Different
By Cassandra
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Chapter III
Come Together Now
"Why in the seven hells did I do that?!"
"Because
you're an idiot?"
"…Please don't remind me."
"There, there Seiya."
"Oh Aoi, I was soooooo stupid!"
"Was it really that bad?"
"Oh definitely." Seiya sulked as she was sitting down on one of the booths of the Crown Arcade with her head on Aoi's dependable shoulder. She was obviously that upset since she hadn't risen to any of Kira's comments yet. "It's a whole big mess!"
Seiya was with Kira and Aoi that afternoon at the Crown Arcade, hanging out as they usually did after school. She just finished telling them about her latest encounter with Yaten Kou and how she didn't know what possessed her to invite him to their group outing that weekend.
She really didn't know why she acted the way she did and what made her do that. Sure, she had been pretty miffed at what he was saying to her, him being the big-headed shrimp that he was, but did she have to lose her mind again over his taunting? Since when had she allowed obnoxious words to get to her like that?
Kira, who was sitting across Aoi and Seiya and was drinking lemonade, rolled his eyes at Seiya's actions. He sat back against the booth, casting a lazy gaze at the sulking black-haired girl. "So Seiya's being impulsive again. So what else is new?"
Aoi swiftly narrowed her eyes in warning at her boyfriend before looking to Seiya, who was still looking and feeling down. "Come on Seiya, cheer up. It's not so bad. I mean, who knows, maybe he'll just think of it as a joke or something. You make jokes all the time."
"Sure, but not with Yaten 'Mr.-Popular-And-Apathetic' Kou! And Aoi, you weren't there." Seiya argued glumly, looking apprehensive as she twiddled with a red straw that she held between her fingers. "I was dead serious when I invited, wait, no backtrack a bit, IMPOSED that he come with this weekend."
Kira's eyebrow quirked as he listened to what Seiya said. He smirked, eyeing Seiya a bit slyly as he finished with his drink.
"Hm…a day with the Ice Prince. That should prove to be interesting." The redhead's smirk widened to an evil grin.
Seiya returned the gesture with a withering look.
"Shut up."
"Kira, you're not making things better for Seiya."
"Aoi, since when did your boyfriend ever made things better for me?"
"What?" Kira shrugged coolly under the glares of both his girlfriend and her bestfriend. Treading dangerous waters, the red-haired boy continued, "It's not my fault Seiya has a very obvious crush on 'Yaten-oujisama'."
Seiya'a glare on Kira slighted a bit more. She couldn't really continue on ignoring Kira especially when he was being himself. "I do not have a crush on Yaten Kou, Kira."
Aoi slapped a hand to her face as she sighed.
"Oh dear here we go again…"
She knew what was going to happen next.
"Right." Kira continued to eye her lazily as he shrugged, totally oblivious that Aoi had just noticed the inevitable. "You know what, Seiya? Just get over it. What's done is done. You can't do anything about it even if you went back in time and tried to change things."
Seiya's eyebrow raised at that one. Did that just made sense to you? "Kira, if I had a time machine I'd be able to change everything I did."
"Sure, probably make things worse." Kira retorted, smirking once more at his girlfriend's bestfriend. He propped his chin over his laced fingers as he placed his elbows on top of the table. "Knowing you, you'd botch everything up and make an even bigger mess. Maybe when you use that time machine, you'd end up making Yaten Kou marry you or something. The thought makes me shudder."
"If you know what's good for you, Kira Kou, you'd shut your mouth or my fist'll do it for you."
"I think I'd rather have Aoi's lips closing over mine to keep me silent, thank you."
"Eeew! You did not have to say that! You didn't! That is just gross! THAT WAS FOUL!"
As Kira drawled a reply, Aoi glanced at her watch. It was three o' clock in the afternoon. She pulled out a book that was in her bag and began to read.
Kira and Seiya's verbal sparring would take a while.
Sometimes, she wondered why she even bothered to come along with these two when all they do is argue.
Lime green eyes were to the dark ceiling.
Beside his bed, red numbers indicating that it was 8:30 in the morning flashed against the darkened room. He paid it no mind. He lay stretched out on his dark blue bed, his hands at the edge of the bed and hanging just so.
His bedroom held no light anywhere, not the desk lamp on his mahogany wood desk, not from the ceiling where he had painted a round silver moon and constellations of stars. His walls were painted to depict the dark night sky filled with stars and if anyone cared to ask, he was the one who painted those walls as well as the ceiling.
Everyone in school knew that Yaten Kou was one talented artist, but no one knew that his masterpiece was his bedroom. It was a continuing painting that he added to when the mood suited him. These walls and ceilings were the canvas for his emotions and messages that only a very, very few were allowed to see.
He was still against his bed, his lime green eyes fixed unblinking on the perfect crescent moon over him.
There was nothing but silence in this room.
It was still night for Yaten Kou.
He sighed suddenly, a small sound against the overwhelming silence.
"Three, two, one."
The bedroom door opened without announcement or ceremony and a voice shattered the monotony in the room.
"Get up from that bed, Sleepy Head!"
In one minute flat, his heavy dark blue drapes were drawn, letting the sunshine in and the chirp of birds invaded the silent sanctum that was Yaten's bedroom. Lime green eyes narrowed then shut completely to fend off the offending brightness. He sat up and shielded his face with a hand as something, or actually, someone started bustling all over the place, arranging books, sketchbooks, pencils, colored pens, and paints that were scattered all over his desk and picking up randomly tossed shoes that were on the floor.
"Luna, it's a Saturday." Yaten stated calmly in a monotone as he remained in his sitting position on his unmade bed. "Let me stay in."
He watched a woman who was probably a bit older than he was pause with what she was doing and turn her golden eyes at him. She was not that tall but she was taller than Yaten by about a few inches. A blue and white stereotypical maid's uniform hung excellently against her slight frame. Dark blue-violet hair fell down in waves down her back as her white maid's hat sat between two dark buns on her head.
"How about no, Kou?" The dark-haired Luna answered cheekily, returning to her work of making sense of Yaten's messy room. "You're supposed to be doing something today aren't you?"
Yaten shook his head stubbornly, crossing his arms over his chest as he stared out a window by his side but looking at nothing. "I don't recall saying that I was actually going."
"But you didn't say 'no' either."
Yaten frowned at the woman who had been taking care of him for the past seven years of his life. Luna saw the look that was being directed to her by her young master and had to smile back in return, just to spite him a bit.
"Come now, Kou. A little socializing won't kill you."
"Why do I suddenly feel like I shouldn't have told you about all this?" Yaten asked tiredly, sighing as he rested his chin over his palm and looking at nothing listlessly.
Luna only laughed good-naturedly.
Luna had been taking care of him since he was ten years old. Yaten saw her as his only friend and didn't hesitate on telling her anything and everything that happened to him in school. Usually, Luna would just laugh and joke about the funny things and would try to comfort him during those times when he just couldn't take it anymore and he just needed to explode. She also had advice for him most of the time, but she made it clear that she was just giving him advice. He had no obligation to do as she said.
"You're smart, Kou. You'll know what's best for you." She had once said, but one thing that she wanted him to have badly is other friends.
Yaten had been such a solitary boy ever since he was young. He never really had any friends since he saw nothing in common with the children of his parents' friends and he frankly told them so. Luna hadn't liked it and had insisted on and on that he go out and get himself some friends.
Which was why she was so enthusiastic about Seiya Kou's proposed outing.
Yaten didn't turn his head when he felt Luna sit down beside him on his bed.
"Are you sure you're not bored being holed up in here all the time?"
"If you must know, Luna, this place is actually the only place that I feel that I'm actually alive. I have my canvas, my paints, my charcoal, and my pencils. In here, my life is perfect."
Luna sighed, shaking her head and making her hair shift. "Can't argue with your Artist's side that's for sure."
"Yes." Yaten answered.
Luna smiled, her golden eyes twinkling mischievously. "But you have to admit you need some sun, Yaten Kou."
The elder woman giggled as she stood up and headed for the door. "You're breakfast will be ready in a few minutes. Don't let it get cold! Oh, and your father called this morning."
Yaten finally allowed his gaze to transfer to the door from where Luna was disappearing behind.
The door closed.
Silence
once more.
Yaten sighed. "You really won't let me stay here won't you?"
Breakfast always meant he was leaving soon.
A call from his father made him want to disappear from the house completely.
Dirty red high tops scuffed the gray sidewalk nervously.
"I don't see him coming."
Blue green eyes smiled in encouragement.
"He'll be here."
A smirk.
"Is that excitement I feel in your aura, Seiya?"
A fist against an arm in a punch. Slighted blue eyes.
"Shut up, Kira-baka!"
Slender fingers closing over an arm.
"Now, now Seiya. Calm down. Kira's not worth it."
A raised eyebrow over cool silver-gray eyes.
"What's that supposed to mean, Taiki?"
"Nothing."
A tongue stuck out in sadistic glee.
"It means you're nothing but the dirt under his shoe, Kira-baka."
"At least I'm not nervous about a certain Ice Prince."
"Kira."
A feminine hand over a masculine shoulder in a stilling manner.
"I apologize for being late."
Four pairs of eyes fell on a silver-haired boy.
"Hello, Yaten-kun."
"Taiki, I didn't know you were friends with Seiya Kou."
"Well he is, Yaten."
A silver eyebrow lifted.
"I don't believe I was talking to you."
"Can we go in already?"
"Shall we Aoi?"
"Oh Kira, please stop provoking Seiya…"
"Me? Provoking Seiya? Whatever gave you that idea…"
A dark-haired girl followed the talking couple through the sliding doors without a word.
A purple gaze collided with lime green.
"Shall we go?"
A sigh.
"Do I have a choice?"
A quiet chuckle.
