After much planning and fun with Teresa, I decided that I so had to type the second chapter! This story is just too fun. And yeah. Thanks so much for your reviews! I really, really appreciated everyone who reviewed my story and decided it was a good read. Tenshineko, your review had me in tears I was laughing so hard. "Kare Kano on aphrodisiacs." I almost changed the summary to that I thought it was so great! So yeah, I hope everyone loves this newest installment.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kare Kano.
Warnings: Cussing, sexual themes, blatant shoujo-ai and shounen-ai.
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Chapter Two
Arima rubbed his eyes as his alarm clock went off. He supposed it would have been easier to get out of bed if he had just told his new roommates to keep it down last night but he didn't want to disturb them. They had been throwing a party for being back at school together again. He was sure they weren't like that all the time. They were probably really responsible students.
He went out to the common area where Yukino and Maho were eating cereal on the couch, Asaba and Tsubaki were stringing lights around the fire sprinkler pipes that went across the ceiling.
"Good morning!" Yukino waved at him as she spotted him.
"Uh, good morning." Arima smiled at her as she went back to her cereal.
"Okay, plug 'em in Tsubaki!" Asaba exclaimed as they finished.
"Ta da!" Tsubaki plugged them in and the string lights, though dim in the morning light glowed. They had chosen blue, purple, and red. Yukino and Maho stopped eating to clap for the two who bowed.
"I thought we weren't supposed to string lights on those." Arima pointed out in confusion.
"Yeah, we aren't." Asaba unplugged them. Arima wished he could figure out the strange group of friends but it was a bit mind boggling.
"Are we allowed to bring food up from the kitchens to our rooms?" Arima inquired. All four of them made a face at him.
"Food?" Asaba looked like he was wilting.
"From the kitchens?" Tsubaki grimaced.
"No, we never eat down there. They give us mini kitchens and we just eat in here. Buy our own groceries and stuff." Yukino gestured towards the kitchen. "Since you're new, you can eat our stuff but you'll probably want to start buying your own."
"I don't like sharing." Asaba winked at Arima. Arima was beginning to wonder about Hideaki Asaba, he was a bit…overly friendly.
"Gooooooooooooood morrrrrrrrrrrrning!" Shibahime whirled into the room as Arima went to go eat some of the cereal.
"Shibahime has no poker face. You can always tell when she's had sex." Tsubaki sighed.
"I just happen to be a morning person." Shibahime sniffed. "And I brought my favorite cereal with me!"
"Who gave Shibahime sugar?" Kazuma entered the room.
"Hey Kazuma!" Everyone greeted him as if he were apart of the group. Arima spotted something on the counter. It was a coffee can, covered in lewd pictures. He felt stupid asking all a bunch of questions but he really did want to socialize with his roommates.
"What's this?" Arima gestured towards the coffee can on the counter.
"Party fund!" Tsubaki and Yukino exclaimed together.
"Party fund?" Arima raised his eyebrows.
"You wouldn't believe how much money it takes sometimes." Aya stepped into their room with Rika. "I swear my older sister puts a tax on things." She lit up a cigarette.
"Hey! No smoking!" Yukino teased. Arima felt like his eyes were going to pop out. Cigarettes? Party fund? What was wrong with his new roommates? Maybe he should have stayed at his old boarding school. But this one had the best reputation for academics. Had he been put with the only people who didn't care about grades?
"Hey guys, what's everyone eating for breakfast?" Tonami was about to come into the room when Asaba closed the door in his face.
"Oh! Sorry Tonami! The door won't open for some reason. I think it's broken." Asaba called through the door. "We're trying to get it fixed."
"That was the lamest lie you've ever told." Tsubaki rolled her eyes.
"It's okay." Tonami could be heard trudging off to his room.
"He believed it." Asaba put up his hands defensively. "Besides I've told way lamer lies. Remember the time I told you that we had to have sex because I needed to pop my back?"
"What kind of sex do you two have?" Shibahime asked with a weirded out expression. "Popping your back? And you actually went with it Tsubaki?"
"Oh gods, it was back in the days of 'We only have sex if we can think of a good reason.' I'm so glad those days are over." Tsubaki sighed.
"The good ole' days." Asaba sat down next to Yukino. "Back in the days when we thought Yukino was straight as an arrow."
"I still maintain I'm straighter then you." Yukino told him.
"Okay, this Fruit Loop," Tsubaki held up a Fruit Loop for reference. "Is straighter then Asaba."
"I can't argue with that." Asaba smiled directly at Arima who immediately looked down at his cereal and turned his full attention to it.
"Yuck." Yukino examined her schedule. "Why do I have a math class first thing in the morning?" Arima had memorized his schedule last night.
"I have a math class first thing in the morning too. Trigonometry?" Arima guessed.
"Hey, we have a class together! Good because no one else had it on their schedule." Yukino sighed with relief.
"When do classes start?" Asaba threw a mini-football at Tsubaki who caught it expertly.
"The same time they do every year. Eight in the morning. It's seven." Maho informed them.
"Oh man, I'm going to go get ready." Tsubaki sulked as she began to leave.
"You can get ready in my room!" Asaba offered.
"No…I want to go to class with my clothes on…" Tsubaki kept on trudging. "I'll come back right after I get ready."
"Score! Before class quickie!" Asaba did a little dance.
"We're going to go too." Aya and Rika disappeared after Shibahime and Kazuma.
"I don't wanna put on my stupid uniform." Asaba pouted. Yukino patted him on the back.
"It's okay. I'll braid your hair pretty for you if you want." Yukino told him comfortingly. Asaba immediately brightened.
"Really? Oh thank you Yukino!" Asaba kissed her before prancing out of the common area into his own room.
"So…is Asaba, um…" Arima tried to broach the subject. Yukino was giggling at his obvious embarrassment.
"Gay? No, he's bi. You could say that he couldn't be exclusive to anything, not even a gender." Yukino put her bowl in the sink and filled it with water. "Why? Are you interested in him?"
"No, I was just curious." Arima went a little blue in the face. "Are you all…?"
"Yeah. Well, I've never seen Maho with another guy but we won't get into that." Yukino went on as if it wasn't a big deal.
"Oh." Arima decided he didn't feel like finishing his cereal. He put it in the sink. Yukino touched his arms with her fingertips.
"Don't worry, it's not catching." Yukino smiled wryly.
"I have nothing against it or anything! I just wasn't expecting…" Arima trailed off.
"You get used to it. Or you end up just transferring out. Last year I had a roommate who did that. She really couldn't handle even hearing us talk about it." Yukino shrugged.
"No, I'm fine with it. Really." Arima told her. "I guess I wasn't expecting that in my roommates."
"Well, we breed 'em differently down here." Yukino joked, punching him in the arm. "You should probably start getting ready. By the way, we already all took showers so um; there might not be a whole lot of hot water. You should get up earlier. The trick is to beat Asaba there."
"I'll remember that." Arima was glad that he could get along with his roommates. Maybe with time they'd accept him into the group. Yukino turned and left the room. Arima went back to his room, full of questions but not sure how to ask them.
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"Not interested in him, huh?" Maho snapped Yukino out of her thoughts. Yukino realized she had been staring at her skirt for the past five minutes.
"What? I'm just a little tired." Yukino waved her hand flippantly. "You're getting paranoid."
"I'm allowed to." Maho, who was already dressed, sat down on Yukino's bed in front of her. Yukino pulled on her skirt before tucking in her shirt carefully. Then she put on the small tie.
"How do I look?" Yukino posed sexily.
"Good." Maho lay back on the bed. "Do you think Asaba is the only one who should get a 'before class quickie' as he so eloquently put it?" Yukino lay down next to her. They began kissing for a few minutes.
"You know…" Yukino spoke as Maho began to kiss on her jaw line. "Asaba's going to come in here and want his hair braided."
"He's such a little kid." Maho frowned.
"We might as well get in as much as we can." Yukino entangled a hand into Maho's long soft black locks.
"Yukino! You promised to braid my hair!" Asaba came gliding into the room. "Hey! You guys are supposed to put a scrunchy on the doorknob! Carry on, I'll watch." Maho rolled her eyes and got up, kissing Yukino on the cheek before going out of the room.
"Come on Asaba." Yukino got out her hair things and Asaba giddily bounced on her bed before getting settled. She brushed his hair and began to put it in an intricate braid. She finished it off with a purple ribbon to hold his hair together.
"Yahhhhhhhh!" Asaba cheered. "You make my hair prettiest!"
"How you manage to keep up the semblance of being straight is beyond me." Yukino shook her head before smiling up at him. "So what do you think of Arima?"
"He's hot." Asaba commented. "I think he's a little different from us and he doesn't look like he's had a lot of fun times in his life. Good thing he got assigned to our room."
"You just want to score with him." Yukino accused in a joking manner. Asaba put his hands to his face and pretended to be embarrassed.
"Oh! How can you tell?" Asaba giggled before he stopped acting. "So Yukino…you come into this room often?"
"Like you need to give me pick-up lines." Yukino rolled her eyes. "Isn't Tsubaki coming back for that sort of thing?"
"She can join us." Asaba bent down to kiss Yukino's throat.
"You know I'm not into that whole threesome thing." Yukino let him kiss her. Asaba had to be the most experienced of all of them, the only one who came close was Tsubaki but according to the two of them, Asaba was more experienced.
"Never too late to try." Asaba murmured in her ear as they started to kiss more and more. Yukino figured that if Tsubaki did come, she could just make out with Maho before class.
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"Good morning Yukino!"
"Hi Yukino!"
"How are you Yukino?"
"You sure know a lot of people." Arima commented as the two of them walked to class. Yukino stopped waving at people to address him.
"Well, it's probably because I'm such good friends with Asaba and Tsubaki." Yukino explained. "You're not doing too badly yourself."
"I don't really know anyone…" Arima felt himself blushing a little. He wondered if Yukino noticed she was putting a double meaning on a lot of her phrases. The whole group did. Asaba usually winked with everything he said or you could see him holding back a wink.
"You will! You will!" Yukino skipped a few steps. "It's easy to make friends here."
"Yukino's a ho!" Tsubaki called out as she ran by, closely followed by Asaba whose braid was flying out behind him.
"And?" Yukino raised her eyebrows at the two giggling friends. They both ducked into a classroom.
"You all have a weird sense of humor." Arima stated.
"Keeps things interesting. Hey, you know…" Yukino turned her head towards him. "We're going to have a party tonight, ya' know a sort of a 'celebrate the first day of school' thing."
"But we have class tomorrow." Arima began in alarm.
"I know that." Yukino made it seem like it was stupid to remind her. "Anyways, you are going to come out of your room tonight, right? Why did you stay in your room last night? Were you tired?"
"Um, kinda." Arima lied. The truth was that he felt weird going out there with all of them because he didn't know anyone and it made him feel awkward.
"So, you'll come tonight? It'll be lots of fun." Yukino said temptingly. Arima hesitated. He did have class the next day and he might have homework and other things to do.
"I'll think about it." Arima finally answered.
"Great." Yukino made it seem like he had said yes. "We contributed to the fund all summer and even though we used some last night, Aya's sister will have had time to get party favors." Arima had a feeling that Yukino wasn't talking about the same type of party favors that he was thinking of.
"Sounds fun." Arima said weakly. He decided that he should probably be responsible and not go out and party on a Monday night.
* * *
Arima tried to concentrate on an essay he was supposed to be writing for English all about his favorite themes in literature. He was finding it increasingly difficult to write. They were being really loud out there. Arima stopped writing finally when he decided there was no way he could work like this. He decided to call it a night early and go to bed.
He turned off his light and snuggled under the covers but he could hear the activities outside his room pretty clearly.
"A full house does not beat three of a kind!" Tsubaki's voice could be heard arguing.
"Does too! You're thinking of four of a kind!" Yukino argued.
"It doesn't matter, Asaba lost." Maho's calm voice quieted the arguing.
"Asaba is losing really badly tonight." Shibahime pointed out to everyone.
"He's probably doing it on purpose." Yukino quipped. Arima put his pillows over his head. "That way he can have an excuse to walk around naked."
"I don't need an excuse!" Asaba proclaimed.
"Keep your clothes on!" Aya and Shibahime chorused.
"Oh fine. You guys are no fun." Asaba had obviously given up. "Hey, where's Arima?" Arima's ears perked at hearing his name.
"I dunno. I told him he could come out here and party with us but I guess he's tired or something." Yukino told them.
"You should go wake him up." Arima groaned. He could practically see Asaba wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at Yukino.
"Nah let him sleep." Yukino sounded disinterested. "Besides, he's going to need all his rest if he's going to run from you."
"Yeah, if he doesn't run fast enough…well, let's just say I remember your last three roommates. They thought they were straight." Tsubaki whistled. Arima tried to drown out the conversation a little more by pressing the pillows to his head.
Arima tried to imagine being out there, joking with all of them. It was a pleasant mental image but he was sure he just wouldn't fit in with all of them. They were practically in another world.
"There are people who don't sleep with Asaba." Yukino brought up as if they were having an intelligent and mature debate.
"Who?" Asaba and Tsubaki demanded together.
"Maho-"
"I tried!"
"Tonami-"
"No thank you."
"Arima-"
"Only a matter of time."
"The list goes on and on." Yukino concluded.
"Maybe Yukino has decided she has dibs on him!" Rika teased.
"I do not have dibs on anyone." Yukino sniffed.
"I have dibs on sex!" Asaba joined in helpfully. The others all groaned at him.
Arima had never felt so lonely before, so cut off from everything.
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Lots of sex! Or something. Yeah. I don't really have a lot to say right now other then I'm thinking of formulating an official soundtrack for this fic. Yeah, I have waaaaaay too much time on my hands. R+R!