Re-edit~
Sorry I'm a bit late on this... Anyway, here's where Masamune ended up at.
Warning: Language.
(I'm...) Masamune tries to get his thoughts together with his closed and tired eyes. (I'm not dead...?)
He moves slightly trying to get a feel to where he is, but his body aches all over. From the smell though... it was grass, dirt... carrots...
(Ritsu... He liked carrots. But not as much as lettuce...) he sighs, (That adorable thing he does when he eats one...)
He tries blinking his eyes open, and to his relief it was dark outside. He still felt like crap so he was guessing it was the morning.
(Takafumi owes me a new phone...) Was a thought before he fell back into unconsciousness.
...
When he opens his eyes again, he groans seeing that the sky was a little lighter. (I was only out for a little bit?)
"My carrots!" He hears, and he closes his eyes again tiredly hoping the person would take it easy on him. Immediately, he can feel the person rush up to him; and instead of hearing the anything remotely angry, he heard the voice of a worried saint.
"...Are you okay?" The person asks worriedly, and Masamune couldn't help but frown a little at the familiarity of the voice, trying not to get his hopes up.
After a while of silence, Masamune wonders what the person was doing until he felt a hand feeling his ears cautiously; his breath hitches at the touch however, and his eyes open to see.
(It's so soft) Ritsu thought, feeling the man's wolf ears. (It's a different kind of soft though...)
(It feels so familiar...) his right ear twitches, and he brushes it off in habit.
Suddenly, he hears a rapid heartbeat and looks down to see the man awake, staring at him with wide eyes.
"..."
"..." (What should I do?) Ritsu blushes. "U-uh... I... I was just..." he trails off as the man reaches up a hand to the side of his face, caressing it softly. Gradually, Ritsu tilts his head to the hand, closing his eyes at the touch. (This feels like him...)
"Ritsu..." He opens his eyes to see the man smiling softly at him. His memory tugs at the sight, and he smiles back before flinching at the pain he felt inside his head.
"...Do you remember me?" Masamune then asks, continuing to caress Ritsu's face.
"I..." Ritsu brings up a hand to press Masamune's hand to his face more, tilting his head once more at the warmth and the touch. "I couldn't really remember your face but... I know... I know it's you..."
"That's good," Masamune praises in an exhausted whisper-like voice, happy his lover remembered him in some way after all this time.
Ritsu notices his eyes drooping and realized at the man needed to rest. "I'm going to carry you inside, okay?"
He raises a brow in question, not quite understanding what Ritsu was saying, but he nods slightly before letting his body rest in unconsciousness.
"Whoa..." Chiaki, Shinobu, and Misaki look him over after Ritsu brought him in, with Ritsu wondering how to get him upstairs to a bed without possibly hurting him. "Masamune has dirt all over his clothes!" Chiaki comments, wondering if his water magic can take out the dirt stains.
Seeing the look on their faces that Chiaki knows him, meaning that he works for Marukawa, Chiaki adds, "He doesn't care about the plans, don't worry- all he does at the meeting when we're forced to go to it is just trace patterns on the table and ignore everyone."
"Sweet. Then he'll be our powerhouse for when we fight, hehehe..." Shinobu looks at their confused faces, "Did you guys not check his info? Right when you brought him home he was already on our roster."
"What? When?" asks Misaki.
[MASAMUNE HAS JOINED THE PARTY!]
"Oh, there it is," Shinobu says, walking down into the text screen and poking it. "You sure to like to make an entrance."
"Shinobu get out of there!" Ritsu demands, "You could rip the text screen!"
"Fine, fine," Shinobu backs out of it, glancing at Masamune before heading out the door. "I'll just go get some more meat then."
His info:
(Lvl. 273) Masamune: Head Editor of Shoujo Manga and a wolf-hybrid, he is strong and passionate. As a wolf hybrid, he is physically powerful and has a bit of a temper; being an Head Editor also, he throws rage and misc. office items at his opponents. His counter doubles each hit his mate receives- he also just counters in general.
Some 15 minutes later...
Shinobu holds his basket full of meat close to him; he was sure the wolf hybrid would enjoy it. Although, Ritsu would probably feel a little left out since his last 'try meat' attempt landed him deathly ill for a month. Despite not being an actual rabbit, Ritsu's body rejected meat and most things like chocolate and it saddened the poor hybrid.
(I'm so happy Ritsu found his soulmate though...)
"Grrr..." On guard, Shinobu brought out his katana with one free hand and gazed around in alert.
"!" He quickly dodges as a black mass of something comes out of the forest towards him, albeit slowly before collapsing to the ground. Cautiously, Shinobu gets close, surprised to see that it was a huge wolf. (Woah...)
(Wolves don't get this big... Didn't Nowaki tell us something...?) He backs away as it tries to get up. (Only wolves this big are either alphas, or that and something else... hm...) He just couldn't remember at the moment.
The wolf was fairly huge, despite that Shinobu was technically still taller. Looking into its dark eyes, Shinobu felt that this big guy can pretty much intimidate anyone to do his bidding.
(Well, not me!) Shinobu thought, quickly rushing away towards home. He didn't notice the way it's eyes followed him, as if in a trance it never wanted to get out of. Seeing that it was losing sight of him, the wolf follows behind, taking in more and more of Shinobu's scent.
(I hope he's okay...) Ritsu thought, taking a look at the sleeping hybrid man on is bed while standing close to his window looking out into the backyard.
Prior to this moment, Ritsu let Masamune's body rest on one of the spare room beds before he began thrashing and grabbing for him in his sleep when Ritsu tried to leave the room. Then Ritsu set him on his own bed, and the wolf hybrid instantly calmed when he pulled away and Ritsu supposed it was because his scent was all over that sort of disguised his physical absence.
(He has some bruises; I wonder who he got into a fight with?) He thought, looking down from the window at Chiaki trying to figure out a way to use his water magic to get those tough stains out of these mats Ritsu no longer used.
*badumpbadumpbadumpbadump-* Ritsu looks up in surprise at the familiar rapidness of Masamune's heartbeat. From the window's reflection he saw the man simply staring at him as he lay on his side.
"W-what's wrong?" Ritsu asks, in concern and in embarrassment at the stare's intensity.
"Ritsu," he turns at his name being called, "I'm going to foraging in the forest!" Misaki calls out from the backyard.
"Okay! Be back before dinner!" Ritsu responds, "And be careful!"
"I will!"
Quietly, Ritsu turns back to Masamune, who still stares at him. "Are you hungry? Can you get up?"
Masamune twists his body a little and sits up, wincing at the ache he felt. "No, and no."
"Hm..." Ritsu examines him a little. "For now then, I'll just set up a bath for you so your body can relax," he says, about to leave the room until Masamune reaches out and grabs his wrist.
"Don't leave."
"I'll be right back," Ritsu says, prying the hand off his wrist. "Someone has to help you bathe."
"...Will you bathe with me?"
He blushes. "N-no."
"We always bathed together," Masamune states, taking Ritsu's hand and pressing it to his cheek, giving him a rather smoldering gaze. "Please?"
Ritsu turns even redder now at the new bit of information and the gaze, stuttering incoherently as Masamune took advantage of his closeness. Grabbing him close to sit Ritsu on his lap and bringing a hand to have Ritsu's head press against his chest, it took a few seconds of adjustment for Ritsu to relax as Masamune ran his fingers through his hair and inhaling his scent. "D-did we really bathe together?" he asks, after a moment of silence.
"...Not always-always, but it felt that way."
"Oh," Ritsu says, before looking up at Masamune and feeling bad that he didn't quite remember his name.
(Chiaki... he said his name earlier...) "Ma... Masamune... r-right?" Ritsu gets shy of the gaze directed at him and goes back to keeping his head against Masamune's chest. "I, I'm sorry that I... It- There was a time it kept hurting and this thing happened that it was safer for me not to remember. In my dreams though, I would dream memories and-"
"Shh, it's all right," Masamune smiles, hugging him. Ritsu himself felt a surge of giddiness run through him as this happens, and found himself rubbing his cheek affectionately against Masamune's warm chest while returning his hug.
"Aawww! Can I draw you guys?" Chiaki bounds through the door, having spied on them through the keyhole after his water cleaning was over. He has his sketchbook and pencil in hand, ready to sketch.
Ritsu blushes in embarrassment, his ear twitching at being caught. All he can do for the moment was turn away and hide his face from Chiaki, who at the moment felt a little down that his cell phone didn't have reception over here and he couldn't send pictures over to Shouta, Yuu, or anyone. He figured Tori wouldn't care.
"Chiaki," Masamune says airily, finding himself smiling at him. "Thank you," he says sincerely. (Thank you for bringing him back to me.)
"? For what?" Chiaki asks, confused. "I didn't help you in- Ritsu carried you in all by himself."
"Not for that, idiot." (Although,) Masamune thought back to Takafumi. (He technically brought me to him, so I guess I'll thank him later. I'll thank him by not making him buy me a new cell phone, that embarrassed bastard.)
"Which one?" Ritsu asks suddenly at dinner, eyeing the boys.
"What?" They both ask, wondering which one of them did what.
"Who is that?" He points outside the window from where he sat at the dining table, and they looked into the darkness to see two glowing eyes looking at them.
"!" Shinobu does a double-take. "What the?!" He turns to Ritsu, who stares him down. "I didn't do anything, I swear! I was just walking home and ran into it, stared at it a little bit, and came home with the meat!"
"You think it's hungry?" Misaki asks, "We have plenty, so..."
"Hey!" Chiaki shouts at it from where he sat inside. "Want to eat with us?!"
Ritsu sighs, looking at it warily. Masamune watched and ate silently, watching their interactions and loving the steak.
The wolf stares back at them from afar, hesitating a bit as he sees Ritsu's wariness and understanding that he was sort of his newfound love's guardian before bolting off into the forest to get home and ask for the advice of his co-worker's wolf hybrid mate.
Yawning, Ritsu turns off the light, darkness everywhere as the moon wasn't full this time around. As he settles in bed, he freezes when an arm hugs him close to a chest.
"W-when did you..?!" he whispers in surprise, not wanting to wake anyone up.
"You really didn't think I'd actually sleep in that guestroom with you here all by yourself in this room, did you?" He sighs at the comfort he felt that Ritsu was there in the flesh. He now uses both his arms to hug Ritsu closer. "Good night."
"Go... Good night," Ritsu whispers in defeat, shuffling a bit before adjusting to Masamune's embrace. He let himself listen to the rhythm of the chest he was pressed against, slowly succumbing to sleep with the realization that Masamune was actually there with him and not part of his dreaming flashbacks where he would then wake up alone and unusually lonely.
Ritsu's ears are like a Holland lop's. Not supposed to eat meat, but he wants to.
Misaki's ears are like a Asian/Sun bear. Omnivore.
Akihiko, he's like silvertip grizzly. Omnivore. Not actual bears, remember, just their ears, tail, and good tracking sense of scent.