Title: Sunny & Gloomy
Author: Darla - La mosca Tete
Category: AU, Romance, Shounen Ai.
Summary: Takuya works in a library, "boring" says Kouji... but Takuya will change his perception of many things...
Notes: Err... Hi? I bet you thought I wasn't going to continue with this. I know I said that I was going to do this translation thing as fast as I could, but if only you knew... XD
Actually is a good thing that you don't know for how long I've neglected my other fics, but just to give you and idea S&G is one I wrote incredibly fast: just took me about a year and a half.
This wasn't what I wanted to write for notes... but since I can't remember what it was, I guess that's all.

PART 13: THE HORRORS

KOUJI

"What? I mean it!!" and for the rest of the night he tried to convince me, but I never did believed him.

The next Monday though, I found out that my brother was telling the truth for once. Takuya really had come to my house and spend all day with my brother, why? I don't know, I wasn't in the mood to talk to either for a while. And do you want to know what the worst part is? When he said his usual greeting he called me "Koichi" grrr.

I was furious, do not say that you wouldn't be if after just one day with someone who looks like another person you forget the other's name, it doesn't matter how similar we look, my brother and I are very different! Takuya is damn lucky that I like him, besides he told me that the reason he came to my house was because he missed me, otherwise I wouldn't have forgiven him so easily. But my brother is a completely different history. I ended up ignoring him for the next two weeks and almost the whole month of vacations that we spent in my grandparents' house.

That's right, I just had a couple of weeks to be with idiot-Takuya-who-kept-saying-the-wrong-name (and that's why I kept getting mad at my brother) before I went away for a month-long vacation. It's just a family custom. Our parents send us away to spend a time with our grandparents (but they never come along) and it's really... not so bad. My grandparents live in this huge house in the coutry, surrounded by trees and domestic animals. They have a lot of dogs and horses, since they are my grandfather and my father's favorite animals; they also have different races of felines, because my grandmother loves them and also they are my favorite animals, therefore, Koichi hates them; but what the place is really plagued with is bugs, my brother's favorite and a specie I never learned to tolerate, specially if they have stings.

No really, I had a great time there. My grandmother gave me this really cool Siamese cat which had one green eye and the other one blue (the weirder the better, because it scares Koichi even more). I also finished reading the book that Takuya gave me and another 3, which I think is a great deal, although it' not much compared with Koichi, who read 7 of the recommendations that Takuya gave us. I haven't told you about that? Or did I? That one day Koichi showed up at the library and told my divine that he had loved the book he gave me and the other one got very excited when he heard that, that the next day he sent me home with 10 more books for my brother (Takuya can be too obsessed when it's about his precious books) and started to ask me everyday if Koichi had finished one of them and what had he thought of them. He also asked me about how much of 'Selected Books' I had read although I just could read one chapter a day, Takuya was glad to know about it and asked me how I liked it so far? So all that went to the point I got curious enough to read some of those books during vacations, I made sure to read those that Koichi hadn't read yet so I could talk first about them with Takuya... who's jealous? me? Oh that! Of course I am! I've never tried to hide it. It bothered me to know that they had something in common and I felt left out. It bothered me even more that because of that they spend a lot of time together, although not as much as Takuya and I in the library, but that was different... they got together because they wanted to share their pastime, not because they were forced to stay together doing this work/service. All I could do was try to follow his conversations and messages, for wich the used me as the carrier, in order to know as much as I could on the matter and I came up with some brilliants conclusions. Those were:

1. There's nothing better to Takuya than having a good book to read.

2. He's always anxious to know what other people think of his favorites books.

3. He's crazy.

4. I love his crazy self, and finally

5. If I want to gain all of his attention I must get used to wear glasses.

Ok, so everything went around his favorite hobby, even during my vacations I didn't touch my computer (my favorite pastime). Besides a book reminded me of him, so that's why I ended up reading 4 books during my vacations, I remember back then I was really embarrassed for that. I went and read just because someone I like, likes to do that. Quite obsessed, am I?

When Koichi and I came back to our home, each one with a pet (granpa gave to Koichi a very noisy cocker spaniel) and because of the dog, the first thing our parents told us was that we had to get rid of them instead of the more common "welcome" or "We missed you". Although they wouldn't have said that in any case. Koichi and I complained, insisted, wined and managed to convince them to let our pets remain in the backyard (almost got them inside the house). But that night that idiot dog Bella(1), name courtesy of my insane brother, spent all night howling and none could sleep. So I wasn't surprised when in the morning father told us we had to find her a new home. What did surprised and bothered me was that he said Siam could not stay either, "It wouldn't be fair." He said. "Besides your mother does not like cats." and that solves the mystery of why Koichi hates them so much, he got it from my mother. That could also be the reason why my parents never go to visit their parents... the cats live inside their house.

Whatever, the point is that we couldn't keep our pets and we were only given the rest of that day, which was Sunday, to look for someone who would want to adopt them or we would have to leave them in an alley. I didn't want to lose Siam nor give it to someone else (amazing how fast you can fall in love with furry animals when they are so cute), I suggested sending them back to our grandparents (at least that way we could come and visit them anytime) but my parents said no even faster. They made us swear that we wouldn't say a word about this to them and sent us out to look for potentials pets-owners. Nevertheless, one glance at Koichi was enough to know that he wasn't even considering losing Bella and I wasn't either, why couldn't we have pets if we wanted to?

Right after my parents went away to -who cares-, my brother told me his plan: talk with my grandfather, ask him to convinced our parents and then we could bring our pets back to the house, but so that them didn't find out that we had disobeyed them we had to give them to someone who could take care of them for a while. Can you guess who was my brother suggestion?

"You did say that he lives alone..."

"But... his house is too far away."

"So what? we can take the bus, is just a matter of asking him if he can take care of them, besides, I know you want to see him."

Koichi then dialed Takuya's number and gave me the auricular, then he ran with the excuse that he was going to look for his puppy's straps. I dreamed about strangling my brother with said strap for this, but forgot all about that as soon as I heard that wonderful voice "Hello"

"Takuya..."

"Kouji?" and he said the right name!

"Yeah."

"Hi Kouji! how are you?? did you come back from your vacations already? And Koichi? Did you had fun? The library wasn't the same without you, you know? everything is upside down around there..."

"Takuya!"

"Yeah?"

"I, umm, I... wanted to ask you a favor..."

"Sure, just tell me." He said laughing.

"you can say no if you don't want to, umm, could you take care of a dog and a cat for a while... or possibly until our parents let us keep them?"

"... err."

"You can't."

"No, that's not it, the dog is fine, is just the cat... I'm umm, allergic to the cat's hair" 'Great!! Just great! Why cat's hair'

"Ah... but you can take care of Bella?"

"Bella?"

"It is the dog's name, my brother chose it" I heard more laughing and my stomach did one weird flopping "so Koichi will go to your house, alright?"

"You won't come?"

"I can't, I have to find someone that can take care of my cat"

"That means you named the cat? "

"Yes"

"So what's it's name."

"Siam" he laughed again.

"Because it's Siamese, right?"

We talked- fine, he talked and I listened for a bit more, but very soon we had to hang up. When my brother came back I told him about Takuya's problem with cats, them he just picked up the phone and talked to someone. Actually he just said "Hi is me, I want you to do me a favor. Take care of my cat. Yeah. Yes. No. Perhaps. No. Yes. Bye!" then he hanged up and said that we were going to Izumi's house first.

At first I didn't know who he was talking about but when I saw him, I recognized him immediate. Koushiro Izumi, attends to the same school but he's coursing his last year and he's studying the same special course as me: computers. I had no idea that my brother knew him, so I was amazed to see that he greeted him as if they were best friends. He gave him my cat, told him that we were in a hurry and didn't even made a pause to introduce us. We took the bus that went to Takuya's district and in the whole way I kept complaining at him and asking why he hadn't introduced us, until I obviously drove him insane enough and had no other choice but to comply. Very calmly he told me that we had already met:

"my name is Kouji Minamoto, I am a Junior but I admire you so much..." he said copying my tone of voice, and exaggerating just a little bit.

"I can't believe it... you told him I was you? I mean, that you were me?"

"Hehe... he's cute, but his computers and his programs take all his time, he's definitively worse than you..."

"Cute? Cute as in, oh how cute, I'm going to make his life miserable? And let my bother take the blame AGAIN??"

"No, CUTE as in oh how cute, I think I might have a crush on him."

"WHAT?" and we had finally arrived to Takuya's house.

End of chapter 13

PART 14: CAT-PHILIC AND CAT-PHOBIC

TAKUYA

The next month in the library wasn't exactly boring, but at the same time I felt something was missing, rather somebody who went on vacations for 4 weeks. But even though I said that it hadn't been boring, that doesn't mean that I had enjoyed it. There was a feeling in the air and that was fear(2). The first week of the month, Monday to be exact, a girl showed up. She used to go to the library more often, but I hadn't seen her for while. I'm talking about Zoe Orimoto.

Zoe and I have a few classes together. She's blond, I think she's pretty, with green or maybe blue eyes and most of her clothing is pink. She came over and said "Hi Takuya!" (ignoring completely Jumpei's presence) before going into the boss' office. 15 minutes later two people came out of there. The lady in charge of the library asked me to look for the old man (our boss) and when we came back, Zoe and Jumpei were seated over one of the tables we used to sort the books. The old man's eyes shone when he saw the girl and she just smiled at him for a moment and told him that she was now part of the library team (gag).

And from that moment the real nightmare started.

Zoe asked me to tell her what was she going to do, and for the rest of the week she was one step behind me asking me the same questions over and over. I could handle that, I don't have much patience but I believe that not all people are able to understand what you say the first time. The second week she seemed to have learned and left me alone, that is, until the old man started following her around. Then she asked me if she could stay near me while we were in the library. And although I knew that she was exaggerating, I mean the old man is crazy but wouldn't hurt a fly, I accepted to be her "bodyguard" like she soon started to call me.

By the third week I was really full of her, first because she insisted to use a cart to carry the books around and I had to push it. The cart's wheels made a noise similar to a whine while moving and I am sure that it annoyed everyone in the building, but nobody said anything, and to make it worse, Jumpei got mad at me because all the attention I got from Zoe. In spite of that, I tried to keep doing what I usually did any other day: work; read at any free moment I had ignoring the humming-I mean, Zoe's voice- and the annoying glares from Jumpei. That didn't work.

In the fourth week I almost got fired because of some books that had disappeared, but it turned out that the Zoe just forgot to mark them as borrowed; Jumpei almost hit me when I made her cry because I told her that (that it was her fault I almost got fired); the lady and the old man looked at me disapprovingly because of that same incident and I almost cried in anger 'she makes everything wrong and now she's also the victim'. They didn't even apologized to me after they had accused me of stealing those books. That same night I called my uncle and asked him if I could go back to work in the other library, but he just told me to calm down and think about it "You said so yourself, it's more convenient for you to work there because is closer to your school" after that he repeated several times that I should be more patient and to give more time to the situation, he advised me to take a lot of deep breaths and hanged up saying that his cooking was burning.

But all the horrors and injustices that I suffered that week were compensated at the end with a call and a visit from Kouji. I was more than content when I talked to him over the phone, a bit sad because he said that he wouldn't come to my house. So I got very pleasant surprise when I saw him at my doorstep with his brother cradling Bella in his arms. Bella is the most pretty dog on the world: small, about 30 centimeters tall, with light brown hair all over her body, her long and hairy ears seemed to be a pair of tufts that fell on both sides of her face and her amber eyes shone with curiosity. I fell in love with her the minute I saw her. Koichi put the little creature in my arms, since she obviously preferred to be carried instead of walking. She put her furry legs on my shoulders and started to move her tail and I stared adoringly at her some more...

Ok, alright, the pretty pup didn't steal all my attention, she was only part of the best moments of my day, the other part sat on my couch watching me and Bella (so appropriate) with distrust. But he didn't catch my looking at him and after a while he just turned to Koichi and glared. 'uh?'

"So tell me Kouji, did you find someone to take care of your cat?"

"Yes." Answered Koichi smiling. Kouji's glance became more dangerous.

"That's great, uh... and... how was your vacations Koichi? Kouji said that you two went to visit your grandparents."

"That's right." Answered Kouji. 'why is that never answers the one I'm talking to? and then they don't want me to be confused...'

"Ah... and why did you brought pets like a souvenir?"

"They were a gift from our grandparents." Answered Kouji quickly. I waited for him to say more but after a long pause it was obvious that he wasn't going to elaborate.

So his twin took from there "But our parents didn't like them and told us to..." When he finished to tell me the complete history, it was obvious that both felt affection toward the little creatures and wanted to have them in their house as soon as possible, specially Kouji who apparently didn't trust the person with he had left his cat, Siam.

Why Siam could not stay with me? well... I told Kouji that I was allergic to cat's hair, but the truth is that I'm a bit afraid of them. The way their round eyes that seem to be on the lookout all the time, those claws that they use to catch rodents and birds, but specially that noise that they do when all they body shake, or the one that they do when asking for food, in my head "meow" is warning sound that I have avoided to hear since my uncle's old cat scratched my back and head the day we met. But that doesn't matter now, right? Forget that I even mentioned it and lets return to my day with the twins.

Kouji and Koichi stayed at my house until noon, that's when we got hungry and went to buy hamburgers and dog food, we ate at the park that is close to my house while they told me more about what they had done in the summer (can you believe that Kouji is a great fan of felines and Koichi loves bugs, and once again I ask myself, why do they have to be so weird?), and what books they read. I must say that I was surprised that Kouji had read so much, 3 books besides he finished the one I had given him. "He deserves a prize don't you think?" Koichi said smiling.

"Of course he deserves one." I answered thinking about what book I could give him. I turned to see Kouji because he had started to shake and he had a panic expression in his face.

"But what could it be?" I looked at Koichi for a moment, expecting to listen his suggestion, his smiled perversely "I got it! What if y-"

"HEEEEYYYY! Look at the time!!! Koichi we must go back to the house now before it's dark."

"But the sun is still up" answered Koichi and Kouji didn't say anymore, just glared at him. "Oh, you're right!! How could I forget about it! You have to be back at home early, but I think I am going to somewhere else first, tell mom I'll be late, see ya later!!!" he hadn't even finished speaking when he had started running. 'At least he was smart enough to get away from Kouji.'

"Umm... Takuya, I really have to go after him. Thank you very much for taking care of Bella and-" Kouji was saying while he slowly mover backward in the same direction his brother had gone.

"It's alright, I am sure Koichi is taking advantage of this seconds." I told him while I picked up Bella of the ground and held her in one arm and put the dog food in the other arm.

"See you tomorrow, then." He said and accelerated his walk until he was also running.

"Until tomorrow!!" I yelled and started to walk slowly towards my house, in opposite direction from where they had gone.

End of chapter 14

(1) Yeah... I'm still not sure that was the right feeling... but I couldn't find one that would explain exactly what Zoe made him feel.
(2)Bella means Beautiful in Spanish. Oh!! And that's my first language!! I'm from Sonora, in Mexico. Someone wanted to know, don't think that I'm just telling this to show off or something, but I really am proud of my heritage.

You already know this. Any misspelling, something that screams "HORRIBLE MISTAKE RIGHT HERE!!" or the most insignificant thing you noticed, please let me know. I really want to improve at this. Thanks to all of you who have told me what I did wrong in the past chapters (but can you believe I was about to make the same mistake when I wrote "Language" I had written it with "J" again but changed it at the last minute)