Crimson Quietus || Kanato & Red
Would you like to see something pretty, Red-kun?
'Oh Red-kuuun...~' Kanato cooed, and as soon as the boy turned around, he found himself face to face with a small, elegantly designed pocket knife. He didn't even have to do anything special in order for Red to cut his cheek, that's how close the blade had been. 'Tell me... do you like the colour red? I do. It's so beautiful... Strawberry cake, cherry ice cream... blood and fire...' The boy licked his lips and took a step closer, making the taller boy step backward. Another step, and one more, and the brunette quickly fell. Tripped over something, likely. Kanato burst into hysterical laughter at the irony of the situation. Red was probably paralyzed with fear. As the laughter died down, lavender eyes darkened to a deep purple and he leaned down over the boy, their faces just inches apart. 'Please don't move... I want to play doctor, and if you squirm around, I'll make a mess.'
First was a pinky finger. Kanato set Teddy aside in order to examine the dismembered digit. 'You have pretty fingers, Red-kun. See?' He held it in front of the boy's face with a gleeful grin. Next, Kanato lifted the boy's shirt a bit and made a deep incision on his stomach. 'I wonder what's on the inside...' The boy dug around after tearing the hole open, admiring the organs with a child-like curiosity with complete disregard to all the blood and screaming filling the alleyway. 'Quiet down. You're making too much noise again, and patients are supposed to be quiet.' He shot the other a sharp glare and gave the boy's intestines a firm tug, raising them high enough for him to see. 'Look, these are pretty too, don't you think?'
The next part of the boy to be tortured was his chest. In specific, his heart. Kanato was surprisingly adept at finding it. Look between the lungs to find the heart. He remembered learning about that in his anatomy class. When he saw it, his eyes lit up more and more with every faint pulse. The boy was obviously dying, but Kanato didn't care. In fact, he was glad. 'Oh, Red-kun... your blood is getting everywhere. That's pretty too, but do you want to see something even prettier?' He paid no mind to the absolute terror in the boy's brown eyes as he cut his heart out and held it a few inches from his face. 'Look! It's not beating anymore, but it's still so pretty...' Kanato stared at the deep red of the no longer functioning organ for a good minute or so before looking back at his "patient."
'Now, shall we continue? Isn't this fun, Red-kun? You have to let me be the doctor again sometime soon.' Silence. 'Red-kun?' Come to think of it... he stopped screaming a while ago... 'Red-kun... you didn't die, did you?' Kanato used a bloody, pale hand to feel the boy's forehead. 'You feel so cold... and it looks like it's going to rain soon... Since you were such a good patient, shall I do you a favour and warm you up?'
After taking a short moment to lick a bit of the blood from his fingers, Kanato reached into his pocket and took out a lighter. He leaned down and gave the boy a small peck on the lips. Thank you for being so pretty. It took no longer than 2 minutes for him to set the dead boy aflame and to watch orange dance across crimson red.
'Ah...' The boy wrapped his arms around himself and shuddered out of pure bliss. 'Red-kun... are you warm now? You look so pretty. Just like my mother.' He watched as the boy continued to burn, and after a few minutes, he picked up Teddy and smiled fondly. It really was a shame that Kanato had to kill Red. He really did have such a pretty heart.
