PandaPjays-Hello and welcome back for another chapter!
animeobsession- We're sorry it took so long but... well...we don't really have a reason.
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animeobsession- I had a Maths exam. That was pretty bad... I hate school.
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animeobsession-Well, there's a lot of us in this chapter, believe it or not. We're once again being a bad influence on Tala and Rei and Kevin
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The room was filled with quiet mumbling as the few bladers in the room waited for the others to arrive.
Tala, who was being observant, noticed something.
"Rei? Why are you still in Kais lap?" He asked innocently, as he smirked on the inside.
Rei blushed and sat up, lessening his contact with Kai "Uh..."
Kai glared at Tala. "Because he's cold from making snow angels outside and this way he gets warm faster."
Rei grinned at Kai and settled back into his lap with a contented smile. "Exactly."
"Whatever you say Squishy."
Tala walked back over to the couch Bryan was laying on and curled up on top of Bryan.
"Hey Nun-boy! What are you doing?"
Tala scowled at the nuisance. "I'm doing something very un-nun like. What does it look like, smarty?"
"Do I even want to know?"
Tala snuggled into Bryan's shoulder. "Probably not."
Johnny made a disgusted face. "Sheesh, get a room would you?"
"What? Like you and Robert?"
Johnny spluttered.
"What was that, you freakin' robot?"
Rei sighed. "Guys, you fight, you sleep in the snow."
Johnny gulped. "You wouldn't do that would you?"
Rei nodded seriously. "Yes I would and trust me- it's cold out there."
"Lucky you have Kai to warm you up then Rei hey?" Tala quipped.
Kai growled under his breath. "You continue along that train of thought and you will be wishing you had lost your fingers and toes to frostbite."
"Point taken."
The room was silent for a little longer, before a high-pitched scream rang through the halls.
"What the hell?"
The room was quickly evacuated as everyone ran to find the source of the scream.
Another scream echoed through the halls. "Where'd it come from?" Max asked at a junction of three hallways. "I can't tell!"
Rei charged down the left one. "Down here!"
The neko-jin rounded the corner to find Enrique with tears of panic in his eyes pointing at the corner of the room they were in.
Oliver ran to his friend (Coughlovercough.)
"Enri! What's wrong? What happened?"
"S-s-s-s-s-s-sp-sp-spi-"
"Yes?"
"SPIDER!"
Rei's eyes widened. That had been what was wrong? A spider? In a hundred year old manor?
Enrique pointed at the offending creature. "Can you kill it, Ollie?" he asked pathetically. "Please?"
Oliver looked at the tiny creature. "It's not going to hurt you, you know."
The blonde's eyes widened. "Y-You won't kill it?" he asked in a small voice.
Oliver sighed and hit the wall, squashing the spider.
Tala started sobbing, loudly and fakely.
"You killed it! Frenchy, you're a murderer!" Tala ran over to Rei and started sobbing loudly into his shoulder.
"How can you let this...this...taker of life in your house Rei-Rei? How?"
Rei sighed. "Quite easily. I guess that we have to do a bit of a spring clean... or a decade clean as the case may be." he ran his finger along a shelf filled with random oddments and brought it up to look at the thick layer of dust on it. "Make that we definitely need to do one."
Tyson sighed. "But the whole point of a holiday is that we do no work.
In response Rei wiped his dust covered finger on Tyson's sleeve. "This isn't work. It's a necessity."
Tyson groaned. "Does that mean that we're working too?"
"Yes."
"Oooooo! Can I wear a maid outfit?"
"If you want, Tala."
"Hooray!"
The red head clapped in glee and hopped from foot to foot in glee before stopping with a thoughtful expression on his face. "Where'd I get one though?"
Kai snorted. "This place is so old that it probably has an original maid's outfits lying around in a closet somewhere."
Rei turned around to Kai with a slightly hurt expression on his face. "Are you saying you think it's old?"
Kai's eyes widened slightly, surprised at Rei's reaction. "No! I like old. Old is good. Give me more old."
Oliver raised an eyebrow.
"Kai? You wouldn't just happen to be...whatever the opposite of a pedophile is, would you?"
Kai spluttered. "OLIVER! That's disgusting! How could you think that?"
Oliver looked down at the floor. "Well I always wondered if there was something like that. It just came into my head."
Bryan rolled his eyes. "They're called gold-diggers, twit. Haven't you ever heard of them? Beware of them when you go to be sixty."
Oliver nodded solemnly then thought for a moment. "Hey aren't they normally girls?"
Robert nodded. "Usually they are women. However sometimes men can be gold-diggers. That happened to my aunt once." He mumbled the last part but it was still heard.
"Hey..." Tala drawled. "What do you mean by 'aren't they normally girls' anyway? Do you have something to tell the group? It's share-time, Ollie."
Oliver blinked and blushed a deep shade of red. "I... uh... Just wanted to make sure... I..." He trailed off
Enrique sighed softly and looked down at the floor. He knew that it had been too much to hope for but he had still hoped.
Lee sighed. "Now that we're all done saving Enrique from the monstrous spider that was going to eat him as an appetizer and the rest of us as the main meal can we go find the bedrooms? I don't know about you guys but I'm dead tired."
Enrique scowled at Lee's insult but spoiled the effect with a yawn. "We should find everyone else first, shouldn't we?"
"Nah. They'll find us if we make enough noise." Rei said offhandedly.
Tala started bouncing on the spot. "Can I make the noise? Can I?"
"Whatever Tala."
Tala grinned evilly and took a deep breath. Bryan's eyes widened and he let out a cry of 'Block your ears!' before Tala burst into song.
"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love yooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love yooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
Mariah's eye twitched. "I can't believe you just did that!"
Tala turned around with a puzzled expression on his face. "Did what? Sung like a choir of angels wrapped in this gorgeous body?" Bryan rolled his eyes. Tala grinned. "Oh come on, Bry. You know you agree with me on that point."
Mariah put her hands up to her ears. "I don't want to know! And anyway, you just killed Whitney! That has to be one of my all time favourite songs ever! Haven't any of you seen The Bodyguard? I cried! And now you go and ruin its song! Whenever I hear it know all I'm going to think of is your God awful voice!"
Tala pouted. "It wasn't that bad, was it?"
"Who's dying?" came a voice from outside the room.
"The cat." Tyson answered.
"Which one? There are three in this household."
"The pink one."
"Oh. Nothing to worry about yet."
Mariah glared at Miguel as he walked into the room. "What's that supposed to mean, Blondie?"
"Exactly what it sounded like, Pinkie."
"What's all that hair for anyway? Making up for lacking in areas... down below?" Mariah asked, bristling.
A collective "OoOoOo." came from the group.
"Hey! I'll have you know that I'm not lacking anything!"
Lee cringed. "Dude! We didn't need to know that!"
"Oh. Sorry man."
Mariah smirked. "You seemed awfully quick to defend your manly honour there. Feeling Insecure?"
Miguel crossed his arms tightly around himself. "No!"
"If you really want to know - he's perfectly fine in that area. " Mathilda told Mariah, making Miguel turn beet red.
"And who thinks that is a little bit too much information?" Johnny asked. Everyone apart from the two pink girls put up their hand.
Mathilda, suddenly realizing what she said also blushed heavily and hid her face in Miguel's shoulder.
"By that I take it you guys are hiding something." Kevin said, looking at the two teens.
Mathilda buried her face more in Miguel's shoulder while Miguel wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Yes. Mati and I are going out. We've been going out for a while now."
Mathilda turned around in her boyfriend's arms. "And what do you mean by hiding something. We haven't been hiding anything! It's not our fault you're so blind that you can't see anything more subtle than Bryan and Tala."
Tala scowled. "HEY! We are subtle!"
Mathilda rolled her eyes. "I'm not even going to dignify that with a reply."
"Hey, genius you just replied."
"He's got you there Mati." Claude said, burying his finger in Mathilda's side.
"Gah! Stop! That tickles! Miguel, save me!"
Miguel grinned evilly and joined in. "Sorry. No can do, love."
Lee sighed and sat down on the floor. "When we actually leave to go to bed can you tell me?"
Kevin nodded. "Yeah, sure."
Lee smiled tiredly. "Thanks." He lay down on the floor, stretching himself out on the old carpet.
Tala giggled softy to himself. "Lee doing that reminds me of a book that I loved as a child."
"Oh? What was it called?" Lee asked opening one eye to look at Tala, and moving one hand to hold the carpet near Tala's feet.
"It was called The Fat Cat Who Sat On The Mat."
"That's it." Lee growled and he tugged the rug from under Tala feet, sending the Russian sprawling to the floor.
Lee chuckled. "And that reminds me of a book I used to love when I was little."
"And that is?" Tala asked, grimacing as he sat up.
"The Stupid Russian who Insulted the Brilliant and Brave Neko-jin."
"Hey! That's not a real book!" Tala said indignantly.
"Are you discrediting my childhood memories?"
"Maybe." Tala said, doing shifty eyes.
The others laughed at the two on the floor, or in the case of Mati, because they were being tickled.
"Please Stop!" She managed to gasp out between giggles. "You're killing me!" She kicked her legs wildly at the two boys who were concentrating on finding her most ticklish spots. They didn't have enough time to dodge Mathilda's feet. One of her legs caught Claude in the stomach and the other hit Miguel in the face.
Both boys fell backwards, Claude gasping for breath and Miguel clutching his nose.
Johnny burst out laughing as the two fell away from Mati. He then felt the rug under his feet move and he found himself on the floor with Tala and Lee, who were both grinning at him innocently.
"Miguel! Are you ok? Is it broken? Claude! I didn't kick you too hard did I?"
Claude clutched his stomach and sat up. "I think you gave me a bruise. What have you been eating?" He asked with a grin but saw that the girl who had caused his pain had turned away from him.
"Are you sure you're ok, Miguel?" She asked softly, prying his hands away from his face. "Let me have a look."
She poked his nose a few times.
"I'm fine Mati. It's not broken. At least it doesn't feel broken."
Their attention was soon brought to the floor where Tala, Lee and Johnny had started wrestling. Kevin, who was sitting on the rug near them laughing was dragged in by Tala and Bryan was tripped by Johnny's leg.
Kai stared at all the boys rolling around on the floor. "I don't believe it."
"Don't believe what?" Rei asked, walking over to the couch and perching on the arm of it.
"It's the first day and already Tala's got an orgy going. I fear for this house. We have to stay here a week." He continued to watch the group on the floor in a sort of transfixed horror.
"You mean I have to stay here a week. You can leave if you want." Rei told him as he wiggled on the arm of the couch to get comfortable on it.
"No I can't"
"Why can't you leave?"
"Because I cant leave you here alone." Kai said, brushing one of Reis bangs from his face. "That and Tala might rape you."
Rei raised an eyebrow. "If Tala were here to rape me then I wouldn't be alone, would I?" He asked practically, ignoring the urge to lean into Kai's touch.
"But you'd have no one to share a room with." Kai pointed out, pulling his hand back and rubbing his fingers together, relishing the feel of Rei's hair between them.
"I could always share with Lee."
"I think he wants to share with Kevin. There's so much sexual tension between those two."
Rei nodded absentmindedly. "Mmhmm."
Kai was running his fingers through Reis bangs now and its was starting to put Rei to sleep.
"Rei, are you even listening to what I'm saying?" Kai asked the ebony haired teen. A soft sound from the back of Rei's throat was the only answer Kai received. Kai shut his eyes and listened closely. Rei was purring. Softly, yes. But he was purring nonetheless. Kai smiled. Rei had gone into a sort of trance from both how tired he was and the feeling of Kai's fingers running through his hair.
Meanwhile, back at the orgy-I mean, wrestling match.
"Tala, are you humping my leg?"
"NO! I'm humping Bryans!"
"Please say you're kidding."
"I am, don't worry."
"If you're not humping my leg then who is?"
"Why don't you look for yourself?"
"Because someone's fat ass is in my face."
"My ass is not fat!"
"AHHHH! Pink Menace!"
Tala army crawled through the forest of arms and legs until he reached Bryan who was busy battering away any limbs that came to close to anything sensitive... Meaning his face, of course.
Tala held his hand up to his face like a walkie-talkie "Kerchk! RedRobin to EssEll. Red Robin to EssEll. Over."
Bryan looked at Tala quizzically. "EssEll?"
"Kerchk! Short for Sexy Legs, duh. Over."
Tala looked over everyone else.
When Bryan had been tripped he had grabbed onto Ian, who had grabbed Oliver who had grabbed Enrique and they fell into the wrestling match. The flailing mass had then swept up everyone else and now they were all wrestling, though it was only play wrestling.
Tala looked over and through the limbs, hoping to find Kai or Rei. He looked over at the couch up against the wall and saw Kai running his fingers through Rei's bangs. He smiled. Damn! I wish I bought a camera!
Tala yawned and dodged a flying elbow easily. He wished that Kai and Rei would just hurry up and get together. It was painful to watch both of them be so close and get so far apart. Speaking of pain... someone's knee dug into Tala's back, making his gasp and slam into the floor. Why hadn't he seen that coming?
"Got you now, wolf!" Lee crowed happily from his position on Tala's back.
Tala groaned unhappily.
"Get off, Lion."
"Hell no."
Then they both heard a loud screech of "YAYA!" and Ian tackled Lee off Tala.
"WAH!" Lee cried as he went down. Tala smirked. The battle cry of the Lion. How the mighty fall… literally.
Lee pinched Ian's nose between his second and middle finger and pulled. He inserted his thumb in the gap that Ian's nose made when it slipped out of his grasped. "Got your nose!" Lee crowed in triumph.
Bryan crawled over to Lee and pushed Lees thumb so it was completely through.
"That's more accurate."
"Darn you, Falcon!" Ian cried as he launched himself at the lavender-haired teen.
Bryan ducked at the right moment and Ian flew over him to land in another pile of wriggling bodies. The lavender-haired teen raised an eyebrow. "I thought an ankle-biter like him would know not to mess with the high-flyers."
Tala grinned. "That has to be the worst pun I've ever heard."
"I've heard worse." They heard Lees voice say.
"Where are you, Lion?"
"Under you, Wolf."
"Oh." Tala suddenly noticed that he was straddling Lee. "Hi. How the hell did this happen?"
"Don't ask me."
"Hey! Get off him!"
Now it was Tala's turn to be tackled by a short and evil person
Kevin knelt on Tala's arms, effectively straddling his chest and trapping his arms. The green haired boy leant forward and took hold of the twin peaks of Tala's hair. "How much gel to you use on this stuff?" He asked, satisfied that Tala wasn't going anywhere soon.
Tala bucked underneath him, trying to knock the short one off and failing miserably. "More than you can afford."
An angered shout led to them looking back to Bryan and Lee (Kevin still holding Tala's hair.). Bryan had tackled Mariah and the pink freak had taken it the wrong way. And so was currently trying to kill Bryan. Literally.
Bryan yawned and held Mariah at arms length, smirking at the pink one's struggles. "You fight like a girl." He told he matter of factly.
"I am a girl, prick." She told him, trying to reach for Bryan's neck but only succeeding in spinning herself around. "Just wait till I'm out of this. When you least expect it I'll be there." She whispered in a creepy voice.
Bryan looked surprised.
"You're a girl? Man, I wouldn't have noticed. The colours you wear don't really show it."
Mariah snarled. "I know plenty of guys who can pull off pink, thank-you very much. And anyway, isn't purple the international colour for gay?"
Bryan snorted. "That would have been insulting if I wasn't a) Gay, and b) Proud of being so." He shook Mariah, smirking at the amusing way that he legs flew about. "How about you, kitty? Pink stand for anything meaningful? Apart from your idol, Barbie?"
"If you two could finish your lovers spat, I think its time we all went to bed." Enrique said, picking himself up off the floor and dusting himself off. "Jet lag plus the fact that it's late has made me sleepy."
"Very true." Spencer said, crawling out from under a pile containing Aaron, Johnny, Robert (surprisingly) and Tyson.
"Oh Bryaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!" Tala sung gleefully as he made his way over to his boyfriend. "You don't want to touch that. You don't know where it's been," He said, eyeing off the girl still being held by Bryan. He then leant over and whispered in Bryan's ear. "Before someone ruins to moment take a gander over there in the corner, Kai and Rei. Don't you just wish they'd start making out already?"
Bryan raised an eyebrow. "Yes, I do. However I think my reasons are different to yours, pervert."
"Hey! You can't say you don't like seeing two hot guys making out!"
"I don't like seeing as much as you. I prefer to perform."
Tala arched an eyebrow. "Care to demonstrate?"
"Um... If you don't mind, before you start cleaning each others tonsils with your tongues can you let me go?" Mariah asked, still struggling in Bryan's grip.
Bryan had completely forgotten about her existence. "Oh yeah, sure." He kept his eyes glued to Tala's face as he let Mariah's arm go.
Mariah moved forward quickly and punched Bryan hard in the stomach. Nothing happened.
"What the hell?" Mariah screeched. Bryan smirked down at her.
"Going to have to do better then that, bitch."
Tala cupped Bryan's cheek in his hand. "That was a bit harsh wasn't it? You should try to be kind to those less fortunate than you."
"Meaning?"
"Well, you've found someone who actually love's you back and is willing to put up with you and your...habits. She... well..." He inclined his head toward the two boys in the corner, still in their own word. "She's going to have to get a new infatuation."
Mariah didn't see where Tala was gesturing but she still whirled to him.
"What do you mean? Rei and I are meant to be together! Nothing can change that!"
Bryan and Tala shook their heads sadly. Meanwhile, Mariah's' screech had broken Rei and Kai from their trancelike state.
"Huh?" Rei looked around, confused. "I just... huh? Did I fall asleep?" He asked, his eyes darting around the room, trying to figure out why no one was wrestling anymore. He was sure the last time he had checked there had been a lot of people rolling around on the ground.
"You were almost asleep." Kai told him, removing his hand from Rei's hair gently. "Someone just woke you up."
"Someone? Who?" Rei asked, pawing gently at his eyes.
Kai smiled gently at him. "You'll find out in about…5 seconds."
"Rei! What are you doing over there? You should be over here with me! I'm going to need someone strong like you to help me get my bags and stuff into my room."
"I'll do that, Mari-" Lee started but was stopped by Mariah kicking his leg, hard.
"You wouldn't mind doing that for me would you Rei-Rei?"
It was obvious to everyone in the room, excluding the pink one, that Rei didn't want to do anything involving Mariah. And some took pity on him.
"He can't, Miss Mariah. He promised that he'd look around the kitchen with me, seeing as how both Rei and I will be cooking for everyone." Oliver said with a polite smile on his face. "Perhaps your older brother might take them up for you?"
Mariah's eyes shone. "You two are going to be cooking? Can I help? I love cooking! I've got this great salad recipe that only Gary has tried and he doesn't really count because he'll eat anything! I'd love to see what everyone else thinks of it!"
Mariah missed Rei's terrified expression at that. He shook his head vigorously at Oliver behind Mariah's back, mouthing 'No' to him.
"I'm sorry Mariah, but not today. Perhaps tomorrow?"
Mariah scowled at the French boy.
Oliver smiled brightly and hooked arms with Rei. "C'mon Rei! Lets go see what the kitchen is like!"
"Uh... But... Tired..." Was all Rei managed to say before he was dragged out of the room, his eyes never leaving Kai's.
Mariah stared after them. "I'm sure it's just because I'm looking a bit jet lagged," she said more to herself than anyone else.
"Yeah, sure." Lee told his sister, rolling his eyes when she wasn't looking at him.
Meanwhile, Kai had followed Rei and Oliver to the kitchen.
Oliver had pushed Rei in, then pulled Kai in, then shut the door quickly.
"Sorry about dragging you down here Rei, especially since you're obviously tired, but I figured you'd rather be here then with the evil pink one?"
Rei blushed but nodded.
"Good. I'm going to sneak back upstairs and see if Mariah is gone. If she is I'll give you the all clear to go to your room, since you two are sharing. Or you can come with me. Either is good."
Rei stared at the Frenchman in shock "You do sneaky, Ollie?" he asked incredulously.
Oliver smiled. "This innocent face does have its purposes."
Rei snorted. "Innocent? Yeah right. More too cute to have committed a crime."
"That is the definition of an innocent face is it not?"
"Hn. Lets hurry up shall we?"
The two boys turned to Kai who was leaning against the wall of the kitchen in true Kai form.
Rei smiled. "Yes. We should hurry. If she's gone now she might come back by the time we get up there."
That was when they heard the loud cry from one Tala Ivanov.
"GO HASHMEER GO HASHMEER GO!" Tala said, dancing around Kevin doing his best impression of a Shaman dance.
Kevin watched the redhead go with a large grin on his face before joining Tala in conga-fashion to parade around the room. "GO HASHMEER GO HASHMEER GO!"
Bryan gave Tala a look.
"Tala? Who is this Hashmeer? Are you seeing someone behind my back?" Realization dawned on the face of the falcon. "Are you and Kevin in a threesome with this Hashmeer and you've never told me?"
Kevin gave Bryan an incredulous look. "You idioth!"
Tala paused mid Shaman-like leap. He landed rather painfully on the ground. "I'm going to agree with Kevin on this one, idioth. Where would I find time to see them? I mean, between you, Ian, Spencer and the milkman I'm beat. I can't do no more... literally."
Bryan stared at him in horror. "W-What?"
Tala suddenly started laughing.
"Bryan! Your face is priceless!"
His face then turned serious. "Bryan, don't be so serious all the time. I would never cheat on you. I love you too much."
Tala wrapped Bryan in a hug. Bryan smiled and hugged him back.
Kevin, caught in the moment, walked over and hugged Bryan too.
Tala gave him a look. "Don't touch him."
Kevin smirked and hugged Bryan tighter. "Oh did Bryan forget to mention the torrid love affair that we've been having for the past few months? Really, you think he would have mentioned it, Hey Bry-Bry?"
Tala scowled at the annoying runt and thumped him over the head. "No one but me gets to call my Bry-Bry, Bry-Bry." He snuggled into Bryan's shoulder. "Right, Bry-Bry?"
Bryan smiled. "Whatever you say, Red."
Tala nuzzled into Bryans neck, then turned to Kevin and smirked.
"Hey monkey, haven't you had a crush on the lion for a while now? How many months? Schfifty five months?"
Kevin blushed and kicked Tala before running out of the room.
Tala gripped his leg "Ouch! Little runt packs a punch." He looked around at the room to see everyone staring at him, shocked. None were more shocked than Lee though.
"Oh, come on!" Tala said indignantly. "He couldn't have made it more obvious if he started to serenade Lee with a ukulele."
"Actually Tala, he's more subtle then you." Rei said as he, Kai and Oliver reentered the room, having heard what Tala said.
"Where'd Pinkie go?" Kai asked.
"Gary took her bags for her and she went with him so she could get an early start on her 'beauty sleep'." Enrique said.
Kai snorted. "She's going to need a LOT of sleeping time then."
Rei walked over to Lee. "Lee? Are you ok?"
Lee looked at Rei. "He likes me? As in like likes me?"
Rei's eyes widened, put on the spot. "Uh... Yeah."
If it were possible for Lee to look more shocked he would have. "Sure?"
"Sure."
"Positively?"
"Positively."
"Absolutely?"
"Absol- Lee just go after him! He's probably made his way halfway across the house by now! And gotten lost in the process!"
Lee nodded and dashed off in the direction that Kevin went.
He ran along the halls, following Kevin's scent. The monkey had a particular scent that Lee had grown rather fond of. Just like he had grown rather fond of Kevin.
He stopped suddenly. The scent was through the door to his right. He could feel a light breeze and hear gentle sniffling. Was Kevin crying?
Lee cautiously stepped inside the room, scanning it until his eyes came to rest on the small figure of Kevin crouched in a corner of the room. "Kev?" He asked softly.
Kevin buried his head in his arms. He had known that it was Lee from the moment the lion had stepped into the room. He knew the other's scent like he knew his own. Why did Tala have to have such a big mouth?
"Go away Lee." Kevin said, though his legs muffled it.
Lee walked over to Kevin and sat beside him.
"You know I can't do that Kevin." Lee sighed. "Kev, look at me."
Kevin did nothing.
"Kevin."
Still nothing.
Lee dug a finger into Kevin side, which forced the monkey to raise his head as his body stretched away from the finger.
Lee grabbed Kevin's chin and, hoping it wouldn't get him killed, pushed his lips to Kevin's.
Kevin's eyes widened. Lee's kissing me? Lee's kissing -me-? He closed his eyes and focused on enjoying the feeling of Lee's lips against his own. He knew that it couldn't last. Lee had obviously made a mistake. Lee couldn't like him, it wasn't possible.
Oblivious to the thoughts running through the other's mind, Lee pulled Kevin into his lap, giving him better access to the smaller boy's mouth.
After what felt like an age, but was only a minute the two boys broke apart, panting lightly.
Kevin looked away. Lee put a hand on Kevin' cheek and pushed his face so he was looking at him again.
"Kevin? Did I offend you? Because if I did I'm sorry." Lee pulled the green haired youth into a hug and buried his face in his hair. "I'm sorry if I hurt you."
Kevin's eyes widened, and he felt tears gathering in his eyes again.
"Lee…you could never offend me." Kevin said, tears trickling down his cheeks. "I should be the one worried about offending you." Kevin buried his face in the lion's chest. "I don't deserve you."
Lee growled softly and took Kevin's face in his hands, forcing him to look up into his eyes. "Never ever say that, ok? It's me who doesn't deserve you if anything, ok?" He kissed the other gently. "I can't believe it took Tala to get us together. I mean, Tala! Of all people!"
Kevin shrugged. "I could think of worse people."
"Like?"
"Your sister."
Lee visibly shuddered. "Very true."
Kevin smiled and shyly brought his lips to Lees' again.
The two sat in the room for several minutes exchanging sweet kisses, before they got up and walked back to the rest of the group, to find a very odd image.
Bryan was currently face-first on the floor with Rei sitting on his back noggieing Tala who was held in a Full Nelson by Kai, who was kneeling next to Rei.
Lee raised an eyebrow. "I don't want to know."
Kevin grinned. "Let me guess... Tala started it?"
He was answered with three people nodding, Bryan with considerable difficulty, and the person in question loudly protesting his innocence.
"It was KAI! KAI I TELL YOU!"
"Whatever you say Tala. Oh yeah." Kevin said, walking over to the redhead still in Kai's grasp.
Kai let him go as Kevin walked over and Tala started rubbing his neck, before looking up into deep purple eyes. Then a foot made contact with his thigh.
"OW! Mother fucker!" Tala clutched at his leg. He was then shocked to find himself being hugged by his attacker.
"Thank you Tala. Thank you so much." Kevin murmured.
Tala smiled at the little neko-jin. "My pleasure."
Rei rolled off Bryan, allowing the Russian to sit up.
"Kevin? Hands off my boyfriend. I think Lee may be getting jealous."
Kevin released Tala from his death grip and smiled. "I hand him over to your very capable hands. Remember to gag him. Not only because I think some people want sleep tonight."
"I did not need to hear that." Johnny said loudly from his position of lounging on the couch.
"Yes you did Jonathan, admit it." Tala said as he draped himself over Bryan.
Johnny growled but said nothing.
Lee looked over everyone and smiled when he saw Rei. He was curled up next to Kai and was dozing off on the floor.
"Guys, I think it's officially time for bed now. Reis falling asleep, and so am I."
Everyone else voiced how tired they were and everyone split up into their rooms.
Kai crouched beside Rei and shook his shoulder gently. "Rei?"
His only answer was an incoherent grumble from the neko-jin. Kai sighed and couldn't find it in his heart to fully wake up the almost asleep Rei. He snaked one arm underneath Rei's shoulders and the other underneath his knees and picked him up bridal-style. He stood up slowly, surprised at how light Rei was.
"Kai? What-?"
"Going to bed Rei. Say goodnight to everyone."
"'K. Night everyone!" Rei said sleepily, and then snuggled back into the warmth that was Kai. Kai blushed and nodded, his way of saying goodnight at the moment, and walked into the room he would be sharing with Rei.
Kai laid Rei on his bed and proceeded to tuck the neko-jin in, using the opportunity to stare unashamedly at him. When his task was done, Kai straightened and made his way over to his own bed, lying on top of the blankets, deep in thought.
"Kai?" Rei asked sleepily.
"Yeah?"
"I can't fall asleep."
Kai blinked. "But you were practically asleep out there. What happened?"
"I don't know. I'm tired, but I can't get to sleep."
Kai sighed and stood up, walked over to Reis bed and lay down next to Rei.
"Kai?"
Kai gently started running his fingers through Reis bangs. Rei purred gently and leaned into the touch. Kai continued to run the fingers of one hand through his bangs, while the other hand undid the clasp to Rei's hair wrap and lets the ebony waterfall free.
Rei closed his eyes and let himself enjoy the feeling of Kai's hands running through his hair. Normally he couldn't stand anyone coming near his hair. Kai was different, though. He didn't know why. Rei felt himself drifting into the same type of trance as he had before.
Kai smiled gently when he realized that Rei had fallen asleep and, too tired to go to his own bed, curled up beside Rei.
However, they were woken only two hours later to an unearthly scream. Both sat up and looked at each other, not seeming to care that they were in the same bed. They only registered one thing.
"Something's happened to Tyson."
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