Summary: Teito is all wind up on how to hook his best friend Mikage to swing in the same lane as he is and be his lover, but how can he do that? "Oh c'mon, all he needs is an advice from a pro!"
Note: I don't own 07 Ghost, only Akira (mixture of Naruto and Sasuke appearance; hair color and face of Sasuke and eyes, droop haircut, lithe body and whisker marks of Naruto) and Azrael (much like Michael, cloaked with white long hair and a pair of black feather wings).
Chapter 2: OF CROSS-DRESSING AND GOLDEN VOICES
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Castor and Labrador are known to be an inseparable duo in the Barsburg church. Since they have ALMOST identical types of zaiphon, they really can get along pretty well aside to the fact they have the same nature. And once again, the inseparable duo was found in the same spot every 8:00 in the morning with their apprentices Quida and Hakuren who are helping Labrador at trimming and taking care of his plants.
"Ne, Castor have you seen Teito lately?" the flower bishop said while examining his freshly picked silver flower.
"Hm? No I haven't seen him." the puppeteer answered while sipping at his flower tea.
Hearing his friend's name, Hakuren stopped in pulling a weed to look at Labrador.
"Labrador-san, is there something wrong with Teito?" the amethyst eyed bishop asked.
Labrador inhaled a little and put his ear over his flowers as if the flowers are saying something to him very important. He retreated soon after that and faced the other bishop. "Our little bishop has a problem." he said.
"Him? And what would it be? Something that's very troubling?" the Castor asked which earns a chuckle from the youthful bishop. Castor Hakuren and Quida cast a questioning frown towards the chuckling bishop, which was answered instantly.
"Not very much but the flowers said that Teito wouldn't want anyone to find out. It seems that the flowers understand Teito's feelings." Labrador answered before cutting one red rose.
"Love perhaps?" was the unexpected response from Quida. Hakuren cast him a surprised look while Castor sipped at his tea once again before answering.
"I think so too."
***
Akira's room was known to be RESTRICTED from outside forces and even the great Ghosts are not allowed to enter his dominion. The Eyes of Mikhail, Raphael and Azrael are known of the capability to erect powerful barriers, and Azrael's barrier was the most prominent of the three.
So how come a pair of 14 year old boys is inside his room?
"So, how do you plan to do this?" one of the boys said.
"First, off with the clothes!" the other boy declared before pouncing the other to the bed. Protests and swears echoed throughout the room to be heard in the corridor where unexpected individuals pass by.
"What are they doing?" says someone who passes by the room.
"Get off!" the other commanded.
Now, people stopped in front of Akira's door as they eavesdrop on what "activity" that might be happening inside the quarters.
"Oh c'mon now don't be shy at me…" the other purred, then there was a shredding sound of clothes followed by a yelp.
At this, people who gathered outside gasped at the sound of ripping clothes. Don't you say that they're…
"That was my favorite shirt!"
Oh my! Isn't it a male's voice?
And young to add! Oh what happened in today's youth!?
"It's just a shirt! And besides, you said you want to this right? So, were doing it all the way…" the other whined, followed by a series of ripping clothes into pieces.
They're really doing it!
And they're both male!
He's raping him! He's wild!
Murmurs started to echo throughout the corridor and that caught the other's attention. Now, a mob of more than 26 people are now gathered in front of Akira's door.
"Hey! What's going on there?"
And Mikage will be the 27th.
"What's wrong? Why are you all gathered in front of Akira's room?"
"It's because there's someone inside doing-"
"PUT BACK YOUR CLOTHES!!!!"
And that made the crowed mad at the images flooding into their perverted minds while Mikage stood there.
Shocked…
"It can't be!"
"C'mon Teito! I know you want it! I'm putting it in !"
"No! Wait Akira no~NO!!!"
"TEITO!" Mikage howled, cutting through the crowd and banging at the door. "Open this door! Teito!" he shouted.
"Oh dear, we have to hurry!" said the excited voice of Akira, followed by a lot of shifting and ruffling.
"W-wait! Not so hard! Don't shove it in me so roughly!"
"DAMNIT! OUT OF THE WAY EVERYONE!" Mikage raged as he activated his zaiphon at an unmistakably level 99 destructive power. After seeing the impending doom of the poor door, and perhaps the destruction of the whole area, everyone run for their lives away from the maddened zaiphon user.
"TEITO!" and with that final proclamation, Mikage let is zaiphon hit the barrier which shattered like a giant mirror. The remaining power of the zaiphon hit the door, which was destroyed into several pieces. Even though the smoke hasn't yet receded, Mikage launched inside preparing another ball of concentrated black and violet zaiphon.
"Let go of…"
Mikage stopped in mid-sentence after taking in the scene in front of him, his zaiphon bomb dispersed into the air.
"Teito…"
"M-Mi-Mikage" said by the jade bishop, blushing and embarrassed at being caught red-handed.
"Ooooh! Just in time!" the other occupant of the room said squealing in delight.
Mikage caught a glimpse Teito who… well… clad in a frilly red and white one piece long sleeve Victorian dress. In his waist is a golden belt with a large flower accentuated in his abdomen which reveals his curve here and there. The dress was an open type, showing Teito bare and creamy smooth neck and back. The skirt length covered at Teito's lower half until the fabric was touching the ground. A pair of black high heeled shoes was on his feet and to finish the outfit, Akira placed the ribbon accessory on top of Teito's head.
And the people outside drop dead at how beautiful Teito was.
"Well?" Akira said, eyeing the taller boy in the room. "Could you please explain why you broke into my room with a level 99 destructive zaiphon Mikage-niichan?"
"Err… I didn't mean to! I got worried for Teito cause I h-heard so-something-"
"Save it pervert. So what do you think?" the Azrael vessel said before shoving Teito to Mikage's arms.
"Akira!" Teito whined before falling to Mikage's arms. Damn I can't believe Mikage saw me in this outfit! This is so embarrassing!
On Mikage's part, he couldn't believe it but Teito is… well beautiful is an understatement, but Heavenly gorgeous. He's a lot more beautiful than any of the sisters in the church. He couldn't believe it but here's Teito, clinging in his arms clad in a red dress blushing in a cute way.
He was like an angel descended from above, ready to steal the hearts of any unaware mortal.
Oh the devil's incarnation! Akira I will kill you! Teito mumbled, still hiding his face from Mikage's eyes. He burrowed his face into his best friend's lean and strong chest, embarrassed at his current predicament.
"Hey Teito, what're you doing? Basking into the scent of your best friend's body?"
"Wha-no! Mikage don't believe him" Teito suddenly retorted, looking up at his best friend's face for assurance. "He's crazy! He wanted to make me wear some of his dress and said that I will look good at them and he even said that I'm beautiful and- Hey wait a minute!"
Oh dear, this is so cute! Everything is according to plan! Akira said to his self, pleased at the turn of events.
"M-Mikage why are you blushing!?" Teito asked, confused at the blushing friend of his.
"We-well, Teito I hope that you're not going to be mad at me but…"
"But?" Teito asked, gripping his best friend's shoulders.
Now if they're just going to take note of their surroundings, they would probably hear the people around them murmur on their own like"Are they lovers?" "Isn't that one a guy? Why is he in a dress?" "Whatever, he's gorgeous!" "No way, my Teito's a g-"
"Teito, Akira's right. You're beautiful, very beautiful…" Mikage uttered softly, blushing faintly while gently holding Teito and looking away from his eyes.
For the 3rd time in this fanfic, Teito is once again caught off-guard of Mikage's statement. He didn't realized what was going on, or even the murmuring crowd before them. All that he recognizes is the fast thumping of his heart and the battling emotions in him.
"See? I told you so." Akira said, leaning against the window and sighing as the victorious one.
"B-baka! Mikage you're making fun of me again!" he said before punching his friend in the face that sent him flying outside. He ran away from the place still clad in the frilly dress Akira gave him, crying his heart out of embarrassment.
Take note, he was running away in a pair of high heeled shoes. Well that's a sure proof that Teito is once upon a time, a girl.
Step one, cleared! Akira cheered in his mind before disappearing in a cloud of dust.
Well, as for Mikage, he was currently nursing his bruised face. "Goodness! Teito sure can give a hard punch!" he said, wincing a little at the stinging sensation in his right cheek.
***
Ah, the garden of Barsburg church, home of the troubled hearts and lonely individuals, the place where the annoyed finds peace, where the frustrated finds calmness and where the desperate finds hope, the place of healing that is-
- And a place where a certain cross-dressing bishop contemplates about his ragged life.
"Hey! What's with the long face? Cheer up chibi!" was a cheerful inquiry which belongs to a certain annoying vessel of the Eye of Azrael.
Being friends with Teito, surely Akira knows that annoying a troubled Teito is not a good thing to do.
"You jerk!" he indignantly screeched while hurling a ball of zaiphon at Akira, sending the Azrael vessel away for a good distance.
Apparently not…
"Do you have any idea how embarrassing that was for me?" Teito said before preparing another ball of concentrated white and red zaiphon which in fact, the combination of Eve's and Mikhail's zaiphons.
While scratching his head, Akira stood back in foot while giving Teito an apologetic look. "Hehe… well about that, it's the first part of our plan." he continued while brushing dust from his shirt.
"First…part?" the other inquired, dispersing the zaiphon which promises massive destruction.
"Step 1: In order to make the man you love notice you, you must make yourself beautiful in his eyes. You must show him that you have beauty on par or even surpassing that of a female!"
"B-but isn't it-"
"Embarrassing?" Akira finished before laughing hard.
"Hey don't laugh! You aren't the one in the frilly red dress!"
"But Teito, didn't you see his face back then?" he said after calming a little into a fit of giggles. Akira finally stopped giggling and looked straight into the eyes of Teito.
"Well, I did and the fucking Mikage was blushing!"
"That's because he's enchanted." Akira said which made Teito blush like mad.
"W-what? It can't be, right?"
"Nah, he did said Akira's right, you're beautiful while holding you so tenderly."
…
…
…
"Really? I thought Mikage is joking around. I didn't think that he mean it."
"He did mean it Teito. And now that he noticed you're hidden beauty, it's time for step 2."
***
Children shouldn't wander in the middle of the night, especially in the vast corridors of Barsburg church where evil lurks in every dark corner. Children are told that creature with bony wings (probably the Kors) went to look for unaware victims in the middle of the night. And due to this the corridors of Barsburg church was a desolate passage every night.
If that's the case, why is that Teito is wandering on his own?
Meet me in the fountain where we met Razette. There we will initiate out second step.
"I wonder what is going on in that cunning mind of his…" he whispered. He still does not approve with Akira's way of making a man fall in love with you but since he's desperate on having Mikage as his lover, Teito would do everything.
Talk about desperation beyond comprehension.
And so here he is, in front of a lonely fountain in the middle of the night.
"Akira? Razette are you here?" Teito he wondered, walking around the fountain looking for any signs of the two. After a minute of calling, Teito felt anxious. Who wouldn't be if you're alone in the middle of a creepy church in the middle of the night? "Hey!"
Suddenly, a soft breeze entered the vicinity and gently brushes Teito's anxieties away. Soon a soft melody echoed, urging the young boy to listen. He followed the path of the melody, passing corridors, tunnels, stairs and balcony until he arrived at the church's main hall.
There in the Holy Altar was Razette and Akira, both looking celestial as they are bath under the moonlight while singing the melody in perfect harmony. Soon they came to a stop when they noticed that their audience had arrived.
"Good evening Teito, I'm glad you came." Akira hummed, still on the trance of their singing. He is currently dressed in white sleeping robes that billowed every now and then as the breeze swept the fabric. On the other hand, Razette was already out of the trance and was smiling fondly at Teito. She was clad in her nun robe.
"Akira, I didn't know that you can sing…" Teito remarked, astonished at Akira's amazing performance. Mermaids such as Razette are known to have celestial voices but Akira's just a normal reincarnating human, and boy to top it of, but his singing capabilities are on par with that of mermaids.
But then again, Akira's not a normal human boy. He is the vessel of the mighty Archangel of Death Azrael.
"Teito let me hear you sing."
"What?"
"I want to hear you sing." Akira said before sitting down on one the church's long chairs.
"But why? I don't have an enticing voice you know…"
"Just sing a song. We need to sharpen your singing abilities for our next step." Akira urged, showing that indeed he really wants to hear Teito singing.
"Okay…" he said after hesitating for seconds. After inhaling, Teito closed his eyes and let his voice echo as he sang the Requiem of his late kingdom.
hoshi ni yuki ni kioku ni
kimi no ashiato sagasu
douka towa no yasuragi
koko ha yume no tochuu de
Akira and Razette sat down listened at the sad and lonesome melody that Teito is emitting. His voice was not that developed, but it has the quality of a child's voice, its innocence, the need to be with his parents and love ones, a voice of a lonely soul seeking love and care from a Father and a Mother. That alone was enough to make Akira and Razette to admire it.
osanai tsubasade sakamichi kaketeku
michi kara hagurete kono me wo tojiteku
Somewhere, in the tallest pillar of the church, was a lone figure basked in the moonlight; his blond hair glistened beautifully as he stares into nothingness.
"Hm?" Mikage (still in his military uniform minus the jacket) said while he was still staring at the moonlight when he heard a voice, singing a foreign melody. "What is that melody?" and soon he found his self following the direction of the voice.
hoshi ni yuki ni kioku ni
kimi no ashiato sagasu
douka towa no yasuragi
koko ha yume no tochuu de
What a wonderful voice. Who's that singing the song? Mikage thought as he dashed through corridors in search of the said midnight singer.
itsuka subete modorite
sora no hate hitorikiri
anata ga matsu yasuragi
hikari no ato nokoshite
While singing, Teito wouldn't stop of thinking of his Father King, Frea Kreuz, the Kingdom of Raggs and his best friend and secret love, Mikage. He wanted for someone to embrace him, to kiss his sorrows away, to shield him from his nightmares and to heal his lonely heart.
Mikage…
Unknown to Teito, his two audiences are now smiling at him, one is a smile of admiration while the other is a smile of understanding and sympathy.
"Teito, life's harsh isn't it?" Akira said before sighing.
osanai tsubasa de sakamichi kaketeku
michi kara hagurete kono me wo tojiteku
Meanwhile, Mikage continued searching for the owner of the voice. He was now on the fountain, pass the corridor, the tunnels, the stairs and he hurried as the voice became more and more eminent.
yume ni ai ni kokoro ni
kimi no ashiato sagasu
towa no hikari nokoshite
furugi no nai tsubasa de
Akira suddenly stood up. Razette smiled, sensing that someone's approaching fast and she knew who is that someone. Akira activated his powers and enveloped them in a mist of soft, light purple cloud.
towa no ai wo anata ni
Suddenly, the door the church's main hall opened, revealing a panting Mikage. But instead of finding someone, all that was left was an empty hall with some purple cloud hanging low at the altar though there was this sensation telling him that there's someone's been here. Now Mikage was left to contemplate who might be that mysterious singer.
***
When Teito opened his eyes, they're no longer in the altar but they're already in front of the fountain. Razette is back in his mermaid form while Akira's Eye of Azrael in still glowing in his hand.
"What happened?" Teito wondered why they are teleported back in the fountain.
"Someone came and I teleported us back here. I don't want to risk someone finding us out." Akira said before deactivating his powers. "As for your performance, you're great! I knew you're an inborn singer…"
"Really?"
"You know Teito, you should at least have a little self-confidence. When someone says something good about you, at least thank them and believe them right Razette?" and Razette nodded in agreement.
"Ah-err… well thank you." Teito said while rubbing the back of his head. "By the way, why are we practicing in the middle of the night?"
"Cause in step two: In order to make a man fall for you, you must soothe his troubled soul by your voice, voice as enchanting as a siren's. From now on Teito, we will meet in the same spot every midnight to practice your singing." Akira said, happy that his plan on making Mikage head over heels for Teito is taking its progress.
"W-what? Akira you can't be serious!"
"Hm? What, you want everybody to know that you can sing so that they could grope you all they want? C'mon Teito trust me with this one. I could already smell the scent of success!"
"B-but-"
"No buts mister! Anyway, Razette also says that she's willing to help so the least you can do is thank us and not to complain."
"O-okay…"
"For now, we'll end it here. You can now rest Teito and rest assured that your lonely heart will soon have a partner." the raven assured him before slinging one arm and dragged him towards the dorms. They waved their goodbyes at Razette then they disappeared.
Soon, Mikage appeared at the fountain still wondering who the singer might be. He's so caught with his contemplation he didn't noticed the two disappearing figures in his left.
"I know!" he concluded while clapping his hands. "I will look for that singer every night! I have a feeling that she will sing again tomorrow."
Just wait you mysterious singer. I will find you and I will know who you are.
After that, he cast a hexazaiphon* around him and he jumped from roof to roof to take the easiest route back to his room.
Tomorrow will be another day.
*I'm referring to the six rings of zaiphon around the caster's body, acting as a shield of some sort.
So, what do you think of Teito singing? Reviews, comments and criticisms are highly appreciated! Thanks!