Disclaimer: See Chapter Two; Sexual Frustration, Anyone?

Severe Companionship

Juicy Fruit

After taking a liking to almost all the clothes Kai had found for him, Rei had strode confidently to the cashier. As Kai was given the amount owed and pulled out the appropriate amount in cold hard cash (more than Rei had ever seen before), Rei nearly keeled over. Bryan hoisted the catatonic Nekojin out of the store and shut him up momentarily with a banana fudge double scoop ice cream. Again, he wasn't impressed someone had bought something for him.

"Jesus, Rei. You need to calm down and appreciate it when people spend money on you." Bryan grunted while running a hand through his hair.

"I am grateful, I just don't like emptying people's wallets." Rei replied between licks of the dairy product. Mm… banana-y goodness.

"Trust me, Rei, I've got plenty of cash left in my wallet." Kai interjected, hands full of clothing bags. The Chinese squeaked and insisted that he carry the vast majority of it although, with his right hand occupied with the ice cream it was difficult.

"You really shouldn't travel with so much money at one time. What if you get mugged?"

"I'll kick their ass back to puberty, that's what."

After Rei deposited the remainder of his ice cream to the Feed Bryan Fund, Tala leaned in. "Once, Rei and Hyde from L'arc en Ciel walked into a bar. The bar was instantly destroyed. Turns out that level of sexiness can't be contained in one building."

Rei, Bryan and Kai rolled their eyes and inwardly groaned. Moments later, Kai spoke rather flatly; "I'm hungry."

As it turned out over the years, Kai developed Hollow Leg Syndrome as well as Chronic Sleep In On Weekends disease. The Russian-born ate like a cow, often slept twelve hours a day and never gained a pound. Bryan called it a second puberty. Tala simply added that his libido had gone through the roof, although Kai went to great lengths to suppress it. This was all mentioned while Kai was in line for Chinese fast food and well out of earshot.

"There are some things I don't need to know."

Tala smirked deviously, "What? The fact that kai is so horny that he'd screw anything that moves if he let himself?"

"Lalalalala, not listening!" Rei pressed his palms to his ears and squeezed his eyes shut.

Bryan grasped his companion's collar and yanked him close, eyes flashing dangerously. "What are you trying to do? Drive Rei nuts, thinking Kai's a sex-crazed maniac?"

"I'm just telling him the truth," The blue-eyed Russian purred in response and was promptly released when Kai returned holding two trays near-overflowing with food.

"I hope you don't mind me picking off your plate because I don't think what I ordered is big enough." He warned.

Sure enough, within minutes Kai had completely devoured his low mein, chicken balls with sweet and sour sauce and beef fried rice combo and continued to pick off the others' plates. Eventually each plate was picked clean, and the quatro simply hung out by the fountain at the centre of the mall were several beydishes were set up. Almost immediately the vast majority of amateur bladders recognized the four for who they'd once been and crowded about. Of course, along came the fan girls who quite literally hung off the four young men.

"Teehee, Rei, your hair's so pretty…" An overly-frivolous female crooned while gently stroking the ebony tresses.

"Uhm, thanks?"

"And those eyes, so sexy…" Her almond-shaped brown eyes stared up at Rei lustfully, and he mentally recoiled. "Think you can spare a copy of your number, sug?"

Scratching the back of his head, Rei was frantic to come up with a good enough excuse to not give her said number, aside from the fact that he didn't have a phone anymore. Suddenly, there was a strong arm sliding across his back and wrapping around his waist. The Nekojin looked up to see Kai next to him, pulling him closer, almost possessively.

"Actually, no, I don't think he can." The older concluded before turning to place a butterfly kiss to Rei's jaw. "Play along." He whispered into one pointed ear before pulling away.

Rei would gladly play along.

Both Tala and Bryan watched the two at the corners of their vision, smirking deviously.