(A/N: X( Gaaaaaahhhh....Stupid me forgot to save this chappie....Stupid me also forgot what I was writing....Thus, this chapter, I think, is completely disjointed, horrible and needs to be re-written. But I'm too lazy to do it. =) Thus, we'll all suffer together. D Mwha.
AnimeGirl: ^_^ Glad you like and somebody will die...I can garauntee it. O__o;;;;
Neko Oni: ^____^ Wow! Those are my fav things too! YAY! *dances* And the drug use isn't so bad yet...maybe Rei will get drugged though...excellent idea. D Mari and Rei haven't got that far yet...but maybe...just maybe, when Rei's high or something...D you really need to stop giving me ideas. O__o;;; Abee+ideas=Bad combo & evilness. Thanks for the "happy b-day" in mucho advance (my b-day's not for another two weeks O__o;;; Exactly two weeks.) And I've always been told I'm mautre for my age. o__O;;; I talk to adults more easily than I talk to ppl my own age. Nineteen...wow...@_@ I feel so young and...illegal. X3 I can't do ANYTHING yet! Except write the fic. XD
And now, on with the fic!)
"And No Birds Sang"
Chapter 5: Fixated
Rei waited impatiently with Fernando for Mari. They were at the back door of some back-alley place. Rei could hear music and screaming, but he didn't want to draw conclusions.
There was a clatter of high heels on tarmac and Rei glanced to his left. Mari nearly tripped as she skidded to a halt by the door. Fernando looked at his watch. "You're late," he said nonchalantly.
Mari gritted her teeth and placed a palm to her cheek. "Sorry, but that jerk Jin....well, you know how he gets," she said with a shrug.
She turned to open the door and Rei looked at the side of her face. It was black and blue and her one eye was nearly swollen shut. She'd plastered it with make-up, but it wasn't hiding it at all.
She opened the door, then paused and grabbed her ankle. "Shit," she muttered, rubbing furious circles.
Fernando raised an eyebrow. "What happened?"
She rolled her eyes. "Oh, I tripped going down the stairs. I barely made it here."
Fernando frowned, but didn't say anything. Mari turned back to Rei and smiled. She looked like she was in pain, though. "Well, ready?" she asked.
Without a reply, she turned and went into the building. Rei followed, almost reluctantly and Fernando shut the door behind them.
~*~*~*~*
Luiz tapped his foot impatiently, frowning. Mari gave him a terse smile. The blond sighed. "What happened now?" he asked.
"Jin," was all Mari said.
The blond grabbed her face and looked at her critically. "Shit," he said.
She shrugged. "I'm fine, thanks -"
"You can't go out there looking like that."
Mari laughed bitterly. "That's Sakura's job, ne?"
Rei glanced back and forth, confused. Luiz caught sight of him. "Hmm? Who's this, Mari?"
The green-eyed girl smiled. "That's my brother, Rei. Rei, this is Luiz, my boss."
Rei nodded curtly, but Luiz seemed to study the neko-jin. A slow smile crossed his face. "Well, Mari-chan, I think we just found a replacement."
Mari looked momentarily mortified. "Luiz! He can't -"
The blond man sent her a harsh glare and she shut up. He turned back to Rei. "Can you sing?"
Rei shrugged. He didn't know. What kind of question was that anyways?
Luiz shrugged. "Oh well, I guess we'll find out."
He put a hand on Rei's shoulder and led him down a dark corridor. The music was getting louder. Rei wondered briefly if this was some sort of karaoke bar.
Luiz opened a door on his left and pushed Rei inside. Mari followed him in. The door shut and locked. Rei sat down in the middle of the room, completely baffled. "What in seven hells is going on Mari?!"
The green-eyed girl sighed. "Don't you know where we are?"
Rei shook his head. "This is the Saucy Kitten, Rei."
His eyes got wide. "T-th..."
Mari gritted her teeth. "Yes, the Saucy Kitten. I work here. I go out there, I do my number, get paid and get to eat tomorrow."
Rei stayed silent, slightly stupified. Mari gritted her teeth. "Well, whatever," she said, her anger evident in her voice. "Luiz doesn't want me going out there - not like this, anyways, but the show must go on."
"W-what...exactly do you do?"
A sly smile passed across Mari's features. "Well...I dance...and sing...And there's some other things I do that I won't mention."
She finished with a wink and Rei closed his eyes. "Tell me this is some horrible, twisted nightmare, please..."
"'fraid not," Mari said, almost gently.
She sat down beside him. "Let's get you made up, ne?"
Rei looked at his supposed sister, then sighed. "If I must," he murmured, horribly devastated by the thought of what he had been thrown into.
Mari smiled, got up and paraded over to the vanity. Rei hadn't noticed it before. The raven-haired girl marched back, bringing with her lots of various rouges and powders.
Half-an-hour later, Rei's face had been plastered with more make-up than he'd thought existed in the world. Mari had taken out his ponytail and braided some of his hair. The sight of himself in the mirror scared him. He hadn't realized he was so...feminine. All it had taken was a bit of make-up (well, a lot) and...a few more things to make him look almost identical to his sister.
Mari smiled and handed him two pieces of glass. "This is the last touch," she murmured.
Rei raised an eyebrow and turned the glass over. They had been painted like eyes - deep, emerald eyes.
Mari took one out of his hand. "They're contacts," she explained. "Your eyes are a different colour. People will figure something's up."
With that, she somehow managed to jam the thing in his eye. Rei pulled back, holding a hand over his eye and wincing. "What the hell!"
He turned to glare at her and she attacked again, stuffing the other piece into his left eye. "Jesus Christ, Mari! That hurt!"
She shrugged. "Doesn't matter - it had to be done. Now, get out there, Rei-chan."
She pushed him out the door, into the hallway, letting him trip over his own feet in heels. She laughed and shut the door. He stood there in the hall, feeling very exposed and very much like, well, a drag queen whore.
~*~*~*~*
Kai slithered through the crowd, avoiding the overly-drunk men and the sluttish women as best he could. The room was filled with a haze - a curtain of smoke that hung heavy on the air and infiltrated your lungs everytime you breathed in, causing you to choke on it. It was suffocating.
In a far corner, though his vision was hampered, he could make out dull forms moving against one another in a rather...provocative way. He turned his gaze away. He had half a mind to turn around and leave. He didn't know why he'd come in here in the first place.
He was tired and strung out. He needed to get away from here, away from the noise pounding into his temples. He needed to lie down and sleep - forever.
He found himself at the bar, amazingly having ordered himself a drink without even thinking. The bartender handed him the sweating glass, which froze his hand. He turned back toward the crowd, ready to leave.
But what happened then forced him to stay.
~*~*~*~*~*
Max peered at Tyson over the rim of what had to be his eighth martini. The blond was blushing and giggling like mad, unused to alcohol and its potent effects on the human body when consumed in "large" amounts.
Tyson merely smiled back at his would-be-boyfriend, which sent Max into another round of hysterics. Beside Tyson, Kevin slouched in his seat, rolling his eyes. "I'm too young for this," he muttered, crossing his arms over his chest.
And it was true. All three of them were under-aged for drinking and drugs and sex, the likes of which filled the atomospehere about them. The smoke on the air was sweet-scented and choked you, yet seduced you at the same time. The lights from the stage where three strippers had been preforming earlier were refracted through the smoke - hazed and unclear, much like many of the people that filled the Saucy Kitten.
It was a miracle the three of them had gotten in. But after all, Tyson was the Mister Kai Hiwatari, and Max and Kevin were his two 'associates'. They were high society, with money and power and the bouncer had no choice but to let them invade the interior.
So, there they were. Three teenage boys in the midst of a racy club in a city far from home, drinking and having a good time, exposing themselves to a world that had previously unknown or unexplored. Tyson glanced up at the stage, realizing the music had started picking up again. It must have been nearly time for the next act.
Kevin glanced over at the bluenette, then back at the stage, wondering what had caught his attention. Max was too busy eyeing Tyson and giggling into his drink to notice. Kevin watched the stage for a moment, watching the shimmery curtains draw back, listening to the music become slow and sultry...
The preformer took the stage. Kevin nearly fainted. He knew that person.
~*~*~*~*~*
She was a seductress, that was for sure. She wasn't curvy, she wasn't overly buxom. She wouldn't be much to look at without her make-up, without her costume. But her green eyes were complimented by heavy lashes and purple shadow, making the irises light up. Her eyes caught you and made you loose yourself in their depths. She had mastered the art of batting her lashes and the heavy-lidded look of seduction.
Her lips were lush and coated in a pale rouge that shimmered in the dull light. The eye was drawn to them as they moved, wrapping themselves about the words of the song. Her tongue danced with them, and although you couldn't see it, you knew it was there and had to wonder how wonderful it was. Her voice was soft and smooth, filled with lust and it wound its way about the music notes as though the song had been written just for her. Her voice made the harsh words like 'cock' and 'fuck' sound so lush and gentle.
Her heart-shaped face was framed by her fabulous raven locks, which shimmered like silk and the men longed to rake their hands through it and the women wished the could shear it off and make themselves a wig of the beautiful hair. The locks were straight, almost straw-like, but they bounced and curled too, and it seemed that she had to have some sort of wig made of several different people's hair.
Her hands...Oh, her hands! They were long and elegant, the nails painted a pretty pale pink. She emphasised her movements, her words with those hands and many men trembled with intense lust, just for her touch, a feather-light brush from one of those hands.
She was dressed in a skanky number, so slutty it was amazing and yet, so elegant it was disgusting. It shimmered in the light, making her seem a goddess in that hell-forsaken place, making all eyes focus on her, whether they wanted to be fixated or not. She drew their attention to her, with motion, with sound.
Her legs were long and her whole body was lean and tanned. Had she been famous or anybody of noteworthy status, she would have been a sex symbol, having young teenage boys jerk off to her image.
She was motion, as she slid across the stage, hardly seeming to move at all. Her body was liquid and she was nothing but grace itself. She was the seductress and nothing more. She was the seductress, and nothing less.
~*~*~*~*~*
Kai's nerveless hand dropped the glass he was holding, letting it drop to the floor. He couldn't tear his eyes away from...her...or him, whichever it was. This person, she looked so much like Rei it was startling, and yet...she reeked feminity and she was the aura of confident. But the voice....
They could hide eyes, but they couldn't hide a voice.
The glass shattered.
There were a couple of disturbed shouts, and then, the girl had stopped singing and she was looking directly at him. Emerald eyes met crimson and he knew. Oh God, it was Rei standing up there like that and it was all so horribly embarrassing and in a moment,, somebody would find out and everything would come down about his ears.
Yet, strangely enough, he was wholly turned on by the situation. Emerald gaze tore away from his and he felt alone and empty suddenly.
"She" was leaving, going, going, gone...Offstage, the curtains flapped shut and people began to mutter and shout, anger in their voices. The music stopped.
"Oy! Mari"
"Mari -"
"...Mari..."
Mari? Who was Mari? That was Rei, he knew it was and it hurt him so.
He turned away. He had to find Rei, he had to get backstage, find Rei, talk to him...
~*~*~*~*
Kevin stared wide-eyed at Rei, his "role-model", as the black-haired boy in drag preformed a sultry rendition of some old song. Kevin was mortified. Rei was in drag, Rei looked like a whore and he was acting like one too, making things all the worse.
The green-haired neko-jin buried his face in his hands, as if trying to prevent further corruption. He couldn't look at Rei...not after this. He'd never be able to look him in the eye again. This...this was too shameful.
The music stopped, people were shouting. High heels clacked swiftly across the stage-top and he glanced up. Rei was running...well, stumbling, offstage, as if embarrassed. Kevin blushed furiously.
What right did Rei have to be embarrassed? He was the one who had gone out there! He was the one who wanted to pretend he was a whore! He'd already made Kevin embarrassed, so why did he have to be embarrassed too?
Tyson poked Kevin. The green-haired neko-jin hissed in response. Tyson continued, oblivious, stil staring at the stage. "Was...that Rei?"
~*~*~*~*
Mari dashed alongside Rei, her eyes slitted. "What did you do that for?" she hissed.
Rei kept walking, his eyes staring straight ahead, as if focused on some distant goal. Mari dashed along, getting in front of him. She grabbed hold of his shoulders and held him. "What happened?" she asked, trying to sound as gentle as she could when she knew that she'd be taking a verbal beating from Luiz later...
Rei glanced down at her, then shoved her aside and kept walking. "Leave me alone," he muttered, anger, embarrassment and resent evident in his voice.
She gritted her teeth and sprinted after him. She dashed in front of him again, walking backwards. "Oh no you don't! Tell me why you ran offstage like that! You've probably ruined me now!"
"What do I care? It's a horrible job anyways! You shouldn't be working here anyways!"
"Why do you care where I work? It's not like you have to do it every night of your life!" Mari shrieked suddenly, tears welling in her eyes.
Rei paused and looked at her. Then, he shrugged and walked away. "You're right. It doesn't matter to me. I don't even know you," he said, softly, sadly.
Mari wiped her eyes with her forefingers. "I don't know you either."
Rei turned back to her. "Then we're even. Sister," he added grudgingly after a moment.
"Brother," Mari grumbled.
She followed him into the dressing room. There was silence for a moment, then Mari started softly, "I...I'd like to know you, Rei-chan. You're the only other person in the family now."
He turned back to face her. "Mari-chan..."
The room was too small suddenly and Mari was too close, closer than a sister ever should be to a brother and she smiled and brushed a strand of hair out of his eyes. "You're beautiful, Rei-chan," she whispered and he was mesmerized by her lips, so like his own and so different...
It was forbidden and condemned, but they were damned to hell anyways, so why not? Lips moved on lips, flesh on flesh...and then more...and more...
And bang, the door flew open and there stood Kai, eyes wide.
~*~*~*~*
[A/N: Well, okay...so it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...Mwha...Another cliff-hanger of sorts. D Kai should be nosebleeding massively about now, ne? D Well, R&R and let me know what you think. ^_^]
AnimeGirl: ^_^ Glad you like and somebody will die...I can garauntee it. O__o;;;;
Neko Oni: ^____^ Wow! Those are my fav things too! YAY! *dances* And the drug use isn't so bad yet...maybe Rei will get drugged though...excellent idea. D Mari and Rei haven't got that far yet...but maybe...just maybe, when Rei's high or something...D you really need to stop giving me ideas. O__o;;; Abee+ideas=Bad combo & evilness. Thanks for the "happy b-day" in mucho advance (my b-day's not for another two weeks O__o;;; Exactly two weeks.) And I've always been told I'm mautre for my age. o__O;;; I talk to adults more easily than I talk to ppl my own age. Nineteen...wow...@_@ I feel so young and...illegal. X3 I can't do ANYTHING yet! Except write the fic. XD
And now, on with the fic!)
"And No Birds Sang"
Chapter 5: Fixated
Rei waited impatiently with Fernando for Mari. They were at the back door of some back-alley place. Rei could hear music and screaming, but he didn't want to draw conclusions.
There was a clatter of high heels on tarmac and Rei glanced to his left. Mari nearly tripped as she skidded to a halt by the door. Fernando looked at his watch. "You're late," he said nonchalantly.
Mari gritted her teeth and placed a palm to her cheek. "Sorry, but that jerk Jin....well, you know how he gets," she said with a shrug.
She turned to open the door and Rei looked at the side of her face. It was black and blue and her one eye was nearly swollen shut. She'd plastered it with make-up, but it wasn't hiding it at all.
She opened the door, then paused and grabbed her ankle. "Shit," she muttered, rubbing furious circles.
Fernando raised an eyebrow. "What happened?"
She rolled her eyes. "Oh, I tripped going down the stairs. I barely made it here."
Fernando frowned, but didn't say anything. Mari turned back to Rei and smiled. She looked like she was in pain, though. "Well, ready?" she asked.
Without a reply, she turned and went into the building. Rei followed, almost reluctantly and Fernando shut the door behind them.
~*~*~*~*
Luiz tapped his foot impatiently, frowning. Mari gave him a terse smile. The blond sighed. "What happened now?" he asked.
"Jin," was all Mari said.
The blond grabbed her face and looked at her critically. "Shit," he said.
She shrugged. "I'm fine, thanks -"
"You can't go out there looking like that."
Mari laughed bitterly. "That's Sakura's job, ne?"
Rei glanced back and forth, confused. Luiz caught sight of him. "Hmm? Who's this, Mari?"
The green-eyed girl smiled. "That's my brother, Rei. Rei, this is Luiz, my boss."
Rei nodded curtly, but Luiz seemed to study the neko-jin. A slow smile crossed his face. "Well, Mari-chan, I think we just found a replacement."
Mari looked momentarily mortified. "Luiz! He can't -"
The blond man sent her a harsh glare and she shut up. He turned back to Rei. "Can you sing?"
Rei shrugged. He didn't know. What kind of question was that anyways?
Luiz shrugged. "Oh well, I guess we'll find out."
He put a hand on Rei's shoulder and led him down a dark corridor. The music was getting louder. Rei wondered briefly if this was some sort of karaoke bar.
Luiz opened a door on his left and pushed Rei inside. Mari followed him in. The door shut and locked. Rei sat down in the middle of the room, completely baffled. "What in seven hells is going on Mari?!"
The green-eyed girl sighed. "Don't you know where we are?"
Rei shook his head. "This is the Saucy Kitten, Rei."
His eyes got wide. "T-th..."
Mari gritted her teeth. "Yes, the Saucy Kitten. I work here. I go out there, I do my number, get paid and get to eat tomorrow."
Rei stayed silent, slightly stupified. Mari gritted her teeth. "Well, whatever," she said, her anger evident in her voice. "Luiz doesn't want me going out there - not like this, anyways, but the show must go on."
"W-what...exactly do you do?"
A sly smile passed across Mari's features. "Well...I dance...and sing...And there's some other things I do that I won't mention."
She finished with a wink and Rei closed his eyes. "Tell me this is some horrible, twisted nightmare, please..."
"'fraid not," Mari said, almost gently.
She sat down beside him. "Let's get you made up, ne?"
Rei looked at his supposed sister, then sighed. "If I must," he murmured, horribly devastated by the thought of what he had been thrown into.
Mari smiled, got up and paraded over to the vanity. Rei hadn't noticed it before. The raven-haired girl marched back, bringing with her lots of various rouges and powders.
Half-an-hour later, Rei's face had been plastered with more make-up than he'd thought existed in the world. Mari had taken out his ponytail and braided some of his hair. The sight of himself in the mirror scared him. He hadn't realized he was so...feminine. All it had taken was a bit of make-up (well, a lot) and...a few more things to make him look almost identical to his sister.
Mari smiled and handed him two pieces of glass. "This is the last touch," she murmured.
Rei raised an eyebrow and turned the glass over. They had been painted like eyes - deep, emerald eyes.
Mari took one out of his hand. "They're contacts," she explained. "Your eyes are a different colour. People will figure something's up."
With that, she somehow managed to jam the thing in his eye. Rei pulled back, holding a hand over his eye and wincing. "What the hell!"
He turned to glare at her and she attacked again, stuffing the other piece into his left eye. "Jesus Christ, Mari! That hurt!"
She shrugged. "Doesn't matter - it had to be done. Now, get out there, Rei-chan."
She pushed him out the door, into the hallway, letting him trip over his own feet in heels. She laughed and shut the door. He stood there in the hall, feeling very exposed and very much like, well, a drag queen whore.
~*~*~*~*
Kai slithered through the crowd, avoiding the overly-drunk men and the sluttish women as best he could. The room was filled with a haze - a curtain of smoke that hung heavy on the air and infiltrated your lungs everytime you breathed in, causing you to choke on it. It was suffocating.
In a far corner, though his vision was hampered, he could make out dull forms moving against one another in a rather...provocative way. He turned his gaze away. He had half a mind to turn around and leave. He didn't know why he'd come in here in the first place.
He was tired and strung out. He needed to get away from here, away from the noise pounding into his temples. He needed to lie down and sleep - forever.
He found himself at the bar, amazingly having ordered himself a drink without even thinking. The bartender handed him the sweating glass, which froze his hand. He turned back toward the crowd, ready to leave.
But what happened then forced him to stay.
~*~*~*~*~*
Max peered at Tyson over the rim of what had to be his eighth martini. The blond was blushing and giggling like mad, unused to alcohol and its potent effects on the human body when consumed in "large" amounts.
Tyson merely smiled back at his would-be-boyfriend, which sent Max into another round of hysterics. Beside Tyson, Kevin slouched in his seat, rolling his eyes. "I'm too young for this," he muttered, crossing his arms over his chest.
And it was true. All three of them were under-aged for drinking and drugs and sex, the likes of which filled the atomospehere about them. The smoke on the air was sweet-scented and choked you, yet seduced you at the same time. The lights from the stage where three strippers had been preforming earlier were refracted through the smoke - hazed and unclear, much like many of the people that filled the Saucy Kitten.
It was a miracle the three of them had gotten in. But after all, Tyson was the Mister Kai Hiwatari, and Max and Kevin were his two 'associates'. They were high society, with money and power and the bouncer had no choice but to let them invade the interior.
So, there they were. Three teenage boys in the midst of a racy club in a city far from home, drinking and having a good time, exposing themselves to a world that had previously unknown or unexplored. Tyson glanced up at the stage, realizing the music had started picking up again. It must have been nearly time for the next act.
Kevin glanced over at the bluenette, then back at the stage, wondering what had caught his attention. Max was too busy eyeing Tyson and giggling into his drink to notice. Kevin watched the stage for a moment, watching the shimmery curtains draw back, listening to the music become slow and sultry...
The preformer took the stage. Kevin nearly fainted. He knew that person.
~*~*~*~*~*
She was a seductress, that was for sure. She wasn't curvy, she wasn't overly buxom. She wouldn't be much to look at without her make-up, without her costume. But her green eyes were complimented by heavy lashes and purple shadow, making the irises light up. Her eyes caught you and made you loose yourself in their depths. She had mastered the art of batting her lashes and the heavy-lidded look of seduction.
Her lips were lush and coated in a pale rouge that shimmered in the dull light. The eye was drawn to them as they moved, wrapping themselves about the words of the song. Her tongue danced with them, and although you couldn't see it, you knew it was there and had to wonder how wonderful it was. Her voice was soft and smooth, filled with lust and it wound its way about the music notes as though the song had been written just for her. Her voice made the harsh words like 'cock' and 'fuck' sound so lush and gentle.
Her heart-shaped face was framed by her fabulous raven locks, which shimmered like silk and the men longed to rake their hands through it and the women wished the could shear it off and make themselves a wig of the beautiful hair. The locks were straight, almost straw-like, but they bounced and curled too, and it seemed that she had to have some sort of wig made of several different people's hair.
Her hands...Oh, her hands! They were long and elegant, the nails painted a pretty pale pink. She emphasised her movements, her words with those hands and many men trembled with intense lust, just for her touch, a feather-light brush from one of those hands.
She was dressed in a skanky number, so slutty it was amazing and yet, so elegant it was disgusting. It shimmered in the light, making her seem a goddess in that hell-forsaken place, making all eyes focus on her, whether they wanted to be fixated or not. She drew their attention to her, with motion, with sound.
Her legs were long and her whole body was lean and tanned. Had she been famous or anybody of noteworthy status, she would have been a sex symbol, having young teenage boys jerk off to her image.
She was motion, as she slid across the stage, hardly seeming to move at all. Her body was liquid and she was nothing but grace itself. She was the seductress and nothing more. She was the seductress, and nothing less.
~*~*~*~*~*
Kai's nerveless hand dropped the glass he was holding, letting it drop to the floor. He couldn't tear his eyes away from...her...or him, whichever it was. This person, she looked so much like Rei it was startling, and yet...she reeked feminity and she was the aura of confident. But the voice....
They could hide eyes, but they couldn't hide a voice.
The glass shattered.
There were a couple of disturbed shouts, and then, the girl had stopped singing and she was looking directly at him. Emerald eyes met crimson and he knew. Oh God, it was Rei standing up there like that and it was all so horribly embarrassing and in a moment,, somebody would find out and everything would come down about his ears.
Yet, strangely enough, he was wholly turned on by the situation. Emerald gaze tore away from his and he felt alone and empty suddenly.
"She" was leaving, going, going, gone...Offstage, the curtains flapped shut and people began to mutter and shout, anger in their voices. The music stopped.
"Oy! Mari"
"Mari -"
"...Mari..."
Mari? Who was Mari? That was Rei, he knew it was and it hurt him so.
He turned away. He had to find Rei, he had to get backstage, find Rei, talk to him...
~*~*~*~*
Kevin stared wide-eyed at Rei, his "role-model", as the black-haired boy in drag preformed a sultry rendition of some old song. Kevin was mortified. Rei was in drag, Rei looked like a whore and he was acting like one too, making things all the worse.
The green-haired neko-jin buried his face in his hands, as if trying to prevent further corruption. He couldn't look at Rei...not after this. He'd never be able to look him in the eye again. This...this was too shameful.
The music stopped, people were shouting. High heels clacked swiftly across the stage-top and he glanced up. Rei was running...well, stumbling, offstage, as if embarrassed. Kevin blushed furiously.
What right did Rei have to be embarrassed? He was the one who had gone out there! He was the one who wanted to pretend he was a whore! He'd already made Kevin embarrassed, so why did he have to be embarrassed too?
Tyson poked Kevin. The green-haired neko-jin hissed in response. Tyson continued, oblivious, stil staring at the stage. "Was...that Rei?"
~*~*~*~*
Mari dashed alongside Rei, her eyes slitted. "What did you do that for?" she hissed.
Rei kept walking, his eyes staring straight ahead, as if focused on some distant goal. Mari dashed along, getting in front of him. She grabbed hold of his shoulders and held him. "What happened?" she asked, trying to sound as gentle as she could when she knew that she'd be taking a verbal beating from Luiz later...
Rei glanced down at her, then shoved her aside and kept walking. "Leave me alone," he muttered, anger, embarrassment and resent evident in his voice.
She gritted her teeth and sprinted after him. She dashed in front of him again, walking backwards. "Oh no you don't! Tell me why you ran offstage like that! You've probably ruined me now!"
"What do I care? It's a horrible job anyways! You shouldn't be working here anyways!"
"Why do you care where I work? It's not like you have to do it every night of your life!" Mari shrieked suddenly, tears welling in her eyes.
Rei paused and looked at her. Then, he shrugged and walked away. "You're right. It doesn't matter to me. I don't even know you," he said, softly, sadly.
Mari wiped her eyes with her forefingers. "I don't know you either."
Rei turned back to her. "Then we're even. Sister," he added grudgingly after a moment.
"Brother," Mari grumbled.
She followed him into the dressing room. There was silence for a moment, then Mari started softly, "I...I'd like to know you, Rei-chan. You're the only other person in the family now."
He turned back to face her. "Mari-chan..."
The room was too small suddenly and Mari was too close, closer than a sister ever should be to a brother and she smiled and brushed a strand of hair out of his eyes. "You're beautiful, Rei-chan," she whispered and he was mesmerized by her lips, so like his own and so different...
It was forbidden and condemned, but they were damned to hell anyways, so why not? Lips moved on lips, flesh on flesh...and then more...and more...
And bang, the door flew open and there stood Kai, eyes wide.
~*~*~*~*
[A/N: Well, okay...so it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...Mwha...Another cliff-hanger of sorts. D Kai should be nosebleeding massively about now, ne? D Well, R&R and let me know what you think. ^_^]