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Sorry it took so long to update this, I had a hellish weekend(school and work and my volunteer agency and my sister's pissy attitude), so I only got to working on my other two stories. (I probably should focus on this one more though, since it is the most popular.) Anyway, please enjoy.

By the way, someone (you know who you are) complained because chapter 20 didn't have any Takahiro in it. So, this story focuses completely on Takahiro and Manami. Alas, Misaki and Usagi are not part of this chapter since they're busy goin' at it upstairs (there will be more detail on that in chapter 22) but Egoist does come in.

Chapter 21

Takahiro stared out over the balcony, his seventh drink in hand, reminiscing about a time when every guy he knew was straight. It wasn't that he had a problem with gay people. It was just that suddenly, everyone he knew was gay. His brother, his best friend, his old school friend, professors at the college he'd always planned on going to. He sighed and continued to look aimlessly at anything but the party.

Manami slipped up behind him and pressed against him, murmuring, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling like I need another drink." To prove his point, he downed what was left in his glass.

Manami smiled. "I figured that would be the case." She held up a shot of vodka. Takahiro smiled and took the glass from her hand.

Then he set it on the ledge. "On second thought, I'd rather have you." He smiled, eyes going slightly dark.

Manami grinned, and stood on tip toes to kiss him. "I love you," he whispered against her lips.

"I love you, too. Come on, we'd better tell Misaki-kun and Usami-san that we're leaving early."

"Well, maybe we should tell them we're not leaving at all. We are in a hotel after all." He leaned down and pressed his lips gently to the side of her neck.

Manami laughed and shivered at the same time. Takahiro's flirting always made her happy since most of the time he was too busy worrying about Misaki to work on his 'come hither' lines. She pulled back and grabbed his hand to pull him away from the balcony. "Come on, Taka-love. Let's go find them."

…

Of course, they were nowhere to be found.

"Where the hell are they?" Manami asked, getting slightly annoyed. Those two were probably off making out and doing other stuff that she also wanted to do, but couldn't because she was too busy looking for them.

"I don't know, but I'm guessing they've already left."

"Or maybe they've gone off to find a room of their own," Manami muttered under her breath.

Her husband elbowed her and whispered, "Don't say that." She looked at him to see him flushing furiously at the thoughts and images that were probably racing through his head right now.

"Mmm, well, if they have left, or gotten a room, then I don't see any reason why we cannot do our own thing as well." Manami smiled and continued, "Let's go to the front desk."

They walked out of the party, and over to the lobby. Walking up to the desk, Takahiro said, "We'd like to rent a room please."

"Of course. A single king suite, I take it?"

Both of them nodded. "One moment please." The woman behind the desk pressed some things into the computer, asked for a credit card, scanned it and two other cards and handed it back with the room key cards.

"Thank you very much," Takahiro said before looking down lovingly at his wife. The woman behind the counter hid a small smile as the couple walked away.

As they reached the elevator, the doors opened to reveal Hiroki, who was blushing and looking furious, along with Nowaki, who was giggling maniacally. "Oh my god, shut up." Hiroki snapped out. "Have you degenerated into a twelve year old moe fan girl or something?"

That only made Nowaki laugh harder. Then they saw Takahiro and Manami. "Oh hey, it's you guys. What are you doing here?"

"Akihiko invited us to a party."

"Oh, we came because I am apparently a good doctor."

Takahiro and Manami looked at each other, confused. Hiroki looked furious. "Nowaki! You are drunk! And you are no longer allowed to talk."

"Wah, Hiro-san is so mean," Nowaki wailed, throwing his arms playfully around his lover.

"Get off, bastard." Hiroki hit Nowaki in the shoulder as he ducked out from under the much taller man.

"Uh, Hiroki-kun, Nowaki-san, have either of you seen Misaki or Akihiko? We wanted to tell them that they could leave without us."

This sent Nowaki into another fit of giggles while Hiroki looked disgusted. "They're in one of the penthouse suites. I'd suggest not going up there."

"Why?" Takahiro asked, Much to Manami's disbelief. Did he honestly not know?

Nowaki giggled and said, "They're having sex cuz this girl gave Misaki-kun an aphrodisiac and now Usami-san is with him. I think they're going to have sex."

"Don't say that so loud," Hiroki chastised. "See, this is why I said no talking anymore. Hiroki looked at Takahiro, who had blanched and thought, Ask a stupid question… "Anyway, we'll be off, bye."

He began walking swiftly for the exit.

Nowaki whimpered and said, "Wah, Hiro-san! Come back here or at least wait for me." He waved at the couple who'd been staring at their antics before taking off after his lover.

Takahiro shook his head. "I never thought I'd live to see the day that Hiroki-kun had someone following after his every step like he did with Akihiko. You know, they were always together when I wasn't around. Every time I went looking for Akihiko, Hiroki-kun was always there." Takahiro was starting to sound intoxicated now that he was beginning to repeat basic phrases over. Then something clicked in his head. "Hey, love, you don't think that Akihiko and Hiroki-kun were ever in a relationship, do you?"

Manami could guess that if they had, it hadn't been a long one. They were still close friends after all and Usami-san would never betray Misaki-kun like that. "I don't know, Taka-love."

"I think it would be ridiculous. But who knows? I also thought Misaki and Akihiko and Hiroki being gay was ridiculous. What if everything that I ever thought was ridiculous actually turned out to be true?"

"Well, if that's the case, then I think it will be ridiculous if we don't go up to our room right now and forget about everything we've dealt with today."

"Your ridiculousness is my command," Takahiro replied, kissing her lightly. He tasted like alcohol. No wonder he's acting so weird. He almost never gets drunk.

They stepped into the elevator.

I know a lot of this story has OOC in it, but Takahiro and Nowaki don't get drunk on the show or in the manga, so I had to guess. If it had been Hiroki it would have been easier, but I like a challenge so I made him the only sober one. Anyhoo, I hope you liked it and please review, and again sorry that chapter 20 was so suckish. There were extenuating circumstances.