Disclaimer: Me no own, you no sue.

Yoru: Well, not many reviews for it, but I still wanna update so I'm going to! This pairing needs to be spread so Yoru can read more of it!

Kuronue: …right. Anyway, this chapter contains mild yaoi, sexual harassment style.

Yoru: MisterCreamPie wants Xemnas to be a villain, but he's not in my other fic. So here ya go, Gabe! Though right now, as Xenahort, he's really just a dirty old man…

Ienzo growled in irritation as a hand settled on his lower back, just above his buttocks.

"Myde, how many times must I tell you…"

"I shall have to punish this Myde person if he is allowed to touch you as I am."

Ienzo's eyes widened as he realized that it was his boss touching him in this way.

"Mr. Xenahort…"

Xenahort leaned close to Ienzo's ear, "Just Xenahort is fine, Ienzo. You needn't be so formal."

"Please, Xenahort, I'm really not comfortable with…meep!" Ienzo squeaked as Xenahort's hand slipped lower.

"Come on, Ienzo, I'm not going to hurt you."

"I believe he said he wasn't comfortable." The voice was cold as steel and vaguely familiar. Ienzo blinked. It sounded a lot like the guy from the bookstore. Xenahort had removed his hand and was glaring daggers at the intruder.

"Ienzo, do you know this person?" he asked scathingly. Ienzo turned to see that it was, indeed, "the jerk".

"Um, yes. He's my…my cousin." Ienzo knew that it was a terrible lie, but it was really the only thought that came to mind – besides the boyfriend story.

"I just got into town and decided to come see Ienzo at work. I get here and find him being molested. Mom's not going to like that," the man said with an icy glare. Xenahort sniffed.

"I was not molesting him. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." With that, he walked away, stomping slightly as he went. Ienzo breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Mr…?"

"Cloud. Just Cloud."

"Thank you, Cloud. I think you deserve that book." Ienzo leaned against the wall, closing his eyes. He felt Cloud lean beside him.

"Myde told me you worked here. I wanted to come apologize for being such a jerk."

"It was I who was the jerk. I apologize as well."

"Then we're even."

"Indeed."

Silence reigned for a moment. Finally Cloud spoke again.

"So when do you get off?"

Ienzo eyed him suspiciously, "Why?"

"Thought you might like to go get some coffee."

"I'm not in the habit of going out with men I barely know." Ienzo felt anger rising up in him. Did he look like a whore?

"Fine. There's coffee in the lobby downstairs. You don't even have to leave the building with me."

"Look," Ienzo said, standing up, "I'm eternally grateful to you for having saved me, but I'm really not interested in a relationship of any sort. I'm sorry, and I hope we meet again."

Cloud frowned at him, "You think I'm trying to get you into bed, don't you?"

"What do you think? Now I have work that I must attend to, and I'm sure you have better things to do than lean against a laboratory wall and chat idly." Ienzo turned on his heel and hurried away, swearing that the next time he saw Myde, he was going to kill him.

Cloud banged the back of his head against the wall behind him.

"I finally find someone I'm interested in, and they think I just want them for their hole," he muttered as he got off the wall and started for the door.

"Ienzo has that problem." A large man with brown bangs in his face intercepted Cloud.

"Why?"

"He feels that it's all anyone's really ever wanted him for except Myde, and he's not interested in dating his best friend." The man stuck out his hand, "I'm Aeleus, by the way."

"Cloud."

"Don't take Ienzo's words to heart. He's had a rough time. He'll come around." Aeleus waved and walked away. Cloud sighed. What was it with the pretty ones? He'd just have to find a way to show Ienzo that he was trustworthy.

Show him that I want him for him.

"Aeleus!" He hurried after the bigger man, who stopped.

"Yes?"

"When does he get off work?"

Aeleus frowned, "Do you really think using alternate means to find out when he gets off would help your case with him?"

Cloud looked at the floor. Aeleus had a point.

"Look, friend, you're going to have to be more patient if you really want him. The last relationship he had took a terrible turn. You just need to coax him into a sense of security, and using his friends to find out his work schedule is not going to help." Aeleus patted Cloud's shoulder.

"I do really want him. At least, I'd like to get to know him better. What should I do?"

"Just don't push him. When you see him, say hello and whatnot. But wait a while before you ask him out again – I think you freaked him out." Aeleus smiled a little as Cloud nodded.

"Thank you, Aeleus."

"I want Ienzo to be happy, Cloud. I wasn't enough, those two years ago. I hope you will be."

Cloud nodded again as Aeleus walked away.

I will be.