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Ichiru gently tracing his fingertips on a familiar silvery white butterfly hair clip, a small smile on his face as he brought it closed to his nose, sniffing on its smell. Somehow it smells fruity and mint at the same time. Ichiru's eyes twitched at the scent; a very familiar smell indeed.
"What are you doing?" Ichiru startled when Kain suddenly behind him, his arms were on both sides of him and placed on the balcony's railing, trapping Ichiru inside his embrace. The nice warmth from his body made Ichiru shivered, the sunlight almost blind him when Kain's amber eyes reflected the ray once his lilacs meet those ambers'.
"Just… enjoying the sun?"
Kain chuckled at the sheepish answer he received, leaned slightly to kiss his fiancé's on his left cheek. His eyes automatically locked on the hair clip that Ichiru was holding with his right hand, his own right hand carefully touching the smaller male's said arm.
"Where did you get that?" Kain murmured softly and blushes rose on Ichiru's cheeks. The tall blonde's left hand's fingertips lovingly leaving traces with tingles of shivers as they stopped at their destination, spooning the silver haired man's left back palm.
Their rings burnished by the sunlight and Kain leaned to press a kiss on Ichiru's engagement ring.
The younger man blushed deeper by the tender gesture, leaned to rest his back on Kain's well sculpted chest.
"I got it as a present… from a friend. And I'm wondering now what are you doing here, Mr. Kain? Don't you have works to do?" Ichiru quickly changed the topic, making it as casual as it could be, adding a teasing tone to his question. Kain raised an eyebrow while wrapping his arms around Ichiru's waist, his lover's on top of his.
"Well… currently I'm taking a small break. And while wandering around, I found a beautiful person standing alone at the balcony… I'm wondering if he has a lover…?" Kain let out a small chuckle, continued to play along. Ichiru made a disapproval sound, shaking his head.
"I do. If he saw you holding me like this, I think he'll get mad… very mad." Ichiru turned to look at his lover's amber eyes. Kain was smiling, and it almost takes his breath away. If this was what he needed to do to have him happy like that, Ichiru would do it many times again.
"Oh? If the price is you… the word 'giving up' doesn't even exist in my dictionary…"
"Really? Then you would have to fight very hard, Mr. Kain…" Ichiru laughed a little. Kain tightened his hold around Ichiru's waist and leaned down to whisper on his right ear.
Ichiru's eyes widened when the whispered words reached his mind and somehow, unexpectedly, his body shivered in pure sense of uncalled dread and anxiety.
"Then, just bring it on."
Kain carefully tracing the paper with his eyes, his mind progress the information that he just received from his hired detective. The blonde put down the paper, the eerie silence in his office did not help to lighten his moods but he did not care.
It seemed like the older twin of Ichiru Hio had died few months ago. But under some circumstances, he was unable to gain information about the cause of his death and his other related acquaintances. The person who was in charge of his funeral, had made sure that his death remained as private and unknown. Perhaps because the person actually cares too much about him, to let others that have no relation with him, to find out that he was already dead.
But why?
Kain titled his head to a side, his eyes skimming back the document for the nth times and he was surprised when his cell phone suddenly rang.
The blonde flipped open his cell phone, staring at the unknown number of his caller before suspiciously answered the call.
"Hello?"
Kaname stood in front of a tomb, eyes staring at the craved words of 'Zero Kiryuu' on the tombstone and slowly kneeled down on one knee. He placed a bouquet of red roses, not knowing what kind of flower the person actually liked.
He continued to stare at the burial place for a minute or so before standing up again. Then he heard the sounds of footsteps approaching but Kaname did not budge.
"You wanted to see me?"
Akatsuki Kain's voice greeted him not far from few feet away. Kaname turned his head slightly to look at the tall blonde, his expression were blank and dead. Kain's was similar to him.
Only both males were the living occupiers of the cemetery as both of them stood still, did not make any move to break the silence. As if they were expecting a bomb to explode in any second from now.
"I heard that you had hired a detective last few weeks?" Kaname stated in a monotone. Kain approached him closer and only stopped when they are about 2 feet apart.
"You've been digging my information?"
"No, in fact, I got nothing to do with it at the first place. I was looking for someone and it apparently appeared that you were to."
Kain blinked his eyes; his stare at the brunette man became slightly sharper when Kaname turned to look fully at him.
"I don't know what you have gained. What information you already had in your hand, but it definitely not my focus here. But let me tell you something. If you are suspicious of someone, then the suspicion is right. Stop living a lie." Kaname titled his head a bit, as if showing his challenges and Kain's hands turned into fists on his side. The tall blonde let his mind working the assumptions that Kaname directed at him before looking away to his right side, a small chuckle escaped his lips.
"I don't know what you are talking about."
"This is the grave of Ichiru Hio."
Kaname's right hand moved to gesture towards the grave he just visited, his brown eyes were dark and hard as Kain's widened a little before those ambers sent glares at the brunette.
"Kuran-"
"I have the evidence. Ichiru Hio has an older twin brother. The accident, that occurred two months before had them misidentified and the person you thought was your lover, is actually mine."
Those words were spoken with much confidence and determination.
Kain looked at the brunette in front of him, his eyes twitching in bewilderment and anger. If he were to learn this, he'd prefer someone else to tell him the news. His business partner cannot just suddenly go and told him that he had misidentified his lover with his own lover.
"So you wanted me to go and tell Ichiru that he is not Ichiru, he is Kaname Kuran's lover and his younger twin had died. The most ironically is I had misidentified him and all his life since he was sober from the accident until now is all lies. That he is living a lie." Kain's voice however filled with sarcasm and hatred, his amber eyes glaring sharper towards the brunette and Kaname closed his eyes; he needed to control his breath and emotion before he get the chance to go forward and just stab the blonde.
"It is you who are living a lie. Stop twisting the facts-"
"The fact is you should just stop all this nonsense about your past! Yes, I knew there is possibility that Ichiru is not Ichiru but I wasn't daring to voice it out to him. You know why? He's having amnesia and that accident, it was whether Ichiru or his fault that caused it to happen. If I told him everything, he'll start blaming himself for his younger twin's death!"
"And you'd prefer him to learn it all by himself one day… knowing that you knew about it a long time ago but hiding it from him? That's it?" Kaname's small voice created a heavy silence between them. Both browns and ambers shooting each other a hard look and none of them dared to make a closer approach.
"… You should just let it go. Can't you see he's happy now?" Kain slowly murmured, Kaname tightened his fist and took a step closer towards the blonde.
"He'll be happier with me."
Kain watched as the brunette stopped in front of him. He offered the blonde a file – Kain did not noticed that he had been holding it until now – and Kain solemnly accepted it.
"Now can we work this out like gentlemen? This is all the evidences that I've got… I don't want us to be enemies. Our companies and employees deserves more than that." Kaname stated half hearted and Kain just nodded his head; both men did not even acknowledge each other as the blonde started to skim through the pages.
He started to frown during halfway of his skimming, the result of the handprints test, the information about the accidents, the data on how Ichiru had gotten amnesia – the helmet that protected his head from further damages, what helmet? Kain pondered – and everything.
He abruptly closed the file and looked up at the brunette again. Kaname had a blank look upon his face as he took back his file. He turned to look as he watched Kain's eyes went through his shoulder to stare at Ichiru Hio's grave.
There were disbelief, longing and sadness in his eyes. Kaname pitied him but he was done with mourning. Zero is still alive and he will get him back no matter what.
"What do you want me to do?" Kain looked away and Kaname let a small smile curved on his lips.
"Explain to him the real things. If I do that, Zero won't believe me. He'll only believe in you."
"Fine. But only with one condition."
Kaname was quite taken back by the sudden firm tone of the blonde's words. Kain turned his back to him, the spring breeze gently blowing his soft golden locks.
"Zero Kiryuu will have the chance to choose who he wanted to be with. If he chooses you, I'll definitely let him go. If he chooses me… you are free to leave." The blonde turned to give a last glance to him before taking his leave.
Kaname stood stilled; his eyes emotionless as he watched the man disappeared before his eyes. He let out a small, deadly chuckle before taking his leave from the cemetery as well.
"And you think his real lover didn't suit him the best?"
TBC.
A/N : Sorry that this chapter is quite short, next one would be longer =D I got this one problem. Since I replied reviews quite late for my one shots collection, I kind of forgot who I had replied and who I haven't. So, I decided that I'll just let it go but to those who is reading this and was sure that I did not reply their review, thank you so much for reading my one shots. I'm getting older and now I can't even remember my own home address =.=;
Anonymous Reviews Replies :
Nokinaru : I know that this story had been in a dark tunnel since the start xD You must be so happy to at last saw some little light xD Seriously, I know I'm evil and sadist and teaser, but messing up with the fingerprints test result? Baby, I'll be happy to mess with it if I can but its scientific T.T I just caaan't! (cries) Okay, there goes my drama xD You are right, what matter is I know what I'm writing and others shouldn't give a damn about it if they hate it xD Thank you so much for the advice and thank you for reading this! =D
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