krystalkatzficz | Niyan-Nino part 4

Satoshi curled around his little Niyan. Nino had been crying late into the night. It was the last day on planet earth and although Nino was insistent that he wanted to go, Satoshi knew the truth. It didn’t help that the rest of Arashi had been hounding him the whole time. Jun had even yelled at him a week ago accusing him of encouraging Nino to leave. Satoshi hadn’t encouraged him, he had simply stood by him waiting for him to say what he really wanted. He was almost there, the tears had told him that, and Satoshi just needed to wait. It didn’t take long, his fingers were just moving down Nino’s back when the Niyan admitted in a whisper;

“I don’t want to go. I know I keep saying that I don’t mind...But...”

“Tell them, when they come tomorrow, tell them that you want to stay” Satoshi whispered. He knew that he was saying the same thing that Jun, Masaki, and Sho, had been telling him but he knew that his words would have more affect on Nino. Nino looked up at him with his eyes shiny and red with tears. His cheeks were blotchy red and pale and his lower lip was bruised from where he had been chewing on it.

“What if they don’t accept it? What if they tell me that you can’t come with me?” The Niyan asked his ears flat against his head. Satoshi had noticed that his fur was less shiny than it normally was through stress and there were patches missing. His arms circled his little love pressing his lips to the top of his head between his ears.

“I won't let them take you anywhere without me. But if you don’t want to go then I won’t let them force you. I don’t think that they will, the people of your home planet don’t seem like they would the type to force you to do something that you don’t want to” Satoshi gently told him his arms wrapping more securely around his waist. Nino snuggled into his chest his nose rubbing against his nipple. “I love you, Nino”

“I thought you were okay with going”

“I am...Or rather I would be if that’s what you really wanted. I don’t care where I am, so long as with you I could be on the moon...” Satoshi informed him. It was something he had said a lot in the last month or so, but he would say it a thousand times more if that’s what it took for Nino to understand how much he meant to him.

“Unlikely, you wouldn’t be able to breathe on the moon” Nino rolled his eyes, his voice dripping with sarcasm but he was looking a lot more positive. At least he thought he was from what he could see in the mirror that was built into their bedroom wall. All of their belongings had been packed, barring the sheet covering their bed, and the boxes were piled in the hall. Nino’s earthly mother had helped them, Satoshi could tell that she was trying her best to stay composed but it hadn’t worked nearly as well she thought. She had been tearful by the end, putting in his baby toys and photos that she had taken as he was growing up. Nino had welled up too but it hadn’t lasted very long, he had smiled and kissed her telling her that she was the one that told him that he would be leaving one day. Kazuko had smiled and nodded but whispering; ‘I know but I’d always hoped it wouldn’t happen’.

“Trust you not to be romantic” Satoshi laughed with a squeeze around Nino’s waist. Nino laughed, his ears twitching a little indicating that he was feeling a little better. A purr escaped from the back of his throat and Satoshi closed his eyes. He loved the sound of Nino’s purr, it was a full body thing, his whole body vibrated with it and Satoshi loved the way it seeped through his own body. “I love you, my Nino”

“I love you too, Master...Do you really think they will be okay with me staying?”

“I think...I think they will” Satoshi tried his best to sound confident but he knew that his voice faulted as he couldn’t bring himself to promise something he didn’t know. The Niyan were people who thought it was perfectly okay to send a baby to earth to gather as much information as possible while denying him most of the knowledge about his own people. Satoshi knew that Nino never got cards or gifts from his birth parents, okay it would be difficult given the distance that they would have to travel but there wasn’t even a message.

“Thanks for trying to comfort me” Nino chuckled wetly pressing his face against him a few more times as his purring faded into a gentle snore. Satoshi was surprised at how easily the younger man could fall to sleep but Nino had always been emotionally drained after crying. He had always thought of it as a cat like trait but he supposed that it was a Nino thing. For his part he found it difficult to shut off his mind, his eyes kept wandering around the now empty room. For years he and Nino had built their little apartment, filling it with all kinds of strange knick-knacks that nobody else would be interested in and photos of them. Having it empty was stranger than he wanted to let on. He knew that they were all safely packed away but it didn’t change how alien the empty spaces on the built in shelves looked.

Hour after hour ticked by but still Satoshi couldn’t sleep. He stared at the ceiling noting the bits of paint that had chipped away and they had never gotten around to repainting, he saw the door where they had chipped in their heights. It had been a joke, Nino had wanted to prove that he was the taller and had measured himself from the tips of his ears. It had given him a few centimetres more and Satoshi hadn’t minded. The rest of Arashi had followed suit putting down their heights as well starting with Masaki. It was silly domestic things like that he was going to miss if they did have to leave tomorrow.

It was sunset that he felt the rumbling of an aircraft. It was almost silent but he was waiting for it and the low swoosh was enough to make him wrap his arms a little more tightly around his lover. Nino’s ears were up and alert obviously having heard the sound even in the depths of sleep and Satoshi looked down into his fearful eyes. Smiling he kissed his nose running his fingers through his hair whispering a soft promise of;

“No matter what happens, I will be by your side, okay? Nothing will stop that...”

“I know...Thank you...Master...”

TBC

A/N: Last part is next...I hope that this was a little bit fun at least ^>.<^