Fanfiction - Angel's Tale Chapter 4
Title: Angel’s Tale
Author: hydeist_haido
Pairing: Gackt/ Hyde, slight Tetsuya/ Hyde
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Gackt had his love at first sight… The only thing is the “she” is a “he”…
Warning: Implied homosexual relationships, Vulgar language, Attempted rape
Disclaimer: I do not own anyone.
Chapter 4
Hyde left the store Gackt led him to with a sulky face… And a pair of white bunny ears on his head. Gackt was wearing a black pair of cat ears which they got from the store.
“It’s simple, you put your hand into the box and randomly pick one card out and you’ll get a hat similar to the card you picked.” The staff of the store told them, handing them a big red-white striped box. She shook the box a little, making the cards in it to cause small sounds.
“Whatever,” Hyde shrugged as Gackt put out his hand to have a try. His hand was in the box for a few seconds, and when he pulled it out his card had a picture of cat ears. The staff from just now congratulated him and put on a pair of black cat ears on his head.
Hyde put his hand on his mouth to not laugh to loud. “That’s not a hat, dummy…”
“You’re a cat now; can you purr like a cat?” The staff requested. Gackt got the attention of many people and a crowd came to their way, standing at the store watching what they were doing.
“No nyaan.” Gackt shook his head.
Girls squealed and the staff asked them to be quiet. The commotion was silenced immediately when Hyde was asked to pick a card.
“Like I would be lucky enough to pick something like that.” Hyde chuckled as he pulled out his hand from the box… to find a pair of bunny ears’ picture on the card. Before he noticed, the staff had already put something on his head… It was a pair of white bunny ears.
The crowd and girls squealed once more, louder than the squeals Gackt got. The squeals continued until the staff from just now requested him to do something.
“Can you make sounds rabbits do?” The staff laughed, pinching Hyde’s cheek.
“Nuuu,” Hyde cringed from the girl, scowling at her. “Rabbits can’t make noises or sounds, stupid.” He blushed, wanting to take the silly thing off his head, but too late… The girl responsible for the store took their photo before they could even react.
Sulking, Hyde pulled himself and Gackt out from the huge crowd that surrounded them to a gift store to buy a small gift bag to take off the huge ornaments from their heads and put it into it.
“I feel ridiculous wearing that thing,” Hyde mumbled as he paid for the gift bag. The girl at the counter smirked at both of them, thinking that it’s cute, but Hyde didn’t agree with her.
“It’s cute though,” Gackt took off his cat ears and put it into the white bag with golden stars carefully.
“You know what? It wasn’t.” Hyde snapped and regretted to enter the amusement park. He was afraid of the thrill rides, bored of the childish rides, almost freaked out to death in the haunted house when the three ghosts played a prank on him, and his mood was completely ruined when he was forced to wear that pair of silly rabbit ears in public and his photo was taken.
Gackt merely shook his head as Hyde declared they’re leaving the place. They walked through the exit and continued walking on the streets. Minutes later they passed by a park, which Hyde immediately walked forward to one of the swings. There weren’t any people as it was located in the isolated places in town. Gackt followed him and sat down too, Hyde was already swinging up and down in the air.
“I think I’m going to dump that junk when I reach home.” Gackt heard the smaller boy talking.
He looked at him swinging up and down, and spoke, “I could keep them.”
Hyde stopped swinging, and his speed became slower and slower, until his feet reached the ground. He stared at the other brunette, his hair a little messy. “You’ve got to be kidding me. You want to keep those girly things?”
Gackt nodded. These things in the white bag he was holding meant a lot to him. They were part of the memories he spent with Hyde, he had spent much time with Hyde in the amusement park, Hyde was sharing rides with him, holding his hand tightly as he was afraid in the haunted house, and he even took a photo of Hyde looking not good. To Gackt, those memories were priceless and he would never forget them, although Hyde didn’t have any feelings for him.
Hyde shrugged to his friend’s answer. “Whatever.”
Just then Gackt felt a strange presence behind him. It felt like it wasn’t friendly, just getting his nerves out of his body. He looked at Hyde; the smaller brunette didn’t notice anything odd. He turned around slowly, a shock got him.
There were a group of boys a few years his senior, and the person standing in front of the group was that senior from that day, who was attempting to rape Hyde. The senior gave him an evil grin as they exchanged glances.
Hyde looked at Gackt whose face was suddenly pale, looking at something behind. He turned around and found that mocking, abhorrent face of the person who had trapped him in his embrace, trying to abuse him was standing behind him with a group of thug-looking boys with nailed baseball bats and metal cylinder rods. In that instant Hyde began to shudder, a chill was sent down his spine.
“So this was that brat who distracted Sakura,” A blonde thug whispered to the thug beside and he had a blood-stained baseball bat in his hands. The other thugs nodded in agreement, their grins showed they were up to something not pleasant.
“Hello, pretty.” Sakura gave Hyde a smile which frightened him. He then looked at Gackt who paled. “And you, new transfer student. You ruined my fun that day.”
“What you did was wrong” was all Gackt managed to say after moments of silence. All of the thugs in Sakura’s group were armed; he knew he wouldn’t stand a chance to them.
Sakura laughed, it gave both of the boys the creeps. “Oh whatever. I don’t care what’s wrong and what’s right. What I care is I have my fun if I wish to.” He gestured the thugs behind him and walked towards Hyde, gripping his wrist tightly.
Gackt’s reaction was too slow as the thugs had already advanced on him before he could do something to Sakura who was just standing a short distance from him. Baseball bats and whatever weapons the thugs brought with them swung and hit Gackt as well as his stomach, arms and legs, making him cry out in pain. He then collapsed on the ground, continuously being hit by the thugs and he knew he was bleeding as he smelt the acidic smell of blood. He saw Hyde was dragged away by Sakura through the free spaces of the thugs’ legs, the small boy’s silhouette getting smaller and smaller in his sight.
Hyde was dragged away by Sakura by force and they were walking past a few buildings. He tried to release himself and escape from the older boy’s grip, but Sakura was stronger, bigger and tougher than his small frame.
“Escape as you wish, pretty.” Sakura gave him a smirk. “But you won’t.” Sakura stopped his pace and stared at Hyde. Hyde saw a small sparkle in his dark eyes, and he was terrified. “Your friend just now distracted my doings that day. So, afterwards I’m going to use you as a whore, until you are completely broken and I want to see you in your most vulnerable state. Won’t that be fun?”
Once again Hyde shivered. They were walking through a dark alley, and there wasn’t even a sign of a living being there. He thought Sakura would just claim him right here where no one could save him, but he was wrong.
As they walked out the alley, a building not far than a few meters came into his sight.
Hyde was positive it was a love motel.
“And so here we are,” Sakura spoke in a sing-sang voice. “Both of us will be driven to ecstasy and have fun here later. A friend of mine owns this place so I had asked him to make sure there is no way you can escape from me.”
Instead of running, Hyde froze as his senior’s grip tightened to prevent him from escaping. It was obvious that there’ll be no escape or chances until he had been claimed. Terror rose as he was dragged away and he was getting closer and closer to the motel that would be his prison sooner or later.
Suddenly a fist swung towards Sakura without his attention, and by the time he got hold of himself he realized he was free from his captor’s grasp and Sakura was on the ground. Tetsuya appeared in his vision and he was standing beside him, his face full of anger. Hyde was stunned by his friend’s action, but he assimilated that Tetsuya had been following him after not more than a minute of thinking.
Sakura tried to stand up, his face aching from his attacker’s hard punch, but was stopped as Tetsuya kicked him in the face and soon he was pinned on the ground, as Tetsuya hit him non-stop and nose bled. Tetsuya didn’t have any sympathy for him, what he knew was he was just saving Hyde from a potential rapist.
After a few minutes of punching, kicking and all kinds of ways attacks, Sakura finally passed out with a lot of bruises and bleeding all over his body. Tetsuya gave him a few more kicks on his torso to make sure he wouldn’t move again then only he stopped.
Hyde watched his friend taking on revenge from his captor; he was surprised that his friend managed to take out the senior. No one in the school dared to challenge Sakura as he was infamous for being ferocious and once he had an eye on someone or something, he won’t stop until he got hold on his target. Tetsuya managed to beat the hell out of him.
“Doiha,” Tetsuya ran towards Hyde who stood a distance away from the spot he had fought Sakura. “Are you alright?” Hyde relived that Tetsuya’s expression now was similar to Kaz’s expression when Hyde was in kindergarten.
Hyde nodded his head; he was relieved that he had escaped from the fate he was going to be raped again and he was glad that one of his friends was there for him.
I’m lucky, he whispered quietly.
“He didn’t abuse nor did something to you just now, am I correct?” Hyde’s safety came first as worry painted across Tetsuya’s face.
“You’re correct,” Hyde nodded again but paused. Gackt’s face flashed through his head and he recalled what happened to his friend earlier - Gackt was beaten up by the thugs Sakura brought with him. “…How’s Gackt?”
Tetsuya stared at him, jealousy grew from his heart but he figured out Hyde only wanted to know what happened to him as both of them were positive the other boy was hurt.
“He’s hurt but his condition is going to be okay,” Tetsuya took out his mobile, preparing to call for the police. “Kaz, Ken and Yukkie brought help with them.”
Ken sat on an injured thug nagging while Yukihiro and Kaz picked up all of the weapons the thugs used with about ten boys their age. All of the thugs had fainted and were battered up with injuries and bruises by the two friends with the help of the members of the karate club.
Gackt was also injured but not as bad as the thugs, Kaz, Ken and Yukihiro made sure that they will double up Gackt’s injury on them, and they did. He was now lying on a clean spot Yukihiro had cleaned up for him to lay down.
As Yukihiro and the boys finished collecting weapons from the thugs, Tetsuya, Hyde and a few police cars arrived at the spot the scene occurred. The three boys were glad that Hyde looked okay, and they were even happier when they saw Sakura handcuffed, sitting inside of the police car.
“Serves him right,” Ken snickered and stood up, walking towards his two friends and gave them a big hug. Hyde didn’t freak out to his expect, however he also returned the embrace.
“Where’s Gackt?” Hyde asked immediately when Ken released him and Tetsuya from his hug. Kaz pointed to the place Gackt was laying and he and Tetsuya rushed forward to check on his condition.
Thank God he wasn’t bleeding heavily, Hyde huffed. Gackt’s bleeding was stopped, he had a few bruises and one broken arm and leg, but his three friends Kaz, Ken and Yukihiro managed to treat him with some basic first-aid precautions.
Kaz, Ken, Yukihiro and the boys from the karate club were soon questioned by the police for some information on Gackt and Hyde’s attack, while Hyde and Tetsuya helped the rest of the police to get the remaining thugs’ butts into the police cars.
Bleu eyes fluttered open, staring at the room’s ceiling blankly. He felt that his whole body hurt from top to toe, and his vision was spinning. He sat up a bit, finding his left hand and right leg was wounded; he had to wear a cast on his hand. He bit back the horrible pain as he sat up, resting his back on the big pillows.
He scanned through the big room. It had cream coloured wallpapers, a dark cupboard, a wall of tall shelves, and the room was messy and similar as he remembered.
It was Hyde’s room.
“Hey, you’re awake!” A voice rang in his mind. Hyde jumped into Gackt’s sight, his white parka earlier was changed into a plain long-sleeved shirt and sweat pants, and he was wearing a pair of glasses. He had a pencil in his right hand, so Gackt reckoned he was doing his homework obediently.
“Haido-” Gackt stopped and whimpered in pain when he moved his legs, he wanted to climb out of bed.
“You’re not alright to move about,” Hyde put away his pencil and helped the tall boy back to a comfortable position. “The doctor said that you must rest.”
The injured boy sat back to his position, gazing at the boy sitting on the bed. Their gazes met, Hyde quickly looked away from his friend.
He wanted answers from his friend; he wanted to know was Hyde alright and where was Sakura and his buddies. If they were still free from the law’s control, Hyde would be attacked in the future again. “What… happened to Sakura?”
Hyde gawked at him for a moment, nodding his head, he answered his question. “Tetsuya hit Sakura and he fainted, after that the police arrested him. Ken, Yukkie and Kaz came to help and the a few guys from the karate club helped to kick the thugs’ butts.”
Gackt stared and the smaller boy with curiosity and relieve, everything was already alright. He smiled at Hyde; the smaller boy didn’t know how to react and blushed.
“W-we didn’t know your address or phone number so my parents insisted you stay with us,” Hyde uttered softly, looking away. “You’re taking my bed so I’m sleeping with my parents tonight.”
Bleu eyes widened in shock, Gackt blushed too and merely stared on the white sheets of the big bed. Oh my… I’m in his bed… “I… I’ll call my dad to fetch me so you don’t have to sleep in your parents’ room…”
“No, silly!” Hyde rejected Gackt’s opinion. He knew that his friend was hurt and he had to make sure that he was in good condition, or else Gackt would endure more pain. “You can’t move much, your wounds will open!”
“I’ll sleep on the couch in the lounge then,” Gackt spoke as he started to move his legs away from the bed again and looked at Hyde. “Or else you can sleep here with me.”
“No!” The smaller brunette wailed.
“Why? Your bed is so big; we won’t fall out of bed. After all, you are sooo small.”
Hyde balked at Gackt’s reason. The taller boy did have a point there; the king-sized bed would fit them, but Hyde didn’t want to face the consequences of letting a guy into his bed, he knew the fact of Gackt having a crush on him, however he didn’t know what Gackt was thinking in his mind and maybe he was planning on something he wouldn’t want. He mustn’t risk himself to someone bigger and stronger than him.
“I… I don’t want to take any risks…” Hyde explained, a bit shy of facing the love struck boy. “People are frauds…”
Gackt immediately understood Hyde’s condition, to him it was risky. He shoved away his thoughts quickly and said in a serious tone. “Camui Gackt swears to God,” He crossed over his chest, “I won’t do anything harmful or abusing to Takarai Hyde.”
Hyde was stunned, not figuring out Gackt would swear to confirm him he didn’t have any bad intention. He held out his hand, “Pinky swear.”
Gackt couldn’t help but laughed when he saw Hyde’s childish action. It was cute, and he loved Hyde’s shy face. He chuckled, and hooked his finger with the other boy’s. “Will you sleep here then?”
It took Hyde quite a long time to decide, however eventually he slightly nodded his head and sat up from the bed and went back to his study table, trying to finish his homework. Gackt smiled as agreed to put away his past and sleep in the same bed as him, he didn’t know Hyde would make that decision at first, yet he was happy that he did nod.
Hyde continued doing his homework immediately after talking with Gackt for a while. He had tons of homework, some of them were those he missed when he was absent whereas he didn’t finish the rest which were given by the teacher earlier. Kaz had come the day before to help him with his homework, but they got to finish half of it only. Kaz’s relatives had come to visit his family so Hyde had to do his homework by his own.
He felt like hours had passed when he finally finished his homework. He had a glance on the clock on his desk; it was already two thirty in the morning. Hyde put away his specs and tidied up the dirty desk, keeping his pencils and books neatly in his bag.
Slowly he reluctantly climbed into his bed and tugged on the sheets, covering it around his fragile body. Gackt was already sleeping peacefully and he was snoring softly, with a beautiful smile on his face.
Hyde didn’t know whether he can put his faith on the sleeping boy, but his heart was pounding fast and he knew he may be blushing as red as a tomato now. He’s face was beautiful, his eyelashes were also quite long as his, and his lips made him have the urge of kissing him immediately. He came to a conclusion: Gackt was actually very, very attractive; it was like he has this mystifying insensitivity. Hyde blushed even heavier after thinking about that, however sleep came in first place and his eye lids soon grew heavy and before he noticed, he had already drifted to his dreams.