D laid in the hollow Leon's arms his thoughts flowing over the events of the last several days. His entire universe had been dumped unceremoniously on its head and he was still a bit shaken by it. He sighed a little to himself. He loved Leon very much but he missed his own home as well. The apartment seemed too silent to him without the comforting noise the pets made. Leon's heart beat warm and steady beneath his cheek though and D knew he would give up the shop if only he could keep that sound with him. He ached inside at the very real prospect that he may well not have either. His thoughts roamed back to when he was a child and had first met Wu Long. He had been frightened of him from the start and had hid beneath folds of his grandfather's cloak in terror. His mind replayed the scene in vivid detail.

"Fah, he hides from me. I, who would be his master! Bring him forth I demand it." D had closed his eyes and clung to his grandfather hoping if he remained small and quiet enough the hideous man would go away. His father and grandfather shouted at each other, cursing back and forth over his head. His small heart pounded in his chest and it hurt to breathe. He had cried when he was pulled from beneath the robe his tiny fingers not strong enough to hold onto his grandfather.

"Here, as I promised you, Wu Long." His father held him out nearly thrusting him into the creature's arms. Wu Long had not bothered to cover his true form and his body although primarily humanoid in shape was covered in glistening red scales. D shook violently in the cold grasp.

"Is he not what I promised?" D's father demanded impatiently ready to finalize the pairing and claim the prize that was his due.

"Yes, he is a most splendid example of your species." Fat tears rolled down the sides of D's pale round cheeks in despair. The despair gave way to revulsion when Wu Long licked the tears from him with a tongue covered in a thick mucous secretion. He had tried to pull away only to find his head caught in a crushing grip holding him in place unable to escape. The dragon prince had probed at his mouth trying to push his tongue in when his great grandmother had arrived and intervened.

"Wu Long release that child at once." Her voice had boomed through the air ripe with power. Wu Long's head had snapped up and for just a moment D thought he saw a glint of fear in the depths of his yellow eyes.

"What do you want woman? This is no concern of yours. Leave." Wu Long hissed, his eyes narrowing to slits.

"No concern of mine? You hold my great grandchild in your arms and yet you say it is no concern of mine? He is but a baby and you, you disgraceful piece of waste, fondle him as if he were an adult. Now put that child down!" Wu Long had released him in mid air and D had landed on his back hard the air knocked out of him.

"Fine. I like mine a little more fleshed out anyway. Mark my words old woman. He's mine. I have his name and when he is of age to breed there won't be anything you can do to stop me." Wu Long snickered at her.

"And as for you, kami, you can have your reward when I have mine and not before." D's father had scowled at the words but remained petulant and silent. Wu Long spun on his heel and stalked away several of his minions scampering after him. Silence hung among D's family his father and great grandmother locked in a battle of wills. Sofu had gathered him back in his arms and pulled him close to chest. D had clung to him sobbing in confusion and fright, only half listening the fight going on.

"How could you? What were you thinking? Or were you thinking at all?" D's father balled his fine hands into fists at the bitter questions.

"What was I thinking? How dare you interfere with my plans, he is my son and I'll make whatever provisions for him I want to!" He had shouted back at her in fury.

"You have no right to trade him into slavery just to increase your own power. Have you no feelings for your own child?" His great grandmother's voice high and shrill, cracking over the words.

"Feelings? For that weak half -breed? You surely mock me! You should be pleased that someone of Wu Long's stature would even be interested in him. And now because of you I have to wait! He is nothing more then a pathetic mistake on my part and a mongrel just like you!" Sofu had tried to cover D's ears with his robe but the words came through anyways as did the loud snap of great grandmother slapping his father. Sofu had taken him away then to raise into adulthood. His ties to his father abruptly severed.

Kami's take much longer too fully mature then there outward appearance would show. It was only within the last hundred years or so that D had crossed the threshold into full adulthood when successful breeding of the nature Wu Long sought could be done. D was for lack of a better word what one would describe as a 'cutting'. His father had created him by slicing his own blood in with that of a human he had currently bonded to. He had developed in a chrysalis and had not been so much born as bloomed. What Wu Long wanted was to imbed his seed in D and have the child develop internally in a manner more closely resembling humans. Mostly because Wu Long would not accept a child created in any other fashion but partly because Wu Long was animalistic enough to want to have the pleasure of mating and seeing his partner swell with his fruits.

D broke out of his reverie and quietly slipped out of bed. He went to Leon's old beat up recliner and climbed in pulling his legs under him and wrapping the blanket Leon had left around him and burying his face in his pillow. Cradled in a nest that smelled and felt like his beloved D finally let loose the tears of rage and helplessness. He held nothing back and cried until he felt completely spent and drained.

Leon waited until the sobbing had stopped before leaving his bedroom. The moment D had exited his bed Leon woke up his internal alarms going off. He had listened with his head bowed at the torrent of anguish coming from his lover, his own heart twisting with each broken cry. He knelt down before the kami and waited for D to look at him. It took several long silent minutes before D would acknowledge him.

"I am sorry, Leon. I did not wish to disturb you. Please accept my apology." Leon shook his head at him.

"Do not apologize. You've no reason and if you're disturbing me then it must be the kind of disturbing I like." Leon leaned forward enough to lightly brush his lips across the tear stained cheeks. A shudder went through D his eyes closing at the gentle sensation. It was disarming to have someone who could be so volatile be so kind. Leon slid his arms under him and around his back and stood with him.

"Come on, its not even five in the morning yet. I'm taking you back to bed with me. We've much better things to do then sit out here in the dark." D allowed Leon to carry him back to their bed. He wondered to himself a bit about when it became "their" bed. He could sense and feel his great grandmother's touch on him and Leon. The wards his family had placed around the apartment pulled at the back of his mind. At least for now he was safe and if all he could do was have each moment as they happened then D would take what he could.

Leon kissed and caressed as much of the tension from D's body as he could. D let him take the lead and did not resist when he was rolled over onto his stomach. Leon's strong fingers worked at the knots in his shoulders and along his spine until D felt deeply relaxed inside and languid. He purred when Leon's mouth followed the same trail as his hands and moaned when Leon bit at the twin dimples where his back ended in the swell of his ass. Clever fingers brushed against the crevice teasing and D couldn't help spreading his legs in response. Leon pulled him up onto his knees and suckled at the back of his legs his warm hand working oil into D's hardening member. D wondered when he had gotten the oil but let it go of the thought when Leon rubbed across the opening of his body pushing the tip of his finger in. Leon's mouth continued finding new places to kiss and bite around D's legs and hips adding to the sensation of being filled and stretched as he added a second finger to the first pushing them painfully deep into D's body. Leon stroked into him probing until he found his prostate causing D to twitch and gasp into the sheets. Leon rolled onto his back and pushed his way between the Count's spread knees keeping his hand firmly in place. He drew D's organ into his mouth sucking in unison with the sharp jabs to the sensitive spot inside of him. D's hard pants interspersed with his purring resounded through the room. Each time he came closing to coming Leon would stop and wait and then resume slowly reducing D down to a low moaning his hips pumping back against Leon's hand and then forward into Leon's mouth.

"Unnnh, please, Leon, please." D begged softly. Leon gave one final hard pull with his mouth and released him. He removed his fingers and guided his now leaking cock into D and groaned at the tight warmth. Leon settled back on his legs and pulled D back with him until the Count was splayed across his lap. Leon favored this position because it allowed him to have skin to skin contact nearly everywhere. D reached behind further impaling himself and locked his arm behind Leon's neck rubbing his back against Leon's chest. He met Leon's thrust and purred into the large hands that were roaming across his front. Leon found and rubbed into pebbles his nipples and stroked down the flat of his belly. Leon kept up the random caresses until he was close to coming and then settled on D's groin and fisting the hard flesh. He wrapped his other arm around the kami's upper torso and slid his fingers into the warmth of D's mouth. D laid his head against Leon's shoulder and whimpered around the digits. Leon felt the wild wave of contractions start in D's body and pumped harder catching himself in it and coming with him. They both stood frozen trapped against each other's body and then the moment passed letting them both collapse on the bed. Leon kissed the back of D's neck and grinned.

"Now that is a much better way to spend our time. Don't you think?" Leon asked in a raspy voice.

"Indeed." Was the only reply Leon got before D went back to sleep until the morning.