Howdy! I didn't think I would be home today, but it turns out that I am! So that means updatey goodness for you all. Anwyay, I'm not gonna talk anymore because I do have to leave later, but I wanna get this done first!
alpha2nd: Aren't they the cutest couple? Who couldn't love them? Heh, I'll only tell you that you're close by guessing what Kanone's got up his sleeve, but which guess was close? Heh, guess you'll just have to find that out for yourself! I am the question maker! You think you knew all the answers, and then I make more questions! Did I at least answer all of your other questions that you had before the new ones came along? Hope so, thanks for reviewing!
Prosperpina: Hehe, yep, you got it! Hopefully she won't have a problem with it, but Eyes snogging Kanone is too cute, who could have a problem with that? Maybe Eyes is just too cute, no one can stay mad at him! I'll explain why no one said anything at lunch in this chapter. Rio does love 'sploding things...poor Kanone. Thanks for reviewing!
And I need to put up a warning of a bit of OOCness on Eyes' part in the beginning of this chapter...you'll see.
Shining blue eyes opened up to stare at a sleeping brown haired boy. Eyes smirked at his boyfriend as the boy yawned and sleepily opened his golden eyes to glare at Eyes. The boy was poking him in his side (below his ribs) to wake him up. It was nearly 8, and Eyes had been awake for almost two hours. He got up once, but found nothing to do and returned to bed. Besides that, it was cold outside of the safety of their bedroom. Kanone turned over on his side to face away from the assaulting finger, "Eyes, why are you up so early?"
Eyes glared at the back and started to poke that, "You know I can't sleep for long, Kanone. It's almost 8, anyway, you need to get up."
Kanone swatted away the finger and turned back to face Eyes and glance at his alarm clock. He was right, but Kanone was tired and his ribs were hurting. He knew this was no excuse to slack off, but he was so close to using it anyway. Kanone winced as the finger hit a sore spot, and felt Eyes immediately pull back and turn over. Kanone grinned, trime for revenge. Seeing as how emotionless his boyfriend was, Kanone had never heard him laugh. Despite this, the boy had let on that he was very ticklish. Now was the time to test that theory, so Kanone sat up and made just enough noise to draw the younger one's attention. As Eyes rolled over slightly, Kanone strattled him and started tickling him furiously. At first he thought it wasn't working until he saw a small (very small) smile tugging at the perfect lips. Kanone grinned and tickled harder, but not hard enough to hurt him.
"Kanone, stop." Eyes said, as he now realized the flaw in his plan to wake Kanone up. The smile was getting bigger, but the boy's face was getting a more annoyed look on it. He pressed his lips together, determined to not let them open and release the laugh that was inside. Eyes had never in his life wanted to laugh, let alone have to hold one in. So why didn't he? If Eyes wanted to laugh, he should laugh...right?
Kanone saw this and moved to other, more ticklish body parts like his knees. As one hand stayed at the boy's side to tickle him, the other reached down and started to deliver the punishment to behind his knees. He felt the boy squirm and tell him to get off, but Kanone just grinned and kept at it, "See, this is what you get for waking me up so early."
Eyes let out a sound that could have been interpreted as a snort as Kanone reached down to his knees...they were his sensitive spot. He couldn't hold it in any longer and let out a breathy laugh, "Kanone, stop." He said between breaths, "Okay, you win. I won't wake you up again." Eyes finally managed to push the laughing boy off of him, and quickly sat up and composed himself, "Happy?" He asked, coldly. Well, it would have been cold, except there was a slight grin on his face that told Kanone he wasn't really mad.
Kanone sat up as well, and tried to wipe the smirk off his face. He finally achieved this goal, and pulled Eyes to him. The younger one tensed up, ready to fend off Kanone if he decided he wasn't done, but immediately relaxed as the expected tickle was instead a kiss. He leaned in and wrapped his arms around Kanone's neck. The latter broke the kiss and smiled, "Now I am." He kissed Eyes again before getting up. All in all, this hadn't been a terrible way to wake up. Despite having been poked in his broken ribs, Kanone had heard Eyes laugh for what could have only been the first or second time in the boy's entire life. It was a beautiful sound, and Kanone wondered why Eyes didn't do it more often. He wouldn't go as far as to say that the boy wasn't happy enough here to laugh, but maybe he just wasn't used to the sensation and it confused him a little. Whatever the resaon was, he had enjoyed hearing the rare sound.
All joy disappeared as he walked downstairs to see who was in his house. Kousuke was going through his kitchen, looking for something to eat that didn't require cooking. Rio and Ryoko had already found something, and were now sitting at his table, eating the prized food. Kousuke grinned as Kanone walked into the kitchen, "Hey, Kanone. So, when's breakfast?"
Kanone glanced to the girls who smiled at him, but said nothing since they were stuffing their faces with food. He looked back to Kousuke, "It looks like you're missing it." He said as he motioned to the girls, "It seems that Rio and Ryoko have already found something, why can't you?"
Kousuke glared at the other boy, "Because I wanted something cooked..." He trailed off as Eyes entered the kitchen.
"Eyes?" Rio asked, not sure if it was actuall the boy or not. Seeing that it was she ran over to him, "Eyes!" She hugged him tightly, and he had to practically pry her off.
"Hello." He greeted the three, glaring at the mess they had made in their hunt for food.
Ryoko finished her breakfast and looked at Eyes, "So, Kiyotaka actually let you go?"
Eyes nodded and then turned to glare at Rio and Kousuke, "I heard that you two had some fun in my absence."
Rio looked away and Kousuke glared, "That was all Rio's fault, you can't pin that on me!"
Ryoko hit him on her way to put her dishes in the sink, "Idiot, you were the one who gave her the idea."
Kousuke rubbed the back of his head where he'd been hit, "Yeah, but I never said that she should blow him up!"
Rio pouted, "It's not my fault, Kousuke handed me the wrong ingredients!"
Eyes glared at them, "And why didn't you double check?"
Rio hesitated, "Well...I thought Kousuke could handle a simple job like that, but apparently I was wrong."
Eyes sighed, "And why didn't you tell me that he was in the hospital when we were at school?"
Now they all turned to Kanone, "You were in the hospital?" Kousuke asked, afraid that either Eyes or the boy himself would kick his ass. It was obviously his fault, no matter whose side of the story they believed.
"We didn't know!" Rio said to Eyes, then turned to Kanone, "Why didn't you tell us?"
Kanone looked at them all, a bit confused, "It was no big deal, and I'm fine. I didn't think it was worth getting everyone worried."
"So not showing up and not telling us you weren't going to be there was better?" Eyes asked, a bit hurt that Kanone thought he didn't need to know. Why wouldn't Kanone think he was that worried about him?
Kanone walked over to the boy and hugged him, "If I'd known you would be this upset, I would have told you." Eyes just sighed, and walked over to the fridge to get food out to start cooking breakfast.
"I'm really sorry we hurt you, Kanone." Rio apologized, playing her cute angle. Though she was apologizing as much to Eyes as she was to Kanone.
Kanone just smiled, "Don't worry, Rio. But you'd better not try anything like that again. Who told you it was a good idea to listen to Kousuke in the first place?"
Rio glared at Kousuke, "He did!" She yelled, pointing an accusing finger at the redhead who was glaring at said digit. Kanone just sighed and went to help Eyes with breakfast, ignoring the arguing behind him.
(AN: There was really no point to that part of the chappy, but I just threw it in there. Anyway, we're going to fast foward a bit here, and I wanted to draw your attention away from the fic for a second, because going from the first part to the rest is a little disorienting if you just read it straight through. The next part is kind of like the beginning of another chapter, but I wanted to put it in here because I wanted to have this chappy have some meaning. Now that I've done my job, enjoy the rest of the chapter!)
Throughout the next month, Eyes noticed that Kanone had been gone quite a bit. He had left very early in the morning (before Eyes even woke up), and returned pretty late when Eyes was getting ready for bed. Whenever Eyes would ask him about it, Kanone would always avoid the question and say he was tired. Eyes feared the worst, but wanted to trust Kanone. The other boy hadn't exactly become distant, he was just gone a lot. One night, Eyes had had enough and wanted answers. Kanone had been gone all day again, and they were supposed to go shopping tomorrow. Whenever he stayed out all day, he didn't get up until around 10 or 11 the next morning, and Eyes knew that Kanone had wanted to spend as much time out with the boy as possible tomorrow.
So there he was, laying in their bed, waiting for his boyfriend to return home from god knows where. It was nearly 11 and Kanone had been gone for more than 12 hours. Eyes was worried, of course, but also a bit angry. He was worried because what if what Kanone was doing was dangerous? But what if he was out with someone else? What if he was cheating on Eyes and the naiive boy believed his stupid lies and excuses? "No." Eyes told himself, "Kanone wouldn't lie to me." He could trust Kanone, right? The older one had never given Eyes any reason not to trust him, so what justification did he have now? He had none, only his fears of Kanone not loving him to fuel his paranoia.
The bedroom door opening stirred Eyes from his half asleep thoughts. He saw Kanone smile at him and slide into bed next to him, "I told you that you didn't need to wait up for me, but I'm glad you did." He whispered, kissing Eyes.
The latter returned the kiss, but pulled away quickly, "Kanone, can we talk?"
Kanone knew what was coming, and also knew that Eyes wouldn't take his avoidance and false excuses much longer. Still, if he could only stall him for a couple more days, "Can't it wait until morning? I'm a bit tired, and we have to be up early to go shopping. You haven't forgotten, have you?"
So he did still want to go. If he had been spending all his time with someone else, he wouldn't want to spend all his money on Eyes, "No, I haven't." Once Eyes thought it through more clearly, there was no way Kanone would be cheating on him. Technically, it wouldn't even be cheating seeing as how they hadn't slept together yet. At the beginning of the relationship, Eyes had requested that they take it slow, and Kanone had agreed whole heartedly. If Kanone had finally gotten tired of waiting and had found someone else, then why would he bother to keep Eyes around?
"Good, so we can talk in the morning?" Kanone asked. Eyes nodded, knowing that they wouldn't talk in the morning. Whenever Kanone said that, he always just made an excuse the next time Eyes asked him about where he'd been the night before. Kanone hated keeping secrets from Eyes, but the boy couldn't know about this...not yet.
Yeah...there wasn't much point to this chapter, but I figured I'd throw it in here anyway. It's better than nothing, right? And I figured the last little part would throw in some suspicion or confusion or something that would make you want the next chapter soon. Hehe, ticklish Eyes, could you just imagine? Review!
