The ghost

Part 5 - "Sleeping kitsune"

An hour and a half later, Hanamichi was sitting on the floor near the coffee table and trying to concentrate on moving a coin that was just laying there from its place. He learned this trick from the movie he'd watched a few hours before.

"Concentrate!" He ordered himself. "Concentrate! I'm a tensai and I can do it! I just need to concentrate..."

For two hours Hanamichi tried to move the coin from the same place. Unsuccessfully. His fingers still passed through that damned coin... Hanamichi was mad as hell. But the result was still the same.

Till once...

During the next attempt, the coin moved.
"?? ... !!"

Hanamichi tried it again. And onse again the coin moved... And again, and again...

"Hurrah!" The redhead's victorious shout shook Rukawa's residence. "I did it!"

He sprang joyfully to his feet and run to Rukawa's room.
"Hey, kitsune! I can move the..." His voice tailed away when he saw that 'kitsune'.

Rukawa was sleeping on his back. His hands laid on the pillows and his head was inclined to one side... The covers enmeshed around his waist. His beautiful face, lit by moonlight and slightly shaded by a rich curtain of a hair, was peaceful and angelic... The redhead stood, frozen with his mouth wide open. He'd never seen Rukawa so peaceful, calm and open...

Suddenly Hanamichi felt a flush of tendernesses. He smiled and carefully took seat on the bed, looking at sleeping kitsune-eyes boy.

"He is beautiful..." Hanamichi thought. "He is beautiful... adorable... sexy..."

After a few instants, he come to his senses.

"Whaaa! What am I thinking about?! He is the stupid kitsune; nobody else! Just one pitiful, stupid, gloomy, cold, senseless..."

Suddenly Rukawa smiled in his dream and Hanamichi's deluge of epithets abruptly ceased. The spellbound redhead stared at that rare, attractive smile as if it was the eighth Miracle of World... Rukawa's smile was gone, but Hanamichi remained even as he continued to stare at sleeping boy.

"He is beautiful..." He repeated again and again. "He is so beautiful..."

End of part 5.

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