UKL: Here's your first chapter! Btw, if you want a disclaimer, it'll be on the prologue. O yah… if you know Chinese, you'll need Big 5 to view a minor part of this story, it doesn't really matter though. If you don't know Chinese, then don't even bother.
Rei's POV (sorta)
Rei hummed while he put up the Christmas decorations, they never celebrated Christmas in their village, more like they didn't even know that it existed, so he was really glad that people not only celebrated new year here in Japan, but also Valentines, Easter and Christmas.; his team even made the effort to celebrate Chinese new year, just so Rei could relate to his home town in some way. He loved festivals and holidays, the glowing atmosphere where there were people just made him feel all warm and cozy inside out, even if it's freezing cold outside.
Thanks to Kai, there were able to afford a 12 foot tall tree. It took him ages to persuade Kai to let them have the party in one of the many mansions he owned that were situated in Japan. Just as he was about to jump up and put the star on top, the doorbell rang, causing him to stumble in mid air and nearly hit his head on the floor, being the neko he is he managed to turn back round in time to land on his feet and hands. He cursed silently while walking to the door, wondering who the hell was there and preparing himself to kill whoever it was standing at the door. To his displeasure, he wasn't able to do anything apart from stare at that said person.
"Yuri? Boris? What are you doing here?"
"For the Christmas party sill, what else" Yuri said with a visible smirk present on his face.
"You know that's not what I meant. There still… 12 days till Christmas"
"You just said it yourself, 12 days till Christmas, meaning it's the FIRST day of Christmas!" Yuri chimed joyously, stepping inside without waiting for an invitation with Boris following closely behind.
"But I haven't prepared the rooms yet!" Rei shouted across the hall as they disappeared into the kitchen.
"Don't worry; we've taken care of that already" Takao's voice came from the kitchen, no big surprise there Takao's life consisted of : wake up, eat, train, make out with Max, eat some more, sleep, eat, sleep; at least, that's what it looked like to Rei. But the question was why Takao knew to prepare the rooms, Rei thought it was rather suspicious but brushed it off as just coincidental… toocoincidental for his liking, but it couldn't bee that Takao was up to something, he's too… thick for that… wasn't he?
He started to walk back to "his" room to take a shower to help him clear his thoughts a bit. Not really looking where he was going, he felt himself bumping into something; something that was hard and soft and warm at the same time. He stood still for a moment before he realized that it had to be not something, but someone that he'd bump into. He lifted up his head only to find his gaze meeting with crimson fiery orbs that were stoic and cold at the same time. He felt heat rising into he cheeks and his heart speeding up.
"K-Kai? I…um…Sorry about that." He silently kicked himself in his mind smooth Rei, smooth.
Kai looked slightly amused.
"Just look where you're going next time."
Rei nodded, not trusting his voice at the moment. Kai then walked past, but not before brushing Rei's hand slightly, making him blush even more. Why does he have that type of effect on me? He slowly walked into the room, lightly closing the door. He took out a fresh change of clothes; he stepped into the bathroom, took off his clothes, and turned the shower on full blast. On full blast cold.
He shivered as the cold droplets slid down his body, clearing his mind immediately. This always works, never fails. He thought to himself. After a few minutes, he finally turned the handle back towards the red side slightly; he didn't want to catch a cold, not when there was so much celebration to do. He sighed in content as he felt the warmth wrapping around his body.
But still, there were so many unanswered questions: Is Takao up to something? What have Yuri and Boris go to do with this? Does Kai know about this? Why does the mere presence of Kai have such a bit effect on him? Groaning, he pushed all these thoughts out of his mind. I'm just being paranoid. A crash suddenly sounded from downstairs.咁死煩㗎…想靜翻一陣嘢都唔得…(1)
Takao's POV
He couldn't help grinning like an idiot; his plan just couldn't fail, not with the help of Yuri, Boris, and of course Maxie. He had made sure that neither Kai nor Rei would find out about this.
Sometimes, it is peculiar how the supposedly smart people were so dense. It was blatantly obvious that both of them were totally in love with each other, everyone sensed it, only exception being themselves of course, otherwise, it would have saved him a lot of trouble.
It would all begin tonight…and hopefully, everything will go according to plan.
He didn't realize that he was rocking the chair he was on just a bit too much, resulting in him in a pile on the floor and a broken leg on the chair.
Normal POV
After dining, they all gathered around the fire place, just chatting and catching up with each other.
"Why don't we do something more exiting than just sitting here, it's starting to get a bit dull." Takao spoke up after 20 minutes of silence.
"I know! Why don't we play Vampire's Night" Chirped Max. Everyone stared at him.
"Ok, fine… that's a bit old…then how about Tales of the Abyss?"
"Maxie, that's not even out yet" Rei stated.
"But Kai has already got the prototype, he get the prototype of EVERYHTING." Max whined.
"There are statistics showing that if you spend too much time on TV games you can endanger yourself with joint infections in the later years of your life" Kyujyu said. (UKL: I forgot that he existed for like… a moment there – sweatdrops-)
"What do you suggest then?" Max snapped at him, a very un-Max thing to do.
"How about Truth or Dare?" Yuri suggested.
"Isn't that a bit cliché?" Rei asked.
"We can always alter it a bit to make it more … adventurous" Takao suggested, a smug look clearly plastered on his face.
"Alter? How?" Rei was starting to get a bit nervous I was wrong, he IS up to something.
"I call this "The Twelve Dares of Christmas" he was grinning like there was no tomorrow by now I KNEW this would work; now they can't back out.
"What?" Rei was really confused now.
"I just created this game… basically, everyday, we will write down a random dare on a piece of paper and but it in a box, then everyone would have to draw one out and will have the rest of the day to complete the task. Then every night after dinner, we would gather around to make sure everyone did their dare, so…" Standing up, Takao walked to the bar table and pulled out a pen, a small box and a pack of not paper from the drawer.
"Let's get started! Since we already had dinner, -looks at watch- it's 7:00 at the moment, how about we come back here at approximately…11:30? I'll start first." With that, he started to scribble something on one of the note papers, then threw it into the box. They took turns in writing down the dare and throwing them into the box. Then starting with Takao again, they each picked out a sheet after shaking the box to make sure they were mixed up.
Rei's face turned pale after reading the note. O god. What have I gotten myself into?
UKL: maybe I should stop, I'm running out of gas… what do you think?
-ducks under table to dodge all the sharp objects being aimed at her-
UKL: I'll take that as a no.
Rei's POV
How am I supposed to do this? Reading over his little sheet of paper again. I swear I'm going to kill whoever that wrote this. He angrily stuffed it in his pocket and let out a long sigh. Well… if I'm going to have to finish this dare before 11:30, I'd have to start it soon. With that he started off to go search for the person which this dare revolved around.
Kai's POV (FINALLY!)
I swear that this was written by Kinomiya. Who else would write something as stupid as THIS? He raised his eyebrows slightly as he read his note. This shouldn't take long. He didn't quite like the idea of searching through someone else's belongings, but it would get this over and done with.
He started to walk towards that certain person's room. Pressing his ear against the door to make sure there was no sign of movement inside it. He silently opened the door and reached for the first drawer and started searching for what he was supposed to look for.
Kyujyu's POV
He blushed furiously as he realized what situation he has put himself in. sometimes I really wonder why I still hang around this bunch of people. He tries to figure out how he was going to prove that he has done the dare and how on earth he was supposed to do it in the first place.
Yuri's POV
This should be easy, not as exiting as I hoped for, but I guess it'll have to do. I really have to credit Kinomiya for coming up with this plan; I never thought he had it in him, the guts and the brains.
"Bori-kun, I'll need your help on this one." Boris shrugged, Yuri took that as an invitation and started to drag him out the door with a camera in his hand"
Takao's POV
He frowned as he went over his note. He couldn't figure out who wrote this; it wasn't exactly a dare, but at least he doesn't have to do something outrageous. Wonder what Maxie got…
Max's POV
He couldn't stop giggle, whoever wrote this one must be a genius. He would get into a bit of trouble, but what was that compared to fun?
Boris's POV
What kind of dare is THIS?
He was never the type to play these games, but he wanted to help Kai, he deserved all the happiness he could get for what he was made to go through since he was a child; He became more convinced to help him ever since he had found his own source of happiness.
So as a result, he was here, trying to figure out what exactly had happened and how he could get away with this without getting arrested.
1." Why are they so damn annoying? I can't even have a moment of tranquil."- this is in cantonese btw, i just like it when Rei speaks Cantonese instead of mandarin... -grins-
UKL: That's it for today, well, drop in a review if you feel like it, those are always appreciated; flames amuse me so I don't mind those. Well I guess I'll see you guy tomorrow!