Kio stole the remote from Youji and flicked the tv off.
"Hey!" Youji whined. "I was watching that. What the hell man."
Kio crossed his arms. "I've thought long and hard about this-"
"Long and hard?" Youji rolled his eyes with a smirk. "Please." He eyed Kio's pants. "You always come up a little short on that one."
"I was going to say you could drive again." Kio let out a heavy sigh. "But if you're going to be like that then I guess you can just walk for the rest of your life."
Youji shrugged. "I've already told you I like to walk." He leaned back on the couch. "Did Natsuo put you up to this?"
"As a matter of fact he did." Kio nodded. "He is worried you'll never learn to drive."
Youji rolled his eyes. "Why does he care?"
"Beats me." Kio shrugged. "But for some reason he has stuck with you for this many years and still cares."
"Maybe he was dropped on his head as a child." Youji looked up at the ceiling as if pondering the thought. He then nodded. "It's the only explanation. Minus the paste because we found out it was nontoxic."
Kio looked a bit confused but shrugged again. "Anyways, do you want the second chance or not? Because I can always buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Or you could give me the second chance and buy me new shoes." Youji grinned. "There are those ones at the mall I have been begging you for."
Kio didn't look amused. "Look, do you want the second chance or not? And do you promise if I give it to you, you will do everything appropriately and make me not regret this?"
"I'll take it." Youji nodded. "But I can't promise I'll make you proud."
"Well it would be a first even if you did." Kio mummer to himself.
"Hey," Youji perked up. "That's not true. I've made you proud many times before."
"Oh really?" Kio shot him a look. "When?"
"What about that time I killed that spider in the bathroom while you were screaming like a girl in the corner?" Youji counted on his fingers. "Or that one time when I flushed the toilet. And that other time when Natsuo hit me and I didn't hit him back even though I wanted to. Or…"
"So?" Soubi looked up from a book when he heard Kio come in the bedroom. "Did Youji take the second chance?"
"He did." Kio fell onto the foot of the bed. "But I still don't understand why we let them stay here."
Soubi smirked and went back to reading. "Oh by the way," He said, not looking up from the page. "Youji put pepper oil in the shaving cream again."
Kio covered his face with his hands. "Why am I not surprised?"
"I know." Soubi nodded. "Ritsuka found out the hard way."
"Ritsuka?" Kio looked at the man in shock. "He shaves now?"
Ritsuka came out of the bathroom obviously have hearing everything he nodded. "Yeah, my legs felt like they were on fire."
Kio couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Soubi smirked and patted the pillow next to him. "Come here smooth legs."
Ritsuka blushed but hopped into bed anyways.
"You know," Soubi set his book down and stroked Ritsuka's cheek. "Seimei didn't start shaving till he was seventeen."
"Really?" Ritsuka felt Soubi's cheek. "When did you start?"
"When I was fifteen." Soubi smiled. "But don't worry, everyone develops differently." He ran his hand down the boy's thigh stopping at the knee causing shivers up and down the young neko's spine.
"Ha!" Kio sat up quickly. "I win! I started shaving at thirteen."
"You are such a bad liar." Soubi rolled his eyes with a smile. "We all know you can't grow body or facial hair."
"You only say that because you've never seen it." Kio winked. "I'll have you know, all my spa visits do now include manicures and pedicures. I have my whole body waxed once a moth thank you very much. And you can't tell I have facial hair because my hair is naturally light."
Soubi chuckled. "Whatever you say Kio."
"I do say." The man nodded.
Ritsuka made a face. "You get…" He looked Kio up and down. "Everything waxed?"
"It's for my job." Kio winked. "You should try it sometime."
Ritsuka crossed his legs quickly and shook his head.
((Thank you to all my wonderful reviews! I swear, the little nekos will drive again in the next chapter!))