Chapter 16: The Temper

There was someone stomping at the entrance. That peculiar someone was banging the door instead of knocking, which frightened Yuki from the inside. Yuki could not handle trauma well when he was alone, especially since Ryohei lived with him. He was really depending on Ryohei each time he had panic attack, and Ryohei would be the one calming him down.

Nevertheless, that night Ryohei was the one triggering the trauma.

"Yuki, it's me," Ryohei was still not going to knock the door gently like how he used to do, "Open the door."

The intonation differed too much compared to his daily behaviour. Yuki has begun shivering. He imagined himself being trapped in a room - he used to experience such terrible situation. The man would crash into the room, drunken and wasted, and jumped onto Yuki. Then, the raper would quickly strip Yuki despite the rejection, and underwent their sex. Yuki has been raped for several times and reported numerously, but the one who sold him turned to deaf ears. As long as he could satisfy the customers, he would serve anyone coming in.

"Yuki, it's me. Ryohei. Open the door."

Yuki knew Ryohei was out there. Yet, the polite Ryohei was not there. It felt as if there was someone else pretending to be Ryohei, getting ready to rape him. Yuki clasped on his white cane while he dragged his feet to the door.

"I- I'm coming," Yuki tried to control his shaking voice but failed. If Ryohei was keen, he could detect how afraid Yuki was at the moment.

The knob was squeezed, and Yuki has not fully swung it open when Ryohei ambushed in. Ryohei even slammed the door till the floor shook a little, scaring the timid Yuki by the doorframe. Luckily the door did not smash Yuki because Yuki was keeping himself away from literally everything including Ryohei.

"Yuki, from today onwards, I won't let you leaving the house!" Ryohei roared across the living room. "No matter how urgent it is, wait for me at home, and I will go out to get it for you. Got it, Yuki?"

Ryohei was still pissed off by Yamato, the mad doctor. That was why Yamato kept on pestering on Ryohei ever since the first minute they confronted each other. He has detected a sweet scent on Ryohei, bringing him to two hypothesis - either Ryohei was an Omega, or Ryohei was with an Omega. Since he has figured it out, Ryohei believed that Yamato man would do anything in order to divulge whoever close to Ryohei.

That meant Ryohei must cover Yuki as much as he could.

"Yuki, do you hear me?"

Ryohei almost threw tantrum because Yuki did not reply to him. He turned around to witness Yuki lying on the floor, gasping and weeping with his white cane gripped tightly in his hands. Ryohei was purely petrified since he never thought Yuki would get scared just by his strict voice.

"Yuki, Yuki," Ryohei crouched near Yuki, "I'm sorry. I'm not mad at you."

Ryohei was about to pat Yuki, just like how he usually touch Yuki, when Yuki beat his hand with his cane. It was a random attack, but it hit a bull's eye. Ryohei hissed in pain, and has almost overwhelmed by fury when Yuki cried in between his hiccups.

"No! You're not Ryohei! Don't touch me!"

Ryohei froze in his position. The Yuki before his eyes was shivering in panic. "Yuki, it's me, Ryohei."

"No, you're not Ryohei! You're demon!" Yuki threatened Ryohei by hoisting his cane high in the air, "Ryohei will never raise his voice at me no matter how bad I am in this house!"

"Yuki..." Ryohei lost his point to self defend. It was his fault because he could not manage his temper. He accidentally vented it to Yuki, and Yuki has misunderstood him as someone else. "I'm sorry. I was just angry at someone. I should not pass it to you. I'm so sorry."

Yuki was still gasping, but he put down his cane. He clutched on his own shirt and buried his face into his folded knees. "I want Ryohei. The gentle Ryohei who has always been kind to me. You are too different to him. I don't want you. Please bring Ryohei to me."

It hurt Ryohei so much as he listened to Yuki's pleading. Yuki must have really loved and depended on him so much that he never guessed the blind would get troubled by the changes, thus Yuki assumed the one entering the house was not his fiance. It has been a while since the last time Ryohei became enraged, hence it was the first time he disclosed his actual negative side to Yuki.

"Yuki, I'm sorry for scaring you," Ryohei finally loosened his furrow. Without attempting on grabbing Yuki's trembling hand, he sat in front of Yuki, ensuring a promising distance that he would not force a touch on Yuki yet at the same time, Yuki could hear him. "The one renting my house revealed himself as a doctor. He currently investigates on intersex people and finding their respective mates around the world. He considers these intersex people as Omegas, while the non-intersex as Betas and Alphas. However, he comes to a hypothesis that only Alphas could mate Omegas, therefore he's collecting these Omegas to find Alphas in the city."

From a hard trembling, Yuki eventually composed himself and sniffled. He faced towards the origin of Ryohei's polite voice and listened to him eagerly.

"I really hate his idea," Ryohei secretly held his fists, "During the house checking, he kept on clinging around me. And when I portrayed how much I disliked the idea, only then he divulged - he could smell an Omega on me."

It tormented Yuki quite much that the blind has already dragged himself to Ryohei. He leant into Ryohei's chest and clutched on the shirt. "Ryohei, does that mean I'm an Omega?"

"I'm not convinced enough, Yuki-kun," Ryohei could finally pat Yuki's head lovingly, "All that I've been thinking since we parted ways was to not let you go out from the house. He said almost everyone could smell your scent, but Alphas will get abnormally hard and desperately want to have sex with you."

"Ryohei," Yuki tugged Ryohei's shirt, "I don't want that," he sobbed while burying his face into Ryohei's chest, "I don't want to be mated with just anyone. I don't want to be with someone else. I just want to be with you, Ryohei."

Yuki really bawled his eyes out. Ryohei was relieved that Yuki has considered him as the usual Ryohei, but the news really alerted them greatly. They would constantly be alarmed by their surrounding even though they could not confirm the truth. Ryohei did not know whether Yamato was just baffling him, or unmasking a very confidential research.

"If I'm really an Omega, I want only Ryohei as my mate. No one else will be," Yuki said in between his sniffles.

Ryohei hugged Yuki firmly and dearly, hushing him. Only he could love Yuki. "Yuki, I love you."