NOTE: Another BETA reader is gone… thus, this fic too is left unBETAed. Please, keep reading this nonetheless.
MasterFranny: I was moping about wanting to write angst, and Kammyh told me to post this. I said, I am waiting for my BETA! And she said, Shut the Fk up and post it already! I was scared and I posted it… -.-U
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Rating: T may get higher
Summary: Alternative Sequel to "Just Say it...". While Kai is faced with an inopportune admirer, and a jealous Tala, Rei has to find the courage to tell his clan he's with another boy. Tala/Kai, Bryan/Rei, sideways of Spencer/Ian, non-con OC/Kai. YAOI
Warning: you need to read "Just say it…" before this one to actually understand. Oh, and this is YAOI so if you don't like then don't read, I warned you. Also there will be angst.
Disclaimer:
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"(Talking into other languages)"
-Dreams sequences, flashbacks, memories-
Piercing Love
CHAPTER 02: It's no Problem
Kai woke up earlier that day, not his usual six AM, because he was rather excited for his new job. It didn't matter the uniform was so ugly, it didn't matter there was the giant ice cream on the outside that made him shudder in disgust every time he thought about it, it still was something he waited for so long, nothing would stop him from enjoying his new job.
Sneaking outside his bed he quickly dressed himself, wondering out if he should wear the uniform here with the chance to be laughed at during his trip to the shop, of if he should take it with him and dress himself in the shop -in the end he decided for the second option.
He blinked to clear his vision from the sleepiness and he stretched, fighting back the urge to put on his cheeks the blue paint he grew accustomed to use ever since he was a kid, but decided against it -it would probably scare the clients away and Nicolaj would fire him.
Sighing he picked up the white uniform and sneaked outside his bedroom, positive about eating something quick before going to work, but his hopes to not be noisy were shattered as he saw Rei already up, and already cooking something that smelt delicious.
"Rei? What are you doing up already?" Kai asked the younger teen as he approached the table.
Rei was scared out of his wits and as he tried to regain his breath he turned to Kai with a small pout, "I was up because I knew this was your first day of work and I wanted to make sure you would eat properly".
"Yes, mother," Kai replied, sitting down as Rei placed a very big plate filled with omelettes. "Mmmh, this smells great," he added sniffing the omelettes.
"It sure is good," Rei stated proudly. "I worked on this a lot to find the perfect match... hey! I am not your mother!" the Neko-Jinn scowled and pouted again, then he returned to his cooking whilst Kai started on his omelettes.
"So Rei, what are you going to do in the week-end? I was going to go to a movie with Spencer," Kai swallowed before continuing, "you know how much Tala hates movies like this one, so he won't come".
"I wanted to see 'War of Worlds' too, but I'll go to see it next week... this week-end I'll be waiting guests here".
Rei's face wasn't totally happy, but it wasn't sad, just a little worried, so Kai blinked and asked the obvious question, "who?"
"Lee will be coming there with Mariah, and I am not that happy about that," the Chinese blader shook his head in despair as he expertly rolled another omelette in the pan. "I mean, I am happy they are coming, it's been a while ever since I saw them last time, but I never told them I am gay, so it'll be kinda hard when they'll be here... and I need to tell Bryan".
Kai whistled, he knew how much the lilac haired blader despised the White Tigers, and how much the clan despised Bryan -they still thought he was an emotionless blader that hurt Rei at the finals in Russia.
"I don't think it'll be that bad, come on, Rei, you're smarter than this," Kai cleaned his mouth and hands and he stood up, handing the emptied plate to his friend. "I mean, maybe you should tell your tribe you're going out with a boy, but then again, why should you? It's not their business anyway".
"Mariah still thinks I'm going to marry her, and if I don't clear the mistake, the clan will decide I have to marry her," Rei shuddered, for how much he liked the pink haired girl, she surely wasn't the one he would like to have around all his life. She was loud, she liked pink -which was the very first thing he despised in her- and she thought he was her slave.
"Whoo, Rei, you surely have to tell them then," Kai's eyes were wide as a picture of a loud pink ribbon forever living with him and Rei appeared in his mind.
The mere thought was enough to have him shudder in disgust.
Rei sighed again, it would be harder than he thought it to be possible, since he knew the clan was small and retired and they didn't like things to be different or to change suddenly, if he announced to be gay, they would react in the bad way, and maybe completely shut him out.
He didn't want to be shut out of his tribe. He left it all once to be the best blader, then he decided not to go back to follow his heart, and now that he wanted to live happily with his lover, a new problem was rising up.
"Come on Rei, you will come out of it without even a scratch," the slate haired blader assured. "Now I must go, I really need to be on time my first day".
He headed for the door, but as he was ready to go he turned again and cast a glance at the Neko-Jinn, "don't tell Tala where my ice cream shop is".
With that he was out.
Rei stared at him with perplexed face, and then he returned to his work, deep in thought.
Really, Lee and Mariah didn't need to know he was gay, maybe he could just tell them he was going out with another girl... then again, they would want to know her and besides, he didn't want to lie to his childhood friends.
He had an entire week to prepare himself -and Bryan- to them coming; he would be ready for them.
Or so he thought.
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As he walked to the shop, Kai thought back at the day before, remembering what had happened when he walked back in Tala's house.
He'd found the red head happily watching tv with a new remote control he went to buy while Kai was out, and as the younger blader looked at him with shock and a slight grimace, Tala made a face and then smirked, "who's the smartest here?" he beamed, pointing at the new remote.
Kai simply walked to the tv and closed it by the control on it, before sitting down the couch to read one of his many books, this one titled 'Wheel of Time, book one' from Robert Jordan.
Tala sneaked up on him and they ended up cuddling, with Tala secretly watching TV with Kai in his arms completely unaware of it -until in the end Tala beamed since his fav anime would show up in a marathon of three hours, resulting in Kai hitting him with random fan.
Shaking his head again Kai thought of a way to have Tala read more instead of passing the whole day watching tv -or doing him, not that the last option wasn't accepted.
He arrived at 'Ice Dreams' at seven AM, a hour before its opening, but he found Nicolaj already here, the guy was signing an order for six boxes and was picking one up to take it inside the shop.
As the raven haired man saw Kai, his face lit up in a smile and he set down the box on the street, waving at him. He was still dressed with normal clothes, so Kai felt reassured about his decision to change himself in the shop.
"Hey, Kai! You're pretty early the shop opens at eight o' clock!"
"I know, but I wanted to come earlier my first day... need help?" Kai headed towards one of the remaining boxes but Nicolaj shook his head, "don't worry, they're too heavy for you, you'd better..." he stopped in mid-sentence as Kai kneeled down and lifted one box up with apparently no strain, before asking him, "where do I put this?"
Nicolaj whistled in appreciation, "you're not delicate as you appear then! Well, follow me".
Kai's left eye twitched at the word 'delicate' being referred to him but he willed himself not to throw the box at Nicolaj and followed him inside the back of the shop, placing the furniture where the older guy told him to.
Kai helped Nicolaj with the remaining boxes and when they were finished the raven hair looked with appreciation at him, as Kai brushed the sweat away with the back of his hand.
"We can go get dressed now, we'll be opening a little earlier since you're here," Nicolaj made his way to the priveé followed by Kai, who dreaded that part. He hated the uniform.
Kai discarded his shirt and pants, putting them in an ordinate pile on a chair as he picked up the uniform, not aware of the look he received from the older guy. He was bare except for his boxers, but he paid no attention, too concentrated on the task of not making a disgusted face at the white stuff he had to put on.
Nicolaj's eyes trailed down Kai's frame, from his bare shoulders down to his back and legs, and a flash of lust appeared in the brown pupils but was soon concealed.
A light smirk made his way up to his face as he continued to stare at the oblivious teen that resentfully put on the white pants and then the shirt, shaking his hair and settling the uniform on himself.
Nicolaj looked away and finished dressing himself, but the lust didn't disappear from his eyes.
"Ok, come on, I'll show you what to do," he put up a nice face as he conduced Kai in the shop, showing him what he had to do.
The morning passed in no time and when the clock turned to sign it was twelve o' clock Nicolaj stretched and looked at the slate haired blader.
"For your first day, you did a great job," he told Kai with a smile. "I never saw so many clients all together!"
He knew they all came to see the new guy, and surely enough they would return, because they saw how hot he was.
"Thank you," Kai, oblivious to Nicolaj's thoughts, smiled a little and headed towards the priveé in order to get changed and go back home -he surely was hungry.
Having to serve ice cream for all the morning without having a taste of it was hard even for him. But he liked his work, and he was sure he would enjoy the time spent here.
"Would you like to come with me to eat something at the burger down the street?" Nicolaj looked as Kai changed back, eyes shining with renewed lust.
Kai again paid no attention and after dressing back in his clothes -with his enormous relief since he wore that uniform for more than four hours- he turned to the black haired one, who was smiling nicely at him.
He was starving, and he knew Rei would be with Bryan for the lunch, so there was nothing ready for him at home, what was the point of going there and preparing himself something if he could as well go and eat out?
Besides, Tala would be looking for him and he didn't want to give him the opportunity to see where he was working...
Kai nodded shrugging and Nicolaj's smile widened.
"Well then, it's settled," the black haired man stated.
As they walked to the burger, Nicolaj continuously peered on Kai, who was unaware of the attention he was receiving and plainly looked hungry. Rei would get angry if he knew he was going to a burger -the Neko-Jinn hated places like these, he said they would just made them all fat and it was not healthy- but something you don't know won't hurt you.
"So," Nicolaj started, wanting to know more about the younger teen, "tell me something about yourself!"
Kai looked perplexed for a moment, "there's nothing to say, I like reading and I like to beyblade when I can".
"That's where I saw you," Nicolaj lit up. "You were competing in the tournament last year, and two years ago! You're a famous BeyBlader, am I right?"
Kai nodded, "yes I am, it's surprising you remembered me though, many say I look a completely different person without my marks".
Sitting on the outside of the burger and ordering two maxi burgers, Nicolaj laughed merrily, "a face like yours can't be forgotten too easily".
Kai blinked, unsure about taking this as a compliment or as an offence, so he decided to let it go.
"What about you, are you a blader?" Kai was genuinely interested but Nicolaj shook his head.
"No, I don't know how to, I just like watching it on TV... I usually watch a lot of tv".
Kai laughed, "I know someone who does the same thing all day".
Nicolaj smirked, then they ate in silence.
Kai was enjoying his time; he didn't think things would be so nice with his work. He wasn't used in working, that was obvious, but he knew in Japan employers usually ask their subordinates to go drink something, it was a common thing to do, and he supposed it was the same in Russia.
When they were finished Kai stood up, wondering if Rei was back home or if Tala decided to wait him there -he didn't want to let his love wait for him.
"I need to go, we'll see each other tomorrow morning then," Kai bowed slightly as he was used to -he was still more Japanese than Russian- and he turned to walk away.
Nicolaj waved at him, then watched him go, his eyes trailing down to his ass with appreciation.
This was a hot chick, way too innocent for his own good, and he was ready to use this at his advantage...
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Tala was sitting on Kai's couch when the slate haired teen entered the room, and as Kai saw Tala, with a bowl of pop corn, dressed in a sleeveless t-shirt and shorts, eyes glued on the damn television, he sweatdropped.
"That's not what I was thinking about a nice welcome home," Kai muttered, shaking his head in exasperation.
Tala turned his head on him the moment Kai finished speaking, and a second later Kai was attacked full force and fell on the floor with a loud thud, the red headed blader on top of him looking down with puppy eyes -yes, Tala could do puppy eyes and he was damn good.
"I missed my entertainment," Tala pouted slightly kissing Kai right on the lips. "I was all alone and Rei and Bryan dispelled me since they wanted to have some nice time together!"
Kai chuckled at the antics and shook his head, trying to push the Wolf away, "I thought you had a better entertaining tool," he stated pointing at the TV.
"I renounce to 1000 live points so to sacrifice Celtic Guardian and I use my card Legend of Heart!" some character from an anime screamed from the TV.
Tala blushed and Kai sweatdropped again.
"No, you're my best entertainment," Tala whispered in Kai's ear seductively, making him shiver, "speaking of that..."
"Now I can show you the power of the real forms of Timaeus, Critias and Hermos!" the same character from random anime shouted from the TV.
"Yeep!" Tala jumped on his feet and jumped on the couch, eyes fixed on the TV screen, looking as three strange dragons turned into three knights. "They changed! Now Yami can beat Dartz!"
Kai blinked once, blinked again, flushed, still on the floor, completely forgotten from his lover who was now shouting in happiness things Kai couldn't understand.
He felt –to tell it in anime style- just like these characters with blank background and the wind blowing a leaf from a corner to the other one.
"Nooo, that bastard, what's with the giant snake! Yami, you can beat him! Come on, you gave it all to Dark Magician Girl…" Tala was still shouting, but then the episode ended and he slumped back on the couch, defeated. "Fuck, now I'll have to wait until tomorrow and…" he suddenly remembered what he was doing and turned with wide eyes to Kai, who was still on the floor, still shocked, still frozen there, and to Tala, still utterly fuckable.
"Kai..." he started, going back to his seductive voice.
"Don't even think I'm going to let you enjoy your 'best entertainment'," Kai growled, pushing his red haired lover away.
Kai stood up, and with a scowl he slammed the door of his bedroom behind his back, closing it with his key.
Tala blinked.
Then blinked again.
His eyes trailed to the TV, on which there was the starting theme of InuYasha, then back to the door, guilty. Then back to the TV. Then back to the door.
He surely needed to ease on with the TV.
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But… not right now. Really, who could not watch as InuYasha scared the guts out of some random youkai?
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Rei looked with his bright amber eyes up at Bryan as the two laid on the bed cuddled together, and cleared his throat. This was the time, just after the act, so the Falcon would be at least a little tired and would complain less.
"Bryan? I need to tell you something".
Why on heart do problems start with this very line? Bryan was thinking this as he hugged Rei a little more, feeling dread brush against him.
He knew Rei was hiding something to him when he saw the Neko-Jinn shove Tala away and when he saw said Neko-Jinn jump on him. Ok, he didn't complain about it instead he enjoyed it and had Rei enjoy it too, but all the meanwhile his brain couldn't shake away the idea Rei was hiding something and was using sex to distract Bryan.
Or maybe to tire him enough so he couldn't react when Rei started to speak.
As Rei tried to find the guts to tell Bryan, said blader had enough time to erase some possibilities.
Rei wouldn't be dumping him for someone else since he was still having sex with him and he didn't seem angry at all -sex was the last on his fav list when he was angry- so what was left?
"Bryan, the White Tigers are coming for the week-end".
Oh, that.
Bryan's brain shut itself down.
Rei looked with worry clear on his face as Bryan's eyes suddenly went hollow and he waved his hand in front of his lover's face, but got no reaction at all.
"Bryan?"
If one could see into the lilac haired blader's head he would see a single line repeated over and over and over -the White Tigers are coming for the week-end.
Rei shook his lover hard grabbing him by the shoulders and tried to call him again, and was relieved to see Bryan's eyes clear again.
"I'm... fine," Bryan mumbled. "Yes, fine. The White Tigers are coming. Great. Ok, that's ok, they're coming..."
Rei was feeling rather disturbed as he swallowed hard, backing slightly away from Bryan -the homicide glint in his eyes was too scary.
"Promise me you won't harm them" Rei pleaded.
Bryan glared at him, angry because Rei waited for the right opportunity.
"Promise me you won't hurt any of them, not even Mariah" Rei pressed on.
Bryan growled.
"Promise me and you'll get sex," Rei's voice was now steady.
Bryan's eye twitched.
"Promise me and you'll get sex and pancakes every morning for one week," he continued with determination.
Bryan's eye continued to twitch.
"Promise me and you'll get sex and pancakes every morning for two weeks," Rei wanted the upper hand, but was willing to compromise a little. He wasn't asking too much, just for Bryan not to go crazy around his childhood friends.
It wasn't that bad, wasn't it? Just two days, Saturday and Sunday, and then they would be gone.
Bryan continued glaring, eyes darkening in mistrust, but then he sighed and willed himself to calm down.
"I can promise I'll try," he compromised.
Or at least that's what he tried to say, but it came out much more like a growl than anything else.
Rei understood it though.
"Promise me, Bryan. I am sorry you hate them, and they hate you, but they're friends of mine and if you really love me then you have to promise".
Bryan grimaced, this wasn't fair.
But he saw Rei's pleading eyes plus, he assured him there would be a reward... he really could try not to kill them all...
"I promise," he mumbled, wondering if he made the right choice.
Rei's face brightened up with a giant smile that made Bryan's heart warm up -even though he was still angry at him and disgusted by the incoming visit- then the raven haired blader cuddled more in his lover's arms and kissed the waiting lips tenderly.
"You know I love you," he stated.
"If I didn't know better I would think you are using sex against me," Bryan said sarcastically.
Rei giggled, then both fell silent.
At least, he would try.
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MasterFranny: second chapter finished! Cheers! Don't own the book named or the TV shows in the previous chapter. Nor the anime in this one. You surely know both. InuYasha, come on, who doesn't like it? Sesshomaru rulez! As for the other one, it's Yu-Gi-Oh! I love it, Bakura's the BEST! COOL AND SEXY GUY!
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