THE TRUE CONFESSION OF TERACHI SHINYA

by Kurara

+part 10+

When Shinya was finished with his bath, he walked to his room where
the servants were taking out the clothes from his bags. He saw the
sailor outfit Toshiya made for him and quickly grabbed it, hiding it
under his pillow before Mizuki noticed he was there. "Master
Shinya! Why are all your clothes that of a sailor's? What happened
to your dresses?"

"Anou... they..."

"Shinya!"

Shinya spun around. "Otou-san! Okaa-san!" He bowed quickly.

Yukari smiled. "Shinya darling! I'm glad you're back!" Yukari
brought Shinya up quickly for a hug.

"I'm glad too, Okaa-san." Shinya muttered half-heartidly.

***

"Master Shinya?" Mizuki peered into Shinya's room.

"Hai?" He looked up from the sketch he was finishing, putting the
final touches on Die's eyes (hehe).

"Master Shaisuke wishes to speak with you." Mizuki held open the
door and Shinya walked through, nodding to Mizuki as he went down the
stairs and into the family room, where Shaisuke sat with a blank face
and Yukari held a troubled look.

"Father?" Shinya inquired.

"Sit down." Shaisuke pointed to the couch across from himself.
Shinya nodded and sat down, placing his hands in his lap and watching
his father expectantly. Shaisuke was silent before he looked up, and
suddenly threw Shinya's journal in the fire. Shinya gasped and
turned to face the fire, eyes wide. His attention was siftly turned
back to his father as he felt the sting of a slap and Yukari let out
a scream. Shinya's hand flew up to his cheek and his vision shakedly
met with his father's. "I told you to write an ACCURATE account of
your travels!" He pointed to the flames. "THAT is in NO WAY
accurate! The captain is a decent man and would never do anything
like that! And making up that thing about the storm just to protect
yourself from having us know that you had lice? What do you take us
for?"

"But father! It really happened I--" SMACK! "Father!" Tears stung
in Shinya's eyes as now his other cheek grew red from the pain.

"Shinya! Go to your room. You're going to stay in there until you
can act as you were trained and re-write your journal PROPERLY!"

Shinya could merely nod and run upstairs, throwing himself on the bed
and crying. He could hear downstairs his "mother" crying as well and
his father trying to comfort him. //I wish Die was here... he'd
stick up for me... He'd tell them I'm not lying...// It wasn't long
before Shinya fell asleep.

***

Shinya ran the brush through his hair for the twelveth time in the
same spot as he stared blankly out his window in the direction of the
ocean. A knock sounded at his door before Mizuki opened it. "Master
Shinya, here is your dinner." Shinya's mind barely registered the
sound of Mizuki placing the tray on his table and walking out,
locking Shinya's door. For six days, it had been like this. For six
days, the only time his door opened was for food. Shinya's father
would not let him out until he wrote a "thourough and accurate
account" of the trip.

"Six days..." he muttered, then gasped. //SIX DAYS?!// He dropped
his brush and looked through his things. "Oh... where is it?"
Shinya whined as he threw clothes everywhere, searching until he
found his cause. "Ah! Here you are!" He nuzzled his cheek into it
before quickly changing. He gathered Puppy in his arms and checked
out his window to see the other windows.

//All clear.. looks like they're toward the front...// He grabbed
the long strand of knotted together clothes he had and tied it around
Puppy's waist. "Now, Puppy.. I'm going to lower you. Stay put until
I get down, okay?" Puppy sleepily yawned and Shinya carefully tied
the clothes rope around his waist before going to the window and
putting Puppy on the sil. Puppy whimpered and tried to get back
inside, but Shinya petted his head. "Shh.. sh... it'll be alright.."
he soothed as he carefully lowered Puppy to the ground outside and
dropping the clothes rope as he got out another.

He tied it to a bed post near his window and climbed out the window
with ease, dropping next to Puppy. He untied the dog and picked him
up, nuzzling his face in the soft fur. "Let's go." He whispered and
walked through the forest down a familiar path quickly.

***

Kaoru placed a hand on Die's back after watching him stare down into
the ocean for who knows how long. Die turned slightly to face Kaoru
and sighed, turning his attention back to the water. "I'll never see
him again..." Die whispered.

"You don't have to come with us." Kaoru responded softly. "You can
go with him if you want... I'd understand."

Die shook his head. "I doubt he returns my feelings anyway..." He
gripped harder on the railing. "And... and you all need me..." he
choked back a sob as he felt the lump in his throat grow tighter and
tighter. "I... I just wish..." He closed his eyes hard. "I wish my
wish was granted..." Tears slowly began to fall and Kaoru turned
Die's shoulders to bring him into an embrace, Die crying softly into
Kaoru's shoulder.

***

Shinya put Puppy down once they reached the harbor and he flopped
down into the grass for a bit, resting before starting to look for
the ship. Puppy followed now that he was awake, but Shinya sleepily
slugged around the docks, glancing around and after a while, began to
panic. "They didn't leave early, did they?!" Tears stung at
Shinya's eyes and he started to run, Puppy following close behind and
barking. He checked every dock and panicked further when he couldn't
find the ship anywhere.

"They... they left..." Shinya dropped to the ground and held his
face in his hands as he cried, Puppy coming up and barking
concernedly at him. Shinya hugged Puppy and sobbed into his
fur. "I'll... I'll never get to see them again Puppy.. I'll never
get to see Kaoru or Levin or Kyo or Toshiya or... or... Die... ever
again..."

"Why not?"

Shinya gasped at the familiar voice and his head snapped up in
shock. He turned his head around and saw bright red hair.
Clumbsily, he got up and stared at Die through his tear-blurred
eyes. "Die?" He whispered, reaching up and brushing his hand
against Die's cheek as Puppy watched, confused. Upon touching Die's
check, Shinya gasped as the realization Die was real and happily
threw himself onto Die into an embrace. "Die! Die! I thought.. but
where... where's the ship?"

"It's not here."

Shinya pulled back. "You stayed?" Shock was written clearly all
over his face.

Die laughed. "No... no... Kaoru sold some of Yoshiki's things and
then traded the money and the ship for a bigger one. Our old ship
already set sail." He studied Shinya's face. "But... what are YOU
doing here?"

Shinya blushed and looked down. "Well... I... I wanna go with you
all... I want to sail..." He looked to Puppy. "And I want to bring
him."

Die looked down and then back to Shinya. "Shinya..." he whispered,
cupping Shinya's face with his hand and softly staring into his
eyes. "I... I want you... no... I NEED you to know something..."

"What?" Shinya whispered.

Die closed his eyes for a bit, and then opened them, gazing
beautifully at Shinya. "If you go on... I... I have to have you know
this first so you can... leave... if you feel unco.. uncomfortable."

Shinya tilted his head to the side. "What is it?"

Die closed his eyes for a minute, considering his wording before
opening them and sighing. "Shinya... I'm... I... what I mean to
say..." His eyebrows knotted in fustration and he never left his
focus off of Shinya, who stared at him in wonder. "Oh, screw it!"
He daringly pulled Shinya to himself and harshly kissed the younger
man. Shinya made a muffled vocal reply, but the only physical action
was his lips responding and letting Die's tongue prod it's way into
his mouth. He sighed as he felt Die's tongue lovingly play with his
own before coming out for air.

Die stared straight into Shinya's eyes, licking his lips. "I love
you... Shinya..."

Shinya's eyes widened for a bit before he smiled and hugged
Die. "Die... I... I think I love you too..." //I think my wish came
true!//

"Hounto?" Die's shocked voice replied and he felt Shinya nod into
his chest.

"Ughn."

Die pulled back to pull Shinya into a quick kiss and smiled. "Come
on. We'll miss the ship." Shinya nodded and Die reached for his
hand, taking it firmly and causing Shinya to blush. Die lifted the
hand up and kissed the backside before leading him to the ship,
smiling at Shinya the whole way, Puppy trailing at thier feet.

***

--END!--

***

Yay! They got together!
Now Kurara must get to sleep ^___^
I hope you all like!
C/C is loved like crazy!
~Kurara



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