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Chapter Seven:
"Rei!" Kabuto sounded furious outside her door, she wasn't sure she wanted to open it and see how angry he looked as well. She imagined that his face was taut with some fury she couldn't guess.
Only steps away from the door, she watched it as it flew open and Kabuto came toward her obviously trying to calm himself.
At seeing her scared face he fought to calm down, it was unfair to be angry with her with, just because Orochimaru was angry with him. "What were you thinking?" He asked still fighting off the rage.
"I'm lost," She said taking a step back.
"You injured Yae, didn't you?" He tried to confirm what he thought he knew.
Rei looked at him a moment before it clicked, "I may have, but she attacked me first." She was pleased that she sounded as calm as she felt. "I defended myself, I landed a hit that brought her down, and I walked away."
Kabuto, wasn't her Kabuto right now, she could tell by the tone of his voice, and the set of his shoulders. Kabuto was Orochimaru's Kabuto in this moment.
"He's furious you know?" Kabuto's voice softened, but not for her, he sounded afraid, with all right to be. "Yae is hurt, and he was counting on being able to use her powers. What did you do to her?"
She looked deep in his eyes. "I defended myself," She repeated.
"How?" His brow creased. Rei didn't know if he knew that he was taking slow steps toward her.
"I sent a wave of chakra laced with an Ishida jutsu, through her heart." Her tongue moved in self preservation, she really didn't like telling him her little secret.
"I see…" Kabuto shifted, and she wondered what made him do so. She watched his eyes cloud. "…Rei…is something…wrong?" His voice went soft, the tone he used when he whispered sweet nothings in her ear.
She wasn't sure what he meant, she looked at him, her face telling her confusion, but she added words anyway, "Nothing's wrong, Kabuto." She said it so calmly and certainly that it convinced him.
He was suddenly caressing her cheek, leaning in to kiss her. Rei wanted to pull away, but his warm hand on her face kept her still, at least until the tears filled her eyes. Her own small hand went up to hold his in place while she took her lips back.
Reading the shock in his eyes was easy. Seeing her watery eyed smile, he was very confused. She felt those dangerous words on the tip of her tongue again, but swallowed them back...I love you…She just hoped he could read it in her eyes like she could read it in his.
She didn't go to his bed that night, staying in her own felt right, since, this was coming to an end soon. Rei figured her days were numbered, shortly numbered. Then she would be gone from this place and never, ever return to it.
So it didn't surprise her when she woke up facing the couch to see him sitting there book in hand, reading in the glow of the fire.
"Hello Kabuto," She hummed softly, feeling the warmth in her body.
"I thought you might have been sick, or…" He looked up at her. He was still thinking about earlier.
"Nothings wrong, I promise," She sighed shifting out from under the blankets to pad barefoot over to the couch. Sitting down she almost sat on him, she set herself so close and wrapped her arms around his free arm.
"Oh, this is my book…" She noted when she saw the dog-eared corner of one of her favorite pages.
"It is," He smiled.
"Did you get to that part yet?" She asked softly. "Where Natsuki tells Kyouya she loves him?"
He looked at her and his smile deepened, "I have, and I can see why you like this book so much. Natsu, is you, or at least very much like you."
Rei curled up closer to him and nodded into his shoulder as she rested her head there. Neither said it, but the difference was that Rei was never going to say that she loved him, ever. And they both knew it, Kabuto was not her Kyouya.
She woke up back in her bed, alone. And she truly was alone, she felt like she'd lost something great. Had Kabuto made such an impact on her life? Had a few months of closeness with the medic toppled her love for Itachi? Making it less then it once was? Rei felt sick.
Curling in on herself she shook. Tears welled in her eyes. I don't love him like I love Itachi…She told herself but…I do love him.
Rei, still feeling chilled, got up to change into something warm, knowing it would do little to help. There was only one thing that would help.
The heels of her boots hit the stone floor at a hard fast pace and when she opened his door, she stood breathless in the doorway. Her crimson eyes wide, her breath catching in her throat as she choked out, "Kabuto..."
As he was turning to her from his desk, Rei threw her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply, tears coming to the edges of her eyes again. Kabuto caught her around the waist and held her up, she being shorter than him.
When they both needed air, and only then, did they pull away from each other and he set her feet on solid ground again, though she couldn't tell such differences at the moment.
"I'm sorry." She burst out before she could even catch her breath. She stared deep into his eyes.
"Rei…" For a moment, Kabuto couldn't help but be lost in her wide, needing gaze. How he'd longed for her to look at him like that, and now, he almost regretted it.
There was so much more she wanted to tell him in that moment, but she couldn't bring herself to say it. And some where she felt, she didn't need to because he had to already know it. "…and thank you…" she added.
His hand brush across her cheek as he took her lips in another, shorter lived kiss. That was his, "Your welcome."
Wrapping her arms around him, she didn't feel quite so alone any more, but she felt guilty, this wouldn't last. It couldn't.
Admittedly, it was slightly awkward, after they're second kiss…though the air around them seemed to be full of calm, and peace, rather than the heated tension that normally swirled about them.
Rei wasn't sure when her heart began to slow, or when the need slowly gave way to exhaustion, but she couldn't look away from him. And as it would seem he could neither do the same nor let her go.
I'm going to lose you…aren't I? He fought against asking her, he didn't want the answer.
I'm already losing you…She thought a little bit of that sick feeling swishing in her stomach and she closed her eyes, memorizing everything she could about him.
Chapter Seven End:
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