*Nezumi*

"Shion, have you taken your pills yet?" I call to him from the kitchen, while preparing lunch. The small basement house is bigger then the one from the West District. It has a kitchen, a separate bedroom, living room, and bathroom. It's still underground and small, but it's nice. I enjoy having a little more space especially since I brought all of my books with me. Although, everything is pretty much the same style, still dirty and dim but I don't mind. It's nice that some things stayed the same.

"Ummm…" he replies back out load. I roll my eyes, of course he didn't I constantly have to remind him everyday. But for some reason today is different, I smile as I think to myself that I should punish him for it, but what to do….

"I've had enough of this," I say grabbing the bottle and stomping over to the couch he was sitting on. I push him over, forcing him to lay on his back while I straddle him locking my knees in place making his weak attempts to escape impossible.

"Nezumi!" Shion says, shocked at the quick act I had just made. I also bet that his leg is sore, it's been at least a week and with this new medicine making humans healing process go faster it shouldn't do that much damage, but still I bet it feels like someone just hit a bruise. I smile, seeing him in a little amount of pain can be really entertaining, it's just so cute to see the wince behind his eyes and the squeak in his voice.

"I'm growing tired of having to remind you every damn day," I tell him in an even tone.

"I'm sorry Nezumi, I'm trying to remember…" his voice goes silent when he realizes that I'm staring at him, not looking away. He blushes and starts darting his eyes everywhere else in the room except for mine.

"Sorry isn't gonna cut it," I say dumping out two pills from the bottle and grabbing his chin tightly with my thumb forcing him to look into my eyes.

"Nezumi what-" I cut him off by popping both of the pills into his mouth, and getting a drink of water that was in a cup on the table. I then press my lips hard against his forcing the water into his mouth, I stay there like that until I can tell that he swallowed them and I pull back staring down at him. I rub my lips with my thumb, trying to force back a smile that's forming on my mouth, God that felt so good, his lips pressed to mine.

"Next time don't make me have to remind you, Shion." I say in a stern voice, trying to put on a mean face.

He simply just nods. I get up ready to go back and continue to make lunch but a hand pulls on my arm forcing me back onto the couch, this time I'm the one on my back. And suddenly my hands are over my head held there by another set of hands. I look up ready to attack the person invading my personal space but when I see that it was Shion I freeze and just stare. It amazed me, it was such I fast action that in the moment I didn't even know what was going on. And he did it with such strength, is this even the same Shion as a few years ago?

"Nezumi, your cruel to me," he says eyeing me up and down.

I clear my voice, "Oh really? And why is that?" I ask in a sarcastic voice.

"You treat me as if I was a child, and I'm not. All I've ever wanted was to be an adult in your eyes. To be your equal. To be strong for you. But why does it seem that when ever we're together I'm at my weakest? It irritates me, because you can never seen how much stronger I really am. I get so annoyed and frustrated…" his voice trails off and I feel a tear drop on my cheek. He's crying. He quickly tries to wipe them away while muttering: "you see? This is what I mean, I never cry. It's always in front of you." with only one hand holding my wrists now, I easily break free of the hold and bring on of my hands up to cup Shion's cheek while starring deep into his dark red eyes now puffy with new tears but still beautiful as ever.

"Shion, listen to me and listen to me good. I've never and will never think of you as weak, your no child and you've proved that to me over the years. You survived death twice, Shion how can you even say that about yourself?" I say in a soothing voice, moving my hand up to brush through his hair grazing his scalp with my fingernails gently.

"It's just that….I want to…" he tries to talk through soft sobs.

"Shhh shhh, it's okay," I tell him softly while I pull him down to my chest and use both of my hands to brush through his hair. I let his warmth soak into me, wrapping itself around my own body. His tears seep into my shirt resting on the bare skin beneath it. I welcome them, closing my eyes and thinking only about Shion. It just feels so right to be with him, like nothing else matters at all. I wish that I could spend the rest of my life here with him. That is and has only ever been my one dream, to spend the rest of my days with Shion. But then again sooner or later we all have to wake up from our dreams.

END OF CHAPTER 8

Thanks for reading! I can't believe that this is already my 8th chapterJ there's still sooooooooo much more to come, so be ready! In my opinion I love this chapter I think it's so cute, please leave me reviews to let me know what you think^^ (oh and this actually did happen, Nezumi wasn't dreaming these events accord I just thought it would be a dramatic sentence to leave off with, like foreshadowing what's going to come in the future:p stay tuned!)