She told the captain.
There was a small silence, “What do you see in the room?”
“Crates, pipes and a ladder.” She told him.
“Then you aren’t in the cargo hold. The cargo hold is right next door, you’re in one of the water proof storage bunkers it’s got some artillery.” He told her.
She grinned, “…What kind of…artillery?”


Yataro and Rukia slipped into the next room and quickly hid behind some boxes. She rolled her eyes as she took out two Roman candles and a pack of fire work artillery shells.
She muttered, “Some artillery.”
“What are we gonna do?” whispered Yataro.
She looked over a crate and saw eight guys taking inventory of their spoils.
“Man look at all these furs.” Said a man taking out a mink coat from one of the taller crates.
“We’re gonna get so rich off of this hall.” Said another.
Rukia looked at the artillery shells and she grinned. She took off the caps on each one and then she emptied the gun powder of six of them into another six until they were all packed. She rolled them out inconspicuously onto the floor next to them. She got all six of them when a man looked down and he frowned.
“What the hell is that?” he said crouching down.
They all looked at the small clutch of shells on the ground.
“Looks like…fire works.” Muttered one of the guys.
Rukia lit both Roman candles and pointed them at the shells. They looked up and she grinned. They looked down and turned to run as a flare shot out of each Roman candle. Nothing happened and they all turned and lifted their guns, but the fuses had lit. She giggled as they walked over to her and the fuses hit the gun powder.
She shoved Yataro down as a huge explosion took place. They slowly rose and looked up. All eight guys were on the ground. They weren’t dead, just burned very badly. She went out and soon she had them all disarmed and tied together to a support beam. She went to the side of the ship as Yataro looked them over, all of the, burn practically every where. Rukia came back with a hose that had water coming out of it.
“Keep hosing them down, it’ll keep them from whining.” She told him handing him the hose.
“What about Kyo?” he asked.
She sighed, “…Well…I’m sure you’ve been in his ass before check and see if he’s still bleeding.”
He glared at her, but dropped the hose and went over to Kyo and checked him out.
“…I think is stopped.” He told her.
She nodded, “He’ll be ok for now. Just keep an eye on these guys.”
She gave them back the hose and a gun. She put her finger to her ear piece and sighed.
“Ok with the three guys up there, the two Yataro just killed and the eight right here we’ve already got thirteen. Should be about eleven more.” She told the captain.
One of the men on the ground snorted and she turned to him.
“And what was that?” she asked walking over to him.
He chuckled weakly, “If you think that’s all we have Rukia then you’re dead wrong.”
“And how many do you have?” she asked crouching over.
He chuckled and lowered his head wearily, “Like you can make me tell you.”
She drew a gun and put it to his head.
“Oh please…shoot me…better than this.” He said coughing.
She looked him over; he was pretty badly burned, bleeding even. She searched his body over with her eyes and she pulled out another Roman candle and he lifted his eyes.
“I guess killing you would be too easy…or I could just…light this and shove it down your pants and I bet they have plenty of liquor down here…a good way to sterilize a bleeding wound.” She muttered to his charred face.
“…Twenty nine with out the ship guard.” He finally muttered back.
She grinned, “Good boy.” She stood and sighed, “Ok give him the cold water.”
Yataro started hosing down the burned men and she walked over to the door.
“Heard that captain?” she asked.
She heard a little static, “Yeah so another sixteen. Be careful when you ascend. My deck hand just got the monitors working and we got a view of all of the rooms. In the next room there is a stair case and the room it goes to is a freezer. There are two guys in there looking at the uh…frozen assets.”
“…Frozen assets?” she asked confused.
He sighed, “We store precious metals on the boat and we put them in the freezer because of what it’s made of. Plus the doors don’t open from the inside.”
“So they’re trapped?”
“No, they still have the door open. I think there is some one keeping watch on them.” He replied and she grinned.
“Will the ladder in here take me to the room next to it?” she asked.
He paused, “Yes, but there are two men in that room.”
“Good enough.”
Rukia went over to the ladder and she climbed up. She slowly turned the hatch, but it made a squealing noise so she stopped and waited a while before she turned it again. She waited again before she slowly lifted it. She peeked out and saw a pair of feet turned away from her. She slowly lifted the hatch more and she pointed her gun up and shot the man didn’t make a noise before he fell. She flung the hatch up and quickly opened fire as his partner did. She nailed him in the chest just as she fel a searing pain in her left arm. She half yelled, but she climbed out and ran to the freezer door. The guard looked up as she shot him twice in the chest. She ran over to the door and shoved all of her weight against it. The men ran for the door, but she shoved it again and she slid closed.
“Nice one!” she hard the captain say.
She hissed, “I was shot though. Fuck…”
“There’s an emergency first aid kit next to the door in a tool box.” He told her.
She looked around and saw the metal tool box on the floor. She opened it and found the first aid kit. She also found a flare gun, a small case of marked vaccination bottles amongst the medicines and several tools.
Rukia removed the first aid and took care of her wound before she looked at the bottles. She grinned and grabbed some syringes and filled them with one of the bottles and she capped them and stuck them into her belt. She slipped the flare gun in with it and stood. After quickly surveying the room again she found an emergency fire box. There was a fire extinguisher, a hose and a hatchet. She grabbed the hatchet and headed to the stairs and went up.
“Ok, how am I lookin’ so far?” she asked the captain.
”Eleven more to go and five of them are in the ball room and then four in dining room. The other two are on the stair case. Don’t worry about the dining room and the ball room though uh…there’s Suichi and a really dirty mouthed woman who took care of the dining room. There’s a guy in a suit and one in a sports jacket who just bloodied up the guys in the ball room smoking cigarettes.” He reported and she had to laugh.
“Suichi and Kumiko in the dining room and Shane and Gen in the ball room.” She muttered with a small smile.
She sighed and she headed into the next room.


* * *

After Suichi parted with Rukia at the helm and he headed over to one of the ladders and climbed down to the dinning room level. He suck under one of the round windows and slowly looked in. he ducked as an ash tray went flying out of the window. He lifted his head and saw his mother throwing things as two men tried to wrestle her to the ground. Her artillery pack was on the ground.
“Get your hands off of me you cock sucking bastard!” she screamed and flipped back bicycle kicking one of them in the face.
He yelled and reeled back clutched his face. She turned and gave the other one an upper cut to the crotch. He keeled over and she ran for the artillery pack. They started shoot at her and she grabbed a table and flipped it up and ducked behind it. Suichi ran to another window and saw her. She had gotten shot in the shoulder.
He growled to himself. He saw a picture window shatter from a stray bullet. He backed up and took a deep breath before he ran for it. He hurdled the pan and he rolled onto the ground snatching up the pack and dove for a table. He flipped it up and looked to the side at his mother and he kind of waved.
“Hey ma!” he yelled over the gun fire.
“That’s my boy, come one throw momma a gun!” she yelled back with a small smile.
He slid a black case form the pack at her and she took it out and quickly put together an AK-47 and Suichi pulled out and Uzi and they waited. The fire eventually ceased and they waited. They heard the men move forward. They threw themselves over their tables and opened fire. Two of them fell and the rest of them dove to the floor and rolled under table and took cover. Suichi threw his hands to the side and the people started going for the shattered windows while Suichi and Kumiko covered them by firing at the tables.
Pretty soon every one was on the deck and they ceased fire and ducked back. Kumiko pulled a cherry bomb from her bosom and Suichi’s eyes widened. She chucked and lit it with her lighter and threw it over the other tables. Suichi covered his head as the floor shook with the enormous explosion. They looked back and the remaining three were lying amongst the remaining pieces of the table. They got up, but kept their guns and checked them out.
“All dead.” Sighed Kumiko and looked up at Suichi, “You look a little sick there sonny.”
“I…I’ve never…killed some one before today.” He muttered staring at the dead bodies.
She chuckled and rolled her eyes, “You’ll get used to it. I’m surprised you haven’t had to kill a client for either trying to rape or kill you themselves.”
“Of course I haven’t! …Have you?” he asked bemused.
She laughed, “Duh.”
She sat in one of the chairs and lit a cigarette and Suichi sighed and dropped next to her and put his finger to his ear piece.
“How are we doing?” he asked the captain.
“Rukia almost finished off the lower levels, it’s just the ball room now…”
“…What is it?” asked Suichi sitting up.
“Some one just opened fire in the ball room.”


One deck below Shane was slapping another clip into his gun and he threw himself over the table and let loose three rounds before he ducked back and they returned fire. Gen had a mirror and he was looking on the other side of the table.
“Little more to the left this time.” He told Shane.
Shane threw himself up and shot one of the men twice and went back down and sighed, “Wonderful time for freakin’ mob pirates.”
“Well we shouldn’t have thought we were lucky enough for this trip to actually go smoothly!” replied Gen pissed off, “Forty five degrees to the right.”
Shane rose and opened fire and shot three times finally nailing him in the face and he ducked down and grabbed another clip, “Now, now Gen-chan no need to be a pessimist.”
Gen gave him a shrewd look and Shane giggled evilly as he threw himself over the edge of the table and shot another one four times in the chest before he ducked down avoiding fire again.
“You enjoy this don’t you?” asked Gen a little unhinged.
“I’m a bounty hunter and a hit man.” He replied off handedly and Gen gave him an appalled look.
Shane yelled and ducked back against Gen as a huge blast took out the left side of the table. Gen grabbed him and rolled over on top of him to the other side as he took out the rest of the table. Gen looked up and he grabbed Shane’s gun and raised his hand and shot him in the head. That was the last one. Gen sighed and he looked down at Shane under him and swallowed.
“Nice shot stud, gonna make this worth my while?” Asked Shane with a coy grin.
Gen scowled and he got up and Shane rose and felt his face. Gen turned his chin and saw a cut on the side of his face.
“Nice shrapnel cut.” He muttered.
The guests started to look up and they came out. Shane scratched his head with the tip of his gun.
“Think there are any more?” he asked Gen.
He swung his gun around as Suichi jumped down from the higher deck and he sighed.
“I got eight on the higher levels. Rukia took out fifteen below deck. So with the four here there are only three more.” He told them and they sighed.
The captain got the go ahead and the deck hands and workers started to get thinks cleaned up. Suichi, Gen and Shane returned to the dining room to meet the others.
“Where’s Kyo and Yataro?” asked Suichi looking around.
”They took them below deck. One of them was trying to get at Yataro and they beat up Kyo and took him too.” Said Kaito.
“Shit, we gotta find them.” Said Suichi.
“We’re…we’re…here.” Said Yataro coming up with Kyo on his back.
He didn’t look like a cat any more so he was kind of struggling. Suichi ran over and he took Kyo.
“Jeez.” Muttered Suichi moving the tarp and then putting it back.
Yataro sighed, “Not even the worst of it. He was raped too.”
“How did you escape?” Suichi asked.
“Uh…well…Rukia came.” He lied with a small nod, “Then she left me with eight very burned guys who all bled to death while I was watching them.”
The captain ran down.
“They captured Rukia!” he reported.
“What!? There were only two of them!” yelled Suichi.
He sighed, “They heard below deck and they got her when she was getting in the room.”
Suichi ran up to the helm with his mother.
“She’s in records.” Said the deck hand.
He looked at the monitor. They had Rukia tied to a chair and one of the guys was standing next to her with a gun against her head while the other one was questioning her. Suichi clenched his fist and gritted his teeth when he saw the man back hand her.
“We need to get her back…but how?” muttered Suichi.
Kumiko rubbed her chin and she grinned, “I have a plan.”

* * *

Suichi was standing at the door of the records room. He had a duffle bag slung over his shoulder and a gun in his waist band. He took a deep breath and he opened the door. He was immediately seize and yanked into the room and slammed against the wall with a gun to his head. Rukia looked up and Suichi slowly raised his hands.
“A little rescue mission planned buddy?” he asked and he searched him and found his gun and slipped it into his pocket, “What’s in the bag?”
“…Artillery.” He replied.
The man next to Rukia pointed the gun at him as his partner took the bag and set it on the floor. He unzipped it and screamed as Darius jumped out of the bag in wolf form and clamped his jaws down on his windpipe. The man pointed his gun and opened fire. Suichi drew another one from his coat and shot the man twice in the head. Darius let go of the man as he fell limp and licked his bloody jowls. Suichi went over to Rukia and untied her.
“Are you ok?” he asked.
She nodded, “I’ll be fine. That was a sweet plan guys.”
“Thank the devious mind of my mother. Come on.”
They left the room and Rukia limped after him.
“You sure you’re ok?” he asked her catching her arm as she tripped.
“That bastard shot me in the foot questioning me.” She told him.
He sighed, “Ok come on.”
He picked her up and they went upstairs.
“Whores one, mob nothing.” Chuckled Kumiko as they reached the deck.

* * *

They were all in the infirmary on the ship even though only a few of them were injured. They winced when they heard Kyo scream again on the other side of a curtain.
“Poor Kyo.” Sighed Rukia who was having her arm and foot stitched.
Yataro whined with anxiety listening to Kyo as he had his head stitched. Kumiko already had her arm in a sling all fixed up.
“The deck hands brought those two bastards up. Said it looked lie both of their throats were ripped out and one of them was covered with what looked like bloody fingernail scratches.” Said Kumiko looked at Yataro.
“Throats ripped out?” said Suichi incredulously and he looked at Darius.
“Don’t look at me, I was above deck.” He replied.
They all looked at Yataro and Kumiko giggled.
“Now I know why you and Darius get along so well. You’re a shape shifter aren’t you, you little bastard?” she asked.
“No! …not…really…” he finished quietly.
”Then what are you and how the hell did you manage to rip two guys throats out!?” asked Kaito incredulously.
“I’m not sure what I am…I just call myself a werecat.” He replied quietly again twiddling his fingers.
“A werecat?” they all said at once.
He scratched his head and started playing with his hair, “Yeah, see when I was thirteen I got bitten by this black cat in this shelter I was staying at. It got a little infected, but I didn’t think it was anything to worry about and then…in the middle of the month I started feeling sick so I went to bed early. But then suddenly I was in the most pain I had ever been in, in my life. It was like my bones were on fire and then I fell on the ground. My skin crawled and my bones broke and when it all stopped I was so tired…I went over to the window…and I was a black cat.” He explained.
Kumiko nodded, “You are a werecat. It was the new moon huh?”
“Yeah it happens every new moon.” He told her with a nod.
“First vampires and now werecats.” Said Kaito with a frown.
Kumiko nodded, “Yeah there are basically three races of beings. There are seers, there are human and then there are the creatures that result form the unions of seers and humans. Like vampires, werewolves, werecats and so many other things you never thought were imaginary.”
Kaito shook his head, “This is all…so incredibly unbelievable. We’re on the run from the mob with a bunch of seers and half animal people…”
He sighed and rubbed his face. They looked up as a nurse pulled back the curtains and Kyo was starring at the ceiling with a very pronounced scowl. Yataro walked over to him.
“Are you ok Kyo-kun?” he asked timidly.
Kyo raised his finger with out looking at him.
“I’m not talking to you. You lied to me.” He told him sternly.
“B…But Kyo…” he started.
“No buts! …Not talking to you.” He shot back cutting him off.
Yataro sighed and lowered his head and went sit back down looking sad and dejected. Darius sniffed Yataro.
“…I’m friends with a cat.” He muttered.
“…is that a bad thing?” asked Yataro looking down.
He kind of shrugged, “Most wolf shape shifters won’t hang out with cats because of the smell, but it doesn’t bother me.”
“So how did you rip them apart like that? You look human…oo do you have some kind of…sub form?” asked Shane excitedly.
He kind of giggled and nodded, “I can’t show you right now. I have a hard time changing back when I do it. I usually change back when I get tired.”
He glanced at Kyo and got all sad again. The captain came in.
“Well ladies and gentlemen the coast guard as been alerted and they will be picking up what is left of the pirates. And the passengers have all agreed and moved their things…Suichi, Raharu, Kumiko, Yataro, Gensai and Shane will all be given the Emperor Suites on the third level right next to the spa.
“Oh sweet.” chuckled Rukia.
“There are of course only four of them, but trust me they will be big enough for your liking.” He replied, “We’ve also taken it upon ourselves to pay for any and I mean any expenses you rack up while you’re staying on the cruise. So knock yourselves out and you have our eternal gratitude. Enjoy the rest of your stay.”
He lifted and Rukia nodded.
“It was so worth it. Four suites…who’s rooming with who?” she asked.
Kumiko snorted, “Fuck all of you, my room is my room.”
They all said, “Fine with us.” And she flipped them off.
Shane grinned, “I’ll room with Gen-chan.”
Gen groaned and Rukia chuckled and patted Suichi’s shoulder, “Looks like it’s me and you big guy. No doubt Yataro will move Kyo into his room to make up with him.” she told him and he shrugged.
“Wonderful, I always wanted to have a stay in paradise with a she-devil.” He replied and looked at her with a cheeky smiled.
She snorted and pushed his face back.

It was all ok however when they moved their things to the suite. Rukia gasped and Suichi laughed in awe when they opened the door. Half of the room was about the size of half a house and in it was a full kitchen, a small dining room, a living room with a huge screen TV with a big courtesy bar full of snacks, candies and a large liquor cabinet. There was also a fully stocked refrigerator. They moved to the next section of the room that was separated from the other side by a big old fashioned Japanese papyrus wall and sliding door decorated with lotus flowers, cherry blossoms and coy fish.
The other side actually had a coy pond with a small water fall in the corner. Two kind sized water beds that were sunken into the ground with red silk canopies over them. And then on a deck elevated on the ground there was another screened off part of the room. They looked at each other and ran up the steps to it and opened it. Rukia kind of moaned and Suichi snickered as they saw a huge hot tub that was already full and rolling and right next to it was a bar and a small refrigerator. There was door to the left of it and Rukia opened it and stood back.
Suichi looked in and found the bathroom. A big tub, a walk-in shower that could have fit ten people in it, a bidet, a toilet of course and twin sinks.
“Oh catch me Suichi…I’m about to swoon cuz this room is gorgeous.” She said dreamily.
He nodded, “I had no idea life could get this good. First I wanna hit the fridge, then the bar and then…the hot tub.”
“Ditto.”
They went to the kitchen and Rukia took out some prepared food and she heated it up and set it on the table.
She cleared her throat, “On ze menu zis evening we have a delicious lobster in a rich butter sauce, a fully plate of gourmet sushi, a peni in a succulent marinara sauce and for desert we have a platter of assorted crêpes and sumptuous pastries. Bon appetite.”
He chuckled, “We’re goin continental huh?”
“We’re going towards a death of clogged arteries. Dig in big guy.” She replied.
She served a plate and he got up and went to the bar and came back with a bottle of wine.
“We have a gourmet dinner we might as well have a wonderful vintage Pinot Grigio.” He told her and she nodded in agreement.
He opened the bottle and got two glasses and poured them each one. He lifted his glass.
“Here’s to living the good life babe.” He toasted and she chuckled.
”Cheers.” She added and they tapped their glasses and finished their dinner.
After dinner Rukia put everything away and corked the wine.
“Let’s switch to champagne.” She said and he nodded.
Suichi went to his bag and grabbed a pair of shorts and went up to the hot tub room. He changed in the bathroom and went over to it and he tested the water. He turned up the heat and the bubbles and he slowly slipped in with a sigh. Rukia walked in with her hair pulled up in a pair of chopsticks and wrapped in a plush bathrobe she found.
She looked over the bar with a small hum, “Let’s see…oo this is a nice one.”
She opened a bottle of champagne and she filled two glasses. She handed Suichi one and he nodded and took a sip. He choked when she took off the bathrobe and she was naked. He coughed as she grabbed her champagne and turned towards the hot tub.
“…Why aren’t you wearing any clothes!?” he asked incredulously.
She sighed as she settled down. The water coming just over her breasts.
“Because I don’t have a bathing suit and I only have one bra and I don’t want to get it wet.” She replied, “Besides you’ve probably seen plenty of naked women, what’s one more gonna hurt.”
He shook his head and he sighed and leaned back and sipped his champagne. She settled back and closed her eyes with her head back and a small smile on her face. He glanced over at her, she looked asleep. She was starting to gather perspiration and sweat from the heat and the water. He took another swig of champagne and tried to look at something else, but when he glanced back he saw a bead of sweat slid down her neck. His eyes slowly traveled down to her chest, her breasts half hidden by the rolling water. It had been a little over a month since had had sex willing or not and he never thought it would ever get to him. He thought he was set for life when it came to sex…he was so wrong. The dry spell just made him way hornier than he had ever been before, even as a teenager.
She stirred a little and wet her lips and he starred at her mouth. He remembered the blow job she gave him in the car. It was the first time he had ever been pleasured by a woman for the sheer purpose of causing him pleasure. It was also the first time he had gotten one with out it having dire consequences for him.
He kind of groaned to himself and reached under the water and rearranged himself. He was so hard right now it was starting to hurt. That’s when the jets turned off and the water started to settle. He slowly looked down as he could see her body through the water. He swallowed hard feeling his heart beating in his throat. He wiped off his face and finished his champagne. Rukia yawned and rolled her head over and opened her eyes. His eyes snapped up and she giggled.
“Checking me out big guy?” she asked him.
“…No.” he said in a strange way that even surprised him. It was like he didn’t have enough air in his lungs to get his words out.
She laughed and sipped her champagne.
“You liar. I’m naked, I’m young and my scars don’t cover my curves and…how long have you been with out sex?” she asked him raising an eye brow.
“You suck!” he told her and got out.
She laughed.
“Come on Suichi you’re in wet shorts I’m looking at your ass.” She told him and he turned and her eyes widened, “Whoa…”
He looked down and you could see his hard cock imprinted by the wet fabric. He grabbed a towel and hid himself.
“Oh come on Suichi just get back in the hot tub and turn the jets back on. No need to ruin our vacation because I don’t have a bathing suit and you’re horny.” She told him turning around as he went to the door.
“Leave me alone.” He said and grabbed the handle.
“I’ll follow you Suichi. And by the way…” she told him as he turned the handle and it was jammed, “I locked the door.”
He took a deep breath and turned his head and then turned around.
“Give me the key, Rukia.” He told her and she held up the keys.
He went over and she grabbed his arm when he reached down and flipped him back into the water. He came up coughing and she giggled. He went over to the side and she grabbed him and pulled him back down.
“Would you stop it!?” he shouted in her face, “God you’re worse than those bitches who keep buying me off! Is all you want from me sex!? Can you not just settle with the fact that I don’t fuckin’ want you!? Leave, me alone!”
He grabbed the keys and he got out and went down to the bedroom. He dried off and changed into some dry clothes. He went to the living room part and he sat down with a sigh in front of the TV. It didn’t take him long for him to feel extremely guilty. He tried to stiffen his resolve by saying to himself; she deserved it for having no self control. He ran his fingers through his hair and he groaned and he got up and went to the bedroom. She wasn’t there so he went to the hot tub and she wasn’t there. He saw the bathroom door ajar and he went over. He listened and he heard her sniffle and sob. He grimaced and groaned to himself, but listened again.
“…Stupid…” he heard her plop on the ground, “He’s right, you’re just a whore no one wants…and who would? …Well dad…you were right…no man wants me after what you did to me…he doesn’t even like me.”
She sniffed and sobbed again.
“I’m practically nineteen and the first man I…” she sighed and he strained to listen this time as she whispered to herself, “How could I fall in love…with a man like him?”
He stepped back as his heart leapt into his throat…in love? With…him? He blinked to himself and slowly walked away from the door. He went back down to the bedroom and made to sit on the bed, but he yelled when he sunk down into the water bed and fell back. He cursed as he struggled to get off of it and he sighed and stood. He rubbed his head and looked around. He looked at the door and he sighed.
Next thing he was across the hall at his mother’s door and he knocked. He waited and his mother came to the door in an open kimono with her under wear under it.
“Damn I thought you were that waiter.” She sighed.
“Waiter? Mom he’s probably younger than Rukia.” He said incredulously and she snorted and walked away from the door.
“Age is just a number Suichi.” She told him as he followed her in, “When you get to be my age, in our situation you’ll take it where ever you can get it.”
“Oh is that so, I guess that’s why you were such a whore when I was a kid too.” He asked her and she laughed.
She sat down in her kitchen and lit a cigarette and offered him a seat which he took.
“Suichi your father died a very happy man. Because we did it to the day he died. In fact he was even in the hospital the last time we did it and he requested a private room. The fact of the matter is seers almost need sex to survive…nearly all of us are aware of it because even a few weeks with out it can turns us into raving animals.” She told him with a small grin, “But after your father died I still waited… six months before I saw another man because it hurt so bad. But I was so starved not just for lust, but for love and affection from a man any man I didn’t really care…the fact of the matter is people like us who have been hurt so badly…well we look for love where ever we can get it. Even if it’s clear the other person only wants sex.”
He was looking at her strangely, it was almost like…
“Did you see this coming or something?” he asked her shaking his head and leaning in.
She chuckled and nodded, “I knew it would come eventually. From the moment I saw Rukia and you together I could see it…like a spark between you two. Your relationship is very, very love hate. But lately all of that hate you thought you felt towards her…well it’s all just a bunch of feeble attempts to get a rise out of her. You like the challenge she gives you…which is why you went ahead and reluctantly accepted her as a friend. Also amongst that pain you got from your bleeding heart.”
He kneaded his forehead, “Ok even if what you say is true, Rukia doesn’t want to just be my friend.”
Kumiko nodded, “I know…she want to be your lover.”
“I don’t understand how she can say she loves me. I mean she’s eighteen does she even know what love is?” he asked.
Kumiko laughed throwing him off a little, “Suichi do you even know what love is? You said you love Toya and your probably do, but do you love him enough to spend the rest of your life with him? I mean you spent how many years living with the man and neither of you ever expressed even the mildest interest in each other as lovers. Even he told you to move on and then there is Darius. The fact of the matter is Suichi you don’t know what love is because the last person that really loved you was me…and as hot as I am I doubt I’m your ideal lover.”
He gave her a shrewd look, “I’m thirty one and I’ve been a whore since I was eighteen. Ok it’s not that surprising I never had a girl friend. But Rukia…”
“Rukia is eighteen Suichi…an eighteen year old girl who has lived in a hell with her father for her entire childhood. I don’t think you know just what that man did to her. He wanted to so she could have absolutely no where else to turn when he started using her. He called her worthless, ugly, that she’d never ever be able to find a man that could treat her better than him. And he gave her the emotional and physical scars to make it sink in. But when she met you…a stranger who just happened to fall upon her…and take care of her with no real reason behind his motives other than the fact that he didn’t want to see her suffer…” she told him intently, “You proved her father wrong…believe it or not, but you opened up a whole knew world for that girl and she is bending over backwards to try and please you. She knows your life, you were an abused whore so in return for your kindness she freed you, she took care of you and now she’s just giving you an opportunity you never had when you were in that whore house. She’s giving you a chance to actually feel loved by some one else. She just wants it as much as you don’t know you want it.”
He looked at her for a second kind of thrown for a loop. Is that really what Rukia wanted…?
“…Why the hell are women so complicated?” he muttered with a sigh.
She chuckled, “Regular women aren’t, abused women are. Look I’ve watched Rukia since she was a little girl because her mother was like a best friend to me. Both her and her mother were completely terrorized by Gensai. Rukia never really had a father and she needs a male figure in her life, bit she’s eighteen she doesn’t need a father any more. Do you get it my extremely dense son?”
He sighed and nodded, “Yeah, I get it ma.”
“Good…now what idiotic thing did you say to her? Her sadness is almost palpable from here.” She asked him cocking up her brow.
He groaned and reluctantly told her what he told her knowing what was coming. And sure enough she gave him a hard smack on the head.
She sighed and sat back taking a drag off of her cigarette, “You are such an asshole Suichi. I don’t know where you get it from.”
“Maybe I get it from my mother!” he yelled at her rubbing his head.
She pointed to the door, “March your ass back in there and apologize! You may be thirty one, but I’m an ex-whore and I will spank you!”
He glared at her and shook his head as he got up and went to their room. He slowly opened the door and saw the lights out. He saw the lump that was Rukia completely buried under her covers. He sighed and walked over to her bed. He opened his mouth to speak, but then he closed it. He clenched his fist and knocked himself once on the head before he got it out.
“Rukia…” he started and sat on the edge of the bed.
Not having learned his lesson from before he yelled as he dropped into the bed. Rukia screamed as the other side rose and she kind of launched out of the bed and hit the ground.
“Shit are you ok!?” he asked her pushing himself up.
She sat up and untangled herself from the sheet, but kept her back to him and she wiped her face.
“I’m fine.” She muttered.
He struggled to sit up, but eventually did.
“Look Rukia I’m sorry about what I said.” He told her.
“Why? …You were right.” She muttered back.
He sighed, “No I wasn’t. I was wrong; ok…I was very wrong.”
She glanced back at him.
“…I was so wrong…you might say I…” was he really going to say this? He thought about it for a second and then he realized it was true, “…I lied.” He almost said in disbelief of himself.
Rukia slowly turned around and he saw her face red from crying.
“You…lied?” she asked.
He looked at her and he slowly nodded, “Yeah…I did.”
“…Why?” she asked silently.
He shook his head, “I don’t know…I used to think it was because of our ages. I may not be old enough to be your father, but more like an extreme big brother.”
She tried not to smile.
“But…that is one of the things…I’m thirty one Rukia…and you have to know this freaks me out…I’ve never been…I’ve never…” he tried to get it out.
“…You’ve never loved or been loved by some one have you?” she asked him getting up and sitting on the bed with a grace Suichi could never master.
He shook his head, “No I haven’t…I’m thirty one…and I’ve never been loved by a woman or a man other than my parents. Toya told me that he loved me and I swear to God I almost drowned diving into that one.”
She was still trying not to smile, “Toya’s got a thing with Darius.”
He nodded, “So I heard.”
“Back to the you lying part.” She urged him and he chuckled.
“Ok fine you want to cold hard truth…I’m a virgin where it counts. Consensual sex with out a sum of money has never happened to me. I’m used to dealing with needy women, but it usually comes with a price.” He told her.
She shook her head and sighed, “Maybe I should have made my intentions clearer then. The truth is half the time I hit on you I’m not even horny.”
He frowned and looked at her, “…Then what the hell are you doing to me woman!? I feel like a pinball here! You’re totally throwing me off! The only reason I was so pissed was because while I was trying to keep myself under control my mind was wandering to how the hell we could have sex on this bed with out getting sea sick!”
She kind of snorted, “Don’t…don’t make me laugh.”
“Oh you don’t want me to make you laugh, is that is? Wavy sex isn’t funny enough is it? Do I have to launch you off the bed again? Yeah I lied of course I wanted you, you got into the fuckin’ hot tub naked. You stuck me in a giant bath tub with a naked eighteen year old body! I haven’t had sex in a little over a month you’re lucky I didn’t have a fit and drown!” he told her leaning over the bed, “I’m old you can’t do that shit to an old man!”
She finally busted out laughing and he chuckled. She shook her head and sighed biting her lip.
“Now what were the intentions you weren’t making clear?’ he asked her and she stood and walked over to the coy pond.
“…I’m young Suichi, but I know how to please a man. And that is what I want to do. I want to give you what no other woman or man has even tried to give you.” She told him and she turned around and walked over to him swinging her hips, “Like I did in the truck I want just to give your pleasure with out taking anything from you. I want to give you the affections, the love you never had.”
She walked over to him starring intently at him and she leaned over and looked him in the eyes. He swallowed and didn’t move away from her this time.
“I have a bad mouth and a string right hook in to other people and I’m the badass in public, but when we’re alone… I want to show you…what I can really be as a woman.” She told him silently.
He took a deep breath, “And what would that be?”
He kind of started when she straddled his lap and she hooked her arms around his neck.
She muttered to him with a small coy grin, “That I can be just as passionate in bed as I can protecting people. That I can satisfy in a way that no woman ever could even try to.” She leaned in and whispered in his ear, “I will worship your body like a slave worships his master. There were none before me and there will be none after. You have no idea, just how much pleasure I can bring you mind, body and soul. I’m going to make it so that every other man or woman in your entire life will seem like a trivial waste of your time. By the end of the night when we first make love I will bring you to an endless well of mind shattering orgasms that will leave you a mere puddle, melted from the hot, tantric, passion brought on from our love making. I will leave your body completely drained from the ecstasy, but your heart will yearn for me…bleed for me…and when it it’s all over…I’ll still be here…lying next to you.”
His heart was thundering in his chest and his breath was quick. He felt so hot and light headed…not to mention horny as fuck. He swallowed as she sat back on his lap and looked him in the eyes. God her eyes were so gorgeous…her eyes…
He was suddenly sucked into the darkness in and instant, but he didn’t see a memory. Instead he saw something that hadn’t even happened…yet. Him passionately kissing the woman seat on his lap at that very moment. Her under him writhing in ecstasy on a bed of silk, their hot, bare flesh pressing together. He could hear her harsh breath and her gasps of pleasure as his tongue wander freely along her neck and her breasts. He head rolled back as she gasped again.
“I love you…Suichi.”

Suichi was kind of sucked out of it and Rukia blinked hard and sighed.
“What did you see?” she asked him a little forlornly.
He looked at her and he breathed harshly and he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her passionately. Her eyes widened with surprise, but she embraced it and she slipped her hand behind his head lacing her fingers into his hair parting her lips so he could slip his tongue in. They both reveled in the feeling of their bodies pressed against each other. Rukia never thought she could ever feel so complete just by being embraced by a man. The feeling was so sublime and strong, something she had never felt…total security.
Suichi almost felt the same. He didn’t know how such a small woman could make him feel so uplifted and cherished with just an embrace and a kiss. But he slowly parted from her and she was breathing hard this time.
“…Even though…I’m still completely…strung from that endearing speech. I don’t think tonight will be the night.” He told her.
She snorted, “Why does that not surprise me? …What’s your excuse this time?”
“…Well now my dear…if we’re going to be in a relationship, I don’t want it just to be based on the fact that I have a reputation as the best lover in all of Tokyo.” He replied with a small grin.
She chuckled, “I see…so this means you want me as your lover now?”
“…Yes I do. But please…let’s take it…what’s that word…slow, yeah slow.” He told her and she giggled, “Besides I’m just a poor virgin at your beck and call.”
She shook her head and sighed.
“Ok…I wouldn’t want to take advantage of you now…but does that mean we can’t share a bed tonight?” she asked him.
“I fear I may be stuck in this bed forever so yeah.” He replied.
She stood and pulled him out and he sighed and nodded.
“I’ll be in the bathroom.” He told her and she shook her head with a small smile as she watched him walk kind of crooked to the bathroom.
“Can I at least watch?”
“Of you can see through walls!” was his reply from the deck and she laughed and just got back into bed.

To be continued…

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