Crystal: Hello, and now I'm back again with yet another new fic! -grins and throws confetti everywhere- I've been wanting to do this idea for so long and now I have gotten a chance to write it! Anyway... I hope you guys enjoy it!
Warnings: Weirdness and slight OOC-ness...
Disclaimer: I don't own anything!
Crossing of our Paths - Chapter One: Just Another Normal Day
"Did you hear? There's a new guy in town!"
"Really? What does he look like?"
"I have absolutely no idea, but I've heard that he's drop dead gorgeous!"
"Ooh, now I want to see him!"
Kon Rei rolled his eyes as he passed by a group of gossiping girls, quickly walking to his next class. What's up with all the talking and girlish giggles? Just because there's a new person here doesn't mean that they have to crowd around the hallways! People with classes walk here! He huffed as he kept on walking, apologizing to every person he's almost bumping into. Stupid Physics! Why did he have to take that class anyway?
'It's because I'm a stupid sadistic masochist…' he grumbled inwardly, cussing slightly in Chinese when he saw his class cancelled due to his professor being having the flu and immediately went home, forgetting to call for a substitute.
The neko-jin refrained himself from kicking the door and immediately went to the cafeteria where he knew some of his friends are hanging out right now due to their classes cancelling or the fact that they've skipped it either because they were bored or just plain finishing their homework that were due last week. He passed by the library, pushing a book through the 'Return Slot' and entered another hallway, seeing a double-door with the sign 'Cafeteria' at the top.
Rei entered the room, and saw - much to his relief - that some of his said friends either joking around, studying, or catching up on their latest school project. He shook his head when he saw one of the lunch-ladies scolding one of them for throwing a cupcake into the other's forehead.
"Rei! You're here! I thought you have Physics?" one of them asked, with their curious blue eyes looking at the raven-haired man.
The person in question shook his head and sat down beside him. "It's cancelled. The professor's sick and there's no substitutes either."
Another person, who was scolded by the lunch-lady, yelled with joy and grinned from ear to ear. "YES! I have no class again next period! This is such an awesome day so far… HAH!"
"What do you mean, 'again'? You skipped this period, Takao," a wry voice said, with his icy blue eyes shined with mock innocence as Takao glared at him.
Rei shook his head and rubbed his temples seeing as the two troublemakers were arguing, yet again. He turned towards Max, who was sitting beside him, and wondered why the blond wasn't at his class right now. "Max, how come you're not in class?" he asked curiously, ignoring the screams coming from Takao and Yuriy as they kept on fighting.
Just as Max was about to reply, a large boom was heard from the second floor that made the four of them look upwards. "WE DIDN'T DO IT!" both Takao and Yuriy said in unison, putting their hands up in defence. The both of them were known for causing mischief… including exploding the Chemistry lab (which they do once every two weeks) and putting lab mice onto the girls dormitory (which they do every single day unless they were out of lab mice).
Max gave them a weird look and turned to the neko-jin who still expecting an answer. "Just as I was about to enter my Computer Science class, someone," he glared at Takao, emphasizing that it had something to do with him. "Decided to kidnap me and placed me here."
Takao snorted and crossed his arms. "Come on, Max! It's just once, I promise! And besides, why do you have to go to that class anyway? It sounds so boring…"
"It does not!" an indignant reply was heard. Max was taking Computer Science because of his mother. Mizuhara Judy is a famous scientist, researching a lot of information that could improve technology today and the blond is really eager to follow on his mother's footsteps.
"It does so!"
"Not!"
"So!"
"Not!"
"So!"
"Not!"
"Not!"
"So!"
"See, I knew you'd agree with me, Maxie!" Takao grinned triumphantly, bowing to the non-existent crowd while Max stuck his tongue out and pouted.
Rei and Yuriy shook their heads at their friends' antics. The day just suddenly seemed brighter and the stress seemed to lighten a bit when you're hanging out with Takao and Max.
The red head cleared his throat to get their attention and smiled sweetly. "I heard from Julia that there's a new student coming here…" he trailed off, changing the subject to avoid bloodshed.
Takao made a face. "I never knew Julia was the gossiper type. I mean, she's such a tomboy!" he whispered, frantically shifting his eyes to see any signs of the girl. If she ever heard him say that… he was sure he'd be in the emergency ward before he can even say hi to her.
Yuriy rolled his eyes. "Relax… she has Psychology right now," he said nonchalantly, smirking when Takao sighed with relief. "Anyway, Julia's not that tomboyish… she only acts like that 'cause it's fun to see you pee your pants in fright," his smirk widened, dodging a punch from the blue-haired man. "And she heard from Hiromi, who heard from the other girls about that guy. They said that he came from a rich family, blah, blah, blah… you know, the works."
Rei frowned, remembering the girlish giggles again from earlier. So that's why they were giggling non-stop, there was another rich, hot - not to mention idiotic, self-centred, selfish, and a complete bonehead - guy to drool over. As if there weren't enough of those in the campus. He always wondered how'd they graduated high school.
"When is he coming here then?" The neko-jin heard Max ask as he took a look at his watch. There was still half an hour left until classes are finished, he mused, getting bored all of a sudden.
The Russian shrugged and laid his head over his arms that were crossed over the table. "Julia said that he would probably arrive here tomorrow… You know, I'm surprised that her and Hiromi aren't drooling all over that new guy… from what she told me, at least every single girl - who only heard the news, mind you - in the campus is head over heels over a guy who they haven't even met yet…" he said, closing his eyes.
"Yu', Hiromi's dating Kyouju… not to mention Julia's so into her studies that she has absolutely no time for romance," Rei explained, as he got out his art book and turning the page where his assignment was drawn. It wasn't due for another week, and he's already half way done.
Yuriy opened his right eye and saw his raven-haired friend sketching, making his eyes roll in exasperation. "Like you? Y'know, according to Boris that's not due for another week. Why are you working on it now?"
"And leave it until the last minute? I'm not like you, Yuriy."
Takao laughed at the insult and then suddenly yowled, jumping at least a foot from his seat. "OUCH! DAMN IT, WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND KICKING ME?" he gritted his teeth out, whilst holding his now injured leg, glaring at Yuriy for all it's worth.
Yuriy ignored the Japanese's cussing and glaring and kept on looking at Rei's sketching. "Anyway… you know what I think…? I think Julia has a secret boyfriend and wouldn't tell us," he said solemnly, suddenly sitting up like businessman.
Max tilted his head in confusion. "And why are we suddenly talking about Julia's love life?"
"Because Yuriy's not satisfied with his own affair with Boris - OUCH, STOP KICKING ME!"
"Then you'll shut up about my love - also sex - life with Boris, thank you very much. Though, personally… I think you're just sexually frustrated - HAH! MISSED ME!" Yuriy smugly smirked when he dodged the kick Takao was supposed to give him.
Rei snickered quietly and erased a small part from his drawing, closing the book and putting it safely on his backpack. "We're not as horny as you, Yu'," he said, coming to Takao's defence; Yuriy just half-heartedly glared at him and harrumphed.
The neko-jin sighed and smiled at his friends. "Well… we still have fifteen minutes to spare until lunch time. What do you guys want to do now?"
"Let's just wait for Boris, Kyouju, Hiromi and Julia… like you said, there's still have fifteen minutes left… And then we could go for lunch at the mall!" Max exclaimed, thinking of a cool drink of Iced Tea slushie.
Takao gulped suddenly laughing nervously. "Uhh… let's not go to the mall…" he trailed off, suddenly looking at the ceiling in fascination.
"Takao… don't tell me you didn't go to work again!"
"Who cares if he didn't go to work? Going to the mall is so overrated anyway," Yuriy butted in, but the two ignored him.
"Hey, it's not my fault! Aniki called and said that he needed to borrow my car again since his car was towed the day before that. And besides, it was raining! There's no way in hell I'd go to work when it's down pouring!" The blue-haired man explained hastily, ignoring Yuriy's murmur of 'Lazy ass' and 'Don't be such a wuss, Kinomiya', though he did give him a glare…
Max huffed and ignored him, giving him the silent treatment. To Rei and Yuriy, it was like a boyfriend-girlfriend scenario in which the girlfriend (in this case Max) is mad at said boyfriend (in this case Takao) because said boyfriend was being an irresponsible idiot who doesn't want to do anything good in his life save for lying down and sleep all day. It was really an amusing sight. They watched the blond walking out of the cafeteria with Takao in tow.
"You should phone Boris or something… tell him we'll meet them by the campus entrance," Rei said to Yuriy whilst throwing the garbage that Takao and the Russian produced.
Yuriy rolled his eyes - he seems to be doing that a lot - and gave the honey-coloured eyed neko-jin an expectant look. "And you were supposed to be the smart one out of the group."
"I'm not the smartest."
"Sure you are," the older man continued. "You're the smartest, Takao's the clown, Max's the hyper one, Kyouju's the panicky one, Hiromi's the voice of reason and yet also Takao's verbal-insult-partner - aside from me, of course, Julia's the silent but aggressive type, Raul's the passive one - yes, I'm still including him in the group despite the fact that he had to go back to Spain - anyway, my Boris is the quiet, sadistic one - believe me, he is, and of course moi," he gave a sexy smirk and crossed his arms. "I am the sexy and sarcastic one."
Rei snorted and adjusted his backpack carefully, cursing the heaviness of it. "Well… you're right about the sarcastic part, because I know you were being sarcastic just now."
"You wound me. ANYWAY, the reason I can't call Boris is because he has a class?"
"Ever think about text messaging?"
"Pfft, oh please… text messaging is so overrated," Yuriy tried to sound indignant but failed. He then took his cell phone out and text messaged his lover anyway saying to meet them by the campus entrance.
Rei laughed and walked faster. "Everything's overrated for you, Yuriy!"
Meanwhile, during Math class, Boris looked like he was going to go and throttle the professor, who was still droning on and on about today's lesson: Calculus mixed with Conservation Laws. And he thought that the ones he learned on his senior year of high school were hard.
He felt his cell phone vibrate two times and almost sighed out in relief that he had a distraction and then carefully took his precious possession out, thanking the Gods that he's sitting in the back seat. He flipped his flip-phone and noticed that the message was from his boyfriend, Yuriy.
"Sweetie, meet us at the campus entrance right after the bell rings, okay? Oh, and also could you tell the others? Thanks; love you! Yuriy" the message said, making Boris chuckled inwardly at how the red head could be such a closet sap. Despite the fact that Yuriy gets mad at him for thinking this… but his boyfriend can be such a girl at times. Not that Boris would say that to him… he doesn't have a death wish.
He turned looked at the person sitting in front of him, Hiromi, and nudged her with his pen. "Psst," he hissed, trying not to cause so much noise.
Hiromi blinked her sleepy, half-lidded eyes away and turned around to see Boris poking her with his pen. She frowned and made a gesture to stop poking her. "Quit it!" she whispered.
"Read it," he replied, handing his cell phone to her.
Hiromi blinked and silently took the phone away, reading the message and slowly giving a sly smile mouthing the word 'sweetie', making the Russian glare at her. "Joking," she reprimanded. "I'll go tell Julia. We always meet by the dorms before going to lunch with you guys," she said quietly, handing back Boris' phone to him. "You tell Kyou', okay?"
A quiet snicker was heard. "Kyou'? Aren't you supposed to add the suffix -chan to that?" More snickers were heard.
"Shut up!"
"Ah, Tachibana-san, is there something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?"
…
Julia lounged on her bed as she typed an e-mail message to her twin brother Raul, who decided to take a year off of studying and went back to Spain to visit their former guardian Romero. She frowned at the thought. Taking a year off? What was he actually thinking? She shook her head in confusion and clicked the send button, closing her laptop and placed it on the bedside table.
Her Psychology class was stopped halfway because some idiot in her class accidentally barfed with sickness that the whole room stank like rotten eggs covered with limburger cheese and a scent of skunk smell as the 'cherry-on-top'. She would've gone to the cafeteria after - knowing that Takao and Yuriy were going to skip their second period, but she needed some alone time by herself for once… ah, the quietness of it all. One cannot get enough silence if you have a friend like Takao or/and Yuriy.
BRIIIIIIING!
Julia looked at the clock signalling that lunch has already started. She sighed and snuggled unto her pillow. 'So much for my time of silence…' she thought, reluctantly getting out of bed and going to the bathroom. 'But then again… I suppose that's what happens if you hang out with Takao and Yuriy ever since Elementary…' She brushed her ginger and dark brown coloured hair.
When she exited the bathroom, the door to her and her roommate's dorm opened and enter Hiromi, silently cussing with her fingers twitching to throw something at the wall right across from her.
"What's wrong with you?" she asked, with her green eyes full of amusement.
Hiromi turned towards her roommate/childhood friend and gave an annoying scream. "Boris is an idiot! I'm going to maim him!"
"Oh please, you just found that out now?"
"You don't understand… grr… He found out about…"
Julia sat down on the beanbag chair and crossed her arms. "Spill it. We still have to meet the guys."
"He found out about…" Hiromi continued, as her voice got quieter. "He found out about Kyouju's sort of nickname…"
The green-eyed female smirked and stretched her muscles, going to the lobby area of their dorm room to put her shoes on. "Poor Kyouju then… Boris will never let him live it down… he'll also probably tell Yuriy and Takao about it…"
"And not only that, he almost got me in trouble with the professor…"
"You get into trouble? I don't think so… you're Tachibana Hiromi. All the professors adore you," Julia replied, as she tied her long hair up into a ponytail.
"Don't you mean all the professors adore Rei?"
The other female shook her head in disagreement. "You and Rei. You're like two peas in a pod. The female role model and the male role model of the whole campus… it has to balance somehow or else everything in the world will be abnormal."
The brunette shook her head in exasperation at her best friend's logic and gathered her books for her next period after lunch. "Let's go… Rei and the other are waiting in the campus entrance." She put on her shoes again and followed Julia who was already outside their dorm.
…
"Err, sir… I'm not sure…" Kyouju said uneasily as he talked with his Music professor. Right after the bell rang, the elder man had asked the brunet to stay for a little talk about the upcoming performance.
The professor shook his head and laughed humbly. "So modest, aren't you? It would be perfect if you could have a solo of your own. After all, you are one of my best students in the class. I'm sure the rest of your peers would agree to it immediately."
Kyouju was definitely surprised. He only started playing an instrument when he was starting his high school year unlike his other peers from his current class who have been playing mostly their entire lives. His previous teachers said that he was a natural, and with a bit more practice he could be better than another musicians out there.
"Ah, it looks like your friend's waiting for you," the professor said, making the brunet turn and see Boris waiting impatiently with his arms crossed and his forefinger tapping his arm every five seconds. "You have two weeks to decide since we need to have the performers practice their pieces seriously. Have a nice day."
Kyouju nodded slowly while exiting the classroom. He has two weeks… would that be enough time? Shaking his head slightly, he took a water bottle and drank some water, often gulping loudly.
"So… Kyou-chan, are you really going to perform?"
Instead of answering, the shorter of the two choked in the middle of his drinking and coughed so hard that other people might start to wonder if he has some kind of illness. He gave Boris an incredulous look and ignored the name he called him.
"I don't know… I mean, I don't see myself as a good musician, granted I've been praised by my playing… but, I don't know…"
"Don't worry, I'm sure Hiromi would help you decide, ne Kyou-chan?"
This time, Kyouju tripped on a nonexistent rock, which made Boris smirk with delight. "W-What the heck are you calling me?" he sputtered, this time demanding what Boris was doing.
"I found out what Hiromi's been calling you… and I just added the suffix -chan. You know, I think I'll call you that for the rest of the year."
'Oh dear Kami-sama… I definitely hope you wouldn't…' the brunet miserably thought, whilst pushing his glasses up and following the older man outside the campus entrance.
Yuriy impatiently tapped his foot as he watched people walking out of the buildings and either going to the cafeteria or somewhere outside for lunch. Unfortunately for him, he hasn't seen his boyfriend or any of his other friends yet. And Boris says that he can be such a girl… hah! He looked at Max who still ignoring at the now kneeling Takao in front of him, with his hands clasped together; needless to say, the blond's going to faint in embarrassment anytime soon with his face flushed bright red.
"Come on, Max! Pleeeeeeease talk to me!" Takao whined, leaning on Max's knees (the blond was sitting down on the bench) and putting his head on the knees of the legs he was leaning on, risking that Max might knee him in the jaw - not that the blue-eyed man would do such a thing.
Rei looked up from the book he was reading (they stopped by the library earlier) and gave a small smile at the scene beside him. It was obvious that Max has already forgiven Takao, but he was just too embarrassed by the actions that the blue-haired man's doing right now. If only Takao would now stop begging like he was going to lose his life then Max would talk to him again. But of course, the neko-jin could just always tell Takao that Max already forgives him… but hey, where's the fun in that?
"Kinomiya, please stop forcing yourself on little Maxie…" Takao jerked away from the blond when a voice made itself known, blushing like crazy and looked around to see the person who he knew the voice belonged to.
"J-Julia!" Max squeaked, blushing harder than ever.
"Oh be quiet, Fernandez!"
Julia walked with the grinning Hiromi towards the bench where they were waiting and sat beside Rei, who was still has an amusing smile on. "What did Takao do?" she asked him.
"Oh you know… the usual."
"Rei! You're supposed to be on my side!"
"No… not really. I'm on the middle," Rei corrected, patting Max on the head since the blond was still blushing furiously and was still on a verge of fainting. "Relax, Maxie! At least Julia managed to get Takao off of you!"
The mentioned female looked curiously at the blond and shook her head, pretending to be serious. "I don't know Rei… it looks like little Maxie's disappointed that Takao's not in that position anymore. It was for the better I guess… I mean, it looked like he was - "
"JULIA!"
"…It looked like he was dog getting a scratch from its master," she finished, smirking slightly at the glare Takao was giving her.
Just when Hiromi was about to stop Takao from getting his ass kicked by the green-eyed female, Yuriy sighed loudly and heard him said, "Boris, Kyouju, there you guys are! YOU'RE LATE!" He jogged towards the taller one, suddenly clinging to Boris' neck hugging him tightly.
Boris smirked and hugged the impatient Russian back, lifting him up a bit from the ground. "Hey there, baby," he murmured, chastely kissing Yuriy on the lips.
"Oh get a room," Hiromi muttered, glaring at the dark grey-haired man. She was still mad about the incident during Math class… even though she's the voice of reason in the whole group, she can hold a grudge more than anyone in the world.
If it was possible, Boris' smirk grew wider and sent Kyouju a 'Should I tell the rest about your deep, dark secret?' look, making the brunet pray that he wouldn't do it. Fortunately, his moonlit-eyed friend was being nice for once since Yuriy was distracting him pretty good.
"So… since we're all here and not at the cafeteria, where are we going to eat our lunch?" the brunette asked, her ruby coloured eyes gazing at her long time friends before her. She walked towards Kyouju and kissed him on the cheek, as she watched the others ponder.
"How about that small café down by the street?"
"No, I work there!"
Hiromi rolled her eyes when there was yet another argument (this time from Julia and Yuriy) and looked at Rei for some help.
The said neko-jin's honey-coloured eyes lit up, suddenly having an idea and gave a toothed grin. "How about that Ramen stand, one block from here? I heard that they make the best noodles there."
The Spanish female stopped talking and looked at Rei, sighing in recognition. "I suppose this is better than nothing…" she replied, while the others nodded in agreement. "Well Rei please show us the way."
The neko-jin stuck his tongue out and then walked ahead of them with Kyouju and Hiromi, asking them about their Logics assignment.
Unbeknownst to our little group, someone has been watching them from a far - more like from said person's limousine - and gave an intrigued look at them; especially the one with raven hair accented with honey-coloured eyes. He gave a prideful smirk and leaned against the leather seat.
'This is going to be a worth my time after all…'
End Chapter One
Crystal: -fidgets in her swivel chair- Umm... so how was it? It wasn't too bad or - or OOC, right? I bet it is... GAHHHH... -has a frantic look in her eyes-
Takao: -rolls eyes- So much for a well deserved confidence...
Crystal: Hush, you! Anyway... I hope that you guys enjoyed the first chapter of 'Crossing of our Paths' and that you would read - and review - the second chapter (which is right now being developed in my head)! See you all later and don't forget to review! -grins and waves-
