Toma sat on the floor leaning on the back wall of the bedroom. He
had talked to Éabha for almost three hours while Seiji played a game with
Kelly, since Kelly didn't know either of them. Now both Éabha and Kelly
were asleep on the floor near the hospital bed.
"Hey Toma," Toma heard Seiji whisper.
"Yea?" Toma whispered back.
"How long is it 'til Mallaidh shows up?" Toma looked up at Seiji. His eyes had tiredness in them. Toma smiled slightly at that.
"No idea." Seiji let out a small whine that couldn't be heard all to well but Toma knew he was whining.
"Why do they keep calling you Morin?" Toma's smile left his face. He turned his attention away from Seiji to the floor.
"It's just a name my brother gave me when he took me in."
"Just a name?" Toma nodded. The door opened causing both of them to jump. Someone came in. Turning his attention to the door, he saw Mallaidh. Thank god. Toma sighed.
"They're asleep? Wow, how did you do that Toma?" Mallaidh asked as she put some bags down.
"I didn't, Sage did." Toma looked at Seiji who was smiling shyly again.
"Thank you. You two can go. I'm sure you both want out of here for awhile." Toma smiled as Seiji's eyes started to glitter. He then looked at Mallaidh.
"Thanks Mallaidh. Come on Sage," Toma said as he went to the door, knowing Seiji was behind him.
"Nice meeting you Mallaidh," Toma heard Seiji say as he shut the door. He turned to Seiji.
"Where do you want to go?" Seiji looked at Toma after he shut the door.
"No idea......are you hungry?" Toma gave Seiji a weary smile.
"What do you think? Let's go." They left the hospital to Toma's jeep.
'25 July 6:34 am'
'Day after day Toma and Seiji went to the hospital to go see Toma's brother. Weeks went by and Toya still didn't wake up,' Ryo wrote in his journal. 'Nasuti, Shin and Shu still don't know what's going on between Toma and Seiji. We haven't seen Seiji since he went into the hospital, and haven't seen Toma since he took off. It's weird and quiet....well kinda. Questions are still asked, but not as much as when Toma started to act weird...Well better fly. Nasuti wants me to help her this morning with breakfast.
Ryo'
Ryo closed his journal and put it under his mattress then headed downstairs hoping Nasuti will be up. Which she was. He saw her as he walked into the kitchen.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked as cold air hit his bare chest. Nasuti turned to Ryo and smiled.
"Make the table, then put the cereal on the table." Ryo nodded and left the kitchen to the dinning room. As he stalked over to the silverware cabinet, he heard the front door open. Curious of who just walked in, he left the dinning room to the front door. Jun walked in. What is Jun doing here? Before he could asked Seiji walked in then Toma following. Ryo smiled as he saw both of them holding hands, but they let go as the two of them entered the house. Now's the time to barge.
"Toma? Seiji? Jun? What are you guys doing here?" All of them looked at Ryo. Toma looked away looking in the living room. What's wrong with Toma?
"We were on our way back here until my cell phone rang, Jun's mom said she had that she was having a work party going on tonight and needed Jun out of the house. So we picked him up." Ryo lifted his left eyebrow. Goodie Shu's not going to be here to watch him nor is Shin damn it! Why me?!....oh well I'll complain in my journal later.
"Okay guess I'll add three more plates to the table." Before Ryo walked back into the dinning room, he saw Seiji and Toma smiled, which made him smile. At least Toma's smiling again. Ryo felt someone was following him so he moved slightly to see who it was....Jun. Hmm...looks like Jun wants to help. Goodie.
"Hey Ry..." Ryo turned to see who just said his nickname. "Toma and I are going to take a nap both of us have been up all night." Oh just Seiji woo.
"Go ahead; just make sure you shut the door." He smiled. Seiji gave him a weird look so did Toma, who was behind Seiji. "I was just kidding. Jeez." He turned away feeling more happy then before.
"What was that about Ryo?" Nasuti asked as Ryo turned to her.
"Just a joke."
"Uh huh, sure. Set up the table now Shu's going to be up soon and breakfast is ready." Ryo did a navy salute to Nasuti then did what she asked.
'It was after lunch when Seiji came out of his room, looking tired. Shu and Shin didn't know Seiji was back.
"Seiji!?" Shin said surprisingly as Seiji walked into Nasuti's office. "I didn't know you were home." Seiji just nodded, let out a yawn and sat down by the door. He was quiet for about a half an hour. Shu was downstairs at the time, but when he came in he didn't even notice Seiji.' Ryo noted in his head. He turned his head when Nasuti slammed her hands against the keyboard.
"What is it Nasuti?" Ryo asked tipping his chair so he could see the computer screen.
"Just another code," she rested her head in her hands in frustration.
"Read it out loud." Seiji suggested making all of them jump. Nasuti looked at the computer and read what was on the computer screen. Nothing made sense to Ryo, but on thing was, was it was in a different language. Ryo looked at all the faces in the room; all were confused. Nasuti sighed.
"I knew you boys wouldn't get it."
"Lilac." Ryo looked at the door and saw Toma.
"What?" He heard Nasuti say.
"That's the answer...Lilac." Nasuti instantly typed the answer to the riddle in, but the answer was no success. "Try craobh liathhorcra." Nasuti gave him a weird look as did the others. Seiji just smiled after a bit. "Need that spelled?" Sadly, Nasuti nodded. I thought she knew a lot of languages...guess not this one. "C-R-A-O-B-H space L-I-A-T-H-C-H-O-R-A." As Toma spelled it out, she typed it. Toma sat down in front of Seiji after he was done. He really didn't seem too proud of himself but a little irritated. I wonder why.... Ryo watched as Seiji bent over and whispered in Toma's ear. Soon a smile came over Toma's face which made Seiji smile.
"It worked!" Nasuti broke the silence, which Ryo hated. She made Toma and Seiji's smiles leave their face. "Thank you Toma." She asked quietly, realizing his embarrassment, but Toma just gave a nod, got up and left. Five minutes later Seiji left also.
Toma left his room to the dining room for dinner. He was hungry, really hungry. As Toma sat down everybody was at the table and already eating and deep in conversation. Toma looked at all the food. He gave a sickening look; none of the food here was in his interest. Noticing Seiji was looking at him, he grabbed the bowl of Japanese noodles. He slowly poured the noodles into the bowl before him. After he was done, he started to eat it.......slowly. Soon after the room went silent and everyone was looking at Toma, which made him blush.
"What?" Toma asked quietly.
"Toma, you okay?" Shu asked.
"Yeah why?"
"You're not eating much." Ryo put in.
"So...?"
"I think you should eat more than that." Nasuti said worryingly.
"I'll be fine, Nasuti"
"Still, we shouldn't take the risk." Toma was happy when Seiji joined in.
"He's just not hungry; we had a big feast with his family." Toma sighed at that.
"Why are you eating more then Toma?" Shu asked.
"It was Irish food.....Seiji didn't eat much..." All of them nodded and continued to eat. As they did so Toma left and went back to his room. He lied down on his bed wishing Seiji would hurry so they could talk some more. He admitted it; he wanted to sleep with Seiji......again. Toma smiled. Both of them snuggling against each other, warming each other up through the night. Toma closed his eyes, as his heart beat faster. The door opened causing Toma to jump. He looked at the door, saw Seiji and relaxed. Seiji and Toma smiled at each other when Seiji sat down on the bed next to Toma's legs.
"Got a question before you go to sleep," Seiji asked Toma. Toma nodded for Seiji to go on. "Why didn't you eat much?"
Toma smiled again. "Better tell ya the truth. None of the food looked good to me."
"Really?" Toma nodded and sat up; his smile now gone.
"I really miss Mallaidh's cooking." Toma sighed as he remembered.
"That's probably why none of the food downstairs didn't look good to you; you're craving your sisters cooking."
"I think you're right." Silence fell over the both of them.
Seiji studied Toma's face after silence hit the room. Those blue eyes wanted something but he didn't know what, and figured that Toma didn't even know what he wanted. While staring at each other, both of them got closer and closer till finally both reach each others lips. Seiji felt a weird feeling go through him as Toma put his hand on Seiji's lower back. Seiji closed his eyes. Slowly, Seiji moved his hands under Toma's shirt. Finally, getting the chance to let his feelings leave him to show Toma how he felt. He felt something wet hit his lips. Knowing it was Toma's tongue, he let the tongue enter his mouth. Both tongues played, causing Seiji to go lightheaded. Seiji fell backwards onto the bed, Toma followed not far behind. Just after Seiji pulled Toma's shirt off, there was a knock at the door. Both Toma and Seiji jumped. Toma got off Seiji and sat at the end of the bed. Seiji lay there dumbfounded as the bedroom door opened. Seiji felt a nudge on his leg which made him sit up. Shin stood at the door.
"Uh.....oh yeah, Nasuti wants both of ya downstairs." After Shin said that he looked at Seiji, "um......not to be rude or anything...but your fly is open." Seiji looked down at the area between his legs then looked back where Shin was, but Shin already took off. Seiji looked at Toma who was half smiling, half shocked at what happened. When did he do that? Seiji thought as he zipped his pants up. He smiled. Seiji continued to watch Toma.
"Well...that one was close..." Toma said quietly, breaking the awkward silence in the room.
"Yeah...it was." Seiji said just realizing that his heart was beating fast. "Better get a shirt on and both of us can head downstairs to see what's up." Toma nodded. Seiji watched as Toma bent over and grabbed the shirt that Seiji threw on the ground then the both of them headed downstairs.
"Okay," Nasuti said when Toma and Seiji came into the living room. "I just got a call from the museum in England. They got a lead on something my grandfather was studying for sixteen years."
"So you're going to England?" Shu asked.
"Yes," she nodded. "But only two can come this time. Who will it be?" She asked all of them. Seiji and Toma exchanged looks. Toma's eyes said no, so Seiji didn't say anything, so Shin and Shu took the spots.
The next morning everybody waved goodbye as Nasuti, Shin, and Shu boarded the plane. As soon as the plane took off Ryo, Seiji and Toma went home. Ryo drove while Seiji and Toma sat in the back. About a half an hour passed, Toma put his head on Seiji's shoulder. Seiji looked at Toma and noticed he was asleep. Taking a look at the rear view mirror, Ryo was smiling. Seiji blushed a little bit and looked outside.
Ryo took a quick glance at the rearview mirror and saw Toma's head lying on Seiji's shoulder. Ryo smiled and noticed Seiji was looking at him through the mirror, causing him to smile more. Seiji blushed and looked away. Ryo gave a small laugh. He migrated his eyes back to the road. I should go and see an old friend so those two can have time together. I'm sure they'd be happy about it. He turned on the left blinker, took a quick glance behind him them moved to the far left land on the freeway. Yeah they would be happy. He looked at Seiji and Toma and smiled. Seiji had put Toma's head on his lap and was now playing with Toma's hair.
"Seiji," Ryo said quietly, as he stopped at a red light on the exit ramp or the freeway.
"Hmm?"
"I'm going to drop you two off when we get home and then I'm going to go to a friend's," Ryo lightly pushed the gas pedal when the light turned green.
"Okay...." Seiji's voice sounded a little happier.
"Hey Toma," Toma heard Seiji whisper.
"Yea?" Toma whispered back.
"How long is it 'til Mallaidh shows up?" Toma looked up at Seiji. His eyes had tiredness in them. Toma smiled slightly at that.
"No idea." Seiji let out a small whine that couldn't be heard all to well but Toma knew he was whining.
"Why do they keep calling you Morin?" Toma's smile left his face. He turned his attention away from Seiji to the floor.
"It's just a name my brother gave me when he took me in."
"Just a name?" Toma nodded. The door opened causing both of them to jump. Someone came in. Turning his attention to the door, he saw Mallaidh. Thank god. Toma sighed.
"They're asleep? Wow, how did you do that Toma?" Mallaidh asked as she put some bags down.
"I didn't, Sage did." Toma looked at Seiji who was smiling shyly again.
"Thank you. You two can go. I'm sure you both want out of here for awhile." Toma smiled as Seiji's eyes started to glitter. He then looked at Mallaidh.
"Thanks Mallaidh. Come on Sage," Toma said as he went to the door, knowing Seiji was behind him.
"Nice meeting you Mallaidh," Toma heard Seiji say as he shut the door. He turned to Seiji.
"Where do you want to go?" Seiji looked at Toma after he shut the door.
"No idea......are you hungry?" Toma gave Seiji a weary smile.
"What do you think? Let's go." They left the hospital to Toma's jeep.
'25 July 6:34 am'
'Day after day Toma and Seiji went to the hospital to go see Toma's brother. Weeks went by and Toya still didn't wake up,' Ryo wrote in his journal. 'Nasuti, Shin and Shu still don't know what's going on between Toma and Seiji. We haven't seen Seiji since he went into the hospital, and haven't seen Toma since he took off. It's weird and quiet....well kinda. Questions are still asked, but not as much as when Toma started to act weird...Well better fly. Nasuti wants me to help her this morning with breakfast.
Ryo'
Ryo closed his journal and put it under his mattress then headed downstairs hoping Nasuti will be up. Which she was. He saw her as he walked into the kitchen.
"What do you want me to do?" He asked as cold air hit his bare chest. Nasuti turned to Ryo and smiled.
"Make the table, then put the cereal on the table." Ryo nodded and left the kitchen to the dinning room. As he stalked over to the silverware cabinet, he heard the front door open. Curious of who just walked in, he left the dinning room to the front door. Jun walked in. What is Jun doing here? Before he could asked Seiji walked in then Toma following. Ryo smiled as he saw both of them holding hands, but they let go as the two of them entered the house. Now's the time to barge.
"Toma? Seiji? Jun? What are you guys doing here?" All of them looked at Ryo. Toma looked away looking in the living room. What's wrong with Toma?
"We were on our way back here until my cell phone rang, Jun's mom said she had that she was having a work party going on tonight and needed Jun out of the house. So we picked him up." Ryo lifted his left eyebrow. Goodie Shu's not going to be here to watch him nor is Shin damn it! Why me?!....oh well I'll complain in my journal later.
"Okay guess I'll add three more plates to the table." Before Ryo walked back into the dinning room, he saw Seiji and Toma smiled, which made him smile. At least Toma's smiling again. Ryo felt someone was following him so he moved slightly to see who it was....Jun. Hmm...looks like Jun wants to help. Goodie.
"Hey Ry..." Ryo turned to see who just said his nickname. "Toma and I are going to take a nap both of us have been up all night." Oh just Seiji woo.
"Go ahead; just make sure you shut the door." He smiled. Seiji gave him a weird look so did Toma, who was behind Seiji. "I was just kidding. Jeez." He turned away feeling more happy then before.
"What was that about Ryo?" Nasuti asked as Ryo turned to her.
"Just a joke."
"Uh huh, sure. Set up the table now Shu's going to be up soon and breakfast is ready." Ryo did a navy salute to Nasuti then did what she asked.
'It was after lunch when Seiji came out of his room, looking tired. Shu and Shin didn't know Seiji was back.
"Seiji!?" Shin said surprisingly as Seiji walked into Nasuti's office. "I didn't know you were home." Seiji just nodded, let out a yawn and sat down by the door. He was quiet for about a half an hour. Shu was downstairs at the time, but when he came in he didn't even notice Seiji.' Ryo noted in his head. He turned his head when Nasuti slammed her hands against the keyboard.
"What is it Nasuti?" Ryo asked tipping his chair so he could see the computer screen.
"Just another code," she rested her head in her hands in frustration.
"Read it out loud." Seiji suggested making all of them jump. Nasuti looked at the computer and read what was on the computer screen. Nothing made sense to Ryo, but on thing was, was it was in a different language. Ryo looked at all the faces in the room; all were confused. Nasuti sighed.
"I knew you boys wouldn't get it."
"Lilac." Ryo looked at the door and saw Toma.
"What?" He heard Nasuti say.
"That's the answer...Lilac." Nasuti instantly typed the answer to the riddle in, but the answer was no success. "Try craobh liathhorcra." Nasuti gave him a weird look as did the others. Seiji just smiled after a bit. "Need that spelled?" Sadly, Nasuti nodded. I thought she knew a lot of languages...guess not this one. "C-R-A-O-B-H space L-I-A-T-H-C-H-O-R-A." As Toma spelled it out, she typed it. Toma sat down in front of Seiji after he was done. He really didn't seem too proud of himself but a little irritated. I wonder why.... Ryo watched as Seiji bent over and whispered in Toma's ear. Soon a smile came over Toma's face which made Seiji smile.
"It worked!" Nasuti broke the silence, which Ryo hated. She made Toma and Seiji's smiles leave their face. "Thank you Toma." She asked quietly, realizing his embarrassment, but Toma just gave a nod, got up and left. Five minutes later Seiji left also.
Toma left his room to the dining room for dinner. He was hungry, really hungry. As Toma sat down everybody was at the table and already eating and deep in conversation. Toma looked at all the food. He gave a sickening look; none of the food here was in his interest. Noticing Seiji was looking at him, he grabbed the bowl of Japanese noodles. He slowly poured the noodles into the bowl before him. After he was done, he started to eat it.......slowly. Soon after the room went silent and everyone was looking at Toma, which made him blush.
"What?" Toma asked quietly.
"Toma, you okay?" Shu asked.
"Yeah why?"
"You're not eating much." Ryo put in.
"So...?"
"I think you should eat more than that." Nasuti said worryingly.
"I'll be fine, Nasuti"
"Still, we shouldn't take the risk." Toma was happy when Seiji joined in.
"He's just not hungry; we had a big feast with his family." Toma sighed at that.
"Why are you eating more then Toma?" Shu asked.
"It was Irish food.....Seiji didn't eat much..." All of them nodded and continued to eat. As they did so Toma left and went back to his room. He lied down on his bed wishing Seiji would hurry so they could talk some more. He admitted it; he wanted to sleep with Seiji......again. Toma smiled. Both of them snuggling against each other, warming each other up through the night. Toma closed his eyes, as his heart beat faster. The door opened causing Toma to jump. He looked at the door, saw Seiji and relaxed. Seiji and Toma smiled at each other when Seiji sat down on the bed next to Toma's legs.
"Got a question before you go to sleep," Seiji asked Toma. Toma nodded for Seiji to go on. "Why didn't you eat much?"
Toma smiled again. "Better tell ya the truth. None of the food looked good to me."
"Really?" Toma nodded and sat up; his smile now gone.
"I really miss Mallaidh's cooking." Toma sighed as he remembered.
"That's probably why none of the food downstairs didn't look good to you; you're craving your sisters cooking."
"I think you're right." Silence fell over the both of them.
Seiji studied Toma's face after silence hit the room. Those blue eyes wanted something but he didn't know what, and figured that Toma didn't even know what he wanted. While staring at each other, both of them got closer and closer till finally both reach each others lips. Seiji felt a weird feeling go through him as Toma put his hand on Seiji's lower back. Seiji closed his eyes. Slowly, Seiji moved his hands under Toma's shirt. Finally, getting the chance to let his feelings leave him to show Toma how he felt. He felt something wet hit his lips. Knowing it was Toma's tongue, he let the tongue enter his mouth. Both tongues played, causing Seiji to go lightheaded. Seiji fell backwards onto the bed, Toma followed not far behind. Just after Seiji pulled Toma's shirt off, there was a knock at the door. Both Toma and Seiji jumped. Toma got off Seiji and sat at the end of the bed. Seiji lay there dumbfounded as the bedroom door opened. Seiji felt a nudge on his leg which made him sit up. Shin stood at the door.
"Uh.....oh yeah, Nasuti wants both of ya downstairs." After Shin said that he looked at Seiji, "um......not to be rude or anything...but your fly is open." Seiji looked down at the area between his legs then looked back where Shin was, but Shin already took off. Seiji looked at Toma who was half smiling, half shocked at what happened. When did he do that? Seiji thought as he zipped his pants up. He smiled. Seiji continued to watch Toma.
"Well...that one was close..." Toma said quietly, breaking the awkward silence in the room.
"Yeah...it was." Seiji said just realizing that his heart was beating fast. "Better get a shirt on and both of us can head downstairs to see what's up." Toma nodded. Seiji watched as Toma bent over and grabbed the shirt that Seiji threw on the ground then the both of them headed downstairs.
"Okay," Nasuti said when Toma and Seiji came into the living room. "I just got a call from the museum in England. They got a lead on something my grandfather was studying for sixteen years."
"So you're going to England?" Shu asked.
"Yes," she nodded. "But only two can come this time. Who will it be?" She asked all of them. Seiji and Toma exchanged looks. Toma's eyes said no, so Seiji didn't say anything, so Shin and Shu took the spots.
The next morning everybody waved goodbye as Nasuti, Shin, and Shu boarded the plane. As soon as the plane took off Ryo, Seiji and Toma went home. Ryo drove while Seiji and Toma sat in the back. About a half an hour passed, Toma put his head on Seiji's shoulder. Seiji looked at Toma and noticed he was asleep. Taking a look at the rear view mirror, Ryo was smiling. Seiji blushed a little bit and looked outside.
Ryo took a quick glance at the rearview mirror and saw Toma's head lying on Seiji's shoulder. Ryo smiled and noticed Seiji was looking at him through the mirror, causing him to smile more. Seiji blushed and looked away. Ryo gave a small laugh. He migrated his eyes back to the road. I should go and see an old friend so those two can have time together. I'm sure they'd be happy about it. He turned on the left blinker, took a quick glance behind him them moved to the far left land on the freeway. Yeah they would be happy. He looked at Seiji and Toma and smiled. Seiji had put Toma's head on his lap and was now playing with Toma's hair.
"Seiji," Ryo said quietly, as he stopped at a red light on the exit ramp or the freeway.
"Hmm?"
"I'm going to drop you two off when we get home and then I'm going to go to a friend's," Ryo lightly pushed the gas pedal when the light turned green.
"Okay...." Seiji's voice sounded a little happier.