Chapter 2:

Half Time

It was almost half time on the 28th of November at 5:46 p.m.

Tohru had gone to bed, Kyou was up on the roof, and Shigure was in the living room reading his newspaper while Yuki was watching the Baltimore vs. New England Turkey Bowl game.

So far, the score was 0 to 3 with New England in the lead and Yuki seemed absorbed.

"Oh, come now Yun-kun, how can you watch such garbage of people who actually enjoy getting hurt for a living?" Shigure asked sarcastically, not really caring what Yuki watched but decided to pick a fight about it anyway.

"Actually, its quite…interesting…" Yuki paused for a moment, trying to take in what just happened in the game since he never understood the rules of any game unless explained to him.

"Ne, Shigure? What's this…'field goal'…the announcers speak of that Baltimore just received?"

"How should I know how to play some dumb violent game that I wouldn't even dream of playing even if you got a boat-load of hookers to cheer for me while I was doing it…" Shigure rambled on and on about not caring even if it would win him a life time supply of money that he wouldn't even need anyway since he was a "world famous" author that got him a salary of $2000 per book, but we don't really care about that so onto the story.

"Wait a minute… Oh my friggin' Kami-sama! Whatever that 'field goal' was…it won us 3 points! We're tied Shigure, we're tied!"

Yuki jumped up, grabbed Shigure around the neck and shook him violently.

Shigure started to turn blue and then, a thought struck his mind…Yuki was trying to kill him. Plain and simple.

As a kind of instinctive reflex, Shigure started to slap Yuki across the face, rather hard mind you.

Yuki snapped out of it automatically after the first slap. "Um…slap Shigure?" Shigure kept right on slapping him. "What do…slap You think…slap your doing?" Yuki caught Shigure's arm in mid slap.

"Oh, um…oops" Shigure grabbed his arm back. "Gomen' ne, Yun-kun."

"Would you stop treating me like my onii-san? Its bad enough that I have to put up with him whenever he's around. I don't need it to rub off on you…of all people!" Yuki snapped coldly.

"How so Yun-kun?" Shigure asked innocently.

"How so YUN-KUN?" Yuki mimicked, adding emphasis on 'Yun-kun'

Shigure gave Yuki a quick glance. "…SHUT UP!" he yelled stupidly, since the conversation had already ended and he didn't need to comment on what's no longer existent.

"And how can you watch that dumb game anyway? We live in Japan!"

Authoress note: Hey everyone, sorry for the long wait. My computer caught a virus and we had to go get it fixed. Sorry again for this chapter being so short, but the next one will be longer, it's three pages of draft notebook paper already and still going. I hope you enjoyed the story so far and look forward to chapter 3: Shin'ne! YMCA!