Keiji sprinted down the hall trying to get away from the vicious girl that was intent on beating the shit out of him. He spotted his brother and dove behind him for safety. "Keiji what are you doing up?" He grinned at Ken then ducked slightly pointing. "Escaping the wrath of Lady Fujimya." His brother blinked as Aya stormed down the hall. "Keiji Hidaka get your ass back in bed right this instant." He grinned at his brother again and Ken just looked amused. "Aya-chan he's fine. He's going a little crazy being bed ridden so just let him wander a bit." Ken said softly and he hugged his brother tightly burying his face in a warm neck. "Did you know you smelled really good?" He brother looked at him and shrugged. "At least that makes one of us." He glared then slightly sniffed at himself and cringed. "Ken are you ready to talk to the press?" He jumped slightly as Ken's lover came out of the floor or something and spoke.
Ken shrugged still feeling his younger brother pressed tightly against him. He could feel the younger looking between him and his lover then relax resting a head on his shoulder. "Can I come with?" He nodded once and he could feel Keiji's grin as he started walking dragging the other with him. He could feel his lover's weighted stare and glanced into violet eyes. "Do you know what you are going to say?" He nodded hesitantly and sighed deeply. Kenta stepped from his room looking sleepy and smiled softly at him. He smiled back and scooped the thirteen year old up in a bridal hold and grinned, as he didn't even squirm. He was ready; he had his brothers and his lover so he was ready.
Ken looked at the few wer talking to the hoard of press members and slowly set down one brother and pried the other off of his back. He swallowed hard and stepped out flashes and questions being shot off every few seconds. He held up his hands and looked around as every one grew still. He smiled softly and took a deep breath. "I am out here not to justify my actions but to apologies to those who have lost ones they loved from all sides. This was a war as unfair and depressing as that may sound there is honestly no other way to classify it. All sides were perceived as a threat to some one else and we did what we had to for our survival. However that survival that we fought for is now in the hands of all of you. We are few in number and there are many great armies out there that would have little problem with us.
"So I am also here to ask for a favor from all of you. I understand you are frightened and unsure of our power and strength and to tell the truth so are we. Many of us just want to lead normal lives among you. Many of us have hidden what we are for years and don't want to lose the lives we had. Then there are those of us who want nothing more than a bit of understanding.
"I have always seen my self as a monster. My own parents rejected me; I still can't find it in my self to forgive them. Today I stand before you not as the monster that I though myself to be but as a boy barely even twenty asking you all of you for tolerance. A great man called Martin Luther King Jr. that lived in a land far from here in a place called America once said 'I have a dream that my children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.' In a way I am asking for the same for me and all of those like me and those that are not. We banded together wer and human alike. Wolf and Cat, black white and everything in between to fight for the sake of humanity. So we are asking humanity to try and accept us and not judge us by the color of our skin, the, country of our origin, the god we may praise, or the animal we may turn to but to judge us for the good people that we are.
"There are many out there who will not accept us just as there are many out there who can't accept any one different from them and this I do understand. There are those out there who fear what we were fighting may rise again. In time it maybe, but there will always be war and fear no matter where you live. I am asking for you not to fear us because in so many ways we are just like you but also different. We come from every corner of the earth and for a long time we have worked, lived, and loved among you with out being noticed. We have been revealed and now I ask for understanding. I believe that many of us would not choose to be this way while there are others of us that have found our true selves in being what we are. Wolves and Cats have never seen eye to eye but we have pushed aside our differences and found the common thread that binds us so we ask you to do the same. We wish for nothing more than that and a chance to bury all those that died in battle. Thank you for listening."
Ken looked over the silent crowd of press and the wer from ever corner of the earth by his side silently supporting him. "Hidaka-san what moves are being made to assure the survival of your species?" One short reporter with large glasses and a hooked nose asked in a nasal tone. "None. We are what we are and I believe wer and humans have to find common ground before we can truly be guaranteed a survival." The reporter nodded and another stepped forward. "Hidaka-san how many wer were born that way?" He shrugged and looked at Doc who answered softly. "Roughly five percent of all wer are born wer. Many make the choice thought knowing and loving a wer to change. Others happened by an accident of choice. There are fewer yet who have come just recently that were forced." The plump reporter nodded scribbling what he heard. "Hidaka-san what do you eat?" He blinked at that question coming from the willowy wisp of a man that if he turned side ways would disappear. "Uh I eat normal food like any one else. I like traditional Japanese dishes and anything my lover cooks." There was a small trickle of laughter and the mood seemed to ease.
Ran watched as Ken and the others easily answered questions seeing, not for the first time, what so many others saw in his lover. Ken was a strong leader with a good heart and he wouldn't give those qualities up for the world. Ken's temper he might be willing to trade. He smiled as Ken started making jokes to the reporters setting many people at ease he was sure. He felt the man standing by his elbow and glanced at Tomaru and smiled slightly. "He's good at that." The other said softly and he nodded. As he listened to what some we said they did for a living because of one of the questions asked. "Hidaka-san what do you do?" He snorted as he saw Ken grin. "I'm a florist." He felt a small smile twitch at his lips as the press looked at him completely baffled. "If you hurt him I'll kill you." The other wer at his elbow said softly. "I loved him first I just loved Taki more. He's very strong but he loves you too much so don't break him ok." He nodded and looked into ice blue eyes. "I would never dream of hurting him because I know I love him too much. He'd break me before I could him." Tomaru smiled and walked off vanishing into shadows like a dream.
Ken and the other wer answered several more questions; he even answered a few about the power they saw of Nagi's. Every one seemed to be taking it well but he was just hoping this wasn't the calm before the storm. He walked into the hotel and wrapped his arms around his lover nuzzling into him. Cool long fingers ran though his hair and he sighed happily pressing himself more firmly into the strong body. "Ran I love you." He whispered softly pressing warm opened mouth kisses across a slender neck. His lover pulled him close and sighed softly in his ear. "I love you too Ken." There was a soft hesitance in his lover's voice that brought his head up so he looked into deep violet eyes. He smiled and touched the face of the man he loved. "When I first saw you change I was heart broken because I thought you weren't the right one but then I realized that if you weren't the right one then I couldn't love you as much as I do. Something other than fate or destiny brought us together, something stronger. Love and faith is letting us stand here and nothing can break that not even fate." Ran smiled and kissed him deeply.
Ran felt the ease at Ken's words and kissed his lover desperately not caring who saw them only caring that his lover's lips were moving against his in a timeless dance. Someone cleared their throat and he hesitantly brought his head up and looked at the young Native American woman and the wrinkled old man. The girl smiled and Ken turned in his grasp and looked at the other two. "Hay I know you." Ken said softly pointing to the old man. "You were in that crazy dream I had in the park shortly after this all started." He looked down at his lover but blue eyes refused to meet his because they were locked on the old man. "Yes it was me." The old man said softly his voice husky with age and his eyes deep with wisdom.
Ken stared at the old man then snorted glancing into lovely violet eyes briefly. He dragged his gaze back to the old man and smiled darkly. "I hate to tell you old man but I'm not fulfilling the last part of your dumb story. I love Ran and he is a perfectly beautiful color of cinnamon." He said gently twining a lock of Ran's cherry-red hair around his finger. The old man smiled and looked at him clearly amused. "I think you must look again young wolf cub. There is more to the story that you could not be told because it would change your fate and possibly that of the world. When the true wolf his first love partake in a battle of romance and faith. The wolf he loves shall shed his skin and become white being free of sin." He felt himself blink at the crazy old man then looked at Ran. "You are babbling." His lover growled softly while the old man smiled. "In short your love for Ken turned you white. You had to prove it by saving his brothers and him." His lover bristled pulling his closer and he gently patted a strong arm feeling his lover relax just slightly. "I don't believe you. Ran show the crazy Indian man he's a physco." His lover nodded and slowly slipped his grip from him and kissed him.
Ken looked smugly at the old man who just looked amused. He felt his temper rise and turned to Ran and felt his mouth drop. His lover stood next to him his coat a white as the fresh snow on the mountain peaks. He knelt and reached out touching the soft fur. "Ran?" He asked his voice shaking with hope fear and some disappointment. His lover's violet eyes stared at him and he hugged the wolf close. "Your fur is white." He whispered while his lover just sat letting him hold on tightly. He felt the change and soon he was sitting in Ran's lap being held in return. "You look sad Ken." Ran said brushing away a tear he didn't know had fallen. "I didn't want to love you because I at some level am made too." His lover sighed against his skin and smiled at him. "Ken nothing at any level no matter what it is could make you do anything other than what you thought right or wanted to do. If you didn't want to love me you wouldn't have even if I was white from the very beginning. You love me for Ran not for the white wolf just like I love you for Ken not for the wolf of fate. You saw me as Ran when no one else could and I loved you as Ken before I knew what you were. Nothing will change that now." He felt a grin stretch across his face and he kissed Ran firmly. "You sure change your turn quick koi." Ran smiled and kissed him tenderly. "I do what I must to appease the mighty Ken." He chuckled and kissed his love lightly.
hehe sorry but i've been like super busy so here are two chapters to make it up to you.
Miss Vampire: I totally agree with the Ran Ken hotness however I feel slightly restricted on this site because I can be reported and have my stories taken off and I'd rather not have that happen. I will send you a discription I promise I'm just busy with work and my dad breathing down my neck every time I'm on the computer. Oh the pain of moving home. So I will try and get that to you asap however asap might be in two weeks. How are the puppies and your dog? Well I hope. I love puppies. Good luck with the little bundles of fluff. Thanks for the review.
Gillie: You should like wite a book called: The Reviewers Handbook to the Perfect Review. I mean if you criticise it's always dilivered in a nice helpful fasion and you always include so much insite. I'm so glad people seem to like Keiji! I adore Keiji. As for him and Kenta being in the next story I keep changing things so they might not show up it all depends on which story I write as for now I'm leaning tword Ran dreaming of Ken and I have one version set in high school like time line so it is easy to add them there while the other is more in the series time line so it's a tad harder to add them as main characters there and i like the one that fallows more of the series it gives me more to work with and it's a tad more structured and thus far most of my stories have been way off the series timeline and thus a little more free form so I want to try some thing a bit diffrent but then again I cahnge my mind twice a week till I get the perfect start once I have that the rest of the story is easy so we'll see how it turns out. Thanks for the review and all of the encouragement.
HeatherR: Another Keiji fan! Yeah! HERE IS YOUR WHITE WOLF RAN!!!! so did you like it or was it way too Disney? I liked it and hated the explination all at the same time so I'm really curious to see what others think so please give honest feed back I really value your opnion. Again too late to change now but it helps for furture stories. Speaking of future stores when are you going to post again? I hope soon because I love your work but if not I understand. Good luck and thanks for the review.