The sweetest scent

by Jara

Comments: I wrote this sometime last year but I had completely forgotton about it.  I showed it to VM and she wants to post it. I wrote the first part with one idea in mind.

I wrote it for shortly after visiting Mursaki a great Baiser website. I saw this group pic that had Katsura and Rei next to each other and fell in love with them. I didn't know anything about Baiser but that site really helped me understand a thier personalities a little.  I also had beta reader who helped me out a lot, but I lost a lot of my saved emails when my pc crashed and I can't seem to remember who she was but. I dedicate this fic to her.  Maybe she will rread this and remember me and email me. I want to thank you again. ^___^

Part 1

“Katsura I got something for you too.”

“What is it?”

“Here.” Shaisuke handed Katsura a small purple bottle.

Katsura rotated the bottle in his hand, before he opened it and smelled it. “Perfume?”

Smiling wickedly, Shaisuke stared at Katsura for a minute, before he told him about the perfume’s myth. “It’s not ordinary perfume. When you put this on, it will mix in with your own body chemistry, giving off a special scent that only a certain person will be able to smell.”

“Certain person? What do you mean?” Katsura was intrigued.

Opening the bottle, Shaisuke dotted the skin below Kats ears with perfume. He then put some at the base of his neck. “Well, supposedly your soul mate will be the only one that will be able to smell it.”

…

The door opened and Rei and Mizuki entered. Mizuki went to sit down next to Yukari and Shaisuke. Rei went to sit on a chair by the vanity table facing the mirror. He sat their quietly staring into his image.

Not knowing why, Katsura stared at him and wondered what was going through his quiet friend’s mind. Katsura didn’t really know him very well. Rei intrigued him sometimes. Of course the drummer had tried to find out everything he could about Rei, but he still felt that Rei kept something from him.

Katsura’s playful nature sometimes found Rei too quiet. He laughed at Kats antics but sometimes Katsura wanted to see a genuine smile on his lips. Sighing Kats kept his study, until his eyes made contact with Rei’s. Blushing, Katsura broke contact and looked down at his hands.

A strange delicious scent filled Rei’s nostrils. It smelled like peaches, spice and something else. He couldn’t place a name on the scent. Sniffing the air, he wondered where it was coming from.

“What is that smell?”

“What smell?” Asked Yukari.

Shaisuke smiled serenely, while inside he was laughing. He could not believe quiet Rei and prankster ever-smiling Katsura. What irony!

Katsura’s eyes widen. No, not Rei please, not Rei.

Smirking, Shaisuke asked, “What smell Rei? What does it smell like?”

“I can’t quite put a name to it, but it’s a wonderful scent. It smells like peaches, mixed with some kind of spice and something else that I can’t name. It’s strange.”

“Don’t you smell it Yukari?”

Yukari stared at him, sniffed the air and answered. “No. I don’t smell anything like you described.“

“What about you Mizuki, don’t you smell something?”

“Nope, I don’t smell anything either.”

Katsura just kept quiet for once as he fidgeted on the couch he sat. As his nervousness grew so did his body temperature making the perfume’s scent dance around the room.

Rei senses kept getting assaulted by the scent. He couldn’t explain why he was the only one who could smell it. Moving his gaze to where Katsura sat quietly, he wondered what was wrong. Katsura who would be making some funny or witty comments just sat there quietly.

Katsura intrigued him. He was so lively and happy, always with a witty comment about any situation, so open. Rei wished that he too could also be as open, but that wasn’t his nature.

A smile always graces his lips. He has such a pretty smile.

Why does my brain always go back to that? Rei asked himself. Sometimes hours would pass when he wouldn’t think of Katsura, but then as soon as one thought about the petite drummer would enter his brain, he was a goner. Thought after thought would pop in. Memories of every smile and laugh would dominate his thinking.

It’s been like this for me since the first time I met Katsura.

Katsura had walked up to them and almost demanded that Mizuki had to join Baiser. Using every tactic he had, he managed to convince Mizuki to quit their old band and join him.

Rei had been a bit jealous when Katsura and Mizuki had walked out of the club that night. He hadn’t seen Katsura after that night and had been disappointed when Kats hadn’t shown up to any of live houses since then.

The triumphant smile on Katsura’s face when he had snagged Mizuki for Baiser still had haunted his dreams for a long time.

When Katsura showed up one night, he was surprised. Even more, when Katsura poured out all the charm to convince him that he would also be an excellent addition to Baiser. Shock rocked through Rei, the thought of spending all of his time with this man who haunted his dreams was too incredible to believe. Then Katsura smiled sweetly at him and Rei knew he would agree to anything just to see that smile again.

And he did.

He had been with Baiser ever since.

Of course, it has also been a torture. Seeing Katsura, every day and not being able to tell him, to touch him, to kiss him was too painful sometimes.

There were times when he almost broke down under Katsura’s constant prodding and questioning. Katsura had this need to know. He was curious as a kitten and the not knowing drove him crazy. But Rei didn’t want to take that chance and loose Kats friendship because of his stupid feelings.

Smiling to himself, he remembered the time he sent the 6 dozens of roses to Katsura for his birthday, signing it only a secret admirer. The pleasure of seeing Katsura glow with happiness when the red and white blooms arrived had been worth the money he paid. Kats, a true romantic, languished for days wondering who had sent them to him. To this day Kats doesn’t know it was Rei who sent them.

Images of Kat’s sweaty face, red hair bouncing as his head tosses along with the beat, beautiful smile, eyes glowing with happiness while drumming, sometimes laughing to himself during some songs also invaded his mind. To Rei, this was Katsura at his most beautiful moment.

Closing his eye, then the forbidden ones would also come. His fantasies of Katsura smiling shyly while Rei would kiss him. The waterfall of red hair down his smooth back as he placed kiss on a bare shoulder. Katsura sitting on his lap while Rei sucked gently on his earlobe. All of them were wishful dreams on Rei’s part.

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The photographer eyed Katsura with disapproval. “I told the wardrobe assistant I wanted you to wear the other dress. Didn’t she tell you?” Looking at his watch. “Anyway I will be shooting you and Rei together. You have an hour. Go and change.”

Always the mother hen, Yukari smiled warmly as he said “And try not to wrinkle the dress or muss up your hair.”

Shaisuke smiled. “You and Rei will be shot together”

“Oh ok. I guess will go back and wait.” Giving Shaisuke a glare.

Still smiling, Shaisuke waved “Bye, bye. Have fun.”

Katsura went back into the room. Rei was still sitting at the vanity table deep in thought. Kats smiled at Rei’s face. I wonder what he is thinking?

Sensing he wasn’t alone, Rei looked up. He was startled for a second when he saw Kats standing there with a strange smile on his face. “What happened?”

“Uh I got the wrong dress and since the photographer will be shooting us together, he said to come and change.”

“Oh.”

Seeing the right dress, Katsura grabbed it from the rack and went behind the changing screen. For the first time, Katsura felt shy about changing in front of Rei.

Rei moved to sit quietly on the sofa facing the changing screen. He blushed when he saw Kats shadow changing clothes. The forbidden images swam through his mind again.

He was about to get up and leave the room before Katsura came out from behind the screen, when he saw the drummer’s head peek out.

Great! Well at least this costume is hiding me. Thank god for the robes.

Kats was sighing in frustration. He couldn’t get the buttons on the back of the dress done. Rei stared at the half exposed back, the naked shoulders, and the wisps of hair caressing it. Even though Kats was fully dressed, somehow he found it erotic.

No don’t think about it. Don’t think about it.

Trying to reach behind him, Kats stood before the mirror “dammit who comes up with these dresses?”

Forgetting his earlier nervousness, he turned to Rei, “Rei will you please button me up?”

Gulping “Yes.” Rei got up and walked behind Katsura.

Once again he stared at the smooth back and tried to control his body. Raising his hands to the buttons, Rei realized they were shaking. His fingers accidentally touched the smooth back.

Katsura waited patiently for Rei to do the buttons. He looked up into the mirror to crack some joke when he saw Rei’s eyes intent on his back.

Katsura gasped when the warm fingers made contact with his cool skin. The look Rei was giving him made him nervous and excited at the same time. Shivers spread through him. He could feel his body becoming aroused, warmer and it was making the scent dance around him again.

Rei was trying to calm down, but the strange scent was back. It was stronger this time, making him dizzy. He breathed it in and could feel its warmth travelling up to his head and down to his groin. Making him crazy with need. He sniffed the air following the scent. As he lowered his head into his friend’s neck, he realized it was coming from Kats.

“It’s you.”

He bent his head to breathe in the scent. It was delicious. He could almost taste it. Flicking out his tongue against the soft skin on the exposed neck, he made Katsura cry out.

Pushing down the dress further down, Rei slowly nibbled his way from the earlobe to the shoulder.

“Rei what are you doing?”

” I don’t know. Mmmm.. I just have this need to kiss you, taste you.” He bit gently into the shoulder he was kissing. Katsura whimpered when he felt the sharp teeth bite gently. It felt good.

Rei turned him around while still licking his neck and picked him up sitting him on the table with his back against the cold glass. Kats shivered.

Rei gently forced his legs open. His hands slowly started to caress the silk covered thigh, while pushing the dress up.

For a second Rei stared down at the black clad thighs.

Katsura squirmed in embarrassment. He was going to push the dress down to cover his legs when Rei slid between them. He silenced any protest Kats would have made by kissing him.

Pleasure was slowly building up in Kats. For once he was happy that the wardrobe lady picked the thigh high stockings as Rei’s callused fingers slowly drew lazy patterns on the exposed skin above them. Suddenly those fingers dug themselves into the soft skin pulling Kats closer. Rei started to slowly grind his hips into Kats while kissing him hungrily and slowly tracing the lace above the stocking.

The contradiction between the Rei’s rough and gentle treatment were driving Katsura crazy. Pleasure was zinging through his body.

Katsura wrapped his legs around Rei wanting more contact with him. He loved the way the robe’s rough material felt against his sensitive skin.

I never knew Rei was so forceful, so aggressive. It feels so good.

His own thoughts jolted him out of his reverie. Rei isn’t an aggressive person. He doesn’t act like this. It’s the damn perfume that’s making him behave in this manner. This isn’t him! This isn’t him!

Katsura started to struggle.

“No Rei, stop it! It’s the perfume that’s making you do this. It’s not me!”

Wrenching himself from Rei’s grasp, the drummer looked at Rei’s glazed eyes.

Confused, Rei looked into Kat’s sad eyes. “Perfume? What are you talking about?”

Katsura didn’t answer him as he slid off the table trying to right his dress.

“What are you talking about Katsura?”

Katsura didn’t know how to explain it to Rei. Panicked, he just ran out of the dressing room.

Mizuki, Shaisuke and Katsura were coming back when Katsura ran past them. All they saw was his bare back and the ends of the dress billowing behind him.

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End Part 1

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