Chapter 1-The Meeting
Rei was sitting at the edge of a meadow, his long ebony braid blowing in the light wind. As he sat there watching the sun set, he thought of his up coming wedding that only minutes ago he found out about. It wasn't just any wedding; he was going to marry the only other person whose land equaled his own. It was Kai Hiwatari and his grandfathers land. 'How can they make me do this? To strengthen our land is what they really want.' His ears twitched at the sound of footsteps coming towards him.
"What do you want?" Rei said in such a tone that the approaching servant cowered in terror.
"Your father wanted me to tell you that you need to come to his study as soon as possible," the servant replied hurrying away.
"Fine," said Rei as he rose and started back towards the castle. It wasn't more than a five minute walk back to the castle. Once there, Rei headed towards his father's study. Softly knocking on the door, he heard a voice say "Come in." As he entered, he saws his father and a man with two-toned hair. The man was wearing a tight black muscle top and baggy pants that hung low on his hips. But the one thing that got Rei were his eyes, they were like nothing that he had ever seen before. They were crimson coloured and they showed no emotion.
"You wanted to see me Father?" Rei said looking away from the visitor and towards his father.
"Yes Rei, I wanted you to your mate. This is Kai Hiwatari from Russia," replied Haru as he pointed towards Kai.
"Hello Kai," was all Rei said as he slightly bent his head to bow.
"Hello to you too, Rei," said Kai as he also bowed. "If you don't mind Lord Kon, I would like the wedding to take place as soon as possible."
"The wedding will take place in a week," Lord Kon said as he started towards the large oak doors that led to the hall, "and now I will leave so that you will be able to get to know each other without me interfering. Good afternoon."
When Rei heard the door close with a click, he knew he was trapped. Trapped in this room alone with HIM.
As Rei stood lost in thought, Kai walked around him looking at every detail, as a hawk looks over their prey. Crimson orbs spotting a few flaws and several perfections. Rei glanced up to see Kai with a ravenous look in his eyes.
"Why don't we just get this over with? I have other things that I would like to do," Rei said as he stepped away from Kai.
"My, my. Someone is just a little touchy," remarked Kai as he stepped closer to Rei only to watch him step back away from him.
"I'm not touchy. I...just have things that I need to be doing, rather than being locked in a room with you," Rei muttered as he backed himself into a wall.
"Other things, like what?" Kai replied with a glint of victory in his eyes.
"Uh...now I can't remember," mumbled Rei as he looked around the room for an exit.
"Really Rei, your father said that you were free the rest of the day," Kai remarked with a smirked.
"I don't care what my father said I do have things to do," answered Rei as he tried to work his way towards the only exit.
"Why in the big hurry Rei," Kai asked as he walked over and stood in front of Rei, stopping him from reaching the exit.
"Do you think that I want to stay in here with you for the rest of the day?" Rei spat back at the older teen.
"Why not I can be fun at times most everybody else like me, now why can't you?" he said as he placed a hand on Rei's cheek and gently stroked the soft surface with his thumb. Rei slowly closed his eyes as he relaxed in to the touch, then jerked away from the touch only to move himself closer to Kai unknowingly.
"You don't like me to touch you but you sure like being close to me." Kai said as a smirk graced his lips.
"Will you just let me out?" asked Rei as he stepped away from Kai, who took a step towards Rei for each step he took.
"Why ruin my fun by letting you go?" remarked Kai as he backed Rei into the wall on the opposite side of the room. Kai slowly closed the distance in between them to a mere two inches. Putting his hand on Rei's hip he pulled the younger teen towards him and closed the gap completely.
"Remove your hand," Rei demanded through clenched teeth as he tried to back away from the other teen.
"No," Kai said as he put his other hand on Rei's rather girly hips.
"Remove you hands or I will remove them for you," threatened Rei as his golden coloured eyes slowly turned to slits.
"And how do you think you will do that?" Kai asked as he looked into the golden coloured orbs before him and saw the slits. "Did you know how gorgeous you look when you get all flustered?"
"No and I don't care. Now remove your hands," demanded Rei as the slits grew from the mere comment that he had made.
Kai leaned in towards Rei's slightly pointed ear and whispered, "Why it would ruin everything that I have planned," He then placed a light butterfly kiss on the point of the ear and watch as Rei shivered causing Kai smirked even more. 'So his ears are one of his sensitive spots, I need to remember that.'
"Please remove your hands, I would really like to leave because I do have other things that I need to do if you don't mind," Rei requested as he look Kai in the eyes, only to see that they sparkled with amusement and something else that Rei couldn't identify.
"Fine if you insist. You really need to lighten up," replied Kai as he removed his hands from Rei's hips and walked away from the other teen and towards the door. "I want to talk to you later after dinner, maybe?"
"I don't know, why?" Rei said as he watched the other boy cross the room.
"Because I am requesting it not demanding it," answered Kai as he looked into his eyes from across the room.
"If I do meet you it would be in the open and you are to keep your hands to yourself. Do you understand that?" Rei replied as he looks at his fiancé.
"Yes, now where is this open place at?" he asked as he slowly took in what Rei was wearing for the first time that day. His eyes roamed over the red Chinese style shirt with baggy black cargo pants and his hair was in a long braid down his back. 'Beautiful is the only word for him'
"The court yard, any where else would be to empty by that time. Now if you don't mind I would like to leave," Rei stated as he headed towards the door keeping his eyes on Kai the whole time. 'Why did I agree? I don't like this guy but what made me agree to meet him after dinner? But he really does have a nice ass. I so did not just think that. Wait I did. Damn it.' He quietly left the room and a confused Kai there as he turned and went down the hall and towards his room.
'What is with Rei? He actually did agree I thought that he would just try and storm off and not want to be around me. Oh well, don't want to jinx it. Now to find out where my little neko went off to.' Kai walked out the door and went in the direction that Rei went only to find that the neko was nowhere to be seen. He slowly walked down the hall and listened for any signs of the wayward neko. As he reached the end of the hall he thought it would just be better if he went and found his room and waited till dinner time.