Don't know where you are in the world, but here it's the 4th of July and I thought the holiday could benefit with some fireworks of the Romantica/Neko variety. Enjoy the display!

This chapter is dedicated to Alcuzey ( I haven't forgotten about you, I swear and you'll be getting a PM from me soon). Thanks for the gentle push!

And my thanks to all you other readers who have left so many kind messages, asking about my stories over the months (YEARS- How did that happen?)

"Misaki, wait!" When this had no effect, Akihiko shouted again, "Misaki!"

It seemed for a moment no amount of yelling would break the haze of his kitten's heated lust, so he was shocked when Misaki's hands suddenly dropped away from his now open trousers.

Wide, horrified, green eyes met his own and Akihiko's heart clenched when he saw them filled with tears.

"What's w-wrong with me, Usagi-san? This isn't m-me… I'm not like this..." Clearly realizing what he'd been about to do, Misaki gulped, and his bottom lip trembled.

"You're my seme and I... I almost…"

It was clear the thought was so distressing Misaki couldn't bring himself to speak further. The poor heat-struck hybrid paled and began to shake.

Akihiko felt terrible. Of course this would hit his kitten hard, especially after what Misaki had been through himself during his neko-napping.

"I'm so s-sorry… Usagi-san. I… I'm a terrible p-pet!"

Inwardly Akihiko kicked himself now for discounting Dr. Ochi's advice. Seeing how frightened and miserable Misaki was, he should have told the innocent kit-teen from the start what was happening to him.

"Oh, Misa-kitty…" Extending his hand, he went to place a comforting pat on his neko's damp, wild head. Before he could, however, Misaki recoiled.

Pushing away, Misaki tried to scramble off the bed before he did anything more horrible to his beloved owner. He squeaked when his retreat was thwarted by a pair of long arms catching his middle and wrestling him down to the mattress.

"You're not a terrible pet, Misaki. You're wonderful."

Beneath the weight of his seme, Misaki struggled; his trapped tail whipped about wildly. "No!… No!… You should get r-rid of me Usagi-san… There's something wrong with me! I'm going f-feral… I'm not safe for you anymore!"

The strong arms wrapped around him only held on tighter. The smell and comforting weight of Usagi-san and just how much he'd miss master, broke Misaki's heart. Sobbing, he stilled, knowing this might be the last time Usagi-san would hold him.

"No, Mi…" Hugging his pet's back close to his chest, Akihiko set his chin over a slender shoulder and pressed a kiss to a tear-stained cheek.

"You're not a bad pet, you're just in heat, Sweetheart." He sighed. "If anyone's 'bad' here, it's me. I should have told you."

"Heat?" The word was choked out between loud snuffles.

Akihiko chanced loosening one of his arms to pull a handkerchief from his pocket and pressed it to his neko's leaking nose. Seriously, as adorable as he was, Misaki was much a messy crier.

"You know what that is, Misaki. Right? We had that talk about it, a time ago."

Hiccupping, Misaki nodded. Thin fingers wrapped around the cloth and he took it and held it to his nose, sniffling, as Usagi-san's hand slipped away. Then he rolled over in his owner's arms until he was face to face with his seme.

"Is that why…" His cheeks flushed bright pink at how wanton he'd been recently. Now he understood why he'd been 'broken' all the time for days now.

Still was, in fact, his narrow hips seeking friction for his hard leaking cock even as he clung close to Usagi-san's side.

"Yes, Mi." Akihiko said this softly, voice full of love as he gently stroked back dark, sweaty locks from his pet's smooth forehead. He stared fondly at Misaki.

Misaki's brow furrowed as he sniffled again. He dropped his eyes and his brown ears flickered. "You knew?"

The words were spoken so softly Akihiko almost missed them. "Yes, Misa-kitty. Dr. Ochi told me that's what he thought was happening when he came over those few days ago, when you first said you felt 'strange.'"

It seemed such a tender moment, Akihiko was completely unprepared when Misaki suddenly bolted upright. Stunned into immobility, an instant later, he found himself flat on his back, pinned beneath lean thighs straddling his belly. Slapping blows rained down upon his broad shoulders.

"YOU KNEW?!"

"You big dumb, Rabbit! You knew I was in heat and you didn't tell me?"

Misaki's growled shouts would have been frightening if his voice had been just a little bit lower. "You let me think for the last three days that I'd suddenly become as big a pervert as you!"

Again, the neko's words might have had a greater impact on his seme, if his cock hadn't been hard and spilling its milk all over Akihiko's shirt-clad belly.

"I'm not a pervert… I merely have a healthy appetite." Akihiko said lightly, clasping his pet's thin wrists, not that Misaki's flailing was actually causing him any real pain, but he didn't want the neko to hurt himself.

"And, yes, I see now it was wrong that I didn't tell you. But..." Bucking his hips up beneath his kitten's heated backside, Akihiko was able to pull a squeak from his pet that quickly turned into a moan. "You can't tell me, you haven't been enjoying this, Misaki."

Another hard pulse against Misaki's tender, leaking bottom and the angry expression on his face fell away into something akin to bliss.

"Not f-fair, Usagi-san!" Despite his anger-flattened ears, now Misaki was rocking back to meet the thrusts.

"I… I'm still mad at you!" The neko panted as his lithe tail curled in pleasure.

"Of course," Akihiko sighed, reaching up to pinch the brown buttons of Misaki's nipples.

"You're going to get green peppers everyday for a week! Every meeeeal..." Misaki's declaration was broken by a heated keen, hands going to stroke his two upper nipples while his owner attended to his four lower ones.

"Of course, Misaki," Akihiko soothed, watching his pet's long neck tip back. He smirked at seeing his lovely neko writhing atop him, and at the knowledge Misaki was unlikely to ever follow through on such a threat.

"But right now…" Misaki's breath labored.

"Yes…"

Dropping one hand from Misaki's nipples Akihiko grabbed his kitten's heated cock. Misaki hissed through his teeth at the touch.

"No… please…" Misaki dropped his head, desperation in his eyes once more. His cheeks blushed a furious pink. He didn't want to say it, but he was in heat, so it was going to be okay… Right?

"P-please, Usagi-san… I n-need… I need you to f-fuck me."

How long had Akihiko longed to hear his neko beg like this? The tears of need in Misaki's eyes, the earnestness of his voice. It was perfect. Everything was perfect.

Well, it was perfect for except one thing.

One big, very important, and usually hard thing.

Misaki had shifted down, straddling his legs now, thin fingers pushing his shirt up as the neko pressed frantic nibbles and licked every bit of belly this revealed. It was stirring, so stirring. Or at least it should have been.

Akihiko felt the familiar throb in his balls, his cock twitched as it valiantly tried to rise.

Unfortunately, it was no use. The author knew already there was no way his exhausted member was getting up anytime soon. No matter how fuckable his kitten was in this moment.

He cursed the gods and couldn't help but wince when Misaki pulled the band of his briefs down to reveal him.

"Usagi-san?"

Misaki stared in confusion, head cocking to the side and ears twitching madly.

"Why aren't you…" Usually all his seme had to do was think the word 'hard' and it was so. "D-did… did I do something wrong?"

For once, his kitten wasn't the only one blushing. It was all Akihiko could do to meet Misaki's green gaze. "Er… No… No, Misaki. You're perfect."

Seeing that this didn't assuage his pet at all, Akihiko swallowed. The only thing getting harder at present was having to set his pride aside and be truthful.

"To be honest, Misaki… I think you've just worn me out, Sweetheart. Believe me, I'd be pouncing you in an instant if I could."

It was clear from the way Misaki's madly switching ears suddenly stilled and his tail too, that the little chocolate neko's mind had been completely blown.

"But you're a..."

Akihiko pressed his lips into a firm line. If Misaki said "super seme" he would never live down the loss of face.

Fortunately, despite his heat, Misaki seemed to suddenly realize this and stuttered, "y-you're usually so... R-resilient."

"Yes," Akihiko hummed feeling his cheeks grow hotter.

After several silent moments, Misaki dipped his head and gave his seme's cock a curious lick with his rough tongue. Normally just looking at Usagi-san, anywhere, was enough to rouse his big bunny.

Misaki slipped his owner's spent member into his mouth and began to lightly suck. Above him his Usagi-San groaned but the cock in his mouth barely twitched.

Misaki slid off and sat up, licking his lips. As much as he fought it, his eyes filled with frustrated tears. His ass ached and itched in a way that only his seme could fix and he needed to come so badly.

Then large hands gripped his wrists again and pulled him down. Before Misaki knew it his dark head was tucked under Usagi-san's chin, his neko ears rubbing the underside of Usagi-san's jaw.

This was miserable. Misaki didn't know what to do. So he did what he always did in situations where he was lost: he began to cry again. Long fingers combed through the back of his it didn't ease him.

"I'm sorry… Usagi-san… but I need s-something."

Never had there been a more self-sacrificing neko than his and Akihiko knew Misaki had to be truly desperate if he was willing to admit he "needed something."

Twining his fingers through his pet's dark strands, his mind went back to what Hiroki had told him. Really it shouldn't be such a stretch (both figuratively and literally), to let Misaki top him. He'd actually bottomed quite a bit in his younger days and had enjoyed it greatly more often than not. And although Misaki was a neko (and an uke), he did love the little bugger and it was terrible to see his poor kit-teen suffering so much.

With a huff of resolution, Akihiko wrapped his arms around Misak and whispered into a fuzzy brown ear, "I think I have a solution to our dilemma, Misaki."

Teary green eyes peeked up at him. "Oh?" It was clear the neko was fighting to keep the hope out of his voice. So cute.

"Yes." Akihiko was willing to lie back and think of England if it would soothe his pet. It didn't have to be awkward... And after all, if Kusama was secure enough in his seme-ness to do it, he certainly could.

"Maybe…. Instead of me fu-" Akihiko quicking edited himself, knowing how prudish his kitten could be, "Er, instead of me pouncing you. Maybe… maybe you could pounce me."

"WHAT?"

Akihiko had expected shock, or maybe (though he'd hoped not too immediately) enthusiasm. But he was totally unprepared for the look of blatant horror on his kitten's face. Maybe his pet didn't understand. After all, Misaki was naive and beyond this, could still be a bit dense about things sometimes.

Obviously, he needed to make this clear .

"Your cock in my ass, instead of the other way around. That might help you. Don't you think."

The expression on Misaki's face didn't shift however, if anything his dismay only increased.

"Mi?..." There was an unspoken command in Akihiko's voice and he tightened his grip on Misaki, sensing, if Misaki's wildly fluttering ears and tails were any indicators, that his neko was about to bolt.

Misaki squirmed violently for a few moments before giving up. When he realized Usagi-san wasn't going to let him go without and explanation, he buried his face in his seme's shoulder.

"But…"

"Use your words, Misaki."

Too used to being a good pet, and since this whole mess was his fault, his heat, and everything, Misaki couldn't hold back.

"But I d-don't want to… to do t-that... Usagi-san." Misaki hiccupped, his face burning with embarrassment. "I'm an uke neko, after all. I… I don't want to put m-my… I don't want to put anything in someone else's a… uh… b-bottom."

Trying to burrow into his seme's skin, Misaki squeaked out, "I'm sorry, but I just want things in mine…"

A deep purring rumble of pleasure burred in Akihiko's broad chest and filled his bedroom.

This was even sweeter than Misaki asking him to fuck him! Hiroki and his versatility be damned! He had known from the moment he'd picked Misaki out that there had never been a truer, uke-er neko than his Misa-kitty and Misaki had just proven him right.

If his dick hadn't been so drained, Akihiko would have been rabidly pouncing his pet that instant. But since his 'General' was still refusing to salute, he improvised.

"Things like this?" Reaching down, Akihiko slipped two fingers easily into his pet's heat-slick hole.

"Oh…" Atop him, his neko hissed in relief and began immediately rocking back. "Yes..."

Misaki's eager pucker clenched and unclenched trying to milk cum out of Usagi-san's fingers. Knowing that only an big dose of Rabbit seed would really satisfy his poor hybrid's heat, Akihiko hoped that he could at least sate him temporarily, wear Misaki out enough that he'd have time to get the things Hiroki had said were hidden still in his old room.

Knowing fingers pumped in and out and they seemed to be helping. Misaki keened in pleasure when he rubbed over the bump of the neko's sweet spot.

"Oh, yes… P-please Usagi-san…."

With Misaki laying on him, soon, between the two of them, the pressed flesh of their bellies was slick with the leaking of the neko's hard cock.

Measuring his pet's panted breaths, Usagi-san pressed deeper. At the same time he rubbed his thumb against the strip of skin that ran between the neko's pucker and Misaki's still heat-heavy balls, massaging him both inside and out.

"Tell me again…" Akihiko couldn't help himself. Even if he wasn't going to come, he still intended to get as much pleasure from this moment as possible.

"Tell me, what you want."

When Misaki didn't answer soon enough, he pulled his hand back as though he was going to withdraw completely.

Eyes that had been shut in pained-pleasure a moment before shot open wide in panic. Misaki pressed back, frantic to keep the contact with Usagi-san's fingers.

"Y-you… I want you… N-need you inside me… P-please."

Misaki groaned in relief to feel his owner's fingers return to him, and with increased vigor; pressing hard, rubbing in fast strong strokes that spot that was at the core of his interminable itch.

The purr of his climax rumbled up in his chest, shifting into a howl a moment later when he came, his cock caught in a beautiful friction against his seme's hard belly. When the spasms in his ass stopped and his cock ceased spurting, Misaki collapsed completely on top of Usagi-san.

The miserable ache inside him hadn't gone away completely, but it had subsided. Good thing too, because Misaki was exhausted.

Too tired to complain even when Usagi-san pulled his fingers out of his ass and pressed them lightly to his lips in an unspoken order for him to clean them. Without any of his usual protests, Misaki gave little kitten licks to his owner's fingertips, his tongue becoming more ardent when it caught traces of Bunny milk left inside him from previous pouncings.

Akihiko watched his precious pet drift off suckling his two fingers. By the gods, it was a marvelous sight. Only once he was assured Misaki was out, did he slip out from under his spent neko.

After Misaki's uke confession, what Hiroki indicated was tucked away in what was now Misaki's room, didn't seem too extreme at all.

Misaki's ears flickered at the disturbance but he didn't wake. After throwing the coverlet over his pet and tucking him in so he wouldn't catch a chill, Akihiko quickly changed his clothes. Then he sprang into action. He knew his time was limited before Misaki's next spike and he had to get things ready.

AN: It's been a hell's age since I updated this fic, but I was feeling nostalgic, remembering my first summer writing on FF, typing like mad and posting to the "The Spatula Test" over that first 4th of July. Hope this update passes the muster. And if you're still out there reading, I'd love to hear from you.

P.S. I am moving all my fics over to AO3 under the penname DanielLazerus, they'll stay here too, but a newer, better edited version will be there. (I like their comment/response system much better than the one here at FF. Anyways, just thought you might like to know this.)

Cheers!

Don't Preach/ Cerberus Revised/Daniel Lazerus