Chapter six: Blackout
"Kuro, can I ask you something?" Gil asked as we walked on the dark hallway. I looked at him quickly, before I turned my gaze back to Antonio and Francis, who were walking little bit ahead of us.
"Sure, go ahead," I mumbled, even though I probably would regret this later.
"Why are you so relaxed with Antonio? I mean, you won't even let me touch you but when he lifted you up earlier you didn't even fight back..," Gil grumbled, and without even looking at him, I knew he was pouting. I just sighed and glared at him a little.
"Well, that is quite simple. Antonio is clearly an airhead, so I know he won't do anything to me. You on the other hand…. well let's just say that I don't trust in you enough to think that you won't do anything to me," I explained, and fastened my walking pace slightly. "And same goes for Francis. I won't let him near me either."
"Aw, don't be so mean…," Gil whined and started to cling on to me.
"Let go of me!" I snapped and stepped away from him, causing him to almost fall over. "God damn it why the hell are you so clingy!?" I growled and fastened my pace again, soon catching up to Francis and Antonio who had gotten more further ahead of us. Gil just mumbled something under his breath in German, and followed me. For a moment there was rather quiet, at least until Antonio went and bumped into someone, causing that person to scream like murderer was after him. Or her. Because that person really screamed like girl. But anyway, that scream was so loud that I had to cover my ears, and so did Gil. And the fact that Antonio yelped rather loudly too didn't help at all.
"Veeh! Please don't kill me I didn't mean to bump into you!" I somehow managed to hear someone say, and I peeked from behind Gil -who had jumped in front of me- to see who it was. And to my surprise, I saw that Italian boy with the strange curl sticking out from his hair to stand in front of Francis and Antonio, looking all scared and was also trembling.
"Eh, Feliciano? Dios mio I'm sorry, we didn't mean to scare you!" Antonio suddenly said and walked over to the Italian, and tried to calm him down.
"Oi, who the heck is that…?" I whispered to Gil as I moved next to him, although I didn't move my gaze away from the Italian who slowly began to calm down when Antonio assured him that everything was fine.
"Feliciano Vargas, Lovino Vargas' little brother. And Antonio has fallen head over heels in love with Lovino~" Gil snickered, but apparently Antonio didn't hear him, since he blushed slightly at the albino's comment. "Oh and just for your information… even if he looks harmless he is part of Italian mafia…," Gil then added, and I immediately became more cautious after hearing that.
"Veh, what are you guys doing here?" Feliciano asked, seeming little confused that others were here. "Eh? Kiku, I thought you had already returned to the dormitory," he then said when he saw me, and I could feel all emotions escape from my eyes and expression as everyone turned to look at me.
"Now now Feli, let's not mix people to each other," Francis chuckled nervously and stepped between me and Feliciano, clearly getting the dimwit Italian more confused.
"Okay what was that just now?" Gil hissed as he pulled me little further away from Antonio, Francis and Feliciano, and stared into my eyes, although I avoided to look at him.
"It's nothing. He just though that I was Kiku, my twin brother," I mumbled quietly, and shook my head. "It's nothing new, that happens rather often," I then added before Gil could say anything. I heard him tsk quietly, before he apparently returned to where Feliciano was. I just sighed and followed him only to see him talk really quietly to Feliciano, and his eyes glowed slightly. But Feliciano seemed little weird too. He didn't look so innocent, at least not until he turned to look at me, and then suddenly…. he just bounced at me and hugged me tightly. "What the-!?"
"I'm so sorry! I didn't know Kiku had a brother, so I didn't realize you were different person!" he whined as he nearly caused me to fall down, and it would have happened if Gil wouldn't have caught me and Antonio to pull once more weeping Feliciano away, and again had to calm him down.
"… oookay what the hell was that?" I mumbled, but then noticed Gil lifting me up. "Oi, what are you doing!?" I snapped at him and began to squirm, at least until he put me down again.
"I just told Feliciano that you are not Kiku, but his twin," Gil shrugged, then ruffled my hair. "And you looked so helpless just now that I couldn't resist the urge to pick you up~" I felt blush creep its way up my cheeks, and turned to glare somewhere else.
"Shut up!" I growled, hearing Gil chuckled to himself as he kept ruffling my hair, which I -for some reason unknown to me-, didn't really mind.
"Gil, Kuro, shouldn't we head back outside now!?" I heard Francis call for us, causing me to flinch, then sigh as I turned to look at him.
"Coming coming…," I mumbled and headed over to the trio, where the Italia had already calmed down back to his overly cheerful self. Huh, and I had though Antonio was overly happy…
"So…. all of you ended up in detention? Gil you're not giving Luddy good examples," Feliciano said as if scolding Gil, who just snickered and shrugged.
"Before you ask, Luddy, or Ludwig, is my younger bruder," Gil explained, apparently knowing that I was going to ask at some point. I tilted my head, but chose to just nod, after all, it didn't seem like I'd have brother either, so it shouldn't really be that big of a surprise that he could have a brother too.
"By the way Feli, why are you still here? I thought you were supposed to be back home by now," Antonio then spoke up, looking at the Italian boy confusedly. "Lovi will worry of you, you know…" "
Veh, he won't~" Feliciano just giggled, earning a curious look from the trio surrounding him. "Because I stayed here this late to copy notes for fratello, so he knows that I'll be later than usual~" I just tilted my head. Huh, his brother seemed to get worried easily, at least what I could understand from the conversation this far. Truth to be told, I think I have seen Feliciano once or twice, being accompanied by another Italian boy, who looked a lot like him, but only had darker hair and a curl on the other side of his head. Plus, he seemed much less cheerful, since he cursed a lot at others or nothing, and I could easily hear it to other side of the hallway when he was angry enough.
"Hmm… I see. But I think we all should get the heck out of here," Gil suddenly said, and glared around as if he had heard something. "I don't like being here right now….," he added, and I turned to look at the hallway cautiously, at least until I was pulled along. "Come on Kuro, I don't think you want to stay here for long."
"Hai hai…," I just sighed as I followed him little reluctantly. Gil had obviously seen something, but he wouldn't tell me what. Suddenly I felt chills run down my spine, and I turned to look back only to see someone disappear behind the corner. I nearly stopped, or at least would have if Gil wouldn't have been pulling me forward with him. "Gil… what did you see?" I whispered to him quietly as I kept looking behind from time to time.
"That Russian idiot…. I don't want to deal with him right now," Gil sighed and looked at me quickly. "Besides, it doesn't seem like he is going to do anything either…"
"Tch….. for some reason I do not believe that…," I muttered and glared behind me, but I didn't see anything this time either, so I just gave up and focused on looking forward.
"Don't worry, if he tries anything I'll protect you~" Gil snickered and tightened his grip on my hand slightly. I felt my cheeks heat up a little, and after punching Gil to his side, I pulled my hand free and hurried up a little, ignoring his small groan. "Seriously, you have some problem with me…," he muttered as he caught up on me, but stayed at safe distance from me. I shot him a small glare, but otherwise ignored him, and suppressed a smirk as he let out a deep sigh and gave up on talking to me. At least that was what I hoped until he tried again to talk to me.
I looked back at my friend and the Japanese boy, chuckling quietly to myself. Gil was desperately trying to have some sort of conversation with Kuro, but he was clearly failing. Oh how amour could be cruel sometimes~
"Francis, what are you grinning so happily?" Feliciano chirped from next to me, and looked behind too at the duo now having a small argue, but didn't see anything special yet, which made him little confused.
"Oh nothing my dear little Feli~" I smiled and patted the Italian's head, although I did avoid his curl, since it would be awkward with Kuro here to touch it. And Ludwig would give me a lecture. Again. "It just seems like our albino friend is having slight problems in winning someone's heart." I nearly saw a light-bulb lit up above Feliciano's head, and a happy smile appeared on his face.
"Veh, should we try to help them?" he asked, cheerfully as ever.
"Don't worry, I think it's wise to leave this to Gil. I don't think certain someone would appreciate it if we'd try to do something involving his precious Japanese friend~" I chuckled the last part of my sentence loud enough so Gil would hear me, and as I looked at him quickly I saw him blushing a little, and cursing quietly at me in German, earning a curious glance from the shorter boy next to him, but Antonio assured him that the albino was fine.
"Veh, he reminds me of fratello~" Feliciano said, earning me now a curious look. "I mean, he seems to like him, at least a little but I think he is afraid to admit it."
Feliciano surely managed to surprise me from time to time. He was able to tell how people felt about each other rather quickly, and apparently same thing applied to Kuro, since the Italian had found out already how he felt. Well, he had found out that a Brit –who's name shall not be mentioned for now- who I had known for a while had feelings for me, and honestly, I was really glad to have found out it. Sure, he was little…. difficult when it became to amour, but he was adorable with being like that.
"There's the door! Now come on people, I don't want to stay here for any longer!" Gil suddenly exclaimed –maybe too loudly- and hurried past me, waking me up from my daze, and I couldn't help but shake my head a little at him. He was just so hopeless sometimes. I really had to consider Feliciano's offer soon if Gil wouldn't hurry up at all.
"For some reason I don't want to know what suddenly got to him…," Kuro sighed as he followed the albino, still holding his sketchbook close to himself. Hmm, I really needed to get a closer look at it at some point…
"Feli, tell Lovi that I said 'hi' will you?" Antonio grinned as soon as we got out from the school -again thanks to Gil's lock-picking skills- and looked at the Italian quickly.
"Sure, and you can come to visit us whenever you want to~" Feliciano chirped before he ran off towards his home, and I guess that worked as a sign to us others since Antonio said his goodbyes too and left the school-grounds.
"I'll walk Kuro back home, so see ya later!" Gil said and quickly pulled opposing Kuro with him as he hurried away too.
"I can walk back by myself! You don't need to escort me back to my own home!"
"Trust me, it's better if you have company right now."
I laughed quietly at their still on-going arguing about if Kuro needed anyone to escort him home, but in the end Gil somehow managed to win the 'fight' and headed towards the smaller –and now cursing- male's home, and soon they disappeared into the streets. "I guess I could go home too," I smiled, and looked back at the school to see someone disappear from one of the windows, and I had to admit, after seeing it I kind of was in a hurry to get home too.
I'm so so so SO sorry this took so long to publish! I had a really awful writer's block, and every time I tried to write this it was a failure! I'll try to make it up to you guys by releasing few other chapters as soon as I can, but I really can't promise you anything. ;^;
BUT as you could see I tried to write a little from Francis' point of view, aaaand I think I might have done a good job. :3
