A/N: One year later…


-Why?-

12 – You're Deviant

By Euphrosyne


Bryan didn't recognize the girl but pointed her towards the grand staircase anyways. The girl was too neat, too formal, too corporate to be one of their regular mates.

"Let's go, Bryan. I think we've stayed long enough to make an impression, respect for our buddies. Hil and Mari are waiting for us at their barbeque…man, this place is sickening." The neko-jin nudged his schoolmate to leave. "Hiwatari's going to kill him when he sees what his house has been reduced to."

The burly boy nodded at his friend, dropping his pursuit for the girl's identity. Both he and Ray disappeared out the back door.


She straightened her hair and smoothed out her cashmere cardigan. Propping those reading glasses on her forehead and clenching the pendent around her neck, Rye blushed excitedly. Finally, after 364 days of training, the scholar was permitted one day of freedom.

Rye placed a hand on the knob, seconds away from knocking…

Furious pulses electrified through her body as she made contact with the handle. The girl furrowed her brows. Something wasn't right. She couldn't pinpoint what it was, but she didn't understand.

"Tala! Oh, bad Tala! I told you, no! It's not fair, you're playing favorites!" More silly laughter. There was shuffling of sheets; felicite moaning.

She felt…she felt...bad, a tearing past the skin. Her vision cleared, the veil was lifted from her eyes. Immediately her senses activated; the fermenting stench, the pierce against connoisseurship, the teeming teens…

Rye took a step back, body jolting as the door down the hall slammed open.

Dripping wet with nothing more than a towel around his body, Kai threw some girl against the carpeted hall. "What the hell is wrong with you!" His eyes widened with revolt as he registered the state of his house.

Tightening his towel, the boy stalked towards the stairs, ready to bring closure on the atrocious party.

The captain stopped, he saw her, he saw the necklace. On impulse, he wheeled towards her direction but the girl signaled for halt. Shaking her head, she brought a finger to her lips issuing silence. Mahogany met mahogany. Slowly pulling the chain over her head, Rye suspended it on the knob. The ring seemed to mould into its new home, its luster diminishing to that of a common household item.

A hand snaked around his chest, shifting his attention back on the manic sophomore.

By the time Kai resumed his focus, his sister's savior was gone.


Pounding on the door; the sole proprietor rammed it open.

"What is it Kai? Permission? Privacy? Jeez, you rob me of both." The females boggled over the blue-haired boy's unclad form.

"I was actually aiming for the third p, pride." He dangled the necklace in midair.

"Kai, I'm sorry. How many times do you want me to apologize-?"

"This one's yours dumbass! Get on your feet, runt. She left! She heard everything-!"

She? Wait, did he mean…she, she was…?

Battling down the stairs, Tala jumped past the whistling catcalls. Unerringly, the door opened before him, Sasha and her nanny gracing the facilities.

Smiling, the girl wrapped her arms around the redhead's waist, not seeming to register the boy to be only in his boxers. The child handed the captain one of her freshly picked flowers.

"No, Sasha, not now-" The captain pried the girl away from him, running onto the empty driveway in his bare feet. Distress; Tala ran a hand through his unruly hair.

Gasping at the house's condition, Kai reassured the senior of Tala's generous clean-up compromise. Sasha stood with her hands on her hips, questioning her brother's attire, or better yet, lack of.

"What, Sasha? The pretty lady with Rye gave you those lilies-?"

The boy grabbed the girl roughly by the shoulders and shook her. "You saw Rye? Where did she go? Which way did she leave? Did she leave a message-!" Sasha broke into turbulent tears at the teen's forceful tone.

"Stop Tala! You're scaring her!" The blue-haired boy coxed his sister back to homeostasis, smiling and teasing the girl to mimic him. Rubbing her face on the towel around Kai's waist, she hugged her brother.

"Well? What did she say?"

The teen exhaled. "Rye complimented her dress and what a beautiful young lady she's grown to be…"

"What else? Did she leave a message for me-?"

Sasha tugged on Kai's hand and nodded for him to continue.

"Yeah, yes she did-"

"What? Say it already-!"

"Tala…she…she wanted to know why?..."


And the title makes sense! Special little nod to cassyw who 'came up' with the idea (rolls eyes).

(The title's quite philosophical for moral scrutiny pertain to this story too, but neah, here's the revelation that ties the fic together, lol)

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