Light crept into the room like a curious kitten, dancing her dappled way over rumpled bedsheets. She pawed gently at loose strands of azure hair, grinning with mischief (if light could grin) as her touch reached dark lashes, calling to what lay beneath. It's morning, she heralded. Banish the dark! Get up!
Horohoro yawned, stretching carefully so as not to disturb the warm form curled up against his side. He grinned fondly at the bundle of sheet and bare skin that was his bedmate, who's eyes were well-shielded by arms and navy-violet bangs. Light played up and down these obstacles, trying to find the tiniest chink in the still-sleeping boy's defenses.
Nope. Not today.
Ren slumbered on, undisturbed, breathing slow and calm and deep. Horohoro guessed that was a good thing, as it gave him time to study what he'd caught just a glimpse of the previous night. He wondered if he'd imagined it. . .
Nah. He could see it, in the subtle shift of skin and muscle on what was exposed of the Chinese man's back. He trailed gentle fingers over the other's flesh, tracing the outline of something. . .odd. It seemed to snake along in serpentine curves, thin and coiling and nearly invisible, traced in ink that was near the same shade as the skin it adorned.
A tattoo. He paused as Ren shifted position in his sleep, craning closer to catch the flicker of pale-sandy scales, spines, claws. It's beautiful, but it's so hard to see! He noted the way the graceful lines stood out stark against the darker flesh of Ren's terrible scar (Horohoro winced at that thought and the memories it carried) and how the artist had allowed it to curve around what remained of the Tao family symbol, rather than let the design get sullied by the ugly stark black of the original.
A soft rustle. Horo suddenly smiled sheepishly, having just been confronted with one half-open gold eye. ". . .good morning?"
Ren huffed, obviously very wide awake but unwilling to move. "You could have just asked, you know."
Horohoro could have retorted that Ren's persistence in their. . .activities last night had prevented that, very effectively indeed. But since this was Horohoro we're talking about, all he could do was sit there and look like the child that's been caught with his hand in, or rather on, the proverbial cookie jar.
Ren rolled his eyes. The blue-haired boy was giving him the dreaded puppy-eyes. Oh no. . .
He gave in - it wasn't hard. "The old man wanted me to have the family symbol redone," he growled quietly. The memory was not a bad one, just unusual. "The scar, it wouldn't take the black dyes, no one could figure out why. So I had that done instead."
Horohoro looked puzzled. "But it's so. . .invisible."
All of a sudden, the world spun and tipped, resolving itself into Horohoro-flat-on-his-back-with-a-grinning-Ren-sitting-on-top-of-him. "Good."
The Ainu would have asked 'why,' but the question was drowned in the heated mouth which captured his own. Ren's hands trailed feather-light over his cheek and jawline, moving lower. . .lower. . .
Horohoro, at least for the moment, wisely decided to forget about it.
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A/N: *blinks* Well, that ending was a surprise. Damn teenage boy hormones. Damn uncooperative Ren. Damn Kazaa, because none of my SK eppy downloads are completing themselves until possibly the weekend.
Early Happy Valentines Day, people! Yeah, this is my V-Day fic, full of RenHoro fluff as per usual. There's some symbolism with the tattoo there.did you get it?
Hao's girl - Heehee. Hao/anybody but Yoh is probably a little weird because HAO AND YOH BELONG TOGETHER DARN IT. O_o; Just joking. Hao x Ren is something I write on an occasional whim. In my little fangirl's world, Ren and Horohoro are the ultimate SK pairing. So why do I always love HaoRenYoh or HaoRenHoro? O_O Okay, enough talk about pairings here. . .I'm starting to drool. . .oh, yeah. I get undubbed SK from Kazaa, so. . . Unintentional Nightmare - Err. HORORen. Hao hurt Ren before in 'Touch,' apparently. *grumbles* Meene. . .poor Meene. (I think Mine is the real name, yes, but writing the word 'mine' too many times weirds me out, so, yes.) Isis Hotep - Meene, Jeane, Lyserg and Marco are my favorite X-Laws. *sniffles* I didn't know whether to cry when Meene died or goggle at pretty Morphin-tenshi. EneriRenie - XD I guessed right! Crazy FF.net. I get to request a one-shot.? Yaay! ^_^ Can you write YohAnna.? It's the one pairing I've never been able to write properly O_o; I'll be waiting for your request! And thanks for telling me where Comic Alley is XD Mahirap pumunta sa SM *cries* Wala sa Glorietta?
*waves* See you in chapter 15! Two more one-shots and this will officially be my longest-running set of fics!