Disclaimer: Tokyo Babylon belongs to Clamp and so does Gouhou Drug. "Tokyo Girl" belongs to Ace of Base.
Calendar boy
By miyamoto yui
Part 9 - possessive creature.
After a while, Seishirou was getting ready for bed, but he turned on the television to watch the video again.
I sat on the bed with my pajamas and a ton of papers around me.
"What's all that?" Seishirou asked as he turned his head towards me for a moment.
"All the information about the investigation." I looked at him while holding one of the stapled stacks in one of my hands. "It says that it was an accident, but his mom says it isn't. She's provided all the people involved in the studio and their information as well as where all the photoshoots were. Including whomever he was with, especially who he dated, when, and where."
I sighed as I looked at him feeling a bit overwhelmed. Then, I put the stack down as I thought of what the blond boy had told me.
"What?" Seishirou asked me because I looked at him longingly.
I shook my head, not able to mention the boy for the moment, but told him instead, "There was an exit sign that had a lot of his aura, as if the boy was still lurking there."
Seishirou stopped the video for a moment and began to contemplate along with me. "What's the information you're going to get from that director or whatever?"
"I'm going to see what his schedule is like when he dates his models." I gave him a concerned expression while biting my lip. Then, I finished, "Please go with me to the studio tomorrow night."
"Investigating?"
"I need a look out. I have a map of where all the cameras are, but I need you to let me know what's happening while I'm concentrating on touching the walls. They're so weird over there." I sighed. "It seems like he's the only one who died, but he isn't the only one who's gone through this."
He nodded. "Where did his mom get all this?"
"Private investigator. Most of his whereabouts are unknown even with all this information, it's just a list of things for a few days, but not all the months he stayed. We need to find out why it stopped."
Seishirou nodded his head and watched the video again as I read the last paper of the pile. Shaking my head, I wondered why this piece of paper was even here.
A fascination with mermaids?
Strangely, it was the last note the boy ever wrote:
"Lurking in the depths of the ocean, away from humanity, it is said that mermaids live in solitude. Once in a full moon, one may be walking among men to capture a sailor's eyes that wander upon the ocean. Thinking that illusion couldn't ever become real, the sailors rub their eyes to see no one in the ocean. And yet, the persistent walk among women, walking the streets as if they were one with those that walk with two legs.
Humans want to capture the mermaid and eat its flesh for eternal life,
Only they are mesmerized by their beauty...
...and are eaten instead,
heart first."
Because I had been worn out for the day, I fell asleep as soon as I finished the last sentence.
--
"Grr."
Typically, this would be Hokuto getting annoyed at the alarm clock because beauty sleep was important. Instead, today, it was me who growled to myself as I closed my eyes tightly and put my pillow over my head.
"I love you and all, but just once..." I mumbled to myself as I tried to drown out her singing. "Just once, can't you cook without singing?"
And why can't I ever have some privacy with these two?
I then peeped out of my temporary hideout and looked at the clock before me. "Eight a.m.?"
I blinked and looked at the clock again as it read, "8:01."
As I lifted the pillow off my head, I heard my sister happily singing her theme song by Ace of Base. While cooking eggs on her electric stove, a dank smell of oil permeated through the room.
"Tokyo girl, Tokyo girl
You got the moves to rule the world
That cute inscrutability
Tokyo girl, you're a mystery..."
Shaking my head, I got up and took a hold of the outfit that Hokuto had prepared for the day, before I would change into that kimono. I blinked at it and then leaned forward to inspect it further. Rubbing my thumb and index finger on the blue material, I bit my lip. "So today I wear a sailor suit???"
I stood in front of the mirror and put the outfit next to me while Hokuto smiled.
Sheepishly, I smiled back.
Blue shorts, white shirt with the blue sailor's trademark, and a cap to match?
I looked at the floor to find black penny loafers.
"You've been reading way too much Clamp," I commented, but smiled as I went to the bathroom to take a shower.
As long as Hokuto made it with love, how could I refuse to wear it? Also, what good would protesting do now?
I sweatdropped.
Then again, there was that black vinyl she wanted me to wear, complete with a hat and chains. That was where I drew the line because when Seishirou walked through the threshold saying, "I found the door open so I just came..."
He saw me, who was politely arguing with Hokuto, and adjusted his tie. At first, Seishirou wanted to open his mouth to make some awful comment, but he stopped himself.
His mouth was totally blank, but I could tell his mind wasn't.
"Hmm..." Seishirou said with a contemplative look and rubbed his chin.
"Eh heh heh...Konnichiwa, Seishirou-san," I finally managed to say in embarrassment as Hokuto waved. "Oh hey, Sei-chan! Good timing! Tell Subaru how good he looks!"
"Geh."
I then turned on the shower.
As I took off my pjs, I shook my head. "I wonder what he'll think now."
There was something about Seishirou that I never understood. It was the fact that if I wore an 'adult-type' of outfit or a little kid's, Seishirou would smirk. Really smirk and wouldn't stop flirting with me until he had attempted to steal a kiss behind Hokuto's back. I just couldn't tell Hokuto though, or else I would've been teased even more. That was one of the reasons why I dreaded wearing something that he'd actually like.
The score until now? Seishirou: 7. Me: 3. Didn't count: 1.
Everyone knew I was really terrible with resisting or blocking.
Where'd the 'didn't count' category come from? There was that one time I got drunk to the point that I _forced_ myself on Seishirou while Hokuto was having a date with some synthesizer player. By the time Hokuto came home, before Seishirou could do anything more, (thank god) I had fallen asleep.
That was the day Seishirou found out I could easily get drunk with two glasses of plum wine.
I never drank again, but that never stopped him from trying...
I looked into the mirror and turned red. Until now, I couldn't believe it.
As I stepped in, I slipped with wide-eyes as I tried to catch onto something. "AHHHH!!!!!"
Banging my head on the tiles of the tub, the shampoo, conditioner, and soap came along with me.
For a moment, I blanked out and looked at the water with my head throbbing.
I watched the water flowing, as if in slow motion, and shook my head.
I need water...
I...I don't feel like myself...ugh...
Always with the twin radar being alert, Hokuto immediately stopped cooking and ran over to the bathroom. "SUBARU?!"
Pound, pound, pound!
"SUBARU?! ARE YOU OKAY?!" She shouted as she tried to jam the lock open.
"Uhh..." was the only response I could manage to say.
There was I sitting in the tub filling with water and my head was spinning. I looked around and patted my head, making sure nothing was bleeding, but everything just felt so weird...
"Oww!" I shouted with disoriented eyes and coughed.
"Hokuto..." I started to say, but nothing was coming out. I held onto my throat and then let go.
"SEI-CHAN! HELP ME!" Hokuto shouted outside the door while I heard Seishirou coming back from his clinic.
"What's wrong?" I heard him ask.
"Subaru fell in the tub!" she shouted as I heard a rustling of the door and Seishirou saying, "Calm down."
Hokuto tilted her head. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Because you were freaking out," Seishirou answered while opening the door.
The shower doors were closed, but Hokuto immediately rushed in and opened the door without discretion or concern for getting wet. As she hugged me, she shook him as she asked, "Are you all right? Tell me you're all right!"
"I..." I started to say, but remembered I couldn't talk.
But for some reason, I felt that even I could, I didn't want to.
Not to her, at least.
I blinked at her as I shook my head with a blank, confused face. I pointed to my green towel and Seishirou gave it to me. Smiling, I naturally wrapped it around my waist while Seishirou stopped the water from overflowing.
I felt so weird, as if I were just responding to everything out of instinct because I was so confused.
Strangely, I didn't want Hokuto to be near me and as I looked at Seishirou, I looked at him desparately.
"Subaru-kun? Let me see your head," Seishirou gently instructed as Hokuto let go of me.
As Seishirou kneeled before me, he took a hold of my head to inspect the bump.
But, at being touched, I also gently took a hold of his face with puzzled eyes. Then, I closed my eyes as I pulled Seishirou's face to kiss him.
Hokuto's eyes looked as if they were going to come out of their sockets while her jaw dropped.
Something inside of me was asking why she was acting that way if she knew we were lovers. And the other part of me, a small voice said, "This isn't the way."
Go on instinct, Subaru...
Seishirou's eyes opened widely in surprise and he pulled away, thinking that he wouldn't be able to breathe if we kissed anymore. I laughed at him, still holding his face. Turning around to Hokuto, he said with a laugh. "Whatever's happening, I like it!"
"Sei-chan!" Hokuto shouted as she swapped the back of his head.
Splash!
Immediately, I possessively hugged Seishirou and pulled him slightly into the tub. Shaking my head, I pouted at my twin.
"Subaru, I'm warning you. If you're trying to get back at me for waking you up, it isn't going to work. You always fail." Hokuto asked as she stood up with a vein looking as if it were going to explode. "Really, what's going on? And please get out of the tub. Now."
Still hugging Seishirou, I pressed my cheek to Seishirou as I took his hand and started to spell out something.
Seishirou started to say, "I can't. I live here."
Hokuto frowned and she grabbed the side of the tub while looking at me at her wits end. "You think you're a fish?"
Her sisterly instincts were starting to explode inside of her. She blinked at me not knowing what to do and looking at Seishirou, who was trying to be calm, but seemed to be happy for me holding him so much.
"I'm not...a fish..." Seishirou said as he read the characters that I was writing on his hand. He looked up at Hokuto. "I'm a mermaid."
Hokuto hung her head. "We've got to get him to a hospital!"
Seishirou shook his head. "I don't think that's such a good idea. From looking at this, he looks fine. And bringing him there will complicate a lot of things. You know he only has a few more days."
They both sighed.
Then, he looked at me.
"We'll just have to wait until this wears off. Just trust me," he said as I hugged him even more.
"What do we do now?" Hokuto asked as she patted my cheek.
I shook my head not wanting to be touched by Hokuto.
"And I can't even touch you. Great!" Hokuto then got up with an upset face. She then sighed as she shook her head. "You're the one good with animals. And you like Subaru..."
She started blinking her eyes while I started to become fascinated with Seishirou's tie and played with it. Losing her cool, she stammered, "D-do something, Sei-chan!"
"I don't deal with humans," Seishirou said with a straight face while I pulled on his tie trying to get his attention.
I didn't want him talking to anyone else...
"Yes, Subaru?" Seishirou turned to me and I looked at him.
The water splashed again, as at that moment, I stole a kiss from him.
Seishirou turned to Hokuto, saying, "I'm still trying to figure out what's so wrong about this arrangement..."
Hokuto shook her head while lifting up an eyebrow. Smiling devilishly, she said, "Well, enjoy it while it lasts. But what are we going to do while he's like that? He's supposed to do a photo shoot and have a date with that director today..."
Seishirou shrugged his shoulders. "We'll find a way."
I pulled on Seishirou's tie again so that he would look at me.
Then, I smiled while poking his nose.
Smiling back at me, he commented to Hokuto like a spoiled child, "Are you _sure_ I can't keep him?"
"Sei-chan!"
Like a child learning to talk again, my voiceless lips said, "No, my Sei."
Tsuzuku...
--
Author's note: Yes, I know, I'm losing it. Or does this mean I'm trying harder to be imaginative? Well, whatever it may be, I needed something funny. Weird, again, is the only way I can describe this.
I know it's an awkward chapter, but please just go along with it. * smile * I'm having fun with it and we need to smile after all the angst of the previous chapters.
Plus, I thought you'd need something to be kawaii'ed out for finals, Winnie the Pooh! ^_^
Calendar boy
By miyamoto yui
Part 9 - possessive creature.
After a while, Seishirou was getting ready for bed, but he turned on the television to watch the video again.
I sat on the bed with my pajamas and a ton of papers around me.
"What's all that?" Seishirou asked as he turned his head towards me for a moment.
"All the information about the investigation." I looked at him while holding one of the stapled stacks in one of my hands. "It says that it was an accident, but his mom says it isn't. She's provided all the people involved in the studio and their information as well as where all the photoshoots were. Including whomever he was with, especially who he dated, when, and where."
I sighed as I looked at him feeling a bit overwhelmed. Then, I put the stack down as I thought of what the blond boy had told me.
"What?" Seishirou asked me because I looked at him longingly.
I shook my head, not able to mention the boy for the moment, but told him instead, "There was an exit sign that had a lot of his aura, as if the boy was still lurking there."
Seishirou stopped the video for a moment and began to contemplate along with me. "What's the information you're going to get from that director or whatever?"
"I'm going to see what his schedule is like when he dates his models." I gave him a concerned expression while biting my lip. Then, I finished, "Please go with me to the studio tomorrow night."
"Investigating?"
"I need a look out. I have a map of where all the cameras are, but I need you to let me know what's happening while I'm concentrating on touching the walls. They're so weird over there." I sighed. "It seems like he's the only one who died, but he isn't the only one who's gone through this."
He nodded. "Where did his mom get all this?"
"Private investigator. Most of his whereabouts are unknown even with all this information, it's just a list of things for a few days, but not all the months he stayed. We need to find out why it stopped."
Seishirou nodded his head and watched the video again as I read the last paper of the pile. Shaking my head, I wondered why this piece of paper was even here.
A fascination with mermaids?
Strangely, it was the last note the boy ever wrote:
"Lurking in the depths of the ocean, away from humanity, it is said that mermaids live in solitude. Once in a full moon, one may be walking among men to capture a sailor's eyes that wander upon the ocean. Thinking that illusion couldn't ever become real, the sailors rub their eyes to see no one in the ocean. And yet, the persistent walk among women, walking the streets as if they were one with those that walk with two legs.
Humans want to capture the mermaid and eat its flesh for eternal life,
Only they are mesmerized by their beauty...
...and are eaten instead,
heart first."
Because I had been worn out for the day, I fell asleep as soon as I finished the last sentence.
--
"Grr."
Typically, this would be Hokuto getting annoyed at the alarm clock because beauty sleep was important. Instead, today, it was me who growled to myself as I closed my eyes tightly and put my pillow over my head.
"I love you and all, but just once..." I mumbled to myself as I tried to drown out her singing. "Just once, can't you cook without singing?"
And why can't I ever have some privacy with these two?
I then peeped out of my temporary hideout and looked at the clock before me. "Eight a.m.?"
I blinked and looked at the clock again as it read, "8:01."
As I lifted the pillow off my head, I heard my sister happily singing her theme song by Ace of Base. While cooking eggs on her electric stove, a dank smell of oil permeated through the room.
"Tokyo girl, Tokyo girl
You got the moves to rule the world
That cute inscrutability
Tokyo girl, you're a mystery..."
Shaking my head, I got up and took a hold of the outfit that Hokuto had prepared for the day, before I would change into that kimono. I blinked at it and then leaned forward to inspect it further. Rubbing my thumb and index finger on the blue material, I bit my lip. "So today I wear a sailor suit???"
I stood in front of the mirror and put the outfit next to me while Hokuto smiled.
Sheepishly, I smiled back.
Blue shorts, white shirt with the blue sailor's trademark, and a cap to match?
I looked at the floor to find black penny loafers.
"You've been reading way too much Clamp," I commented, but smiled as I went to the bathroom to take a shower.
As long as Hokuto made it with love, how could I refuse to wear it? Also, what good would protesting do now?
I sweatdropped.
Then again, there was that black vinyl she wanted me to wear, complete with a hat and chains. That was where I drew the line because when Seishirou walked through the threshold saying, "I found the door open so I just came..."
He saw me, who was politely arguing with Hokuto, and adjusted his tie. At first, Seishirou wanted to open his mouth to make some awful comment, but he stopped himself.
His mouth was totally blank, but I could tell his mind wasn't.
"Hmm..." Seishirou said with a contemplative look and rubbed his chin.
"Eh heh heh...Konnichiwa, Seishirou-san," I finally managed to say in embarrassment as Hokuto waved. "Oh hey, Sei-chan! Good timing! Tell Subaru how good he looks!"
"Geh."
I then turned on the shower.
As I took off my pjs, I shook my head. "I wonder what he'll think now."
There was something about Seishirou that I never understood. It was the fact that if I wore an 'adult-type' of outfit or a little kid's, Seishirou would smirk. Really smirk and wouldn't stop flirting with me until he had attempted to steal a kiss behind Hokuto's back. I just couldn't tell Hokuto though, or else I would've been teased even more. That was one of the reasons why I dreaded wearing something that he'd actually like.
The score until now? Seishirou: 7. Me: 3. Didn't count: 1.
Everyone knew I was really terrible with resisting or blocking.
Where'd the 'didn't count' category come from? There was that one time I got drunk to the point that I _forced_ myself on Seishirou while Hokuto was having a date with some synthesizer player. By the time Hokuto came home, before Seishirou could do anything more, (thank god) I had fallen asleep.
That was the day Seishirou found out I could easily get drunk with two glasses of plum wine.
I never drank again, but that never stopped him from trying...
I looked into the mirror and turned red. Until now, I couldn't believe it.
As I stepped in, I slipped with wide-eyes as I tried to catch onto something. "AHHHH!!!!!"
Banging my head on the tiles of the tub, the shampoo, conditioner, and soap came along with me.
For a moment, I blanked out and looked at the water with my head throbbing.
I watched the water flowing, as if in slow motion, and shook my head.
I need water...
I...I don't feel like myself...ugh...
Always with the twin radar being alert, Hokuto immediately stopped cooking and ran over to the bathroom. "SUBARU?!"
Pound, pound, pound!
"SUBARU?! ARE YOU OKAY?!" She shouted as she tried to jam the lock open.
"Uhh..." was the only response I could manage to say.
There was I sitting in the tub filling with water and my head was spinning. I looked around and patted my head, making sure nothing was bleeding, but everything just felt so weird...
"Oww!" I shouted with disoriented eyes and coughed.
"Hokuto..." I started to say, but nothing was coming out. I held onto my throat and then let go.
"SEI-CHAN! HELP ME!" Hokuto shouted outside the door while I heard Seishirou coming back from his clinic.
"What's wrong?" I heard him ask.
"Subaru fell in the tub!" she shouted as I heard a rustling of the door and Seishirou saying, "Calm down."
Hokuto tilted her head. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Because you were freaking out," Seishirou answered while opening the door.
The shower doors were closed, but Hokuto immediately rushed in and opened the door without discretion or concern for getting wet. As she hugged me, she shook him as she asked, "Are you all right? Tell me you're all right!"
"I..." I started to say, but remembered I couldn't talk.
But for some reason, I felt that even I could, I didn't want to.
Not to her, at least.
I blinked at her as I shook my head with a blank, confused face. I pointed to my green towel and Seishirou gave it to me. Smiling, I naturally wrapped it around my waist while Seishirou stopped the water from overflowing.
I felt so weird, as if I were just responding to everything out of instinct because I was so confused.
Strangely, I didn't want Hokuto to be near me and as I looked at Seishirou, I looked at him desparately.
"Subaru-kun? Let me see your head," Seishirou gently instructed as Hokuto let go of me.
As Seishirou kneeled before me, he took a hold of my head to inspect the bump.
But, at being touched, I also gently took a hold of his face with puzzled eyes. Then, I closed my eyes as I pulled Seishirou's face to kiss him.
Hokuto's eyes looked as if they were going to come out of their sockets while her jaw dropped.
Something inside of me was asking why she was acting that way if she knew we were lovers. And the other part of me, a small voice said, "This isn't the way."
Go on instinct, Subaru...
Seishirou's eyes opened widely in surprise and he pulled away, thinking that he wouldn't be able to breathe if we kissed anymore. I laughed at him, still holding his face. Turning around to Hokuto, he said with a laugh. "Whatever's happening, I like it!"
"Sei-chan!" Hokuto shouted as she swapped the back of his head.
Splash!
Immediately, I possessively hugged Seishirou and pulled him slightly into the tub. Shaking my head, I pouted at my twin.
"Subaru, I'm warning you. If you're trying to get back at me for waking you up, it isn't going to work. You always fail." Hokuto asked as she stood up with a vein looking as if it were going to explode. "Really, what's going on? And please get out of the tub. Now."
Still hugging Seishirou, I pressed my cheek to Seishirou as I took his hand and started to spell out something.
Seishirou started to say, "I can't. I live here."
Hokuto frowned and she grabbed the side of the tub while looking at me at her wits end. "You think you're a fish?"
Her sisterly instincts were starting to explode inside of her. She blinked at me not knowing what to do and looking at Seishirou, who was trying to be calm, but seemed to be happy for me holding him so much.
"I'm not...a fish..." Seishirou said as he read the characters that I was writing on his hand. He looked up at Hokuto. "I'm a mermaid."
Hokuto hung her head. "We've got to get him to a hospital!"
Seishirou shook his head. "I don't think that's such a good idea. From looking at this, he looks fine. And bringing him there will complicate a lot of things. You know he only has a few more days."
They both sighed.
Then, he looked at me.
"We'll just have to wait until this wears off. Just trust me," he said as I hugged him even more.
"What do we do now?" Hokuto asked as she patted my cheek.
I shook my head not wanting to be touched by Hokuto.
"And I can't even touch you. Great!" Hokuto then got up with an upset face. She then sighed as she shook her head. "You're the one good with animals. And you like Subaru..."
She started blinking her eyes while I started to become fascinated with Seishirou's tie and played with it. Losing her cool, she stammered, "D-do something, Sei-chan!"
"I don't deal with humans," Seishirou said with a straight face while I pulled on his tie trying to get his attention.
I didn't want him talking to anyone else...
"Yes, Subaru?" Seishirou turned to me and I looked at him.
The water splashed again, as at that moment, I stole a kiss from him.
Seishirou turned to Hokuto, saying, "I'm still trying to figure out what's so wrong about this arrangement..."
Hokuto shook her head while lifting up an eyebrow. Smiling devilishly, she said, "Well, enjoy it while it lasts. But what are we going to do while he's like that? He's supposed to do a photo shoot and have a date with that director today..."
Seishirou shrugged his shoulders. "We'll find a way."
I pulled on Seishirou's tie again so that he would look at me.
Then, I smiled while poking his nose.
Smiling back at me, he commented to Hokuto like a spoiled child, "Are you _sure_ I can't keep him?"
"Sei-chan!"
Like a child learning to talk again, my voiceless lips said, "No, my Sei."
Tsuzuku...
--
Author's note: Yes, I know, I'm losing it. Or does this mean I'm trying harder to be imaginative? Well, whatever it may be, I needed something funny. Weird, again, is the only way I can describe this.
I know it's an awkward chapter, but please just go along with it. * smile * I'm having fun with it and we need to smile after all the angst of the previous chapters.
Plus, I thought you'd need something to be kawaii'ed out for finals, Winnie the Pooh! ^_^