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Staring out the window of the moving train, Kaito watched nature flash pass him as everyone got closer to their destination, the beach. Across from him, Luka and Miku were sleeping soundly in their seats, resting on each other. Luka had work the previous night and today was her day off, but she still needed to catch up on her sleep. Miku, on the other hand, got bored on the train and fell asleep. Kaito wasn't sure how much longer this window could distract him from his urges. His sister head rested in his lap while she napped, and IA leaned on Kaito's shoulder, dozing off as well. Somehow, Kaito was tasked with waking everyone up when they had arrived. In the cub behind him, Neru, Rin, Len, Meiko, and Gakupo were also resting. He couldn't take much more, he had to do it. He was a teenage boy, there was no way to stop this urge, it was only natural, all boys got this urge.
He had to draw on someone's face this instant. Everyone was vulnerable, someone needed to receive the divine punishment of falling asleep on transportation. It was a known fact that if you fell asleep on a plane, bus, boat or train, and someone had a marker, you'd be graffitied when you woke up. 'Who though? Who!?' Kaito fought himself on who the unlucky victim would be. Scribbling everyone was out of the question, he'd never get away with it. He could only chose one. One unlucky victim would fall prey to his mischief. He ran scenarios in his head with chibi versions of everyone on the train. His sisters were out of the question, he didn't want to see the sad faces of betrayal he'd get from them. 'Luka? No, she'll tell Meiko and then I get the crap beat out of me. Miku? Nah, it'd be the same thing as Luka. Rin and Len are out, Neru will smack me with her phone if I mess with them without asking first. Mei- that shouldn't even be considered. Do I have a death wish? Do I want to die? That only leaves Gakupo then. Well, sucks to be him. Better move fast, we're almost there.'
"Shion, get back here so I can kill you!" Gakupo screamed as he chased Kaito out the train and toward the beach, his sword ready to strike him down. Kaito went too far, he realized that. Did he regret his actions? Of course not, that's why he was running. He didn't get that far though. Right before he made it to the sand, a bicyclist crashed into Kaito. Gakupo dragged the road kill back to help carry all the things they brought. "Jackass." Gakupo muttered. He still had to wipe off all the drawings and 'messages' he left on his face. Everyone in their group laughed when they saw what Kaito had done to Gakupo's face and arms. Though what he did to his face was tame and common, mustache, monocle, goatee, monobrow; what he did to his arm was clearly not for children's eyes. This became more obvious when he glanced around and saw mother's shielding their child's eyes from such terrible profanity. Once he made it back to everyone, he tossed Kaito back to them. "Get him off his sorry butt and make him carry stuff. Luka, could you help me wash off this off my arms? I keep getting glares from parents."
"S-sure *snicker* sure, hold still!"
"You can't actually think this is funny!?" Luka burst out laughing, clutch her stomach as she pointed and laughed at him, along with the rest of the group. "I will bury him alive."
Once everyone got their things settled on the beach, they went off to the dressing rooms to get changed. The boys finished first, exited, and waited outside for the girls to finish. Kaito and Len put on normal swimming trunks, Kaito's blue with white waves in the bottom; He also wore a blue hoodie as well, and Len's yellow with a black borderline. Gakupo's however, was not the norm. Considering he was from a family of samurai, that must of been normal for them to wear loincloths, or maybe that was the only thing he had to wear. Either way, the sight was not the most pleasant at first. You got used to it, but that first sight gets you good. Finally the first pair of females came out was none other then his two favorite little sisters. Kaiko, sporting a two-piece matching swim suit design as her brother, leaped on her brother. "Oni-chan, look at my swimsuit! Is it cute?"
Kaito smiled, patting her head lovingly. "The cutest there is. A cute swimsuit goes good with a cute little sister."
IA went up next, showing of her black and pink two-piece, the lower part colored black, the upper right cup pink and the upper left black. "Am I alright?"
"Super cute too. It's hard to believe you're allowed to be that cute." Kaito complimented as he ruffled her hair.
"Are you sure it is? You're not just saying that?" IA questioned.
"Of course! I bet the other guys think so too. Right guys?" "Gakupo shrugged his shoulders and nodded, not really having a opinion on the matter.
Len looked down on the ground, his face redden slowly as he responded. "Y-yeah, it's pretty." Len sometimes forgot that IA and Kaiko were girls with attractive bodies. He never saw them in swim wear before, and he didn't want to ogle at his friends all day. "I-it's pretty hot out here, let's head in the water real quick!" 'I need to cool off now!'
"Yeah!" Kaiko and IA cheered as they ran toward the ocean, only to be yanked back by Kaito.
"No you don't. Sunscreen. Put it on first."
Kaiko whined loudly, not wanting to listen to her brother. "But oni-chan! It's all sticky and white and feels weird and gross! I don't like it when that gooey stuff is all over me!"
Len gulped. 'That is phrased way too wrong. Rin get out here already!'
"Well you both gotta put it on anyway. Len, do me a solid and rub lotion all other my sister and IA." Kaito asked.
'That sounds even better! I mean worse! Rin, hurry up! I forgot how good looking are friends are!' "C-couldn't you do it yourself?" He asked, not sure if he should curse himself for throwing away such a glorious task or praising himself for self restraint and respecting his friends.
"I'm staying here till everyone's done changing, and they don't want to wait. It's not that hard, just make sure you get them everywhere. Here." Kaito tossed Len the sunscreen. "Just so you know, Kaiko's gonna squirm around a lot when you do it to her, so I give you permission to do whatever you need to do to her to get her rubbed down everywhere, got it?"
'Anything? No! No! Why does he have to phrase it like that!?' "B-but I might mess up!" Len countered.
"It's cool. I've messed up a few times doing it too. IA's gotten pretty upset when I got some that white gunk in her hair, but she'll forgive you."
'Why does everything he says so impressionable?!'
"Hey Len! I'm done changing, check-" Len yanked Rin's (Striped Bikini) arm, not even giving her time to show off her rainbow striped bikini to everyone.
"Rin, help me put lotion on Kaiko and IA! I'm no good at it, so show me!" Len dragged Rin off, Kaiko and IA jogging after them to where they set up there stuff.
"Why do girls take so long to change? They put on like one extra piece of clothes." Kaito asked to no one in particular.
He felt an arm swing around his shoulder, playfully rocking him back and forth. "That's cause we're fabulous! No one cares when a guy changes! Like, check me out!"
Kaito removed the arm from his neck, seeing Meiko(Long Pareo) striking a pose, showing off her white bikini, the lower portion covered by pareo. "Looks good on you, real cute. Uff!" Meiko punched Kaito in the gut.
"Wrong answer! Sexy! All girls swimsuits are suppose to be sexy! You don't call it cute!" She yelled angrily.
"Sexy, ok! Super sexy! I didn't know that rule, ok?! Sexy, you look so sexy!"
Meiko smiled. "Much better. Don't forget it."
Miku(Polka Dot Bikini) and Neru(Akita Neru swimwear) came out next, waving to Kaito. "Kaito! Hey, hey, ready for an awesomazing day at the beach?" Miku asked, closing the distance between them.
"Yeah, lets volleyball! I'll be lead spiker!" Kaito screamed as he punched up in the air.
"But before that, what to you think? I bought it yesterday."
Kaito gave her a thumbs up. "Sexy. Good buy."
Miku blushed, placing both hands on her cheeks, and looked away. "W-wow. I didn't think you say something like that. I thought you would've just said it's cute or something. I-I didn't think you'd enjoy it like this."
"Don't worry, Meiko set me straight after she punched me. Always call a girls swimsuit sexy no matter what or get hit!"
"Meiko!"
"Yo!" Meiko grinned widely.
"Whatever. Kaito, what do you really think of it?" Miku asked again.
Kaito gave another thumbs up. "Sexy."
"Meiko, you broke him! Now I can't get a real answer from him!"
Meiko wrapped her arms around Miku and rocked back and forth. "Ah, don't sweat it! Besides, doesn't feel great being call seexy? Makes me feel super confident about my bod!"
Everyone sweat dropped at that. 'Don't you have enough as is?' They all thought.
Neru poked Kaito in his stomach. "Remember, you said we'd build the biggest sandcastle today."
"I won't, I wanna build one too. By the way, when's Luka coming out? She's taking forever." Kaito asked.
"Remember that time I mentioned Luka's super shy about her body? Yeah, she won't change with other people in the room, not even us." Miku explained.
"So we're going to be here till the end of time then?!" Kaito exaggerated.
"Oh, shut it. Unlike them I change clothes at a normal speed." Luka told Kaito as she walked out. Luka wore a zipped up brown hoodie, which covered her from her mid thighs, all the way up to her neck, concealing whatever she wore underneath.
"Wow. At least you don't have to worry about putting that much sunscreen on." Kaito remarked.
Meiko tsk'd, disappointed at Luka. "If I had known you wanted my hoodie just so you could hide yourself like that, I never would have brought it for you."
Luka shrugged at her. "Oh well. Kaito, do you got a problem with me wearing this?"
Kaito gave her a thumbs up. "Sexy."
"Yep, Meiko punched you too. Did the same thing to Gakupo to when we went to the pool once."
"Her punches hurt. A lot." Kaito commented.
After some more idle chit chat, they made their way over to where they planted their gear. When they arrived, they could see that IA, Kaiko, Rin, and Len already playing in the water. They all sat down and put on their sunscreen, except for Kaito. Kaito set up the beach umbrella, and started looking for the volley ball equipment to set up for their game. Meiko held out a bottle of sunscreen for him. "Here. You'll need this, won't you?"
Kaito gave her a repulsed look. "Ew. No way, that stuff is gross as shit."
Gakupo threw the volleyball Kaito was looking for at him, making him topple over. "What you do that for?" Miku asked.
"His hypocrisy pisses me of to no end. It's like he was born to be an idiot that pisses people off."
Meiko laid down on her beach towel, and did the back of her bra top. "Kaito, do me a solid and get my back for me, will ya?"
Kaito got back up and went to Meiko's side with lotion. "Sure, it might feel a bit weird though."
"Why w-! Oh my god!"
"Told you it feel weird. IA and Kaiko always make weird sounds when I do it. Guess I'm not very good at it. Do you want me stop? Someone else is prob-"
"No! Keep going! Lower back, lower back! Yes! Oooooohhh. That's the spot! So there is something you good at!" Meiko shouted in almost pure extasy as Kaito rubbed her back thoroughly with lotion.
"Really? Maybe I was dong it right, I never did ask if I did it right or not. I just assumed cause of the sounds they made." Kaito was about to get up and go back to setting up for there game, but Meiko grabbed his are before he could move so much as an inch.
"Where do you think you're going? Keep rubbing."
"But I got your back and shoulders already." Kaito answered plainly.
"Doesn't matter, keep going till I say so." Meiko demanded.
"Ok." Kaito did as instructed and went to work on Meiko's backside. Meiko continued to let out moans and sighs of pleasure. 'Best. Massage. Ever.'
Miku began to get jealous of Meiko, she was about to ask for that, but the brunette beat her too it. And to make it worse, Kaito was apparently an amazing masseuse. Miku knew Meiko didn't have any feelings for Kaito, she just liked being bossy and violent with him because he could take it and didn't resent her for bring so rough most of the time. However, she was interfering with Miku's flirting attempts. "Kaito, take a break from Meiko and lotion me up. Please, I don't want to get sun burned later!"
Meiko let out another satisfied breath. "No way, he's my slave. Gooo get yooour ooown."
"I'm not a slave!"
"Yes you are. Now keep rubbing!"
"Fine."
"Meiko, I-" Miku was cut off when she felt a could, liquid like substance smeared on her back. She looked over her shoulder to find Luka rubbing lotion on her back.
"Don't worry Miku, I got you." Luka said.
"T-thanks. I appreciate it." 'Luka, no! You're almost as blind as Kaito!' Miku sulked, sad about her friends naturally helpful nature making her miss a chance.
After they finished, they set up a spot for their game. It was Miku and Kaito versus Meiko and Gakupo, with Luka acting as the ref with the whistle around her neck, and Neru as the crowd. "Alright, I want a good, clean game from everyone! Miku, you're serving first." Luka announced, blowing her whistle loudly.
Miku served the ball over the net, which Gakupo returned with ease. Miku ran after the ball, and hit it high up and near the net. Kaito sprung up and spiked the ball. Meiko was ready for that though, standing right below. "Denied!" She shouted as she used her arms to bounce the ball back up. Unfortunately, it smacked Kaito right in the face, making him crashed down; the ball bouncing back to Meiko's side of the court. "Dang it, they still scored."
"*Tweet* Point, team ice leeks!"
Miku rushed to Kaito's side, lightly tapping his face to wake him up. "Kaito? Kaito! Are you ok?"
Kaito grabbed ahold of her hand, making her blush from the position they were in. "Miku... even if we win... I'm going to lose, aren't I?"
The rest of the day consisted sand castle building, splash fights, races, digging big sand holes, and some Frisbee. Everyone had gone into the water except for Luka and Kaito, who remained away from the water. They never took off their hoodies the entire time they were at the beach. For whatever reason, they'd shy away from going in the ocean. The sun had just finished setting, showing a beautiful full moon in the night sky. There wasn't a single star in the sky, only the moon would shine this night. The group sat around a fire they started so they could cook and roast things to eat. There was one person missing however, and that person was Kaito. "Oniiiiii-chaaaaan! I made a smore for you! Come on, I want you to try it!" Kaiko shouted, calling her brother.
"Kaiko, I don't think he's around here, we would have seen him by now if he was." IA told her, sipping from her orange juice box.
"Aww. I worked really hard to make it though. Can someone find oni-chan for me? I need to stay here and protect my special treat to oni-chan from the evil seagulls!" Kaiko asked as she shield the slightly over burnt smore.
"I'll go find him!" Miku shot up and went toward the ice cream stand up near the road.
Luka got up from her seat as well. "I'm going for a walk, if I see him, I'll tell him to head back." Luka grabbed one of the sticks and walked further down the shore. The pinkette kept walking, drawing scribbles in the sand as she went. She went so far down at see couldn't see her friends anymore, only a faint light from their fire. Soon enough, she made it to a rocky cliff. Sitting at the end, staring at who knows what, the missing blue boy was found. Luka climb up, walked to the edge, and sat next to him. "Hey."
"Hey."
"Your sister wants you, she made a smore for you."
"Really? I'll head back in a minute then." Kaito replied, not taking his eyes off whatever he was looking at for even a second.
"What are you doing out here all alone?" Luka asked.
"Nothing much really. Thinking, I guess. It's a real nice moon out tonight, the sea looks nice too. I like how quiet and peaceful it is." Kaito answered, his eyes more fixated on the moon now. "Luka, who was your first friend?" He asked out of the blue.
"Miku. Why are you asking?"
"That's nice, a real friend from the start."
"You're not making any sense."
Kaito paused for a bit before continuing. "I didn't have real friends before, just my sister and IA, whose basically a family member."
At this point, Luka knew anything she was about to ask would lead into the more personal and mysterious past of Kaito, and even though she didn't want him to divulge anything that would bother him, she couldn't handle anymore of these small hints about him she's acquired after all this time. "Isn't Benkai you're best friend? Don't you guys go way back?"
"All that time... didn't count for much of anything. We were never real friends. I never had other ones before, so how could I tell it was shallow and fake till now."
"How'd you grow so apart?"
"We didn't. Like I said, it was never real. I was just a third wheel." For the first time, Kaito broke his gaze from the moon and look at Luka. Luka was speechless when she saw Kaito's eyes. To describe it all in one shot, it was a mix of sadness, loneliness, regret, but most of all, disappointment. "I lied back then. You look a lot like her."
"...Who?"
"Leia. My other fake friend."
She couldn't help it, she had to ask more, she was far too curious. "You never told me much about her. Was I similar any other way? Did she mean a lot to you?"
Kaito broke out a sad smile. "No, luckily she was nothing like you. I actually like that about you the most. It really showed me the difference between a real and fake friendship."
"What exactly was that?" Luka asked.
"After our trip to Akiba. Even though we both agreed we were pretty much neutral about each other, you were always watching out for me. With projects, you write out most of it for me because you knew I didn't never get a passing score on my own. In the halls, you'd help me find my way since I sometimes still get lost going to the classroom. You watch after my sister when I'm not around in my place, making sure she safe and happy. But most of all, what I like about all of you guys the most is how you made me feel apart of the group. I never feel left out like I used to. So thank you. You, Miku, Neru, Meiko, Gakupo, Rin, and Len. I've only ever felt this way with Kaiko and IA. I always thought that what you feel with your family and what you feel with you're friends is different, but now it doesn't feel so different."
"Kaito..." Luka was speechless. Kaito had just shared some of his past, his painful past. Some of his inner most feelings were let out, and she had nothing to say back. Luka hugged her knees and buried her face in it. She was about to do something she wasn't sure she wanted to do. The way Kaito shared his past pain made a feeling well up inside her, one that compelled her to spill contents of her own troubles. "You know, I really envy you and Kaiko. You two are so close, almost inseparable. A brother or sister is priceless. They're one of the people you rely on the most. I have a sister, her name is Lily. For the longest time, Lily was the person I loved most, admired, and wanted to be like. She protected me from my dad as much as she could. One day though..." Luka began cry. Her tears flowed down her cheek, and her voice began hesitating and getting more high-pitched.
"She just changed. She stopped loving me. From then on, I always got a look from her, like I was just a nuisance. She even began siding with that monster of a father. All she cared about was doing whatever that monster wanted. W-why? Why won't she love me? I see her everyday, but can't talk to her. Why does she hate me now?" Luka's voice began getting so high, it was almost incomprehensible squeaks. "I don't e-e-even try to talk to her a-anym-more. All I do is stay silent and stare at the floor. She doesn't want anything to do with me anymore. S-she h-h-h-hates me. I-I-I-I m-miss her so m-m-much. Lily..." Luka started breaking down.
Kaito stared at her with a blank expression. So he was right that night when he dropped her back at her house, she had lost something too. He felt guilty though. Perhaps it's because he revealed something so personal about himself that Luka forced herself to bring up pent up emotions. Watching her cry like this wasn't easy, and he didn't want her to keep drowning in self loathing because of something that probably not her fault in the first place. Kaito had enough sleepless nights beating himself up before to know it's something people shouldn't experience. So, to cancel it out, he opted to tell Luka something extremely personal. An image that still occasionally haunted him when he slept. The most scarring thing that happened in his life. Then tell her that since Lily's still around, maybe in the future they could become close again. "I held Leia's bloody corpse."
Luka ceased her crying and stared at Kaito with wide eyes, her tear stains evident on her cheek. "What?"
"I freaked out at first, I didn't want to believe what I saw. So I picked her up and tried to wake her up. It only freaked me out more. Holding a lifeless body in your arms, looking at the cut in her throat that spewed out blood all over her face and body. Real eyes that are devoid of life. And an expression on their face that says 'help me, please save me, I'm scared, I don't want to die.' I'll never know if she hadn't been died, maybe we could have been real friends. I don't know, I'll never find out. I like to think that we would have, but that's the past. But in your case, she's still around, so there always a chance she'll love you again. So cheer up, okay?" Kaito smiled, and lightly punched her arm.
Luka couldn't believe Kaito had the ability to smile when recalling something so terrible and horrid. He was still viewing positives for her, not wanting her to cry any further. Wiping away the remaining tears in her eyes, and pushed away her own problems. If Kaito could still make a smile after something like that, so could she. "Yeah, you're right." They both watch the sea in silence for a while, listening to the soothing sound of waves crashing on the shore. The scenery was nice, but they had to head back eventually. "We should head back, you still have that smore waiting on you." Luka joked.
Kaito laughed heartily. "Yeah, I'm starting to starve. Let's go." They both got up, but the edge of the cliff was wet and slippery. This caused Luka to lose her balance and fall over the edge. Kaito grabbed her arm, but he couldn't keep sufficient grip on the ground with just his feet and fell down with her, toward the ocean. They both surfaced back up, gasping for air. Once they caught their breaths, Kaito looked at Luka with a bored expression and made his voice comically low. "You what you did. You failure you."
"S-s-shut it, I know ok-k-kay! God, the water is freezing!" Luka shouted, shivering in her spot. "L-let's get out before we freeze."
Kaito nodded. Once they made it back to shore, Kaito took off his blue hoodie and twisted it dry. He looked back and saw Luka shivering in her wet brown hoodie. "Aren't you going to take that off? You'll catch a cold if you don't."
"No! Then you'll see me. Actually, turn around and don't look this way. And don't look until I say so, got it?" Luka asked, though more demanded then asking anyway.
Kaito rolled his eyes and twirled around, zipping his hoodie back up. "Yeah, yeah. Just hurry up." Kaito heard her zipper being pulled down. He waited and waited for her to say he could turn around so they could head back, but instead all her heard was grunting behind him. Eventually, he couldn't stand waiting anymore and check to see what was taking Luka so long. He walked over and peered over Luka's shoulder. She was still trying to wring out all the water in her hoodie, but she seemed to lack the strength to accomplish that. "It's real sad how little strength you have sometimes." Kaito commented.
Luka(Resort bikini) jumped from her spot. "K-kaito! No, don't look! Don't look at me!" Instead of quickly putting the hoodie back on like a rationally thinking person, Luka tried covering parts of her body with it. "Look away! Don't look- Hey give it back! Ah!"
Kaito swiped the hoodie from Luka, making her bend down to the ground and hug her knees, trying to cover as much of her body as she can. Kaito paid no attention to Luka's distress, only focusing on drying out her hoodie. Once he finished, he looked at Luka oddly as he examined her swimsuit. "Green? Seems like it'd be more likely for Miku to wear that. Still, looks cute on you." Kaito held out her hoodie for her to grab, which she did quickly. Suddenly, Kaito jerked back and covered himself defensively. "Crap! I mean sexy! Please don't hit me!"
Luka put on and zipped up her hoodie like before, and stood up. "Meiko's not here to hit you right now, you don't have to keep saying that."
"Sorry, but you never know, she could be sprinting towards us right now so she can drop kick me in the face." With Kaito's silly antic's out of the way, they finally started making their way back. "Hey, Luka. So why are you so shy about you're body?" Kaito asked.
Luka groaned, looking away from him. "I just not all that comfortable showing it. I'd rather wear my regular clothes. I don't have confidence like Miku and Meiko."
"Oh, so you're just naturally shy about it? Well, you are pretty much the shy one of you three anyway, so it makes sense."
"I wouldn't say I'm shy... quiet is a better word."
Later, they made it back to camp. Once Kaito sat down, his sister began smothering him with attention, which he gladly welcomed. Kaiko, exhausted from the day, napped on her brother's lap after a few minutes of their playful sibling reunion. IA began fighting off sleep, wanting to fall asleep on Kaito, but too embarrassed to with everyone around.
Miku, who returned before Luka and Kaito after failing to locate him, wanted to make an announcement. "Okay everyone, today was amazing and all, but it's about time we talked about something serious. Our club needs to preform somewhere soon! We'll never get anywhere up the ladder to stardom this way! So, club members, ideas!" Miku looked around for any ideas, but got none.
Len and Rin had a dumb look their face, having no idea what to say since they were new to the club. Neru had no idea what she was talking about in the first place since she didn't know much about the club in general. Kaiko was fast asleep on Kaito, and IA seemed too busy just trying to keep herself awake, she might have not even heard her. Gakupo wasn't part of the club, so he had no obligation to offer an idea, nor did he care much to.
Meiko and Luka just seemed depressed, getting on all fours, sulking about how they made no better progress then last year at getting places to preform. Miku joined her friends in their sulking. All those dance moves and songs they made together, the thought it going to waste because they never amounted to anything from it hurt. Kaito looked at the self-wallowing trio, wondering why they were overeating so much. "Is this really all that big a deal?"
"Shut it, baka Kaito." The three said sadly.
Kaito looked further down the beach. He might have a solution to their problem if this was the beach he was thinking of. "Hey, whats the name of this beach?"
"Onokoto." Luka answered dejectedly.
"Is Onokoto the beach that has those crazy parties and concert every weekend at a super expensive beach house?" Kaito asked as he pointed far down the beach.
"Yeah. If you preform at one of those, it means you're meant to be famous. But even getting into the party is exclusive, I don't think we're even allowed to dream about preforming there. If you're not invited it's like ninety-thousand yen to get in, and only two percent of the people there are actually invited." Meiko answer flatly, sighing.
"I could get us to a show there. I know a guy that wants to pay me back really badly, he could set it all up for US!" Kaito yelped that last bit as Meiko, Miku, and Luka grabbed his hoodie ends and yanked it up in the air. He made sure not to be pulled to much so Kaiko wouldn't fall off his lap.
Death glares came from all three of them. "Don't fuck with us like that Kaito, we're serious here." All three of them said coldly.
"I'm not! P-put me down first, I don't want to drop Kaiko!" All three of them released him and waited for his explanation.
Kaito exhaled. These girls were scary enough as is, but they were talking it to a whole other level now. "I'm serious. The guy I know happens to own that place, and a couple other big stages like that. He could totally hook us up, probably for next week."
The second he finished that sentence, Luka, Miku, and Meiko flew around the camp, gathering up all the supplies they brought with them. "We're leaving now!" Meiko shouted.
Miku started piling things up in her arms. "We need to start practicing right away! Double, no, triple our practice sessions!"
Luka grabbed things and gave them to Gakupo to carry. "I gotta think of new dance moves! Kaito, don't you forget to set it up!"
"S-sure, I won't." 'Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. It's been a while since I've seen YOHIOLOID, hopefully he's still not too sorry.' It was a shame they all had to leave in such hurry, but once they heard they could get a performance at somewhere where tons of people gather and words spread, those three became obsessed.
The first thing Kaito(School uniform *parka) did next morning was get on a train back to Onokoto so he could speak with YOHIOLOID. It was rude to just show up at someone's door step without notice and just to ask for a favor, but he'd rather not be killed at sixteen by three angry girls. After he got off the train, he walked far down to a luxurious beach house.
At the front door, a few teens were sitting around a table, playing cards. "Damn it, one of you lying assholes has a nine!"
Kaito ignored them and went straight for the door, only to find it locked. He walked over and knocked on the table. "Hey, can I see YOHIOLOID? Or is he not here?"
"Unless you made an appointment for today, which he has none of." One player droned out, not even bothering to look up from his hand.
"Look, I get it. Everyone wants to be cool and get in our parties and tell all their friends they got to go; Or maybe you're a band looking to book your first big gig, but our boss is a busy guy and not everyone can... K... K-K-KKAito! It's you! You actually came to visit! Let me open the door for you!"
"Move it, I'll open it for him!"
"No, me!"
"Text YOHIOLOID! Tell him Kaito came!" The group of teens rushed to unlock the door and ushered him in.
Kaito didn't know if he had to wait or go find YOHIOLOID. Then his ice cream need kicked in. Kaito went off to go in his fridge and eat whatever ice cream they had. He'd feel guilty about it, but YOHIOLOID did say that if he ever came to visit he could help himself to anything he wanted. Inside the kitchen, he found a short blond boy playing his bird. "Hey, Oliver. Got a pet now, huh?"
"Mister Kaito?"
"You're half right; it's Kaito only."
Oliver bowed his head. "Sorry."
"Don't be. Is you're brother around? I kinda need a favor." He asked.
"Sure! He'll be super happy to help, I'll go get him! Come on James!" Oliver ran off with his bird in pursuit.
In only a minute, YOHIOLOID rolled himself in on a wheelchair, not the slightest bit shocked at Kaito alreay half done with a tub of ice cream. "I'm glad you finally came to visit! How you been?"
"Fine, more or less. I go to school now, it's really hard." Kaito answered.
"No joke? Guess you really are a average teenager now."
"I could have been one and not go to school, but I didn't have a choice. I get my mom in major trouble if they found out I never did any real homeschooling, so better to just stop before I get caught."
"For once you made a smart move. Before we go any further though..." YOHIOLOID rolled up to the low table and smack his hands down on it along with his head. "I'm sorry! I'm still sorry about what I did!"
Kaito copied his form of bowing. "Me too. I was angry and went too far."
"You don't have to apologize! It's all my fault!"
"Neither do you. It happened, but it's not all your fault."
"Yes it is! I killed Leia!"
"And I broke you're legs. Yet you still won't call it even."
"So that's the whole story? You three always seemed so close though. Then again, what goes on the surface and what's going on inside are usually two different things."
Kaito shoveled more ice cream into his mouth. "So you don't have to feel so guilty about it. Like I said, the friendship was fake, I just didn't know because I never had any other friends to know the difference."
"That still doesn't excuse taking a life, even if it was an accident."
"It's not all you're fault though, if Leia didn't freak out and move so much while you had that knife to her throat, she wouldn't have died accidently got her vein cut. Granted, you shouldn't hold knifes to peoples neck to intimidate them. Besides, you never fought with it. You just had it for show."
YOHIOLOID looked down, ashamed of the way he used to act. "That still doesn't change anything, I still want to pay you back. I'll never stop trying to repay my debt."
"Well, if you want to take a small chunk out of this 'debt' you made for yourself, I got a favor I gotta ask." Kaito explained to the blonde the reason he came over, what he needed, and why.
"Consider it done. I'll just kick out that other band I had lined up for this week, don't even know their name enough to care."
"Nice! Thank you, now I can live another day! I gotta say though, for a bunch of orphans kicked out of town after we won, you guys made out amazing. You got rooms here for your whole group and you're living in style." Kaito commented as he marvel around.
"Yeah, who would have thought? But I somehow did it. Not being a violent idiot helped out a lot." YOHIOLOID chuckled.
"So how'd you make it so big? Come on, tell me you're secret."
"I don't think you'll understand, but here goes nothing. It starts of in theoretical-"
"Pass! Never mind! That sounded like it was going down a really boring path!" Kaito exclaimed. He rather not embarrass himself when his brain short circuits.
The blonde rolled up his chair, and made his way over to Kaito. "Hey, you got a picture of your new friends? I curious to know this group that could get the shy 'Devil' out of his shell." YOHIOLOID teased.
Kaito rubbed the back of his head. "I'm not shy, just quiet. And don't call me devil, I hate that name they gave me."
The blonde shrugged his shoulders. "You earned it after that brawl. When you snapped these two legs and let me live, they thought only the devil would let someone like me live to suffer forever like this. Though it's not all that hard now. Besides, before that you were 'Blue demon'. Not too bad an upgrade." YOHIOLOID jested at the end.
Kaito flipped out his phone and pulled out a photo from their recent trip. "Here. This is everyone, we were down the beach yesterday."
YOHIOLOID studied the picture, surprised at what he found. "Wow! Look at you, who would have guessed you could make so many friends. Damn! Ok, tell me now. Which one are you humping?"
"What?"
"Don't give me that! Those girls are drop dead gorgeous, you have to be after one of them at least. Is it the brunette? She is so damn sexy with that body of hers, and her boobs look so fricken huge! Aw man, she seems like she'd be wild in bed! It's definitely that one, isn't it?! Or is it the twin pigtails? Into smaller portions are you? Want someone you can dominate? Look at the blonde with that side pony tail, she looks like that tsunadere type. If that ones free, let me have a go at her, I love bittersweet acts! Hey, loo-..." The blond ceased all comments about the photo when he came across a certain some in the photo. "Kaito... is..." YOHIOLOID could only point at the screen, his face as white as a ghost, with his other hand clutching his chest, with his heart beating a hundred miles an hour.
Kaito looked to where he pointed, seeing Luka's face. "...Oooohhhh. No, that's not Leia, her name is Luka. That's totally what Leia would've look like if she had grown up though."
YOHIOLOID let out his breath and released the grip on his chest, his heart rate returning to normal. "Oh thank god. That scared me shitless. But man, she's good looking. Do you have a pic without that hoodie on? I gotta see that!"
Kaito rolled his eyes. He was perfectly fine now. "Why are you so girl crazy now?"
"What can I say? I know how good a girls feels now." Kaito gave him a weird look. "Sex, Kaito, sex. It's fucking amazing, and it changes with every type of girls. I regret all the time I didn't spend chasing them now! You should try it, go out with one of those girls! One of them has to be your type!"
"Nah. I don't think I'm worth dating all that much. Besides, I have friends now. That's just as good as a girlfriend, right?."
The blonde sighed. "Trust me, Kaito. The feeling of dating someone you like is way above just being friends with people you like. Don't hurt yourself trying to figure it out, you're the type that'll only get it once you experience it. Anyway, I'll make the schedule the concert for Saturday. Send me a copy of that pic, I need to show my guys who to let in."
"Sure, give me your number." Once they exchanged numbers and Kaito sent the picture; Kaito waved goodbye and left the premises.
Back on the train, Kaito couldn't stop thinking about YOHIOLOID. There conversation was so smooth and even though some serious topics came up, they could brush it off rather quickly. It was like they were old friends catching up. One last thing rang in Kaito's head. 'The feeling of dating someone you like is way above just being friends with people you like.'
He wonder if what the blonde said was true. He loved having friends now, and apparently dating was something that overshadowed it. It made him real curious, questioning if it really could be so amazing. Unfortunately, he'd have to give up on the thought. He didn't think there was anyone that'd want to date him. He didn't think he had any qualities that made him a desirable person to date. He wasn't smart, or good at sports. He was lazy, dozed off a lot, messed with others for his own amusement, quiet, a bit reserved. He found it a miracle he had friends at all now. Kaito doubted anyone he knew would even consider dating him.
'Still... I wonder what it'd be like? And who would I want to date?'
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