LOVE AND TEARS ARE THE SAME

To one of the best couples ever in the history of the world.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Get-Backers, or the characters.

I cried when my parents first died. I cried so much and so hard that I thought I would die. I thought the tears would never stop, and sometimes I feared that I would drown in my sleep. Not that I slept much. It was too painful. When I was asleep I couldn't stop the images flash through my brain. They would play through my mind again and again, like they were set on a continuous loop. Mother, Father, Home, the Fire, Mother, Father, Home, the Fire……

Then I would wake up screaming and the tears would start to spill over my eyes once more. I never once thought about what I would do next, or where I would live, it was all too painful and my shattered emotions couldn't handle thinking about life without my family and the home I had always known.

But I wasn't alone. I had family.

I remember, there was a time when I stared up at the cloudy sky and started to sob my heart out. I was in the middle of a crowded street and people came up to me, looking concerned and asking whether there anything they could do. There was one nice, old man who asked where my parents were. This question nearly killed me. I collapsed, sobbing and shaking onto the street. All the adults were at a loss. A couple of men and women started talking about taking me to a doctor, or just to a place where there was a bed I could crash on.

That's when he came up to me. He had slipped away for just a minute to buy some food for us, but he ran straight back to me when he heard that I was crying. He pushed the adults away from me, and knelt down to me. He wrapped his arms around me and told me that it was going to be alright. They weren't the most helpful or the most original words that he could have said, but that really didn't matter. I don't know how long we stayed like that, wrapped together but when he finally helped me to my feet the tears had dried on my face, and none were replacing them.

I asked him if he would stay with me forever, he said yes. I'm not sure why I asked that question there and then, but I do know that his answer was the most important thing to me at that moment….

It still is.

"Toshiki," I said turning to the blond man. "I-.."

"I know Kazuki." His reply threw me. I hadn't expected him to answer like that.

"You-you…know…"

"I understand." He tried to smile at me, but I could see how painful saying this was for him,

yet he persisted, "I know what you want to tell me, and I understand."

"But…what do you understand Toshiki?" My hands were clenching under the table where we were sitting. How he answered this question was so important…..

He looked straight at me, his eyes were sad but they were clear and determined.

"I understand how you feel about him."

"Kazuki!!" Ginji cried happily when I entered the Honky-Tonk, I shot him I quick smile but I wasn't paying attention to him. I saw Shido, Ban, Hevn and Emishi sitting at the bar. Natsumi and Paul were behind it, doing there various jobs. The café was strangely silent. I had a feeling that everyone could tell something was going to happen and it was best if they kept quiet until it did. My eyes slid to the man next to Emishi. He looked slightly uncomfortable, like he wasn't really happy being there. I wondered if he had realized that I had entered the café.

Of course he had, before his eyes had been damaged he had always known where I was and now that he couldn't see, that strange sense of his seemed to have sharpened more than any of his other senses.

I stood right in front of him for a full minute before I bent down and kissed him.

We pulled away slowly and I stared into his blind eyes. I knew he was staring back, and I knew that he could see me.

"You're sure?" he asked me quietly. I kissed him again.

"I've been sure all my life Juubei. You were the only one that could stop the tears. You are

my everything, my sun, my moon, my love, my life-.."

He silenced me with another kiss.

Sooo…..I'm finished. Please review, hopefully with lots of goodness-but if not then I will just ignore you and feed your nastiness to Calcifer

I'm not quite sure about how Kazuki handled everything back then, but I was just listening to music and this idea came to me. Also, for all the people who think that Kazuki and Toshiki should be a couple (or worse, Kazu and Ren) I tell you that you are not right!!!! Sorry if I have offended anyone, and yes, everyone is entitled their own opinion, but it just has to be KAZUKIxJUUBEI!!!!

If I get reviews saying they would like more on this story I will, of course, comply but I'm quite happy with it the way it is.

Thank you…in advance…..

SAYONARA…….for now….. Howls-Princess-loves-EdwardRoy