Tokyo Babylon--The High School Years
by Miyuki Inakamono
Author's Babble: Okay, this chapter (I wanted to write issue... AH! TOO MUCH ANTIGONE! ¬,¬), I not only own Tokyo Babylon, but Malice Mizer is not mine either. I make a reference or two or three or four ^-^' to them this chapter in honor of them, since they are now no more. *tear* WE'LL MISS YOU KLAHA! WE'LL MISS YOU MANA! WE'LL MISS YOU KOZI! WE'LL MISS YOU YU~KI! We loved you all very much... Thanks for the good times, you all.
Part Three
Subaru let out a sigh as he poked at the food on his plate.
"Oh, Su-chan! Guess what? My friend, Tashi, he's a senior, told me that in sex ed, you get to learn all about how to go about doing it! Hey, hey, Sei-chan, think you could give my twin a demonstration? Heee!!!"
Did Hokuto even have a soul?
"Hokuto-chan, really..." He laughed softly. "Subaru-kun, are you okay?"
Subaru was glaring into his plate. "I'm fine," he ground out through his teeth.
"Oh, Su-chan's getting angry! Maybe you should teach anger management, Sei-chan. He'll learn about sex on his own, but anger... He needs some help with that."
"I've never seen him get angry..."
"That's because he doesn't get mad at you!" Hokuto let out an exasperated sigh. "DUH!"
Subaru was just about ready to get up and march to his room. He didn't see why not! Hokuto was doing a fine job of making a fool out of him, and he was sure she could continue to do just fine without him there. Okay, so he didn't get angry with Seishirou... But that's because Seishirou never did anything to make him mad. Hokuto's only purpose for living, in Subaru's biased opinion at least, was to push his buttons until he blew up in her face, then make him feel bad by pouting.
It was a cruel, twisted thing to do.
Subaru half-way felt Seishirou's hand on his shoulder. "Subaru-kun, why aren't you eating anything?"
"Not hungry..."
"He's just anorexic, Sei-chan. Ignore it; he'll binge after you leave. He doesn't want to look like the pig he is around you." Hokuto speared up a shrimp in her chopsticks, then broke into a grin. "You know, Su-chan, they say you learn more from experience... You do want an A in Sei-chan's class, ne?"
"Hokuto-chan..."
"Yes, please... Leave him alone if you don't mind, Hokuto-chan."
Subaru sighed and stood. "I've taken a big enough beating for today... She's not going to stop, and I'm not going to fight with her. If you'll please excuse me, Seishirou-san." Subaru took his plate over to the sink, then left the kitchen/dining room in the direction of his own private quarters.
Seishirou looked over at Hokuto. "Don't you think that you're taking your teasing a little far this time? Obviously, Subaru-kun's very bothered by this arrangment, and I could see why. It would be very uncomfortable, and people like us aren't very well recieved by some. Not to mention that I could get in trouble for it, and I think he knows that. Don't embarrass him any more, okay?"
Hokuto grinned. "I know I get carried away sometimes, but I just can't resist sometimes..."
Seishirou stood, taking his plate over to the kitchen, shaking his head as he did so. "Yes, but still. Sometimes you just need to drop it Hokuto-chan." The tone in his voice left no room for an argument, even to the outspoken Hokuto. He turned from the sink. "I'm going to talk to him." With that said, he left the room and Hokuto was trying vainly not to giggle.
Try as she might, she could not control herself.
Elsewhere, Seishirou knocked softly on Subaru's door, taking careful note of the slightly angtish Malice Mizer music Subaru had playing. The young Sumeragi usually didn't listen to them (he was more of a L'Arc~en~Ciel and GLAY kinda guy), he did have a few of their CDs. Seishirou knocked again, not hearing anything but a soft mutter. "Go away," was said, this time audible.
"You mean me?"
A few seconds later, the door opened and Subaru looked at Seishirou straight in the face, then peeked over his shoulder. "Is she behind you?"
"No."
"Okay." Subaru opened the door just enough so Seishirou could squeeze through, having obviously delt with a sneaky twin sister once before in his life. Seishirou, trying to worsen the situation any, sat at Subaru's dest while the other flopped back on his bed and picked up the remote to his CD player, turning it down a little so the two could talk, although he wasn't one to start the conversation. Seishirou took the responsibility upon himself.
"You know Hokuto-chan was only kidding, right?"
Subaru nodded his head, focusing his gaze at a spot on the ceiling. "I know. I just wish she'd quit. I love her, but she's always giving me a hard time."
"You never tell her this."
"That's just it; I have. She just doesn't want to. I think it's in her DNA."
Seishirou smiled. "Knowing Hokuto-chan, it is. But wouldn't you be like that as well? Oh, wait, you are. Very evil. Yes, my Subaru-kun is downright demonic."
Subaru laughed, which made Seishirou happy. He wasn't upset, just mad that Hokuto wouldn't quit. "And that's the problem! I can't be mean to her..."
"It's not your nature," Seishirou added the statement for him. "But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."
"Well, I did consider blackmailing her, but the fact is she never lets me know about ANYTHING that goes on in her life..."
Seishirou shook his head. As smart as he was, Subaru wasn't too observant. "Did you not catch what she said during diner?"
"...No..."
"She mentioned a senior, someone named Tashi... You could take that and run with it if you want, just because she said his name. She called him a friend as well, if I remember correctly."
Subaru looked as though a lightbulb had clicked on over his head. He sat up and gave Seishirou this absolutely beaming grin. "Hey... You're right..." Then his face fell. "How exactly do I go about bothering Hokuto-chan with this without making a fool out of myself?"
Seishirou's smile slowly turned to a smirk. "Heh, I should be able to help you with this." He decided what the hell and went to sit next to Subaru. "Okay, what you need to do is..."
***
The tardy bell rang and the people who had decided it a wise idea to write on the dry erase board ran for their desks before the teacher got in the classroom. They just beat him. "Ohayo, class," Seishirou said as he walked in, closing the door behind him. He turned to the board behind him and frowned. "This," he stated quietly to himself, "is not something I like to see."
However quiet he had said it, Subaru heard him and smirked, turning to look back at the snikering people behind him as Seishirou erased the various snide comments, one of which read "STRAWBERRY BOY." The older man was happy Subaru didn't see this. Or, well, he thought he didn't. If he did, he wasn't showing it. After the board was clean, he turned to the class. "Okay, if I see this again, I will punish those to be blamed. And trust me, I'll find out who it is."
--Can I help?--
'Go away, Tree.'
--Not you too.--
'I'm trying to teach right now.'
--But...--
'How hungry are you anyway?' Seishirou was trying not to show expression while he delt with his little friend. Luckily, after that comment, the Sakurazuka shut up and left Seishirou to deal with his students. After taking role, he turned to the class. "Today we will start with the actual classwork. First," he twirled the marked between his fingers, "let's do a little brainstorming. I want you to all tell me what comes to your mind when you think of," he turned to write his next word on the board, "sex."
Silence.
"Come on, just call stuff out. No vulgar words, find another way to say it if you have to say it."
"Fun!" Someone from the back said with a laugh.
Seishirou wrote it on the board. "Come on now. I know you think of something."
"Intercorse," another voice from the back piped.
"STDs," said another.
As the students started to call things out, Seishirou started to write quickly, trying to keep up. Subaru just sat there listening, not daring to say what came to his mind. Seishirou decided just as well and didn't bother him about it. After he had filled up most of the board, he turned back to the class. "Okay, that's enough," he said, getting them to get quiet again. "Alright, someone look through here and tell me one very important thing that we're missing."
And yet again silence.
"Does no one know?" Seishirou was amused. He had yet to see a class figure it out.
"Love."
Seishirou turned to look at Subaru. Of course. He grinned at him as his classmates looked at each other and giggled. "Giggle as you want, he's right." Seishirou wrote it on the board and underlined it. "Love. Has anyone taught you that sex is supposed to be something held between two people in love, not between two people that meet on the street?" The class was silent, so he took it as a no. "Well, that's what it's supposed to be. Some people consider it wrong to have sex before you get married. And need I say you've been lied to all your lives? There is no such thing as 'safe sex.' No matter how you try to go about making it safe, there's no way to prevent everything that can inccure from premaritual sex." Seishirou shrugged elegantly, leaning forward on his podium. "And that leads me to your homework." After the class was done groaning, he continued. "On Monday, that's almost a week, I want you to come to class ready to tell me and your classmates about someone you interviewed that waited until they got married, and someone who didn't. You should be able to find both. If you can't find the first, just find someone who hasn't had sex and is at least your age. No younger. Bring that instead. I want you to think up the questions, but it needs to be something that pertains to what we're discusing, nothing stupid or vulgar." Seishirou looked around, seeing various different expressions on the faces of the class, ranging from "boredom" to "what did he just say?" to "there goes my weekend." He grinned. Nothing like teaching.
Before he could say anymore, the bell rang. "Don't forget," he said as the students packed up their books and darted out the door. Subaru was the only one left, of course. He picked up his notebooks and what-not, then turned to Seishirou. "Ready to go eat?" Seishirou asked him.
Subaru grinned. "Hokuto-chan is mine."
***
HA! I leave you like this EVERY CHAPTER! Hoping you'll come back. ^-^ R/R
by Miyuki Inakamono
Author's Babble: Okay, this chapter (I wanted to write issue... AH! TOO MUCH ANTIGONE! ¬,¬), I not only own Tokyo Babylon, but Malice Mizer is not mine either. I make a reference or two or three or four ^-^' to them this chapter in honor of them, since they are now no more. *tear* WE'LL MISS YOU KLAHA! WE'LL MISS YOU MANA! WE'LL MISS YOU KOZI! WE'LL MISS YOU YU~KI! We loved you all very much... Thanks for the good times, you all.
Part Three
Subaru let out a sigh as he poked at the food on his plate.
"Oh, Su-chan! Guess what? My friend, Tashi, he's a senior, told me that in sex ed, you get to learn all about how to go about doing it! Hey, hey, Sei-chan, think you could give my twin a demonstration? Heee!!!"
Did Hokuto even have a soul?
"Hokuto-chan, really..." He laughed softly. "Subaru-kun, are you okay?"
Subaru was glaring into his plate. "I'm fine," he ground out through his teeth.
"Oh, Su-chan's getting angry! Maybe you should teach anger management, Sei-chan. He'll learn about sex on his own, but anger... He needs some help with that."
"I've never seen him get angry..."
"That's because he doesn't get mad at you!" Hokuto let out an exasperated sigh. "DUH!"
Subaru was just about ready to get up and march to his room. He didn't see why not! Hokuto was doing a fine job of making a fool out of him, and he was sure she could continue to do just fine without him there. Okay, so he didn't get angry with Seishirou... But that's because Seishirou never did anything to make him mad. Hokuto's only purpose for living, in Subaru's biased opinion at least, was to push his buttons until he blew up in her face, then make him feel bad by pouting.
It was a cruel, twisted thing to do.
Subaru half-way felt Seishirou's hand on his shoulder. "Subaru-kun, why aren't you eating anything?"
"Not hungry..."
"He's just anorexic, Sei-chan. Ignore it; he'll binge after you leave. He doesn't want to look like the pig he is around you." Hokuto speared up a shrimp in her chopsticks, then broke into a grin. "You know, Su-chan, they say you learn more from experience... You do want an A in Sei-chan's class, ne?"
"Hokuto-chan..."
"Yes, please... Leave him alone if you don't mind, Hokuto-chan."
Subaru sighed and stood. "I've taken a big enough beating for today... She's not going to stop, and I'm not going to fight with her. If you'll please excuse me, Seishirou-san." Subaru took his plate over to the sink, then left the kitchen/dining room in the direction of his own private quarters.
Seishirou looked over at Hokuto. "Don't you think that you're taking your teasing a little far this time? Obviously, Subaru-kun's very bothered by this arrangment, and I could see why. It would be very uncomfortable, and people like us aren't very well recieved by some. Not to mention that I could get in trouble for it, and I think he knows that. Don't embarrass him any more, okay?"
Hokuto grinned. "I know I get carried away sometimes, but I just can't resist sometimes..."
Seishirou stood, taking his plate over to the kitchen, shaking his head as he did so. "Yes, but still. Sometimes you just need to drop it Hokuto-chan." The tone in his voice left no room for an argument, even to the outspoken Hokuto. He turned from the sink. "I'm going to talk to him." With that said, he left the room and Hokuto was trying vainly not to giggle.
Try as she might, she could not control herself.
Elsewhere, Seishirou knocked softly on Subaru's door, taking careful note of the slightly angtish Malice Mizer music Subaru had playing. The young Sumeragi usually didn't listen to them (he was more of a L'Arc~en~Ciel and GLAY kinda guy), he did have a few of their CDs. Seishirou knocked again, not hearing anything but a soft mutter. "Go away," was said, this time audible.
"You mean me?"
A few seconds later, the door opened and Subaru looked at Seishirou straight in the face, then peeked over his shoulder. "Is she behind you?"
"No."
"Okay." Subaru opened the door just enough so Seishirou could squeeze through, having obviously delt with a sneaky twin sister once before in his life. Seishirou, trying to worsen the situation any, sat at Subaru's dest while the other flopped back on his bed and picked up the remote to his CD player, turning it down a little so the two could talk, although he wasn't one to start the conversation. Seishirou took the responsibility upon himself.
"You know Hokuto-chan was only kidding, right?"
Subaru nodded his head, focusing his gaze at a spot on the ceiling. "I know. I just wish she'd quit. I love her, but she's always giving me a hard time."
"You never tell her this."
"That's just it; I have. She just doesn't want to. I think it's in her DNA."
Seishirou smiled. "Knowing Hokuto-chan, it is. But wouldn't you be like that as well? Oh, wait, you are. Very evil. Yes, my Subaru-kun is downright demonic."
Subaru laughed, which made Seishirou happy. He wasn't upset, just mad that Hokuto wouldn't quit. "And that's the problem! I can't be mean to her..."
"It's not your nature," Seishirou added the statement for him. "But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."
"Well, I did consider blackmailing her, but the fact is she never lets me know about ANYTHING that goes on in her life..."
Seishirou shook his head. As smart as he was, Subaru wasn't too observant. "Did you not catch what she said during diner?"
"...No..."
"She mentioned a senior, someone named Tashi... You could take that and run with it if you want, just because she said his name. She called him a friend as well, if I remember correctly."
Subaru looked as though a lightbulb had clicked on over his head. He sat up and gave Seishirou this absolutely beaming grin. "Hey... You're right..." Then his face fell. "How exactly do I go about bothering Hokuto-chan with this without making a fool out of myself?"
Seishirou's smile slowly turned to a smirk. "Heh, I should be able to help you with this." He decided what the hell and went to sit next to Subaru. "Okay, what you need to do is..."
***
The tardy bell rang and the people who had decided it a wise idea to write on the dry erase board ran for their desks before the teacher got in the classroom. They just beat him. "Ohayo, class," Seishirou said as he walked in, closing the door behind him. He turned to the board behind him and frowned. "This," he stated quietly to himself, "is not something I like to see."
However quiet he had said it, Subaru heard him and smirked, turning to look back at the snikering people behind him as Seishirou erased the various snide comments, one of which read "STRAWBERRY BOY." The older man was happy Subaru didn't see this. Or, well, he thought he didn't. If he did, he wasn't showing it. After the board was clean, he turned to the class. "Okay, if I see this again, I will punish those to be blamed. And trust me, I'll find out who it is."
--Can I help?--
'Go away, Tree.'
--Not you too.--
'I'm trying to teach right now.'
--But...--
'How hungry are you anyway?' Seishirou was trying not to show expression while he delt with his little friend. Luckily, after that comment, the Sakurazuka shut up and left Seishirou to deal with his students. After taking role, he turned to the class. "Today we will start with the actual classwork. First," he twirled the marked between his fingers, "let's do a little brainstorming. I want you to all tell me what comes to your mind when you think of," he turned to write his next word on the board, "sex."
Silence.
"Come on, just call stuff out. No vulgar words, find another way to say it if you have to say it."
"Fun!" Someone from the back said with a laugh.
Seishirou wrote it on the board. "Come on now. I know you think of something."
"Intercorse," another voice from the back piped.
"STDs," said another.
As the students started to call things out, Seishirou started to write quickly, trying to keep up. Subaru just sat there listening, not daring to say what came to his mind. Seishirou decided just as well and didn't bother him about it. After he had filled up most of the board, he turned back to the class. "Okay, that's enough," he said, getting them to get quiet again. "Alright, someone look through here and tell me one very important thing that we're missing."
And yet again silence.
"Does no one know?" Seishirou was amused. He had yet to see a class figure it out.
"Love."
Seishirou turned to look at Subaru. Of course. He grinned at him as his classmates looked at each other and giggled. "Giggle as you want, he's right." Seishirou wrote it on the board and underlined it. "Love. Has anyone taught you that sex is supposed to be something held between two people in love, not between two people that meet on the street?" The class was silent, so he took it as a no. "Well, that's what it's supposed to be. Some people consider it wrong to have sex before you get married. And need I say you've been lied to all your lives? There is no such thing as 'safe sex.' No matter how you try to go about making it safe, there's no way to prevent everything that can inccure from premaritual sex." Seishirou shrugged elegantly, leaning forward on his podium. "And that leads me to your homework." After the class was done groaning, he continued. "On Monday, that's almost a week, I want you to come to class ready to tell me and your classmates about someone you interviewed that waited until they got married, and someone who didn't. You should be able to find both. If you can't find the first, just find someone who hasn't had sex and is at least your age. No younger. Bring that instead. I want you to think up the questions, but it needs to be something that pertains to what we're discusing, nothing stupid or vulgar." Seishirou looked around, seeing various different expressions on the faces of the class, ranging from "boredom" to "what did he just say?" to "there goes my weekend." He grinned. Nothing like teaching.
Before he could say anymore, the bell rang. "Don't forget," he said as the students packed up their books and darted out the door. Subaru was the only one left, of course. He picked up his notebooks and what-not, then turned to Seishirou. "Ready to go eat?" Seishirou asked him.
Subaru grinned. "Hokuto-chan is mine."
***
HA! I leave you like this EVERY CHAPTER! Hoping you'll come back. ^-^ R/R