Musa's House

[Musashi]

"Poor Sca... she should rest, too. Heh, I guess we all kinda need rest, huh?"

Musa flopped down onto the floor beside Scarp and his chair, and then rested his head against the vagabond's leg. "Now I rest." The kitty closed his eyes and began to purr contentedly.

[scarplo]

Scarp sighed, rising as carefully as he could, to keep the ninja from waking. He knelt down, next to Musashi, and cradled the catboy, starting to carry him back to the room where this thread began.

And more importantly to Scarplo's mind, to a bed.

[Musashi]

Musa wriggled a bit and opened his eyes a little, blinking sleepily up at Scarp. "..mu?..."

The ninja wrapped his arms around Scarp's neck and hugged him, then mumbled, "...where we goin'...?"

[scarplo]

Had Scarplo stopped to consider the phrasing of his sentance, he no doubt would've chose another form. But as it stood, he himself forgot that ages old bit of wisdom...

"I'm taking you to bed."

It's not what you say, it's how you say it.

[Musashi]

The kitty blushed muchly, and suddenly Musa's heart started beating veryvery hard and fast. He thought for sure it'd just bust right out of his chest and start Riverdancing on the floor.

"Uh.. w-well... that's um, a bit sudden, isn't it? B-but, I mean, it's okay with me.. really! I.. I guess you really did miss me..." Musa lowered his ears and eyes in a bashful sort of way, and shakily gave Scarp a little kiss on the cheek.

[scarplo]

Scarp sighed and kept walking. "Kiddo, I'm old enough to be your grandfather. You're tired, and I don't like people I care about sleeping on the floor when there's a bed open. That's all."

[Musashi]

The kitty froze up. I am... the stupidest person ever. In the world.

Musa jumped out of Scarp's arms, and went on walking towards the bedroom. "I'll go myself. Go do whatever you were gonna do."

[scarplo]

Scarplo, to his credit, didn't stop for a moment.

Kids... "Alright."

And then he proceeded to scoop up the ninja and continue his walk. "You do understand that it was tucking you in, right?"

[Musashi]

Musa wriggled a bit, and his eyes started watering with tears of kitteny-ness.

"No, of course I didn't understand! You know I never understand anything!"

He was still blushing, so he covered his face with his hands. "And you don't have to carry me and tuck me in, you know." Sniffle. "I'm not a baby. I'm nineteen."

[scarplo]

The vagabond did not let go. "I know. But you carried me, so it's only fair."

Scarplo quickly made his way to the kitten's bed. "Ready?"

[Musashi]

Musa lowered his ears a bit as he thought, and looked down.

Well. While I'm already in the process of making an idiot of myself...

"No. One more thing."

And the kitty wrapped his arms around Scarp's neck and kissed him, purring slightly.

[scarplo]

Once one reaches the higher levels of mathmatics, theories arise that equate infinity with an instant. Such themes occur often in mystical paradigms of all kinds, and with good reason. There are simply times when time slows to a crawl.

Scarplo was in one of those moments now.

Musa hung in the air, his eyes half lidded, lips pursed, as the vagabond let the questions whirl about him. It had stopped being about things like sexuality a long time ago. Too many times he'd woken with a sore back and someone he didn't recognize. Too many times he'd seen her face at the edges of his dreams and was left wondering, sickly hoping that she was the only one.

Could he trust the ninja? Could he count on anything? What if this was a trap? What if he didn't feel anything? What if it disgusted him? How could they continue as friends?

One shoulder whispered to lean, the other whispered to explain... and he did neither.

The kiss was soft, gentle, hesitent. Musashi found himself held softly, carefully in a hug. The vagabond's eyes smiled at the ninja. "Rest."

[Musashi]

The kittyninja blushed and his ears flickered. He snuggled up in the hug and purred more.

"Okay. I'll rest now, as long as you won't disappear while I sleep. Do I still get tucked in?"

[scarplo]

The ninja was lowered onto the bed like a feather in the air, and tucked in before a kiss brushed his brow. "I think it can be arranged."

[Musashi]

Musa meeeeewed like a happy little kitten and smiled up at Scarp, still all blushy. "Thank you."

The ninja then rolled onto his side and snuggled up into the blankets and his pillow, and closed his eyes.