Before anyone get's all bent out of shape, YES, I'm using an English Webster's dictionary. Sure, the story is Japanese and they wouldn't be using these words, but I'm writing in English, so I'm using English. Judge how well it works at the end. And need I point out I own nothing but this plot?

'Stupid' (adj) - slow in comprehension or understanding.

Kazahaya mulled it over for a minute. Sure, he wasn't always the first to catch on, but was he really stupid?

'Intelligent' (adj) - the capacity to perceive and comprehend meaning.

What a way to say 'how much you can learn.' Kazahaya could learn. He'd taught himself most of what he knew. It only took him two weeks to know the work in the drugstore as well as Rikuo did, despite his occasional mishaps.

'Bastard' (noun) - an illegitimate child; a disagreeable, mean, or nasty person.

"That's Rikuo all right." Kazahaya muttered. He shut the dictionary with a sigh. What had Kakei really wanted him to do with a dictionary? What did that have to do with his argument with Rikuo?

"You just proved my point. Is that all you could come up with?"

"Yes." He grudgingly admitted to himself. He bit his lip and glanced at the dictionary again. How many other words were there that he could have flung back at Rikuo?

Kazahaya once again pulled the book back in front of him and with tentative fingers opened it near the beginning.

'Bougie' - 'Bowleg' was the heading of the page he was staring at. He quickly scanned the page and was shocked at the number of words he didn't recognize. The definition of one near the bottom of the first column caught his eye.

'Bounder' (adj) - a vulgar person.

Kazahaya tried to imagine tossing that out in a argument, but it was difficult. Maybe there was a reason why only scholars used words like that...

Hey! Scholars were smart- compared to Kazahaya, they were geniuses. Maybe if he sounded more like a scholar, Rikuo wouldn't be able to call him stupid. But he'd actually have to know the words he was using- if Rikuo happened to know one of them and he used it wrong...talk about a backfire.

He looked down at the page again. There were plenty of big, smart sounding words with detailed definitions. He didn't want to go overboard, but if he could just learn them one at a time every day, in a few months he'd sound brilliant!

But which ones to pick? There were enough to last a lifetime. He could definitely use bounder on Rikuo, but his new intellectual self was going to be above such childish tactics. He'd beat Rikuo with his brain.

"What are you doing?" Rikuo leaned against the wall and watched Saiga straighten up from his crouch outside the keyhole to his and Kazahaya's room.

"Ha, ha, ha!" He patted Rikuo on the back with enough force to have knocked a smaller man down. "Like you don't know." Rikuo cocked an eyebrow at him and he threw his head back and laughed louder as he moved down the hall towards the stairs. Rikuo shook his head and entered the room.

Downstairs, Saiga met Kakei in his office. He was lounging on the couch, his small frame stretched to it's fullest in a cat arch, after which he settled back onto the cushions and invited Saiga to join him.

With a smirk, the larger man scooped him up and deposited him into his lap.

"So?" Kakei reclined his head on Saiga's shoulder.

"Just like you said. I think he was in the Bs." Saiga trailed his hand down the side of Kakei's face and continued past his throat, but stopped at his shirt collar.

"B..." He mused. "B for bastard I suppose."

"Hopefully he comes up with something better. I've even heard him use that one a few too many times."

"I don't think you understand quite how our young friend's mind works." Kakei chuckled, turning to face Saiga by straddling his hips.

"Well, that's why I have you. So I don't have to bother finding out." Saiga slid Kakei's coat off his shoulders and it hit the ground with a muffled thud. Then his removed the encumbering shirt and let his fingers dance down the smaller man's chest.

Kakei, not willing to let him have all the fun, lifted his chin and took his lips into a demanding kiss. He was also the first to break it, pulling just out of Saiga's reach.

"Are you sure you don't want me to explain it to you?"

Saiga growled slightly in the back of his throat at being stopped and Kakei suppressed a smile at his aggravation. "I'm sure. There's something else I'd rather be doing than talking about Kazahaya right now." With that, he again drew Kakei back to him, this time dominating the kiss as he gently shifted so that they were laying on the couch with him looming above the smaller man. "You can tell me all about it later."

Kakei slipped his hands up Saiga's shirt, removing it, and drew him down on top of him. "Sure thing."

Yeah, I think I keep adding Kakei/Saiga scenes because I love them so much. I need to just write a fic about them, but we always get a little info out of them, so they aren't going anywhere. Thanks for reading! Reviews are loved (as are reviewers- I love you all!).