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Chapter 14 – Love and War

Omi woke up slowly. It somehow felt nice and warm. It was the best sleep he had had in a couple of days.

He tried to move to get out of bed when he realized that he couldn't.

He blinked lightly before he finally realized that there was a pair of strong arms around him. A body was pressed up against his. So that's why it's warm!

He investigated a little further, looking up and straight into the face of his friend. Brown hair fell softly over his closed eyes, and he was sleeping soundly. He was even snoring a little, which made Omi giggle despite himself.

His mind shuffled over their conversation the previous night. Now, he finally understood Ken's depression the past few days. He freed his arm a little, lightly brushing some of the hair off of Ken's face. I can't believe he thought I hated him! Then again, I must have sounded so awful every time I told him to go away. It must have taken a lot for him to even come in here last night…

The boy smiled, just watching his friend, resisting the biggest urge to lean over and kiss him then and there.

I never thought I'd see the day…when I'd wake up in Ken's arms…

Omi mentally hit himself. Don't be so hopeful! It's not like it'll happen again! He might have only done it this one time because of that stupid enchantment!

But… then again, it really didn't hurt to enjoy it while it lasted. And he did still have half an hour before his alarm clock rang.

He snuggled into Ken's chest a little more. He fell back asleep with a soft smile on his face.

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There was loud banging at his door. Yohji groaned, and almost threw a pillow at the noise. "Go'way…"

"Yohji," Aya's muffled voice spoke. "Get up. You're opening today."

A loud grumble left Yohji's lips, "I thought it was Ken's turn…"

"I can't find him. You open."

At that instant, Yohji sat up, staring at the still closed door. "What?! What do you mean you can't find him?!"

"Yohji. Are you really planning on talking to me like this?"

With another grumble, Yohji climbed to his feet. Pulling on a pair of pants he found on the floor, he walked to the door and opened it.

"What do you mean you can't find him?!"

Aya's stare bore through him, "He's not in his room, and he isn't downstairs."

"Damnit, Aya! He can't have just disappeared!!"

This time, the redhead didn't respond.

Yohji ran a hand through his long hair, "Why don't you open the shop?! You're already awake!!"

"So are you." With that, Aya started to turn around, back to his room.

The older man groaned. He reentered his room, intent on searching for something to wear for the day.

As soon as he had gotten himself dressed (mentally cursing one Hidaka Ken the whole time), he left his room and headed for the stairs.

He passed by Omi's room on the way and realized that the door was slightly ajar. Omi must have left it open the night before. He smiled softly, before hitting himself. Nope. Not supposed to be thinking of Omi that way. Definitely not.

He moved closer, half-stepping into the room to close the door. He tried to stop the smile that flit onto his face but damnit! It came on anyway. He sighed to himself, his eyes softly assessing the huddled head that faced away from him, before he noticed what was terribly wrong.

Yohji froze.

Last time he checked, Omi did not have chocolate brown hair…

He went in to take a closer look.

And there it was. Hidaka Ken was in Omi's bed, his arms wrapped protectively around Omi's curled form. Omi was huddled against Ken's chest and Ken's face was half-buried in Omi's hair.

The sight was almost endearing… If only Yohji weren't seething through his teeth. In one fluid motion, he yanked the sheets off of the couple.

Both teenagers felt the sudden movement and jolted awake. Omi unconsciously snuggled into Ken even more, which only enraged Yohji even more.

Ken twitched, his eyes slowly fluttering open. He looked up above him with hazy eyes…

…straight into Yohji's sneering face hovering above him.

With a loud yelp, Ken tried to move away, and fell off the bed.

Omi felt the loss of contact and awoke completely, "K-ken-kun?!" He partly scrambled over to see if Ken was all right, but froze when he saw the other presence in the room. "Yohji-kun?!!" he yelped.

"I demand to know the meaning of this!!!" Yohji screeched, more at the near unconscious form on the floor rather than at Omi himself, but it seemed unlikely Ken could respond.

Yohji watched the younger blonde do the famous fish imitation for a moment. Finally, Omi yelled the first thing that came to mind.

"It's not what you think!!"

"Sure… What is it then?"

"I-I …" Ken stood up straighter to defend himself. "Omi was having nightmares! I just came in here to comfort him and keep him company!!"

"Oh! So comforting him involves molesting him now, I see?" Yohji's eyes were still narrowed.

"Molesting?!!" Ken shut his eyes and yelled at him, "I was not trying to molest him!!!" He looked over at Omi for support. "Right?"

Omi had calmed down a little. He gave him a meaningful look, "Do you feel particularly sore in any sensitive areas?"

Ken thought for a while, taking a glance down at himself, "I suppose not."

"Then you didn't. I'm not a deep sleeper, and I keep true to my promises."

Yohji had no idea what they were talking about but he sneered, "Hah! Of course he'd support you, Hidaka. In fact, Omittchi might have liked it if you went on and screwed his …"

"Yohji-kun!!" Omi shrieked in the middle of Yohji's sentence, color immediately rising to his cheeks.

Ken didn't hear the latter part of what Yohji was saying; Omi had interrupted in time. He was also a bit flushed, but still he glared, "Yohji! This isn't something you should get so damned jealous about!! We all know that that stupid potion is working on your brain!!"

"That may be part of it, you ass," Yohji gritted his teeth. "But if I do remember correctly, just a couple of nights ago, we made a little oath to each other that we both lay off on Omittchi!! No touching, no cuddling, no molesting. Remember that little pact?"

Ken blinked. He hadn't really thought of that.

"What's going on in here?"

The three bishounen jumped at the new voice. They all looked up to find Aya standing at the door.

Aya looked over all of them, his gaze resting on Yohji. "Shouldn't you be downstairs, opening the shop?"

Yohji, almost childishly, pointed an accusing finger at Ken, "He was in here with Omi last night!"

Aya gave him a look which seemed to mean, 'and … that's bad becaauussee……?'

"Ayaaaa!! Don't you get it!! What if he was trying to rape Omi?!!"

"Yohji-kun!!" Omi gasped.

"Yohjiii!! I'd never-…!" Ken protested at the same time.

"How the hell am I supposed to know that?!" Yohji spat back.

"Yohji."

The three of them finally quieted. Omi and Ken were both red in the face and Yohji was still seething. All turned back to Aya at the door.

Aya folded his arms and glared at Yohji. "Haul your damned ass downstairs or do I have to haul it down for you myself?"

Yohji's jaw dropped. He pointed at Ken and Omi again, "B-b-b-b-b-but what about them?!!"

"Do I have to repeat myself?"

"But Aya!! Don't you see?!!"

The expression on Aya's face said 'that does it!'. He calmly came into the room, grabbed Yohji by the collar of his shirt and promptly started dragging him out.

"H-h-h-heeyy!! AYA!!"

Ken and Omi were both quite dot-eyed as Aya continued to drag Yohji out of the room and down the hall. Silence filled the room once again.

It was when the older two had left their view when Ken heard Omi's soft voice again, "Ken-kun?"

Ken turned around. Omi was staring at him curiously. "Did you really?"

"Really what?"

"Make that pact with Yohji-kun? To not… well… touch me…?"

"Err… Yeah, I did." Ken admitted. "And apparently I violated it by sleeping with you last night."

Omi's eyes widened, and he blushed. Ken's head was instantly filled with the images that he had just implied. He quickly reddened as well. "A-aa… You know what I mean…"

Omi was still red, but he managed to smile a little. "I see… I really mean that much to you, huh?"

"Hmm?" Ken shrugged, "Yeah… I guess you do… Wait a minute, of course you do!!"

He narrowed his eyes, his lips curled up in a grin, "You're everything I'm thinking about because of this damned enchantment thing."

The smile quickly softened. "But you're also still my best friend. Since this is all fake anyway, I …. I decided I didn't want to do anything to damage that friendship."

Ken was surprised by the huge grin that suddenly spread onto Omi's face. The youth jumped off his bed, running over and hugging Ken. He buried his face into the older boy's chest, sighing happily.

 "…… Thank you, Ken-kun… Hearing you say that means so much to me…"

Ken smiled, slowly bringing his arms around to return the embrace.

They stood like that for a few more moments until Ken decided to break the silence.

"Omiiiiiii…" he said, teasingly. "If you keep this up, I might be forced to tear off all your clothes, force you onto your bed and rape you just like Yohji said…"

Omi laughed a little into Ken's chest, "If you even begin to do anything like that… I'm holding true to my promise…" To add to his threat, he positioned one of his legs, ready to strike.

Ken yelped, "Okay! Okay! Backing off!!" He moved away, holding his hands up in defeat. Still, he chuckled a bit. "So… we're really okay?"

Omi laughed again. "Hai, Ken-kun. We're okay."

"Good…"

And the two younger members of Weiss smiled.

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"Hey, Omittchi…"

Omi looked up from the arrangement he was making. "Ara? Ah! Hey, Yohji-kun." He took another flower from the side and added it to the bouquet. "Sorry about this morning. The truth is, I was having trouble sleeping and Ken-kun was there when I woke up… So I asked him to stay with me."

Yohji frowned. "Is that so?"

"Hai," Omi nodded. "Ken-kun didn't do anything wrong. Believe me! So if you want to get mad at someone, get mad at me."

Yohji sighed, "Nah. Can't be mad at you, chibi…"

A smile lit across Omi's face, "Thanks for understanding, Yohji-kun."

"Yeah, yeah," Yohji scratched his head for a moment. "Listen, chibi. I… want to make it up to you. I got reservations at this restaurant I know you'll like."

Omi lit up even more, turning away from his flowers, "Really?"

"Yep. Let's go out and have some dinner. Just the two of us. Sounds good, nee?"

Omi suddenly frowned again, "Yohji-kun… That sounds a lot like a date…"

Yohji brought a hand to his chest, looking hurt, "Whatttt? C'mon Omi! You did hear about the truce, nee? If Ken's not allowed to lay a finger on ya, then neither am I!"

The younger bishounen looked down and thought about this for a while. Finally, he smiled again and nodded. "Okay. We have to tell the others about it, okay? They might look for us later."

"Ah. Let me handle that, okay? You just get ready when you need to."

Omi grinned, "Thanks again, Yohji-kun! I'm so glad that there are no hard feelings about a while ago."

"Right, right…"

While he returned to working on the flowers, Yohji left his side for a moment and went out back. He leaned back on the wall, turning his head to watch Omi. His mind flashed back to the betrayal that Ken had done on their truce just that morning.

For a moment, he thought that this was probably unfair to both Omi and Ken. When he found out which one that Omi truly liked, he decided to stay back and watch. Provided that Ken do the same and not mislead Omi to believe things that might not be true.

And it was true, he promised not to lay a finger on Omi.

But then again, so did Ken… And that's what terribly blew Yohji's gasket…

Ah Ken… Yohji thought as he lit a cigarette with a smirk. You said it yourself not too long ago…

All is fair in love and war, nee?

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