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His body woke up, but his eyes refused to open, the comfort of the bed was too much.
Chuuya could die happy if he spent the rest of his days in this bed.
The sun shined through the blind of his room and made his skin warm. The red head let out a groan of contentment as he turned in his bed,the bathrobe opening on his chest and letting the sun touch his white skin.
This was paradise.
"Oh,is the sleepy sheep awake ?"
A mellow voice spoke from the side of the bed,Chuuya looked up in a hurry,surprised and apprehensive to hear someone else in his room.
There ,in the corner of his room,lazily sitting on a chair chuuya hadn't noticed the day before was Dazai. Dazai fucking osamu ,the boss of the port mafia.
Chuuya takes everything back,this is hell.
Chuuya sat up in a hurry, grabbing his pillow,ready to throw it.
“-What. The. Fuck ?”
The brunet had the audacity to smile like nothing was wrong,chuuya growled.
“-I'm simply here to see how my dear husband is doing ? Do you like the room ?
-shut up. Don't you have work to do or something?
-I'm slacking off.”
The brunette shrugged easily as Chuuya mumbled something about a boss under his breath. The redhead sat up, so he was facing the other. The brunet also moved to sit straighter in the chair,crossing his leg.
For a split second , the brunet eye ,that was previously looking at chuuya's face,moved to look lower then back up. It didn't go unnoticed to the smaller one ,who looked down at himself to find his torso nude.
The silky bathrobe in which chuuya had fallen asleep had slipped for his shoulder and was now pooling around his waist.
The red head felt his cheek burn as he eagerly and with as much force as he could muster in his position threw the pillow he was holding. It hit Dazai in the head and the taller man made a grunt.
“-you fucking pervert.” Spit the red head before he hurried to put the bathrobe back around his body. The blush on his face didn't disappear.
Once he was clothed again he glared back at the brunet with death in his eyes. The other was calmly patting the pillow in his lap,as if to fluff it up. He didn't look back at chuuya when he spoke again.
“-Am I a pervert for looking at my husband's body ?
-Yes.
-Ah…well,no matter. I was here to tell you that your lambs were requesting to see you. So you better go now.”
Chuuya growled a bit,he hesitated looking between dazai and the clothes that were on the drawer beside the bed. With a quick move ,he grabbed the clothes and stood up and without a glance at dazai went to the bathroom. He heard the man stand behind him.
Chuuya closed himself in the bathroom,locking it close to find that the wedding suit he had left on the floor yesterday was carefully folded and put on the sink. He stopped for a slip second but decided to ignore it,instead he put the black suit he was given on top of the other clothes pile.
He heard a noise outside the door,as if someone moved to lean on it and,soon enough,he heard Dazai's voice through it.
“-I'm gonna give you a few recapitulations while you change.” He started calmly. Chuuya wanted to retaliate but he bit his tongue instead and simply started to undress himself.
“-The sheeps want to see you as I said,but understand that I can't let you stay the day there so I'm allowing you…let say a few hours to figure things out with your little lambs…then you'll come back to your room and I will introduce you to someone. I'm sure you two will get along fantastically…….hum..then I suppose you can have the rest of the day to do whatever you'd like, familiarize yourself with the environment or something.”
Chuuya scoffed as he passed the new black suit around his shoulder, the thing was a bit big on Chuuya's thin body but not so big that it was unwearable. The red head glanced at himself in the mirror,his hair were growing long, a bit uneven,longer on the left side. Maybe he would be able to put it in a ponytail soon.
Chuuya's attention went back to the door ,through which Dazai's voice was still coming.
‘That guy must really love monologuing.’
Chuuya thought bitterly as he moved to open the door ,not letting any time for Dazai to move off it.
The brunet stumbled backwards as the door opened abruptly but he quickly regained his stability, he shined chuuya smile.
“Well,you seem ready.” He spoke as he eyed the red head up and down,lingering for a few seconds at the red-head's collar. The smaller hadn't put the black tie he was given with the suit, because he didn't want to of course,those things made him uncomfortable. It wasn't at all because he didn't know how to tie them. The redhead hoped Dazai wouldn't insist and he didn't, the taller simply shrugged.
“-I'll let you go then,you little lamb are waiting on floor 6. Use the elevator.”
Chuuya pushed the brunet out of the way to walk out the bathroom toward the main door. Dazai didn't say anything back at the rough push. He simply moved to walk behind Chuuya,keeping a reasonable distance between them.
As the red head was about to open the door ,he heard the taller click his teeth before calling him out.
“-What ?” Chuuya spat as he turned halfway to glance at Dazai. The brunet was waving a small white card between his fingers, a smug smirk on his face.
“-I don't think you want to forget that,chuuya dear.”
The red head grabbed the card from the other hand with a quick annoyed motion,spitting a ‘shut up’ as he did so.
Dazai let out a small chuckle as Chuuya opened the door. The red head shook his head.
“-Don't touch my stuff.” He said before closing the door. Chuuya walked to the elevator and waited for it to come up once he scanned his card.
He had one thing in mind,he had to see his sheep.
The metal door of the elevator closed before Chuuya,he pushed the button to floor 6,and the descent started. Slowly anxiety filled his stomach,mixing with a touch of relief.
He'll soon be back with the sheep,his family. He couldn't know how they'd react to his announcement,or if they'd react at all but he didn't care,right now he needed the sheep.
The ride down was long and to stop himself from fidgeting, he pushed his hand in his pocket. The black suit wasn't as uncomfortable as chuuya thought it would be,but Dazai be dammed if he thought chuuya would wear that everyday.
Thankfully he had noticed his old worn-out bag that contained all,even if little, clothes chuuya owned beside the chair dazai was sitting in when he woke up.
The elevator finally stopped with a loud screech that wasn't reassuring and the door opened up again. He walked in the black and scrappy corridor that was in front of him. At the end of it was a black door ,guarded by two men with a firearm each. They looked at chuuya with cold and hard faces but mostly tired,the red head could understand why.
Voices ringed and echoed from inside the room,loud enough to be heard clearly even through what Chuuya thought was a very thick door. Impressive.
Chuuya slowly walked until he was in front of the two men, one had an earbud in his ear while the other seemed to not have one. The red head stood tall,as tall as he could,in front of them but his voice wavered a bit as he spoke.
“-I'm here to see the sheeps.”
The two men eyed him up and down,before the left one spoke,putting his firearm in the holder on his back.
“-Name and identification.”
Chuuya had no idea what his identification was so he simply announced his name. Both men shared a glance before the left guard put his finger on his earbud,speaking with someone on the other side of this call thing. There was a bit of silence,that chuuya guessed it was because the person on the other side of the earbud was speaking.
Slowly the left man nodded and the guard on the right started moving. He took a key,a real one ,from the key chain that was attached and hidden underneath his jacket.
He put the key in the key hold with a loud click ,and as he slowly turned,the loud clicking never stopping, the voices inside halted. The right guard pushed the heavy black door open with much force while the man on the left took hold of his weapon again ,pointing it at the inside with an intimidating stand.
The door cracked open and revealed a large black room ,with bunk beds everywhere and a sink at the back,which was covered with dirty plastic glasses. But that wasn't what chuuya saw first,no,he saw his family,standing in the middle of the room for the most of them,wearing worried expressions on their faces. Chuuya took a step forward, and ,when the guard didn't stop him,another one.
Behind him the heavy door closed again.
Before he could take a third, arms were wrapping around his neck and voices started to explode again. There weren't many members in the sheep,around 20 people but they were loud,so very loud. The red head heard his name being called ,or words of worry as well as questioning ones but he didn't answer simply squeezing his arms around the waist of the person before him.
“-Yuan…” He whispered, relief filling his voice. The pink haired girl pulled away,immediately she put her hands on Chuuya's jaw,turning his head from side to side with incredible worry written on her face,others checked his arms,making sure he wasn't hurt in any way. He pulled away from the touch ,he put his hands on the girl's arms.
“-I'm okay,how are you…did they hurt you ?”
He asked,looking around his friend, thoses who weren't standing before had come to join the mass. Shirase, one of the oldest member with Chuuya and Yuan,spoke first.
“-What happened Chuuya ,where the fuck are we ?”
Chuuya looked at Shirase,their eyes met and the redhead could see the rage burning in the other's gaze. He looked away and gulped before speaking.
“-We..we are in one of the mafia buildings.”
His announcement created an uproar of anger,confusion and disbelief. Chuuya took a step back to move away from the panic but everyone took a step forward to follow him.
“-What do you mean?
-Did they capture you too ?
-What the fuck ?!
-what do they want from us ?!
-Chuuya,an explanation maybe ?”
Chuuya took a deep breath,for some reason his throat tightened and he hesitated before speaking.
“-A few weeks ago,we went to this mafia shipping to grab weapons…
-Yeah ,we know that,what happened next,chuuya ?!
-They arrived with an ability user that made bombs,one of thoses made you pass out. In the midst of the battle I try to fight back so they wouldn't get to you but…
-But ?!
-Well,they had this thing…a syringe thingy ,for a moment it made me lose control of my ability or something like that…. I was so confused,and panicked, they made me black out….”
He heard a few gasp,but no words,everyone was attached to his lips. He gulped again.
“-When I finally woke up,they threatened to kill you all if I didn't cooperate…they…I had…we made an alliance type thing.”
At that ,scream exploded again. He could hear swears of disbelief and anger all around his head,making his ear ring.
“-...It was your lifes and freedom for me..”
He added after the exclamations died down,at which Yuan reacted,she squeezed Chuuya's hand that she had grabbed in the panic earlier.
“-What do you mean ?
-...I work for them….whenever they need me…for whatever they need me….”
Her eyes grew wide,she didn't seem to know what to say but Arwen spoke for her,his voice was so filled with frustration, chuuya could almost feel it.
“-What ?! The fuck ?! Have you lost your mind ? They'll use you to do all their dirty work ! Are you stupid ? You sold yourself like that ?! Do you wanna be a part of the Mafia ?”
The red head shook his head voraciously.
“-NO ! Of course not,but it was that or they kill you….I…I chose what was best !”
Arwen took a step back while a tall girl with braided hair spoke,voice soft but full of worry.
“-This morning,a girl came in and told us we would start working tomorrow. Do you have any idea what this could mean…?”
Chuuya gulped,looking in her eyes,when she took another step forward, Chuuya looked away.
“-...Dazai told me you would work Into the mafia until he found what he could use you for….but..its wasn't–
-The fuck is Dazai ?” Shirase cut off Chuuya,looking back at the red head after his anger died down. Chuuya's throat tied itself,he struggled to speak again ,knowing his answer would just bring more anger to the already hurt and frustrated sheeps.
“-He…he's the boss of the Port mafia.”
Instead of the ragging anger chuuya imagined, the room became silent. Not a word was uttered, the sheep were clearly waiting for the red head to elaborate but chuuya couldn’t. The pink haired girl's whisper felt so loud.
“-Did…did you meet him..?”
The red head nodded ,eyes darting between Yuan's worried gaze and Shirase's confused one. He took a deep breath.
“-It…it was part of the deal…I.. They let the sheep go alive…and I marry into the mafia ....”
The silence continued,it felt so heavy,Chuuya's shoulder fell,just as did his sight. Once again the pink haired girl was the only one that spoke,her worry growing more and more.
“-You…married in the mafia ?....chu…who did you marry…”
Chuuya looked away,Yuan's grasp on his hand slowly let go and the red head felt the emptiness of his palm deep in his soul. Like thunder, shirase spoke in the silence.
“-You married the boss of the Port mafia.”
It wasn't a question,they knew. Chuuya couldn't do anything but nod and look away,bringing his hand to his chest. Then the rain poured,the voice ringed and fell,each word cutting chuuya like a blade. Shirase's was the loudest.
“-That's why ?! That's fucking why ?!” The silver haired man laughed like a maniac.
“-You…YOU SOLD US TO THE MAFIA,HUH ? IS THAT FUCKING IT ? AND YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MOMENT TO FUCKING MARRY THEIR BOSS ,HUH ?”
He went to grab chuuya's collar but missed by a little as chuuya took a step back in reflex.
“-NO. I DIDN'T…I WANTED TO SAVE YOU I REALLY ... .THAT WAS THE ONLY CHOICE !”
He fought back,wanting to prove to the sheep that he did what he could but their gaze showed him that whatever he said wouldn't calm their wrath.
Shirase kept on accusing chuuya and the redhead's loud voice couldn't match shirase's.
They kept arguing.
“-I really don't understand why anybody puts their trust into you.”
Shirase's added,like a finality.
Chuuya took a step back, his eyes burned but he wouldn't cry.
At his reaction Shirase's voice became harsh once again ,cutting through the red-head's soul.
"- I NEVER WANTED TO BE A PART OF THE MAFIA,IT'S EVERYTHING WE HATE, CHUUYA. MAYBE YOU WANTED TO SAVE US BUT YOU MADE THE WRONG CHOICE."
He screamed. some agreed,the other stood frozen by the loudness of his scream,chuuya struggled to answer,Yuan did for him.
"Shirase,calm down.
-Calm down ?! Chuuya fucking sold us to the fucking port mafia,we've been fighting hell forever against them he just....he Fucking sold us to him !
-cal—
-i didn't ! I fucking didn't ! I sold myself, no one else, they didn't respect their part of their deal. Is it truly my fucking fault !?
-yes ! You're here to protect us !! Not decide for us...
-i just don't understand, why didn't you wait for our opinion?
-its true , we're supposed to vote,Chuuya ,you decided all by yourself and now we're at their mercy. We can't do anything.
-How could I have, you were all stuck down there ?"
Every sheep was talking,their own opinion,some were crying with anger or despair,some screaming,some trying to calm others down. Chuuya was overwhelmed by the noise, everything was too hot,too loud,it was too much. He brought his hand to his ear.
He wanted to argue,wanted to scream.
Why did he choose this,why was so stupid.
"ENOUGH!"
Yuan's voice pierced through the mass of noise , shutting everyone up in a word. All eyes went to her.
She was panting,with anger or with sadness,chuuya couldn't figure out which one.
"Enough....it's enough... we're a squad,a team,a family. We can't fight like this. We need to find a solution.
-i have a solution,Shirase cut her off, we get the fuck out of here.
-shut up Shirase. We find this solution together and we vote like we always did.
-chuuya didn't,a voice ringed in the small crowd, we shouldn't have to wait for anybody's opinion,when chuuya doesn't.
-SHUT UP.....chuuya did something bad,ok,but he didn't mean for it to end up this way.... He...I'm sure he wanted to protect us... alright it wasn't the right choice to make but look , it gives us a new way to kill and destroy the mafia from the inside. It's....new,bad...but we can make something out of it,we always do..
That's what the Sheeps do....let's stick together ok....
-alright,but I don't want chuuya here, he'll probably tell all we say to his "husband".
-I won't, and don't call him my husband.
-what should we call him then ?
-our enemy, like we always have.
-tss....
- i agree with Arwen,chuuya should go,he chose alone so now we get to choose without him.
-I don't th—
-I'm OK with talking this out but I don't want to see chuuya.
-Wha–
-I agree with Shirase..."
The sheeps were quick to decide and Chuuya could do nothing about it. He wanted to keep speaking, he wanted to explain,why wouldn't they understand, it wasn't his fault. He looked at Yuan who was arguing with Shirase, once she felt his stare she glanced at chuuya. Her sharp gaze turned soft but so full of pity,it broke something deep in chuuya.How stupid was he to have made this choice.
Finally the Sheep settled unto something that was satisfying all of them. All of this would be discussed between the sheep for the rest of the day,Chuuya would leave and tomorrow, for lunch,Chuuya would come by the dorm again so he would be updated on the sheep's plan. Even with that,some argued that he would simply tell Dazai once he heard the plan,but Yuan shut those whispers with a hard glance.
Chuuya could do nothing but comply and with this decision , the red head slowly walked toward the door of the room.
Something caught his eyes as he walked,there,nestled between the entrance and its closest bunk bed,was a girl. Her name was Hibana,a young girl with pretty raven hair that had joined the sheep when she was a small girl. The girl was like a little sunshine. Chuuya and her were pretty close and seeing her there,head in her knees ,throbbing with sobs,broke his heart.
Chuuya crouched in front of her,in a slow calm manner to not spook her. She barely glanced up as he carefully put a hand on her arm but she did look up once chuuya started speaking.
“-Shh…darling, everything's alright…i'll take care of it,I promise. You'll be alright.”
She didn't answer,for a long second she simply stared before she moved her head away. Chuuya froze,the girl didn't want to look at the older. His compassionate face fell to a cold blank one as he stood up abruptly. Yuan tried to say something ,as the other sheeps had looked at the scene in silence but chuuya didn't listen.
He knocked on the heavy door and it opened for him and closed back behind him. he didn't share a word with the guards.
He walked until he was back at the damned elevator. He scanned his card that he had hidden in one of his jacket pockets. He scanned it almost aggressively. The doors opened just as slowly as they did the day before. The button on the elevator showing which floor he could go on lighted up. He pressed the one for 30th,he pressed it hard,multiple times until the door was closed again.
The anger filled his vein,his head and slowly it turned to sadness. He always made the wrong choice,it has always been like that,chuuya understood their reactions.
The elevator stopped once in his accession, and the poor was the man who wanted to go up and instead was met with chuuya's killing glare.
He mumbled a sorry and ran away before the metal doors could close once more. Once at the 30th floor ,the red head walked to his room door ,scanned his card aggressively, and waited for the door to unlock
The door opened, and Chuuya pushed inside and was immediately met with Dazai ,who apparently hadn't left Chuuya's living room and another man,younger,wearing a black coat with a lot of fluff around his neck.
The brunet's face lit up when chuuya appeared at the doorstep while the other looked down in embarrassment or respect ,chuuya couldn't care which. The red head took a step closer,ready to throw a punch at dazai.
"What. The. Fuck. Are you doing here ?"
He spat at the brunet and the other chuckled in response.
"-back so soon ? How was your meeting with the lambs ?" He asked instead of answering.
"-rah...I haven't even had time to explain to Atsushi-kun why he was there."
Like a reflex,from the mention of his name ,the smaller man stood up and bowed.
Chuuya glanced at him before looking back at Dazai,still angered.
Dazai was watching chuuya with a small smug smile. The taller always act as if he knew chuuya better than chuuya himself,so fucking annoying.
With an overly elegant move,dazai took a step to reveal atsushi,who was still bowing.
The boy barely glanced up to see Chuuya staring back at him. Atsushi looked down immediately as a small blush started growing on his face.
"-This....this is my bodyguard, Atsushi-kun. Get used to seeing him since for the time being he will be the one keeping an eye on you when you're not training.
-Training ?
-Of course.” Dazai walked closer and put his hand on Chuuya's shoulder. “You're strong, Chuuya,its undeniable,your strength and agility is good,wonderful even but you lack the thing that makes you perfect. Your brain.”
Dazai tapped Chuuya's temple with his finger,and the red head didn't hesitate to grab the other's hand and squeeze it tight. Dazai pulled away with an easy smile.
"-I don't want your stupid fucking training, I'm good as i am.
-of course,but now you're in the mafia and i want you at your best."
Chuuya growled, about to snap back with a stupid remark but dazai cut him off before he could start.
"-So. While you're not training, atsushi will look over you until I'm sure you can handle yourself. And,when Atsushi is needed for a mission you'll go train.
-say you don't trust me."
Dazai didn't answer but laughed anyway.
"-the rest of the time,you'll do whatever you want,under Atsushi's eyes.
-I wanna see the sheep tomorrow too.
-then do so."
Dazai didn't seem to care,he turned to Atsushi to make sure the boy had understood his order,to which the boy nodded.
"Oh,Speaking of this,in your report tomorrow, remind me to put the lamb to work."
Dazai added almost mindlessly and the grey haired boy nodded.
The brunet turned back to chuuya.
"-and please, for the love of the above,tell them to be silent, I get reports of their constant screaming almost every half an hour."
The red head took a deep breath,mixed feelings forming in his lower stomach.
"-They were thrown into an unknown space by their enemy with no info about the rest of their friends,I'm pretty sure they have a good reason for screaming.
-yeah well it's annoying."
Walking toward the door,the brunet made a discarding motion with his hand.
"-Anyway,I'm leaving,we'll see eachother again in no time ,don't miss me too much,husband of mine.
-Fuck off."
Was the last thing chuuya could say before
Dazai disappeared behind closed doors,leaving Chuuya and Atsushi standing awkwardly in front of the other.
The red head sighed and walked past the boy to let himself fall on the sofa,head first. He was barely two days in the mafia and he already had the venomous envy to rip everyone's throat out,Dazai first.
The boy didn't move,he stood in his place even after a few minutes,chuuya looked up at him with an eyebrow raised.
"-well ?
-what can I do to benefit you,Nakahara-San?
-well....don't stand there like a dumbass,and call me chuuya.
-where shall I stand ?"
Chuuya sighed loudly before he sat up,bringing a pillow to his chest.
"-Sit"
He said to the boy while pointing to the empty sofa next to him. Without complaining, Atsushi did as he was asked. Chuuya looked at him ,inviting him to speak but the boy didn't seem to get his silent invitation because he stayed quiet,eyeing chuuya like the red head was a precious gem.
"-so you are ?”