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Strays	By : Shuichi77 Category: +G to L > Loveless Views: 1752 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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The morning after the duo's intimate encounter, Ritsuka was the first to awake. He let out a small yawn and stretched his arms up high into the air. He then gazed over to see his fighter still fast asleep, now back in his tight black jeans, so he decided he would let him sleep in. He gently crawled out of the bed and rustled through the pile of clothes on the floor in a groggy daze to find his little black shorts and slipped them back on. Ritsuka decided that he needed a really nice hot shower so he made his way down the long hardwood hallway to the master bathroom. He entered the bathroom and immediately turned on the water to allow it warm up, as he was waiting he caught his own gaze in the mirror and let out a small gasp as he saw himself for the very first time without his cat ears. He then reached behind himself and felt the spot where his tail used to be and felt nothing. He stared at his new look in the mirror until it fogged up to the point that he could no longer see himself, this snapped him out of his daze enough to remove his shorts and climb into the shower. As the water flowed over him, he couldn't help but to run his hands across his head over and over again, still trying to get used to absence of the ears that he had all his life.

'Wow…they are really gone.' This was the only thought running through his mind as he washed his hair in the soothing warm water.

Meanwhile back in the bedroom, Soubi still laid in the king sized bed fast asleep. That was until something woke him up rather suddenly.

"AHH!" Soubi sat up quickly in the bed and knew right away that the sound that awoke him was the sound of Ritsuka screaming form the bathroom. Soubi immediately jumped out of bed and ran down the hallway (he was really hoping this pattern would not continue forever) to the bathroom and flung the door open. Once again, he pulled back the shower curtain (turning the water off immediately) to find Ritsuka, at least standing this time, with his both hands clasping onto his chest.

"Soubi! It burns!" The boy shouted as tears ran down his cheeks. Soubi pulled the boy out of the shower and sat his naked body down onto the toilet seat, Ritsuka the whole while clutching his chest in pain.

"Ritsuka, move your hands, let me see." Soubi's voice was very soft and caring, trying to keep the boy calm. Ritsuka hesitantly obliged but refused to open his eyes fearing to see something awful. As the boy slowly moved his hands away from his chest Soubi took a good look at the area. He could see that it was bright red as if he had been slapped very hard, but other than that there was no obvious injury or trauma. Soubi was trying to figure out what could be causing the boy to be in such a great amount of pain, but couldn't. After a few seconds of examining the area however, Soubi's eyes grew wide as he noticed something beginning to appear. It was very faint at first, but after another few seconds Soubi could finally see what the source of the pain was. To Soubi's great relief he could see it very clearly now; there across Ritsuka's chest, stretching from collar bone to collar almost mimicking a necklace, was a word written in bold capital letters: "Loveless".

Soubi then brushed his hand gently through Ritsuka's hair in an attempt to sooth him.

"Ritsuka, its ok, open your eyes and look for yourself." Feeling comforted by Soubi's voice, Ritsuka slowly opened his eyes and stood, stepping up to the mirror that was still completely fogged over. He took one of his shaking hands and wiped away a large portion of the fog on the mirror. He stared in awe at what he was seeing, tracing every single letter with his fingers.

"I-it's my name…but why now? Because I lost my ears?"

"No. A unit's name usually appears once the fighter and sacrifice recognize each other and fully embrace each other as partners."

"But…wouldn't that mean that-" Ritsuka's question was answered before he could even ask, by the sight of Soubi falling to knees clutching his chest in the exact same spot. After a few seconds Soubi removed his hands to reveal the same word in the exact same spot as Ritsuka's. Ritsuka quickly grabbed a towel to wrap around his waist and fell to his knees to meet Soubi on the bathroom floor, although he was now absolutely confused.

"Soubi, I don't understand how this is possible? You were Beloved, how can you switch names?"

After regaining his composure, Soubi finally answered Ritsuka's questions.

"Well before I was given to Seimei, I was a blank fighter. When Seimei and I finally met, he carved his name into me to make me his and from that point on I was Beloved's fighter unit. When Seimei died however, I became a blank fighter again, that's why the scars have faded away. But, I have never heard of a blank having a name appear on its own, it should be impossible. Even I don't completely understand."

Ritsuka was in complete shock at this point. 'How could this happen and what does it mean?'

"So what do we do Soubi? We have to figure out what this means."

"I'm afraid we might have to seek advice from someone who knows more than I do." He paused for a moment as his expression became very distained. "We are going to have to go see Ritsu-sensei." Ritsuka could tell by his voice that Soubi was none too thrilled with this. Ritsuka didn't mind Ritsu all that much, but he did know Soubi's past with him and could understand why he felt the way he did. Ritsuka then scooted across the floor a little to be closer to Soubi and looked up loving into those beautiful silver eyes.

"Soubi, I know you don't want to go see him, but if he is really the only one that can help us understand, then we need to." He then gave Soubi the most beautiful smile. "But I'll be by your side the entire time."

It gave Soubi great comfort to see his sacrifice smile at him that way and say such sweet things. Soubi then placed the boy's face in his hands and pulled him into a tender kiss, as his way of thanking Ritsuka for staying by his side even in his moments of weakness. Soubi then broke the kiss and stood up, pulling Ritsuka up by his hands as well.

"Well we had better go get dressed then." Ritsuka simply nodded in agreement.

To two of them then walked back down the hallway together toward the bedroom, Ritsuka drying his hair with another towel along the way. Upon arriving in the bedroom, Soubi began to dig around in his closet to find a clean shirt to wear, while Ritsuka slipped back into his jeans and baggy sweater (seeing as he didn't actually have any clothes at Soubi's yet). Once Soubi was dressed, he turned to his sacrifice to find him sitting up on his knees on the bed, waiting patiently with a cute smile on his face. Overtaken by his cuteness, Soubi walked over to the bed and leaned down to trap the boy's lips in another tender kiss, making Ritsuka blush just a little. Upon breaking the kiss, Ritsuka let out a small gasp of pain.

"Are you ok?" Soubi enquired with a worried expression.

"Yeah I'm ok, my chest just hurt again for a second."

"Oh, ok." Soubi replied calmly, assuming that the new name across the boy's chest was just naturally still causing him a little pain. "Well shall we get going then?" Ritsuka smiled and nodded at the tall blonde. The two then left the bedroom, went down the stairs, and exited the house hand in hand. They climbed into Soubi's car and began their long drive to the academy. Both of them blissfully unaware however, that the small pain in Ritsuka's chest back in the bedroom was not what Soubi had assumed. Since the boy was already wearing his large baggy sweater, neither one of them noticed that that small pain was accompanied by a very small fracture mark appearing on the large "L" that was now on the boy's chest, as if the letter had been broken somehow.

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