It only took Touya a few days to have the alphabet memorized frontwards and backwards, and so Yusuke started showing him vowels and consonants, letter blends, and began showing him to form simple words. This took Touya longer to get, but only because there was more to learn, and it wasn't just rote memorization. Yusuke found it kind of creepy how quickly and eagerly Touya learned all he was taught. ((LOL toy-chan is smart!))

"If you keep going at this pace, then in a couple months you'll have to go to the high school 'cuz I won't know anymore to teach." Yusuke once said jokingly.

Touya grinned. "Are you saying I'm smart or you're not?" He had gotten used to joking back and forth with Yusuke, though with anyone else, he would have remained silent.

Yusuke knocked him on the head playfully. "I think both." Touya laughed, before returning to the small book he had. Although it wasn't precisely a children's book, it certainly wasn't U Tale of Two Cities U either. It was probably on a third grade reading level, so at least it did have something of a plot. ((For those of you in England and other places where you have forms or w/e, not grades, I'm not sure what level 3rd grade is, but roughly a book for a nine-ten year old, like something by Judy Blume maybe.)) Touya had found the other books incredibly frustrating. 'See spot run' is not exactly an intriguing novel, after all. He had been reading it out loud so Yusuke could figure out if they needed to work on anything else in particular.

Except for starting to work more on grammar, there wasn't much else Touya needed. Somehow, he had acquired an excellent vocabulary, and Yusuke had once joked that it must have been before he met Jin. Touya had tensed and remained silent a moment, before mumbling, yes, it was.

"Katari and Reika began to. what's this word again?" Touya asked, pointing to the word in question.

Yusuke stepped over and sat next to Touya on the bed, looking at the page. "Quarrel."

Touya continued, and after a while, Yusuke dropped off, leaning against Touya's shoulder. Touya looked at him, not sure whether to glare for Yusuke having fallen asleep, or grin for Yusuke's body gently leaning against his. In the end he sighed and slowly relaxed, also sleeping.

He woke to a hand carefully brushing his bangs away from his face. Yusuke blushed. "You were acting like they were tickling you in your sleep, so I figured."

"Thanks." Touya grinned. He got up, "I want to go practice on the guitar." Yusuke smiled and followed as Touya lead the way to the garage. He had learned how to hook up his guitar to the appropriate electrical equipment, though he still had no idea how any of it worked. Yusuke set his own guitar up and they began practicing.