Murder in Mind: The Tokyo Strangler

[krystalkatzfics]

 

Pairing: Matsumoto Jun/Ninomiya Kazunari

Rating: r

Genre: Angst, mentioned violence, rape, attempted murder, romance,

Summery: Nino was set to be the 35^th victim of a serial killer known to the police as the Tokyo Strangler…He survived this is set ten years after with some flash back to start…Jun is not the strangler xD

The night was cold as fourteen-year-old Ninomiya ‘Nino’ Kazunari hurried through the woods. He hadn’t meant to stay so late, in fact he should have been home studying for classes tomorrow, but his boss/uncle had asked him to cover another shift and he hadn’t been able to refuse as he was trying to save as much money as possible. He yawned hitching his bag further up his back. He hated walking through the woods so late at night but it was the quickest way home and so he picked up the pace. Near his right side he heard a crack of a branch and his head whipped around as his heart hammered against his ribs.

“Just an animal…” He muttered to himself when he didn’t see anyone looming out of the woods, but he did pick up his pace trying his best to get through the woods. He’s almost made it when a hand wrapped around his arm and he was pulled backwards into a hard chest. “What the…”

“Hey pretty, why don’t you come home with me” A voice, low and husky breathed against his ear. It didn’t sound all that threatening, and he knew the woods was a local hook-up spot for escorts.

“Um, no…No thanks…I’m not an escort…”

“Good, I wasn’t looking for a whore…And I wasn’t asking…” The man huffed, and Nino gasped as he felt the prick of something sharp against his back. “Walk forward and don’t say anything…”

*~~*~*~*~*~*

Nino pulled his eyes open, breathing sharply through his nose, as he sat up in the bed. His heart was racing against his ribs and tears were flowing down his cheeks and over his lips. The bedsheet slipped from around his thin scarred body and pooled over his legs. He tried desperately to tell himself that it had just been a dream, but he knew that it was more than that. It had been a memory, a memory of his death and rebirth. A warm body was next to him and he jolted ever-so-slightly as a hand brushed against his hip. It took him a moment to realise that it was his lover and not…Him…

“Ninomi…” A sleepy voice whispered gently getting up. He didn’t touch him, but he was there a gentle presence bringing him around from the memory. Eventually his breathing returned to normal and he sagged against his lover his head dropping onto the chest his eyes closing. Only then did his lover touch him, his hand coming up around his back to brush his hand around his neck were there was a thin scar from piano wire. “I’m here sweetheart…”

“Jay…Jay…I was back in the woods…He…He had me…” Nino whispered into Matsumoto Jun’s his nose rushing against the man’s slim but muscular chest. Jun held him tightly murmuring softly into his hair. Nino’s shoulders shook as tears streamed down his face and soaked into the thin t-shirt his lover had worn to bed.

“It’s okay Ninomi…He can’t get you…He’s dead…” Jun told him, and Nino gave a nod. He knew that but even after eleven years he could remember every detail of his three-day ordeal at the hands of the Tokyo Strangler.  

The man was Japan’s most prolific serial killer in recent history. He had kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered 34 young men and boys. Nino had meant to be victim 35. The man had taken him to his apartment, tied him to the bed and brutally beat him before raping him and strangling him. He would choke him until he was hovering on the point of life and death and then bring him back by dumping him in an ice-cold bath. His arms had been sliced until the nerves had been so damaged he couldn’t feel anything anymore. His back had been flayed, chunks taken with the same knife that he had used to kidnap him. Nino wasn’t sure how he had survived, he should be dead…He had died. He had felt the moment his heart had stopped, but for some reason it had started again when he had been dumped in a children’s park naked.

Matsumoto Jun, the man currently in his arms, had been a junior police officer at the time. He had been in his little booth when a group of kids had burst through the door and told him that there was a body on the swing. Jun had immediately suspected that it was another victim of the Tokyo Strangler and had called for back-up before hurrying to close off the scene. He had been doing just that when Nino had whimpered letting him know that he was alive.

Strangely Nino had very few memories of the days that followed. He knew that he had spent the next few weeks in hospital and that policeman after policeman had come to question him, but Nino hadn’t been able to speak. He was sure that his parents had come, his mother crying harshly while his father threatened to kill the one that had hurt him. Jun had been a constant visitor at the hospital not questioning him just a steady comforting presence that had somehow managed to bring him around. He had told Jun everything he could hoping that it would be enough to stop the man. Jun hadn’t pitied him, he stayed calm and comforting, writing it all down and telling him how amazing he was.

He had helped. A few days after his description had gone out a group of teenagers had pointed to their neighbour. A man that had been a little too friendly with the neighbourhood kids. He lived alone but those around him said that they often heard strange noises from his apartment. They had asked Nino to do a line-up and although it had been harrowing there had been something…Freeing about seeing the man that had caused him so much pain behind bars.

When he had realised that he was well and truly caught the Tokyo Strangler otherwise known as Yamaguchi Makato, an unremarkable lonely salaryman that had found his only power coming from dominating young men and boys, had sung like a canary and pleaded guilty without any fuss. Nino hadn’t cared about his reasons, he wanted to get as far away from it as possible and recover and his parents had wanted the same. They had moved away from Tokyo to Okinawa where they set up a small restaurant. Healing was slow and there were days when he had wanted to curl into a tight ball, but Jun hadn’t let him.

The man had used every holiday he had to come and visit and when he couldn’t be there physically he had been there on the phone or in letters. Nino had come to treasure the letters he had received, and it had been three years ago that he had realised that he was in love with the man. Intimacy had been a major problem, but Jun hadn’t rushed him at all, even now he knew when the time was right to touch him and when not.

The start of their relationship hadn’t been conventional, and he was sure that a lot of people wondered why he could love somebody, or have a man touch him again after what had happened, but he ignored them. Jun treasured him, all of him, even the scars that decorated his body and the dreams that tortured his nights. Like now he would hold him gently and tell him how amazing he was and Nino loved him for it.

“I love you…” Jun told him now and Nino gave a sleepy smile nuzzling further into the man’s chest the warm comforting feeling of Jun’s hands on his skin coaxing him back to sleep where he knew only pleasant dreams would be waiting for him for the rest of the night

THE END

A/N: Um…So I have a huge interest in serial killers and stuff and I’ve been watching Murder In Mind born to kill and this was born…I really wanted to have more detail and stuff but…I have so many on going that I tried to keep it short one shot…But…I may in future expand…But not until I’ve finished some of my on-going >.< and if anyone would be interested in more…

Comments

[arashi4dream]

pleaseeee don't forget your ongoing stories💞😭😭😭😭😭 so many ohmiya fics that I miss soo much and I want to know how they end 😭😭😭😭😭
I am such a whiny and demanding reader hahahhahaha

[yumi_usagi]

This is interesting.
Poor Nino! So glad he has Jun
And yes I’m interested in more!
Thanks for sharing!

[jkc80]

I love Jack the Ripper and serial mysteries so yes more but after the three awesome ones you still got going ;)

[reveetoile]

Nino literally went through hell here <3 but I am glad that he has Jun there by his side and survived. Poor boy though

[denyclamp]

Oh, God, poor nino! To think that such things happen in reality >.< I hope there are real cases that end somewhat happily like this !
I'm so curious about their slow process to overcome it all and become a couple, maybe someday after some other stories get their unforgettable ends <3 Gambatte!!