Team Up Chapter 2: The Morning After
By Stormshadow13
Disclaimer: I really don't own anything.
AN: I'd like to dedicate this chapter to all the People who reviewed this story. Thanks Guys. Also I'm not sure if I got the hangover part right, I'm going off of info that I've gotten from books, hear say, and the net.
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Krad groaned and cracked open his eyes and was immediately regretful of the action. The light bombarded his vision, his stomach twisted unpleasantly and the pounding in his head increased tin fold. He groaned again and clamped his eyes shut trying to burrow deeper into the soft mattress.
"Well, I see that you are finally awake my other half."
The blond hunter moaned and covered his head with the pillow. "Do you have to shout?"
Dark's lips twitched, "I'm talking normally, you are just very sensitive at the moment."
"I feel horrible, what happened?"
"You are suffering from a hangover, due to that drink that you were quite fond of last night," said Dark pulling the pillow off his counterpart's head. "Here, Emiko brought up some medicine that will make you feel better."
"I don't want it," Krad pulled the pillow back over his head.
Dark sighed and pulled the pillow off once more, "I don't care, you are taking the medicine."
Krad sat up quickly probably to glare and tell his thieving self off but the moment he moved this whole body protested this action. The room spun before his eyes and he had the very unpleasant feeling that the bed was moving beneath him.
The Kaito sighed as he watched the color drain from his hunter's face. "You shouldn't move that quickly," he reached out a hand to support the swaying blond.
Krad licked his lips, "I'm going to be sick!" He bolted off the bed and out the door to the bathroom one hand pressed over his mouth.
Dark quickly hurried after the fleeing blond and was just in time to watch his counterpart begin to reverently worship the porcelain god. He silently knelt next to the hunter pulling the blond hair back with one hand and rubbing his back with the other.
Emiko appeared in the doorway taking in the situation with one glance. She filled a glass with water and handed it to the kneeling Kaito. "Here, has he taken the medicine yet?"
Dark shook his head in a negative. "I was trying to get him to but he moved to fast and this happened." He then handed the water to the blond, "You will want to rinse your mouth out with this."
Krad mumbled thanks as he took the glass after that Dark helped him to his feet. "I don't need your help," he tried to shove the thief away and had to lean against the wall for support.
"I see that," said Dark cocking his head, "How about trying to stand without the wall?"
Krad muttered something that sounded suspiciously like, fuck you.
Dark smiled and ignored his counterpart's grumpiness as he stepped forward and swept his blond hunter up bridal style.
"Put me down," Krad hissed through waves of nausea and vertigo. However the Kaito ignored his demand and started back for the bedroom smiling. When they reached the room Dark settled on the bed with his other half in his lap. Krad tried to squirm free but the resulting waves of sickness that a companied this action persuaded him to give it up. The blond instead buried his head into the Kaito's shoulder in an attempt to shut out the light and noise.
Dark reached for the two Excedrin tablets and once more offered them to the hunter. "This really will help your headache, you should take them.
"Fine," sighed the blond unburying his head from the Kaito's shoulder and taking the pills. Dark then handed him a glass of water and the pills vanished. Krad once more buried his pounding head into the crook of the thief's neck.
Dark began to rub soothing circles on the hunter's back trying to relax and calm him. He could feel that the blond's heart was beating rather fast, he was shaking and sweating.
"Awe, you two just look so cute together."
Krad didn't even raise his head as he gave his host and the world at large the one fingered salute.
"Now, that wasn't very nice," drawled Satoshi from the doorway. "And here I came to check up on you."
"I blame you for this," the words came out muffled against the Kaito's neck.
Satoshi blinked, "how is this, my fault?"
"Work with the thief, you said. You can get the necklace easier, you said. It's only for one night, you said. And what could possibly go wrong, you said."
"I didn't tell you to go and get drunk."
"Which I blame you for."
"What? Getting drunk or not telling you to get drunk?"
"Getting drunk."
"Again, how's that my fault?"
"If you had let me just blow the place up I wouldn't have had the opportunity to drink anything and there for I'd not be suffering this morning."
Satoshi just shrugged at this. "If you say so," he turned and left the room.
"BRAT!"
Dark chuckled and reached for a glass on the nightstand. "Here, this will help your stomach."
"What is it?" Came the suspicious muffled question.
"It is called 7-Up and it is easy on the stomach when you're not feeling well. You are going to need to drink it so that you don't get dehydrated," Said Dark offering the glass to his counterpart. "You should be thirsty but don't gulp it, drink it slow or you'll get sick again."
Krad sighed, if I must." He took the offered glass and sipped at the clear liquid. "Are all hangovers this bad?"
Dark shrugged, "usually it depends on the type and amount of alcohol that you drink. You drank a very potent type last night called Vodka."
Emiko appeared in the door. "Krad Dear, how are you feeling?" A rather pitiful moan was her answer. She sighed and laid a package of crackers on the nightstand. "Dark, try and get him to eat these he needs something in his stomach."
Krad blanched as he heard this, even the mere thought of food made his stomach make its unhappiness known.
"Dark nodded, "I'll try, no promises though."
Emiko nodded and left the room.
Dark looked down at the blond still in his lap, "she's right you know. You really should try and eat something."
"No."
"How about only three crackers?"
"No."
"Two?"
"No."
"One?"
"No."
"Half?"
"No."
"A fourth?"
"No."
"Just a little nibble?"
"NO!"
"Krad…"
"I don't want any food!"
Dark sighed, "you're being difficult my other half."
"I don't care."
"How about some crackers later?"
"I'll think about it."
Dark sighed yet again, well at least that wasn't a no, that was something, wasn't it? The Kaito then began to wonder if he was this difficult when he was hung over. God, He sure hoped not. Then again maybe he was although he never remembered having a hangover quite this bad. Then his purple eyes widened, "Krad was this the first time you've ever had alcohol?"
"Yes."
No wonder his hangover is so bad thought Dark sympathetically hugging his hunter close.
Krad squeaked as the Kaito's grip tightened then golden eyes widened in shock. Had he the Fearsome Hunter, The Demonic Angel, The Hikari Ice Demon actually just squeaked? What the hell?
Dark blinked and looked down at the now flushed blond in his lap. "Did you just actually squeak?"
"No!" However the blond's flush got worse.
"I think you're lying," caroled Dark. "And you are blushing too. That's so cute!"
"I'm not cute!" protested the now mortally embarrassed hunter.
Dark grinned down at the blond, "oh yes you are especially when you're blushing."
"I don't blush."
"Riiiiiiiiiight," drawled Dark smirking, "and you're really cute in a dress."
"SHUT UP!"
"Well, I think that you're starting to feel better if you're now telling me to shut up. So how about those crackers?"
"No."
"You're being difficult again."
"And I still don't care."
Dark had the sudden and strong urge to smack his forehead. He resisted and looked at the unhappy blond hunter curled pathetically in his lap. The Kaito blinked if someone had told him that he was ever going to think Pathetic and Krad in the same sentence he'd have laughed himself sick and told the person to go get their head checked. He'd never have dreamed that those two words would have ever gone together. Then again, he'd never thought that his other half would work with him instead of trying to blow him up or put on a dress and kiss him and end up getting drunk or that the blond looked drop dead sexy in said dress. Dark shook his head, and spoke to the blond. "How about you try and get some more sleep? Maybe then you'll feel well enough to eat the crackers."
Krad sighed, "Are we back to those damn crackers?" The Kaito grinned at him.
"Yep."
"How about you eat the crackers and tell Emiko that I ate them?"
"No, I'd be lying to Emiko and lying is wrong."
"So is stealing."
"That's different."
"How so?"
"It just is."
"What kind of answer is that?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"I just don't, and eat the crackers."
"No, I don't want the damn crackers."
"Now, now, my other self swearing isn't very lady like."
"Fuck you Mousy!"
"And that wasn't either."
"I repeat, fuck, you, Mousy!"
Dark chuckled and hugged the blond closer, "you're so adorable."
"I have an energy ball with your name on it," growled Krad. "As soon as my head stops hurting." The hunter buried his head yet again into the Kaito's shoulder. "Uh, by the way, did I do anything strange while I was drunk?"
Dark smirked thinking back on the hunter giving him a kiss at the party, "well."
"Well what?"
"You kissed me again…"
"Oh, is that all?"
"And we had a little fun after we got home."
"Huh?"
"Let's just say, you my counterpart are very good in bed."
"WHAT!?" Krad's head snapped up to stair into his counterpart's eyes. The blond struggled to fight down the sudden nausea and redoubling of his headache.
Dark warred with the feelings of amusement at the completely horrified look now on the blond's face and regret that his comment had made his counterpart move quickly again apparently making him feel ill. Regret quickly won out and he swiftly moved to reassure his hunter that he'd been joking before the blond could attempt to fight him and make his sickness even worse then it was now. "I was joking my other self; we didn't do anything I Promise."
Krad continued to stare into his thieving self's eyes, "you better not be lying to me."
"I told you, lying is wrong," sighed Dark.
Krad still stared at him, "you promise?"
"I promise," said Dark seriously.
Krad hesitated still uncertain if he should believe his counterpart or not.
"I'd never do that to you my light self, trust me." Dark reached up and placed a hand behind the hunter's head gently pushing until the blond head was once more resting against his shoulder. "Go to sleep," he finally felt Krad relax against him submitting to his will and after a while the other angel's breathing slowed and took on the rhythm of sleep. Dark gently stroked blond hair as he cuddled his counterpart, his opposite, his angel of light.
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AN: OMG! I can't believe this turned into seven pages. I hope this lives up to everyone's expectations. I'll be starting classes in a little over a week so my writing might be a little slow.