You know if I ever take the easy way out I think I'll go into shock! Anyway I guess I did another chapter so enjoy!

Chapter 27: Blue Streams
This couldn't be happening! This had to be just one big bad dream right? Something would happen and it would be Ryuichi down here in the living room... I mean Narumi just didn't seem like the type of girl who would just fall head over heals in such a short time... she's a school teacher... they're the sensible type right?

Tatsuha found himself biting anxiously at his fingernails hoping that he would wake up from this horrible nightmare...

Tatsuha could barely even bring himself to watch as they sat at the dinner table and ate together... He could barely even taste the food as he watched Ryuichi smile for someone other than himself... All he could do was force himself to eat and stare, while trying to hide the boiling rage inside of his heart.

Narumi wasn't the kind of girl to take advantage of Ryuichi's kindness was she? She wouldn't do anything like maybe...

"Stupid brain!" Tatsuha swore under his breath.

Touya smirked. He had a pretty good idea what was on in this obsessive fan boy's mind, and it sure wasn't rated PG. It looked like he would have to not only be alert and watching after Narumi but seeing to it that there wasn't any fighting among the ranks either.

Oh, the joys of work!

"I'm fine really! I am a grown adult I can sleep just fine by myself."

"No!" Ryuichi slammed his palms down on the table with a thud. "No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No, and that's final!"

"Look Ryuichi-san! I am perfectly fine. I can take care of myself."

"-chan! –chan! –chan! –chan! –chan! –chan!" Ryuichi glared at her silently berating her futile resistance He had already told her once to call him chan and she was not going to call him san! If he could help it!

"Narumi look," Touya piped in. "You have a choice you can either have Ryuichi sleep in you're room peacefully or we can hog tie you and he will still be sleeping in you're room. He's got night shift, I gave him my permission."

"What do you mean you gave him 'permission'? Are you really sure you're my brother?" Narumi accused him.

Touya really wasn't surprised by the red in her complection. This was all arguments he had been expecting from his sister before the night was over. It was just a question of when.

"I gave him my permission. If he has to he can tie you down in you're bed and... What?"

Narumi just glared, while she tried to decide who was in more danger of being killed. Her or him!

Tatsuha just couldn't stand it anymore! He had to protect his Ryuichi.

"I'll sleep in her room! Things will be..."

"Not on you're life you perverted bunny thief!" Narumi shrieked. "You aren't going anywhere near my room, and for that matter neither is anybody else, and that's final."

"You want to bet on it?" Touya met his sister's eyes and locked on to them. The spoke volumes all by themselves, promising her that if she didn't back down and admitted her defeat, things would end in a very 'ungraceful' and extremely 'unpleasant' manner.

Ryuichi pushed his plate away and went into the living room. The expression on his face was a mixture of concern and fear... the real question was of what?

Tatsuha stood quietly and followed after him. That expression disturbed him more than anything else that had happened in the last few days and that was really saying a lot.He left the siblings to fight it out and watched Ryuichi silently gathering his things from the livingroom... his eyes always trailing back to the child's sketch that washangingframed on the wall. Italmost seemed to Tatsuha that Ryuichi's eyes just seemed to be drawn to the crayon picture, and each time he looked at it he always looked sad.

Tatsuha wanted to reach out his hand to Ryuichi... to stroke his beautiful brown hair, but he knew he didn't have that right. He may wish for it but it wasn't something given to him by Ryuichi, and it hurt him very deeply.

"Sakuma-san..."

"Tatsuha-kun why... why is it that Narumi doesn't like me?"

"Doesn't like...?"

"What just happened in there... I mean she... she..."

Ryuichi tried to wipe the tears from his eyes, but he just couldn't stop crying. They flowed like a never ending stream, and it made Tatsuha more than a little nervous, and more than a little desperate to comfort him.

Tatsuha reached out and grabbed Ryuichi tightly in his arms crushing him from behind. Tatsuha had longed to hold onto him for so long but never before had he ever really been given the chance.

Praise Buddha! Tatsuha leaned down and smelt his hair while Ryuichi simply cried in his arms. Oh the fragrance of it!

"Think of it this way, Narumi, you'll be protected and you'll be protecting!"

Touya laughed from the doorway.

"Ryuichi, I... I'm sorry."

Narumi and Touya had both heard and seen it all, and this... what Ryuichi thought...

"I like you Ryu-chan.You're a... a great friend...to have. Youreally are, it's just there are already so many rumors, and..."

"Narumi-chan!" Ryuichi wailed. He broke free from Tatsuha's death grip and lunged into Narumi's arms. Narumi managed to keep them both from hitting the floor. It was definetly getting easier catching him.

"It's just.. I... I don't want you hurt Narumi-chan. I want to protect you like you protected me. Let me protect you please. Kuma will too! No one will ever lay a finger on you again just don't go! Please, just don't go, I don't want you to go!"

"Ryuichi," Narumi smiled down at him. "I'm not going anywhere I promise. I don't want to run anymore. I'm sick of running away. I'm staying here this is my home. It's just the sleeping arrangements..."

"Are perfect!"Touyainserted. "Think about it Narumi. With Aoi on the loose andknowing where you are it's better for you to not be alone. Besides, Ryuichi maybe just Ryuichi but I don't think he'll let anyone hurt you. If nothing else he'll Kumagoru bomb anyone who tries to get too close.Plus don't forget this letch." Touya pointed at Tatsuha.

"I bet Ryuichi won't be safe without you there to protect him. So I'll take care of him tonight."

Tatsuha really didn't like the sound of that. Things really were just getting worse and worse.

They would pay dearly... all of them. Touya would suffer for helping Narumi escape from him in the first place, that man for daring to kiss what belonged to him, and Narumi for letting that man think he had the right to kiss her. Yes they would pay. They would pay and repent and then beg to be set free from their fates.

Aoi knew how he was going to do this. He smiled at what he held in his hands. They would suffer just like he did when he saw that kiss he would make them all feel the same pain that he had felt in his heart and then they would learn even more about pain until they were completely broken.

Aoi smiled to himself as he stared up at the window where Narumi slept. This was going to be fun.

Chapter 28: to be continued...