Whole

Chapter 29

His smile, though! *melts*

Masato's POV

"Are you happy?" I asked quietly, both of us laid there completely sated and spent. Our fingers danced together, lazily as we laid side by side.

After the emotions, this morning, what had unfolded in the bedroom, and now laying here in content silence, holding hands, I felt wholly at peace for the first time in a while.

"I don't think I've ever been happier. I can't believe you wrote a song for me. I can't even begin to tell you how much that meant to me." I turned my head to find her looking at me with the sweetest smile on her lips. She was happy, genuinely happy. She made me whole, and she was going to hold on for me. I didn't deserve her; I knew that, but I wasn't going to allow her to regret her decision.

"I meant every word, baby. I tried so hard to think of how to say it all to you, but spoken words never seemed to do it justice. So, I did what I do best; I put it into music. The guys helped perfect it, mind you, but once it was done, I knew that was it. That's how I had to tell you all the things I hadn't before."

"It was perfect. It was more than perfect." She moved and pressed her lips to mine before relaxing again. "How did I get so lucky?"

I couldn't help but chuckle, "No, I'm pretty sure I'm the lucky one. Honestly, there was a part of me that was so scared. I'd never been so frightened as I sang that song. I knew I was asking so much of you, to shoulder the fallout of my choices. You've been through so much, and yet I was asking you to bear more than you should have too. I honestly wouldn't have blamed you if you told me to fuck off. I know you love me, I don't doubt that, but you always hear people say, sometimes love isn't enough. You see people every day in our position, breaking up because they can't handle it. Yet you blew me away, just like you always do."

"I'm not going anywhere; you're stuck with me."

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I could find a way to be okay with that." I grinned, moving my arm to allow her to cuddle into me.

She cuddled close, her arm around my stomach as her head rested on my chest, and my fingers grazed softly over her arm. With her in my arms, I was untouchable, I was home with her, I was whole.

"Kat?"

"Yeah?" She hummed as her fingers began to draw circles over my chest.

I bit down on my lip, wondering if I should let the words slip out. Words to the question I'd wanted to ask her for a while but kept deciding it was too soon. Words I'd almost let blunder a couple of times now but had managed to keep them in. However, now, as I laid here with her, the words were right on the tip of my tongue.

"What is it?" She shifted so she could look at me, her eyes soft but questioning.

I began to curse myself for not having another song as I struggled to find the right words. I couldn't seem to put the words that sat on the tip in a way in the right order or in the right way. I couldn't even think of a song from another band of the top of my head either. Sometimes with her, the words came so easily, but other times, she left me completely speechless. My brain turned to complete goo as I hesitated.

"Okay, seriously, if you don't say anything, I'm going to start freaking out."

"Move in with me." The words came out like vomit, spilling out without warning, and far too quick. "I mean, you don't have too but-"

My words were cut off by her, leaning up to press her lips to mine, "I'd love too."

Relief swept over me like a soothing current as I felt myself relax, "Really?"

"Yes, really, although, maybe you should move in here? I love your place, but this is a little bigger."

She made a fair point. I only lived in a small, one-bed apartment in a small complex in the Minato ward. Kat's, on the other hand, was a two-bed small house with a little garden out the back. The company she worked for got the rent cheaper for her too so long as she worked for them.

"I like that idea. And while you're doing your thing and me doing mine, we can save up to get a house of our own. One with a pool, so you can swim every day, and I can finally have my way with you in the water."

"Hmm, that sounds like a good plan to me." She smiled, "I'd love to have my own pool, think of all the things we could do in it."

"Oh, I'm fully aware of all the things we could do, trust me, I've driven myself a little crazy thinking about it." I chuckled, ever since that day I took her to the park, I'd longed to be able to do what I'd said I would. Watch her swim, moving through the water so gracefully until I couldn't watch anymore and had my way with her.

"Well, I guess we better move your stuff here and get saving then, huh?"

"I'll make the arrangements over the weekend, baby. Right now, I want to spend the rest of the day, Just you and me, relaxing and enjoying being together."

"Yeah, except we have dinner with your parents tonight." She chuckled, "Remember?"

I breathed deeply as I laughed to myself, "Actually, I had momentarily forgotten. Okay, well, besides sharing you with my parents, just you and me."

Kat rolled her eyes as she shook her head, "We're meeting them at seven, you goof."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Shimizu, after the stunt you pulled on me, barely half an hour ago, my brains a little mushy."

She'd repaid me, in full, with interest and sent me into a frenzy beyond any I'd felt before. She completely consumed me the way I'd consumed her, and at one point, I wondered if I was going to pass out for a second because of it.

"All fair in love and war, babe." She grinned, causing my heart to flutter.

"I'll remember that next time. We got time; take a nap baby." I leaned my head to press a kiss to her forehead.

"Sing to me?"

"What do you want me to sing?"

"Our song, Whole." She murmured as she cuddled back into me tightly.

"As my Koneko wishes." I let my fingers run through her hair as I began to sing quietly to her, hearing her content hums until she was fast asleep, and I joined her.