Flick_flick_flick. Flick. Flick_flick.
"Stop it!"
"Stop what?" Eagle asked innocently.
"You know what I mean!"
"No, I really don't think I do..."
Geo sighed in exasperation. "Stop flickin' your damn chocolate milk at me!"
Eagle grinned deviously. "You don't *want* a chocolate bath?"
"NO."
"Awww....I thought it might be kinda fun to lick it off you," Eagle grinned evilly again.
"Nah, I think I'll pass on the chocolate and tongue bath today, Eagle, *and* the kinky hot sex, but never fear! Darkhorse is here!"
"What...?" Lantis responded slowly, looking as if he missed out on something.
"I'm *sure* Lantis would just *love* to get it on with you, Eagle," Geo was grinning maniacally now. Lantis still looked somewhat disturbed for a second, then grinned.
"Yeah, baby, anytime!"
"Can I hold you to that one?" Eagle asked, his voice soft and seductive as he smiled enticingly at Lantis.
Lantis stared at Eagle, shaking his head in disbelief and grinning. "You know, anyone who doesn't know you would actually think you *weren't* a whore."
"Well, they'd be wrong, then, wouldn't they?" Eagle shot back, returning his friends grin. He paused, stirring his chocolate milk with his straw and staring pensively into the light brown liquid as if counting bubbles. He looked back up at Lantis. "Why?"
"Why what?" The dark haired boy sounded nonchalant, fingers fidgeting with his paper napkin. He had been attempting for the last hour to fold it into an origami swan. Thus far, the construction had not been successful, and had resulted only in muttered curses. "Fuck," he whispered yet again as another swan fell apart, back to its original form as a crumpled napkin.
"Why would people who don't know me think that I'm not a whore?"
There was a long pause. Then, Lantis laughed, breaking the silence. He began practically howling, smacking his hand against the table, completely unaware that he was attracting the attention of half of the restaurant.
"What?!" Eagle asked, obviously put out. "What's wrong with that question?"
"WHY?!" Lantis gasped between laughs. "You even have to *ask*?! Have you ever even *looked* in a mirror, Eagle?"
Eagle fidgeted now, long fingers running through his silver-blond hair self-conciously. "Yeah," he answered, adjusting his t-shirt, "So? What's wrong with me?"
"Everyone can tell you're not a whore just by *looking* at you! You're too damn cute!"
Eagle immediately stopped fidgeting, staring into his milk again. When he spoke up, his voice was soft. "Cute...?" he asked timidly, sounding somehow pleasingly surprised.
"Well..." Lantis scratched the back of his neck akwardly, as if fishing for words. "Yeah," he said finally, nodding. "You're cute. You're just...you've got this look about you that makes one think more of you dressed in a little sailor suit and of pinching your cheeks and saying 'Oh, how kawaii,' more than it makes one think of rampant passionate sex."
Geo and Zazu cracked up. Eagle looked extremely miffed.
"Oh, well, thanks a lot!" He folded his arms across his chest. "Humph."
Lantis smiled at him. "That is, until they get to know you...until they see you fence." He leaned closer to the petite blond, his voice becoming softer. "Until they see you in that wife beater...and I've got to be honest with you here, Eagle: they get a good look at that ass of yours, and you'll be fighting them off with a bat. That is one fine peice of ass."
"KYAA?!" Eagle's head shot around to face Lantis, a look of shock on his face making him look like the round faced toddler in a sailor suit that Lantis had envisioned. Eagle came face to face with the taller boy, who seemed to be enjoying his joke immensely.
"Yeah, you heard me," Lantis grinned. "I mean, all the fencing team was telling me what a nice ass you had, but I didn't believe them until I saw it myself."
"Wha...wha...WHAT?!" Eagle could barely talk, he was so distraught. Geo and Zazu were snickering into their hands. Geo elbowed Zazu in the side, practically knocking his tiny friend over. Zazu responded by punching Geo in the jaw- hard.
"OW!"
"You okay?" Lantis asked, only half interested in Geo's pain; he was having too much fun tormenting Eagle.
"Hey, pay attention to *me*!" Eagle cried, tugging on Lantis' collar. "I wanna know who was telling you I have a nice ass!"
Lantis feigned memory lapse. "Oh, ya know, it was my first real day there. I doubt I can remember even one name, much less put the names with the faces yet. Sorry buddy." He snickered to himself as Eagle continued to have a panic attack.
"Watashi no kami-sama! What am I going to do?" Geo and Zazu were arguing about the check furiously. Finally, they both tossed money onto the table and, glaring at each other, got up and began heading for the exit. Lantis added his money to the pile and got up as well. "You GUYS!" Eagle grabbed the check and looked it over briefly, lips moving ever so slightly as he calculated his portion quickly in his head and tossed down the sum, tripping over his long legs as he jumped up to follow his friends. "Hey, wait for me! WHAT AM I GONNA DOOOOOO?!?!?!"
"Eagle, take it easy!" Geo said, shoving Eagle in what was obviously supposed to be an amiable and reassuring way. It was anything but. Caught off his guard, Eagle went falling forwards, tripping again, and had to grab the first available support. This happened to be Lantis. The co-captain already had his arms out to catch Eagle.
"Careful there, buddy." Lantis cautioned, laughing at how Eagle was standing. The blond was bent in half, arms clinging to Lantis, half in a crouch with his head against Lantis' chest. He looked up at Lantis with wide eyes.
"Thanks." Eagle straightened up, brushing himself off. "But I really need your help on this! GUYS!"
"Well, it's your fault, Mr. Pres," Zazu responded, swinging his thermos of wine back and forth in one hand.
Eagle stared at him in shock. "HOW IS THIS MY FAULT?!?!?!" Eagle shrilled, obviously not realizing how loud his voice had become.
"You shouldn't have such a nice ass, obviously!" Zazu responded, grinning. "Now, if you had an *average* ass, everyone wouldn't be talking about it!"
Eagle seemed to have finally reached his breaking point. Taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth and began to yell. "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT I HAVE A SUPREMELY HOT ASS, OKAY?! YOU'RE JUST SAYING IT IS BECAUSE YOU'RE JEALOUS! JEALOUS OF MY (APPARENTLY) PERFECT ASS! NOW LEAVE ME AND MY PERFECT ASS ALONE!!!"
Silence. Cautiously, Eagle opened his eyes. Zazu, Lantis, and Geo were staring at him in a mixture of disbelief and an obvious desire to laugh hysterically. Eagle turned sloooowly around and came face to face with a restaurant full of people staring straight at him. A boy who couldn't have been more than thirteen laughed, breaking the silence.
"I..." Eagle began, feeling as if he should explain his behavior, but words failed him. Eagle tried again. "I..." He grinned sheepishly. "Sorry." Eagle turned to go, and the restuarant filled with cheers and applause.
"Yeah! Nice ass, buddy!" "Whoo!" "Look at that FINE peice of ASS!"
Eagle managed to walk to the door with surprising dignity. Once outside, he turned and glared at his friends. "Don't say a word," he hissed.
Zazu grabbed Lantis' sleeve, pulling the taller boy down to Zazu's level. "No one really said anything about his ass, did they?" he asked, voice soft enough so that the panic striken Eagle couldn't hear.
"Of course not."
Zazu grinned. This could be some serious fun.

~*~

The next day, the shower room was filled with a sight that would have terrified some, disgusted others, and made many bishonen otakus pass out from nosebleeds. The fencing team had just finished practice, and the shower room was filled with naked guys. There was a tremendous ammount of butt-flicking-with-the-wet-towel type of manuevers going on, and other activites that immature guys like to do.
Zazu wandered through the shower room, wishing for the five thousandth time that he was taller. His short height put him at an, er, rather unfortunate eye level to most of the guys, due to the fact that his head was only about waist height on most of them. He wanted to close his eyes, but if he did, he'd only wind up walking into someone's groin face-first, and he most assuredly did not want *that*, thank you merrily. Due to his height, he didn't recognize Lantis when he first saw him, because it obviously wasn't Lantis' face that Zazu first saw. He looked up.
"Oh, hey there, Lantis. Hey," he lowered his voice as Lantis bent over to hear him better. "None of the guys know about our little joke, do they?" Lantis shook his head no, and Zazu rubbed his hands together with wicked glee and an evil laugh. "Oh, this is gonna be soooo great!"
Eagle chose that moment to make his entrance. Unlike all of the other boys, Eagle had a towel wrapped tightly around his waist, and he was clinging to it for dear life and eyeing the other boys in a mixture of suspicion and fear.
"What's up, captain?" one of the boys walked up and slapped Eagle amiably on the back. Eagle jerked away, suspicion in his eyes. The boy gave him a funny look. "What's wrong, Eagle? You feelin' okay?"
Eagle clutched the towel tighter. "Yes...I'm fine."
"Are you sure?" Another boy walked over, concern written on his face. "You don't look so good. Maybe it's to hot in here for you...we should get you outside."
"Yeah," another boy chimed in. They reached for Eagle, to help him in case he felt weak, but the captain jumped away.
"NO!"
The boys all jumped back, stunned and confused. Eagle laughed nervously, twisting the edges of his towel.
"Honestly...I'm fine. I'm great!" he forced a half-hearted smile and began edging his way to the door, back against the wall so no one could get a look at his butt. The team eyed him as if he had just jumped out of a cake wearing a thong and given Zazu a lap dance. Eagle pulled the door open and, giving them one last, tight smile, pulled it shut behind him. Lantis, Zazu and Geo burst immediatly into fits of uncontrollable laughter.
"That...was soooo...fucking....great!" Zazu wheezed, clutching his sides as he laughed.
"He fell for it!" Geo laughed. "He honestly thinks that we're after his ass!"
Zazu ran to the door Eagle had just walked out of, sticking his head out it and hollering down the hall after him. "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, EAGLE! THEY'RE AFTER YOUR PERFECT ASS! IF YOU VALUE YOUR ASS AT ALL, RUN! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, *RUN*!!!"
There was a loud thudding sound as Eagle took off down the hallway, and the trio collapsed on the floor in fits of laughter. It was a long time before any of them could recover enough to speak, and by then, the locker room was empty except for the three of them.
"You think we should let him in on it?" Zazu questioned, obviously eager to taunt Eagle for being a complete baka.
"...Eventually. Let him stew for a while first..."
"That was fucking hilarious." Geo announced.
A soft creeeaaaak came from behind them. Eagle poked his head into the room.
"Are they gone?" he asked fearfully. His friends looked at each other and cracked up again. "What *now*?!" Eagle asked wearily, plopping onto a bench and leaning his elbows on his knees, chin in his hands.
"You dork!" Zazu laughed. "You fell for it! No one was really after your ass, you...you ass!"
"What?!" Eagle cried, turning bright pink. Zazu simply continued to laugh, Lantis and Geo joining in. "I...I...I'm gonna KILL YOU!" He dove at Zazu, grabbing him around the neck as if to throttle him but losing his towel in the process.
"I believe you dropped something," Zazu smirked.
"AAAAHHHHHHH!"


~end of part 6~

A/N: Well, what do you think? A tad longer...the ending of it is kinda weird, but I couldn't figure out how to end it right...I hope that works for you all. Blah...at least I don't have total writers block. Anyway, thank you all for leaving me notes! I appreciate it so much!

Thanks to:

EAGLE! Lol, I know, I'm a dork, but without this gorgeous bishonen, I wouldn't be able to write this...obviously. Lol, I'm just a pathetic Eagle obsessee. Not that I can help it. I mean, he is just unbelievably KAWAII! MUAHAHAHAHA! Okeyday, shutting up now...

And SPECIAL thanks to:

Anne and Marysara, even though that has nothing to do with this fic, just for helping me out with my efforts to FREE TIBET! WHOO HOO MOO!

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