Disclaimers: Gravitation does no belong to me. I think everyone understands that by now. If not, it DOESN'T!!!
Warnings: Umm…I don't know if there are any. A little bit of Shounen ai
Notes: WE HAVE A PLOT TO WORK WITH NOW!!!
~*The Bible of Kumagoro—Getting Closer to Your God*~
It wasn't that long of a walk from the restaurant to my place, really, and I was sort of glad for that. Kumagoro had been whining the entire time about how hot he was and that I should wash my hair! I washed it just the other day na no da! I would have washed it yesterday, too, but I was too busy arguing with Tohma. Oh! Sometimes he can be so MEAN na no da! He wasn't going to let us reschedule our last concert. I'd SOOOOOO been looking forward to it na no da! I'd have to ask Tatsuha what he thought about it later.
"Wait right here and I'll go grab the TV na no da! Watch Kumagoro and keep him out of trouble!" I ordered as I closed the door behind me, shoving Kumagoro into Tatsuha's arms. He laughed softly and I made my way to my room.
"Nice decorating," he commented as I opened my door and grabbed my TV. I was SO glad it was one of those thin TVs. I wouldn't be able to pull it otherwise. I wasn't week but I had a BIG TV on a fairly big stand with all its other stuff on it. It was heavy anyways na no da!
"It's my practice room na no da," I explained as I wheeled the TV into the room, stopping in front of where I normally set it. "It was Kumagoro's idea to make the living room into a practice room since it was so BIG na no da!" Tatsuha nodded and dropped Kumagoro on the floor next to him as he leaned behind the TV to plug it in. "Ah! You don't have to na no da! I was going to have Kumagoro help me and do it myself!" I wasn't used to having people help me, it was sort of strange. They normally just sat there and waited for me to join them. That was why I'd invited Tatsuha over; he seemed so different from the other fans I'd run into.
"Well, Kumagoro tells me he needs a holiday," he answered from behind the TV and I glared at Kumagoro. We BOTH knew he didn't do ANYTHING around the house unless I ordered him to do it. It wasn't nice to take advantage of Tatsuha like that na no da! "There, I think I got it all. Anything else?" He sat back and looked up at me, grabbing Kumagoro and setting him on his lap. NO FAIR!!! Kumagoro ALWAYS got the good ones na no da!
"Umm…I still have the speakers na no da," I answered after a while, and I knew I was blushing, but Tatsuha ignored it and nodded. Before I think on it anymore I ran over to the back of the room, jumping the couch (since I COULD. Maybe THAT would show Kumagoro his place) on my way to grab the speakers.
"You keep them all the way back here?" I blinked and turned around and watched Tatsuha jump the couch after me, dropping Kumagoro back on the couch. "Enjoy your vacation." I blushed again as he took the other speaker and smiled at me sweetly. "You only really need to make one trip now." Kumagoro or NO Kumagoro I liked him. He treated me…like a normal person. No one will ever understand how wonderful that is until they're famous and everyone treats them like they're different. I think and feel that same as most everybody else, except for my…eccentric…behavior. Another thing I liked about Tatsuha, he didn't treat me like I was messed up in the head or something, and I'm not. My fans just don't understand me as well as they think. "Put it here?" he asked and I nodded, sticking the other speaker on the other side of the TV.
"Thank you." I'd never really LIKED anyone before, so this was a little odd for me. Sure, I'd had sex before, but I'd never really, you know, wanted them to stay around, before. Tatsuha nodded before worming his way between the speaker and the TV to plug it in.
"Hand me the plug to yours," he asked after a while and I did as he said. I figured that I was going to treat him exactly the same as I did everyone else, since he did the same for me. I had no clue as to how to go about this, anyways; so acting natural was always a good rout to go. I was too shy to approach anyone in middle school or high school, and I guess I never got over it. I knew I was good-looking; I had no problem with that (I'd had MANY people tell me such). However, I didn't want Tatsuha to like me because I was…sexy…I wanted him to like me for who I was. I guess treating him naturally would make things easier anyway, so that was what I was going to do na no da.
"You should have made Kumagoro do it na no da! He hasn't done anything since we got here but make trouble for you!" Tatsuha laughed and walked over to the couch, flopping down next to Kumagoro.
"He wasn't any trouble. Right, Kumagoro?" I fumed and glared at Kumagoro as best I could. How dare he make Tatsuha stick up for him like that na no da! Just because Tatsuha was nice to him na no da!
"Don't you lie for him na no da! I can see from the look on his face that he did something wrong na no da! He was lying to you about doing all the work na no da!" I screamed as I tried to snatch Kumagoro away from him, but he moved Kumagoro to safety.
"Aww…You're going to hurt his feelings Sakuma-san. Apologize to him," he begged and I frowned, jumping on his lap and taking Kumagoro away.
"Ryuichi! Call me Ryuichi na no da! And Kumagoro doesn't NEED apologizing to!" I demanded and Tatsuha blinked a couple times before crossing his arms over his chest.
"I'm calling you Sakuma-san until you apologize to Kumagoro," he countered and I frowned. I didn't like it when my friends called me by my last name. It sounded so wrong to me. Then again, I'd lived in America three years where they only call you by last name when being all businessy. Friends didn't call you by last names at ALL there!
"I'm sorry for telling Tatsuha the truth about your laziness na no da. Now call me Ryuichi na no da!" I demanded, bouncing a little to accent the point that I wanted him to call me Ryuichi NOW na no da! It was SO wrong for him to call me Sakuma-san. So very VERY wrong, especially since I LIKED him na no da!
"Okay then, Ryuichi…" I covered his mouth before he squeezed a -san in there and smiled happily. There! That was SO much better! He licked my fingers almost immediately and I screamed and pulled them away, not wanting him to think they tasted good and try to eat them. He laughed at me softly and I couldn't help but to laugh a little as well.
"SO…whatcha wanna do na no ka?" I asked as I rolled off his lap and bounced on the couch next to him, Kumagoro sitting on my lap and bouncing with me. "I have a LOT of movies but if you don't want to watch any of them we can go rent some na no da!" I cheered and Tatsuha looked around for a while before I pointed out where I kept my movies and he crawled over to the little shelf, opening it and sitting down in front of it to look inside. "I have games we can play, too na no da!" I cheered, running over to sit down next to him with Kumagoro, watching as he tried to choose something to watch. He was so cute like that, looking so concentrated and…well…like he was thinking REALLY hard na no da. I had to wonder if I ever looked like that, I didn't ever think really hard when I was looking into a mirror.
"If we're going to play a game, we should watch something I've seen before. I don't want to miss anything," he said mostly to himself, but he looked over at me afterwards. "Why don't you pick something and I'll tell you if I've seen it or not?" he suggested and I nodded happily, shoving Kumagoro back into his arms (he could have a little bit of time with Tatsuha, too. I'm not THAT mean na no da) as I leaned over slightly to check and see what I had.
"Have you seen this?" I asked as I pulled out one of the rarer of our concert videos. I was well aware that Tatsuha was a fan, so I thought he might want to see it in case he hadn't na no da. If not, then at least I was assured that we could listen to the music while we were playing and neither of us would dislike it.
"I watched it over at my brother's," he stated and I smiled happily, closing the shelf and hopping over to the TV and VCR. I spun around on my heel and almost fell over when I realized we hadn't picked out a game yet.
"Umm…the games are right above the movies na no da," I offered, setting the tape into the VCR and making sure it wasn't playing before I ran off and dragged the playing table into the living room, too. It was quite a stable table (hehe, rhyme), really, and I had a hard time storing it somewhere so that it didn't get in the way, so it doubled as a kitchen table. If I ever forgot to drag it back into the kitchen I just ate on the counter and made a mental note to move it back later na no da.
Tatsuha had already picked out the game and had it set up on the table when I returned with the chairs, setting them on the opposite sides of the table so we could both see the TV as well as the other could. We couldn't both fit on one side of it, after all. I only lived with Kumagoro and me, we didn't NEED a big table na no da!
"Is this alright?" he asked as I sat down across from him, remote sitting on my lap. I blinked a couple times before nodding happily. I didn't own any games I didn't like; I normally gave those away to my friends. He should have figured that much, I would have thought. "Do you think Kumagoro will want to play with us?" he asked as he sat down, setting Kumagoro on the free side of the table (the one that wasn't in front of the TV).
"Nah. Kumagoro doesn't like to play this game na no da," I answered for him. Kumagoro tended to get bored with it easily, and never played it with me. I was kind of glad Tatsuha wanted to play it with me, I only got to play it when other people were over.
"Okay then, I guess this is okay," he offered smiling and I looked at the TV instead of him, turning on the movie. I couldn't help it, I'm SHY na no da!
The game was really easy. You had a bunch of cards (you played with two decks), and you put pieces on the space with that card (there were two of each). Even I got it fairly easily. Then again, I'd always had a sort of knack for games. All you had to do was get two rows of five with your pieces.
"I move here then, five of hearts," Tatsuha stated happily as he moved my piece to the other five of hearts and set his own there. "Sequence number one for me," he stated triumphantly.
"You can't do that na no da!" I screamed in defense, switching our pieces back. He game me a sort of funny look before moving his piece to sit next to mine on that card.
"Then we can share the spot," he stated and I puffed out my cheek angrily. Tatsuha KNEW you weren't allowed to do that.
"No na no da! You have to move it over there na no da!" I squealed, moving his piece back.
"Where does it say we can't share the spot?" he asked, crossing his arms and smiling at me cockily.
"In the rules na no da! Kumagoro agrees with me!"
"I've never read in there that you can't do that."
"They don't say you CAN na no da!" Tatsuha smiled and leaned over slightly, staring at me levelly. I shrunk back a little bit from the challenging look on his face.
"Then why aren't you doing anything about it?" he asked softly and I picked up his piece and threw it at his shoulder, watching it bounce off his shoulder and clunk softly against the table. It wasn't MY fault he challenged me na no da, Kumagoro agreed with me. "Oh…so that's how you want to play it, huh?" he asked before sitting up and grabbing my piece, throwing it so it hit my chest before falling onto my leg.
"No fair fighting back na no da!" I screamed as I picked up a couple more of his pieces and threw them back at him. He blinked a couple times before smiling evilly again and folding the board up to collect all the pieces in the center. This couldn't be good na no da!
As he hovered the board above my head I squealed and grabbed Kumagoro to hold above my head as a shield, laughing happily as they bounced off of him and rained onto the floor next to me.
"No fair taking hostages!" he screamed at me and I poured a couple of my other pieces into my hand to throw across the table at him. He ducked and grabbed his own bag, leaning over the table to dump the contents down my shirt.
It continued like that for a while before we finally ended up on the floor laughing and being generally worn-out. Kumagoro had given up not too long into it and was lying on the floor next to the table with a couple of the pieces. After we finally stopped laughing I realized where I was and I'm SURE my face must have turned the same color as Kumagoro's. Oh! Maybe I'd end up growing ears if that happened TOO much na no da!
I was lying mostly on Tatsuha, head on his chest as he held onto my elbows gently. It was a little different, not having him all over me. That was all the other fans had really wanted na no da. It was nice to know that he really wanted to hang around with me and wasn't just doing it for sex. Kumagoro had never been around when it happened, and I was happy for that na no da. I hadn't really bothered with a fan (since I'd hadn't had a tour) since I'd come back to Japan from America with him and K.
"I haven't had so much fun since I was nine," Tatsuha said after catching his breath, laughing a little bit afterwards, still. I smiled and sat up, not wanting to risk the chance of growing ears just in case Tatsuha didn't like them.
"Why not na no ka?" I asked as I crawled over to grab Kumagoro, before crawling back to where he was now sitting on his elbows and watching the TV.
"That's when Eiri left, and I didn't get to play with him anymore," he answered softly and I felt like crying for making him think about it. I dropped Kumagoro on the floor and wrapped my arms around him in a sort of hug. I didn't care if I grew ears anymore, I didn't want Tatsuha to be sad.
I finally looked up at him when I felt his hand resting on my head gently, and couldn't move for anything at that smile he was giving me.
"Thanks, Ryuichi." I completely forgot about everything in favor of that moment, before I came back to reality and nodded, letting go of him and picking Kumagoro up silently. He blinked a couple times before laughing softly and sitting up fully, keeping his hand on top of y head.
"So, that makes you…15, right? Or was it 16 na no ka?" I asked softly, toying with Kumagoro's ears and twirling them around my finger gently. I remember when Tohma left to take his brother to the States with him. That had been about six or seven years ago.
"16," he stated softly, letting his hand slide off my head as he turned to watch TV again. I blinked before wrapping arms around him again and dropping Kumagoro into his lap. I hated it when my friends were sad, so I was ready to embarrass myself again in order for Tatsuha to be happy
"Okay, then. I don't care how old you are. Actually, I really don't care how old I am, either na no da. Don't be sad about it. Being young is good, more time to have FUN!" I cheered happily, leaning my forehead against his back and smiling.
"Yeah. It gives us more time to be friends." I smiled brightly at that and nodded, letting go of him and moving to sit next to him. We chatted for a while after that, about what we were both good at in school (what I'd been good at) and all that. It was fun, and for the first time since I can remember, I felt normal even in the company of someone else.
I blinked a couple times as Tatsuha's talking cut short abruptly, and turned to see what was on the TV screen. I almost DIED of embarrassment when I caught sight of what it was. Of all the videos I COULD HAVE picked, I just HAD to pick this one na no da!
There was me, on the TV screen, singing and smiling happily (like I almost always was) hands working freely to undo the few buttons that were done on my shirt.
"No!" I squawked in embarrassment, burying my face in his shoulder to keep him from being able to see me. I was sure I was bright red by that point in time. It wasn't FAIR na no da! I didn't want Tatsuha to see that when I was around. I know I have a nice body, everyone tells me so, but STILL! Having a naked me on the screen while I'm sitting there if just as bad as stripping in real life.
I blinked as the music shut off, releasing my death grip on Kumagoro. Tatsuha was laughing softly and an arm was wrapped around my shoulder comfortingly. "If you don't want me to watch it, I won't." I could have cried right then, I was so happy. Tatsuha UNDERSTOOD me na no da! He actually cared about my feelings and UNDERSTOOD me! Instead, however, I ended up pulling away from him quickly and smiling happily. I probably looked like an idiot, but I didn't care. This was the chance of a lifetime for me!
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YAYS!!! I finally finished this chapter! It probably sucks, since I finished it off at 3:47 AM, so I'll have to go back and rewrite it later. Oh well, at least I have the basics down to work on when I do pick it back up. If it IS decent, then I guess I'll just start in on the next chapter.