Author's Note: *dances around in circles* Yay for chapter three!  And all those lovely people who reviewed.  *hands out free pocky* ^_^.

Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue, don't ask, don't tell.

Warnings: yaoi, citrus in future chapters, fluff…all that good stuff, haven't decided yet if its RaexEclipse or EclipsexRae *snicker*

My Master's Desire

Part 3

Eclipse jerked himself out of his dream, gasping as the chill night air hit his sweat-soaked skin.  He sat up and pushed damp bangs out of his eyes, cursing himself.  Yet another night writhing in his large, lonesome bed, tempted to the edge by his hot, promising dreams… He flung the covers off and slid out of bed, bare feet padding silently against the cold floor as he moved to the window, hoping to catch a breeze to cool off his fevered body.

He couldn't stand it… Every night, he dreamt…dreamt of Raenef and his beautiful body and dancing eyes and laughing lips.  He dreamt of that beautiful body beneath his, those dancing eyes glazed in desire, those laughing lips on his skin… A shudder of longing wracked Eclipse's body and he turned to lean his back against the wall, taking a deep breath.

He didn't know what had first inspired those dreams but they had been persisting for weeks now.

Eclipse knew they were impossible.  Not only was he responsible for the grooming of the fifth Lord Raenef and could never approach his lord in such a manner… He had grown fond of the boy (a mocking voice in his head shouted, "Understatement!") and Eclipse would hate himself if he put Raenef in a situation like that, a situation his young liege wouldn't understand and would probably weep in terror at.  If the insignificant death of a crusader could make him faint, Eclipse didn't want to consider the terror Raenef would experience at something far more…graphic.

Still, why couldn't he get those images out of his mind?  Eclipse clenched his hands into fists, fighting the surge of desire that pumped hotly through his blood at even the faint recollections of his dreams.  Weak, he thought to himself.  The light of the waning moon streamed into the room as the covering cloud passed by, leaving stripes of shadow and light on his bed, reminding Eclipse again of his vivid dreams.  He moaned and closed his eyes, letting his head roll back to rest against the wall, his long hair spilling loose over his shoulders.

Damn, he thought, his nails biting into his skin of his palms.

-x-

"Whoa, I didn't know Eclipse kissed your hand!" Chris elbowed Raenef in the side.  "That must've freaked you out…you had no idea who he was or anything!"

He, Raenef, Erutis, and Raenef's new pet Cori were sprawled under the shade of a large tree in the garden.  It was a very old and gnarly and looked extremely ominous in the dark, as a tree in a demon lord's garden should, but wasn't nearly as frightening in the sunlight.  It was the only reason Raenef had agreed to spend the afternoon with his friends under it, he ostensibly studying spell incantations and Erutis and Chris flipping through the Demon Diary chronicles of his life as a demon lord.

"I saw that!" piped up Erutis.  "I thought it was cool!  Nobody kisses my hand," she pouted.

"That's because nobody knew you were a girl," replied Chris with a smirk.

Erutis hit him with her sword.  The blunt edge, because she liked her sword.  Chris yelped and rubbed his head.  Cori blinked blue eyes at them then returned to amusing himself by shooting little licks of flame at the grass.

Raenef stared at the book in his lap and mumbled, "Through the suspended air within atoms and between threads in the tapestry of time…ignite."  He looked up in time to see Chris, hair on fire, make a running leap for the nearby fountain.  Wide-eyed, he said, "Oops.  Sorry, Chris!"

The soaked cleric popped his head out of the fountain and glared.

Raenef smiled nervously at him.  "Heh…"

Ignoring the entire scene, Erutis had picked up Demon Diary 3 from where Chris had dropped it.  She flipped through, skimming, because she had already finished it earlier.  "Hey," she exclaimed, "here's where Chris and that little brat were fighting."  She snickered.  "'Loud-mouthed rugrat,' 'simple-minded moron…' You guys were pretty accurate!"

Chris sloshed over to them and squeezed his tunic out over Erutis's head.

"Gah!"  She fell back in surprise and glared at him from the ground.  Cori climbed onto her stomach.  Raenef wondered if he should do something to prevent further injuries, but thankfully, that was unnecessary when Erutis deemed Chris less important than the book and didn't seem to mind the baby dragon sitting on top of her.  Still on her back, she flipped a few pages and crowed, "Look, Rae, here's when that little princess kissed you."  She winked at him.  "You lucky dog."  Raenef blushed.  "Hey look, they have me down as saying that too!  Who writes these things?  I mean, draws them, or y'know, whatever."

"Ask Eclipse," Chris suggested, running a hand through his wet hair.  He glanced around, noted that Erutis had stolen his book, grumbled, and snatched Demon Diary 2 away.

Raenef watched his friends become engrossed in the books, and looked back down at the book in his lap.  He really should study…he wanted to become a true demon lord, after all.  He didn't want to disappoint Eclipse, especially after all the other demon had done for him.

"Hey Raenef?"  Erutis glanced at the demon lord as she petted Cori.  "What did you think about that whole Leeche thing?"

The blonde looked up at her, a slight flush on his cheeks.

"I know I was teasing you and everything then but now I'm serious.  What do you think?  Are you really ready to be engaged?"  She looked doubtful, muttering to herself, "Because you're only fifteen and you act about seven and really, what kind of marriage will that be anyway?  In ten years you'll act like a seventeen-year-old and we all know seventeen-year-old boys don't amount to much."  She sneaked a pointed look at Chris who ignored her.

"We're…we're not betrothed," Raenef said firmly.  His stomach fluttered.  Because he wanted Eclipse.  But he could hardly tell Erutis that, could he?  After all, he still had to come up with a way to somehow discover Eclipse's feelings toward him.  To maybe convince the demon to love him and stay with him forever.

The knight sat up, sending Cori tumbling.  He landed on the grass and spat an indignant stream of flame at her.  She waved it aside.  "So you're not going to wait ten years for her?"

"No."

"Oh."  Hm… "Why not?"

"I love someone else."

Raenef widened his eyes in horror and clapped his hands over his mouth.  He hadn't just said that out loud, had he?  Judging by the shell-shocked looks on both Erutis and Chris's faces, he had.  Oh no.  "I meant, I…" he stammered.  "I love 'esses' and 'ells' and Leeche doesn't have any of those in her name!"

There was a moment of silence.  Instead of crickets chirping, a little fluffy yellow chick meandered by.  Then Erutis said slowly, "First of all, 'esses and ells' sounds nothing like 'someone else.'  Second of all, Leeche has an 'l' in her name…it starts her name.  Third of all, holy Rased, it's Eclipse, isn't it?!" she shrieked, leaping to her feet.

The demon lord shook his head frantically.

Chris leaned over and poked him.  He looked Raenef in the eye and said distinctly, "Well, it can't be Erutis and it better not be me.  So it's either Leeche or Eclipse."  He raised a brow.  "Which one?"

"Eclipse!" Raenef yelped, covering his eyes.

More notes: Review!  And afterwards, read Cinnamon Eclipse (by me! Heh, shameless plug…) and Play With Me (not by me! But very good…) and leave more reviews. *nod* Go. *vanishes like Eclipse* Whee!