Rimnerel: Hello everyone. Thanks for reviewing and all! Wow, I'm up to
chapter eighteen already. Well, it's been a fun trip to this point.
Hilary: You aren't going to end the story here are you?
Rimnerel: What do you think I am? I'm not THAT crazy yet you know. So let's do one of my favorite things. Let's thank all the reviewers.
Thanks to wagner, Jay Kamiya, MidnightWolf, Silverm, Merodi, Raven Star, FREAKO14, jen wit l n, DarkWolf, and Liika.
On another note, since my favorite red head isn't present, I would like to say also that yes he does have language issues. I do agree with you completely. Oh and Liika, not the whole cast on my end of thinking is like that. There are seriously people I would not put in that situation. For me, it's all the cute guys.
MidnightWolf, I want you to know that I suppose Kenny is a bit of a wimp but Tala is a hard person to be dealing with. I'm also basing Tala and Kenny off my current favorite yaoi couple, which I got my general inspiration for their personalities from. Now let's get started. A few surprises that are about to propel this story yet again are about to arise. Enjoy.
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Kenny watched Tala get dressed after taking a shower. The clock now read 8:13 at night and if Tala wanted a place to sleep that wouldn't get him in trouble with parents, he would have to leave to head towards Kai's apartment.
Kenny was situated in his bed under the covers, a little sore from the red head's second and third go around that evening. Not that Kenny wanted him to stop during the course of any of it, but he was still getting use to this level of intimacy between him and the red head. Tala stopped dressing to look at the male huddled underneath the blankets, looking at him.
"You aren't still whining are you?" Tala inquired with a smirk. "Was I really that much for you to handle? I only did it twice this time."
"ONLY twice, that's still a lot for me!" Kenny said with a light pout. "I'll be lucky if I can walk tomorrow morning."
"You need to stop exaggerating. I did prepare you before I went in. And you weren't complaining the second time, now were you?" Tala remarked with a sly smirk. "Now stop whining and be a man about it. I'm leaving now."
As Tala was about to pick up his duffel bag from where he originally put it, Kenny grabbed hold of Tala's shirt. Causing the red head to look down at the brunette beside him. "What the hell is it now?"
Kenny blushed as he looked down, fiddling with the covers. "I was just hoping that. . .well. . ." The flush increased as he shyly rose his eyes up to look into Tala's azure eyes.
"Well what?"
"I was just hoping. . .that I could get a good-bye kiss, that's all. You don't really---" Kenny found a pair of lips against his for a brief moment before Tala pulled back a light look of annoyance on his face.
"There now can I leave before you ask me for something else?" Tala replied picking up his bag and walking towards the door. He didn't see the smile or tears that Kenny had. If he had, Tala would more than likely have wished he had done it.
"You can. Thank you Tala," Kenny said.
Kenny wondered if maybe Tala was really beginning to change. Before Tala would have made more snide remarks and there would have been a slim chance that Kenny would have gotten a kiss like that. Maybe there was a chance Kenny could make it work between them after all. All he needed was for Tala to continue to change like he was doing now.
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Kai got up from his book to head towards the door as another knock sounded. Pulling the door open, he found Tala standing there with his duffel bag in hand. "Well, well, look who finally decides to show up. I was about ready to think that you died on your way over. Not that I would have cared."
"Shut up," Tala said making his way past Kai to head into the living room. When Kai situated the lock back on his door and headed back to the living room, he found the red head sitting on one of his chairs. Kai went back to his previous chair, reopening his book to the page he had left off on.
"Your room is down the hall, second door on the right. The bathroom is first door on the left. And make sure you stay out of my room, or I will cut your balls off. Do I make myself perfectly clear?" Kai said glancing up at the red head after a minute of continuing to read. "If you need clothes ask."
"Is that all?" Tala said in a bored tone. "You sound like someone's mother. That's quite vexing."
"Well that's about it. You can fix your own meals when I'm not around too," Kai said. "And now that we have that settled out the way tell me, what took you so long?" Kai turned his page then looked back over to Tala who looked as if he had something in mind.
"Wouldn't you like to know." A smirk rose to Tala's lips as he headed down the hall with his duffel bag. Kai's eyes narrowed as he placed his book down and stood up, following the red head. Catching up to him, Kai pushed the male against the wall, placing both hands on either side of Tala so he couldn't move; the smirk on Tala's face widened seeing the look in the auburn eyes of the dual haired male. "This reminds me of old times back at the abbey."
"Don't start with me," Kai growled. "What did you do to Kenny? I swear if you hurt him Tala."
"Don't worry, I didn't do much. We talked like you wanted. And I'm not go to kick him to the curve just yet." Tala leaned forward towards Kai's ear and whispered. "You have no idea how unbelievably tight he is. He reminds me of our times. Just the sweet sound of him crying my name. . ."
"Would you mind moving your hand from out of my shirt?" Kai interrupted, pulling the male's hand out of his shirt.
"Don't like my touch anymore?" Tala said as he tried to slide his hand into Kai's pants. Kai pulled away from the Russian male, his eyes like stones of fire.
"Don't make me laugh. You don't really think I would want you, do you?" Kai scoffed. "Why don't you focus on keeping Kenny happy. I don't know what he could see in you, but that's not my call to dispute."
"You know," Tala said, not liking what Kai just said. "I don't know what he sees in my either. He's both amusing, and annoying at the same time. No matter what I say, he continues to tell me he will love me and shit like that. Tell me Kai, does he have a wish to suffer the rest of his life with that sort of thinking?"
Kai looked at the male with a short stare. "I think he's hoping to change your mind about his logic in thinking so."
"Change my logic of thinking?" Could it really be true? Was that what was happening to him now?
"Didn't you know? How stupid are you really? I thought you would have noticed the changes in yourself and not have someone else point it out to you. What you're doing is falling in love with him and trying to fight it," Kai smiled wickedly. "He's eating away at that frigid heart of yours and you haven't realized it yet."
Tala's eyes narrowed. "I'm not going to change. I'll never change and you know I won't allow it. So you can tell him that he should just stop trying now." With that, Tala headed down to the room that Kai had assigned him.
Standing in the hallway there was something that the dual haired Bladebreaker team captain noticed. There was a flickering within the red head's eyes when he talked. There was conflicting emotions rising up in Tala. If it was what he thought it was. . .
*Kenny I hope you can handle this on your own. I doubt I can make much of a difference in his decision to stay or leave in the future. *
Tala, once he was away from Kai's line of sight, forced himself to shut down everything in his mind. He wasn't about to change his life because of some snot nosed little kid who wanted a romance out of him. Tala had sworn that after Bryan that those feelings rising up in him would never do so again. He was forgetting everything that had happened to him. He was forgetting who he was and slowly allowing that kid to change him.
He admitted it now.
He was letting that kid weave him into a nice little web. But that was not a web he wanted to be in.
"How could I have become so soft? Over a kid too?" Tala cursed himself.
All those times he gave in to those blue eyes or that smile Kenny graced him with served to weaken his wall of cold isolation. He wasn't about to end up like Kai. He was going to be who he was raised to be. Cold and completely ruthless. That was the only way he was going to survive this world. Love only enslaved those who let it and eventually got them killed.
That's what happened to his mother after all. She should have just given him to Boris when he approached her. Because of her weak love for him she was now dead. Like he needed her now anyway. He had grown up to be someone who would not be brought down by that weight. Nor was he going to start being that sort of person. He had gotten by so far on his own, he would continue to. The world and everyone he came in contact with only wanted something from him after all.
Kenny was no exception to the rule as he had first thought. The boy was the same as the rest. All that talk about love and crap was just talk in order to get Tala to trust him. He really wanted to change Tala into what he wanted. It wasn't because he loved him. No one could love someone like that much, but his mother. And look where it had gotten her. Kenny's words were just a front to make him into someone Tala did not want to be.
Tala was not about to allow that. He would go back to who he use to be and no matter what the boy did, he would not change back into who he was becoming. No matter how many tears he shed.
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Kenny stopped in the kitchen to grab some juice before leaving for school, but he came to a complete halt. Standing in his kitchen was not his mother. A girl of about eighteen with short brown hair with pink highlights stood in the kitchen with a cup of coffee in one hand, a newspaper in her other hand. The girl was leaning against the counter.
"Amy!" Kenny said shocked. "What are you doing here? Where are my parents?"
The girl looked up from the paper. "Keep your pants on short stuff. Your mother sent me here to watch you for a few days. She and your dad had to go with my mom to check on gram over in Kyoto. She's starting to become more senile."
"I would have rather Aunt Mimi send Jori than you," Kenny mumbled to himself. Kenny was not the type to hate anyone, but his oldest cousin Amy was the exception. She was rude thoughtless of others, very conceited, and was always evil to him. Her younger brother Jori, who was a year older than Kenny, got along better with Kenny.
"What was that shrimp?" Her eyes cut him with dagger glares.
"Nothing Amy. I was just wondering how Jori was doing?" Kenny said, not feeling like being hit by the older woman. Kenny knew from experience that she had a temper on her, and would not hesitate to hit him.
"He finally got a girlfriend so you can stop drooling over him," Amy replied nastily. It had been Amy's own personal little joke for a long time that Kenny had a serious thing for Jori and how he would never be able to get her brother in bed with him.
"I told you there was nothing between us! He's my cousin for sakes!" Kenny argued.
"You're right. I don't know why Jori would like a little toad like you," Amy laughed wickedly. "I would doubt you knew where to put it in at anyhow."
"I do too!" Kenny said hotly. The response brought mischief into her eyes as Kenny clamped his hand over his mouth. Turning towards the door, he started to head out.
"So, you're not the innocent little brat I thought you were. I'm completely shocked you have balls after all. I wonder what your parents would say if they knew that you take it up the ass from guys. You know I've never been one to keep secrets very well. I may accidentally let it slip talking to them."
Kenny narrowed his eyes. "You have proof of nothing."
"I don't huh. Well that's okay. They'll still believe me. They know I would NEVER lie to them. So you might as well surrender to my demands."
"I'm not going to let you push me around," Kenny hissed.
"Oh, so you have a backbone now." Setting down her cup and paper the girl walked up to him. Kenny backed up against the wall, knowing she wasn't up to good. He had heard stories from Jori about how she caused loads of trouble at her school, but had other people take the blame for her. Looming over him, she studied Kenny. "So who have it to you? One of your little buddies?"
"I don't have to tell you." Kenny flinched when her hand sailed across his cheek. Looking up with bewilderment he saw her snarling at him.
"Who told you, you could talk back to me you little shit? I've broken twigs stronger than you. Don't mess with me Kenny. I can make your life a living hell while I'm here. Do you think I wanted to baby-sit your ass? My mother made me come here and do it. So while I'm here if you want to keep your ass then don't ever smart mouth me again. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Amy," Kenny said. The girl smiled, patting him on the head. God he hated her. Why was he always coming up on another obstacle when he just got passed one? Was it so hard for someone to give him a break once in a while?
"Good now get out of my sight before I decide to hit you one more time," Amy smirked, moving away from him. "By the way, what is your little boyfriend like?"
"Why?" He wondered if she would hit him for that remark.
"I suppose it doesn't matter. Just didn't seem like that had class they sticking it to you," she said pulling out a cigarette from her shirt pocket. "Oh, and make sure you come straight home too. Or I'm going to use your head as a punching bag, understand?"
"Yes Amy." Kenny headed out the door with his school bag. He had a bad feeling this wasn't going to be a good day. But he still could go see Tala before going directly home. If he could just be with Tala for a while everything would be fine, after all, Kenny was sure that the red head was finally understanding that he was in love with him, and Kenny wasn't going to change his mind about any of it.
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Hilary: What kind of turn of events are these?
Rimnerel: Oh, just the kind of events I need to get this story back into feel. The next chapter is going to be explosive. That's all I'm going to say about it.
Hilary: Okay that's not good.
Rimnerel: Shut up and do the closing since I sent Tala on an errand.
Hilary (indignant): Fine! The next chapter, which I'm sure has every evil intent of the author in it, should be out Sunday. And she hopes that everyone will review.
Rimnerel: Okay, you heard her, Sunday I'll be back with my next chapter.
Hilary: You aren't going to end the story here are you?
Rimnerel: What do you think I am? I'm not THAT crazy yet you know. So let's do one of my favorite things. Let's thank all the reviewers.
Thanks to wagner, Jay Kamiya, MidnightWolf, Silverm, Merodi, Raven Star, FREAKO14, jen wit l n, DarkWolf, and Liika.
On another note, since my favorite red head isn't present, I would like to say also that yes he does have language issues. I do agree with you completely. Oh and Liika, not the whole cast on my end of thinking is like that. There are seriously people I would not put in that situation. For me, it's all the cute guys.
MidnightWolf, I want you to know that I suppose Kenny is a bit of a wimp but Tala is a hard person to be dealing with. I'm also basing Tala and Kenny off my current favorite yaoi couple, which I got my general inspiration for their personalities from. Now let's get started. A few surprises that are about to propel this story yet again are about to arise. Enjoy.
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Kenny watched Tala get dressed after taking a shower. The clock now read 8:13 at night and if Tala wanted a place to sleep that wouldn't get him in trouble with parents, he would have to leave to head towards Kai's apartment.
Kenny was situated in his bed under the covers, a little sore from the red head's second and third go around that evening. Not that Kenny wanted him to stop during the course of any of it, but he was still getting use to this level of intimacy between him and the red head. Tala stopped dressing to look at the male huddled underneath the blankets, looking at him.
"You aren't still whining are you?" Tala inquired with a smirk. "Was I really that much for you to handle? I only did it twice this time."
"ONLY twice, that's still a lot for me!" Kenny said with a light pout. "I'll be lucky if I can walk tomorrow morning."
"You need to stop exaggerating. I did prepare you before I went in. And you weren't complaining the second time, now were you?" Tala remarked with a sly smirk. "Now stop whining and be a man about it. I'm leaving now."
As Tala was about to pick up his duffel bag from where he originally put it, Kenny grabbed hold of Tala's shirt. Causing the red head to look down at the brunette beside him. "What the hell is it now?"
Kenny blushed as he looked down, fiddling with the covers. "I was just hoping that. . .well. . ." The flush increased as he shyly rose his eyes up to look into Tala's azure eyes.
"Well what?"
"I was just hoping. . .that I could get a good-bye kiss, that's all. You don't really---" Kenny found a pair of lips against his for a brief moment before Tala pulled back a light look of annoyance on his face.
"There now can I leave before you ask me for something else?" Tala replied picking up his bag and walking towards the door. He didn't see the smile or tears that Kenny had. If he had, Tala would more than likely have wished he had done it.
"You can. Thank you Tala," Kenny said.
Kenny wondered if maybe Tala was really beginning to change. Before Tala would have made more snide remarks and there would have been a slim chance that Kenny would have gotten a kiss like that. Maybe there was a chance Kenny could make it work between them after all. All he needed was for Tala to continue to change like he was doing now.
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Kai got up from his book to head towards the door as another knock sounded. Pulling the door open, he found Tala standing there with his duffel bag in hand. "Well, well, look who finally decides to show up. I was about ready to think that you died on your way over. Not that I would have cared."
"Shut up," Tala said making his way past Kai to head into the living room. When Kai situated the lock back on his door and headed back to the living room, he found the red head sitting on one of his chairs. Kai went back to his previous chair, reopening his book to the page he had left off on.
"Your room is down the hall, second door on the right. The bathroom is first door on the left. And make sure you stay out of my room, or I will cut your balls off. Do I make myself perfectly clear?" Kai said glancing up at the red head after a minute of continuing to read. "If you need clothes ask."
"Is that all?" Tala said in a bored tone. "You sound like someone's mother. That's quite vexing."
"Well that's about it. You can fix your own meals when I'm not around too," Kai said. "And now that we have that settled out the way tell me, what took you so long?" Kai turned his page then looked back over to Tala who looked as if he had something in mind.
"Wouldn't you like to know." A smirk rose to Tala's lips as he headed down the hall with his duffel bag. Kai's eyes narrowed as he placed his book down and stood up, following the red head. Catching up to him, Kai pushed the male against the wall, placing both hands on either side of Tala so he couldn't move; the smirk on Tala's face widened seeing the look in the auburn eyes of the dual haired male. "This reminds me of old times back at the abbey."
"Don't start with me," Kai growled. "What did you do to Kenny? I swear if you hurt him Tala."
"Don't worry, I didn't do much. We talked like you wanted. And I'm not go to kick him to the curve just yet." Tala leaned forward towards Kai's ear and whispered. "You have no idea how unbelievably tight he is. He reminds me of our times. Just the sweet sound of him crying my name. . ."
"Would you mind moving your hand from out of my shirt?" Kai interrupted, pulling the male's hand out of his shirt.
"Don't like my touch anymore?" Tala said as he tried to slide his hand into Kai's pants. Kai pulled away from the Russian male, his eyes like stones of fire.
"Don't make me laugh. You don't really think I would want you, do you?" Kai scoffed. "Why don't you focus on keeping Kenny happy. I don't know what he could see in you, but that's not my call to dispute."
"You know," Tala said, not liking what Kai just said. "I don't know what he sees in my either. He's both amusing, and annoying at the same time. No matter what I say, he continues to tell me he will love me and shit like that. Tell me Kai, does he have a wish to suffer the rest of his life with that sort of thinking?"
Kai looked at the male with a short stare. "I think he's hoping to change your mind about his logic in thinking so."
"Change my logic of thinking?" Could it really be true? Was that what was happening to him now?
"Didn't you know? How stupid are you really? I thought you would have noticed the changes in yourself and not have someone else point it out to you. What you're doing is falling in love with him and trying to fight it," Kai smiled wickedly. "He's eating away at that frigid heart of yours and you haven't realized it yet."
Tala's eyes narrowed. "I'm not going to change. I'll never change and you know I won't allow it. So you can tell him that he should just stop trying now." With that, Tala headed down to the room that Kai had assigned him.
Standing in the hallway there was something that the dual haired Bladebreaker team captain noticed. There was a flickering within the red head's eyes when he talked. There was conflicting emotions rising up in Tala. If it was what he thought it was. . .
*Kenny I hope you can handle this on your own. I doubt I can make much of a difference in his decision to stay or leave in the future. *
Tala, once he was away from Kai's line of sight, forced himself to shut down everything in his mind. He wasn't about to change his life because of some snot nosed little kid who wanted a romance out of him. Tala had sworn that after Bryan that those feelings rising up in him would never do so again. He was forgetting everything that had happened to him. He was forgetting who he was and slowly allowing that kid to change him.
He admitted it now.
He was letting that kid weave him into a nice little web. But that was not a web he wanted to be in.
"How could I have become so soft? Over a kid too?" Tala cursed himself.
All those times he gave in to those blue eyes or that smile Kenny graced him with served to weaken his wall of cold isolation. He wasn't about to end up like Kai. He was going to be who he was raised to be. Cold and completely ruthless. That was the only way he was going to survive this world. Love only enslaved those who let it and eventually got them killed.
That's what happened to his mother after all. She should have just given him to Boris when he approached her. Because of her weak love for him she was now dead. Like he needed her now anyway. He had grown up to be someone who would not be brought down by that weight. Nor was he going to start being that sort of person. He had gotten by so far on his own, he would continue to. The world and everyone he came in contact with only wanted something from him after all.
Kenny was no exception to the rule as he had first thought. The boy was the same as the rest. All that talk about love and crap was just talk in order to get Tala to trust him. He really wanted to change Tala into what he wanted. It wasn't because he loved him. No one could love someone like that much, but his mother. And look where it had gotten her. Kenny's words were just a front to make him into someone Tala did not want to be.
Tala was not about to allow that. He would go back to who he use to be and no matter what the boy did, he would not change back into who he was becoming. No matter how many tears he shed.
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Kenny stopped in the kitchen to grab some juice before leaving for school, but he came to a complete halt. Standing in his kitchen was not his mother. A girl of about eighteen with short brown hair with pink highlights stood in the kitchen with a cup of coffee in one hand, a newspaper in her other hand. The girl was leaning against the counter.
"Amy!" Kenny said shocked. "What are you doing here? Where are my parents?"
The girl looked up from the paper. "Keep your pants on short stuff. Your mother sent me here to watch you for a few days. She and your dad had to go with my mom to check on gram over in Kyoto. She's starting to become more senile."
"I would have rather Aunt Mimi send Jori than you," Kenny mumbled to himself. Kenny was not the type to hate anyone, but his oldest cousin Amy was the exception. She was rude thoughtless of others, very conceited, and was always evil to him. Her younger brother Jori, who was a year older than Kenny, got along better with Kenny.
"What was that shrimp?" Her eyes cut him with dagger glares.
"Nothing Amy. I was just wondering how Jori was doing?" Kenny said, not feeling like being hit by the older woman. Kenny knew from experience that she had a temper on her, and would not hesitate to hit him.
"He finally got a girlfriend so you can stop drooling over him," Amy replied nastily. It had been Amy's own personal little joke for a long time that Kenny had a serious thing for Jori and how he would never be able to get her brother in bed with him.
"I told you there was nothing between us! He's my cousin for sakes!" Kenny argued.
"You're right. I don't know why Jori would like a little toad like you," Amy laughed wickedly. "I would doubt you knew where to put it in at anyhow."
"I do too!" Kenny said hotly. The response brought mischief into her eyes as Kenny clamped his hand over his mouth. Turning towards the door, he started to head out.
"So, you're not the innocent little brat I thought you were. I'm completely shocked you have balls after all. I wonder what your parents would say if they knew that you take it up the ass from guys. You know I've never been one to keep secrets very well. I may accidentally let it slip talking to them."
Kenny narrowed his eyes. "You have proof of nothing."
"I don't huh. Well that's okay. They'll still believe me. They know I would NEVER lie to them. So you might as well surrender to my demands."
"I'm not going to let you push me around," Kenny hissed.
"Oh, so you have a backbone now." Setting down her cup and paper the girl walked up to him. Kenny backed up against the wall, knowing she wasn't up to good. He had heard stories from Jori about how she caused loads of trouble at her school, but had other people take the blame for her. Looming over him, she studied Kenny. "So who have it to you? One of your little buddies?"
"I don't have to tell you." Kenny flinched when her hand sailed across his cheek. Looking up with bewilderment he saw her snarling at him.
"Who told you, you could talk back to me you little shit? I've broken twigs stronger than you. Don't mess with me Kenny. I can make your life a living hell while I'm here. Do you think I wanted to baby-sit your ass? My mother made me come here and do it. So while I'm here if you want to keep your ass then don't ever smart mouth me again. Do you understand me?"
"Yes Amy," Kenny said. The girl smiled, patting him on the head. God he hated her. Why was he always coming up on another obstacle when he just got passed one? Was it so hard for someone to give him a break once in a while?
"Good now get out of my sight before I decide to hit you one more time," Amy smirked, moving away from him. "By the way, what is your little boyfriend like?"
"Why?" He wondered if she would hit him for that remark.
"I suppose it doesn't matter. Just didn't seem like that had class they sticking it to you," she said pulling out a cigarette from her shirt pocket. "Oh, and make sure you come straight home too. Or I'm going to use your head as a punching bag, understand?"
"Yes Amy." Kenny headed out the door with his school bag. He had a bad feeling this wasn't going to be a good day. But he still could go see Tala before going directly home. If he could just be with Tala for a while everything would be fine, after all, Kenny was sure that the red head was finally understanding that he was in love with him, and Kenny wasn't going to change his mind about any of it.
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Hilary: What kind of turn of events are these?
Rimnerel: Oh, just the kind of events I need to get this story back into feel. The next chapter is going to be explosive. That's all I'm going to say about it.
Hilary: Okay that's not good.
Rimnerel: Shut up and do the closing since I sent Tala on an errand.
Hilary (indignant): Fine! The next chapter, which I'm sure has every evil intent of the author in it, should be out Sunday. And she hopes that everyone will review.
Rimnerel: Okay, you heard her, Sunday I'll be back with my next chapter.