Your feedback will be hugely influential in determining the future of this story. I have no idea if everyone will be as invested in the minutiae of Gakupo and Kaito's lives as I am. Depending on your feedback I may speed the story up so it gets to the main pints faster and I may even rewrite earlier chapters if people feel they drag on too long. Right now the plan is for the them to get together in Chapter 18 but that may be too far way. Anyway I'm uploading the first 8 chapters at once so you can get a sense where the story is headed. Also Kaito claims he's straight below. That's because he hasn't met Gakupo yet ;D.

Chapter 1

It was the start of a new year at Shion University and the Student Liaison, Kasane Teto had been working hard all day helping first year students. Now she had one student left to see.

A blue haired boy walked into her office. He was dressed in a white coat and with his cute and clueless expression, Teto figured that he must have been just out of high school.

'Hello, what's your name?' Teto asked.

'Kaito' the boy replied.

'Kaito…?' asked Teto, searching for a surname.

'Just Kaito. No last name.'

'Ok then, Kaito. Take a seat. You're a first year student I presume?'

'Yeah. I'm starting a degree in Arts with a Music major' Kaito said.

'Oh music! I had another music major come in earlier today. Do you write your own music or perform it?'

'Uh I sing and play instruments but I'm not very good at writing songs. I need other people to write them for me.'

'What instruments do you play, Kaito?'

'Guitar, bass guitar, lute, flute, violin, piano, keyboard, drums, um…. Oh! I also like tambourines and maracas!'

'Wow!' said Teto. 'That's impressive. It sounds like you'll do well. And what can I help you with today?'

'I'm trying to get student accommodation.'

'I can certainly help with that. So Kaito, do you have anyone you want to be roommates with?'

'Yeah but they're both girls and I heard you don't allow co-ed dorms.'

'Yes, we find it avoids the conflicts with dorms that occur if a couple living together break up.'

'What if you're gay?'

'Are you?'

'No.'

'Then there isn't a problem, is there?' Teto smiled. 'Now we need to make sure you can afford the regular payments. Do you currently have a job?'

'Yeah I currently work at a convenience store. It's not much but it's enough to live on.'

'Ok then, I'm going to put you with another first year student, who's also studying Arts-Music. His name is Kamui Gakupo. You'll be living in unit 20E, that's the east section. Here's a map if you get lost. Is that all you need?'

'Yes thank you.'

'Good day Kaito.'

'This map is confusing' Kaito said to himself.

He had been walking around the student complex for half an hour. At first he thought he was in the west section but then he saw a sign saying he was in the north section so he walked in the direction he thought was east but when he knocked on the door of number 20 the girl that answered the door told him he was in the south section. So he tried to walk back the way he came and found himself at the car park which he could tell from the map was in the west section!

No problem, Kaito thought to himself, I'll just walk in the direction I haven't been and I'll reach the east section!

Yet when he got to where he thought was east he looked up to see a sign reading 'XW: Extra West'.

'Extra west!' cried Kaito 'What does that mean! This map makes no sense!'

Kaito collapsed to the ground in frustration and began tearing the map into tiny pieces.

'Do you need some help?' called out a voice- deep and sharp, but with a melodic bounce; a person sounding like they were holding in laughter.

Kaito turned around to see someone with the longest hair he had ever seen. Even tied into a high ponytail, the violet hair stretched past their knees. They wore a white yukata that concealed the shape of their body and so Kaito spent some time wondering what their gender was. So much time that he completely ignored what the person was saying. It wasn't until he saw their piercing light blue eyes glaring at him that he realised what he was doing.

'This map doesn't make any sense!' whined Kaito 'I need to find the east section, which I thought was near the car park but then I realised that was the west section so I tried to walk the direction it told me but I was in the south and now there's an extra west section. Why is there an extra west section? That's so stupid!'

The person tried to suppress a chuckle but failed, a crooked smile spreading across their sharply pointed face.

'Ok calm down' they said, kneeling down and putting a hand on Kaito's shoulder. 'I'm going to the east section too so you can just follow me.'

They grabbed Kaito's hand and pulled him up. Kaito noticed that their fingernails were painted purple.

That means they're probably a girl. But most girls wouldn't have fingernails that dirty. And that voice is definitely a male's. I think. Maybe they're transgender. Or intersex. Or gender fluid. Maybe they're poor and can't afford haircuts or cool clothes and that's why they look like that.

'Ok this is the east section' said the long-haired person. 'I guess we're going to be neighbours. What's your unit number?'

'20E' said Kaito.

They looked at Kaito strangely. 'Are you sure? That's my unit number too and they don't allow co-ed dorms.'

Aha! They are a girl! thought Kaito.

'I'm pretty sure that's what my key says'

Kaito reached inside his coat pockets, searching for his key but he couldn't feel it.

'Just a minute' Kaito said, as the other person raised their eyebrow.

Kaito began pulling objects from his pockets- his wallet, his phone, a comb, a coin purse, a rewards card for Glacial Ice Creamery, a bus pass, some wrapped lollies, some very sticky unwrapped lollies, a small flask (containing chocolate milk), condoms, hairclips, a nail file, light blue nail polish, dark blue nail polish and finally his key.

'Look the key ring says 20E' said Kaito, holding it up to show them.

The other person turned the key ring towards them with the edge of their fingernail, trying hard not to touch the key ring which had gotten sticky from the unwrapped lollies.

'Huh, they told me that girls and guys couldn't live together. I guess the student liaison was wrong. I want to go back and ask them again because there was someone from high school who I want to live with but was told I couldn't'

'Yeah, there are some girls that I wanted to dorm with too' said Kaito.

'Why couldn't you?'

'…Because the dorms aren't co-ed?' Kaito said.

'Wait…Oh! I'm sorry I thought you were a girl!'

'What!' Kaito exclaimed. 'How could you think I was a girl?! And… wait you mean you're not a girl?!'

'Oh so just because I have long hair you thought I was a girl?' the man sneered. 'Does my voice sound like a girl's? Or my face look like a girl's? It's all sharp and rugged, unlike your round baby-face.'

'No but you have purple hair! And looking young doesn't make me female!'

'Hair colour isn't related to gender! But you have lady-hips!'

'You may have been born with purple hair but were you born with purple fingernails? And my hips aren't THAT curvy!'

'Yes they are. And you paint your nails too you hypocrite!'

'Mine are blue! It's different!'

'Yet they're the most immaculate nails I've ever seen in my life. The last guy I've seen with nails that good was cosplaying as a French maid!'

'Well I'm not a girl' Kaito grumbled. 'And girls don't have any trouble telling that. And they happen to like my round face and clean nails.'

'Whatever. Calm down bubby' the man said as he reached out and ruffled Kaito's hair. 'I better show you to our unit in case you get lost on the way there.'

Kaito glared at him. He didn't like the condescending way he treated him. But he was worried about getting lost again so he followed after him.

'My name is Gakupo, by the way.'

'I'm Kaito.'