Chapter 6

Ken stepped back out onto the sidewalk as he rubbed a hand over his face to get off all the tears. He chose a direction and started to walk. It was getting late, but there were still people all over the sidewalks, shopping, dating, laughing, and clubbing. He was glad they lived downtown; the nightlife around here would make sure he could keep it all to himself.

As he walked, a certain fire haired German sat in a café on the other side of the street. Though he was drinking an espresso, the taste of smooth dark chocolate came into his mouth and his green eyes narrowed as they looked out the window to find the owner of that taste. The brunette passed the window on his walk, but didn't look into the café. And he didn't seem himself. A moment of prying gave Schuldig the answer to the question why..

He laughed at the boy's confusion and the irony of it all. The night had looked bleak until Hidaka came along. The man got up, didn't pay for his coffee, and walked right out to track the assassin down.

Schu followed him for about a block then quickened his steps to catch up to him, "Neee, Keeeen!" He wrapped an arm around the boy's waist, spun him into the alley then pressed his back to the bricks of a building and trapped him there with his own body, "You haven't called in days, lover- boy."

As the orange haired stranger smirked down to him and held him against the wall by both wrists and his body, Ken blinked up at him in even more confusion, "What? Who are you?"

Schu cocked his head at him in confusion before he grinned, "Aah, a game. Well, then. I'm Schu, very nice to meet you. Now can I fuck you?"

Ken's eyes widened, "What?? No, you don't understand. I. uhmm. I got into an accident. I have amnesia. I really have no idea who you are."

The telepath frowned then pouted, "If you wanted to break it off with me, you could have come up with something better." He let the youth go and turned to leave.

The boy watched him go for a moment, then reached out and caught the end of his coat to tug him back, "Wait. please. Tell me who you are and how we met. Maybe you can help me get my memories back?"

The Schwarz member gave the sidewalk a dangerous smirk then turned back to his companion and eyed him as if trying to figure out if he's still playing a game or if he's really telling the truth. After a moment, he sighed and nodded, "Alright, alright. For some reason I believe you. Come on. Let's find a café or something." He turned again and walked down the sidewalk towards a different place than he was at before, the brunette in tow.

They chose a small table in the corner for their conversation and they each ordered a drink. Ken simply looked at Schu, waiting for him to speak. Schu eyed him for another moment, then shrugged and sat back in his chair, dug out his cigarettes as he started to talk, "We met, typically enough, in a grocery store. We both live with three other guys, so of course we have to go food shopping a lot. Our carts bumped into each other and we got to talking somehow. I can't remember about what." He shrugged again and put the cig into his mouth to light it as the waitress put down their drinks.

He went on, "We went on a date or two, but figured that we weren't a good couple. But we couldn't stop seeing each other simply because of the desire we had for each other. We started to just sleep together and that's it. Every few days, one of us would call the other and we'd meet at a hotel for most of the night."

Ken raised an eyebrow. The orange haired man was definitely hot, so he could believe the lust part of the story. But something wasn't right, "Why a hotel?"

The man drew on the cigarette before answering, the smoke coming out of his nose, "We didn't want our respective room mates to know. I didn't want mine to know because they're my family. They'd just tell me to leave you alone and to 'do' something with my life for once. You didn't want yours to know because of basically the same thing. Only they're not your family.' He raised an eyebrow suddenly, "You DO know where you live and stuff, right??"

Ken nodded and waved a hand in the air a bit, "Yeah, of course. They claim that they can make me remember what I've forgotten." He frowned down into his cappuccino.

His new lover shrugged, "Yeah, well. Good luck to them and all. They say you should just get back into the routine you were in before the accident." He leaned forward onto the table with another trademark smirk, "In other words, its your night with me tonight. Forget about them."

Ken glanced away in hesitation and thought. The flavor of dark chocolate faltered for a moment, and Schu blinked. It was like taking a bite out of a chocolate bar, expecting the creamy dark chocolate to melt on your tongue, but tasting soap, instead. Ken wasn't acting like himself. Schu found himself thinking that he liked the old Ken better, but found that someone had already said that. Yohji. Aah, that man was infuriating sometimes. So that's what made his kitten slip out of the house by himself. Schu made a mental note to give Yohji a good nightmare tonight and waited for the brunette to speak.

With a sigh, he finally turned back to the orange haired man, "Alright. But if I don't feel comfortable later, back off." He gave a half glare, more Ken-like than he's been in a while.

Schu smirked and nodded, "Not a problem, kitten. Though I think I should warn you, then."

"About what?"

"About our. how should I put it. our preferences for sex."

Ken glanced around to see if anyone was listening, then leaned forward as if to hear a secret, "What do you mean?"

Schu felt like bursting out into laughter, but managed to let out only a chuckle before leaning in to put his lips near the boy's ear and whisper invitingly to him, "I mean we like it hard and kinky, Keneko. We like to scream out our pleasure and break beds. We like to cuff each other to."

He was rudely interrupted as Ken jerked back away from him with a blush, and the waitress set down their appetizer for them before walking away, oblivious. Schu laughed this time and took a cheese stick from the tray, dipped it into the ranch sauce and sexily licked the white stuff from the tip of it.

The brunette's blush deepened and he looked about again, making sure no one else got the show he did. He turned his eyes back to the man just in time to watch him nibble the tip off, showing the white gooey cheese with in. Ken swallowed and grabbed a barbeque chicken wing to bite at and keep his attention on, instead of the man.

Schu chuckled again and ate the rest of the cheese stick, "You're so damn cute, Hidaka. I have a lot to teach you. Again. Last time I did that to you, you dragged me out to the hotel and made hot love to me like a stallion, instead of blushing and failing to ignore me."

Ken rolled his eyes before answering "I'm not like that Ken, anymore. I'm me now. Not him. Whoever he was."

With a shrug, the other man leaned back to eat some more, "Then eat up. I'll make you a new man when I get you to the hotel." He smirked with a wink and went on teasing him with the food and ranch sauce.