A/N: Hey look… she actually posted another chapter, yah. We'd better read it, yah? And then we'd better review it, yah? Yah, shut up. Ok.

Chapter 2

The Master Plan

Kurogane occupied his usual hiding place (under the cement balcony-like structure that served as the school's courtyard) after carefully checking to make sure that he hadn't been followed. Technically, students weren't supposed to hang out there but he used it pretty much every day and no one had ever discovered him before so he figured it was safe. It was the ideal hiding spot; dark enough to give one cover if someone were to come looking for him, light enough to do homework (or other work…heh heh heh…) by, dry enough so that you didn't come out looking like you'd pissed your pants, quiet enough to allow concentration, and it just happened to be a great place for plotting dastardly deeds. Kurogane would be taking advantage of its lastly named function today.

He got down on his hands and knees and crawled under the balcony, choosing a spot against the wall to sit. The boy quickly finished his food so that he could get to work; there were so many delicious ideas gathering in his mind and he wanted to make sure that he didn't forget a single one. Kurogane's pen raced across the paper, his writing becoming extra sloppy in his haste to get his ideas down. He grinned mischievously to himself at the thought of the unholy havoc he was going to wreak on the school; he could release hordes of crickets in the hallways, putting rotting fish in the ceiling tiles of the classrooms, smother the teachers' chairs with paint and disconnect the lights in their room so they wouldn't be able to see it there, hack into the computer system and change all the passwords… the list continued onto the backside of his paper. Once he had gotten all his ideas down, Kurogane went back and reread them. They were all so good that he couldn't decide on just one. He ran his fingers backwards through his hair as he tried to pick one.

"I know," he muttered to himself, "I'll just use all of them."

"Good idea," a voice said from directly to the left of him.

Caught completely off guard by this sudden intrusion into his planning process, Kurogane jumped, dropping his notebook and pen. He looked around wildly for his visitor. He didn't have far to look; the guy was sitting right next to him.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" he shouted, clutching his heart. "WHERE THE HELL DID YOU COME FROM! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN SITTING THERE, YOU CREEPY-ASS BASTARD!"

The face he found himself staring at belonged to possibly the very last person he wanted to meet in the middle of a planning session; it was Fai, and he was smiling and looking quite pleased with himself.

"I just kind of followed you here," the blond grinned. "You didn't really think you could get away that easily, did you, Kuronyan?"

Kurogane stared stupidly at him, waiting for his brain to supply him with a smart-ass response. It wasn't working.

"So when are we gonna do this?" Fai continued cheerfully. "Tonight would be the best time: it's the only day for the next few months when there won't be any activities going on at the school after hours and by that time, we'll have already graduated."

Kurogane kept staring, the look on his face getting more and more incredulous. He actually had been planning on pulling this off tonight. It was almost as if the blond boy had read his mind. Kurogane hated it when he did that; he liked to consider himself hard to read and it rather crushed his ego when Fai seemed to pull it off so easily. And that grin he always wore just added to the dark-haired boy's annoyance; it was infuriatingly smug and deeply alluring at the same time.

Kurogane jumped mentally. What the fuck? Did he just think of Fai's smile as "deeply alluring"? Oh god. Does anyone have a gun? I seriously need to fucking shoot myself. I'm perfectly sober and I actually thought of his smile as being "deeply alluring"… No, someone must have spiked my water. That's it! The bastards!

"Judging by the internal conflict you seem to be experiencing," Fai said, still grinning, "I'd be willing to bet that you were already planning on doing it tonight. Ne, Kuropin?"

The raven-haired senior shook his head, trying to clear it. If he was going to be having a conversation with Fai, it was imperative that he remained focused on it completely. Failure to do so may result in death by electrical shock or poisoning.

"No, you dipshit," Kurogane growled. "I'm not doing it tonight, you're not gonna help me and I don't find that stupid smile of yours 'deeply alluring'!"

Oh fuck. He'd just gone and said it out loud. He needed to die. Now. Where the hell was that gun he'd asked for!

Fai stared at him, his eyes wide with surprise for a few seconds before his usual grin slid easily back onto his face. Then he laughed. Then he climbed onto Kurogane's lap, put his arms around the other boy's neck and leaned in so close that their noses were almost touching.

"You don't, Kurorin?" he whispered, his long, slim fingers venturing playfully into his classmate's spiky black hair. "How about this? Do you find this deeply alluring?"

Oh, hell yeah.

Kurogane blinked.

No! NO! NO! WRONG ANSWER! Quick, do something, you dumb fuck!

He did the first thing his numb, poorly-functioning brain could come up with, though it was actually exactly the opposite of what he subconsciously wanted.

"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!" Kurogane roared, shoving Fai with all his considerable might and racing out of his hiding spot as fast as he could go.

"Ouchy…" the blond whined, sitting up and rubbing his arm.

Then he smiled again. So, Kurochin found him "deeply alluring", eh? That was even better than he had ever hoped for. Perhaps the plot he had in mind wasn't just a pointless way to humor himself after all…

Fai giggled to himself, then hummed merrily as he climbed out of the hole. Tonight was his lucky night; he could feel it.

Kurogane spent the rest of that day making a point to avoid Fai. He checked each hallway and classroom that he passed to make sure the blond wasn't lurking there, waiting for him. Luckily for him, he was able to keep from running into Fai by taking different routes to his classes and hiding out in the bathroom until seconds before the bell was due to ring. The end of the day was drawing closer, which meant that psychology class was drawing closer, which meant being in the same classroom with Fai which meant that… well, he didn't know what that meant exactly but he was sure that it wouldn't be good. Kurogane contemplated the best way to handle this problem and ended up deciding to just ditch psychology. It was a waste of time anyway. Besides, that would give him time to get what he needed to pull off his pranks and get back to school before they locked it up for the night.

Getting out of the school without getting stopped was ridiculously easy; all he had to do was walk purposefully like he had every right to be there and the dipshits in the main office assumed that he had been given a pass and was therefore free to go. He made a derisive noise in his throat as he made his way through the parking lot to his car; the security at this school was disgustingly lax. If he ever became in charge of a school, things would be much different. Every student that wanted to leave the building would have to fight him and win. That would keep the lazy fucks from getting out of class. Hell, that would keep them from getting out, period. The thought made him smirk to himself. Right. Like he would ever want anything to do with a school after he graduated. Once he got out of that hell hole he planned on never going back and spitting noisily in its general direction every time he had to pass it.

Kurogane climbed into his car and backed out. He decided that the best place to start gathering his supplies at the pet store behind his house; they could supply the crickets and dead fish. Ha. Yeah, this was gonna be good.

A/N: Ooh, ooh! What's gonna happen! What's gonna happen! I'm 'cited! Hee heeeeeee!