HOW TO ATTRACT BLUE-HAIRED
MONKS (5/?)
BY :
Chikki
Heeheeheee... ^_^ Yes, I am starting to like this fic very much, and I think that now, I have (more or less) an idea of where I want to go with this fic, so updates will probably be faster now. Gomen ne for taking so long with this. On with the fic!
Warnings
Tasuki has a _VERY_ impressive vocabulary of official "bandit" words, no da…so it's PG 13 for swearing…oh…and some yaoi too,na no da. (^_^)
Disclaimer Not mine. Never will be,na no da.
Tasuki anxiously looked on as Chichiri cocked his head to one side and regarded the bandit before him curiously. Finally, after what seemed to be eternity, Chichiri let out a resigned sigh and smiled."Okay, no da."
He began to make his way towards the others and Tasuki slowly let out the breath that he didn't know that he had been holding.
Something poked him from behind and the red-haired seishi turned around to see Chiriko grinning mischievously. Leaning forward, Chiriko whispered. "What are you planning to do, Tasuki-san?"
"You just watch and see." Tasuki hissed in return. Then, he smirked. "Lesson number one in attracting blue-haired monks. Act interested in something boring that they are interested in."
"Nani?" Chiriko asked, confused.
Tasuki laughed and turned around just in time to see Chichiri sit down next to him. "So!" he said, smiling cheerfully.
"So…no da." Chichiri said uncertainly, not quite sure as to why Tasuki was acting so weird and why Chiriko was giggling hysterically behind him.
"How was your meditation session this mornin'?"
Chichiri looked at his flame-haired companion in both disbelief and suspicion. "M-my meditation session, no da? You actually want to hear about it?"
"Of course! Tell me how it went!"
"Well…it went pretty good, no da."
"And…?" Tasuki prompted.
"And what, no da?"
Exasperated, Tasuki threw his hands up in the air and leaned against the rock that Chiriko was sitting on. "And what aspect of life did you delve into today?"
"Da…?" Chichiri said, now truly believing that the younger seishi had gone completely mad. Or at least, he still suffering from a hangover. "Are you sure that YOU'RE not the one who is sick, no da?"
"'Course I'm sure! I just wanted to know about how 'yer meditation was this mornin'!" Tasuki pouted flirtatiously, his full lips catching the monk's attention. "There's nothin' wrong with that, is
there? Besides, why would you think that I was sick? As I recall, you were the
one who looked deathly pale a little while ago."
Chichiri swallowed hard and looked away, much to Chiriko's amusement who had wisely decided to keep silent while Tasuki went on with his so-called plan. "Er…"
"Yes?"
The older seishi placed his hands on his lap and folded them together. "It's just that…first, I see you in the middle of a field, staring out into space with a disturbing smile on your face, no da. Then, you keep whispering with Chiriko and now, you're asking about how my meditation went, na no da." Chichiri frowned in vague hilarity. "That's not exactly what I'd call normal Tasuki behavior, no da."
Suddenly, Chiriko jumped down from the rock and sat so that he was facing both Tasuki and Chichiri. He smiled gleefully at Chichiri, determined to grab any chance of pairing the two other seishi that may come his way. "Ah! And you would know what normal Tasuki behavior is, wouldn't you, Chichiri-san?"
Chichiri glared at Chiriko and ignored the younger seishi once more. Instead, the mask he wore took on an expression of surprise as he leaned in closer to Chiriko and poked around the younger seishi's mouth. "Chiriko! You have fangs, no da!"
Tasuki laughed but his peals of delight were stopped when Chichiri suddenly grabbed a hold of his chin as well and drew him in closer. "Er…Chichiri?" he asked, sweatdropping a bit.
"Hmm, no da…" The monk was holding Chiriko's face in one hand, and Tasuki's in the other. He glanced back and forth between them, forehead scrunched up in deep thought. "Daa…"
"Wha' is it?" Chiriko asked, having trouble talking since Chichiri still held his lower jaw firmly in one hand.
In his surprise, Chichiri let go of Chiriko. "Da? You're starting to speak with an accent too, no da?"
Chiriko laughed in a disturbingly evil way and nodded. "Damn right!"
Chichiri sweatdropped and shook his head. "You have been spending WAY too much time with Tasuki, na no da." The monk remained completely oblivious to the fact that he still held Tasuki's face with his other hand.
The same could not be said about the bandit however, who was quite pleasantly shocked that Chichiri had actually grabbed a hold of his chin AND had pulled him closer too. Drifting off into his little dreamworld again, Tasuki entertained himself with
imagining Chichiri doing the very same thing. Only other different circumstances, of course. He grinned and covered Chichiri's hand with his own. "Chichiri?"
"Da?"
Tasuki grinned again, this time, wider. "If you don't mind, I'd like 'ta have my face back now, please."
The young bandit got the satisfaction of seeing Chichiri break out into a blush and hastily pull his hand away. "Of course, no da. Sorry, na no da!"
Tasuki grinned and scooted closer to Chichiri. "So…" he said again.
"Da. What is it, no da?" Chichiri moved a little further from Tasuki.
But the bandit only grinned again and moved in closer. "'Ya never answered my question."
"What question, no da? You had a lot of questions, na no da." Chichiri moved away again, beginning to feel nervous about the insistence that he saw in Tasuki's eyes.
"The one about what you meditated on, Chichiri-san!" Chiriko put in helpfully, still determined to help Tasuki in any way that he could. From the corner of his eye, Chiriko saw Tasuki give him a thumbs-up sign and inwardly, he smiled proudly.
Chiriko shot Chiriko a frustrated look and looked down. "Well, no da…" The flustered monk looked up again and fidgeted with his hands. "Um, That is…"
"Yes?" Tasuki and Chiriko said simultaneously, causing Chichiri to blink twice in surprise.
Sighing in resignation, Chichiri regarded the other seishi with a shy smile. "I was just thinking about the sunrise…"
"Eh…?" Tasuki said, raising one eyebrow. "Wha' about it?"
But Chichiri simply continued talking, like he hadn't heard Tasuki's question at all. His voice sounded awed and his eye looked past those around him, apparently imagining something else. "It was just so beautiful this morning…Everything was so tranquil and calm. One moment, everything was dark and the next, brilliant colors were spilling through the sky, lighting up everything and being just so…" Here, Chichiri shook his head, a small smile on his face. "Beautiful."
There was a long moment of silence as Tasuki gazed with wonderment at the monk before him, who was still staring out over the horizon. Chiriko glanced back and forth between Tasuki and Chichiri, feeling scared to break the trance-like atmosphere that had suddenly descended upon the three of them.
Then, Chichiri broke his gaze off and turned to look at Tasuki and Chiriko instead. "Well, no da!" he said brightly, the trance broken. "I think that was enough, don't you think so, Tas-chan, no da? I certainly think so, na no da. Now if you'll excuse me, Hotohori-sama wanted to see me this morning, no da. See you later, no da!"
And with that, the blue-haired monk gathered all his things and started walking off towards the path that led to the palace.
Once the monk was out of sight, Chiriko glanced in amusement at the still-shocked Tasuki sitting beside him. Grinning widely, he pounded the older seishi on the back. Hard. "Good job, Tasuki-san!"
Tasuki choked and turned around. However, he did not grab his tessen or swear heatedly at Chiriko as expected, which took the younger seishi by surprise. "D-did he just ca..call me…" he looked up at Chiriko, his amber eyes shining with happiness and hope. "Tas-chan?"
"Yes, I do remember him addressing you in that way, Tasuki-san."
Chiriko watched in amusement as Tasuki grinned happily and hugged his knees to his chest. Smiling, Chiriko shook his head and gestured towards where Chichiri had walked off to. "Now, aren't you glad that I convinced you to go after Chichiri-san today?"
"Whad'ya mean, you convinced me to go after him?" Tasuki yelled. "I did that all on my own!"
Chiriko merely made a face. "Nope! Wrong! False! You were too…" He grinned. "Scared!
You were to scared to go after him on your own!" He laughed as he watched Tasuki's face slowly turn redder and redder as he blushed in a mixture of happiness, embarrassment and anger.
"I was NOT scared, 'ya damned little…And what did 'ya think you were doing a while back? I thought you were trying to give me another fucking heart attack with the way you were hinting around! I thought for sure that he was goin' to figure it all out!" The frustrated bandit gripped his tessen tightly. "Why
I oughta…!"
"Ah!" Chiriko said, smiling innocently and halting Tasuki's original intention of
frying him to a crisp. "But you DID make some progress with Chichiri-san, did you not, Tasuki-san?"
Tasuki relaxed the grip that he had on his tessen as he thought about it, and Chiriko grinned triumphantly when he saw a soft smile spread across Tasuki's face.
Setting the tessen back in its holder, Tasuki stared after the path that Chichiri had taken with a dreamy expression on his face. "Yeah. I guess I did."
To be continued...
