The time had struck midnight and the boat gave off a loud toot from its horn to signal it. People dressed in fancy outfits gathered from their rooms to the deck where the dance floor was dark and not well lit. Nothing was on and everyone circled around the wooden floor. Regardless to that, the moon and stars lit the place up nicely. Only the loud buzz of whispers and the gentle night waves that were beating against the ship could be heard. The captain of the ship took the floor and everything went quiet. He was nicely dressed in his white tux. His light red blush of excitement showed on his cheeks.
"The moment I'm sure all of you have been waiting for has arrived. Tonight is the night before we dock to Hong Kong and you all know what that means. It's time to dance." He shouted happily so that everyone gathered could hear. His words triggered the commotion to arise from the dead silence. A beautiful sonata burst from no where in the speakers that surrounded the area. A sailor flipped the light switch on and the entire deck floor lit up in all sorts of brilliant colors. The people were amazed at the lights and looked up. The first thing that the people saw was the disco globe that hung from the strings which connected to the four posts on the corners of the wooden dance floor. The lights shinned and made their colors flicker off of it and shine down upon the guests.
In an instant, the single diamond shard reflected on the lights and bounced its rays down upon the unknowing people whose eyes laid upon the globe. Everyone suddenly froze as if stunned. Oh, but they weren't stunned. Their eyelids dropped to the half way point of their eyes and their arms dropped next to their sides. Every able body stood mindlessly in place as if waiting for something. Or someone…
Leon looked up to the ceiling from his spot on the bed after hearing the music being played. Kazahaya had moved to lie next to where he sat so that Leon could pet his hair. His golden eyes darted down upon the boy curled up next to him. "Would you like to dance to take your mind off of things?"
Kazahaya shot a glance up to him. He had calmed down after a while and was no longer crying. But he wasn't smiling either. He just gave off a nod and sat up. "Sure."
"Then grab something nice to wear and we'll be on our way." Leon said and stood from his bed to walk over to his drawer. He didn't hear Kazahaya get up with him. In fact, he didn't hear him do anything at all. He looked over behind his shoulder and saw Kazahaya blushing faintly. "What's wrong?"
"I don't have anything 'nice'." He spat, almost embarrassed to say it.
"Don't worry. I have an extra one and I'll bet it'll fit you." A small smile crawled on his lips as he spoke. He dug deeper through his drawer and found a white tuxedo, finding his black one as well. "Here you are." He said and tossed the ivory one to him. "It'll look beautiful on you."
Those words made Kazahaya's cheeks flush darker. He had never heard anyone say such nice things about him. Sure he had heard some, but those were only to tease him about something. He shook the blush from his cheeks then headed to the bathroom to change into the lovely white tux that was given to him for this special occasion. He actually glad that he was wearing 'manly' clothes instead of a dress like he always would.
The two of them got into their fine clothes and started up toward the deck. As they got to the dance floor, Leon shielded Kazahaya's eyes from everything and guided him to the center of the stage.
"Don't peek." He said in an almost surprised tone. He didn't want Kazahaya to be like the other humans aboard. Tonight, he wanted him Kazahaya.
A grin replaced the frown on Kazahaya's lips. His excitement grew rapidly as they got closer and closer to the stage. He felt Leon come to a stop, but his hand didn't move from his eyes.
"What's everyone waiting for?" Kazahaya heard Leon shout. "Grab a partner and dance!" and after that, he lifted his hand from his eyes, allowing him to look. But, he kept Kazahaya's eyes on him so he wouldn't look up at the mesmerizing globe that possessed people when they looked at it. He moved back into the starting position that they had began with on the night they first danced then with one step, they began. Being in the center gave them an advantage, making the spotlight be on them.
Kazahaya's feet followed the dominant movements of Leon's. He kept his teal eyes locked onto his dance partner's golden once. Only once did they wander off and that was to see if Rikuo was there. Of course, he wasn't. He didn't seem like a dancing person anyway. He sighed deeply then continued to follow the beat of the sonata being played.
Back in his room, Rikuo laid sprawled out in the middle of the bed. He had been there for countless hours, lying in the same position. He was staring at his hand where the teardrop had been. It was dried now and was no longer there. "Could I really have of hurt you?" he asked himself aloud. His voice broke the silence that he had sat in for hours. He heard the music above him then stood up. He was going to apologize to Kazahaya for whatever he did and things would be back to normal. Hopefully…
As he rounded the corner to the floor, he noticed something strange. Everyone was dancing. Not one person was sitting out or eating. And they were all dancing in the same way. Nobody had a different dance and they swayed around the circular edge of the floor. In the core of it all, he saw Kazahaya and Leon dancing. His Kazahaya was dancing with Leon. This gave his anger quite the boost it needed to summon up the courage to stand up and walk over to them. But then he remembered something. When he went on deck to cool some steam off earlier, he saw Leon placing something in the disco ball. Could that of been the diamond? If it was, Kazahaya was probably possessed! He knew only one way to get that ball to come crashing down without him looking at it. His forest green eyes focused on one of the four poles that held it up. It easily snapped into two and came tumbling down to the dance floor along with the globe. The shard of the diamond broke with it and shattered into more than a million pieces. The pole landed and crushed almost twenty of the dancing guests. The rest were free again without strings to control them. Leon wasn't very happy with this.
"Kazahaya!" Rikuo shouted and ran up to them at full speed. "Are you all right? You're not still possessed, are you?" he asked as soon as he pulled Kazahaya from Leon's grip.
For some reason or another, Kazahaya was mad for pulling him from Leon. He jerked his hand back to his side and walked back over to his dance partner, never once looking up at Rikuo. "I never was possessed. I did this on my own accord."
"What…?" he was surprised that Kazahaya wasn't forced to dance with him. Instead, he did it because he wanted to. Rikuo shook his head in disbelief, not wanting to accept the fact that Kazahaya wanted to be with someone like Leon and not himself. "Look at him, Kazahaya! He's a monster! Don't you see that?"
"Leave us!" Leon growled angrily. He threw his fist forward and landed a punch square in the middle of Rikuo's face. It knocked the psychic back onto the table with the food on it. The second he tried to get up from the table, Leon was there to stop him. He wrapped his fingers tightly around his neck and forced his head back against the plastic tabletop. "Kazahaya doesn't want you back, you got that?"
"That's a lie!" his anger level was beyond its limit. Rikuo jammed his knee into Leon's rib cage and forced him off of him. "You seduced him!"
"I did no such thing!" Leon was just as angry as Rikuo and showed it with his fists. He quickly recoiled to the kick and landed one of his own to his rival's side. It sent him countless feet back to the tip of the ship. The metal pole was the only thing that stopped Rikuo from falling over into a watery grave.
"Ugh…" Rikuo groaned. His body didn't want to give up and attempted to get back onto his feet. But he found himself in the same position he was back on the table. With Leon's fingers around his neck and his head barely tipped over the rail. Nothing but a vast open space was between him and his seventy-five foot drop to the water.
"Do you want to know a secret?" he asked with a mocking grin curved upon his lips. A small bit of blood had slipped from his lips and crawled down the corner of his mouth. He arched over so that his face was next to Rikuo's ear. "Your little Kazahaya is nothing but a play toy to me. He'll slut around as long as I give him what he wants…but that's not all…" he whispered one more thing to him before pulling back.
Leon's words seemed to bring out his inner furry and let it loose. Rikuo quickly reached up and gripped his neck hard, almost as if he wanted to squeeze his head right off of his shoulders. One foot moved to trip Leon's feet out from underneath him while the other went for his stomach. As soon as Leon was knocked from his balance, Rikuo used the foot on his stomach to flip him over him and send him flying over the ship. A loud and terrified scream was heard before the loud roar from the waves contacting with skin.
Rikuo stood back up, clenching his fists tightly into balls. He looked over to Kazahaya who stood in front of the stunned passengers. He was just as frightened as everyone else. The rage in Rikuo's eyes sent chills down his spine. But he noticed something else. His bottom lip was quivering like he was about to cry. He knew that something was going through his head.
Before Leon had fallen to his grave, he whispered something to Rikuo. Every time you kiss that boy, you'll taste me on his lips…