The Art Project

AUTHOR\'S NOTE: I am so sorry for taking so long to update. School has kept me busy. But I am eager to continue writing this fic.



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Here is the next chapter! Sorry it\'s not...terribly different. Things WILL advance! I promise!



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THE ART PROJECT



Chapter Five



by lordoberon







Soubi\'s POV

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Ten minutes later and Soubi was at the park. He walked over to Ritsuka and put his arm over the boy\'s shoulder and they started walking. Soubi looked down at the boy. Ritsuka was looking straight ahead, his scarf and coat bundled around him against the cold. His face looked a bit flushed, but maybe that was just because of the cold.



"So, Ritsuka. How is the weekend going so far? Did you finish your homework?"



"Yes. I\'m all ready for the math quiz on Monday. Soubi, today is Saturday. Shouldn\'t we do something?"



Soubi stopped, and turned to face Ritsuka, to stand right in front of the boy. He slid his fingers beneath that chin and nudged it so he could look straight into Ritsuka\'s eyes. His other hand he rested on Ritsuka\'s shoulder. "Ritsuka, what would you like to do? Are you trying to tell me something?"



The boy\'s cheeks flared red. THAT was a blush, for certain. "Um, I...I was wondering, d-did you ever finish that, um, the art project? The drawing...of me?"



Ah. So here it was. Ritsuka had been waiting and thinking, and now he had chosen to go back to that time two weeks ago, and acknowledge it. He hadn\'t gotten scared off, or been playing hard to get. It was still important. Ritsuka still wanted Soubi. Had he been waiting for Soubi to say something?



"Ritsuka, were you waiting for me to say something?"



The boy wouldn\'t look at him. "No. I..." His voice sunk to a whisper. "I didn\'t know what to say, or what to do. I was thinking, maybe I shouldn\'t...maybe I should just, let it go. But I don\'t want to. So, I want to come over to your place, and spend the night again. Can I?"



His voice had gained confidence as he spoke, and now he was looking up at Soubi. His eyes burned with a fierce determination, but deep within them Soubi could see Ritsuka\'s fear, his fear of rejection, or anger. Did he think that Soubi would be like his teacher and disapprove, or that it had only gone so far and would go no further? Soubi couldn\'t restrain himself that well. If Ritsuka wanted it, he wanted it. He had wanted it for so long, and they had come so close, and to lose that closeness for two weeks had pained him. Now, he was not letting go of this chance. Maybe it was bad, maybe it was wrong, but it felt right, and Soubi\'s heart thudded wildly in him to hear Ritsuka\'s eagerness.



"Of course you can spend the night."



A smile spread its way across Ritsuka\'s face, and Soubi found it contagious. He smiled, too. Then, taking the boy\'s hand, he walked Ritsuka around the park again. They talked little, enjoying the sight of the moon and stars, and secretly, each other. When a half an hour was up, Soubi noticed Ritsuka shivering a little.



"Would you like a hot chocolate?"



They stopped to get one on the way home, and as Ritsuka slurped at it, Soubi thought about what they would do when they got back to his place. Maybe he would make some tea, or something to eat. They would play the video games a little, maybe, or Soubi would show Ritsuka his completed drawing. Ritsuka had said he wanted to see Soubi drawing, but had fallen asleep the last time. So maybe Soubi would let Ritsuka watch as he drew something.



The apartment was a little chilly. Ritsuka sat down on the bed, and tucked himself between the sheets. Soubi set up the tea kettle, and then the games as they waited. When the kettle went off they paused their game and sat down for tea.



"Soubi...did you finish the drawing?"



"Yes. Would you like to see it?"



The tea was abandoned, and they walked down the hall. There, hanging on the wall, was the completed drawing: Ritsuka lying on the couch nude, his eyes closed, arm curled under him, nose tucked into it. His body was stretched out for display, every reality shown - the curves, the bones of the hips, the swirls of his hair and dots of freckles. The couch he lay on was charcoal mixed with a bit of rusty red paint, but the couch was not totally painted colors, it was left sketchy looking. And the blank space behind Ritsuka and the couch was colored a pretty sky blue.



Soubi smiled as Ritsuka stared at it. The boy\'s eyes got a soft look in them, and he said, "Soubi...you are an amazing artist. I, I like it very much." A blush flooded those cheeks, and Soubi leaned down to kiss the boy\'s hot cheeks. That only made Ritsuka blush more. When he pulled back, Soubi said, "Mmm. Your cheeks are so soft..."



The boy ducked his head and his gaze went to the floor, shyly. Soubi smiled, and led Ritsuka back into the main room.



They sat and played games, asked each other questions and played chess and Parcheesi. Soubi won every card game they played, but Ritsuka won Parcheesi, and a couple games of Chess.



Right in the middle of a game involving jumbling up words, Soubi stumbled over his words and Ritsuka just started laughing. The boy was hyped up on sugar and tea and pasta, and he just suddenly burst out laughing. Soubi started laughing too, and when the boy jumped over to sit by him and encircle him in a hug, he was still shaking with laughter.



Then he got an idea, and just had to do it. His hands snuck up Ritsuka\'s sides and he began tickling the boy.



"Aau! Soubi! Hahaha, stop! Soubi! Hahaha!"



They tumbled across the floor as Ritsuka jumped and squirmed, trying to get away. He ran down the hall and Soubi ran after him, and grabbed the boy around the waist as the boy dove towards the couch. They collapsed over its surface, and then Soubi moved his hands from Ritsuka\'s feet and sides to lightly tickle over Ritsuka\'s cat ears. Ritsuka shrieked with laughter, screaming, "Soubi! Auu! Not there!!"



Soubi tickled the boy\'s ears more, and then slid onto the couch to sit down next to Ritsuka, who was squirming and bouncing around on his hands and knees, trying to escape the tickling fingers. Finally they both collapsed in laughter.



Soubi took a deep breath, sighing, and closed his eyes. He smiled as he heard Ritsuka shuffling around beside him, and then felt the boy lie down, and he put his head in Soubi\'s lap. Soubi put his hand over Ritsuka\'s head and stroked the boy\'s hair.



"Soubi...can you stroke my ears?"



Soubi paused. the last time Ritsuka had his ears stroked was that day a couple weeks ago. The result was Soubi had a panting, moaning Ritsuka in his lap, nude and bouncing his soft ass over Soubi\'s cock. Just remembering it made Soubi have to swallow a hard lump in his throat. Mmm, to have Ritsuka like that again...Soubi was more than willing.



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Ritsuka\'s POV

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Soubi smelled good. Like tea, and cigarettes, and shampoo. Ritsuka liked the smell, even though it was a strange mix. He liked the feel of Soubi\'s arms around him. He felt protected in them, and happy, and loved. It was difficult for Ritsuka to feel loved, because he had used to be scared of the word \'love\' being tossed around, and his mother hurt him often. But now, with Soubi, Ritsuka felt loved. He wasn\'t scared of the feeling, either.



He felt lust, too. He felt it when Soubi looked straight into his eyes and smirked a certain way. He felt it when he watched Soubi walk across the room and saw the man\'s slow, relaxed gait. He felt it when Soubi had leaned over him to tickle him, and when the man\'s hands were sliding up his sides. It was an anticipatory feeling, exciting. It was the feeling that something was about to happen. Ritsuka felt a little thrill rush up him in moments like these, and at the prospect of being close to Soubi, intimate like that again, he had to bite back his sounds, and hide his shivers.



Ah, but Soubi was perceptive. He felt Ritsuka shiver and asked, "What\'s wrong?"



"Nothing. I\'m fine. Really, Soubi," he said when he looked up and saw the man\'s doubtful expression.



Ritsuka closed his eyes as those long fingers buried in his hair and then crept softly up his cat ears. He shivered at the lightness of the touch. Then the stroke came again, harder. Two hands were stroking now, one for each ear. The fingers were rubbing and pinching a little, the part of Soubi\'s big hand that could touch Ritsuka\'s ears just stroking, over and over. The fingers moved down to the roots and scratched a little, and Ritsuka purred in delight.



Then those fingers moved around to the front, teasing a little at the sides, at the edges that went to the inside. Ritsuka smiled as those soft down hairs at the tips of his ears were stroked and teased. The hands began to stroke harder, up and down the whole of the ears, moving faster. Ritsuka felt his breath shortening. He felt the familiar dizziness and buzzes of pleasure shooting down his ears, and making his limbs feel heavy and his brain short-circuited, because he suddenly couldn\'t think as well anymore. It felt too good to think! He groaned, moving to bury his face in Soubi\'s lap, and pushing his nose hard to Soubi\'s thigh, as the roots of his ears were scratched and pressed at.



Ritsuka swallowed and gasped to get his breath back. "Soubi...h-harder...ohh..." He realized his hands were grabbing at Soubi, one at the cloth of pants over Soubi\'s right knee, the other at Soubi\'s shirt. He pushed up at the touch to show that he wanted more. Those fingers rubbed back and forth against Ritsuka\'s ears again and again, and he felt a soft, high sighing whimper thing fall from his lips. He knew his face was flushed red, and felt his entire body trembling. Shudders broke through him, rippling down his back, grabbing ahold of his cock that he suddenly realized was hard. As he shuddered and pushed in response to Soubi\'s touches, his hardening cock thrust against the couch, and this friction only added to the fire within Ritsuka. He gripped the cloth in his fists harder, panting.



The stroking slowed down, and then one of Soubi\'s hands was traveling. Ritsuka stilled, tensed a little. It moved slowly down his head, and stroked for a moment at the back of his neck, making him squeak. That tickled. Then it traveled down more, over his shirt. He shivered at even Soubi\'s touch on his back. It felt so intimate, even through the shirt. Those fingers stroked up the tail once, twice, and then suddenly that sly hand of Soubi\'s was cupping Ritsuka\'s bottom. He gasped as the hand gave him a little squeeze.



"S-Soubi!" he spluttered. "Wh-what are you doing?"



He felt inclined to tear himself away from that strange touch, except he anticipated the fingers moving over his ears again, and he was comfortable lying on the couch like this with his head in Soubi\'s lap.



He looked up at the man, puzzled. Soubi smiled softly. "I wanted to see how you would react. Do you like it?"



It was a very strange question, Ritsuka thought. Like it? Was he supposed to? Well...he shivered as a squeeze came again, and then those fingers were stroking over his buttocks through his pants. Hmm. It did feel kind of good, actually. Ritsuka leapt up into the air as suddenly one of those fingers dove between his legs, tickling down there, and then that hand gave his bottom a hard squeeze.



"Ahh! Soubi!" Ritsuka didn\'t know what that had been, but whatever it was, whoa. He was sitting up now, panting. His hands had flown back instinctively to protect his assaulted behind. He planted his hands firmly over his butt, glaring at the hand as it came to rest on the couch. That...that move, had scared him a little. It made a thrill of excitement shoot through him, and he didn\'t know why. It was as if his body anticipated something his mind could not comprehend.



Ritsuka could see that Soubi was holding back the urge to laugh. The man was shaking a little, his mouth stretched in a smile. But he did not laugh.



A furious red blush burned Ritsuka\'s cheeks. "Don\'t laugh at me, Soubi."



The man continued to smile that infuriating smile, and so Ritsuka had to occupy himself to not get angry. He didn\'t want to get angry now, even if sometimes it seemed to him that Soubi liked his anger. He scooted over to be closer to Soubi, and slid his hands beneath Soubi\'s shirt.



"Shit!" The word came out of Soubi and scared Ritsuka. He looked up at Soubi questioningly. Soubi smiled apologetically. "Sorry. Your hands are cold."



Ritsuka grinned. Slowly, he slid his cold hands up Soubi\'s torso. He giggled as the man shivered in response to his cold fingers. A little viciously, as punishment for laughing at him ("not laughing" laughing), Ritsuka put his fingers around Soubi\'s nipples and pinched. He did it again, and then leaned over. He could hear Soubi\'s gasp as he wrapped his mouth around a hard nub and suckled. His arms went around Soubi\'s neck, fingers burying in the man\'s long hair, and he moved his lower body to sit over Soubi, in the man\'s lap again.



He suckled at one nipple, then the other. Then he took one between his teeth and nibbled hard, as more punishment. A loud groan came from Soubi, and the man shifted in his seat. Ritsuka could feel Soubi trembling. He lifted his head up, and looked at Soubi\'s now flushed face.



"Soubi? What is it?"



Soubi opened his eyes. He had that feverish look on his face again, the lustful one, the one that made Ritsuka\'s body fill with pleasure and feel about to explode. He stared at that expression, licking his lips. The expression sent another thrilling shiver of excitement shooting up his body. He could feel it curling his toes and making his hands tremble. Ritsuka\'s tail wriggled in the air, and he felt like his groin was on fire. He let his gaze drop down, away from that lustful expression on Soubi\'s face. A flush of his own spilled on his cheeks and down his chest.



"Soubi, don\'t look at me like that."



"Why?" Soubi sounded like he had composed himself a little now, but Ritsuka could feel that heart beating quickly beneath his fingers as he gently let his fingers wander over Soubi\'s chest.



"I...it..." Ritsuka swallowed hard. "It makes me...lose my control and I get all, all trembly and everything!" His voice had risen up higher with each word and he was really trembling now, his fists in Soubi\'s shirt that sat around the man\'s shoulders, his body pressed unconsciously against Soubi\'s. He could feel the heat in the man\'s groin, and the hard firmness of Soubi\'s body, the muscles and the soft skin.



Soubi chuckled softly. "That\'s okay, Ritsuka. It\'s okay to be vulnerable around me...It\'s okay to lose control, in this kind of thing. Trust me," he smirked, "I find it...sexy. And, there\'s nothing wrong with it." The man\'s finger reached out to grab Ritsuka\'s chin and gently pull it up until Ritsuka was looking into Soubi\'s soft blue eyes. "I\'m vulnerable around you, Ritsuka. No one else can make me...lose it."



Ritsuka thought about this. Sexy? He blushed at the word. But at the same time, he liked what Soubi was saying, that Soubi, too, lost control. He was giving himself to Soubi...and Soubi would protect him, and would USUALLY not laugh at him. Besides...he thought back to the time a couple weeks ago. He had had power in the sense that he could order Soubi, but that power was especially strong when Soubi was "losing it," as he said it. So, he didn\'t need to be afraid of the trembling, the overwhelming, new feelings. Perhaps what Soubi was saying was, it came with the situation. So it was okay to be flustered, because it was...it meant...it implied the pleasure that Ritsuka felt he would explode with when Soubi gave him that look. So it was good.



Ritsuka lifted his head up and smiled at Soubi. "I think you\'re right. It\'s okay sometimes to lose control and...let things go whichever way."



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