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after you read this chapter ;)

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Evil coupler: A warning for this chapter? There's a lot of Ikki+Belmont hints

here! And a little touch of yaoi ;)

Belmont: I wouldn't call them hints!

Evil Ikki: It's not that bad, heheh

Ikki: I'm gonna need years of therapy after this. -_-;

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Love and Lust

Part 6- Lust

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He couldn't shake it off. It was that same feeling again.

Belmont felt a little nervous and there was a good reason for it. After what had

happened last night he didn't feel sure what to expect.

He looked closely at Ikki but couldn't make out the emotion on the other boy's

half-shadowed face. The silence from Ikki's still form began to make him feel a

little uneasy. He could feel it- something was going to happen...

Ikki had lead them to a small glade next to a waterfall some distance away from

the meeting spot. After going through last night Belmont thought it was a

little too far for comfort.

The humid air where a rainbow half formed in the mist of the waterfall began to

cling to the two boys as sweat. An instinct in Belmont's head told him to get

away but strangely another part told him to stay.

Ikki spoke into the silence between them.

"About last night... I wasn't talking about Erika."

"..huh."

Ikki looked up and walked up closer to him until Belmont had to step back to

keep a comfortable distance.

"Then who were..." Belmont's voice trailed off.

Ikki playfully pressed a finger to Belmont's nose and grinned, causing Belmont

ot blush. "I was talking about you, silly boy..."

[what.] For Belmont, this new information didn't improve his growing nervous

state. The grin on Ikki's lips grew wider.

Alarm bells rang. He couldn't or didn't want believe what he had heard. Belmont

backed up against a large wall of stone with the other boy advancing on him.

Ikki placed both hands either side of Belmont's shoulders and pinned him to

the spot. He leaned closer until their lips were almost touching and whispered.

"I've had my eye on you for along time now...At times, I couldn't even sleep

because of you." Ikki's arms circled him tightly as he leaned close and licked

his ear causing Belmont to jump. "This crush on you is driving me crazy."

Belmont began to grow pale. [Things like this don't happen.]

He wriggled under Ikki's tight grasp and nearly broke free but was swung

round and pushed to the floor in one forceful action before he could run.

Belmont was slammed hard into the ground with the full force of Ikki's weight on

top of him. His upper body rebounded two inches off stone and he groaned

inwardly as his head began to throb. Eventually after a struggle, his dizziness

began to take over and Belmont fell limp under Ikki's restraining embrace.

"Oh, I'm not letting you go yet...You've set me alight and I'm not setting you

free until you put out this fire...or I get what I want..." Ikki was talking in

his ear. He half grinned but his voice had an unfriendly edge.

Belmont kept his eyes shut and tried to think logically again. He didn't like

what he was hearing. Panic levels began to rise and he felt more confused then

ever. What the hell was going on?

...Was Ikki feeling him?

And sure enough, Ikki's hands had snaked under his shirt. His hand brushed

lightly over Belmont's stomach and chest, causing him to shiver with sensation.

Belmont felt Ikki's trailing kisses on his cheek. He tried to push the other

body away but felt too dazed with confusion to use his full strength to do so.

Ikki moved his hands to the nape of Belmont's neck and drew his upper body and

face towards him.

Belmont's lips were slightly parted in his state of bewilderment and Ikki didn't

hesitant to not skip this chance to kiss them...and then move his tongue deeply

inside.

Belmont pushed firmly onto Ikki's shoulders. He choked out into Ikki's mouth

then abruptly turned his head sideways, breaking the kiss. Ikki bore his eyes

into the boy beneath him. Both of them were silently breathing heavily, as the

air around them seemed to thicken.

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"You're kidding!"

"Pictures never lie..."

Everyone in the circle was shocked and somewhat disturbed.

Erika, Koji and the Screws were gathered at the meeting point staring and

looking over and over again at the series of photos Erika had taken from last

night.

Koji shifted uncomfortably of the sight of Ikki so close to Belmont, all hot and

flustered looking almost as if he were about to kiss him. Other pictures

presented more mind provoking scenes he wished he didn't want to think about.

The weird behavior, the sudden detachment from Erika and now these pictures...

Bit by bit they pieced together the evidence and in the end it was Sloan who

finally managed to summarize half the conclusion- "Ikki is after Belmont." The

other half of it was to do with –what- Ikki wanted from Belmont. It couldn't be

spoken out loud but soon or later it had dawned on them. This theory had

unnerved them all and brought silence to the group.

Silently, they agreed none of this should be told to Karin, Metabee or Rintaro.

It was something that would heal itself because none of them knew how to deal

with this strange-strange situation.

Samantha felt a chill go down her spine. [This is just plain freaky. Ikki would

never act like this... You think you know someone inside-out but then they

suddenly start acting all out of character. Ikki? After Erika's boyfriend?! No

way...].

It was obvious everyone was thinking similar thoughts from the almost identical

(horrified) blue-tinted face gestures.

"Wait! Where's Ikki now? And Belmont?"

The circle buzzed with silence and everyone turned to face Erika who was now

beginning to panic.

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"Why?..." Belmont whispered out the single syllable and Ikki blinked at him

blankly.

Now the boy beneath him was fully alert, holding eye-contact with an intent gaze

that was full of questions.

Absent mindedly, Ikki moved a hand up and gently brushed a stray strand of

plastered hair from Belmont's eyes.

He was about to put it down but Belmont grabbed it and held his hand there still

looking at Ikki. "Why? Why are you doing this? Why now, why me? You know I'm in

love with Erika..."

"But I've waited so long for an opportunity to do this- a whole year, I've just

gotta get these feelings out. Do you -know- how painful it is to see the person

you love with someone else unaware of how you feel? Well?!"

The air was full of a thick, heavy, mist that clung to their hair and clothes

and made breathing a little harder. Both boys were sweating and Belmont lay

motionlessly under the weight of Ikki not daring to make a move (yet). He

carried on listening intently to the other boy wincing slightly as Ikki's grip

on him tightened.

After a while, Belmont swallowed. He wasn't sure if he wanted to hear anymore of

what Ikki had to say. What he had already heard had disturbed him but at the

same time caused a small painful feeling in the bottom of his own heart. He

couldn't help feeling a little sorry for Ikki…

Ikki had explained everything to him. How this feeling of what he had called

"Love" began to eat away at him. When Karin chose Koji instead of him, Ikki had

turned away smiling at them but he was torn apart from the inside. Then Erika

had rejected him. Even the effect of the scandal of Team Sweden had taken it's

toll. That was the last straw.

From then on the whole story came out and Belmont began to see and understand

Ikki's strange behavior and see how a crush on him had blossomed from Ikki's

tortured self. Ikki knew that Belmont would reject him too. So instead of

enduring more pain from another rejection he had decided to take action and get

what he wanted himself.

When Ikki had told him what he desired, Belmont had never felt so deeply

disturbed in his life.

A boy...after HIS virginity...it made him feel sick.

[Ikki's not like this at all.*] Belmont thought with his eyes shut.

[He would never break down emotionally like this. He just isn't the type of

person who would do that. But then...]

He opened his eyes and looked very deeply into Ikki's eyes as if searching for

something that couldn't be seen.

[This has to stop.]

...

Belmont spoke out- his words were hard but the voice behind them held no bitter

tone. "You're just jealous."

Ikki frowned and Belmont carried on.

"Ikki, this has to stop. This isn't love-"

"Don't tell me what-"

"But it's driving you crazy, this has to stop!"

"It'll stop when I want it too." Ikki grinned in such a way, it made Belmont

feel nervous.

"What are you planning to do?..."

"Oh you'll see..."

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Suddenly, Erika broke out from behind the bushes; she had just spotted them and

what she had seen was enough.



"LET HIM GO!"

Ikki barely had time to turn around and see Erika running towards him. With a

powerful swing of her fist to his head, she knocked Ikki backwards off his feet.

On the brink of a blackout, Ikki staggered backwards and teetered on the edge of

the stone riverbank. Behind him was the deep plunge pool of the waterfall and

Erika's blow was beginning to take effect…

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End...of this part ;)

*= My dear Belmont...it's my story! I can make Ikki as warped as I want,

MWHAHAHA!

I have plans to create an alternate R-rated ending for this chapter that

continues from after the point Ikki says- "Oh you'll see...". In this alternate

ending, Erika doesn't find Belmont and Ikki.

Belmont gets...well, what would you like to see Ikki do to Belmont? I have plans

but you could suggest some stuff. ;)

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