"usir?"

oblivio to tenpou's sirg, goujun brought his nose close to the sweat sheened sk and worked his way through the different scents that vaded hi soap was the ost obvio sensation, then logne, then a different k -kenren's, the dragon thought wryly- , but after that he found it nfg traces of sothg earthly beneath heaven's toiletries seed to lger like dirt like huanshuans?like youkailike blood

goujun released hi like a rag doll, toyed with and tossed

"sir, that was ost appropriate for heaven" hakkai breathed out with slight dignation, but goujun was unfazed as he stepped back, nodded a goodbye then headed out, callg over his shoulder as he left

"i a not of heaven either" the dragon kg said, heavy with knowledge "i do not totally approve of your for of tervention this atter, but i trt that you will handle the situation to the best of your abilities i do not approve, but good ck"

chapter 10: jt adit it

when kenren fished dressg, he stubled to the study where tenpou was- no surprise here-readg

"oi, tenpou" he said to catch the arshal's attention, but the other an was too deeply engrossed the tattered hardback to look up "tenpou!"

hakkai juped; snapped the book shut "oh it's you"

kenren isted his face ock disgt "who else would it be?"

"well"

"should i even bother askg?"

"you wouldn't get a very terestg answer" hakkai aditted honestly before castg his eyes doards the ver the weak light of the candle, the shy leather cast a pale sheen of red over his sk "you're the only person i sleep with around here"

"dan straight" all the ere closed, he had noticed; which was odd sce tenpou ually liked to keep the open

the air was strange tonight, with a deathly stillness that set it apart fro other nights he lit a cigarette tenpou was fiddlg around with his books aga and kenren was startg to get the ipression that the arshal had fotten all about his previo ands still, he said nothg becae as careless as tenpou uld be when it ca to bookkeepg and hygiene, he was never one to fet anythg that had the slightest bit to do ar shout out a na and page nuber, and he'd even ote fro the dan book

and so he soked, closg his eyes and pretendg not to look like he didn't have the slightest idea of as happeng that's how politics went, didn't it? hence the iportance of havg sobody to trt pletely

that said, kenren wasn't actually sure where to pce tenpou the great sche of thgs

a click of a loadg gun pierced the silence a way that was harsh and neat, like the tick of a clock, only it happened once so tenpou hadn't fotten his orders after all

of urse kenren trted hi after all, there was that cident several days ago if he uldn't trt hi nowbut then aga there was always sothg he felt that siply cded trt uldn't exactly put his fger on it respect aybe ost likely of urse on the other hand, that sounded too buddy buddyas if they didn't sleep togetherravaged each other at the ost rando tis, at the ost rando locations

gog along those likes, kenren uld jt say he was ipressed

tenpou oved to the shadows of another bookshelf, his figure ltg to the darkness where the candlelight uldn't reach paper was torn

it was never too difficult to be ipressed with tenpou, who had the ost uncanny way of gettg thgs done and then soked it off as if it were "sothg he jt wanted to try out" as if he had stashes and stashes of pns waitg to be executed, daydread over illennia but never given the opportunity to be carried out on the field tenpou's d was always runng like thatperhaps even when he's beg fucked senseless, a part of hi is still with his aps and diagras ost likely, despite the fact that kenren would have preferred to doubt it

that said, tenpou still didn't see to fit anywhere with hi

sure, it was a fort knog that there was one bra this whole heaven that didn't get dty and rty; that always had a backup pn to the backup pn's ntgency pn becae with tenpou, you uld breathe easy knog that sobody was ntrol of the situationexcept when it ca to sexbut really, anythg that area is pletely out of the arshal's ntrol, kenren added sugly but still

tenpou erged fro the shadows, gun hand and hair tied loosely back he siled weakly then set hiself on of his desk, the weapon on his p

"well?" hakkai said

"hat?"

"aren't you gog to estion y orders? you always see rather disposed to dog such thgs"

"eh" kenren shrugged, lookg at the floor "i figured it wasn't worth the effort this ti"