Author's Note: Thanks to all reviewers!  Especially of those of you who corrected Raenef's hair color… I don't know, it was so weird; I knew his hair was blonde because I had read DD2, but for some reason, it was just one of those moments when all intelligence flees my head and I stare at the pretty cover of DD1 and think, aww blue hair!  Yeah…^^;; So, gomen for the mistake, but it's all fixed now!

-Oh and I take it back, there were DD fics under Misc. if you searched for "demon diary" by summary, but now it's got its own special category! *cheers*

-Because I've yet to venture into lemons (or oranges for that matter) this will be left a lime.  I'm tempted to write another DD fic though, perhaps a little more explicit, so all lemonade will be sold at that sidewalk booth. *nod*

-Grapefruit: the "lemon" version of an orange.  Graphic.  Explicit.  [Right…*shrugs* why not, if I'm making these things up lolz]

Warnings: Marshmallows and limes.  [Translation: fluff and um…yaoi…right…k…] I repeat, I refute all responsibility of the corruption of innocent minds.

Disclaimer: Demon Diary is property of Lee Yun Hee, Kara, TokyoPop, Sigongsa, etc.  No profit is being made off this story.  [But donations to the Mei-chan Needs Money To Support Her Anime Obsession Fund are always welcome!]

Cinnamon Eclipse

Part 2

Fading moonlight frosted the room with an ethereal glow and a sweet breeze whispered through the room, teasing the hangings on the bed and kissing the skin of the two occupants.  Shadows clung to the walls of the expansive room like a dark veil, shying away from the windows that let in the approaching dawn.  All was silent in that surreal atmosphere, save for the whisper of leaves outside in the cool night.  Inside the room, demon and his lord exchanged long, wary glances.

Eclipse was the first to break the odd, unearthly silence with an embarrassed cough.  Could Raenef have realized what he had done?  Part of him fervently hoped not, for…well, if his partiality to his liege were known, Eclipse would be promptly replaced in the instruction of Lord Raenef, and his heart was protesting that possibility vigorously.  On the other hand…Eclipse couldn't help wondering how his demon lord with the angelic looks would respond to an advance like that.  Surely that wasn't hope blossoming in his heart…?

"Eclipse?" Raenef murmured, raising a hand to rub sleepily at his eyes.  He peered up at his tutor, who seemed to be…blushing…?  Raenef wasn't sure, for long strands of inky black flowed forward to hide the beautiful face.  The young lord felt a flutter in his heart, but he bit his lip, scolding himself.  This little "crush" he had developed on the older demon was hindering his judgment, twisting reality until his wistful heart was satisfied.  Slowly he sat up, eyes still on Eclipse.

"I'm sorry for disturbing you, sire, but it is time to arise," murmured Eclipse, bowing his head and fighting to hide his response when Raenef had caught his lower lip between his teeth.  He straightened at an angle so he was no longer looking at Raenef directly.  "I'll leave now."  He pictured his own chambers in his mind and said curtly, cursing himself, "Go."

"Wait!"  Raenef reached out instinctively when Eclipse had made to leave, and his hand tangled in the other demon's hair, golden skin against jet black, and he felt himself being swept along with Eclipse, a sensation Raenef had long become accustomed to as his mode of transportation within these palace walls.

When Eclipse appeared in his bedroom, he felt a heavy weight on the back of his head…something was in his hair, he realized, and at the same time saw a mass of blonde hair and white sleeping robes tumble onto his bed.

"Raenef!"

Raenef looked up, a sheepish smile on his face, a little guilt lurking about the corners of his mouth.  "Hi Eclipse."  He looked around him curiously.  "So this is your bedroom, huh?"  He smoothed his hand over the soft, silken sheets that covered the bed, then started.  "They're crimson!"  He lifted wide eyes up to his tutor.

Eclipse shifted uncomfortably, and then shrugged.  "They match my eyes," he muttered.

A smile lit up the demon lord's face.  "They do!" he cried happily, latching onto Eclipse's arm and enthusiastically pulling him closer.  "I wanna see!"  Eclipse stumbled at Raenef's insistent tugs and landed rather ungracefully on the bed next to the blonde who immediately thrust his face into Eclipse's, carefully studying the color of his eyes across the three inches of space separating them.

Eclipse's breath caught in his throat.  They were so close…he could see every long lash framing Raenef's eyes, could see the creamy smoothness of the skin he longed to stroke… He could feel his lord's warm breath against his skin, feel the hands he wanted all over his body clinging to his arm, see the lips he wanted to caress again so close… Eclipse closed his eyes and fell back onto the bed, battling the urge to grab Raenef.  No.  He couldn't.

Could he?

No…he was Eclipse, fourth-ranked demon in the world.  And Lord Raenef was his master.  He couldn't risk being replaced and…perhaps, never seeing Raenef again.

The bed shifted and he froze when he felt a gentle hand touching his cheek.  Cautiously, he opened his eyes.  Raenef was kneeling above him, face close, a question in those endless green depths that were his eyes.  "You're…so pretty, Eclipse," he whispered and slowly, haltingly, lowered his mouth to Eclipse's much in the manner that Eclipse had done to him mere minutes ago.  Eclipse's heart raced and he struggled to say something, do something to stop Raenef but…this was everything he'd been waiting for.  How could he fight it?

Shock and disbelief and hesitancy cast away like corruption shed its mantle of morals, Eclipse leaned into the kiss, taking dominance away from a willing Raenef.  He slid his tongue along the blonde's lips and Raenef eagerly parted them, innocent but eager, welcoming the invasion.  Hands slid up Raenef's arms, long fingers pressing into the soft white fabric of the sleeping robe and urging the younger demon closer.  Raenef helped enthusiastically, going limp and falling onto Eclipse's chest, causing Eclipse to break away and gasp at the sudden weight.  But at Raenef's impatient wriggles, Eclipse smiled and captured the demon lord's lips again.

Raenef squirmed against Eclipse, eliciting a moan from the demon, and feeling a quickening of his own body, arched and rubbed his hips against Eclipse's in an attempt to relieve some of the friction.  "Eclipse," he gasped.  The demon responded by pulling him closer and pressing hungry kisses up and down his neck.  Raenef couldn't help the mewl of pleasure that escaped him.

Eclipse pulled back slightly, looking his beautiful lord in the eyes.  "Is this," he kissed him swiftly again, "okay?"  His body would complain loudly if he stopped now, but his heart wouldn't be able to continue if this wasn't what Raenef wanted.  He lifted and hand and gently brushed back the straggling gold strands that had fallen into his liege's eyes.  "Raenef?"

Dazed green eyes peered down into his.  "Yes," Raenef replied, his voice full of need.  "Eclipse," he cried, moving against the other demon again, trying to recapture the sensation.  "I-I…" He slid his hands along the bared skin of Eclipse's chest, marveling at the strange warmth, his fingers seeking and exploring… "Please," he whispered desperately.  Then he moved.

Eclipse gasped again as Raenef abandoned the use of his fingers in favor of his mouth and tongue.  Moist wetness trailed down his chest and in intricate patterns to his bellybutton.  "Rae—" he managed to get out, knowing that if his demon lord went any lower he'd discover the hard and undisputable proof of Eclipse's desire.  But he lost control of his vocal cords when Raenef's wandering hands brushed against his erection.

"Aaah!"

Raenef's expression was a combination of curiosity mingled with lust.  Heady with the power that he could reduce the great Eclipse to nonverbal moans, he slid back up Eclipse's body to whisper hotly, "Teach me, Eclipse."  His hands found Eclipse's hardness again, rubbing, teasing, even as his own body jerked in response.  "Teach me everything you know."

One look at the slow burn in those intense eyes, not as innocent as they had been only hours before, but knowing now, of passion, of need, of the things that could be done to worship each other's bodies… Raenef was not so young as he had been fifteen minutes ago.

"Eclipse," he pleaded, the fire in his eyes melting into the surefire puppy-dog expression.

Eclipse smiled.  He was not so young.  But he was still Raenef.  He cupped that beloved heart-shaped face in his hands, holding it steady and trying to keep his heart at the same tempo, despite the distracting play of Raenef's fingers.  "I'll teach you everything," he promised, and let his lord's desperately seeking lips find paradise against his. 

The gentle breaking of the dawn was broken by moans and gasps of pleasure, of tangling limbs and heads flung back in bliss, of sweat and tears tracking down heated flesh…of fulfillment being found.  The stars twinkled faintly in the dusky canvas of the sky, and gray light outlined the lovers' forms mistily.  And when it was all over, and Raenef was draped across Eclipse, his head tucked in the crook of the older demon's neck, soundly asleep, Eclipse threaded his hair through his lord's loose golden hair and smiled to himself.

He had finally gotten to see Lord Raenef with his hair down.

Raenef, who was actually not as asleep as Eclipse believed, but only on the verge of dreamland, smiled his own private smile that was hidden in the mass of his lover's hair.  He licked his lips. 

Just like in his dreams, Eclipse tasted like cinnamon.

Across the courtyard, in another wing of the palace, Erutis and Chris contemplated each other in the early morning.  "Your face is tomato red," Erutis informed the priest.

"So's yours," Chris shot back.

The knight rubbed her hot cheeks, embarrassed.  She cast a cautious glance out the window and across the courtyard before turning back to Chris, who was rubbing the back of his neck and staring at the ground as if it contained Rased's holy scriptures.  "D'you think we should tell them that Eclipse should really close his drapes at night?"

Owari

More notes: Yay, done!  You know what's sad?  I wanted to make Eclipse have pretty violet eyes [because all the best anime characters have violet eyes(!): Nuriko, Duo, Mitsuru, Kenshin, Kamui, Plum] but on the cover of the second DD book they give him garnet eyes.  Okay, so on the back it's brown, but who really wants brown sheets, y'know? ^____^. *cheeky smile* So, yeah.  I am considering another DD fic…but ah, we'll get there later… Anyway, um, right…review please?  Glomps from Raenef if you do!