OOCness, a bit. I've decided that Toby's sorta has Ed Sheeran's voice, BTW.
I don't own Grade 8 by Ed Sheeran.
Chapter 11 Toby lay next to Kyoya under the blanket, hands behind his head and smiling with half-lidded eyes.
Kyoya was watching him, when there was a knock on the door.
"Master Kyoya, friends are waiting for you downstairs." A voice said through the door.
Kyoya got up and pulled his pants and shirt on.
Toby looked up at him, "See you soon?"
"Yeah. Be right back."
He walked down the stairs, out of his bedroom and down the many corridors to the front room.
Kaoru was holding Rusty to his chest.
"What are you two doing here?"
Kaoru looked up at him with somewhat pleading eyes, "Her father tried to do something to her."
That sentence rocked Kyoya to the core.
"Come on." He said quietly.
Toby was still lying on the bed when there was a knock on the door, "Toby, we are coming in." Kyoya put extra pressure on the 'we'.
Toby quickly got up and got dressed, then scrambled down the stairs just in time for the door to open.
Kyoya looked relieved when he saw Toby in clothes.
The oldest Smith saw his sister and Kaoru.
"What are you guys doing here?"
Rusty bolted over and buried her face in Toby's chest.
Kaoru looked at her worriedly, "Lucas... He tried to..."
Toby's eyes widened in horror.
"He didn't..."
"He... D-did." Rusty hiccuped.
Toby scooped her up and got her in a bone-crushing hug.
"It's okay. You're safe."
Kaoru and Rusty were fast asleep, hugging each other on the couch.
Toby checked the clock.
1:03 AM
He'd been taking care of Rusty for the past hour and a half.
Kyoya rested his head and arm on Toby's shoulder, "She'll be fine. Let's go to bed already."
"Mm."
The two of them got down under Kyoya's blanket and fell asleep quickly.
"Ah! That's creepy!" Rusty cried, waking Toby.
He opened his eyes to find himself hugging Kyoya around the middle. He was still asleep.
Toby looked over at his sister, "Shut up. We're trying to sleep."
"But it's creepy seeing you sleep with someone else!"
"You're not. I'm sleeping in the same bed as him. Not sleeping with him."
Kaoru shuffled over next to her, "Oh man. It is creepy seeing the Shadow King look happy like that."
Then Toby realised Kyoya was awake, eyes barely open and looking at him over his shoulder.
"Shut up everyone so we can sleep." He growled, closing his eyes again.
Toby buried his face in Kyoya's shoulder.
Rusty scrunched her mouth sideways, then looked at Kaoru, "Do you think they'd mind us turning the TV on?"
Kaoru shrugged, "If we kept the volume low."
What they didn't know was that neither boy was asleep.
Once the younger two had gone back downstairs, Kyoya rolled over to face Toby, who smiled tiredly at him.
"Morning."
"Hey."
They had their foreheads pressed together and just looked in each other's eyes for a while, before the moment was broken by Rusty yelling something about a rabbit.
Both sat up, then got out of the bed and walked down the stairs to glare at Rusty, who was frozen in an epic leap.
She smiled apologetically, "Uh, sorry."
Toby rubbed his eyes, "Whatever. It's probably time to go to school now anyway."
"Yeah. It's eight. School starts at nine. Host club is starting now, though." Kaoru said.
""Shit!"" Toby and Kyoya yelled at once.
Kyoya quickly got dressed in his uniform while Toby dug through his drawers for something to wear, finally settling on a white button-up shirt, black jeans and his grey converse.
Rusty was still wearing what she had been the previous day, which was a red checked shirt and grey jeans.
Kaoru was in his school uniform, just without the blazer.
"We'll get food while we're there. Come on." Kyoya said, taking Toby's hand and dragging him to the door.
Kaoru had Rusty on his shoulders again and was carrying her for the front door.
They all piled into a limo and took off.
""Sorry we're so late!"" Rusty and Kaoru panted, looking at the remainder of the host club, Toby and Kyoya just behind them.
"Hurry up and get ready!"
Kyoya sat with Toby, chatting to girls.
"He's so cute when he's embarrassed." Toby said, smiling.
Kyoya frowned, "No I'm not."
Toby smirked, "What about last night...?"
All the girls shrieked.
Toby grinned.
Rusty sat with the twins.
Hikaru had been super worried about Kaoru the previous night, because he hadn't come home.
He clung to the younger twin with all his might.
Hunny and Mori were eating cake and Haruhi was chatting aimlessly with her guests.
*Akito POV (Kyoya's older brother?)* I sat just outside Father's office.
Of course I'd noticed that Kyoya always had that boy with the stripy hair around. No-one else seemed to.
"Akito, you can talk to me." Father called through the door.
I stood up and went into the office.
"Father." I gave a little nod of respect, "I don't think anyone else has noticed, but Kyoya always has a boy with him."
Father looked up at me from his desk, "Continue."
"The two of them seem awfully close. As far as I know, he's been staying here for about three days."
"Hm." Father looked down at his desk, "Thank you Akito. You can leave now."
I bowed slightly and strode out, smirking a bit.
*Back to our favourite stripy-haired boy, Toby~!* Toby sat in class.
Everyone was looking at him funny.
He assumed people knew he was gay.
That's what the rumours were. No-one knew just how true they were.
Today also happened to be the day Phoebe appears back in our story.
Phoebe was sitting at the front of the class, glaring back at Toby every chance she got. In her opinion, Toby had been leading her on.
He had his feet propped up on the desk, tilting his chair back and listening to his music.
My mind is a warrior,
My heart is a foreigner,
My eyes are the colour of red like a sunset,
I'll never keep it bottled up,
And left to the hands of the coroner,
Be a true heart not a follower,
We're not done yet,
And I see it in your movements tonight,
If we should ever do this right,
I'm never gonna let you down,
Oh I'll never let you down,
Now keep it on the down low,
And I'll keep you around so I'll know,
"Mister Smith!" The teacher's voice cut through the music.
Toby slowly opened his eyes and slid the headphones around his neck, "Hm?"
"No music in class. Headphones please."
"No."
"What?"
"I'm not giving you my headphones." Toby said simply, crossing his arms.
The teacher frowned.
At this point in time, everyone was staring, even Hunny and Takashi.
The teacher glared down at him, "You may be the oldest in the class-"
"It's not about me being the oldest, it's about the fact that these may be my prized possession, and you're not touching them." Toby's voice held almost no emotion, but it was firm.
Half the class gasped. No-one had ever talked to the teacher like that.
Toby rocked back on his chair.
"To the Chairman." The teacher hissed.
He shrugged, leaned forward to get chair back on four feet, stood up and walked out of the classroom, putting his headphones back on on the way.
"I didn't do anything." Toby said boredly.
The chainman, Mister Suoh, stood up, "Well you must've, because otherwise, why would you have been sent here?"
Toby leaned on his hand, elbow on the desk, "I didn't want the teacher to take my headphones."
"Ah..."
""So what happened?"" The twins asked.
Toby smiled, "I can officially listen to music in class, now."
""Lucky.""
"Toby, come here." Kyoya called.
Toby turned around, "What's it Kyo?"
""Kyo?""
Kyoya looked up from his little black book, "That's his new nickname for me. Not that I like it." He added.
Hikaru and Kaoru smirked.
"Home?" Toby asked.
"In a minute. First, have you ever met my brother?"
"What's his name?"
"Akito Ootori."
"Not at all. Why do you ask?" Toby asked leaning an arm on Kyoya's shoulder.
Kyoya shook his head, "Nevermind. Let's go."
The two of them, followed by Rusty, walked down out of the school.
"Toby, when do you think it'll be okay to go home?" She asked, catching up to her brother and his boyfriend.
Toby shrugged, "Dunno. But staying at Kyo's is good, right?"
"Hm." Rusty agreed.
"We're here." Kyoya said.
They walked up the front path.
Kyoya turned the handle and swung the door open.
"Kyoya." Yoshio Ootori stood in the front hall.
Toby looked at him with wide eyes.
Rusty peeked out from behind him.
Kyoya kept a straight face, although he knew if his father had been waiting, it was never good.
Yoshio looked over to Toby, glaring slightly.
Toby took a step back, pushing Rusty with him.
Kyoya looked at Yoshio levelly, "Yes, Father?"
"Come and speak to me in my office." His eyes travelled to Toby, "You, wait here."
Toby gave a small nod. Kyoya followed his father to his office, glancing at Toby over his shoulder.
Rusty plopped down into a chair.
Toby continued to stand, a bad feeling in his bones.
"What is your sexuality, Kyoya?"
The question caught the Shadow King completely off guard, "What?"
"You heard the question."
"Why do you ask, Father?" Kyoya asked.
Yoshio looked at him over his glasses, "Because you've never seemed interested in females, and you have been around that stripy-haired boy an awful lot lately. Apparently, he's been staying at our house, too."
Kyoya felt like a deer in headlights, and forgot to respond.
Damn. Since he'd entered the office, he'd felt something like this coming on.
"Kyoya, answer me."
"Of course I'm straight." He said, trying to keep his voice steady.
"Don't lie to me."
Kyoya cleared his throat, "Uhm... Gay, father."
There was a pause.
Yoshio stood up and walked over to the shorter man.
His neck prickled, a feeling of danger overwhelming him.
SLAP!
Kyoya's head jerked.
The doors slammed open.
Toby stood there, eyes narrowing dangerously when he saw the growing red mark on Kyoya's face.
He was panting heavily.
Yoshio took a step back when Toby charged in, automatically in the direction of Kyoya.
Kyoya took a deep breath, then held up a hand to stop Toby going any further.
He froze in his spot, then turned a murderous glare at Yoshio.
He didn't speak.
Yoshio smirked slightly, only angering Toby more.
He was just keeping himself from diving and pounding his face in.
"I'm not ashamed of it Father." The words that broke the silence were said by Kyoya, he looked defiantly at his father.
There was an uncomfortable silence, then, "Get out."
"Huh?"
"Get out, Kyoya. You have half an hour to pack the things you need, then leave." Yoshio said.
Toby took his wrist.
"Come on." He said quietly, black and white bangs shadowing his violet and blue eyes.
Toby kind-of dragged the bewildered Kyoya out of the room.
"Five minutes, Kyo. Do you have everything?" Toby asked.
Kyoya was stuffing a couple more things into a suitcase.
On this rare case, Rusty was silent. She had helped Kyoya pack his things, just like Toby.
"Yes."
"I'll call the twins." Rusty said, "I'll ask if we can stay for the night."
"Mm-hm." Toby agreed as Rusty went down the stairs to the phone.
Kyoya had been holding back all his feelings for the past twenty-six minutes.
Toby also had. By now, he probably would have committed a homicide of a very famous and important man.
But he'd held it back. He'd put all his anger into helping Kyoya.
"We've got sixty seconds to get out of the house, and the twins said they'd be happy to have us over." Rusty called from downstairs.
"Okay. Come on Kyo." Toby picked up one of the three suitcases.
Kyoya picked one up and Rusty pulled the handle out on the last and dragged it down the stairs, "They... Also said... They'd get a limo... For us." Rusty said between hauls of the case down the stairs.
"Here's your room, Toby." Kaoru said, opening the door to a particular guest bedroom.
It had pale blue walls and the bedspread was green.
"Thanks." Toby rumbled. His voice seemed to get a bit deeper when he spoke now.
He shuffled through the door and closed it behind him, then flopped down onto the bed.
It's my fault, isn't it? Maybe I shouldn't have been so... GRaWawR at his dad.
The silence in the room stretched on, until Toby realised it was eight thirty.
There was a soft knock on the door.
"Toby. Dinner." Hikaru said.
Toby rolled off the bed, landing on the hardwood floor and hitting his elbow.
"Ah. Shit." He said emotionlessly.
"Urg." Toby grunted slightly when the bedroom door opened.
He lay on his bed, only pyjama pants on.
He sat up and saw Kyoya standing there.
"What is it?"
Kyoya closed the door behind himself, then tipped his head forward, hair shadowing his eyes.
It didn't do anything though, because Toby could see the tears trailing down his face.
"Kyoya." He whispered, getting up and hugging him tightly.
They ended up falling asleep together, on Toby's bed.
In the same position that they had woken up in the previous morning-
Toby's arms wrapped around Kyoya's waist and Kyoya pressed against Toby's chest.
"Love you." Toby breathed before drifting off to sleep.
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