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Originally, this chapter was about 16 pages long, so I decided to divide it into two chapters. Just felt like telling you guys that!

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girlo: the yukster…that's..cute haha I'm happy to hear that you're into my fic! Lol and we can all relate to addictive personalities…

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Chapter Five

Dear diary,

Today I have a tutoring session with Reid, but I'm getting a little nervous…he's so pretty it's intimidating, especially since he's only 14.

The rules that Ms. Hift told me don't seem to apply to anyone, since kids living on this floor range from at least 13 to 17. But whatever, just another thing to add to my list of things that confuse me. This morning, I was really angry with Alin. When I thought about it later, I couldn't remember what got me so worked up. I was sorting through my CDs, and I found one that looked good, (the band's name was Nittle Grasper), and I was walking over to borrow Toby's ghetto blaster when Alin came bursting into the room and landed on me. The CD shattered into bits, and when I was lying there looking at it, I had the craziest, strongest feeling of rage, and I went completely insane. The poor kid probably thinks I'm crazy now, it's just a good thing that Toby came in with one of his friends to hold me back, because I was about to strangle the guy. But afterwards, when the mess had been swept up, the feeling was totally gone, and I couldn't remember why I was so mad…It was weird, like it was the most important thing in the world to me, and I can't remember it…

This amnesia thing sucks! I hate it I hate it I hate it…it's the worst thing in the world, not remembering anything about yourself…like you got sucked into a big black hole, and when it spit you out, you lost a part of yourself…Hah! I sound like some manic depressant! That's it, maybe I'll be in a better mood tomorrow.

Tai wearily dragged himself off the bed and made his way into the bathroom. He wanted to freshen up a little before his tutoring session with Reid. A thin, tired face gazed back at him from the mirror, and, unable to see past the hollow cheeks and the bags under his eyes, to the rosy cheeks and the sparkle in his eyes, Tai looked away.

Rooting around in his drawer for a tube of toothpaste, he didn't see Dan enter the bathroom and sweep behind him. It wasn't until a heavy hand clamped down on his shoulders that he saw the bigger boy smirking at him in the mirror, holding out a note. Then, he went, leaving Tai to translate the hastily scribbled note on his own.

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"Hello?" Tai stuck his head into the door of Reid's room. There was no answer.

"Hello? Reid? Are you here?" Still nobody answered, so Tai ventured in. The room was empty, which would be strange normally, but especially confused Tai today. Didn't Reid say to meet him here? Did he have the wrong day? The wrong time?

A bright blue piece f paper caught his attention and when he went over to ook at it, he found a note written to him:

'Tai,

I am one floor up. I am in my brother's room.'

The note, clear and simple, was easy to figure out, unlike Dan's. Tai shrugged, then turned around and headed upstairs.

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When he got to the next floor, Tai realized that he didn't have the room number. Fortunately, Reid, having foreseen this, was waiting outside of his brother's room.

"Hi Tai." Reid, cool as ever, casually waved him over to where he was standing. "Come in and meet my brother."

"Ok." Tai smiled shyly.

The inside of the room was a lot larger than Tai and Reid's room, it was right on the corner of the building, so it held six instead of four people. The walls were decorated with posters of rock stars messily hung up on the wall. Clothes, cds and books covered the floor, along with a tattered looking couch and a few beanbag chairs. In the corner, a big, low desk was pushed up against the wall, beside a cooler on the floor. A humming noise came from the cooler, and Tai assumed that it was storing food.

"Hey, who's that?" A deep, husky voice floated down from the top of one of the bunk beds. Tai looked up, and his breath caught in his throat. A boy, looking a bit older than eighteen (although he couldn't have been) was leaning over the safety rail to look at Tai. All of Tai's thoughts of Reid being good looking flew out the window when he saw his brother. The boy had a beautiful face, gorgeous, godly, features, which made shivers run down Tai's back. Straight, soft-looking blond hair fell lightly into his amber eyes.

"You look familiar! What's your name? Maybe I know you from somewhere…have you ever been to Japan?"

Tai didn't realize that he had been speaking in Japanese until he received a confused looking glance from Reid's brother.

"Um…I'm sorry, I don't understand. Can you say it in English?" The second the English words came out of his mouth, Tai lost the feeling he was grasping for. A disappointed look crossed his face.

"...Sorry, you looked familiar."

"S'okay, my name is Tobias, who are you?" Tai blushed and looked at his feet.

"Tai." He mumbled.

"Hey, that's a cool name. Nice to meet you Tai." Tobias reached a welcoming hand down from the top bunk, and Tai, not very familiar with this version of greeting warily reached for it. Two seconds later he found himself almost nose to nose with Tobias, who was looking straight into his eyes. A strong arm held him up against the side of the bed, sending sparks through his arm to the rest of his body.

Tobias leaned in even closer, until his lips were a few inches away from Tai's.

"You're cute…what's your story?" Tai, who was paralyzed at the proximity of the handsome boy to his face, could not answer right away. He could smell Tobias's sweet breath brushing against his lips, and he knew that he was blushing insanely. The sexy voice that vibrated down his body didn't help his predicament.

"M-my story?" The poor boy stuttered ferociously.

"Mhmm…" Tobias turned his mouth towards Tai's ear, and with his soft cheek brushing up against Tai's, he whispered into his ear.

"There must be a…reason…that you're here…" Tai turned to the side suddenly, ending up touching noses with Tobias. There was an invitation in the older boy's eyes, and he didn't know what to do. On the verge on indecision, Tai forgot his perilous position. He drew his hand back from its resting place on the post of the bed, and promptly fell over backwards off the bed and onto the floor.

THUMP!

Tai felt the rattle all the way down to his feet. As he lay on the floor, trying to gather his bearings, the image of Tobias jumping down from the bed and standing over top him sparked his memory.

Flashback

A blond man who looked a lot like Tobias, except he was older, and looked half-Japanese, stood over his body. He was lying on the floor, and pain was shooting up his body.

"Hey brat, are you okay?"

He couldn't answer, he hurt so much. Trying to open his mouth was futile, and moving just encouraged the blinding pain. A moan escaped his lips.

A strange look crossed the man's face.

"Hey, brat, are you okay? Answer me!"

He tried to shake his head no, but nothing happened, except a tremor from his toes to his neck.

"Baka, what happened? Can you not move! Say something!"

He should have been crying. But something about the blond man's concern made him so happy, that a floating feeling filled his body…wait…maybe he was going to faint…

"Let's get you to the hospital…"

End Flashback

"Hey Tai, are you okay?" Emotions whirled through the boy's head as he tried to sort out what had just happened. Had he remembered something…someone? It seemed like it. But then who was that guy who looked so much like Tobias…could he be the person that Tobias reminded him of? But what was his name…?

"Yo, dude, are you okay?"

"Uhh…yeah, I think so…"

"What happened?"

"I'm…not sure…I think I remembered something…"

"Oh right, Reid told me that you had amnesia or something…"

"Um, ya…"

"Here." Tai looked up to see the older boy offering him a hand. Remembering how he ended up last time, Tai was reluctant to take it, but since he was feeling quite dizzy, and he didn't think he could get up on his own, he grabbed the hand. For a second Tobias didn't pull him up, just stared at him hungrily. In an attempt to break the intense gaze, the smaller boy focused on a spot on the rug, but the desire to gaze at Tobias again was so strong that he lost the battle and looked into his eyes. A smirk ghosted the older boy's lips, then he swung Tai to his feet and dropped his hand.

Nervously, Tai looked around the room, trying to find a topic of discussion. Of course, having a gorgeously sexy man who just seconds ago was close enough to kiss, mercilessly studying you makes it hard to concentrate.

(Author's Note: So I would assume…It's never happened to me before…)

"Uh…where's Reid?" Seeing that they were now alone in the room made him even more nervous. He saw Tobias inching closer to him.

"He left…something about us wanting to be alone." Tobias drawled out the last words. As he caught onto the obvious implication in the other boy's words, Tai's face got even redder.

"But…but I've got an English lesson with him!"

"I can teach you…" Tobias reached over and drew Tai towards him, pulling him by the waist until they were flush together. He could feel himself getting aroused as the older boy subtly moved Tai's hips against him with his hands.

"Uh…uh…."

"Mhmmm?" Tobias leaned in towards Tai's neck, licking the hollows in his shoulders.

"I-I uhh…I have to—" His sentence was abruptly cut off with a gasp as Tobias ran his tongue up his sensitive neck, to his jaw line, where he proceed to suck on the skin there.

"St-stop…" Tai mumbled, "I can't, I really can't…"

"Pardon?" The teasing of his neck stopped for a moment, and Tai grabbed the opportunity to push the bigger boy away.

"I can't." He stated simply, "This is wrong…"

"What, is there something wrong with being gay?" A flash of anger passed quickly through Tobias's eyes, before he regained his composure.

"N-no!" He jumped to defend himself, "I didn't mean anything like that! It's just…it's just that I don't even know you…I don't even actually know myself. And I don't know if I already…am with someone…" Not knowing how to express himself more clearly, Tai ended up punctuating each pause with a helpless shrug of his shoulders. Surprisingly enough, Tobias seemed to understand, and with one last intense glare into Tai's eyes, he backed out of his personal space.

"Well, why didn't you say so before?" The smirk on his face told Tai that he clearly knew the answer to the question. Tobias sprawled himself out on one of the beanbag chairs, looking, for all the world, as if he had just woken up from a nap. Tai, on the other hand, glimpsed himself in a wall mirror, and saw that his face was flushed bright red, his hair messed up, and his clothes were rumpled.

"Do you want to get started?" Tai looked suspiciously over at him.

"…With the lesson? Jeez, no need to give me that look, what did you think I meant?" Another smirk, but this time, Tai wasn't quite so annoyed. In fact, it was kind of fun, having a sexy mysterious boy flirting with him.

Well, two could play at this game. Purposely making his voice breathy, Tai ran a hand slowly through his hair, and walked over to Tobias, swaying his hips.

"First, there's something I need you to do for me…" He sat down, leaning over close to Tobias's face before plopping unceremoniously on the floor.

"And what would that be?" There was an amused look on the older boy's face.

"Translate this please." Tai picked the note out of his pocket and threw it on the table. Tobias's grin grew larger, and there was a twinkle in his eyes.

"Ok." He turned his attention to the note, "It says, 'meet us in the boiler room at midnight tonight for …initiation'…oh…"

"What?"

"I guess you're getting "the treatment" tonight, so you can become one of the guys."

"Does everyone get "the treatment"?"

"…Mostly."

"Did you?"

"Well…sort of…"

"What do you mean? How did you "sort of" get it…what is "it"? Why do I have to do it?" Tai looked up at Tobias.

"Well, they started it…but halfway through I realized what bullshit it was so I got up and left. First people ever to do it…half the kids in the place haven't talked to me since…"

"What? Why?"

"Because if you aren't initiated, then you aren't part of the group. If you aren't part of the group…you are an outcast."

"Oh, sorry…"

"No, believe me…it's much better being an outcast. Half the kids still talk to me, and I just get ignored by the other half. Plus, I don't have to follow the stupid rules that Dan and Greg set up."

"Dan and Greg, as in the ones staying in my room?"

"Yup, those very same, incredibly charming people are the very scoundrels I'm talking about. "

"…Huh…"

"You know, if you go to that and get initiated, you won't be allowed to talk to me."

"Then I won't go." Shock registered on Tobias's face before he could stop it.

"Oh?"

"Why chase away the few friends I have?" Tobias's face lit up at the mention of friends.

"Cool, but you're gonna be stuck hanging with me for the rest of your time here…"

"That's fine with me." The two boys shared shy grins before they turned to the pressing matter of teaching Tai how to read.

"Will your roommates mind?" Tobias looked up quizzically. "I mean, if I'm here…"

"Oh," the older boy gave a short, fake laugh, "I don't have roommates…it's not 'allowed'…but whatever, I get this huge room to myself…"

"Oh…" Secretly, Tai made a resolution to not ask Tobias anymore questions about himself the political system around the orphanage…he would find out soon enough on his own.

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Author's Note: Ok, there're some things I need to clear up…and point out…first of all, yes I know that it's weird that Tai cough Shuichi cough… could read Reid's note, and not Dan's…but that's just the way my mind works. Also, it seems at first like Tai cough Shuichi really likes Reid, you know…all that stuff, and then I go and introduce Tobias? You're probably thinking "what the hell is she doing, leading us on like that? Is Tai really that fickle?" the answer is, I was originally going to make Tai be attracted to Reid, and have the whole multiple personality thing (not actually but like cold to some people and like sexy to others…like Tohma in the manga) but then I thought "hey! Why not give Reid a sexy, rebellious older brother, who'll remind Shuichi of Yuki…you know, move the plot forward a bit?" And then, it wouldn't be too bad for all you ShuichixYuki fans to see him with someone that REMINDED him of Yuki…right? And I'm sorry if you don't like it, but there was a warning…A WARNING!...I think…I posted one, didn't I?…BAH! you see now? Catch my drift?...ya…. well R&R

P.S YUKI WILL COME!