I can't believe I've gotten this many reviews already! It's really good to know you all like this so much, it makes me feel really good about it and everytime I get a review notification I get warm fuzzies, and believe me, that doesn't happen often.
So basically, THANK YOU ALL! (gives you lemon cake)
Anyway, this chapter worries me a little because I stayed up till five in the morning working on it and was literally nodding off with my computer on my lap, so there will be some mistakes here and there, sorry, everyone... But please, enjoy it anyway! Oh yeah, a friend of mine was reading this and she said, "wow, in this one Yuki really is a whore, not just a really slutty seme!" XD
Warning: Mild Kagura bashing in this chapter, sorry, I dislike her and the Kyo/Kagura pairing, but I needed Kyo to be going out with someone and I'd rather it be her than Tohru; you all know how I feel about Tohru. (sparks fly from nostrils) But remember, I'm not bashing you, just the character.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yuki, Kyo, Hatsuharu or Kagura. The guy at the brothel I did create though, not that I'm proud of that, but yeah, the only characters worth having the rights to I don't, how lame is that?
Kyo was walking down a corridor of an old house, his footsteps echoing emptily as he walked. He was following something, but couldn't remember what. Suddenly up ahead he saw a glimmer of light and he sped up, trying to catch whatever it was. But whatever he was chasing also quickened it's pace and in it's wake cherry blossoms began to fall from the ceiling, their freshness and beauty contrasting drastically from the dreary old house around them. Kyo continued to chase it, but the flowers were starting to fall in thick sheets, so dense he couldn't see through them. "Wait!" He called, trying to continue his pursuit, but getting weighed down by the blossoms. "Kyo..." Someone, that, thing he was chasing was calling his name. "I said wait!" He called out to it, starting to get angry, fighting his way through the torrent of flowers. "Kyo...!" It called again, a little more forcefully this time. "I can't, get to you! I'm, WAIT!" "Kyo! Kyo!" Kyo couldn't stand it, the thing he so wanted to catch calling his name as he slowly suffocated in the flowers. "I said, wait..." His own voice began to fail him and he thrashed out in alarm, fighting against the blossoms like quicksand. "Kyo! Kyo!" He couldn't see, he was drowning...
"KYO!"
"Ah! What!" Kyo sat bolt upright in bed, drenched in a cold sweat, breathing deep and hard, grateful for the air.
"Kyo, are you okay?" Haru was next to his bed, looking confused and alarmed.
"I'm, I'm, what time is it?" Taken aback by the question Haru said,
"It's 9 AM. You were talking in your sleep and thrashing around, you woke me up, but, God, Kyo are you sick?" Having recovered somewhat from his nightmare Kyo groaned and put his face in his hands, his head starting to ache. "What happened?" Asked Haru, sitting down on Kyo's bed.
"Nothing! I guess I just caught something last night from being out in the cold and had a nightmare." Haru still looked concerned and tried to place his hand on his forehead, but Kyo pushed his hand away. "Get off Haru, I'm fine!"
"Okay, if you're sure, but seriously, go shower and clean yourself up, you look like shit."
"Thanks," said Kyo angrily, opening the wardrobe against the same wall as his bed and picking up a towel and some clothes before leaving the room and slamming the door behind him. Kyo made his way down the hall toward the bathrooms, thankful no one else was there. He chose a stall, disrobed and turned on the tap, the warm water splashing over his body. His head was still aching, but he didn't feel dizzy or nauseated, yet. But even at that positive thought the reason he'd been sick last night rolled over him. Yuki... That-, who had, given him-
"Listen, I'd like to make at least a little money tonight, so do something okay!"
Kyo felt his stomach tie itself into a not and he mentally shook himself. Why was this affecting him this way? It was only a one time thing, and really, there wasn't anything wrong with experimenting, right? That thought made Kyo feel a little better, but, was it still only an experiment when it felt that good? And why had it felt that good! It wasn't like he'd never done that with Kagura, so why was it so much better with Yuki? Was Yuki just better or, some other reason?
"...it never felt quite right with her, right?"
Kyo closed his eyes only to find an image of Yuki on his knees before him, refusing to let Kyo clean him up.
"It's okay, I'm used to it."
Kyo suddenly felt anger explode inside him and he shoved his fist with all his might into the wall, achieving nothing except a throbbing pain in his right hand. He took it into his other hand, examining it to make sure he hadn't broken it and in the process felt his anger dissipate into, something else entirely. Was it pity? It was similar, but there was another part to it, but trying to figure it out only made Kyo's head hurt more, so he finished his shower, dressed and brushed his teeth before going back to his room. Haru was lying on his bed wearing only a tight fitting pair of jeans and headphones. It took him several minutes for him to notice Kyo before he switched off his music and sat up. "Feel better?" He asked.
"No," said Kyo dully. "Oh," he dug into the pocket of the jacket he'd been wearing and pulled out the money Haru had given him that he hadn't spent last night. "Here's the money I didn't spend, I'll pay you back as soon as I can."
"Ah forget about it," said Haru, counting the money. "Wait, there's thirty here, don't tell me you spent my hard earned money on something else!" Confused, Kyo turned to face him.
"Huh? No, I definitely spent it like you told me to, Haru."
"But then the least you could have spent is twenty, so," Haru's eyes suddenly lit up. "You didn't! Wow, you're skilled Kyo!" Completely nonplussed, Kyo asked,
"What the hell do you mean?"
"She only charged you half price, that means you made her come. And she was only giving you head too! Fuck, what did you do?" Kyo's eyes widened.
"What! I did, Yuki, wait, how!" Kyo rambled incoherently.
"Yuki, huh? That's her name? Pretty. But seriously, what did you do to this poor girl?" Haru had his arms folded across his chest and was looking interested and very impressed.
"I didn't do anything!" Said Kyo, sounding like he thought he was falsely accused of something horrible.
"Why are you acting like it's something terrible? Be proud of your skill, Kyo, hone it and shape it until you become the most notorious guy at this school!"
"You're fucking stupid, you know that!" Said Kyo, exasperated, and now seriously thinking what he could have done. He didn't do anything except, he cringed at the thought, enjoy it, right? Did Yuki just like listening to him moan or something? Kyo shook his head, no way.
"Here," said Haru, handing Kyo back the money he'd given him earlier. "Take it and give this Yuki girl some more thrills."
"Shut up, I'm not going back there, ever."
"Oh come on-"
"I'm serious, Hatsuharu! It was a one time thing and I'm never doing it again, that's the end of it." Haru rolled his eyes when Kyo wasn't looking.
"Okay, okay, I get it, you don't have to raise your voice. Anyway, you want some coffee before we start studying?" Kyo nodded wearily.
About an hour later Kyo and Hatsuharu were returning to their room from the library, laden with heavy text books they needed to study for their English exam. "Right, we need to be able to answer essay questions on, whatever that book we read was called." Kyo rolled his eyes.
"You're worthless. Do we have a sample essay question?"
"Yeah, I think..." Haru searched through his school binders before pulling out their practise exam. "In a four paragraph essay compare Aurelia in the beginning of the story to how she changed at the end. Was the change positive or negative? What facilitated these changes? Please use evidence from the text to support your ideas." Both Haru and Kyo pulled faces.
"Okay, so, how did she change?" Asked Kyo, taking his notebook and pencil out.
"Well, she got more assertive and confident, and, true to herself? I think that's how you'd say it. She also got more trusting, like in the beginning she was like, ice and snow-" "Snow..."
"Yuki..." Kyo said softly.
"What?" Haru asked, looking up.
"Nothing."
"Did you just say Yuki?" Haru asked, smiling a little.
"No!" Kyo said, blushing.
"Are you sure?" Persisted Haru.
"Yes!" Said Kyo, annoyed. "You're so-" But exactly what Haru was he never found out for at that moment there was an urgent knocking at the door followed by the door banging open and a girl a year or two older than Kyo with long brown hair wearing a green dress stood on the threshold. "Fuck!" Kyo thought furiously. "Kagura!"
"Kyo!" She squealed, immediately running over to his bed and jumping onto it and sending their work flying, wrapping her arms around him and kissing him on the lips. For the first time ever Kyo noticed there was no warmth there, but, no, he mustn't think things like that.
"Oh, Kagura, hi, what are you, doing here?" Kyo asked, his voice muffled as his face was pressed into Kagura's chest. He supposed he should be heartily enjoying this, but, he found it more annoying than pleasurable.
"I came to visit you, silly!" She said, looking down at him and planting a kiss on his forehead. "What are you doing, studying?"
"Yes." Said Kyo stiffly. "And it's for our midterm exams, so we need to get back to it." Kagura's eyes widened.
"You'd rather, study, than see me?" She asked, her voice sounding meek and pathetic.
"No Kagura, these exams are really important and I'd like to do well on them, and having you here will mean I can't study." Kyo's voice was steadily beginning to rise, though he doubted Kagura had noticed.
"Oh!" She said sweetly. "I understand! When your exams are over Kyo, we'll go on a date and I won't be distracting you from anything!" She gave him another kiss before getting up and heading out the door, but paused just long enough to say, "if you're feeling stressed and want to, take the pressure off, you can always come to me!" And with that she left, slamming the door behind her. Haru grinned evilly at him.
"Yeah, too bad you'd rather go to your Yuki than your girlfriend!"
"Shut. Up." Said Kyo furiously through clenched teeth.
Hatsuharu and Kyo studied almost all day and well into the night, stopping around 9:30 for takeout before going right back to it, trying to memorize equations and character names and dates and vocabulary. By about midnight, they were exhausted, Haru collapsed on his bed muttering about being too tired to think straight and Kyo did the same, but he couldn't sleep. He rolled onto his side, facing Haru's bed, the moonbeams coming through the window casting weird elongated shadows on the walls. Kyo rolled onto his back, his mind feeling like a sponge that had soaked up too much liquid. "Sign over hypotenuse Aurelia's transformation over the course of the story is a major cosign adjacent during the 1794 document noun tangent was born in 1636 opposite Octavian, who was a major influence on Yuki, Yuki what did you do to me!" Kyo suddenly realized he was pummelling his pillow with absolutely no memory of starting to do so. Distressed, he flopped down on top of it again, sighing. Even when he was trying to remember all this information he needed, his thoughts were always with Yuki. This Yuki, this, prostitute he'd had an, encounter, with had completely taken over his thoughts. What was it about him? He was completely ordinary, apart from the fact that he was selling himself to make next to nothing. And suddenly that almost pity feeling swept over Kyo again, what was it? Why wouldn't Yuki leave him alone? Kyo looked at the luminous numbers on the alarm clock on the desk between the beds under the window. 12:35 AM.
Coming to his decision Kyo got out of bed, got dressed and pulled his jacket around him, making sure he had money with him. Then as quietly as he could so he wouldn't wake Haru, Kyo opened the door and slipped out of the room and down the corridor. Seeing Yuki again would get him out of his head, right? Right. And besides, that's all he wanted to do, just, see Yuki...
The walk seemed much slower this time for some reason, though Kyo would never admit to himself it was anticipation. Finally he arrived at that brooding Victorian house and walked up the steps and pushed the door open, walking into the familiar foyer and approaching the desk. The same grubby man was standing behind it, counting money, it looked like. He looked up as Kyo approached and sneered. "Back so soon?" He said. Kyo couldn't think of anything to say to that so he nodded. "And do you want to see Yuki again or change it up?" He asked, an annoying taunt to his voice. Kyo thought of telling him to watch it but decided against it.
"I want to see Yuki," he said tonelessly. The man's sneer grew.
"Right this way, sir," he drawled, and with that he led Kyo up the stairs and down the hallway to Yuki's room. Kyo felt his heart rate speed up and he clenched his hands into fists but tried to keep his expression neutral. "You have a customer!" The man yelled through the door, knocking hard on it like he had the previous night before opening it and shoving Kyo into the room and slamming the door behind him. Yuki was sitting on the bed this time, looking out the window. He was still wearing the cherry blossom kimono he was last night, one of the shoulders hanging off. Yuki turned around and something seemed to flicker on and then off in his eyes as he looked at Kyo.
"Uh, I," said Kyo.
"You're back," said Yuki softly. He stood up and pulled the shoulder of his kimono up.
"Yeah," said Kyo, he couldn't think of anything else to say. Yuki walked over to him, his expression dull.
"What do you want tonight?" He asked. "You know the prices."
"What? Nothing, I just, wanted to, see you..." Said Kyo, his voice trailing off.
"Excuse me?" Said Yuki, his eyes narrowing.
"I don't want sex, just, I wanted to see you!" Kyo persisted, a little more force in his voice this time. Yuki continued to look at him, nonplussed.
"See me? Would you like some tea, too? We can have a nice chat, it'll be great, no. You can't pay me for that," Yuki spat, his voice bitter and sarcastic.
"What the hell's your problem!" Kyo asked, his voice rising. "I only said-"
"You wanted to see me, I know," said Yuki, rolling his eyes.
"Then why-"
"Then why what? Why am I refusing? Because that's bullshit, you don't come to a place like this to 'see' someone. What's the real reason you're here? Why did you want to 'see' me again?" They were silent for a few seconds as Yuki's words hung in the air, waiting for Kyo's response, but none came. Then,
"I, I,"
"You... what?"
"Shut up and let me finish!" Kyo said, his voice heated. He took several deep breaths before saying, "I, last night and, all of today I've been thinking, about... About you! And I thought that, seeing you again, would..." Yuki looked at him disbelievingly.
"You have? What! Are you stupid! I'm a whore, you're not supposed to think about me again! I'm the perfect one night stand!" Yuki answered, his voice raised.
"Don't you think I know that!" Kyo snapped back. "That was all it was supposed to be! I don't know what you did to me, but-"
"What I, did to you!" Yuki said disbelievingly, his eyes blazing, taking a threatening step towards Kyo, who didn't back down. "I didn't do anything except suck you off! That's all I did and still I, I..."
"You... what?" Said Kyo, imitating Yuki, who took another step toward Kyo, this time making him back into the door.
"Nothing! Nothing happened! Go, just, go!" But Kyo didn't leave, keeping his eyes locked with Yuki's. Yuki continued his advance on Kyo until he was right up close to him. "I said, go!" Yuki hissed, an angry blush in his cheeks now. Yuki pressed Kyo up against the door with his forearm, his face very close to his.
"No," Kyo said just as quietly and was about to say something else when, as if neither of them had meant to, they pressed their lips together in a very heated kiss. In no time they're mouths were open and they're tongues furiously battling for dominance. Yuki continued to press Kyo up against the door, now with his hips as well. Kyo gasped at that, allowing Yuki to ravage his mouth. Then Kyo felt Yuki's hand creep into his and lace their fingers together. Kyo opened his eyes a little. "Yuki..." And then quick as a flash Yuki pulled Kyo away from the door and forced him down onto the bed, climbing on top of him before kissing him again, then pulling away.
"Kyo..." Yuki breathed softly, looking down at him, his eyes almost softening.
"Yuki, I," Kyo's voice sounded pained. "I'm sorry, I can't do this!" He pushed Yuki off him and stood up quickly, taking twenty dollars out of his pocket and thrust it at Yuki without looking at him.
"Kyo, what...?" But Kyo felt Yuki take the money and he ran for the door, trying not to listen to Yuki calling his name as he ran down the hallway. "Kyo! Kyo!" "Just like me dream..." Kyo sprinted through the foyer and out of the house toward his university, finally reaching the gates, then the door to his room, but he stopped outside it, breathing hard. Why! Why was it this way! Why did Yuki have to kiss him, why did being with him affect him like that! Kyo grabbed his hair in frustration, shaking his head. "Damn you, Yuki!" Kyo thought furiously before collecting himself enough and entering the dark room. He walked quietly to his bed and flopped face first into it. "What am I going to do!"
Sorry that chapter was lame T-T but it'll be okay next time.
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