Stupid Lies and Foolish Games
Chapter Eight
By: Catrina
A/N: Yes, Yes I know. It has been way to long since you have seen an update from me…I bet most of you had given up on me but… Ha! I had you fooled…here I am with a new chapter.
Enjoy!
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Ayame waited at the door and he wasn't sure exactly what to expect. All he knew was that no one knew that he was coming up here and he knew that for the most part he would not be welcomed. However the sight that greeted him at the door was not one that he would have expected.
Kyo answered the door, that alone surprised him but then he looked him over from head to toe. It was obvious that Ayame had gotten the boy out of bed. His eyes were half closed and the way that he moved showed how sleepy he really was. But what really got Ayame was how debauched he looked. Ayame barely registered the greeting. He was too awed by the love bites that he could see. Kyo was wearing a loose t-shirt that was stretched around the collar, so not only could he see the love bites but the hickeys that would normally be covered by clothes.
"What the hell? What are you doing here?" Kyo growled. Ayame received the glare with a smile.
"That's no way to greet a visitor." Ayame taunted, pushing his way in putting the flowers down on the table as soon as he made his way in. "I even brought gifts."
"Please come in Ayame, Yuki's gone," Ayame noticed that Kyo looked at the clock and Ayame wondered how long exactly the cat had been sleeping. Ayame knew that he would be hit hard if he even came closed to saying his thoughts about how cute the cat looked.
"Wonderful…shall we share some sake as we wait for my lovely brother. We can bond over the college experience." Ayame continued to look at the marks on Kyo's neck until the cat realized what he was looking at.
Kyo could feel the glare on his neck and his memories went over what had happened in the bathroom before Yuki left.
Shit…the bathroom…he had no idea what state that it was in.
"Hey, take a seat, you woke me up, let me head to the bathroom and change quick. I'll be right back." Kyo thought it was a good excuse, but it was like Ayame saw right through him. Ayame knew exactly what was going on and that was bad...
Bad
Bad
BAD.
Kyo wanted to run and hide, but instead he walked calmly down the hall cleaned up the bathroom, then went into his bedroom and changed. He grabbed a pair of jeans, and then a black turtleneck that covered his neck.
Then he went back into the kitchen. The snake had seated himself at the kitchen table with the sake and had a glass for Kyo ready as well.
"How has college been Kyo?" Ayame asked, and as Kyo plopped down in the chair he realized that the look in Ayame's eyes were genuinely curious.
"Good, for the most part. I like my classes and then I found a job at a restaurant that I really like."
"Ahh, and this job how is it?"
"Good, actually." The answer was drawn out in the way that stated that he was curious that Ayame was asking.
"That is wonderful, and how are things with Yuki, is he recovering nicely. I haven't seen him since the accident and that was really strange, then he wouldn't answer my calls." Ayame looked up at Kyo's mutter. "What was that?"
"You called ten times a day, he got annoyed with you." Kyo answered, as he sipped the sake. Ayame looked at him strangely but Kyo really wasn't sure how to interpret that look
"But things seem to be going well with you, correct? You helped him thought his trauma and now he is healed. Its all very romantic, don't you think?" Ayame questioned and he got his answer by the tell-tale blush of the boy next to him.
"No not really." Kyo answered his voice a little harsher then normal. He seemed to be a little angry…or a little nervous. Kyo had a feeling that Ayame was seeing right through him and it bothered him.
"And I like the apartment, it's very westernized, I bet that you have beds instead of futons, right?"
"The apartment came furnished; it took a while to get used to sleeping on a bed instead of a futon, but its okay. I didn't have to buy any furniture and when Yuki came here he didn't have to either."
Kyo wasn't sure but over the next half hour he realized that Ayame wasn't getting on his nerves nearly as much as he used to. The snake was calmer, and wasn't clinging, and they actually moved to the sofa. As normal the snake complained of being cold, but Kyo had an extra blanket that the he curled up in. About an hour into Ayame's visit there was a knock on the door. Kyo looked at the clock.
"Maybe Yuki forgot his key." Kyo got up and walked to the door, surprised to find Yui there.
"Hey, Yuki's on his way, he stopped to get food, but he invited me over." Yui pushed his way in but, the look on Kyo's face shocked him. Kyo knew that he most likely looked panicked. First of all no one knew that he and Yuki were cousins, and these people knew that they were dating and Ayame didn't, and couldn't know…ever.
Kyo grabbed Yui's arm and pulled him into the kitchen and then in a quiet voice whispered, "Yuki's brother is here, he can't know that Yuki and I are together," Kyo let him go but then it was Yui that grabbed his arm as it fell away.
"But then how do you explain that you live together."
"Yuki and I have known each other longer then you think." Kyo growled at him getting impatient.
"Ohhhh, Kyo was that my brother dearest?" Ayame came into the kitchen and the look he gave Yui could freeze all the water in the world. He was looking at where Yui was touching Kyo.
"No, Ayame, this is Yui, he is friends with Yuki and me. Yui this is Ayame, Yuki's older brother." Yui instantly bowed from the waist and for that Ayame seemed to give him a little credit.
"It's a pleasure to meet you. I didn't know that Yuki had a brother." Ayame looked at Kyo with big silver eyes filling with tears, and for all the things that Yui could have said that was the worst.
"Kyo!" Ayame rushed over and rested his head on Kyo's shoulders as dramatic tears leaked from his eyes. "Yuki doesn't love me!" The snake wailed and Yui looked on in horror.
Kyo reached out and pushed him away, Ayame took a few steps back in a graceful stumble. "We don't talk about family, stupid." It was at that time there was another knock on the door. Kyo turned to get the door, hoping that this was Yuki and that he could get rid of this mess. "Jirou? What the…"
"Hey Kyo, what's up?" Like Yui before him he let himself in. But now he was in more of a mess. He had Ayame, who knew they were cousins, but not kissing cousins, he had Jirou who knew that they were cousins and in a relationship, and then he had Yui who knew they were in a relationship but not related. Even more he couldn't let the others know that they were family, since most people would look down on that and most likely it would embarrass Yuki and start the rumor mill that had finally quieted down. But most of all he couldn't let Ayame find out they were together. He didn't think that he was really ready to let the whole family know that he and Yuki were 'together.'
"Jirou, this is Ayame, Yuki's brother, and this is Yui Yuki's friend. Ayame, Yui, this is Jirou, my friend from…work." Jirou bowed as he was introduced.
"Ayame…I think that Kyo has mentioned you before, do you own your own business?" Jirou closed the door as he came in and took off his shoes before moving into the room. He was therefore surprised when he looked up and saw tears in Ayame's eyes.
"Kyo… you talked about me? You love me?" Both Yui and Jirou watched as Kyo was enveloped in a hug and spin in a circle as Ayame chanted 'you love me, you love me.'
At the next knock, he pulled the door open to see Yuki arms full of food, drinks and a small smile.
"Oh thank you god!" Kyo muttered and Yuki looked to him surprised. Kyo wished that he could explain the last half hour of his life to Yuki in a thought and just send it his way, but that didn't happen, instead he just gave him a slightly exasperated, angry stare.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Yuki questioned concern filling his gaze. He made a motion to set down the groceries at the door.
"No." Kyo looked at him and tried to convey the situation but Ayame made it very easy on him.
"BROTHER DEAREST!! YOU'RE HOME!" Kyo watched Yuki's eyes go wide and then when he peaked over his shoulder he saw both Yui and Jirou and they both gave him a small wave. Yuki went from looking beautiful to looking pale and slightly ill.
"I am so sorry." Yuki grimaced as he walked in and handed the food to Kyo, and placed a warding hand to keep Ayame from wrapping him in one of his bone crushing hugs. Ayame stopped at the hand and pouted at his younger brother.
"I missed you Yuki, you never come to see me."
"Well here you are…seeing me. You can go now." He and Ayame were on much better terms then they had been a long time ago but still this was not a good time. He and Kyo were finally on good standing and making progress, but they were far from deciding what to do about their family… His mind whirled just thinking about facing Kagura…
Yuki shuddered…. Her love of Kyo was as strong as ever.
"Yuki…" Ayame's eyes filled with dramatic tears. Kyo was standing in the hall and Yui and Jirou seemed to be bonding on the couch… Yuki and the part of him that knew he was slightly jealous when it came to those two, was glad to see that.
"Can you give us a minute please?" Yuki asked and then walked down the hall and into Kyo's room.
Ayame using the excuse of the bathroom followed them, Yui pointed out where it was. Now Ayame was not spying, he was here to make sure that everything was good and that his brother was well taken care of. That was all that he was worried about. He peeked into the door that they hadn't closed all the way.
"What the hell took you so long?" Kyo was pacing back and forth. "I even tried to call you."
"I'm sorry, I was studying and then I knew that you wouldn't be up to cooking so I was grabbing dinner and then Yui just invited himself. Will you stop pacing and look at me?" Yuki demanded. He extended a hand but pulled back from actually touching Kyo, almost like he was unsure that he could actually do so.
Ayame watched as the pacing stopped, Kyo turned to face Yuki and let out a sigh. He was more then a little surprised to see Kyo raise a hand and brush it down over Yuki's hair. That motion seemed to relax the both of them.
"There all out there and they all know different things. I couldn't keep all the lies straight." Kyo sounded frustrated.
"I'm sorry, I… I…" Yuki seemed to be at a loss for words. "I don't know how to make it better. I wish…"
"I know its okay."
"Okay, we just need to get them to leave." Yuki reached out and laced his fingers with Kyo's. "Or even just one of them to leave."
"Let's just see if we can get Jirou and Yui to leave."
"Ayame at least has a real reason to be here…" Yuki stated. Ayame noticed that through the conversation their fingers twisted then untwisted, they had never really let go of each other.
It was in that moment Ayame realized something….
This relationship was still very young, and they were most likely in over their heads.
But they weren't yelling and screaming at each other, like they would have in the past. They were supporting each other, and Ayame could tell, that for both of them they fact that they were together now made them calmer. It reminded him of Hatori and himself whenever he was stressed. Not his fake, dramatic, little stresses….his real stresses and worries.
They would be fine.
Kyo and Yuki were good in each other's hands. He turned and went to the others.
"Kyo's not feeling well. We should go." The two looked up at Ayame, surprised, "Hop to it, lets go." He said clapping his hands, "I'll let them know that you said good night. Why don't you two kids go get something to eat?" Ayame ushered them out the door and as the door closed the two of them came from the hall. The both looked around surprised.
"They had to leave. As must I." Ayame rushed forward grabbing Kyo in a genuine hug, Kyo seemed to understand and hugged him back as well, pushing away when the hug lasted a little longer then he was comfortable.
"Are you okay Ayame?" Yuki asked, for once accepting the hug as well.
"Yes, I'm fine… it's a long train ride home." Ayame studied the two of them and smiled. "I'll see my way out."
"You can come again. Just call first. And thank you for the gifts." Ayame just gazed at them a silly smile on his face… he couldn't help it. Kyo was a good influence on him, and the other way around as well.
"I'll call next time, goodnight." He had barely shut the door, before he was calling Hatori.
"Well?" Hatori answered. He didn't sound too surprised. Ayame had a feeling that Hatori had know what he was going to do before he did.
"They're perfect." Ayame told him.
"Good, glad you approve. Now come home."
"I'm on my way, I love you."
"……me too…" Ayame slid his phone shut with a smile and looked at the door.
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"That was weird." Kyo stated. The two stood by each other looking at the door that Ayame had just used.
"Yeah, do you think he knows?" Yuki asked, looking over to Kyo he saw the same worried look on his face.
"Honestly, yeah, I think he knows… but I don't know why. He didn't do any thing or say anything, about... "Kyo paused then glared at Yuki, "Yeah, you aren't allowed to touch me until all these bruised fade."
"What?"
"I look like I have strangled or abused or something." Kyo reached up and pulled down the collar of his shirt. Yuki looked at the marks on his neck and fought back a smile so it ended up looking more like a smirk then anything.
"I like them."
"You aren't wearing them." Kyo pointed out as he walked to the door and locked it behind Ayame. The sun outside was past set and he wondered for a moment if Hatori was coming to get him, then remembered that Ayame mentioned something about a train ride. He wondered if he should be worried about him getting home then put it off in the back of his mind. Ayame was the kind of person to call when he got home.
"Yeah, but now no one will hit on you. You're claimed."
"I am not an animal to claim." Kyo glared at him, he could not believe that they were fighting about this. "Besides it's like I have people lined up the door to date me. Plus I have to hide them anyway so no one really knows that they are there. So…"
"Can we comprise?" Yuki questioned.
"Are we even still talking about this?" Kyo asked back, raising an eyebrow as he walked to the kitchen to see what exactly Yuki had brought home.
"No leeks." Yuki mentioned as he watched Kyo pulling everything out of the bags and pulling the plates from the cupboard. Kyo glanced his way with a small smile and then plated up the food, while Yuki made tea. It all seemed strangely domestic. In a way it made Kyo feel slightly odd, especially thinking back just a couple years. The rest of the night was quiet, with studying.
They made it through finals in one piece, both of them passing all the exams and taking more classes through the summer though not full class loads. Kyo worked extra hours and saved up some cash so that he wouldn't need to work as much with a full class load.
Before they knew it they had been living together for almost a year. Not to say that they had the easiest relationship. They still fought over petty things, but luckily by the beginning of the next year, the rumors and lies that they couldn't keep straight weren't really a problem anymore.
However, with this new school year, a new issue came.
Haru and Momiji were joining them in college. Momiji was joining Yuki at Tokyo University and Haru was going to go to college with Kyo. And it seemed that the family thought that it would be a good idea for Momiji and Haru to live with Kyo and Yuki. And even though, Yuki, Kyo, and even Ayame tried to vote against it. They weren't heard.
"….besides it will just be a for a couple weeks, they say…just until the college dorms open…" Kyo grumbled as he went thought the closet and made sure that all of Yuki's clothes were out of the closet. Next he moved to the drawers, going through all the clothes there. He didn't see anything, but some of the clothes, he had they shared. He knew that if Haru's crush hadn't faded that he would notice something like that.
"I think this is what it would feel like if we broke up." Yuki stated in the door way. He looked sad to say the least, and he really didn't seem to like the idea of sleeping alone. However Haru was going to say with Kyo and Momiji was going to stay with Yuki. They had even had to go out and futons.
"That is not what is happening."
"Do you think that god is laughing at us?"
"No." Kyo snapped. He let out a sigh and stopped what he was doing. "I'm sorry." He turned and looked at Yuki. "I'm not looking forward to this either."
"What time are they going to get here?"
"4:00. We should just tell them and get it over with."
"That is opening up a can of worms that I am just not ready for."
"Why don't you ask your brother how he and Hatori do it? They have been together for as long as I can remember and I don't think that they ever really told anybody but somehow everyone knows."
"Well first of all, I am not as flamboyant as Ayame and I do not plan on starting anytime soon."
"Really, well maybe you could go and get one of his maid costumes and wear that while you clean my room? That's not that flamboyant." Kyo stated with a small smirk.
"I think not." But Yuki couldn't stop the smile that graced his face. The last year had been frantic and more then strange but he wouldn't trade it for anything.
"So while they are here I'm picking up a few extra hours at work." Kyo told him.
"Why? If I have to be here so do you."
"Well for one, it's easier to resist temptation when you just aren't around it, and then I don't have to watch Haru moon over you." Kyo growled turning back to his bed to grab the clothes there. "These are yours."
"You sounded kind of jealous and angry there," Yuki mentioned lightly.
"No, I'm trying to avoid being jealous and angry and the easiest way to do that is to avoid being around." It really was a sound argument.
"You aren't worried that I'll cheat on you?" Yuki questioned taking the clothes from Kyo.
"With Haru? Hell no."
"Why not?"
"It's Haru, he's a good guy and I like him but…"
"Like him do you?" Yuki asked.
"Sure, he's family." Kyo stated blinking at Yuki confused.
"Should I be jealous? I was family and you hated me." Yuki took another step closer.
"I thought we had this discussion, it wasn't hate it was resentment. I thought you got over that when we became…oh yeah lovers." Kyo growled at him. He did not want really want to spend the last hour that he had with Yuki fighting over stupid stuff.
"Lovers… I don't really feel loved right now…" Yuki noted and smiled at Kyo, the little seductive smile that told Kyo that 'Hey, I'm game what about you?'
"You don't?" Kyo asked, in false seriousness. "I'm not sure what I can do to fix that. You might have to give me a hint." Kyo took a step closer taking the clothes that Yuki held and then dropping them on the floor.
"Really, I can think of some things. One thing in particular." Kyo glanced at the clock, just a little over an hour until they got here. That was plenty of time.
Kyo reached a hand up and placed it in Yuki's belt loop and pulled him closer, then wrapped his arm around his waist. The other hand went up to his hair pulling his face back. "Does this help?" Kyo asked
"Some, I think I need more..." Yuki stated, his eyes becoming half closed as he looked at Kyo licking his lips. Yuki echoed Kyo's body and placed and arm up to rest on Kyo's shoulder and the other around his waist.
"What would help?" That arm around his waist dropped down aligning their hips and their now hard erections.
"My lips on yours, your clothes off..." Yuki stated. He kept staring at those lips and not meaning to he licked his own.
"Mmmm, all those things sound very interesting. If I do that then will you know for sure that I like you?" Kyo's lips were brushing against Yuki's with every word and it amazed Yuki that they had done this so many times but kissing Kyo still gave him butterflies.
"It would be a great start." Yuki told him with a nod, pressing his cock against Kyo's grinding when those lips finally met his. He kissed Kyo to an inch of his life, the room around him dimmed and he found that he could focus on nothing but those lips on his. He pulled him closer and moved his hips in time with his tongue when Kyo's mouth opened to let him in. Yuki pulled away for a second.
"Off." He ordered, and Kyo's shirt was pulled over his head, and thrown on the floor. It took seconds for Yuki's wondering hands to find his nipples, pinching both making them hard nubs before going down to kiss, then bit each one. Yuki dropped to his knees and undid the belt around the waist. Yuki kissed the soft skin there and then bit the skin right under the belly button. Kyo hissed.
"I thought that I was supposed to be showing you that I like you."
Yuki pulled the pants and boxers down and looked at Kyo from his knees. "You let me touch you; you want me to touch you that means that you like me…" He kissed a hipbone first the left then the right, biting the right one, then sucking in the skin to leave a slight mark.
"Hey…"
"Two weeks, Kyo. Nothing…" Yuki told him before sucking the tip of his jutting cock into his mouth. Kyo's found purchase in Yuki's hair.
"Yuki, bed please…" Yuki stood up and pushed Kyo the two steps back to lie on the bed. Kyo reached up pulling Yuki down on top of him. He worked to unbutton the shirt Yuki was wearing. With that accomplished he touched the skin of his chest moving down to his stomach and ending with pulling the belt out from the loops and pulling down the zipper.
"Do you have any idea what you do to me?" Kyo looked at him in surprise, eyes wide, with dilated eyes. "The way you look at me, the way you… touch me…" Yuki's eyes closed when Kyo's hand wrapped around his cock. The slight calluses on the hands teased him as Kyo started a slow stroking motion, an imitation what they would be doing soon.
"The same thing you do to me…"
"This is our Kyo, forever." Yuki wrapped his hand around Kyo's cock matching the pace that Kyo had created and the cat couldn't answer, his voice stolen by moans. Yuki didn't want to pull away so he didn't, instead of taking all his clothes off, he reached up and over Kyo, to the lube that they kept under the pillow. "After they leave, we are going to have to re-christen ever room in the apartment."
Kyo laughed, "Is that all you can think ab…" then he was thinking at all.
He was drifting in and out of slumber but he wasn't really comfortable… but he was tired.
Kyo sat straight up when he heard the knock at the door.
"Yuki! Yuki wake up." He shook the other boy awake and they both looked at the clock startled.
"Shit!" Yuki sat up. He was still partially clothed. He jumped up and off the bed and grabbed the clothes on the floor. Kyo grabbed the first pair of pants and shirt he could find. The two of them raced around the room, trying to clean up their 'mess.'
"I'm going to put the sheets in the washer, then jump in the shower. You answer the door." He held the dirty sheets in his hands
"I need a shower too." Yuki glared at him.
"Well we can't take one together, and your cock was in my ass less then 20 minute ago. I get the shower first. You might want to change your shirt, I think…" Kyo was blushing.
Yuki looked down to see a wet spot on his shirt. Now Yuki had no problem saying dirty words, and saying them to Kyo was half the fun.
"Kyo, you came on my shirt." Yuki tried to look shocked, but the effect was ruined by the loud knock at the door. Kyo's blush however deepened. Then he disappeared. He heard the washer start then the shower, he grabbed the first shirt from his room, which was never really used, and ran to the door.
"Sorry!" Yuki said as he opened the door, "I was sleeping and Kyo's in the shower.
The other two boys looked at him a little shocked at his appearance.
"You look like you just had a violent bout of sex." Haru stated, and Yuki assumed that he was mad because he was obviously in 'black Haru' mode.
"Haru that's impossible, he lives with Kyo." Momiji stated. He no longer looked like a child but had grown into a young man that could rival Yuki in beauty. His wide eyes looked at Yuki, but the seemed to hold as much cynicism as Haru's.
"We get along better then we used to." Yuki stated, that was the understatement of the year. Yuki helped them get their things in. Yuki heard the shower door and assumed that Kyo was out of the shower. He looked down the hall to see Kyo come out of his room in jeans and a t-shirt. That was the fast shower he had taken ever.
"Hey, Yuki you're awake." He then looked over to the other two and looked surprised. "Wow you guys are…" He paused to look at the clock, "Right on time." Kyo faked a confused look. "Yuki shower's free."
"Thanks," Yuki nodded in appreciation and then walked to the door. He had no idea how they were going to do this for two weeks. He already felt like he was under a microscope and it hadn't even been ten minutes.
Kyo looked at the two others and tried to smile. "So…" Kyo stated, "Tea?"
Haru and Momiji looked at each other. Momiji smiled at Kyo, "We don't need to be treated as guests. We're family." With that the rabbit flung himself at Kyo and gave him a big hug, Kyo was more used to this then he used to be, so he endured the hug, while Haru looked at him a little funny. "I missed you."
Kyo made a fist and dropped it on the rabbits head and he pulled away, "Haru! KYO hurt me!!"
Kyo made his way into the kitchen and started tea, the two others followed. He could hear the shower and it gave him an odd feeling to know that Yuki was trying to wash Kyo's sent off his body just like Kyo had moments before, but this was starting to feel like a game again.
Kyo didn't want to start the lies again. He didn't want to pretend…even though now he was pretending the opposite.
Everything was finally fine and now everything changed.
They were starting all over with more lies and more games.
Kyo hear the shower stop and as the tea finished Yuki came into the kitchen looking fresh and clean. And Kyo wanted to growl when he saw Haru staring at Yuki.
Yuki met his eyes and they shared a silent agreement.
The next two weeks were going to be the worst kind of hell.
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Thanks for reading,
Cat