Where you belong

Where you belong
Beta version, I will change the rest too when I get them back^^
Beta, Savemesatan San ^_^ Thank You!

Pairing: Chris / Tetsu

Genre: Yaoi, Shonen Ai, Humor, Romance, General.

Type: Yaoi, continuing story. Mystery.

Warnings: Male/ male, relationship, don’t like it, don’t read it! Sexual situations not suitable for minors, I Mean It! I do not want to get in trouble, sorry. Bloody scenes and bad eating habits of a certain species, Dirty talking, mild violence, and some bad scenes
I will point out.

Note!
I will remove the other two chapters as fast as I get them Betaed back!

Summary: Chris lives now alone. He has still not gotten over his loss of all of his friends. Then one day he meets a new friend that seems strangely familiar to him. Note: Flamers will be laughed at!
Chapter 3

What incense is for…

For the next hour, both males did nothing more than chatter happily with the other, and to eat the delicious meal Wong had cooked them.

Christopher could not help it, this entire meal,( worthy for a king in his meaning) reminded him of Tetsu too. Even the taste of the meals reminded him of the ones from his past!

How could that be…?

His memory told the young man that it held the same exact flavor to the dishes that Totetsu made him when he had been a child…. strange.

When Wong brought the thematic current talk to the university and their classes, Christopher was distracted from his musings soon. The other still waited for some of the needed books for the study classes he had already ordered in a bookstore, and Christopher was all too happy to help him out for awhile with some of his that he did not need currently.

They both where enjoying the others company more than they couls describe. Just when they both talked about it how to bring Wong the books and needed notes from Chris to work them through, the door opened in a rather rude manner and in merged a slightly rotund man in his mid forties through the door.

“Good afternoon, LA police, gentleman…err misses?” he trailed of, seemingly caught in confusion by the strange sight of two persons clad in the most unfamiliar clothes, sitting on a low table, and eating. They both looked rather spooked from his all too forceful entry into their private conversation, as it seemed to the police officer; To be honest, Jeffrey Baldmen was in a loss here; Were they two males, females, gay or what ever…?

Their costumes, even looking luxurious, gave it not so easy away to what gender they belonged, darn it! Why could these Chinese people not wear something more gender specific? 'Wait a moment, the other is blond haired…Oh, oh…'

The voice from the raven-haired one in his view line corrected the poor man quick from his error to call those two women!

“ Pardon?! What did you just call me? By the way, what cause do you have to search in this business and in this room for that matter?!”

The voice was like cold silk and rather full of meaning; 'Male', the officer thought and blanched noticeabley now. Then the other, with his back to him, also turned around and glanced guardedly at the man who had suddenly appeared behind him. Two blue eyes, checked Jeffrey Baldmen´s outline before the seemingly also young man turned around to his companion again and gave the other a puzzled look.

“Indeed a police officer, I think, but why is he here and interrupting us so rudely?” The dark eyes of the first shown the angered infernal flames at Jeffrey, who suddenly wished himself to be as far away as possible from here, due to that stare alone.

He suddenly recognized the feminine looking Asian as the head chef of this house…groaning secretly, the inspector made a mental note for his funeral for when his superior got his ass. He quickly began to try to ease the agitation of the man he know under the name Wong.

Jeffrey told the enraged chef that his department had been informed that this house had, a few days ago, bought some unusual animals and since the deaths last night an nameless informant had told them that the creature they searched was here.

The younger of the two males snorted at this in a rather odd fashion and soon after him the Asian smirked in a very repulsive way at him. Baldmen felt more uneasy and nervous with each passing minute now. This Chinese cook really looked at you as if he wanted to eat you!

Quaking he went on to give an explanation to the chef of the terms of the investigation team, of him and his partners, and gave Wong the paper that confirmed their right to search for the animals in the restaurant.

Tetsu was practically seething now, who ever had done this would pay later!

Surely it was only another jealous restaurant owner who searched for a point to bring discreditation upon his top-ranking head. The elderly man, that was the owner of this restaurant, Wong (alias Tetsu) liked for some foreign reason.

To his utter anger, this Baldmen, or how ever this thug was adressed, began to ask Chris now for his name and what a young man like him did here at this time…Sure, Chris looked a little younger, as he was, but was it right to ask him such questions?

Tetsu was nearly angry enough to simply kill him, to take Chris and leave this stupid place…In former years of his life, he would have done just that. Nevertheless, in the modern world, things were not that easy any longer. He sighed silently and watched the Blonde talk himself smartly out of the problem. Christopher managed it also to embarrass the officer even: Now Tetsu was laughing inwardly.

He stopped all further attempts of the police officer with a short declaration that this was none of his business, that Christopher had his birthday today and that he was his guest, and then he quickly showed him out of the small dining room.

Outside, Jeffrey was only happy that the other did that, no way in hell he ever wanted to face this man, ever again in his life. If looks could kill….

In the room, Tetsu tried to cool down from his sudden rush of rage; What did that filthy thing think he was? Then he told Chris that it would be better to go because now he had to take care of these imbeciles in his kitchen area. It horrified Tetsu to even think of all the damages these stupid people could do to it, even now.

He asked the young man, with a sudden longing look, if he would be so nice as to bring him the books later to his flat, maybe at nine around clock? He hoped he had gotten rid of them from here until then or atleast his boss would be here by then.

Most of all, Tetsu hoped that Chris would do this and come…he had a plan to get Chris into his flat.

After some seconds the youngster that it was fine with him, and that he could do that. Chris gave the beast in human masquerade a friendly smile at that, and told him that he he had to look for them inside his flat anyway. So Wong walked him down to the doorway of the restaurant and sent him home; In front of two the doors, tow officers were set to guard duty. They watched the youth with much disgust at his garb as he walked down the sidewalk, and eventually out of sight.

Christopher did not react to them in the slightest, he just ignored them as he always ignored others who stared at him like this. His thoughts where busy with more important things anyway! Foremost was the weird and wonderful feeling of a certain set of dark eyes that did not belong to either of the other men, the ones that seem to stare at his back until he reached the curve.

It gave the youth a strange sensation of security and happiness all in one, why he could not tell, but it was so. All the way back home, he was feeling as if he walked on clouds, in their short talk he found two significant things out, first, Wong was single and second, the young man was sure the other liked him more as just friend!

Ok, Chris thought, Wong did not have red hair, like all of his other crushes always had before, but he was a truly a gorgeous man and the youth liked the feeling of the butterfly’s in his stomach that told him that he fell for the black haired man.

They had talked with each other as if they knew each other for years…it fascinated Chris beyond words all the time. Chris had learned a few words in Chinese in the last years; To live next to Chinatown and to know so many Asians brought that with time.

Some of his best friends where Chinese natives and so he learned a little of this fascinating language fast.

Now this came in handy, they had needed it for so long for their talking; Wong found it out with a phrase he used and Chris gave the correct answer to it without thinking, after this the other spoke almost in complete Chinese with him all the time.

For Chris it had been a good test of his skills in this language. Wong had never tired out of correcting him patiently and friendly helping him to speak a word out properly or to explain to him something in more detail. Chris was glad about that, the other seemed even to be proud about his skills in Wong's own native language.

That made Chris proud of his learning in return.

Wong had not even minded Chris asking him where he originally came from in China. The dark eyes of his new friend had been misty when he described to Chris the deep bamboo forests of his homeland with a passion Chris never seen nor heard in someone while describing a place before. The younger of the two could almost see them and smell the scents Wong described so fervently.

He had blushed slightly when he caught himself; He had closed his eyes for a minute or two at the soft singsong of Wong’s voice. Only to catch smile of the other man when he saw his slight red face. Chris hurriedly apologized at his misbehavior and blushed even deeper, what seemed to amuse the older man to no end. But soon he had forgotten his blush again. Wong had a strange way of making him feel so comfortable all the time; Chris could not help but to ease increasingly back into his presence that seem to fill the room.

Then this irritating past associate of his brother had broken the magnificent spell with his bad-mannered interference into there space and spoke to them!

In those minutes, Chris would have loved it to strangle the poor officer and as it seemed, Wong seem to think along the same lines. That look…this fierce look the Chinese man's eyes wearied in those minutes’…god, how much he reminded the young man suddenly at Tetsu! The beast had also glared all the time like that at intruders, and the smirk with it later, it was just the same…for seconds Chris had suddenly a strange foreshadowing / vision like effect.

Instead of seeing only Wong's face with the black hair, the elegant face and the dark eyes, Chris suddenly saw a second picture that seem to overlay the first he now knew. The second picture was strangely reminding him of Tetsu with the golden horns that seem to sprout out from Wong’s head for seconds, looking ghostly glassy all the time, and the sudden familiar features of a person that was so unlike and then again so bizarrely like the Totetsu he once knew.

Rubbing his eyes, Christopher tried in that second not to gawk at his friend or to give otherwise away what he just saw. To his luck, Wong did busy himself at the moment with it to push the other man out of their room.

Until now, Chris had no clue what that image had been or what could have caused such a strange vision but he was sure he had seen it!

It was crazy and the young man could not make a sense out of this at all.

Was he missing his former friend that badly that he began to imagine things already? Had his uncle and his aunt maybe correctly assumed that he was slowly going insane? Chris shuddered and hurried back to his apartment to get the books, these thoughts where currently too much for his poor head.

Wong alias Tetsu had indeed sensed the sudden eerie feeling around the Blonde.

He had sensed these feeling around Chris at some times before. When Chris had lived in the pet shop halls with Tetsu and the others and sometimes doors would appear out of nothing then, as it seemed. He knew that Christopher Orcot had a strange oracle like gift and for a long time mused it to be the main source of the boys strange ability to see the animals in their true form without any help of D´s incense all the time.

Now, the beast was sure of it!

He knew that the youngster saw something he could not place and that he tried hard to hide, even from him…Tetsu let it slide. For the now but he did not forget it, he decided he would ask Chris later. When the boy calmed a little down from the entire event and was in his flat so Tetsu could do that without distractions.

Now, Wong was currently on his way home to his apartment and tried his hardest not to break out in a full speed run to reach it faster. Chris would come to him, even earlier than he thought he would! He just barely suppressed a happy grin that constantly tugged at the corners of his lips, dam*** it! Tetsu alias Wong currently, ignored the curious looks from the people around him while he moved along at his not abnormally fast pace and soon reached his complex.

A short check told him that he had a good half hour until the young man would arrive here, maybe even longer, it could be that Chris left him a little more time because of his current problem with the cops.

Good, Tetsu thought, in that time span I can work on my plan a little more before he comes here. Without bothering with these thoughts any further, the beast shifted back into its natural form and begun to prepare the rooms.

Christopher was clueless of what was awaiting him when he finally took a taxi to the address Wong gave him earlier the evening. Only a slight sadness that his brother had not called him today as he always did and some worry about his brother currently occupied his thoughts. In what kind of trouble had his older brother brought himself now again? It was not normal for Leon not to call him on his birthday…he never forgot to do that, wherever he went.

Finally, Chris reached the elegant door of the huge building his friend seems to live in.

The entire complex had a wide expanse and showed that his friend lived in a better area of LA as him. Here lived only people with money! It provided a certain amount of privacy and security as also a good location and view of the park. Wong seem to have lot money to pay the surely high rent costs of this place. Christopher gulped slightly before he searched for the right bell and pressed it as told three times shortly to announce that it was Chris who stood outside.

A few seconds later, the door gave a buzzing signal for him to open them and he stepped in. Now slightly confused, he waited a short minute not knowing in which direction he should go. Then Wong suddenly arrived from the elevator and told him to come there. The two where silent for a second, but then the older man noticed Christopher’s slightly heavy package and took it with no effort from the younger males shoulders. Soon the two where engaged again into a conversation about the books.

Too soon, the doors opened again and both left the vehicle that always made Tetsu slightly nauseous to use when he had to maintain his mask. Thanks to the Kami, he would soon not have to use it for much longer when Chris was around him! His natural form hated the feeling the high speed lift gave him all the time and that noise, Chris as a human heard only vaguely but Tetsu heard loudly all the time, often it drove him to the edge of his sanity. His keen senses made it hard to use an elevator or similar machines all the time for the Tao Tie, they caused him the sick feeling.

He suppressed a happy sigh just barely and told Chris that he hated lifts in general and ill at ease inside the of cabins. The youth asked him why he did not tell him that sooner with a stern look and that they could have taken the steps instead then. Wong grinned sheepishly at that…Chris had a point…oops! His mimic brought a laugh out of both and Wong directed his feet back into the direction of his apartment.

Suddenly a familiar scent filled Chris nostrils.

A scent he had not smelled in years…he had searched after such incense like this in any shop he could find, though he never found it. Someone on this stage burned that kind of incense D always had used, Chris was sure!

The youth asked Wong if he knew to whom the smell belonged too and to his surprise the Chinese man smirked at his question and told him that it was his.

Christopher told him that he had fond memories about this smell, that his former caretaker in his younger days always used it and that he could never find it anywhere…they stood there in the middle of the hallway.

Just where he had suddenly stopped, dead in his tracks when he smelled that incense smell.

Much to Wong's strangely happiness as it seemed, the dark eyes held suddenly a golden rim…or was Chris now imagining things here?

The youth shook it off and followed his new friend to the door that lead to Wong’s apartment and then inside. Chris followed the taller figure through the passage.

Inside the entry, the room that awaited Christopher Orcot did not surprise him…it looked Asian styled and filled with antiquities of some sorts. The interior was old and fine worked antiquities to be exact! His knowledge of these things, limited as it was, told Chris of the worth of these things and the youth could only stare for seconds at the display of money and taste.

Then the strange incense smell began to cause him suddenly a slight headache…wondering where it came from, Chris removed his shoes and followed the other into the next room that Wong had vanished in before. The man seemed not to mind him his stares at the rich and lavishly decorated rooms it seemed more to Christopher that he was waiting patiently for something, maybe that he recovered from his slight shock?

“ Strange, I can’t remember it that D´s incense has ever caused me a headache like this before.”

The now a little concerned the young man suddenly told his friend after a new wave of dizziness crashed suddenly down on his senses and Chris sat down with the help of Wong who suddenly was right beside him…strange, had he not stand right across the rather big room seconds before?

“ It brings that effect to you? Well this is indeed not normal, better you sit down, I will get you some tea, maybe that will help a little. I burn it a lot lately…I hate the stench of this town, Chris.”

He vanished from the youth’s side for some seconds, only to appear anew shortly after it with a cup of tea in his hands.

…Those hands…Chris saw at the nails suddenly confused…why did the nails suddenly appear to him as if they where claws instead? He closed his eyes and opened them again, the headache slowly vanished, Wong was right; he had needed some tea, as it seems. Maybe he was just overacting, because of Leons missing call.

“Better now? “

Wong’s suddenly smooth voice brought Chris back to the reality, his head snapped up at the suddenly so different sound voice.

It sounded suddenly much more singsong alike as it did before and slightly smother and more like a growl as a humanoid voice…that could not be!

When Christopher’s eyes meet the features of the man he knew under the name of Wong the next time, his eyes again showed him the strange vision from before. Only this time it stayed even when he squinted his eyes at it several times!

A new wave of dizziness swapped over him and Chris groaned at its repulsive feeling. When he looked at the cook again, Chris nearly got a heart attack…on the couch sat not the man that should sit there!

Instead there, were Wong had sat down and watched him calmly with strange gleaming eyes, now sat a figure Chris recognized instantly from the sight alone…

“Tetsu???”

“Took you long enough…aww, oh no! Stop it Chris…you’re still a crybaby, you know that?”

The creature that Chris still could not believe to see here of all places came over fast to where he sat and trapped him into a soothing embrace when he suddenly began to cry. Christopher could not stop it as much as he tried it, the tears just fell without his will.

Before Chris knew what he was doing, his arms had wound themselves around the trim waist of his friend and the young man practically cried his heart out into the red vest of the beast that held him now as if he was a fragile porcelain doll.

Cooing softly at the young human, that emotions of confusion despair and utter helpless he could sense all to clearly now; Tetsu called himself wordlessly an idiot at the same time! What was he thinking when he burned so much of the incense at once? Sure it had the wished for effect and brought Chris' ability to see him back as he had thought it would, but the cost was higher as Tetsu wanted it for the fragile human young! Now Christopher’s mind broke also down with it and so the youth simply cried like that baby Tetsu had called him before, clinging to his waist and vest like a lifeline.

How alone and shunned must the boy have felt all the time…Tetsu could not imagine it fully, the pain he sensed coming off, of Chris was indication enough for him to know that it was alot! He carefully cradled the Blonde into his lap and just held Chris until the sobs settled down slowly after awhile and petted along the youths silken hair all the time. Only to find out that Chris had fainted, right in his arms, from all the stress of the last hours. Now really upset with his stupid doings Tetsu brought Chris carefully up with him and out of the main room of the apartment to the comfortable bedroom of his. There he laid the young man effortlessly down on the bed and removed Chris upper robe of the cheongsam and put finally the body carefully under the silken sheets. Then he opened the doors to the balcony wide to let the nightly air clean the room a little from the strong smell of incense.

Tetsu went back to the other room and let air inside of it to clean the incense out of it.

After that all done and after Tetsu made sure that only one burner was still burning and not the five he had used before, he came back to the now rather cold room where Chris lay under the sheets and shivered now slightly. He closed the doors fast.

Tetsu did not want the young man to catch a cold now too Chris had not a fur or pelt to secure him from the beginning autumns cold in the nights. Sighting the beast sat down next to the now peacefully sleeping Chris and murmured soft apologies unheard to the youth, for putting him through this in his selfishness to want Christopher to see him as Tetsu again.

The red head watched the young man sleep for what seemed hours but in reallity was nothing more than an hour and a half.

Then exhaustion overcame Tetsu and soon after the third yawn the Totetsu curled up against the grown body of Chris and let the sleep claim him for a spell. He was simply happy and now sure that the incense did no further damage to his precious human. Tetsu decided to deal with Chris when he awoke again later, until then the Tao Tie just basked into the smell, feel, and presence of Chris he had so badly missed the last 11 years.

His arms never losened of the body, not even in his sleep. All the time they held Chris close to his chest and body, even in his sleep carefully avoiding it to accidentally cut Chris with his sharp claws.

Hope you all liked this chapter! … Sighs; I know! But I could not help it, the two look in the Manga too cute when they are asleep!

In the first book, I mean the one when Chris sleeps the first night there, he falls asleep with one hand holding Tetsu and the Totetsu glares at Leon to dare to say a word about it. I had so to laugh when I saw that first! Especially when I saw the following picture where Tetsu, still in animal form, is fallen asleep too as it seems (to judge from the closed eyes) and has both of his little paws and half of his body in an protectively and a little possessive locking gesture clinging on Chris body, when Leon ruffles Chris through his hairs. I just had to write the sleeping scene (Sweat drops madly) I could not help it.
Until next time, Suryallee