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Scars - Interlude 2

He awoke with a kiss.

"Sweet prince, it is time to rise," murmured a soft voice from directly above his lips. His eyes opened slowly, still tenderly clinging to the last broken shards of dreams and the soft shawl of sleep. "Good morning." Smiling green eyes greeted his and vanished as the owner stepped down from his own bunk.

Mitsuru blinked and yawned, stretching. His voice was swampy. "What time is it?"

Shinobu was busy pulling the last knot of his tie up to his neck. "You have three minutes."

"Three minutes?" He was miffed, but it did not translate well as he was half-climbing, half-falling off the bed. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"

A vague, airy smile breezed past his eyes as Shinobu moved to his closet and started tossing clothes into his roommate's arms. "Sleeping dogs and all that."

Mitsuru gave him a somewhat dark look, tempered by the yawn that interrupted it. He accepted the clothes and started stripping.

"A feckless dormhead you are indeed," the grey-haired boy chastened gently, the light smile still etched on his lips. The smile was like glass, fragile and transparent.

"Hmph," replied Mitsuru, not caring what feckless meant or why he was it, too busy trying to button his shirt and failing. Start from the bottom, his mother had always told him. That way you can't get mixed up.

Shinobu stepped forward, pulling the other boy's hands away from the shirt and buttoning it for him. "There. Pants now."

Mitsuru obeyed wordlessly, wondering if the three minutes had meant three minutes before class or three minutes before breakfast. He was a little hungry.

Green eyes laced with grey edges smiled as they leaned forward and, lightly, the lips belonging to those eyes pressed against his. He managed a sleep-quirked smile. "Are you ready?" the lips asked softly. "It's time to go."

He nodded, trying to brush sleep away like a spider web, and followed the other boy out of the room.