The dark night was freezing but warmth filled Hanamichi's entire senses as his lips caressed Kaede's equally soft ones in a very passionate lovers' kiss.
Hanamichi's left hand went at Kaede's nape and massaged the vertical bone in it. Kaede groaned in response and even louder when Hanamichi's right hand joined the force to brush his hair upwards.
Their tongues romantically swooshed with each other... treasuring the hotness of their mouths.
I love you. I love you. Hanamichi muttered those words in his mind over and over as his lips and tongue were held by Kaede's adonis might.
Suddenly, Hanamichi's almond-shaped eyes opened in a saucer size. The dim-lit room welcomed him and the freezing temperature brought by the motel's air-conditioner numbed his hands and feet. Beside him, lying on the soft bed was a young man with an athletically-hard torso.
Hanamichi saw Kaede lying on his chest and the blue blanket covering half of his body. Kaede was wearing no shirt on and his milky white toned back was like a firewall beneath the snow.
It was impossible. It was inevitable. HANAMICHI? Sleeping with KAEDE in one bed? They're enemies aren't they?
Migraine visited Hanamichi but his headache was nothing compared to the lightness of his heart.
THE DREAM! It shocked Hanamichi as the dream went back to his consciousness. He's kissing someone passionately and that someone was only an inch farther from him.
Hanamichi felt his briefs getting wet under his pants. He went quickly to the bathroom and urinated. As he did, he felt something tickling in his down-under. It's painful buit somehow... it was pleasurable.
A knock on the bathroom's door disturbed him. Hanamichi had locked it so the person outside could not enter.
As Hanamichi emptied himself, he loved the sensation he was feeling even if it was confusing him. He was too overwhelemed by that feeling and thought that he didn't care to open the door for the next user.
It was Riko who was knocking on the door and he continuously banged it angrily... but he received no response from Hanamichi.
The Next Morning...
Riko was brushing his hair with his own hands and flattening his clothes inside the bathroom. He occupied it for an hour to revenge to Hanamichi for not opening it last night.
Meanwhile, Kaede and Hanamichi were alone in the room. Kaede was lying on the bed with his head on the pillow and he was listening to music with a pair of ear phones.
Hanamichi was sitting on the bed and his foot was tapping the floor... playing a strange slow music out of boredom.
"What's taking him so long?" Hanamichi glanced at Kaede. "I wanna go home now."
Kaede was not hearing him... so Hanamichi leaned sidewardly on the bed and took one earphone away from Kaede and whispered in an extra volume. "WHAT'S TAKING YOUR COUSIN SO LONG INSIDE THE BATHROOM?"
Kaede merely stared at Hanamichi's lovely eyes. It was like a pair of chocolate circles inside an almond.
Kaede slowly adjusted his head on the pillow. "What do you want me to do?"
"Tell him to go out there and let's leave. NOW."
"Are you ordering me?" Kaede kept his stare on Hanamichi's wonderful mirrors of truth.
"Yes kitsune! I am!"
Kaede gazed at Hanamichi's hand that was tight in a fist near his hip. Kaede wanted to touch it, to hold it and to caress it. But he knew that he had no right to do so.
With no other things to do but to avoid from plunging to Hanamichi, Kaede pushed himself off the bed and then followed the order of his beloved master. He knocked on the bathroom door and rushed Riko who in return obliged to his hurry.
The three boys went downstairs quietly with Riko, all very conscious on his looks.
"RIKO!" A surprise petite girl went near them and greeted Riko amicably. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh hello." Riko responded with a friendly hug to the girl.
"I'm with my cousin." The girl looked at Kaede with an obvious admiration and Hanamichi suddenly wondered how handsome the kitsune could be that he attracts girls easily.
"Rhey is here. Wanna join us?"
Riko smiled and asked Kaede to go home alone because he had his business with the girl. Kaede had no objection so he went straight to the parking lot... holding the car key.
Slipping himself in the driver's seat, Kaede was stopped by Hanamichi's insistent question.
"Hey, how about me?" Hanamichi asked with his lips pouting like a child asking for a lollipop.
"If you want to walk by yourself then do so." Kaede muttered selfishly.
"No way!" Hanamichi quickly went to the door of the passenger's seat when the engine was started by Kaede. Hanamichi hopped inside... sitting beside Kaede. "Where are you planning to go now?"
There was no response. The raven-haired Rukawa drove the car on the road and stopped at the McDonald's drive thru without consulting to Hanamichi.
When the lady on the speaker asked for his order, Kaede uttered, "One pancake meal with orange drink." Kaede didn't want to ask Hanamichi about his orders because he didn't want his care for that redhead to be seen in transparent glass. He knew what Hanamichi's favorite breakfast meal at Mcdo and he ordered that.
Meanwhile, as Kaede drove to the next counter, Hanamichi was salivating on the picture of an omelette meal... it was his favorite but unfortunately he had no money on his pocket.
When Kaede received his orders, he paid for it. He gave Hanamichi the omelette meal and the hot chocolate drink.
"That's my favorite!" Hanamichi exclaimed but when he remembered that it came from Kaede, his mood changed. "I'm not hungry."
"Don't be too proud." Kaede said as he parked the car on a vacant place in frony of the fast food chain.
"I'm not proud, I just... hate eating what you give me."
Kaede wore a cold facade. It hurt him that Hanamichi didn't appreciate what he bought.
"I know you're hungry."
"I'm not." Hanamichi's stomach was lurching.
"That's a bonus in your salary."
When Hanamichi heard it, he swiftly grabbed the styrofore and the chocolate drink. He muched it with crave that he quickly sipped on the oozing hot chocolate drink and it burnt his tongue.
"Ouch!" Hanamichi reacted and Kaede was stunned. He didn't want to see Hanamichi getting hurt. Kaede took the chocolate drink and tried to swirl the cup on his hand and blew on it softly.
"I'm thirsty." Hanamichi muttered and Kaede was itching to help him... so he offered his orange drink instead.
Hanamichi shook his head. "I don't take cold drinks in the morning. It gives me tummy aches."
Kaede blew on the chocolate drink over and over hoping to cool it as soon as possible. When he thought the blowing was enough, he sipped on the chocolate drink to test it. Unfortunately, it burnt his tongue also so he continued cooling it.
Finally, when the chocolate was no longer too hot to drink, Kaede handed it to Hanamichi.
"Thanks." Hanamichi said and drank his chocolate drink.
