Heo sighed and stop then place Hotaru down taking it as those Hotaru didn't want to be touched. He moved back from Hotaru and leaned agiest a tree and just watched Hotaru. He did not know what to do right now. Ever thing he did just made the boy more un happy so he was starting to thinking going away from him may make things easier for the both of them.

Hotaru was still crying as he looked at Heo before he went over to him and hugged him tight, crying into his chest as he rubbed his face in it. "Do you need someone to protect besides Mathew?" he whispered, his voice muffled as he continued to hug him as close as he could.

Heo blinked as Hotaru came closer and he just hug him back rubbing Hotaru back. "What is this all about?" He softly asked. "Are you ok?" Heo didn't know what to do now and he just looking over hotaru. The boy seem to be dealing with some thing but at the same time Heo was still hurt he had losted Hotaru in the morning after trying to get Hotaru to forgive him and failing.

"Please...just tell me if you have to protect people......if you have to have someone to protect...please tell me." Hotaru whispered to him as he continued to hug him likethe first time that they had met, he had stopped crying but he wasn't going to let the man go untilhe answered all of his questions.

"I'm not sure what your looking for or even what the answer you want is from me. But I like to protect some one I need it... In a way but its more of a want." He sighed. "so why you tell me why your acting oddly now Hotaru? Your the once who left this morning after ever thing that happened." Heo sighed he was still rubbing Hotaru back waiting to see what was going to happen now. This was very odd to him.

"Then....protect me....." Hotaru whispered as he looked up at Heo with his one eye, standing on his tips toesto kiss the man lightly on the lips. "I love you....very very much......but i can't forgive you for calling me Mathew....not just yet. I....I told to Mathew......he said i was forcing you away when you were trying to get close to me......." he whispered up at Heo as a light blush dusted his cheeks.

Heo kissed the top of Hotaru head. "Are you sure you want me to protect you. He keep trying to fight it and are not happy when I try to protect you." He sighed. "well I did tell you last night.... If you ... well I mean I asked you to stay by my side but in the morning you freak and ran from me so... I'm not sure what to think now."

"I....i want what Chris and Mat has.....with you, but i can't have that cause our relationship is one sided.....I just don't need you to protect me when i don't need it....that is what makes me mad. I don't know if i can stay by your side.....it just depends on you." Hotaru whispered as he stood up on his tip toes and kissed Heo's cheek once more, he then stood, letting his arms drop from around Heo and he turnned his head away as he blushed slightly.

"Of course you need protecting, why woudl you think you don't you alway find your self in weird spots. I want to protect you even those you say you don't need it I find that hard to belive." He sighed. "Maybe some day we will have that together but lets take it one day at a time. I mean I know how you feel about me I know I don't feel that way back. BUT I do feel some thing for you and want you need me. So lets work with that."

"Just becuase things happen to me does not mean i need to be protected all the time. I am not saying you can't protect me but you just can't do it all the time...." Hotaru whispered to him as he looked down at what he was wearing, dustting the male clothes off as he tried to make them look better, even trying to smooth the torn spots out as if that would make him look even better, hefelthorrible at the moment. "Until then....i don't know where my life is going.....you want me but i need you.....that is a difference." he whispered as he crouched down and doodled on the ground.

Heo sat down on the ground next to Hotaru. "Would you like to change your clothes. I still have your cute girly clothes in my pack if you want to get in to some thing nicer." He smiled. "Yeah right now it may be different but that could change. Right now I want you by my side and I'm asking you to go out of me. If You say no now I think I'll just let you go because I'm worried I can't make you happy with all that I keeo putting you through."

"If I put them on you will just take me again....as for me and you datting....I don't know about that at the moment." Hotaru said to him as he turnned his head, his hair covering the eye patch that he had on, almost making him look like a normal boy for a minute.

Heo sighed. "I won't touch you like that again until the day you ask me to. So feel free to put them on. So if that a no to dating?" Heo sighed then looked away.


The fairy music was starting to make some normal human dance around in the children book area it seemed that where all the human who were in the place were move to from the music.

Hotaru turnned his head to the side and looked towards Heo,his only good eye looking over the man that was next to him as he digested his words before he grabbed the bag and pulled it close to him as he searched around for a good traveling outfit. "It is a maybe to datting....." he said to him before he found the clothes that he was looking for, he took them and went behind a tree, so that Heo wouldn't see him as he changed into them.

Mathais yawned as he finally woke up, holdding Ain close to his chest, he hugged the male and kissed him on the lips as he continued to sleep, he sighed slightly before he grabbed another slice of pizza and ate it.

Chris looked over at Mat, giving him a warm smile as he picked up on of the fishes ona stick and begin to eat it.

((Ascadellia: okay i posted for Mathais))

Once agin the music was playing of the fairy could be still be heard mostly near the children books with about 10 dancing human bouncing along to the beat.

Mathew started to eat one of his own fish. "Ummm Hotaru has been gone for a while and Heo is not where to be seen, I don't think I saw him this morning."

Heo just nodded not sure what to make of the maybe but at less Hotaru was changing back in to cloth he loved. He could not waite to see him back in his girly clothes but he would not do any thing to him. He just rest aganist the tree looking up.

"I wouldn't worry about them to much, after all they have each other and Heo is more then capable ofprotecting him and Hotaru." Chris said between mouthfulls of food as he looked at Mat, pulling him as close to him as he could and kissing him on the lips, lightly.

Hotaru cameout from be hind the tree in one of his rather dark outfits, dustting it off before he shoved his torn boy clothes into the bag, blushing as he kept his eyes off of Heo as best as he could. "Heo.....whydid you want me to putthese girly clothes back on so much?" he whispered as he looked down at the ground, fidgetting as hewas unsure about what to do now.

Mathew nuzzled Chris. "Yeah your right but are you sure Hotaru went to go find Heo couldn't he have just run off and then Heo would be up set won't he?" Mathew ate his fish then looked over at the other who were now eating as well. "Well I guess we could form a plan of attack or what the next step should be we will be back in the other city soon huh?"

Heo just looked to Hotaru. "Because you had them so you most like wearing them. You only toss them away because you were mad at me so I didn't think you could be without them. In a fit of angry tossing some thing you like away can hurt when you don't have it later. So I saved them. I will still be buying you a new outfit to replace the rip one from the city ok?"

"But that doesn't mean you like me in them.....but thank you for saving them......and no you don't have to buy me another outfit." Hotaru said to him softly before he timidly held his handout to the man to help hiim up, even though he had a feeling that it was pointless at the moment. "Mathew was cooking fish before i came to find you.....we should go and eat." he said to the man as he turnned his head and looked back towards the camp site.

"Well we will find out when Heo comes back. If Hotaru did run off then i will just have to help Heo track him down, in the mean time don't worry about it and eat." Chris said as he finished his fish off, licking the flavors from his lips and fingers before he kissed Mat. "Yea we should form a plan....does any one have a map of that kingdom and the castle?" Chris asked the people that were there so that he could formulate a plan.

Heo took Hotaru hand and got up picke dup his pack. "Well I want to get you a new set any way." He laughed. "When we find the time we should get you more clothes because you look cute." Then he laughed. "Oh come one Mathew went fishing? That funny, that boy can't even tell the different between a good fishing pole and a broken one. He never was good at it even those both my brother and I tried to show him." He laughed. "Oh well yeah lets go back I am getting hungry."

Mathew nodded and kissed back still eatting his fish. "I don't know how to do this so really you should talk to Heo he the one who can plan things with you I'll just go along with the plan ok?"

Hotaru blushed lightly as he looked down at the ground once more, trying to hide his face from Heo's eyes. "Why would you get me more clothes? The few i have now are fine...." he whispered before he frowned and looked up at Heo, a hurt look in his eye before he looked away, pulling his hand free from Heo's. "You can catch food with magic also." he said bluntly as he turnned and headed towards the campsite, looking back behind him for a brief moment tomake sure that Heo was following him.

"You love, need to learn these things but i guess there are somethings better left unlearned since we are married now." Chris said to him as he kissed him once more, hugging Mat as he pulled him into his lap, watching everything that was going on around them.

"Well that not fishing that magic." Heo stated then blinked as he made Hotaru mad again and he sighed slowly following behind him. He said softly under his breath. "Because I want to..." he sighed then follow it seem no mater what he did he was going make Hotaru up set.

Mathew blinked. "what do you mean left unlearned?" He didn't understand what was going on. "well I know we have to make a plan but still this is stuff I never had to deal with in my whole life. I was just a poor mage student until this mess came about."

"All i meant is that since we are married you don't have to learn everything that i know on being a king and prince. You can be the mage that you are." Chris said to him as he chuckled and ran a hand through his black hair as he had to adjust him self since his guns were digging into his sides as he held Mat.

"To you that isn't fishing but for us mages it is fishing." Hotaru said to Heo before he stopped out side of the camp site and looked at everyone, afraid to join everyone since everything since it didn't feel as if he was really par tof the group.

"Its cheating Hotaru not fishing. I'll try to teach you some day." Heo said then lightly push Hotaru over and grab him a fish then one for him self and held Hotaru his. "Well what ever one talking about." Heo sat down to eat his fish and shook his head to Mathew. "You cheated again or so I heard."

Mathew pouted. "but I sitll caught them my self." He stated then laughed and cuddled to Chris. "Yeah your right Chris. I can leave stuff like that up to my wonderful husband or my king." He laughed and smiled. "Oh we were talking about how we were going to get a map to Chris kingdom to retake it over."

"No a map to your kingdom, mine won'ttake very longer to get back, the only hard thing before you guys came along was getting people to help me." Chris said to him a very serious voice as he held Mat in his arms and looked at Heo and Hotaru who was just standing next to HEo and a little bit behind, looking as if he was lost in his own mind.

Hotaru gasped as he was shoved forward towards everyone, standing a foot behind Heo before he took the fishand picked at it a bit ashe slowly ate so that he wouldn't eat some of the bones that were still in it, listening to the conversation that was going on.

Ain's body started to stir before he sat up, eyes opening with a glazed expression before he forced himself away from Mathais as he ate the pizza. He didn't say anything before standing up, slightly wobbly and not registering what was going on as his ears perked up toward the music.