Chapter 8ハ Inoue
Inoue had had a very enjoyable few weeks. True, he failed to get any confession out of Meguri, but he had enjoyed trying.
And now he looked, with satisfaction, up at the crucified Sakura, and then at the approaching Haru, fighting and twisting as they fought her towards her cross.
It took four of them. Haru was stronger than Sakura, and she was determined to fight them every step of the way. Despite the tortures she’d undergone, her terror had given her added strength, and some of the soldiers were visibly puffing by the time she, too, was spreadeagled for crucifixion.
Inoue took one side, Takahashi the other. They both knew how to use ropes, and these were knots which would not be undone until Haru was dead. Inoue tightened the ropes with savage force, enjoying, as only he could, the bellows of anguish from Haru.
He got to Haru’s ankle a moment before Takahashi, wrapping the rope around the cross and then around the ankle with ruthless efficiency. Perhaps too much, for this time Takahashi finished first, but only by moments.
“Okay,” he said. “You can let go. She’s not going anywhere.”
With relief, the soldiers stood up, as Haru howled powerlessly. Inoue gazed down at her appreciatively. There was no site so pleasing as a crucified woman. Truly this was a fine way to round off a splendid summer.
He walked around to her head, and, as Haru looked up at him in terror, he opened his trousers and urinated over her face.
Haru spluttered and gagged, but she was unable to do anything except move her head, and Inoue followed her movements expertly. Inevitably some got into her mouth and eyes, she spat out what was in her mouth. In a reflex action she tried to wipe her eyes, but of course her hands would not obey her command. In desperation she tried to wipe her eyes on her shoulder, but not very successfully.
Then Haru discovered that she, like Sakura, would be upside down for what little remained of her life. She looked at the upside-down, jeering crowd, and then across at her sister, her hair hanging vertically from her head.
Their eyes met. “You’re wet,” said Sakura.
“He pissed on me.”
“Who did? I couldn’t… see you… from here!”
“Inoue.”
“Animal. I hope he rots in hell!”
“Look, Sakura! They’re bringing Rin!”
“What will they do to her? Her cross looks… different?”
“I don’t know. But she’ll be up between us soon…”
Rin saw no point in protesting as Haru had. As soon as the soldiers looked at her, she stood and began to walk towards the remaining cross. When she got there, she looked enquiringly at Inoue. “Which way around do you want me?”
“Your head goes there.” He pointed, and Rin lay down as directed, and stretched her arms out along the cross beam. This, she thought, was less humiliating than Haru’s pitiful and doomed struggle with her executioners. And at least Inoue now had an empty bladder.
She felt them tie her shoulders to the cross first, and then she didn’t resist as the ropes bit into her wrists. But she had no idea what would happen next. The other cross beam was at the level of her hips. Rin had not seen that many crosses, and never one like this.
They tied her groins to the cross piece, and that was humiliating, with fingers ‘accidentally’ probing into her vagina. But then Inoue and Takahashi tied a rope to her ankles, and began to pull her legs upwards and outwards towards the other beam.
Now Rin began to panic. “No, wait! My legs can’t do that! They can’t lift that far! Can’t you hear me? STOP!” Her hips had passed the point of comfort, but still they pulled.
Her hips began to shriek in agony as joints and sinews were forced into a totally alien position. “AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHH!”
On their crosses, Haru and Sakura heard her screaming. Desperately, Haru tried to look around to see what was going on but she was tied far too tightly to her cross, and her neck wouldn’t turn that far.
“What are they doing to her?” Sakura was alarmed.
“I don’t know… I didn’t hear her scream like that, not the whole time we were in prison!”
They didn’t stop pulling until her legs, like her arms, were straight out along the cross. Rin didn’t know whether her hips had dislocated or fractured, she just knew that she had never experienced such pain in her entire life.
And then, of course, her cruelly exposed vagina was far more than Inoue could resist. Once again his trousers were down and he was thrusting into her crippled pelvis. Back and forth, back and forth, for what seemed to Rin like an eternity, while Rin could do no more than scream and beg for mercy.
“So much for dignity,” the thought flitted through her mind, as she felt Inoue’s cum running across her buttocks. But then it was Takahashi’s turn. Of course they had raped her in the jail, but this public humiliation, coupled with the agony in her hips and pelvis, was more than she could bear.
She was almost relieved when they started to raise the cross. At least up there she’d be safe from rape. But the cross juddered into it’s socket, and she screamed unreservedly as her dislocated bones ground against one another.
“Oh my God!” Haru could not believe what they had done to her sister. Rin! Rin! Speak to me!”
But Rin was speaking to no-one. Her agony was total. She had tried to convince herself that the cross could not be worse than the torture chamber. How wrong she was!
As Sakura watched, a large blob of what was clearly cum dropped from Rin and splattered onto the ground below. “Oh, Haru, look! Those bastards must have raped her!”
But Haru had heard Inoue and Takahashi grunting, she had figured out for herself what was going on.
She looked up at Rin. Daddy’s pet. Giving her ideas above her station, making her act as if she was a man – hunting and riding. Now look at her. High above a baying crowd, in utter agony, nude and cruelly exposed to the leering gaze of hundreds of people. But she didn’t deserve that. Nobody deserved that. Then she looked towards the platform. Except, maybe, Lady Kaede. Bitch. And she, Haru, would die on this cross while Kaede went back to her life of comfort in the castle.
And there wasn’t one thing she or anyone could do about it. Life was just so unfair.
Her head was pounding, her weight was entirely suspended from four ropes bound tightly around her flesh, which was already raw. She looked up at her inflamed ankles. Human beings aren’t meant to be hung upside down – millennia of evolution has adapted us to gravity working down through our legs, not down through our heads. Every passing moment brought increasing distress to Haru. Sakura, too, was crying in pain, but Rin was obviously in continuous, unrelenting agony. She had uttered no coherent word since her crucifixion.
Suddenly Takahashi was standing in front of the crosses. He didn’t look good the right way up, but Haru decided that he looked much worse upside down. She could see right up his nose. But he wasn’t looking at her, her was looking up at Rin. He hadn’t broken her in the prison, he hadn’t broken her on the platform, but here, on a cross, he had broken her. He prodded her experimentally with a spear, and she moved, and howled in renewed agony. She didn’t protest, she didn’t call him names, she just screamed.
Takahashi grinned in satisfaction. “Not looking so confident now, are we, Rin-chan?” He poked at her breast with the spear, drawing blood.
“KILL ME!” begged Rin. “AAAAAARGHH!”
“Oh, we will,” said Inoue, who had joined Takahashi below Rin’s cross. “We will – eventually!” He shook the cross, which wobbled spectacularly, drawing further screams from Rin.