Himitsu na Honou: The Secret Flame

Sequel to Kakusu no Honou: The Hidden Flame

By Seishuku Skuld (skuldsai@magicgirl.com)

Series: Final Fantasy X

Pairing: Auron x Tidus

Warning: Yaoi, Lemon, PWP, mostly spoiler-free. ^^;; As I said in the previous one, flames will be ridiculed. ^_^ (If you feel like giving me a good laugh, by all means, flame me. ^_^)

Author's Notes: Conversation is not exact, but slightly modified from the US release of the game. ^_^;; Thanks to Ffnet.net for the scripts. ^^;;

I'm tempted to name one of my fics "Rekka no Honou" (Flame of Rekka) just for kicks. ^_~ I like fire. **burn burn burn**

This is for all the people who wanted a sequel (me included ^_^) to my first Auron x Tidus fic! Auron and Tidus just wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote another one! ^_~

I apologize in advance for any typos I might not have caught...the words are starting to become one big blur...@_@ Oro...

Himitsu no Honou: The Secret Flame

Thunder crashed overhead and Tidus barely dodged in time, lightning striking down where he had been just moments before.

"Geez," he protested, taking temporary shelter by a colorful building, "what's with the weather here?"

The rest of the party members ignored him, with the exception of Auron who rolled his eyes and Rikku who gave a girly squeal at the loud boom of sound, and crawled up to Tidus' leg, clutching it as if it was her last security.

"I wanna go home!," she whined hoping Tidus would back her up, "I hate lightning! I hate thunder!" She knew this was another of Rin's Travel Agencies buildings, and she pulled all the charms she had on the party to get them to stop for the night. Anything but open areas with thunder and lightning crashing all about them. "Let's go stay there! Please?"

Tidus watched his lover's expression intently, Auron frowned ever so slightly and said, "This storm never stops, better to cross quickly."

"I know," Rikku replied, "but...just for a little while?"

The rest of the party kept walking away from her. "Pretty please?" she begged, "Just a few minutes!" Only Tidus stayed behind to comfort her, he felt distinctly sorry for the poor girl, she looked so frightened in the plains, it was clearly her worst nightmare come true.

"I'm scared of lightning! Let's rest, please? Pretty please?" Another crack and boom was heard from the clouds above. Rikku flinched and wrapped her arms around herself. "I'm too young to die!" Auron and the rest of the company ignored her, still intent on crossing the Plains as soon as possible.

"You're mean...cruel! Your mothers would be ashamed of you!"

Tidus wanted to call out to Auron for a halt, but he seemed so intent on plowing ahead that he didn't want to interrupt him.

Maybe, Tidus thought with mischievous grin, another stay at an inn would afford a chance to get a room alone with Auron...

"Are you having fun doing this to me?" Rikku whined some more, until the company decided to halt if only to stop her objections.

"Fine," Auron finally said, "we rest. She's worse than the storm."

Despite the biting comment, Rikku grinned as they stepped inside the Rin's Travel Agency, greeted the receptionist at the desk.

"Welcome to Rin's Travel Agency at the Thunder Plains!" said the man cheerily, "how may I help you weary travelers today?"

"Do you have rooms?" Yuna asked, "I'm a little tired."

"Ah, my lady summoner!" the clerk exclaimed seeing her summoner's robes and rod, "just this way! There are rooms available for your guardians as well! We have three more tonight, and we'd be happy to let you have them!"

"Thank you," Yuna thanked him with a bow as he led to her room.

"Three other rooms?" Rikku exclaimed. "That's a lot! We'll only have to double up!" She was happy at the luxurious (or what could be called luxurious in the middle of nowhere) accommodations.

Relief washed over Tidus. Just as long as he and Auron got a room together, alone, he would be satisfied. And he would see to it that Auron was satisfied as well."It's so nice to be in a bed again!" Tidus grinned, sitting cross-legged on his bed and bouncing a little, relishing its softness. "It feels like ages since we've been in a decent bed!"

"Hn," Auron grunted, setting his sword aside and unhooking his tokkuri. placing it on a table. "You shouldn't get used to this. For Braska, Jecht, and me, we usually just slept under the stars."

Tidus noted that Auron's expression took on a trace of nostalgia when he talked about his previous pilgrimage...and with Jecht nonetheless. Tidus' anger surged to the forefront just thinking about his father. Then Auron's expression took on a distinctly different character, was it pain, anger, determination? Before Tidus could catch a second glimpse, Auron suppressed it and was back to his old taciturn self again, but his lover still wondered what the memory was.

"At any rate," Auron said quickly, tossing aside the ghosts of his past, "I'm going to go take a bath."

"Sure," Tidus nodded, unbidden thoughts of bathing and sex with Auron afterwards rising to his mind.

Auron took off his red kimono robe and hung it on the rack in the corner, grabbed a towel with Rin's logo painted on it, and headed for the bath house in the back area of the inn.Much to his disappointment, Wakka and Kimahri were already lounging in the bath pool.

"Come join us, ya?" Wakka waved to both Tidus and Auron as they both walked in the door. "Feels great after all those battles today."

"Yeah," Tidus replied as cheerily as he could, trying to hide his annoyance. Foiled again! If he believed in Yevon, he most certainly would have cursed him now.

"I'm sure it does," Auron replied, giving Tidus a sidelong look before stripping the remainder of his clothes off, folding them, and slipping into the heated water. He resisted the urge to sigh in pleasure as he sunk into the water up his neck. The water seemed to absorb all his weariness, carrying it away in one clean wave. He did allow himself to close his eyes, however, a small smile spreading across his lips, which Tidus jotted down.

The young blitzball star quickly recovered, finding himself staring at his lover like a gawky teenager. Well, that was something that couldn't be helped.

"Don't just stand there, ya!" Wakka called, splashing water at him (to a disapproving look from Auron), "It's great!"

"Oh, sorry!" Tidus stripped himself as well and all but dived in the water."Man," Tidus pouted, toweling his hair roughly, and seating himself indignantly on the bed, "Kimahri just had to forget to bring a towel! And I know he's furry and all, but he didn't have to shimmy like that! The entire bath house is covered in water now!"

For one of those rare times, Auron found himself conceding with Tidus' complaining. "My towel is wet," he remarked, the towel in question wrapped around his waist as he searched the closet for a dry one.

"Maybe you should ask the girls for one of theirs," Tidus grinned cheekily. That would be an amusing thought...Auron with a wet towel wrapped around his waist, asking for another towel from Lulu and Rikku. He'd be lucky if Lulu didn't fry him on the spot.

"That is not an amusing thought," Auron responded with a glare from his good eye, unable to find a decent towel, and drying the rest of himself with what dry spots were left on his towel.

"Except for the part with you wrapped in just a towel," Tidus chimed.

"That remark is coming from the person who is naked and drying his hair."

"Does that arouse you?" Tidus teased. He was surprised that Auron was speaking so much, perhaps the bath put him in a good mood.

"You only have to look to confirm that," Auron answered, wrapping the towel around his hair, trying to get as much water from his raven tresses as possible.

"I see my answer," Tidus answered, and without warning tackled Auron like a playful puppy. The pair landed on the bed in a jumble of limbs. Auron allowed himself another small smile as he brought Tidus into his embrace and kissed him.

Tidus kissed back fervently, his tongue warring for dominance with Auron's, sliding past each other, exploring mouths and lavishing necks. They had stolen furtive little kisses back in Guadosalam and also near the Djose Temple. They had been quite active back in Zanarkand, and waiting days and days on end made Tidus nearly as frustrated as before they had become lovers.

Tidus moaned as Auron nipped at him playfully, biting his lower lip with a feral growl that fueled both their fires.

Tidus gasped, straddling his lover and pressing his erection against Auron, maddened by the wanton desire that consumed him. It had been too long since Auron and he had gotten a room alone, and just the thought of coupling again with him made all the blood drain from his head to other more enjoyable parts of his body.

Auron pressed back against Tidus, the boy's arousal grinding against him driving crazy. He kissed his younger lover more insistently, crushing the boy to him, feeling Tidus push back with equal eagerness. Within a few moments they became a sensory, writhing mass of limbs, tongue, and desire aflame.

Tidus shuddered as Auron moved from his mouth to his neck, nipped at his chest and brushed a hand across his smooth stomache within a matter of seconds. Both Auron's hands explored the boy, moving down his smooth back, cupping his sculpted ass, and listening with the pleasure as Tidus groaned and arched his back in the caress.

Tidus closed his eyes and buried himself into the crook of Auron's shoulder, lapping at the skin gently when he could remember to, and when he could control his body's quivering responses.

Auron felt Tidus' erection against his navel as the boy dug down and pressed his hips back, trying to get the fingers stroking him into the cave where he wanted them most. Tidus tried not to frown as a hand left his ass, fumbling around for an ill-used bottle nearby. A bottle that should be, and would be used more if any of them had anything to do with it.

Auron kept one hand on Tidus' chest, tweaking a pink nipple in a dark pebble-hardness as he lubed his fingers and pushed through his lover's tight ring of muscle. Tidus whimpered immediately, his hands wrapping around Auron's battle-worn shoulders as he pushed against the intrusion, driving Auron deeper inside as the man lubed his passage.

"Oh," Tidus cried and squirmed as Auron found his secret spot and stroked it generously. He buried his face in Auron's shoulder again, their chests heaving together with panting breaths and loud, uncontrollable cries of passion.

"Let me," Tidus said as Auron's fingers withdrew. He lifted his hips, finding purchase against the sheets of the bed, placing Auron's swollen member against his entrance. From there, Tidus slowly slid down Auron's shaft, engulfing the older man his tight heat. Auron's arms supported him as he lowered himself, relaxing his muscles to receive his lover.

Auron grunted his pleasure as Tidus enveloped him in his slick tunnel, sliding slowly until he was fully embedded in his lover. Tidus rested there for a moment, adjusting to Auron's presence inside him. Then he hooked both arms around the older man as securely as he could before shifting himself up, extricating himself from Auron until he was nearly clear before slamming down again with an impact which shook the bed and made both lovers gasp.

Tidus continued, lifting himself up and down, impaling himself on Auron's erection. He closed his eyes, an expression of exquisite delight on his face, his mouth open and crying Auron's name like a mantra.

Auron thrusted his hips up in rhythm with Tidus, catching the younger boy on his downstroke and hitting his pleasure spot over and over again, feeling the slender frame against him tremble, shaken by the force of their love-making.

Tidus groaned and panted as he quickened his pace, the fire in his groin heating almost to an infernally brilliant level, a flame which needed release lest it consume him with its power. Auron saw his need and reached a hand down to stroke Tidus' engorged shaft, collection a few drops of his pearly passion on his fingers.

Tidus whimpered at this new sensation, gentle but callused hands wrapping around him. He moaned anew as Auron stroked with his thrusts, each sensory inlet in his body immersed in an ocean of pleasure.

"Oh, Auron..." he moaned, trying yet to move faster, feeling Auron's lubed cock fill him with the delicious friction his body and mind craved so much. He could feel the tension building up in him, demanding its release. "Oh, Auron...I..."

Auron grunted in accord, pumping his hand faster, he too feeling his own climax imminent.

Tidus gave a particularly loud cry as he came, splashing liquid warmth across his lover as he was carried away by waves and waves of pure pleasure, drowning in his orgasm.

Auron came as Tidus' release came crashing upon him, the lithe body closing about him and gripping him surely as he thrust in a last time before filling the boy's cave with his creamy passion.

Tidus collapsed against Auron, his weight bearing both to the bed. He lay lethargically in Auron's arms, still panting from his amazing climax as his eyes glazed over in exhaustion.

Auron murmured appreciatively into Tidus' ear, words which the boy couldn't process but nevertheless accepted as assurances of love, before he fell into a quiet and peaceful sleep.Tidus was again the last to wake in the morning, a bit annoyed that Auron had left his bed and not even bothered to wake him up. Not that it was discernibly morning, Tidus added to himself, still noting the dark clouds which ever loomed above the thunder plains. It looked exactly the same as it had when they had first arrived there the night before.

He walked groggily out to breakfast, his spirit dampened by the stern weather despite last night's adventure.

"Tidus," Wakka began as he hauled his tired body out the door, "what was happening in your room last night?"

Tidus started out of his sleepy reverie. "What?" he looked a bit flustered, afraid that Wakka might have seen them last night, or had a good idea what he and Auron were up to.

"I heard lots of screaming," Wakka replied, looking worried for his fellow guardian, "what were you up to last night, ya?"

"Uh..." Tidus blushed a small shade of pink and cast about desperately for an answer to Wakka's question. "Well, we were wrestling actually."

"Wrestling, man?"

"To keep his stamina up," Auron interjected, overhearing the conversation and stepping in to save Tidus. "He's not as strong as he should be for this journey."

"Ah, I see now," Wakka nodded appreciatively. He patted Tidus encouragingly on the shoulder, "keep your strength up for the journey, ya? Good idea, mind if I join in too?"

"Umm..." Tidus hesitated and looked over to Auron for an answer.

"No, that kind of training is not for you," Auron replied smoothly before walking off to join the rest of the party.

"I wonder what that means," Wakka remarked to Tidus.

Tidus decided he should just shrug and not reply.

They set off a few moments later, Wakka and Kimahri taking the lead with the girls following behind, and a still frightened but much more energetic Rikku.

Tidus walked side by side with his taciturn lover, sharing meaningful looks and smiles.

~The end?~