a/n: This chapter, as well as the next, are long overdue and I feel kinda bad for writing them so late.

This one was requested by -Natalie.M-. Enjoy!

Stupid

Stupid. That was the only word Kaoru could think of as he awoke the next morning.

In fact, 'stupid' was the only thing he could think of at all. Being hungover, he was realizing, meant having your thinking faculties greatly reduced.

And so, since it was the only thing he could think, he employed himself with repeating it as a mantra in his head, desperately wishing someone would magically appear and offer him some aspirin.

He couldn't open his eyes, he discovered. Although, he wasn't sure if it was a really question of not being able to so much as not wanting to.

Somewhere inside his throbbing head, he recognized the desired to check how Hikaru was doing. So, stubbornly keeping his eyes closed and trying to move as little as possible, he blindly reached out until he was draping his arm over Hikaru's waist.

Hikaru acknowledge the touched with a groan. "My head," he managed to muttered out.

"Mine too," Kaoru said.

"We're so stupid," they said together.

They heard their door open, heard as tsking sound and recognized their most severe maid instantly.

"Silly little boys," she sighed and they groaned. "Sit up," she ordered.

They didn't listen. They didn't want to.

They heard here move to their adjoining bathroom. They heard the sound of running water and the tell-tale sound of a bottle of aspirin being brought over.

Begrudgingly, they sat up so they could take the offered capsules.

"Worst hangover yet," Hikaru commented when their maid had left.

"Definitely," Kaoru agreed, attempting a nod and discovering that to be, yet another, stupid idea.

"But last night was... pretty good," Hikaru added.

"Don't remember it," Kaoru said.

"I don't remember much," Hikaru told him. "But I remember the important bits."

Kaoru thought back to last night. He couldn't remember much. But he did remember fevered kissing, searching hands, desperate touching. Heat. Passion. Blissful 'I love you's.

"Yeah," Kaoru agreed. "I remember the important bits too."

a/n: Short and sweet but hopefully worth the read?