A/N: Yay, another update! I've been getting more hours at work, so I don't know how frequent my future chapters are going to be… but hopefully they won't be too far in between!

SPICE!

Chapter Five: Nowhere in Particular

"So, you like my sister?" Len asked suddenly, peering up from his water to gaze at Kaito with deep, blue, mysterious, enchanting…

He cut his roaming mind short.

"She's nice." Kaito smiled, feigning innocence, "She seems like a fun person to be friends with."

Len smirked, "Oh," he replied, hiding most of the shock in his voice, "That'll change." He added.

Kaito sipped his root beer float passively as a new waitress came up. She was a busty girl with long pink hair and intense green eyes.

"Hey, Luka," Len greeted, "Saw you beat up Dell again."

She flipped her hair, "He never learns," she snickered, "What will you be getting tonight?" she asked.

"I'd love some of you!" a man with purple hair shouted from another booth, gesturing wildly to the pink haired beauty.

Luka looked at Kaito, "Sir, may I borrow your menu for a moment?" she asked, her voice sugary sweet.

Kaito nodded, "uhm, sure…" he handed her the menu, and she bowed slightly.

She then turned and chucked the menu at full force in the direction of the offending man.

She didn't miss.

"Owww," he complained, rubbing the red spot right smack in the middle of his forehead, "Why do you treat me so, my love?"

"Shut up Gakupo before I come over there and make you." She hissed, her voice deadly.

There was an awkward silence.

A long awkward silence.

"So, back to the topic at hand. What are you ordering?" she asked, her voice sweet again.

"A fried chicken basket to share." Len said, not waiting Kaito's approval. He looked at Kaito and winked.

"All right, I'll be back shortly with your order." She took up the remaining menu, and when she walked past Gakupo, she hit him on the back of the head with it and gathered up the thrown menu.

"The fried chicken basket is really big, so I think it'll feed both of us and leave for us to get dessert." Len explained.

Kaito intrest was piqued and grinned at the mention of dessert, "Sounds good. Thank you!" he smiled.

Len was now under a spell. He nodded, "Mmhm… sure…" he replied slowly.

There was a small silence between the two, "I wonder what happened to the silver-haired girl."

"Haku?" Len inquired, "She's probably embarrassed to see me here. She doesn't deal well with stress."

"I could tell…" Kaito frowned, and another silenced passed between the two.

"Are you like girls or guys?" Len asked suddenly.

Kaito was taken aback, "W-what?"

"Do you like girls or guys?" Len repeated.

"Like… as friends?"

"Romantically."

Kaito just knew this had to be some kind of trap.

"Uhm… I dunno…"

Len grinned, "You know… I can help you make up your mind. Real easy." He whispered seductively across the table when Luka arrived, talking excitedly and drowning out Len's statement with her chatter.

"All right boys! Here you go: one fried chicken basket. Enjoy you two!" she piped and left as quickly as she came.

"What were you saying?" Kaito asked, "I couldn't hear you."

Len sighed almost dejectedly, "I'll tell you later." He waved a hand dismissively.

The two ate the chicken basket and had idle conversation in between bites. It wasn't anything too dramatic, mainly about the weather or family or pets and such. Finally, the food had been demolished and all that was left was a basket of chicken bones.

"Are you still hungry for desert?" Len questioned.

Kaito laughed, "I've always got room for ice cream."

Len nodded, "We can go somewhere else for ice cream."

When they walked out, the moon was bright in the sky and there was another fight out on the street between two women in crop tops and miniskirts. Several men were cheering for one or the other on the sidelines with lude cries such as, "Take off your shirt!"

The continued along in the dark under the flickering lamplights, "You're so comfortable here." Kaito pointed out, and Len looked confused.

"It's really not so bad. It's actually kind of nice here. You know, despite the random gunfire."

Kaito paled. There were gunfights in this area? "H-how often does that happen?"

"Hmm… three times a night. No one gets hurt usually."

"Usually?" Kaito nearly shouted.

Len laughed, "Calm down. No one's going to shoot you. You have to actually do something that anger-worthy."

Kaito continued to be nervous, his arms wrapped securely around his torso as they walked. Finally, Len rolled his eyes, stepped in front of Kaito, and pulled both his arms down to stay at his side, "Relax," Len said firmly, "if you keep acting so scared, someone's going to think your hiding something and someone is going to shoot you."

"B-but, I'm not hiding anything!" he whimpered.

Len sighed and grabbed Kaito's hand. He looked him straight in the eyes, "No one is going to shoot you. As long as you're with me, you're safe."

Kaito was under his spelled again, and all the terror in his mind washed away as he stared into his mysterious blue eyes.

Wiiiiitch, Kaito's mind repeated.

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Len had led him back to the less sketchy side of town where they both lived at took him to a small ice cream parlor called "The Frozen Moo". It was cute little shop, the walls decorated with a sunny pastoral scene with cows dotted here and there, grazing on the green, acrylic grass.

The shop sported ninety-three different varieties of ice cream, which nearly made Kaito squeal. They offered types such as Cotton Candy Bubble Gum to Smurf. Kaito chose the Smurf, which consisted of some sort of blue ice cream (he couldn't quite decipher the flavor) with tiny marshmallows. Len ordered nothing, saying he had to watch his weight.

"Hey, Len?" Kaito asked between a lick of his frozen treat.

"Hmm?"

"Do you have a job?" he asked innocently.

"No, I'm too young to get a job. I won't turn sixteen for another four months." Len answered, slightly confused.

"Where do you get all this money from, then?"

Len's lip curled in a small smirk, "Oh, nowhere in particular."

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It was about eleven when the two decided to call it a night. Kaito's house was the closest to the restaurant, so they decided to go there first.

"Are you sure you don't need me to walk you home?" Kaito asked.

"Nah, I'm good. Thanks though."

They walked on to the porch, and had another moment of awkward silence.

"Oh!" Kaito piped up, "What was it that you said in the restaurant earlier?"

"Oh, yeah." Len muttered, feeling his cheeks heat up slightly, "I said, 'Do you need help deciding?' or something like that."

"Deciding about what?"

"You gender preference."

Kaito's cheeks reddened, "O-oh… I'm-" he was abruptly cut off when Len's lips met his in a nearly crushing kiss.

Kaito was taken almost aback by it, but quickly gave in and found that he was kissing back.

It was definitely not a short, chaste, cutesy kiss. There were dueling tongues and everything.

Len's fingers had tangled themselves into the mass of blue hair, and Kaito's arms had snaked their way around Len's middle. For a while, nothing existed except the taste of each other's mouths, and Kaito found himself musing on it. Len tasted kind of like cinnamon, or something sharp and strong like that. Maybe mint or Altoids? No… definitely some kind of raw spice, not some powdered form of it.

After an eternity, Len pulled away slightly, "I'll see you later," he whispered with a smirked as he untangled his fingers from his hair. Kaito's arms became loose and Len walked away, waving once before running down the street.

Kaito's younger sister, a girl with greenish-blue hair and blue eyes opened the door. She looked questioningly at him, "Kaito-nii? Who was that boy?" she asked softly.

"No one in particular, Miku-Chan." Kaito replied, his voice airy and distant.

"Oh... okay." She answered and walked back in the house.

Kaito stood frozen where he was for about ten more minutes. He was no longer the hunter in this game, was he?

Because he really, really felt like he was being hunted.

A/N: Sorry I didn't update soon! A bunch of stuff happened, but you don't want to hear about my boring problems. xD Anyway, I feel this chapter is a bit messy, because my mind was on other things while writing it, but I made it longer (but still sorta pointless) to try and make up for it. Sorry everyone… xP