See Into the Eyes of a Medium

“See Into the Eyes of a Medium”
By: Mandi Villejoin


2007
Tokyo, Japan


It was the end of November and Suichi Yukimura was standing out in the middle of a back street in down town Tokyo. Right now he was ankle deep in snow, freezing his ass off in a pair of tight black leather pants and a leather jacket that went over a black turtle neck. He was used to standing in the snow like this, as he had done it for the past thirteen years. He lit up a cigarette hoping the nicotine would at least help him take his mind off of the bitter cold and his wet boots. He hated to do what he was forced to do for a living and it was one of those rare moments that he wished some one would come along and give him some work. Right now even doing his job seemed better than the cold since his client would probably take him into a room that was at least warm. In case you haven’t noticed by now what Suichi Yukimura did for a living, let me make it simpler. Suichi was in the service industry, AKA a prostitute.

Suichi Yukimura
Age: 31
Height: 6ft. 2in.
Build; Broad, muscular Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Ethnicity: Japanese
Sexual Standing: Bisexual {kind of}

Suichi was tall, broad, with a stern, but a heart throb romance novel face. He tried not to look intimidating on the job, but still carried himself in a dominant manner. Suichi finished two cigarettes before he got fed up and pulled his feet from the snow and started walking. He still needed 100,000 yen to fill in this day’s quota, but dying of hypothermia wasn’t worth the hassle. He would just take his punishment and work the night shift at the brothel which was the worst since you worked from sun down to sun up and the freaks came out in those hours.
Suichi walked deep into the boonies of down town Tokyo to a big apartment building that was incredibly beat up on the outside. He slipped into the dingy, but warm lounge with a deep sigh of relief from the cold. The manger nodded to him as he got into the elevator and took it to the top floor. When the doors slid open he was brought to a long hall way that unlike the other floors only had one door on it. He dug his key from his pocket and opened the door into a big, one floor condo. No one would ever suspect this kind of place was hidden in the boonies.
He tossed his jacket over a chair and took off his boots at the small drop off in front of the door. He walked in, in his wet socks into the now empty condo. Normally he roomed with four other men, but right now they were out doing what he was supposed to be doing. All five men were very different from one another, but they all had one thing in common. They all owed a lot of money to the Japanese syndicate due to their horrible families and they all worked at the same brothel.
Suichi had been there the longest from the time he was eighteen to now at thirty one. When he was forced into their services it was his mother’s intense love for gambling that got him into trouble. She placed nearly every thing they had on some stock and when she got nothing back she took out a big loan from the syndicate promising them back a little interest with what she gained back…she didn’t gain anything back. Her stock dropped and she went bankrupt. She couldn’t pay back the loan and after months of threats they finally beat her up and then took her son to be placed in their brothel for men to pay off her debt…he had been here for thirteen years and she was still 2,700,000 yen in debt. He figured he’d be working like this until he was too old to attract a customer.
He grabbed a beer from the fridge and fell back on the couch turning on the TV. He chuckled when he heard the front door close. Apparently one of them couldn’t take the cold either.
“Hey who’s here?” said the familiar smooth, sassy voice of his eldest roommate Kyoshiro.
“It’s me.” He replied taking a swig of beer.
Kyoshiro walked into the living room and Suichi looked up. Even though Suichi tolerated them, he wasn’t much into guys. But even he had to admit Kyoshiro was one of the prettiest men he had ever met.

Kyoshiro Kurata
Age: 28
Height: 6ft.
Build: Slim, slightly lanky, but smooth
Hair color: Blond
Eye color: Blue
Ethnicity: Japanese
Sexual standing: Homosexual {most definitely}

Kyo was an all around brazen man; he kind of gave the air of a pampered cat, always smooth and coy. His blond hair hung in layers around his long, soft face and his bangs hung just over his piercing, sexy blue eyes. Kyo folded his arms and shook his head looking at him.
“This is the second time this week. The boss is gonna be mad at you.”
Suichi snorted, “Like I give a shit. I’d rather work the night shift than freeze my ass off out there.”
“You’re insane I’d rather freeze to death than take the night shift again.”
Kyo shuddered and he pulled off his coat and hung it up on the coat rack.
“And yet you are here with me!” said Suichi spreading his arms.
Kyo gave him a cheeky smiled, “For your information I already met my quota. The last guy was rich and a big tipper. How much did you make today?”
“…”
He coughed trying to mask the number.
“You only made half!? You must wanna work here forever.”
Suichi rolled his eyes, “I’ll be working here forever regardless Kyo. I don’t need you to nag me in the mean time so either shut your mouth or shove a cock in it.”
“Touchy, excuse the hell out of me.”
He went down the hall to his room and Suichi sighed and finished off his beer. He thought about it every day, spending the rest of his life having sex for money. He didn’t need any one else telling him the same.
* * *


That afternoon after several TV shows and several beers another one of his roommates came home. He just kind of trudged into the living room and fell on the couch looking pissed off. He grabbed the afghan off of the couch and wrapped it around himself.
“What’s the matter with you?” Suichi asked Shane and looked him over, “Did you walk here in your underwear!?”
“Yes, some jack ass tied me to a bed and then he robbed me and took my clothes!”
“Oh man, he took every thing?” asked Suichi with a wince.
He sighed, “Yes and I had almost completely filled my quota.”

Shane Goretti
Age: 27
Height: 5ft. 8in.
Build: Average, slightly muscular
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Hazel
Ethnicity: Italian/American
Sexual Standing: Homosexual

Shane was kind of average, originally from America as he had told the others. He had spiked up brown hair with a few fading highlights. His right ear was pierced, but he had a rather handsome face and very pretty eyes.
“Go take a hot bath before you get pneumonia.”
“What am I gonna do, I have absolutely no money!? The boss is gonna kill me!” said Shane desperately.
“Don’t worry about it ok? I’ll figure something out. Maybe one of the guys made some extra cash today. Just go defrost.”
“Thanks.”
Shane went down the hall and Suichi stood up and rubbed his face.
“These people are hopeless.”
He got up and went into the kitchen and went to grab another beer, but found they were out. He sighed and closed the door. With out him none of his roommates would have made it very far. He was a big intimidating guy and he was constantly taking care of them.
“I’m home!”
Except for one person that is. Toya who was his youngest room mate slipped into the kitchen and he immediately put on a pot of coffee. What really confused Suichi was that Toya relied on him the least and just Toya was the youngest and had come into the brothel when he was only sixteen. But Toya was a real gem amongst any of the men there. In fact many doubted he was even human because he was beautiful like no man should ever be.

Toya Saitama
Age: 21
Height: 5ft. 1in.
Build: Petite, voluptuous, much like a shapely woman
Hair color: White
Eye color: Blue-gray
Ethnicity: ???
Sexual Standing: Homosexual {and has never doubted it}

Toy was a rather short and slender person, but he had curves no other man could obtain that seemed to attracted many customers. Her had shoulder length, layered white hair he claimed was not dyed that way. His face always had a rather innocent expression on it, but he was always cool and calm and spoke very eloquently.
“How was the catch?” asked Suichi.
Toya chuckled and looked up at him with those gorgeous eyes, “Good like every day. Did you really doubt it?” he said jumping up on the counter.
“Not really, tell me you made some extra cash.” Said Suichi turned to him.
“No I’m afraid I didn’t why? Not make your quota?”
Suichi sighed and ran his fingers through his short hair, “No I didn’t, but that’s not the problem. Shane got mugged.”
“Oh man, how’s he going to get out of this one? Shane doesn’t exactly have a clean slate?” said Toya a little worried.
“Don’t worry I’ll figure something out.”
The door slammed and his last roommate walked in with his shoulders hunch and his arms hugged around him for warmth.
“Is there coffee?” Kaito asked.
Toya chuckled, “A whole pot.”
“Good, pour it on me.”
They both chuckled. Kaito was kind of the funny one, even though when he first showed up at this place every one pitied him the most. He was 19, beaten very badly and his father dragged him in screaming and crying by a rope. Kaito wasn’t stupid or retarded, but he wasn’t right in the head sometimes, he would kind of wander into his own world.

Kaito Kormatsu
Age: 24
Height: 5ft. 9in.
Build: Average, kind of lanky, little muscle mass
Hair color: Auburn
Eye color: Green
Ethnicity: Japanese
Sexual Standing: Bisexual

Kaito was a pretty good looking guy to, even Suichi had to admit. He had long kind of wine red, auburn hair that was always a little wavy and he often times kept in either a loose pony tail or a braid. His green eyes matched it perfectly making him seem like a very vibrant person and he wasn’t. He was a little bit of a solitary person, but the others liked him just as well.
“Meet your quota?”
“F…first t…time…in a…month.” He said through chattering teeth as he poured himself a cup of coffee.
Though he was glad Kaito finally made his quota which he rarely did, this meant bad new for Shane. Shane just so happened to walk in.
“Sorry Shane…no one got any extra cash.” Toya broke to him.
“…Aw what!? The boss is gonna ream me, you remember what happened the last time I was mugged!” he said fearfully.
They all grimaced. They remembered all too well. Shane came back practically crawling on the floor after two days beaten up, so sore he couldn’t walk straight and an emotional and mental scar that still had yet to heal itself.
“Man, this sucks! I can’t do that again, I can’t go through that again with out killing myself!” he shouted hysterically grabbing his head.
“Hey calm down, it’s not gonna happen again. I promise.” Suichi reassured him patting him on the shoulder.
“How can you promise that!?”
“I’ve made much more impractical promises and followed through on them ok? Just relax, don’t break down before anything even happens to you.” Suichi rolled his eyes and went down the hall to his room.
He groaned and he grabbed his cash from the day and he lifted his mattress and grabbed a safe deposit box and he put in the combination and took out another 100,000. This would cover Shane for the month. He had no idea how and why the hell Shane would carry around his entire quota for the month. He didn’t have that much in the safe box and he only used it for emergencies so he left the rest with a sigh. He went back to the kitchen and looked at the forlorn Shane and held out the stack of money. Shane blinked at him and lifted his head.
“Where did you get this money?” he asked with a small frown.
“I’ve been saving it up incase I had to save one of your asses again.” Replied Suichi.
Shane took the money, “Thank you so much Suichi. You’re a great friend.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Shane walked off and Suichi grabbed a bottle of aspirin.
“Head ache?” asked Toya.
“Not yet, but I’m about to have one hell of one.” He sighed.

* * *

Suichi had been gone for two days so every one drew their own conclusion and it was the same one. It only made Shane feel twice as bad that the all knew where he had gotten the money to save his ass. They were all sitting in the living room, they all had their quota so they were taking the day off, except for Shane he had been out trying to help rebuild Suichi’s stock pile. They all looked up as they heard the door close, but it was just Shane coming back.
“He’s not back yet?” he asked and they all shook their heads solemnly.
He groaned and sat down running his fingers through his long auburn hair agitatedly. They all looked up when they heard the door snick shut again. Suichi kind of shuffled into the living room looking incredibly tired and miserable. They all just kind of starred at him and he cocked up one of his eyes brows.
“What?” he said gruffly.
Toya was the first to have the guts to pipe up, “You ok?”
“…Define ok for me Toya? I’ll live, but I’ll work the night shift on New Years before I ever do that again.”
They all grimaced as he limped down the hall and Shane groaned and rubbed his face.
“This is all my fault.”
“Yep.” Was every one’s reply and he glared at them all.
“Some one get their ass in here and help me!” they heard Suichi yell from his room.
They jumped and pushed Shane form his seat.
“Except Shane, I’ll probably kill him!”
They sighed and sent Toya who was the least afraid of him. He sighed and went down the hall. He found Suichi trying to take off his shirt. Toya sat him down and helped him slip it off. He hissed in pain and Toya bit his lips when he saw the bruises on his sides. But he blinked when he saw blood drip onto his bed. He walked around the side and clamped his hands over his mouth when he saw the mass of whip lashes on his back. Some of them bleeding as they had broken the skin.
“Oh my God, Suichi…” he muttered.
“Just…go get the first aid kit!”
He jumped and ran to the hall closet and took out the first aid kit. He came back and got a pail of warm water and a wash cloth and cleaned the bleeding wounds on his back.
“You know how I’m always socking you for touching my ass. Well here’s your chance.”
“Oh no, he didn’t…!” cried Toya with dismay.
Suichi snorted and he stood and took off his pants and sure enough he had the same lashes on his bottom and the backs of his thighs.
“I’ll kill him for scarring your beautiful arse! That man shall pay!” he shouted malevolently.
He shook his head and laid stomach first on the bed and rubbed his face.
“Do you know what it’s like when a man half your size bends you over a bed and whips you?” asked Suichi.
“No, but I have been whipped by a man twice my size and then bent over a bed.”
“That was a rhetorical question Toya.”
“…Oh.” Toya shrugged and kept on cleaning his wounds.
Suichi remained on the bed constantly raking his nails over the sheets trying not to make any noise from the pain. After his wounds were clean Toya did he best to wrap them up in bandages. He then cleaned up and left him Suichi sighed and tried to get up, but it was futile. He just moved on the bed and grabbed a pillow and laid his head down. He was so tired and in so much pain he just fell fitfully to sleep.

Suichi woke up later that evening to the chink of China. He yawned and opened his heavy eye lids. He could see through the dim light it was Shane carrying in a tray with food on it. Now that was something he would wake up for. He groaned and slowly sat up. Shane jumped a little startled and almost dropped the tray.
“Relax I’m not gonna do nothin’ to you.” Suichi said through a yawn, “Too sore for that.”
“I’m so sorry I got you into this Suichi, but…why did you give me what you made you could have filled your quota with that stash you had.” He asked quietly setting the tray down.
Suichi looked at the tray and grabbed a rice ball and stuffed half of it into his mouth. Shane snorted trying to keep a straight face.
“Don’t make me laugh Suichi, I’m serious answer me.” Shane demanded.
“’ou ‘ave a ‘ance oo ‘et ou’ uh ‘ere.” He mumbled through his mouth full of rice.
Shane snickered and folded his arms, “Would you please swallow that’s disgusting.”
Suichi swallowed and sighed, “I said because you have a chance to get out of this hell hole before you’re my age. It would be pointless to try and lessen your stay here if you leave here with more emotional scars than real ones.”
“Suichi…”
“Look, I might as well do what ever I friggen can to get you guys out of here, because I’m gonna be here until I die. I’m not getting any younger and by the time I hit forty they’ll probably stretch out my quota making it twice as hard to pay off my debt.” He said frankly before he stuffed the rest of the rice ball into his mouth and grabbed his drink.
“Don’t say that Suichi, you’ll get out of here like the rest of us. Look…”
He held out the money he had made the last two days.
“It’s only a quarter of the monthly quota, but I got it to try and pay you back.” He said a little upset.
Suichi pushed the money back at him.
“That’s one eighth of the monthly quota.” Said Suichi setting down his drink and grabbing another rich ball.
“…Huh? An eighth?” he said confused.
“Yeah the boss is tired of me screwing up so he doubled my monthly quota.”
Shane’s arms fell and his eyes widened, “…He double your quota?”
“Only temporarily. If I can’t make it at least once by spring he’s selling me out at a sex slave.” Replied Suichi casually, but Shane looked like he was ready to fall apart.
“H…How can you be so calm about this!? This is horrible; you’ll never be able to make 400,000 in a month!” shouted Shane almost hysterically.
Suichi sighed, “Probably not and if I can’t I won’t be living past spring.”
At that confession his door burst open and all of the guys came spilling in talking at once before they finished talking. Suichi blinked at them all bemused and scratched his head.
“You know…I wasn’t being serious. I wouldn’t kill my self.”
They all glared at him and in a second he had several pains in his head and they were all walking off muttering with their fists clenched. He growled and shouted after them.
“I’m wounded enough with out you drama queens giving me a head ache!”
He sighed and rubbed his head Shane folded his arms and looked at him, “Even if we do get out of here before you when we do, we’ll find a way to buy back your freedom. You’ve done too much for us to let them just keep you here.”
“Well…thanks Shane, but I just heard my mother started gambling again.” He sighed and got up with a grunt and went down the hall to the bathroom.
Shane stood there for a while before he went back to the living room and sat down.
Kaito shook his head, “Doubled his quota…”
“And how the hell is he supposed to work all beaten up like that?” said Toya quietly.
“I say we take him out and get him drunk.” Sounded in Kyo who was a chronic drinker.
They snorted, but decided that a night of senseless drinking would at the very least cheer him up and he agreed. So that night they went out to a bar for the first time to not pick up another guy. Drinks were on Shane the guiltiest guy there, but they ended up leaving around midnight before they were all wasted.
“…any of you think about running from Tokyo?” asked Shane.
Suichi lit up a cigarette, “No way man, I’d rather leave here old and decrepit than be sent back with specific body parts missing. I’ve seen too many guys come back into this brothel either castrated or in several boxes.”
Suichi yelled when he fell face first into the snow.
“You ok?” asked Kaito pulled him up.
“Yeah, what the hell did I trip over?” he asked looking down.
They were crossing the outside of an ally, but there was something jutting out of it covered in snow. He bent down and dusted the snow off. They yelled when they found it was a human leg. Suichi moved the trash cans near the entrance and discovered a girl lying in the snow. She was motionless and bloody. They looked at Suichi and urged him on silently and he sighed and bent down. He felt her neck and found she had a pulse, but it was slow.
“She’s alive. Come on we need to get her to a hospital.” He said picking her up and then wrapping her in his jacket. Kyo hailed a taxi and they squeezed in and headed to the hospital.

To be continued…

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