Author notes : stupid school and busy stuff, plus being sick. Sorry this has been taking so long. I own nothing.

Rating : M

Ch.3 Dagger

It was not shortly when Haru left. He was not able to stay any longer, Momiji had felt great relief wash over him when Haru had mentioned he'd come by tomorrow. Momiji sat down on the couch after Haru had left, his heart was pounding in his chest, Haru was doing well, he was even single. But Momiji knew he would never gain the love he so craved. It was not long after he'd sat on the couch when Yuki came home. The rat now seemed a bit taller then he used to be, his hair had grown to shoulder length but still looked like a mop. Yuki had on a black business suit as usual. It was unusual for Yuki to be home at all, but Momiji guessed he just wanted to be home that night.

"Momiji, why does this place smell like Haru's old cologne?"asked Yuki in a calm tone.

For one thing that Haru had always done in highschool had been chase Yuki endlessly. He had never actually stopped wearing the incessant cologne, that made Yuki want to gag.

"He stopped by, you did ask him to, right?"asked Momiji.

"Yes I did, but his cologne never changed? I'm going to have to open the windows because of my asthma. So, how was he?"asked Yuki.

Momiji sighed a bit and sat down with his head in his hands. "He was fine, it was good to see him...but...I feel weird about it."said Momiji.

"I would suspect you would Momiji, he did just kinda come here randomely, it was amazing that he and I even ran into each other, I just happened to want Chinese food for lunch. I remember that was always his favorite food."said Yuki in a softer tone.

"Yeah, didn't you once date him Yuki?"asked Momiji.

"Well yes we did date for a while, that's why he stopped chasing me. We just weren't right for each other."said Yuki.

"So then why do you hate his cologne?"asked Momiji.

"I don't hate it particularly it's just so strong you'd be able to find him by his smell a mile away. I'm glad he dropped by but my apartment does not need to smell like this."said Yuki sternly.

Yuki sighed and went to warm something up in the microwave. Although he still couldn't cook, in fact Shigure still had the atomic waste dog from Yuki's cooking as a pet, but he could warm things up ok. Momiji sighed and suddenly he had the urge to paint, Haru's returning must have sparked something within him and he ran to his room. He began painting black and white streaks across the painting board, but alas his painting was not done. He gently added light blue stroke, and he began adding more strokes of light blue until he realized he'd made a light blue rose, a rose covered in ice and frozen for eternity in this horrid painting as he grabbed the red and began making dew drops of blood onto the frozen rose. The oil paints were working to his advantage, as he used silver neck to put a dagger into the middle of the rose, a hauntingly frightening picture revealed, it was such a dark painting but it revealed all the pain he felt right then. He stuffed it into a new corner. Ad he had spent several hours on it. He wasn't hungry then and soon he fell asleep on the soft bed. Nightmares came that night of all those men who had rejected him, and Haru was with them, screaming at him as his body broke into a cold sweat he awok to the alarm clock beeping. He quickly turned it off and hopped out of bed. He washed up and went out with the usual clothes on to see Haru standing there at the doorway talking with Yuki.

'Why did he have to come now? Couldn't I have gotten fully ready before he came?'thought Momiji who was quite embarrassed with his unbrushed hair and morning breathed mouth.

Momiji went to the kitchen and munched on some toast, the pet dog Ashi, Yuki kept, a lab, because for some reason Yuki did say that having a dog around him was a good thing, probably some secret Shigure fetish since the dog looked exactly like Shigure stopped in front of Momiji who tossed the pup some bread. The dog wasn't normally around this apartment, he was usually at Kyo's place, but Yuki would probably take him over there later. Yuki called to Ashi and the dog left with him. Haru went over to the couch. Today he was in tight black leather pants that showed his hip bones and were also bear on the side other then laces going up to show his legs off, and a tight black leather shirt too. Momiji finished eating and brushed his hair and teeth quickly, he came out to see Haru had dozed off.

'He's so...cute...'thought Momiji. Of course he caught himself thinking this and sighed out loud. 'No, keep stupid thoughts out of your head.'he thought to himself.

Momiji was pretty much blushing now, and he was now sitting down on the table in front of Haru. He sighed as a phone call came in and he smiled, a customer was wanting to buy a new painting, he decided he wasn't going to sell the Frozen Rose that was bleeding just yet, he was going to sell a different one and as he discussed with the customer, he saw Haru get up. The cow looked over to him with a smile. And Momiji smiled back. It was at times like these that he knew his creative strike was coming back, and although he was hurt, maybe Haru would help him from the darkness.

T.B.C.

Author : oh the angst, next chapter Momiji gets to see Haru work. Plenty more aintings to come too. Please review

Momiji: O.O such a demented painting

Haru : he's got hidden angst written all the way