Suddenly a ringing came from across the room in Amal's bag. He started then leapt lithely over to the bag and scrabbled, flipping his cell open right before it went to voicemail. "Mom?" he said, then listened. As he listened his face paled and his ears drooped lower and lower.

"What is it Amal...." he asks as he gets up and goes to the smaller Neko and whispers softly.

Amal shook his head and clicked his phone to speaker. His mom's voice could be heard. "...and your roommate said it was a guy's voice. What are you doing over at another person’s house, let some stranger that your roommate's don't know? One of your roommates said he saw you hanging around a guy on campus, and he said this man is rumored to be the campus playboy. What do you think you're doing? And how can you get your work done if you aren't in the studious atmosphere dorms provide? Do I have to pull you out and make you come to school here? I told you your grades come first, and now there are rumors being spread that you're sleeping with the school playboy, you need to be more responsible, your reputation is the most important thing for you as a teacher...."

Aku growled softly, so that the woman wouldn’t know she was on speaker phone and held Amal closer as he waited to see what else his mother had to say.

"You'll never get hired as a teacher if the word gets around that you're gay. Your father is about ready to disown you. So you have to either ditch this playboy or learn to live completely on your own. We won't tolerate a homosexual son!"

Aku's growls slowly grew louder as his hatred for the woman grew.  Finally his temper snapped. "Look lady, you don’t know what you are talking about so why don’t you just hang up the phone and leave him alone!"  Aku’s temper flared as he started to take the cell from Amal.

Amal mewled and tried to keep a hold on the phone but Aku pulled it easily from his grasp. Amal fell backwards to the ground and his eyes stared at Aku wide.

"Who is this?" his mom's voice came through. "Who are you that you think you can talk to me like that? I am his mother, I can talk to him any way I want."

"Shut up and listen lady!  You may be his mother but you are nothing more then a over critical wench.  He is pushing himself so hard he is going without sleep. I am the playboy you so kindly mentioned and I must say at this moment in time it seems like I care more for your sons well being then you do!  If his father disowns him oh well I will take him in and he will finally be away from the bad influence!" he snaps as his once smooth tail ruffles and bristles in anger.

Amal's eyes widened and he backed against the wall, a little startled.

"...Fine then, take him. Tell him he has two days to come get his stuff from the house. After that he won't be allowed back on the property." A click and tone signaled the end of the call.

Aku looked over to Amal. "We will go get your stuff tomorrow...you will probably be mad at me...but believe me parents like that are no good."  Aku ran his hand through his hair as he tried to calm down so he wouldn’t frighten the boy.

Amal's ears were pinned to his ears and tears quickly came to his eyes and he started to cry, burying his head in his knees. He had just been thrown out of his own home. He couldn't help who he loved. But at least the way Aku had acted banished any thoughts from his mind that Aku was just using him. He may have been a playboy in the past, but now he had Amal.

Aku's ears flattened to his head as he walked towards the boy. "Amal...I’m sorry...I shouldn’t...she....Can you forgive me..." He asks softly as he kneels in front of the smaller boy.  "I didn’t mean to ruin your life..."

He looked up and launched himself at Aku, wrapping his arms in a death-grip around him, still crying. "No...you didn't...they were in the wrong...it's just....I love you Aku. I want to be your pet forever."

Aku sighed softly and held the boy close. "Amal....you...you can’t be my pet...." He tilted the smaller Neko's head back so that he could look into his tear stained eyes.

Amal blinked. "W...Why can't I be? That's what I am now isn't it? I don't care, I love you, I want to be with you."

"Amal...no you aren’t my pet and you never will be..." he cups the boys cheek and leans his forehead against him

Amal blinks. "Then....what am I?" he was still confused.

"You are my little one....my own love...and I hope when you are a bit older my lover." He holds him as close as he can and then shifts them around so that Amal was on his lap with his head to Aku's chest.

Amal snuggled in closer. "I'm over eighteen," he murmured in semi-protest.

"You still look to be a middle schooler though." Aku teased him playfully as he rubbed his back softly

Amal growled. "That means you're gonna treat me like one?" Then he teased too. "Maybe that means you're a secret pedophile?"

"Only with you my little love." With that he playfully grabbed his lovers rear and give it a generous squeeze as he grinned and held the boy closer

Amal tilted his head up suddenly and kissed Aku's neck, flicking his tongue out between his lips to stroke the spot and he moved his kisses up from the throat to the side where he would nip lightly and then lick the spot.

Aku chuckled. "You are getting quite brave little one...." Aku's hands moved over his rear and then up his back and presses him closer as Aku moves so that he can kiss Amal deeply

Amal moaned and returned Aku's kiss, flicking his tongue out the play with Aku's. One arm wrapped around Aku's waist and the other snaked behind his head to tangle in his hair.

Aku broke the kiss gently and kissed the tip of his nose. "Settle down little one or things will go farther then you want them too..." he warned slightly as the bulge in his boxers grew larger by the innocent actions of the boy

Amal whined and felt Aku's hardening length pressing against him. "But Aku.....I like kissing you," he purred. "You taste good." He innocently was saying things two lovers would say to the other, not knowing what he was doing.

Aku cant help but moan slightly. "You are the most provocative little thing I have ever known and you don’t even know what you are doing." Aku once again takes possession of Amal’s mouth and dominates it, pushing his tongue into the boys mouth and rubbing over his fangs and then teasing his tongue

Amal moans into the kiss and then slides his tongue into Aku's mouth, stroking his tongue across the roof of Aku’s open mouth.

Aku growled softly and held the boy closer before breaking the kiss. "I swear you are more addictive then any drug there is out there....I would go mad if I had to go without your beautiful body pressed to mine and your kisses..." He whispers softly into Amal's ear.

Amal's ears twitched and he shuddered and moaned softly. "I love you too Aku," he said quietly, looking up at him.

"I love you very much little one..." Aku smiles and kisses him softly before standing up with him in his arms. "It is late...we should get in bed. We have to go move you out tomorrow."

Amal's eyes cloud over as he thinks about it. "Yes, we should sleep." He pulls himself closer to Aku. "Please don't ever leave me..." he whispers softly.

Aku let his hand stroke down Amal's back gently, trying to soothe his little love as he kisses his forehead gently. "Never my love. I am here for as long as you want me," he whispered into the smaller man's brown hair as he held him closer, emphasizing what he just said.

Amal sighed contently and curled tight against Aku, drifting back into sleep. With Aku's arms around him he could even half-pretend none of that phone call had ever happened. Still, his sleep was much more restless than before.