[Laruku] [Tetsuhai] Taste of Love

[radhaj]

Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Those people are not mine. I only wish they were
Warnings: All sorts of ickness: slavery, bdsm, bondage, all sorts of kinks, including the fact that Hyde is a minor in this one. Like, really a minor. You have been warned.
Summary: In a country where slavery is the main source of income, Hideto sacrifices his own freedom to protect his sister's. Young and impressionable, he finds himself giving his trust to the kind slave trainer that bought him, but there is no hope anymore for the inexperienced boy to ever experience what love is now that he's no longer in control of his own life... or is there?


Chapter 1

Hideto trembled as he watched the men in front of him. They were big, and strong – nothing like his own scrawny figure. And they were powerful. So powerful, influential, so rich, that noone ever dared defy them. But... how could he stay quiet now? When they...

He winced when he saw one of the men push his older sister into the arms of another, who then leered at her and touched her beautiful, pure body with his dirty big hands. The girl tried to protest, tried to get away from the strong hold, but they just laughed at her.

“Come on, little girl, you weren't so shy when you came to us to borrow money,” they taunted her, while Hideto stood, scared, a few steps away, his hands clenched into fists at his sides, “You're months late with giving it back, did you expect us to just let you go for looking pretty? Time to pay up. And if you can't, we'll just have to get our money back some other way. By selling you as a slave, for example. You surely would get us pretty penny with a body like that,” they laughed again, looking her over like she was... a piece of merchandise or something, and that just was more than Hideto could take.

“You can't do that!” he screamed, launching himself at the men to try and free his sister, but they swatted him back as if he were no bigger than a fly, making him stumble backwards and fall on his ass, prompting another bout of laughter from the burly men.

“Oh yes we can,” one of them actually deigned to answer him, “Your sister owes us a substantial sum of money, and is unable to pay up. By the laws of this country, we can do whatever we want with her to get it back.”

Hideto whimpered as he picked himself up from the floor, but couldn't really say anything in response once he was standing again. By the laws of this country...

The man was right, of course. If you lived in the screwed up country like Sklabitia - a country that supplied a big part of the rest of the world with well-trained slaves, you learned to live as quietly and unnoticeably as possible just so you wouldn't attract the wrong kind of attention. The government, and the justice system were never created to protect you, just to make it easier for the people of the upper social status. The nobles.

In fact, Sklabitia only had four main social classes. First of all were the nobles, including the royalty. For a small country like this, the number of nobles was suspiciously high, but the country, in general, was rich enough to support the luxurious lifestyles of all of them.

Then, of course, there were the slaves – the biggest resource of income for the country. They even got imported from other countries here, just to be trained by the incredibly good and talented slave traders of this land, who made up the third class.

And finally, there was a rather small number of regular people. People like Hyde and his sister, who did the most necessary work here. People that ran restaurants, people that owned small shops, farmers... people who ran the brothels and also the prostitutes. People that lived simple lives, earning barely enough money to survive on. People that made this country able to function by taking care of the basics. Of course, most of the shops and small businesses also got slave-workers there almost all the time, as the trainers also needed to have their slaves be able to work so they'd be useful to their future Masters. But if it were not for the simple people, none of these basic structures of society would have even existed.

Hideto and his sister worked on a pretty big farm, owned by a minor noble, for all of their lives. They were barely educated well enough to read and write and count. All they've known most of their lives was how to work the soil and how to take care of the cattle. All they could truly trust on was having each other, ever since their parents died in an accident a few years ago. And now their hard, but at least peaceful, life was being interrupted. Hideto was about to lose the last thing he had, and he couldn't help but look at his sister with tears in his eyes. Why did she do this, why did she borrow the money? He hadn't known about it at all until a few minutes ago, when these men had burst into their tiny home and grabbed her.

But of course he could guess, even though he didn't want to admit it. For over a year now, he had thought that the numbers weren't adding up. He truly had never been that good at counting though, so he mostly just dismissed it as that... or maybe he just didn't want to admit he found it suspicious. The money they earned on the farm shouldn't have been enough for them to pay the rent and the food. They should have starved, most likely. And now he knew why they hadn't... His sister, his beautiful and loving sister, had done the only thing she could think of to be able to take care of her little brother.

“Please,” he spoke up again, swallowing down his pride and bowing before the men in hopes that would make them have mercy, “Give us a bit more time, I beg you. We will return you the money, just release my sister, have pity. Take me instead if you have to...”

His plea got cut off, however, when instead of taking him seriously the men started laughing again.

“Take you instead?” one of them asked, “Who would even pay enough for a scrawny kid like you? A man, for that? Though, I have to admit, youare pretty,” the man's voice lost the mocking note slowly, and he suddenly sounded thoughtful, even stepping out towards the bowing boy, grabbing his chin to raise his face and inspect it. Hideto, of course, did not dare to try and get away from the touch, “There's been a bigger market for male slaves lately. It used to be only a few noble women who would want their own pet to satisfy their desires, but now men are no longer unwilling to admit their taste for pretty boys like you... Exactly like you. Petite, slightly feminine, pretty-faced... Say what, little boy. We can make a deal. We'll let your sister go free, if you really want to save her, if in three days you can convince someone to buy you for enough money instead.”

Hideto's heart was beating insanely fast in his chest, and he felt sick when he heard the suggestion. Becoming a slave? Him? And to a man at that? He was not naïve or ignorant of what the slaves were mostly used for – noone in this country was, not even little kids. Could he really... could he really submit to that? Becoming a plaything to some old, perverted noble, with no hope of ever being freed? Pleasing a man sexually... He had never even thought about it. He would sometimes dream about meeting a girl at some point, maybe, but he had never even thought about being attracted to men...

But that did not even matter, right? If he was supposed to be a slave... It didn't matter what he liked and what he didn't. The only thing that mattered was that he had no choice about it. And he truly had no choice here. He was not going to let his sister suffer this fate instead. His beloved sister who only ever had his best intentions in her heart, who had sacrificed so much for him already.

“I'll do it. Just let Gina-chan go,” he said, before he could change his mind, but that only made his sister suddenly start struggling more.

“No, Hide-chan, don't do this!” she screamed, with tears in her own eyes, finally managing to move so much that the man who had been holding her until then released her, and she dashed towards the man that seemed to be the group's leader, lashing out at him and beating her small fists again his chest, “You can't do this, you can't take him because of me! I took the money, he has nothing to do with it!” she screamed, before the man caught her by her wrists and stopped her, making her slide onto her knees on the ground, sobbing helplessly.

“Well, but he offered himself up so nicely. You should be happy, you know, having such a lovely little brother who's willing to do so much for you. Besides, it might still not work, if he doesn't succeed in getting someone interested in him,” the man spoke, and let her wrists go, making her collapse completely, “Come on, get the boy then. We'll get him washed up and outfitted well, and bring him to the market today already. Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky, Hide-chan,” he snared mockingly, and Hideto could only stand, frozen because he was simply so overwhelmed by the situation. He could barely believe what was happening when the man that had come close to him suddenly got a rope from somewhere, tying his wrists behind his back and then tugging on it harshly to get him moving. His feet heavy, he started following the men out the door, but when he was about to pass the collapsed figure of his sister, he stopped in his tracks, despite the men impatiently tugging on the rope again.

He knew he had to say goodbye now. If this worked - and as afraid of that as he was, he truly hoped it would – noone would bother with giving him an opportunity to see his sister again, or talk with her at all. This was possibly the last time it ever happened. He suddenly fell to his knees beside her shaking from sobs figure, and bent down to kiss the top of her head and then whisper into her ear.

“It will be okay, Gina-chan, I promise,” he said, the strength in his voice surprising even him as he knew he didn't truly feel it. But he hoped that would comfort the girl at least, even if they both knew it was an empty promise. The beautiful girl raised her face then, and suddenly embraced him tightly.

“You shouldn't have done it. You shouldn't have... I should have been the one...” she she said, crying still, before managing to control herself a little, knowing as well as he did that nothing could be changed now anymore, “Be careful, please, Hide-chan.”

That was all she managed to say before the men lost patience completely and tugged on the rope even more harshly, making him stand up and follow them out, not looking back. He did not know what was waiting for him in the future, but he was at least glad that he was granted this chance to save his sister from it. Now he only had to figure out what he could do to convince someone to buy him.

Comments

[mikantoringo.livejournal.com]

Hi
I've already read all chapters you posted from the other site. But not leaving any comments 'cause I don't have account there..
And now I'll patiently wait for you to post the next chapter. Glad you come back again,,

[radhaj.livejournal.com]

hey, i'm glad to hear you've been reading this :) But just so you know, you have absolutely no need for an account on AO3 to comment there.

I dunno how soon i'll be updating this particular story but I'm happy to have a reader in you :)