Gackt's lips curled into a smile as he shifted into fourth gear and sent his Ford Thunderbird sailing over the crest of a particularly steep hill, and flying through the air with the reckless abandon of a psychotic teenager who should have never been given a drivers license in the first place. Whilst Hyde was digging his fingers deep into the sides of his passenger seat and praying to Jesus that he would make it back to the ground in one relatively undamaged piece. Despite the amount of years he had been closely acquainted with Gackt, there was just no way any sane human could grow used to his driving. They hit the ground and screeched off again as if Gackt had never even heard of such a thing as speed limits. Hyde looked over at the smirk on his friends face and wondered back in the part of his mind that wasn't fully devoted to prayer whether he got some sick satisfaction out of making his passengers ruin whatever perfectly good underwear they had decided to wear that day. The sick fuck.

When the ford finally came screeching to a halt in front of god knows where Hyde desperately flung himself from the side door and promptly kissed the solid pavement beneath his shaky body. Gackt stepped out his door and looked over at Hyde, then put what could be interpreted from the look on his face as a post coital cigarette between his lips, stifling a giggle. Hyde stood again and glared at him.

"You're twisted."

"Why Hyde san, I'm certain I have no idea what you are talking about."

"You're a homicidal psycho who should be locked away from the rest of human kind."

"That's not a very nice thing to say to the person who is going to be driving you home Hyde san."

Hyde twitched and almost vomited from the nausea the thought of re entering that car induced. So he turned to see just where he had ended up. Probably more out of wondering whether it was walking distance from his house than from curiosity as to where Gackt had led him. They were in a parking complex, he noted as a chauffeur made his way over. Gackt handed him the keys and said as he turned away "if you get a scratch on my car, I swear to personally find you, and brutally murder you in front of all your loved ones. Then make them pay for the damages." The poor chauffeur could barely get the key into the door as Gackt and Hyde strode away. Hyde thought about scolding Gackt for scaring the poor boy, when after a little more thought brought him to the conclusion that he was probably perfectly serious.

"So where are we going?"

"Well I promised the guys I would meet them at this new restaurant in town today, so I figured we would swing by and have a quick breakfast then take the day from there." Gackt said, lighting the cigarette and taking a long drag. Hyde would usually have pointed out by now that it would have made more sense to just drive to the restaurant and park there but it was a nice day and walking didn't seem like such a bad idea right about now.

Well that's what he thought until he saw a flash of white light go off from the corner of his eye. He looked around and saw, to his supreme horror several girls standing behind him in camera's and "I LOVE GACKT… WITH HYDE!" shirts. They giggled madly and waved when he looked back at them. To which he replied by waving back, his smile much more nervous than theirs. He looked back and saw Gackt's face completely calm, as though he didn't even see them. But then he was an expert when it came to ignoring people. He took another drag off his cig. Hyde thought it might be best if he followed suit, when, much to his displeasure, the girls followed Gackt and him down the street. Flashing photos, giggling madly, waving frantically. Creating a general ruckus and bringing much more attention than Hyde generally approved of attracting when he was out without any bodyguards. He tried to ignore their endless banter about how adorable the two of them looked together, and the questionable suggestions the girls made about what his plans with Gackt might be for the night. But damn them it kept getting LOUDER! He turned to try to bribe them off with maybe a few snapshots and some autographs only to find the small group of girls had grown to a rather large and giddy crowd, which insisted on blinding him as soon as he turned by flashing more pictures. He spun back around in a daze and again looked up at Gackt, who continued to ignore it. He reached a hand toward him to tap him on the shoulder and get his attention but another feverish round of flashing went off and Hyde withdrew his hand for fear of having pictures of him touching Gackt on the internet by this evening, along with in all the tabloids. And he was certain no one in their presence would have any qualms about making up some juicy story about how he and Gackt began to immediately make out in the middle of the street directly after the photo was taken. So he resided himself to continue to attempt to ignore them.

So the walking continued, and it didn't take long for Hyde to notice the majority of it would take place in an uphill fashion. And being the dangerous chain smoker he was, you can imagine what torture these hills were inflicting on Hyde's body. "W-where… exactly is… this… damn restaurant Gacchan?" Gackt looked down at Hyde curiously. "It's uptown." He said simply. Hyde glared at him as he stopped to lean against a nearby building to catch his breath. "Wait… you said… uptown…Gackt… didn't you park DOWN town?"

"Yeah?"

Hyde turned around slowly and began to bang his head against the building. The girls took more pictures.
"So HOW far do we have to WALK Gacchan?"

"Oh, not too much further, maybe about forty kilometers."

"Were walking FORTY more kilometers… Uphill?" Hyde choked out unbelieving. Gackt nodded and fingered a piece of lint on his tie.

"Well Hyde san we don't have all day, I said we'd meet for BREAKFAST, not BRUNCH." He insisted, turning to walk off again. Hyde stared at him, wishing Gackt would look back so he could see the venom in his eyes. The girls began to walk after Gackt, but some lingered with him. Hyde looked at them.

"How can you girls do all this walking VOLUNTARILY?" he panted. Two of the girls looked at each other and then back at him.

"We follow Gackt EVERYWHERE he goes. We're used to it Hyde Sama!" one of them squealed happily. The one next to her nodded. "Gackt makes sure we're always in TOP physical shape!" she added. Hyde scrunched his face up at the thought of WHY he would want these girls in their peak physical condition. Then stood up and walked back up next to Gackt.

"Gacchan, for gods sake why do you allow these women to follow you EVERYWHERE you go? Doesn't it ever make your friends uncomfortable?" he panted. Gackt looked at him, eyebrow cocked.

"Women….? What women?" he said genuinely. Hyde almost shoved him in front of a truck right there and then.

"YOUR DAMN FANGIRLS THAT HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING US FOR THE PAST SEVEN MILES YOU IDIOT! WHAT OTHER GIRLS COULD I POSSIBLEY BE REFFERING TO?" he shrieked. Usually he wouldn't fly off the handle like this, but as you can see, his day wasn't going quite as he had originally intended for it to. Gackt blinked behind his shades. "Fan… girls… Hyde I think the heat may have gotten to you, there aren't any… oh." Gackt turned and saw the mob of women for the first time. One of them screamed "OH MY GOD HE SEE'S US!"

"WHAT DO WE DO!"

"Eh… TAKE PICTURES! QUICK!"

Then the world disappeared in the flash of a hundred cameras. Gackt stumbled back a step or two, covering his eyes with his sleeves. He turned to Hyde and said barely audible over the flashing shutters "How long have they BEEN here Hyde san?" Hyde could barely hold back the growl of frustration he felt growing in the back of his throat. "You mean you have NEVER noticed these women before?"

"Never! This has been going on for more than today?"

"Gackt you're a god damned idiot!"

"You think we could out run them?"

"What about me makes you think I could possibly handle running up this goddamn hill? NEVER MIND out running your insane fan girls uphill!"

"Well they can't be too fast-"

"THEY FOLLOW YOU EVERY GOD DAMNED WHERE! YOU ARENT GOING TO BE ABLE TO OUT RUN-"

"THEYRE GOING TO RUN! GRAB THEM BEFORE THEY GET AWAY!" a girl screamed. And immediately the entire mob pounced on them. Shirts were shredded; admiration and confessions of true love were screamed at high-pitched frequencies that only dogs should be capable of hearing. Butts were groped unmercifully, and pictures again flashed, not that that part ever stopped in the first place. They found the blinding lights made it impossible to distinguish which direction was up and couldn't climb their way out of the mob. They were trapped. God damn it!

When suddenly tires were heard screeching to a halt not too far away. And Hyde could swear he heard Ruki's voice. "Look Reita! Minors! A whole SWARM of them! Let's get em!"

"Ah! It IS a swarm of minors! Wait a second… is that… isn't that Hyde's jacket that one's holding?"

Aoi leaned out the window "UNDERAGE FANGIRLS SUCK!" he screamed, hurling a water balloon at the offending teenager. She was hit full in the chest and screamed immediately. "Oh my god! My fan girl shirt is ruined! And AOI RUINED IT! I'm NEVER washing this shirt again!" another girl leaned over to her. "You probably should you smell like cheap beer." She noted, crinkling up her nose. Right before she was hit in the side of the head by another balloon filled with said alcohol. Reita joined in, chucking balloons while laughing insanely. But after a full three seconds of water balloon chucking only achieved wetting a marginal percentage of the mob Uruha promptly shoved them both out of the way. Howling "Move it light weights, let me show you how a TRUE PRO handles things!" and pumped his super soaker a few more times before unleashing a raging torrent onto the unsuspecting high schoolers. They were forced back screaming like wounded wild beasts. Revealing the very pale and very frightened Hyde and Gackt on the pavement. Uruha tossed the water gun onto the seat beside him. "Oh, I guess that WAS Hyde's jacket that girl had…" he muttered. Hyde blinked and sat up.

Aoi opened up the door and swung his feet out, tossing a water balloon between his hands. "Hey guys." He said rather chipperly. Hyde glared at him. Aoi didn't notice though. He was appearantly preoccupied by the weight of his balloon. He turned back and looked at Kai, who was slumped in a sad looking heap against the door, cradling a bottle of tequila and a full box of water balloons waiting to be filled. He looked rather sick.

"Yo Kai chan, this balloon is only half way full! We said you didn't have to throw any balloons if you filled them up for us, so no slacking off!" Aoi said chidingly. Kai squinted his eyes shut. "Can't we go ho… home yet? Or find another way to fill these up? I don't feel too goof…" he muttered.

Aoi put his hands on his hips. "Well who do you expect to fill them? ME? You know I don't like getting drunk. How inconsiderate of you!" he said indignantly. Ruki around from the drivers seat and grabbed the bottle of vodka. "Don't be a party pooper Kaichan! DRINK UP!" he laughed, forcing the bottle down his throat. Kai took a swig and spurt it into the empty balloon in his hand. Aoi turned back to Gackt and Hyde, who had righted themselves by this point and were leaning against the car.

"What a coincidence wandering into you guys here… where you headed?"

"A restaurant not too far from here." Gackt answered, straightening his tie.

"Oh! That new one? We were planning on going past there soon anyhow, you want a lift?"

Gackt and Hyde looked at each other, then at the not too sober looking Ruki in the drivers' seat. And were about to say "no" at the same time, when a fangirls shriek was hear directly behind them. Appearantly the girls had recovered from the shock of being sprayed down with vodka and were back with a drunken vengeance. They were about to accept the invitation now when they hear sirens going off down the street.

"GOD DAMN IT THEY CAUGHT UP ALREADY!" Reita cursed. Uruha slammed his fist against the dashboard. "I thought we lost them in that explosion down on Tenth Street! These guys are good! HIT it Ruki!" and tires started off with a screech. Aoi nearly falling right out the car but was pulled in at the last second and slammed the door shut on the way. Hyde looked after them confusedly. Then realized this was the second time today that they had abandoned him in a less than pleasant situation. He couldn't stop himself from jumping into the middle of the street and screaming "GOD DAMN YOU BASTARDS! WHEN YOU GET BACK HERE YOURE ALL FIRED! DO YOU HEAR ME? FIRED!" flipping them off as strenuously as possible and making an assortment of lewd facial expressions before Gackt yanked him out of the street and a police car went whizzing by, sirens blazing. Hyde sighed.

"Oh no! Gazette got away!"

"It's alright! We still have these two!"

"FUCK!"

Gackt cringed and waited for the dreaded fan girl on rock star impact. But another set of sirens stopped right in front of them and he heard cops swarming out of their van. "Alright, you're all under arrest for underage drinking!" one of them announced, and when the two looked up, to their pleasure, they saw the many girls being handcuffed and shoved into the back of the cop truck. One cap sighed to another as he pushed one of them inside "You know we might have a chance of catching those guys if we didn't have to keep stopping to arrest these kids." The spoken to cop agreed, nodding vigorously. Gackt and Hyde though, felt no need to remain in the presence of intoxicated hormone driven teenage girls any longer and ran across the busy street to continue on their trek.

Hyde tried to just keep his eyes on the pavement this time. Sure that the next thing he saw when he looked up would surely cause him to blow some major blood vessel in his brain. Something like the perfectly calm and rather bored look on Gackt's face right now. He wasn't looking at him so technically he couldn't see it. But he could sense it there. And if he asked him how he could be so calm when today has been anything but normal, he knew Gackt would launch into some long winded explanation that wouldn't make sense to anyone but him in the first place. So they made it the rest of the way without any conversation. Finally, they got to the restaurant. Gackt of course, was perfectly composed, but the head waiter took one look at Hyde's torn clothes, tired posture, agitated hung over eyes, and disheveled hair and honestly considered not allowing them in. unfortunately they had reservations. He couldn't turn them away.

Gackt and Hyde made their way over to the table in silence still and Hyde looked up for the first time to actually see who it was they were going to have breakfast with. It was appearantly, the entirety of Gacktjob. Ex-members and current. Hyde felt dread wash over him. he for some reason didn't have a very good gut feeling about this. But if Gackt could tell Hyde was uncomfortable he sure didn't show it, as he pulled out a seat right next to his at the table. You sat on his left, smiling pleasantly as he took his seat. Hyde smiled back.

"You're late." Ju-ken grumbled, pouting over at the other end of the table.

"Oh, are we? I'm terribly sorry, Hyde and I met up with something of a disturbance on our way here. I hope we didn't keep you waiting too long?"
Ju-ken opened his mouth to say they in fact HAD been waiting for much too long and complain about how the others insisted he wait for Gackt to arrive before he ordered anything otherwise it would be rude. But Masa made sure to interrupt him. "So Gacchan, long time no see. How have you been? And who may I ask is your cute friend?" he said in cavity inducing sweetness. Hyde immediately began blushing and thinking of ways to be subtle in letting him know he was married as he twisted a napkin in his lap nervously.

Gackt looked around the table. "My… cute friend?" he said in confusion. Hyde twitched. Masa's smile widened to painful degrees. "Yes, why don't you intro-DUCE us I don't think we've had the pleasure of meeting." He said. Gackt stared at him like he was crazy. "Who…" You leaned back in his chair and looked over at Hyde as if apologizing for Gackt's rudeness. "I think he means Hyde san." He said flatly. Gackt looked at Hyde, who was currently glaring up at him like some kind of she-devil. Gackt looked over at Masa. "Hyde? No, you couldn't be right You san… he said my CUTE friend…" Hyde threw the napkin back at the table and glared at him. then realized he had just overreacted, and muttered "I… bathroom… later…" as he turned and sauntered off. Angry cloud hovering over his head. He heard Gackt mutter something to Masa as he left, and much to his extreme displeasure several people at the table began to laugh giddily.

Hyde pushed his way into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror glaring at his appearantly "UN-cute" reflection. Sure his hair was a mess and had a liberal amount of pavement dirt ground into it from being on the underside of that unpleasant dogpile earlier, and his clothes were a mess. And yeah, he reeked of cheap liquor from one or two of those stray water balloons but even now there were thousands of people who would give their left arm to get into HIS pants. What the hell did GACKT know anyway? That jerk…

The stall behind him opened up and someone who appeared to be a chef walked out, then began to wash their hands in the sink next to him, at first paying him no mind. But after he looked up into the mirror at him, he froze.

"Oh my god! Aren't you… aren't you Hyde!" he cried, shock showing in on his face and in his voice. Hyde smiled and tossed his head to the side, stroking his fingers through his hair. "Yeah." He said with his million yen smile. The man smiled back as though he was about to melt into his shoes. "I'm… I'm sorry, but I'm just a pretty big fan you know… I couldn't help… so nice to meet you here! My names Takari Nagawa. But you can call me Taki… you know, if you want to…" he blushed and looked at his feet. Sure he had said much too much by this point. As the workers weren't supposed to associate with the patrons in the first place. Hyde held his hand out to him to shake. "Nice to meet you Taki." He said politely. Taki took his hand, smiling as though he had just won the lottery. "So… what are you doing here?" Taki asked Hyde, as casually as possible. Hyde leaned against the sink.

"Well actually I came here with Gackt, we were going to have breakfast with some of his friends. But he felt the need to insult me as soon as we sat down and so I decided it would be best if I came in here to have a moment to myself. So here I am." He explained simply. Taki nodded. "Ah, I see, well you know, if you don't want to go back quite yet and you don't want to spend too much time admiring our lavatory facilities you could always join me in the kitchen for just a while." He offered. Hyde smiled. "Why Takisan… that sounds like a lovely idea." He said grinning.

The two of them made their way to the kitchen, making small talk along the way. As well as Taki smiling and waving at all his friends who stared at him in amazement as he walked by with the infamous rock star. The kitchen, though it had at first seemed like a much more promising hideaway than the bathroom, proved to be much less appealing. As the waiters, waitresses, and chefs all juggled potentially lethal knives and glass instruments between tables and counters and the like Hyde's title was soon reduced to "Hey! Move!" and he began to resent Gackt all the more for forcing him into yet another not quite comfortable situation. Taki tried to make conversation, but that wasn't working too well considering he had meals to tend to and couldn't afford to pay any real amount of attention to Hyde's answers. Hyde eventually reserved himself to the fact that he would soon have to return to the table and sit with the others before he was too missed. Until a waitress rushed over to Taki.

"Takisan! Just got an order in for eight orders of pork curry at table six. And don't botch it up. It's GACKT!" she said ecstatically. Hyde's eyes perked up and watched as the woman retreated back to the front. Taki looked back at Hyde as well. "Looks like you should be getting back to your table then right? It was certainly nice meeting you Hyde san!" he said with a smile. Hyde smiled at him pleasantly.

"So, Takisan… you do realize Gacchan likes his curry extra spicy right?" he said just as pleasantly. Taki blinked. "Uh… was I supposed to know this?"

"Oh no not really, but you see he's used to always going to this one restaurant in particular, and they just know him there. So they always make his curry order special when they hear it's him. I'm sure he just always forgets when he goes out to other restaurants. He would really appreciate it if you made his curry order ESPECIALLY hot." He explained. Hardly able to keep the evil smile from bursting forth onto his lips. Taki looked at him questionably. "Oh, well, how hot?"

"As hot as you can possibly make it… what have you got in here?"

Taki opened up a cupboard labeled spices. And Hyde almost squealed in the joy he got from picturing Gackt running around the restaurant in a water seeking frenzy after the first bite.