I am such a terrible person. It´s been way too long since I published chpter seven. I feel so guilty. Sorrrrrryyyyyyy i had an emotional breakdown (not literrally) so I haven´t found the inspiration and when I found it, it wasnt even good enough. I feel terrible but I tried.

Rin waited for almost fifteen minutes straight just looking at Haru. The only feeling he ever saw on those eyes for half of the time was doubt, ever so slowly melting away and turning into something Rin couldn´t quite make out. He waited until he grew impatient, and for all the jumbled thoughts running across his min, even he was surprised at how careful he was.

Like all he had done in the last half hour he hastily and slowly raised his hand above the water, close to him, but not quite. Haru stared at his hand with no emotion but didn´t move anything at all apart from his blue eyes. Rin approached his shaking hand to Haru and – thanking whatever gods he knew the names to – he sighed shakily in relief that he didn´t back away when he landed it in his cheek; caressing it softly with the back of his folded fingers.

Rin swallowed hard and stumbled over his own words. "You – does this mean…you forgive me?"

Haru nodded and raised his hand to put it over Rin´s, making him let another sigh of relief. "Yes" was his simple response.

"Thank you" Rin breathed out. He shuffled closer to him and, defeated, dropped his forehead on Haru´s shoulder, his legs ending up on both sides of him. "Thank you" he muttered and then suddenly his head popped upwards again. He raised his bare forearm and offered it to Haru. "Makoto said I had to make a small sacrifice to you. Here" Haru frowned at him deeply. "He said I should give you some of my blood. So, go ahead"

Haru blinked at him once and then started laughing. Rin looked at him with wide eyes, stunned, and started laughing too. His laugh was so contagious and plain adorable, the way his cheeks were slightly pink and his lips curled up in small smile, how his shoulders shaked with laughter. "What?" Rin asked between laughs. "What´s so funny?"

The merman stopped and looked up at him. "I´m flattered" he muttered, his eyes gleaming with amusement.

"Why?" Rin wondered aloud. "Did I say something?"

"There´s no such thing as a sacrifice" he chuckled lowly and his blush grew a little darker. "I never thought I´d laugh again" The look on Haru´s eyes was so warm Rin took the chance to grab his jaw gently and kiss Haru, causing the merman to wrap his arms around his neck, responding slowly to the kiss. It had only been three hours, but it felt lke forever since he had touched Haru´s lips with his own, tasted the saltiness in his mouth.

After a few seconds Rin pulled back only slightly and smiled. Note to self: Kill Makoto later for lying to me. Rin laughed softly when he saw Haru´s eyes open in annoyance at the sudden stop, immediately going back to kiss him. 2nd Note to self: Thank Makoto for making Haru trust in me again.

Rin parted them after some minutes of making-out and, with a soft whine from Haru, stepped out of the tub, his arm being instantly grabbed by the merman. "Where are you going?" he said worriedly, looking up at him with big, blue eyes. He just laughed and leaned down to kiss his nose, chuckling as he scrunched it up as if it tickled him.

Rin yawned "I think I´m taking a nap" he said rubbing at one of his eyes. Haru yawned too and nodded, "Or maybe just sleep. I´ll wake you up tomorrow for breakfast, ok?" The merman muttered a ´ok´ pulling Rin down once more to plant a quick kiss on his lips.

Rin first found some towels in his closet and dried himself up, changing into a pair of sweatpants and a sleeveless, black t-shirt and laying down in his bed facing the roof. As he slowly fell asleep, he thought about the chances of walking down a street with Haru; cuddling with him on his bed with their legs intertwined; Haru waking him up and walking with him on the beach; Haru running to meet him after work; Haru dancing with him…or if something went wrong…

Rin tried not to think about it as he dropped into a deep sleep, all the happy images of Haru as a human running through his mind. Running. Rin smiled at his own pun. Hilarious. Until he only saw black and started to snore.

"Rin!" Haru called out to him, standing on the end of the street. Rin happily smiled and started walking towards him, even though he didn´t get any closer even if he ran.

"Rin!" Haru called again, a hint of panic in his voice.

"What´s wrong?" he called back, fascinated by the fact that Haru was standing on two feet some meters away from him. If Rin could only reach him…

"Rin!" Now Haru´s voice was fully panicked, his face contorted into a look of pure fear. "Rin!"

"Haru?!" he started runnig towards him again, never getting any closer.

"Rin!" he woke up to his name being called by Haru, the same panicked tone that in the nightmare he had just woken up from.

"Haru?!" he jumped out of his bed and ran to the bathroom, finding it empty, and quickly turning to the source of the yell on the corridor. A man – no – the same man that had pulled Haru out of the ocean and dragged him across the streets like a dead animal, was pulling him in the same way the night when Rin had saved Haru.

"What the fuck are you doing?!" Rin yelled at the man, quickly catching his attention. The man pulled at Haru´s tail once to drag him behind him before towering in front of Rin.

"I´m just picking up what´s mine" he growled down at him. "Don´t interfere, and I will forgive what you did two days ago"

"Like fucking hell I am" Rin punched the guy first, catching him by surprise and making him stumble backwards, in the act stepping on Haru´s fin and causing him to emit a high pitched hiss that had both Rin and the man cover their ears. While his ears still rang, Rin punched the guy once more, this time getting punched back in the stomach. He held in the pain while groaning and punched the man again, pushing him against the wall and hitting his head with a lamp from a small table behind him. The man punched him hard in the jaw and Rin winced before hitting the man with the lamp again. The man fell down and quickly stood up, Rin quickly grabbing his collar to throw another punch.

"Look, kid" he said desperately. "I´m just doing my job here. C´mon," he pointed at Haru, panting on the floor behind him. "That thing is worth more than the price of buying the United States in cash"

"If he´s just a "thing", why would he be worth so much? Huh?" Rin knew the answer of course. If this man knew it too…and he knew where he lived…

"I don´t know kid" the man shook his head. "They just said ´blue tail, blue eyes s´worth your life´"

"Shit" Rin muttered. Whoever this man was working for, they knew how much Haru was worth and maybe why too… He turned to the man and pointed at him warily. "You´re gonna get out of here, and I´m going to pretend this never happened. You will just forget all about us, and if I here about you again," he pointed at his desk were a pair of handcuffs were lying. "remember I´m a cop. I can arrest you if I want too" Rin let him go, opened the door, and closed it in his face.

"Are you okay?" Rin said worriedly as he leaned down to untie the rope from the end of his tail, revealing a purple X where it pressed too hard.

"Yes…" Haru said taking Rin´s hand, where his fist was red and bruised and two of his knuckles were bleeding. "Your hand…"

"Oh, don´t worry" Rin laughed shakily. "It´s just a little blood…Haru?" the merman had hung his head and his shoulders were slumped forward, shaking slightly. "Hey, look at me" Rin raised Haru´s face and noticed tears were falling from those deep blue eyes. "Are you-"

"Sh…" Haru soothed as he just took his bloodied hands and guided his knuckles to lie gently on his cheek, right beneath a falling tear. Rin braced himself as the crystalline tear dropped and felt it gently touch his injury, instantly causing an icy feeling to spread through his hand. Rin watched speechless as Haru moved his wounded knuckles to caress his own soft skin, making his hand wet from the tears that fell on it.

Then Rin continued to watch as, like a cat, Haru gently licked his hand were the cuts were, noticing there were no wounds anywhere and the pain in his hand was completely gone; more than gone, now Rin felt like he could take a thousand knifes through and it wouldn´t hurt.

Haru looked up at Rin. "Can cure anything" he said smiling, the last tears falling.

"You have such an amazing gift" Rin said amazed. "But…every gift has its flaw, doesn´t it?"

Haru looked down for a second and then looked straight in Rin´s eyes. He raised his hand and Rin saw how it was trembling . "While Pure Blood´s take the pain away, we don´t make it disappear, we take it in ourselves…" He lowered his hand. "Your knuckles didn´t hurt like a bullet, but they hurt before right?" Rin nodded. "The flaw is that when we take the pain, we take it in ten times worst, depending on how much we care for who we´re taking it from. It´s just while we take it, but it hurts like acid on an open wound"

"Why would you take it for me? It wasn´t even that necessary" Rin stood and picked Haru up, the merman´s head cuddling into his chest. "Not if it hurts you like that"

"I wanted to show you"

"How it works"

"No" Haru smiled weakly. "How much loving someone can hurt"

i wasnt so sure about that last line. I almost changed it to. "Loving makes us weak" or "we are reserved because loving can hurt us more than anything" so idk but i know i said i would have it soon because i have this mini summary. t

his chapter was literraly based in: gains trust (somehow) kiss kiss fall in love again lol some shit tries taking haru away rin to the rescue save tears heal knuckles or waterver blah blah dramatic ending line "loving hurts us too" "how much loving hurts" "love makes us weak" "Love hurts us too bad to wish it" the message is how love can actually hurt us because im a piece of sentimental shit

so thats that but i do have all the way through planned just not enough inspiration and time and brains to write because english isnt even my first language which sucks i hope you liked this chap because im not too proud of it myself but its all i can do for now

almost forgot *rains flowers on reviewers* IM NOT EVEN KIDDING