Royal Nightmare

Ryu, for one, had no idea how to build a pillow fort. He'd never even heard of one until Naito had suggested they build one- one google search later and he was staring at every pillow he had in his apartment on the floor of his living room. This was fine- He could totally do this- .... Maybe.

He's reaching out to pull the cushion from his couch, going to grab the hand vacuum to clean underneath the cushions as he did so. "I really hope you've built one of these before because i am clueless-" He's mumbling at the other.

Somehow, they prevailed- several google searches, alot of grumbling and destruction, and some curse words that his mother would have scolded him for had she been alive and miraculously- the fort held. "Fucking finally-" he says, barely breathing, as if by doing so he'd disturb the tedious balance. "Now the real test.. can we fit in it..."

It rather was reassuring to him, his reasonable vampire side at least, knowing that the other one probably wouldn’t given up on him while the tiger side didn’t care at all about it, things would happen for the good or for the bad, it didn’t know and wouldn’t care.

Naito instead now rose an eyebrow, doing the math in his mind. "So it’s less than half of a month? Huh?", he asked back. "Shouldn’t you prepare yourself?", another question, while curiously gazing at the face in front of him.

"Mmm maybe not a threat to logical you, but its very possible post mating season you will feel differently~" he says with a grin, head propped up on one hand as they talked. "Post mating season you might not want me to continue to pursue you~ so just know that i will, indeed, continue to pursue you~"

"But that would be the same for you too! Post mating season there might be the possibility that you don’t want to pursue me anymore and feel different about me and you by the way are right before your mating season, I bet all this are just your hormones speaking out of you.", even though he had said this, his cheeks became warm that was the reason he grabbed a pillow nearby to “throw” it at him even when it meant that he destroyed the fort they had made.

The pillows and blankets fell and buried them beneath it. Naito wasn’t swift enough to flee but that wasn’t important, the fabric was soft, would it have been stone like a real fort it would have been different.

The Night Embrace by Iren Horrors

Again Fuji and Naito had a date night, where they watched tv and cuddled onto the couch. Something they rarely did, since Naito usually was the outgoing person, preferred the nature and some wandering more than sitting on the couch and watching tv or rather a movie. Anyway, today was the day where they spent their time inside and cuddling up onto the couch.

At first he had watched it together with the other male until he noticed the vibration in his pocket, first it was once so he took it out and replied, but then again and again until he was fully immersed into his phone and not watching the movie they watched before. The tiger chuckled from time to time while answering his phone not even noticing that Fuji had noticed it until the phone got taken away.

A gasp escaped the tiger and with big eyes he just could watch how the phone slipped upwards and gasped until he fully realized how Fuji took his phone. "Hey~ what are ya doing?!", he asked immediately, reaching out to get it back but with no avail. "Give it back, Fuji!"

In fact he was glad he stayed calm, other than his father had done when Fuji had been a child and made a mistake. But Naito seemed to be /really/ angry, as angry as he had never been before, and when he accused him of being the most horrible person in the tiger's life his jaw dropped and he looked at him in pure disbelief. His eyes went wide, and the more Naito added the bigger the pain in Fuji's chest grew. Besides of that his eyes filled themselves with tears, so quickly that he couldn't suppress the urge to cry anymore. His gorge hurt like hell as he turned around and supported himself onto the kitchen counter, his head hanging and his shoulders trembling as he just started to sob, and to hear himself making those noises and losing his shit made it even worse. Fuck. If Naito didn't want him anymore…what would happen to him? If he would hate him forever now… Would a vampire survive this? Right now it didn't feel like he would. Right now he was devastated and cried like a baby.

It wasn’t about the power he had over Fuji and was seen now it was about how he felt right in the moment but as the other started to cry he stopped yelling at least, looking then away from the other one took a deep breath and sighed deeply. "Sorry…", he finally said after a while. "But can ya please leave? Right now I really don’t want to see ya anymore… don’t talk to ya anymore… I just wanna be by myself.", the tiger calmly explained. "Please Fuji… leave…"

But he didn't expect that it changed a lot about the current situation. It didn't make his mistakes undone. He sniffled and wiped his eyes dry with his arm, noticing he had snorted onto the kitchen counter like a little baby and wiped this dry quickly, too. Turning around his face was red and his eyes puffy. A tear still rolling over his cheek. That had been heavy. But he felt calmer now inside. More composed. Or was it numb? Because there was nothing to say and nothing that could get fixed in an instant he nodded and left the room, then the apartment. Not quite knowing where to go then, but it didn't matter for now. Walking did him good, even or especially if it was aimless. Though he wondered how things would go on. If Naito could forgive him. Or if one mistake like that could destroy everything, just like it had been when he had been a bad son for his father. But this situation had been different in fact. Right now he had halfway acted as if he had become his father himself.

Silently he watched Fuji, even followed him to the door to close it behind him. Silently he went after that to the balcony, watching Fuji from there go away, the tiger took a deep breath. Probably he will forgive fuji, he always did and he loved him but right now? Everything that had pent up in him bursted out, it wasn’t only the phone, it was about Rena, about Yoko, everything where fuji acted highly jealous, yes he had forgiven him but forgetting it? That would never happen, maybe now Fuji would fall out of love, since Naito was far away to give in and excuse everything and because of what had happened on this day, about what he had said. Naito didn’t know for now, now he only could write Maki again, telling him that he had a huge fight with Fuji and that he would pull away for some time. Maybe even traveling?

The tiger sighed again, fuji wasn’t easy but so was he as well, not easy in the slightest.

And here he was, sitting calmly at the bar, gazing at his glass, playing with the big clumps of ice, letting it cling, listening to the people, waiting for the man to arrive, actually young in his age but with the feeling of living like he was already hundred of years old. Sure thing he wasn’t, just thirty two and when he was on stage it was way too different for him too, it was like life would wound it’s way through his body, whether he was playing his bass guitar or he simple was a DJ it didn’t cared it was life and it was fun, but that was a fictional world for him unlike now, the real world.

A world which was controlled by blood, the darker side of his existence. Slowly his gaze went up as he felt the presence, another male, his boss one could say, a presence that was dark as well but then again some flicker of light came out of this man, something that he hadn’t experienced in Fuji for as long as he could think. But he knew the reason for this light and the warmth and this reason needed to get protected no matter what. That’s why he wanted to meet after finding out.

Taiyo turned around from the bar, facing the other male. A small smile appeared onto his lips. "Too much time passed, huh?", he said amused.

He suspiciously side-eyed Maki who sniffed with a lasting smile on the flower after what Taiyo had said. "I was never mentioned?", Fuji wondered, and now it was Maki who shrugged a little and darted Taiyo a sly glance out of his narrow cat eyes. "It was more fun to pretend to be single", he cooed. "It held your interest up high, mh?" He giggled lightly and looked at Fuji. "And of course I'm free to do what I want, so I didn't lie." His attention returned to Taiyo. "Thank you very much, handsome. What do you want to drink?"

Fuji meanwhile was calmer after he had cooled down his face with some cold water, but he still wasn't happy with the situation. Of course not. At the same time he knew it was more than fair to give Maki some freedom. And put his own ego second. Wasn't this love, too, after all?

His gaze wandered to the direction where the toilets were. "I will look after him.", with that he got up and went to the toilet, knocking against the door. "Fuji?"

Hearing the knocking Fuji lifted his head but then adopted a grumpy expression. "What?", he wondered, recognizing this voice, but not opening the door. "If you came to scold me 'cause I'm acting like a fucking baby right now, spare me." Words spoken from embarrassement. "I know myself you're right, but my damn feelings don't give a shit if they have a right to exist or not. Unfortunately. That's the shitty thing about feelings. They do what they want and don't follow any logic." In the end he was mostly angry about himself and afraid of his emotions he couldn't control.

"Oi dumbass! Listen! Don’t talk shit about feelings, sure they are unreasonable sometimes I give you the point but they are valid and you… ESPECIALLY YOU have to think about how Maki or Naito would feel about when you tell them shit like this. They would be huuuurt, I tell you if they hear that they send you back to hell from where you come from. Good damn grow finally up you fucking idiot!", he answered calmly the door of course with some accents that pointed directly to Fuji.

"Don’t you think Maki doesn’t love you just because he decides to be with someone else who’s not you? Just because he chases for some happiness for himself? I doubt that. Not with the fact that this sweetheart lives with you like forever already and has a child with you. Just simply give him his luck and happiness besides you know the words “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was”? Just let him free finally and give him something he can be excited about next to you. Also it would be only fair you two timer."

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“Che la mia ferita sia mortale” —“Be my wound be mortal”. Early 20th century.