A/N: Yes, this is the second and final chapter. Thank you to all the fabulous people who reviewed the first chapter. You are brilliant. And I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimer: I still don’t own it. Amazing how wishes don’t come true. I’d probably mess it up anyway. Lol.

Dedication: For Dovasar, my first reviewer for the first chapter. You’re lovely.

Word count: 827

Chapter 2

Loveless

Ritsuka couldn’t sleep. Every time he closed his eyes he could see and hear Soubi.

“Suki da yo, Ritsuka… With all my heart. I love you, Ritsuka, more than I ever loved Seimei, more than I ever have or ever will love anyone. Only you.”

With a sigh of defeat, Ritsuka slipped out of his bed and started pulling on clothes. He needed some time to think, in a place that didn’t remind him of Soubi. He slid open the windows that led to the balcony and slipped outside, searching for the way Soubi always managed to climb up and down. He found it after a moment and shimmied down the wall, gripping onto the vines that trailed their way up beside his balcony.

The park was quiet as Ritsuka lowered himself onto a bench. There was nobody else around as it was much too early for anyone normal to be up. The sun was just beginning to rise, tinting the sky above him a pale pink, a less startling shade of Yuiko’s hair. The occasional bird call flittered its way to him, calming him, and more than a few butterflies flapped past, sometimes landing on the tips of his kitty ears for a moment before fluttering off again when his ear twitched.

Ritsuka couldn’t deny that the place was truly beautiful at this early time in the morning. Soubi would have loved to paint it. He swore to himself just after this thought. Whatever he did he couldn’t escape from Soubi. No matter where he went that damned adult was always on his mind.

And thinking about Soubi hurt. Every time the man popped into his head he felt his heart clench and he felt sick. He wasn’t an idiot. He knew why. He knew that he was hopelessly and completely in love with Soubi. Every time Soubi said that he loved him he felt his heart break because it wasn’t real. It was all Seimei. It was Seimei who Soubi belonged too. It was Seimei that Soubi loved. It was Seimei’s orders that Soubi obeyed.

So every time Soubi claimed that he loved him, it made Ritsuka hate him just a little bit. He didn’t want to constantly hear the lies. And, whatever Soubi claimed, they were surely lies.

“You’ll get ill sitting here. It’s too cold to not have a coat.”

“Soubi! What are you doing here? I told you to go home.”

“My home is wherever you are, Ritsuka,” Soubi said, moving to crouch before the boy “suki da yo.”

“Stop it!” Ritsuka cried, leaping t his feet, horrified to feel tears beginning to run down his cheeks “stop saying that! Do you have any idea how much it hurts to hear you say that? To know you’re only saying that because you were told to. To be constantly reminded that you don’t belong to me. That you belong to my brother. That I can never truly have you.”

He was sobbing now, the tears practically pouring down his cheeks, his voice choked and muffled.

“To know that you’ll never be my Soubi. That you don’t love me as much as I love you!”

Soubi stood too and pulled Ritsuka into a hug, murmuring comforting words into the boy’s ear.

“I am yours, Ritsuka. Seimei has nothing to do with us. I’m only yours.”

Ritsuka struggled from his grip, shaking his head.

“You’re Beloved! Not Loveless. You bear his name, not mine,” he reached out and angrily ripped the bandages from around Soubi’s neck to expose… pale, perfect skin.

Ritsuka gasped and reached out a trembling hand and ran his fingers across where Beloved’s mark used to be.

“Why… why didn’t you tell me?”

“I thought that you would cast me aside as soon as you found out that I was no longer a connection to your brother.”

“You're an idiot... So, you’re nameless?” nod “And you’re not following Seimei’s orders anymore?” shake “thank God!”

Ritsuka leant forward, kissing him as though his life depended on it. After a moment though, Soubi pulled away.

“You do know, one day your real fighter will come. And you will share a name and you will be more connected to them than me.”

Ritsuka nodded, eyes down cast. A sudden wind whipped past and Ritsuka shivered. Seconds later he felt Soubi's large coat being draped around his shoulders and a hand take hold of his own. He stared at their intertwined fingers for a moment before grinning and leaning up to kiss Soubi again.

Soubi kissed back for a moment before pulling away again.

“Are you sure? One day your fighter will come and you will love him because you are two parts of the same soul.”

Ritsuka laughed in reply and held up their interlinked hands, revealing Soubi's wrist where eight letters were beginning to form.

“He’s already here,” he said kissing the word once kissing Soubi softly on the lips “he’s always been here.”

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A/N: OMG. Sappy ending. But I hope you liked it. Reviews will be worshipped. And check out my other Loveless fic too.

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