Merf...okay I put one of these in here again - I just Love the bar effect giggles okay. I made this chapter longer, hope you guys like it.
Sunshine invaded the windows of the small apartment, signifing early morning the next day. But one of the three who lay cramped in the bed was already awake, Kio, looking around alarmed from the floor; checked his watch and hissed audibly "Soubi! I dont know how I got here but were gonna be late for school!" Ritsuka was the one to respond to the frantic warning, sitting up and being rewarded with a friendly smile and wave "Oh Morning Aoyagi." Kio said kindly and ritsuka waved back politely.
He couldnt look at the man the same again after all his confessions the night before but what was to be expected? He would at least act like it wasnt haunting his mind. "Could you shake Soubi awake for me? I dont think sensei will be happy if he misses another day...and our projects are due today. Glad I turned mine in early as usual!" he was grabbing his clothes and pulling them on, looking around for something to eat "Oh. Ritsuka dont you have school today too?" he asked with a sudden curiousity, to which the answer was a shake of the head
"No. They are having a parent teacher day...I dont need to go." Normally on days like this kids went with their parents to fight or celebrate over grades and behavior but his mother had seen the notice about the day and still decided not to go so he had no reason to show up...oh no...his mother! he had forgotten all about her and how rude it was for him to leave the house like that, in the back of his mind he did hate her a little for treating him the way she did but he covered up his upset feelings by justifing her actions, she had all the right in the world to be upset with him for not being her true son.
In the end it was his own fault for taking her son from her...for wearing his face. That was the excuse he would give himself so he didnt have to feel anything about his mothers lack of love for him. He was so busy dazing off in thought about his mother that he didnt hear Kio announce his leave, the sound of the door slamming behind him roused the boy from his thoughts and the other man from his sleep.
He groaned and opened one gorgeous blue eye to the world, a hand raising to his forhead and moving some of the hair out of his way "Ritsuka?" he asked in an almost surprised voice as he caught sight of the violet tinted eyes casting a nervous glance his way. "Um...good morning..." the boy recited as he had been taught by the world around him and then crawled over Soubi to get off of the bed and stretch, unknowingly his back was admired when his shirt raised. Although when his arms came down again, Soubi buried his dirty thoughts as he was used to doing and tried to remember the night before...thoughts of the park, Ritsuka's mother, and...Kio.
"Where is Kio, Ritsuka?" he asked suddenly, sitting up and looking around the room, all the evidence that he had been there drunk the night before was gone, except for the child who now stood, looking towards the door. "He said that you two were going to be late for school and he left." it was a short but concise answer and the blonde had only to nod in aknowledgment of it.
He knew that despite his self destructive tendencies, Kio was a dedicated and hard working student who was very talented in the field he studied, although the other wasnt a bad artist himself. He remembered with another groan that their projects were due today and he had yet again put finishing his off for long enough to where he would have to convince the teacher into giving him an extension.
"Are you hungry, Ritsuka?" he asked, remembering where he was and what his current duties were, he could skip his classes today and say that he was working on his project all day long, it should go over well since even late projects were admired when they came from him.
Ritsuka shook his head and looked around the room, he wondered where the Zero boys had gone off to but he knew that if he asked that now it would just be obvious that he was trying to change the subject. Soubi regretfully pulled himself from the bed and straightened out the clothes he had fallen asleep in, looking the boy over he asked "Do you have anything to change into?" to which he only got a shake of the head yet again, he wouldnt ask the boy about his own school, he had noted the papers on his desk about the parent day and he knew how the boy felt about days like those.
"Well, would you like to go out?" he asked with a slight tilt of his head and a friendly smile, when those violet tinted eyes finally wandered back to him he was struck with a certain memory from the night before
"Sekkaku...he kissed me..." inside he felt a flurry of anger and resentment returning but he made sure that none of it was shown to the boy standing before him with a trusting look on his face
"I dont have my camera...so we cant make any memories." he noted regretfully and Soubi kept the smile plastered to his face "Then well simply find something else to do." such a reassuring answer and it entailed such an exciting day. He knew the boys fascination with memories, both making and keeping them around him, but he wanted to pull him out of the pessimistic view of the world, he didnt want him to go to sleep every night thinking that he would wake up not himself in the morning.
The thought even scared him, a grown man, a fighter, someone who seemed to be flawless and indestructable...but he was scared to think of what the other Ritsuka might be like, scared to think that he would just change completely and he might not get so adorably angry like he is known to, he might not pull away from the kisses that were forced upon him with care and forbidden love.
About thirty minutes later he found himself sitting on a park bench, across from the child with his elbows propped on the table top and his fingers laced thinking over a question that he had just been asked "So Soubi...what did you want to talk to me about last night?" He didnt want to but he knew he had to, so he sighed and let his arms all to the table slowly, fingers still laced upon themselves
"What I wanted last night was last night. What I want now is for you to tell me more about this, Sekkaku, person." He didnt want his adorable Ritsuka to be alone with that man again, he wanted to make it so that man could no longer breathe so that he could never touch his ritsuka again. For now he would settle with finding his weaknesses and planning on how to go about a spell battle with him.
If he was that ruthless of a fighter, that he would attack Ritsuka outside of the battlefield, then what worried him even more was what his sacrifice would be like.
Ritsuka's tension about the subejct was shown all over his face and even in his eyes "He...said things to me. About my brother. He said that he didnt know if he was really the one in charge of them all since he hadnt gotten direct orders from the highest up before." Soubi nodded at the information and then, seeing just how uncomfortable he was talking about it he couldnt force him to talk anymore, he was afraid he would lose control and take it out on the younger one.
He just had to know one last thing "You said...that he kissed you. Is that all? did he do anything else?" he was extremely protective of the flesh that his own lips had graced and loved and he would make sure that the man who marred that exclusive attention would suffer for every little thing he did.
"Of course thats all he did, do you think I would let him do anything else to me?" the boy shouted outraged and then looked up at the afternoon sky, they had been there longer than he thought they would be and had discussed almost nothing.
In his mind the only thing the older blonde was thinking was that he would get back at him, he would make that pervert feel pain he couldnt have imagined in his entire worthless life.
Ritsuka stood and frowned down at his fighter "Im going home...its almost curfew" he had a few hours left but he thought that after the way he had left his mother the night before he shouldnt try his luck by coming back even close to late.
Soubi stood as well, motioning towards the path "Ill walk you." he offered with that normal smile on his face, trying to make light of the situation. "Dont bother!" the cat boy shouted and began to walk, forcing his fists into the pockets of his jacket and walking towards his home in silent thought.
And in the next chapter be prepared for...Dun dun dun...a one on one chat with Sekkaku and Soubi! Ill get right on it.