2. Aya's Tea

The sky was dark, but Yuki Sohma was far from asleep. He wandered downstairs after finally completing the mound of weekend homework he was given. Rubbing his eyes as he entered the kitchen and saw a blurry light haired figure sitting at the table. He blinked a few times, and found himself looking at his older brother.

"What are you doing here, Ayame?" He questioned with his eyes narrowed.

"Well, I came to visit Gure-san! But he seems to be sleeping." Aya explained with a smile. "I was going to go wake him, but decided to help myself to some refreshment first! Do you want some tea Yuki?"

Yuki sat down across the table from his brother, still baring a very displeased look on his face.

"What did you do to it?" he asked looking at the glass of liquid Ayame had placed before him.

"What makes you think I did anything to it!" Ayame pouted.

"Fine, fine. I'll drink it if you leave me alone." Yuki said and sipped on the tea that was offered to him. "This tastes odd, what did you do to it?"

"Yuki, I'm hurt! Why would I do anything to perfectly good tea?" Ayame pouted again. "You like it though, don't you?"

Yuki took another sip of the tea.

"Yes." he said.

"Good! Good! Then when you're done with that you can have another one!" The snakes eyes brightened with his smile.

After his first glass of tea, Yuki began to feel very much relaxed, and he graciously accepted another. This one he drank less hesitantly, and afterwards he accepted yet another glass of it. After three or fore more glasses of Ayame's tea his cheeks were beginning to flush with color and his speech began to slow.

"Seriously, Aya," Yuki said leaning over the table and stumbling over his words, "I really don't think you're all that bad. You're just..." he paused for a moment, "really annoying all the time- and what is this stuff, it's really good." Yuki sat back up and looked at Ayame through his half empty glass.

"Its tea." Ayame said pleasantly as he refilled Yuki's glass.

An angry Kyo entered the kitchen and glared at Yuki. "What the hell are you doing! I can hear you all the way upstairs you damn rat!"

Yuki leaned backwards to look at his cousin, and ended up laying on his back. He laughed as he looked at the red head towering over him.

"You look weird from this angle" he said, laughing so that the glass he had resting on his chest almost spilled.

"What are you, drunk or something?" Kyo raised an eyebrow at the very relaxed Yuki laying on the floor.

"Can't be, it's just tea." Yuki slurred.

Kyo glared at Ayame. "What the hell did you do?"

"What? Its tea!" Ayame said taking a sip from his own glass, "With some Sake mixed in it." He glanced at Yuki, but the boy hadn't heard a word of anything Ayame had said.

Kyo's eyebrows came together and he quietly left the kitchen with a small amount of worry for the sanity of the house he lived in.

Yuki sat up and thumped his glass onto the table. For another hour or so, Yuki continued to drink, and Ayame continued to fill his glass. Yuki leaned over the table again and narrowed his eyes at his brother

"You," he said, "would make a very cute girl."

"Oh, Yuki please!" Ayame batted his eyes. "You'll make me blush- Gure-San! You're awake!"

"Aya?" a tired looking Shigure entered the kitchen. "What are y- Whats with Yuki?"

Yuki had leaned back again to look at Shigure the same way he had with Kyo. His gray hair was a mess and his purple eyes were looking a bit glazed.

"You look weird from this angle too." he snickered.

"Aya, is Yuki drunk?" Shigure inquired.

"I should think so." Ayame said leaning over the table to look at his younger brother. "I've lost count on how many he's had now."

"What is he drinking?"

"Green tea mixed with Sake." Ayame smiled. "Want to try some?"

"Sure!" Shigure said with a bright smile. He sampled the drink from the glass that Ayame placed before him. "Its not that bad."

"Well, my dear Yuki seems to like it." He said as Yuki sat back up at the table. "Oh, it looks like we need more tea." Ayame stood up and crossed the kitchen with Sigure following him.

"Lets go for strait sake," Shigure said, "Yuki's too drunk to know the difference now."

Ayame glanced at his little brother. "So he is." he said with a smile and brought a bottle of sake back to the table.

"Here we are!" Ayame filled Yuki's half empty glass with sake and watched as it mixed with the tea that was still in his cup. "Now drink Yuki!"

The rat brought the glass to his lips. Shigure and Ayame looked at each other and began to chant together.

"Chug it! Chug it! Chug it!"

Yuki tilted his head back and drained the last drop of liquid from his glass and thumped it onto the table. He swayed back and forth for a moment, his eyes half closed, then quickly put his head down on the table. His face hidden in the crook of his elbow.

"Yuki? Whats wrong?" Ayame asked in his usual bubbly voice.

"I feel sick..." Yuki said, his voice muffled.

Shigure and Ayame looked at each other again and scooted away from the table. Ayame leaned in a bit, though their was still several feet between him and his younger brother.

"If you're going to throw up, do it in the sink."

Yuki peeked around his arm to look at Ayame, who was pointing quite clearly in the direction of the kitchen sink.

Yuki pushed himself off the table and crawled across the kitchen floor to where he finally pulled himself up to the sink.

Ayame spazzed when Yuki vomited and jumped into Shigure's lap.

"Do you think Yuki-kun will kill me tomorrow?"

"If you're lucky he'll be hungover and not remember anything." Shigure smiled, but his face fell as he watched Yuki vomiting in the sink, "Oh... thats the clean side of the sink..."

Yuki woke the next morning to the sun shining on his face. He sat up and cradled his head in his hands.

"Oh, he's awake! Good morning Yuki!" Ayame said as he entered Yuki's bedroom.

"Nng, not so loud." Yuki waved a hand at Ayame and retreated back under his covers.

"Uh, Yuki... Do you remember anything about last night?" Ayame questioned timidly.

"Just pieces." Yuki said from beneath the covers, "You were their... and something about tea..."

"Oh, well-"

"I'm not stupid Ayame." Yuki said as forcefully as he could in his current condition. "This is your fault isn't it?"

"Well, I thought you might feel that way." Ayame said cheerfully as he pulled his reluctant younger brother out of bed. "So I had Tohru make you a special breakfast!"

"Breakfast?" Yuki moaned, for he was not at all hungry

Ayame pulled Yuki into the kitchen and smiled widely.

"Look! I had Tohru prepare for you the best breakfast one could ask for! Bacon, eggs, and sausage! Oh the sausage looks good. Soooo greasy and delicious!"

Yuki pinched his nose and gagged silently, trying not to think about food.

"I'm going back to bed." he said and stalked out of the kitchen.

"Whats wrong with Sohma-kun?" Tohru asked, tilting her head to the side.

"He's just hungover, don't worry about it." Shigure said from the table and helping himself to Yuki's breakfast. "Mm, this sausage is wonderful Tohru-kun!"

Fin

Yay, I finished another one! I had fun writing this one. Don't ask me why, but I thought I'd be funny if Yuki got drunk-;

Please R&R