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He doesn’t know when it all changed.
Laying in his bed; body sinking into his plush sheets and the low light giving off the peaceful ambience to match the silence engulfing him. He doesn’t know how it came to be; a second body cuddled up to his side, head placed softly on his rising chest and dimly glows emitting from the owner’s horns.
He isn’t sure when the aura in their friend group began to change slowly; looks becoming stares of want. Gentle arm nudges became gentle rubs and caresses. Cocky smiles becoming sheepish grins; face and pointed ears flushing when he caught those ocean blue eyes staring in his direction. He currently can't see them now, but if he could he would see the entire galaxy in them instead of a mere glint of cheek.
He wasn’t sure when his heart began to betray his thoughts, trying to jump from his chest and dance with the others. The way he would let a soft groan escape his lips when he caught the alien prince flirting with anything that gave him attention. The sighs turning from disinterest about new dates to despair that it wasn’t him going instead. The way his attitude changed from a simple quip at a rejection to a silent cheer in the back of his mind.
Maybe he did secretly know, but his subconscious didn’t want to admit the fact that he had slowly fallen for Ren once his powers had unlocked. It started off as embarrassing; a man who was seen as this tiny little angry man, now towering over his bullies and suddenly a lot softer. Maybe it was growth, maybe he just knew he didn’t have to try so hard to prove his point anymore. And maybe it was then that it all changed, when Ren suddenly caught deep interest.
He shifted his head lazily to gaze out his bedroom window to stare up at the stars; hand lazily massaging through black locks in which his company let out soft mewls in comfort. He felt the other body shiver from the touch, but only sought to move closer to the touch.
His free hand lifted; fingers and palm outstretched and he watched as a few items surrounding them began to shift and float from their homes. Green floated around; Ren’s favourite plush toy Nessie dancing around their heads. Black tufts of hair swirled around; and a low rumble was emitted from Ren’s sleeping form.
Gravity was a fascinating form to manipulate as a power from the moon. It was almost a kiss from her; a taste of what was to come. And yet he had grown to love how gentle and how powerful it could be in the right hands. Maybe that was when Ren became very interested. Aster had certainly expressed his desire after an old Oak tree was uprooted and tossed aside like an empty water bottle in a practice of control one day.
Maybe he saw the way Ren’s lip curled over a single fang as if he was growling at the notion of their friend gripping Kyo’s arm and murmuring something that was inaudible. Maybe that was when Kyo felt something flip in his stomach; assuming it was because the snarl was aimed at him for the scene.
But now, he knew that it was over him. Ren was jealous and Kyo was unsure how to take it.
Maybe it was when Scarle had pulled Kyo aside under the guise of wanting to explore his newfound strength; instead turned into a lecture about letting Aster do what he wanted in Ren’s view.
"You know Ren wants you, right? He just doesn’t know how to say no to everyone else. He thinks you’re paying him back with letting Aster crawl all over you now that you’re like, hot.”
Kyo closed his eyes and breathed in at the memory, knowing that he had maybe denied it profusely. He had maybe said that Aster was just moving onto him because Ren had stopped giving him attention and that was that. He denied that Ren was interested in him more than the fact he could now handle himself and potentially protect them all and it put a damper in the prince’s ego.
But now, as his eyes opened slowly once more; his alarm clock slowly floating passed his face, he knew he was just burying what he was most afraid of.
He maybe had never felt this way before and it scared him. It made him feel small, needy...
Weak.
Things he had thought he had quelled now he was his true self. Things he didn’t think would stick with him. The want to be needed. The need to be loved. The passion to love another the way they deserve.
And as his fingers trailed and swirled through those soft black locks over and over in the slow dance, he knew that it was the fear of still not being good enough. Which now he felt was silly. Because he was enough, he was more than enough and he could maybe finally admit that.
And it was all because of a stupid alien who maybe had changed their lives with one simple glance.
Without a second thought he clenched his hand into a fist; and immediately the atmosphere stopped. The items dropped immediately; clock hitting the bed head and bouncing onto the floor, pens clattering back on the desk, and Nessie falling down with a soft fwump on Ren’s head. The latter’s ears pricked and his head snapped up with the sounds of everything clattering.
“What was that?” He asked in a slurred panic, clearly having the fatigue of his slumber settle in with the sudden awakening.
Kyo gave a hard breath through his nose and moved his hand to Ren’s left cheek. “Nothing, I was practicing and turned it off too soon. You good?”
Ren gave a slow nod, mouth slowly lifting to that signature grin; fang sliding out to hug his bottom lip. “Yeah I just was worried is all.”
“Worried about what? That you needed to protect me? Simp.” Kyo gave a scoff, followed by a light chuckle as the other male’s face fell to a pout.
Kyo pinched Ren’s cheek lightly; eliciting a small whine from his partner before letting go to run his hand through the messed up fringe. Ren’s will to keep acting offended dropped immediately, and the almost purring rumbles began from the affection he was being given. Kyo’s heart began to beat faster; and he wondered if Ren could hear it.
Ren adjusted his position; legs still loosely entwined but shifting so he could lay his head beside Kyo’s instead; a hand resting on the shoulder now separating their torsos. Kyo kept looking; eyes adjusting to the sight of someone that if you asked a few months ago wouldn’t be there if he kept denying himself.
If you asked him that he would become so raw to the point that a former beastly figure would melt at his fingertips with adoration and be at his beck and call, he would’ve said they were insane to even suggest such a thing.
His hand went back to Ren’s cheek; cupping around his ear to scratch behind and thumb his earring. Ren in turn went back to his purring, his horns beginning to glow a bit brighter and he bit his lip gently.
Maybe they could switch things up next time and Kyo wouldn’t mind getting the same treatment. He would be teased for finally becoming the cat Ren so desperately wanted, but he seemed to think it would be a nice little treat for the both of them.
He wasn’t exactly sure when everything changed. But when those galaxy engulfed eyes opened again stare directly in his soul; the lip curling and the adoration dripping in his smile, that it didn’t really matter when it decided to change at all.
He wouldn’t have it any other way.