Butterfly kisses and Flower petal wishes

The Storm Pt. 2

Important Notice: For those who may be unaware The Storm Pt. 1 was edited a few days ago due to my own personal feelings about posting a less than ideal Chap. If anyone wishes to reread to see the re-edited chapter please go ahead.

Authors Note: As for this chapter... Hahaha, let me tell you. It was both easier and harder to write all at the same time with my schedule, but compared to last post I feel much better about this! Especially since we are finally getting to hit some points I've been dying to get to. Heheheh. So please enjoy, and let me know what you think ;3

August 3rd, 2005 Takemichi

Head being slammed against the torii shrine he had been hiding behind, Takemichi yelped as his world went black for a second. "Ah!" His hair being roughly grabbed by Red as the male aggressively began to pull him out of hiding.

"Look who I found!" Kiyomasa's most loyal right-hand man said as he dragged him out towards the others of his group.

Takemichi struggled to break free from the teen's hold as he tried to free himself from the older boy's grip. "Lemme go!" He was flung forward to the ground and winced, head-spinning yet again after already having his head hit earlier. Even so, Takemichi pushed himself up on his knees, painfully and angrily glared up at Kiyomasa as the man boredly stared down at him unamused.

"Well, well, if it isn't Hanagaki."

"Kiyomasa-kun, why are you trying to kill Draken-kun?!" Takemichi demanded, his glare never faltering as he stared the much larger and older teen down, confusing the other underlings of Kiyomasa.

"Hey, Hanagaki!" Kiyomasa suddenly yelled causing Takemichi to freeze up, he smiled sadistically down at the smaller boy and then said. "Go buy us some drinks."

"Huh?"

"Make mine a cola," Kiyomasa ordered, as his men all began to laugh.

Takemichi's anger bubbled up as shot to his feet, the urge to attack the male crossing his mind until Takemichi realized something frightening. 'Wait... My body's... shaking...' He thought, realizing his body was refusing to move even as he tried to steady himself. Suddenly he was slapped by Red and the men of Kiyomasa's group whooped in joy.

"I'll take a coffee!"

"Didn't you hear us?! Answer Bitch!!"

Takemichi, still stunned from the slap, was then kicked from behind by another member. "Gah!" Sending him on his knees, as his instinct then quicked in. "Sorry..." He froze as those venomous words escaped his lips, eyes wide in shock and horror as he stared at the wet ground below him. 'Why the hell am I apologizing?'

"A slave like you is in no place to worry about other people." Red mocked, "Guess we're gonna have to remind you who you really are." He sadistically grinned, as Takemichi became more and more lost in thought.

'That's right... I didn't actually get any stronger.' He thought in shame and horror as the whole group of Kiyomasa's men began to beat on him.

"Eat this!"

'I misunderstood.' A kick to the face, 'I just imagined I was... because I was around Mikey-kun and Draken-kun.' His mind replayed the first time he saw them and the Moebius event, 'Because I accepted Meimei's help...' A kick to his gut, his mind flashed to his sister's sudden appearance when she first saved him from Kiyomasa and her part during the Moebius event. He curled up tightly in a ball and allowed the pain from his beating and his self-hatred to numb him to the world. 'This... this is who I really am.' He thought, the laughs of Kiyomasa and his men echoing in his ears as he was made to kneel and then bow before them. His eyes brimmed with unshed tears, his body shaking from both pain and shame, his heart and voice cracked as he was made to mutter. "I'm sorry..." Silently his tears fell as those words left his lips.