Back to ze past

"Sleep is good." Yuki smiled softly.

"Not in your condition it's not." He said, shaking his head. "Sleep and I'll have to hit you over the head to wake you up" He threatened with a small grin, squeezing the rat's shoulder. "Hang on there."

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"Pick an arm, any arm." Mori said dryly, holding out both bandages arms.
"Uhhh... Left!" Taro said gleefully, grinning.
"Burns. Pick again." Mori scowled.
"Right?" Taro suggested. Mori grunted and dropped his left back to his side.

Taro gently pried the bandage from Mori's unburnt arm to reveal the slash the boar gave him. Instantly Taro's throat was burning as he examined the blood dripping from the wound. "Just do it, would you?" Mori said, glaring at the vampire as blood started to run along his wrist, pattering to the floor. Taro smiled apologetically and rose the panther's wrist to his mouth.

Mori's face twitched in a momentary wince as Taro closed his eyes and started to drain blood from the open gash on his wrist. The Blonde was hungrier than he'd let on, going by the amount of blood he was taking this quickly. Mori sighed slightly and let his gaze drop to Taro, the hands carefully holding his arm in place. "You should have told me before you got this bad." He said lowly.

Taro just made a small noise in the back of his throat but didn't open his eyes, tightening his grip on Mori's arm. The panther allowed his mind to wander while Taro fed.

Once Taro had taken his fill, he rose his mouth from the gash and dabbed his mouth with his sleeve. Mori grimaced. "Don't do that again. It's better if you take... smaller amounts more often" He said. Taro smiled slightly and pulled Mori's arm out, starting to rebandage it. "I'm sorry, Mo-mu." Mori rose an eyebrow and frowned at the bandage. Blood had already seeped through it. Good. Just what he needed.

Surely his nearly constantly bandaged arms couldn't remain unnoticed for too much longer at this rate. Taro tied it off and shrugged slightly. "Can't be helped." He said, smile in place and then strode away, stopping by the edge of the trees to wait for Mori, plucking a few fruits from the tree beside him.

They walkeed back into the camp.

Yuki sighed. "You care to much. I'm older and I say sleep is fine." The ratpoked Sadaharu in the chest.

"You may be older, but you're not in your right mind. So I say no sleep" He said but grinned at Yuki. Mori cradled his arm as they reached the other two and he and taro sat down across from the other two demons.

"Tarrrooooo fiiissshhhhh~" Yuki sung. "Can I go to sleep?"

Amaterasu walked back and rose an eyebrow. "I found a spring if anyone needs a wash."

"Afraid not, my lord rodent. Keep the eyes peeled" He said with a smile as he looked up. "I may just accept that offer of a bath though, once the fair lady has bathed of course." Mori sighed and rose a hand to rub his head. "I'm covered in blood. Might be a good idea."

"I want a bath!" Yuki declared. "Sadi is my bath partner!" He looped his arm around his younger friends neck.

Amaterasu rose an eyebrow. "Well alright then..." She walked off for the baths.

Sadaharu very nearly blushed. It was a close thing. Instead, he cleared his throat and untangled Yuki's arms from around him. "Sure, fine. Someone has to make sure you don't keel over" He said with eyebrows furrowed. 'Maybe a hot spring is a bad idea, might make you pass out."

Taro grinned and prodded Mori's good shoulder. "I call the neko!" Mori didn't bother responding. he just dropped his head into his hands and heaved a sigh.

"I wont pass out if your there." Yuki whispered.

Some time after she left, Amaterasu returned. "Who's next?"

"We'll go" Sadaharu said with a sigh and helped Yuki up. "If that's okay?" He looked to Taro and Mori.
"Believe me, I'm in no rush" Mori said, parting his fingers to glare out from behind his hands. Sadaharu chuckled and started for the spring, keeping a close eye on Yuki.

Yuki allowed Sadaharu to lead him further enough away before he broke from the boy guiding him. The rat placed his hands behind him head, beng mindful of the wound and walked forward. "Well, that was fun."

"You're not serious?!" Sadaharu groaned. "All of that trouble for what?!" He smacked a hand to his head. "You..."

"I just played on it for thee last part." Yuki smiled. "Once I declared Taro a fish I believe."

"Don't do that again!" Sadaharu said with a laugh. "You honestly had me worried about your mental state!"

Yuki smiled and stood behind Sadaharu to whisper. "Because I confessed to you? Or because I wanted to bathe, naked, with you?" Smikring Yuki stepped away, stripped and stepped into the water.

Running a hand through his silver hair, Sadaharu shook his head and smiled. "You did announce to Taro and mori that we should 'go at it' in a spring. Were you in your head then?" He responded and pulled off his own clothes, slipping into the spring.

"Maybe." Yuki smirked and started to clean his chest. "But its not abad idea."

The panther tugged his hands through the knots at the bottom of his hair and smiled. "Subtle... subtle. But seriously, how's your head?"

"I've had worse but I wouldn't knock it again." Yuki said. "At least for awhile, if my skull is cracked... not a good idea."

Sadaharu frowned and let his haair fall behind his shoulders, sinking back into the water with a small sigh. "Maybe you should be careful."

"Worried about this dear old rat?" Yuki smirked and splashed his friend. "Don't worry mate, I'm not going anywhere and if I do, I'll find a way to come back."

"Good to hear" Sadaharu said with a grin, shaking water from his face. "So you meant that? You weren't babbling?" He asked, tilting his head at the rat as he jumped topics.

"Meant what?" Yuki asked, running the water down his arms. His eyes locked to Sadaharus.

Pink suffused Sadaharu's cheeks but he didn't back down. "You said you loved me." I have never sounded this utterly... How humiliating! His blush deepend.

Yuki smiled and licked his lips. "Did you want me too?" he was going to be cautious. The boy was still with his sister after all.