Snow storm - part 2 [Request]

Fanfiction: Shaman King

The kiss was so unexpected and quick that Horo wasn´t sure if he didn´t only imagine it. Blinking, he stared at Ren who turned back to fire again. Chinese shaman´s cheeks were burning like flames and he seemed determined to pretend that nothing happened. There was no chance Horo would agree.

But for the moment, Horo only grinned and moved a bit closer to Ren so they shoulders were almost touching. Casually, Horo hung his arm around Ren´s shoulders. He could feel Ren wince a bit but there were no complaints (or fists) at least. It encouraged Horo enough to gently pull Ren closer until they were leaning against each other. It was so romantic…

Until Bason flew back into room. “I´m back, young master-”

“Go away!” Horo yelled so aloud that poor guardian spirit jumped three feet in the air. Used to such treatment, Bason quickly disappeared, leaving couple of shamans alone again. Horo cleared his throat nervously but Ren outran him.

“It´s getting late,” he said, pulling his coat closer to his body to get some warmth. “We should sleep if it´s even possible in such frost.” Horo secretly grinned. It´s been so long since he heard Ren complaining about something for the last time. “Why did you even invite me here in the middle of winter?”

“It´s start of spring actually. Eh, relax. It´s not that bad,” Horo laughed nervously seeing Ren´s tongari to grow. To prevent argument, Horo quickly pushed Ren towards the bed and helped him to undress his coat. But Ren didn´t let go of topic.

“Couldn´t you wait ´till summer or something?” Horo stopped in the middle of movement.

“No.” His suddenly serious tune surprised Ren. He turned just in time to meet Horo´s intense stare. “I couldn´t wait. I missed you too much.” Swallowing, Ren lowered his head and sat on the bed.

“I missed you too.”

Horo´s eyes widened in surprise and then he smiled widely. It was so unusual of Ren to talk about his feelings and so sweet in the same time. Horo sat next to Ren and pulled smaller man under the blanket.

“Let´s get you warm. I don´t want my favourite Tao to get cold.” Ren snorted but didn´t push Horo away. For a moment, they just were just lying in the bed, curled together peacefully.

“I don´t think that this is a good idea,” Ren said suddenly, his head laying on Horo´s shoulder.

“Why?”

“We see each other like once, twice a year. It´s not enough,” Ren whispered, shaking his head.

“I can visit you sometimes too,” Horo offered quickly but Ren shook his head again.

“Maybe it would be better to move on.”

It was Horo´s turn to shake his head. “No.”

“No?” Hearing Horo´s determined reaction, Ren sat up to look at his friend. Horo looked gravely serious and sat up too to look Ren eye to eye.

“I don´t want to move on. I want you to stay with me.” He could literary see Ren´s cheeks to flame up but continued anyway. “I know that there is no point in writing letters of calling sometimes. It only makes us distant friends and I don´t want that.” Ren was listening with his eyes turned down but now he looked up at Horo again.

“Then what do you want?” Golden gleam of his cat-like eyes sent shivers down Horo´s spine. For a moment, he lost his focus and one moment was enough.

“You.”

The word slipped off his tongue before he thought and then it was too late to take it back. Ren sharply inhaled and bit on his lip. His expression stopped Horo from withdrawing his words. Instead, he leant forward until their noses almost touched. He waited, looking for some sign of refusal, but Ren only tilted his head to side and let their lips to meet. Horo moved forward, deepening the kiss, until he tipped Ren backwards. They fell on the bed but didn´t break the kiss. When they finally pulled apart, both young shamans were out of breath and flushed. Horo leant over Ren to look into his eyes.

“Aishiteru,” he whispered gently. Knowing Ren´s stubbornness, Horo didn´t really expect an answer but when he laid next to Ren, he could feel other shaman´s lips on his ear.

“Wo ye ai ni,” Ren breathed barely audible and Horo hugged him more firmly. They laid in pleasant silence before Ren spoke up again. “But we still live thousands of miles apart.”

“We´ll find a solution.”

“How?” Ren raised himself on his elbow to look at Horo.

“Dunno yet.”

“Don´t act so calm!” Ren´s tongari twitched. “I´m not going to travel here anytime you´ll feel lonely!”

“Hey, I didn´t said anything like that,” Horo said trying to calm Ren down. And failed.

“So you don´t want me to visit you?!”

“Actually…” Before Horo could share his idea, he found himself face to face with Ren´s guandao. Well, face to blade. “Wait! I didn´t say anything!”

“But you were going to!”

“Yeah! That I want you to stay!”

Silence.

“Stay?” Ren asked, slowly putting his weapon down. It gave Horo enough space to pull him in another hug.

“I don´t want us to visit each other once a while,” Horo explained. “I want you to stay here with me.” Ren frowned.

“But I have obligations towards my family.”

“You can boss your relatives via phone,” Horo offered. “I bet they would be quite happy about the change.” Ren glared at him but it wasn´t his I´ll-kill-you glare anymore.

“What about my work?”

“You can take it as opportunity to spread Tao´s company abroad.” Seeing Ren´s doubts, Horo smiled widely. He felt that his arguments started to persuade stubborn Chinese shaman.

“But it´s cold here.”

“Only in winter. And it´s really nice rest of year. Lots of green stuff and everything.” Ren pouted, thinking. Horo could only impatiently wait and hope that Ren would agree to stay. Or he could add few more arguments.

“Hey!” Ren was torn out of thoughts by kiss on his neck. “What are you doing?!”

“Persuading you?” Horo asked playfully, kissing Ren on neck again. “Stay.”

“I can´t…” Ren whined, shivering under the line of kisses. Horo pushed him on back and pinned him down.

“Stay.”

“N-no.” The importunate kisses moved from his neck to his jaw.

“Stay.” Swallowing hard, Ren managed to only shake his head in quickly weakening refusal. Horo moved to look him into the eyes. “Stay with me, please.” Ren´s golden eyes were burning like pair of suns. Suddenly, he threw Horo off himself and sat on him.

“Do you really want me to?” he asked sharply, glaring down on Horo. Blue haired shaman smirked.

“Sur-” Before he could finish, there were suddenly lips pressed against his own. Ren silenced him with intense kiss which seemed to last forever. Breaking apart, they both were panting but happy.

“I hope it meant that you´re staying,” Horo started but Ren kissed him again.

“Of course, snow bunny. You´re not getting rid of me.”

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