(stares at the candle scene before bursting out laughing yet again) MY god Rae...you twisted little girl. xD

oh well. I've got to try to keep up with her. By the way..Scyyyyyyy….hunny..c'mere.

Scy: no way. Uhuh. Nope. No way in ….URK!
(is now in a miniskirt with I LIKE MEN plastered on the ass)

on with the story. xD

Disclaimer: you now the usual deal if you've read this far, yes?

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Scy growled loudly and stormed into the bathroom, determined to get cleaned up before he went and broke things. They'd missed Ray again……He hit the wall, making a dent in it and splitting his knuckles, the pain shooting up his arm. He stared down at his hands, unseeing as he turned on the shower and stripped down, stepping under the scalding stream.

Hearing the thud of Scy's fist connecting with the wall, Trunks turned to Goten.

"Is he going to be okay?" he asked, watching the bathroom door with a concerned look on his face. Goten shook his head slightly, slinging an arm around Trunks' shoulders and guiding him towards the lounge room, before collapsing on a couch, pulling the shorter teenager with him.

"I don't know. But he's going to be pretty angry. So we should stay out of his way, ne?"
Nodding, trunks sat down next to him, yawning. It had been a pretty full-on day, and he was exhausted. He leaned his head on Goten's shoulder and nuzzled softly, not noticing when his tail wrapped around Goten's wrist.
Goten stared at the appendage with a surprised look, and smiled.

"What's the story with your tail?" he asked, looking down at Trunks, who was using his torso as a snuggle toy. Shrugging, the smaller teen blew his hair out of his face, and tightened his hold on Goten, who blushed profusely.

"I've always had it. It's a birth defect. Well…as far as I can remember anyway. " Really defective. Trunks thought as he was swamped with emotions. There was a lot of bad feeling associated with his purple fuzzy appendage. Goten touched it lightly with his other hand, and smiled when it twitched and the teen in his arms shivered.

"I…….I think it's beautiful. It suits you. And it's a cool color too." Goten managed to say all this with a straight face before blushing madly and burying his face in Trunk's hair. For his part Trunks only managed a stupefied silence, but hugged Goten tightly, smiling.

"Thank you."

Then, at this perfect little moment, Scy decided to interrupt by slipping in the shower and hitting his head on the wall.

"FUCK! Owwieeeee……that hurt like a bitch!"

Trunks sniggered whilst Goten just rolled his eyes and stood, disengaging himself from Trunks before heading towards the closed bathroom door.

"You alright in there, Scycho?" he asked, shaking his head and grinning. A stream of curses in about seventeen different languages flooded his ears, and he laughed outright, throwing in a spare towel and heading back to the couch.

"You can have some of my clothes, Scycho."

He called, before sitting back down next to Trunks, who hadn't moved. The lavender haired man was laughing silently, tears streaming down his face from keeping his laughter inside. Goten smiled at him, and hugged him, settling back into the couch and all but pulling the smaller teen onto his lap. He couldn't help how he felt, and although he wouldn't act on it out of respect for Trunks' feelings, but it didn't mean that he wouldn't enjoy any type of closeness he could grasp. Trunks just wriggled till he was comfortable, and snuggled into the embrace. He was still suffering from memory loss, and trying to remember things was putting a great strain on him emotionally as well as physically. He fell safe with Goten, and was glad that Goten had found him. Of all the things that could have happened, the best one appeared to have come along. And he was grateful for that.

(Just as Sev is grateful for having complete control over their lives. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA …coughhackdie)

The peaceful atmosphere was disturbed by the door swinging back on its hinges as two men made their way into the apartment. The lead one, a man with dark brown hair and amber eyes, was swinging a set of keys around on one finger, and had a broad grin on his face. The one following him was short, with black hair and blue eyes. He was slender, and seemed dwarfed by the man in front of him, even though they weren't that far different in build. Goten jumped as the door slammed open, and clutched Trunks tightly, protecting him with his arms before he realized who it was.

"PHOENIX! YOU ASSHOLE!" he yelled, placing Trunks down on the couch before launching himself at the brown-haired man and throttling him. Both Trunks and the man behind Phoenix sweat-dropped, and jumped as the door to the bathroom slammed open and Scy emerged, clad in a pair of overlarge jeans and a sweater. He saw the two and he grinned, hugging the smaller man, closing the front door with his foot.

"Heya Todd. What's up?"

"Nothing much. Phoenix wanted to come over and say hi to Goten and heard that you would be here." He said, smiling. Todd held out a hand to Trunks who shook it and introduced himself. Goten was busy killing Phoenix, who was laughing and fending him off. He gripped Goten by the front of the shirt and pried him off his arm, putting him on the floor, and shaking Trunk's hand.

"Nice ta meet ya. I'm Phoenix. You're?"

"Trunks." the lavender haired teen answered as Goten recovered sufficiently to thwack Phoenix on the upside of the head.

"You're a total asshole, you know that Phi-phi?" A large vein appeared on Phoenix's head at the nickname, and he hit Goten back, growling.

"Don't call me that. I'm not a demented poodle like you, fluffy." He said, before looking around. "Where's Ray?"
Sighing, Goten rubbed his head.

"We've got a lot to tell you."

In the meantime, James and Orion were sitting in the LAIR MARK 2™ and plotting away, as they're wont to do. James was sitting in an overstuffed armchair, and Orion was sitting on the arm of said chair, his legs on James's lap. Brushing his blonde hair out of his face, James scowled and nibbled on a pretzel.

"What're we gunna do now Oreo?" he asked, smirking at Orion's reaction to the nickname.

"Well, we've gotten away, still got Ray and managed to get our supply of pretzels restocked. I'd say it's going pretty well for us."

"Yes! They can not possible hope to defeat me and the one ring to rule them all!" he said, cackling madly. Orion sighed and thwacked him upside the head.

"That's a pretzel, dumbass." James pouted at him, and sniffed.

"It's the one ring. A fashion accessory and edible." He said, munching on it. Ruffling the other evil one's hair to stop him from crying, Orion sighed and looked at the opposite wall. It was littered with books, screens and a playstation. He looked at the game on the screen before grinning.

"What about a game of final fantasy nine? That always cheers you up." He asked, depositing James in front of the screen and the playstation. He left the other man there while he got down to some serious plotting. Ray was in a sealed room, watched over by Orion himself. He had a wrist communicator with him, and it would alert him to any opening and closing of the doors. It was a foolproof plan. Looking over at James, who was behaving like a hyperactive puppy, he stooped his thoughts and rewound.
Almost foolproof. He went and sat behind James, leaning against a conveniently placed couch and trying to ignore the fact that James rested casually between his legs. The man was an idiot. And he wasn't. Right?

(Sev: ((snorts)) riighttt)

Scy growled as Todd stole the last chip. Todd just grinned at him and relaxed back into Phoenix's arms, munching happily.

"Let's see if I got his straight. Goten found Trunks. James wants Trunks. James took Ray. Somehow, Orion thwarted you. And now you want OUR help?" he snorted, and smiled down at Todd. "What do you think?"
Todd closed his eyes for a second, and then nodded.

"I want to help. What trouble could we get into?" he asked, snuggling. Goten smirked and shook his head.

"Oh, you don't know the girls. They'll get us into some sort of trouble."

The other four watched wordlessly as Goten was picked up and deposited in a bathtub full of bat poop.

Clearing his throat, Scy adjusted his collar, and thought about his words very carefully before talking.

"Todd…..never say those words again." Todd nodded and buried his face in Phoenix's shoulder, who hugged him protectively. Trunks started giggling, and went over to the bathroom.

"You alright in there Goten?" he asked, not expecting to receive a face full of water. He spluttered, and wheeled his arms before glaring. Goten had jumped into the shower to get rid of the bat poop, and as a result, sprayed water all over the place. Letting out a wordless cry, Trunks launched himself at Goten and proceeded to strangle him.
Scy looked at the other two before grinning.

"They like each other." He said, before they burst out laughing.

Gohan sighed, and leaned back in his seat, fully sated. McDonald's did that for everyone. He smiled over at Piccolo, and then laughed as he saw the look on the Namekian's face.

"You really don't like people, do you?" he asked, throwing a chip at his head. Piccolo caught in his mouth and grinned, bearing his fangs.

"Not really. And you know I don't eat, so stop throwing food at me." He said, spitting the chip out onto a wrapper and taking a gulp of water. Gohan pouted, and crossed his arms.

"So, aren't you meant to be at work?" he asked, looking puzzled. Piccolo shook his head. "The boss's son has gone missing. We've been commissioned to find him. His name is Trunks Briefs. Have you heard about him?" Shaking his head, Gohan rested a hand on his chin.

"Nope. But Goten might have heard something. I'll give him a call later. He seems to make friends with strange people, with even stranger connections." Piccolo nodded, satisfied and moved to sit next to Gohan, slinging an arm over his shoulder.

"Now, tell me what's going on. What's happening with you and Videl?" he asked, looking down at him. Gohan gave him a sad look, before standing and tugging on his arm.

"I don't want to talk about it here." He said, leading Piccolo out of the fast food restaurant and down towards a park. He sat down, and put his head in his hands, leaning against a tree. Piccolo sat next to him, and sighed. Gohan should really dump her, but he always went back. All for the sake of his mother.

"I thought I was really happy, you know? That was until she kicked me out the first time. She said she needed some time alone. I could respect that. I mean, my mother's hard enough to deal with as it is. But…when I came back……I saw another man leaving. When I confronted her about it, she accused ME of cheating." Gohan felt the tears start to flow from his eyes and he hugged his knees, sniffling. As much as he wanted to touch him, Piccolo left him alone. Gohan needed to get this out of his system.

"I told her I didn't. And she said she believed me. But I didn't believe her. And then….she did it again. And again. And I just kept on going back. My mother was so happy, and I didn't want to shatter her happy little wonderland bubble. I just wish I had sooner. I've left her you know. Videl, not my mother. Although sometimes I wish she would go away too. It's just so hard to forget how betrayed I felt and how much…it…hurt." He started crying in earnest. And Piccolo gave in to what he was feeling and drew him into a hug, rubbing his back as the smaller man clung to his shirt and created a large wet patch with his tears. Gohan eventually calmed down and just lay there, not wanting to move. Piccolo held him loosely, giving him space to back away if he needed to. But he didn't, and they sat there for a long time, holding each other into the night.

((Awwwwww….I cant believe I just wrote that…..))

Phoenix sniggered when he saw a waterlogged Trunks walk out, his clothes very much in disarray.

"What have you been doing in there? Having sex?" he asked, laughing when he saw the lavender haired teen go bright red. Goten came out a few seconds later minus a bat shit covered shirt and phoenix collapsed, holding his ribs, laughing madly. Trunks turned and saw Goten, blushed bright red and ran out of the room, into the kitchen, where Scy was currently residing. He hid behind the other man and gripped the back of his shirt. "Phoenix is making fun of me," he whimpered, and Scy patted him on the head before grabbing a frying pan.
Trunks listened with satisfaction as a loud clang was heard. He started to laugh as Scy came back with the frying pan, a head sized dent in the middle of it.
Scy laughed as well, but as he looked at the frying pan, his smile fell.

"We've got one like this at home. Ray hit me in the head with it when I said that he looked good in a skirt. We've got it up on the wall, as a reminder to me not to mention skirts to him ever again." He sat down heavily as Trunks walked over to him and hugged him.

"We're going to get him back you know. So don't worry." He said taking the frying pan from Scy and throwing it at the couch, hearing it hit with a satisfying thunk.

Ray sighed and looked up at the ceiling. There was no way out of this place. The bed was bolted to the wall, there were no windows and the only air vent was too small for him to crawl through. It seemed that he was effectively thwarted. Only…..there was that weird scratching noise. A crack appeared in the floor as the concrete seemed to dissolve, and a head poked through.

"uhmmm…this wouldn't happen to be Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, would it?" Ray just shook his head mutely as the head went back down under, and furious whispers could he heard. "See Ron! I told you we should have taken a left at Mongolia!"

"Shut UP Hermione! How was I to know that that mountain range was there?"

"Ask for directions!" the female voice said, and a different head popped up this time. It was a boy with broken glasses and scraggly black hair. "Uh…..which was is it to Britain?" he asked. Ray pointed wordlessly to the North West, and the head popped back under and the scratching sound resumed. Ray eyed the hole in his floor for a moment before grinning. What did he have to loose? "I'm getting out of here, and then throttling Scy. Right after molesting him." He said, softly, and jumped down the hole.

TBC……………………

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My brain is a scary place. Alright then Rae it's your turn. And forgive the harry potter reference…I couldn't help it. Those idiots have been invading my brain for the last week (whines) I might as well get another yugioh fic while I'm at this writing phase, so I'm off. (Tags Rae)...oh and I do not own Harry Potter. (sweatdrop)

r+r will ya?