A/N: Well, here's the rest of the Thanksgiving release that I didn't get to. This will be a mini prelude to a Christmas release so look forward to that. Review for me to help motivate me please. That's all I ask.
Sorrow- A Manga? Really? Title please, you've stirred my curiosity since I randomly came up with this during one of my bored moments in class XD
DeSyvPlager- The ex will indefinitely be revealed in this chapter.
MARYLOVER- Knowing me, the drama will indefinitely hit a high point in this chapter as Ryoma "chaperones" Hiro and Kyohei while having to be 'friendly' with someone he wanted to kill.
tsub4ki- His ex will actually be in the picture in this chapter so that'll get more interesting and complicated. Fuji's thirty and Ryoma's 18… so they're roughly 12 years apart
MoonlitCrystals- You should know that I write mainly Thrill only… despite what may happen in the story XD
Complicated
Rated: M (for later events)
Summary: [AU] Ryoma's best friend has just confessed he's deeply in love and needs Ryoma's help to make it work. Agreeing to help in the midst of boredom, Ryoma didn't guess it'd involve his ex-boyfriend and a WHOLE lot of lies.
Pairing:N/A
Chapter III: Getting "Along"
Rcap
Ryoma was wrong; the world didn't turn three fold in one moment…. Hell invaded heaven and won.
How much more fucked up was his uncomplicated life getting?
Tokyo, Japan
Fuji's apartment
Wednesday night
Ryoma was torn. Exactly how was he to strike up a conversation with someone he had already decided not to like? How was he expected to stay civil to a rival just because his roommate and best friend was enamored by his jail-bait boyfriend who was the son of a guy he decided to hate?
It all kept coming back to the man he hated all through dinner and the most polite thing that Ryoma felt capable of doing was stretching the muscle of his face into a smile and being silent rather than participating in the topic that was currently being discussed.
"- I'm thankful that Hiro had found friends like you two boys already though you two are much older than him." Fuji said with a smile at Ryoma and Kyohei.
"It's no problem," Kyohei said with a quick smile to Hiro. "I can tell we'll be close right Ryoma?"
Ryoma merely nodded and stood with Kyohei. Thankfully Kyohei had taken the hint that Ryoma was not in the mood for chatting so they should leave.
"Why not stay a little longer?" Fuji asked moving to stand as well.
"We have homework and so forth," Kyohei said with an apologetic smile. "Maybe next time for sure."
"Of course," Fuji said with a pleased smile. "Till next time?"
"Aa," Kyohei agreed while Ryoma merely smile and nodded.
"Bye Hiro," Kyohei said with a quick smile. Ryoma tried not to think too much as they held hands briefly while using Ryoma as a shield to hide the affection from Fuji's eyes.
They hadn't even reached their apartment before Ryoma opened his mouth about his situation.
"I can't do it because I don't like his father!"
"Why?" Kyohei said with a frown.
"He's dating the man I want!" Ryoma defended with a frown. "I saw his father talking and hugging Tezuka-sensei earlier."
"Really?" Kyohei asked with wide eyes at the new development. "That does make it a little more complicated…"
"Little?" Ryoma breathed out. "There's nothing little about this anymore Kyohei, I'm NOT helping you become a pedophile nor am I going to put on a shiny smile and pretend I like the father so you can fuck his son."
"We'll talk about this in our apartment." Kyohei said weary of listeners but he dropped his voice even more before he whispered the rest.
"If what you say is true then we have to watch our ass even more!"
"Why?" Ryoma asked not following.
"If Hiro's dad is dating Tezuka-sensei then he might find out and tell Tezuka-senpai that we aren't living with any guardians." Kyohei finished grimly.
Ryoma had no rebuttal for that… school policy stated that students not living with their parents or guardian had to stay at the strict school dorm or risk expulsion from school.
"Can't we have your parents cover?" Ryoma finally asked after stepping into their apartment.
"How? They are out of country with your parents!" Kyohei said swiftly. This little problem was suddenly escalating like crazy!
XxX
Kyoto, Japan
Zhang laughed as she trailed a hand down the younger male's chest in response to his question. One of the best things about watching her creation being portrayed on the body was when the model themselves try to interest her beyond a normal relationship.
Zhang had to admit her eyes for beauty made it hard to focus on only one male but people constantly reminded her that she herself was a head-turner.
"So we should have dinner sometime soon?" the model said with his famous smile plastered on his face and Zhang would bet more than her paycheck that he had shifted to his best angle and stance while asking her as well.
"Well I have to say-"
"She's booked." Another voice answered
Zhang knew who it was before she turned since an arm wrapped around her quite possessively. That could only mean her husband had wandered back to her side.
"Anata," Zhang said with a smile as she turned slightly to press a kiss to the side of his lips. "You're here!"
"And it didn't take you more than five minutes to have another man falling all over you." Ren said with a slight frown at his wife. "Shame on you for teasing someone so young, yet what else can I expect out of my wife right?"
Zhang laughed as she waved the model away and her assistants before turning back to her handsome husband. She could never get enough of looking at him sometimes. Tilting her head up to look at him, Zhang smiled softly up at him as her arms raised to encircle his neck lightly. Her grey eyes sought his dark, onyx ones and lightly she tugged.
Ren suppressed a sigh and bent slightly. He never failed to fall for her distracting ways or face. She was too beautiful for her own good. Her grey eyes were already twinkling in mischief when he lowered his mouth onto hers.
Rinko merely smiled at the display. She was quite used to Zhang's affection for her husband wherever it happened to be that they met. But never had a couple been so perfect for each other as well. The melded as if they were one yet separately they shone brightly as well.
"I don't see you enough…' Zhang whispered with a slight pout after her husband pulled away. She missed his broad shoulders and handsome face more than she realized after seeing him again for the first time in three months.
"We don't see our children enough either." Ren admitted with a sigh as he pressed a kiss onto his wife's forehead.
She nodded and looped her arm through his with a smile and looked up with her usual eyes of mischief.
"What is it now?" Ren asked with a slight frown. He should know to fear this look already but he still allowed his wife her way when she gave him such looks.
"Shall we go see them after this season's clothes?" Zhang asked.
Ren smiled as he leaned down once more to press a kiss onto her full lips. He nodded and felt his lips twitch upward in a smile at seeing how much her face lit from his agreement.
Zhang pressed herself back into his arms in happiness as he leaned upward to press a hard kiss on her husband. Traveling constantly was leaving her in need of a vacation and no vacation was better than seeing her adorable children.
"Zhang-san…" Rinko interrupted with a slight apologetic look to Ren. "The photographer wants you to okay the shots."
"Of course," Zhang said pulling away from her husband and placing her business face back on in one stride. "Rinko-san, let's go home and see our babies!"
"Eh… Japan?" Rinko asked feeling happiness in her swell as well. It had been too long since she seen Ryoga and Ryoma.
Zhang nodded with a small smile. "What do you think?"
"I would love to," Rinko admitted and suddenly she couldn't wait to get off work and tell Nanjiroh. He'd be happy as well since it had been almost a whole year since they had seen their sons.
XxX
Two days Later
Tokyo Japan
Ryoma tried not to show how detestable he found Hiro's father but it was becoming increasingly hard to hide when Kyohei insisted on spending every day with them. He never felt comfortable with the situation in the first place anyways so he constantly found himself wanting Kyohei to get over his obsession. Either that or have time move super quick so Hiro could hurry up and be an appropriate age to NOT be suspicious of their activates alone.
"Are you troubled over the problems?"
Ryoma looked up and realized he had zoned out of his work and forgotten that they were doing "homework" at Hiro's house.
"No… I just started doing some thinking." Ryoma admitted and went back to his work trying to zone Hiros father out of his head once more. It wasn't that he disliked him a lot on the basis that he had a bad attitude or anything …. It was more of the fact that he was helping to commit a crime that weighed heavily on him and the fact that he was going out with Tezuka-sensei. Otherwise he was a nice dad…
XxX
Fuji wondered what that boy was thinking of to cause such constant frowns but he decided to keep his distance at the same time. He could almost swear this one of Hiro's friend had a strong dislike for him since he had such pointed stares and distant detachment whenever he talked to Fuji.
Still Fuji couldn't help but feel the need to try to make Ryoma like him.
If he was honest to himself though, he'd have to say that after his wife died, he had tried dating both women and men and Ryoma just so happened to be his type he liked.
Call it wrong and disgusting but Fuji knew he was attracted to the boy the first time Hiro introduced him to both of his older friends. Fuji knew he was at least fifteen years older than the boy but that didn't stop him from wondering if the boy had a girlfriend or if he had a chance. Of course he wouldn't try even if he had a chance because he couldn't do that to his son!
It had been hard on Hiro to leave all his friends behind in Kyoto to start over in Tokyo again after they had moved to Kyoto so long ago. He wanted Hiro to have a lot of friend though the boy had inherited his lean figure and girlish features as his wife always used to tease him about.
"Must be common interests and living in the same apartments." Fuji thought as he forced his attraction to the side and wondered why boys almost four years older than his son was his son's friends so fast.
XxX
After school
The next day
Kyohei frowned but Ryoma held firm with his own frown and gold eyed glare.
"Why-"
"You can't go over every day!" Ryoma argued. "You make it so obvious!"
"But that's why you're there and-"
"I think the father is not stupid to notice that I'M always with him in the living room and you towo are having the time of your lives in his room!" Ryoma snapped out as they walked home.
"But it's only for a little bit because-"
"I decline" Ryoma said immediately. "What are you? A girl who needs to check on her man every second of the day? I hate those kinds the most!"
"You know how to shoot me down cold don't you?" Kyohei said with a sigh.
"Why not?" Ryoma said with his own sigh. "I can't help doing it when the man standing next to me looks like a living god in looks and status but is acting like a stalker-ish pedophile!"
All talk stopped when they turned into their apartment only to find Fuji and Hiro exiting
"Hi boys," Fuji said with a smile. "Hiro thought we should take a walk, do you two want to join us?"
"Sure," Kyohei agreed before Ryoma could even spit out a proper excuse that wouldn't offend them.
"Shall we then?" Hiro asked with a smile.
Kyohei blinked almost as if he was in a trance but nodded as well. Unable to worm himself out now, Ryoma murdered Kyohei in his head in multiple ways while walking beside Hiro's father.
As they walked though, Ryoma couldn't help but notice how normal Fuji-san was. He was a normal salary man who was just trying to split time in-between work and home. He probably wasn't expecting Ryoma and Kyohei to be teaching his son how to be a bad boy. The more he reflected on it, the more guilty he felt… which transcended his dislike for Fuji-san just because Fuji had something that he didn't have…
It was probably age Ryoma decided. Tezuka-sensei was too morally right to ever even think about him in the wrong way but Fuji-san was closer to his age and he wasn't a student. He was a salary man who earned money that wasn't allowance and could go wherever.
"Are you usually halfway frowning?" Fuji asked looking at Ryoma with a teasing smile. "You always seem to be in some sort of conflict since I've met you."
"Do you think I'm a bad boy?" Ryoma asked in mere curiosity than anything.
"No, why would you think I'd think that?" Fuji asked curious at how this boy's mind runs.
"It's not that I think it… it's just that I noticed you were surprised we were Hiro's friend and I didn't have a strong like of you either." Ryoma confessed as he glanced across the street to where Hiro and Kyohei already crossed too.
"Well… we haven't been here long so I thought it would take more time for Hiro to get comfortable." Fuji said with a smile. "I'm actually relieved that he isn't having any trouble thanks to you two… although-"
"Yeah?" Ryoma asked looking up at Fuji.
"You really don't seem like Hiro's friend… just someone who comes to babysit them." Fuji said with a smile as he opened his eyes to reveal blue eyes like Hiro had… only these were experienced eyes of the world and not innocent ones like Hiro's.
"Is that so…" Ryoma uttered though he couldn't seem to tear his eyes away from Fuji. It had always been in him to be attracted to mature guys but a sudden hit like this was not what he expected either. Could it be he was slowly becoming more comfortable with Fuji?
"Are you dating anyone?" Fuji asked sudden;t breaking eye contact with Ryoma. It had taken a lot of willpower to turn away and pretend as if he too wasn't interested but he saw the look cross Ryoma's face and he was sure Ryoma probably liked men.
"No… not at the moment or else I wouldn't be at your house so often." Ryoma said a bit sarcastically. "You?"
"No, or else I wouldn't be home every time you were over right?" Fuji teased right back.
"Sure…" Ryoma uttered though he didn't question him any further. If he wasn't about to reveal his relationship with Tezuka-sensei then that just meant he wasn't man enough to announce he's gay.
"Well at least it's obvious why Hiro is gay…" Ryoma uttered once more under his breath.
Surprisingly, he didn't feel the intense dislike for Fuji anymore.
A/N: Do review :3
