AN: Short one shot for fun. Inspried by david-ds stuff. Go read his stuff! Now! After youve finished reading mine, of coarse. And reviewing. Anyone who knows the name of the song/band I stole this story title from gets brownie points!

3:45 No Sleep

SOUSUKE YOU OTAKU Kaname yelled, halisen whirring through the air towards my face. Everything seemed to be in slow motion, and I saw it coming, like I always did, and like always, I would choose not to catch the weapon. Or would I?

Catching her wrist holding the paper fan, I grabbed her other wrist and pushed her back, pinned, onto the brick wall behind us. Her sweet, cherry lips parted in a wordless exclamation at my sudden attack. I loomed over her, grinning dangerously. Her breasts trembled with the pumping of her heart, beating like a cornered rabbits. And if she was the rabbit, Id be the wolf, looking down upon my prey with sickening satisfaction.

And I lent down, angling my mouth towards hers, leaning in, closer and closer to taste my prize . . .

Sousuke shot up and out bed, gasping from his intense dream, sweat dripping from his forehead. Swallowing, he bent over, resting his head on his knees, still trying to calm his raccing pulse. The rain pounded on his window pane as he thought about this reoccurring dream.

It was illogical. Impractical. Absurd. Unrealistic. But so real he thought, taking in another gulp of air, running his hand through his hairtoo real. But why? Was the Freuden princible of animalistic and sexual desires being released through dreams? The dream certaintly contained both of those aspects. Was this what he truely desired?

, he thought, shaking his headnot exactly. Sometime during his missions, Sousuke had slowly began to reconize that he harbord certain feeling for his charge, none of them military approved or encouraged. Feelings jepordized missions, made people weak, more supceptible to mistakes, prone to falure. And the last thing in the world he wanted to do was to fail protecting Kaname Chidori. But, obviously, hiding these emotions wasnt enough.

He sighed, getting up from his bed, knowing hed get no sleep tonight. He walked over to his window and pressed his head against its cool, smooth form, watching the rain fall in endless waves.

It had been three years since he had been assigned to Kaname, and they both resided at Tokyo U, even sharing the same dorm, at his request of coarse. Living with someone was an entirly new experience for him, though not displeasing. Not by far. He got to see all the intimite details of her life, got to see her closer than ever before, and their relationship seemed to bloom. She hadnt used the halisen for a while, now, and her violent acts had lessened over the years, as well as her temper tantrums. Not that they didnt happen; just not as often. She had matured into a beautiful young women, kind and caring, happy and encouraging. Though it wasnt like he hadnt changed as well.

With the passing of time, he too had grown maturer and wiser, his assults on the innocent passer bye dramatically dropping as he learned the customs and ways of the common man, as well as learning his own potental. In the military, finding ones self was not pressed, and never before had Sousuke begun to relize that he, him self, had an opion, a favorite, a preference. There wasnt so many orders, now, and he had to make desisions for him self. Nothing based on fact, but based on emotion, a concept new to him. And Kaname helped him along with good grace.

He sighed once more, turning to look over at the glow of his digital clock. 3:45 AM.