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In Hell
"You heard what I said." Kyohei didn't even spare her a glance.
"Stop right there!" Sunako exclaimed, stopping in her tracks.
"Why the hell should I? I wan—" The words died on his lips as his right wrist gave a painful jolt and he was forced to back up.
They stood right before the looming door.
"You'll have to stay that way, I won't allow you to see my hideous body." She said, while glaring at Kyohei, fighting the imminent nosebleed trickling down onto her lips.
Kyohei turned sharply on his toes to look at her, "You aren't the boss of me. If I want to wash away your blood from myself, then I damn well will!"
He tried to stay calm, but he was getting more pissed off at her by the second.
"Besides," he added, "I won't be looking at your "hideous" body." He sneered.
Sunako didn't know what to say, and before she knew it, she was being pulled painfully into the bathroom. By the time she figured out what to say, the bathroom door was locked and Kyohei was already headed to the shower.
"If you don't want to melt or whatever, I suggest you turn around."
Kyohei muttered as clothing was thrown over the shower door and strewn across the bathroom floor and onto Sunako's head.
Sunako's only choice was to turn around, away from the shower.
'Good thing the shower doors slide.'
Sunako thought as she tried in vain to fight off the mental image of Kyohei's soapy, nude body from the last shower episode.
*Flashback*
Sunako was so caught up in her own thoughts about cutting her bangs that she did not hear that Takenaga was telling her that their bathroom was broken and they would be using hers for a month or so.
A while later, with an armful of yellow rubber duckies and her hair up in a towel, she proceeded to the shower.
"Why can I hear the shower?" Sunako asked herself.
"The shower?" Sunako asked again.
There right before her widened eyes, was Kyohei taking a shower.
The yellow rubber ducks began to fall from her arm, and at this sound Kyohei turned around.
He was in for quite a shock…
Both screamed.
Sunako was left in a bloody heap with the rubber ducks surrounding her on the bathroom floor.
"He saw…the dazzling creature saw my hideous body."
*End of flashback*
The last of his garments were tossed over.
"Oh, Kami-sama…" she whispered as blood began seeping through her fingers from her nose, while pulling his shirt off of her head.
(AN: You'd think she'd be dead by now or something…so much blood loss. Haha.)
Kyohei tried not to think of the girl outside the shower, no doubt having yet another nose bleed. He futilely attempted to not think about the first incident involving the shower.
*Flashback*
He heard sounds behind him, and turned suddenly to see what had been the cause.
Much to his horror, it was a very nude Sunako with what had been an armful of little yellow rubber ducks.
Both stood wide-eyed for a moment.
They screamed.
Without thinking, he hastily escaped through the bathroom window.
*End Flashback*
He finished washing the last of the shampoo out if his hair.
'What a night. I can't believe that even happened.'
A tinge of pink graced his cheeks.
'The fact that I actually saw everything, well that would not be good for anyone else to know. I did have trouble denying it, especially when Ranmaru asked. Stupid pervert Ranmaru!'
Kyohei shook his head.
'It did not help that I got a slight nose bleed. Geez, and I thought Ranmaru was the weirdo here. Oh well, it's not like I can really do anything about it. I forgot all about that anyways, until now. But if Sunako knew…I don't even want to think about it.'
He sighed deeply.
'After all that I ended up getting a cold and fever. I had to have Sunako take me home. Then I apologized and said that I hadn't seen anything.'
Kyohei relaxed a bit as the hot water ran down his shoulders.
'What am I going to do? How the hell is being handcuffed to her going to make anything any better? Or even help turn her into a lady? Why me? Of all the guys in this house…and Oba-chan actually believes Sunako and I are dating.'
After getting nowhere in coming to any sort of solution, he realized something… his eyes just about popped out of his skull.
'Oh shit! I forgot to bring in clothes with me. Damn it, for being pissed off by her so easily!'
He resisted the urge to pound his fist into the sleek shower wall, but just barely. After 5 more minutes of attempting to relax Kyohei turned off the shower, but hesitated getting out.
"Uh, Sunako?"
"What is it creature of light?" Her reply was muffled from trying not to make a mess.
"I… uh…forgot my clothes in my room…" He trailed off.
Sunako's eyes bugged out her head and she passed out as more blood spurted out of her nose. Thank the gods she had already been sitting on a stool.
"Sunako?"
'Great now she's fainted again I bet. Well, actually this could be good. If I can grab a towel before she wakes up I could get it on, then sling her over my shoulder. I could get dressed really quick.'
Kyohei thought.
"How am I going to do this?" He wondered out loud.
He grabbed a towel from the towel rack on the shower door and wrapped it around himself as he stepped out of the shower. Then, he slung her onto his left shoulder as not to strain the handcuffs, and had her left arm and carried her out with his right arm supporting her upper back.
'Oh Jason, Freddie, I thought you would never come. Sk sk sk sk…' Sunako was unconscious and once again dreaming about her two favorite horror characters. She was in a gothic style dress with a bloody butcher knife doing god knows what.
'Oh god, she's having another one of her twisted, sick day dreams…erm, if she were conscious anyways.'
Kyohei used his left hand to get out of the bathroom, and walked back to his room. He shut the door and locked it. Kyohei grabbed some clothes before placing Sunako onto his bed. He was thankful that the chain for the handcuffs were a good yard long. Kyohei almost managed to get his shirt on just as Sunako began to wake.
'Aw crap. Thank Kami-sama I already put on my pants.' Kyohei sweat dropped as he watched her wake.
"Uhhh…" Sunako moaned.
'Where am I?' She thought for a moment before opening her eyes and sitting up on the bed. As she did this however, she caught a glimpse of Kyohei's lithe back and just about passed out, once again.
'Why does this particular creature of light affect me so badly?' Sunako subconsciously, of course, knew the answer to that question.
Sunako did not want to consciously admit she has a slightly gargantuan infatuation with Kyohei.
'He is too bright, and besides, there is no way! It isn't even a possibility!' She thought.
Kyohei turned around after getting his shirt on.
'What the…' he was looking at Sunako sitting up on the bed with a mixture of annoyance and fascination.
"What?" Kyohei questioned, still watching her with slight amusement.
Before doing anything else, he determined it would be a good idea to get as much blood off of Sunako before taking her anywhere else. Granted Kyohei figured it wouldn't be too bad.
'She could not possibly have bled so much that she looks like road kill, right?' He reassured himself.
…until he looked at Sunako again more carefully.
Blood was all over her.
Her face looked like she had just eaten someone's raw liver.
Her hands were covered with blood.
Not to mention, the front of her sweat shirt looked like someone had cut her throat and let gravity do the rest.
'Are you kidding me?!,' Kyohei thought exasperatedly.
'At least it isn't all over her…Yeah right!'
Thankfully, by some miracle the blood had not spilt anywhere but on themselves and the aforementioned bed sheets. The landlady would have probably killed them all if it had gotten everywhere.
'Maybe I should just make her shower as well. She is going to need to eventually anyways.'
Kyohei was so preoccupied he failed to notice the girl he had been unintentionally staring at for the past five minutes.
"I…was going to tell you to stop staring at me creature of light." Sunako frowned.
"Huh?" Kyohei asked stupidly, before realizing she was right. He cleared his throat.
"We need to get some new clothes for you. You're soaked in blood." Kyohei shivered in disgust.
She was still sitting upright on the edge of his bed. He began to walk to the door and unlock it.
"Are you just gonna sit there all day or are you gonna do something about the nasty looking mess you are currently wearing?"
For some reason Sunako was behaving differently towards him this morning. Usually, she would throw a fit and attack him with any sharp object nearby.
'I must be getting worn down….' Sunako sighed and got off the bed to follow Kyohei down the hall to her sanctuary of darkness and isolation.
Kyohei was genuinely surprised when Sunako followed him without another word.
'Ah nooo, she must have figured out that she'll have so many opportunities to kill me. Oh I'm a dead man.' Kyohei swallowed hard, now fearing for his life as they approached her room.
Little did the two teens realize they were being watched by their roommates at the other end of the hallway.
"I can't believe there wasn't anything on TV this morning." Ranmaru declared.
"Not even a decent documentary." The raven haired teen uttered.
"Good thing Takenaga heard the bathroom shower turn on. We walked over here just at the right time." Yuki yawned.
"Indeed." Takenaga nodded.
"What do you think is going to happen now?" Yuki inquired.
"Hmm…anyone's guess at this point, judging from the scene they caused earlier this morning. It seems as her demeanor towards our lover boy has changed completely. Wouldn't you say, Takenaga?" Ranmaru glanced in the direction of the black haired young man.
"She is more subdued than she generally would be in a situation like that. Do you recall last time they had been handcuffed together?" Takenaga pointed out.
"Well, of course, who could forget that understatement of a fiasco to turn Sunako into a lady?" Ranmaru vividly motioned.
"Yeah, but that was the landlady's doing. It was because she thought they were dating in the first place. Not to mention she was trying to force them to do the… d-deed. I mean seriously, did you see all those-" Yuki was cut off by Takenaga coughing and sporting a reddened face.
"Yes, we saw them. What were her outlandish notions based off of, and her own niece being subjected to that type of thing of all people?" Takenaga wondered.
"Well, they are hormonal teens…do you honestly expect anything less of Sunako's aunt anyways? Someday we will be uncles…" Ranmaru sighed hopefully, hands clasped by his face. An elaborate scene of falling cherry blossoms seemingly magically appeared behind him.
"We're only fifteen!" Yuki squealed as quietly as he could.
"Your point being?" Ranmaru smirked perversely at Yuki.
"That is my point! We are way too young to even be thinking let alone standing around talking about it." Yuki puffed out his crimson cheeks.
"With the exclusion of you, Ranmaru, I believe most of the kids our age would agree with Yuki and I on that subject. I am thankful to say Sunako has not realized our little dispensation of sleeping pills." Takenaga's face had returned to a normal shade. He ignored the scene altogether.
"Besides, I don't see Kyohei spontaneously turning into some ravenous beast anytime soon. I just don't deem him as being anything other than a gentleman in the end." Yuki's unusually perceptive assertion caused the pervert and bookworm to turn towards Kyohei's form.
"You may be correct Yuki." Takenaga gazed at the significant mass of blackness following Kyohei from a distance.
"I'm sure of it." Yuki responded after a moment.
Just then the house phone began ringing...
Onwards to Chapter 5! Please let me know what you think of this chapter. Constructive criticism is appreciated.
