Fighting for Ken

by: Schu_chan

disclaimer: WeiB does not belong to me. Wish it did, but it doesn't.

Tschubi-san, Madiha-san, Wai-san, Aki-san, Ryia Jen Rowen-san, Mairiana- san, Kristine-san, Dragon Soul-san (we like ur fics coz they're goood!), Makoto Kudou-san, SheFury-san, Ranaya-san, Lady Adako and friends -sans... ( eh... --; y'all equal fourteen ppl? u mean u read it all together? isn't that kinda hard to do...? or wuz that a joke...??? @.@ orooo!), Firaga-san, Fuzzish-san, Rhude-chan-san, eh... Reviewer-san --; , doumou arigatoooouuu!

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CHAPTER 7

When I saw Ken stumble down the stairs this morning, I almost burst out laughing. He looked so adorable and sexy, his hair still messy from sleep and his clothes crumpled, his lips slightly pursed into a pout. He glared at me when he saw me trying to control my laughter.

"What are you laughing at, Yotan?"

"Nothing, nothing!"

He tripped over a rug in the kitchen and I caught him quickly, laughing still. He looked up at me and I smiled gently, knowing that if I grinned he would hit me and stomp away. To my surprise, he blushed and practically shoved me away from him.

"KenKen, daijoubu?"

He nodded and shakily walked towards the shop. I just shrugged when Omi gave me a LOOK as he came into the kitchen.

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He looked good. REALLY good. But... it's YOTAN. My BEST FRIEND- practically. I can't blush when he smiles at me like that. Can I? Aaargh! I'm too confused!

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When Omi and I entered the shop, we found Ken acting weird. Not just _weird_, but _WEIRD_. He was pacing the room, wringing his hands.

"Ken-kun?"

He turned to face us with a look of horror in his eyes. "Ahh... aah..."

Or maybe I should say that he looked at _me_ with horror in his eyes.

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OMG! OMG! OMG! He's looking at me funny. Did he notice that I stared at him too long when he'd caught me? OMG! What am I going to do? He's going to think that, OMG, what am I going to do?

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He just stood there, staring at me. What was wrong? Was he mad that I'd laughed at him? No, it couldn't be... he wouldn't get mad over something like that.

"Ken? Is something wrong? Do you want me to get you something to drink?"

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Oh... I was acting weird. But I'm nervous. Yotan's my best friend... to go on a date with him... I couldn't sleep last night because of it. How am I supposed to act? What am I supposed to do?

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Ken shook his head and sat down, staring off into space. Oookaaaay. I guess he'll be all right. He's cute when he's in his little bouts of weirdness, anyways. I'm still planning things for tonight in my head. Cancelling this, replacing it with that, adding this, cancelling that...

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What am I going to wear tonight? I don't know what Yotan wants me to wear. Where are we going?

"AH!"

I fell again when suddenly Omi stared at me straight in the eyes, only a few centimeters away from my face.

He giggled, saying, "Ken-kun, I just wanted to tell you that Yohji- kun is getting some things ready for your date with him. He tried to get you to pay attention to him so that he could tell you what to wear but you were goooone. I think he's a little miffed."

Oops. "What-what am I supposed to wear?"

"Casual. He knows you don't like fancy stuff."

"Arigatou. O-omi?"

"Hai?"

"That... that night... when you had the debate...?"

"Hai?"

"You... came in pretty late."

"Did you wait for me? I told you not to, Ken-kun."

I stared into his clear, innocent eyes. Or maybe not so innocent. I can't bring myself to ask him what he was doing out so late.

"Ken-kun, is something wrong? I'm old enough not to have a curfew anymore. We agreed on that, remember?"

"Huh? Oh, yea. It's nothing."

I watched Omi as he bounced away to water the plants. Aya gave me a LOOK and I gave him a glare. He smirked, knowing that I was worried about Omi.

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I looked through Ken's collection of CD's while I waited for him to get ready. Suddenly, though, I heard a crash coming from his room.

"Ken, are you all right?"

I couldn't help myself - I laughed. Ken was tangled up in a mess of clothes that looked like he had just tried to take out all at once out of the closet.

"Ken, how'd this happen?"

"I was taking clothes out and dumped them on the floor. I forgot and when I turned to get something off my desk, I... I uh, tripped over the pile."

I gave him a kiss on the cheek. "You're so cute."

Wow. He blushed. At me. I just smiled back at him and left the room - but not without noticing how his bedsheets were -silk-. I had expected Ken to be more... cottony, I guess. And soccer-y.

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I'm such an idiot. Yohji's trying to make a good conversation with me in this nice restaurant and I'm staring down at my hands. God, I'm an idiot. He's probably hurt.. but I feel so weird! It's Yohji, for Chrissake! Well... a cute, good-looking, charming, non-lazy Yohji... but... w-a-i-t a second. cute? good-looking? charming? ... aw, shit.

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He suddenly looked up from his hands and smiled at me, blushing. I'd spent the last ten or fifteen minutes trying to get him to look up at me. Now, he's smiling at me. I grin back at him and start asking him things about soccer. He nods and listens to all my questions. He's laughing at my stupid questions - believe me, they're stupid. He tol d me that someone who's watched as many games as I have (I watch almost every game with Ken... well, maybe not watch the _game_, but...) should know more about it. Oh, well. It's worth it to see him laughing and smiling at me instead of just glaring at me.

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"Arigatou, Yotan. I had a really good time tonight."

"Who said that we're over?"

Ken looked up at me in surprise, blinking. I just grinned and took a right - home was left. "Where are we going, Yotan?"

"It's a surprise."

When we're a block away, I park and tie a blind to cover his eyes.

"Come on... we're here now."

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When Yotan took off the blind, I blinked a few times before looking around me. A greenhouse? Sure, the flowers were pretty, but... "Look up."

I gasped. I could clearly see all the stars in the sky. "Yotan... you... you remembered..."

//"What're you doing up here on the roof, Ken?"

"Oh, hey, Yotan. I'm just up here to look at the stars."

Yohji looked up and laughed. "What stars?"

"There're a few up there, Yotan. It's just hard to see them."

"You like stars, Ken?"

"Before soccer, I wanted to go into space... Stars are the most beautiful things in the world. One day, just one day, I wish that I could see the stars clearly instead of like this."//

"How could I forget? You started blubbering all over my shirt, mumbling something about how it was coz of evil polluters!"

I blushed and glared at him. "Yotan!"

"But it's all right. You were cute."

I could feel myself blushing even harder. I'm blushing waaay too much nowadays. We lay down on Yohji's huge trench coat and stare up at the sky. I use his arm as a pillow and sigh happily.

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I gently lay Ken into his bed and cover him. I don't undress him down to his boxers (coz I know his sleeping habits...) because knowing him, if he woke up like that and remembered falling asleep _alone_ with me, he would probably not look me in the eye, feeling weird. That's how he is. My KenKen gets embarrassed by almost everything. Which is totally cute. I kiss his forehead and hear him sigh.

waaaiii! don't kill me for this slow update, pls! i was really busy - honest *crawls guiltily away from the manga piled on desk*!

total (i'm not going to cancel the votes that ppl asked to cancel, i'll just add ur new votes... i'm lazy like that. heheheh) for votes...

schuken: 8

youken: 7

bradken: 14

schuyou: 2

ayaken: 1

bradyou: 1 (very... rare. never seen it, i think, mairiana-san)

bradschuyouken: 20

bradschuyoukenaya: 1

*collapses like Kenshin, saying, "Oroooo!"* i am wasted. counting these votes are hard... nonetheless, thank you minna-san for ur votes! and ur comments!