Subscorp (Scorpion x Sub Zero) Oneshots

Prompt #6

Title: Patching Up A Wound

If anybody has a large amount of luck in their lives, they would walk out from the battlefield with no scratches on their bodies. As for the others, not so much. For Kuai Liang, to think how would the mission would have gone was easy however it didn't. The Objective was just retrieve the Kamidogou, simple, right?

Unfortunately, it was not. He did not retrieve the so called artifact as Kano himself had it. Kuai did not walked away empty handed of course. He got snuck up by Kano and attacked by the so-called weapon and he was no half blind. Soon he had return to Raiden's temple and he was now being healed but with Raiden being busy. Kuai ensure he was going to just heal back at the temple.

Once upon return, everyone stormed to see how he was doing and got so worried, Kuai really felt his heart warmed by the fact he was indeed loved as a Grandmaster and as equal as everyone. Human. Soon settled, he walked back to his room, passed by the mirror near the bathroom, looked bad, but badass. Flopping on the bed, facing upwards to the ceiling as he felt the scar that was still develop to heal, kind of bringing him back to the pasts where the scars from his rebellious side that occurred during his younger days. The constant painful punishment didn't stop Kuai Liang to continue being himself despite how many scares he had obtained in his life.

He thought he had drifted to sleep when he heard his door knocked, "Umm, Grandmaster? Grandmaster Hasashi is here to visit". Oh no, Hanzo can't see him like this, with the recent injury, it would be the first thing to be notice damn it. "Uhh, just tell him I'll be in my room, I'll try to not well".

"Yeah, your scar is pretty obvious Grandmaster".

"Thank you for pointing that out". That moment he already heard Hanzo's footsteps, quickly making a dash to the bed and hide under the covers. "Kuai?"

"Hmm?".

"Are you alright? Your clans people are acting a bit suspicious and sounded worrying when I asked about you mission, Kuai?"

Kuai hummed from the covers, he could feel the bed dipped on one side, showing signs of Hanzo sitting next by him. Hanzo laid on what he assumed was Kuai's head, "Are you well? Did something happen? Did I do something wrong?". Hanzo admits, he was indeed worried, he never seen Kuai like this and he was sure that something had happened during the mission and Kuai was afraid to tell him, call him clingy but this is one of the few missions Kuai had went alone without Hanzo. Kuai wanted to peek his head out but the amount of anxiety and guilt put him back in.

"You didn't do anything wrong, it's just me. I got careless and hurt myself in the process, that was all".

Hanzo sighed, "are you healed yet?".

"Raiden was busy so I insist that I will be healed here instead" Hanzo kept comforting the young man, "May I see it?". Kuai hesitated for a minute and he was grateful that Hanzo was a patient man. "Promise me you're not going to be mad?".

"I would but I'll try". Kuai sighed as he got up, slowly peeking his head out when Hanzo sees it. His heart stopped aft er a long beat, as his eyes processing the long gash on Kuai's face. It looked so deep and red due to not fully finished healing by Raiden. His mouth went dry when eh opened up and asked, "Who did this to you?"

Kuai looked down, the tone Hanzo used was indeed soemthign to be fear of, "N-No One! I was just being careless; you know myself when I- ".

"Tell me the truth Kuai Liang!", Hanzo was already starting to see red by the second he saw it when Kuai tried to hold back his tears, it sounded so familiar, it was the same reaction when Bi Han when he found out Kuai was being punished again and again from being rebellious. "K-kano, he snuck up on me while I was not on guard while retrieving the item Raiden assigned me to and, I failed the mission". He tried to look away when Hanzo's hand reached out to touch him, it slightly burned him, hissed by the sudden rise of temperature, "I'll kill him".

Kuai shook his head, "Please don't. I'm okay, I'll be okay, It was my fault to begin with and I..", he didn't know what to say, every word wasn't suitable for this situation and he was indeed blamed for everything that had happened to him right now, if he wasn't so distracted and -

Hanzo immediately pulled Kuai to his chest, resulting in steams from both men's temperature. "I'm so sorry, I should have not reacted that way, I am not angry at you, I realized the tone I sued was not necessary especially with you". Feeling his shirt stained by Kuai's tears as he tries his best to comfort the younger man in a better way, he reacted such anger resulting him in making Kuai cry, and he did not want that. Kuai continued to cry on Hanzo, despite hurting himself from the injured eye and he could feel blood spilled from it.

Once Kuai had calmed down, Hanzo pulled away and got up from his seat to retrieve the first aid kit. Soon he came back and helped Kuai clean the wound and replace the bandages that was overflowed from it. He lifted Kuai enough to lean back to the headboard of the bed as he worked on it. Wiping away the blood and applied some alcohol made Kuai hissed but it was soon gone by when Hanzo finally placing the patch on it. "I apologize, was I harsh?". Kuai mumbled a no but Hanzo knew how Kuai was still affected by the outburst Hanzo did. When he was done, "There, but no missions for you for quite some time". Kuai nodded as he tried to get use to only seing on one eye. "A..Arig..Arigatou, Hanzo", hearing Kuai tried to say something in Japanese, really warms Hanzo.

Leaning in to place a small kiss on it, Kuai already feeling his face heat up despite their relationship was nothing new but Hanzo finds it adorable at how Kuai reacts to the smallest of love gestures. Hanzo then put away the supplies and came back changed clothes and all that was in Kuai's closet. "Next time I see Kano, I'll poke his other eye out".

"Please do", he then shuffled himself, making himself comfortable when Hanzo finally laid down. "You're caught off guard, not reckless. Scars are signs that you may remember for a long time, whether thye were good or bad but it is part of you. If you would have asked the others, they may find it...sexy".

"Did you learn that from Cage? You rarely said those kind of words."

"Hush now, and sleep. I'll be here when you wake up".