Chapter Two
"What are you doing?"
Rikuo quickly crumpled something up and shoved it into the garbage can, looking back over his shoulder as Kazahaya approached the register where he had been sitting.
"What do you want?"
"I asked you something first." Kazahaya said, frowning at Himura as he stood up, pulling the chair he had been sitting in away from the wall and pushing it into the little space beneath the counter.
"Sitting. Now you answer my question." He said, folding his arms.
"Kakei said he had to talk to you." Kudo said, averting his eyes broodingly.
"It's about a job isn't it?" Rikuo asked, recognizing the pout. "He's not letting you do it, eh?"
"No!" he burst, dropping all trace of silently fuming, "He said that you would be able to handle it a lot better then I could so he wants YOU to do it!"
Rikuo could see the smoke coming out of Kudo's nose, not literally but just visualizing it made his shoulders shake with amused laughter.
"Quit laughing at me!" he exclaimed, slapping his hands on the counter only to freeze as pain shot up his arms and he shook his hands, his palms stinging. "Damn it…"
"Aw, did the baby hurt himself?"
"I'm not a baby!" Kazahaya snapped at Rikuo as he came around the counter.
As Rikuo started to pass him, he leaned towards Kudo and whispered tauntingly in his ear.
"…Baby…"
Clapping his hands over his ears, the shorter teen felt a chill run up and down his spine, his body jolting from the experience. He hated it when Rikuo did that…whispered into his ear with that damn intimate smirk on his face. The brute didn't do this to any of those giggling girls that came in the Green Drugstore looking for cosmetics and such. He simply pointed out where it was and then left them to fend for themselves while they squealed.
Kazahaya watched Rikuo's back retreating towards the back of the store where he would disappear to see Kakei and Saiga would be reclining on the couch as usual. Kazahaya's eyes scanned over the way Himura's shirt was a bit too tight for him today, noticing how his shoulder blades were revealed and just how wide his shoulders were…he looked so damn strong and the bastard was the size of a bear compared to himself…
Growling softly, Kudo took Rikuo's place behind the register and as he pulled out the chair he noticed what it was that Rikuo had thrown away. Resting in the bottom of the practically empty trashcan was the silvery foil of a chocolate bar, Hershey by the looks of it. Reaching in, he smoothed it out on the counter top. As he stroked it though…he was seeing something in the back of him mind, a memory…was it Rikuo's memory?
Pulling out the chair and sitting down in it, Kazahaya held the foil in his hands, closing his eyes to get a good channel into the memory he was catching a glimpse of. Maybe this memory would be good blackmail…
He saw Rikuo's hand holding up a chocolate bar…nothing much to build off of that since he felt a sheer emotion of indifference as he watched this play through his mind. Until he noticed this was not a Hershey bar…this was some of the chocolate that the store sold regularly…
Put this in the shade so it won't melt.
Wait a minute…he remembered this…and even now he could see himself in the doorway of Kakei's office then he noticed how determined he suddenly looked and the emotion in Rikuo's memory abruptly changed to surprised as Memory Kudo suddenly ran towards him and Kazahaya felt a brief pain of being knocked down to the floor with a him on top of himself. Memory Kazahaya looked possessed as he ate the chocolate bar in Rikuo's hand then licked his fingers.
"WHOAH!" Kazahaya let go of the foil immediately and kicked it away. "Th-That pervert was remembering that day!"
Kudo's hand rested over his heart, it was pounding heavily. He remembered that Memory Rikuo's heart was pounding as well…he was feeling…excited.
"This side-job is a little different from your other jobs, Rikuo." Kakei said, leaning forward on his desk; resting his elbows on the surface. "It's an anonymous client but they've specifically asked for you to take this to the park and give it to whoever you find there."
"Just any random person?" Rikuo asked, wondering how this made things too complicated for Kazahaya unless Kakei had something up his sleeve…there was something else behind this assignment.
"No, no of course not." Kakei said, "You're to give it to whoever is sitting at the edge of the fountain, have them smell the contents of it and then bring them back to the Green Drugstore."
With that, the storeowner set down a black bottle upon the desk.
"The fountain is a new addition to the park so you can be sure that there will be people going to seek it out but you'll manage to find them."
Rikuo picked up the bottle. "So why not send Kudo to do this?"
"Kazahaya will have his own assignment to accomplish at this time." He smiled, "So you are all I have left, Rikuo. Will you do it?"
"Yeah…" he pocketed the bottle, "I'll do it."
"Great. You're to go to the park at six."
"No limit?"
"I don't see a reason to place a limit on this one." He shrugged. "You can get back to the store until then."
Nodding, Rikuo left the room.
Saiga, who had been asleep all this time, lifted his head from the armrest of Kakei's couch.
"Sending the boys on a little mission again, Kakei?"
"Of course." He smiled, "They're both running short on money after all."
Saiga heaved himself up from the couch, "You're playing matchmaker tonight aren't you?" he asked, smiling mischievously, "Having the kid bring home the victim of that bottle right afterwards? One begins to question your motives…"
Kakei smiled as Saiga's arms wrapped around him, one of his hands running over his chest and up his neck until he tilted the man's head back, leaning in for the kill.
"You're a deviant." He whispered slyly.
"Only when the occasion calls for it."
"I'd say this is an occasion that calls for it."
"You're brooding again." Rikuo said chortling a little, "What's wrong now?"
"Nothing!" Kazahaya said quickly, touching his bottom lip as averting his eyes. He was still wondering why he was still feeling the side effects of Rikuo's memory from the chocolate bar wrapper. It's been three hours now yet nothing's subsided…he was still encountering Rikuo's crave for chocolate and that excitement he had felt earlier like he was deeply craving something other then chocolate rose and fell in the pit of his stomach whenever he would catch a glimpse of his own reflection. He almost…wanted himself.
What the hell's wrong with me? He thought, not noticing how he was trailing his finger over his bottom lip. Rikuo watched, an eyebrow quirked as he removed his apron.
"Hey, Kazahaya."
Kudo lifted his head quickly.
"Stop looking sexy, it doesn't suit idiots."
"Shut up! Who was asking you to look anyway!" he chucked his pillow at Rikuo from where he sat on his bed. "I'm going out." He stood up briskly.
"Ah, you've got a job as well, I almost forgot." Rikuo mused, "And what do you get? Rescue a cat from a tree? It is your area after all."
"Knock it off!"
Kazahaya was met by his own pillow in his face.
"Don't stay out too late now…" Himura smirked.
Slamming his pillow back onto his bed, Kazahaya strode towards the door, pausing before he reached the handle. Turning abruptly, he put an index finger to his eye and pulled it down, sticking out his tongue at the taller teen before whirling around and leaving the room. Rikuo shook his head slowly, musing to himself as he hung his apron on a hook on the wall.
"Such a little kid…"
It was another cold one tonight…the streets weren't as crowded as usual, which was proof that it was just too cold for anyone to be outside, only those that could afford some pretty warm coats were walking the streets aside from Rikuo. What other choice did he have if he wanted to get paid extra?
Zipping up his jacket partially, Rikuo wondered up the clearing sidewalk that ran along the wall of the park, the gate was only a few more blocks up and there were few people that held him up from making the time, the only thing that made him walk a bit slower was his pondering on why exactly he had to do this job rather then Kazahaya and then Kakei sends the runt to do his own job. A simple delivery then leading this person home couldn't be the end of this…
His fingers ran over the smooth bottle in his coat pocket.
What exactly is this stuff?
He pulled it out of his pocket, peering down at the shine running along the curve of the bottle under the streetlamps. His feet continued to carry him towards the gateway; they turned and led him in, forcing him to pocket the vial once more so that he could look for this person mentioned.
A couple hurried past him looking positively scared out of their wits.
"What was with that guy? We were just looking at the fountain!" the male said, checking back over his shoulder as if this man was following them.
"I don't know…it's just a fountain."
Rikuo paused, watching the retreating couple for a moment as the male wrapped his arm around his girlfriend's shoulders, hurrying her out of the park's entrance.
If that guy they're talking about was the person, I quit this job. Rikuo thought, frowning as he continued to go up the sidewalk in the direction where the couple had fled.
The closer he got he heard someone's voice cutting through the darkness. Rikuo's face fell at the familiarity of this voice. Don't tell me…
Clearing a few bushes that had been clustered near the sidewalk and hearing the splashing of water, he groaned softly seeing Kudo standing, his legs far apart, shaking a fist at a few teens that were backing away quickly from him.
"Get outta here! I've gotta be completely alone so this delivery isn't confused!"
Rikuo's dread was suddenly seeping away as he watched Kazahaya turn on an old woman, snapping just as violently then suddenly apologizing when she looked as if she would have a heart attack. Himura's lips twitched and he smiled a little at the sight.
"Kazahaya!" he called over.
Kazahaya froze in his continuous bowing to the old woman and she hobbled away from the frightening young man, "Rikuo?" he blank.
Three…two…one…
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
Bingo.
Rikuo snickered for a moment at the sudden change in attitude that Kazahaya was so good at yet he never realized it.
"Making a delivery." He said, smirking, "And what about you? Expecting a delivery or are you just here to scare off unsuspecting couples and helpless old women?"
"Y-You're telling me I'm getting something from you?" Kudo stared.
"Yeah, got a problem with it?" Rikuo asked, reaching into his pocket and withdrawing the bottle again, "Here, Kakei said to tell whoever got this to smell it."
Kazahaya snatched away the bottle from Rikuo's hand. "Fine then but when we get back I'm talking to Kakei-san about this and find out what went wrong!"
"Well, what was your job in the first place?"
Kudo, still fuming, was about to open the vial but stopped, looking back up at Himura.
"He sad I had to come here and accept a delivery from someone, now that I think of it…he did say it would be someone I knew…" Rikuo could just see the cat ears popping out of Kazahaya's head as the shorter teen touched his bottom lip, looking up in thought.
He can be so damn cute sometimes… Rikuo thought, tucking his chilling hands into his pockets again as a way to warm them up again. "Are you going to smell that stuff again or not?"
"I'm getting to it!" Kudo snapped and pulled the stopper out of the top, still glaring at Rikuo before lowering his eyes to the tiny dark opening. "Kakei…wouldn't put something deadly in here and have me smell it…would he?"
Picturing drooping cat ears, Rikuo stifled a laugh for a moment. He was starting to show a bit too much emotion…
"Chloroform maybe…" he muttered, shoulders shaking a little at another thought, this one of Kazahaya lying on the ground with spiraling eyes.
Kudo swallowed but held the bottle near his nose and cautiously sniffed near the opening. A sweet scent wafted up from the depths of the vial…but he couldn't figure out what it was and it just smelled so good…
Holding the bottle practically against his nose, he smelled the contents again, his eyes going a bit heavy-lidded as the smell sank in. He was hungry now…he wanted…chocolate…
"Well?"
Kazahaya's eyes wondered towards Rikuo and they widened.
Standing there was the most beautiful thing Kazahaya had ever seen…a chocolate bar the size of a man!
Hey…that bar's the size of Rikuo…he thought dreamily as he stumbled towards Rikuo like an intoxicated fool, he reached out longingly for the tempting chocolate and noticed there was a mouth in the middle of the chocolate…it was talking to him. Was it saying hello to him? "Hello Mr. Chocolate bar…" he said smiling up at the talking chocolate bar as his arms wrapped around the beautiful sight.
"What the hell are you doing!"
What a rude Hershey bar! "Bad Mr. Chocolate Bar! Bad!" he said, frowning a little before jumping up onto the chunk of chocolate, knocking it down onto the ground.
Having floored it, Kazahaya was straddling Mr. Chocolate bar (Rikuo). Leaning down to it, he licked it.
"Mmm…"
"Get off me!"
So Rude…Shut up Chocolate bar-san.
Rikuo, who had been in enough shock from being licked on his neck just a moment ago was beyond words, one because of what was occurring and the other because his mouth was blocked from speech anyway. Kazahaya had capped his mouth over his and wastrying to bite his lip as if he thoughtHimura was edible.
The problem with all of this?
Well…there was no problem…Rikuo was enjoying this…
That explains why he was suddenly disappointed when Kudo's body went limp over his, and just when Rikuo was going to get into it too. He sighed, sitting up and turning the other teen over in his arms, Kazahaya's head lolled back and Rikuo saw that he was sleeping.
"Wild thing…aren't you?" he smirked, "That stuff wasn't chloroform…it was better. Whatever is, I need to use it on him more often…"
Author's Ramble
Well? How was it?
Kazahaya was still experiencing the side effects of Rikuo's memory from earlier that day and the bottle had chocolate syrup in it so he smelled chocolate, therefore, Rikuo's chocolate fetish kicked in again but Kakei added something else to that bottle as well.
Let's just say it has sexual side-effects…
Until next chapter then.