I am so sorry for the delay! But here's the chapter and the others are written, I promise, just not here yet! I'll update soon! Without further ado, Chapter two! Thank you loyal reviewers!
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Chapter 2: How Does It Feel?

By seven o'clock everyone was in the living room, eating appetizers from the buffet, and sipping champagne and wine from crystal glasses, talking with one another about a "new direction", which was absurd, Ren thought to himself. Oversoul's direction was perfect the way it was. Faust sat on a black leather couch, swirling red wine in his glass and speaking with two men in suits from the record company. Being good at talking business, the bassist was convincing the men that Oversoul's new album was to be their best, while still not giving them specifics. As this was all very chiqué, the roadies decided to sit in a corner with their beer cans, loudly making jokes with Horohoro, who kept giving Tao Ren cool glares. Ren walked away from the clutter of the room, out down the hall to look in the mirror to see if his hair was alright.

The singer passed a room with the door slightly ajar, only to hear Manta whisper, "It was torture being away from you, I couldn't concentrate on anything." Red stopped walking and looked back at the door. He crept back over to listen in. Just then, the guitarist within replied, "It hasn't been easy without you around either. What good is knowing your muse when you can never see him? But that's my fault, I should've called more."

Peeking through the crack between the door and the trim on the wall, Ren saw Yoh and Manta sitting on a low-backed love seat, their backs to the door. Manta's arm hung across the couch back, near Yoh's shoulders. They sat close together, closer than most friends would, but they both looked inexplicably happy. Content. Ren frowned. How did that work? He had more materially than both the two men put together and still wasn't satisfied.

"I got you something," Manta said gleefully, handing Yoh a small box. Ren strained to see. Yoh's face brightened up as he opened the box, repeating all the usual "Oh it's so beautiful" and "You shouldn't have" jazz. Everyone knew that was just common courtesy, but Ren was surprised when Yoh added, "I'm happy just being with you, Manta."

Ren's interest peeked. Just being together? Manta chuckled, "I know, Yoh, but I just want to get you stuff sometimes. I love you, you know." The two "friends" (which was now horridly disproved) began kissing and Ren, feeling rather awkward watching, leaned back, and wondered what he had missed so long.

Of course, Ren thought, it was love. That physical contact of love. "All you need is love" and so on, after all. Love could make him feel content, and he needed some contentedness before he took a power drill to his head. No wonder he had felt so horny and lonely for so long, he had needed love to soothe and fulfill him. But Ren didn't have time to look for his soul mate, so who would do? The roadies were rude and disgusting, Faust was too old, Mr. Takano was married, and Yoh was definitely "occupied"… That drummer… Even though it hurt to admit, Horohoro was cute, taller than Ren, sensitive, even if it was annoying to hear him bitch about the environment all the time, but he could be devilish and attractive, deep, passionate, and would be easy to seduce. Yes, why not Horohoro? He already made Ren's blood boil. Who better to know what a boy wants?

Ren nodded to himself. It was perfect. All he needed was for him and Horohoro to fall in lust (love is too time-consuming), and they would be set. Ren wouldn't feel so empty and needy and Horohoro wouldn't have to see Ren drag in more animal fur. The easiest part was that seducing was one of the first things Ren learned how to do when he came to Japan.

Manta and Yoh were getting progressively louder in their kissing, so Ren got up and rejoined the party in the living room, immediately grabbing a glass of wine. As the singer sat down on a couch, he began thinking, Of course, he was too proud to admit that he needed someone, so he had to be subtle, but obvious enough for Horohoro. Technically, his attitude should not change at all, but his mannerisms should. The gold eyes strayed from the deep red alcohol in his cup to the loudly laughing drummer.

Despite his good attributes, Horohoro was loud, impatient, reckless, and proud, along with wanting things his way. His laugh was obnoxious and nasally, and he had almost no sexual urges Ren had known about. Past that, Horohoro stood with the roadies, his firm stomach peeking out from the gap between his pants and his t-shirt, making him look good enough to eat… which was all Ren was going for, and he looked back into his glass of wine, smirking.

At that moment, Horohoro looked over at the cool, calm, Chinese singer in the high-collar frogged satin shirt, large roomy pants, and sweater-robe with fur around the collar and sleeve cuffs. The pompous, sulky Tao Ren, with his icy intolerant gold stare and arrogant attitude, as if the world owed him something for being alive, was everything Horohoro hater in humanity formed into one man. But something about Ren held the drummer momentarily captivated… and it made him feel uneasy.

The party ended and the help went about cleaning the dishes and rooms. Horohoro sat in his room on his bed to face the open door. Suddenly, as he flipped the page of his manga, a loud gurgle rumbled up from his gut. His stomach demanded food, despite the late hour illuminated on the digital clock nearby. Reluctantly, Horohoro got out of his comfortable position and made his way downstairs to raid the refrigerator.

Once he entered the kitchen, the spiky-haired drummer's mood sobered, and he saw the Chinese singer with one large spike in his hair sitting at the counter with a bowl of strawberries and whipped cream on the side. He was reading a paperback romance novel entitled Tales from Under Mr. Fuji. Soft porn, Horohoro thought to himself.

"What're you doing down in the kitchen? I thought you were going out," Horohoro said unemotionally as he walked over to the fridge. He opened the door to scan the shelves. Ren shrugged and muttered, "I was hungry," and turned the page. Despite his looking back over his shoulder to see that the singer was halfway through the book, he knew that there was nothing to eat in the fridge except a small plate of sushi and beer. Pulling both out, he kicked the door closed to conserve energy and sat down across from Ren, who was seemingly enthralled with the novel enough to not even look up.

He reached down into his bowl and drew out a plump red strawberry by its green top. Then, Ren dipped the pointed fruit down into the whipped sugary topping to give it a thick coating of white cream, and lifted the treat to his waiting lips. All this while, Horohoro couldn't help but stare, mouth slightly open as Ren's was now. The innocent act of eating strawberries and whipped cream was quickly becoming a lusty thought floating through Horohoro's mind, but Ren never batted an eyelash, and just kept reading, and ignored all else in the universe.

Ren's lips touched the very tip of the strawberry and Horohoro tensed. Ren's mouth glided up over the strawberry's surface, gathering white foam on his soft lips, and stopped his fingers held the stem of the fruit, and Horohoro could nearly feel through the strawberry the hot mouth that housed it. Agony and longing heated Horohoro's abdomen and legs, which quickly spread to his head. It was terrible as Ren began to suck. This wasn't a normal suck either. Ren let his whole mouth participate in the sucking, devouring, and ripping of the strawberry in a smooth liquid motion. The sucking could be heard. Suddenly, Ren pulled the stem back and placed it on a small pile on the counter, stripped bare of the fruit now slipping down the singer's rich throat. Last of all, the white cream on his lips was slowly and thoroughly licked off, and Ren turned a page.

The jaw of the drummer hung open as he watched Ren repeat the carnivorous and lusty feeding against to another poor, defenseless strawberry. The calloused palms which often held drumsticks began to moisten with sweat while he watched; feeling like a strange voyeur, aching to have Ren put a similarly tipped and white-covered object in his mouth. Why was the haughty ass-hole singer being so deathly arresting?

After the fourth berry had passed down Ren's throat, Ren looked up from his novel and dully asked, "Do you want one?" Horohoro gulped. What was Ren doing and why? The singer's soft fingers slid into the whipped cream, and he licked each millimeter of skin clean again. Completely gobsmacked sat Horohoro, stunned at the display of fruit smut, and quickly, the drummer's head nodded, not at all thinking about the fruit anymore, but only the warm, wet, now strawberry-flavored mouth.

Smiling, Ren stood from his seat, and moved slowly over to Horohoro. But he moved too slowly, because Horohoro began to remember Ren, Ren; the animal killing, red-meat eating, material-obsessed singer with an ego bigger than Kyoto. Without a second thought, Horohoro got up, grabbing his food with him, and walked off to his rooms, convinced that it was only another way for Ren to get what he wanted for a few minutes.

A growl poured from Ren's lips as he glared at where Horohoro has sat. With the back of his hand, he smacked the bowl of strawberries off the table, only to hear it come crashing down on the floor. Then the same hand hit the table in the form of an angry fist. Why did Horohoro not understand that Ren practically needed to get laid?

Somehow it wasn't quite reaching Horohoro.

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