Disclaimer: Tokyo Babylon belongs to the awesome Clamp. I'm just in love with the characters and I hope it shows! "Don't Stand So Close To Me" is by the Police.

Calendar Boy

By miyamoto yui

Part 8 – when you're next to me…

"Great!" the director told me as I smiled sheepishly with all the lights turned back on.

I bowed my head and blushed with the cross brushing on my cheek like Hokuto poking on my side whenever she teased me. (Or rather, it was to point out how much more I needed to eat.)

The director went over to me and put his arm over my shoulder. "Perfect!" he commented while looking at me from head to toe.

I didn't know if he was talking about the recording or about me…

"A-arigatou…" I answered back politely.

Let's just think it was the recording. I sweatdropped.

"Please wait in your room while we set up for one more song. K-san is going to record another song too, so it'll be a while." He smiled at me and then patted my back.

Seishirou and Hokuto came up to us at that moment. It was Seishirou who cleared his throat to let us know they were there.

Passing by, he smiled at the director, bowed his head, and took my hand firmly into his. "Do you always cater personally to your models?"

The director demurely replied, "We give them the best services we can."

"I bet you do," Seishirou chuckled with his eyes closed and left (still holding my hand, of course) as Hokuto walked in back of me.

I looked back and blinked at the director as Seishirou gave me a sideglance. I couldn't read it though.

Was he jealous?

Awful as it was, I wanted to hope for that just a little.

When we got back 'my' room, Hokuto closed the door behind her and laughed so hard that she couldn't breathe when she sat on the ground.

"Go Sei-chan!" she cheered with her hand in the air.

"Why are you laughing, Hokuto-chan? I…I don't get it." I looked at both of them, but they wouldn't answer me.

"Whatever are you talking about?" Seishirou said with a smug expression.

I sweatdropped as I tapped him on the shoulder. "Um, excuse me, but you're still holding my hand."

With that, he pulled me and dipped me.

"Woo-hoo! You're really racking up the points today!" Hokuto-chan shouted with a big smile as she still sat on the ground.

I turned my head to look at her carefully. "Stop supporting him and help me! Please?"

She shook her head. "If I don't cheer him on, you certainly will get nowhere."

Seishirou cupped my cheeks gently with one hand to steer my head so that I would look at him. He was so close that I felt his breath on my neck as he looked down at me.

Damn…

Those eyes…

"You shouldn't look elsewhere, Subaru-kun," he told me. "I'm already envious of Hokuto-chan having most of your attention most of the time."

I blushed as he said this. "You're not serious," I laughed. "Eh heh heh…"

Hokuto jumped like a rabbit in front of us. She looked at Seishirou, who was grinning at her. Then she looked at me. "I think he's serious, Subaru."

I closed my eyes and turned my head towards her again. "I know! Must you point this out to me?"

"But you asked me and I answered." Hokuto blinked at me without laughing.

In frustration, I replied, "Sometimes what I say is rhetorical?"

"No, it isn't."

"This isn't the time or place to discuss this!" I then turned to Seishirou. "Seishirou-san, um…"

His eyes always make me melt whenever he looks at me so intensely…

"Just go with the mood guys!" Hokuto then got up, grabbed her bag, and walked out the door. "I'll be back in ten minutes to dress you both up."

Eep!

How come that sounded really sexual?!

Oh no! They're converting me to their sick way of thinking!

I blinked at her and pleaded to her with my eyes. "Why do you always do this to me?" my eyes told her.

"Because I love you," her wink answered back.

With another wink to Seishirou before closing the door, she said, "That's more than enough time for you, right?"

Seishirou laughed. "I don't know."

Click.

The door closed and we looked at one another.

"I don't know if that's enough time." At that moment, he picked me up and laid me on the couch. "And you know why?"

"Wh-why?" I asked him as I grabbed his arms to push him lightly in protest.

"Because you were so sexy when you were singing. And if you make me wait any longer, I'm going to devour you. I don't think I can wait until we go back to the hotel."

I gulped as I felt his hand go up my shirt again. "Seishirou-san?"

"God, you're so cute when you're panicking." He laughed as he pulled his hand away. As he looked down at me, he laid his head on my shoulder while whispering to my ear. Seriously, he asked, "Is that really one of your favorite songs?"

I wrapped my arms around his shoulders. I nodded as I whispered quietly,

"I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain."

"You sang very well today," he complimented me.

"So what are you going to do about it?" I blurted out as I hugged him harder.

"You never had to ask," Seishirou replied with a smile. "You never had to ask…"

At that, he pressed his lips on my cheek. As he got up, he pulled me up too.

I then looked around the room. "This was that boy's room."

With just that comment alone, we started to look around the room for anything to solve the case. As I opened the closet, there were a number of costumes. However, there was a business card sticking out of one of the pair of ripped jeans.

"I didn't find anything," Seishirou said as he walked towards me.

I didn't say anything as I read the note: "If you ever need me, call me. – Yuki"

I showed the card to Seishirou, but his eyes narrowed.

"What's wrong, Seishirou-san?"

He shook his head. "The handwriting's strangely familiar."

I turned over the card. "Tanaka Yuki."

"Is that a girl's or boy's name?" I pondered aloud.

"A boy's…" Seishirou answered without hesitation.

I put the card away and Hokuto knocked on the door at that moment. When she came in, she was so disappointed with me. "Subaru!"

I sighed and we were getting ready for the next recording.

"But why are you changing too, Seishirou-san?" I said as I was going into the bathroom.

"I like the Police too." He winked at me with a grin. "Just act on your instinct as you did with the other song and we'll do just fine…"

My stomach flipped.

Not good.

"I don't like the way you're looking at me," I told him as I went into the bathroom and closed the door.

"If anyone else looks at you this way, that's when you should be bothered," he told me.

I then opened the door and stuck out my head. "But doesn't that mean I've lost my 'effect' on other people?"

"Subaru-kun?" He blinked at me in shock.

"I've got to tease _you_ once in a while." Then, I winked at him and went into the bathroom.

"I'm so proud of you, Subaru!" Hokuto shouted. I could so see her sitting on the couch with her arms folded and nodding to herself.

As I was temporarily leaving to get something to drink, I tilted my head towards Hokuto and whispered, "I've got to look around. Laugh loudly if you need me."

She stuck her thumb up. "Okay!"

Closing the door behind me, I walked around the long way to get to the private lounge.

I kept on touching the walls on the way there.

"No…not here either," I said with frustration while looking around so that no one would look at me suspiciously. I also looked out for cameras in the hallways.

"Here?" I looked at this exit door as someone opened the door.

"Hey!" the blond boy shouted at me with his finger pointing at me. "You were the one that bumped into me at the karaoke place!"

"I'm really sorry about that!" I blinked at him. "Hello again?"

"Why were you touching the door?" he asked me suspiciously.

"How did you know?" I asked him.

"Your aura…" he answered.

"You're also a medium?" I asked him while looking at him straight in the eye.

"You could say that…"

"What's your name?" I asked him.

"Kazahaya." He plainly answered.

"Your last name?" I bowed a bit forward. "I'm Sumeragi Subaru."

His eyes opened wide. "Sumeragi?!"

"K-san! Please report to studio 12."

He then bowed his head forward. "I'm sorry but I have to leave."

But before he left, he held my shoulder and whispered while passing me. "We'll talk later."

"Ee…" I answered while looking after him.

I then went to the refreshments and got myself a coke. "He's no ordinary medium if he knows my name…"

"You'll be going up with Sakurazuka-san in an hour," the director said as he came up next to me.

"Yes, so I've been told." I took a sip of my can, but a little had slipped onto my neck.

["Damn, it's really hot in here!"]

I wiped it away with a napkin as the director looked at me.

"I'm looking forward to it." He then smiled and turned around to leave the room.

I went back to the room and Seishirou was now gone.

"Where did Seishirou-san go?" I asked Hokuto as she shoved another bag into my hands.

"He's looking around," she simply told me.

In the bathroom, I changed into the outfit she had given me. My head dropped as I sighed. She was having way too much fun on my behalf.

Then, I looked at my reflection again.

Maybe this wasn't so bad…

It was actually kind of cute…

But if I thought this way, I wonder what Seishirou would say. I then sighed again…

Hours later, we took the final copy back to the hotel.

While we were gone, a tv with an attached vcr was put into our room. After changing into more comfortable clothes (and numerous pokings of my stomach by Hokuto), we sat on Seishirou's bed to watch the music video with Seishirou and myself…

And Hokuto had a hell of a time laughing at me when I couldn't be 'seductive' enough. Ack! It was so embarrassing, I can't believe I did it!

I sweatdropped as the song was beginning…

Seishirou was on the black stage and pushing up his glasses while tapping his foot.

Then, the scene changed to a classroom setting. Everyone was wearing school uniforms, but I was wearing a tight, red turtleneck with a zipper going across my collar bone. The bottom of the shirt was ripped like a midriff so my stomach was showing.

[* blink, blink * "Su-subaru's flat stomach?" * turns red *]

My pants are black khakis that look almost like cargo pants that if you pulled on the zippers, they could turn into shorts.

Seishirou walks into the classroom with a blue suit and tie while singing,

"Young teacher the student

Of schoolgirl fantasy"

The camera pans to me. I'm sitting in my desk tapping my pencil with my right hand to the beat with my chin resting on my left palm. I give him a serious look and tilt my head a bit trying to tease him. I sing while eyeing him,

"She wants him so badly

Knows what she wants to be."

I then turn to one side and cross my legs. Seishirou sings while I bite on the eraser of the pencil,

"Inside her there's longing

This girl's an open page

Book marking she's so close now

This girl is half his age."

Seishirou's again on the dark stage, but he's holding onto the microphone stand. With a smile, he keeps on shaking his head.

"Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me"

It's the classroom scene again and it's raining. There are girls talking while looking at me with mean eyes. I just happily give the papers 'sensei' has told me to fetch for him.

"Her friends are so jealous

You know how bad girls get

Sometimes it's not so easy

To be the teacher's pet"

In a lonely bus stop, it's raining. I'm leaning on the pole with my arms folded.

The camera has a close up of my lips singing, "Temptation, frustration."

Seishirou is now driving up in a car while watching me. I'm dripping wet and I smile at him as his car stops with a door opening to let me in.

"So bad it makes him cry

Wet bus stop, she's waiting

His car is warm and dry"

Again, Seishirou is closing his eyes while tapping his feet on the floor. He's wearing jeans and a loose white buttoned blouse while holding onto the microphone stand. He smirks as I walk by.

"Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me"

There is shot of the classroom and then the teacher's lounge. I'm missing and Seishirou starts to sing,

"Loose talk in the classroom

To hurt they try and try

Strong words in the staffroom

The accusations fly"

I walk into the class and give him a knowing smile as he picks up a handkerchief from his jacket pocket.

"It's no use

He sees her

He starts to shake and cough

Just like the old man in

That book by Nabokov."

In a room with a spotlight on Seishirou, he's sitting in a chair. My gloves come from the darkness and then I slowly come out of the darkness. I whisper into his ear with my eyes closed as I blushed while wrapping my arms around his shoulders.

He sings until the end while looking at me,

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me

[instrumental]

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand

Don't stand so

Don't stand so close to me…"

I slapped my palm on my forehead with my cheeks burning redder than ever. "I can't believe I did that. This should be burned."

"This was so cute though, Subaru!" Hokuto smiled.

"Now why can't you do these things to me off-camera?" Seishirou winked at me.

"Sei-seishirou-san!" I stammered. Trying to change the subject, I blinked at the video. "I kind of liked the outfit, though."

"Sei-chan picked it," Hokuto said as she hugged her knees with a small pout. In a split second, she smiled again as she looked at me. She then got up and waved her hand. "Good night!"

"Hokuto-chan…" I mumbled while the door clicked shut.

Seishirou then looked at me. "Would you believe that's how I always feel whenever you're next to me?"

"Me?!" I squeaked in surprise. "I don't do anything!"

"You're a cruel, cruel boy, Subaru-kun…" he told me as he laughed as he pulled me to tickle me on my ribs.

I laughed so hard that I was lying on his bed while looking up at him and tears were coming out of my eyes. "You're the one * laugh, laugh * tickling me to death * laugh, laugh * and you call me cruel?"

"You tricked me." He told me while smiling down at me.

"Huh?" I coughed.

He rubbed my chest while still looking at me with a smile.

Running his fingers through my hair, he laughed with his eyes closed. "I thought you were a girl…"

"I don't get it…"

"You don't have to." It was then that he tickled me again and I laughed and laughed.

"Your cheeks were as pink as a sakura petal …that's why I thought you were a girl…" he told me while still tickling me.

I didn't understand, but I couldn't think too much about it as he made me laugh. I hadn't laughed so much since I was a child…

He commented, "I'll always love the way you laugh."

I smiled up at him.

"And I love the way you smile at me…"

I want you to always look this lovingly at me, Seishirou…

Owari…

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Author's note: Gosh, it's hard to think of things after I put a lot into You Drive Me Crazy. But then again, one must never run out of fanservice ideas! I am a fangirl, after all. ^____^ Hee hee.

And so, the fun begins…

Please excuse the excess of music. I love songs and as I've stated with Gravitation fics, singing is like breathing to me. It is so much a part of me that silence unnerves me sometimes. Plus, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity for Seishirou to make a debut too! (Koyasu Takehito-sama WAS his seiyuu after all. * drool, drool * Yes, I think that man is totally hot, but Yamaguchi Kappei-sama's still got the sexiest voice alive! Predilection!!!)