Ritsu was asleep cuddled up to Masamune in bed the next night. They had come to an agreement that Ritsu had to have at least one day off sick before she could go back to work just to ease Masamune's worry if not by a little. Masamune continued running his hand through her hair but he couldn't help but worry for his lover. He couldn't sleep even with her beside him. Masamune was so deep in his thought he didn't notice Ritsu wake.

"Masa-kun" She mumbled "Why are you still awake?" She asked worried

"Don't worry about it Ritsu, just sleep" he whispered against her forehead. Ritsu reached up to cup his cheek seeing the worry shine in his eyes form within the darkness of the room.

"We'll get through this, Masamune, they won't get away with this" Ritsu muttered.

"I know, my love, but I just got you back I don't want to lose you again before they do. And this time you would really be out of my reach"

Ritsu let out a hum that sounded a lot like a purr "That sounded nice" Ritsu murmured.

"What did?"

"What you just called me. Say it again" Ritsu giggled.

"I'll say it as many times as you want, my love" Masamune grinned. Ritsu reached up and kissed him deeply, pressing herself close to him and his hands wondered feeling every curve of her body and Ritsu let out a moan into his mouth. Masamune rolled onto his back not breaking the contact and let his tongue explore her mouth. "We need to sleep Ritsu" Masamune chuckled between kisses

"We're shoujo manga editors do we ever sleep? Besides we have all tomorrow to sleep" Ritsu giggled above him.

"You are recovering from poison, you need all the sleep you can get" Masamune chuckled as he firmly placed her beside him before getting out of bed.

"Where you going?" Ritsu asked a bit worried

"To have a cold shower" Masamune groused "When did you learn how to kiss like that anyway" Masamune scowled at the thought of Ritsu practicing with someone else, or worse, with that Rafael prick.

"When you're always shoving your tongue down my throat you think I'm not going to pick up a few things?" Ritsu cooed. Masamune blinked at his lover and gave a wolfish grin

"So, I'm the only one you've ever kissed?" Ritsu blushed madly and turned away with a huff "I'll take that as a yes" Masamune answered proudly for himself before turning disappear into the bathroom.

After a while Ritsu decided she wanted a drink and threw the bed sheets off herself and padded out to the kitchen only turning on the kitchen light as she did when she heard the sound of the door to the genkan open. Ritsu went to see what it was, thinking the door must've just swung open by a breeze only to see someone standing there. She couldn't see the intruder in the dark but the intruder had seen her and bolted.

Ritsu immediately sprinted for Masamune's bedroom and slammed the door shocking Masamune who was drying himself off. "Ritsu what's wrong?" Masamune asked worriedly

"Someone was in the – they had come in then – they…" Ritsu burst out into tears and Masamune gathered her close

"Ritsu it's okay, I'm right here, just calm down" Masamune hushed as his love cried out her fear. Masamune went to leave the bedroom, Ritsu trailing shaking behind him. Masamune switched on all the lights and saw no body was there and turned to Ritsu. "See there is no one here, they must have run away when you saw them." Masamune soothed. As far as he could tell, no one was here but with everything that has been happening lately he wasn't going to dismiss anything like this as the dark playing tricks on her. At least that was until he had gone to the genkan and saw his front door wide open.

Masamune closed the door and used a few of the extra locks he didn't normally use onto the door making a mental note to call the police in the morning as he guided the shaking woman back to bed and after changing out of the towel that was wrapped around his waist for his pyjama bottoms he cuddled up to Ritsu more awake than ever.

Truth Hurts

When they had woken up the next morning Ritsu seemed to have gotten over last night's scare. In fact, she seemed happy as she set the table while he made their breakfast. Once he was finished he cornered her against the table as he set the dishes down, placing a kiss on her neck. "What has you so happy this morning?"

"I just had a really good dream last night" Ritsu said blushing.

"Oh, are you going to share then?" Masamune asked as he sat at the table dragging Ritsu onto his lap.

"No" Ritsu stuttered blushing even redder

"C'mon, I can't make your dream a reality if I don't know it" Masamune whined. Ritsu rolled her eyes

"What are you some fairy god mother or something?" Ritsu teased.

"No, I'm definitely prince charming" Masamune teased back "C'mon, if it's made you this happy just thinking about it, I want to try and give you that dream" Ritsu paused biting her lip.

"I had a dream that we had a family," Ritsu rested his hand over her womb "Our own baby with a little puppy or something to take care of it" Ritsu rested her head on his shoulder.

Masamune's eyes widened in surprise. "Is that what you want?"

"Yea, it sounds really nice"

"Then I would be more than happy to start a family with you Ritsu" And Masamune wasn't kidding, the idea of it had him grinning like an idiot and he couldn't wait to start his family. More importantly his family with the love of his life, Onodera Ritsu. But first he needed to look for a ring to make her his.