Hi everyone! Thanks again for all your reviews. I'm getting day off soon and then I'm going to reply to every single review. You deserve it. This chap was a little bit late because my boss is giving hard time before my day off. (I work 7 days/week.) But once again, enough about me and on to the story. And I almost forget this time too so I'm going to make it clear now:
Disclaimer: The characters don't belong to me. They belong to Shungiku Nakamura. If they did belong to me, Misaki would be much more active in bed.
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Heartbeat
Usagi woke up sweating and panting. He had seen a nightmare. Actually he had seen this nightmare more than once. Always when he was feeling happy and like nothing could go wrong he would see this horrible nightmare.
As soon as Usagi had steadied his breath he looked next to him. He smiled. His Misaki was sleeping peacefully next to him, mumbling something incoherent from time to time and for some reason blushing from time to time.
He is so cute. He blushes even in his sleep.
The dream came back to haunt him soon though. He had first seen it after Misaki had told him for the first time that he loves him. Recently he had been so happy that he had started to start seeing it almost every night.
The dream always starts the same way. Misaki is walking away and then turns around and with a big smile. He shouts that he will be back soon. I smile too and wave my hand to him. He glances at me the last time and starts to walk. I have no idea, why I'm not taking him to the University. I stand there watching him and then suddenly a car comes. The car is driving way over limits and it doesn't even stay on the road. I'm just starting to yell after Misaki to be careful when I see the car starting to drive towards Misaki. I yell Misaki's name and I then I see his lips moving and the car bashes straight to him.
I run to Misaki and yell the person closest to me to call an ambulance, because for some reason I don't have my cell with me in the dream. I gently lift Misaki to lean on my lap but I can't hear him breath. His lively emerald eyes are closed and his cheeks normally blushing bright red are pale white. Blood is soaking through his shirt and his leg is twisted weirdly. I keep my focus on Misaki. I can already hear the ambulance. That's when I realize that the body is completely unmovable. I lean my head against his chest but it isn't there. His heartbeat is missing. That's when I usually wake up.
Usagi leans his head against his hand and breaths deeply few times. Then he does something that he always does after seeing this dream. He lies on the bed again and holds the boy while keeping his head on the boy's chest.
He feels as the chest rises and he can hear it. He can hear Misaki's heartbeat. That's when usually falls asleep. To the boy's steady heartbeat.
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Next evening Usagi was confused. When he came to the bed, after writing many hours, the boy was still awake.
"Misaki, why are you still awake?" Usagi asked tiredly from the door.
"Well, it's weekend and you've been a bit weird recently so I thought that maybe you would feel better um.. if we went to bed at the same time..", Misaki answered looking his hands as the fumbled with them. And as we all know, he was blushing deeply.
Usagi smiled a little. The boy always knew when something wasn't right with him.
"It's nothing. Just this one dream", Usagi answered as he was getting rid of his clothes.
"Usagi-san, you're not telling me everything. What happens in the dream?" Misaki asked looking worried.
"You don't need to worry about it", Usagi answered trying to avoid the subject and pulling his pajama bottoms on.
"Fine. If you won't tell me, I won't worry about you", Misaki said looking now disappointed and maybe a bit angry. After saying that, Misaki hopped up from the bed and started to walk away.
"Misaki?! Where are you going?" Usagi asked horrified because he didn't know what he would do if the boy wasn't with him if he saw the dream again. And he didn't want to sleep without the boy.
"I'll probably go watch some TV and wait till I pass out. It's not like I could fell asleep even if I wanted to", Misaki said now exiting the room wearing only sad and disappointed look on his face. The anger that was there earlier was now gone. Usagi rushed after him and held him tightly.
"Usagi-san! Let me go!" Misaki said but then he glanced upwards and saw Usagi's sad and maybe a little bit scared eyes.
"My dream.. I don't want to tell it to you entirely but the main point is that something horrible happens to you but I don't want to lose you. In the dream I can't hear your heartbeat..", Usagi said his voice fading away while he talked. Misaki could feel how the man tightened his grip as he pleaded him not to go.
"I'm not going to anywhere", Misaki said and then took another one of Usagi's hand in to his own and slowly glided the hand over his heart.
"And my heart is still beating", Misaki added. He could feel his lover relaxing and after a moment Misaki started to feel sleepy so he leaned against his lover because he knew that the other wouldn't let him fall.
Usagi felt as his lover leaned against him and he held him more securely. He was having wicked thoughts now that he had calmed down but as he was beginning to seduce the boy he realized that the boy had fell asleep. He had to battle against his desires because he knew the boy was exhausted. He had been cleaning and doing homework all day yet he still waited for him. After all it was 2 a.m. Usagi carefully lifted the boy and carried him to the bed. Princess style, of course.
As Usagi turned off the lights and laid down on the bed the boy was shifting. Suddenly the boy lifted his head up from the bed and watched his lover sleepily. He then crawled nearer to his lover and hugged the man that way that Usagi was leaning against the boy's chest.
"This feels better", Misaki mumbled sleepily and fell asleep again.
How did he know that I can't sleep peacefully without being like this?
Usagi thought as he hugged the boy back, hearing the soft thumping of his lover's heart, the only thing that allowed him to sleep peacefully.
A/N: Just noticed that all the stories are somehow connected to sleeping. Weird huh. I was first planning a scene, and my perverted side almost won but then I decided to do it this way. Once again I will upload a new chap in a couple of days.
