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"Kaname."

"What is it?"

"Don't you want to sleep now? It's 3 am for God sake…"

"Ahahaha, Zero, baby, as you can see, I'm doing some work now and there will be more. Apparently, if I didn't finish this now, tomorrow I won't be able to sleep at all."

"But I can't sleep with you sitting beside me but doing something else!"

"You know, if you want me to cuddle you in your sleep, you could just ask…"

"Kuran! That is not what I meant!"

"Really? Those beautiful blushes saying otherwise…"

"Stop saying such sappy things!"

"But nothing about us is sappy… okay, that is a lie but you are just so beautiful, Zero."

"What had gotten into your perverted brain?"

"You?"

"I've had enough! I'm going to sleep so turn off the light or I'll kick you out from the bed!"

"Hush, hush… Feisty. I think you'll be a lovely mother to my children."

"One more word and you won't be able to see the next sunrise."

"Fine, fine. Just one more thing."

"What? I'm sleepy already!"

"If beauty were time, you'll be eternity."

"…na… me…"

Kaname let out a pained groan, opening his eyes slowly and try to adjust to his surroundings. His eyes, as they finally became clearer of their sight, meet with a pair of worried greens'.

"God… Kaname, finally you're awake!" Takuma sighed in relief and slumped down on the seat next to the bed. The brunette blinked his eyes and looked around him. He was in a ward. He was in a hospital.

Let out a heavy sigh, Kaname tried to sit down but another person, a stranger, he must said, had his hand on his chest to stop him from waking up. It was a blonde with a pair of amber eyes. Kaname frowned as he looked at the man and the man just awkwardly smiled, pushing him back to lie down on the bed. Takuma smiled at their reactions to each other.

"Kaname, meet Akatsuki Kain from Kain Company."

Kain smiled as he returned back to his standing position.

"I don't have the chance to meet you until today, Kuran-san. It is nice to meet you." Kain nodded at him and Kaname blinked his eyes again in confusion.

"Umm… It is nice to meet you too."

"Actually, Kain-san's lover was the one who found you lying unconscious in front of a shop. Fortunately at that time, Kain-san was about to pick him up. He called me to inform about you once they sent you to the hospital." Takuma explained with a cheerful smile. Kain smiled and nodded.

"It was just a mere luck. I went home earlier than supposed time and I found out he went to the city alone so I went to pick him up. You got him really panicked. I think he had never been that frighten since I knew him. He thought you were about to die but it turned out that you only fainted out of exhaustion. I had to send him home because he keeps on trembling in frights." Kain cannot help but chuckled a bit at the end of his sentence. Kaname smiled slightly.

"Really? Well then, tell him 'thank you' from me."

Kain nodded and looked at both of them.

"I think I better get going now… I got dinner appointment tonight."

Kaname and Takuma nodded and they said their farewell. Once the taller blonde is gone from their sight, Kaname turned to look at Takuma.

"Takuma."

His voice was firm and the blonde was taken back. He looked at his best friend, expecting him to continue but Kaname look like he lost again… The same like the day they learned a certain silver haired man's death.

"I saw Zero today… before I fainted." Kaname murmured softly. Takuma swore his eyes were almost bulging out from their sockets as he stared at the brunette as if he got three heads.

"…Kaname, are you serious?"

"Yes. I'm positive I saw him."

"That's just… impossible. There's no way-"

"Are you saying that I'm insane?"

Takuma was speechless for a moment, surprised by the sudden rose of Kaname's voice. The brunette's eyes are sharp as he glared at the blonde. Takuma gulped and shook his head.

"N-No-"

"That's a lie. You think I'm insane. You think I had lost my mind, aren't you?" the brunette continued to provoke and all of sudden, Takuma felt himself stuck.

"Kaname, no! I'm just stating my opinion because that day-" Takuma stopped in his exclaim as he watched the brunette's expression turned into a lost, confused look again.

"…I must have gone insane." Kaname's faint murmurs are the last echoed in the room before heavy silence decided to suffocate them.

Kain entered his house and once he placed his feet inside, he saw Ichiru sitting twitchily on the couch. Shizuka perhaps was being somewhere else inside the large house that Kain cannot pinpoint and he sighed as he made his way to take a seat beside his lover. Ichiru turned to look at him almost automatically, grabbing onto his hands on his lap.

"How is he?" he tightened his hold and Kain smiled at him. The blonde reached out to push some of the silver strands behind his right ear as he leaned to kiss the smaller one on his forehead.

"He's fine, Ichiru… Why are you so worked out?" the blonde raised an eyebrow and Ichiru sighed in relief.

"I… I don't know, he was looking at me before he fainted. Of course I'll panic." He crossed his arms on his chest and huffed. Kain let out a small chuckle and ruffled his hair. The smaller man glared at him because of the childlike gesture. Kain leaned in to his ear, letting out another small chuckle.

"You know what, Ichiru… I would say that you are becoming more… active since the accident." He whispered before blowing soft air against the sensitive part of his lover. Ichiru shivered and blushes appeared on his cheeks. Kain smiled in victory, pinching the soft cheek before pulling away.

"Anyway, I'm free tonight."

That took the attention of the silver head as he turned to look at the blonde. His head titled a bit to his left side and a confused look upon his face just made him a lot more adorable.

"And what is it that you are going to suggest?"

The blonde hummed for a moment, mimicking the thinking pose before turning to look back at his lover.

"Well… let's go for a dinner, only both of us, tonight, shall we?"

"Are you serious you want to go out now? The doctor just said that you'd better take few days off and rest at the hospital if you don't want to collapse again…" Takuma watched as the brunette packing his things in rush. Kaname shrugged but his focus was only on his doing.

"I know what I am doing. And, Takuma, you need to help me to look for him." He murmured but the blonde can hear his determination, his seriousness in his voice. And somehow, it frightened him.

"… We are looking for a dead person?" Takuma cannot help but replied back, his voice smaller than before, however Kaname listened to it as if it was a bomb that was exploding.

"Takuma, please. Don't do this to me. I'm not crazy. I looked at him! I looked at his eyes, I watched his expression before I fainted… He looked horrified, there is no way a ghost-" Kaname stopped in his speech and turned to look at Takuma with wide eyes. The blonde stared back at him in confusion.

"Yes?"

"Who is Akatsuki Kain's lover?"

Silence lingered in the room as the question finally made his way in the blonde's mind. His green eyes widened and he quickly rose up his hands in truce.

"Wait, please stop there. I'm sorry if I got it wrong but are you saying that Kain's lover is your dead lover?"

"Takuma, stop inserting the word 'dead' in every sentence you were saying about Zero, can you?" the twitch in Kaname's eyes was enough and the said man sighed.

"I can't believe this."

"Please do. Look for his address and the name of his lover. I'll come to visit once the deal is done." The brunette went to the mirror to examine himself. His brown eyes somehow were filled with some glitter hope. Takuma watched the brunette in his chair, closing his eyes and letting out another sigh. Kaname stopped for a moment and turned to look at the blonde.

"What is it, Takuma?"

The blonde ran his fingers through his blonde locks, looking back to meet his eyes with those browns.

"Say that, he really look like Zero… then what are you going to do? I mean, this is Akatsuki Kain's lover we are talking about, Kaname. You don't just barge into their lives."

The brunette looked away for a moment, his forehead ceased into a frown. The blonde was right but they have not started anything yet.

"I'm not sure. There are also chances that he is not the one that I saw, maybe he just turned out to be there and helped and I was just having… a delusion. But what I know is I don't want to let this chance go, Takuma… You have to understand." He almost pleaded as he looked at the blonde in his eyes. Takuma stared back at him, his hand fisted by his side.

If he were to lose Senri, then saw someone similar to him… he will do anything, everything to get a hold onto him.

Offering a small smile to his best friend, he closed his eyes and nodded.

"Fine."

Kain leaned against his leather seat, currently inside his personal office in his house. He played with a familiar silver ring on the table; his amber eyes were emotionless as he carefully opened the lower cabinet of his mahogany. The blonde gently placed the silver ring inside before taking out a small red box and put it in front of him.

True.

It had been a month and something was wrong.

Kain did not know but Ichiru was just… different. He wasn't daring to question it to his lover but he did to Shizuka anyway.

From there, the woman somehow felt the same. She told him about Ichiru's unfamiliar behaviours. When he was supposed to be allergic to seafood, after the accident, seafood is his favourite dish. Ichiru hated Chess but now he plays Chess every time he has time to kill. He used to stay in his room most of the time but since he woke up from his coma, he loves to help Shizuka to clean up the house, doing the house chores and sometimes just sit outside the veranda to enjoy the silence. And he always fall sick before, but last week when they went to hospital for weekly check-up, the doctor said that he was doing just fine and very healthy.

It was too confusing.

Personality changes, no? Physical changes, yes?

He asked the doctor in charge for Ichiru's case and the doctor said there are possibilities.

But Kain cannot live with possibilities. So he did the best he can think of. He hired a detective to search for Ichiru's background because Shizuka had told him, the day she adopted Ichiru, the boy have an older twin brother.

An identical twin brother.

But what is the percentage of having Ichiru switched with his identical twin brother? One percent?

Kain shook his head and stared at the red box.

They had their talk that day, about the memory that Kain loved so much with Ichiru. Ichiru remembered them a bit. He thought that if he had pressed the part that they got onto the Ferris Wheel and Kain had proposed when they reached at the highest peak of the wheel, and Ichiru confirmed he remembered all of that, then Kain will not be as confused as he was now.

He cannot gamble with this even though the possibility is just one percent. One percent still means a possibility.

But he cannot deny that his feeling did not change. Perhaps, his feeling had gotten stronger these few weeks. The presences of the silver haired man that he was not sure was his real lover or not, making him feel better. Kain cannot deny that when he gave his kisses to the younger man, those blushes that arise on his cheeks making him feel better. That shy kisses he received when he was not paying attention making him wants more. They have not got onto a higher level than kisses since Ichiru always seems hesitate every time Kain wanted to make his way further. The last thing that he wanted was to hurt his lover.

He cannot deny that this current Ichiru was actually quite a tempered one and loves to throw sarcasm at him. Yes, that was true. But all those changes make him love him more.

But what if… that one percent happened?

Kain closed his eyes and took a deep breath before shaking his head to make disappear of the thought. He grabbed onto the red box and put it inside his pocket, standing up and went to get ready for their dinner tonight.

"Why are you bringing me here?" Ichiru looked around the expensive Italian restaurant. They currently sitting at their table, next to glass wall to allow them to enjoy the outside scenery and their table happened to be somewhere private – Kain had set it up to avoid disturbance – and Ichiru's eyes twitched at his mischievous smile.

"Are you up to something?"

"No, I'm not. Why so doubtful? Just relax, Ichiru…" Kain smiled, carefully placing his napkin on his lap while Ichiru continued to stare at him with awareness in his eyes. A minute later, the waitress came to take their orders.

Kain turned and smiled at her, starting to speak in Italian and Ichiru swore he winked at his way, making the waitress blushed heavily. The girl then started to write down orders and Ichiru just nodded at whatever thing that Kain had ordered for them.

They'd better be edible or he'll kill the blonde using the food.

Once they were alone again, Ichiru took a sip of his plain water before relaxing on his seat. The blonde in front of him gazed towards him and he started to feel uncomfortable.

"Akatsuki… stop staring." He hissed with small blushes on his pale cheeks. Kain chuckled a bit before shaking his head.

"Fine, I'm sorry… Ichiru, I got something to tell you."

Ichiru felt his blood ran cold by the sudden statement. Kain smiled almost sadly, running his fingers through his soft, messy blonde hair. The younger cannot help but stared down on his lap, his heart started to beat faster.

"There is something wrong… I don't know, Ichiru but I think there is something wrong with you." Kain softly murmured and Ichiru closed his eyes.

"Is this because I still can't remember anything?" the smaller man answered with his own question. The blonde stared at him for a moment, then reaching on to hold on his left hand that was numbed on the table.

"I think you got it wrong, Ichiru… There is something different about you after-"

"You always said that to me. You always told me-"

"But…"

Ichiru was silenced by Kain's pressed tone. The blonde smiled at his willingness to actually keep quiet for a second, raising his left hand up and pressed a kiss on each of his knuckles.

"But… I don't hate that difference. In fact, I think I love you more."

Ichiru blinked looking at the blonde.

'I love you.'

That sentence had made their way from his lips and Ichiru's heart beating a little bit faster. But what is this feeling he was having? Like it wasn't enough, like this wasn't real? That there were empty holes in his heart that even Kain's words of love cannot heal.

"I just want to tell you that no matter what happen, I will always love you…" Kain breathed against the back of his palm and it was hurt, because Ichiru thought that all of these things that Kain was doing for him, he cannot felt whole heartedly. But he cannot deny the roar of happiness inside of his heart. That Kain was making him more than happy and the twinkles in his eyes are nothing more than what Ichiru wanted for him.

"I know, Akatsuki… I know…" Ichiru smiled, pulling his hand slightly before reaching forward again to interlock their fingers. Kain grinned slightly, his other hand reaching out to take something from his pocket. Ichiru watched as a small red box appear in front of him. Kain had pulled his hand from their interlocking fingers and carefully opened the lid.

Lilac eyes widened when the tall blonde stood from his seat, approached him to stand close in front of him before proceeded to kneel on both of his knees.

His hands gently placing the red box contained a plain simple, yet beautiful ring made from white gold on Ichiru's lap. Kain took hold on both of his hands on his lap, the box in between their hands and his head titled upwards to meet with Ichiru's wide lilac eyes; his own filled with determination and hope.

Suddenly a rush of déjà vu ran through his mind and Ichiru cannot help but continued to stare in stun.

"I love you more than my life… Please marry me?"

TBC.

A/N : Blueberry cheese tart, anyone? xD

Next chapter might come out few days later, my semester result is coming up today (Monday) and I hope I got my pointer target (really scared right now =.=) and I was supposed to update this chapter around 7 pm, now is 12.30 am because I can't log in to FFN. I've been reloading since hours and I only succeeded now. I don't know what's up but I hope it won't happen again.

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Unnamed (You know who you are xD) : Sorry about the stomach ache, I hope this chapter didn't cause you gastric O.o Thank you for the compliment, sugar and yes, I'll try to update as fast as I can! Thank you for reading! =D (hugs)

Noooooooo (You are sticking with the name? xD) : Kaname will get Zero back if I have the guts to write it =.=; Kaname just got too exhausted, that's why he fainted =D Another reader telling me to kill Kain and man, I thought I was the meaniest of all! xD Now that you got what you mean about proposing! Thank you for reading this, baby! (hugs)

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