Chapter 26:

A Slumber of Dreams

"Jin...." Kazi called for him. She tossed and turned. "Jin....!" Kazi felt him, the way he touched her, the way everything seemed right... Jin sunk his teeth into the top left of the side her chest. "Jin!" She moaned. Blood trickled down her top and onto the sheets, staining them fiercely. The ivory horns glinted in the rare moonlight. She couldn't stop. "Jin...." Lightning danced about them, a red glow of enchanted demon began to come. "Jin....!" The sheets fell about them, only enveloping the waist. His claws felt her back and held her hips in place, beginning to move onto her....

"JIN!" Kazi woke up, her chest heaving. "My gods..." She whispered. The silence thundered and the blood beat in her ears as the door suddenly flung open.

"Kaziya?!" Jin ran in to her room, in his sleeping pants. "Kazi?! What's wrong?!" Jin sat next to her and took her hand. "Are you alright??" Kazi took a deep breath and looked herself over.

"Yeah.. Just-just a nightmare. That's all." Jin gave her a caring look as Kazi hugged him. Jin pulled his arms around her.

"I'm glad you're alright..... Hm... It seems I was the only one that heard you." Kazi looked towards the door.

"I suppose so..." Jin smiled and reassured her,

"It'll be alright. Do you want to stay here or come sleep with me?" Kazi hesitated, but nodded.

"I'll come." Was all she could choke out. Jin nodded and picked her up, taking her to his room.

He laid her gently onto the bed, and covered her.

"There. You alright now?" Kazi nodded. Jin kissed her forehead and climbed into the other side of the bed, turning the light out and wrapping one arm around her waist, to make sure she knows he's there. Kazi gulped and moved up against Jin to feel safer. He adjusted then fell into a slumber. Kazi however couldn't.

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"Kaziya... Koi-ka...." the whispers reached her ears. Vision blurred and light flowed into her eyes. "Koi-ka... Koi-ka, come-on... time to get up." Jin nuzzled her neck. She groaned and sat up.

"Ughnn... Huh?" She looked behind her and noticed Jin lying in the dark blue-violet sheets. He smiled.

"You look cute when you wake up." he ran his fingers through her frazzled and tangled hair. Kazi hugged him. "Hm?? Kazi? Is something wrong?" She buried her face in his muscled chest.

"Kazama-Koi I love you." Jin blinked at her sudden words in his mother language. It was so surprising because of Korean natural born hate for the Japanese and their language in which the Koreans called, Iilbonio, Korean for Japanese. He smiled and brushed her hair lightly with his fingers. Kazi pressed her lips onto his skin and kissed it, lightly licking it. Jin straightened up, part of him in shock the other enjoying it with affection. Kazi pulled from his skin and touched his face, tracing his jaw line with the tips of her fingers. "I love you so much. I've loved you ever since the first time I looked into your eyes." Jin smiled.

"Of all the forest, and frosted sea, there's one heat, that'll always be me." Jin said his gaze flowing from Kazi's amber eyes to the window where two blue birds were chirping. He smiled at the birds, which then flew onto the bed and were looking around. Kazi marveled at the beauty of Jin's voice as he hummed to the birds. The forest really fit to him. As did the ocean to her, but... land and sea were never meant to be together. It was like a mermaid and an elf, it couldn't work out in the end. Kazi closed her eyes and tried her hardest not to cry but the crystal blue tears fell slowly, she pulled her hands up so he wouldn't see and be bothered. Jin's singing stopped and he took her hands from her face.

"Kaziya? Are you all right? What's wrong?" He embraced her as she tried to stop her tears.

"It's nothing. I- it's nothing. Don't worry about it." Jin sighed and pulled the covers from over him.

"We had better get down to breakfast then." He said pulling some clothes from his closet and walking into the bathroom. As the shower turned on, Kazi burst into tears and sobbed silently, curled up in the sheets, she cried. And strangely the birds seem to cry as well.