The day was turning out hotter than anyone had expected for fall. The leaves were a burnished gold and swayed in the heavy tree tops like an organic ocean, the soft ripples of air over the leaves sounding like the rushing shore, the sound was amplified as it echoed off the ancient walls of Twilight manner. Yuki was bent over in the vegetable garden, his back to Luka who stood like a sentential. Always mindful and attentive but more than any normal bodyguard ever would be.
His entire universe revolved around Yuki. Living for more than 1,2oo years as the pet to the Master of Hell seemed like nothing compared to the years of suffering after Yuki had died. When Muzuki, Yuki's Mother had given birth to him the Giou clan had been in a utter the Prophacy could not have perdeicted. Yuki his soft, gentle and beautiful Yuki had come back as a male.
To Luka after a milleium plus gender didn't matter, fate didn't matter, the will of God's and Devil's didn't matter. Like the North star his path was fixed on a direct line and someday when Yuki remembered who he had been their life would have a chance to continue. He would protect Yuki unlike last time and Yuki would be able to love him without fear with out the knowegle that in the end death was the only thing before them.
Only Yuki had never remembered and the war with Reiga while put on hold had not yet truly ended. Not being able to tell him what he felt, to touch him had created another personal Hell for Luka, always he burned alone.
"Luka?"
He blinked his quick-silver eyes losing their glazed look as they focused on God's Light. Yuki knelt in the damp earth with dirt clinging to him in loving patches, decorating his white shirt and embedded into the knees of his jeans. The rich gleam of strawberry blonde hair was tousled playfully by the wind.
"I didn't hear you."
Yuki smiled and Luka felt his heart constrict.
" I wondered if Toko-chan would like to make carrot cake with these." He held up the small stubby organic carrots in his hands. Toko along with everyone else within the Twilight Mansion would do anything Yuki asked for. As the light of God they obeyed him as a slave does a Master they felt the pulling crave to please him, but it was the selflessness Yuki possessed that made everyone so protective of him. He was in every sense the light of the and the Zwelit's and without that light they became lost in the darkness.
"I think she will." offering His hand out Luka slowly pulled Yuki to his feet, savoring the feel of Yuki's warm skin against His as he wrapped his larger hand around the blondes wrist feeling the thready pulse and the true burning fire of his skin. His heart constricted again but he made no comment as he slowly released Yuki and followed him silent into the house.
From the outside balcony the Dr of Twilight manner watched the two men disappear into the shadows of the house. Once he had asked Luka if he experienced the same emotion as humans or if they were different, since he was immortal Luka had only stared at him. It was in that moment he knew the answer.
A broken heat was always the same.