A/N: Thanks for all your kind reviews - Hitokiri Chiburi. As for Pandora and Mini.. yeah well, you guys know I have a weakness for these three, we'll see. ^_~

Pairings: Schuldig/Youji, Schuldig/Aya, Aya/Youji

// … // = Telepathy

Chapter five

"Youji-kun?" The youthful voice roused him from his semi-daydreaming state.

"Something wrong, chibi?" He asked, glancing over at Omi who was standing by the till, counting up the day's takings while the elder blonde swept up the shop floor.

"Iie, nothing's wrong. It's just.." Omi looked down at the handful of Yen in his hand, biting his lip.

Setting his broom to one side, Youji walked over to the counter and wrapped his arms around Omi's waist from behind. "What's bothering you, Omittchi? You know you can talk to me about anything."

Sighing lightly, the young blonde leant back into Youji's arms gently. "I'm worried about Aya-kun."

"Aya?"

"Un, he seems.. differently lately."

If only you knew, Omi. A faint smirk brushed over Youji's lips before he asked lightly. "What do you mean, different?" It had been two weeks now since that morning in Kudou's bedroom. Two weeks in which after the sun went down, every night, he served both Aya and Schuldig as their pet, and the rewards for good behaviour were more than enough incentive to keep the blonde playboy in the role.

"He just seems more.. I don't know, content." Youji bit back a snort at that and let Omi continue. "More forgiving lately."

"You're saying that he's acting more human, Omi."

"Masaka, I didn't mean that." Omi gasped lightly and tilted his head back to look up at his taller friend. "It's just.. different, that's all."

"Don't worry yourself about it." Youji grinned down at him and messed up the boy's hair. "Aya is Aya.. perhaps now that things have finally settled down with Aya-chan, he's reverting slowly back to 'Ran'."

"I guess so, it has been over a year now since she woke up." Shrugging it off, Omi smiled up at Youji again. "We had better get this finished soon, Youji-kun. Otherwise we'll both see 'Aya' again soon enough."

Grinning Youji headed back over to his broom and started sweeping the shop floor again. So you think Aya has changed? You have no idea, chibi.. no idea at all.

It was twenty minutes later when they had finally finished closing up for the night. Stretching with a yawn, Youji pushed his sunglasses back into his hair and glanced over at Omi. "Why don't you head upstairs, chibi. I'll finish the lockup from here."

"Arigato, Youji-kun. I do have an assignment I need to finish off tonight." Omi beamed at him and headed upstairs.

Youji followed him with his eyes before glancing out the shop window with a sigh and pulled the grate down over the door, locking it into place. Grabbing a cig from the packet in his pocket, he placed it between his lips and hung up his apron, heading out into the back alley. Hm, not too bad of a day really.. he mused, glancing up at the clear night sky as he flicked his lighter, inhaling his first lungful of nicotine blissfully. "Hn, full moon." He smirked, glancing down the back of the alley. Full moon always brings out the lunatics.

"I suppose that's my cue."

Youji glanced back towards the street, blinking at the dark form that stood there. "Sch-Master." The blonde dipped his head slightly, averting his eyes from the telepath.

Walking up to him, Schuldig took the cigarette from the blonde's lips and drew deeply on it with a grin. "Where's Aya? He's not inside."

"He's spending the day and evening with his sister."

"Ah, right I remember him mentioning that now." Schuldig smirked and placed the smoke back between Youji's lips and lifted one of the kitten's hand to his lips, placing a light kiss on it. "In that case, come, kitten. We'll go out tonight." He tugged on Youji's hand and the blonde assassin followed after him silently to his car.

"Where are we going?" Youji asked, he was still in his work clothes and not really dressed for a night out.

"There's a new little café out by the beach that I want to try out, and don't worry about your clothes." Schuldig grinned at him over his shoulder, gesturing to the back seat of his car, where a fresh set of clothes awaited the blonde.

Youji blinked at the clothes and blushed lightly at the thought of getting changed in the car.

"Hm, you're even cuter when you blush, kitten." Schuldig husked lightly, pulling Youji into a deep, hard kiss.

Wrapping his arms around the telepath's shoulders as he was kissed breathless, Youji groaned as he was pushed up against the red sports car, feeling Schuldig's hand slip under the waistband of the loose sweatpants he wore, bringing him to immediate attention. Masaka, how can he do this do me.. he's too, too good at this. Youji whimpered lightly as Schuldig pulled away.

"Unfortunately, I don't have all night." Schuldig purred, trailing his tongue around the shell of Youji's ear. "Otherwise I'd take you right here." Unlocking the doors, he stepped away from Youji and walked around to the driver's side of his car, climbing in.

// Hurry up kitten. //

The mental command had Youji coming back to his senses. He was painfully hard and flushed more, due to it and the kiss, as he climbed into the car, gathering the clothes up from the backseat and looking them over. Stripping off his clothes as Schuldig drove, Youji wondered idly if anyone noticed what he was doing. Putting on the tight black jeans and forest green shirt he ran his fingers over the silky material.

"Like it, kitten?"

"Hai, it feels very expensive." Youji whispered in awe.

"It was expensive, but you deserve it." Schuldig smirked over at the blonde.

Youji blushed lightly again and looked out the window, watching the scenery pass by on their way to the beachfront café. Stepping out of the car he waited for Schuldig, watching the moonlight playing over the calm water. Beautiful..

"As are you, my kitten." Schuldig purred, wrapping his arms around Youji's waist from behind and placing a kiss to the side of his neck lightly. "Come." He guided Youji inside the café and took a seat near the window, so that they could watch the waves gently lapping up shore under the full moon.

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It was a couple of hours later when Schuldig had dropped Youji back at the Koneko. "Aya is busy with his imouto and I have other business I must deal with tonight." Schuldig stated, glancing over at the blonde kitten. "So you have tonight free, but don't worry." He grinned, brushing slender fingers through honey-blonde hair. "We'll both make it up to you tomorrow night, kitten."

Youji leant into the caress and smiled. The café had been very nice and the view amazing, even more amazing was the fact that Schuldig had payed for his meal as well, instead of making the blonde pay for himself. "I'll see you tomorrow then, master." He purred softly.

"That you will, kitten." Schuldig grinned and waited for Youji to climb out of the car before driving off into the night.

Heading down the back alley, Youji unlocked the backdoor and slipped in that way. Fingers stroked over the silky green material of his shirt subconsciously as he climbed the stairs up to his apartment, frowning lightly when he saw the faint beam of light that peeked out from under Omi's door. Burning the midnight oil again, chibi? Shaking his head with a sigh he knocked on the door lightly, opening it when he heard Omi's call to enter.

"You still at it, kid?" Youji grinned, walking over to Omi's side.

Blue eyes blinked up at the older man. "Saa, I have too much work to do lately Youji-kun. Besides, this is mission related, not school work. I finished that about an hour ago."

"Guess that's forgivable then." Youji grinned and messed up Omi's hair playfully, leaning one hip against the computer table.

Omi ducked away from the hand with a girlish giggle and blinked at his monitor when an incoming email beeped up. "Hn, email from Persia."

Youji frowned lightly looking over Omi's shoulder. I don't want a mission tonight, not when it's my night off.. he thought bitterly. "The mission's been brought forward to tonight.. should we call Aya?"

Omi shook his head. "The three of us should be able to handle this one. I'll go get Ken-kun." He stood as Youji nodded and headed out of the room, heading upstairs to Ken's apartment.

Youji bit his lip as a thought came to him. Schuldig said he had business to deal with tonight.. and the mission is brought forward. Does this mean that Schwarz is back.. I never did ask if the other three members survived the last fight. We did, Schuldig did.. what's not to say the other three are alive too. How can I fight against him now.. how did Aya do it?

~ tbc