Adult-FanFiction.org : Anime

Strays	By : Shuichi77 Category: +G to L > Loveless Views: 1752 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Loveless or any of the characters in any way shape or form and make no money/profit from any of my writings.

Chapter List
- 32
- 33
- 34
Ritsuka woke up early the next morning to the sound of his cell phone alarm going off and very begrudgingly reached over to turn it off. Upon rolling over, he discovered that Soubi was no longer in the bed with him, which he found odd seeing as the blonde usually slept in later than he did; so he then decided to gather himself up and out of bed and first grabbed his pair of small black shorts that still laid strewn on the bedroom floor and slipped them on. He then made his way down the stairs in search of his Sentouki but after checking all the rooms could find no sign of him. He was then admittedly a little pissed off at this realization.

"Of all the days he decides to go off and disappear, he picked today….figures."

Ritsuka then glanced up at the clock and did his best to brush off his anger before returning upstairs to get dressed for his last day of school before the winter break. Once back in the bedroom he quickly found a pair of jeans and a matching sweater but couldn't find his false ears to go with his already still attached tail. He searched all about the bedroom until he finally found them lying on the floor at the side of the bed tangled delicately with Soubi's golden blonde ones. Ritsuka then couldn't help but to smile at the sight and he soon forgot all his anger as he gently untangled their ears and placed his firmly on his head and Soubi's on the nightstand. Once fully dressed he made his way back down the stairs and into the entry way to grab his backpack and slide on his coat. He then made his exit, gently closing and locking the door behind him. He was a little relieved to see that it at least wasn't snowing and the sun was shining brightly as if to spite the frigid cold air. As Ritsuka made his normal walk to school he tried his best not to think about the upsetting absence of his Sentouki but to no avail. He soon found himself angry once again at the tall blonde.

'Where could he be any way? He almost never wakes up early and I thought for sure that he would actually want to be there to greet me this morning….' He then let out a long aggravated sigh as he approached the gates of the school building. 'Well….at least it's only a half day today. I'll just yell at him later.'

When Ritsuka entered through the gates of the school grounds he noticed that it was a little quieter and less crowded than usual. This was normal though, seeing as many of the students chose to skip the last day before winter break because of it being a half day and the fact that the teachers really just let the students have free hour the entire time anyway. Ritsuka actually liked coming to school on days like these because of the fact that less people were there; so he made his way quietly into the building as he usually did, enjoying the slightly more peaceful empty hallways. Once he made it up to his classroom door however, things immediately seemed slightly off. The door that was usually open was now closed and now where he could normally hear his classmates laughing and talking, he heard only silence. This made him extremely curious so he gently pressed his ear to the door to listen but this only confirmed the unusual silence; that is until he finally heard a female voice make a 'shhh' sound from inside the room. This was enough to put Ritsuka on edge and go into full defense mode considering all the strange things that had being going on. He then took a deep breath and slowly opened the door, prepared for anything, and poked only his head inside the door.

"Surprise!"

This sudden outburst almost gave the small boy a heart attack and he almost screamed. It only took him a second to calm down and then fully open the door and step inside the room. He was then completely surprised to see all of his friends gathered in the classroom; Shinonome Sensei, Soubi, Kouya, Yamato, even Yuiko and Yayoi, all standing underneath a large banner that said "Happy Birthday". Ritsuka was completely taken aback by all of this, so much so that it almost brought him to tears; he hadn't had a real birthday party since his father left so many years ago.

"W-when….who…." Ritsuka could only stand in the door way shocked for a moment, completely lost as to where to even begin with his questions but he finally snapped out of it just enough to close the door and take a few more steps inside. Soubi quickly noticed Ritsuka's confusion and stepped forward towards him slightly to fill him in.

"This was all actually Miss Shinonome's idea." Ritsuka then shot a surprised glance over to his now blushing teacher who was wearing her usual gentle smile before looking back toward Soubi. "She called me last night while you were asleep and told me she wanted to throw you a party for your birthday. She said she wanted it to be all only your friends so she even called all the other students in your class and told their parents that she was canceling class for today. Then she asked me if I could gather up all your friends, so here we are. And I was even able to get a hold of-" Soubi's words were abruptly cut off when the classroom door suddenly flung open wildly, causing Ritsuka to whip around and see who it could be.

"Happy birthday Ritsuka!"

"Yeah happy birthday, sorry we're late."

"Youji?! Natsuo?!" Ritsuka was completely surprised to see these two but they both gave him toothy grins none the less.

"Happy to see us?" Youji quickly got his answer when Ritsuka ran to him and wrapped his arms around him.

"I'm here too ya know." Ritsuka let out a small laugh at the small red head before stepping over and giving him a hug as well.

"I'm so happy to see you both! Where have you been?" They both let out a sigh at this question.

"Well Natsuo and I….well it's kind of a long story, we will tell you a little later."

"Ok."

Ritsuka then turned around to focus his attention on his tall beautiful Sentouki who was still standing patiently on the other side of the room. As soon as their eyes locked, Soubi gave Ritsuka a big smile and the small boy then ran to the blonde and jumped up slightly to stand on his tip toes wrapping his arms tightly around his neck and locking their lips in a quick but tender kiss. He then quickly released him, not wanting to make Shinonome sensei uncomfortable, and planted his feet firmly back on the ground.

"Soubi thank you so much for doing all this and I'm sorry…"

"Sorry for what?"

"Well when I woke up this morning and you weren't there, I got mad because I thought you forgot." Soubi then gave Ritsuka that wonderful heartwarming smile.

"I could never forget such an important day." Ritsuka then warmly returned that smile and hugged Soubi tightly around his midriff.

"I know."

Ritsuka then turned slightly to face his teacher who was still just standing quietly with a smile.

"Shinonome Sensei….thank you so much for putting all of this together, you really didn't have to go all the trouble."

"Oh it was no trouble at all Ritsuka-kun! I wanted to make sure that you had a happy birthday, I am just glad that everyone was able to come. Oh and there is ice cream and cake too."

"That sounds wonderful Sensei."

All of Ritsuka's friends then gathered around the long fold out table that had been placed at the side of the room underneath the large windows, and each helped themselves to ice cream before spreading out and taking to talking amongst themselves. As Ritsuka stepped up to the table to take some ice cream himself, he looked around the room happily to see all his friends gathered in one place to celebrate with him. He then decided that he would go and finish saying hello to everyone that had come to see him so he scanned the room until he found the two Zero girls standing in a corner of the room. He set down his bowl and cheerfully made his way over to where they were standing.

"Hey guys, thanks for coming." Yamato then quickly wrapped the small boy up in her arms and hugged him tightly.

"I'm so glad we could come. Happy birthday Ritsuka-kun!" She then released him with a big smile.

"Thank you." Yamato then let out a long wispy sigh as if she was day dreaming of something fantastic and this caused Ritsuka to giggle slightly. "What is that for?"

"Oh…it is just so amazing to see how much you have grown and changed from the little stray kitten I picked up at the park all that time ago. I'm so happy to see you and Soubi doing well and to see you growing into such a strong person." This made Ritsuka blush slightly and left him speechless but luckily for him Kouya quickly interjected.

"But anyway…Here, we got you this." Kouya then extended a medium sized rectangular box that was wrapped in a floral print paper with a bright red bow on top to Ritsuka, who graciously took it from her. He quickly tore through the paper as delicately as he good and opened up the box underneath to pull out a beautiful jet black pea coat with deep purple silk inner lining and black fur trim.

"Wow…this is really pretty! Thank you both so much." Kouya and Yamato were both very pleased that Ritsuka liked his gift considering it taken them all morning to pick it out.

"I'm glad you like it. Yamato thought the lining matched your eyes, and I must say she was right." Ritsuka then pulled them both in for another hug after setting the box and its contents on the desk that Kouya was leaning against.

"I really love it." The girls then gave him large smiles before Ritsuka glanced behind them to see the Zero boys standing with crossed arms in the opposite corner of the room. "Well thank you both for coming. I'll talk to you both later; I have to go say hello to everyone else still."

"Ok Ritsuka-kun."

Ritsuka then picked up the box containing his new coat once again and walked over to the long table underneath the banner and set it down before making his way over to where the Zero boys were standing. Before he even approached them he could tell that something was bothering them; they never really actually liked many other people but they were still usually much happier to be in a people watching situation. Never the less, he was still just happy that came.

"Hey Youji, Natsuo." Upon Ritsuka's arrival to their position both boys lightened up seemingly back to normal and then Youji quickly threw his arms around Ritsuka.

"Happy birthday Ritsuka!"

"Yeah, happy birthday." The blue haired boy then released Ritsuka to clasp his hand firmly to his Sentouki's.

"So where in the world have you two been? You guys just up and disappeared without a trace." Natsuo then let out a long sigh and lowered his ears as if depressed while Youji did the same before answering.

"Yeah sorry to leave the way we did and all but we got tired of living off of Soubi so we decided to go back to Nagisa. When we got there though she told us we could stay as long as we kept going on missions for her and we didn't contact either you or Soubi anymore. At the time we figured that was probably best anyway; but that only lasted for a week and then we got tired of the old hag ordering us around so we decided that we would just try and live on our own. We both even got jobs." Ritsuka couldn't help but to let out a small surprised laugh at this idea.

"Wow really? Jobs? I can't even imagine you two working at a normal job. No offense."

"Nah it's ok. We aren't very good at it; we both quit after a few days."

"Well then what are you two doing now? Where are you staying?" The red head then cut in with a slightly mischievous smirk.

"We have our own apartment and we find it easier to just take money than to earn it."

"You mean you guys are robbing people?"

"Not people, just a person. It just so happens that we know all of Nagisa's bank account information so we just take what we need from there. She hasn't even noticed yet, she really isn't very smart for a scientist." Both boys shared a sinister laugh together while Ritsuka could only shake his head with a smile; he was actually glad to see that the two hadn't changed too much.

"Well I'm glad to hear that you are doing so well." This comment caused the Zero boys to stop their laughter and returned to a slightly more depressed demeanor. Youji then let out another sigh before taking a seat on top of the desk he was leaning on.

"Well it isn't all good….we have run into a slight, very frustrating, problem."

"Oh? And what's that?" Ritsuka's tone was very playful, expecting some sort of smart-alecky response, but he became genuinely confused when he saw them both press their ears down firmly and avert their gazes to the ground. "You can talk to me about whatever it is you know. I mean, if you want to that is." The blue haired boy then looked up from the ground and crossed his arms in a pout.

"Well…when we got our new place we decided that we wanted to get rid of these ears." Ritsuka actually wasn't too surprised to hear this but was surprised that they did indeed still have their ears and tails.

"Well why haven't you two well….done it yet? Or are those false?" Youji then gritted his teeth slightly in frustration before answering.

"That's the thing, we tried."

"Huh? What do you mean you tried?"

"Well to put it bluntly…we had sex for three straight days and tried everything but our ears never went away."

"Wha?! How is that possible?"

"We couldn't figure it out either so we had to call the only person we could, Nagisa. Turns out that when those stupid girls over there went and lost their ears, Nagisa got pissed. Apparently Nagisa happens to think the ears are cute so…when she made us she altered our DNA so that even when we have sex, our ears won't ever go away. So we are just stuck with them forever."

"Wow…I can't believe she did that. I'm really sorry you guys. But for what it's worth, you two kind of wouldn't look right without them; they suit you."

"Yeah yeah whatever. I don't wanna talk about it anymore, it pisses me off." Ritsuka then let out a small laugh at the now blushing and pouting Youji.

"Ok, sorry."

"Well anyway, we aren't exactly rich at the moment so we couldn't buy you anything but Natsuo made this for you." The smaller red head then stepped forward slightly and handed Ritsuka a slightly morbid yet adorable stuffed teddy bear with large X's for eyes, that resembled the one that he always carried around with him.

"Aww thank you Natsuo, he is adorable." Ritsuka then gave the small boy a gentle hug and a warm smile.

"You're welcome Ritsuka-kun."

"Hey Ritsuka-kun! Over here!" Ritsuka released Natsuo form his hug to turn around upon hearing that familiar voice calling to him. He looked over with a smile to see Yuiko waving at him from the other side of the room with a big smile.

"Well I'll talk to you guys later; try to have some fun ok?" Both boys then gave him a small nod and Ritsuka then made his way over to Yuiko and Yayoi with his new teddy bear still clutched tightly in his hand. As soon as Ritsuka was within reach, Yuiko flung her arms around him and proceeded to almost squeeze all of the air out his lungs.

"H-hey Yuiko…Uh…C-can't breathe…" The pink haired girl then let out a small giggle and released her captive friend.

"Sorry Ritsuka-kun, I'm just really excited to see you." Ritsuka then let out a laugh once he was able to breathe again.

"I'm really glad to see the both of you. How were you able to come though? I thought students weren't allowed off campus on school days unless they are on orders."

"Well Yayoi and I are already really ahead in all of our classes so after Soubi-san called me, we went and asked Ritsu Sensei if we could come since it was your birthday; and he said we good have a day pass to come to the party."

"Well I'm really glad. Seems kind of out of character for him though…" Yayoi then cut in to address that statement.

"You are right actually; Ritsu Sensei said we could come but he told us that the only condition was we had to ask you and Soubi if you had made any progress on your mission." Ritsuka wasn't very surprised to hear this; there was always some sort of catch with that man.

"I see, well you can tell him that we have nothing to report as of now but will get back to him if anything changes."

"Alright, I will let him know; but…since when did you start working for Ritsu anyway?"

"We started working for him ever since our name appeared but trust me, it wasn't something I wanted to do. We needed his help though and that was his request for payment." Yayoi then gave Ritsuka a very serious face as he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"Please just be careful around Ritsu; there is something not right about him and I don't trust him."

"Well you are right not to trust him, I hate that man and there is more than just something wrong with him; but don't worry about us, we can handle ourselves." Ritsuka then gave him a small reassuring smile before noticing Yuiko digging through her backpack. After a moment of digging around, she pulled out two small jars and handed them to Ritsuka causing him to set down his teddy bear to take them.

"Here Ritsuka-kun, I was able to stop by my house on the way here and get some of my mom's homemade jam for you. Sorry I couldn't get you anything else but we don't actually have any money." Yuiko then lowered her ears slightly at the thought that she couldn't get Ritsuka a real present.

"No, this is perfect Yuiko! I love your jam. Thank you." This was more than enough to cheer up the pink haired girl right back to normal. Ritsuka then saw her shorter companion dig through his own bag and pull out a manila envelope and slide it discreetly across a desk to him.

"Here I got you this Ritsuka. I uh, suggest you don't open it until you get home." Ritsuka immediately caught on and knew exactly what was in the envelope.

"Oh, thank you Yayoi."

"No problem. It was a lot easier than I anticipated."

"Well I'm glad to hear that."

Ritsuka and his most cherished friends were then all smiles once again and for the first time in what felt like years, Ritsuka felt like everything was just normal. The three of them engaged in small talk for a few minutes before Ritsuka's teacher called to him from the long table by the window of the classroom.

"Ritsuka-kun! Are you ready for cake now?"

Ritsuka turned around from his friends to give her a happy nod before walking towards the table while motioning for all his friends to come along. It only took a short moment for everyone to be gathered all around the table with Ritsuka centered right in the middle in front of a large white iced cake with blue icing butterflies and adorned with fifteen white candles. Shinonome then delicately lit all of the candles before everyone joined in singing happy birthday to a now blushing Ritsuka. Once the song was finished, Soubi stepped up behind his Sacrifice, placing a large hand on his shoulder and looked down at him with a smile.

"Blow out the candles and make a wish." Ritsuka then closed his eyes tightly and thought really hard on his wish before blowing out all the candles at once. Ritsuka then opened his eyes and picked up the large knife that was lying beside the cake and made the first cut into it. He didn't get much further than that before his teacher stepped over to him and gently took the knife from him.

"I'll cut the rest of the cake for you Ritsuka-kun, you enjoy your party." He then gave her a big smile before stepping back and allowing her to cut the cake into pieces and place each one on a plate before handing it off to one of the children that now surrounded her. Ritsuka then turned around to find himself facing his tall Sentouki.

"You haven't opened my present yet Ritsuka."

"Oh?" Soubi then pointed over to the desk that Ritsuka normally occupied and where Ritsuka saw a square box, wrapped perfectly, sitting there. Ritsuka felt a little bad for not noticing it before but now that he did, he anxiously made his way over to his desk with Soubi close in toe. Once at his desk, Ritsuka quickly picked up the box and immediately began tearing into the paper while Soubi watched on happily. Ritsuka's jaw then dropped down in shock when all the paper was removed, the box was opened and he was left holding a large very professional looking camera.

"S-Soubi…this is so…amazing." Soubi then gave a rather satisfied smile before leaning down and placing a gentle kiss on the boy's forehead.

"I'm glad you like it. It is the same one that all the best photographers use. I can't wait to see the memories you can make with it." Ritsuka then flung his arms around his Sentouki and nuzzled into his torso.

"Thank you Soubi. I want to fill it memories of us…" Ritsuka then glanced back over his shoulder at all of his friends talking and laughing together. "And of our friends."

"Well why not start now." Soubi then gestured to everyone around the table and quickly got them all organized into a huddle underneath the banner with Ritsuka in the middle. He then gently placed the camera on top of one of the desks and set the timer on it before hurrying over to stand behind Ritsuka with his arms wrapped around him tightly. The small red light on the camera then began to blink quickly to signal that the timer was running down.

"Ok, everyone smile."

Only a few seconds later the bright flash went off and Ritsuka quickly broke free from the group to run over to the camera, followed by Soubi. He clicked on the small button to bring up the picture on the large crystal clear display of the camera and smiled wide as he gazed at the picture. Ritsuka was filled with a happy warmth as he gazed into the screen that showed all of the people that he cared about the most surrounding him with loving smiles.

"This really is a beautiful memory Soubi…I will cherish it forever."

TBC
- 32
- 33
- 34
You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.
Report Story

Strays