Hi hi hi hi there. Yes i know, the Nezumi or Rat we all love probably wouldn't admit it out loud, but he is in this story Lol. make yourself a good cup of tea and enjoy your Majesty.

Chapter 4. Your a part of me.

Nezumi had been looking all night, and half the morning, and no sign of Shion. He had looked everywhere that came to mind, and he still hadn't found Shion.

The argument the two of them had in the kitchen replayed in his mind over and over, and he still doesn't completely understand why he reacted that way. Yes, he was angry and hurt of the thought that Shion could have moved on, but he thought that he would be okay with it, but that feeling when he saw Rai show up at Shion's doorstep, it was like nothing he ever felt before, he knew that the perfect word for that feeling was jealousy.

And everything at once hit him hard like a tidal wave, the true reason why he returned, why all this time when he was away he felt alone and empty inside, and why he left in the first place. It was because he was afraid, afraid to fall, afraid to be vulnerable, afraid to love and to be loved.

But meeting Shion had open his eyes to so many things, in the moment they had that argument everything became clear. A heart that thought it knew love but only had just barely touched the surface of what true love is. Now Nezumi understood what true love really was, it was about accepting one another, and standing side-by-side no matter what. Shion knew that, he knew it all along, but he was just scratching the surface. He's been a fool.

Karen didn't seem to be too concerned about her son, which tells him that she knows something he doesn't. When he asked her, the answer she gave was unsatisfying, but it gave him an idea.

"My son love's flowers, it's actually quite ironic"

"I'm sorry". He blurted. She looked at him surprised. "For what?"

"For making your son wait all this time, then shattering his heart. But i-". He took in a deep breath. "I love him, I'm in love with Shion, and just realizing just how much"

She smiled. She almost looked relieved. "Then go after him"

With that, he turned, and ran out the door, heading to where the wall once stood. As he ran as fast as his legs could carry him, ignoring the looks that was slanted his way as he ran past the people on the streets, he thought of what he wanted to say to Shion, all that he felt, all that he was afraid of, afraid to feel, the love that was buried inside all this time, but now was ready to show it to the world.

Shion sat on a rock, gazing at the Setting sun, thinking of only one person. Nezumi didn't love him, but there was a part of him that had a feeling, what reason was that he fell in love with Nezumi if he doesn't love him in return? What was love?

Tears started running down his cheek, and before he knew it, he was sobbing uncontrollably. He cried over a broken heart, cried for the love that he can never claim, for the man that he can't spend the rest of his life with, but wants to so desperately, but it's not meant to be.

Shion wished that he didn't feel this way, he wished that this feeling would go away. But does he really want it to? No, this feeling made him more like a human, if it wasn't for Nezumi he would have been a robot by now, just going through the motions day by day, even when Nezumi was away, he still felt like a human, Nezumi kept him human, Shion will always love Nezumi, even if he can't, or won't return the feeling.

But that kiss they shared in the kitchen, it was Nezumi who instigated the kiss, if Nezumi didn't feel the same way why would he kiss him? He wiped away the tears. Unless-

"With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;

For stony limits cannot hold love out,

And what love can do that dares love attempt.

Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me."

Shion's breath hitched as he turned. Nezumi was walking towards him, his eyes shining brilliantly in the setting sun.

"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye

Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,

And I am proof against their enmity."

Nezumi sat next to him on the rock, and placed his hand gently on his cheek.

"I would not for the world they saw thee here". Shion recited meeting his gaze.

Nezumi smiled. "I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes.

And, but thou love me, let them find me here.

My life were better ended by their hate

Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love"

Shion knew what Nezumi was trying to say, he could feel it, could see it within those shimmering eyes.

"By love, who first did prompt me to inquire.

He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.

I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far

As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,

I would adventure for such merchandise."

Nezumi leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss to his lips, when he pulled back, he whispered as silently as a Summer Breeze. "I love you"

Nezumi looked at Shion, and finally knew what he was looking for, he thought he was looking for himself, he just hadn't realized he had already found it.

"Your a part of me". Said Shion. "And I love you too". His face turned red. Nezumi couldn't help but laugh.

"You-". He was interrupted by Shion's lips pressing against his.

He did not exist until the day he met Shion, until he anchored him with those eyes, he was just drifting into the nothingness, just drifting into the void, without a voice, he was nothing, he had nothing, nothing to live for, until now, until Shion's heart met his, it just took him 14 years to realize it, what a fool he's been.

They walked back to NO. 6 in silence, for there was nothing else to be said, Nezumi had found his way, he had finally found his home, his home was always waiting for him by Shion's side.

The end