07/16/13
I'd like to thank everyone who sent well wishes and encouraged me when I had my bad day last week and all of your reviews really did make me feel better about it all.
I'd also like to thank MikuChan01 (Guest) who pointed out I called Bunny "Barnaby" at some point. I always want to type Barnaby and I guess I missed one of the instances where I needed to change it. Could anyone tell me where this is though? My brain is skimming over it or something when I try to find it myself.
Lastly a BIG thank you to TheYoko whom is translating this story into Spanish. I love that the story is reaching more readers. I only wish I knew what they were saying in their reviews. XD
Enjoy the new chapter!
Chapter 10
Kotetsu awoke to something splashing on his face. He almost told Antonio to stop being an ass when he realized his entire body was wet; his legs were even still in the water as he waves splashed upward on the cement beach.
Had he almost drowned again? His whole body felt so heavy and his head was throbbing. The room was spinning even though he still had his eyes closed. It was tempting to go back to sleep even though he was still in the shallow end of the tank.
Trying to gather the strength to open his eyes, Kotetsu counted to three. The fourth time he did this he actually succeeded in opening his eyes only to close them right after because even the darkness of the tank room was too much at the moment. When he managed the feat again he spotted Bunny looking down at him, eyes wide with what seemed to be fear.
What was it that had Bunny so afraid? Kotetsy couldn't recall the merman looking so worried before, not even when Bunny had saved him from drowning. What happened that left his body tingling and his mouth feeling burnt? Almost like when he drank coffee that was still too hot but usually that was just his tongue or the roof of his mouth. This was the entirety of his mouth; even his teeth felt different.
As Bunny looked relieved to see him awake, eyes seeming to hold more moisture than normal, he reached out to stroke back Kotetsu's hair. The touch was gentle and helped with the ache concentrated in the Japanese man's temples.
Slowly Kotetsu remembered what happened. He remembered being tricked into the tank and Bunny touching him. The touches had been so intense Kotetsu couldn't speak but innocent enough that he hadn't really thought to object. But that had changed when Bunny concentrated on Kotetsu's scarred shoulder, sending some sort of electricity through him that made him delirious and aroused.
There wasn't enough energy left in Kotetsu to resist blushing and his mind churned over his despite his exhaustion. Did he just have sex with Bunny? Was that even possible when he had still been covered and Bunny being, well, Bunny? Sex between a human and a merman just wasn't physically possible right?
Then again didn't fish mate by basically just rubbing against each other? Was it the same for merfolk? Had he just been mated with?
And, if they did have sex, was what happened similar to being drugged? The after affects were certainly worse than any hangover he ever had and he was pretty sure he would have dry humped, or wet humped as the case may be, Bunny if he had been thinking clearly.
From what he knew about fish they were attracted to colors and lights, Kotetsu imagined electricity could work in a similar way. The fish mated on instinct, not any sort of feelings for the other fish. He just never imagined something like that would work on a human.
While he was thinking on it had Bunny meant to affect Kotetsu in such a way? Bunny had been concentrating the electricity on Kotetsu's shoulder, something Kotetsu had never thought of as sexy, when Kotetsu had become aroused. The merman could have had nothing but innocent intentions until Kotetsu started to hump him and followed his lead with the kisses.
The kiss the night before made Kotetsu think Bunny must be, on some level, attracted to him since the merman had kissed him again during Kotetsu's delirium. The kiss, with the electricity flowing through him, seemed to be what had made Kotetsu pass out and feel like he had just been through a riot. And now, with Bunny looking so relieved and stroking his hair, Kotetsu felt cared for, not like he had been drugged and assaulted.
Even if he put aside the possibility that the circumstances of their possible mating weren't the greatest there was still the matter of how Kotetsu felt. More specifically how he felt about Bunny. He found the merman cute and cared about him but the nothing close to romantic notions had crossed his mind before, let alone lustful ones.
Any sort of relationship just didn't seem possible. Kotetsu didn't even know Bunny's real name and the merman couldn't even talk to him. And he definitely didn't want a repeat of last night if it ended with him passing out and waking up feeling like a survivor of a zombie movie.
"Bunny," Kotetsu voice cracked worse than when he went through puberty and sounded like he hadn't talked in years. He hurt, everything hurt, he just wanted to go back to sleep. "D-Don't do that again."
Something flashed in Bunny's eyes but it was gone before Kotetsu's muddled mind could fully take it in. The moisture that had been gathering there now fell as tears but he didn't move away from Kotetsu.
"N-no, don't cry," Kotetsu weakly lifted a hand to Bunny's face, cupping his cheek. He was relieved when Bunny took hold of his hand and held it there, his arm shaking too much to hold it there himself. "I meant don't zap me again; that really hurt. The rest," he swallowed, trying to fight off dizziness. "The rest was fine."
Kotetsu must have passed out again for the next thing he was aware of was waking up in bed. He couldn't recall getting up to go to bed but according to his alarm it was still too early for any of the scientists to have come in and seen him to take him to his room so he had to have gotten here himself. There really wasn't any other option.
Slowly Kotetsu rolled to his other side and saw Bunny swimming next to the window watching him. Feeling a little better he went back to sleep.