Chapter Rating: PG-13
Chapter Warnings: Implied lime, Yaoi (check the title, people!), Sniper being hentai
Itzika: So, welcome to 365 Days of Under-appreciated Yaoi! I promise you I will hold to the idea of yaoi for one week, but after that yuri, slash (which is different from yaoi and yuri in that it applies to Western stuff), and heterosexual couples (I know, where's the fun in that?) are fair game as well. Today's match-up is something that I just wanted to see: Sniper and Sea Man, of Yu Yu Hakusho's Chapter Black saga!
Sniper: Did you just say I'm paired with Sea Man?
Itzika: Yup! Now go out there and be hentai!
Sniper: WHAT?
Itzika: (grins) I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho… Ow! (takes a marble to the head) And now I forget what I was going to say.
Sea Man: Good.
Itzika: Oh yeah! I was about to tell about how you two make a great yaoi pairing! (is promptly trapped in alternate-dimension water beast)
Aquamarine Kitten (AMK): (smiles) On with the fic!
Itzika: (gurgle gurgle)
AMK: Oh yeah. Itzika says that after this, there will be much more active yaoi (actual kissing, making out, etc.) involved. Now, on with the fic!
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Sniper's POV
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It's called the Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon. Why the hell it's called that, I don't know. But I know that's what it's called, because Sea Man told me. And he's majoring in psychology, so he would know. It's when someone does to you like Sensui did to me. They start out small, asking you to do things that don't make any difference to you. So you do them, because they don't matter. Then they ask you to do something a little bit bigger, and a little bit bigger than that. In the end you do whatever they say, because you're so used to doing it, and anyway it's just a little bit more than they asked you for last time, right?
That's what I thought, too. Funny how even "higher beings" like psychics can fall for the same old tricks, huh? But then, Minoru was a master of those same old tricks.
It started in middle school. I didn't even think that much about the look on the boy's face when he came with Sensui to get me, a look like Oh, shit, what have I gotten myself into? I just thought, wow, he's hot, and signed up for whatever it was. Anything to find out more about the person; anything to play their game. It's what all guys do, right? And just because I'm gay doesn't mean I'm any exception.
He was blond. Usually to me, that's a total turnoff. It means whoever this guy is, he's foreign or something. But this one was different. He'd been hurt. Hurt bad, I mean, like I had, almost. He had something beneath the surface. That's what pain does to you; it gives you something below what people can see.
What Minoru said made sense. I mean, I was abused in all kinds of ways by my own dad. Why shouldn't the whole world be just the same?
Man, I was wrong. The whole world was so much worse.
It took us over a year to watch that tape, and we never even finished it. Black Angel didn't need us to see everything. He just wanted us to see the worst crimes of humanity against humanity. But there were a lot of them. It took barely a week for Sea Man to start having nightmares. More than once I woke up in the middle of the night and found out that he'd climbed in bed with me. He was always shivering, no matter where he was, and he was always sweating. I watched, over the weeks, as his eyes hardened and he became more powerful, more ruthless even, than me. I watched as we switched roles, and instead of me being his idol, he became mine.
It wasn't clear just how much Mitarai had become Sea Man until I heard him chanting. Sensui had taught it to us, the whole "Never satisfied, never full" thing, and we said it every day before and after we watched Chapter Black. But Sea Man said it all the time. Once, Sensui forgot to ask us to say it, and Sea Man reminded him.
Damn, I wanted to be like him. Which was the real reason I was so stunned when I found out he'd been beaten. And even more stunned when I found out he'd betrayed us.
When Sensui told me to kill him, well, that was the first order I knew I should question. But by them I'd seem over a thousand hours of Chapter Black. Sea Man—Mitarai—was just another worthless human. God. Shit. Damn, and all that. But it was true. He was human. He'd once again allied himself with the humans. And I was pretty much programmed to kill humans. So I shot.
He came to see me later. When it was all over, and I was healing under Doctor's influence in his psychic clinic, he came to see me and talk to me. He filled in the blanks that Sensui had so conveniently left open.
Kuwabara had saved his life. He'd brought Mitarai back. I would've switched sides, too. No matter what Chapter Black said, there are humans worth saving. The girl who gave her last lollipop to a homeless boy. The man who was late to work because he helped an old lady cross the street. The cousin who called the cops on my dad.
Mitarai. He's definitely worth saving.
And besides, I love him.
A year after he graduated from high school, two and a half years after I told him I loved him, three years and nine months after we met, he'd finally forgiven me. Hey, I wasn't the only one who tries to kill people. And he's admitted that had our roles been switched, he would have done the same, although it took about a year for him to say it.
Damn self-serving bias.
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Normal POV
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Mitarai came out of the shower, glancing over at the bed. He smiled a little as he saw Sniper lying there, having come in through the window; and turned away to find some clothes for school.
"Hey," Sniper called. Mitarai turned. "Come over here so I can mess up that pretty hair." Mitarai looked at him questioningly, not sure of his meaning. Sniper grinned, and Mitarai flushed. "Hentai," he muttered.
Sniper raised an eyebrow. "What? It's not like you're a virgin."
Mitarai blushed, if possible, even more. "I have to get to class," he managed to get out, starting to pull on a T-shirt.
Sniper stood and caught Mitarai's shoulders from behind. He snaked one hand up the other boy's shirt and, under the pretense of checking his temperature, pulled it back off. "No you don't," he said in mock concern, grinning wickedly. "You're burning up. You're not going back to school till you've rested." With that, he pulled Mitarai back onto the bed.
Mitarai couldn't help grinning when Sniper straddled his waist. "As if I'm gonna get any rest with you around," he murmured.
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Sniper's POV
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Sensui would kill us if he found out what we've come to, Mitarai and me. The Tantei would kill me if they found me alive. But you know what? That doesn't matter. I'm not Sensui's lapdog or servant boy. I'm Mitarai's. He's mine. As long as that's true, then I'll keep living a doomed life. I'll even be on Chapter Black, and I'll blame the past on Sensui. I'll keep living this life that Sensui helped me screw up.
Damn foot-in-the-door phenomenon.
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Itzika: Okay, that was about as hentai as I've ever gotten. That's just how I think Sniper would be. Oh, well. sigh I can't do more than lime, or I'll have to up the rating. I don't want to do that, since some of the things I'm fanfiction-ing are rated Youth. Like tomorrow's match-up: Keiichiro and Ryou, of Tokyo Mew Mew!
Sniper: Who are they?
Keiichiro: I love Ryou?
Itzika: See? It's true! He just said it!
Keiichiro: …
Sniper: My advice: don't say anything until you can blow her brains out.
Keiichiro: (looks stunned)
Itzika: (leaves them to it)
AMK: Review!
Itzika: Or we'll find out your favorite pairings and we won't do them! Hah!
AMK: How would we do that?
Itzika: …
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I have no idea. Oh, well.
AMK: Review anyways!