Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Confessions for the Heart ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: Hi! We are here with the next Chapter in our story. This is where the plot twists.

Catherine: I hope that it doesn't get too out of hand. JC's kinda leading the way with this.

JC: Well, I just kinda had an idea with this and I want to go with it.

Kathrine: Will there be pain?

JC: Probably not.

Kathrine: Bitch.

JC: You know I still love ya.

Catherine: Here is our fic. Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: Don't own Troopers or Masho.

Warning: YAOI/Shounen Ai fic, dark themes appear. FLAMERS ARE WELCOMED TO GIVE KATHRINE YOUR NAMES SO THAT SHE KNOWS WHO TO SEND HER GODDESS AFTER.

Confessions for the Heart

By JC and Catherine

" Come on, love," Seiji urged. " I know you don't look bad." He got no answer from his lover and sighed in frustration. Anubis had locked the door to their bedroom and refused to come out. The blonde knew that he might have been a little shocked or hesitant by the clothes he chose, but he didn't think he would act like this.

" If you don't come out of there, then I guess I could go by myself and find someone else to enjoy the night with," he said casually out loud. The door opened quickly and Anubis stepped out glaring.

" You wouldn't dare!" he growled, but Seiji was too busy staring in awe to hear him. He hadn't thought the outfit would look THAT good on the other man.

The vest looked to be two sizes too small, but only seemed to add more definition to the blue-haired man's already large and well-sculpted muscles. The zipper was all the way up and yet still showed a large amount of his muscular chest below his neck. It also only covered a minimal of his stomach and allowed his exceptionally chiseled abdomen to show through.

The pants were indeed skin-tight and shaped to his hips like they would in anyone's wet dream, curving an inch beneath his navel. The bottoms seemed to fit snugly around the boots that added to his bad-boy rogue look. Seiji smiled at the two neck accessories he had bought, a black choker with metal-ringed holes around it that fit perfectly around Anubis' tanned neck, and a skinny chain with a small silver dagger pendant. On his hands, Anubis wore black skinny gloves with the fingers cut off that completely set his look to perfection.

Seiji could already feel the burn increasing in his groin and had to force himself to keep his eyes on Anubis' blues. " Baby," Seiji gasped. " Black leather is definitely your look."

" I look like a harlot," the other man huffed.

" Well I bet you bought something just as bad for me," he replied.

" I thought it would be better for at home than public," Anubis stated.

" Well seeing as you look like a sex god, I'll just have to try on this outfit you got me," Seiji walked up to him and ran a hand down his lover's back side. He smirked evilly at the evidence it showed.

" Love, where are your underwear?" he asked innocently.

" You try getting these blasted pants on with them," he replied.

" I'm more concerned with getting them off later," Seiji winked at him before disappearing into their room. Anubis only stared confusedly at his lover's completely unusual behavior.

" If this is what 'clubbing' does to him maybe it won't be so bad after all," Anubis sat stiffly on the couch and waited for Seiji to come out. His thought continued to go to the clothing he had bought Seiji and the other things that the cashier at the store had suggested he get with it. He had to admit that all of it looked very sexy on the blonde in his mind, but he wanted more to see it in real life.

A few minutes later the door to the room opened and Seiji stepped out with a questioningly look on his face. " I never knew you went for this look," he smirked. Anubis' breath caught in his throat and his eyes widen to the point of looking as if they would fall out of his head. Seiji truly did look like a GOD.

The shirt he wore had a zipper that the blonde had only pulled up half way. The short sleeves were unbelievably tight on his muscular arms and only came to the middle of his biceps. It was quite short as well, showing off two inches above his navel. The pants were shinny black pleather with zippers up each side of the pants. They fit tightly to his hips and thighs and curved just under his navel. The boots he wore were thick-heeled and only made the lack of space beneath the pants' legs even tighter for they came to a little below his knee.

On his neck he wore an identical choker to the one Seiji had bought him and contrasted greatly with the blonde's pale ivory skin. His wrists were donned with silver bands and his nails painted black. His hair was pulled behind his head in a neat ponytail, save the usual locks over his right eye. Then Anubis watched as Seiji pulled out a long silver chain and fastened it around his waist so that six inches dangled at his side. He truly looked like a gothic god.

" The cashier helped you with this, didn't she?" Seiji asked with a seductive smirk. " Touma said that she likes to push her interests onto those that come into the store."

Anubis stood and walked over to him and wrapped an arm around his waist. " I really should thank her for her good tastes," he replied in a husky voice. " You look like something out of gothic heaven."

" Well that just means we'll have a lot of fun tonight," Seiji rubbed a hand over his lover's spine. He could feel the bulge beginning to grow in Anubis' pants as he pressed against him, but knew it had to wait.

" You better restrain that for a while," he ran a hand down to the hump and brushed his fingers across it gently. " I am not letting anything ruin tonight."

" You just love to see me wait," Anubis gave a mock frown.

" Only because you look so cute," Seiji answered as he pulled his lover to the door. Being as it was July they wouldn't need their coats on such a cool night. The blonde opened the door and let Anubis walk out first before shutting it and walking down the hall. The two received many curious and awed glances from other tenants as they entered the elevator.

*****

The music was loud and hypnotic as the two lovers walked into the well-known club in the city that night. The Exotica was known for having the most business and the loudest music, but also kept the house rather clean and had many nonalcoholic beverages for younger and less wild of its customers. Seiji thought it might not have been a good idea to come after all, but he shook of that thought when he saw the look of wonder on Anubis' face.

The blue-haired man had never seen so many people moving as one large entity before. His eyes wandered around the room as the bright rainbow of lights danced around with as much control as the people beneath it. The music wasn't exactly just one type for once one song ended another of completely different style and intensity would take its place.

" Come on love," Seiji smiled as he pulled Anubis into the throng of oblivious dancers. He turned around once they were near the center of the crowd and held his lover's hand tightly.

" How do you like it here?" he asked.

" It's loud, but strangely mesmerizing," Anubis admitted. He looked at a young couple who were dancing and groping each other as if no one else was in the room. " Why are they all acting so strange? Is the music a spell?"

" No," Seiji laughed. " They are only interested in themselves and each other. No one's gonna bother them. Touma used to tell me that people usually don't pay attention to each other around these places. I thought it would be a nice place for you to get use to being around people seeing as they don't really know you're here."

" But I don't truly know how to dance," Anubis told him. " I was a warrior in my time, not a ritual performer."

" Then you'll just have to follow me," Seiji smirked as he drew the other swordsman closer. He began to sway to the music and brush against Anubis roughly, sliding his hands over the other's tight vest.

" Come on," Seiji whispered, but loud enough he could hear. " Just go with the music. You'll never get over your anxiety if you just stand there looking sexy. You have to prove it. I want all these people to actually start paying attention when glance our way." He moved his hand to Anubis' ass and squeezed it with force.

Anubis gasped but then moaned at the feeling of the blonde rubbing against him. He began to just let go and move with his lover to the music. It was fast and upbeat, pushing him to flow with it like a pebble in a stream. He moved his hands up and down Seiji's arms and over his back as they melded together with the music. The blue-haired warrior knew he was slowly losing the control he had over himself and giving in to the infiltrating rhythm of the songs as they slipped by.

People actually did stare at then, man and women glancing when their partners weren't looking. Truthfully, their partners were looking as well. Who wouldn't stare at two godlike creatures moving together in the most erotic of ways and not even knowing it? It was enough to make man or woman turn their head.

Suddenly, Seiji bumped into someone and broke away from Anubis to apologize. " I'm sorry-," his words stopped dead in his mouth. His one lavender blue eye met with two deep blues.

" Seiji?"

" Touma," Seiji whispered in surprise and shock.

The archer stared wide-eyed at the man he once knew as Seiji. His clothing and point of being there showed no signs of the blonde swordsman he knew. The blonde swordsman he hadn't seen in over a month. " What the hell happened to you?" he asked.

" I…" the blonde didn't know what to say as he watched Touma's eye shift from him to the man behind him.

" Anubis?" Touma said in confusion. " What the hell…?"

" Oh shit," Seiji whispered. " Look Touma, I can explain…"

" Well I'm pretty stumped right about now," Touma's eyes were still partially wide. " What's going on? Where have you been? And what are you doing with Yami?"

" We're at a club dancing," Seiji answered his first question. " I've been with Anubis for the past month and…" He wasn't quite sure how to state the last answer.

Anubis could see the glimmer of fear in his lover's eyes as he talked to his friend. He placed a hand on his shoulder for assurance and said, " Tell him love, you knew you'd have to tell them sooner or later."

" Love?" Touma repeated as he alternated his glare between them. " You mean…?"

" Anubis and I are lovers," Seiji nodded simply. " We have been since he came back to the realm over a month ago."

" Nani?!" Touma's mouth opened slightly in stupefaction.

" It's true," Seiji moved backwards so that he was up against his lover's chest. " But I didn't want you to find out this way."

" So the you ran off, left us worrying about you for a month, just so that you could screw a Masho?" the archer growled.

" It's not like that,' Seiji shook his head, but he could feel the tension rising in his lover's form.

" Do you know how worried we were about you? Did ya even care? Or were ya too busy shagging him every minute?" the archer couldn't help, but let out all of his built up anger at the blonde. He had been Seiji's best friend and he hadn't even told him he was leaving. The swordsman had fled in the middle of the night and never looked back on his friends or thought of how they would react.

" Touma it's not like that!" Seiji repeated. " He's not the reason why I left, so don't bring him into to this!"

" Then what is your reason?" he asked spitefully. " After all those days of acting like we meant nothing you just up and leave with out so much as a goodbye? Some kinda friend you were!"

" That's it," Anubis growled and moved from behind Seiji. He stared Touma down, having a good three inches on the archer. His protective side was showing through, even against one of his lover's old friends.

" No Anubis," Seiji stopped him from doing anything. " It doesn't matter, he's just mad. I deserve it, let it no."

" Hell no!" Anubis couldn't help but clench his fists in anger. Touma was suppose to be Seiji's friend. Friends didn't say things like that, no matter what. He didn't understand how that boy was the bearer of a yoroi.

" Come on love," Seiji pulled on his arm. " Let's just go." Anubis gave in and allowed the blonde to pull him away from the crowd and to the bar section, leaving Tenku to stomp off in the other direction.

Seiji sighed as he sat down at the farthest table from the dance floor. Anubis could only stare at him with a look that Seiji had come to know quite well. He knew when his lover's temper was peaked at that he needed to cool down.

" Why did you let him talk to you like that?" Yami asked.

" I deserved it," Seiji said simply.

" NO, you didn't! no one deserves to be talked down to by one of their 'supposed' friends," Anubis countered.

" I pushed myself away from them and then left," he shrugged. " Touma was my best friend and he feels betrayed because I didn't confide in him." Anubis could tell by the way Seiji was just letting it slide off of him as if it were nothing that he was really hurt. Whenever the blonde was emotionally wounded he acted like it was no big deal and closed himself up a little bit more. Anubis wanted to beat the shit out of Tenku.

" I need some fresh air," he growled.

" Fine, we can go outside," Seiji was about to stand, but Yami stopped him.

" No you stay and rest for a minute," Anubis suggested. " After all of that dancing and all the things we've done today I know you're tired."

The blonde didn't want to admit it, but he was tired and Touma's words had only made him more fatigued. " All right," he nodded in submission. " Please, just don't try to hurt Touma."

" I won't," Anubis promised. He kissed Seiji on the forehead and turned to make his way through the crowd. Seiji sighed as he waited for the waiter to come to his table.

" Hello," an unfamiliar voice called. Seiji raised his head to see a black-haired man staring at him.

" Yes?" Seiji raised an eyebrow. The man looked to be close to thirty and wore a gray shirt and dark blue slacks. He didn't look like the type that came there for clubbing.

" I just didn't understand why you were sitting a lone," the man replied. " Everyone's staring at you and I thought someone was with you before."

" Yes, my boyfriend is here with me, but he's gone for the moment," Seiji stated quickly. He knew where this was heading and he wanted to cut it off before anything happened. " Sorry to disappoint you."

" Oh, quite all right," the man shrugged. " I didn't think you'd be single anyway." He turned around and walked away, but Seiji didn't see the frown and glare on his face.

A minute later the waitress came to his table and he ordered a cold soda as he waited for Anubis to return. She came back rather quickly and he smiled at her. She smiled and him and yet seemed slightly nervous. Seiji guessed it was because of his clothes. He paid her for the drink and gave a tip before she left. He put the beverage to his lips and took a large drink of it.

Quickly he pulled it away and stared at it. It tasted strange and he didn't know why. Do all drinks here taste this funny? Seiji wondered briefly. He set the drink down and stood up, ready to go find Anubis and go home. As stood as he stood his legs felt heavy and his vision swirled for a second. He leaned against the table and turned to sit back down, but he ended up falling in the opposite direction.

Strong but unfamiliar arms held him and he kept his eyes long enough to stare up at a black-haired figure he briefly recognized. " You?" Seiji slurred. " But how'd you…?" The blonde never finished his words for unconsciousness caught up with him.

*****

Touma growled to himself as he walked back and forth outside. Shu and Shin were supposed to meet him at the club, but they hadn't showed yet. His meeting with Seiji had only made him more agitated. How could he just walk away like that? he frowned. He disappears and then just happens to end up at this club, looking like a converted Goth, and yet he has the nerve to walk away from ME!

He was still musing his anger when he felt a hand grip his shoulder and turn him around. His glare met with a sapphire blue one of a greater intensity. " Anubis!" he growled.

" Shut the hell up and listen!" the ex-Masho tightened his hold on the archer and waited to see if he would try a comeback. He didn't.

" Do you even know how much you hurt him just now?" Anubis' glare made him look like a vicious wolf ready to kill his prey.

" Does he care how much he hurt us?!" Touma shot back.

" You are a complete fool!" Anubis growled deep in his throat. " You who are supposed to be wisdom and his best friend and yet you know nothing!"

" Best friend my ass!" Touma refused to back down. " He ran off to be with you and didn't even care to tell anyone! Before even that he was acting like we were inconveniences to him!"

" You ass, he thought he was the inconvenience!" Anubis shouted. " You act like he betrayed you and yet none of you saw the pain he was in! You were so engrossed in your own worlds that you saw his pain as an insult to you instead of the blade that was slowly killing him!"

" Nani?" Touma's glare faded and confusion was left in its wake. " What are you talking about?"

" The night Seiji left he went to a cliff and was ready to jump!" Anubis knew that he shouldn't have told him everything, but his anger was so out of control that all he wanted to do was throttle the younger warrior. But Seiji's request held still and talking out his anger was the only way he could calm himself down.

" You liar!" Touma snapped. " Seiji'd never do something like that!"

" You think you know him so well and yet you know nothing about him!" Anubis could feel his anger beginning to rise again. " You don't know of his dreams or nightmares, the things you were too self-involved to see! He was in so much pain and guilt that he thought death was his only outlet. If I hadn't gotten there he would be dead at the bottom of a cliff or his body floating onto some foreign shore."

" You can't be telling the truth," Touma shook his head. " We would have known if he was hurt. The link…"

" God Tenku!" Anubis let out a breath in frustration. " The link is useless when the person has such mental clarity and control as Seiji. He would have felt more of burden by pushing his pain on to you."

Touma thought for a moment about how distant Seiji had become after the incident in New York. He talked to them, but in a detached preoccupied way. Then he would just go to his room and meditate for the rest of the day. He had even turned down meals and training with Shu, but they all thought he thought he was too good for them. But they still hadn't wanted him to leave.

How could we have been so blind? He gasped as the realization hit. All of them had been so caught up in their own lives that his hadn't been as important. He wasn't the one that abandoned us, we abandoned him.

" Touma!" a voice called from behind him. He turned to Shin and Shu walking towards them.

" Who the guy in the hot outfit?" Shu asked before getting a good look at him. " Ya found someone to replace us?"

" I'm leaving," Anubis growled. He turned to leave and Touma grabbed his arm.

" Anubis wait," Touma sighed guiltily. Shu and Shin glance at each other when the realized who the person was.

" I've no time for this Tenku," he glared. " You were too stupid and blind to see fault, but his then and I won't let you hurt him again." With that he pulled his arm away from the archer and walked back towards the entrance of the club.

" What was that about?" Shin asked. " Why were you talking to Anubis?"

" Where did he get that outfit?" Shu asked. Touma's eyes stayed on Yami as he turned to walk back in.

Anubis felt the anger lifting off his chest and replaced with a sense of dread. Something was wrong and he feared it had to do with Seiji. Suddenly his chest constricted and he felt as if his heart had just been run through with his own blade. He stumbled against the side of the building and fell onto one knee. His breaths became ragged and he heard someone yell, " Anubis!"

Someone was next to instantly and he felt a hand on his back. " What happened?" it was Tenku's voice. " Are ya okay?"

He knew what the pain was from, but was too afraid to admit it. He didn't want it to be true.

" Tell us what happened?" he heard Suiko plead.

" Seiji," he breathed heavily as he stood shakily on his feet. " Something's happened to Seiji."

A/N: How was that? Wondering how that turned out like that? Well Kitty got a nosebleed while helping write the part about Anubis in his outfit and left me alone. I ended up having to get Kathrine to help me.

Kathrine: It's getting better, just wait.

JC: Anyway, is there a good kind artist out there that wants to draw pictures of Seiji and Anubis in their outfits. My imagination is on overload and I can't draw worth anything so we can't do it.

Kathrine: Please, draw them for us!

JC: Well we will post more later this week and hope to get a few reviews from this. Please review!