Sound of Silence Chapter 11

[lilly0]

Title: Sound of Silence 11/13
Pairing: Sakumoto, guests appearances by the rest of Arashi (maybe with a surprise side-pairing ;-)), and some others
Rating: up to R
Genre: AU, romance, maybe a bit suspense
Plot: It's in the middle of the night when Sho, a wealthy young business man, stumbles over an unconscious young man, beaten up and curled up in a dark alley. Tired from the way his life goes Sho decides to do something good and takes the man home. Once he wakes up however Sho realizes that the young man has forgotten all about his past, everything he is, and has lost his voice too. Everything that remained from his existence is his name: Matsumoto Jun. But who is he? What happened to him? Why was he lying on the street, beaten-up? And what kind of trauma did he encounter to loose his voice?
Note: This is the story that won the poll on my journal ^^ So, I had started writing it before the poll, kind of lost motivation in the middle of it and then with everyone's encouragement I picked it up again, and voilà :D  I hope this is going to be really interesting for you! There is some suspense in it, and we'll gradually uncover Jun's past.

 

Shun is still sitting at the same spot, eyeing the ceiling with this tired expression of his. Sho slowly starts to realize that he probably went through a lot too.

 

“I met Jun once,” Shun starts carefully.

 

Nagase tilts his head. “You met him? As in?”

 

“I was lonely,” Shun explains, blushing a bit. “I kind of dialled the number of, let’s say, a callboy agency. And they sent Jun.”

 

Sho’s eyes widened in shock.

 

“I… I’m not proud of calling someone for such a service,” Shun stutters. “Not my best moment. I swear I treated him with respect.”

 

Nagase sighs. “Not an unusual move though, as much as I don’t like it. I’m sure you aren’t the only one. But what happened then?”

 

“I don’t know how, and why, but they found out that I’m a police officer,” Shun states flatly, making the others blink in surprise. He pauses awkwardly, apparently not able to continue.

 

Nagase however frowns as it seems to dawn on him. “They blackmailed you. Is that what you are trying to say?”

 

Shun nods miserably. “They have photos, and a video, and I don’t know what else. They also know the right people,” he says bitterly.

 

Nagase’s frown deepens. “What do you mean?”

 

“I just used their call service. I didn’t know that it’s such a horrible institution. Believe me or not, but I would have never called for a service had I  known how they treat their hosts. After they had me in their palm, I found out how bad they are. They beat their guys regularly, send them several customers at night. There is no way they can even say no to things they don’t like.” Shun’s face looks like he is watching a horror movie. He probably has. A real life one. “It’s the worst. But they have popular customers. Not me, a small police officer, but a few chiefs and alike.”

 

Nagase’s eyes widen. “You are kidding!?”

 

“One call and they would have ruined my life.” Shun pauses.

 

Nagase lets out a sigh and reaches out a hand to help him up. “What else?” he wants to know. “Why didn’t you tell me? I mean, your not so glorious moment would have pissed me off, but I might have been able to help you.”

 

Shun’s eyes shimmer with tears. “They have my brother. I don’t know how they got him, but they have him. And I…” his voice trails off.

 

Sho sighs deeply. All of a sudden it’s kind of hard to be mad at Shun, though he is still pissed.

 

“Why did you come back?” Ohno finally asks quietly.

 

Shun takes a while to answer, then he sighs. “I can’t trade a life for a life. I just can’t.” He pauses. "They don't know yet that Jun and Yuki, that's Jun's host name if you want to call it like that, are the same person, but Yuki was pretty popular as a host..."


Nagase frowns. "Can you show us where the club is?"



Shun nods.

 

“Good,” Nagase says. “We have your information and Ikuta-san’s contacts. Let’s get things going! I’m calling my men. You guys wait here, until I tell you to come.”

 

“Nagase-san,” Sho begs, his heart beating faster. He can’t help but to hope. Hope to have his Jun back fast. “Please save him.”

 

Nagase nods. “I will give my best to get him out of there, I promise.”

 

 

~~~

 

The chief slaps him so hard that Jun sees stars, but there is no sound escaping his lips. He can’t talk anyway, comes handy this time.

 

“Don’t hit his face too much,” the fisher hisses. “We need it to look pretty! Other parts of the body don’t matter.”

 

The chief nods grimly, punching Jun’s stomach and making him gasp. “Talk, finally talk you rat!”

 

There is a knock against the door, and for a moment both men are distracted. The fisher opens it, talking to someone, before coming back and whispering something to the chief. They talk for a while, quietly, before approaching the door. “We’ll be back soon,” the chief smirks.

 

Awesome.

 

Jun shifts his body into an upright position, the ties around his wrist hurting his flesh. What is he about to do now? How should he escape? Did Sho already realize he is gone? Does he think he ran away from him? Something in Jun’s stomach clenches painfully. What if Sho believes he ran away and won’t look for him?

 

The door moves slightly and Jun winces in fear, afraid that the men come back. But to his surprise it’s Toma. He looks miserable, and Jun takes a wild guess he didn’t have much to say in their chief’s plan.

 

“Jun-kun,” he whispers, hurrying closer. He wipes Jun’s face clean from the blood swiftly, before making him drink some water, carefully waiting for Jun to take sip for sip. Once he is finished he feeds him with some bread, all the while nervously looking at the door. Jun assumes he took a huge risk coming here. Something inside him feels warm all of a sudden, despite the horror he still feels. Although Toma didn’t like Yuki, he seems to like Jun. That’s enough for now. “I can’t help you more. I’m so sorry,” he mumbles while he loosens Jun’s ties slightly. “Keep strong. I’ll think of something.”

 

He wonders if Toma even has an option to think of something but nevertheless he nods slightly. Anything. He is going to cling on anything now. He wants to see Sho, he wants to see Sho so badly. Toma touches his arms. “The ties are loose enough. You can free yourself whenever you want. Maybe you can use a good moment to run away from them, take them by surprise. I’ll make sure the door is unlocked. Meanwhile I’ll try to do something, I promise.” He looks away guiltily. “I’m so sorry for dragging you into this Jun-kun. I didn't know...”

 

Jun nods. He tries to stop his stomach from clenching too hard when Toma leaves him alone again. He knows the guys are going to be back soon, and he is not sure what they are going to do to him. He just hopes Sho realized his absence and has enough faith in him to know he wouldn’t just run away.

 

Please save me.

 

~~~

 

“Okay, that’s it.” Sho puts his cup with tea down angrily. “I’m going!”

 

“Eh,” Nino asks, obviously faking obliviousness. “Where to?”

 

“I’m going to find Jun,” Sho explains like it’s the most normal thing of the world. To him it somehow is.

 

“No, you won’t.” Ohno intervenes earnestly. “It’s dangerous as fuck to do that. You know it.”

 

“I know,” Sho says, for the first time ever deciding to not even give a penny on Ohno’s opinion. “But Jun is alone, and probably scared as hell. Who knows what they are going to do with him!?” He tries to calm down his heart that’s beating hysterically fast when he thinks of what might happen to Jun and how he might feel. “I can’t just leave him alone.”

 

“Nagase-san is already on his way,” Ohno tries to argue.

 

“I know,” Sho admits quietly. “But I can’t sit here and wait. When they find him I want to be there for him. Can’t you understand?”

 

Ohno lets out a desperate sigh. “I can. I just don’t like it.”

 

“We don’t even know where to go to,” Nino argues. “Nagase-san took all the information with him.”

 

“Yes we do,” Aiba intervenes all of a sudden. “Someone here remembers Toma-kun’s address…”

 

Sho’s eyes snap up. “You do?”

 

“Yes, I read the card before you handed it to Nagase-san.” Aiba grins. “I’ve always been good with numbers and street names. Comes with my job at the bar.”

 

Sho feels tears prickling in his eyes. “Masaki…”

 

“I know, I'm awesone,” Aiba smiles. “Let’s go and visit Toma and then find your sweetheart.”

 

“What if they did something to him?” Sho wants to know.

 

The others stay silent for a while. “We shouldn’t think that way,” Nino says carefully after all. “We need to focus and stay positive. Let’s find Toma-kun first, and be fast. Time is everything at the moment.”

 

Sho nods, although not put at ease at all. He knows Nino just diplomatically shipped around the topic. Before they can leave though, Ohno grabs his arm, patting it softly, while Aiba and Nino don’t listen. “If something happened,” he says softly. “We’ll help him through it. Because we don’t have any other option then.”

 

It’s nothing reassuring at all, but still Ohno’s words warm Sho’s heart a bit. Maybe it’s because he said we and not you. He includes himself and the others, and it makes Sho’s heart beat faster to know that the others have accepted Jun in his life, simple as that.

 

“You’ll get him back,” Ohno says earnestly. “I know you will.”

 

 

~~~

 

Jun is leaning against the wall when the door opens again. He braces himself inwardly for whatever is going to come. His mind feels dizzy despite Toma’s efforts, he feels tired and drained, and every bone of his body seems to hurt.

 

This time it’s their fisher approaching him. Ugly, pathetic, disgusting scumbag. Jun glares up to him in defiance, earning him another slap to his face. He drops down to the side before the man pulls him up again, kicking him into his stomach.

 

Jun remembers the times he was still Yuki and at their mercy, and got beaten up and punished several times. It helps to be used to it, he thinks, but still his heart aches more than it did during the last couple of years. Maybe because he got to know Sho and his kindness, and thought he found a loophole out of his misery. For a few months he was allowed to be free. Seems to be over now.

 

When the fisher hits him again, Jun tastes iron on his tongue. What do they even want from him? He is there anyway! And he can’t fucking talk. So what?

 

Despite all that he doesn’t want to give himself up yet. He fears if he does, he will lose all hope. He is still in Tokyo after all, otherwise Toma wouldn’t be here, and he sent a message to Sho right before he was captured. He feels if he gives himself up, it’s going to be over forever, and he can just die on the spot.

 

“You really are pretty,” the chief says after he has watched them for a while. He takes a step forward, signalling the fisher to step aside. There is something in his eyes that makes Jun’s head spin and his stomach go upside down. No way! He knows this glance, he knows what it means!

 

Jun pushes away from the guy, his whole appearance disgusting him to no end. His heart is hammering against his chest so fast that he can almost hear it in his ears. A numb feeling spreading through him.

 

“Come here, honey. You can’t run away.” The man grins, obviously taking his fun out of Jun’s reaction. “Your doppelganger was just like you when we found him. A little boy growing up on the streets, you know? He was pretty… we knew that he would sell well. So we took him and…cared for him… He became our best.” He grins. “You could become our best too.”

 

FUCK OFF. Jun wishes he could yell at them and insult them, his eyes sparkling in fury when he thinks about what these guys are doing to these kids who are living in poverty. What they might have promised them to come here. What they might have promised him to join them. He can’t remember. He was too young. It’s just disgusting.

 

“You should stop being so stubborn.” The man grumbles, slowly losing his patience. He walks closer to Jun, grabbing his shoulders so that he won’t be able to rob away from them. “Help me.” He mumbles towards the fisher.

 

The latter nods, his expression like a wild animal smelling blood, rushing towards his side. His eyes are shining lustfully when he is tugging at Jun’s shirt, almost ripping it off from his body. Jun is panting heavily, turning around and wriggling like crazy. He tries to kick them, to get away from them, but no matter what he does, the grip on his arm is so firm that it holds him in place without any bigger effort.

 

Jun feels how his throat is burning, his eyes getting blurred by the desperate tears he is crying. During his time with Sho he has actually believed that he would be able to live on without remembering his past, but to his shock his past came hunting him down. Literally.

 

When Jun feels how one of the guys is tugging at his trousers, he gathers his strength again. He won’t let them win without a fight, like… go to hell, you assholes! He wanted to give it all to Sho, all he has, he doesn’t want anyone else to fuck him. With new-found resolve he starts kicking around like madly. To his surprise it works, for a moment the grip on his shoulders loosening, making it possible for him to get free. Just like Toma advised him he frees his hands and rolls away from the guys, trying to hurry to the door, but his feet are weak, trembling like crazy and soon he feels an arm around his waist, pulling him back and throwing him to the floor.

 

 A/N: Hello everyone, sorry for the late update! I skipped last weekend, becaues I was lazy and felt no one is around anyways (holidays? finals? ^^)
So, we know Shun's story now. But Jun isn't safe at all... Somehow I feel like this is a pretty angsty chapter? Sorry if it is! I promise things will get better at one point!