Tokyo Babylon--The High School Years
by Miyuki Inakamono
AN: Okay, part eight. Not much going on... I think... *evil laughter* Read and find out for yourself.
Part Eight
Seishirou took a long glance around the classroom; everyone was working diligantly on their vocabulary words, or maybe studying for the quiz the next day if they had it finished. Seishirou shifted his feet around under the desk softly when his eyes came to rest on Subaru, who was chewing on the end of his pen while flipping through the pages of his textbook, looking up one of the words. He looked so... normal. Seishirou couldn't help but to wonder if he was even slightly effected by what had happened.
One week.
It had been one week since Subaru had told him that, for the better good of the both of them, they needed time apart.
It was killing Seishirou.
He couldn't stand seeing him everyday, watching him in class, and not being able to realyl say anything to him, touch him, kiss him, hold his hand... Mind you, he couldn't do those things at school anyway, but he couldn't do them period. Seishirou was about ready to explode from the sheer torment. He... whether Subaru wanted to believe him or not, he was being himself around him now, he was telling him the truth, and he really did love him. And it hurt that he didn't believe a word of it. It hurt so much...
Seishirou turned back to the papers he was grading with a sigh.
Subaru looked up and over at him, hearing it. For the millionth time since it had happened, he wondered what had possessed him to do that. He knew that he loved Seishirou with all his heart, he just knew it but... That little paranoid part of him managed to convince the rest of his brain to agree with it, and now he has to bear with watching Seishirou tear himself apart (it was so obvious; it shown on his face everytime he looked at Subaru). He just couldn't bring himself to tell Seishirou he was sorry; what he said made really good sense. He just... He had to give it some more time. He had to. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
***
Seishirou frowned as he held up the blue envelope. These little seceret pal things were seriously starting to get on his nerves. This was the third one he had gotten, including the first. This one had a picture of an apple on the front of it, and on the inside it read:
iOnly teachers know
Under every apple is a worm
Now, don't you wish students would catch on?/i
Frankly, Seishirou didn't get it. Just like he didn't understand the one before that--
iRoses are red
Umbresllas are too
I hope you don't need one
No rain for you!/i
They just made him more ancy since he didn't understand exactly what they meant, and not having Subaru around to comfort him was just making him even more on ends.
At this time, Seishirou jumped when he heard the door open and someone go, "Sakurazuka-san!"
He spun around and let out a sigh, recieving an odd look from the teacher in the doorway. "Ohayo, Kaminari-san." He smiled to the woman, nodding his head at her.
"Ohayo, Sakurazuka-san! Did you have a nice evening?" Nozomi walked over to the teacher's boxes and pulled out her mail, giving it a quick look before turning her gaze back on Seishirou.
"Oh, it was fine!" Seishirou smiled pleasantly.
--Such a liar...--
Nozomi smiled. "I'm glad. Hokuto-chan, such a nice young girl, came over last night and she kept talking about how much her brother was moping... Unless I'm mistaken, you are good friends with her brother, Subaru, ne?"
Seishirou was just staring at her. "...She said he was moping?"
Nozomi laughed and nodded. "She says that he's been really hard to deal with over the past week. I think she said something about relationship problems."
Seishirou beamed. "Really??"
Nozomi gave him a very odd look. "...Hai..."
Seishirou just kept smiling. "Thanks... Oh, um, I got another one of those letters today. They're annoying."
"Oh, you'll learn to love getting them," she answered him with a laugh. "Have you figured out who your secret pal is yet?"
"No, sadly, but trust me I'm working on it," Seishirou answered, sounding extremely serious.
"You take all the fun out of things I've noticed, Sakurazuka-san." She smiled at him. "Nevertheless, you are nice to talk to. I should get going, I have to get some stuff together for my classes. Ja ne!"
"Jaa ne," Seishriou answered smiling at her as she walked out the door.
--She's so nice.--
'My brain is still sending me warning signals,' Seishirou informed the tree.
--Well, not my fault.--
'Right now I'm extremely happy, Tree. Don't ruin it for me. Subaru-kun still loves me...' Seishirou sighed contently.
--...You are hopeless.--
'Why thank you.' That being said, Seishirou left the teacher's lounge and headed down to his classroom.
***
Seishirou took a deep breath and knocked on the door to Subaru and Hokuto's apartment. He faintly heard Subaru call, "JUST A MINUTE!" He shifted the flowers in his arms; he bought them with the hope that they would aid him in his cause to win Subaru back. Not that he had exactly lost him, but still.
Slowly the door opened and Subaru stood there, wearing his bathrobe. His hair was wet and stuck to his forehead with some soap bubbles spotted randomly here and there. Obviously, he had been in the shower and Hokuto wasn't at home.
Seishirou stared at him.
Subaru stared back. "...Seishirou-san..."
Seishirou snapped out of staring and handed him the flowers. "Here... I just bought them, so I know they're fresh..."
Subaru took them numbly and just looked up at him. "...Seishirou-san, what are you doing here... I thought that..."
"Subaru-kun, please... I don't think I can really take much more of this," he laughed weakly. "Can I come in please?"
Subaru scooted out of the way and let Seishirou pass. Seishirou walked in and took a seat on the couch, the same place he was sitting when Subaru told him to leave. Subaru came over and sat down next to him, sitting the flowers on the coffee table. "Seishirou-san, I thought we agreed that we weren't going to see each other for a while."
"It's been a week and a day. Isn't that enough?"
Subaru raised an eyebrow, then let out a sigh, letting his head drop to stare at his lap. "Seishirou-san," he muttered, "you just want to have sex. Go to a soapland or something."
Seishirou was taken aback. "Subaru-kun, how could you say that..."
Subaru looked up at him slowly. "...Then what do you want?"
"...Isn't it obvious? I came over here because for the past week I've been falling apart. And I now you have to be too, there's no way this can't be hurting you. Please, Subaru-kun, whatever I did to make you so mad at me that we were resorted to this, I'm sorry. I won't let the Tree pick on you anymore, just please.. Don't do this anymore.. I can't stand not talking to you, or being able to even hold your hand. It's... I... I guess I never realized how much I really did love you until this happened. I mean, I know I love you with all my heart. I know that, but I think I've always kinda taken it for advantage. I'm... really sorry...."
"Seishirou-san," Subaru started, "I know your sorry but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not totally sure if I can trust you. I don't... I just I'm scared that you're going to hurt me again..." He sniffed softly. "I'm so scared that something's going to happen and then, just like that, you're going to turn around and leave me and I'm never going to see you again."
Seishirou reached over and held onto Subaru's hand tightly. "Subaru-kun, why in the world would I do that? You should know that... I mean, think about it. Why would I be here if I planned on going through all this trouble for nothing? I love you Subaru-kun, you know you mean the world to me... Please..."
Subaru pulled his hand away. "I'm sorry Seishirou-san... I.. was kind of abrupt about it all... I didn't mean for what I wanted to say to happen like that... I just... I don't take back what I said. I meant it. It hurt to say it, but I meant it. I love you, and I know you love me, but... I don't want to be at arms with you anymore, okay? No more. And... No, I didn't mean to blow up at you like that. I don't know... Why it happened like that." He shook his head slowly. "I have no idea why it came out like that. I just... Something was bothering me. Just... I'm sorry. Please?"
Seishirou pulled him into a hug. "I'm sorry too, it's okay..." He kisses the side of his cheek. "I love you, and I'm really sorry. Just talk to me now when's something bothering you. Don't ever blow up at me like that, it's scary. You never do that." Seishirou hugged him tighter. "Okay?"
Seishirou nodded. "Okay." He smiled. "I love you."
Seishirou slowly grinned. "Subaru-kun... When's Hokuto-chan going to be back?"
Subaru gave him an odd look for a minute before he caught on. "Oh... Um... I don't know, not for another couple of hours, she just left about five minutes ago for a date with her boyfriend; they were going to see some movie about--"
"Great, wonderful, come on. I gotta help you finish getting that soap out of your hair." Seishirou picked up a laughing Subaru and threw him over one shoulder and carried him off to the bathroom.
***
Yet again, Seishirou glared at an evil blue envelope. Subaru caught his look from where he was perched on a counter. "Nani?"
"Another one of thsoe stupid letters. Fourth one." He opened it. "I never understand these things..." Subaru giggled as Seishirou read the card. Slowly he narrowed his eyes and read it outloud. "My last letter here reads: Everyone gets their dues. I daresay, now for yours."
Subaru stopped giggling.
"I really don't--" Before Seishirou could finish, Nozomi entered the lounge, giving Subaru a look.
"Excuse me, Sumeragi-san, students aren't supposed to be in here..."
"Oh... Sorry..." He hopped down from the counter and smiled at Seishirou. "Talk to you later, Seishirou-san!"
"Jaa ne, Subaru-kun." Subaru walked out of the room.
Nozomi watched him leave, then turned to the coffee pot. "Get another letter?"
Seishirou frowned. "..Hai... How did you know?"
She turned away from the coffee pot and smiled at him. "Warui no unmei."
Seishirou stared and opened his mouth, but only choaked. "..I...can't...breathe..." he managed, turning blue slowly.
Nozomi smiled at him. "You killed my husand," she said with a giggle. "Now it's your turn to die." She turned and left the lounge as Seishirou hit the floor.
Subaru, who had only gone a few steps saw her leave and her the thump and walked back over, looking into the room through the window. His eyes grew wide. "...Seishirou-san.... Oh my god... Seishirou-san!!" He ran in the room and over to Seishirou, picking him up as much as he could in his small arms. "Seishriou-san wake up!! Wake up!! Seishirou-san, oh my god, WAKE UP!!!!!
***
Feh. And you actually thought them arguing had a purpose? Nope, just a nifty filler so I could KILL SEISHIROU!! MWAH-HAHAHAHAHA*coughcoughcough*....Okay, he's not dead. XD OR IS HE?! I am SO evil.
by Miyuki Inakamono
AN: Okay, part eight. Not much going on... I think... *evil laughter* Read and find out for yourself.
Part Eight
Seishirou took a long glance around the classroom; everyone was working diligantly on their vocabulary words, or maybe studying for the quiz the next day if they had it finished. Seishirou shifted his feet around under the desk softly when his eyes came to rest on Subaru, who was chewing on the end of his pen while flipping through the pages of his textbook, looking up one of the words. He looked so... normal. Seishirou couldn't help but to wonder if he was even slightly effected by what had happened.
One week.
It had been one week since Subaru had told him that, for the better good of the both of them, they needed time apart.
It was killing Seishirou.
He couldn't stand seeing him everyday, watching him in class, and not being able to realyl say anything to him, touch him, kiss him, hold his hand... Mind you, he couldn't do those things at school anyway, but he couldn't do them period. Seishirou was about ready to explode from the sheer torment. He... whether Subaru wanted to believe him or not, he was being himself around him now, he was telling him the truth, and he really did love him. And it hurt that he didn't believe a word of it. It hurt so much...
Seishirou turned back to the papers he was grading with a sigh.
Subaru looked up and over at him, hearing it. For the millionth time since it had happened, he wondered what had possessed him to do that. He knew that he loved Seishirou with all his heart, he just knew it but... That little paranoid part of him managed to convince the rest of his brain to agree with it, and now he has to bear with watching Seishirou tear himself apart (it was so obvious; it shown on his face everytime he looked at Subaru). He just couldn't bring himself to tell Seishirou he was sorry; what he said made really good sense. He just... He had to give it some more time. He had to. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
***
Seishirou frowned as he held up the blue envelope. These little seceret pal things were seriously starting to get on his nerves. This was the third one he had gotten, including the first. This one had a picture of an apple on the front of it, and on the inside it read:
iOnly teachers know
Under every apple is a worm
Now, don't you wish students would catch on?/i
Frankly, Seishirou didn't get it. Just like he didn't understand the one before that--
iRoses are red
Umbresllas are too
I hope you don't need one
No rain for you!/i
They just made him more ancy since he didn't understand exactly what they meant, and not having Subaru around to comfort him was just making him even more on ends.
At this time, Seishirou jumped when he heard the door open and someone go, "Sakurazuka-san!"
He spun around and let out a sigh, recieving an odd look from the teacher in the doorway. "Ohayo, Kaminari-san." He smiled to the woman, nodding his head at her.
"Ohayo, Sakurazuka-san! Did you have a nice evening?" Nozomi walked over to the teacher's boxes and pulled out her mail, giving it a quick look before turning her gaze back on Seishirou.
"Oh, it was fine!" Seishirou smiled pleasantly.
--Such a liar...--
Nozomi smiled. "I'm glad. Hokuto-chan, such a nice young girl, came over last night and she kept talking about how much her brother was moping... Unless I'm mistaken, you are good friends with her brother, Subaru, ne?"
Seishirou was just staring at her. "...She said he was moping?"
Nozomi laughed and nodded. "She says that he's been really hard to deal with over the past week. I think she said something about relationship problems."
Seishirou beamed. "Really??"
Nozomi gave him a very odd look. "...Hai..."
Seishirou just kept smiling. "Thanks... Oh, um, I got another one of those letters today. They're annoying."
"Oh, you'll learn to love getting them," she answered him with a laugh. "Have you figured out who your secret pal is yet?"
"No, sadly, but trust me I'm working on it," Seishirou answered, sounding extremely serious.
"You take all the fun out of things I've noticed, Sakurazuka-san." She smiled at him. "Nevertheless, you are nice to talk to. I should get going, I have to get some stuff together for my classes. Ja ne!"
"Jaa ne," Seishriou answered smiling at her as she walked out the door.
--She's so nice.--
'My brain is still sending me warning signals,' Seishirou informed the tree.
--Well, not my fault.--
'Right now I'm extremely happy, Tree. Don't ruin it for me. Subaru-kun still loves me...' Seishirou sighed contently.
--...You are hopeless.--
'Why thank you.' That being said, Seishirou left the teacher's lounge and headed down to his classroom.
***
Seishirou took a deep breath and knocked on the door to Subaru and Hokuto's apartment. He faintly heard Subaru call, "JUST A MINUTE!" He shifted the flowers in his arms; he bought them with the hope that they would aid him in his cause to win Subaru back. Not that he had exactly lost him, but still.
Slowly the door opened and Subaru stood there, wearing his bathrobe. His hair was wet and stuck to his forehead with some soap bubbles spotted randomly here and there. Obviously, he had been in the shower and Hokuto wasn't at home.
Seishirou stared at him.
Subaru stared back. "...Seishirou-san..."
Seishirou snapped out of staring and handed him the flowers. "Here... I just bought them, so I know they're fresh..."
Subaru took them numbly and just looked up at him. "...Seishirou-san, what are you doing here... I thought that..."
"Subaru-kun, please... I don't think I can really take much more of this," he laughed weakly. "Can I come in please?"
Subaru scooted out of the way and let Seishirou pass. Seishirou walked in and took a seat on the couch, the same place he was sitting when Subaru told him to leave. Subaru came over and sat down next to him, sitting the flowers on the coffee table. "Seishirou-san, I thought we agreed that we weren't going to see each other for a while."
"It's been a week and a day. Isn't that enough?"
Subaru raised an eyebrow, then let out a sigh, letting his head drop to stare at his lap. "Seishirou-san," he muttered, "you just want to have sex. Go to a soapland or something."
Seishirou was taken aback. "Subaru-kun, how could you say that..."
Subaru looked up at him slowly. "...Then what do you want?"
"...Isn't it obvious? I came over here because for the past week I've been falling apart. And I now you have to be too, there's no way this can't be hurting you. Please, Subaru-kun, whatever I did to make you so mad at me that we were resorted to this, I'm sorry. I won't let the Tree pick on you anymore, just please.. Don't do this anymore.. I can't stand not talking to you, or being able to even hold your hand. It's... I... I guess I never realized how much I really did love you until this happened. I mean, I know I love you with all my heart. I know that, but I think I've always kinda taken it for advantage. I'm... really sorry...."
"Seishirou-san," Subaru started, "I know your sorry but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not totally sure if I can trust you. I don't... I just I'm scared that you're going to hurt me again..." He sniffed softly. "I'm so scared that something's going to happen and then, just like that, you're going to turn around and leave me and I'm never going to see you again."
Seishirou reached over and held onto Subaru's hand tightly. "Subaru-kun, why in the world would I do that? You should know that... I mean, think about it. Why would I be here if I planned on going through all this trouble for nothing? I love you Subaru-kun, you know you mean the world to me... Please..."
Subaru pulled his hand away. "I'm sorry Seishirou-san... I.. was kind of abrupt about it all... I didn't mean for what I wanted to say to happen like that... I just... I don't take back what I said. I meant it. It hurt to say it, but I meant it. I love you, and I know you love me, but... I don't want to be at arms with you anymore, okay? No more. And... No, I didn't mean to blow up at you like that. I don't know... Why it happened like that." He shook his head slowly. "I have no idea why it came out like that. I just... Something was bothering me. Just... I'm sorry. Please?"
Seishirou pulled him into a hug. "I'm sorry too, it's okay..." He kisses the side of his cheek. "I love you, and I'm really sorry. Just talk to me now when's something bothering you. Don't ever blow up at me like that, it's scary. You never do that." Seishirou hugged him tighter. "Okay?"
Seishirou nodded. "Okay." He smiled. "I love you."
Seishirou slowly grinned. "Subaru-kun... When's Hokuto-chan going to be back?"
Subaru gave him an odd look for a minute before he caught on. "Oh... Um... I don't know, not for another couple of hours, she just left about five minutes ago for a date with her boyfriend; they were going to see some movie about--"
"Great, wonderful, come on. I gotta help you finish getting that soap out of your hair." Seishirou picked up a laughing Subaru and threw him over one shoulder and carried him off to the bathroom.
***
Yet again, Seishirou glared at an evil blue envelope. Subaru caught his look from where he was perched on a counter. "Nani?"
"Another one of thsoe stupid letters. Fourth one." He opened it. "I never understand these things..." Subaru giggled as Seishirou read the card. Slowly he narrowed his eyes and read it outloud. "My last letter here reads: Everyone gets their dues. I daresay, now for yours."
Subaru stopped giggling.
"I really don't--" Before Seishirou could finish, Nozomi entered the lounge, giving Subaru a look.
"Excuse me, Sumeragi-san, students aren't supposed to be in here..."
"Oh... Sorry..." He hopped down from the counter and smiled at Seishirou. "Talk to you later, Seishirou-san!"
"Jaa ne, Subaru-kun." Subaru walked out of the room.
Nozomi watched him leave, then turned to the coffee pot. "Get another letter?"
Seishirou frowned. "..Hai... How did you know?"
She turned away from the coffee pot and smiled at him. "Warui no unmei."
Seishirou stared and opened his mouth, but only choaked. "..I...can't...breathe..." he managed, turning blue slowly.
Nozomi smiled at him. "You killed my husand," she said with a giggle. "Now it's your turn to die." She turned and left the lounge as Seishirou hit the floor.
Subaru, who had only gone a few steps saw her leave and her the thump and walked back over, looking into the room through the window. His eyes grew wide. "...Seishirou-san.... Oh my god... Seishirou-san!!" He ran in the room and over to Seishirou, picking him up as much as he could in his small arms. "Seishriou-san wake up!! Wake up!! Seishirou-san, oh my god, WAKE UP!!!!!
***
Feh. And you actually thought them arguing had a purpose? Nope, just a nifty filler so I could KILL SEISHIROU!! MWAH-HAHAHAHAHA*coughcoughcough*....Okay, he's not dead. XD OR IS HE?! I am SO evil.