"I never mean to make you upset, Naoki...and I don't always know that I'm upsetting you with some of my actions. It's just something I can't control. The fact that you feel bad for making me sad...I think that makes us even." Simon replied softly, then he grunted softly as a pillow was thrown at him harshly.

"You bastard! Don't scare me like that..." Itzel said with his arms crossed.

Simon pulled the pillow off of him with his usual cocky grin and he gave one of his famous chuckles.

Naoki wasn't sure what to think about it all and when Itzel's arms were away he... run away. He ended in the room with no seiling where he tried to climb up so, so long ago.

Simon suddenly appeared and wrapped his arms around Naoki tightly from behind, embracing the neko as he nuzzled into the side of Naoki's face. "Thank you for coming back to me...I promised you a circus, didn't I?~"

Naoki scratched Simon's hands really hard but calmed down slowly and nodded his head. Sighing slowly he in those strong arms that didn't let him escape.

Simon kissed Naoki's cheek gently, then he lifted one of his hands that healed slowly so he could turn Naoki's face towards him and he stared at Naoki with his eyes being back to their original color and with his usual glint before he leaned in and gently kissed Naoki's lips for a few seconds only to break the contact slowly. "Then...let's go." he said with a smile as he took one of Naoki's hands to lead him out of the ceilingless room.

Naoki was relly happy to be kissed like that but when they went out of the room he frowned a bit when he saw Itzel's face. It was a bit different than normally and he didn't know what to think about it. There were even some tentacles behind his back.

Simon blinked noticing the way Itzel was looking at him and he loosely wrapped an arm around Naoki's shoulders. "What's up, Itzel?"

"You were pretending, weren't you?" Itzel asked, clearly upset.

"Not at all...you know I don't pretend like that. I fake a few tears here and there, but I wasn't faking before." Simon replied, then he nuzzled into Naoki again. "I just needed to hear that I was forgiven...somewhat."

"Pretending?", said Naoki and then looked at Simon only to look back at Itzel, his ears twitching.

"He's asking if I was faking my episode...and I wasn't. I never faked one and I'm not starting now." Simon replied.

Itzel slowly relaxed, his tentacles retreating. "I want to believe you...up until now, I thought I had you all figured out, but now...I'm not sure if I knew you at all."

Simon grinned a little. "I'm just full of surprises..." he said softly before turning to walk toward the cave exit.

"Uhm... So... you didn't fake it?", asked Naoki, making sure since he saw that even Itzel wasn't sure about it.