A/N: Can't really make review replies coz I'm in a hurry! But thanks go out to Literary Eagle, Eria, toriko and nekoMoon-chan!Here's to hoping that you guys will continue to love my work! Hyuk.
Warning: Pure lemon! I am so sorry but it's necessary!
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Chapter 25
Always and Forever
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They had somehow managed to make it back to their apartment with little trouble. Takashi couldn't really recall how they did. But it didn't matter. All that mattered was that he was home. He was home and Kyo was in his arms.
The two of them had not let go of each other. If anything, their embrace had gotten tighter until legs and arms were intertwined, until they couldn't tell one from the other. Somehow also, they had managed to make it to bed but all they did was to hold each other close, forehead against forehead, breath commingling and skin against skin.
He didn't know how long they were like that. Time didn't matter any more. Kyo was home now. In his arms.
"I'm sorry."
Those were the first words he had spoken after the first "Taka."
He stared deep into Kyo's eyes, seeing them brim over with silent tears that spilled down smooth cheeks. The regeneration had completed, leaving Kyo as he was before. He brushed away the fallen tears with a thumb but the more he wiped, more replaced it.
"I'm so sorry."
"It doesn't matter."
"I tried to get away. I tried."
"I know."
"She said if I did it, she wouldn't hurt you."
"It's alright."
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
Kyo kept on repeating the words "I'm sorry" even as he won't stop crying, and Takashi told him that it was okay. That he understood. That it didn't matter now. But Kyo kept on uttering the words.
And as Kyo kept asking for forgiveness and as he assured him that none was needed, they kissed.
How would he describe that kiss? How would he describe what it felt like to feel Kyo in his arms again after 16 long years?
He couldn't, not really. These 16 long years he hadn't been truly alive. Not with half of his soul ripped away. But he was complete now. They were one again.
He kissed Kyo hungrily, driven beyond the point of sweet touches and Kyo responded right back. They had finally let go of each other but it was only to rip off their clothes until once again Takashi was licking and tasting every inch of Kyo. He was kissing Kyo again, tasting the salty tears when he felt his own mix with the saline.
Their skin rubbed frantically against each other, igniting passion that did not kindle to life. It exploded. There was nothing but the frantic beating of their hearts, the endless chanting of 'I'm sorry's, the friction of sweat-slicked skin together and that feeling of oneness.
"You're mine," Takashi rasped out as he dug his hands through Kyo's hair, forcing, the boy to look into his eyes as he poised himself at his entrance. "You're mine. Mine. No one else."
Kyo finally stopped his apologizing to reply, "Always." He bucked his hips against him, trying to ground himself against his erection but he forcibly held Kyo down, pinning him in place with his weight.
"No," he corrected him harshly and stopped to give Kyo a bruising kiss. "Not always. Forever. You're mine forever. Since the beginning. Until the end. Mine."
The wet blue eyes grew wide for a moment as the conviction behind those words sank in. They blinked, dispelling liquid tracks that finally appeared to be the last for now. Kyo lifted a trembling hand, running it over his chest to stop directly over his heart. His heart which was now beating a rhythm that was too steady, that belied the desperation that was actually forcing the words out. The desperation and the knowledge that what was uttered, is true.
"Yours," he whispered. "Forever."
And he allowed the raging passion to consume them again and he thrust himself inside the waiting warmth with all the fury of it propelling him. Underneath him, Kyo cried out, a mixture of pain and pleasure but there was no hurt in the blue eyes at the stabbing entry. Rather, an emotion that could only be called joy flared up in their depths.
"Mine." He whispered with every thrust, the inflection rising each time.
"Mine."
"Mine."
"Mine!"
It was a feeling beyond anything that which he had experienced before. And it sounded as if Kyo was going through the same thing. The boy bucked wildly beneath him and screamed then, joining in with his hoarse shout of "Mine!"
There was heat, a comfortable warmth that was also a scalding burn at the same time.
His senses upended, a near vertigo assailing him.
He was forever frozen in that perfect moment of ecstasy, pleasure and pain, mirrored in those blue eyes. And in that brief time when the world stopped, life became suspended and death was frozen, it came to them then. The one fact that had brought them together in the first place. It wasn't lust. It wasn't even mere typical love at first sight. It was because they belonged together. They were meant to be. Together. From the beginning. To the very end.
I love you.
I'll never leave you.
Why have you abandoned me?
I loathe you.
I despise you.
Don't leave me.
Please.
I love you.
And time started again, life moved on and death unfroze itself.
"Kyo."
He withdrew himself gently, suddenly aware of how sticky and sweaty they were exactly. Not exactly a romantic situation, he managed to chuckle silently. But he wouldn't have it any other way. It was perfect. Kyo still dripping with his very essence inside, joining them together in ways that ran beyond the sticky warmth that coated his thighs and stomach.
"Taka." A soft smile, the tears gone now and Kyo drew him close as they settled side by side. Though he knew they'd probably regret it in the morning, he forgo the usual cleansing that would follow and instead, drew the covers over them, cocooning them in a world of their own. It was just more proof of them belonging to each other really. Life, body and soul.
Kyo had started to brush back his bangs, the gesture infinitely tender as he allowed himself to be touched in ways that only Kyo did. The finger tracing the curve of his cheek, over the bridge of his nose, teasing his lips.
He caught the questing finger in his mouth and sucked it gently. Kyo's eyes grew heavy and half-lidded as he let his finger be nibbled and sucked. If anything, his expression grew even more drowsier as Takashi finally released his finger to nuzzle the side of his neck, the mouth leaving imprints in the pale flesh.
"I'm yours," he whispered, as Takashi continued applying gentle pressure on his skin, lightly nipping and biting with just enough force to bring only pleasure.
"You're mine," Takashi agreed in between bites.
"We won't be apart again, will we?"
"Never," was his solemn promise and even as he traced darkening bruises across the hollow of his neck, his finger slid inside his warmth again.
"You're mine."
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to be continued
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A/N: *cough* . . . . .what do you think? Did I convey the emotion well enough? There is a reason for every action they made. Remember that I'm a git who LOVES to do really OBSCURE hints as to what will happen. I'm giving a major clue here (for me, that is) !!!