Hold Your Head Up High | By : DemonLascivious Category: +S to Z > Togainu No Chi Views: 2442 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Akira stared at the male in front of him, trying to figure out just how his enemy had found him so quickly and why. He wasn't given time to think it over however, barely catching the glimpse of the raven haired mans hand moving with katana in hand. His body was only allowed time enough for a small twitch before the hilt of the swordsman's weapon hit him square in the gut and hastened him into that threatening unconscious. As his vision failed him he found himself being lifted by the collar of his jacket and tossed over his attackers shoulder haphazardly like a child's rag doll. His last thought was that he was going to be chained and tortured before being slaughtered like cattle. Just like all those other men he'd watched the bastard murder right in front of his eyes.
"Wake up." Akira snapped to as the same voice he'd heard before he had been knocked unconscious rang through the room and jolted his already throbbing headache into overdrive. The first thing he did was open his eyes and attempt to roll away from the spot he'd been set in, fearing that the man would drive his sword straight through his heart or somewhere less vital just to toy with him. He discovered two things when he tried this, that he had been indeed chained, and that a bottle of water was the only thing to hit him square in the chest.
The light haired male drew his gaze around the room to drink everything in, seeing only the usual scenery of Toshima. The windows of their enclosure were busted, the wallpaper was peeling off of the walls, and there was barely any furniture left in the room. What little furniture there was consisted only of a dilapidated desk, a single chair sitting in front of it, and a bed with surprisingly clean sheets. The next thing he noted immediately after that was the fact that Shiki was sitting there on the bed, his own bottled water in hand and a blank look on his face. There was no smug satisfaction, no intrigue, not even a hint of malice in those bright red eyes. Akira would have preferred anything to this almost robotic stare.
"You...saved me?" Akira ground out through the raspy voice left to him after that incident in the alley. Shiki's response was simply to take a drink of his water and study his prisoner some more and it infuriated Akira to the point where he drew his chained wrists against their bindings only to find that his neck was the one that suffered a choking tug on the collar around his neck. Noting this, the man turned to survey his bindings to see that there was a short chain that connected his two wrists to the same link on his neck. Thus if he tried to reach out with his hands, his breathing would be constricted and if he tried to reach out with his teeth his arms would be pulled out of socket.
"Shit." He cursed softly, opting to sit back against the wall and enter into an unspoken staring game with his captor. Shiki seemed to find this amusing, a small twitch of his lips the only thing to break the expression on his face. After a minute of staring, the leather clad male rose from the beds edge and knelt in front of his new toy on one knee, resting his right hand across the other. He was close enough that if Akira wanted to lunge just once and risk trachea damage he could head butt his captor.
"What were you doing in that alley?" Akira nearly jumped at the sudden sound of the mans voice, having gotten used to the silence of the room. The question didn't even sound as if it were a question, there was no upward inflection to indicate it needed answering and so Akira remained silent. Perhaps it was out of stubbornness or out of sheer stupidity but the light haired male refused to satisfy this man so quickly. Shiki showed nothing but the same expression he'd held since their eyes met even as he flicked open the sheath of his sword with his left thumb, no doubt trying to intimidate his prey. Akira's gaze followed the movement then returned to the cold ruby orbs boring into him.
"What did it look like?" He snapped, his defiant gray orbs narrowing on the swordsman. The reward for his smart mouthing was a sharp and quick fist across his lower jaw, causing him to wince. Still the mans expression hadn't changed and it infuriated him all the more.
"Did you think you could take him on all by yourself?" Shiki asked, a small glimmer of curiosity brightening those otherwise dull rubies for only a moment. Akira noticed this and shifted his leg away from the man, intending to strike out at him should he be distracted enough not to notice the movement before it was too late.
"Yes, I thought I'd be able to bring him down." He murmured, easing his other leg outward in the same fashion as he wove together his story. Shiki seemed not to care about the movements of his body, nor his words, only to maintain the eye contact between them. Akira felt chills rising along his body at the intensity of that stare, wondering just what that monster was thinking. It didn't matter, as long as this worked.
With a sudden twist of his body he bowed his legs and aimed a crushing kick at the mans sleek abdomen only to find that while he had been preparing, so had Shiki. Without even getting close enough to brush leather, his legs had been lifted and pinned in the mans arms over his shoulders while that slim body he'd been aiming to bruise was now sandwiched between his thighs. Once more Akira felt that fear writhing in him. Shiki was just as fast as him, if not quicker now with Nicoles power rushing through his veins.
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