Another fragment for your enjoyment. Still feel a bit bad for not updating for so long. >___>
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Mendol: A Man's World.
Ch. 10 (Fragment)
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Ray closed her eyes, feeling abject shame and guilt pulsating in her gut as she kissed the very breath from Kai's lungs. She could feel all the eyes in the room watching them but only really cared for the pair that was currently boring searing holes into her soul.
'... I'm so sorry...'
The sting of imminent tears burned hotly behind her eyelids. This one act felt like a betrayal of everything she was, a betrayal of the only person she had ever given her heart to. But just as she was about to give into her despair, she felt a pair of gentle hands cup her cheeks.
'Huh?'
Opening her eyes, she felt her heart jump as she beheld Kai's warm brown orbs regarding her with inscrutable emotion latent in their depths. With an unsure but gentle touch he used his thumb to brush away a stray tear that she realized with shock and shame she had let slip through.
How could she succumb to her emotions so recklessly? She wanted desperately to pull away but felt her will disintegrate into shock when he suddenly began to reciprocate the kiss.
The sensation was foreign and she shivered in discomfort as she felt the stubble on his chin brush against her cheek. She had never kissed a man before, neither had she ever wanted to. But to her surprise his lips were soft and pliant, moving against her mouth gently and in a way that told of inexperience laced with an odd overtone of sincerity.
Her heart stirred and fluttered; color rising to her cheeks as his hands moved downwards to hold her arms as if to keep them both from falling. Never before had someone touched her this way, as if she might break if he did otherwise.
Distantly, she heard the cheering of the crowd but at this point did not care. A maelstrom of strange and confusing emotion swirled violently within her and she felt helpless and weak against the rising swells. She barely knew him, and yet she felt an odd, involuntary connection with the small blond-haired man.
But just as her lips began to reciprocate his actions she was suddenly yanked backwards.
"Oh HELL NO! I'm gone for five minutes to go use the ladies room and I come out to find you sucking face with PICHU?!" Mariko growled, having finally reached the source of the commotion and effectively ending it.
"I... Wha... Huh?"
Ray looked at her with eyes clouded with confusion and other emotions Mariko deigned not to think about.
"Oh you have GOT to be kidding me Ray... I know you wanted to end it with the bastard but-"
"Azusa?" Ray supplied, looking around with an odd mix of fear and hope. To her relief, but also a modicum of disappointment, the woman was gone.
"Dear god what have I done..." She muttered, holding her head as she looked around for Kai. The small man, unsurprisingly, was gone as well. "Where did he go?"
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Kai yelped as his body collided violently with the concrete wall. Pain flashed behind his eyes as he slid into a crumpled heap to the floor. Before he could even catch his breath the two enormous men who had dragged him up here picked him up and held his arms as he thrashed violently against them.
"What the FUCK?! Let me go or I swear to everything good and holy that I will cut you open and STRANGLE YOU WITH YOUR OWN INTESTINES!"
He howled, glaring at them as his muscles strained against the men in a futile effort to escape. They had taken him to the roof of the building almost as soon as Ray had been taken away.
Suddenly, the sound of clapping cut through his violent tirade and he looked up to find Azusa walking towards him with a cool smile twisting her handsome features.
"That was quite a performance you put on little rabbit."
She remarked, her voice now a deep, lilting contralto. Obviously these thugs holding him in place knew her secret.
"I must say that you sir, are a rather ungrateful guest."
Kai's flashing brown eyes met Azusa's steely, emotionless gray as the young idol spat at the woman's feet.
"Fuck off. Why don't you just leave her alone already?! Isn't obvious that she hates your guts?!"
She simply sighed and tutted a bit as if she were about to discipline a petulant child.
"And I did hope that this would be a rather simple chat..."
Suddenly, Kai felt the breath knocked violently out of his lungs as Azusa delivered a powerful punch to his stomach. Bile rose to the back his throat as he hunched over, his mouth opening as pain resonated throughout his body.
"... I love her, pure and simple. And nothing or no one is going to get in the way of that."
Azusa chuckled, brushing off her suit as she straightened and turned around.
Kai, still shell shocked in his pain, was at a loss for words as he watched the woman suddenly whirl around and cannon her fist into his face. The blow connected to his jaw with a sickening crunch.
"You aim to be successful in this industry correct?"
Azusa purred, delicately wiping the blood from her knuckles as Kai's head hung limply forward, his bangs shielding his eyes as he breathed raggedly. Shooting out a hand, she grabbed his chin and held it inches from her face.
"Then you really don't want to make an enemy out of me boy... So do yourself a favor and stay the fuck away. And trust me when I say you're not her 'type.'"
Her voice was soft yet had an edge that could cut a stand of hair in half.
"Boys, I think he's had enough. Drop him." Asusa said flippantly, waving a careless hand in the air as she began to walk away. Kai slid bonelessly to his knees as the bodyguards let him go, flanking their boss as she made her exit.
"Heh... You really are a crazy psycho aren't you?"
Her eyes widened and she whipped her head over her shoulder to see Kai, his bangs still hiding his eyes as a grin twisted his lips. She could see blood dribbling down his chin as he spat a tooth into his hand. He growled at the sight of it and lifted his gaze to fix her with a murderous glare.
"She doesn't need your bullshit... Just the other day I found her crying her eyes out at work because of you. Do you really think she needs that kind of pain?! Are you comfortable knowing that you make her miserable?!"
He bit out the words like venom at her back as Azusa snorted derisively and continued on her way out.
"You have no idea how much she loves me..."
And those were the last words Kai heard as walls of black began to close in on him and he slumped to the floor.
Topic: A Man's World - chap 10 [AKB48 x Mendol] 3/11/2011 (Read 53232 times)