CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

Tetsuhiro had been too bewildered for a moment when his Senpai had stormed out of the bathing room to do or say anything other than, "Senpai!?" It was the same pattern as usual he sighed wearily. Sometimes it really tired him out, trying to be so patient, always so persistent with very little leeway. Yet the older man's defenses were being dismantled –- if only brick by solitary brick.

He'd planned to allow Senpai time to cool down, before he'd approach him again. Although he was sure that he'd be able to find a comfortable place other than his usual room to sleep, he was certain there would be a price he wasn't willing to pay, that of the attentions of whomever would so kindly host him.

However, before he could do anything other than dry off and put on the pants of the strange outfit the islanders had given to him, of which he'd grown quite used to in the passing months without rescue, he heard a loud booming voice.

Tetsuhiro winced, he couldn't quite make out what was being said, but it was a voice he knew far too well. Without pausing to finish dressing he hurried to the his bedchambers where he knew Senpai had gone. As he peaked around the door and asked whether or not everything was okay he couldn't see that there was more than one person in the room due to it being lit but by a single flickering candle. He could just make out the shadowy outline of his senpai.

The older man however didn't seem to be aware of his presence, and he grew confused as Senpai yelled furiously, "What the hell do you know, you fucking homo!?" Before he could comprehend what in the world was going on, he heard another voice, felt his hand and shoulder grasped by someone in the too dark room.

Kou's voice however was unmistakable, loud and clear, "Ou-sama! I love you, I am far better suited for you than...than him!"

Tetsuhiro was too stunned to move as what was going on slowly began to sink in.

The older mans eyes rounded behind his lenses as that disgusting islander moved and took hold of Tetsuhiro's arm. His eyes had gotten used to the dim lighting of the room.

He shot up, holding the sheets of the bed wrapepd around his wasit, growling, "Get your filthy hands off of him!"

Kou pressed his nude body to the man he referred to as Ou-sama, pouting up at the wide eyed man who seemed to be paralyzed.

"Ou-sama?" Then his pout turned into a frown as his narrowed gaze turned toward the outsider, "If my hands are filthy yours are far worse outsider," he spat the last word out at him, "you who are not at all worthy of being Ou-sama's Kisaki, especially if you do not feel for him as I do!'

Tetsuhiro's eyes were darting between the two men, he needed to find something to say in order to halt what he felt to be sure an impending doom. A doom that was not just for Kou, but himself as well.

'This isn't going to end well.'

Souichi could not formulate a response to Kou, what was he supposed to say and while trying to think of something to dash that horrid islanders hopes of becoming Morinaga's...whatever, he noticed something unsettling.

Morinaga had not yet pushed the bastard away, nor had he stepped away from the arrogant little shit, who seemed to be too full of himself and his own importance. His voice low, unknowingly agonized and worried, "Mori...naga?"

Despite the elder woman of the islander earlier dispelling all ideas of Morinaga having taken any of the islanders offers up, he was allowing someone else to touch him. Not just someone idling touching him either, but someone with heinous intentions and...his eyes widened as he finally noticed that the islander was unclothed. His heart sank as any number of implications ran through his mind.

It was in that moment, that what was going on finally and fully sank into Tetsuhiro. His green eyes wide as he slowly disengaged himself from the young islander, Kou and stepped toward Senpai. The slightly older man's head went back slightly as his honey-amber eyes met the emerald of his kouhai.

Tetsuhiro wrapped an arm around Senpai, feeling if only for a moment the slighter built man stiffen. However the man he adored neither pushed him away nor backed away from his hold.

Turning to frown upon Kou, "Kou, Senpai is the only one I love, and I would hope you would understand that. I have loved him for over five years, but it seems there are those on this island who have failed to understand this, even when upon my arrival here I mentioned this. I am tired of everyone trying to become my lover." He felt Senpai's forehead resting against his shoulder as he spoke to Kou.

The young islander's eyes widened, frowning as his eyes began to water. However not wishing to show any weakness, any hurt he snapped, "You are a fool Ou-sama! Loving someone so selfish all that time, tell me, tell me just what have you gotten in return from him?' His lilac colored eyes glared at the blond.

Tetsuhiro could feel Senpai's fingertips digging into his hip, could feel a slight tremble. He wasn't sure if it was from worry or fury, but he managed to reply to Kou.

"I do not have to explain myself to you. However here is something to remember in case you ever try something like this again –- with anyone; love is something that has no rhyme, it has no reason, it just makes its home in ones heart whether or not the person wants it to. No one can control who they love, whom they fall in love with, it just happens. It is a phenomenon that no amount of science will ever be able to understand or explain."

Souichi hearing the words that Morinaga uttered to Kou, caused the corners of his mouth to curve downward into a frown.

'Something that even science cannot explain...that one cannot control?' Somehow he did not care for that at all, because for him everything had to have an explanation, a meaning, a scientific truth.

Kou's lower lip trembled as Morinaga spoke again, "Kou, now please, get leave."

The islander knew when he was assuredly not wanted, however he said one last parting shot to the one he so degradingly called the outsider, as he picked up his clothes, "Don't think that just because he loves you that everything will go smoothly, eventually love fades away if it is not nurtured properly, just like a flower. If you don't tend to it, it will begin to wilt and wither."

Just as Souichi took a step toward the annoying punk, he felt Morinaga's grip tighten and the young fool fled the room.

The blond turned to glare up into Morinaga's face, "What the hell!?"

A slight smile had formed on the younger man, "I couldn't let you harm one of the islanders, he hasn't really done anything."

"Not from lack of trying!" He snarled, but felt too tired to go after him. Pulling out of Morinaga's arms, he stretched one arm over his head as he yawned, a normal reflex when he was tired.

He heard his kouhai, "Well Senpai... I'll let you get your sleep and see you in the morning..." for some reason he didn't like the sound of that. What if someone else like that, whatshisname tried something again. He shoved Morinaga onto the bed, "Go to sleep," he grumbled when he saw those startled eyes of his, proceeding to push him over to the other side of the bed before getting back beneath the covers.

"If you try anything," he grumbled as he took something off the tray of food, that had amazingly not been thrown at that stupid islander, in order to settle satiate his hunger, "I really will have to kill you."

Morinaga laughed nervously, closing his eyes to allow sleep to take him. Tomorrow was another day after all, and he'd already gotten so much, it wouldn't be good to push his luck any further...would it, he sighed.

Outside of Ou-sama's island home, one of the guards whom had given him a tour of the island, and later brought a box of toys upon request to his chambers frowned as he saw the chestnut haired man storming away. His eyes widened as he realized that it was Kou and he was carrying his clothes in one arm rather than wearing them, using the other arm to rub his eyes.

'Why did it have to be the Ou who caught his eye?' He slammed the tip of his sword into the ground. He could only be thankful that Ou-sama had someone else, loved someone else whom a within the week would become the Ou's Kisaki, the official Kisaki of the island. Hopefully then, Kou would give up on his quest to win the Ou's favor.

'Then, there might be a chance...'