Ha! This one is all highly suspenseful, and just to get fans going -OMG UPDATE!- I'm going to leave it all cliffy for a while! ((and then someone will threaten me with a raven spork and say 'update or DIE!" and I shall cringe and update with haste!))


Yusuke answered the door, and gave some money to the pizza deliveryman. "Pizza's here!" he called out, taking the very hot boxes from the deliveryman, and heading for the kitchen with them. Touya was there almost instantly; soon joined by Hiei. Touya began pulling out the plates and then took his share.

"Thank you, Yusuke!" Touya grinned, taking three slices. Hiei turned up his nose, noting once again how drastically Touya had changed from the cold, almost emotionless youkai they'd defeated at the Dark Tournament.

Yusuke grinned, "You came up with the band name, I should thank you!" Touya smiled around a mouthful of pizza.

Hiei shuddered. "I'll go eat alone. I trust you don't need a chaperone?" He ducked out before Yusuke beat him to death, taking some pizza with him- better than Yusuke's cooking, though that didn't say much.

Yusuke scowled at Hiei's receding figure before pulling out his own pizza. ((GAHH! What about his diet? LOL)) He then proceeded to get out a bottle of his mother's sake. Touya stared at the bottle a moment before swallowing his current bite of pizza and asking, "You drink?"

Yusuke glanced at him, "Yeah, sometimes, want some?"

Touya slowly said, "No." He sounded almost.. Afraid.

"You sure? We got plenty. And you, unlike me, are likely to be of age!" Yusuke laughed.

"That's fine." Touya finished the rest of his pizza with an uncomfortable silence, much like he was right after they'd found him after the Dark Tournament. He kept a careful eye on Yusuke during that time, relieved that Yusuke had only one drink, and did not appear to be drunk: at least not substantially. Bad things happened too often Touya when people he knew got drunk. He left quietly, retreating to their shared room.

When Yusuke finally went back, after having been watching T.V. for a few hours, Touya was asleep. "He is beautiful." Yusuke muttered, wondering again, as had been increasingly more over the past six months, if maybe he was off the straight after all.

He decided to find out. He knelt down beside Touya, gently letting his lips fall to Touya's. While he closed his eyes, Touya's fluttered open, and then Yusuke felt Touya shrinking from him. "No. You're drunk. Just like he was. Don't do this, Yusuke. Please don't," he whispered, tears gathering at the corner of his crystalline blue eyes.