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Warning: This is a guyxguy story . a guy loves a guy they kiss and hug and so on and so forth. Don't like it leave. Main paring is TetsuxSuzu. This chapter the minor pairing of Okita and Hijikata comes into play. It's been a long time sense I've updated, but hopefully you will all love it none-the-less. Read and reveiw!
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Lakeside Worries-
Morning came and found a small girl with hair the color of burnt toast sitting on a creaky old front porch swing rocking back and forth with the breeze. Dressed in a sunny spring dress Saya felt anything but happy. She felt betrayed, used. Like her chest had been cut open and whoever did it was wringing out her heart. Tetsu and she had been best friend's sense…well forever. He might not have ever said it, but Saya had always felt that the crazy red head had felt something for her, just for her, only for her. She always thought that Tetsu had loved her. Saya had had dreams of growing up and marrying her lifetime friend, she had imagined their jobs and kids, even their house. Now, Saya knew she was too young to be married, but that never meant that she couldn't dream about it.
A saddened sigh rushed over the petite girls lips. The way Tetsu had reacted to that silver haired punk the other night she knew she had lost the love of her life. If that wasn't the worst of it she had lost to a man her supposed-to-be boyfriend was going to leave her for a tall, lean, hot… boy! Ok so she didn't like Suzu, but that didn't mean that she couldn't think he was cute. The boy had to be the devil for all the sins he had pulled just in that last night: corrupting Tetsu with a kiss, sneaking away from trouble during dinner, questioning Tetsu's love for her, twisting words so that everything seemed like Tetsu's fault, seducing her love. That guy even had the nerve to wink at her when Tetsu wasn't looking! He gloating about stealing her boyfriend, he was rubbing gobs of salt into a wide open gash. The guy was a jerk, a cute jerk, but a jerk none the less!
Thinking was one reason she was outside so early in the cold morning, the other reason revolved around her mother. Saya loved the woman and agreed with the woman whole heartedly on most topics, especially when it came to homosexuals. Her mother was the one who had taught her that a man was made for a woman and a woman for a man. Her mother and her father had gotten into a bit of a tidbit. Yamanami felt that love was love, and that it should never matter what kind of package it came in. The two had spent the better part of the night arguing about whether it was right or not to expose their child to such 'tainted' male teens. They hadn't yelled about it, her father hardly ever raised his voice, but the battle lines were clearly drawn. They also tried debating whether or not the lad that they had known sense he was born was actually gay or not, the topic didn't last long once they agreed that it was possible that the boys had merely been following the rules that Ayumu had set as a joke. Saya didn't want to be there when they woke up, she had pretended that she was sleeping when they argued, and she didn't want them to try to sit her down and talk about it.
Saya let her feet drag on the old splintered wood of the porch to stop the swing from rocking her anymore. With everything that had happened last night there was one thing that she understood, this Valentines was going to be a bitter sweet one.
A creek of hinges startled Saya out of her reverie. Looking up she noticed the patch of short brown hair. It didn't take her long to realize that attached to the patch was the head of the brother of the boy who was currently haunting her thoughts.
"Saya?" Tatsu queried aloud, "What are you doing out here so early?" Tatsu eyes the girls clothing suspiciously, "And without a jacket! You'll catch a cold dressed like that in this kind of weather!"
Tatsu tried to usher the little girl back into the house, but when he realized she was upset he let the matter drop. "Saya, what's wrong?"
The little girl just shook her head, her hair flying round her head like the angel of rain's halo. She knew how Tatsu worried as much for her as he did for Tetsu, he loved her like the sweet, silent baby sister he never had.
Tatsu tried to kindly talk Saya into voicing, or at least writing, her problems to him. She wouldn't worry such a kind man though, especially about the boy that he practically raised.
Once Tatsu realized that he wasn't going to win he slumped over in defeat. "O.k. Saya, you don't have to tell me, but at least tell someone! Tetsu maybe? You two have been friends sense you started walking!" The ill man smiled and ruffled the little girl's hair, "Whatever it is, it will pass, don't worry too much…"
Saya nodded and gave the best smile she could muster. The fake smile seemed to convince the worrywart that she was fine so he went back inside.
It didn't take long for someone else to wonder out threw the inn's front door. Saya had thought that it was going to be Tatsu coming out again to remind her that she should have a coat, so she stood up preparing to go back in. The actual result made the small girl flame in anger. It hadn't been Tatsu or anyone even closely relating to him. That silver haired demon strutted out the door and took a big confident whiff of the morning air. Lord that man made her blood boil!
Suzu turned his tan head and glanced at the flustered girl. He just seemed to shake her off though with a relaxed stretch of his long arms. "Saya, wasn't it?" The silver kitty stated in a bored tone.
The girl slightly nodded in acknowledgement, she wasn't going to let him know how much he got under her skin.
"Mm…yeah," Suzu yawned, "You're boyfriend…. Tetsu, he's inside lookin' for ya' if you're interested."
Saya just stared at the man baffled. What was with the attitude change! Did this loon have multiple personalities? He was acting almost…normal…like he approved of Tetsu and her being a couple and he didn't want Tetsu for himself. Was this some kind of weird ploy, a plot? Was he trying to lure her into some trap that she wasn't aware of? Saya was suspicious.
Suzu looked at her from the corner of his eye, "What's that look for? Aren't you curious about what your boyfriend wants?" The silver kitty stated in an almost sarcastic tone while rolling his eyes.
Saya was wary though and didn't move, what was this guy's game? Did he finally realize that her and Tetsu's relationship was right and that he shouldn't mess it up? Or did he merely think she was amusing because she believed in her love?
"Whatever," Suzu mumbled, "I'm going for a walk, Seeya' Sonya...or whatever your name is..." With that said Suzu briskly walked down the front porch steps and practically waltzed away down the driveway onto the dirt road.
Once the silver demon had disappeared from sight Saya turned to go inside, if Suzu was telling the truth Tetsu had something important to tell her, and it might just hold all the answers she wanted.
It seemed it was a quiet morning inside and out of the Yamazaki Inn. It was still fairly early so most of them were probably still sleeping. Loud thumping down the stairs told Saya that at least one person was up.
"Saya! I've been looking all over for you!" The red head smiled as he ran down the stairs.
Tetsu jumped over the last few stairs and ran to a screeching halt right next to Saya smiling, "I wanted to know if you wanted to go swimming down by the lake with me today!"
Today was just getting weirder and weirder for Saya, it was as if yesterday had never happened, like it was all a bad dream and she was the only one aware of the horrible things that had happened. Everything seemed to be at peace though, so why should she second guess it? It wasn't as if it was abnormal for Tetsu to ask her to go swimming with him, they did it every year when they visited the Yamazaki's together. Sense everything was back to the way it should be in Saya's eyes she agreed to the offer and ran up the stairs to get her supplies.
It didn't take too long for Saya to get ready and Tetsu was already ready to go. So the happy heterosexual couple made their way out the back door and down towards the lake.
The lake wasn't extremely special, but it was pretty. Lush green grass surrounded it a lot with several shady trees and bushes. It was the perfect place to kick back and relax or run around and play Hide-and-go-Seek.
Sprinting towards the lake Tetsu stripped himself down to his shorts flinging his clothes aside when he neared the lake. Taking the first chance he got, Tetsu ran straight up to the edge of the freezing lake and jumped right in. The red head laughed and splashed swimming around in circles while Saya took her sweet time in setting up her towel and rubbing lotion on herself. Yep everything was perfect again.
"You really don't like Suzu, huh Saya?" Tetsu said in a slightly saddened tone.
Saya was caught off guard by the sudden topic of the annoying silver haired teen. She couldn't lie to Tetsu though, she absolutely loathed the boy. Sending a disappointed look towards Tetsu she shook her head slowly.
The red head began to move around awkwardly in the cold spring water. "You... you know he's really nice once you get to know him…" Tetsu tried to defend his newest buddy.
Saya just shot him a glare clearly stated that she didn't want to get to know the other boy. Tetsu sighed reluctantly at her reply. He knew it was going to be nearly impossible to repair the rift between the two teens, after last night it was a miracle that those two could even stand being in the same Inn. He just thought it wasn't fair for Saya to dislike the boy just because he was gay. Suzu hadn't really done anything to her anyways, had he?
Tetsu looked off past Saya and noticed a hoard of little dots coming towards them. Once they had gotten close enough the puppy realized that everyone from the inn was going down to the lake for a swim. At this moment Tetsu would welcome any and all company though.
"Hey ya' two little love birds, mind if we join in?" Sano laughed as he lumbered over them.
Tetsu just grinned back at him, "Sure, the more the merrier right?"
"So how cold is it puppy?" Shinpachi asked as he set down his stuff.
The red head teen glared at the orange haired man, he hated that nick-name, but Tetsu rolled his eyes and shrugged it off., "Pretty cold… you get used to it though."
It didn't take long for everyone to jump into the lake and start splashing around. Tatsu was the only one who refused to get in the 'freezing and unsanitary' water. Instead he vouched for sitting on a nice clean towel at the edge of the lake. Unfortunately for him the towel didn't stay clean because of three little monkeys who decided that spraying the man with mucky lake water would prove amusing.
Tetsu quickly grew exhausted after playing several varieties of water games with Saya and her family. When he finally crawled out of the water and sat to dry the soaked puppy scanned the happy group. Tatsu had moved his supplies away from the playful trio who, after several pranks, grew tired of the guy and moved on to poking fun at Susumu who was doing his best to ignore them by swimming away. Ayumu had taken Tetsu's place in the water games and was tossing rings out of Saya and her mother to fetch. Yamanami and Hijikata rested at the side of the pool and just watched everyone around them. Finally the long haired Okita was swimming laps around the pool, the man might have seemed weak but the boy seemed as graceful as the mystic mermaid the way he glided circles around the rest of the group.
Everything seemed perfect. Tetsu just couldn't shake the feeling that something was missing….something….
"Ayumu, where's Suzu?" Tetsu asked the southern woman, "Didn't he come down here with you guys?"
Ayumu tossed out some more rings before turning her head to Tetsu, "Mm…No, I had thought that he'd be down here with you two. When I saw that he wasn't I thought that he had left you guys to go for a walk or somethin'."
Susumu popped his head out with a splash from under water. The teen gasped for breath once he came up, he had been running away from the comedian trio for some time now. Once his breathing pattern returned to normal he spoke, "Suzu headed towards town, the last person to talk with his was Saya." He informed in an uncaring tone.
A blur of red shot through the air and smacked Susumu on the back of the head. With a growl the teen turn to see who his antagonist had been. What he saw was a very angry Saya. The looks he wore clearly showed that she didn't like the fact that Susumu had been secretly watching her this morning.
The mullet teen just rubbed the sore spot on the back of his head, "Spying and observing are two different things Saya." Susumu quickly darted back under the water and swam away.
"You saw him this morning Saya?" Tetsu asked in wonder.
Saya nodded guiltily.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Tetsu seemed slightly put off that she had withheld information about his friend's whereabouts. It may have been trivial, but it felt big to little Tetsu.
"I wonder where he went…" The puppy mused aloud.
Saya shrugged and turned away. She didn't see why it was so important, so she had seen the jerk disappear down the dirt road. Why should Tetsu care where that little demon child went or what he did in his free time? As she saw it, he was gone, and they should revel in the moment.
Just at the other edge of the lake the farthest thing from the feminine Souji's mind was the silver haired punk's whereabouts. His mind was set on a harder task, basically figuring out how to get Hijikata to quit being stubborn and come out with him to the middle of the lake where the water was deeper and it was easier to swim. The man was just too stubborn at times.
"For the last time Souji, I don't want to go into the deeper water." Hijikata grumbled yanking his arm away from the persistent young man.
Okita pouted and latched onto the demon's buff arm once again, "Oh, come on Hiji, it's not like you can't swim!" Okita whined.
Yamanami laughed at the little lovers tiff that his two colleagues were going through, "Really Hijikata you should go with him, swimming is great exercise. Unless of coarse…you really can't swim?" Yamanami ventured probing his friend.
Hijikata shot an icy cold death glare at the middle aged man next to him. A few moments of silence passed before Hijikata dived into the water and swam hard out towards the middle of the crater of water. Souji took a few seconds to watch as his boss swam with a vengeance, water shooting up in great foamy bursts before turning to Yamanami and flashing him a grateful grin.
Chuckling Yamanami smiled to himself after Souji had gone under and began to sweep past the misfit group of trouble makers, gaining on his superior. The demon and the angel of the police force, those two made quite the pair. The title of demon and angel didn't quite fit the two when they where in the water though. No Souji was more like the silky sly eel of the sea and Hijikata like a whale, big and brash. Regardless, Yamanami had a hard time coming up with a more suitable pair.
It wasn't until Okita had come to the deepest part of the lake that he surfaced for air. Hijikata was fast, he'd give him that. The big man left a lot to be desired in grace though. Several minutes passed before Souji realized that his boss still hadn't come up for air. In a fury of panic Okita spun around, his purple hair twirling around with him only to smack him in the face. Once the lean boy pulled all his soppy hair away from his face he continued with his search. Where had the man gone? After awhile of searching Okita spotted Hijikata one forth of the way away from the edge of the opposite side of the lake.
Fuming Okita took off after Hijikata. Once Okita caught up to the man he tugged roughly on the older man's leg jolting Hijikata off his set coarse and forcing him up to regain his composure.
Jumping up for air Hijikata was yanked around to face a ticked off adult male with long purple hair. "Hijikata, we were supposed to swim to the middle of the lake, not all the way across!" Okita sulked angrily.
"You wanted me to prove that I could swim, and I did." Hijikata huffed.
Pushing himself roughly away from his subordinate Hijikata swam as fast as he could back towards the side of the lake that he started at. Okita was way ahead of him though. Darting under the water Okita sped after Hijikata, swimming above him before wrapping his boss and yanking both of their bodies up until they broke the surface of the unsteady water.
"Okita let me go!" Hijikata struggled against the young commander's strong grip trying to break free.
"Not until we get to the middle of this lake!" Okita shot back kicking his toned legs hard enough to carry both of the men's weight to the deep end of the lake.
"Souji, let go!" Hijikata demanded.
Okita held firm though even once they did make it to his destination, "Are you going to try to slip away if I let you go?"
"Of course!" the older man glowered.
Okita pouted, "Then I won't let you go!"
Hijakata kicked his legs and pulled at the younger man's arms.
"Why don't you want to spend time with me?" Okita sulked as he tried to keep the bigger man in place.
"I spend enough damn, time with you!" Hijikata argued fruitlessly.
Okita jerked his arms tighter around the struggling man, "Ok, so why is it that where ever we go swimming you never want to swim with me?"
"I swim with you." Hijikata growled giving up on breaking the younger man's grip.
Okita frowned, "No you swim ahead of me." The purple haired man countered.
"Just let me go Okita."
Okita dwelled on the decision for a while. "Fine." The angel let go of the demon.
The moment that Hijikata was released from Okita's grip he dropped like a rock. Okita in a rapid motion grabbed for the other man's arm and yanked him up.
"Are you ok?" Okita asked the other man hurriedly.
"Yeah, fine" Hijikata sighed.
"You're not going to leave?" Okita watched his boss with hopeful eyes.
There was a long pause of silence before Hijikata surrendered to Okita's wistful, but persuasive gaze. He agreed to stay.
Hijikata's eyes gazed towards the rest of the group who didn't pay the couple any heed. "Don't blame me if Susumu begins to suspect that something weird is going on though…"
Okita just shook his head, "It would look less suspicious if you let go of my hips." The man countered.
Cold eyes darted towards soft round ones. "No." Hijikata stated flatly.
Okita let out a rather nervous laugh, "Why?"
"I can't float…" Hijikata mumbled his reply so lowly that even Okita had a hard time picking it up.
Souji just looked at the man baffled. "You can't float?"
Hijikata inclined his head slightly. So that was why he didn't want to stray far from sea level. That's when a not so angelic idea sprouted in the passive purple haired saint's mind. It was sink or swim right?
"Maybe I can teach you?" Okita offered his boss.
Hijikata would never allow it though. "I don't want to learn." The man argued in a childish tone.
"Aww come on Toshi, you have to go for it or fail trying right?" Okita did his best to encourage the demon.
"Souji, don't" Hijikata's eyes widened in realization.
Slowly Okita wormed his hips out of the reach of Hijikata's fingertips. Without the younger officers support Hijikata plundered straight into the dark depths of the lakes numbing waters. Okita patiently waited. If nothing else he expected his higher officer to swim off in an attempt to keep from drowning. Time passed though and Hijikata failed to surface once more. Okita grew increasingly worried with each passing moment. The thought that the one man he cared for was drowning blared in Souji's mind like a countryman's hot branding iron.
Okita's eyes darted around desperately. His blood pressure kicked up. His heart pounded in his head, fear engulfing him. Trembling lips let out a worried screech, "Hijikata's drowning!"
Several blurry bodies races towards Okita, he couldn't discern who was who. Unshed tears of worry screwed the angel's vision making it hard for him to tell one person from another. Okita didn't want to wait for inevitable questioning that awaited him once the others reached him. He dived straight into the deep blue abyss of the lakes waters. Tears cleared from his eyes, but his vision still melded everything into one indistinguishable form. At the base of the lake, surrounded by sand that had yet to filter back to the bed of the lake and weeds that had found life at the bottom of the dark waters flashed a pale form.
Okita reached his hand out for what he surmised to be Hijikata. Just as his fingers brushed that warm flesh of the man who had taught him everything, Hijikata was snatched away from him. Okita had only seen a flash of white, he wasn't sure it that was even creditable, with the way his vision was right now. What ever had happened, Hijikata had disappeared, and his lungs where beginning the ache sharp and painfully with the need for air.
Souji pushed his way through the water that constricted around him and tried to force the air from his lungs. In a last burst of strength and determination Okita pushed himself up, breaking the surface. Instantly his lung refilled and emptied themselves repeatedly of oxygen. Scanning the lake Okita spotted the slowly migrating group moving towards land. As Okita swam he held his head above the water. Once he made it with the rest to shore he realized that the flash of white that he had seen under water had been Suzu.
Well, Okita thought in irony, looks like I owe that boy Hiji's life…
The silver haired teen was pressing on the dark demon's abdomen trying to force water from Hijikata's lungs. Nothing was happening though. It was as if the police officer refused to breath. Okita finally got fed up with Suzu's incompetence to bring his Toshi back to life.
Shoving the kid out of the way Okita let out a feral growl, "You're doing it wrong!"
Sharply Souji pressed his hands down in quick jolts right under the bigger man's ribs. Plugging Hijikata's nose and setting his jaw Okita pressed their mouths together and breathed deeply into his boss's lungs. Twice Okita tried to repeat the kiss of life on Hijikata to revive the demon. Just as Okita brushed his lips against Toshi's for the third time the bigger man twitched and began to cough up water.
Groaning Hijikata moved his head from side to side cracking open his heavy eyelids. "Damn, Souji…You saved me?..."
Okita let a relived smile form on his lips, "Not quite…" The purple haired man nodded his head towards the silver haired teen, "He got there before me." Hijikata grunted and nodded his head slowly in acknowledgment.
Suzu was still fully clothed and sopping wet when Hijikata had woken up and nodded off again. He went out for half a day and he came back to this. The entire house hold was nuts, and dangerous. If there weren't emotional barriers and breakdowns there was a life or death situation.
"I'm cold." The normally silent teen finally blurted out once everyone was sure that Hijikata would be ok.
"If you'd gotten out of your clothes, you wouldn't be so cold now would you?" Susumu stated blandly as he turned and headed back towards the Inn.
Ayumu sent a dark glare at the back of Susumu's skull, "Come on Suzu, I'm sure we have some dry clothes for you some where."
The entire group turned to follow the little hero of the day and go back in where it was warm, all except for Okita, a passed out Hijikata, and a curious Tetsu.
"Do you need help dragging him back to the in Okita?" Tetsu questioned helpfully.
Okita just shook his wet head and smiled up at the little red head, "No thanks Tetsu… I think I'm going to stay out here with Hijikata for a bit, I'll wait until he's able to get up on his own. If we don't come back before dark though, I would appreciate the help." Okita smiled a genuinely happy smile.
Tetsu nodded understandingly and ran off to catch up with the rest of the group.
Once everyone was gone Okita propped Hijikata's head on his lap. He brushed stray locks of hair away from the sleeping devil's forehead so that they wouldn't dry and stick to the fair skin.
Bending over Souji slipped his lips over his superior's in a tender kiss and slowly pulled away. "I don't know what I'd do if I ever lost you Toshi…" Okita whispered lovingly in the unconscious man's ear, "I'd be lost without you…love…" Souji sighed and sat back in a more comfortable position, patiently waiting for his love to wake up once again.
Meanwhile at the Inn Suzu sat on the brown sheets that covered his mattress. The silver haired boy was dressed in slacks and a loose white t-shirt roughly drying his hair with a warm fluffy yellow towel.
A gentle knock sounded at Suzu's door, "There's just no such thing as peace around this house is there?" the silver kitten mumbled pressing the slightly wet towel against his face.
Tetsu pocked his spiky red head through the door, "You want me to leave ya' alone?" The puppy yipped playfully.
Suzu shrugged a small signal that he wouldn't mind the pup's presence. Tetsu creped through the crack in the door he had made and shut the oak door behind him. Flopping down on the bed in front of the newly dried Suzu, Tetsu grinned up at him.
"That was amazing how you just popped from out of nowhere and saved the day." Tetsu commented rolling onto his back.
Suzu shrugged again tossing his used towel onto Tetsu's unsuspecting face. "I heard Okita yell and just dove in. Swimming was the only real exercise they let me get at the hospital…" The words tumbled out of Suzu's mouth so naturally he had a hard time believing he had actually slipped.
Tetsu looked at his friend quizzically, "You where in the hospital? Why? For how long?"
Suzu tried to quickly patch up his slip up, "Yeah, I was sick for a while, several years I guess."
"And they let you swim in your condition?" Tetsu laughed in disbelief.
Suzu shrugged, "Yeah well, the body needs some kind of stimulation…Doesn't matter now though, the doc's think I'm cured."
The red head nodded in acceptance and glanced at the clock. "Getin' kinda late don't you think?"
Suzu looked at the red flashing numbers as well, "Yeah so?"
The puppy's eyes drifted up to the ceiling, "Okita and Hijikata aren't back yet, that's all…"
"You worried?" Suzu poked the small boy in the side with his foot. Tetsu rolled away from the hostile heel nodding in answer to his friend's question.
Suzu rolled his head in exasperation, "I'll go find them." The kitten slunk off of his bed, "You're beginning to become a worrywart like your brother…" Suzu remarked before darting out of the room and away from the view from a glaring Tetsu.
The red head just grinned once his buddy had left though. It was good to worry every now and then. It just meant that you cared.
Suzu slowly jogged towards the bushes that surrounded the lake. He slowed down to a silent stop. The boy could hear low moans coming from the other side of the bushes; that coupled with the wet shorts that hung on a random branch that stuck out oddly from the brush lead the teen to believe that he shouldn't intrude any further.
"Toshi, we have to stop." A feminine voice whined.
Suzu immediately ducked down under the shrubs so he wouldn't be seen.
A hoarse grunt replied, "No."
Okita struggled on to reason with the bigger man though, "But... but… I told Tetsu to come looking for us if we didn't get back by dark…"
The rustling of the grass and leaves stopped at that comment, but Hijikata still tried to persuade his lover. "So…the boy is gay after all…"
Suzu nearly choked when he heard what the demon said. Of course, he was to blame for making the boy seem gay, but even he himself wasn't quite sure whether or not Tetsu was actually like him. The way Hijikata said it though…it just seemed so natural, so right. It was weird. The silver haired boy went unnoticed though.
"Hijikata!" Okita yelped in an undignified tone, clearly he believed what his lover had proclaimed to be the truth too, but he wasn't about to let the little boy watch what they where doing.
"Fine," Hijikata grumbled getting up to search for his clothes, "But if he doesn't learn it from us, he's going to find out how to do it first hand from that Suzu, kid."
"You're probably right…" Okita sighed after he got redressed. The man just smiled though ending the conversation at that as he pulled his love through the bushes past Suzu and towards the Inn.
The kitten just sat and watched the happy couple disappear through the thistle and pine. Once he was certain that no one would spot him he crawled back out from below the shrub the he had taken cover under. For a while he just sat there leaning against the base of a nearby tree. He had to wonder, would he do that to Tetsu? Was he really willing to go that far with the boy? There was no doubt that he liked the red head, but there where other more important matters that he had to attend to. Was it possible for him to achieve love and vengeance at the same time? If he was forced to pick, which one would he be willing to give up?
Which is more important; vengeance and honor, or pleasure and love?
After a while of weighing his options Suzu voted for sleeping on the matter. He knew he had to get revenge for his brother, more than just honor but insanity, wouldn't let him live otherwise. He hadn't suffered all those years, all those agonizingly long and wasteful years, plotting and planning just to stumble upon some confused boy and change his entire life. If there was a chance that he could have both at the same time, then he would take it. If not,… Suzu shook his head trying to shake the circling thoughts into a straight line.
The kitten's gaze wandered upon the bright and full moon that streaked down onto his face, all things would come together in good time. He just knew it. For now he just needed to sit back and rest. Sleep under with ever comforting eyes of the amiable moon.
As the silver kitten's eye's drooped a small slightly crazed smile played across his lips.
"I wonder, Tetsu…." Suzu murmured thoughtfully as he let the words lightly play off of his tongue and slide past his quivering lips.
"Do you dream of me?"
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Mahono: Mwahahahahaha- cough yes... ok I'm sorry that I didn't write anything about Okita nad Hijikata's little conversation before they hooked up, but it really didn't really hold much for the plot, I may save a section in one of the later chapters to fill you in on what happened, if you guys want me to,but it just didn't work in this chapter. I'm also sorry that I didn't update yesterday, I wanted to but my sister kicked me off before I could finish the chapter,...You will find out why Suzu went to the city, and even though it's hard to see right now even this chapter holds things that surround Tetsu's little dream. Also, in this chapter and the previous one you might have noticed that they held lines from some of my TetsuxSuzu poems, they do have something to do with this story, especially the Kitty, Kitty poem. Anyhow, pleeeeeeeeease reveiw... and for goodness sakes if your sick take time to heal! If your too sick to even tell if you liked it or not, then sleep and rest! Heh, I need you people alive! 'Sides if you die while reading my stories, that's not really good for anyone now is it? Thank you to those who did take the time to reveiw though, I really appriciate it!Please Review again!