Being in love is difficult

This chapter kind of sucks. I\'m not proud of it in the least and as you\'ll see the ending is horrible too. :( You need to survive it. As I said before the forth and fifth chapter should be on, but it was to long... still nothing sexual.



Disclaimer: The original story is not mine. I\'m only using it to have some fun! XD



Warnings: You\'ll need to wait much longer for them to do the naughty. ;)





Review replies:



anonanon: Yes, I’m planning to write this and that, you’ll see XD I know you want action. I want action myself, but I wouldn’t be able to put up with myself if I rushed things and then something wouldn’t fit in the story line. You’ll need to be patient. I’m planning to write something sexual, eventually. LOL



Aurora Moon: I’m happy you liked it. T-chan more defended D from Leon’s lust than helped the detective. XD But, well, the totetsu realizes that something is going on between Leon and D and either he’ll eat Leon or give him his blessing. ;) I’m nearing to the club part, don’t worry. D’ll go there soon and you’ll see what the club is like. XD



Thank you for reviewing. :)

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Chapter 5





A late night visit





The door wasn’t locked yet. Although it was well past nine, D knew that even if a burglar came into the shop it was nearly impossible for him to get out alive or in one piece. The ringing bell indicated that whoever was at the door was not a criminal. They wouldn’t ring the bell, but just come inside. D made his way to open the door thinking at the same time, ‘What an eventful evening I’m having today, although I don’t really think I should be happy because of it.’



He opened the door and wasn’t surprised to see Leon Orcot standing there looking as tired as yesterday and the day before yesterday. ‘I really should have a little talk with that slave driver under whose orders my dear Detective works.’



“Detective, what a pleasant surprise seeing you here at this hour,” greeted D. This time he anticipated that it could be Leon at the door so he wasn’t surprised, and that led to the fact that he could act like his usual calm and collected self.



“Sorry to bother you, but I thought I’d come and see how you were doing.” The Detective sounded tired.



“Nothing important changed from yesterday,” D answered. For a brief moment he considered telling Leon about the call he had received just a while ago, but thought better of it. Apparently the Detective was worrying about him, which was absolutely unnecessary, even if in some way cute, and D didn’t want to make him worry even more. Not when Leon was as tired as he was. He knew the human would worry more when he heard about the odd phone call that nearly forced him to join the club.



‘The less he knows about the way I’ll become a member of ‘La Volupté’ the better. He has other things to worry about. And he should rest,’ thought D, but at the same time he felt a strange feeling inside his chest.



It wasn’t the first time he had withheld information from the human detective, but this time he felt bad about it. It was as if his conscience wanted to tell him that he should tell Leon all about the call. He also felt something else entirely that he couldn’t pinpoint properly. He was very pleased with the thought that the Detective was checking on him the way he had the last few days. He felt important to the human, and the idea that Leon could be thinking or worrying about something or someone else other than D didn’t sit well with him. He realized that his dear Detective‘s presence soothed his nerves and made him feel at ease. Weird and incomprehensible, but true.



“And I’ve managed to close one of the cases I’ve been working on. I hope the Chief won’t add me to another one. I could use a bit of rest,” the human sighed, making himself comfortable on the sofa.



“Yes, I’ve noticed you’re tired, my dear Detective. You should rest properly.” D sat across from the human and watched him.



“It’s not that bad, D,” Leon waved D’s concerns off. “It’s nothing that can’t be fixed with a little bit of sleep.”



“Then you should be sleeping instead of wandering around,” said D with a scolding voice.



“The only place I wander around is your shop. And if I must remind you, you were the one all pissed because I didn’t come to the shop,” the Detective pointed out.



“You didn’t come for a few weeks, Detective. The world won’t fall apart if I don’t see you for a day or two,” ‘I hope,’ thought D, but would never voice this thought aloud. It was bad enough that he had blurted out that he thought Detective Orcot was beautiful. D would never allow the human to know how much Leon’s presence affected D.



‘I wouldn’t mind him sleeping here. Maybe I should suggest it? Or maybe not. After the way he reacted before, so flushed and embarrassed, I think he’ll misunderstand my intentions,’ thought D and wondered what his intentions really were. ‘I don’t want to sleep with him, but at the same time I know I would feel safe and… Although I know two men can be together in such a way, I don’t want us to be together that way, or do I?’



D thought about it and imagined himself with Leon in one bed, enveloped in the human‘s embrace and sleeping soundly with his head pillowed on Detective Orcot’s chest, hearing the steady rhythm of his heart and feeling the rise and fall of his chest. That’s all he wanted, all he dared to think about. D didn’t know what would happen if he thought about all those things lovers did in bed, but he didn’t want to take a chance and embarrass himself in front of the Detective.



What D didn’t catch from his thought was that he actually thought that thinking about those things would make him react. He knew he was ignoring a lot of things that were related to Detective Leon Orcot, but he didn’t even realize the amount of things he was squashing inside.



“I’m not coming to the shop and you’re angry with me. I am coming to the shop and you want to get rid of me. Make up your mind, D! It’s getting irritating and I’m too tired to put up with it at the moment,” said Leon with an aggravated voice.



“No such thing, Detective. I am just concerned about your health. That is all,” D was becoming irritated himself. Detective Orcot was too touchy lately. It was hard to speak with him properly without fighting.



D recalled how wonderful he had felt with Leon three days ago when they had laid on the blanket in the park and enjoyed the day after T-chan’s appearance. He wanted to spend more time with Leon like that. He couldn’t understand why he craved the human‘s company so much lately, but there was no ignoring it. From the moment Detective Orcot returned to the shop after his long absence, D felt better, happier, and he didn’t have so many problems with concentration.



All of his problems hadn’t left him, though. Sometimes during the day he caught himself thinking about the human and wondering where he was and what he was doing right now, and also if he thought about D as much as D thought about him. After he’d caught himself in the process he scolded himself and tried to return to his work, but from time to time his thoughts, even if briefly, kept wandering to the Detective.



“I’ll be fine D, really,” Leon assured.



T-chan, who was resting nearby growled at him, but didn’t make a move to bite. He only looked at D for a second and then pretended to be asleep. D raised an eyebrow at it, but didn’t say anything. After the lesson he had given the totetsu, Leon shouldn’t have any more problems with him.



“If you say so, Detective,” stated the Kami. He sat in a chair and hid his hands in his sleeves. They were very long and silky. He liked his robe very much. It was blue with silver flower ornamentation on it.



“Say, D. Aren’t you cold in that thing?” The Detective was eyeing his robe suspiciously.



“It’s not a thing. It’s a robe and I have a nightshirt on under it as well, Detective. The robe is very warm even if it doesn’t look like it,” D assured. He saw that the Detective wasn’t convinced, but he abandoned the topic.



“Yeah, whatever Count,” he waved D’s response off and they sat there in silence for a while.



“Did you sell anything today, D?” asked the Detective at long last. He looked at D again and their gazes met.



“A phoenix,” said D simply.



“What the hell is that?” The Detective sounded suspicious. He watched D and waited for an answer.



“You have never heard of phoenixes before?” D raised one eyebrow and looked at Detective with amusement.



“Sure I’ve heard about them, but you can’t possibly mean the same creature I am thinking about.” The Detective sounded stunned.



‘I’ve told him about so many of my unique pets and he still doesn’t believe me fully,’ D sighed inwardly. Then he started to wonder, ‘Do I even want him to believe me? I have never before craved the acceptance of another, human or not. Do I want Leon to believe me?’



“I don’t know what you’re thinking about, my dear Detective, but today I sold a young phoenix to a very nice young lady. I hope she’ll be able to care for it properly,” D sounded hopeful, but also distant. He was still trying to decide what his feelings regarding Detective Orcot and his pets were, but they were just too confusing to sort them out so quickly.



“What will happen if she doesn’t?” the Detective asked, but upon seeing D’s meaningful look he added, “Okay, I get the point. I never asked. By the way, D, how many ‘rare’ pets do you have here?”



“Why do you ask? Are you interested in buying one of them?” That was new. Leon had never been interested in D’s pets before or in the matters that concerned the shop like he was right now.



“Of course not! I’m not stupid. I’m just curious,” Leon shrugged.



“I never really counted them,” said D thoughtfully. ‘How many of them do I really have? Maybe I should count them? But that would be so much work and it would take so much time. That’s definitely a bad idea, counting them.’



“You’re kidding me right? You want to tell me that you don’t know what you have in this shop?” Leon sounded scandalized, as if D had done something awful.



The Count was amused by it. ‘He’s so sweet.’



“Of course I know what I have here. I only said that I do not know the numbers you apparently want to know,” explained D patiently. He watched the Detective and felt a pang when he saw how subdued he was because of his exhaustion.



“How is it even possible to tend to all of the pets if they’re so many of them?” Leon was shaking his head.



‘And he doesn’t even know the half of it. I wonder, how would he react if I told him some of the shop‘s secrets?’ D caught himself before he said something that he couldn’t take back. He wasn’t sure if he trusted Leon Orcot enough to share his secrets with him. The Detective knew more about him than any other person, but there were many more secrets that D wasn’t comfortable sharing with anybody.



“You shouldn’t be worrying about that. Caring about them is my job and I must say that I have been doing a good job up until now,” said D proudly. He shouldn’t be feeling that way, but he did. Taking care of the shop was a huge responsibility. At the beginning he didn’t know if he would make it, but he had and he was happy now. His life, although not simple and more stressful in some areas after the Detective had come into it, was good enough that he didn’t want to change it in any way. Yes, he could say he was happy.



“And you don’t need help?” Leon asked another question.



The Detective was really thirsty for knowledge tonight, but this last question made D mad at him. He wasn’t sure what the human was implying.



“Of course not! I am fully capable of running this shop, Detective. If I wasn’t, my grandfather wouldn’t have given it to me!”



“Whoa! Hold your horses, D! I didn’t mean to offend you. I was just…” the human apologized, but D was still pouting and looking angrily at him.



“What? What were you just, Detective?” asked D, annoyed to no end. And here he was having such a wonderful evening. First the mysterious phone call and then Leon’s weird insinuations. ‘Can it become even worse? I hope not. I’m not in the mood to deal with it.’



Leon sighed and said, “I just don’t want you to end up as a victim with one of your pets being the culprit. OW! You stupid goat! I thought you weren’t biting me anymore! What’s gotten into you again all of a sudden?!” Leon massaged his abused calf.



D knew T-chan wouldn’t bite hard again, but he was allowed a light nip. D thought that it would only do the human detective good, so he let T-chan off more lightly than he thought he would have if the circumstances were different. The way Leon defended him took its toll on D. If the Detective wasn’t angry with T-chan then D shouldn’t be angry either.



“I feel really honored that you worry so much about my safety, but you need not worry about it in the shop. None of the animals in it would harm me,” said D warmly. He couldn’t stop feeling all warm inside at the thought that Leon thought so much about his safety even if his thinking led to some odd conclusions.



D watched as his dear Detective fought with T-chan. The totetsu wanted everybody to think that he despised Leon Orcot, but D thought that in reality T-chan liked the human detective. The incident at the picnic had been odd. T-chan had really seemed angry with Leon, but didn’t want to tell D what the cause of his behavior was. That was also odd. Normally T-chan didn’t keep anything from him and now he had secrets regarding the human detective. D wouldn’t interfere with their current fight unless Leon asked him to. He would be able to tell if the human wasn’t able to handle T-chan. Luckily, Leon always knew what to do, well at least when he didn’t ignore his pet. The human said all the time that he didn’t like the goat, but D knew that it wasn’t sincere and T-chan could tell, too.



The way they were acting now was very suspicious. It was as if there was some kind of tension. D couldn’t grasp it no matter how hard he tried. The totetsu bit Leon a lot, mostly when Leon said some very stupid things, but his bites were never meant to hurt, only to tease or bring Leon into line. It was really amusing at times to watch those two. The picnic bite was the first bite that was meant to hurt and that was why D had been so angry with T-chan. In his eyes the Detective hadn’t done anything to deserve that bite. Apparently T-chan had thought differently and D wondered slightly if he should ask Leon about it.



He thought about it as he watched Leon and T-chan teasing each other. The view was very amusing and somehow sweet. ‘They’re fighting almost as much as Leon and me. I wonder if we look as cute, too.’



“Get off me you dumb head. Well, D, if I consider this fellow here I highly doubt that you’re safe among them,” said the Detective, still glaring at the totetsu.



D often wondered if Leon was even aware that he treated his pets as beings fully capable of understanding him. Even now, the words he said were meant for him, but also for T-chan so that the totetsu knew what Leon thought. Chris treated his pets like intelligent creatures mostly because he saw their true form, but Leon didn’t see them in that form. He thought about them as intelligent creatures mostly from his own free will. D wouldn’t give him all the credit for it; he had worked on Detective Orcot for too long to let him think that he was the one who first thought that the animals were something more than animals, to just simply brush off his input in making Leon realize it. Although if Leon ever asked him about it, he would never tell him anything. The human was intelligent enough to realize that D had helped him to understand quite a few things, and not only regarding his pets.



“As I said, you worry too much,” D stifled a yawn, but Leon noticed it anyway.



“You’re tired. I’ll leave you so you can go to bed.” The Detective stood up from the sofa and stretched his muscles.



D could see that Leon was also tired, but knowing the detective he wouldn’t complain much about it. That was one of the things that D liked about Leon Orcot, although sometimes he would really prefer the Detective to be more honest.



“That’s quite all right, Detective. I enjoy your company no matter the time, and I’m happy you took the time to come here and see me,” D smiled. He was truly happy Leon came by the shop on his way back home. That meant a lot to D although he couldn’t say why. He briefly thought what it would be like if Leon’s home was here with him, but quickly chased that thought away. ‘Why did I even think of something so ridiculous?’



D saw that Leon was looking at him oddly as if he was gathering the courage to say something, but in the end decided against it. ‘I wonder what he wanted to say.’ D couldn’t stop thinking about it and he felt that he almost physically wanted Leon to speak. Although he knew both of them needed to go to sleep, he didn’t want the human to leave. He wanted Leon to stay even if just for a while longer. He wanted to hear what the Detective wanted to say.



“I’m off. Good night, D.” Leon waved his good bye and headed to the door.



“Sweet dreams, Detective.” D followed Leon to the door. Before leaving the shop the human turned around one more time and D saw again that he was fighting with himself, deciding to speak or leave without saying anything more. ‘I think I will help him to make up his mind.’



“Is something wrong, Leon?” D asked. He saw the detective look at him, his mouth opened as if he was about to say something, but at the last moment he changed his mind and only shook his head.



“No. Sweet dreams, Count D.”



Leon turned around and walked out of the shop, leaving D to wonder what the human‘s last words really meant. The ‘no’ didn’t sound like an answer to D’s question. It sounded rather like a statement that would make Leon get a grip on himself. And the ‘sweet dreams, Count D’ felt as if Leon wanted really to say ‘dream about me, D.’



D shivered at the thought, and it wasn’t an unpleasant shiver. He thought about Leon’s words at the picnic a few days ago and the vision he had had that time invaded him again. D shook his head and closed the door for the night. He headed to his bedroom, thinking, ‘It is so hard to run away from you, my dear Detective. Until now the only time I am apart from you, not thinking about you, is in my dreams and now you want to be there too. What a greedy man you are.’



D didn’t even consider that his interpretation of Leon’s words could have been wrong and that the human had meant just what it sounded like. Whatever the meaning of Leon’s words was, after a long time waiting for sleep to claim him, D dreamed about a certain pair of blue eyes and an honest smile. The next morning he woke up feeling that he should remember something from the night before, but couldn’t. ‘Did I dream anything?’

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Note: I know, the ending sucks. :/ It wasn\'t intentional, really. I know you want some action, but it\'s too soon for D. Leon is a totally different story and since the next chapter should be (I haven\'t started writing it yet) Leon\'s POV I\'ll try give you something. ;) I hope you liked the chapter even if a little bit, right? *puppy eyes*

Since I didn\'t start writing the next chapter yet, I don\'t know when it will be ready. You have to wait about two weeks or even more. Sorry. *bows and runs away*