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Title: Sometimes
Author: Wearable Bishounen
Rating: R
Summary: Sometimes it’s hard to leave the ones you love. Sometimes you find a new love at the most unexpected times and in unusual places. Sometimes the Pretear can be a male.
Disclaimer: We—authors Lennith and Cheza-chan—do not own Pretear in any way. If we did… well, some of you might not be able to watch the show.
A/N: This fanfiction is being transferred from Fanfiction.net to AdultFanFiction.net until both are caught up with the proper amount of chapters. Thank you.
Chapter Four – First Experiences
Goh chuckled softly and in good humor at his Pretear's question. His hands still resided in his pockets to uphold his promise. "What's it like to Prét?" he repeated, trying to clear up the situation. Kurasaki nodded stiffly, his gaze to the side of the Knight's head rather than in his eyes. "Eto..." Goh stared thoughtfully at the ceiling, "It's the joining of the Knight and Pretear's soul."
"We become one...?"
"Aa. The Knight will reside inside your body." He grinned sheepishly.
A dark look came over Izumi. "Inside...?"
"Yeah. Silly, isn't it?" Goh laughed nervously, fearing so many sharp objects for once in his lifetime.
The boy's thoughts strayed before he could suppress them and he imagined what it would be like to Prét with Mannen. ‘Baka! Don't think like that!’ He shook his head vehemently, a deeper blush covering his cheeks than before.
Goh leaned forward, blinking. "Izumi...?"
"Nani?" The dark look returned.
"Nothing. Never mind," the Knight laughed, "Did any of that help you?"
"No."
The stone katakana form of the word fell over the brunet’s head, crumbling. Izumi stood slowly, looking at his watch. He'd only been gone for two hours now and he was already bored. He left a silently crying Goh in the kitchen only to literally bump into the second Knight.
Izumi instinctively jumped back from the contact, but Mannen was faster and grabbed the boy's slim wrist.
"Sorry ne. I didn't mean to run into you."
"For someone who keeps on saying that, you certainly do it often," Izumi hissed but didn't try to pull his hand away.
Mannen's face lifted again into a grin. ‘The kid is full of surprises... never really know just which reaction he's going to have to anything.’ "Kurasaki-kun, would you please talk to me a second out back?"
Now Izumi's face darkened, both with another slight blush and with distrust. "You have customers, since you're so intent on working here you better take care of them."
"They're all happy now, and it'll only be a second." Mannen dragged Izumi past the still teary-eyed Goh and out the back door into the alley.
"Well, I'm here, so talk," Izumi scowled as Mannen clicked the door shut behind them. ‘In an alley with this creepy guy... what the hell am I thinking? What if he tries to...’
Mannen waited until Izumi sudden bout of violent coughing ended with a quirked brow before he spoke. "I just wanted to say if you have a problem with me, just tell me now." Mannen rubbed the back of his head, unsure of what to say, really. He'd never had to deal with a situation like Izumi before. "We all want to be your friends, and it's important that we understand each other if we are to fight together. So just tell me what it is, ne?"
Izumi fell silent, unable to conjure up any valid excuse for his behavior. "I just... this is just all so weird," he said quietly, finally. "I don't like you. I don't like any of you, and I sure as hell don't understand how I can be your 'Pretear-hime' ok? I'm not a hero or a princess or a fighter, I'm just a brat nobody wants so leave me alone. A good for nothing kid with a whore for a mother and a Kansai accent, that's all I am. You've all had your fun freaking me out, so just leave me alone already." The gray eyes sparkled a little with tears and his scratched hands clenched into trembling fists.
Mannen frowned, placing a hand on the smaller male's shoulder comfortingly. "I don't know you, or anything about that, but it doesn't matter. You are Kurasaki Izumi and you are our Pretear and we will protect you with our lives, alright?" He had just finished the last syllable when Mannen's head swung sharply to the right.
"What is it?" Izumi asked breathlessly, suddenly afraid as a sick feeling washing over him.
"The Leafe is being drained here. There's a mayouchuu nearby!"
Izumi gasped in horror as a trashcan was flung down the alley, a strange insect like creature rapidly growing in its place. "Damn! It's a fast one!" Mannen winced, shielding Izumi with his body as the monster flung another can in their direction. "Izumi! Please, Prét with me!" Mannen offered his hand to Izumi, who was frozen in place.
‘H—he called me "Izumi"... and he wants me to Prét with him...’ Izumi blushed scarlet and drew his own hand back. "N—no! Pervert!"
"Baka—augh!" Mannen took a slice to the arm from a newly developed tentacle aiming towards Izumi.
"Mannen!" Izumi lunged forward.
"Idiot, this is not the time to be thinking like that, Prét with me before this thing kills us and destroys the restaurant!" the Ice Knight spat out hurriedly, sending a spray of ice at the creature.
"Byondios!"
Izumi caught a glimpse of Shin standing at the end of the alleyway in a rather bizarre costume before a web of vines and red enclosed everything. "M—Mannen, what the hell is going on!" Izumi shrieked.
"It's a barrier, not in your world or ours, to make sure nothing is damaged. Now please, Prét with me!" Mannen stretched his now bloodstained hand to him.
Izumi looked at it distrustfully a moment, biting hard on his lower lip. ‘We have to become one... to save this world.’ Before he could think about it any longer, Izumi thrust his hand to clasp Mannen's.
And then everything... shifted.
It seemed as if there was nothing but his own body and Mannen's, glowing and pure and to Izumi's shock, nude. He tried to draw back, to protest, but Mannen simply embraced him, and then it was as if a whirlwind of warmth and joy had swept away his body as the Ice Knight's soul entered his body. There was a feeling of utter completeness, of warmth and love, that Izumi could feel his eyes clench with tears and a low moan.
When the boy opened his eyes again, struggling with the orgasmic euphoria he was back in the red field, the insect like mayouchuu struggling against the net of vines and what must have been Goh's flickering form, occasionally searing the thing with intense flames. "M—Mannen, where are you, what do I do?" Izumi stuttered helplessly.
‘Trust in yourself. I am within you. Concentrate and all the power of Ice will be in your command, Izumi.’
Izumi flushed. "Inside of me? Get the hell out! Get out of my body!" The half-crazed boy clawed ineffectually at his chest, only now noticing the beautiful white and purple costume he was now wearing somehow. The monster turned toward him, attracted by all the fuss Izumi was making. "Mannen, get the hell out of me and help me! It's going to kill me!"
‘Fool, I'm right here! You won't be hurt. My body will take the blows. I'm protecting you! Now concentrate and let's kill this worm together!’
"Oh lord, if you're reading my thought's I'll kill yo—!" Izumi was cut short as a tentacle appeared out of nowhere, crashing into his stomach with a sickening lurch. He cried out in fear, though he felt no pain, and was terrified to hear Mannen's voice give a strangled scream of pain.
‘Don't worry, just attack! Search for the core, if you concentrate you will be able to sense it.’
"Mannen! Get out, I can't do this!" The tentacle whipped back, shaking Izumi's bones with two more massive hits. Izumi could hear that Mannen was doing his best to hold back his voice, but the sound of his suppressed pain was even worse to Izumi. "Dammit! Die, you spawn from hell!" the boy in glistening white screamed, launching himself effortlessly through the air. "Ice Arcubus!" A vicious shower of ice shards assailed the creature's abdomen. It cried out once in agony and then dissolved into nothing.
Shin must have removed the seal and Izumi must have let go of the Prét, because it seemed that suddenly he was himself again and Goh was patting him on the back. "Good work, boy! That was one hell of a strong attack, and it was your first!"
But Izumi wasn't paying attention to Goh; he was numbly staring at Mannen's lacerated body. Shin had gathered him in his arms possessively, his face completely slack with worry. "M—Mannen, I'm sorry! I'm such an idiot!" Izumi suddenly shouted. He wanted to run, run away from Mannen's blood, but it was his fault and he couldn't escape it.
"Tch. Baka, you did great. We won, didn't we?" Mannen managed an impish grin through his shallow breathing. "I'll be fine, I just have to recover a bit of my Leafe and I'll be good as new." Mannen swiftly passed out, a smile on his face still, despite his condition. Shin gave Izumi a cold look, clutching his friend's body a little closer.
The boy did run then. He stumbled backwards then turned and ran down the alley. Goh's voice echoed after him, yelling his name, but he refused to stop. Those hard, calculating, and frigid emerald eyes were burned into his mind's eye.
Goh frowned down at the Plant Knight but Shin averted his gaze, brushing strands of dirtied white hair away from Mannen's face. ‘Do you... Mannen-nii...’ The smile on the Ice Knight's face, though unconscious, tugged at his heart.
Izumi paid no mind to the traffic of people or vehicles as he kept running. He had no idea where he was or was going, but didn't care. He just wanted to get away from it all; away from his father, the thoughts of his mother, Jun and his sister, but most of all he wanted to get away from the live he lived and had now started living.
Izumi had faintly remembered following the Yamato River, but he was now inside of Tamateyama Park. Sniffling, but not shedding tears, he made his way into the forest recreation area and stared up at the blooming cherry blossoms. He remembered when the nanny his father had gotten for him when he was young first brought him here.
"Izumi-chan."
The small boy couldn't help but giggle at the woman's Kansai accent. She smiled and held him closer in her arms. "Izumi-chan? Do you know why cherry blossoms are pink?"
He mimicked her accent perfectly. "Hai Otou-chan told me."
"Do you want me to tell it to you again?"
"Hai, onegai! You'll probably tell it better." Izumi's large and innocent gray eyes sparkled excitedly.
The woman laughed softly and sat with him under one of the cherry blossom trees. "This ground, the earth we sit on now, houses a body, more than one. It's a burial ground." She smiled as his eyes widened more and continued, "The remaining blood in the body and its soul are used to feed the tree, giving it the pink hue you see before you." She gasped as the boy in her arms began wailing. "Izumi-chan!"
"I wanna go home! Nana, take me home! Away from the dead people!" He cowered in her arms, soaking her dress with his warm tears. She smiled warmly and stood, rubbing his back soothingly.
'Nana, are you here...?' Izumi dropped to his knees in front of the tree, closing his eyes as the falling petals caressed his face. He smiled fondly, thinking it was his Nana all over again. 'Don't leave me again...' His fingers dug into the soft soil, searching, reaching; seeking the truth. He sighed softly and placed his cheek against the rough bark, listening to the many hearts the tree held; his own heart beat in synch with them and he felt as if his soul was being drained away. Consciousness left him slowly as he stayed in his kneeling position.
Hayate stared, scrutinizing the boy before him. A raw hatred was buried deep within him yet he had barely glanced the surface of it yet. 'He sees no reason to taking his job seriously and thinks the whole world is out to get him. Why was he made to be Pretear...?'
"We should take him back home."
Hayate glanced at Sasame then back at Izumi. "Aa..."
"Or to our place so someone can look after him more closely. Goh told me he experienced his first fight today." The soft sound of acknowledgement from Hayate made Sasame's eyes narrow slightly. The Sound Knight walked forward and carefully picked up the boy. Izumi stirred but didn't wake. Taking to the air with Hayate at his side, they carefully headed back to the flat, almost unused to flying in mid-morning.
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