Eternity

Chapter 2

It as reaching nightfall, and the brat hadn’t returned, I mean it’s not like Tori’s worried or anything. It’s just uhh….he won’t say it out loud but it was just too quiet. Ryo was always making some sort of noise or sounds, and with not here with him. All that could be heard was the soft sounds of summer, the calm wind blowing through the windows curtain…much too quiet that was starting to irate him more and more each minute that went by.
“I guess I should go find the clumsy fool before he injures himself if he hasn’t already”
He pauses a moment with that last thought in mind. Ryo somewhere crying out in pain, due his own clumsiness or something worse…lying in the side of the road…dead…
“Better use that the window it’ll be faster!” Now on the move as if his ass was on fire. He looked the stupid little town upside down looking for the blasted little dragon. An hour went by and nothing, not a single stinking trace of the twerp anywhere. Tori now stood in the middle of the crossroads, right where he last saw his idiot dragon.
“I did NOT just call him mine...your putting words into my mouth!!” Tori fumed…
(A/N: Well of course I am, I’m the author!)
“Gahh I don’t have time for you, I have find him!” He paced angrily.
(A/N: Why not ask someone if they’ve seen him?)
“Just for the record I thought of that first…n-now get out of here!” he stopped yelling at the author in the sky.
(A/N: Fine…whatever)
“Oi…you lady….!”
“Ehhh…u-uh yes”
“Have you seen that young dragon boy I was with earlier?”
“You mean the one you attacked this afternoon?”
“A-h-h… yeah…I mean yes, Him! Did you see where he ran off too?”
“What! I tell you! SO what you can hurt him again?”
“Wha! No…Arg...I don’t have time for this crap, just tell me”
“Hmmm...Fine but be warned...he ran into the forbidden forest. That place is dangerous filled with…hey!” but Tori was already on his way once the lady pointed in the direction.
“Thanks old hag….later!”
“What did you call me?…Grr the nerve…I feel sorry for that young boy to be stuck with a monster like him.”
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Once leaving the village behind in a tearful rampage, Ryo didn’t how long he’s been out here. The forest was soo deep and he swore he heard noises coming from the distance, not the nicest kind of noises either. Ryo kept on his toes, flinching at every creak even the tiniest of sounds made him want to coward in fear. Ryo had stopped crying so time ago, but he felt another set of waterworks coming again. He just wanted to get out of here, it was too scary, he’d take Tori’s glare anyday...it sure was a hell of a lot better then this terrible place.
All of a sudden a new noise arose, at first he jumped…when he realized it was his stomach. Oh that’s right; he and Tori hadn’t eaten since this morning, and since the woods were so thick he couldn’t tell what time it was? By tummy time…it’s should be almost supper…or past. Ehh, his tummy was talking to him again, feed me it said.
Oh who am I kidding, no one is coming for me, and I’ll never find my way out of here, I’m pretty much dead meat. Oh here comings the tears…What Ryo wishes with all his heart is that he could say sorry to Tori for being a pain and they could be friends again…but he hates me, I bet that after he hit me he went to inn to eat and left the town altogether, leaving Ryo to fend for himself. I mean that’s that he said he’s do before all this happened.
Flashback
“Are you saying that's your going to abandon your task, and continue your sinful rein of thievery?" Ryo asked for the first time they’ve known each other looking quite cross with the dark elf…
"Wow, I do believe that the most intelligent thing I've heard say all day, thanks for the suggestion"
"Ehh...er...w-wait...No t-that's not what I m-me-meant"
"Oop...too late for that, my trusty companion"
Snap…
There was a noise; it sounded close…probably a huge monster with its name all over me…
“I guess this is the end…”
“Ryoooo”
What….i-it can’t be!
“God damn it brat where are you? Ahh stupid roots, darn trip me will you! CHOP Ahaha…that’ll teach you! Argg this will take forever, Ryo you better be alive, or soo help me!”
Wha---what’s he doing here? How’d he know where I was? Why, why, why!!!
“Why!”
“Ryo...is that you?”
Ahh…he heard me, maybe if I stay quiet he’ll go right past me. But wait, if he didn’t want me, then why is he out here. Maybe, just maybe he likes me after all he values my friendship…he wants to be friends…Yay...I’m soo happy!
“Tori! Over here!”

CRUNCH

What was that??

Tori got threw a few more roots and finally spotted his idiot dragon, Ryo was safe. And was about to be eaten by a huge demon…
WAIT! WHAT!
“Ryo...look out!! Behind you!
Ryo turns his head only to be faced with an enormous boar demon.
The boar demon, it a boar only 10 times bigger. Among the normal wild pig diet are fruits and bugs, while the demon variety consist humans and any other creatures or demons who wander into its territory. So on today menu are Dragon and dark elf.
“Not on my watch snot face. He’s MINE!!” Out of air Tori unsheathe a mighty sword…
(A/N: wait when did he get a sword?!?...looks through the story again…)
“Heh I swiped it off some vendor some towns ago while we were helping, thought I dissevered for all my hard work”
(A/N: Argg darn you! FINE!)
So Tori swings his mighty sword…the demon turns his attention from the pretty little trebbling morsel to the deadly target who dare to swing a toothpick at him. And the fight began…
While that goes on...Ryo had only one thought running through his pretty little head…
HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!! HE’S MINE!!
A few moments later Ryo was snapped out of his daze by a hand gently shaking his shoulder. Ryo turned his face toward his rescuer, Tori was cover in quite a lot of blood, and a little farther behind them be the dead boar demon that threatened their very lives. By in the young dragon’s eye none of that mattered, because Tori came for him, he cared…he said so.
“Tori…” but before he could get out a sentence he was developed in a tight hug. Ryo’s arms were all but crushed against the older mans strong chest, Ryo who very confused about everything and tried to pull back, but the arms only griped the younger body toward the other even tighter.
“T-tori?”
“D-don’t scare me like that again…” the dark elf whispered in the dragon’s pointed ear. For some reason this made the younger being blush like a tomato. The older one noticed, but continued talking as if he didn’t. But by the way the elf was stuttering, if was hard for the dragon not too.
“I-I only came looking for you, B-because…well I—I ….Alright I’ll say it! It was too damn quiet without you around…I was lonely…there you happy Humph” even if he sounded upset; he grips Ryo body even closer.
“….” Ryo was speechless; the cold and mighty Kibatori thief extraordinary missed him, the clumsy cry baby Ryokusho. Maybe there was hope for this dark elf yet.
Tori finally released Ryo from his hold, putting him at arms length, then again seems like Tori was back to old himself again, but that ok, at least Ryo knew he cared. The duo got to their feet. Ryo of course didn’t know his way back to the village with no name, looking back at the forest Ryo was surprised to find Tori had made a path while he was ‘not caring’ about Ryo welfare. A clean clear mostly tunnel that lead straight back to the town, clear for all roots, twigs and any other potential danger that may cause harm to his dragon.
‘That’s right I said my dragon’ the dark elf thought to himself…
Turning his attention back to his hero, Ryo watched as Tori used his sword to tear the pig apart to use it for future meals or maybe a feast for Ryo safe return to his side…or something like that. Time slowly ticks by, Tori the dark elf cleaning and skinning a monstrous boar demon, and his very confused partner Ryokusho the river dragon. But Suddenly Tori stopped what he was doing, and quickly stepped in front of Ryo, The young dragon went on alert… was something wrong? What? Tori raised a hand and carefully cresses Ryo bruised cheek.
“…Oh...Ahh… It doesn’t hurt anymore, to tell you the truth I completely forgot about it since I got lost”
“…I-I sorry”
“Ehhh…what!”
“I’m...sorry, please forgive me, I don’t know what came over me, please”
“Ehh, errr…ahh…uhhh...T-tori what’s this all of a sudden…why are you acting this way? Not that I don’t mind, but I just want to kno…”
Tori didn’t allow to Ryo to finish the sentence because his mouth was busy doing something else. Ryo was locked into a powerful and passionate kiss. The poor boy was utterly stunned; it was his first after all. The kiss only lasted a few seconds but for them it lasted a heck of a lot longer. The dragon took his claws out of Tori shirt before he realized he was griping onto it in the first place. What he also realized while coming out of his first kiss daze was where Tori’s hands were located; they were kind of making Ryo blush a lot.
One of Tori’s arms had tight hold on the cute adorable dragon’s body which was pressed against his strong chiselled body, while the other was touching the boys’ pretty face, in hope he could touch those sweets lips again. He swear he’s gone mad, just a few hours ago he would have personally done off the little twerp for good. But now, he doesn’t want to let go. Never. Ever. Again
“Sigh...I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WRONG WITH ME?”
“May-maybe its love” As he said that Tori slowly released his dragon and returned to cutting the pig. Ryo got a little worried, but then he saw a smile, and real absolutely wonderful smile graced the elves face.
“Love….love…ehh you know never before in my life have I believed in love. I mean when I was a child my parents, heh I haven’t thought about them in soo long. Ahh, what they had for me wasn’t love, I was just a tool, a weapon to use at their dispose. But I wasn’t strong enough, so I left them. Then I met a small tribe of thieves, I thought they could be my family. I trained hard with them, I got strong and powerful and I thought I found love. A young man…”
“What happened to him?” Tori didn’t realize Ryo had moved and was sitting next to him. He wanted to hear his tale, he wanted to know him, and be with him.
“W-well ahh he was only with me for power, I became the leader of the tribe and he was by my side, but as soon as someone stronger came along and dethroned me, he ran off with them leaving me in the dust. Sad huh?”
“No…NO…that’s not right, your not sad at all, you are powerful and not a bad person!”
“Not bad huh? What makes you say that?”
“W-well you came back for me didn’t you?”
“….” Tori was not excepting that kind of answer, but he was grateful for it.
“See, your not bad just lead a different life, raised a different way to survive, you can change for the better, and I would be with you every step of the way. I swear to you I’ll never…”
Ryo was cut off with more lip locking passion. This time was even better then the first. The couple moved while in the misted of making out, Ryo sure didn’t take notice till his back made contact with the bark of a tree .The only reason Tori released the younger male was because he needed air. ‘Damn you oxygen’ he thought.
“Stop trying to convert me little dragon, ‘cause its working” and leaned over him using the tree trunk for support, as the couple caught their breath. Ryo suddenly got a determined look in his eyes, and before Tori could react; Ryo stood on his tiptoes and smooched the elves lips with what little experience he had. The dark elf was pleasantly surprised for the young dragon’s courage to do so, and happily took over the kiss leaving Ryo quite breathless.
Looking up at his companion Ryo smiled a tired grin. Ryo was starting to fall asleep, not that he wanted to. No he wanted to spend more time with this new Tori while it lasted, but he was soo tired. Thinking back a lot had happened that day, so who wouldn’t want to nod off. Tori peered down to his partner with a little worry look.
“I’m fine Tori, just let me rest a bit, all that crying really tuckered me out.”
“Alright…sleep tight” the last thing Ryo felt was a pair of wet lips, Tori had given him a kiss on the forehead.
‘He really has changed I’m glad’ were his last thought before drifting off to dreamland.
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With Ryo out like a light, Tori could finish up the pig, and then take it back to the stupid little village, let Ryo have a long needed nap, and then they head out. The only question was, how was he going to get the whole pig back…?
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Ryo flicked his eyes open, fast at first but quickly regretted that move and closed them again. This time he opens one slowing followed by the other one. Ok Now the sunlight’s not so bad. Now Ryo has to wonder: Where am I? Why am I in a bed…And where in Tori? For some reason Ryo couldn’t gather the energy to leave the warm comfy bed, so leaning back to rest for a few more seconds won’t hurt. Ryo took this time to reflect on that day’s event. The day was soo weird and crazy, First Tori went ballistic on him because Ryo was starting to whine, well he did bawl a lot, who could really blame Tori. Now that he thought it…
Owwie…ok cheek still hurts, but not as much as before, so that good. But that wasn’t part the freaked him out the most, it was the scene afterwards. Tori is not the type of person who has regret. So what the hell was with the total 180 of Kibatori’s personality? When he first met him, he was all cold, mean, and terrible and even meaner…then finally lashes out and all of a sudden completely turns around. Ohh and the things he said…Ryo was in shock so words flowed out of his mouth like he was a wise monk or something, Tori must have thought he was annoying and kissed him to shut him up. B-but that kiss…
It was nothing he ever felt before; sure it was his first, but still. Tori held him so gently and caring as if he was a new born. The thought caused Ryo blush several different shades of red. The pure embarrassment of it made the dragon want the ground to swallow him whole. But since there were no holes near by, the covers and blanket laid atop him will have to suffice. So the constructing of an embarrassment free zone within a cocoon began, that way no can see him, or he could do something to makes things worse.
Ryo just didn’t understand this feeling, he way more completely humiliate things before, but when he with Kibatori he feels totally debase and full of shame that his face lights up like a Christmas tree. Maybe it was love. Ahh he didn’t know…He wondered what Tori thought about all this?
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“Ahh I know what to do?” Tori whined…nervousness mixed with alcohol was never good combo. There he sits at the inn bar, trying to come up with a plan about how to approach Ryo about what happened in the forest, but Tori was coming up blank. It’s just when Ryo was seconds from being eaten by the demon something inside him snapped. But it wasn’t the same as when he gets super pissed at someone, it was something nothing he ever felt before. Could it really be love? If it was, and he’s not saying it is, but this was whole different ball park for him. What he thought was love was really just power hunger and lust, nothing more. But this thing with Ryo was…freighting.
“Oi…nimrod!” A familiar shrill voice ran out within the bar…
‘Oh kuso’ Tori swept his gaze around the room for an appropriate escape.
“Oh no, your not getting away from me!” The very woman he asked to know his dragons’ whereabouts was here in the bar wanted to give him a piece of her mind for the earlier ‘old lady’ comment.
“H-hey grandma, well I think I’m done for the night!” he tried to exit throwing a few coins on the counter. But she was too fast, making a grab for the back cuff of his shirt, she nabbed him causing him to stop struggling and collapse on the stool overpowered. How was that possible you might ask, well Tori just puts as he was tired and lets her win, and leave it at that. Now that she had him in her grasp, he was going to get it.
“So tell me mister hot shot, what happened in the forest there?” she releasing her hold only slightly, in a case to tell she wasn’t angry anymore, she just wanted to stay put.
“Huh…aren’t you going to beat me black and blue?”
“Nah you kind of made up for it by bring an end to the terror of our little village. I really have no more qualms with you. But by the way you were holding your companion and wouldn’t let anyone touch him, it seems like you to made up, hmm am I right?”
“….” Tori face was red from his roots to his neck.
It pretty much out in the open that the dark elf cared deeply for the young river dragon. By of course the older man had too much pride in how to respond, so in his own defence he didn’t say anything. The older woman put on a friendly grin, and patted the elves back in support.
“ So that story, out with it”
All the dark elf could was sigh in defeat, and so he told the older woman the intimate and eye opening encounter they faced.
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Ryo opened his clear blues again, for the second time that day. He seems to have fallen asleep again; Ryo guesses that he really was tried. But he during his time out, he really thought hard about everything and finally came to a conclusion: He Loved Kibatori. It was as simple as that, no other way around it. The elders once told him that the definition for love was when you truly care for that certain person, wanting the best and do your best for them and you never want to leave them. That’s exactly how he felt when he was with Tori. He needed to tell him! A sudden energy boost rushed through Ryo’s entire body. Throwing off the sheets and leaping out of bed, he almost tearing off the door, only to make a collision with a hard surface.
Confused, Ryo looks up at what he crashes into, dark silver eyes meet his. Kibatori was here, wow how come he just noticed now that he has pretty eyes, ahh right no time to get distracted you have to tell him…something? What was it again..?
“Ah….” Ahh now I remember…I love this man, and he needs to be told that very fact.
“Careful Ryo...”
“Tori I have to tell you something…!”
“Uh...Ok what is it?”
“Um…I-I…errr…” why am I soo nervous, come on Ryo say it!
“….Ryo you ok?”
“Shh Lets me say it, I need to tell you”
“Ryo…you don’t have to”
“Yes! I do….Tori…I-I Love you, There I said it, HA!” Ryo shouts in victory, throwing his arms in the air.
“…heh”

I dont know if I should write more, but I guess thats the end...COMMENTS OR REVEIWS ARE NICE, PLEASSE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!!