ENAU: part eight

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Kippei was not terribly concerned about either his own arm or Shinji's--sure, they'd take a day or two to heal instead of a few minutes, but they were well on the way to doing so and it wasn't like either of them had to do anything strenuous in the meantime. They would need to feed probably sooner after having lost so much blood, especially Shinji, but even that could wait at least one more day. For now Kippei felt entirely justified in taking Shinji straight back to bed, with the intent of keeping him there for the rest of the day. Only partly because he was feeling slow and sleepy now--he also could do with an excuse to lay there and hold Shinji, which he liked way more than he was going to admit although considering Shinji had figured out how to read his mind now, he probably didn't have to.

"You gonna stay here if I fall asleep?" he asked Shinji. He was about to order him to do it, and almost did anyway because on the list of things he did not like, waking up without Shinji there was very far up on the list, but the last thing he wanted Shinji thinking was that Kippei wanted a pet or something so, no orders. At least when he remembered.

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"I guess," Shinji mumbled, still not overly happy. His arm throbbed and he was thirsty and he was sleepy and it all combined to make him not a very happy vampire at all. He grumpily cuddled in against Kippei's side, slowly relaxing into the yummy smell of blood and Kippei.

"You're so confusing," he muttered, frowning. "Maybe I should just read your mind instead of trying to talk to you, but its hard to do and I guess it gets easier the more you do it, but still...you're weird even in your head. But I like you anyway."

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"I'm not confusing," Kippei countered, frowning down at him in some bemusement. "I make perfect sense," he said seriously, and he did, to himself. "You're the one who's confusing," he muttered, because seriously, who the hell had so many freakout buttons anyway? Life, or unlife, was so much easier when you just didn't worry about things.

"I'm weird in my head?" he asked curiously after a minute. What did that mean?

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"Mmm especially in your head," Shinji smiled, reaching up to trace his fingers down the side of Kippei's face, over the curve of brow and cheek and chin. Sexy. Very sexy and powerful and old vampire, and his Sire and his lover, and his kidnapper. Perfect vampire.

"You talk in absolutes, like the whole world is black and white. But I'm grey. I'm not black and white, so what do I look like in your funny head?"

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Kippei was thoroughly puzzled now. The way he saw the world was just the way it was, how did it look different? Black and white? He supposed it was. Shinji was a long long way from grey in his mind.

"You're white," he said firmly. More than white, really. Like incandescent and brilliant. "Bright," he corrected. "Shiny."

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Shinji blinked, then burst out laughing, turning to wrap his arms around Kippei, cuddling him, delighted.

"I'm shiny? You think I'm shiny?" He couldn't wipe the grin off his face, turning into a sing-song chant. "You think I'm shiiiiny. You think I'm shiii nyyy!"

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Kippei grumbled at him, capturing his mouth for a kiss. "I don't think anything. You ARE shiny." Shinji was laughing at him like it was funny or something, but it was just the truth. Even when he closed his eyes he could feel Shinji, almost see him, lighting up everything like a pure white flame.

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There he went again, thinking weird things, but Shinji didn't mind at all because it made him feel warm inside. He ran his fingers through Kippei's hair, just enjoying touching and not getting in trouble for it. He wanted to bite Kippei, the thirst nagging at him, but Kippei needed the blood right now, so he behaved. He could wait til tomorrow.

I think you're heaven.

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Kippei wasn't really entirely sure what all that had been about, upstairs, but Shinji was apparently happy again and he was being warm and snuggly and letting Kippei keep him close, so he just let it go, not going to ask questions as long as there wasn't a problem anymore.

The thread of Shinji's thought made his mouth quirk, however, and he nuzzled the side of Shinji's neck, feeling the hot liquid in the veins just below the surface, teasing himself with it to no real purpose. "Heaven?" he murmured, amused, not having caught the entire thought, but the general idea. "You sure change your mind fast."

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"I'm allowed. It keeps you on our toes," Shinji mumbled, not happy to have his ultimate fault shoved in his face. Still, he made an affirmative purring sound in the back of his throat, nuzzling in against Kippei.

"Yeah, heaven." Everything he had ever wanted in one person.

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As this was undeniably true, Kippei merely shrugged and pulled him closer, a contented rumble of his own sounding in his chest. How anyone could be as perfect as Shinji and not even seem to know it, he had no idea.

"Good," he answered. "Then you won't be running away again." He'd already nearly forgotten that this time it hadn't just been annoying, it had hurt. Kippei preferred not to remember things that hurt.

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"I didn't run away," Shinji pouted, hiding his face in against Kippei's side, enjoying the hardness of an unyielding vampire body. "I just ran upstairs to find a knife." He had thought that was rather obvious. "Not my fault you don't know anything."

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"You ran away," Kippei corrected, because even if it had just been upstairs, Shinji had pushed him away and run and Kippei didn't like that feeling at all, because Shinji was meant to be right next to him, always. If he could find a way to fuse them together, skin to skin, he would, but it would make sex a little redundant so maybe that was overdoing it just a bit.

He didn't know anything, maybe, but he did know that Shinji had been hurt and unhappy and wanting out for reasons he still didn't really understand, and that was close enough to running for him.

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"Maybe...a little," Shinji admitted reluctantly, snuggling in further under Kippei, wanting to feel that sense of being smothered and kept in the embrace of something stronger than himself, that wouldn't let him go. Kippei was obsessed but that was okay with Shinji because Shinji was obsessed too.

"But it was your fault."

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"Not my fault you don't know anything," Kippei grumbled back at him, holding on tighter and pulling Shinji in closer, shifting to lay half on top of him, practically smothering him, not that he really could anymore.

"How was it my fault?" He didn't get how he was supposed to know what weird things were going to make Shinji freak out, and he still wasn't sure he knew what he'd done this time. This love thing was apparently a big deal.

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"Doesn't matter," Shinji mumbled, feeling happy and sated and more than a little bothered, hot under Kippei and very aware of every line of Kippei's body.

"Kiss me and make it better."

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It really wasn't fair for Shinji to blame him and not tell him why, but whatever, as long as everything was okay now Kippei wasn't going to complain. Kissing he could do, he could definitely do that.

Shinji's mouth was hot and wet and sweet as fire, a totally different kind of fire that was all Shinji's own, not like the deep, rough, dark red and orange flames Kippei was intimately familiar with, but like everything about Shinji it was pure blazing white. It made Kippei feel like he was going supernova, the closer he got to Shinji and stayed, able to touch and taste and burn away into the darkness.

It had been a long time since he'd met anyone who held any kind of light for him beyond a momentary flicker. Shinji was a goddamn marvel was what he was, like the eighth wonder of the world or something. Kippei had seen most of them in person, and he could safely say none of them had been as breathtakingly awesome as Shinji.

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Shinji laughed at the funny things running through Kippei's head, but didn't answer, just wrapped his arms around that cool neck and kissed back, hot and sweet and delighted just to have Kippei, who even if he didn't know what love was, adored him like little else in the world. If that wasn't love, then what was? Kippei was right; it wasn't Kippei's fault he didn't know what the word was. Shinji knew it, and he felt it when Kippei touched him and he just had to learn to trust in that in the way he never had with Master.

"You kiss better...really good."

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"Better than what?" Kippei growled, not liking being compared to something. "I kiss the best," he said firmly, unable accept anything else because Shinji was the best, for him, and he couldn't give anything less back.

"This is the best, you're the best, better than anything." He pressed himself closer as he kissed him again, deeper and harder, practically crushing Shinji but not caring because he could never get close enough or just enough, anything. Shinji was his addiction and he was always going to need more.

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Shinji laughed, wild laughter that filled the room as he threw his head back against the pillows and let it out, hugging Kippei close in delight.

"I meant...I said...kiss it better and you did, really good! The best. You kiss me better, better than anyone, ever. Just you. Only you, I promise." It was fun, having a jealous lover, and Kippei was that, among other things.

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Kippei really, really liked the sound of Shinji's laughter, smiling a bit and relaxing with the explanation. It seemed ridiculous for it to matter as much as it did, hearing Shinji say he was the best and the only, but it felt damn good all the same.

"Damn right," he answered, ducking his head to nibble on Shinji's neck, wishing he could bite it but knowing better than to go there right now.

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Shinji felt the hesitation in Kippei, that same need he was feeling to bite and taste and drink and share and yeah...it was strong. He pet Kippei, smiling and kissing his cheek and the corner of his mouth, teasing but placating at the same time.

"It's okay, we'll get dinner tomorrow, and then you can have some."

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"Mmmmm." Kippei rumbled a half hearted sound of agreement, nuzzling at him and knowing that Shinji was right, but that didn't help much at the moment. "You taste good," he complained. It wasn't fair that Shinji tasted so good he couldn't think about, didn't want anything else. If they could always feed only off of each other, that would be perfect.

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"So do you. You taste like forever, and I like forever, so that's a really good thing." Just to clarify so Kippei didn't take it the wrong way and think Shinji was saying he tasted old. He sighed and let his eyes closed, still feeling frustrated and thirty, but willing to wait. It would all be even better if he waited.

"Sleep, gorgeous. And tomorrow we can hunt, drink, and have sex." Because it wasn't like there was anything better to do.

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Kippei thought about that, tilting his head as he looked down at Shinji and lazily licking his fangs, distracted by thoughts of tomorrow and what it would taste like. He wasn't all that sleepy at the moment, although he did feel lethargic and slow and not much like moving.

"How do you taste like forever?" he asked curiously. It was an odd way to put it--he was fairly sure he knew what Shinji meant, but on the other hand, Shinji was weird.

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"You just do," Shinji muttered grumpily, not at all happy that Kippei was moving around and not all around him like a big icey blanket. He tugged at Kippei's arm and settled for just snuggling in against Kippei's side where it lay against the bed, because even if ancient Kippei wasn't tired, fledgling Shinji was.

"Forever tastes...really good."

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Kippei snorted with amusement and let Shinji tug him back down, wrapping around him and covering him with his body, delighting in the way Shinji fit almost completely beneath him, perfectly matching the hollows in his body as if they had been made to match. Kippei believed firmly that this was the case. Shinji had been made for him, end of story.