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Strays	By : Shuichi77 Category: +G to L > Loveless Views: 1752 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Ritsuka gave his new friends one last relieved wave as they walked out of sight before closing the front door and turning to his Sentouki.

"Soubi, I'm really-"

Mid-sentence, Ritsuka felt his knees buckle and the whole room begin to spin. He then collapsed onto the ground of the entry way completely unconscious. Soubi quickly went to his Sacrifice and wrapped the boy up in his arms calmly and gently. He picked up his small lover from the floor and began carrying him up the stairs to the bedroom, the whole time he kept his cool as he was going over the 'How to Use' page of his research in his head.

'Inoffensive spells have a high chance of causing a series of symptoms to the Sacrifice of the casting pair. These symptoms may include but are not limited to: Nausea, fainting, unconsciousness, extreme fatigue, and in very serious cases of unbounded pairs: death. Most of these symptoms are temporary and caused by the stress of using the spells that put an extreme strain on both physical and mental health.'

Soubi was only able to keep his calm due to this explanation from his research, so he was able to calmly carry his exhausted lover up to the bed. After placing Ritsuka gently into their large fluffy bed, he crawled into bed himself. Soubi let himself fall asleep with his mind at peace knowing that in the morning his Sacrifice would be ok and would awake at the worst, a little sore from his ordeal.

The next morning, Ritsuka woke up early as he usually did, stretching to wake himself up. After giving himself a few minutes to wake up, he looked over to the clock to see that classes began in fifteen minutes. He immediately launched himself out of bed and made a mad dash to get ready. It took him only a few minutes to get dressed and be running out the front door, trying desperately to make it to class on time. Ritsuka ran the entire way to school as fast as his small legs could take him. Once he arrived at the gates of the school, he realized he still had just a few minutes before the bell rang so he stopped for a moment to catch his breath.

After rested for a moment, Ritsuka calmly made his way through the front doors of the school and headed towards his classroom with his hands in his pockets in his usual indifferent manner. As he walked the halls however, he could hear small whispers from all the students that he passed by but he didn't pay too much attention to them seeing as this was nothing new for him; ever since his first day, the other students often whispered things about him as he walked by. Finally after walking the crowded halls, Ritsuka arrived at his classroom door right as the bell rang. He paused for a moment, catching his breath one last time before opening the door to enter his classroom. As soon as Ritsuka opened the door and took his first steps inside, every single one of his classmates as well as Shinonome Sensei all fell completely silent, someone of them with their mouths wide open. Ritsuka was rather confused by this and he was racking his brain trying to figure out what had caused the entire room to gain this awkward silence. He then quietly and slowly made his way to his seat but before he could get there, Shinonome shot up from her chair as Ritsuka passed by her desk.

"R-Ritsuka-kun, can I please see you in the hall for a moment." Her voice was very shaky, which made Ritsuka worry slightly, but never the less he followed her silently into the hallway. As soon as the door closed behind him, Ritsuka noticed the horror in his teacher's eyes and even worse, noticed his own reflection her small glasses. He then immediately let out a mortified gasp and clasped his hands tightly over his head once he realized that in his hurry, he had forgotten to put on his false ears. He was then completely speechless for a second before stammering to try and explain himself.

"S-sensei…I..I..umm…" But he couldn't think of a single good excuse to tell her, so he decided it was best just to tell the truth. He took in a deep breath to calm himself before explaining himself to his still shocked and silent teacher.

"Sensei…Yes, my ears are gone. I know it's not appropriate for someone my age but everything happened so fast and I just couldn't help it." Shinonome took a moment to gather herself before speaking to her most favored student.

"Ritsuka-kun, as your teacher I must disapprove of this completely. On the other hand, I feel as though I am more than your teacher at this point and have grown to care for you very much, therefor I must know…who took your ears from you Ritsuka?" She was now standing straight up as she spoke trying desperately to seem strong but her blushing cheeks and shivering body was conflicting with this image.

"It was Soubi." Ritsuka spoke in a very sturdy calm voice but his answer still made his teacher gasp slightly even though she very much expected it.

"Oh Ritsuka-kun…Soubi-san is so much older than you are and you are so young…." She then rested her forehead gently in her hands as she let out a sigh to relieve some of the pressure in her head. "But I suppose it cannot be helped now. But I have one last question Ritsuka-kun."

"Yes Sensei?" Shinonome took another deep breath before asking her question.

"Do you truly love each other Ritsuka-kun?" This was not the question Ritsuka was expected but it made him blush wildly and look down at his feet with a small smile across his face.

"I really do love him Sensei and he loves me as well. He rescued me…he protects me, he lets me live with him, and he has never let anything bad happen to me. I am truly happy Sensei." Ritsuka then looked up at her with a large reassuring grin that caused a small smile to cross her face as well. Shinonome was very relieved to hear this from Ritsuka's mouth, still a little concerned about his age, but relieved none the less.

"Well then I understand Ritsuka-kun. Now, I don't think any of the other teachers or administrators would feel the same way so I suggest you wear false ears from now on."

"Ok Sensei. I already have some, I was just in such a hurry today I forgot them."

"Ok. But what would you like to do about all of your classmates that have already seen you?" Ritsuka paused to think for a moment on that question.

"Well, I really don't think they will tell any of the adults but they might spread the news around the other students; but that doesn't bother me and if it goes too far I will handle it then…or Soubi will." Ritsuka's small joke went completely over his teachers head and she immediately began to shake her head uncontrollably and wave her hands frantically.

"Oh no! Ritsuka, you can't have Soubi-san hurting our students and neither can you!" Ritsuka let out a small laugh at her reaction.

"I'm only kidding Sensei. Don't worry, as long as none of the other adults find out, everything will be fine." Shinonome then let out another sigh and placed a hand on Ritsuka's shoulder.

"Ok good. Now, we need to get class started."

"Ok Sensei." Ritsuka then followed his teacher back into the classroom that was now full of whispers and stares. As Ritsuka walked toward his seat he stopped at the very front of the classroom and turned to face the entire class, shooting them all a very icy glare.

"Is there something you would all like to say to me?" His voice was very cold and very scary. Just his tone was enough to make the entire room go silent and all his classmate's faces grow pale. "I didn't think so." He then continued on to his seat and sat quietly while taking out his notebook for the day.

The rest of the school day went on as usual and his classmates completely ignored Ritsuka as they usually did; everything at school actually felt like normal again, except for the fact that his two best friends were missing. Ritsuka was still a little depressed about having to go to school without his friends but he was still just happy that they were ok and hadn't just disappeared. The school days now seemed to drag on forever with his friends gone, but finally after what seemed like endless hours the final bell rang to release the students for the day. All of the students quickly gathered their things and made their way out of the classroom while Ritsuka lingered behind gathering his own things slowly waiting for everyone else to leave. Once the last student left the room, Ritsuka approached his teacher's desk to speak with her before leaving.

"Sensei, I just wanted to apologize again for this morning." Shinonome rested her hands on her desk and gave a small smile.

"It's ok Ritsuka-kun, just try to remember your false ears from now on please."

"I promise to remember Sensei."

"Ok then." Ritsuka then returned her smile and made his way out of the room, leaving his teacher to her papers.

The walk home was rather peaceful for Ritsuka; the snow had now begun to fall again and he could see each of his breaths clearly in the cold air. Ritsuka really loved the way the cold air felt as it entered his lungs; the tingling sensation was almost intoxicating. After only a few minutes, Ritsuka arrived home. He pulled out his small butterfly imprinted key that Soubi had made him and let himself in. The very second he walked through the door, Ritsuka was scooped right up off his feet and brought face to face with his tall blonde lover.

"Hello Ritsuka." Soubi was wearing that beautiful smile that always made Ritsuka turn pink in the cheeks and smile wide.

"Hey Soubi." Ritsuka couldn't help but to give in to that smile and wrapped his arms around Soubi's neck, placing a small kiss on his forehead. Satisfied with his greeting, Soubi then gently set the boy back down to allow him to set his bag down and remove his shoes.

"How was school today?" This question made Ritsuka let out a long sigh, causing Soubi to put on a worried expression.

"Well, I forgot to tell you a while ago but I bought a pair of false ears and a tail to wear to school." Soubi's worry quickly left and he let out a small chuckle.

"Why didn't you tell me you bought false ears?" Ritsuka blushed slightly in embarrassment.

"Well I know Yamato hated it when Kouya wore hers, so I didn't think you would like it if you knew I wore them. But I only wear them to school so that nobody says anything because I just don't really want to deal with it and it's none of their business anyway." Soubi then gave another small smile at Ritsuka's blushed face.

"Ritsuka, I don't mind if you wear them. But only if it's just to school." Soubi said in a playful tone, bringing up a small laugh from Ritsuka.

"Ok good. But anyway, I woke up late today so I was in a hurry and I forgot to put them on when I got to school…So everyone saw." Soubi then crossed his arms and his expression switched to be very concerned.

"That's not good. What happened? I can't imagine the teachers were very happy about it."

"Well luckily, Shinonome-Sensei was the only adult that saw me and she was ok once I explained everything but she said I need to wear my false ears from now on because the other teachers wouldn't approve."

"Well you got lucky there. What about your classmates?" This made Ritsuka scoff in discontent.

"Well they all saw and are all talking about it but they won't tell any of the teachers; and personally I don't care what they think what so ever."

"Well that all could have gone much worse I suppose." Soubi then made his way toward the kitchen as Ritsuka stood in the entry way, stripping off his large winter coat and snow boots.

"So how was your day Soubi?" Soubi then stopped in front of the kitchen table, leaning up against it pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose before crossing his arms.

"Well I actually had an interesting day." Ritsuka then made his way over to sit at the kitchen table propping his elbows up on the table with his head in hands, genuinely intrigued.

"Yeah? How so?"

"Well I got a call not too long ago from Reiki." Now Ritsuka was very interested and perked his head up out of his hands.

"Really? What did he want?"

"He asked if you and I would come over to his and Sasuke's place today after you got off school. They are both very eager to learn about the inoffensive spells."

"Their place? But don't they live at the academy?"

"That's what I thought as well but he said that as of last night they are no longer enrolled there, thus they don't live their anymore either. He gave me the address to their new residence and said he would explain more once we got there." Ritsuka was quiet for a moment as he really thought this situation over. He thought it sounded a little odd but he didn't really think Reiki or Sasuke would try to deceive them; and even if they were, he knew that he and Soubi could handle it. After thinking everything over, Ritsuka stood from the table calmly with a determined expression.

"Well I guess we better get going then, they are expecting us." Soubi put on a small smirk and followed his Sacrifice to the door to grab his coat while Ritsuka replaced his own coat and boots. The two of them then headed out the door and into the car. Once Soubi started the car and the drive began Ritsuka decided to get some more information on the situation.

"So, how far is this place?"

"The address is in a small town about an hour away from here." This gained an aggravated sigh from Ritsuka.

"Why can't we ever go anywhere that's close by?" His voice was now slightly annoyed, but Soubi couldn't help but to laugh slightly causing the small boy to shoot him a harsh glare.

"What's so funny!?"

"You are just so very cute Ritsu-chan." Soubi then turned slightly to give Ritsuka that warm smile and Ritsuka couldn't be upset anymore so he just turned back to look out his window to watch the scenery as it zipped by. The passing snow covered trees and buildings quickly became hypnotizing and without realizing it, Ritsuka fell asleep with his head resting gently on the cold glass of the window. After about an hour, Ritsuka was gently woken up by Soubi's gentle hands caressing his face.

"Ritsuka, we are here." It took a moment for Ritsuka to come to but when he did, he lifted his head slightly to look out the window. He then saw that they were now parked in front of a very large three story mansion.

"Wow, this is where they live now?"

"I suppose so." Soubi then shut off the car and climbed out while Ritsuka did the same. Once out of the car, Ritsuka looked all around him and saw that this house sat atop a large hill and was on a huge plot of land accompanied by a large barn and a small frozen pond off in the distance at the bottom of the hill.

"This place is huge." Ritsuka continued to take in the sight as they walked up to the large double doors at the front of the mansion. Soubi then rang the small bell at the side of the door. It took a moment before anyone came to answer. Once the doors swung open, they saw their small red haired friend grinning widely.

"Hi Ritsuka-kun! Soubi!" Ritsuka returned the smile and stepped forward to wrap his arms around the red head locking him in a gentle hug.

"Hi Reiki. It's nice to see you again. I can't believe you live here, this place is so big." Reiki let out a laugh at this.

"Well it's not our place, but please come in and I'll explain more." Soubi and Ritsuka obliged and followed him through the doors and into an expansive living room. Reiki then walked over to a large couch and sat down next to his Sentouki that was already seated sipping on a cup of coffee.

"Hi Sasuke." Ritsuka gave him a small smile and a wave.

"Hello Ritsuka-kun. Please have a seat." Ritsuka then sat down on the slightly smaller love seat opposite the couch, followed by Soubi. As soon as they were seated, Ritsuka was so full of questions and immediately began his interrogation.

"So, what happened? Why don't you attend the academy anymore?" Reiki let out a sigh as he leaned forward to answer.

"Well last night after we left your place, we headed back to the academy but by the time we got there, they had already locked down for the night so we had to page Ritsu to let us in; when we did he let us in but he told us to come to his office immediately. Once we got to his office, Nagisa was there with him and Ritsu asked us why we were out past curfew without permission and long story short, we refused to tell him so they expelled us." Ritsuka was then flooded with guilt and could feel small tears swelling up in his eyes.

"Oh no… I-I'm so sorry…this is all my fault…"

"No, it's ok Ritsuka really. We hated living there anyway; we were only there because we had nowhere else to go." Reiki's gentle tone was slightly comforting and made it possible for Ritsuka to fight back his tears and feel a little bit better.

"So then how did you guys come to live here?"

"That part was pure luck actually…" Before Reiki could finish his answer, Ritsuka saw a small girl enter the room from a door behind the duo on the couch opposite him. She was very short; she looked to be even slightly shorter than Ritsuka and didn't look like she could be any older than him either. She had very bright blonde hair with long bangs that she wore to cover the entire left side of her face, including her small thin frame glasses and one of her dark brown eyes. She entered the room with a large grin and snuck up behind Reiki with her blonde ears pressed firmly down against her head and her long fluffy blonde tail twitching slightly in full stealth mode, before wrapping an arm around his neck and rubbing a small fist firmly into his head as she laughed. Ritsuka just watched on in silence as Reiki tried to fight her off while he yelped in pain, the girl laughing the whole time and Sasuke watching on with a smirk.

"Ok ok, stop it!" The girl finally released him and calmed her laughter before turning to Ritsuka to answer his question.

"I actually found these two a few years ago when they were wondering about one of the shops in town. I saw them picking out some awful clothes and decided that I had to step in before they bought something ridiculous." Reiki let out a small embarrassed chuckle and rubbed the back of his head as his cheeks blushed slightly.

"Yeah…we didn't really have much for fashion sense back then." Reiki then saw the absolutely puzzled look on both Soubi and Ritsuka's face and thought he should clear things up.

"You see, I actually wasn't completely honest when I said that Nagisa ditched us all those years ago. She was really using us an experiment and we finally got tired of it so we broke out and ended up in the town close by. We managed to steal some money from Nagisa so we stayed at an inn the first night, then the next day we went clothes shopping and that's when she found us. We have all been close friends since then and we used to stay here when we first escaped." Things were started to make sense to Ritsuka but he still had so many questions.

"So why did you guys leave here in the first place?" The young girl chimed in to answer this question.

"Well after they were here for a few months, I had to go away on business for a while and I wasn't sure how long I would be gone, so they decided they would try to find somewhere else to stay; something about independence or something like that." She let out another laugh after her last comment.

"Oh so that's when you went back to the academy?" The red head replied after giving the girl a small shove for her snide comment.

"Yes. Luckily for us, Nagisa had already moved on to the Zero's by then so she decided that we could stay as long as we enrolled. Then last night after we got expelled, we came here."

"I see. Well you two really are lucky then." This made the girl let out another large laugh.

"Yeah they are! Seems like I'm always coming to their rescue." This made Ritsuka laugh slightly and he got the feeling that he was really going to like this girl.

"Well you have a very nice home miss…?"

"Oh! Where are my manners?" The small girl then made her way to over to Ritsuka and held out a small hand to him.

"My name is Saiyuri; Kazuka Saiyuri and it's very nice to meet you." Ritsuka grasped her hand in his and shook it firmly.

"Nice to meet you as well. I'm Aoyagi Ritsuka and this is my partner, Agatsuma Soubi."

Soubi gave the girl a smile and she shook his hand. Although he was smiling, his mind was digging for something desperately...Kazuka…he knew he had heard that name somewhere before.

TBC

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So, I have introduced another one of my own original characters as you see. I will soon be posting another one shot of her backstory.
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