CHAPTER THREE: PRECIOUS PEOPLE
"What was that for?" Hikari blinked, the way that "Tadashi" had kissed her felt so familiar but...it was Tadashi. She looked up at Kei, his eyes were begging her for something but why...would Tadashi kiss her? Looking aside Hikari met Akira's tortured expression. "Ah, Akira-chan."
With slow steps over to her, Tadashi put his arms around a shaking Akira in order to comfort her but Akira only stood there extremely depressed. She bowed her head and pushed Tadashi's arms away from her. "What's going on?" she asked slowly as Kei ran a hand from his forehead to his mouth and Tadashi leaned back and looked at the ground behind him.
They opened their mouths and said simultaneously, "For some reason I'm not in my own body."
"What are you talking about?" Hikari asked, she tilted her head to the side before screaming again. "No! No! No! I got kissed by someone I don't know!! What..." she made a fist and stared at Kei, "You sure that you're not Tadashi? It's a joke right?" she winked before laughing a little.
"That guy," Kei cleared his throat and in a very serious manner pointed to the formerly black haired boy, "Is Tadashi. I'm Taki----" Before he could get anything else out Hikari had elbowed him in the side and slapped him. Kei blinked, how come that hurt? He was stronger than this right or was it just that his body had developed a resistance to that level of pain.
"I..." Kei repeated rubbing his side, "I'm Takishima."
"And I'm Tadashi," Tadashi grinned pointing to himself hoping this might be able to clear things up but Akira still stared at him extremely uncomfortable.
Hikari tilted her head to the side staring at Kei for a long time before looking up. "So if Takishima is Tadashi and Tadashi is Yahiro then Yahiro must be Takishima."
"Hikari-chan," Akira cried grabbing the girl by the arm, "This isn't fair, how can you be so calm about this....I don't..."
"Well why would Tadashi lie and say he was Takishima, he even has Takishima's facial expressions and gestures," she walked over to Kei and held his hand. "I know that this is Takishima."
Kei smiled in his usual way and squeezed Hikari's hand again, "Thank you Hikari." As he said that Hikari nodded with a grin and looked back at Akira who was staring at Tadashi as if he was a monster.
"Hey bear woman you believe m---" the puppet master smiled pointing to himself before hearing Akira scream not really trusting this situation as Hikari did.
"Get away from me Yahiro!!" she screamed before making a run for it at which Tadashi attempted to run after her but was stopped by what looked like his own arm.
"Give her space," Kei advised, "It's best not to rush into this with Akira. It's hard for her that it's Yahiro's body."
Tadashi nodded before sitting on the floor, wrapping his arms around his knees and setting his head upon them. "So if I give her time she'll come back?" he thought aloud not talking to anyone at that point. As he bowed his head so the brown fringe could be seen he noticed a hand on his left knee and lifted his head to find Hikari grinning at him.
"Everything will turn out okay so keep smiling."
Meanwhile
"Kei-sama," Aoi spoke softly as Ryuu stared ahead of him, why was he doing these presentations anyway? Was this the life that Kei actually had where he would faint and be expected to work an hour later? "Kei-sama maybe you should..."
"Should what?" Ryuu sighed as he put a hand on his head, "So annoying, I don't even know what his business does."
"Kei-sama are you sure that you're prepared for this? After hearing that you fainted I didn't think it was best for you to move Kei-sama," Aoi began to speak again as Ryuu's eyes widened. He lifted his head and stared straight at the black haired man,
"You mean there's a way to get out of this?"
"Well Kei-sama," Aoi began weakly, he closed his eyes for a moment, "I suppose I could take your place but I'm still unsure as to how the president will feel. He did ask for you to give the speech."
"So, if you tell him that I'm feeling ill," Ryuu began to ask, it was true, hi s head hurt from spinning so much and his stomach had sunk due to the stress. He felt sweaty and extremely creeped out by this change of events. He was probably running a fever and anyone could tell that he wasn't feeling well.
"I think there may be problems later on Kei-sama but I can hopefully sort them out for you. As long as the presentation gets done then the president won't get too angry but it's strange for Kei-sama to rely on me like this." Aoi bowed his head as he stared at the ground before smiling, "It feels nice to be treated like this by you Kei-sama."
Ryuu froze for a moment before nodding slowly, he didn't even remember this guys name so well. Aoi? Was that it, was that a last name or a first name. "Can you hold on for one moment, I've got a call that I want to make." He told the other man, lifting his hand. As he retreated to a corner he punched in Finn's number, hopefully the girl hadn't had her secret revealed to anyone else, then he'd feel guilty.
As he heard the ringing he took a deep breath before the "prince" picked up. "The stalker is calling me? What reason do you have? If you're planning to take Hi---"
"Finn," Ryuu took another breath, "I need to tell you something. It's Ryuu, somehow I found myself in Kei's body and I know this sounds crazy but be careful of your secret. Since I know your secret you can tell it's me can't you?"
"So..." Finn blinked, "I thought that was crazy, yeah I thought your brain had been taken out and you'd gone insane or something. Damn it, I let that guy know my secret though. You think he can keep it?"
"Who has my body?" Ryuu questioned, "Although I think most members of the S.A can keep a secret, perhaps not Tadashi but..."
"After they told me they were Jun though I shoulda believed that." Finn sighed, as Ryuu sighed finding Jun to be the best person to take care of his body although now he was getting protective over who had taken Jun's body away from him. "It's fricken weird though, after my secret was exposed he fricken went demented and ran around to please the animals that flocked to him and kinda fell in love with him."
Ryuu laughed at this starting to feel slightly relaxed, "Finn, can you..." he sighed becoming his more relaxed self, "meet me when I come back from London. This thing is troubling me a lot but maybe you should pretend to be someone other than yourself, it'll make your secret easier to hide."
"Sure thing, Ryuu you know you can count on me. So I can do it!" the girl smiled as Ryuu thanked her and hung up the phone.
"A...Aoi," the brunette took a stab at it and received a nod, good thing he got that right, "I feel incredibly ill, is it going to be alright to return home for the day and put the presentation off until tomorrow. I have no idea where my notes are."
"If that's the case Kei-sama then don't worry, I have everything you need right here," Aoi tapped the briefcase and Ryuu blinked ahead of him, was he really having to go in there and fake a business meeting he knew nothing about? "I thought you had spent time rehearsing it as well, you can memorize these things well Kei-sama."
"Yeah, I know but today is kinda different," Ryuu attempted to appeal his case, he couldn't just go in there and ramble on about nothing. Everyone would believe him to be an idiot. "Is there really no way that I can get out of this?"
"Well Kei-sama if you truly don't feel well I can take your place," Aoi repeated his offer from before and Ryuu smiled relaxing again.
"Thanks Aoi," he spoke with genuine relief in his voice to which Aoi nodded with a smile.
"I'm happy that I can help, Kei-sama."
Sorry that I was so slow updating but I've been really busy lately with college courses [which are a LOT harder than high school courses], however I hope to update much more after finals week. Also my other S.A fics are on hold until they are rewritten since what I had in plan doesn't fit very well with the later chapters of the series.
In addition to this I saw a whole bunch of great looking S.A fics that I can't wait to read when I have time.
Thank you to reviewers Ch.2
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