Rp Log: Kaidoh Kaoru and Kentarou Aoi

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Date: Tuesday, August 8
Rating: PG for boykisses and righteous fury.
Summary: Ken pops into medlab to check on Kaoru, and learns a disturbing truth...



Kaidoh had finally been allowed to rest, sent back to the bed in the side room they'd given him to stay in for a few days. He retreated to the smal half-room, sinking onto the bed and feeling kind of... blank. The doctors had run more tests today, a CAT scan and an x-ray series and a number of other things involving electrodes and patches and computers that he didn't fully understand. But then, when they were all done, they'd finally sat him down and told him what they thought was wrong.

And it didn't make any sense.

He blinked, staring at the wall and trying to understand how something like this could've happened. They'd given him one explanation - what they'd thought was the most reasonable, given recent events - but he just... he wasn't sure he could believe it. The very thought made him want to curl up into a ball and hide, until he understood what was going on or why this had happened to him. He didn't like the thoughts running through his head, and he wished they'd just go away. That this had never happened to him. That everything had gone as it should have, and that he was a normal, regular, boring human being right now with none of... this going on.

"Kaoru-chan?"

Ken had been worried sick since hearing that Kaidoh had been put in the med wing AGAIN. He knew going to get that cure was a bad idea, not only were those guys mutant-haters, they were STUPID mutant haters too. Not even knowing if their cure was going to work for everyone. Ken had been scowling lately, something he very rarely had the heart to do, because of the thought that they wanted to get rid of mutants so badly they didn't care if their cure was untested.

He tried to push those thoughts, and the rage that bubbled with them, away from his mind as much as possible. He wanted to be all smiles for Kaidoh today, he needed to see a good smile. So he put on his widest grin, made genuine by the sight of his boyfriend on the bed.

But as he drew a little closer in the small, dim room, his smile waned a bit.

"Oh, Kaoru... Are you okay?"

Ken reached out to smooth Kaidoh's hair out gently with his fingertips, worried at the sallow skin and blank look.

Kaidoh blinked - he hadn't even heard Ken-kun come in. He took a deep breath, wondering how... how he was supposed to tell Ken that he wasn't okay, that things were all wrong and he didn't know what to do?

"I'm... I don't know," he said - because he wasn't exactly okay, but he... kind of was, because nothing hurt, he couldn't tell anything was wrong, until they pulled up the images they'd taken, pulled up the x-rays and they were all wrong.

But he was glad Ken was here... maybe if Kaidoh tried to explain it, maybe if he said it out loud to someone else, it would make more sense. Maybe. He reached over, pulling Ken a little closer with one hand, because he didn't want to be alone. He hoped Ken wouldn't think this was the last straw, that this was the one thing that made Kaidoh truly undesirable. He... didn't think so, he desperately hoped not, but Ken deserved to know. And they'd go from there.

"They... they didn't give me the cure," he said quietly, the first part of many.

Ken dragged in a chair from the adjacent room and sat gingerly in it, sliding his hand so that Kaidoh could take it. His grin faded away completely into a concerned frown as he gazed into Kaidoh's pretty brown eyes.

"What do you mean, they didn't give it to you? Isn't that why you've been feeling sick?"

Kaidoh took Ken's hand, glad to have something to hold, but he didn't dare squeeze it or even try to grip it tightly, half-afraid to touch anything. It was bad enough the bone claws had been affected - they worried him in the first place, even without this extra factor added on.

He glanced at Ken, shaking his head. "N-no. The doctors think they, um... that the shot they gave me was a sedative. That knocked me out. So they could keep me there, and... "

Kaidoh paused - this was the horrific part, the part he didn't like thinking about, but the evidence was there, there was no escaping it. "They operated on me," he said hollowly, the words still sounding strange to his own ears. "They... they opened me up and my skeleton - they infused it with something." He tried to remember the word - he'd never heard it before. "A... adamantium. It's... it's indestructable." And it was inside of him, right now. He shivered.

Aoi's chair shattered beneath him as his weight suddenly multiplied. His face was unreadable as he stood, clenching splintered wood in his fists.

"Th... they..."

Ken slowly raised his fist, face twisting into a terrible scowl, all traces of the normal Aoi Kentarou left him and he brought that fist down on Kaoru's bedside table, reducing it to a wreck.

"GrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAH! How DARE they!? FIRST they decide they want to cure us, make us go away! THEN they change their minds and when someone goes to them for HELP they try to turn him into their WEAPON?"

The rage the young mutant had suppressed came back a hundredfold, charging through him like any of his emotions would. He TREMBLED with righteous fury, and the noise he was making made him surprised that Oishi hadn't charged right in to see what was going on.

"How could they DO that to you? To my Kaoru!?"

Kaidoh jumped - he'd never seen Ken angry like this before. It was a little frightening, to say the least, but he couldn't just sit there and blink dumbly forever, or Ken might do something he regretted. "K-ken... d-don't..." He grabbed Ken's wrists in both his hands, carefully, feeling like the world was upside-down and he didn't know how to turn it back around.

"It's... I mean, I'm okay, right?" They'd woken him and let him leave, and even if he carried this... this adamantium around in his bones, he was still Kaidoh Kaoru, wasn't he? The ache from his mutation went a little deeper than it normally did, but he wasn't going to do anything anybody wanted just because they'd done this to him. "I - I'm not gonna be anybody's weapon," he said, trying to catch Ken's gaze and hold it with his own, worried, scared, and desperately wanting Ken to calm down because he was too scared of all of this, himself, to face it alone. "Please, calm down..."

"I... I can't just calm down! What makes thwm think they can just DO that to you!?"

Now Aoi was more plaintive than furious as he looked at Kaoru. He wasn't angry at him, and he softened a little when strong fingers wrapped around his wrists and that deep voice soothed him.

"It's just not RIGHT! Someone needs to stop them! What will the government think they can do next?! There are probably other mutants with healing factors and THEY'LL probably have to go through the same thing! Where are the Xmen when you need them..."

If Japan had them they'd probably be doing something about all of this... Ken wriggled his way gently from Kaidoh's grip and linked fingers with him instead, comforting them both.

"I have bad luck," Kaidoh said, by way of explanation, trying to lighten the mood just a little. He frowned a little, though, at what the other had said. "I... I hope they don't do this to anyone else." It sounded dangerous - the doctors had sounded amazed he'd lived through it, they'd said his healing factor was the only reason it could have worked without killing him. But he thought maybe it wasn't a good idea to tell Ken that, not right now, there was enough wrong, and the doctors still weren't sure.

It was impossible, even, to tell where the incisions had been. That was scary too, Kaidoh thought, leaning against Ken a little, resting his cheek on the other's shoulder, and held Ken's hands in his own, glad for the support - and glad Ken wasn't mad at him, didn't want to leave him, because he didn't want to be alone.

"It's okay," he said quietly, even though he wasn't sure if it really was. "It's not... not toxic. The doctors think I'll be fine." Well, as fine as you could be with metal bonded to your skeleton. They'd taken several samples from the bone on both elbows, and part of one rib, and it itched a little. "Can you... um, stay here tonight?" He would feel a lot better if Ken stayed, and he didn't think the doctors would mind if he had company.

Kentarou calmed further as Kaidoh leaned against him for support, and the nager ebbed away for the moment. Mostly he was just feeling concern, violation and love. He STILL couldn't understand how someone could do something like this to such a good person. And the scariest thing was that the people who did it were working for the Japanese government, the people who were supposed to PROTECT their citizens, not operate on them without their consent.

Ken nuzzled Kaoru's hair from where he rested on his shoulder.

"Of course I'll stay with you. Ummm... I'm real sorry about how angry I got, I didn't mean to scare you."

He looked sideways at the broken side table, feeling shamed and focusing gray eyes on the ground.

"And it was really dumb of me to break the table. Oishi-nii is gonna kill me..."

"It's okay," Kaidoh said softly, closing his eyes a moment to feel Ken breathing, just... glad to have someone to lean against, because he'd been by himself down here all day (because all the doctors around him didn't really count) and he was still... pretty terrified. He just wanted to stay here together and pretend that nothing was wrong.

"Oishi-san will... um, well, I'm sure he'll understand." Oishi had been acting a little funny all today, too - Kaidoh was sure he was pretty unhappy with the whole situation, too. "We can, um, deal with that later. Don't worry about it right now." Carefully, he slipped arms around Ken's waist in a bit of an awkward hug, feeling worn out from the entire day all at once. "Do... um, do you think we can both stay on the bed without breaking it?" He... wasn't sure, but maybe, if that wouldn't work, they could roll another bed in here...

Ken pulled Kaidou closer into the hug, returning it so it would be a little less awkward. He pressed his lips against the other boy's scalp, breathing in his smell and looking down at the cheap looking bed and then at himself. He was denser than usual due to his previous fit of rage, in more ways than one.

"Hehehe, ummmm, if I take my pills I should be fine. Lemme go get a glass of water?"

He pulled away from the hug and ducked out of the room quickly, pulling his medicine bottle out of his pocket and shaking out a pair of pills. He downed them with some tap water quickly before going back into the room. They worked quickly, forcing his body to relax and acting as a counter for his powers. Soon he'd be more than light enough to share the bed with Kaidou.

"I should be good to stay with you now!"

Ken strode towards the bed, leaning down to give Kaoru a gentle, but sound kiss on the lips.

Kaidoh nodded, feeling a little guilty, because the medicine sometimes made Ken uncomfortable, but he was gone before Kaidoh could say anything, and by the time he came back there was nothing to protest. Kaidoh nodded, blinking a little into the kiss but finding himself returning it eagerly, just glad to have Ken close.

"T-thanks," he said quietly once they'd parted, scooting over so that Ken could fit on the bed as well. "I hope they'll let me leave soon - I mean, there's not much they can do to fix it, so they should let me go." That had its good and bad points, but right now Kaidoh would just have to take what he could get. "Do you have enough room?"

"Plenty!"

With his reduced size and weight, Aoi was easily able to slide into the hospital bed. Normally he would tug Kaoru on top of him at this point, but with his current strength he wouldn't be able to, and he would probbaly be crushed to boot. Instead he snuggled against the other boy's side, laying kisses on his neck and cheek and one of his hands on the other's belly, rubbing gently to try and soothe his fears a bit.

"We fit together perfect, hehe."

Kaidoh smiled softly at the light kisses - they were exactly what he needed, and coupled with the hand gently rubbing along his stomach, he was starting to feel much better. He wrapped one arm carefully around Ken's waist - he had to be doubly careful, because the medicine not only made Ken more vulnerable than he usually was, but Kaidoh didn't know what kind of effect the metal bonded to his bones would have. They were unbreakable, and a bit heavier, and he didn't want to take any risks.

He nodded, curling up a little to keep most of the sharp things away from Ken and resting his head just under the other's chin. "Thanks for, um... for helping so much," he said quietly, thinking that even if he had to stay in medlab a while, as long as he had Ken at the end of the day, he'd be all right.

Ken blushed and nuzzled the hair under his chin.

"Awww, I'm not doing a whole lot. Just what any good person would, hehe. I love you Kaoru-chan."

Ken watched the sharper spines as he pressed the two of them closer together, well aware that they were actually a danger to him now, but not willing to back away because of a little thing like that.

"I'll be here for you, so you just relax and go to sleep. You need some rest! Got to get better FAST, yeah?"

Kentarou needed Kaoru around more than usual, he really did scare himself sometimes and maybe his reserved boyfriend's presence would keep him from doing something stupid...

"It's more than enough," Kaidoh said quietly, blushing furiously, but he meant it. "I... I love you too." He didn't say it often, but he never meant it any less. He made sure nothing could hurt Ken as they settled closer, closing his eyes and rubbing Ken's back, carefully, trying to let him know that he would be here, too, if Ken ever needed him, and that even though they were both pretty scared by this, everything would be all right. Because right now, it felt like maybe it would be.