Disclaimers: I don't own Megami Kouhosei, although I know we wish he all did, and am using the characters for fun and to tame my muses.
Pairings: Yagami+Roose
Notes: "blah"=speaking 'blah'=thoughts

Guessing Game by Yaoi Girl

"Why does Wreka-chan keep having her friends ask me out; if she wants to go out with me so bad, why doesn't she ask me herself?" Roose complained as he flopped onto his bed, arms outstretched flat of the mattress.

"Why don't you just say yes to her? Then you could go out with her and all of her friends will leave you alone," Yamagi said, pain enveloping his hear as he knew ha could never have Roose and knowing how much the other boy was always attached to Wreka.

"I don't want to," was all he said, closing his eyes.

"You want me to do it for you?" Yamagi asked in an irritated tone, arms folded behind his head as he lay staring at the stars beyond the window.

He could've sworn he heard the other boy growl before he practically spat out, "No!"

Curious, Yamagi sat up, leaning his weight back on his hands and peered over the bed divider at Roose. "Why not?" he asked, raising his eyebrow.

The green-haired boy sensed that he was being stared at and involuntarily blushed. "I don't like her that way,"

"Whatever," Yamagi huffed, having seen the blush and figured that Roose was thinking about Wreka again.

Usually Roose would be silent and go on with whatever he was doing, but he just couldn't this time.

"You don't believe me?" he asked, his face somewhat angered as he sat up, swinging his legs over the side of his bed, staring at a confused Yamagi.

The purple-haired boy rolled his eyes. "No, I don't because everyday after we're done with training, you always start talking about her as if she's the greatest thing in the universe!"

"I do not!" Roose shot back hotly, startling Yamagi, who jumped slightly, blinking at the boy.

After regaining his normal composure, he unintentionally yelled, "You do too!"

"Shut-up! I do not!" he yelled back.

"What's up with you? You don't have to jump down my throat just because I'm telling the truth!" Yamagi shot back, instantly regretting having continued the argument instead of just dropping it when it had first began.

Roose's eyes had begun to water in anger and hurt, jumping off his bed, to and out the door, and ran as fast as his skinny legs could carry him.

"Roose!" Yamagi called after him, but Roose was too far down the hall, and probably crying in Wreka's arms, to hear his named being yelled from their room.

"Shit!" he yelled, slamming his fist into the now closed door. "Roose…" he began to cry, his fist still against the door, head hung low as tears slid past his tightly closed eyes. "I'm sorry, Roose. I didn't mean it…I love you. Damnit! I don't want you with Wreka!"

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The green-haired boy ran and ran, his breath coming in short and ragged gasps, his vision blurred by hot tears.

'Why do you always find something to yell at me for, Yamagi? Isn't it obvious that she's one of my best friends? She's too much like a sister to me, that's why I won't say yes to her. And besides, I'm in love with someone else, my other best friend, you, Yamagi Kushida!'

His vision blurred further as he stopped running, somehow back at the door he has stormed out of earlier, bent over with his hands resting on his knees, panting heavily for breath as the tears kept flowing down his flushed cheeks to the floor beneath him.

'Yamagi…I'm sorry for yelling.'

After he had regained his normal breathing, he stood up straight, staring at the door, sniffing, debating on whether or not to go in or go for a nice long walk to cool down, but didn't get much of a choice as the door slid open and Yamagi stood there, staring sadly at Roose with puffy and blood-shot eyes.

"Hey," he said, voice raspy.

Roose smiled half-heartedly at him. "Hi, Yamagi."

"Can I talk to you?" he asked, returning the half-hearted smile.

The green-eyed boy nodded, Yamagi stepping aside to let him in.

Yamagi followed him in and over to Roose's bed, sitting down next to the boy, both staring at the floor.

They sat that way for some time in complete and tense silence until Roose finally spoke.

"So, what is it you wanted to talk to me about?"

Yamagi reached his right hand, the one closest to Roose, up to brush away the moisture in his eyes. "Yeah…um…Roose, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell and make you upset."

Roose looked up sadly at the image Yamagi was producing, reaching his left hand up, grasping Yamagi's right one, lacing their fingers, then resting the tangled hands between them.

Yamagi looked up at him, confusion written on his face, but made no objection to Roose's action.

"I'm sorry, Yamagi-kun. I do talk about Wreak-chan a lot, but she's not the only one I talk about; when I'm with her, I'm always talking about you. And even though she loves me, I can't love her back, and she knows I won't ever, but she'll still try to make me hers, despite the fact that she knows who I am in love with."

The purple-eyed boy's heart had leapt when Roose admitted that he was talked about and when again when Roose said he would never love Wreka, but then his heart had sank when he said, "…she knows who I am in love with."

'So he can't trust me with his secrets, is that it? And he can with her?' he thought angrily.

"Why can't you love her?"

Roose hadn't expected that one. "Because she's more like a sister to me than anything else."

"Oh," was the only reply, silence returning to the room as they sat there with their fingers still intertwined.

"Yamagi-kun?"

"What?" came the defeated voice of Yamagi Kushida.

"Do you want to know who I'm in love with?" Roose asked quietly, a blush now spread across his cheeks.

"Whatever," Yamagi said half-heartedly in a quiet voice, staring at the floor, fearing the answer, but anxious to know.

"Let's see if you can guess, okay?"

Yamagi rolled his eyes and shrugged slightly.

Roose took this as an, 'okay'. "The first letter of their first name is Y."

Of course, Yamagi knew his name started with Y, but choose another Y name. Jokingly he said, "Yoshino."

"No. He's nice and all, but no, not him."

"Yu Hikura."

"Why would I be in love with a Goddess pilot that I never get to see?"

Yamagi's head was starting to spin; he'd said two guys' names and Roose hadn't made any kind of sign that it wasn't a guy.

"Me?" Oops. He hadn't meant to actually say it.

Silence.

"Roose?" he asked, looking up at the now flushed candidate, who seemed to think his feet were rather amusing right now.

"Hey you two!" came a happy and ever energetic Zero Enna greeting as he bound through the door and into their room, uninvited.
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TBC

I know, Roose was kinda OOC, but I don't really want to portray him as a whiny baby… R&R please!