Disclaimer: I do not own Akira or Shiki… T_T
Summary: It's been 2 years since Akira and Shiki escaped Toshima however, Shiki slowly became a shell of his former self. Akira has been caring for Shiki but too late, he discovered how he truly felt and how much he needed the other. Yet, it seems that something is changing. Shiki is waking up. Warning: Future Lemon
Pairings: Shiki/Akira
Warnings: Yaoi and Lemons! If you don't like yaoi then why are you reading this? Also, there will be battle violence, constructive criticism is allowed and flamers will be locked up with their flames and roasted alive.
A/N: Takes place after the pc Visual Novel version of TnC. Similar to my Nano/Akira fic, this will be about what I think happened after the events of the game. It's a bit OOC and cliché at parts but I did my best to keep them in character. The first paragraph and the flashback is taken from - http:(slash)(slash) . – Replace . and the (slash) with / Her translation of Shiki's Drama CD was really good, I recommend that you all go check it out while listening to the Drama CD.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
~David Grayson
I hear a sound, a weak sound. By my ears the sound of metal echoes. The sound of wind sliced open. It is familiar...but I can't remember it. I don't know anything. Everything. Including who I am. But, that sound...it is very nostalgic. That voice...
His heart stirred for the first time in two years. A faint and distant memory emerging from the depths of his dulled mind. A precious memory. The feelings of a wound slowly healing.
Flashback
"What's your name?"
"…"
"Say it."
"Akira."
Flashback
…Akira…Akira…
~TnC~
Akira sighed as he wiped the Japanese katana with a cloth he carried with him before sheathing the blade, making a mental note to properly clean the blood off the blade later. He wouldn't want Shiki's sword to begin rusting before he got better.
The raven might scold him.
The sliver haired man sighed again at the thought. Shiki… He turned to the dark haired man slumped in his wheelchair. At the sight, Akira felt a deep sadness welled up in his chest. He didn't want to admit it, but he missed his 'master'. Even after what Shiki had done to him, he would do anything to get him back. To bring life back into the shell that remained after Nano's passing.
Once we get out of here. Go wherever you like.
Those were Shiki's words. Yet he had remained by the raven's side, the very thought of leaving him had caused his chest to clench and made it difficult for him to breathe. Despite his resistance during their time in Toshima, he had come to care for the man who claimed to own him. Perhaps, in a way he had…
"Ah Shiki, it looks like some of the blood got on you. Lets go back in, ok?"
As usual, there was no response from the beautiful doll like man. Yet Akira smiled gently as he stepped over the two bodies that lay on the path. He imagined how Shiki would probably have smirked, mocked his lack of resistance, told him he was weak for letting the cold get to him, that he should have been faster at dispatching the two men and he would be punished for getting blood on Shiki's clothes.
Akira grasped the handles of the wheelchair and slowly guided them back to the building they had been staying in. The silver haired man soon brought them to a rather large and worn looking door. Akira easily wheeled the man into a small room with a single queen sized bed in the centre. The bed was hard and the sheets were worn but it was enough for them.
"Wait here for a bit, I'll get a cloth to clean you." Akira murmured softly, cupping Shiki's face. His chest clenched again as he remembered the confident man who reigned over Toshima as Igura's strongest fighter. The man whose ultimate goal had been the destruction of Nano. The man whose eyes lost its fire when he reached his goal.
Akira felt his eyes mist over as he pulled an old but clean cloth from one of the drawers in the bedside table. Memories of how he had hated Shiki for torturing him yet at the same time, he had admired his strength and determination and when Shiki revealed himself, he began to love him.
After redressing the raven in softer clothes and laying him on the bed, Akira dampened the cloth with water from a bottle and began to gently wipe the man's face.
When had he started to love the cruel man, he wondered. Was it on that night? When Shiki had come back smelling of blood and clutching Rin's daggers? The night where he kissed Akira and held him close as he claimed him? Was it because of how Shiki told him about Nano and his moment of weakness?
Or was it when Nano had kidnapped him and Shiki had saved him, killing Emma and Gwen at the same time? Was it the way he had held Akira and said that he was taking back what belonged to him? How he claimed to not know why he was so 'fixated' on Akira. Or was it while they travelled in the tunnels and Shiki had spoken to him so gently, so caringly and gave him his freedom?
Either way, it was only after Shiki had started fading, he had felt such pain and desperation as he slowly lost the man he so admired. He had tried everything he could think of but by the time he realised that he couldn't live without Shiki, it was too late. By the time he thought of finally giving himself fully to the raven to bring him back, he was already gone.
Akira blinked as a drop of liquid landed on the bed, causing a dark spot to appear on the sheets. It was then that he realised that tears had begun to flow down his face. Blinking rapidly, his body shook as he sobbed, unable to stop himself from pressing his face against Shiki's chest and gripping his dark shirt with trembling fists.
"Shiki…come back to me…" Akira sobbed, disregarding how his tears seeped into Shiki's shirt, dampening the cloth. He sniffed, feeling Shiki's warmth against his face and imagined how Shiki held him against his side when he rescued him from the Executioners. His heart ached to badly at that moment that he almost missed it.
"A…ki…ra…"
~TnC~
Slowly. His was so tired but he forced his mind to work slowly, working through the dull pain that had taken two years to settle.
Ah Shiki, it looks like some of the blood got on you. Lets go back in, ok?
Shiki…that was his name. He was a man. His name was Shiki, he had a little step-brother…wait…no not anymore…
Why?
He killed him. He killed his little Rin…
Why?
Because he was in the way…
In the way of what?
Toshima…
Il Re…
Igura…
Nano…Nano was dead…he had done it…but he killed…Rin…his friends…he was all alone…
No…he had him.
Who?
The only one who didn't fear him… those fearless eyes…beautiful eyes
No longer alone…but…but he hurt him…
Who?
Akira…
Shiki…come back to me…
Akira…
His Akira…he freed him but…he didn't leave him…
He wasn't alone…he had…him…
His…
"A…ki…ra…"
A/N: Ok, I wanted to do another TnC oneshot but I decided to make it a multi-chapter. It'll only be a few chapters though. And about the Rin thing, I think Shiki really did care about Rin at one time, but his obsession with Nano made him forget all those things. So it's like during his vegetative state, he was kinda sorting himself out and putting his obsession away and the original Shiki is gonna emerge, sort of. Anyway, review and I'll post the next chapter sooner~! Sorry to those waiting on my Bleach fic, I'm kinda stuck on that one…don't worry I'll keep trying to write something for that one. Wait for me my lovelies~! And don't forget to review~!