Bloody Crush!

By: Cold Rain

Rated: PG-13 for mild violence and yaoi

NOTE TO READERS: Hi, Readers! I want to thank Lady Geuna and Catc10 for giving me ideas for this chapter, you guys rock! I love this chapter! I hope all of you will like it. Lines between paragraphs mean scene/time transitions (including flashbacks which will be written in past tense). Translations for Japanese phrases will be at the end of the chapter. Oh, and I don't own Get Backers, any of the characters, etc.

DISCLAIMER: If you didn't read the Note to Readers here it is again: I don't own the Get Backers, any of the characters, etc. I just own the fanfic. Oh, and I don't own The Village either.

CHAPTER 8: Movie Madness... And Candy Hair?

"Three tickets to... hmmm..." Akabane stares at the listings of movie times at the ticket booth (of the discount theater that Ginji and Ban occasionally go to, Ginji only knows where discount theaters are) in deep thought, "The Village." Ban gives Akabane a questioning stare as they head to the concession stand after getting the tickets.

"Akabane? Don't you think The Village will scare Ginji?"

"Of course not. Nothing will hurt him while I'm here."

(No way, he's mine to protect.)

"OOH! Can we get some candy, and popcorn, and soda, and nachos?" Ginji smiles. He named practically everything on the menu.

"Of course we can," Ban smiles, buying exactly what Ginji asked for.

"Ban-chan? Are you OK?" Ginji peers up at Ban through blonde eyelashes, looking worried for his Retrieval partner.

"I'm just fine. Why are you asking?"

"Midou Ban, we both know you are very... stingy when it comes to money," Akabane gives a smug smirk while tilting his hat in front of his face.

"Shut-up," Ban glares, thrusting the nachos into Akabane's hands, "Carry this."

"It'salmosttimeit'salmosttimeit'salmosttime," Ginji cheers in super speed; bouncing in his seat. Akabane is sitting on his right side and Ban is sitting on his left side. The annoying ads and trailers are done and the projection of the opening credits starts to roll; showing the silhouettes of tree branches as they show the names of actors and writers. Ginji takes the popcorn from Ban and their hands brush against each other for a moment; forcing a blush out of Ban as Ginji hands him candy to replace the popcorn. Ginji starts idly munching on popcorn while the opening credits end and the plot begins. It's then that the silent challenges begin; starting un-innocently enough with Ban and Akabane simultaneously yawning so that they could drape on arm on Ginji's shoulder. Their hands bump into one another and they immediately back off. Therefore, they both lean their heads back to glare at one another behind Ginji's head while he continues munching on the popcorn.

Back off, Ban mouths so that he won't attract Ginji's attention to the glare-fest.

From what? Akabane opens his eyes as he mouths the words with exaggerated innocence (it's exaggerated just because of the fact that Akabane was the person who mouthed it). Ban growls quietly, picks up the three pieces of popcorn, and bounces them one by one off of Akabane's head. Akabane glares at Ban and picks up a small handful of popcorn, tossing it at Ban's forehead. Soon enough they toss little handfuls back and forth; being careful not to attract Ginji's attention to their little battle.

'Wow, you guys sure do like popcorn, don't you?' Ginji whispers, looking in the empty popcorn bag, he didn't seem too disappointed by the lack of popcorn. There are still a lot of snacks left. He leans over to Akabane's ear and whispers, 'Can you pass the nachos, Akabane-chan?' A sudden rise in volume from the movie's music easily covered up Akabane's shocked reaction to hearing Ginji call him "Akabane-chan". Ginji smiles at the black-cloaked psycho who almost jumped out of his seat, 'Scary music, huh?'

'H-hai,' Akabane mutters, surrendering the nachos to the adorable blonde. It's then that he tries to concentrate on the movie; a wedding celebration, happy dancing, a blind girl named Ivy hears screams, they all stop the dance. He would love to watch this any other time, but the chocolate-eyed blonde stole all of his attention span. What's this feeling? It's so...strange... This sticky feeling on his head... He looks and notices that Ban had licked a fruit flavored candy of some kind (green apple flavor, yay) and stuck it in Akabane's hair. Akabane is, of course, annoyed by this. Therefore he uses blinding speed to steal a blue raspberry flavored sucker from Ban, lick it, and stick it on Ban's spiked brown hair. Blue eyes turn a spiteful, icy color towards the "placer-of–suckers-in-other-people's-hair-baka" and immediately started to stick more assorted candy in Akabane's black hair. Akabane easily counters it with candy and an occasional nacho chip saturated in sticky (which I'm guessing it's not supposed to be) cheese. Ginji lets out a small yelp and grabs onto Akabane, whose hair is covered in about five pieces of candy so far. Akabane looks up and notices on the screen that there is a red cloaked creature right behind Ivy who is trying to grope her way through the woods.

'Akabane-chan... I'm scared...' Ginji whispers in a barely audible voice, 'You're not scared of it are you? You wouldn't let anything like that ever hurt anyone, right?'

'Don't worry, I'll never let anything like that kill anyone,' Akabane whispers reassuringly, stroking Ginji's soft blonde hair to calm him down. Akabane pulls out a scalpel and shows it to Ginji, 'You see? Watch this.' Akabane then hits the bottom right section of the movie screen, making a medium-sized rip in the bottom right corner (which people started complaining about, but they never noticed that it was Akabane that threw or summoned back the scalpel).

'Arigatou, I feel better now,' Ginji smiles; then sits up and continues to watch the movie as if nothing happened at all.

I loathe you, Ban glares at Akabane with pure hatred now. Protecting Ginji is Ban's job. Akabane pretended to ignore Ban and attempted to watch the movie again. Ivy asks a man to help her get medicine and says, "We must make haste." Akabane then feels another piece of candy land in his hair. That's the last straw, the straw that broke his back. Ban and Akabane silently jump up to the next row of seats and start to wrestle while being completely unnoticed by the other movie goers. Neither one of them is good at wrestling, but it's fun to watch. They really don't have much of a clue about what they're doing. On the movie one of the village elders asks, "Do you want to keep this up any longer?" right before Ivy runs into the house. Ginji looks from side to side for Akabane and Ban. Then, he looks behind him and spots them; they freeze right in the middle of preparing to punch each other when they see a pair of big brown eyes staring over the seat at them.

"Ooh, my favorite," Ginji smiles as he gently tugs the blue raspberry sucker off of Ban's hair, picks the hair off, and absent mindedly licks it while Ban and Akabane admire the kawaii-ness.

I like this chapter a lot. Tell me what you think about it. Read and review! If you have any ideas for the storyline, then tell me. If you do, I'll put them into consideration and they might end up in the fanfic. Voice your opinion, but no flames, OK?

Cold Rain: How was the movie?

Ginji: It was a little scary, but I liked it.

Ban & Akabane: Kawaii!

Cold Rain: Of course he is. ;P