Disclaimer: Tokyo Babylon is by awesome Clamp.
Yui Miyamoto productions presents to you a romantic comedy called…
"It's all in the look."
Prologue – Maybe I should have looked the other way.
In some bookstore in Tokyo…
The boy of sixteen years stood in a bookstore looking from side to side. His green eyes couldn't keep themselves from staring particularly to his left side as he tried to find the manga his twin sister had asked him to pick up on his way home. She was on the other side of the mall picking out materials for their 'casual' outfits, so there he was stuck among rows of books that he only glanced at a whim.
He liked novels and was usually two aisles left of the manga section that his sister had loved so much.
The emerald-eyed beauty continued to look at the titles before him and soon became annoyed. He wasn't annoyed at finding the title; his eyes kept on looking at the black business suit a couple paces away from him.
"AH!" he screamed inside his mind as he blushed while looking away.
The one in the business suit, the man with the amber eyes smirked at him and winked at him. He chuckled to himself as the schoolboy next to him began to fumble through the manga with his gloves as his cheeks burned with crimson as if they were pained on his adorable face.
The boy gulped at knowing the person he couldn't stop looking at was staring at him as if he were going to eat him. And so, he wanted to leave right then and there if it weren't for the fact that his sister had threatened that if he didn't find that manga, she'd get upset with him.
He'd rather go through hell than make her mad.
But little did the boy know that man with mysterious amber eyes had watched him like a hawk ever since he had entered the bookstore. He was just inching his way closer and closer to him to ask for his number when he found out that the boy was also looking at him.
"Do you need help?" the man asked as he walked over to the boy in the high school uniform.
"Interesting…" the man thought. "He has a Clamp high school uniform. And not a bad one. I just want to grab him-"
"N-no thank you," the boy blinked as he kept his eyes peeled at the authors and the titles before him. The list seemed like an eternity as the man just looked over his shoulder.
Too close though.
Amber-eyed one was close enough to touch his cheek while he bent over to peek at the list that the boy gripped in between his gloved hands.
"That's a long list," the business man commented. "But I believe I can help you out with this one. I buy all these titles."
He smirked to himself inside of his mind thinking, "Yeah, right. I only buy two of these titles. But I've come here enough to know where everything is. Then again, I've seen his sister come in here."
Apparently, the man had been watching the boy for a long long time. * sweatdrop *
The nice man helped the boy look for what was on the list and kept on piling the manga into the two hands. The boy kept on sweatdropping as the cute man in the business suit kept on smiling at him and he couldn't help but blush at him.
"He has really white teeth," the boy couldn't help but think. "Then again, not too many people have nice teeth…"
As they made their way to the front to pay for the manga, the boy kept on saying, "Thank you _so_ much for helping me out! I think I can take over from here-"
"I'm paying for all that," the business man said without a flinch in his eye as he looked seriously at the woman helping. She smiled back at him and nodded her head.
"N-no!" the boy protested loudly. "That's-No, I'm paying for this."
The woman looked at them with a confused face.
"I'm paying. And that's _final_," the man insisted as he winked at the boy. When he turned his head to look at the boy, the boy sighed in exasperation. He shook his head and couldn't believe a complete stranger was paying for his sister's manga. And that wasn't even cheap! She didn't buy one or two to amuse herself, she bought ten a weekend. He sweatdropped as the full transaction was taking place.
As the high schooler walked out of the store, he shook his head as he bowed in front of the man. "Thank you, but I can't accept this."
"Think of this as a…" the man looked up to the ceiling as he tried to find a word that would fit his description perfectly. He then looked at the boy again as he said, "Think of this as my downpayment."
"Huh?" The boy gulped as he stuck his neck out and pulled on his collar. He was feeling his temperature rising and it wasn't going down anytime soon.
He'd have to deal with his scary sister when she saw him.
He sighed inwardly.
"I'll meet you tomorrow night at seven…" the man randomly pointed at a sushi restaurant diagonally across them. "There."
The high school boy's eyes opened wide as he looked around. "Are you talking to me?"
"Who else am I talking to?" the man answered as he took out a cigarette and a match from his jacket pocket.
"Who else am I talking to, sexy?" he had wanted to say, but resisted the urge as he looked at the boy from head to toe.
"I can't believe I'm keeping my control…" he mumbled under his breath.
"Excuse me?" the boy was still was confused.
The man tripped thinking that he had heard him. But he was saved when the boy said, "I…"
"You can't say no." He patted the boy as he laughed while walking past him. "I'm looking forward to seeing you. And don't forget to wear something formal."
"But I…" the boy turned around as he held out his hand towards the man.
The man turned around and smirked. "You need to know my name, I almost forgot," he smoothly interrupted while rolling his eyes a bit while keeping his grin plastered on his face. "The name is Sakurazuka Seishirou. Here's my business card. Call me if you need me."
He winked at the boy as he turned around to resume walking away. The boy held the business card with one hand as the weight of the books pulled on the other. His head bent low as he sighed. "Why does this always happen to me?"
"What happened?" a voice behind him said.
"Geh!" he said as he jumped back a bit. He held out his books to his sister. "Here are your manga. I can't believe the trouble I went through to get this for you!"
As they walked out of the mall, his sister said, "What? You meet a cute guy who bought them all for you?"
"H-how did she know?!" he thought as he gulped.
"Ohohohoh!" his sister laughed as she patted his shoulder. Her eyes became slits. "Anyone try anything with my baby brother, I'll kill them."
"Th-that's what I was afraid of…" he whispered to himself.
"Hmm? Did you say something, Subaru?" she blinked her wide green eyes at him. They looked exactly like his own. In fact his sister and himself shared all possible physical characteristics except for gender.
He looked like a girl, and was sometimes mistaken for his sister. He would be mistaken for his sister more often if it weren't for the fact that his outfits always told them apart.
His sister was more…flamboyant, we would call it. Like right now. She was wearing cat ears on a headband with a black French maid outfit that was just above her knees while he wore the plain school uniform that the school assigned. Why she never wanted to wear it, he understood, but the rest of the world didn't.
"I want to be different," she had said once.
Oh, she was different all right. She didn't need an outfit to prove that…
That's why they were put into separate classes in the first place…
To keep them apart.
So, the next day…
As Subaru looked out the window looking down at the soccer players practicing below, he sighed. What would he do? What could he do? He couldn't back out now.
Now that the man had some kind of hold on him and it was called guilt. He didn't want have any kind of debt to the man he had met. After all, it had been his fault for staring at him and so what could the man do but flirt with him mercilessly?
Subaru sighed as he pouted.
It seemed like everyone loved him. Or rather, they liked to fall in love with him. But, he didn't want to do anything with things like that.
There were other things to worry about than what his male classmates would like to think.
In the background, his classmates continued to talk amongst themselves as they waited for homeroom to start. He, on the other hand, just wanted to read his book in peace, so he ignored everyone.
After all, he was the quiet twin. Hokuto-chan could talk for both of them anyway. She _had_ been doing that since birth anyway.
The door of his classroom slid open as everyone scrambled to their seats. It was the usual routine, so he wasn't surprised.
Well, not until a voice had greeted, "Good morning class."
Subaru's eyes slowly looked up to see the new teacher that had been rumored to be starting that day. His eyes almost fell out of their sockets and he thought he was dreaming as he stared in horror at the new teacher smiling before them.
The class quieted, but some girls started to comment to each other as he repeated once more, "Good morning. From today, I will be your new homeroom teacher. My name is Sakurazuka Seishirou. Nice to meet you."
As Subaru tried in vain to hide behind his book, the new teacher grinned to himself restraining the urge to laugh aloud as he held his hand out towards Subaru. "Since I want to learn your names as soon as possible, let's start with you in the back."
"Eh heh heh," Subaru said as he put down his book onto his desk and got up. "My name is Sumeragi Subaru…"
He sat back down slowly as the next student began to introduce themselves.
"ACK!" Subaru was shouting inside of his head. "How will I get out of this one?!"
He bent his head his head in defeat.
The only redemption he had was the time he had from until his sister would meet him for lunch time…
To be continued…
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Author's note: I'm just letting you know now that this will take a long time to update. I've never done an extremely long fic before like 'You Drive Me Crazy', so it has taken a lot out of me. * winks at MD *
Aww…I had to resist making side comments!
And sorry about the revision. I've only been getting four hours a day and frankly, I've been losing it a little. Please be patient with me. Going back to third person omniscient is much harder than I anticipated. * sighs * And I'm very bad with details, so it's a double whammy on me.
Next on "It's all in a look.": What will Subaru do? Now that he found out the pervert (a perfectly sexy one at that) is his homeroom teacher? But hey, aren't they supposed to be teaching specific subjects? What will our Seishirou-san teach?
Or rather…what will Subaru learn that he can live without?
Teaser: "B-but you're my teacher!" Subaru protested as he dipped his head backwards as Seishirou's face kept on coming closer and closer to his without any attempt to stop.
"That's right." Seishirou smirked at him. "And what would Sumeragi-kun like to learn from me first?"
It was then that Seishirou smiled at him smugly. "Or shall I surprise you along the way?"
Yui Miyamoto productions presents to you a romantic comedy called…
"It's all in the look."
Prologue – Maybe I should have looked the other way.
In some bookstore in Tokyo…
The boy of sixteen years stood in a bookstore looking from side to side. His green eyes couldn't keep themselves from staring particularly to his left side as he tried to find the manga his twin sister had asked him to pick up on his way home. She was on the other side of the mall picking out materials for their 'casual' outfits, so there he was stuck among rows of books that he only glanced at a whim.
He liked novels and was usually two aisles left of the manga section that his sister had loved so much.
The emerald-eyed beauty continued to look at the titles before him and soon became annoyed. He wasn't annoyed at finding the title; his eyes kept on looking at the black business suit a couple paces away from him.
"AH!" he screamed inside his mind as he blushed while looking away.
The one in the business suit, the man with the amber eyes smirked at him and winked at him. He chuckled to himself as the schoolboy next to him began to fumble through the manga with his gloves as his cheeks burned with crimson as if they were pained on his adorable face.
The boy gulped at knowing the person he couldn't stop looking at was staring at him as if he were going to eat him. And so, he wanted to leave right then and there if it weren't for the fact that his sister had threatened that if he didn't find that manga, she'd get upset with him.
He'd rather go through hell than make her mad.
But little did the boy know that man with mysterious amber eyes had watched him like a hawk ever since he had entered the bookstore. He was just inching his way closer and closer to him to ask for his number when he found out that the boy was also looking at him.
"Do you need help?" the man asked as he walked over to the boy in the high school uniform.
"Interesting…" the man thought. "He has a Clamp high school uniform. And not a bad one. I just want to grab him-"
"N-no thank you," the boy blinked as he kept his eyes peeled at the authors and the titles before him. The list seemed like an eternity as the man just looked over his shoulder.
Too close though.
Amber-eyed one was close enough to touch his cheek while he bent over to peek at the list that the boy gripped in between his gloved hands.
"That's a long list," the business man commented. "But I believe I can help you out with this one. I buy all these titles."
He smirked to himself inside of his mind thinking, "Yeah, right. I only buy two of these titles. But I've come here enough to know where everything is. Then again, I've seen his sister come in here."
Apparently, the man had been watching the boy for a long long time. * sweatdrop *
The nice man helped the boy look for what was on the list and kept on piling the manga into the two hands. The boy kept on sweatdropping as the cute man in the business suit kept on smiling at him and he couldn't help but blush at him.
"He has really white teeth," the boy couldn't help but think. "Then again, not too many people have nice teeth…"
As they made their way to the front to pay for the manga, the boy kept on saying, "Thank you _so_ much for helping me out! I think I can take over from here-"
"I'm paying for all that," the business man said without a flinch in his eye as he looked seriously at the woman helping. She smiled back at him and nodded her head.
"N-no!" the boy protested loudly. "That's-No, I'm paying for this."
The woman looked at them with a confused face.
"I'm paying. And that's _final_," the man insisted as he winked at the boy. When he turned his head to look at the boy, the boy sighed in exasperation. He shook his head and couldn't believe a complete stranger was paying for his sister's manga. And that wasn't even cheap! She didn't buy one or two to amuse herself, she bought ten a weekend. He sweatdropped as the full transaction was taking place.
As the high schooler walked out of the store, he shook his head as he bowed in front of the man. "Thank you, but I can't accept this."
"Think of this as a…" the man looked up to the ceiling as he tried to find a word that would fit his description perfectly. He then looked at the boy again as he said, "Think of this as my downpayment."
"Huh?" The boy gulped as he stuck his neck out and pulled on his collar. He was feeling his temperature rising and it wasn't going down anytime soon.
He'd have to deal with his scary sister when she saw him.
He sighed inwardly.
"I'll meet you tomorrow night at seven…" the man randomly pointed at a sushi restaurant diagonally across them. "There."
The high school boy's eyes opened wide as he looked around. "Are you talking to me?"
"Who else am I talking to?" the man answered as he took out a cigarette and a match from his jacket pocket.
"Who else am I talking to, sexy?" he had wanted to say, but resisted the urge as he looked at the boy from head to toe.
"I can't believe I'm keeping my control…" he mumbled under his breath.
"Excuse me?" the boy was still was confused.
The man tripped thinking that he had heard him. But he was saved when the boy said, "I…"
"You can't say no." He patted the boy as he laughed while walking past him. "I'm looking forward to seeing you. And don't forget to wear something formal."
"But I…" the boy turned around as he held out his hand towards the man.
The man turned around and smirked. "You need to know my name, I almost forgot," he smoothly interrupted while rolling his eyes a bit while keeping his grin plastered on his face. "The name is Sakurazuka Seishirou. Here's my business card. Call me if you need me."
He winked at the boy as he turned around to resume walking away. The boy held the business card with one hand as the weight of the books pulled on the other. His head bent low as he sighed. "Why does this always happen to me?"
"What happened?" a voice behind him said.
"Geh!" he said as he jumped back a bit. He held out his books to his sister. "Here are your manga. I can't believe the trouble I went through to get this for you!"
As they walked out of the mall, his sister said, "What? You meet a cute guy who bought them all for you?"
"H-how did she know?!" he thought as he gulped.
"Ohohohoh!" his sister laughed as she patted his shoulder. Her eyes became slits. "Anyone try anything with my baby brother, I'll kill them."
"Th-that's what I was afraid of…" he whispered to himself.
"Hmm? Did you say something, Subaru?" she blinked her wide green eyes at him. They looked exactly like his own. In fact his sister and himself shared all possible physical characteristics except for gender.
He looked like a girl, and was sometimes mistaken for his sister. He would be mistaken for his sister more often if it weren't for the fact that his outfits always told them apart.
His sister was more…flamboyant, we would call it. Like right now. She was wearing cat ears on a headband with a black French maid outfit that was just above her knees while he wore the plain school uniform that the school assigned. Why she never wanted to wear it, he understood, but the rest of the world didn't.
"I want to be different," she had said once.
Oh, she was different all right. She didn't need an outfit to prove that…
That's why they were put into separate classes in the first place…
To keep them apart.
So, the next day…
As Subaru looked out the window looking down at the soccer players practicing below, he sighed. What would he do? What could he do? He couldn't back out now.
Now that the man had some kind of hold on him and it was called guilt. He didn't want have any kind of debt to the man he had met. After all, it had been his fault for staring at him and so what could the man do but flirt with him mercilessly?
Subaru sighed as he pouted.
It seemed like everyone loved him. Or rather, they liked to fall in love with him. But, he didn't want to do anything with things like that.
There were other things to worry about than what his male classmates would like to think.
In the background, his classmates continued to talk amongst themselves as they waited for homeroom to start. He, on the other hand, just wanted to read his book in peace, so he ignored everyone.
After all, he was the quiet twin. Hokuto-chan could talk for both of them anyway. She _had_ been doing that since birth anyway.
The door of his classroom slid open as everyone scrambled to their seats. It was the usual routine, so he wasn't surprised.
Well, not until a voice had greeted, "Good morning class."
Subaru's eyes slowly looked up to see the new teacher that had been rumored to be starting that day. His eyes almost fell out of their sockets and he thought he was dreaming as he stared in horror at the new teacher smiling before them.
The class quieted, but some girls started to comment to each other as he repeated once more, "Good morning. From today, I will be your new homeroom teacher. My name is Sakurazuka Seishirou. Nice to meet you."
As Subaru tried in vain to hide behind his book, the new teacher grinned to himself restraining the urge to laugh aloud as he held his hand out towards Subaru. "Since I want to learn your names as soon as possible, let's start with you in the back."
"Eh heh heh," Subaru said as he put down his book onto his desk and got up. "My name is Sumeragi Subaru…"
He sat back down slowly as the next student began to introduce themselves.
"ACK!" Subaru was shouting inside of his head. "How will I get out of this one?!"
He bent his head his head in defeat.
The only redemption he had was the time he had from until his sister would meet him for lunch time…
To be continued…
--
Author's note: I'm just letting you know now that this will take a long time to update. I've never done an extremely long fic before like 'You Drive Me Crazy', so it has taken a lot out of me. * winks at MD *
Aww…I had to resist making side comments!
And sorry about the revision. I've only been getting four hours a day and frankly, I've been losing it a little. Please be patient with me. Going back to third person omniscient is much harder than I anticipated. * sighs * And I'm very bad with details, so it's a double whammy on me.
Next on "It's all in a look.": What will Subaru do? Now that he found out the pervert (a perfectly sexy one at that) is his homeroom teacher? But hey, aren't they supposed to be teaching specific subjects? What will our Seishirou-san teach?
Or rather…what will Subaru learn that he can live without?
Teaser: "B-but you're my teacher!" Subaru protested as he dipped his head backwards as Seishirou's face kept on coming closer and closer to his without any attempt to stop.
"That's right." Seishirou smirked at him. "And what would Sumeragi-kun like to learn from me first?"
It was then that Seishirou smiled at him smugly. "Or shall I surprise you along the way?"