Wandering Hysteria Inducers

Universe: Rurouni Kenshin
Chapter: 2 – Midnight Eccentricities and Revenge… Not Quite.
Author: TakoRanko
Rating: T
Warnings: Randomness and OOC Enishi (most probably, but he's not a freakin' psycho now.)
Pairings: Give me a heads up.
Disclaimer: Woo wah wah woo.
Word Count: 1332
Status: UNBETA-ED, In-Progress.

Started: 20/10/06, Friday.
Finished: -

Summary: Semi-crackish. Series of oneshots or drabbles depicting Yukishiro Enishi and Soujirou Seta in different situations, different ages and different times. Don't you love imagination?

A/N: I went back to my childhood and played too many games. 'Nuff said.
Much thanks to Chaos Valkyrie for my first ever review. :D
Continuation of the previous AU chapter, most likely.

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2 – Midnight Eccentricities and Revenge… Not Quite.

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It was in the middle of the night.

An apartment, rented by two certain young men, was currently quiet - save for the slight humming of a computer filling the otherwise silent place. A figure was currently hunched over the device, tapping the keys with breakneck speed.

His head was bobbing to the sound coming from the earphones he was wearing, which were plugged to the speakers to prevent any unnecessary sound from waking up the other inhabitant ("Not that that was truly necessary, the guy slept like a log on schoolday nights.").

Dun-deh-dun, dun dun dun dun DUN DUN!

Soujirou Seta was humming under his breath an awesome track of the game he was playing, none other than the Legendary Battle Remix, tapping the keys with extreme speed and just plain being Soujirou (smiles and all).

And of course, definitely without Enishi.

Yep.

The guy would probably never let him live it down if he ever found out.

Especially after the whole eraser thing.

"How is it able to evade hypnosis so quickly? Damn its speed!" Soujirou whispered furiously, but feeling the adrenaline in his veins. He wasn't out of balls yet, and the battle was just getting started. At the very least, its depleting health should work to his advantage, Soujirou mused, almost grinning toothily. "Fire does not bow down to ice, after all."

He was going to win this, like it or not.

Soujirou kept his focus, mumbling out comments about the battle and how insolent the creature was for not "bowing down to my extreme authority", that he "owns the game for kami's sake so let me get this one right, dammit", barely realizing the minutes passing by like a bullet train. When he finally won and had captured the "dimwitted bird, you can never outsmart Soujirou Seta", all the while humming the victory song quite forcefully as if saying "in your face", he paused the game and glanced at the time on his computer.

"2:51 am…" he trailed off, furrowing his brow before smiling, more of a smirk than anything else. "That's more than enough time for me to sneak into the room. Considering that I've finally captured Articulos and Enishi-san's still sleeping-"

"Sleeping?"

Soujirou choked. He turned his head slowly, as if daring the fates to actually prove that the voice earlier was Enishi's.

PLEASE let me be wrong let me be wrong let me be wrong let me be-

White hair.

Dark eyes.

The smirk.

The IMMENSELY AMUSED SMIRK of EPIC PROPORTIONS.

Soujirou sprang up from his seat, rational thoughts fleeing from his mind as tried to cover the computer's monitor from his roommate's view using his hands. He could feel another embarrassing babble taking shape on his tongue, just like they always do in LYKOMG situations – and as always, he couldn't stop himself.

"Good, erm, morning, Enishi-san!" Soujirou greeted animatedly, hastily trying to close the window using the mouse but failing miserably. In his haste, he knocked down the mouse and it fell on the floor. He moved to press ALT-F4 – but the damage was already done.

Enishi had seen it. The black-haired boy groaned internally, waiting for it.

And of course, it came.

"So here I was…" the white-haired man started lazily, grinning now, and looking pointedly at the flickering monitor. Soujirou's cheeks burned in embarrassment, and he stalked towards his room, stuffing his ears with two fingers. "…thinking that it'll be one of those normal 'I've gotta piss in the middle of the night' situations…"

"Yes, Enishi-san?" Soujirou strained, smile twitching – and not from amusement this time, but pure, extreme embarrassment. Talk about bad timing.

"…but suddenly finding someone hunched over my comp," Enishi continued nonetheless, and Soujirou could feel the smirk just radiating off that comment. He resumed his walk, fingers still in his ears. "Realizing it was the oh-so-perfect Smiley Boy, I just had to check out what he was doing."

"You flatter me, Enishi-san," the younger man thanked, even though it was glaringly obvious that the 'oh-so-perfect' comment was dripping in sarcasm. Enishi ignored it, still grinning and smirking and just plain being jackass-Enishi.

Well, he supposed he deserved it for the day's stunt, but come on! It was the entire guy's fault for dragging him along in the first place!

Soujirou whimpered internally.

"He was mumbling death threats at the computer. And then looming over him, I found out that lo-and-behold, he was playing Pokemon."

Something went boom.

Probably the moon crashing onto the Earth –

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-"

Oh. That was just Enishi howling in laughter.

"I have no idea what you are talking about, Enishi-san," Soujirou denied, already in his room and flopping down on the bed. Enishi wasn't far behind, still laughing hysterically, moving on to repeat some of the words Soujirou mumbled when he was playing.

"Dimwitted bird? The all-mighty Soujirou Seta?"

"I still have no idea what you're talking about."

"Oh – maybe this one – bowing to my extreme authority – AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-"

"It would be very considerate for you to keep-"

"AHAHAHAHAHA!!"

"-quiet, Enishi-san," Soujirou deadpanned, stuffing his head onto the pillow. Enishi still kept going. Finally having enough, the tired boy cried out, "…There's nothing wrong with playing Pokemon!"

There. He admitted it. The laughter stopped, and Soujirou was soon blessed onto blissful silence…

"AHAHAHAHHAHAA!!!"

Head snapping up, Soujirou's left eye twitched before he got up, taking a hold of Enishi's arm and dragging him outside. The boy had incredible strength when needed, and even more so now. He threw the man gasping for air outside his room, paused, and threw a pillow at his face for good measure. Nodding in satisfaction, the boy huffed, before going back inside and slamming the door in Enishi's face.

The giggling went on for the rest of the night.

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Enishi glared at Soujirou, immensely irritated.

"Ah, well, Enishi-san. It's too bad," Soujirou said cheerfully, opposite of what he was feeling a few hours ago.

The person in question didn't budge at all. Rather, his glare intensified – if it was anyone else, they would've ran away in fear, but of course not Soujirou. "Noo, damn Smiley Face just had to be immune to it."

"It's just very sad that you had lost your voice, Enishi-san," he continued, egging the older man to take the bait.

They were having lunch outside the main building, on a picnic table under a tree. Soujirou was preparing the packed lunch for both of them, because Enishi simply refused to move from his position after he sat down. He had the same expression on his face from the start of the day till now. Soujirou, personally, thought it was hilarious – but hid it behind a sly grin.

"If you hadn't laughed that much this early morning, you could've embarrassed me in front of everyone, eh? Yep! But I guess Lady Luck is on my side today – whoah!"

Soujirou barely dodged the fist heading towards his face. He laughed delightedly, pleased that he got the upper hand after all.

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End of two.

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A/N: Like I said, give me a situation you want to see the boys in. Keywords and all that. And the only way to do that is either to PM or review, but as like other authors, I prefer the latter. :D

I'm off to my hometown for the rest of the week. :D See ya.