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Chapter 2 Hot Springs
It had been about a week since Kratos and Yuan had come out of the closet, and of course, where had they all stayed but Zelos' house? A little stressed out at having everyone there, the former Chosen had become even more aggressive in his womanizing.
Genis was just cooking breakfast when a resounding slap echoed throughout the house.
"Zelos! Damned Pervert! If you're going to sneak up on someone, at least be discreet about it!"
"You didn't tell me not to this time! Does that mean you secretly want some of the great Zelos?"
"ZELOS!" The redhead emitted a somewhat girlish scream accompanied by the sound of wood breaking. Next came the heavy footsteps and Sheena cursing fluidly along with the tinkle of breaking glass. It was the same thing every morning.
A half-naked and angry Yuan burst out of a room with his swallow blade and a murderous glare.
"Shut up! Some of us are still asleep!" Usually, Kratos was sent out to fix the situation by Yuan, but was out cold when a painting fell and hit him in the head. Zelos squeaked and ran faster seeing that the enraged summoner had mysteriously acquired a flail. Regal poked his head out of his room and was nearly killed by the wildly swinging, spiked ball.
"Are you all right, Regal?" Presea inquired, having managed to escape from her room unharmed. He nodded and seemed torn between staying to watch or helping Genis with breakfast.
Downstairs, the young magician hummed a little.
"5...4...3...2...1-" Somewhere upstairs a door broke down.
"Help me Lloyd!"
"Demon Seal!" A small explosion shook the mansion. By the sound of it, Zelos would be spending a lot of money on repairs.
"I have HAD IT with YOU TWO!"
Everyone froze. Raine was angry and that was never a good sign. Genis abandoned the stove and ran to stop his sister before she did any damage.
" 'Sorry' won't cut it anymore." The nightgown-clad healer strode over to Lloyd, picked him up by the collar and brandished him.
"Look at this poor boy! Everyday you have to involve Lloyd and everyone in your stupid escapades!"
Zelos, who was trying to escape to the window, sweatdropped heavily as he watched the knocked out swordsman being manhandled into a coma. The rest had crowded around the doorway, including a disgruntled but conscious Kratos.
"Raine, NO!" Genis burst through his friends with kendama in hand, ready to fight his sibling off so the others could escape.
"Huh? What? What's going on here? I was having a dream about Zelos ruining the morning again..." Raine dropped the limp twin-swordsman.
The sound of jaws dropping shook Meltokio.
"She was ASLEEP! I had to give Kratos mouth-to-mouth for this!"
"Asleep? Oh no! Wait- Why did you give him mouth-to-mouth?" All eyes turned towards the flustered seraphim.
"What? He was out cold and you know-! T-t-to revive him!" Eyebrows raised around the room.
"He was still out of it after I used the life bottle on him!" They still argue today about if there's a more entertaining spectacle than a furiously blushing, half-naked, pseudo-angel trying to come up with an excuse for administering mouth-to-mouth.
"Just quit while you're ahead." Kratos gave everyone his ultimate death glare.
"We need a vacation from this house," Lloyd said, dusting himself off nonchalantly.
"BUDDY! You're alive!" Zelos swept him up in a bone-crunching hug.
"Ah! See, this is what I'm talking about." The twin-swordsman was slowly turning purple.
"AHEM! Let's go to the hot springs." Sheena was glaring daggers, not mention the ones behind her back, at Zelos.
"You go on ahead. I have work today." Regal smiled kindly while secretly thanking Martel that he wouldn't be spending another stressful day with them.
"Good morning everyone! Did something happen while I was asleep?" Colette beamed through the door. Everybody sweatdropped.
"Does anyone else smell burning?" Raine frowned.
"My cooking!"
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"Hey Geezer! You still got a co-ed pool?" They had just arrived and already the "red-haired headache" (as Kratos referred to him) was causing trouble.
The head priest, eye twitching at the prospect of the pink-clad philanderer being there, tried not to explode.
"No, we changed that. Two pools. Just because of you."
Zelos looked hurt, "Aw, c'mon! I'm not that bad am I?"
The entire world seemed to give him a "who are you kidding" look.
"Waa! Everyone hates me!"
"Just get into the pool, Zelos," Lloyd snorted.
"Okay!" Yuan noted this behavior, but said nothing.
Moments later, everyone was situated and in their rightful pools.
"Ahh... this is great!" Genis splashed around a little.
"Yeah! It's nice to have at least one day without Raine yelling at us."
'Couldn'ta said it better m'self...' thought Zelos relaxing between the seraphim and the younger men. After a few moments of relaxing, he felt desperately out of the loop and was suddenly longing to join a conversation. He turned toward Lloyd and Genis.
"Remember when we were playing swords on your roof and Colette accidentally knocked me off the roof?"
"Yeah! She freaked out and Raine was yelling furiously that even though you two weren't family, we'd all be in trouble."
'Okay, they're reminiscing. I can't just enter that conversation.' Zelos leaned the other way.
The couple was playing grab-ass by the looks of it.
"Mmm...Kratos...what if we-" Yuan whispered something into the other swordsman's ear before licking it.
"Yuan! No. My son and his friends are here and there's only one room there!"
Tethe'alla's former Chosen blushed as red as his hair before leaning away.
'Guess there's nothing left but to visit my hunnies...hehe...' He tied his hair up and slowly sank so he could swim to the other side unnoticed. He was almost there when he was forcibly yanked up by the hair.
"Ow."
"Where do you think you're going?" Zelos looked at his "attacker" and his mouth opened in surprise. There was Lloyd glistening, wet, tanned, skin and damp chestnut locks with droplets of water and steam caressing the swordsman's toned muscles.
'H-hot.' The redhead would have reprimanded himself if he wasn't enjoying it so much. Lloyd raised an eyebrow and that was enough to bring the Tethe'allan to his senses.
"Hehe...umm...visiting my hunnies?"
Feeling a sudden urge (and Zelos followed many of his sudden urges) to show himself off to his friend, Zelos straightened out of his friend's grip and "nervously" put a hand behind his head in such a way that his bound hair spilled out.
The twin-swordsman faltered for a moment. Glistening red hair spilled across smooth, pale skin and perfectly framed Zelos' face. Lloyd's breath caught, but he quickly recovered and dismissed it as the heat.
"Uh...Sheena asked me to look out for you."
'Defeated again by my voluptuous hunny! "She did?"
"If you didn't try it so much..." Lloyd showed how much he had been around Raine as he started to lecture.
'I'd really rather be spying on Lloyd. He looks so sexy when he's wet. Bad Zelos! He's your best bud! You can't do that. "All right! All right... I won't spy on the girls. I'm just gonna go and wait by the rheairds."
"Fine, but I gotta go with you and make sure you don't try anything."
"Waa! My best bud doesn't trust me!"
Yuan once again noted this behavior, but said nothing.
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'Remember, He's your friend. You shouldn't think about him that way. He isn't one of your hunnies!, Zelos mentally berated himself on the way back.
'But it's really too bad that he isn't...'
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