REN
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE CHARACTERS OR THE PLOT. THOUGH IF I DID WELL...IT'D BE A LOT LESS INTERESTING.
Glamorous Sky
"When dawn comes,that memory gradually distances...Tonight,I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night..." Nana Osaki (to Hachi)
"Hey, Layla. Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure Draco, what is it? I promise to answer the best I can."
"Are you in love with anyone?"
"Oh yes, I am very much in love, so in love I may burst!"
"I think that I'm in love too."
"Oh? She must be very pretty...I bet you want to kiss her."
"No, not in love like that I've never met him before."
"Oh, it's a boy? Is it that boy?"
"Uh huh..mother says that I am too young to be in love."
"That's silly. What a silly thing to say."
"I know!"
"Especially to someone who isobviously in love."
"Yes.Obviously."
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"Augh it's so bright why is it so bright?"
"Oh well you've chosen my old room. Yes, the sun does come right into it brightly...you should get curtains."
It was one week from the day that I had met Hachi and I was all moved in. It wasn't too difficult to just magic my things into the small room but unpacking was an entirely different story. I was a particular sort of person, everything had to be set just the way I liked it. Using magic never settled right with me when it came to decorating my room or cleaning-it never had. So by hand Hachi and I unpacked the kitchen things and then had moved to my room. Clothes on their rack(I had no closet) held with bright orange hangers, underwear and socks sorted into their drawers along with holiday sweaters and other assorted clothing. It was over quickly and I had been glad.
"Draaacoooo wake up it's Saturday."
There is a heavy weight on my back warming me almost as much as the blazing sun that poured in through the windows. I wanted to heave Shin off of my back but I didn't. It seemed he wanted to give me some sort of chance since the other Blast members didn't seem to want to get to know me. Yasu knew what I was after-but that didn't mean he had to like me.
"I am awake however your heavy body is just restricting the actual 'getting up' part." I said. "If you would please be so kind and get off of me...unless you're here to take advantage of my 'morning wood'."
He laughed while Hachijust stood by the door uncomfortably. I hadn't been so vulgar in a while not since my school days and that was all do to with Ren. I blame the fact that he was just too out spoken-he was my bad influence at least that was what father thought.
"Oh someone is grumpy in the morning." Shin said getting up. "So are you ready for some shopping?"
"Shopping? Really? I don't think I need to. I have everything I'll need."
"Oh...what about alcohol? You're lacking that."
"That's because I never have the occasion to drink. My last glass of wine was a friends wedding. I tend to not drink alone it looks like a cry for help."
"A cry for help? I thought that was scrap booking."
"No, it's definitely drinking-scrap booking isn't too bad."
"I should stop reading comic books then-Scott Pilgrim is rotting my brain."
Hachi laughed, a sweet sound coming from her mouth. I didn't think Shin and I were being too funny but she was laughing at us-the familiarity of it all that should not have yet existed between us was warm and intoxicating. I hadn't felt that way since the good old days when Ren and I would sit around and talk all day in bed...
-FLASHBACK-
"Hey, Ren?"
"Hm?"
"I was wondering about Reira. She seems awfully happy these days." Draco Malfoy, age 11, said. His head resting against a thick plush pillow. He is curled up almost into a ball lost in Ren too large t-shirt. He rubs his sleepy gray eyes half hidden but his white blond hair.
"She's probably sneaking off with some guy that Takumi wont approve of." Ren said, his eyes locked on Draco's almost just as tired. "Is that why you're here and not there? Is she with some guy?"
Draco is quiet for a moment, considering what to say. He nodds.
"I caught them taking a bath together."
"So?"
"Isn't that what married couples do?"
Ren laughs, it's short and sweet. He reaches a hands and ruffles Draco's blond hair.
"Not just married couples. Parents here in Japan bathe with their children and there are public bath houses too. Sometimes friends" He sais recalling a time with himself and Yasu when they were children. "Couples also."
"Oh." Draco is quiet for a moment again considering something deep in the back of his mind. Reninhales deeply coating everything in the scent of Black Stone Cherry's. "Do you want to take a bath then?"
"A bath? Sure I guess...but isn't that a bit weird?"
"Why would it be weird if it's a common custom?"
"Because you're a kid and I'm an adult."
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"Ah! This is nice...such a big tub for a hotel." Draco says. He's smiling now looking up at the ceiling. He turned towards Ren who is at the other side of the tub observing him still smoking. "What?"
"Stand up."
"Why?" Draco asks but none the less does. He quickly sits back in the warm water shivering slightly.
"Huh...so you really are a boy."
Ren laughs making Draco's face turn red with anger. He grabs the only thing he can (a bar of soap) and flings it at Ren's head where it makes direct contact. They both laugh, it's long and hard (the laughing) and Draco's eyes begin to tear because it is so ridiculous. He was in a bath, with a grown man and they were naked. Unbelievable!
"Hey wash my back will you?" He says scuttling to Ren who produces a washcloth out of seemingly nowhere. He dips it into the soapy water.
"Why do I have to wash your back? You're a big kid can't you do it yourself?"
"But it feels so good when someone else does it I bet." He says purring as Ren does it anyway. He lifts his legs to his chest and sighs.
"This is a definite Shota moment."
"Shota?"
Ren laughs.
"You'll know what that means someday and laugh all the harder. If I didn't have any sense of moral I would have taken advantage so long ago."
Draco laughs as he begins to understand and wonders how it was possible to not laugh at all. It felt too good to be happy-his father never laughed and maybe that was why he seemed so miserable. Discontent was a Malfoy tradition he swore to break-after all if Ren were around forever, like Draco hoped, then it wouldn't be too hard.
"She and I bathed together to."
"I knew that."
"Yeah? It must have been easy to figure that one out...but...the tub was so much smaller and those days we had to squeeze together. Close proximity never bothered me but it took her a while to be comfortable with it. Even after she got used to me I still don't think she ever was. There was always a light distance she had with me." He said matter of fact-ly. He could see the small tub back home. In his vision she was there in the warm water looking at him. She wasn't smiling in fact she looked rather dull and miserable.
"It was a mistake. Not asking her to come with you was a mistake."
The motion of Ren's hands stopped as they dropped to the water. There was no noise for a long moment and Draco didn't want to breathe believing that what he said was wrong and that he had offended Ren in some grand way.
"I did. She just didn't want to come."
"Then it was her own mistake...but she'll come around. There comes a time when you need to make a big mistake in order to see yourself with perspective." Draco said sounding older then what he really was. Ren's hands went around him in a hug with little distance. He felt lucky-alive again-it felt like Draco Malfoy was a part of himself, the saner and happier part of him that hadn't been alive in a long while.
"I hope you're right."
"I always am." Draco then paused. "I made a mistake and the perspective I have about myself is something gruesome...I think I'm in love with Harry Potter..."
"Oh really? Then you most assuredly fucked it up."
-
"A rock star?"
Harry nodded though Ginny couldn't see with her head resting on his bare chest.
"Mmmhmmm...he wanted to get together we uh have a friend in common." He said nervously. He couldn't accurately lie, not after sex he was usually too tired.
"Oh? Well thats nice." She hugged him around the middle before sitting up and looking for her shoes and other discarded clothes. She would get dressed, kiss his forehead and leave just like always. It was something that would make him sick and sometimes smile. Whoever else she was sleeping with must have been more important. 'As long as I'm number one on the list of guys she's sleeping with then I don't mind the cheating.' He often told himself despite how small the thought made him feel.
Ginny loved him she always had since they were children. He was her big brother's best friend and a hero...but...in the years they had been dating the glamor of who he was began to ware off and now she was pushing him to marriage. Where it never bothered him before-neither of them really thought of getting married-her mother had begun to push the issue.
Besides that, Ginny loved attention-something that she never needed when they had begun to date but now something she needed like air and Harry couldn't give her enough. He worked on his books, made time for his friends and whatever interviews thrust upon him by journalists asking about the great fight. He had no time to himself, not really and maybe that was why she cheated. To feel attention solely on her and Harry knew.
He knew what she did when she left, who she was with and how long it would last with whoever it was. The longest she had cheated with one particular guy, someone named Sam, it had been a year. She had considered leaving Harry for Sam but didn't-her mother had found out about the affair and put it to rest.
"Where is my bra?"
"On the night stand."
Sometimes Harry thought about Sam, wondered how he was doing. He felt sorry for the sandy haired older man who had fallen so much in love with Ginny. He wondered how Molly handled him.
"Ah thanks...um I'm taking a shirt of yours, do you mind?"
"No it's alright."
But then he would remember what cheating entailed and he would see Ginny naked and bent on hands and knees in her favorite position with Sam behind her, his tanned hands on her hips as he...and Harry would scowl and hate the man. Despite however much he didn't mind about the cheating he would remember that he did mind. Suddenly Draco Malfoy's face comes to mind-eyes narrowed smirk present on his face making him shiver as he thrusted...
"Bye love, see you tomorrow."
"Lock the door on your way out." Harry said getting out of bed and walking towards the bathroom, naked. He needed a shower, something hot and scolding.
He felt suddenly dirty.
- (To be continued with reviews good ones please...hopefully three or four just for inspiration.)-
Italics in this chapter are used for flashbacks.
...Apparently the bath between Ren and Draco is sexual to some readers...(my cousin read it over and actually said that the thought of Ren scrubbing Draco's back made her feel hot)...but what she didn't realize was that it was meant to be a warm scene where two friends decided to be close and share their thoughts. Draco Malfoy doesn't seem like the sort that would get naked in front of anyone or talk so it was meant to be more endearing then anything else. (also Draco is 11 in this scene!)
I wanted to portray Draco as friendlier here and more mature. He is depicted in the beginning scene of the flashback very much like a small child-rubbing his eyes, wearing a large t-shirt that drowned his tiny body. He asked Ren to bathe with him as a way to get closer to him-he must have felt a bit of a rift in their friendship due to the fact that they were so different and also to make it easier on Ren who was still very much suffering quietly because of Nana.
He loves Ren like the brother he never had or rather like the father he wishes Lucius could be. Draco looks at Ren for comfort, strength and love...the things his own father could never give him.
About Ginny cheating? Don't hate her too much and I know it's a recurring theme with her doing that to Harry in Fanfiction but you've got to understand. At this point she wants Harry's attention, devotion and love. I know what you're thinking, that him being with her is a show of devotion but really think about it. She understood that he couldn't be with her all the time in the beginning of their relationship because of everything that was going on...but now they're older and now she feels she deserves some attention (as well she does deserve). She cheats on Harry because there is obviously something lacking there. Imagine when having sex with your partner (those of you who have might understand...for those that haven't well...)you want to feel that they really see you, that they are touching you, that you are the reason they can feel ultimate pleasure-as though they are closer to heaven. With Harry it doesn't feel that way. To her it feels like he's only sleeping with her to rid himself of stress (Sound like anyone? *Cough*Takumi *Cough*) So she cheats to feel the love she wishes Harry could give her. Why wont she leave him then? Well that's for another chapter...
Draco says that he is in love with Harry-it could be taken two ways. You just have to guess!
FUN FACT #1: Draco has taken baths with Reira-she was the first naked woman he has ever seen.
FUN FACT #2: Draco likes to take baths with friends more then his lovers...Blaise complies often but calls him a pervert.
FUN FACT #3: Harry has never been comfortable with Ginny sleeping naked next to him.
FUN FACT #4: Harry followed Ginny on her many dates with Sam Spade, whom Ginny was having a year long affair.
In the next chapter we meet Reira and little Ren! Harry is confronted by Ron and Hermione about Ginny! AND Nana Osaki is finally found!
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