One: I

Never once had I been afraid of Akashi Seijuro, not once. Until he changed that is.

It started with the water bottle. It was the graduation ceremony and the locker room was my place of solace. I was already used to the smell of shoes and sweaty armpits but even then I didn't care. I was excited for our summer vacation but until I could leave the grounds I wanted to be here.

It was nostalgic as though I hadn't been practicing in the court the day before and we would be returning here after the break was over but to see the senpais leave and move on to the high schools they had chosen, it was still slightly saddening.

"Tetsuya." I turned to Akashi who was standing in the doorway to the locker room.

"Akashi-kun." I greeted and the slightly sadistic smile on his face widened just a bit more.

"Why are you in here alone?" He questioned. Akashi-kun inflicted fear in me ever since the day his darker half emerged. It was as if a demon had taken over and constantly radiated darkness and control into the hearts of everyone. I hadn't realized I was only staring until he huffed in amusement. "Well?"

"Oh! Um-" I looked away and couldn't bring myself to look back at him although my eyes flitted back to his figure unconsciously. "I was enjoying the silence." The excuse fell lamely from my lips but he didn't comment on it.

His footsteps echoed in the quiet locker room as he came to sit next to me. He popped open a water bottle and handed it to me. "Thank you."

He took a drink from his own water bottle and I took a drink from mine. "Akashi-kun, what are you doing here?"

"Hmm, I came looking for you."

I was surprised. "Me?"

He turned to me and I swallowed as his eyes seemed to stare right into my soul. "Come live with me during the break. My home is in Kyoto and it will be fun."

His eyes shone with delight and my own reflected fear. "Akashi-kun, I mean-" I looked away again and he tilted his head to meet my eyes again. "I'm honored you have asked me but I-" My vision blurred slightly and the lockers began to spin sideways. "I can't take you on your offer."

"I see," I felt his arms around me, almost comforting as I fell over. "it seems Tetsuya, that I won't be giving you a choice in the matter."

I didn't think I understood the complexity of how Akashi thought but I realized that I knew even less than I thought. For him to have drugged me, it was the last thing I expected.

The second thing was the door.

It was a beautiful door. The oak was western and rich; a beautiful dark wood and smooth to the touch. It was the only thing I could do. The knob was golden and cool but for me it wasn't going to turn.

Akashi Seijuro was a frightening person. He had my clothes packed, permission from my mother, a room ready for me, and complete control. I shivered in the yukata I had woken up wearing.

I felt uneasy, not only that I was naked underneath the yukata but that the door had been locked from the outside. The bed was soft but that wasn't something I wanted to enjoy right now. The window was too small to climb through and there was no access to ventilation I could escape through.

The thoughts were hopeless and the thought to give up almost reached my mind but they were pushed away when the faint click of the door unlocking reached my ears. I rushed to the door as it opened but the fabric of the yukata shifted under my feet and I tripped into Akashi.

"In a hurry, are we Tetsuya?" His arms circled my waist and I looked into the eyes that had once held kindness.

"Why have you done this Akashi-kun?" Just this hour of solitude in a beautiful room, trapped like in the story of Beauty and the Beast; it had made me lose my composure. "What will you accomplish by doing this?"

"Tetsuya," his hand slid across my cheek, "Tetsuya, my sweet shadow. You are my accomplishment. I have you here with me now and I am more satisfied now than winning any game could ever be."

"Akashi-kun.." His hands traveled lower and I pushed away from him. "What do you intend to do?"

He pulled the sash from my, no, his yukata and I pulled it back. "Akashi-kun! Stop!" He pulled it harder and it came away from my grasp.

"Why do you disobey me Tetsuya?" He shut the door of the room and I increased the distance between us. I held the robe closed if only to preserve the little amount of dignity I had left.

"Akashi-kun! Please!" My back hit the wall and my biggest mistake was turning my eyes away from him in that moment.

He grabbed my hands and pushed them over my head. When had he become this strong?

"Don't struggle." His grip tightened and I gasped as he opened my robe completely.

The worst part wasn't that he had touched parts of me that I hadn't touched before or that his caresses and kisses were soft and kind almost as if this was normal and he wasn't holding me against my will. The worst part was my body's abnormal reaction to it all.

"Tetsuya, you make such sweet noises already; I've barely touched you." As if to prove his point, he slid his hand down my chest and around my belly button, further down until his hand circled around my-

"Wait! Don't touch there!" The words ripped from my throat harshly and he released my hands only for his hand to close around my throat.

"Don't disobey me Tetsuya," his grip tightened and I struggled against his hand. "I have laid claim to you and you can't resist me anymore."

The lack of air was getting to me and I tried to take a breath of air but it came as a pathetic gasp. "Akashi-kun!"

He released my throat and in my moment of dizziness as I tried to regain my breath, he pulled me over to the bed and pushed me onto it. I fell on my face and pushed myself up but he grabbed the edge of the yukata and yanked it off. I kicked out at him in panic but he grabbed my ankle and pulled me back toward him. I kicked again and attempted to roll away but something cold closed around my ankle. I looked down in fear as he tugged at the cuff he had just closed around my limb and in my shock he made quick work of securing my other foot.

I was naked and exposed and I tried to cover my nakedness but he wasn't having any of that and tied my hands too. He looked at me as if he were appreciating his greatest masterpiece. I looked away from that horrible face that held such a smirk and delighted heterochromatic eyes. I couldn't bear it.

How had it come to this? I closed my eyes tight and tried to block out the tingling of my skin knowing that his eyes were combing over my skin.

"Tetsuya." I flinched and the chains rattled slightly. "Did you know that I love the way you can hide the emotions on your face? And that the emotions that do come across are so fierce and intense, well," he climbed over me and reached under to rub around on the head of my penis, "it makes me want to ravish you unbelievably."

I shivered and blinked in horror as I went hard in his hand and his responding smirk was even more frightening. His lips touched the skin above my collarbone and his hand began to move: up and down, up and down. I hissed in pain as he caught skin between his teeth and pulled before he released it and licked it over. He repeated the process over and over, going down further and further as the time passed.

"Ow!" He bit my nipple and smirked at me afterward. I shivered again and he caressed my hardness again, "Tetsuya, you're leaking so much here."

It was painful, beyond painful.

"I want you to remember this pain, Tetsuya." I struggled against my bonds as he thrusted into me. I had even resorted to begging and shouting for help.

"No one will come to save you Tetsuya. Right now, it's just me and you." He tried to kiss me but I bit his lip in anger and he smirked to me as he spat the blood onto the sheets next to me. I glared at him and he chuckled. "Yes, continue to resist me Tetsuya, show me the fight in your eyes."

He moaned out my name as he came and I shut my eyes in pain as his semen stung my wounds. He was covered in blood and cum as he pulled out. He untied my hands and released the cuffs on my ankles. I curled up and I couldn't stop the tears that came to my eyes. His hand came to rest on my head and I curled up tighter.

"Rest here Tetsuya." He ran his fingers through my hair and the dam broke through. "I'll be back with food and then I'll move you from this room and from these dirty sheets."

"Why?" I didn't cry out or get angry, "what did I do to deserve this, Akashi-kun?"

"Tetsuya, you haven't done anything. This was not your fault, I promise."

He left the room and all I could do was watch after him as the door shut and locked again.

The sun was beginning to set outside the window and I continued to stare at door, that beautiful door that seemed to soak up the setting sunlight and shine even more beautifully. It was a door that was closed upon my life and without the help of the person I hated the most, for me it would not open. My back was sore, my ass was throbbing, my ankles had chafed and my heart was hurting. I had trusted Akashi, respected him, looked up to him and the reality had come crashing down around me in a wave of pain and betrayal.

I laid there unmoving and cold, the anxiety and fear preventing me from the attempt to get under the duvet. The sun had long since set and the room was dark save for the stream of moonlight. I felt like I had been trapped in a luxurious dungeon and I was waiting patiently for a knight to burst through the door and save me. Aomine flashed through my head at that moment and I found myself huffing out a laugh at that.

The door clicked open a few moments later and Akashi came in, a soft smile on his face. He came over and sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed his hand across my shoulder and down my arm. "Your skin is cold Tetsuya, what are you thinking?" My eyes met his and I almost saw a flash of the Akashi Seijuro I once knew. "Come, let's move from this room."

It felt pointless to try and struggle against him but I also wasn't going to give into his demands. I would escape from here, no matter what it would take. Unfortunately, he also seemed to have the same idea and after I had been dressed in a new yukata and obi, he secured a soft, leather collar with a padlock around my neck. He attached a matching leather leash to it and I felt miserable all over again.

"I'm sorry Tetsuya," he smiled and placed a kiss on my cheek; my bite earlier must have taught him a lesson, "your eyes show me I can't trust you right now."

He tugged the leash lightly but I made no move to budge. I saw the emotion flash across his eyes before he tugged the leash hard and yanked me to the ground. He passed me to sit on the bed and dragged me closer to him before he lifted my chin with his foot. "You aren't very obedient Tetsuya." He kicked me with that same foot and grabbed me by my hair with his hand. "Haven't I told you before? My orders are absolute and I am always right. This can be painless and easy as I make you mine or you can disobey me and I'll imprint the meaning of true punishment deep into your bones."

He stared at me with such ferocity that I had to lower my eyes. The room was silent for all but a minute and he tugged on my hair again. "I'm awaiting your apology, Tetsuya."

I opened my mouth only after a moment of hesitation, "..I apologize Akashi-kun, I'll try my best."

"I know you will Tetsuya." He let go of my hair and reached into his yukata. He pulled out a stack of papers and dropped them to the floor. They were photos, photos of the events that transpired earlier that day. My naked body, the intercourse, my face during that time, every moment had been captured. I covered my mouth and tried to turn away but he pulled the collar again. "I have no need for this kind of blackmail but I want you to remember that I have possession of these. I'm sure you wouldn't want any mistakes, would you Tetsuya?"

I shook my head and he stood up. "Good, now be a good puppy and come along obediently."

His house was large and very extravagant. I caught glimpses of historic statues and paintings probable worth more than I could imagine having in my life. He brought me to another room, a few times larger than the one I had been in.

"This is my room." He said as he shut the door. "And now, it's your room." He took off the leash but kept the collar. I flinched and tried to pull away when he untied the obi but caught myself when I remembered the pictures. The robe fell to the floor and I blushed and looked away as his eyes roamed across my body. "A bath has already been drawn, clean yourself up and I will wait for you."

The last thing was me.

I sat in the bathtub even beyond when the water went cold. I contemplated the idea of dunking my head into the water and taking a big breath but I couldn't even bring myself to do that.

It's because you like his control, the little voice in the back of my mind whispered, you like his force, you like this and you want more.

I shook my head. It was obviously the trauma talking; that, or the cold of the water that had my teeth chattering. Akashi hadn't come to check on me and for that I was grateful. I sunk down into the water and it got warmer only for a moment before another chill ran through my body. I wished that this was just a nightmare that I could wake up from and in the morning I could wake up and everything would be okay. I continued that chant in my head even after Akashi had come barging in the bathroom and scolded me for sitting in freezing water, after he dried me in my daze and told me to get in the bed and under duvet and sheets this time.

He wasn't going to give me any clothes to sleep in I knew and I was nervous as I laid on the far edge of the huge, western bed. He got under too, naked, and pulled me closer to him. I tensed and he shushed me as he stroked my hair. "You don't need to fear me Tetsuya. Just sleep, I won't let anything happen to you."

I thought hard and long in the moments before I fell asleep, warm, and in the arms of a person that would always carry hate in my heart.

Akashi Seijuro was a frightening person. I had never been afraid of him, not once, until now, when the demon behind those heterochromatic eyes decided to mark me permanently as its eternal territory.

I'm not sure how this turned out exactly but I do know that I like how it ended.