Author's Note: I have created a spur of the moment companion fic for this story! Making Seraph like a trilogy somewhat. I hope you enjoy it! The companion is titled Married Life: The YoKen Way.
Disclaimer & Warnings: Refer to first chapter.
Pairing: YoKen-centric.
Fic Note: This chapter is really short, but I feel that it ends the whole thing properly. But I'd love to read reviews and see what you all think about it. I tried not to overdo the whole fic here, so hopefully I maintained that goal.
Voller Kreis
A year had passed since their wedding. Ken and Yoji were now nearing their late twenties. They had fallen asleep on the couch after going to see Omi and Ran's two adopted children. They were very energetic, especially the younger one. They had kept Yoji and Ken so busy, that by the time they came home, they had no energy to do anything but sleep on the couch.
Ken had been very comfortable relaxing on Yoji's chest when Ken decided he was going to take a shower. After all, playing with children outside all day long didn't exactly bring a good smell. He decided to wake Yoji up later to get the man to take a shower. He didn't want to wake Yoji to take a shower now, because then he knew what the older man's suggestion would be, and the suggestions Yoji always came up with ended up leaving Ken flustered and wondering why he even bothered to marry this man in the first place. He was just impossible.
He got up a bit too quickly, and lost orientation of the room. Ken panicked and leaned down, looking for some kind of landmark to help him guess where he was. Not finding anything, he kept moving forward and tripped over the small glass table in the middle of the room. He fell with a big crash, taking some of the things on the table with him, and hit his head hard on the ground. Ken heard something fall with a soft thud on the ground.
Hearing the crash, Yoji jolted awake from the couch and looked around tiredly. He rushed to Ken's side when he realized that his lover had been the cause for the commotion. "Ken!" Yoji asked worriedly, "Ken, are you all right!"
"Nngh…" Ken held his head and felt very dizzy.
He started seeing a swirl of color. The black in his vision was fading away and his eyes were slowly focusing in on the room. Ken blinked in slight surprise and stared straight ahead. He saw a wine glass laying on its side, the red wine all spilled out of it onto the milky white carpet.
"Ken! Are you all right?" Yoji asked again.
Ken stared at the wine glass in awe, and then spoke slowly, "Yoji…?"
"Yes? What is it, Ken?"
"Yoji…did I…did I drop something?"
"Yes, you did, but don't worry about it now."
"Yoji…?"
"Yes?"
"What color was our carpet again…?"
Yoji scratched the back of his neck. He wasn't sure whether or not to take these questions as signs of Ken's well-being or not. He decided to answer the question anyway, "Well, our carpet? It's white."
"Was there anything in that wine cup? Did something spill out and stain the-"
Yoji chuckled, "Don't worry about it, Ken. Are you all right, though?"
Ken slowly rolled over on his back and looked up straight into Yoji's eyes. He reached for Yoji's face, and Yoji automatically met him halfway, helping Ken find his face. The thing was, Ken didn't need help finding Yoji's face. He could see where it was. Realizing this, Ken practically jumped up and kissed Yoji on the mouth, and hard. Surprised, the blond merely let Ken in and didn't do anything else.
Ken finally pulled away, leaving Yoji confused and breathless. "Ken…?"
"Yeah?"
"How did you…find my lips so perfectly?" Yoji asked.
All this time, Yoji had to be the first one to make a move because Ken couldn't see where his lips were, and he always took too long to guess. Ken felt tears sting his eyes and his throat felt like it was closing up a bit. "Do you really want to know how I could find them…?"
"Yes. And why are you crying!"
Ken smiled a tearful smile. "Because, Yotan…"
Yoji wiped away Ken's tears and looked down at the brunette questioningly. "PMS?"
"No! I'm not a woman, Yotan!"
Yoji chuckled. "You sure act like one."
Ken almost didn't continue because he was getting lost in Yoji's beautiful eyes. "Yoji…" he finally started again, "Yoji…I can…"
Yoji laughed. "See? You're being a woman right now," he smiled at Ken's pouting, "But yeah…you can what, Ken?"
"I...I can see you!" Ken finally whispered excitedly, his perfect smile forming and lighting up his face.
Yoji was speechless. "Ken…how many fingers am I holding up?" Yoji asked, holding up three fingers.
"Three…" Ken whispered.
"And what," Yoji whispered gently, "is the color of the fireplace over there?"
Ken looked in the direction where Yoji was pointing, which surprised Yoji and was almost proof enough that he could see, but Yoji wanted to make sure. "Marble…" Ken replied.
Yoji couldn't believe his eyes or his ears. He found himself crushing Ken's lithe body towards him and thanking whatever high being it was that had allowed the full Ken to come back to him at last, after waiting so long.
Somewhere above in a place called Paradise, a being who had taken a form of an old man was laughing, ripping up a contract and throwing it into a furnace behind of him. He was satisfied, for he felt the price had been more than fully paid, in his opinion.
Unknowing about the truth behind the hardships of their past few years, Yoji still had Ken locked in a happy embrace, Ken's wonderful words echoing in his mind, laced with the brunette's beautiful smile and laughter.
"I can see, Yoji… I can see you again!"
OWARI!
Saiki.Kensuke.Yuuta: The end! Now, it's time for me to go hit my gravi fics and finish those…I have 7 more fics I'm planning on creating and finishing before the winter months settle in. Wish me luck!
If you didn't have enough of this fic, as I stated in my author's note, I made one last fic, a companion to the Seraph series. It's called Married Life: The YoKen Way. Go check it out!
