The tall blonde college student stood out on the balcony of his sacrifices room, rain matted his long hair to his form, covered by simple jeans, a shirt, and his favored dark trenchcoat. He
wasnt sure why he was here, maybe only because he knew the boy did not want to see him. He had made his way up to the boys balcony without being noticed, as usual, and he could now
see those violet-black feline ears twitch and flatten against his hair of the same color as he lost himself in thought over the mountains of papers that cluttered his desk. "Another school project"
he thought to himself in frustration, the boys school was becoming a hinderance with his plans to get close to him.
A banging at the door just beyond the boys slumped figure brought Soubi from his daze, he saw the boy jump and it made him furious that Ritsuka thought he had reason to feel like he
was in danger. When Ritsuka lowered his head to concentrate more on his papers the man observing him decided he had had enough. He opened up the balcony door and stepped in
wordlessly, only inside enough so that he could shut the rain out of the young ones room. The boy looked up as if he were shocked that he had come, but Soubi had noted that the balcony
doors were unlocked as usual and just begging for him to intrude. Still his mother banged down the door but neither of them payed her any attention. Ritsuka slowly placed his pencil upon his
desk, his eyes never leaving the tall, dripping figure. He stood, pushing back his chair with the back of his legs. Pained, violet-brown eyes watched his every movement and he asked in a
whisper "Why are you here?" Soubi simply took a short step forward and replied in his level voice "because I wanted to see you" obviously the boy either did not like his answer of did not believe
it, he turned to his chair and pulled his towel off of the back, "Dry yourself off, your soaking my floor." He demanded as he threw the towel to the older male who promptly caught it and brought it
to the long blonde hair that draped over his shoulder, he was thankfully enveloped with the scent of the younger one but his expression did not show his pleasure.
"Ritsuka, Suki da yo." Soubi chimed as he was so used to doing by now, and even though he did not want to believe it, the cat boy as well was used to hearing this, and accepted it as
such. None the less his fists clenched and he forgot about everything except his pain "Dont Ever say that. I told you...I dont want to hear anything like that." His words were almost as cutting
as the vicious tone he delivered them with. In the back of his mind he could hear his mother give up her futile pursuit of his company, and sink to the floor on the other side of his door with sobs
of a broken heart. Soubi would have Loved to go and grab that annoying woman by her neck and just take her away, somewhere where she could not hurt the child before him any longer,
somewhere where she may not even hurt herself in her desperation for a normality that would never be again. His cold, blue eyes darted around the room and he came to the conclusion that,
instead of moving his mother, he would have to move the boy if he really wanted to protect him. "Why dont you come with me?" he asked calmly, as if the child had never gotten angry at him in
the first place.
His feline ears were as flat against his head as he could get them, Ritsuka forced himself to look up at Soubi, hoping that when he made eye contact with those normally emotionless
eyes they might realize that he was in pain. Still in a hushed voice he said "How can you..." with those few words he seemed to find his strength and he glared at the other, in a strong voice he
continued "How can you ask me to go with you? why are you even here! I havent seen you in half a month...there is no excuse to keep me waiting that long. I was worried about you. How can
you just walk in here and ask me to go with you after you hurt me like that?" He was visibly relieved to get his frustration off of his chest and his fists unclenched. He did not like the fact that the
man could still stand there and look as if none of this mattered.