L'Arc en Ciel fanfiction .::. Working the Streets

Episode 12 ~Tetsu comes out of the closet ~

Tetsu made himself as comfortable as possible leaning against the lavishly decorated entrance of one of the most fashionable restaurants in Shibuya. He forced a smile upon his face and tried to exercise his mind powers, should he have any, in order to attract some charity from the departing customers.
He was beginning to think his radar for catching charities was malfunctioning... getting a single coin was excruciating.
Suddenly he caught sight of his own image reflected upon one of the restaurant entrance panels.
He looked bad. But then again, if he looked like one of the models on the shiny street notices, why would he need charities? A shadow caught Tetsu’s attention.
“Haido... Haido?” He turned suddenly in hope of seeing his friend... Nothing there. It had all been a trick of his imagination.
“Where is he now? It’s been a week since we had that awful happening at the church... he hasn’t showed his butt since then.” He thought and then stopped to reconsider his words. The phrase “show his butt” made him chuckle. Of course, when it came to Hyde it was more accurate to choose “butt” instead of face, since he seemed to like showing the former rather often.
Tetsu chuckled all by himself, and he guessed he looked stupid doing that, but he couldn’t help it.
A couple went inside the restaurant without giving him a look. A little boy holding on to his father’s hand gave him a cursory glance. Tetsu smiled for all answer. Not that he found it funny... he was more in the mood to spit at the boy, but he had learned from his friends at the train station to be patient and nice.
On the other hand, the boy’s mittens were very similar to those Hyde usually wore... the gloves they had shared on that fateful Christmas Eve night.
Tetsu shook his head as if wanting to cast the thought away.
“I have to see him... I really have to... I have to talk to him... I’m a son of a bitch if I don’t help him.” He murmured under his breath. He collected his stuff and headed towards Hyde’s apartment. He wasn’t sure what he would do or say, but he figured he would think of something.

“Ahh... Hello, sugar-daddy...” Hyde said in his sweetest voice upon opening the door. He suddenly caught sight of the beggar boy smiling silly in front of him.
“Well, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has ever called me.” Tetsu said wickedly.
“Shut up, moron! I thought it was a client! What the hell are you doing here? I have to work!” Hyde snapped and brutishly dragged Tetsu in.
“Ne... I came for a visit.” Tetsu said smiling broadly.
“Don’t come for a visit without warning me! I might be working!”
“Hello?! How do I fucking warn you? I don’t have a cell phone or coins for a pay phone!”
“Uh... well, I’ll think of something...” Hyde said scratching the back of his head in uncertainty. “Don’t act smart on me, baka!” he continued and pulled from Tetsu dragging him further into the apartment.
“Oe! No need to pull from me like that!”
“You want food? You hungry?”
“Er... No and yes.”
“You can’t make up your mind, asshole or you are fucking with me?”
“Well... No, and hell no.”
“You’re trying me, huh? Want me to hit you, huh?”
“No... and of course not.”
Hyde grabbed Tetsu by the neck and they started fighting again.
“Baka!! Let go of me!!” Tetsu wailed trying to bite Hyde.
“You are a moron, Tetsu! A moron! You come here to make fun of me?!”
“No, idiot!” Tetsu gasped and tried desperately to kick Hyde away from him. “I came here to visit and talk... like... like friends!”
Hyde released Tetsu and stared at him with a tint of doubt while showing him his fist.
“You sure?”
“Absolutely.”
“Well, I’ve no time to play friendly now. I’m expecting a client.”
“I see... well... maybe I can see you later and...”
“You’re gonna take me to the priest again?”
“No, I’m not.”
“Good.”
Suddenly a knock on the door startled both boys.
“Kya!! It’s the client! I gotta get rid of you, beggar-boy!”
“Don’t call me that!”
“Hush! What am I supposed to call you?! Mr. IBM CEO?”
“Omae...”
“Get inside the closet.” Hyde grunted and pushed Tetsu inside the dark cubicle. “Stay there. This old fart won’t take long. Here you have cookies and an issue of shonen jump. Stay quiet.” Hyde snapped and shoved both articles inside the closet hitting Tetsu on the head with them.
“But... but... Haido!”
“Shut the hell up! Pretend you don’t exist!” Hyde protested in anxiety.
“But...”
“Shaddap!” Hyde ordered and closed the closet door. He arranged his clothes slightly, sleeked his hair backwards and walked nonchalantly to the door.
“But how am I supposed to read manga in the darkness...?” Tetsu wondered almost to himself.
“Ha---llo---” Hyde greeted fancily upon opening the door.
“Hai-chan...” The big man in his mid-fifties leered at him confidently. He was decidedly a regular.
He walked in and took Hyde in his arms lifting him.
“How have you been pretty boy?”
“Playing...” Hyde answered and giggled like a child, throwing his arms around the sturdy man.
Tetsu moved inside the closet in order to make himself comfortable, causing a soft rustling against the crunchy bag of cookies and the magazine cover.
“What was that?” The client suddenly asked Hyde upon hearing the noise coming from the closet as soon and put Hyde back down on the floor.
“Eh? Nani?” Hyde tried to play innocent and made a mental note to throttle Tetsu if he made another noise.
“That noise... coming from the closet...” The client asked in suspicion.
“Ah... well...” Hyde tried to think fast. “Ah... don’t tell anyone, please sugar-daddy... I have a kitty...”
“Kitty...?”
“Well... kachou doesn’t want me to have one... but I so love cuddly little kittens! And... and... I got myself one cuz I’m lonely and I want to cuddle a kitty...” Hyde lied impishly, pretending a cute voice.
“You like cuddly things, na?” The middle-aged man leered and narrowed his eyes staring at Hyde.
“Yeah.” Hyde said smiling nervously.
“And do you like to be cuddled?”
“I love being cuddled.” Hyde answered grinning. “Especially when I’m naked... and I also love it when I’m dried with a towel after taking a bath...”
“Well... I always appreciate a clean youth.”
“I’m very clean, daddy... Wanna check me?”
“Well, of course I should.” The client widened his lascivious leering and proceeded to undressing a giggling Hyde.
Tetsu disputed himself between silently tearing the cookie bag open and mentally cursing at the conversation he had just overheard.
“Haido, you slut... I can’t believe you are inviting that old fart to molest you...” Tetsu chewed to himself.
He suddenly perceived the giggling as getting louder, and took advantage of it to rip the cookie bag open.
Haido needed help, yes, but Tetsu’s stomach needed urgent attention.
“That brat... that damned slutty brat is gonna get fucked by that disgusting old man, and he sounds happy about it... He should be ashamed... he should feel disgusted at it... he should find someone his age and... hmm... these cookies are great...”
Tetsu munched carefully trying not to make much noise, and tried to guess the fine but firm lines of the manga on the coarse paper within the darkness. He tried not to pay attention to the suspicious noises coming from outside his shelter, but at times the noises would startle and disgust him, even to the point of not wanting to eat anymore.

Hyde jumped naked on the bed, causing its springs to make a squeaking sound that encompassed his giggling.
“Daddy’s gonna play with me? This boy wants to play...” Hyde said acting the behavior of someone obviously younger.
“Yes, I’m gonna play with you. That’s what I’m here for...”
“Suge! Suge! Suge!” Hyde exclaimed and kept jumping on the bed.
“Come here, little bunny. Stop jumping like that...”
“Hehehe...” Hyde chuckled and kneeled on the bed, by the spot where his client was sitting.
The sturdy man caressed Hyde’s head for a second and then rapidly lowered his way towards the boy’s chest.
“Such a smooth skin you have...”
“...cuz I’m a little kid.” Hyde said and nodded.
“Yes, you are. You are a naughty, little kid.”
Hyde chuckled again and the client climbed fully on the bed making it squeak a little louder.
Tetsu, bored of not being able to read the manga, and having already finished the cookies in record time, found a little gap through which he could peep.
Part of him didn’t want to watch, but part of him was desperately wishing to do so.
“So clean... baby boy is so clean...” The man mouthed in a husky voice tinted of desire.
Hyde moaned and giggled, and a few seconds later he sighed upon feeling the blunt fingers strolling down his most intimate parts.
“Small... fresh... you are like a tempting fruit waiting to be bitten...”
“No, daddy, don’t bite me...” Hyde mocked a worried tone. All words his clients might say sounded empty and cheesy to him.
“Beautiful... unmarred nature at its best...” the client murmured and lowered his head between both skinny legs delivering a soft lick on Hyde’s testicles.
Hyde giggled again and ran his little fingers through the middle-aged man’s thinning hair.
“Come here and blow me, little boy...” The client said and lifted Hyde, turning in order to place him in the best position for the chore he had asked of him.
“Un!” Hyde exclaimed in a fake happy tone.

Tetsu watched from the thin gap. He was shocked.
He was doubly shocked.
On one hand, he was shocked to actually see it happening. To actually have a shot of what Hyde had been doing. A crude, uncensored and unabridged view of the actual job his friend was entertaining.
It was disgusting... but on the other hand... he was getting turned on.
Tetsu realized, cursing silently at himself, that he was getting turned on and he would have even agreed to fill the position of the client.
To kiss Hyde and have Hyde kiss him. To caress his soft skin and have his skin caressed by Hyde.
Tetsu leaned on the side wall of the closet without noticing a soft rustling inside it and decided not to keep looking. He unconsciously slid his hand under his ragged pants and without taking full notice of what he was doing he started jerking off... closing his eyes and picturing himself holding and kissing Hyde.
It was wrong... it was very wrong... part of himself cursed his other part for it... but the horny side prevailed, and Tetsu became incredibly turned on by the sole idea of giving Hyde such incredibly intimate caresses... and receiving them from him in return.
Hyde had been right... Hyde was desirable and cute... and everyone wanted to lay him, as he had said... And of course, as he had said, Tetsu couldn’t afford to.
Tetsu kept providing himself with gratuitous pleasure while having Hyde’s moans for background music. He could close his eyes and picture the object of his desire being with him... imagine his friend’s hand delivering such pleasurable strokes instead of his own.
Tetsu bit his lower lip in newly found pleasure and guilt.
He couldn’t desire Hyde... it was just the situation... just the situation, yes... and he let himself be carried away by it.

Suddenly, after a while, the moans began to get louder, and Tetsu’s attention was drawn to the scene developing away from his sight, but still within his hearing range.
“Iiya... da---dame...” Hyde cried moaning sorely. The man all around him breathed heavily and chuckled in an intermittent and overwhelming chortling.
“Do you think your voyeur’s having a great show yet?”
“Chi---chigau yo! There... there... there is no voyeur...!” Hyde protested in a choked voice mixed with sobs and soft cries.
“Greedy boy... You squeezed a voyeur here in order to make more money in one stand, right? But things don’t work like that... not with me... and you will get your deserved punishment...”
Something had to be wrong.
Tetsu thought Hyde was either in big trouble or giving an academy award-deserving performance. The former option was the most likely, but he didn’t know what to do.
He pushed the door slightly and watched through a tiny gap. His heart steeping.
“There... your voyeur kitty needs a better view!” The old man exclaimed, and forcefully moved Hyde into a side position, giving Tetsu full view of the scene.
“No... no... Please...” Hyde moaned and whined. His hair was messed, his small hands tied in front of him and his small hips seemed to bear large bruises. Tetsu couldn’t see Hyde’s face. He seemed to be purposefully hiding it from him. But he could see how the big old man held Hyde’s skinny legs parted to an almost flat angle while thrusting mercilessly inside him in a barbarian display of brutality. And Tetsu could hear the small boy choking an almost irrepressible need to bawl, begging for clemency... silently pleading for help.
Tetsu swallowed in withheld trepidation. This couldn’t be normal... but then again, he didn’t know much about these things; maybe it was, and Hyde would kill him if he stormed out of the closet to give him unrequested help.
He felt his heart wrenching in distress and fear. Hyde did seem to be suffering. He did seem to be crying... And those bruises... Those bruises just couldn’t be acted.
Tetsu was officially scared.
“You have a very soft butt, little boy... soft like butter when I thrust myself inside you. I can feel your thin and young flesh receding with every plunge, it is almost tearing... and I’m almost bursting your butt with ease...” the old man laughed and pushed himself toughly inside Hyde who moaned repressing the urge to howl.
Tetsu breathed heavily in panic, holding on to the closet walls, scratching them to the point of breaking his nails against the flat surface. He swallowed in fear and impotence watching the scene he was not supposed to be spectator to. His vision was blurry from tears and his throat ached, but he could still see... and he wished he were braver, smarter, or maybe blind.
Hyde’s small hands were tightly clenched in fists holding on to a piece of bedcover. His agitated breathe, the little moans of pain and the rapid movement of his thorax were telling Tetsu that this couldn’t be right. He was about to storm out of the closet anyway... to whatever the outcome might be; even without exactly knowing what to do.
“Hey! Come out, voyeur! Why don’t you join us?! This slut can take more dick!”
Tetsu freaked out and instinctively bolted backwards, banging his head against the bottom wall of the closet.
He cursed himself for it, and almost immediately he heard the horrible sound of laughter that preceded the one and only throaty scream that Hyde let out.
Right after that, he heard a soft thump, and a painful cry muffled against something.
“Greedy boys don’t get anything other than punishment. I’ll talk to your boss about this. You, slut... you little slut...” The old man hissed and Tetsu heard the rustling of clothes in the background, merging in with Hyde’s moans.
“Dakara... dakara...”
“Shut up, slut. Welcome to the real world.”
The old man laughed eerily and Tetsu, once again, decided to gather the courage to step out of the cubicle he was in and try to do something... although he didn’t know quite what.
A few seconds later, he heard the door being slammed, and his heart missed a beat or two. He approached the door gap and watched the still scene.
Hyde looked devastated, and barely moved on the bed... only enough to sob painfully. His face still turned from Tetsu’s view.
Tetsu opened the door slowly, almost fearing to do so.
“Tet---Tet-chan...” Hyde moaned sorely.
“Ha-Haido... Haido!” Tetsu screamed. The small boy’s voice had given him courage to jump out of the closet and run towards him.
“Haido! Are you OK?”
“Gee... Tet-chan... looks like you’ve come out of the closet.”
“Haido!” Tetsu cried and jumped on the bed beside his friend, trying to hold him and turn him in order to see his face. Hyde refused to move with whatever little strength he had left. “What’s he done to you?” Tetsu asked painfully while untying Hyde’s hands and rubbing his wrists.
“Uh... well... putting it bluntly... he fucked me.” Hyde said between sobs.
“Uh... Hai-chan...” Tetsu started sobbing together with him.
“He fucked me up real bad...”
“Haido, I’m gonna call a doctor...”
“No... no... just... I need you to do something for me... I’ll be all right. I’ll tell kachou about this guy. Super rough... he knows I don’t do rough...” Hyde said and rubbed his eyes with his now free hands.
“Haido, please, tell me what to do!”
“Check my butt.”
“What?!”
“Check my butt, please...”
“Are you insane?!”
“I... I think there’s something stuck in there...” Hyde said moaning and then started to cry openly, like the little boy he was.
“Wha---?!!!”
“Check me... Please...”
“I... I dunno how to...”
“You part the cheeks and take a fucking look!” Hyde bawled irritated.
“Uh...”
“I’m not gonna fart on you, moron!”
“Er... OK... OK... I’ll do it... you are the moron... and... and... hope you keep that promise, by the way.”
“Yeah, just check... might be just a feeling, but I think there is...”
“I see nothing.” Tetsu said after a quick glance.
“I can’t move, Tet-chan... Help me...”
“Wait... there’s a funny thing... I’m not gonna touch it.”
“OK... OK... I understand. Get Kuri-chan. I’ve got her on speed-dial, number 2.”
“Who is number one?”
“God.”
“Come on.” Tetsu protested almost crying himself.
“Kachou is number one, idiot. Speed-dial number 2 and tell her I need her here urgently.”
“Oh... Oh... OK... OK...” Tetsu nodded nervously and dialed.
“Tell her you are my friend...” Hyde sobbed and turned slightly.
“Oh, OK... got it.” Tetsu nodded.
“Tell her I’m in trouble...” Hyde finally added, letting Tetsu take a look of his swollen face. The red marks of big fingers crossing it behind the trail of tears.

“Can I speak to you, Haido? I mean alone.” Christina said laconically.
“Tet-chan is my best friend, it’s OK for him to listen.” Hyde replied wearily. He was sitting on the bed, wrapped in a blanket and Tetsu’s arms.
“OK. What I have to tell you isn’t nice.” Christina warned him sighing and then sat on the bed. She took Hyde’s little hand and stared at him straight into the eyes.
“I think I know what it is.” Hyde gasped almost whining.
“I’ll have you taken to hospital right away. I’m keeping this a secret from kachou, but I think you’ll have to tell him sooner or later...”
“I guess...” Hyde nodded and lowered his head, hiding the newly formed tears that had begun to pool in his eyes.
“Haido, you might have caught an STD.” Christina said softly, squeezing Hyde’s little hand a little.
“What?!” Tetsu screamed on top of his lungs.
“Sexually transmitted disease. There are a quite a number of those. What I have just taken out of Haido’s butt is a torn condom. You should be more careful, Hai-chan.”
“How could he be?! You should have seen that guy! He was practically raping Haido! He was inconceivably rough...”
“Did you see it?” Christina interrupted.
“Er...” Tetsu froze, realizing he had spoken a few more words than he should have.
“Are you getting extra money from voyeurs, Hai-chan?” Christina asked in a disapproving tone. If the boy was doing voyeurism behind kachou’s back, he was sure up for trouble.
“No... this bummer just came for a visit when my client was about to arrive.” Hyde answered in a painful voice.
“I see. You hid him.” Christina snapped nodding, still disapproving.
“Yeah.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter now. The worst thing I can think of is HIV or B Hepatitis... Both are deadly. And you know these guys are rather promiscuous, or at least you should know. I’ve always thought you were smarter than that. You have disappointed me, Haido.
For now, you’ll need immediate checkup of the condom and yourself. The implications of this incident are something we will discuss later.”
“Uh... But... but... he seemed OK.” Hyde wailed partially in anxiety and partially in fear.
“Haido don’t be stupid.” Christina answered contemptuously.
“Oh... no... oh, fuck no... For fuck’s sake no!” Hyde gave in to a bawling fit that quite suited his young age, and Tetsu held him tightly, trying not to cry himself and make it even worse.
“It can’t be! Haido can’t have caught something deadly.” Tetsu protested and squeezed the exhausted and naked body of his friend, who shivered and sniveled under the blanket Christina had wrapped him in about an hour ago... He wailed in despair, only moving his torso with the convulsive and impotent crying of a 13-year-old.
“Well, my awfully-dressed little friend... he might just have.” Christina sentenced in unhidden disapproval and fear for his small companion, the one who had played ‘sonny’ for her for such a long time now soothing the symptoms of loss and emptiness in her life.
She lit a cigarette with nervous fingers and went on speaking. “And if you are his friend, like he claims you are, you should help him to hospital right away.”
“Ah... I will. Of course I will.” Tetsu said nodding. Fear creeping up his spine as he powerlessly watched Hyde weep miserably and caressed his battered body. Observing him in impotence; knowing there wasn’t much Tetsu could do to help him should Christina be right; feeling he should have done more in the near past in order to prevent any situation like this one to arise. Tetsu felt guilty. Guilty of not having been able to protect his best friend. The one that had reached the highest category in human relationships in such a short span of time. And even if in the back of his mind a tiny voice tried to tell him it wasn’t his fault, Tetsu kept feeling guilty of not having tried harder, not having done more to help Hyde.
Hyde had chosen his way of life in spite of Tetsu’s attempts of rescue. Hyde had never wanted to be rescued... except probably now, Tetsu thought. But anyway, it was unforgivable, in Tetsu’s mind, not to have tried harder. Not to have overcome fear.
He rested his head on Hyde’s nape and felt his friend’s pain and helplessness as his own. He felt overwhelmed by the situation and words escaped his mind. He could only keep silent company to Hyde’s sorrow and caress him gently... trying to make the pain vanish with his friendly strokes.
The picture in front of his eyes was that of a devastated child that kept taking life’s blows one after another without any rest. It was certainly far from the adult image Hyde used to put up in front of him. Hyde was acting like the kid he so much tried to hide from Tetsu. And Tetsu didn’t know what to do to alleviate the pain, the anguish, the despair. He wished he could turn back time and prevent everything from happening, but it was not his place to have such powers. He was not a super hero from anime shows... He wished he were, if only for a brief moment. If only for Hyde’s sake.
But no... He was just a poor boy, begging on the streets, crying for a friend that had been battered, used, abused, and probably sentenced to death.
All he could offer now was support, and he didn’t know if that was even half enough.

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