In the morning the two boys were sleeping in random positions on the bed. Most unfortunately it was Takuya with one leg propped up against the wall and his other one draped over the head of the bed. His head used his right arm as a pillow and the other arm hung over the side of the bed. Meanwhile Kouji was sleeping as his upper body leaned against the wall and one leg was drawn up against him and the other one stretched out on the bed. Neither boys were really touching each other much on the bed, and at some point in the night they fell asleep and Kouji's parents came in to turned off that damned music. Not that Utada Hikaru sings bad or anything, but after hearnig 'Simple and Clean' half the night on full volume they got a little irritated. Well, it was their own fault for making all that racket while one of Kouji's best friends had come over you know. Making strange noises as he slowly stirred, Takuya's reddish-brown eyes opened slightly, then squeezed back down again from the bright light shimmering in from the open blinds in Kouji's room.
Groaning about how the evil morning was going to end one of these days Takuya slowly moved around until he was as situated as he could be half-asleep. After maybe five minutes of spacing out at nothing it occurred to Takuya the arm he was sleeping on was numb, just as the one that had somehow landed on the wall in the middle of the night. Again he sat there for a moment, trying to get this knowledge to load inside his brain. While this process went on, the brunette decided to stretch his slightly cramped muscles and the movement stirred Kouji somewhat. The black-haired boy slowly cracked one blue eye, wand wandered over to his stretching friend, whom at that moment fell off the bed. Kouji then himself stretched some, and got off the bed and raised an eyebrow at Takuya, who despite the fact he fell off dozed again. Shaking his head Kouji got down on his knees, which made soft popping noises for whatever weird reason they do that. And to the technical freaks that are about to explain it don't.
Moving a few brown strands away from Takuya's face, Kouji bent down and kissed Takuya on the lips for whatever reasons. After a moment he got a response from the brunette and the kiss began to deepen itself further. Then slowly everything dissolved away and Kouji found himself actually waking up this time. Yes, it was a dream most unfortunately, and Kouji slowly looked around his room. "…figures it was a dream. Takuya never wakes up before me." Kouji mumbled and rubbed the sleep left on his eyelids that caused them to stick together, ignoring the predictability of the event that it was a dream. He looked around and noticed that while he was in the position he slept in his dream, Takuya had decided Kouji's thigh made a great pillow and he was going to use it as one. The black-haired teen merely raised an eyebrow at this and looked around his room. Utada Hikaru's music floated softly from the stereo, his parents must have only turned it down instead of switching it off entirely. Deciding he and Takuya needed to get up to make a trip to the library (it was obvious from last night that they couldn't get anything done with the Minamoto parents around). Shaking the brunette's shoulders, Kouji's only response was a groan and Takuya moving his head then trying to burrow it under Kouji's thigh. Sighing, the one awake somehow remained this calm even after the dream and how strangely close Takuya's face was to uhm… well anyhow resorting to ancient methods Kouji pushed Takuya off the bed. After a loud 'thump' and yelp of pain Takuya's eyes glared at Kouji.
"Now are we going to the library to work on your essay or not?" Kouji asked, and Takuya got a thoughtful look on his face.
"A library? The quiet and strange smelling place? Why Kouji!?" Takuya whined causing Kouji shake his head wondering why HE had to tolerate this. Oh yeah. He liked the brunette. Duh…
"With my parents consistant attempts I doubt we'll get anything done. Besides I have a project I need to do and the library does not smell weird. The doctors does." Kouji added on as an afetrthought.
"Fine…" Takuya sulked, and slowly got up off the floor and stretched his muscles in a bettered attempt in waking up. Kouji got up and followed suit in stretching before walking in his closet to get his normal clothes on. No, not the ones from the Digital World… meanwhile Takuya dug into his suitcase and brought out some clothes he had randomly grabbed. He got out and went into the bathroom to change, while Kouji changed in his room. Takuya was wearing a red shirt and black vest and shorts, then walked out of the bathroom while brushing his messy brown hair. After a moment of silence of standing outside of the bathroom, it finally occurred to Takuya that he had to use it. Feeling a bit stupid he went back in to use it, poor guy, he's not awake yet still. After finally taking care of business and washing his hands, he went back out, his hair finally combed and controlled for the most part. There were bits and pieces that wouldn't listen, but that was normal. Maybe one day they might listen… maybe.
Kouji was wearing a black shirt and normal loose jeans and his regular bandana, just as Takuya put his goggles and hat when he saw the other. "Ready to go?" Kouji asked, and raised a brow when Takuya shook his head 'no'.
"We eat. Now." Takuya said, determination apparent. The black-haired one sweat-dropped, and knew there was no changing the brunettes mind. When Takuya was hungry, you eitehr fed him or you suffered the consequences. They were in the kitchen eating microwavable pancakes barely minutes later. After the two were finally ready they headed out to the library, Takuya trying to get some sort of conversation from Kouji, while the other irritable attempted to ignore this. It wasn't anything unusual for the two, so Takuya wasn't insulted or anything by Kouji's endless silence and glares. Whatever it was that caused Kouji to revert back to how he was before would be discovered eventually. The brunette knew he would just have to pry and wait again. Besides, it wasn't as bad as it was before, Kouji didn't intentionally avoid any of them, and if he was asked to go somewhere with them he rarely said no. It's just he was a lot less talkative again. Why was anyone's guess really, but ah well oh well. Thirty minutes of walking lead them to the nearest public library, and with the rubrics, papers, and writing utensils in their bags, the two journeyed inside the almighty keeper of books. Ah… do you like the library? The library is a really neat place; after all it has tons of books and… right. The story.
Getting inside the two boys then went their separate ways, and told each other where they would be in case anything came up. Kouji grabbed a few books on the history of Brazil, while Takuya went to the computers to look up anything in the library that could help him out. Kouji sat in one of the tables in the far back of the library, slowly scanning through one of the books on Brazil. Takuya jotted down the titles and locations of the books, and slowly wandered around to hopefully find the books. An hour later he had found five of the six, and was looking for the sixth one. How Kouji found those books so fast was beyond Takuya, but whatever. Maybe he really liked to read? (If only he knew that Kouji had already done his project and merely was doing this to spend time with him. Ahh… how lovely it is to be so naïve.) In an aisle of books that seemed untouched for the longest time, Takuya slowly searched for the sixth book. While looking at some books, something smacked him in the head. Scowling he whirled around to punch the son of a bitch who threw a book at him. Seeing no one there, he raised a brow and saw a book on the floor.
It was titled Spells for Dummies Like You, and Takuya felt his blood boil in annoyance. Oh, so someone was calling him stupid huh!? That bastard would pay dearly for this! Seeing the empty space where the book was Takuya poked his eye though and saw no one there. Growling his roughly pushed the book back in its place, and went back to searching, listening carefully for that idiot who dared try and pick a fight with the one and only Takuya Kanbara! He seemingly did not realize how full of himself he sounded either… The book smacked him in the back of the head, and Takuya yelped then glared at nothing. "Okay you little freak, show yourself!" He hissed, and there was nothing. Again, he roughly pushed the book back in its place he returned to searching. The process of getting smacked, snarling, and putting it back continued for another twenty minutes when Takuya finally decided to get mad at the book.
"Listen you little imp! You hit me one more time so help me I will allow my pyro brother to burn your freakin' pages until there's not even DUST left!" Takuya threatened the poor, innocent book. Forcing it back in its spot again, Takuya got a worried face. The book just opened itself and refused to go back in its place. Looking back and forth in fear Takuya was kind of freaked out. Not even the Digital World had books that moved on their own… "Go back in! Please?" He asked, and then the book smacked into his face, knocking him over backwards. Why he was arguing with a book was any passerbyers guess, as they did not realize the book started it. What? It did!! Okay, so maybe it wasn't innocent like we claimed it was… slowly the pages opened themselves to a random page, and the chapter was labeled, 'Read me damnit!' so, read Takuya did,
"For the lost heart,
To the unknowing one
For the one who alone will never say
By it to the unknown has done
The moron will be a kitty
To find its soulmate
While the one who knows is a puppy." Takuya blinked then snorted. "Whoever wrote this can't ryhme worth anything." He yelped when suddenly his hand caught on fire, and the book floated safely back to its place. Teach him a lesson to say the ryhme sucked… Slowly everything swirled around like a fast-paced merry-go-round and the brunette was no longer concerned with his burning hand. It was more of why everything was moving so quickly and strange looking. He closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them, everything was very different. Everything was a bit fuzzy, but every single small detail he could see better than any human could. How peculiar… and he was on the ground. And… his clothes were piled around him. 'I'm naked!? In a library? Not good not good not good!' In his panic he heard a loud high-pitched sound, like a cats. He was afraid. Very afraid. What if it was one of those cats that you hear about sometimes in those nasty jokes that like to play with dangling objects? Twirling around, he noticed a flash of brown fur. He hissed, and at his own surprise everything slowly came to him. Hoping it was all a trick of his mind he ran as fast as he could and stopped when seeing a compact mirror left on the ground. He shrieked/high-pitched cry and ran away from it in fear. He was a cat, no... worse than a cat, he was a KITTEN!!! A brown-furred, flea farmed, and petrified kitten running around in a no-pets zone! He had to find Kouji, he needed some sanity. Running like a madcat (well, that is what he is when you think about it) he went straight toward where Kouji was last seen with an agility he couldn't even achieve when he was human. Well, unless you include the consistant stumbling over his extra feet and tripping over things he didn't bother to take noticed to.
"Oh my…!" A womans voice yelped out, and a foot stamped down somewhere. "My word…! A boy is walking around here naked! That disgusting filthy…! Oh, teenagers!" She growled in an angry tone that was too loud for Takuya's poor kitten ears. The brune-err, kitten knew she couldn't be talking about him, so that meant only one thing… Kouji was a kitten too. Mentally groaning, Takuya hid in a shelf of books, and did his best to spy on the librarian. "And whats a dog doing in here?" She sighed, and lifted up a black and white puppy with a familiar annoyed expression. Oh, so Kouji got to be a dog? Takuya growled, that was not fair!! Everyone likes puppies, why did he have to be a stupid kitten? His tail then caught on firew and Takuya yelped out of the shelf, wondering how the hell that happened. He deserved that too, kittens are cute, and cuddly, and… yah. Sorry… story right? Thought so. The librarian's eyes snapped to the sound of a yelping kitten and they narrowed. "And a cat?!" She hissed then picked Takuya up by the scruff of his neck, startling him again. The fire was gone, so the librarian didn't know why the kittens tail was scorched.
Her face turning red, she stormed out of the library and tossed to two animals out of the doors and slammed them. People raised an eyebrow, but decided they seriously did not want to know. Takuya slowly got up, and looked at the annoyed puppy, who now was giving him a curious look.
Takuya? Kouji's voice flowed through Takuya's mind, startling him. …Kouji? Takuya's voice asked, startling Kouji too. So it seemed the blac-err, PUPPY didn't know he spoke in Takuya's head… so they talked through telepathy now? Uh… Takuya, did you do something you weren't suppose too? Kouji asked, and Takuya looked around as if distracted. Takuya? Kouji again. Uhm, yah? Takuya, and at Kouji's bared teeth, Takuya took a deep gulp. I'm going to kill you! As Kouji prepared to tackle his moronic friend and secret crush, a shadow loomed over them…
Authoress Notes: Whee! That chapter was fun. Yah, I know you were all pretty hopeful that Kouji wasn't dreaming in the beginning, weren't you? Oh and as Dragi-san reminded me it was also inspired by a series of kitty clips! Oh, and SUPER special thanks to Dragi-san for helping me out so much, and thanks to Becca-san for reminding this story existed unintentionally. ; And to you super nice reviewers… thank you for taking the time for reading this piece o' shit! Huggles Uhm… updates will come irreguarly… luckily this story isn't very long. Heheh… oh, and I'm hoping to work on the sequel to 'Ending Our Destinies'. I love summer… ; Get to work on all these stories I couldn't get too because of evil school. XD
Important: I can't update until someone tells me Tomoki's brother's name… TT I can't call him 'onii-san' or 'Tomoki's brother' the entire time.