mrs_tanaka | Two Pendants chapter 4

Title: Two Pendants
Pairing: KoKame
Author: mrs_Koki (me)
Disclaimer: Owning people is wrong, common though...historically
Rating: NC-17..sex, vilolence, mentions of blood...and what ever else ninjas its way in as I am not really sure at this point..
Summary: pointedly ignores...deal..
Genre: AU/ fantasy/ vampyres/romance/drama/action
A/N: read rules for translating into a different language and re posting, thank you

A/N For ( deshisorba ) for the doing the wall paper that gave me the idea to write this :)

“ Are you okay, Kame? It took you a while to answer the door.” Ryo asked.

“ I’m fine, why?” Kame asked suspiciously.

Ryo just shrugged and headed into Kame’s living room and noticed Koki’s jacket lying over the armchair. Turning to Kame he asks...

“ Hey Kame? Did you get a new jacket?”

“ Jacket? Not rec....” he stopped short noticing the black leather jacket Ryo held in his hands.

“ Uh...yeah.” He says and snatches it from Ryo’s grip and puts on, suddenly he feels cold all of a sudden. He feels less anxious about his current situation with Koki’s scent mixed with the smell of the leather from Koki’s jacket. “ So, what do you three want?”

“ We were going over this stuff, trying to find out more about the prophecy and we came across some scrolls that needs translating. We deciphered what we could but we’re not you so its not as easy for us as it is you.” Jin replies, taking the stuff out of the duffle bag so Kame can look it over as Maru eyes Kame rather suspiciously as he walks around Kame to help Jin separate what they did from what still needs translating, as he walks by Maru whispers in Kame’s ear....

“ Talk about keeping things from someone” He says with an underlying malicious tone.

Kame glares back and wraps the jacket closer around his body. Turning his attention back to the other two, he walks back towards his coffee table and starts looking over everything that they brought back with them. Still keeping one eye Maru, he says....

“ The only thing this stuff tells us when, where and that the humans won the war the last time the prophecy occurred....wait a second...there’s a page or two missing from..” His gaze suddenly shoots to Nakamaru, who only pretends to be shocked.

“ What?!” Ryo and Jin said in unison.

“ Yeah and apparently those missing page(s) tell how the humans won the war and what happened to the bearers of both the red and blue pendants. Find those pages and you may find what you’re looking for. Aside from that, I can’t help you.” Kame shrugs.

“ You forgot one thing, Kame.” Maru said, his tone and eyes changing every time he gets near Kame and his pendant, and with the blue one being not but a few feet away is only making Maru’s state of mind worse.

“ Yeah..what’s that?”

“ That jacket...I know for a fact its not your’s. Now tell us right now how you came to possess that particular jacket.” Maru glared.

“ Come on Yuichi, leave him alone. If Kame says its his, then its his.” Ryo tries to reason but Maru seems to ignore Ryo’s plea as Kame tightens his hold on his lover’s coat.

“ How can you be so sure that its not mine?” Kame asked angrily.

“ One of my scouts said that they spotted a man wearing that same coat coming out of the Yakuza district two nights ago, even though didn’t get a look at his face...they got a good look his clothes.”

“ But a lot men own a jacket like this, even Jin.” Kame tries reason having even less success than Ryo did.

“ That’s true, Yu-chan. So who’s to say that Kame’s lying about where he got the jacket from.”

“ You two stay out of this!” He snarls at Jin and Ryo.

“ Now, tell me...where did you get this jacket?”

Kame keeps his mouth shut in order to protect Koki which only seems to anger his friend even more.

“ I said...TELL ME!” Maru shouts and starts trying to force the jacket off Kame.

“ I said its MINE!!” Kame shouts back, tightening his grip even more, as Maru pounces on Kame...at which point Ryo and Jin run over to extract Maru from where he has Kame pinned to the floor. After successfully dragging Maru away from Kame, who is still wearing Koki’s coat, Ryo slaps Maru across the face...

“ What’s gotten into you, man? Every time you come within 10ft. of Kame, you morph into a lunatic.”

“ Its my pendant, every time he’s near the thing he gets like this and I don’t know why.” Kame says as Jin pulls him to his feet.

“ If I find out that you’re harboring a vampyre, you can bet he/or she will be the first one die!” Maru spits as he storms out of Kame’s apartment and back to his place.

“ I think you two better go after him, make sure he gets home alright. He should revert back to normal the further away he gets from my pendant and I will look over this stuff and see if I missed anything.” Kame said as walks his friends to the door.

“ Alright...We’ll call you tomorrow, Kame.” Jin said as him and Ryo took off after Maru. After making sure that three of them ( especially Maru) were gone, he calls for Koki.

“ You can come out now, koki, their gone!”

“ Good and sorry about leaving my coat in here. Are you okay though?”

“ I take it you heard Maru’s threat? Duh...of course you did and I’m fine” Kazu answered.

“ Don’t worry, my love, he won’t kill me” Koki said with a wink to which Kame smiled and allowed Koki to remove the his coat, so Koki could wrap him that cold yet comforting embrace that Kame’s taken refuge in. Eventually Kame goes and sits down at his dining room table and rakes his hands through his hair, scared and frustrated, but most the latter, as Koki sits down on next to him slipping his fingers between Kame’s.

“ So now what Kame?”

“ I don’t know, Koki. I just don’t know...What we both know is that its only a matter of time before Maru and the others find out, and they won’t stop hunting you until you’re dead. Not to mention your friends as well and I don’t want to let you go..but I...” Kame just trails off.

“ Come here” Koki says as he stands up, following his lover’s command Kame stands and walks over to Koki, who wraps his arms around Kame possessively and whispers in his ear..

“ Then don’t, kame, despite whatever is to come...please...don’t let go. I have been alone for far too long and for once in my long life I am actually happy to be what I am and its all because of you, Kazuya. My life is no longer empty and isolated.” Koki’s quiet plea went straight to Kame’s heart and his grip tightened even more on Koki’s shirt. It was then that he realized that his prayer from a week ago was answered, his life was empty because he was alone and that this guy, whom he now holds, was sent his way for a reason. Pulling away Kame says...

“ I don’t want the life back I had before that fateful night I was attacked. Like you, my life was empty and isolated as well...granted you get bonus points for living a lot longer than me, but I am honestly happy for once and I don’t have to pretend anymore. I will not let you go, not now..not ever, my dark prince. Oh I wanna show you something, come with me.” Kame said, gently tugging on Koki’s hand and leads him to hall closet.

“ What is it, Kazuya?”

“This.” Kame says as he pulls an ornate silver box from the top shelf and walks back into the living room and places it on his coffee table, next to the pile of crap he’s supposed to look through at some point.

“ Okay, what’s in it?” Koki asked curiously.

“ This box holds everything needed to heal wounded vampyres, everything from the very minor to the very major. But don’t tell anyone I have it, least of all that idiot Nakamru as he’ll have it from me faster than I can blink, there’s only like two of these in existence I believe.”

“ Wow...where did you get it?”

“ My father” Kame said simply, “ He bequeathed it to me on his death bed knowing that, like my mother, I don’t have the heart of a hunter and for every vampyre he had to kill...she helped twice as many. Even though he wanted me to follow in his footsteps and when he found out that I followed my mom’s path, he was hurt but he was proud me all the same”

“ I won’t tell anyone, I promise. And I’m proud of you too” Koki said and placed a kissed on the side of Kame’s head.

“ What for?” Kame asked ducking his head as he blushed up to the roots of his chocolate brown hair.

“ For being who you are, baka.” Koki said and swatted Kame upside his head playfully. No sooner did Kame lean in to capture Koki’s lips does his phone ring. Irritated, Kame gets up and walks over to answer the phone at same time as Koki gets up and puts Kame’s secret box away.

“ Hello?”

“ Kame?” Maru said

“ What do you want NOW Nakamaru?!” Kame demands angrily. Upon hearing the change in Kame’s tone, Koki walks over and stands behind him, resting his chin on Kame’s shoulder.

“ Calm down, love.” Koki whispers very quietly, Kame nodded in response to Koki.

“I am coming over tomorrow, I want to talk you.” Maru replied, wincing as he pulled the phone away from his ear.

“ I have work tomorrow and I’ve got plans tomorrow night, Maru, sorry but its going to have to wait.” Kame attempts to explain.

“ Please Kame?” Maru pleaded.

Kame turns to Koki who nods, covers the ear piece and says...

“ Go ahead Kame, it can wait until he’s done”

“ But what about you?”

“ I’ll just hide in the bedroom like did tonight.”

“ If you’re sure, Koki” Kame says and puts phone back to his ear.

“ Okay, Nakamaru, you win.”

“ Thanks Kame, I appreciate it.” Maru says and hangs up.

Replacing the phone back on the receiver, Kame turns to Koki..

“ Are sure this is a good idea, Koki, I mean after what happened tonight...I don’t think having him around here is a good idea.”

“ I’m sure and besides, we need him to back off at some point right?”

“ Yeah, I guess...but...” Koki silences Kame’s protesting with a kiss.

“ No buts..I am sure. Now lets finish the movie.” Koki answers as he pulls Kame back over to the couch and turns the movie back on as Kame snuggles even closer, wanting to feel more of the coldness of his lover’s skin.