Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Heaven In Your Arms ❯ Wild Beast ( Chapter 8 )

AN: Ahh, what a lovely little cliffhanger I left you all on there. (smiles sweetly and quickly dodges the knives being thrown in her direction). Ahem..yes…moving on…

- Chapter 8: Wild Beast

He had no idea how long he had been sitting there. He had no idea when he had even sat down. Somewhere along the line someone had put a blanket around his shoulders as he sat on that small brick wall, head in his hands and eyes tightly shut, trying to block out what had inevitably happened.

The embers of the fallen building crackled quietly, the giant flames finally put out as the last few firemen packed away the hoses and safety equipment into the one remaining fire engine. The rain had subsided to a faint light mist getting carried in the wind, the crowd dispersing back to their own homes, some being taken by the police for questioning.

Kenshin felt a presence standing next to him, but had no intention of raising his head.

“I’m so sorry.” Came the voice. It was the one of the ambulance men Kenshin had spoke to earlier, who now sat down next to him on the wall. He looked sadly at the lowered head before him, avoiding eye contact, staring inertly at the pavement underneath them. “Will you let me take a look at your arm now?” he gently persisted.

“It’s fine.” Came the fallen whisper, as Kenshin held his right arm closer to his stomach, trying to hide the blood on his sleeve.

“It’s not fine.” The man tried again, “I know it’s not broken, but it’s been badly burned from that stunt of yours. At least let me bandage it or it’ll get infected.”

As the man put his hand on Kenshin’s arm, Kenshin flinched away, his hair falling over his shoulder. He sat there turned away for a moment, the pain in his arm nothing to what he felt inside right now.

When he had called out Sano’s name, it was like another being took over him, something that had no regard for his own life. He had sprinted away from the crowd towards the crumbling building, ignoring the heat of the fire, ignoring the fireman who had grabbed him just inside the burning main hallway, struggling to pull him back out of the flames falling from the ceiling as Kenshin thrashed in his arms trying to get to Sano, not knowing what he could do or where Sano could be, but having to try, reaching out into the flames, screaming out his name until another fireman ran into the building to help with the first one, and managing to get Kenshin out of there just before the hallway collapsed with the rest of the building.

“Please let me look at it.” The voice came again, and Kenshin sighed quietly, bringing his arm out from holding it to his stomach so it could be treated.

As the man went about cleaning his wound and bandaging it, Kenshin continued to stare aimlessly at the ground, his mind blank of all emotion. From in front of him two firemen walked dragging one of the long hoses behind them, walking past him.

“-finitely started deliberately.”

“You think so?”

“Sure. There’s no way a natural fire could start a blaze like that with all this rain around. Besides you could smell the petrol in there it was-“

Somehow, Kenshin’s mind was distantly aware that conversation was important, but right now that thought didn’t seem to get any further than a vague awareness of it, his mind already lost in other dreaded thoughts. Thoughts of Sano.

Why did this happen? He hadn’t left that long ago. If he’d stayed then….Kenshin sighed. Then what? They’d both be dead?

Right now Kenshin couldn’t have cared.

“Alright, that should do it.” The ambulance man said, as Kenshin brought his arm back across his stomach, un-caring that the man had helped him. “Look…go home. You can’t do anything more here.” He said gently, putting his hand on Kenshin’s shoulder to try and offer some small amount of comfort to the grieving young man.

When Kenshin didn’t move, the man sighed sadly, getting up from the wall and walking back over to his ambulance.

What would he do now? It seemed every time he had a chance of being happy something went wrong. Now Sano was gone he….

Kenshin’s eyes narrowed as he felt hot tears beginning to form at the corners of his eye’s again. Saying that…saying that Sano was gone… he didn’t want…

Kenshin let the tears fall, dripping off his cheeks and falling to the ground, covering his head with hands as his body trembled, his heart heavy with yet another loss added to it’s already hefty weight.

He was gone…just as he finally let himself love someone again, and they were snatched away.

“What the?……….ooohh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!”

Kenshin blinked, his whole body seemingly to freeze.

“What the hell! How-….When-….What the hell happened to my apartment?”

Slowly raising his head, Kenshin saw over in front of him to his left, stood someone that made his heart skip a beat.

It can’t be…. Kenshin stared unbelieving; slowly sitting up straight, There’s no way he…

“S-Sano?” he whispered, his eyes going wide as he suddenly bolted from the wall he was sitting on.

Before Sano could get his head around the fact that his apartment didn’t seem to be where he’d left it, his arms were suddenly full of a clinging Kenshin, burying his face in his chest and holding him so tightly Sano almost felt like his ribs were gonna be crushed.

“K-Kenshin what…? What are you doing here? I thought you went home?”

“Sano I…” Kenshin chocked, tears of relief streaming down his face as he clung desperately to the back of Sano’s jacket, eyes tightly shut as he pressed himself as close as he could to him, “…I didn’t…I thought you were dead you…” he buried his head against his chest, Sano quickly wrapping his arms around the quivering figure, looking down at him, face full of worry.

“Well…well what’s going on?” he said, looking across at the collapsed building, “How did…what…Kenshin you…” he stuttered, not being able to think straight, looking back down at the tearful red head in his arms.

“It was a fire.” Kenshin managed to choke out, “I came back…I wanted to be with you…I changed my mind, I wanted to stay…I love you,” he cried, his knees feeling weak as he slowly slipped to the wet ground, Sano falling with him as he knelt there, still holding him in his arms.

“You…you love me too?” he asked quietly.

“I thought I’d lost you…” Kenshin whispered, his breathing ragged, trying to calm down, “I want to be with you…I love you Sano……I love you…I want to stay.” He whispered, calming down, a barely audible “That I do” Being added on the end, and Sano held him tighter, kissing the top of his head.

Whatever the hell happened here would have to wait. He needed to get Kenshin home, he was in shock, half collapsed in his arms.

“Kenshin?” he said, trying to get Kenshin to look up at him, “Kenshin where’s your car? I wanna take you home.”

“But…but your apartment…” Kenshin pitifully protested, still not wanting to let go of him.

“Oh forget my apartment.” He said sternly, “I wanna make sure you’re okay. You might not believe it but I can actually drive, I could just never afford to get car after I took my lessons.” Sano tried to stand up, bringing Kenshin with him now loosening a little on his grip so Sano could finally see his face, “Where’s your car?” he said gently, running his thumb over his cheek to wipe away the last tear that was threatening to fall.

“It’s…err…j-just round the corner.” He said, his voice still a little shaky, trying to will his brain back to the reality that Sano was fine, standing right in front of him alive and well.

“Ok…come on.” He said, turning to walk towards the street, taking Kenshin’s hand as Kenshin held it tightly, his other hand coming to grab his sleeve as they walked towards his car.

“Oh damn…looks like someone’s been in your car.”

Kenshin looked up when they stopped walking, and found the drivers door swinging open.

“No…I did that.” He said quietly, “I didn’t think of shutting it…I was too worried that you were in danger.”

Sano looked down at him, clinging to his arm, feeling his fingers digging into his skin.

He really had been terrified hadn’t he?

Sano’s eyes softened as he looked at him. If that had been him in his position, then my god, he would have been just as terrified…to think that had lost Kenshin…wow, now that was a feeling he most definitely did not want to experience.

Slowly leading him over to passenger side, Sano opened the door for Kenshin to sit down, which he did, but he didn’t let go of his arm.

“Kenshin…” he said sadly, “You have to let go, I can’t drive you home if you don’t let go.”

Kenshin didn’t move for a moment, staring at the dashboard, before slowly letting his hand fall away from his sleeve. Shutting the door behind him, Sano made his way over to the drivers seat and got in, shutting the door and realising that Kenshin had left the keys in the ignition too. Man…I’m surprised no one stole this they—

Sano’s thought was interrupted as he suddenly found Kenshin’s head resting on his shoulder, his hand clinging to his arm again, eyes closed. Sano looked down at the red head, and found himself smiling sadly. He didn’t like seeing Kenshin like this, like he was lost and afraid. He wanted to see that smile again, that beautiful smile that never failed to capture his heart every time he saw it.

He’d get him home and then… ah…then what? It’s not like Sano had anywhere to stay now, maybe he’d stay in a motel or something, he still had some money left from looking around in that Pawn Shop. God he’d been lucky that was open, good people in there, very good people to have it open 24 hours. Mind you, he supposed they got all the interesting stuff in the middle of the night. If he hadn’t have been in there looking for a present for Kenshin, liking History and stuff he figured there may be something of value he could buy from in there, then he would have been back at home…and maybe he would have been caught in that fire…

Sano shuddered.

Ok, no time to be thinking such things, getting Kenshin home was his first priority, what he’d do and where he’d go after that was something he’d have to figure out later.

-

By the time they’d got back to Kenshin’s apartment, parking in the underground parking lot specifically for that building, Kenshin had been dozing off, exhausted from the emotional excursion. Prying his hand of his arm, Sano gently shook Kenshin’s shoulder.

“Kenshin?” Kenshin slowly opened his eyes, sitting up straight from leaning on him when he realised where they were, “Come on, let’s get you inside.”

Opening the door, and after Kenshin had got out making sure to lock it afterwards, Sano found Kenshin clinging to his arm again as they walked up the stone steps to the main street, then up the ones leading to main entrance. Walking into the elevator, Sano turned to him.

“Err, I dunno which floor you’re on.” He said, smiling embarrassingly. Kenshin slowly moved and pressed the number 5 on the control button pad, the doors sliding shut and taking them up.

Kenshin still hadn’t looked at him properly in the eyes yet, he’d just clung to him like this, like if he’d let go Sano would just, disappear or something. Sano definitely wanted that smile back, he didn’t want to think that he had been the cause of Kenshin’s pain…well, not that he could have done anything about it at the time, he didn’t even realise while he was out midnight shopping that his apartment decided to catch fire, nor did he realise that Kenshin had come back saying that he…

…loved him.

Oh yeah.

As the doors opened, Kenshin leading him through still not looking at him, Sano remembered what Kenshin had said to him.

He loved him…wanted to be with him…wanted to stay…

As Kenshin reached his door and unlocked it, Sano suddenly frowned in thought. Wait a minute…if Kenshin wants to stay with me, then does that mean….?

“Sano?” Sano looked down at Kenshin, the door swinging open to his apartment, “About what I said earlier…that we…we shouldn’t be doing what we were about to do?”

Sano swallowed, “Er…yeah?”

Kenshin finally looked up to him.

“I’ve changed my mind.”

Suddenly Kenshin flung his arms around his neck, pressing his lips against Sano’s and demanding entrance so forcefully for a second Sano stupidly thought if he’d taken home the right person. Struggling to stand up against such as powerful kiss, Sano gasped for breath as Kenshin pulled away, grabbing his wrist and practically yanking him through the door, slamming it shut quickly behind them, and pulling him swiftly through the kitchen and Living Room towards his bedroom.

“Werr..err hang on a minute Kenshin, don’t you think this is going a bit - whoaa!” Sano found himself virtually flung down on the bed, Kenshin cleverly managing to remove his jacket in the process. Turning back around to sit up, he saw Kenshin, having hurriedly shut the door behind them, now slipping out of his shirt walking towards him.

Sano’s face flushed, “Kenshin, I-I-I-I think you better think about this you…”

Kenshin flung his shirt to one side, crawling over on top of Sano making him fall down on his back down to the bed, one knee placed high in between his legs, while Kenshin buried his hands in his hair and kissed him again, another forceful kiss that made any protests from Sano, as little as there were to begin with, melt along with any remaining thoughts of…well, anything really.

Sano moaned into this incredible kiss, his hands wondering what to do, whether to hold him or push him away, because he obviously wasn’t thinking straight. What happened to his quiet, blushing little Kenshin? He’d suddenly become a wild beast, ravishing his form as Kenshin, haven broken the kiss, forced Sano to lean up a little so he could rip the t-shirt right off him.

“Ken-Kenshin wait—OW!“ Sano tried to say something, but Kenshin had currently given him a very large and very painful love bite on his neck, and the more Kenshin wriggled around on top of him like this, straddling him in nothing but his leather pants, his hair falling about him like waves of silk, Sano was finding it more and more difficult to try and stop him…in fact more and more difficult to even breath!

What a dilemma! Kenshin was being the sexiest being on this planet, but Sano had to stop him! This wasn’t right, this wasn’t his Kenshin, he wasn’t even saying anything he was just- -Oh my god…

Something in Sano snapped, and as Kenshin had dipped his hand underneath the un-done zip of Sano’s jeans, Sano suddenly sat up, grabbing Kenshin by his shoulders and pulling him back down, holding him tightly to his chest so he couldn’t move anymore, his arms trapped.

“Kenshin snap out of it!” Sano demanded, as Kenshin tried to struggle in his arms, desperately trying to move downwards, but Sano kept his grip, “Stop it Kenshin! This isn’t like you! Not after what’s just happened, now stop it!”

Kenshin stopped.

They lay there together for a moment, no one speaking, no one moving, before Sano suddenly felt something wet on his chest, and Kenshin’s shoulders beginning to shake.

Was he crying?

“Make love to me…”

Sano blinked.

“Please make love to me.”

It was such a quiet voice, a desperate whisper, choked with tears.

“Please……I was so terrified I’d lost you…please Sano………I want you…I want to be so close to you…please…please make love to me….please don’t push me away.”

Sano held him close, a loss at what to say. He rest one hand on the back of Kenshin’s head, slowly stroking his hair for a moment, letting him calm down. After a minute or two, Kenshin’s breathing returned to normal, and Sano slowly turned over, resting Kenshin down on his back, his head falling back softly into the pillow.

“Alright.” Sano said quietly, as he lay there on top of him, Kenshin placing his hand on Sano’s own that had softly stroked down one cheek.

Sano leant down and kissed him tenderly, the fiery madness of a moment before lost, leaving a gentle and calming atmosphere between them. “I won’t push you away.” He whispered, kissing each cheek lovingly, his heart beat beginning to race as he went in for another kiss, Kenshin slowly wrapping his arms around his neck, doing exactly what he had wanted to do, getting lost in his love. “I’ll never push you away.”

Wiping the tears away from his cheek, that shy smile finding it’s way to Kenshin’s lips again, Sano smiled back. This was his Kenshin, the Kenshin he’d fallen so deeply in love with, the Kenshin he could kiss over and over again and never, never ever leave him.

“I love you Sano.” Kenshin whispered, so much passion in his voice it almost made Sano himself feel like crying, to have found such a perfect being like this, for this Angel to love a drop out, stupid, fight picking idiot like him, he truly had to be the luckiest person on this planet.

Sano buried his head against Kenshin’s neck, relishing the fact that they were here together like this, “I love you too…love you so much.”

Sano had never thought it possible to love someone this much so quickly, this had to be fate. Meeting in the bar that evening, Kenshin turning out to be his teacher, everything was pulling them together, and Sano was going to take every chance to stay together too. Even his apartment burning down, maybe he could even live with Kenshin now. He hoped so…god he hoped he could be with him. To live with him, have dinner every evening with him…to sleep in the same bed with him.

Sano sighed contently, gently kissing down Kenshin’s neck onto his chest, Kenshin’s head leaning to one side, eyes closed, that blush on his cheeks, letting Sano finish what they’d started earlier.

As Sano reached for the clasp on Kenshin’s leather pants however, Kenshin reached down to stop him, Sano wondering what he’d done wrong again this time. But as Sano’s eyes looked up, he didn’t see a look of worry on Kenshin’s face…

He was smiling.

Bringing one hand around the back of Sano’s neck, pulling him forward so he could kiss him again, a passionate kiss that told him to do anything and everything, Kenshin laid back down, letting Sano do whatever he wanted, wherever he wanted, and for as long as the two of them could keep up.

Kenshin wanted Sano to make love to him? He’d make love to him all night long.

To Be Continued…

AN: I dunno about you, but I am SO proud of this chapter! Bring on the sap! Talk about being in an emotional state when I wrote this! Hehe!