Somewhere in Time
Part 2: Homemade cookies and Purple-Eyes Toy Fox

The day that Tatsumi promised to take the others to Tokyo finally comes. The shadow master drives up to Tsuzuki's apartment building early in the morning to pick up the purple eyes shinigami. Tsuzuki runs up to the car and greets cheerily, "good morning!"

Tatsumi smiles back to Tsuzuki and says, "good morning to you, too."

Watari, who is sitting in the passenger seat next to Tatsumi, shouts excitedly, "Come on! Let's go get Hisoka!" Tsuzuki gets into the backseat. Tatsumi drives off and soon the three of them arrive at Hisoka's apartment building.

Tsuzuki gets up to Hisoka's apartment and knocks. When Hisoka opens the door, Tuzuki notices the boy's emerald eyes are all puffy and black. "Soka, did you stay up all night again? Are you having nightmares?" Tsuzuki asks. Hisoka shakes his head and says, "No."

Tsuzuki sees that it's no use to try talking to Hisoka; the boy is not going to tell him anything. "Are you ready to go see Tokyo?" Tsuzuki asks as he picks up Hisoka's backpack. The teenage shinigami nods and heads out the door. Before they leave the apartment Hisoka grabs a brown bag on the table.

Tsuzuki looks at the bag and asks, "what's in the bag?"

"I woke up early in the morning and do not feel like reading books or practicing Kendo, so I bake some cookies for all of you to eat on the car." Hisoka says. Tsuzuki's heart almost jumps out of his chest with happiness. Hisoka bakes him homemade cookies! The two of them get on the back of Tatsumi's car and Hisoka gives Tsuzuki the brown bag.

Tsuzuki reluctantly shares the cookies with Tatsumi and Watari. The purple eyes shinigami wants so bad to eat all the cookies by himself. Hisoka's cookies taste better than any sweet Tsuzuki ever had. As Tsuzuki munches on the cookie, he starts day dreaming again.

Tsuzuki dreams that he is going on a romantic road trip with Hisoka, and the cookies Hisoka baked for him are the tokens of their love. Tsuzuki even imagines baking cookies with Hisoka in the kitchen together.

Hisoka feels Tsuzuki shields up again. The young boy looks at his partner puzzled and calls, "Tsuzuki, are you okay?" Tsuzuki wakes up from the sweet daydream and smiles to Hisoka.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Why do you ask?" Tsuzuki asks.

"you are snickering out loud again; and you are blushing crimson." Hisoka replies.

"I'm happy to taste your cookies, they're delicious!" Tsuzuki lies.

Hisoka asks no more questions; he just closes his tired green eyes to get some rest. Tsuzuki suddenly feels guilty about eating the cookies. He is so happy to eat the cookies he doesn't even questions why Hisoka will bake him cookies in the first place.

The only reason Hisoka stayed up at night to bake cookies is because the nightmares are keeping him up. The teenager can't sleep and he needed to do something to get his mind off those bad dreams. Tsuzuki sighs and puts the cookies back into the brown bag.

The four shinigamis arrive at the hotel. Tatsumi walks up to the manager and says, "hi, my name is Tatsumi and I made a reservation for 2 double rooms." The manager answers, "I'm sorry. We made a mistake and gave you a single room with 2 double beds." Watari offers, "We can share the 2 double beds."

Watari takes Hisoka up to the room. Tatsumi smiles to Tsuzuki and says, "I will share a bed with Watari so you can sleep with Hisoka, okay?" Tsuzuki sighs, "Thanks for the thought, but Hisoka never sleep with me, he doesn't like to be that close to people. Knowing him he will just take the couch. He never sleeps anyway, you know, nightmares."

"You really worry about Hisoka, do you?" Tatsumi says. Tsuzuki sighs again and retorts, "what's the use? He never opens up to me, every time I worry more he just close up more. Besides, it's not like I can help him. Nothing I can do will make him better."

Tatsumi gets into the room and sees Hisoka already sets his things on the couch. Tsuzuki smiles sadly to the shinigami secretary and says, "I told you he will take the couch." Tatsumi pats Tsuzuki's shoulder and says, "don't be discourage. Never give up if you love him. Come now, be happy and show Hisoka a good time, okay?"

"Is something wrong?" asks Hisoka when he sees Tsuzuki and Tatsumi staring at him. Tatsumi shakes his head and says to the boy, "Nothing's wrong. We're just talking about where to take you. How would you like to see the Tokyo tower?" Hisoka nods and says, "sounds good."

The four shinigamis arrive at the Tokyo tower and take the elevator to the top. Tsuzuki runs up to the window and shouts to Hisoka, "Look! You can see the whole Tokyo from here!" There is no answer form Hisoka and Tsuzuki notices everyone around him is staring at him strangely.

Tsuzuki then realizes Hisoka isn't next to him. The others are wondering why Tsuzuki is shouting to himself. The green eyes shinigami had wandered away somewhere. Tsuzuki looks for Hisoka and sees the boy looking at the window of the Tower's gift shop.

Tsuzuki walks up to Hisoka and asks, "Soka, you see something that you like?"

"I was just looking at that. It reminds me of you." Hisoka says pointing to a stuff animal sitting at the window. It's a little toy fox with spackling purple eyes. Tsuzuki says, "that's so cute! Let me buy it for you. I never buy you anything before." The young shinigami shakes his head and protests, "No, please don't. I hate to see you wasting money."

Tsuzuki pays for the toy fox and says, "It's a thank you gift for baking cookies for all of us! Now you have something to remind you of me when I'm not around."

Hisoka takes the fox and says, "thank you very much. That is really nice of you. I will take good care of it."

"Hisoka! You want a keychain with your name on it?" Watari shouts from a keychain-making machine far away. Hisoka goes up to join Watari. Tsuzuki is going to walk off after Hisoka when the girl at the cash register says, "your boyfriend is very cute."

Tsuzuki blushes when he realizes the girl is calling Hisoka his boyfriend. The girl says, "He is very lucky. I can tell you really love him." Tsuzuki chuckles sweetly to the girl and pretends again he really is Hisoka's boyfriend and the toy is a gift of love.

"Tsuzuki?" Tatsumi calls and breaks Tsuzuki's train of thoughts. The Fuda master smiles to the shadow master and says, "yes?"

"I keep calling you but you're all spaced out. Anyway, what do you like to do next?" Tatsumi asks. Tsuzuki says, "why don't we go get something to eat? Hisoka may be hungry. It's lunch time already."

Watari says to Tatsumi, "That's a great idea. I'm kind of hungry, too. Hey, I went to a wonderful restaurant when I visited Tokyo last time. I can take you guys there." Tatsumi nods and says to the blonde, "okay, you can drive while I take a nap." The four shinigamis get back on the car and Watari starts driving.

Tatsumi wakes up and realizes Watari has taken them to a desolated street. The secretary never seen the place before so he asks the blonde, "Watari, do you know where we are?" Tsuzuki, who has fallen asleep at the backseat, opens his eyes and look around the unfamiliar streets. "Watari, did you get us lost again?" Tsuzuki asks.

"I guess I did." Watari apologizes embarrassed. Tatsumi looks around and says, "it's quite alright. I never been here myself, it might be an interesting adventure. Let's walk around and we can ask for directions." Tsuzuki gets off the car and says, "This is going to be fun! I love exploring! Hey, look, an antique shop! Let's go into there, Soka!"

The four of them get into the antique shop. Hisoka soon finds a display of samurai weapons and turns his attention there. Watari goes and check out the potion stands and Tatsumi goes with Watari to make sure the blonde doesn't pick up anything unsafe and try it on the other Shinigamis.

A mystic aroma leads Tsuzuki to the backroom of the store. There are many incenses burning in the room and they make the place all smoky. An old lady walks up to Tsuzuki and says in a deep, slow voice, "Good afternoon, son. Will you like to buy some incenses today? Maybe some lilac incenses to claim you down? Some Jasmine incenses to increase your brainpower? Some rose incenses to heighten your sexual pleasure?"

Tsuzuki blushes and says, "no thanks, I don't need that."

"You're right, what you need is fuchsia incenses for your lover to help him sleep and stops the night terrors," the enigmatic old lady says to Tsuzuki as she looks over to Hisoka.

Tsuzuki exclaims, "who are you? How did you know about his nightmares?" The lady smiles and leaves the question unanswered.

"Too bad all the fuchsia incenses in the world cannot help the poor boy. His soul is too disturbed. But there is another way to help him," says the lady as she takes out a blood ruby statue. The statue looks horrifying; it looks like a dry up mummy crying in desperation. The expression is so painful it makes Tsuzuki shudders.

TBC…