Kokoro Kimi No Tamashi Yo

by Rina K. Fenderson
Epilogue. Sun Shafts


**Softly kissing you as you lie sleeping
Breathing gently with you in your slumber
Your face is the picture of contentment
My angel's dreaming my angel's dreaming

Slowly opening your wondrous eyes on me
Shining green and glorious in the morning sun
This moment what could be more precious?
May it live forever may it live forever

I'm so happy with you** ~Lamb �Softly�

A chiseled body, speckled with the sunlight flickering through blinds, stretched; muscles lengthened then contracted, as lean arms raised up over a disarrayed mop of dark chestnut hair. Tsuzuki moaned at the groggy ache in his muscles and yawned loudly, before he realized that was the first time since Hisoka was first attacked that he had slept well without rising at least twice from nightmares. Smiling at the thought, Tsuzuki slid his arm down from above his head to wrap it around the reason he was so calmed, but his skin only brushed over the cotton sheets and empty air, making him blink his eyes open in confusion, then alarm once he saw is lover was gone.

�Hisoka?!� Tsuzuki called sitting up in the bed and looking around his apartment.

�I�m in the kitchen.� His breathed sigh of relief traveled through his body violently, making him double over slightly, with his face burying in his hands. Hisoka was all right, awake, and moving, and...in the kitchen?

Tsuzuki forced his body to wake up as he clamored off the bed and snatched up a spare tee shirt lying half out of one of his drawers. He didn�t bother to put on pants, figuring after making love to someone boxers were enough cover. Rubbing his still sleepy amethyst eyes, Tsuzuki made his way into the small partitioned kitchen connected to his living room. �What are you doing?�

Hisoka glanced up from the stove, the handle of a boiling pot in one hand, and a stirring spoon in the other. It was then that Tsuzuki�s senses finally picked up the delicious smell permeating from the room. �What does it look like I�m doing? I�m making breakfast. It�s silly for the division to have to keep paying for catering me when I can make it myself.�

�I don�t see why they didn�t just let me do it,� Tsuzuki muttered, letting his eyes adjust to the brightness of the kitchen.

�Because your food would have killed me.�

�Hey!�

Hisoka smiled, tilting his head as he looked over his shoulder at Tsuzuki. �Besides you wouldn�t have left my side long enough to make a meal.�

Tsuzuki returned the light smile, not feeling the need to respond to Hisoka�s comment as they both knew it was true. Instead he took in the sight of his lover, hair still damp from a shower, lithe body clad in a thin blue yukata that compliment his bright green eyes beautifully, skin flawless...all scars gone. The elder male moved over to his partner, wrapping his arms around his slim waist from behind and snuggling his chin and cheek into the crook of the boy�s neck.

Hisoka hummed at the contact, leaning back slightly and shifting his head to touch his lips to Tsuzuki�s brow. �Good morning, love.�

Tsuzuki let his eyes drift shut, exploring this curiously natural feeling of waking up with Hisoka here, in his arms, in his heart. He never wanted to be without this. �You moving in.�

The blond chuckled at the demand, not expecting it to be as stern as it was, but not caring, as he wasn�t about to argue. �All right...but are you sure? My apartment is a little bigger...�

Tsuzuki tightened his hold around Hisoka�s waist, his lips gliding up the young man�s neck. The violet-eye male could feel the vibration of his boy�s hum over his tongue, and nipped unconsciously. �Tsuzuki...� Smiling against Hisoka�s skin, Tsuzuki recoiled and spun him around. The pots clattered together, but nothing spilled as Hisoka had released them in his concentration on Tsuzuki.

Within the next moment, Hisoka was lifted up and placed on the counter, Tsuzuki�s hands sliding up and separating his legs. Hisoka couldn�t stop the long moan that rumbled past his lips as Tsuzuki traced open-mouth kisses down his chest, parting the fabric of his yukata as he went. His fingers were clutching at Tsuzuki�s shirt, his head lolled back and pressing against the wall between cabinets. �Oh...Tsuzuki...I...�

�I know I shouldn�t be doing this,� Tsuzuki whispered, his hands caressing the blonde�s inner thighs, tempted to flit over Hisoka�s growing erection. �But I can�t help it, I feel you within me all the time and I just...I want to be connected...I think you giving me your soul might have been more of a curse on your behalf, love, I can�t get enough of you.�

�Wha...What did you say?�

Tsuzuki didn�t stop his ministrations down Hisoka�s chest, even as the young man looked up at the ceiling in confusion. �I want you so bad...I can�t get enough of your warmth.�

�No,� Hisoka muttered, shifting slightly to distract Tsuzuki from his one-track mind. Amethyst rose up to meet emerald, which was narrowed in puzzlement. �What did you mean about me giving you my soul?�

�You don�t know?� Tsuzuki asked, then smiled. �I would have thought you�d sense it.�

�Eh?�

Tsuzuki began kissing Hisoka again, latching on to a nipple briefly; long enough to produce a buck and a moan from the boy. �When we made love you said I could have everything. �Mind, body, heart, and soul�. Upon saying that, you acted upon it. You gave me those things, took the claim Muraki has placed on you and threw it out the window by placing your soul in me as a neutral force.�

Hisoka leaned forward, and clasped his hands on either side of Tsuzuki�s head to stop his suckling and nipping mouth from breaking up his words. �I gave you my soul? Took it away from Muraki and gave it to you?�

�That�s why he was so pissed. That�s why our mental connection never broke and I heard you screaming from JuOhChou,� Tsuzuki whispered, his mouth rosed up as he brushed up against Hisoka�s body and clasped the boy�s own pink lips. Hisoka let off a half sigh as he wrapped his arms around Tsuzuki�s neck. *�That�s why I can speak through your mind.�*

Their bodies pressed together at Tsuzuki�s mental words and Hisoka cried out, throwing his head back. Tsuzuki chuckled aloud, but spoke mentally. *�Feels good doesn�t it? To feel every fiber of the other�s being.�*

*�I love you,�* Hisoka whimpered through their minds and curled his body desperately around Tsuzuki�s, his legs wrapping around the shinigami�s waist. *�I love you, I love you. Oh, I love you.�*

*�I love you, too,�* Tsuzuki whispered, clutching the boy to him and melding their lips together, pausing only for breath.

*�Everything...every moment...every last breath, last day of the world, I don�t care, I want to be with you. Tsuzuki...�*

Breaking their passionate kiss, Tsuzuki leaned his forehead against Hisoka, silk strands of honey blond and chestnut mixing like highlights. He waited until emerald gems fluttered open, before he spoke, his smile already in place, unable to remove it if he tried. �What�s stopping you?�

Hisoka�s mouth curved upward and he shifted his arms more snugly around Tsuzuki�s neck. �Absolutely nothing.�

*Owari*

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