Oishi lead Eiji by bike up to the metal storage container where he always used to go to think things over. He was trying to get them there before the sun set. It seemed right to watch it set since they had seen the sun rise earlier that morning. Oishi hadn't been there in a while. He had been busy and also the things he used to contemplate by himself he usually talked over with Eiji now. Which was much nicer.

It was a good place to talk and for Eiji to tell him whatever it was he wanted to say. Oishi found he didn't feel nervous about Eiji having something to say, he just wanted to hear it and support him. Eiji, he saw, was nervous. Whatever this was meant a great deal to him. He was always concerned about pushing Oishi away and yet, he always pushed and tested him. It was just how he was. Oishi admired how brave Eiji was.

It had taken Oishi a long time to tell Eiji how things at his house really were. Still he had skimmed over it. Partly because he didn't want to worry Eiji and partly because he was afraid of how Eiji would see him if he knew everything. So he told him but not enough that Eiji could really understand. In fact, with Eiji's family being so loving, Oishi really didn't think there was any way to explain it to him.

Things had been better lately at his house so maybe Eiji would never have to fully understand. Maybe it was in the past, although things would be good for a while and then get worse before. Oishi didn't see how Eiji growing up in a big, supportive, loving family could ever understand how very bad things had been and the ways out Oishi had once contemplated. At one point he had felt so alone he considered doing anything to escape. He was so despaired that he didn't see any other way out. That amazingly was when his friend Tezuka offered to let him live with him.

Tezuka was a good friend and had probably saved Oishi from hurting himself or worse. They had talked but never of specifics. Oishi understood without asking that Tezuka had gone through something similar but not when or where. They spoke in generalities and Tezuka reaching out to Oishi meant more to him than he could ever express to him. Oishi now wanted to be there like that, unconditionally, for Eiji no matter what this was. No matter how big, nothing he could put out there would scare him away.

Eiji considered him family. That touched Oishi maybe more than Eiji could ever know. Oishi had a clear, though probably idealized image of what a home and a family were supposed to be and feel like. Eiji had that for real and Oishi didn't. That Eiji would feel that for Oishi who had never had it growing up meant the world to him. It was a child's wish, one Oishi never expected to be fulfilled until he had a family of his own.

Trouble was, Oishi had decided long ago not to have children or a family. He lived in fear of becoming his father. Even just a little bit, even slightly, would be the worst thing ever. He would never put someone he loved in that situation or make them feel the way he did. He would never hurt someone he loved like that. So the simplest way was to not ever have a family. Then he could be certain of never causing grief or harm. But still his childhood wish to have a family, the right idea kind of one, lingered like the want for there to be an actual tooth-fairy. Even though you know its not true and it doesn't really exist for you, you want it. The disappointment lingers bittersweet after feeling the childish hope growing up.

Eiji offered all that to him without a second's hesitation. He offered even more. He offered his family which he loved so dearly to Oishi because Eiji loved him too. For Eiji with his big heart, this all was just a natural extension of his feelings. Oishi again found he surprisingly loved Eiji more and more.

They got to the container and Oishi rolled his bike to a stop. He set it up against the railing and a few seconds later, Eiji did the same. The quizzical look on his face was priceless. Eiji said surprised and disappointed without asking it out loud, this is where you wanted to take me so much?

Oishi couldn't wait to show him the rest or tell him why. He had a feeling Eiji would be able to more than appreciate it like no one else ever could. "Come on." He encouraged and climbed up the side to the top. He held out his hand to help Eiji even though he knew Eiji could get up there probably easier than he could.

The air was cooler now but not chilly. It felt good after practice, working out, and their ride over. Their timing was perfect. The sun was just starting to set. Oishi sat and dangled his legs over the side. He held out his hand for Eiji to sit next to him and Eiji did, keeping Oishi's hand wrapped in his own.

Oishi watched him to see his expression. The view from here was amazing and Eiji seemed transfixed though he was not sitting still. Eiji hit the side with one of his tennis shoes while he shifted even closer to Oishi. It made a thudding noise that echoed inside. He looked quickly at Oishi as if to say sorry and then turned back as if he would miss the sun.

Oishi thought a moment of what he wanted to say. "Its nice up here, isn't it?" Eiji nodded but didn't turn to him. He leaned against Oishi a little though and rubbed his thumb across Oishi's. "I've never brought anyone here but you." Oishi thought to say that before Eiji even started wondering. "I found it when I was younger and always come here when I have something to think over or when I'm upset. When things were bad at home, I even slept up here a couple of times." Eiji turned quickly to look at Oishi surprised. Oishi kissed his cheek because he could. No one else was around. Eiji surprised him though and moved fast so Oishi connected with his lips and not his cheek. Eiji smiled and turned back to watch the sun.

Oishi smiled more now, "When I was little I was scared of the dark. My Mom used to tell me to tell all my troubles to the sun as it set. That the sun would work on them all night and everything would be better when the sun came up again. It would make everything be okay in the morning."

"Hoi, did you have a night light too?" Eiji asked smiling.

Oishi was watching the sun and forgot to think before he replied for an instant. "No, I wasn't allowed to." Eiji now turned to him looking shocked. Whatever nice memory Eiji had been thinking about his own night light, Oishi saw was suddenly shattered as Eiji realized what had probably happened. Oishi felt stupid for letting the words slip from his mouth without thinking and he tried to cushion it. He did not want Eiji to feel sorry for him. "Its okay, my father just wanted me to face my fears."

"How old were you, nya?" Eiji said softly understanding somehow everything Oishi didn't say.

"I don't remem...." Oishi started and Eiji looked at him annoyed. He knew he was not telling the truth. "Sorry. I was little. I was about three or four." Eiji nodded. Oishi well remembered what had happened. His crying and his father yelling. He closed his eyes for a moment to blank the memory out. The sun's image stayed behind his closed eyes so he opened them again. He smiled at Eiji.

"Hoi? Keep me warm?" Eiji asked. Oishi was still very warm so he figured Eiji probably was too. He just wanted him closer. They both moved so that Eiji sat between his legs both of them facing out to watch the sun. He put his arms around him and Eiji held his arms. He kissed Eiji's neck and looked over his shoulder at the setting sun and the colors of the sky. "Do you have any troubles to tell the sun?" Eiji asked when they were settled.

"No." Oishi said smiling. "I haven't even been here in a while. Now I tell all my troubles to my boyfriend." He kissed his neck again but closer to his ear.

Eiji snuggled closer to him. "Hoi, did you used to tell anyone else them besides the sun?"

"No, I really had no one else to tell." Oishi shrugged. "I'm not like that to talk to everyone and it wasn't really stuff that I can tell anyone else but you." Oishi thought a moment, "Tezuka knows some of it but I could never talk to him like we talk."

Eiji nodded understanding completely. He leaned more back against Oishi thinking out loud, "Did you come here when I was hurt, nya?"

"No." Oishi said though he felt stupid explaining this, "For some reason, my cell phone never works around here. Maybe its the metal, or the mountain but I can't get a clear signal. I thought about it but was too worried that I would miss your call." Eiji turned to look at him for some reason surprised. Then he smiled and turned back. He moved around while snuggling more so their cheeks touched. Eiji's left and Oishi's right. He rubbed his face softly against Oishi's. The sun was just touching the horizon in its slow decent. "Did you want to tell the sun anything?" Oishi tried to get him to start talking.

Eiji smiled more. Oishi felt it where his face was pressed against him. "Nya. I have what I want right here." He said softly and tightened his arms. He made Oishi smile and blush at the same time.

"Me too." Oishi said loving him and tightened his own arms. "Right here."

They sat and watched the sun set. Oishi stopped trying to get him to talk. Eiji would tell him when he was ready whatever it was. This moment, right now, was perfect.

The sun finally disappeared from view. Eiji smiled and said, "Do it again." as if wanting Oishi to make the sun set again so they could watch it a second time. Oishi smiled and Eiji turned a little more in his arms to kiss him. His kiss was soft, loving, and Oishi thought, even romantic.

Oishi had moments sort of like this with girls before but they were all pretty much designed and controlled by him. He was amazed that even though he had brought Eiji up there, Eiji was making this even nicer than Oishi could have if he did everything on his own. Eiji with him made it perfect. "Hmm...I'm the first?" Eiji asked and Oishi had to think what he meant.

"Person that I brought here?" Eiji nodded and looked for an instant wary. Oishi kissed him softly again, "No." He said even though it made Eiji tense up slightly, "You're not the first love, you're the only. Only you."

"I love you." Eiji sighed and kissed him again. Then he hugged Oishi very close when the kiss broke.

"I love you too." Oishi waited for Eiji to respond or talk. He could see Eiji was thinking and trying to figure out the best way for him to start. Oishi let him.

"Oishi?" Eiji said still holding him tightly.

"What love?" Oishi asked back. He pulled back from the embrace and touched Eiji's face softly on his unhurt cheek with the back of his fingers.

"Hoi, can we ride back and I'll talk?"

Oishi went to tell him that he didn't have to talk but Eiji clearly wanted to and needed to. Oishi wasn't sure though, "While we ride you'll tell me?"

"H...hoi." Eiji seemed worried but determined. Oishi figured he needed to move so he kissed him one more time and then went to stand up when their kiss broke. He pulled Eiji up to standing and Eiji held him close when they both were up and together. The sky was full of pinks and oranges and golds. Oishi was going to let Eiji hold him as long as he needed to. Eiji let go and then looked over the side. "Hoi? How do you usually get down?"

"There's a trick to it." Oishi had learned after scraping himself up enough times. To jump would be to fall, you couldn't without hurting yourself and in some places there was nothing to hold on to. He climbed carefully down and explained to Eiji how he did it. He waited to help Eiji down. Eiji walked around the perimeter thinking to himself. "Please don't jump?" Oishi asked worried. He was going to do something but Oishi was far too worried to let him. Eiji looked annoyed at Oishi even asking him not to. "Next time? Its getting dark. Please? For me?" Oishi bargained.

Eiji seemed to consider this seriously, and he walked back over to where Oishi had climbed down and stood waiting. "Hoi. Next time though." In a flash Eiji was down and by his side before Oishi could even move to help him. Eiji smiled at having surprised him still.

"Thank you." Oishi said and meant it. If Eiji was hurt, there was no way Oishi could carry him all the way back. They had enough going on without Eiji getting hurt. Oishi knew Eiji was doing it to distract himself from talking but he felt better. He knew Eiji could probably have done whatever it was he wanted to do but Oishi didn't need more surprises at the moment. He thought of how to placate him, "I'll even make it up to you, if you want I'll treat you to ramen after?"

"Hoi....you promise?" Eiji said sounding small.

Oishi was instantly alert. "Of course. I promise."

"All right." Eiji said softly and looked a little relieved. This must be really big for him to be this worried Oishi knew. It was like Eiji was trying to make Oishi agree stay with him after because he was worried Oishi would leave him. Oishi hoped he didn't have some other strange quirk he was not aware of like another kissing test. Although kissing was always fun with Eiji.

Eiji looked determined again as they started riding back to school. It was mostly downhill so it was an easy ride. Eiji took his time and Oishi matched him.

"Hoi? Remember what you said when we went dancing about our brother? How my brother was?" Oishi had said that if either one of them wanted to leave they should ask how the other's brother was doing. Neither one of them had a brother so they would both know what they meant and no one else would.

"Sure." Oishi was not sure where this was going but had not expected an opening like that.

"Nya. Well, you can't ask me that at my house or around my family." Eiji looked over at him. Oishi must have looked confused. "Because they'd ask you which brother of mine you mean." Eiji smiled slightly at how perplexed Oishi was. Eiji pulled over to another spot where people often looked out. The sky was getting dark. Oishi pulled up close to him to listen. He stood and rested his hands on his handlebars. The railing around where they stood was set back and the grass over the area was low from people walking on it. "Hoi, my family is different from other people's." Oishi nodded at that. This he knew was true. "Nya, even more different and even bigger." Eiji insisted. "Hoi?"

Oishi nodded to let him know to continue. "My Dad was with another woman before he met my Mom. His girlfriend was older than him by over ten years. He was still going to university. She was divorced and had two kids, two girls Satomi and Umeka. She, not my grandma, is the one who showed me that stuff with your neck. The adjustments? It was what she did and how she met my Dad. They didn't get married, nya but they had a kid, my oldest brother Tokutomi. Then they had problems and broke up and got together again a lot over the next couple of years. They had two more kids, my other brother Yoshino and a sister Mai. Then she left my Dad for her first husband again. My Dad took some time off school after they finally forever broke up. She had cheated on him and he found out their last two kids might be from her first husband who she remarried. There was even a question that their first kid might not have been my Dad's either. She had two more girls Yukiyo and Masako."

Oishi was a bit lost and overwhelmed. "With her first husband who she remarried?"

Eiji nodded, "Hoi, and then my Dad met my Mom and they fell in love and got married. They had Hisako, and Arisa. My Mom miscarried a lot of times and then had me. I'm the baby of the family. My Dad's first girlfriend's name is Natsuko, I called her my aunt, and her husband died before I met him. She was sick and died a few years ago. My Mom and Dad took all the kids in as their own. Satomi and Umeka are married and have kids of their own now. So I have even more sisters than you know and brothers too. My brother Tokutomi is going to university in Hawaii where my grandparents live during the winter and my other brother Yoshino is in his last year of high school in Osaka where Satomi and Umeka live. He lives with Umeka and he stays the summers with us and so do my grandparents. My house gets crowded during the summers but we usually go for a week or two to my grandparents house in Hawaii. Hoi! Maybe you could come with us this summer?" Eiji brightened at this last part.

Oishi was a little overwhelmed at the surge of information Eiji laid before him. He would have to make a chart to sort it all out. "And your Mom was fine with taking everyone in, everyone was fine, and she and your...aunt got along?"

"Nya. Not at all. Not at first but then something happened and now everyone is close and its good. Different than everyone else's family but good."

"What happened?" Oishi asked.

Eiji smiled, "Me." His smile faded and he looked worried. "Hoi, lets get back before its dark. I can tell you the rest there."

Oishi only half joked, "There's more?"

Eiji laughed but it was only slightly, the next part Oishi understood was what he was worried about. "Hoi! Lots! Lets go!"

He started riding off and Oishi followed him. Along the way, he asked Eiji questions trying to remember everyone's name. Then the names of their husbands or live in boyfriends, girlfriends, or children. Their ages. Eiji laughed along the way when Oishi was wrong about a question and seemed pleased when Oishi remembered who was 22 with a live in boyfriend and wanted to be a graphics designer.

They went through the gate, locked their bikes back up, and Oishi unlocked the tennis club door after knocking to make sure Tezuka and Fuji were not still there using the room. Oishi knew Tezuka was not pleased with him asking if they could leave and return but knew Oishi well enough that he would not have asked if it was not important. Oishi had a strange instant when he thought Tezuka was hesitating as if he wanted Oishi to rescue him. As if he was relying on Oishi and Eiji saving him, from Fuji. But now Tezuka and Fuji were gone. Oishi made a quick check and then locked him and Eiji in the room where they were alone. He turned off almost all of the lights so it was easier to talk. Eiji sat on a bench and looked at him.

Oishi sat next to him and waited. Eiji said nothing but looked at his shoes and tapped his feet. He gave Eiji some time to go away with his thoughts as Oishi often had to. He wondered if Eiji had any homework to do. Then after about five minutes of nothing being said, Oishi put his arm around him and felt worried, "Eiji, I miss you. Stay with me?"

Eiji smiled and then scrambled up onto Oishi as quick as lightening. Oishi had somehow been turned by him so that now he straddled the bench and Eiji sat on his lap facing him like they had after lifting weights. "Hoi? Better?" Eiji asked smiling a little more.

"No, not yet." Oishi said and then kissed him. He held him close and felt Eiji wrap his legs around him as they kissed. It was a different kiss than they had done before. Oishi just used his lips to press against Eiji's and did not use his tongue. Oishi always thought kissing like this was nice and it felt like the old time movie kissing looked. Eiji kissed him back perfectly. He never tried to hurry them up or use his tongue. He let Oishi lead and just melted himself into the kiss. He could express how he felt in a kiss better than anyone Oishi had every kissed. It was as if Eiji agreed how nice this felt and he met every movement of Oishi's lips with his own perfectly. Oishi paused a moment, "I love kissing you."

"You do?" Eiji asked and sounded surprised.

"Yes, haven't I ever told you that before?" Oishi kissed him again and this time licked his tongue on Eiji's full soft lips wetting them and feeling them.

"Nya...." Eiji said softly as he kissed him back.

"I do, I love kissing you. Even the first time we kissed you were really good at it. You sure you haven't been kissing more people?" Oishi half joked. He had thought of it before and even now he felt a little jealous of Fuji. He couldn't help that he wanted to be the one who gave Eiji his first kiss. He wondered if Eiji ever felt that way and then realized he probably had. First times and being the best were important to Eiji. "You kiss better than anyone I've ever kissed."

"Nya! I do? The best? Out of everyone?" Eiji asked, very interested in hearing this. He looked very happy. He pulled back to see if Oishi was telling the truth. Oishi nodded, made a humming noise indicating yes, and kissed him a little more now touching his tongue inside Eiji's mouth. Eiji pulled back a little, "Nya, I told you. I kissed you first but other people have kissed me. I just didn't respond because I didn't want to kiss them, nya. Just you." Eiji kissed him back and their tongues touched and slid against each other. Oishi felt an electric jolt go through both of them at the contact.

"You're the only one who passed the kissing test." Oishi said smiling and then kissed him again.

"Nya, I know it wasn't a real test now, you were just kissing them and they were wrong for you." Oishi nodded. "Hmm...but...nya I'm still happy I passed."

"Only you could, love." Oishi kissed him more and Eiji laughed slightly. He was very pleased and Oishi was glad he was now much more relaxed.

"Hmm...I love kissing you too." Eiji smiled more, "I'm the best because I learned from the best...." He laughed a little more and made Oishi laugh. He was irresistible.

Oishi then felt him start to tense up as he started thinking again. He didn't want him to be stressed.

He kissed Eiji more, wanting him and wanting him to feel good, and he teased him with his tongue. He ran his hand up the back of Eiji's hair softly. "Do you know what the most sensitive part of your mouth is? The place with the most nerve endings?" Oishi smiled and knew Eiji would be interested. He had used it as a come on line before and now it was even better because it was for real with Eiji. Eiji smiled and shook his head no. "Guess?" Oishi said.

Eiji ran his tongue over Oishi's and flicked slightly with his tongue on his tip. He made a noise asking if that was it. Oishi made a humming noise of no. Eiji went under his tongue with his own and tried there. Again Oishi said no. Eiji tried his lips with his tongue and got another no. He kept exploring Oishi's mouth and searching for the place. Every time was a no. Finally Eiji took Oishi's bottom lip in his teeth. "Tell me." He threatened in a joking way and then sucked gently on his lip.

"I'll show you." Oishi said and kissed him. He kissed him deep and hard and it took their breath away to kiss like that after Eiji had been exploring and Oishi had been teasing. Eiji made a little moan of pleasure.

"Nya, show me." Eiji said softly but kissed Oishi back just as hard, not letting him.

When Eiji pulled back from the kiss Oishi ran his tongue over Eiji's white teeth first on the bottom and then on the top. He put his tongue in the middle of his top front teeth and licked the area above it feeling the sensitive skin there and then he licked his tongue very lightly out and over his top lip in the middle. He knew it would tingle and be sensitive to the lightest touch. "There."

"Nya, where?" Eiji wanted him to do it again and so he did. This time starting from his upper lip, he slowly licked his way inside. When he reached the spot above his teeth, he touched it lightly with his tongue several times. Every girl Oishi had ever done this with would be all over him kissing him passionately after he showed her the first time. Eiji was....Eiji. "Nya way! That can't be the most sensitive place! Oishi, you made that up!" Oishi laughed and then laughed harder when Eiji licked himself up along there and around in his own mouth to test it. "Nya! Don't be mean, tell me!"

"I swear, its the most sensitive because it has the most nerve endings. Its true." Oishi laughed.

"Nya, then show me again. Maybe its not the most sensitive on me because I'm a guy." He pouted slightly.

"Eiji, its sensitive on everyone because its where the most nerves are. Here, I'll show you better this time, all right?" Eiji looked at him, "I want to." Oishi said softly really wanting to kiss him more.

Eiji waited so Oishi put his hand on his face and kissed him softly again. He deepened the kiss and used his tongue everywhere but there. He moaned softly as Eiji started kissing him back, teasing him back, and purring in that way he had. He nibbled softly at Eiji's lips including the center of his top lip where Eiji wanted him now to touch but he wouldn't. He teased him and sucked gently on Eiji's tongue when he put it in his mouth to keep their tongues touching. Eiji moaned softly and kissed him back harder wanting Oishi now to touch there. Oishi kept teasing him including using Eiji's teasing tongue flicks back on him. Eventually, Oishi touched his tongue there and Eiji moaned softly finally getting what he wanted. "Better?" Oishi asked in between still kissing him.

"Hmm...let me try...." Eiji kissed him back, teasing him this time, and eventually touched there. It was the most sensitive spot but not the biggest turn on until you touched everywhere else but there first. Oishi moaned softly when Eiji touched him there.

They kissed a little longer and then Eiji held him close. Oishi felt him smiling against his neck. "I love you." Eiji sighed.

"I love you too." Oishi said back to him.

"More than anything Oishi? No matter what, nya?" Eiji said it softly and sounded worried again.

"I love you more than anything. No matter what." Oishi said meaning every word.

Eiji pulled back to look at him. Oishi saw he was ready to tell him now.