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Part 161

B let out a contented sigh and curled in close to his friend and drifting off slowly into sleep. He had a dream that night that was not normal for him. It was very sexual in nature. His hormones knew no different and responded to the nighttime dream state as normal. As a result, he got rather uncomfortable when dawn broke.

The older raven wasn't sure what had gotten into his friend and after his usual hours sleep he still didn't know why his friend was pulling such a delighted looking face.

The younger was wriggling and squirming all hours of the night and letting out little gasps and whines. His hands drifted no lower than his stomach the entire time. He broke into a nighttime sweat then. When morning broke, he was panting and sweaty and unsure of what was happening, but the evidence was visible then.

L didn't know whether to wake him or not. Was he having a nightmare? No it didn't look like it. He wasn't sure what to make of it, in fact.

Red eyes opened a little while later. He was panting and sweaty and clueless as to what transpired. He looked to his friend and gave a confused look before shifting and shuddering in place. He lifted the blankets and saw the source of his discomfort.
"No... Not this... Not now..." He frowned and huffed out a sigh and flopped on his back.

"Not what?" The other asked, still not sure his friend was so upset about all of a sudden.

"It's embarrassing... I don't remember what I was dreaming about, but my hormones thought it was pretty exciting..." He looked to the ceiling as if they had any answers to his discomfort. He didn't want to get good feelings randomly. It killed the meaning of it to him. He only shifted and shuddered again.

"Your going to have to be a little more specific Beyond..."

B frowned more and flushed with embarrassment before turning his head away and lifting the blankets to show his friend the source to his discomfort.

"Oh..." L slowly got up from the bed, holding out his hand to the other.
"Well come and have a shower, alright?"

"Yeah..." With some difficulty, he managed to crawl out of bed and go to the bathroom. He kept his gaze diverted and he shivered a little in his embarrassment. This was not a comfortable situation for him and made it known through his body language.

"It's alright, I don't mind really..." the elder assured his friend and turned on the shower, running the water until it is the right temperature for the blood eyed boy.

The younger removed his boxers, hissing in discomfort, but keeping his gaze diverted and hunching over a little.
"It's embarrassing..." He hunched over more and hopped in when the temperature was set, letting the water run over him and trying to will the problem away.

"Don't be embarrassed, it is obviously a natural function of your body..." L mumbled.
"Besides it is only me here, and I will not judge you."

"It's embarrassing because this is the first time that's happened like this and I don't know what to do..." He frowned and squatted before hugging his knees. Any other given situation, this would not be a bad thing, but he was an early bloomer and didn't know what to make of it. The changes he was going through were strange and confusing.

The dark eyed raven nodded in understanding, not wanting to get into the shower and potentially make things worse.

B focused all his thoughts on the mundane and ignored his current embarrassment. It took some time, but the source of his embarrassment was gone. He looked down to make sure before standing up again, taking a breath of relief. With this done, he finally was able to clean himself, but the experience was enough that he would not look at his friend until he was comfortable again.

L waited patiently at the door with a towel in hand. This didn't seem unusual nor unsettling in any way and he just waited for his friend to calm down.

The younger hopped out of the shower and took the towel and began to dry himself off, still clearly distressed over the situation. When he was done drying himself off, he went to get redressed and perched himself on the bed and hugged his knees again.

The detective followed his friend to the bed and sat down next to him, not saying a word until he knew that his friend was ready.

A million thoughts were running in his mind, trying to dissect what had happened, what was happening and why. He was consistently running into walls. The only thing that stood out to him was his hormones becoming unusually more active than normal.

Eventually L edged closer after determining that it would be safe to do so without risking upsetting Beyond further and put his arm around his friend protectively.
"Did you dream of me?"

The younger nodded slowly and looked away.
"It was a really nice dream... at least I think it was. It made my body react like that, so I can only assume it was a good enough dream to cause such a reaction." He hugged his knees closer to himself and closed his eyes.
"I love you and I only want us to share the good feelings. I don't want to see this every morning, if that's the case."

"If it's a dream about me then I don't mind." L smiled and held his friend close, putting his head down on his friends shoulder.
"I'm honored."

B flinched lightly but soon relaxed into the embrace.
"It just caught me off guard... I didn't know what to do and it scared me." He slowly unhugged his knees and returned the embrace with a small smile.

"But it's natural so it's alright..." the dark eyed raven whispered. He didn't know what his friend was going through and wouldn't for some time yet.

"It's natural to have these... reactions in the morning? How would you know?" If they were to continue to be like this for him every morning, he'd have to adjust and deal with them.

"I do not know that doing this of a night is normal, however I know that hormone changes can, in Watari's own words, 'cause you to dream about the ones you love'..." It was part of Watari's unsuccessful attempt to explain the issue to the boys...

"But I dream of you almost every other time. Not once has it ever made me react this way. It surprised me a lot. I will have to adjust if it persists I guess..." He hugged one knee then and looked away in thought.
*Will I have to ignore it from now on? Will I have to make myself feel good to get rid of it? Will I adjust?*

"I'm sure this will not happen every night..." L assured him and closed his eyes, relaxing into the other.

"I hope not..." he murmured, still diverting his gaze. He didn't know that this little issue was the first of several in his new physical development that the older was only vaguely aware of.

"Well you can always look it up in the library..." the elder offered.

"I've seen nearly every book in that library and none of them contain any material on what I'm going through... I know because I have a photographic memory."

"Not in the restricted section you haven't." L reminded his friend, never for a moment forgetting the cards they had managed to get their hands on.

"Why would they hide something that is supposed to be natural? Oh wait... the same could be said for the answers as to why we share the good feelings. I take it back..."