The Chura

[Lolux]

The Chura

I stared at the group of tall men that cut through the bustling crowds in the market square. They approached, but I didn't move. I wasn't scared. I just didn't know what they were.
One of them stopped to look at me. He looked from me to my mother, who was clutching at my shoulder. "She's a pretty girl", he said, before moving on, striding gracefully, appearing unaffected by the sweltering heat despite the fact he was wearing all black. Thick black protective pads on his shoulders, elbows, knees, and thick black clothing everywhere else. It was the middle of June and he was wearing what looked like a turtleneck.
His aura of power and importance overwhelmed me.
"Mommy", I whsipered, tugging at my mother's dress, "Mommy, why did that man say I was a girl?"
My mother frowned and pulled me away, towards yet another clothes stall selling brightly coloured fabrics. "It's better that way, Yui"
I remember that that annoyed me. I was young, indignant, and far too innocent. "Why is it better, Mommy? I'm a boy--"
She pulled me close and covered my mouth, hushing me frantically. When it was apparent that nobody had overheard, she whispered to me, "because those men...they only like boys, Yuichiro. And you don't want them to like you"
Since then, I was always afraid of those men, dressed in ebony, striding around purposefully. As I got older I listened to news more, heard the rumours, the stories, the fact and the fiction. No matter who said it, no matter where it came from, it was always the same - the Chura, they're bad. No matter how you look at it.

"Yuichiro!"
I turned to see Yukina waving at me, her arm sweeping widely in the air. I moaned and made as if to go back inside. My mother pushed me away firmly but gently.
"Yuichiro, you have to go to school; you're sixteen now. Be a good kid and walk with Yukina, will you?"
I sighed and groaned for all I was worth, but she wasn't having any of it. With another firm shove, I was away from the rock-walled house and onto the dusty road. Yukina practically leaped on me.
"Oh my goodness, Yui! You're getting so cute! And I'm the lucky girl who gets to have you!"
I inched away quickly as she made like she was going to hug my arm. For guys like me, the only way to gain protection from the Chura was to get a nice female fiancee. And that was only in the 'good' suburbs, where they rarely visited. I gazed wistfully at a sandy palm, kicking at the plain dirt path.
My neighbourhood was nothing much. Slap bang in the middle of the desert, it was always in the path of sandstorms and 'dust fog'. All the houses were simple, two-storey affairs - carved out of solid rock, no less. One main mast connected us to the outside world. We had water, but no electricity; the Chura had been that kind to us. It was always hot, always sandy, and around the time of year when the sixteen-year-olds headed off to school, always busy.
Two mini-mountains of rock with houses carved into them loomed either side of the school route. Yukina was chattering about something or another.
My mind wandered.
"...and then, she said the Chura would be making a visit soon! How exciting is that?!"
My head snapped around. I fixed my eyes on her irritating face for what seemed like the first time ever. "What?! You're serious?!"
She knew she had my attention.
"Yeah, my friend - Melody - told me that a group of young Chura are gonna join our school soon! Their school is getting overcrowded, apparently. They're visiting tomorrow, I think"
I nodded, and turned away to take this in. The Chura are a group of all-male settlers in the desert area - okay, not settlers, invaders. They arrived without notice and made to inclination that they were leaving anytime soon. They were all tall, beautiful, slender guys who seemed to have a real dominance complex; they were well-known for picking fights with weaker guys.
They hated women. They set themselves aside from our settlement, living in what could only be described as a spaceship. It sucked all the electricity out of the area, not too much, just enough to power a large town. Hence the lack of electricity in our area. They kept to themselves, and only really came to our place when they needed something.
In their case, new men.
Rumour had it that they had a special machine that allowed men to input their genes and create new life onboard their ship; their ship was the 'Mother' of their kind and it created children for them. All Chura children were male.
However, life on the manship wasn't perfect. Pretty soon, the children grew up, and they needed guys - so they took them from towns. The Chura were notorious for their ruthlessness. That explains why my mother dressed me up as a girl when I was little, so she could save me to marry a girl when I was older, and be free from the Chura.
And I got stuck with Yukina.
"Ooooh, look, Yui! It's a Chura pod!"
Her eyes gleamed almost like the sun bouncing off the black, shiny travel-pod's surface. A tall, skinny guy with white hair glared at me as I entered the school grounds. His red eyes glittered darkly with what seemed to be contempt. His third eye on his forehead was a deep mahogany, and it gave me a look of pure evil.
"Unfriendly -------" I muttered, before reluctantly waving Yukina goodbye, and going to class. That was the start of it all.

Classes passed without incident. Homework set, lunch, more writing in the muggy heat.
Thank God I have PE tomorrow, I gasped, as hot dry air filled my lungs.
I walked home alone, as Yukina had a club with some friends. I saw her friend Melody talking to the school secretary as I left. She seemed to be agitated, and I heard the Chura mentioned. I wasn't surprised. A group of anti-female people entering her school must've been a pretty scary notion.
I kicked a can along the empty, dusty road before putting it in a twisted iron bin, making sure not to touch the bin, as the air above it hazed over in the heat.
I got home, climbed the crumbling stairs to my room, sat at my carved rock desk and did homework. No event. I went downstairs, had dinner, mumbled about school as mother made sure I hadn't skipped it - which I tended to do a lot - went back upstairs, lit a candle, finished the homework, read a little, blew out the candle, and went to sleep.
Just as I drifted off, a vivid image filled my mind. A deep, azure blue sea encapsulated my vision; it was all I could see for miles and miles. A beautiful, never-ending blue. So almost real...
PiPiPiPiPiPiPi!
I bolted upright. Shit, my alarm!
Then, Shit! School!
"Yui! Yuichiro, aren't you running a little late...?" asked my mother.
"Yes I am gotta go see you later love you bye" was my response.
I hotfooted it all the way there, zipping straight past the shiny black hole of a vehicle that was a latest edition Chura travel-pod. I paused only when I reached my classroom, two minutes early. I ran a hand through my messy hazel-brown hair, shaking my head to get the dust out.
Today, as far as I was concerned, would be uneventful.

I dozed.
"...and so, without further ado...", droned the teacher, Mr Manabe, in his dullest 'excitement' voice, "...I present to you our new students"
Zzzzzz.
"Five young men from the Chura settlement; Kohurt, Chimi, Usaki, Riharu and Zach"
I looked up and had to suppress my shocked gasp. Mouth wide, eyes even wider, I drank up the sight of those five beautiful, elegant people.
Kohurt was tall, with spiked brown hair and brown eyes like deep pools of chocolate, and his third eye was half-closed, and burgundy. He showed little interest in us.
Chimi was quite short for a Chura, with pale fuschia-pink hair in an adorable short cut, and wide green eyes. His third eye was also green, and he looked eagerly around the class.
Usaki and Riharu were clearly twins, as both had flame-red hair and black eyes; however, Usaki's third eye was brown and Riharu's was red. They looked sweepingly over the gawping class, all six eyes full of suspicion.
Last, but certainly not least, Zach. His jet-black hair, neat yet slightly awry, formed a breathtaking contrast with his cerulean eyes, and his icy third eye. He emitted no feeling to our group, he simply observed. But life's boring as an observer, right?
I realised I was staring and averted my eyes onto Manabe's lumpy figure. I felt, briefly, the cold eyes of the Chura boys run over me, but it only lasted a second or two.
Manabe quickly sent them to their seats, clearly dying to start his Physics lesson. Oh, joy.
Being your standard run-of-the-mill teacher, he split the twins up immediately, and tried to set the new guys apart. Kohurt sat near Yukina, Chimi near Melody. Usaki and Riharu were sitting at opposite ends of the classroom, which they seemed a little irritated about, and finally, just Zach was left. My stomach tightened as I stared, eyes watering in the warmth, at the empty seat in front of me.
Manabe hit his stride. "And you, young mister", he exclaimed while waving his lardy arm grandly, "shall sit in front of mister Yuichiro, there!"
I felt like a stone had been poised at the top of my gut, and had just dropped down. Sure, Zach was beautiful. But he was bad. I had to remember that. All Chura - they're bad.
He sat down and set out his stuff in an impeccably neat fashion. Then, my heart skipped a beat as he turned around to face me. His smoky teal eyes reflected my pinkening face, his smooth porcelain skin seeming invitingly cool as we baked in the room.
"Hello, Yuichiro", he uttered, his voice smooth and clear-cut, "I hope we can get on well from now on"
I could barely mutter the "Me, too" reply as I sank into his beauty. The Chura were bad.
Did liking them make me bad, too?


In the PE changing rooms, my stomach was doing somersaults. Our new Chura classmates had been invited to watch what sort of sports we did in the decalescent desert school we attended, and the thought of Zach's piercing eyes transfixed on me while I ran about in tiny shorts - Wait!
I was a guy! I wasn't meant to think like this about other guys, I was meant to get like this over girls!
The thought of me drooling over Yukina in such a way was what did it. I staggered to the toilet cubicle and retched and hacked until I felt raw, both inside and out. The fact I hadn't had breakfast didn't help. I just felt empty.
I cleaned my mouth and jogged slowly outside. It was just as I had feared. The whole PE group was clustered, doing stretches tentatively and nervously. The Chura boys stood, arms folded, trios of eyes narrow and contemplative. It may have been in the baking heat of the desert, but in the path of that stare it felt icier than the poles. After what seemed like a lifetime, the PE teacher strode out, and began barking orders. Everyone relaxed - a little. The twins, Usaki and Riharu, began chatting quietly to each other, like no one else was there; they were in their own private little world where only they mattered. The tall guy, Kohurt, sat himself down in the dirt and glared at everyone, his burgundy eye contemptuous.
I was just about to enter the group when I felt a tugging on my arm. I turned. I blinked. I blinked again.
Hanging onto the end of my arm was the adorably sweet Chimi. I stared and stared and stared at him, but he stayed there. So, he must be real, I thought. He's almost too cute to be.
"Um...how can I help?", I asked, my voice wavering a little. He blinked at me, then grinned.
"I don't wanna watch you play sports", he chimed, in a syrupy and girly voice, "I wanna play, too! Please can I play?"
I was speechless, lost for words. "Uh..."
"Of course you can play!" proclaimed coach, sensing a classmate-bonding oppurtunity. "Anyone else want to join him?"
The guys stayed put, the twins' conversation dropping only for a second to deliver a scornful look, and Kohurt just sniffed at scuffed at the sand. Zach, however, stepped forward, muttering something about not wanting to leave Chimi by himself.
I felt a twinge in my heart. Were he and Chimi...?
He nudged me as he walked past. "Jealous...?". His soft voice was both startling and soothing. I blushed and scowled. Not funny.

As it turned out, for all their slender beauty, the Chura were not an athletic race. Chimi dived about no matter what sport we tried, ducking and sliding all over the place, getting thoroughly covered in dust and grinning like a madman. Zach barely put in the effort, gliding gracefully about the pitch to avoid the ball. To be honest, I wasn't much better, as the empty ache in my stomach griped and growled, and I slowed to less than a jog as I painfully crawled back to the changing rooms. I felt a sinking feeling. I looked behind me.
Zach was there.
"Oh...hey", I said, trying to sound casual and hide the pain in my voice at the same time. He smiled back, dazzling me with the pure perfection of his smile. If you can imagine how butter would boil away in the sweltering sun of my desert home, that's how I melted inside.
I jumped as he produced something from the pocket of his black sweater. It appeared to be food. He offered it to me. I tried to decline, but he pushed it closer. I gulped, nodded, and went to take it. My hand brushed his clear, soft white skin. I snatched it back on a reflex, and saw him laughing quietly to himself. Seeing him towering over me, snickering, made me a little mad. I guess it was my humiliation that spurred me on.
"W-what's so funny?! It's not...not unusual, for guys to not want to touch!"
He paused, his sapphire eyes locked onto my face, but his ice-white one looked deeper into me. Then, he laughed a little again. "Yes, but...I think, you do want to touch, Yui-chan"
I burned up bright red. How dare he call me Yui-chan?! He's only just met me!
He grabbed my hand, and I flinched. I could feel my heartbeat, loud and throbbing. I heard myself breathe in sharply. I leaned closer. I was drawn like metal to a magnet.
He pushed the food into my hand. I breathed out, leaned back. But my heartbeat still thrummed heavily.

After school. It was cooler. I sat in the classroom, writing by the flickering candlelight. Scrawling almost blindly, I cursed Manabe for asking me to do the Student Report. It was boring, tireless work, and besides, I could be at home in bed by now.
I heard a scuff at the door and turned.
Zach barely stood out from the shadows, his hair blending into the ebony surroundings, the shadows seeming to seep from him like mist. He took a step closer.
"Yuichiro...why are you staying so late?". The softness of his voice was tantalising.
I tried to stay above it all. "Student Report"
He licked his lips, and I heard it. I shivered, despite the warmth from the candle.
"So...", I started, but my voice cracked. I cleared my throat and tried again. "So, tired of 'Yui-chan' already, are we?"
I heard a low chuckle. He took another step toward me, his height, paleness and slender frame making him look like something out of a vampire movie. A gorgeous vampire, that is.
Before I knew it, he was next to me. I felt his lips brush my ear.
"Yuichiro...aren't you getting a little jealous already?"
I blushed, and turned away. My lower body began to feel hot.
Suddenly, he stepped back, and he adopted an airier tone. "Besides, Yui, I had a talk with your fiancee earlier. She's a nice girl, right?"
I stayed silent. I couldn't understand. We had only met each other for the first time earlier. What was this?
He took the silence as my answer and continued, his voice harder and more scornful.
"Ah ha...who am I kidding? She's repulsive", he spat, clenching his fists and drawing his perfect lips back into a snarl, "she reeks of women, and the way she goes on about you - Yuichiro this, Yuichiro that - she makes it seem as if you're in love with her or something!"
He threw a glance at me. I was shellshocked. The Chura were always so distant and calm; where had this outburst come from? I felt a throbbing deep within me, and it wasn't from my heart. Zach stalked closer again, his voice once again smooth and factual.
"I know you don't love her, Yuichiro - I can tell. She's disgusting, right? So annoying. So in-your-face. How human men can stand those things I'll never know. Right, Yuichiro?"
I finally managed to free my voice from its stunned paralysis and reply.
"Yeah...I mean, no!", I stuttered, confusion addling my tongue, "W-why are you telling m-me all this, Zach?"
He leaned closer, his breath on my face, his eyes locked on mine.
"Because you're going to be my lover, Yui"

........what?!

I didn't have a chance to exclaim. He grabbed me, hard. He forced me off the chair. On the warm hard floor, I had no chance. His performance in PE must have been a ploy. He was ridiculously strong. He started tearing at my clothes.
"...n-no, Zach---ah!--s-stop--no!!--"
His hands roamed everywhere, pulling and rubbing and caressing like crazy. He licked my neck, and my cries became a high-pitched squeal. I blushed even harder. What had just happened? It made it sound...it made it sound like I was enjoying this or something!
Zach had managed to pull down my trousers, and was going for my underwear now. I realised what was at stake here. I tried in vain to stop him. How could I? He was so powerful, so commanding, and he knew what he was doing. I didn't. And he was so nearly there...
I lunged. Our mouths locked. His hands stopped.
I held the kiss for as long as I could without breaking away. When I fell back, I lay gasping for air, while he stayed frozen above me. I noticed that his third eye had closed.
We lay in the silence, only our heavy breaths penetrating it.
Zach looked down at me after an eternity of waiting. He lowered himself, and out mouths embraced again. This time, though, something was different. There was more force.
I flinched and tried to exclaim as I felt his tongue push at my teeth. I jerked my head back, breaking free. Everything that had just happened sunk in. I was lying underneath a darkly beautiful Chura boy who I had only recently met, and I was kissing him. Kissing a guy.
Zach tried pulling me closer, but I kicked out, catching him off guard. I rolled to safety and shot him an accusing glare. I was shocked.
Instead of calculating lust, I saw something new in his eyes. A sort of...pleading desire.
He bundled up and threw me my clothes. His eyes sparkled with newfound delight, and he licked his lips, tasting my presence. I reddened. He stood, and made as if to leave. At the doorway, he turned back.
"I look forward to seeing you tomorrow, Yui-chan", he smiled, cerulean blue eyes twinkling in the moonlight.
I sat alone in the cold dull classroom, trying to control my inner heat. This was insane.
And I was loving it.

Um, this is my first time writing anything like this - I hope it's okay! I'll keep on writing this, and hopefully I won't lose interest and I'll get to actually write some yaoi stuff. Until then~

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