Falling into Paradise

A/N: okay, to every one who's reading this now be sure to thank the reviewer Hisoka. I was gonna wait a little while to at least get started on the next chapter before I posted this one but Hisoka changed my mind. I'm honored by your blatant praise. I'm not that good, I've read things that are that good and I've got a ways to go, but who am I to deny you the next chapter when you sound so enthusiastic for it. So here you go. Enjoy.

Chapter 3

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"It's so hot………" Omi muttered as he tied his mission jacket around his waist.

"Just imagine what it would've been like on you're little path of sunshine." The Schwarz boy remarked with a sardonic smile. "At least this way we're in the shade." He pulled off his own gray jacket revealing the tight black t-shirt underneath it. Omi gave the slenderfigure an appreciative look. He had to admit, the boy had a nice body. He was a sarcastic, rude, hypocritical, know it all, but he was……… well to be blunt he was pretty sexy. He was slender, but clearly built under that tight t-shirt, and black was definitely his color.

"What?" The Schwarz boy asked.

"Huh?" Omi snapped out of the slight daze he wasn't aware he'd fallen into.

"What are you staring at me for?" The Schwarz boy gave him an accusing glare.

"Don't flatter yourself Schwarz, I wasn't staring at you, I was just spacing out, I think this heat is getting to me." Omi lied.

"Riiiiight." The Schwarz boy said tone clearly disbelieving.

"I was!" Omi insisted.

"Whatever Weiss." The brunet taunted as he tied his jacket around his waist.

"Omi." The blond corrected. Dark blue eyes rolled in a brunet head at Omi's instance on his name. "Don't roll you're eyes at me Schwarz."

"You know you're really being a hypocrite, asking me to call you by your name when you call me Schwarz."the brunetmocked.

"Only because you wont TELL me your name!" Omi argued his irritation with the other boy showing clearly on his features. The brunet smirked obviously amused, which only served to further irritate the blond.

Omi was about to make a retort when the lake came into view through the hole at the end of the trail.

"Ha! You see? I told you I knew what I was doing." The Schwarz boy said confidently as he quickened his pace to the end of the tunnel of trees. 'Gods, the boy is arrogant too. It just gets better and better.' Omi thought as he followed the brunet to the shore of the lake.

"Well, how do we know if the water's any good?" Omi questioned. The Schwarz boy looked around for a moment, he watched a couple of animals drink the water both were as strange looking as the bird he'd encountered in the first few minutes he was conscious here, one reminded him of a cross between a monkey a bird and a tiger, the other was kind of frog like but with a tale and it was pink and orange with blue stripes. Neither of the animals seemed to be affected negatively by the water.

"Well, there's only one way to know for sure." The Schwarz boy said before leaning down and scooping some of the golden water up with his hands. With but a moments hesitation he brought the water to his lips and drank it down. Omi found himself incapable of doing any thing but staring at the brunet in shock. How could he be so reckless with his own life?

The Schwarz boy leaned back on his heals arms resting on his knees as he looked up at the sky for a moment as if waiting for something. Then he nodded his head and leaned forward again to scoop up some more water.

"Tastes kinda different, but I don't think it'll hurt us." The brunet concluded as he drank some more of the gold liquid. In that moment, Omi couldn't help but feel admiration for the boy he had previously thought so poorly of. He wasn't reckless, just……… just not overly concerned about what happened to him. Omi, while always more concerned about the welfare of others then his own well being, still worried about keeping himself alive, and would never do something that he knew could endanger his life unless it was absolutely necessary or doing so would protect someone else.

Well the Schwarz boy had proven that the water wouldn't kill them immediately at least. With a shrug Omi dropped to his knees beside the brunet, the pale blue sand felt odd on his knees, kind of cold despite the heat of the air around them. The golden water was cold too, he noted as he lifted his full hands to his face. The Schwarz boy was right it didn't taste like regular water, it was kind of sweet, but not really sugary, more like the natural sweet you get from fruit juice with no added sugar. He liked it, and as soon as he finished drinking what was already in his hands he reached down for more. A rustling sound next to him caused him to look up at the brunet next to him. His eyes widened slightly as the boy pulled off his black T-shirt and began to roll up his pant legs.

"What are you doing?" Omi asked, sincerely curious.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" The Schwarz boy questioned as he began to wade into the water.

"What are you, stupid?" Omi cried out in alarm "You have no idea what's in that water, there could be some kind of creature or something. Or What if it drops off into an under water cliff, or maybe it's like quick sand!"

"You know you're awfully paranoid for an assassin," The Schwarz boy replied with a smirk, "I can swim just fine so it doesn't matter if there's no ground to walk on, I very much doubt your quick sand theory, and as for creatures, that's what you said about the path but we spent more than six hours traipsing through those woods and we weren't attacked once. Relax nothings going to happe--"

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Nagi suddenly felt something sticky grab his leg and before he had the chance to finish his sentence he was yanked under the water. Being dragged down far to quickly for comfort he opened his eyes and looked down to see a giant octopus like creature with well over thirty tentacles, pulling him to the bottom of the lake. Nagi did what was instinctual for him and blasted the beast with his telekinesis. The creature head flew back with the blast, bearing its teeth and releasing a shrill shriek that was ear piercing even through the water, it attacked again this time with claws extending from the fearsome tentacles. Nagi attacked again, this blast much stronger then the last, but it was as though there was now an invisible force field around the strange creature and Nagi both saw and felt the blast reverberate back through the water and everything in it.

Realizing that his powers were having no affect on the creature he attempted to swim away kicking viciously at the tentacle wrapped around his leg. Doing this only seemed to anger the creature further for it reached up a second tentacle to grab Nagi's other leg. There was little Nagi could do as he felt him self once more being dragged to the bottom of the lake, he was quickly running out of breath as well he realized, beginning to panic.

What remained of his already low supply of air was completely lost as he gasped when he felt a hand grab his arm. He looked up to see Omi above him holding tightly to his arm. With his free hand the blond grabbed Nagi's other shoulder and pulled the brunet's face close to his own before, to Nagi's immense shock, KISSING him! Oh wait, Omi wasn't kissing him, he realized as he felt air flow into his mouth, he was giving him oxygen. After administering some air to Nagi's system the blond grabbed the waist of Nagi's pants and crawled down his body before producing some of his famous darts and repetitively stabbing the tentacles wrapped around Nagi's legs.

The creature released another one of those ear-piercing screams and the tentacles recoiled momentarily, but many more tentacles were quickly coming to replace the ones Omi had stabbed. Without wasting another second Nagi grabbed Omi's waist and shot them both out of the water and clear to the shore, which was a good few hundred meters from where they had been in the water. They both grunted with the impact, Nagi had been so panicked and trying to get them out of there so fast that he had done little to soften their landing. Nagi had landed on his back in the sand, several meters away from the waters edge his arms were still wound tightly around Omi's waist and Omi's head was rested in the crook of Nagi's neck. Neither of the boys felt inclined to move so they stayed exactly where they were breathing heavily as they came off the adrenaline high.

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While resting on the Schwarz boy's beautiful, warm chest was really very pleasant; Omi finally decided that he really should get up. He slowly lifted his head but stopped when he found himself once again captured by beautiful midnight eyes. He felt himself loose control of limbs and unable to move any further then to simply rest on the brunet's body and stare into his stunning eyes.

Fortunately for him however he had not yet lost control of his vocals and was able to break the spell by simply saying "Nothings gonna happen huh?" They couldn't help it, it was that insane sense of humor that comes with incredibly stressful situations, and they both started laughing. The double meaning behind his statement made his laughter slightly bitter, and he thought he could sense the same bitterness in Nagi's laughter. But the rumble of Nagi's laughing chest beneath his own was definitely one of the more pleasant sensations Omi had felt in his life and he couldn't help it when his head fell forward again to rest on Nagi's shoulder. He really did have a nice body.

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Perhaps this boy was not as naive or clueless as Nagi had first thought; perhaps he simply cared about people. He'd jumped in after a vicious monster to save his enemy, and Nagi wasn't sure if that made him incredibly stupid, or unbelievably compassionate. Nagi wasn't sure what it was, but he knew that there was definitely something about this boy, and that had him worried, because there wasn't supposed to be something about this boy, he was the enemy.

Their laughter slowly died down, and still neither boy moved. Nagi sighed sadly, closing his eyes, this wasn't supposed to be happening, he wasn't supposed to care about this boy, he wasn't supposed to be this comfortable with this boy, if Crawford some how found out about this, he'd surely be killed, it was as simple as that. He had to stop this, now, but somehow, he didn't want to. He couldn't help thinking about that kiss in the alleyway. How had that happened? Why had he felt that sudden urge to kiss the boy? He'd never felt such an urge before, not towards the members of Weiss at least, so what had happened? It felt like something had taken over his body, but not like when Schu would invade his mind, it wasn't a foreign presence like that, it felt like it belonged there. Like it was some hidden part of him that had always been there, he just hadn't noticed it before.

He wondered briefly if Omi even remembered the kiss in the ally, he hadn't mentioned it at all. Then again, he could just be unsure about it, hesitating to bring it up because of how strange it had been, but then again, what wasn't strange about this whole situation.

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He needed to get up, he needed to get up now or he was going to do something he'd probably regret. He bit his lip sharply to snap himself out of this crazy dream; it didn't work. He was really here, this was really happening, all of it, the crazy appearance of this place, the weird, freaky animals, the feelings for the boy below him which were developing at a horribly alarming rate. He didn't even know the guys name for Christ sake! He shouldn't feel this way, but it didn't matter whether he should or not, because he did. He felt a pained look cross his features as he swallowed. He needed to get up, Now and with a great deal of effort, slowly, he did.

Midnight eyes slowly opened to gaze up at him, beautiful midnight eyes. Omi looked away eyes trailing down the brunet's body and stopping at his legs, the rolled up pants revealed bloody cuts and gashes all over the Schwarz boy's legs. They must have come from the claws on that monster. Omi pulled his shirt off and began to tear it into strips. The Schwarz boy sat up looking confused before seeing his legs and understanding Omi's intentions. Neither boy said anything as Omi cleaned the cuts with part of his already wet shirt before wrapping them with the strips he'd torn.

His jacket, thankfully, had been left on the beach with the Schwarz boy's shirt and jacket, and was still dry. Omi got up and retrieved the jackets because it was starting to get cold. He handed the brunet his things and sat back down next to him as he wrapped himself up in his own jacket and looked out over the water.

"Thanks." the brunet next to him whispered softly.

"For what?" Omi questioned still watching the water.

"For saving me." came the quiet reply, nothing like the sarcastic, condescending boy he'd talked to before.

"No problem." Omi returned, glancing at the boy next to him.

"Why did you save me?" The midnight eyed boy inquired.

The question sounded sincere enough, so Omi decided to answer it with equal sincerity. "I don't know, it's just something I'd do, honestly I don't know if it made a difference that is was you not some random stranger or not. I just kind of did it."

"Oh." The boy whispered back, his tone wasn't disappointed or thrilled, he was simply taking the words at face value. Omi didn't know and that was all there was to it.

The silence rained once more.

Then suddenly………

It was broken………

By a rather loud shriek………

"Shala NASHITEM COVU!"

TBC

End chapter three

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A/N: Bwahahaha! Cliffhanger! You guys must review if you want to know who that was, actually I'll eventually post the next chapter with or with out reviews but they certainly do help feed the creative juices and speed up the process. Ja ne! .