"Maybe so, but that doesn't mean the sun doesn't like to hear it every now and then..." A wink and a smile. All right, so perhaps Kaoru enjoyed having his ego stroked every now and again. He couldn't help it. Who didn't enjoy being flattered from time to time?

"...maybe one day," he conceded, "But I'm happy with you and me, just as we are right now. Immortality doesn't have to come into it right now, surely..."