LOVE BLOSSOMS
BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY MATSURI AKINO FOR THE MANGA SERIES, PET SHOP OF HORRORS.
CONTAINS SPOILERS ~ GUESS WHICH ONES
DESCISIONS
As Leon sat on his bed, he kept switching between rubbing his eyes and running his hands through his hair, thinking over and over again, what had happen a mere few hours ago.
A FEWS HOURS EALIER:
Reality tilted and swirled around him as the perp ran toward him with the knife. All of a sudden deep green vines of all types seem to come from everywhere and nowhere, they grabbed the perp within a split second of driving his knife into Leon's heart. There was a loud crack as the vines snapped the neck and spine of their captive. Just as quickly, they release him and let his broken body drop to the floor.
What the hell? What's going on here!
Leon stood looking down at the body, stunned and confused, not sure of what he had witnessed. He slowly turned himself around and looked at the Count. D stood there looking like him self and unlike anything Leon had ever seen.
My god, he seems terrifyingly beautiful.
Energy seemed to crackle around D; the very air was alive with the power that exuded from within him. His eyes seemed to glow and flash, the gold and purple almost metallic from it. The vines flowed around D, as if they were a part of him. Leon forced himself to pull his eyes from D to look at everything else around him. The shop didn't seem to be a shop, but some kind of ship and the animals around him appeared human. In fact, the young man kneeling by the couch and smirking at him with a toothy grin, had to be tet-chan.
Whenever there was a weird death involving one of D's pets, everybody always claimed they seemed to be human. Leon thought to himself. He felt like trembling, but couldn't, wouldn't allow himself to show any type of weakness.
The shop or ship seemed to be the embodiment of all aspects of nature, he could see touches of the Amazon, the Tropics, the arid Deserts, the Antarctic and other spots of nature from around the world. The animals, all seemingly in human form, were everywhere. The ship seemed to be alive and massive in size, bigger than the shop ever seemed to be. He could feel the ship's very life force; it's living song. It was a part of earth and separate from it. It was a living spirit.
Leon's eyes flew back to D, when all the pets moved towards to him. When Leon finally turned himself around to look at D gain, his pets seemed to have created a protective circle around him, as if to guard him from Leon.
They say animals can sense emotions in humans, perhaps they sense something, in me, that they feel they need to protect him from.
He knew D stood there calm, letting him absorb everything he was witnessing. He was terrified and fascinated by everything. He wasn't sure how he should react. Leon always thought of D as a little different and strange, but never thought he wasn't human.
"Detective?" he heard D ask quietly.
"What the hell are you?" Leon asked.
D smiled his mysterious smile, but didn't immediately respond.
"I asked you, what the hell are you and what the hell is this.place?"
"That would take time to explain. I am many things; a part of nature itself." D spread his arms out wide, indicating the entire place and everything around him. "Let me make you feel a bit more comfortable. You're not ready to except what your very eyes are telling you."
In moments the entire place and all the pets reverted back to the forms that Leon was always use too. It was like a curtain was pulled down over the place, as if none of what he had seen had ever existed.
The animals, that now looked like the animals they were, scattered to their various hiding places, except for tet-chan, who stood next to D.
D waived toward the couch and said, "Detective, please have a seat."
"No," Leon responded and continued to stand, "and don't even think to offer me any damn tea. I asked you, what the hell are you!?"
D rubbed his temples, like someone with a headache. "Detective. Leon. Please understand, what you ask is not a simple or easy question."
"I'm not asking for a full biography or history lesson, just a quick answer." Leon was getting angry. He preferred anger over fear.
"A quick answer, well then, I'm a God or a spirit of nature. Is that quick enough for you?" D sounded a little angry himself.
Leon felt his mouth drop open in disbelief and he had to force his mouth shut again. He stood their frozen.
A God, ran over and over in Leon's head.
"Leon," D asked and took a step toward him, "Please say something, anything."
The moment D took the step towards him, Leon reacted by taking step back. It was without thought, just an instinctive and human reaction to protect itself from something not human. To protect it's self from the unknown.
"Don't, don't come near me." Leon asked part in fear and part in confusion.
D stopped and stood quietly for a moment, his face blank, and said, "You fear me, don't you?"
Do I fear him, Leon asked himself, maybe a small part of me does, but it's part of everything else that's going on between himself and me.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to hurt you," Leon began, "It's just too much right now. I just need to think. Time, I need time."
D's smile was sad, "I understand Leon. I truly do. You have so much to take in and think about. Please take all the time you feel that you need too."
I know my reaction is hurting him; my reaction is hurting me. I just need to think about everything. To process the information I just learned, as well, as everything else going on before this.
Leon wanted to reach out and touch him, to reassure him that everything was going to be all right. That it was all going to work out.
Before I do that, I have to be absolutely certain of everything.
"Look I know I'm being an ass; but give me a little time. Let me think all of this stuff through, ok?"
"Yes, Leon," D said with the sad smile still on his face, "I will be here when you make your final decision."
"I know, and I promise, when I make my decision, I will be here with my answer."
Tet-chan growled at him and bared his teeth at Leon.
"Shut-up, before I shove a apple in your mouth and roast you over an open fire pit." Leon muttered, "Now, I have to explain how the perp here was killed."
I can deal with everything right now, if I go into cop mode. Just let me get through this and I promise, I will do some soul searching.
"I am sure you will have a reasonable explanation, detective."
Leon noticed that D was now calling him detective, instead of by his name. It caused a sharp paid in his heart.
For some reason, I like it better when he calls me Leon, it makes me feel.what does it make me feel. Leon was quiet for a few moments while he thought it through. Oh, God, I think I love him. Can I let myself love him? Damn, he isn't even human.
"We'll tell them you used one of those ancient Chinese fighting techniques on him in self defense. Since all of them have seen at least one Jackie Chan film, they will be willing to believe it."
D chuckled and his smile was a little brighter.
Good, I prefer him happy with me, instead of sad.
"Ahhh, yes, because all Chinese people can do what Jackie does."
Leon laughed himself and walked up to D. "I like it when you smile like that."
"Like what, Detective?"
Leon, knowingly, brushed a strand of hair out of D's eyes and said, "Happy, when you smile your happy smile. Not that smirk you usually have on your face."
"I like your smile too, detective."
Leon then walked out of the building to notify his fellow officers of what went down in the pet shop and to give his explanation of what had happen to the perp.
In the rafters of the shop, Q-chan had witnessed everything.
BACK AT LEON'S APARTMENT
Leon stop running his hands through his hair and lay back on his bed.
I have to make a decision about me and D. It's not right of me to keep putting this off, he thought, but the mans not even human. He's some kind of God. I'm having trouble dealing with probably being in love with a guy, let alone a God. I need help, someone to talk too, some I can trust absolutely and I know just the person.
Leon rolled over to his night stand and picked up the phone receiver. He quickly punched in a phone number. After it rang a few times, someone picked it up.
"Hey, Jill. Can I come over and talk?" Leon asked, "I really need someone to talk too."
"Sure, Leon, come on over and I'll order come pizza" Jill responded.
"You don't sound to surprised about this."
"I guess not, I've always suspected you would need to talk at some point. I'll see you in about a half hour?"
"Yeah, in a half."
They both hung up their phones.
It's about time, Jill thought, I was actually starting to worry.
She smiled to herself and picked up the phone to order pizza.
END OF CHAPTER SIX
BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY MATSURI AKINO FOR THE MANGA SERIES, PET SHOP OF HORRORS.
CONTAINS SPOILERS ~ GUESS WHICH ONES
DESCISIONS
As Leon sat on his bed, he kept switching between rubbing his eyes and running his hands through his hair, thinking over and over again, what had happen a mere few hours ago.
A FEWS HOURS EALIER:
Reality tilted and swirled around him as the perp ran toward him with the knife. All of a sudden deep green vines of all types seem to come from everywhere and nowhere, they grabbed the perp within a split second of driving his knife into Leon's heart. There was a loud crack as the vines snapped the neck and spine of their captive. Just as quickly, they release him and let his broken body drop to the floor.
What the hell? What's going on here!
Leon stood looking down at the body, stunned and confused, not sure of what he had witnessed. He slowly turned himself around and looked at the Count. D stood there looking like him self and unlike anything Leon had ever seen.
My god, he seems terrifyingly beautiful.
Energy seemed to crackle around D; the very air was alive with the power that exuded from within him. His eyes seemed to glow and flash, the gold and purple almost metallic from it. The vines flowed around D, as if they were a part of him. Leon forced himself to pull his eyes from D to look at everything else around him. The shop didn't seem to be a shop, but some kind of ship and the animals around him appeared human. In fact, the young man kneeling by the couch and smirking at him with a toothy grin, had to be tet-chan.
Whenever there was a weird death involving one of D's pets, everybody always claimed they seemed to be human. Leon thought to himself. He felt like trembling, but couldn't, wouldn't allow himself to show any type of weakness.
The shop or ship seemed to be the embodiment of all aspects of nature, he could see touches of the Amazon, the Tropics, the arid Deserts, the Antarctic and other spots of nature from around the world. The animals, all seemingly in human form, were everywhere. The ship seemed to be alive and massive in size, bigger than the shop ever seemed to be. He could feel the ship's very life force; it's living song. It was a part of earth and separate from it. It was a living spirit.
Leon's eyes flew back to D, when all the pets moved towards to him. When Leon finally turned himself around to look at D gain, his pets seemed to have created a protective circle around him, as if to guard him from Leon.
They say animals can sense emotions in humans, perhaps they sense something, in me, that they feel they need to protect him from.
He knew D stood there calm, letting him absorb everything he was witnessing. He was terrified and fascinated by everything. He wasn't sure how he should react. Leon always thought of D as a little different and strange, but never thought he wasn't human.
"Detective?" he heard D ask quietly.
"What the hell are you?" Leon asked.
D smiled his mysterious smile, but didn't immediately respond.
"I asked you, what the hell are you and what the hell is this.place?"
"That would take time to explain. I am many things; a part of nature itself." D spread his arms out wide, indicating the entire place and everything around him. "Let me make you feel a bit more comfortable. You're not ready to except what your very eyes are telling you."
In moments the entire place and all the pets reverted back to the forms that Leon was always use too. It was like a curtain was pulled down over the place, as if none of what he had seen had ever existed.
The animals, that now looked like the animals they were, scattered to their various hiding places, except for tet-chan, who stood next to D.
D waived toward the couch and said, "Detective, please have a seat."
"No," Leon responded and continued to stand, "and don't even think to offer me any damn tea. I asked you, what the hell are you!?"
D rubbed his temples, like someone with a headache. "Detective. Leon. Please understand, what you ask is not a simple or easy question."
"I'm not asking for a full biography or history lesson, just a quick answer." Leon was getting angry. He preferred anger over fear.
"A quick answer, well then, I'm a God or a spirit of nature. Is that quick enough for you?" D sounded a little angry himself.
Leon felt his mouth drop open in disbelief and he had to force his mouth shut again. He stood their frozen.
A God, ran over and over in Leon's head.
"Leon," D asked and took a step toward him, "Please say something, anything."
The moment D took the step towards him, Leon reacted by taking step back. It was without thought, just an instinctive and human reaction to protect itself from something not human. To protect it's self from the unknown.
"Don't, don't come near me." Leon asked part in fear and part in confusion.
D stopped and stood quietly for a moment, his face blank, and said, "You fear me, don't you?"
Do I fear him, Leon asked himself, maybe a small part of me does, but it's part of everything else that's going on between himself and me.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to hurt you," Leon began, "It's just too much right now. I just need to think. Time, I need time."
D's smile was sad, "I understand Leon. I truly do. You have so much to take in and think about. Please take all the time you feel that you need too."
I know my reaction is hurting him; my reaction is hurting me. I just need to think about everything. To process the information I just learned, as well, as everything else going on before this.
Leon wanted to reach out and touch him, to reassure him that everything was going to be all right. That it was all going to work out.
Before I do that, I have to be absolutely certain of everything.
"Look I know I'm being an ass; but give me a little time. Let me think all of this stuff through, ok?"
"Yes, Leon," D said with the sad smile still on his face, "I will be here when you make your final decision."
"I know, and I promise, when I make my decision, I will be here with my answer."
Tet-chan growled at him and bared his teeth at Leon.
"Shut-up, before I shove a apple in your mouth and roast you over an open fire pit." Leon muttered, "Now, I have to explain how the perp here was killed."
I can deal with everything right now, if I go into cop mode. Just let me get through this and I promise, I will do some soul searching.
"I am sure you will have a reasonable explanation, detective."
Leon noticed that D was now calling him detective, instead of by his name. It caused a sharp paid in his heart.
For some reason, I like it better when he calls me Leon, it makes me feel.what does it make me feel. Leon was quiet for a few moments while he thought it through. Oh, God, I think I love him. Can I let myself love him? Damn, he isn't even human.
"We'll tell them you used one of those ancient Chinese fighting techniques on him in self defense. Since all of them have seen at least one Jackie Chan film, they will be willing to believe it."
D chuckled and his smile was a little brighter.
Good, I prefer him happy with me, instead of sad.
"Ahhh, yes, because all Chinese people can do what Jackie does."
Leon laughed himself and walked up to D. "I like it when you smile like that."
"Like what, Detective?"
Leon, knowingly, brushed a strand of hair out of D's eyes and said, "Happy, when you smile your happy smile. Not that smirk you usually have on your face."
"I like your smile too, detective."
Leon then walked out of the building to notify his fellow officers of what went down in the pet shop and to give his explanation of what had happen to the perp.
In the rafters of the shop, Q-chan had witnessed everything.
BACK AT LEON'S APARTMENT
Leon stop running his hands through his hair and lay back on his bed.
I have to make a decision about me and D. It's not right of me to keep putting this off, he thought, but the mans not even human. He's some kind of God. I'm having trouble dealing with probably being in love with a guy, let alone a God. I need help, someone to talk too, some I can trust absolutely and I know just the person.
Leon rolled over to his night stand and picked up the phone receiver. He quickly punched in a phone number. After it rang a few times, someone picked it up.
"Hey, Jill. Can I come over and talk?" Leon asked, "I really need someone to talk too."
"Sure, Leon, come on over and I'll order come pizza" Jill responded.
"You don't sound to surprised about this."
"I guess not, I've always suspected you would need to talk at some point. I'll see you in about a half hour?"
"Yeah, in a half."
They both hung up their phones.
It's about time, Jill thought, I was actually starting to worry.
She smiled to herself and picked up the phone to order pizza.
END OF CHAPTER SIX