Summary: Kai finds himself standing in the middle of his living room having a fucking custody battle over Hillary with her best friend.


"You want what?"

Tyson Granger watched Kai Hiwatari stare across the room at him in disbelief, not quite believing what he had just heard. He knew this late at night was not an appropriate time to come over and discuss the content of the matter that has been bothering him for a while now but he'd already been into Hillary's apartment and broken her and Kai's rather heated make out session by the time that realization had occurred to him.

"Joint custody!"

He threw his arms in the air rather frantically, and Kai raised a questioning brow.

"I want you to sign this contract-" he waved a paper and a pen in his left hand, before pushing it into Kai's chest, "-admitting to a mutual agreement that Hillary Tatibana, aside from being your girlfriend, is my best friend too. And I have an equal right to spend time with her as you."

"You're hearing this, right?"

The ex-Captain turned towards Hillary, who was fixing her hair and patting down the creases off her t-shirt, before waving the page in his hand like Tyson had been.

"Your best friend wrote a contract on the back of a Walmart receipt to keep you away from me. I told you he's in love with you."

"Eww! I'm not in love- eww!"

Tyson, furious at the rather preposterously untrue statement, snatched back the said-receipt-slash-contract from the elder-teen's hand and continued.

"This was the only thing I had in my pocket when I realized what I had to do to stop this injustice!"

Hillary did not want to get involved. She could sense the argument brewing between the two teens and knew that neither would back down out of stubbornness, pride or habitual competition.

So she stood up from the couch with a, "Okay, I'm outta here." and walked out of the room.

"Every other day." Tyson suggested with arms crossed.

"Get. Out." Was the stoic reply as Kai, too, turned around to walk out the room –only to be blocked by Tyson.

"Three days with me and four with you. I'm being generous."

"Move."

"No."

Both stood firmly in each other's way, looking directly at each other in the eye with both their arms crossed in stubborn disapproval. Kai couldn't believe how childishly ridiculous the navy haired friend of his was being.

"She's a grown ass woman and she wants to spend all her time with me." He said with a tinge of protectiveness, "Respect that, Granger."

"You are a stoic, cold-hearted bastard with daddy issues and you're mean to me! You are not healthy for her in this large of an amount."

Kai pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Why don't you take it up with her?" Then turning to the door, he raised his voice, "Hilary! I can't deal with this right now, I'm fucking exhausted."

There was a scoff from the room next door, followed by Hilary's amused tone.

"That's not what you said a few minutes ago on the couch." She peeked in through the open door of her room, a mischievous gleam in her eyes, "In fact, I distinctively remember you saying you want to stretch it out for hours and hours -"

"Christmas with you. All other holidays, plus weekends, Tuesdays and Thursdays with me."

"That's cruel!"

Tyson objected with vigor, too distracted by Kai's words to notice how red Kai was in the face right then.

"You just gave me Mondays and Wednesdays! She already spends Christmas with all of us anyways! Two days!" He is scoffing, "They have hot-lines for these types of controlling relationships, you know!"

"Tch."

It's eleven freaking PM and Kai should be in bed with Hilary instead he was standing in the middle of his living room having a fucking custody battle with her best friend.

Fuck, Hilary just gave him that suggestive wink and disappeared into the bedroom.

"Fine. What do you want."

"Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays." Tyson happily obliged, "Halloween since you're such a bore and refuse to dress up, and I get it to be honest, your very face is horrifying enough-"

"Tyson." He can hear Hilary drop on the bed with a thud-

"-Every time a new movie comes out, every time a new restaurant opens, every time I want to blow some steam, whenever the circus is in town since that's our thing since tenth grade-"

"Why is a stupid contract necessary? No one stopped her from going to all of this."

Kai pointed out, noting how ridiculous the entire situation was but having no choice but to watch as Tyson clicked his pen open, and began to write down the conditions that he had just voiced.

"All she does is stay cooped up in this stupid box with her tongue down your throat! She needs to be dragged out!"

"It's a nice box." Kai retorted, defensive about the new apartment that took Hilary and him ages to find and involved more blackmailing than he cared to admit.

With a smirk he added, "It's a nice tongue."

"Ok. Ew." Tyson pressed the pen harder against the Wall Mart receipt as he jotted down the next condition, "Stop...talking...about...Hilary's...body...parts-"

Kai rolled his eyes, as Tyson pointed towards the end of the receipt where he'd written in small illegible writing and went, "Sign here." and shoved the pen and paper at Kai, who examined it, looking for any signs of trickery but it was simple and as genuine as Tyson's intention.

He sighed, clicking his pen, once again noting the absolute ridiculousness of this situation.

"All I get are Tuesdays, Thursdays and the weekend. Why the fuck am I even signing this shit-"

"Come off it, Kai. You live with her." now it was Tyson's turn to roll his eyes, "So dramatic. You can also have her when you lose a battle to me and need to trash talk. It's there, see-"

Kai grunted in disapproval, turned around and caught a glimpse of Hillary taking off the first layer of her cloth from the door slightly ajar, and hurriedly scribbled his sign with a shake of his head and handed the paper back to Tyson. Custody of Hilary Tachibana. Of all the-

"Leave. Now."

Kai didn't look back to see if his order was obeyed, locked the door to their bedroom and proceeded to continue what Hilary and him had started before they'd been so ruthlessly inter-

"Kai, you forgot to give my pen back."

He cursed.


author's note

how am I starting a brand new anthology series when I literally have finished NONE of them EVER? I don't know just deal with me y'all have no other choice.

Guys. I'll be updating every week (hopefully) different stories. I have a lot written just waiting to be posted. And one surprise for anyone who's been following my fics since the beginning.

Fuck I really need to compile all this shit bro.

Y'all send your love to kaihil lover she's going through a tough time.

~dbn

PS: I posted Hot and Cold's recent chapter last Friday. Do check it out. Will post the next chapter next week hopefully, after minor editing.