LOVE
~I've tried many times but nothing was real~
"Where were you?" Akito hissed as soon as the door to her bedroom opened.
"I was busy." Kureno replied with a grim expression.
"Busy? Too busy to visit me?" She scratched her chin and bent to retrieve a black top. Her shoulders shook with silent laughter after she picked up the thin fabric; "I don't remember telling you to do anything today."
He swallowed and watched as she thrust one arm through the sleeve, then the other, then she spun around to face him as she did up the buttons.
"I went out. It was my own decision." She didn't say anything she simply backhanded him across the face. He supported himself on his hand and straightened up again, not daring to touch the injury.
"I'm sorry you disobeyed me." She nearly purred. She pressed a finger into his cheek right where a bruise was beginning to form.
"Does it hurt?" She pushed harder until he flinched.
"Yes."
"I had to do it, you left without telling me!" She screeched. She fell to her knees and hugged him.
"I know." He sighed in her ear. She hung on for a few minutes loving the way she felt his breath in her own chest. She stood swiftly and went to her closet to find the slate gray pants.
"You can leave for now." She ordered with her back to him.
"I will take my leave, thank you Akito." He murmured and left without another sound. Akito snatched the pants from the hanger, thought of something, scurried over to the door and poked her head around the edge knowing that he had not gone far. She took a deeper breath and called out, "Don't leave the grounds without asking me first."
"Understood." He confirmed with a stiff back and his head bent. She nodded to herself and finished changing. Next she ran a comb through her short dark hair. She glanced in the mirror and frowned. So he really did want to leave. Even though he had promised he'd never leave her side, even after all she had given him, she had even made him her most prized possession and he still wanted to go. She put both hands in her hair and messed it up grabbing at the short strands and pulling until it hurt. She did it until tears pricked her eyes and everything was too blurry to see.
"Ku-re-no." She whimpered. She fell to her knees again, then down to her side, and the tears kept coming. She gripped her hair with one hand and her shirt at the stomach with the other, clenching her fists as her whole body trembled under quiet sobs.
Kureno sat in his office staring at his computer screens desktop. He thought about how Akito found out he had actually left, he couldn't tell her that all he wanted to do was go to a convenience store to purchase food. He didn't want to see anyone in particular; he did not want to check if that girl with sun light hair and cheery laughter was still working there. He definitely did not want to know if she would look at him with recognition in her clear blue eyes. He turned his computer off and tilted his head back with closed heavy lids.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I just want to thank all my readers who have stuck with this story even with the awful delays in updates. I also want to note that I did a horrible job with Kureno's character, I made him 10xs more pathetic than he is in the manga- I don't know why I did that -I even like him too. Oh I guess there is a time jump too since Kureno did finally get the courage to step outside. If you have any thoughts feel free to post a comment!!
