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Forever Caged	By : Savagehunger47 Category: +. to F > Ai no Kusabi Views: 44150 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Thank you for your review shadowowolf03. I'm doing a lot of scene jumps with the next chapters hehehe They'll be kind of, like, 'meanwhile back in the bat cave' kinda thing. Showing what everyone is doing at the same time.

Thanks everyone. Hope you like this chapter

Disclaimer: I don't own Ai No Kusabi nor do I make any money from this fanfic. However, I do own all the original peeps I've chosen to invade the AnK world.

Rating: NC-17

Pairings: Iason/Riki, Raoul/Katze, original characters and novel character pairings.

Parts: 73 of ?

~~**Forever Caged**~

“Run, Niko! Run!”

“I hate you, Fidget!”

“No time for words of love! Run, man! Run!”

Shouting in terror, Niko raced side by side with his crazy, fool headed, laughing, partner as they ran full speed to the fence leading away from the alarms blaring, and speakers blaring to capture them.

Because of Fidget, the only exit left to them was climbing over the ten foot tall metal, diamond braded gates after Fidget had mistakenly pissed the foreman of the factory off…and maybe it was because of him to, but as Niko’s legs burned from running as fast as he could, he didn’t think about his ‘playful’ actions which lead to the foreman’s pants catching on fire.

“They are getting closer! Move those legs, Niko!”

Behind him Niko heard the dogs barking, and snarling, get louder. “Holy shit!” Niko cried as Fidget and he crashed into the metal fence, and scramble up and over. At the top, Niko and Fidget lost their balance as the hounds slammed their large canine bodies against the metal links, and they leaped up, trying to sink their fangs into them.

Hitting the ground hard, Niko coughed, and waved the dust cloud his body made away from his face. Groaning he rolled onto his back. “You suck, Fidget…”

His old mongrel friend only laughed as he sprang up to his feet. “You started it, Ni, Ni. I told you to get the guy hot for you so I could sneak in. I didn’t expect you’d set the guy on fire.”

Sitting up, Niko glared at Fidget. “How was I to know his cheap clothing couldn’t withstand a flick of a match? You were the one who thought to fan the flames which only made them worse, and made him start screaming! Besides, that guy was way too touchy feely. I already have someone I need to defend myself from like that back at home,” Niko said, muttered the last part.

Fidget dusted the back of his coveralls he’d stolen for himself and Niko so they could blend in better in the factory. “Well, this place is a bust. We might as well check out the next plant on the list.”

Standing, Niko groaned as he stretched his aching back. “I wanna go to the J-Six company. I always wondered how they made…” Niko frowned at Fidget as the mongrel began barking back at the dogs. “What are you doing?”

“Showing these mutts who the top dog is,” Fidget said in between his growls and barking.

Niko rolled his eyes. “Did the time I dropped you on your head in Guardian—wait… where are they going?” Niko asked as the dogs suddenly turned and ran along the fence.

“Shit!” Fidget shouted. “There’s a hole in the fence!”

“Sweet Jupiter!” Niko cried. Yanking Fidget by the arm, they began high tailing it in the opposite direction. “Good going, stupid!”

“You’re the stupid one!”

“You are!”

“Am not!”

“Shut up, Fidget!”

Luckily the hover bike Fidget had procured was hidden behind the bushes not to far away from them. Fidget, being the faster he, made it to the bike first, and started the two wheeled ride. Hopping behind Fidget, Niko squealed in fright when one of the guard dogs sunk its sharp teeth into his pant leg, tearing a chunk out of his coveralls before Fidget could gain enough speed to knock the mutt off him.

His heart racing, Niko laughed and stuck his tongue out at the canines that now looked like small dots in the background.

“Having fun?!”

Grinning widely, Niko rested his chin on Fidget’s shoulder so the mongrel could hear him. “Yea!”

Even those Niko couldn’t hear him from the amount of wind rushing past them, Niko knew Fidget was giggling.

“Good! We still have a lot more time left before we gotta go back! How about we see how much more trouble we can get into!”

oOoOoOo

“Of everyone, why did Riki have to pair Niko up with your mongrel,” Gabriel grumbled, seated elegantly in front of Marcus’s desk.

Marcus held back his irritated sigh. The last person Marcus also had not wanted to see together was Keita and Gabriel—previously Raoul’s Furniture—pet. Marcus had always heard rumors of the so called ‘pranks’ the young Niko had played on other Elites. However, because there had never been any actual evidence to condemn the –at the time—young Furniture, nothing had ever been done.

And the Elite whom had made a great deal of those complaints made the boy his pet, which made the seriousness of those accusations questionable.

No, the reason Marcus did not want Keita and Niko together was because Marcus could see those two doing considerable damage to the city. There was this air about the young Niko, which Marcus could see was just like Keita’s. Niko may appear meek and subservient, but he had been train to be that way. One could never hide what they truly were. Sooner or later their true personalities would shine though their masks.

Marcus’s only hope was that Niko’s Furniture training, would help stop Keita from doing anything foolish. And the knowledge of what would happen should Keita and he were to cause trouble would come back to him and Gabriel, and the punishment that would follow.

“Niko is with him, Gabriel. I’m sure he will help in controlling Keita’s wild ideas,” Marcus commented as he shifted his blue prints of the water tunnels around on his desk.

Gabriel laughed. “You know nothing about my Niko if you think he will bring rational thought to your mongrel he’s partnered up with.” Gabriel leaned forward. “Your mongrel—from studying him for just the barest of moments—does not care in the least about stepping over social boundaries. He is wild, unpredictable, has no filter on his mouth, and does not care about the scandal he will create should he publicly demonstrate the reality of your relationship with him.”

Marcus said nothing, because everything Gabriel said was the truth, and one of the very reasons Marcus found the mongrel to be extremely attractive. Every word, every action Keita expressed shouted ‘freedom’, and Marcus admired that trait in Keita.

“Your mongrel is out spoken, and—again this just my opinion on the boy—a doer. My Niko is sneaky, and a planner. With those two things paired up together, do you not see as I do the chaos those two will bring?”

“Keita has been on his own since leaving Guardian at twelve years of age,” Marcus said, “and he has never done anything in which was big enough to cause a uproar that we, in Tanagura, would hear it.” Marcus smoothed the curling corners of his blue prints. “I highly doubt, even if Keita is with Niko, that together they could do anything which we would need to fix—“

“Sir Jayd!”

Marcus glared at his assistant who rudely burst into his office. “The reason for your interruption better be worth more than you life, Simmons, because that is what you will be paying with for bursting into my office while I am in a meeting with Sir Lazen.”

The small Midasian stood there, his face frozen with a laughable expression of fear, and as the time ticked by, Marcus began tapping his pen against his desk in annoyance. “Well, Simmons?”

“I believe your small threat has rendered the man speechless,” Gabriel said with great humor coloring his tones. “My I suggest using a gentler method of uncovering what urgent message your assistant came to tell you?”

Transferring the glare he’d pinned his secretary with to Gabriel, Marcus hissed, “Should I ever need your advice, I will asked for it.” Turning back to Simmons, Marcus demanded the trembling man to speak.

“… Um…ah…”

“Simmons!” Marcus barked.

“Y-yes!” Ah… the factory in sector two has gone over their allowed, quarterly, amount of water usage! They are requesting another six hundred thousand litters to extinguish a fire viciously started by trespassers.”

Marcus closed his eyes, and sighed. Opening them, he ignored Gabriel’s knowing. “Do they have a description of the men whom started the blaze?” Although Marcus already knew who the men were, there was still the glimmer of hope his mongrel did not just set fire to one of Tanagura’s flourishing factories.

“The report to come across my desk states how a dark haired young man became engaged into an augment with the foreman, and in the course of their disagreement he set fire to Mr. Limson’s trousers…ah… then he and another young man with light blue hair, evading capture, escaped…” Simmons nervously shifted his footing. “…Um… No one is clear where these men went…”

“Of course not,” Marcus sighed. “Their request for water is denied. Our planet cannot afford to squander such amounts without feeling the bite, and if Mr. Limson’s safety codes had been properly met, then he would not need water. The factory should already be equipped should a fire were to take place.”

“Then it will…”

“Burn.” Marcus stood. “Sir Iason will be informed, and all workers will be dispersed equally with factory’s sister companies. Now leave us.”

Gabriel smirked at him. “What were you saying about your mongrel and Niko not doing anything that would need fixing?”

“It is your pet, Gabriel, who started the fire.” However, Marcus knew that the burning down of the factory had to have been because of Keita. “Now, being the leading Blondie in the Architecture department, your presents will be needed on site as will mine to determine how much water can be salvaged for purification.”

Gabriel stood. “Iason made it clear we are not to interfere. However,” Gabriel said as Marcus’s office doors slid open for them, “how much more damage will Niko and your mongrel do before we are forced to step in?”

“Considering thee importance of the duties they are burdened with, I do not believe it will come to that,” Marcus answered. “The life of one of our own is worth more than the cost of rebuilding.”

“Even if the cost could be the lives of our ‘pets’?” Gabriel inquired.

“It will not come to that,” Marcus said firmly. “I have faith in Keita’s ability. Wild, and foolish the boy may act, he is smart. He will never fall.”

oOoOoOo

“I’m sorry! How many times do I have to tell you it was an accident and I fell?” Fidget said, looking up to the opening of the tank he had tumbled in, pulling Niko in along with him.

“Oh yea? Then why do you have goggles and breathing apparatuses?” Niko said, as he tried to wipe the oily liquid they were swimming in off his face.

Finished handing Niko the swim gear, Fidget tested his own before grinning sheepishly. “Ah…it always pays to be prepared?”

Growling, Niko dunked Fidget’s head under.

Coming up, gasping for air, Fidget glared at Niko. “Stop, man! That’s dangerous! The last thing I want people to remember me by is how I drowned in tank of fruity flavored lube!”

“Besides.” Fidget grinned. “Didn’t you say you wanted a closer look?” Fidget tried to contain his giggle when his old friend glared at him, but failed when all he could see of Niko was the top of his shinning, oily, head, his dark blue eyes peeking from the lube.

“If I had told you that we needed to go into the tank, you might have said no.” Fidget shrugged. “I had no choice.”

“I might have said no!” Niko shouted, the volume of his voice made Fidget and Niko wince as it came bouncing back at them because of their enclosed confinement. “And for your information, if you had told me what you wanted to do, I could have said, ‘Hey, why don’t we empty the tank first?’ Did you think I might have said that?”

Fidget rolled his eyes. “Now that’s just stupid. It wouldn’t be nearly as fun climbing in this thing than falling in, and we wouldn’t be able to squeeze in the opening if we weren’t all oiled up. My way was the perfect solution. It was a fruity solution.”

Ignoring Niko’s lube bubbled grumbles of the lameness of his remark, Fidget rummaged in the small sack he’d made sure to hold onto when they ‘fell’ into the tank. “These factories hire on mongrels for the all the shit work—all paid under the table, of course—and you and I were ordered to locate one and talk to these mongrels because they’d have the inside scoop on if they knew anything about the mongrels who’ve been disappearing.”

“Isn’t that what Lilly and Sky are also suppose to do while in Ceres?” Niko panted, grabbing the suction cups Fidget handed him, and attaching them to the metal walls of the tank, relieving him from his constant threading.

Grabbing onto Niko to rest, Fidget said, “Yes and no. Sky and Lilly’s job is to get the members of Bison together to mobilize a plan to keep our boys in Ceres safe. Riki wants Bison to rally all the gang leaders together and lock down all the entrances to Ceres. No one will be allowed to come in, and if you leave, the plan is that you’re aware of the new danger.”

There was more to the plan then just that, but Fidget held his tongue. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Niko to keep Riki’s plan to himself—and Riki had told him to tell Niko—but because there would be no going back if Niko was completely involved.

Riki didn’t just plan on hunting down the assholes stealing mongrels off the street, but made it clear he’d be doing to them what they may have done to the mongrels that had disappeared. Riki would be setting an example with this new silent enemy that the people of Ceres would bite back if they continued to fuck with them. It would be a slaughter of all who were killing their kind.

There had been no talk of a rescue… because Riki—as they did—knew there would be no one to rescue. Mongrels were considered expendable…To think anyone was alive and suffering would be heartbreaking, although they still had hope.

And, well, Niko didn’t have a very good poker face. They had gotten in trouble more times than Fidget could remember when they were in Guardian because Niko had this expression that shouted ‘guilty!’ when he knew a secret.

Jade had been the only not included, which had made Fidget uncomfortable. Jade had more than proven his right to be one of them, but because Riki was getting all protective over the kid, they had left Jade in the dark. Sky had been ordered to tell Lilly the moment they entered Ceres.

“What aren’t you telling me, Fidget?”

Licking his lips, and ‘oh’ at the tastiness of the lube, Fidget fiddled with his breathing mouth piece before answering Niko, “What makes you think I’m hiding anything?”

Seeing how Niko’s arms shook holding the both of them up, Fidget quickly covered Niko’s eyes with protective goggles, and released Niko so he didn’t have to be burdened with his weight.

Niko sighed in relief before saying, “Because I know you, and I also followed and hid while Riki pulled you, Sky, V and Katze to the side when we were in the lobby of Eos. Even though I couldn’t hear what you were saying, I know you guys have more planned then just finding Rio and stopping the kidnappings happening in Ceres.”

Trying to float on his back, putting the sack on his belly, Fidget pulled his own goggles on his head and pulled out a lighted headband on. “It’s nothing.”

Fidget grinned when Niko rolled his eyes at him.

“Yea, you always do this to me. Remember when we were kids, and the time you stole the keys to the cafeteria? You had planned on packing food up and giving it to all the younger ones who were too weak to get food? You wouldn’t tell me because you didn’t want me to get in trouble.”

“No,” Fidget said, “I didn’t tell you because you were a little fatty back then, and I was scared you’d eat everything we stole.”

“It’s not my fault I was well loved and they fed me more,” Niko grumbled.

Fidget pshed. “They didn’t like you, the food guy was scared of you because you caught him and the orderly doing it somewhere naughty and you blackmailed them. Food is how they paid you off to shut you up from tattling on them, and getting them fired.”

Niko pouted. “Whatever. Remember, we over an hour before we have to get back, and you still haven’t told me why we are in this tank.”

Fidget struggled to get out of his heavy coveralls, and told Niko to take his off as well. The tunnel he was about to take them down would be small, and Fidget did the clothing to accidentally snag on something, plus they needed all the wiggle room they had. “The mongrels that work for these factories are given lodgings in the lower basements, hidden from the Platinas that come and inspect the place—not like they probably don’t know they work here. And since they can’t enter from the top, they have secrets entrances.”

“Like, at the bottom of a lube tank?” Niko said in disbelief.

“Yup, like at the bottom of a lube tank,” Fidget agreed. “We just need to hurry up and open the hatch door somewhere in here before they top the tank with hot lube, fresh off the stove.”

“What do you mean?” Niko asked. “This is the finishing tank, Fidget. This isn’t the cooling tank! It’s the finishing tank! The one that gets poured into those huge metal tube hover freighters you see on the main freeway! Didn’t you read the sign before you jumped in, pulling me sown with you?!”

Nibbling on this lip, Fidget popped in a couple microphone ear plugs and pulled his breathing mask over his nose and mouth, then dove down into the oily thick-ish liquid. The light on Fidget’s headband proved as he spiraled down to the bottom that Niko was right, and Fidget contemplated staying under then get scolded by Niko.

However, Fidget’s plan failed when Niko showed up, floating in front of him in the pinkish liquid. “Woops,” Fidget said, shrugging, his voice muffed by his mask. “Wrong one.”

“Stupid!” Niko shouted, and tried to grab Fidget by the throat. But with luck and lubrication on his side, Fidget easily got away.

It was less exhausting trying to keep their head above ‘water’, as Fidget and Niko stayed under and floated. “Look. I have a small laser knife that I found in the satchel of the hover bike I borrowed. It’s more than capable of cutting a hole in this tin can, so just gimme a minute to find a good place to cut.”



Fidget had to admit that this was the first time he’d ever gotten himself in this kind of jam. If he cut a hole in the wrong place, he and Niko would get shot out of the tank fast, and considering the bottom of the tank was still a story or more from the ground, there would be no way they would get out without being hurt badly.

“You know, it’s pretty relaxing in here,” Niko muffed voice called out, laughing.

Looking up, Fidget snickered, watching Niko do froggy circles above his head. However, Fidget and Niko’s laughter faded when the tank suddenly shook violently.

“What’s happening?!” Niko shouted.

Swimming to the top, Fidget’s eyes widened behind his goggles as the stream of light from the opening of the tank slammed shut, and the crank of the hatch being locked echoed down to him.

Diving back down, Fidget grabbed Niko and hugged him tightly. “They’ve come to collect! Hold on!”

Fidget and Niko screamed in their masks as the bottom of the tank opened and they were sucked down.

oOoOoOo

Katze was almost back where he’d seen Riki last when he heard the high pitched voices of the children of Guardian cheering and laughing. The fact that the children were happy about something told Katze where he would find Riki. However, when Katze stepped through the broken door leading to young mongrels ‘playground’, Katze’s mouth dropped at the sight before him.

Mongrel children were running around like wild little beasts. Beating on the bars of the play structures, on the ground and on the walls, cheering Riki on as the black haired mongrel tore into the large group of Guardian security, and Riki was winning.

Katze could only stand there and watch in admiration, and respect, as Riki knocked everyone who got in his way down, and from the way Riki stared only at the man—the coward holding a broken whip— in the back of the group, whom shouted orders to take Riki down, it was only clear who Riki wanted.

However, Katze started to become worried when his calls to Riki were ignored, but more then that, the growls that emitted from Riki didn’t sound…human. Encouraged by the cheering of the children, Riki didn’t seem like he would stop until he killed the man with the whip. Katze could only be thankful no one seemed to be dead now, not with the strength of which Riki used on the poor bastards trying to stop him.

Katze dared not get too close, not after seeing the savage light shinning in Riki’s eyes. It was as if something else had taken the mongrel over. Swearing under his breath, Katze put the heavy bag filled with books and the metal box onto the ground and pulled out his cell.

There as only one person he knew who could stop Riki. Katze hated having to make this call, but from the looks of Riki, the mongrel was only getting started. If Katze didn’t make this move to stop Riki, Katze was scared of the repercussion that would fall upon Riki, and he needed Riki out of Eos.

The screaming of the security guards accompanied with the shouting of the children, Katze almost missed it when his call was answered, and he shivered when the Blondie on the other line did not sound happy.

TBC…
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