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Yukimura was banging his head against the wall. Why did he have to stay at home while the others went to school?
"Argh! I'm so BORED!"
He sniffed, and recoiled. The house still smelled like pot from last night...
"Hee hee, Kyo...Kyo, I...I know how...know how...to say...uh...heh heh..." Chinmei's voice was filled with odd stops and starts. "...how to say...your mother...hee...is...is...is a two bit WHORE..." Whore was said really loudly. "in...in Ancient Egyp...Egyp...Egyptian." He looked very proud of himself.
Kyo and Sasuke, both of them just as high as Chinmei, whose height at this point had to measured in miles, burst into hysterical laughter. They were gone.
Sasuke shook his head and rubbed at his red eyes. He gave an oddly disturbing giggle. "Egyptian? Pssshh. Wait'll you hear..."
There were in Kyo's room, and Yuya could here them through the adjoining closet. She blinked at Yukimura, who was trying to soothe his irritated throat with tea. The fumes had caused some minor damage, and since Sasuke was still suffering from his coffee aftermaths, (Yuya had decided that he would still be drinking decaf, but she was going to wean him slowly) he'd been avoiding Yukimura. Avoiding everyone, in fact, and they thought he would probably keep on until the curtains were finally mended.
"Is Sasuke speaking Greek?" she asked. Yukimura nodded. "When did he learn that!"
"Well, you remember last summer, when he and I disappeared for two months?"
She stared at him. "You went to Greece?"
"I learned how to milk a goat!"
He continued to bang his head against the wall. Finally, he decided to go the kitchen as a diversion. Instead of braining himself against the wall, he could do it against the fridge. Wonderful.
Once in the kitchen, he found himself looking in a bottom cupboard they'd never really used. Sasuke's dog Haku suddenly barked behind him, and he fell forward, startled. He hit his head against the bottom of the cupboard, and to his shock, it rang hollow!
He carefully examined it, and after much searching, found the outline of a trapdoor. He jerked it up and looked down. His eyes widened with glee.
A secret basement! Looks like he wasn't going to be so bored after all...
Sasuke cautiously looked in the kitchen. Not a soul in sight. Carefully he snuck in, and that's when Yukimura suddenly stuck his head out of the cupboard. Sasuke froze.
They stared at each other as the moments passed, Yukimura dressed in pants so low and so tight that movement should have been impossible and another skin-thight vintage t-shirt, and hanging half out of the cupboard. Sasuke was wearing a white shirt tucked into khaki shorts, and looked like he'd just been goosed by Bontenmaru (which had never actually happened, but Yukimura guessed that this is what Sasuke's face would have looked like if it ever had.)
His eyes were enormous, and his mouth was hanging open.
It was Yukimura who broke the silence.
"Aw, Sasuke, you were worried about me while I was in the hospital!" He darted out of the cupboard in a way that defied physics, considering his pants, and snatched Sasuke up in a hug.
"Look, Yukimura, Yuya had just switched me to decaf, I wasn't in my right mind..." To his horror, Kyo and Benitora and Yuya had all chosen that moment to come the kitchen for a snack. Kyo snickered, and Yuya giggled. Tora just grinned.
"Aw, you really do care! Sasuke, you're so cute!" Yukimura was actually nuzzling a sweat-dropping Sasuke.
Sasuke had a sudden thought. Why in the hell should I care what they think? I like it when Yukimura hugs me like this. It makes me think that everythings all right with the world, and that someday Yuya will let me have espressos agian. Why should I let them spoil it?
"Tell me I'm cute again." he demanded.
Three pairs of jaws dropped. Yukimura was delighted.
"You're just the cutest thing I've ever seen, Sasuke ! "
"Tell me I'm adorable!"
"You're just as adorable as the fuzziest widdle kitten, Sasuke! "
"Go on--tell me you love me!"
"I wuv you Sasuke, and Iknow you wuv me too! "
Kyo looked liked he was about to gag. The three of them sprinted out, running as far and fast as they could until they could no longer hear Yukimura's syrupy sweet voice.
"WUV YOU!"
