It wasn't fare! My body burned, I couldn't cool down. I died of an illness why did I have to get something that felt like old times. It burned, so hot… so very hot. I want to sleep, I want to wake up cool and have purple eyes gazing at me. Why was god such a pain in the ass?!

A cold hand touched my cheek, I pulled back because it hurt. The cold hurt even though it was comforting. Was my breathing raspy? I wasn't sure but I think it was. The world spun as cold arms wrapped around me and bodily hoisted me up. I didn't know what was happening but I did hear Cid's little voice over some running water saying something like, "Hurry put him in!"

Water gushed up over me socking my clothes and my burning skin. It hurt, it hurt a lot. I wanted to gasp but my head was under water. My arms reached up and grabbed cloth as my head swam in an endless sea of demonic shouts, women's screams, babies crying. Tsuzuki pulled me up not caring that he was getting wet. I clenched onto him as the menacing mental threat cleared.

"Hisoka," I looked at Tsuzuki as he smoothed back my wet bangs.

"I-I'm okay," I lied.

He shook his head as Cid spoke up, "No your not! You're burning with a fever, you need to rest."

"But I'm- Uuuh," the world spun again.

"Tsuzuki-san please tend to him while I look for some medicine."

Cid bounded off in a hurry. It was amazing that he could shut the door behind considering that he didn't even come up to my knee. I was about to get lost in my thoughts when my love pulled my shirt off. I turned so red as I zipped to the other side of the large tub.

"Wa-what are you doing?" I covered my chest with my arms.

He blinked innocently at me. Damn I hated it when he did that.

"I'm taking your clothes off," he said as if I was stupid.

"I know that!" I growled, "But why?!"

"So that you can sock in the cold water for a bit. What something wrong?"

"Y-yes!" I was about to give him the earache of his life but I slipped into the water. I deserved that, I didn't realize that I wasn't strong enough to sit up on my own. I breathed in some water when the screams and shouts came back. Tsuzuki was quick to pull me up so that I could cough up the water that had infiltrated my lungs. He came into the large bath and propped me up so that my back was against his chest. His hands went to my pants. I placed my hands over his in an attempt to stop him. "Tsuzuki, no," I weakly protested.

"What's the problem? It's not like we haven't been naked together before."

I was still red, but he did have a point. We were naked when he brought up my temperature last night. So I allowed him to pull the confounded wet jeans off. He then removed his socking attire off and held me close as my body slowly sucked up the warmth of him and the cool water. That's when Cid opened the door. I was too shocked to even blush as I watched him. His little face turned so red as a nosebleed sprouted. He covered his eyes with one little arm as he held up a bottle of medicine.

"Um, uh, ahem! I got the medicine," he threw it in our general direction. "I-if you'll excuse me." He darted off shutting the door behind him. We heard a little sigh through the door and laughed. It was kind of cute to see him like that. He was such an innocent little guy. Fortune was on our side, even if it was just in the slightest, because the bottle rolled over to where Tsuzuki could just reach over and grab it. He made me take some and it tasted awful.

Who knows how long it had been, we just stayed there in the water not speaking just tenderly touching each other. I had occupied my arms with wrapping my hands around Tsuzuki's neck and playing with the occasional lock of hair as he nuzzled my cheek lovingly with his arms around me. His thumb would rub up against my abbs, it felt comforting in a way. There was a knock on the door and Cid's little voice floated in the air.

"Umm… When you decide to come out I have left some clothes here for you so that you don't have to ware your wet clothes… Umm, that's it."

We lightly laughed again. Cid was kind of funny, a nice guy that you could get along with. We didn't get out until our fingers and toes began to resemble raisins. As we got our towels Tsuzuki decided to get touchy feelly, meaning he grabbed my butt. I jumped in surprise at the firm grip he gave me. I looked at him with my best cherry tomato impression going on and he only had a cat like smile on his lips. He then grabbed me and pulled me close to him our hips bumping into each other. I swallowed as his strong arms enclosed around me as he kissed me deeply. He broke the kiss as his hands felt the tender flesh of my back. "You feeling better?" he whispered into my ear as he continued to caress.

"Nnn hnn," I confirmed socking up the attention as I kissed his collarbone.

Ahem, let's just say the rest is private and I don't wish to share with anyone unless your Tsuzuki. Well we didn't come out of the bathing room until dusk. When we came out, dressed in the clothes that Cid had left we went to the dinning hall where we were greeted with the sight of a large meal set out. Little Cid was sitting in a chair levitating a cup of hot chocolate. He paused in his childish delight and turned his attention over to us. He smiled his usual happy smile, kind of like Watari-san.

"What's all this?" I asked still a little lightheaded.

"Oh!" he clapped his hands together with his cup still suspended in the air. "Thought that you would be hungry after…" He didn't finish his sentence when his cheeks deepened in red pigment.

"That was nice of you," Tsuzuki grabbed my hand and pulled me over to the table.

I took a seat, "So do you usually levitate your beverages?"

Cid looked at me with those strange eyes of his, "No, only when I have nothing to do. So do you like the clothes?"

Tsuzuki tugged at his deep purple shirt that complimented his eyes, "I love this shirt and the black pants fit great!" Purple eyes looked at me, "I think Hisoka looks very nice in the green shirt and khakis."

He was right, I did look rather nice in the forest green, light weight shirt. It was very comfortable so comfy that you could sleep in them. Tsuzuki looked enchanting warring those clothes. After the meal and with an uneventful day, work wise, we decided to turn in for the night.

More nightmares visited me that night. Not of Muraki but of hellish catacombs with crucified peopled, spots stained red from murder after murder. It didn't bother me until I was in the dream itself. I was running, away from it… no them. I had to get out of there, I had to leave as soon as possible if I wanted to survive. I only had a lighter to keep the darkness at bay. It was burning my hands but who gave a damn just as long as it didn't go out! I turned a corner where I spotted two infant looking creatures that had no legs, there skin was slimy and transparent. They screamed a baby's wail and scuttled out away from the light. My stomach crunch as I looked at what they were feasting on, some pour college kid. Then the lighter grew dimmer, my heart began to race. Dear god, don't let it go out before I get out of this place! I continued to run as fast as I could shielding the weakening light with my hands. Then the light was extinguished. Something grabbed me, I was too terrified to scream as sharp teeth dug into my ankles.

"Hisoka, Hisoka," Tsuzuki shook me awake.

My body was covered with cold sweat and my heart raced. I felt hot again, and my sight was hazy. I could see Tsuzuki and some guy. Wait! That's Cid! Oooh, I don't feel good enough to be surprised. I tried to move when I felt something covering my ankles. One of the muscles in my eye twitched, it felt like slim, the same kind of slim the demons had.

"Tsuzuki… Cid," I said a little too calmly. "There's something on my feet."

Cid was the one to lift up the blankets to peek under. His deep smooth voice spoke up, "Tsuzuki-san… You should take a look at this."

Tsuzuki held onto my hand as he leaned over to see what grown Cid was talking about. I felt his fingers gather some of the ooze off of my skin. It stung, there were wounds that were just beginning to close. I felt purple and calico eyes turn to me. "What's going on here?" Cid asked.

"When did this happen Hisoka?" asked Tsuzuki.

"I-I don't know!" I curled up into a ball as the screams and shouts began to over whelm my head.

"Kurosaki-san, please tell us. We need to- grrrr." Cid stopped as the tiny hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. He protectively bent over me as all of our senses tingled. Something had broken through Tsuzuki's fuda, and it was coming fast.

"Cid take care of Hisoka!" Tsuzuki got up and ran out of the room.

The now tall elf growled like a dog protecting his injured master. It made me wonder if he could see what was going on.

Tsuzuki ran outside with his shoes silently crunching some freshly fallen leafs. He could feel it, the place was surrounded by evil. It made him wonder if the place was cursed or some ritual ground for the evil to gather. A shadow passed by him and he darted to a tree in order to put up a fuda. Even if he was swatted to the side, attacked or what ever he was going to protect Hisoka and Cid!

Cid flew into the wall with a bone-cracking thud. He fell to his knees and coughed up blood as a slender, human like creature came up to him. Spider like hands pulled his chin up as a lizard tongue licked blood off of his cheek from him bleeding eye. "Eheh heh heh," it laughed biting a chunk of flesh off. "You're so amusing to play with little foreign creature and thank you for the food."

"Your not going to have him!" Cid knocked the thing to the side as he dashed for me. Some ugly cat thing that was half decayed with some of its skull showing was pinning me down. Decaying ooze dripped down. I moved my head so that it hit my pillow. God the thing reeked. Cid bulldozed the creature off of me. I tried to get to my feet as I made a dash for it. Then I realized that the Irish elf wasn't behind me, so I stopped. I turned around to see that he had been grabbed by the two demons and was getting a beating that would kill normal humans. I was about to run to his aid when something reached out and grabbed me with a touch that hurt like acid. I struggled as it drug me to the floor. Eight, huge, spider eyes looked down at me each eye blinking at a different time. It grabbed me by my hair and began dragging me down the halls so fast that my shirt tore and my back began to get a rug burn. I panicked so I called out the name that first came to my head. "TSUZUKI!!!" I struggled some more as the creature stopped.

"TSUZU-!" Some spider webbing coating my mouth silencing me cut me off. I looked at it horrified as it drug me down into the depths of shadows.

Tsuzuki darted in as soon as he heard the scream. He looked around the darkened place, running like there was no tomorrow. He went into the room that he last had known Hisoka and Cid to be at. There lying on the floor in a puddle of his own blood was Cid face down and not moving. Tsuzuki rushed to his friend and rolled him over to find out that the man was still alive but just barley. His stomach had been torn open only to have a thin membrane holding his inside in place. He had so many other things wrong with him that the shinigami feared that the elf would die.

"Ku-Kurosaki-s…san…" Cid wheezed, "W-was t-taken…"

"Hisoka… was..?" Tsuzuki was in shock from what he had seen and now he knew that the love of his life was kidnapped for who knows what kind of demonic purpose. He didn't know where to start, he didn't know where to look. "Cid, hold on, hold on."

Preview!

Tsuzuki: Hisoka's going to be what?!

Cid: Tsuzuki-san we can't just go barging in guns blazing… If we do that then they will surely kill Kurosaki-san.

Hisoka: Keep away from me!! Don't touch me! Tsuzuki!!!