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When Rei came back to Klein, he did not show himself to anyone he knows in the years that follow. He holed himself up in his cabin, barely seeing the rays of the sun at day time and only relying to Father to remind him of his meals. It's a routine, one that is very hard to break. In those first years of coming back, Rei only had ever known the coldness of solitude once again— or perhaps not, as Father ruffles his feathers not far from him.
Still, it's not like he believed that this would go on forever either. Rei knows he had acquainted himself with... stubborn set of individuals.
“Should I be upset that the only way I get to know of you coming is through the disturbance of the essence in these parts, Master Rei?”
He did not hear the front door open, in fact Rei did not hear anything at all until Kuya had started speaking. Whether it is due on him being too focused about the components of the Water Gemstone fragment or it was just Kuya being Kuya, he genuinely did not know. But he didn't flinch, nor did he give him a single glance.
He adjusted the small fragment in his hands, trying to look over every corner once more, “What do you want?”
Kuya sighed, from where it came from, Rei could tell that he already managed to make himself comfortable in his own bed, “A simple greeting would be nice.”
Rei rolled his eyes and said nonchalantly, “Hello, Old Fox. I'm back. How's that?”
“How rude.” Kuya clicks his tongue, “I would not be prolonging my stay here, I just needed to see of things still remained the same with you.”
“Get on with it.”
Kuya huffed a laugh, “Very well. I'll be taking my leave now.”
In the utter of those words, even after spending years apart, Rei involuntarily raised his head from his research and tilted his head a little bit to the left. It was too late to realize what he was doing, Kuya had somehow appeared quickly beside him as if he was waiting for this to happen.
Crafty Old Fox, Rei hissed inside his head as his lips are immediately occupied by Kuya, hands cuffed in his face as he brings them closer together. It was so easy to lose himself during this kiss, the fragment in his hand had long been dropped in the table and his feather pen is now somewhere on the floor. Kuya kisses slow and nice, as if savoring a dessert after a meal. And Rei, whether it was because of the loneliness the past few days or the fact that he actually missed this, he wouldn't say it either way.
He kissed back, with the same rhythm if not more. And when they pulled away, Kuya looked at him with joyful glee and a grin on his face. Rei doesn't need to look at the mirror to see how red his heated cheeks are.
“The same as ever, I see.” Kuya said, “I am quite pleased.”
Rei glared at him in annoyance.