38 Brotherly Love VII

Unfortunately, their conversation had to be put on hold because his brother's companion turned out not to be a random student but someone Yuliang recognized.

Yuliang felt his blood boil with the spike of fury that raced through him.

"Rydel? What the fuck are you doing fucking my brother?" He demanded.

Yuki's eyes darted, between his brother to his companion and then to his brother again, face slowly turning uneasy. "You guys know each other?" He asked softly.

Yuliang nodded, his expression tense with barely contained rage. "Yeah. He's a second-year Enforcing student from the class I work with."

Yukio turned to Seth with blazing amber eyes, "You lied to me?"

Seth released a nervous laugh, his hands raising in a placating gesture as he took a subconscious step back. "I think there's been a misunderstanding here."

"A misunderstanding?" the twins chorused.

Yuliang's hands trembled with the feelings that rose within him. However, it was seeing the absolutely shattered look on Yukio's face that grounded him.

He forced his trembling hands to still.

He wouldn't be able to land a decent punch with shaky fists, after all.

The brothers were very well aware of how they looked. Exotic. Identical. They also knew how it didn't matter to most people that they were different people because they looked the same.

It had been a source of insecurity for both of them growing up, especially for Yukio, who had always needed a lot more assurance than Yuliang had.

It had only gotten worse after that horrible incident from two years ago...

Yukio had come home one morning after spending the night with someone, in tears, covered in bleeding cuts and bruises.

Yuliang had immediately thought the worst, but as reality usually was, it was much worse than Yuliang had imagined.

It apparently had started consensual, but in the middle of them having sex, Yukio's partner accidentally called him 'Yuliang'.

Yukio had thought it was weird, but the man had apologized. So Yukio had laughed it off and agreed to continue, but as things got more heated up, the slip-up started happening more and more often until eventually, the man started being extremely rough with him; pulling his hair, practically tearing some off his scalp, spanking him hard enough to bruise him, scratching and pinched him hard enough to make him bleed, all without previous discussion, and while Yukio begged him to stop. To make matters worse, he was being called 'Yuliang' throughout the entire experience.

It had shaken Yuliang to the core to know that not only had his brother been assaulted, but someone had done this pretending Yukio was him.

It took a long time for not just Yukio but Yuliang, who had misplaced guilt over the situation, to come to terms and recover from that incident.

For Yukio, who was a lot stronger than he gave himself credit, it had happened with time, support from Yuliang, the only person who knew of the incident, and a string of clear, consensual sexual encounters.

For Yuliang, it had been seeing his brother regain his vitality and confidence once more.

These days the only remnant of his trauma was Yukio asking all unfamiliar partners whether they knew Yuliang before consenting to go further with them.

Yukio usually never slept with the ones that did.

That brought them back to the situation at hand.

Seth fucking Rydel had fucked his brother.