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Coming Home

by nayru-kleinefee

"Baby?", Genma asked softly when he opened the door to the apartment he shared with his lover. "Rai-baby?"

Only silence answered at first, but then the Special Jounin could hear movement from the bedroom.

"Rai, I'm home", he announced a little louder than before while he took his sandals off.

"Look who's back", his love's voice sounded towards him through the dark.

"Yes, Rai-love. Did you miss me?" Genma took a step into the living room, then closed the front door behind him and switched on the headlight.

"Are you injured?", his lover asked, standing in the door towards their bedroom.

"No, darling", the Special Jounin told him, smiling a little. It felt good to finally be with the one he loved again. Although said love presently scowled at him.

"Kakashi?"

"Safe and sound with his Ruka." Genma stepped nervously from one foot to the other, fidgeting under his lover's gaze. This wasn't going to go smooth.

"Good. Iruka missed him", Raidou told him.

"I know. And I missed you, Rai."

"Hm." His lover's scowl didn't vanish.

"Did you miss me?", Genma murmured. He knew that his lover had, but hoped to soothe his temper by making him say it.

"Maybe", Raidou deadpanned.

Okay, that didn't work quiiite as planned. "Honey, I-"

"Genma."

"Yes, love?"

"You changed the sheets."

Genma flinched. "I'm sorry, my baby, I didn't know that-"

"You could have guessed. I've told you more than once that I like it when the bed smells of you when you're away."

"But sugar, I-"

"Genma."

"Yes, love?"

"Strip."

"I… I'm sorry?"

"Strip. Now."

"Oh." Genma frowned, then grinned. "Does that mean that I'm forgiven?"

"It means that you should strip right now", Raidou told him.

"Alright, alright, darling." The Special Jounin hastily shed his clothes, suppressing a lecherous smirk. A demanding Raidou always was a hot Raidou.

"And now get into the bed."

"Mmmh, Rai…", Genma purred, "you missed me quite a lot, right?"

"Shut up, Genma."

"Alright, love." The Special Jounin entered the bedroom. "Want me to call you 'Raidou-sama' tonight and have your way with me?"

"I want you to shut up and lie down NOW", Raidou demanded and switched off the light in the living room.

"Yes, Raidou-sama." Genma crawled under the blanket that smelled faintly of his lover, of home, safety and good memories. "Mmh, Rai, I think I can understand why you like it when the bed smells of me."

"Great." Raidou bent down to switch on a lamp on the bedside table, then picked something up from the floor, straightened up again and shoved said something into his lover's arms.

"Hm? What's that?" Genma frowned, then recognised the plush boar he'd given his lover. "Why did you hand me Genni-piggy?" He just hoped that one Copy-nin would never ever get to know how his love's plushie was called. Never Ever.

"Don't you dare to put him away again", Raidou threatened, then handed him his pillow.

"Rai, what does this mean?", the Special Jounin asked carefully, praying to all gods known and unknown that Kakashi would never find out the name of his beloved pillow. The Copy-nin would never let him live that down.

"Don't put them away."

"No, I won't, Rai. But what exactly do you want me to do with Genni-piggy and R-"

"Hug them", Raidou told him, glaring. "Hold them, cuddle them, do whatever you want. But make sure they and the bed smell like you!"

"So…" Genma bit his lower lip when a bad realisation dawned on him. "Does that mean that I won't get any tonight?"

The glare intensified tenfold. At least.

"Alright, alright, I got it. No nookie for Genma tonight." Genma ducked his head.

"Make them smell, hear me?", his lover growled, then opened the closet and grabbed a spare pillow and a blanket.

"W… wait, Rai." The Special Jounin's eyes widened. "Where are you going?"

"I'm sleeping on the couch."

"But… but…" Genma stared at him. Something wasn't right here. First of all, his lover should sleep where he slept, period. Second, Raidou should give him a chance to apologise to him and then maybe even provide a little bit of make-up sex. And third… if the first and the second steps failed, then wasn't the one who screwed up supposed to sleep on the couch?

"Good night, Genma."

"Raidou!" Genma hastily stumbled out of the bed and tried to grab his love's arm. "Raidou, I wan-"

"Bed. Now." Raidou's glare could have probably made Anko, Gai and Ibiki piss their pants, all at once. As it was, it practically teleported Genma back into the bed.

"Yes, Rai", he murmured miserably, hugging everything he could tightly, blanket, plushie and pillow crumpled so much in his grab that all one could read from the pillow was, 'Forever your-', 'But if I can't b-' and '-n instead hug Ra-'.

"Good." His lover turned towards the door again.

"Rai?" Hugging, hugging, hugging-hugging.

"Genma."

"Sleep with me?", Genma whispered.

Raidou only snorted.

"Please? Just sleep here with me? I missed you."

Raidou stayed silent for a while, then sighed. "I know. I missed you, too."

"So, please?", Genma asked hopefully.

"Genma, I-"

"I know it was wrong to change the sheets. I'm sorry. I didn't think."

"Obviously." Raidou turned around.

Genma hugged everything even tighter, then looked at his love with wide, pleading eyes. "Sleep with me? Please? Just sleep here?"

His lover took a deep breath. "Idiot."

"I know."

"Idiot", Raidou repeated and approached the bed slowly.

"Pleading myself guilty."

Raidou smiled a little, making the Special Jounin's heart do somersaults of relief and happiness. "My idiot", he whispered and kissed his lover.

"Your idiot", Genma murmured back. "Sleep with your idiot?"

"With nobody else." Raidou's smile broadened, then he let the blanket and pillow fall from his arms to the floor and slipped into the bed before he switched off the lamp.

"Good." Genma smiled, let go of the blanket and tugged it over both of them, then placed the plushie and the pillow between them, hiding everything except he boar's snout and one tip of the pillow.

"The bed already smells a little of you", Raidou murmured and snuggled against him.

"Now it'll be smelling of both of us." The Special Jounin smiled blissfully. "That's best."

"M-hm."

"Raidou?", Genma whispered while he positioned the plush boar so it lay more comfortably between them.

"Hm?"

"Kakashi knows about them now."

"About 'them'?", Raidou asked. "You mean Genni-piggy and-"

"M-hm. It kinda slipped."

"And does he know their names?"

"M-mh. Could prevent that."

"Oh. Good." Genma could hear from his lover's voice that he was smirking in the dark. "If he gets to know the name of your pillow, he will never let you live that down."

"I know." Genma sighed. "Do you think that Iruka will tell him?"

"I guess he'll not." Raidou sighed. "But you can't be sure, I think. I would tell you everything if you just asked me, so I guess Iruka won't want to keep secrets from Kakashi either."

"Hm." The Special Jounin took in a deep breath and inhaled the familiar smell of his love, then grinned in the dark. "Rai?"

"M-hm?"

"Did you know that Kakashi has a plushie, too?"

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A/N

I didn't really intend to write a sequel to Comfort, but then Irish Whirlwind (yes, this is all your fault! ;-)) asked me and suddenly there was this little rabid plot bunny that shouted 'Genni-piggy! Genni-piggy!' and refused to go away again…

(Unfortunately, it didn't have a brother for the pillow, but if any of you has an idea, I might think of another sequel some day, maybe 'The Showdown Of The Plushies'. Hehe…)

Nayru