Yesterday, Kouen invited Koumei to come to his workplace. Koumei's heart faltered, he didn't actually wanted to accept the invitation. His imagination ran wild—what if the first scene he saw is Kouen and Alibaba making out…or worse, having sex?

To shoo away the weird thought, Koumei shook his head vigorously. He wasn't jealous at all, it's just he prefer not to witness such things.

Still, his legs brought him in front of Kouen's workplace. Koumei didn't want to know anything, why Kouen had to invite him like this? A lot of question appeared in Koumei's mind, all of them related to 'what am I going to see now'.

His question stopped once he heard a loud crash inside the room.

"Don't get near me! Go away!"

It was Alibaba's voice. Koumei was a little bit worried when he heard that, although he knew his brother is not some beast who would just attack anyone. The thing is, it's Alibaba.

"You little… What did you say earlier?!"

And now, Kouen's voice. Now he began eavesdropping to make sure that nothing bad really happened. Koumei worried about Alibaba's wellbeing, he didn't care when he started to care about the third Prince of Balbadd.

"Koumei-san! Help me!"

When his name was mentioned, he immediately open the sliding door. He couldn't bear to imagine what happened inside, especially the first thing he saw upon opening the door is Kouen's hands were gripping on Alibaba's wrists.

Surprised by Koumei's appearance, Kouen and Alibaba stared at Koumei. Kouen's grip started to loosened up and Alibaba took the chance to run to Koumei and tackled him. Thanks to Koumei who had a pretty fit body for a shut-in, he could caught Alibaba.

"Koumei-san! He was trying to kill me!" Alibaba whined while Kouen was seen angry at the sentence. Koumei could see that Kouen might smack some sense to Koumei if he believed Alibaba. Koumei just patted Alibaba's head and smiling.

"Now, brother king, do you need something from me? Or probably you wanted to explain the ruckus earlier?" Koumei signaled Alibaba to release his grab on his waist. Alibaba pouted and turned his head to Kouen, sticking his tongue out and ran to Koumei's back before Kouen killed him for real.

"It was nothing." Kouen scratched the back of his head, while Alibaba chimed in with his opinion. "He was really going to kill me just because I said his goatee didn't suit him at all!" And released a small 'eeek' when Kouen stared at them with anger.

Everyone in the palace couldn't agree more with Alibaba.

"I will be delighted if you can read the mood by not saying it while I'm kissing you." Finally the truth had been spilled, Koumei was left speechless, but his hand was quick enough to hold Alibaba's hands that were trying to cover his ears.

"Kiss…?" Repeating Kouen's word, he turned his head to look at Alibaba who turned into a tomato. Face all red and silent, his eyes were watery because of the embarrassment. Koumei felt bad and he thought Kouen didn't need to announce it in front of both of them. In fact, Koumei didn't even need to know, it was the reason he was hesitating from meeting Kouen.

Koumei sighed and stared right to his brother.

"Brother King, I don't think it was a good way to say that you refuse my proposal. I can accept it just fine." Koumei bowed down to Kouen and was ready to go back to work, forgetting whatever he heard today. He could hear Alibaba calling his name, but Koumei couldn't care at all. So it's official that Alibaba is his brother's possession.

"I wasn't particularly refusing." Kouen sat on his chair, resting his chin on his hand. "I just wanted to say that I have a reason to keep that brat here." He pointed Alibaba who kept clinging to Koumei's robe. From Alibaba's face, he was embarrassed rather than uncomfortable. "Talking it with that brat here would make it easier."

Koumei was disappointed that Alibaba didn't tell it to him before, although he didn't know why Alibaba need to tell him. The reason Alibaba never seriously asked to stop working under Kouen maybe because he enjoyed being with Kouen.

'If I knew he was brother king's lover, I wouldn't dare to put any feelings on him.' Koumei thought. He understood now, he liked Alibaba.

'Wait. What did brother king said?'

"Wasn't particularly refusing?" He repeated Kouen's answer, looking up to his brother's direction. He was eager to know why his brother answered in that kind of fashion.

Kouen nodded. He raised his hand and signaled Alibaba to approach him. Although reluctant, the younger boy released his grip on Koumei's robe and walked towards Kouen's direction, just to have his arm grabbed and he fell sitting on Kouen's lap.

"W—you don't have to pull me like that!" Finally Alibaba had the chance to talk, because since earlier, it seems hard to butt in to the conversation. "So that was the reason you were kissing me longer than the usual." He continued in a really small voice, only Kouen could hear it.

"I actually wanted Koumei to see it by himself. We're kissing, I mean." Alibaba nearly smacked Kouen's face, but he got his hand caught again, the blonde's face was red again. Kouen wasn't going to lie that he enjoyed Koumei's expression, it's rare to get some expression from his younger brother. "Don't tell me you're jealous."

Koumei jolted, he didn't like it when he got played. Koumei was never a playful guy, so having this treatment is just the worst, especially coming from his brother. He wanted to say that he didn't care, but he couldn't. It was clear that Koumei cared and he was being jealous, now whenever he's close with Alibaba, he couldn't not think that the younger man might be touched everywhere by Kouen.

"It's your personal problem, Brother King. It has nothing to do with me." Thinking that competiting with Kouen is a hassle, Koumei chose to just back off from Alibaba. Alibaba had someone else to complaint—maybe Kougyoku, she's really nice.

"See? Why do you even think Koumei-san is interested in me?" Alibaba hissed to Kouen, thinking that he wasn't even popular with girls—especially with men!

Although Kouen knew it well that Alibaba is somehow more popular to men, probably because of his expression and reaction upon teased. Kouen glad that Alibaba is naïve and innocent enough to amuse him, the moment he laughed when Koumei was teasing Alibaba virginity, he knew that he was interested a little bit in the third Prince of Balbadd.

Both Kouen and Koumei knew that having Alibaba's presence near them is somewhat more than enough, Alibaba is soothing and caring.

"I was trying to say that if you're really interested in this brat…" resting his chin on Alibaba's head who kept protesting with 'it's heavy', "I don't really mind, I knew how much we need him—ouch!" He got a head-butt from Alibaba and that's when Kouen glared to Alibaba with anger. 'Can't he really read the mood?' In a second, Alibaba became quiet.

'Me? Needing him?' Koumei scoffed. "You're wrong, brother king, it seems that he is the one who need me." He grinned, thinking that even his brother need a help from a little brat, while the said little brat always came to him after work.

Now, Kouen got pissed off. He stood up forgetting Alibaba was still on his lap that made Alibaba jumped away, not wanting to in Kouen's way.

"I was being generous and that was your reply?" Kouen hissed towards Koumei, the younger brother just covered the lower half of his face with the fan.

"Don't cry when Alibaba is all lovey-dovey with me." Koumei answered that—his mouth was covered, but Kouen could see the smile on Koumei's lazy eyes. While Alibaba was shocked to even comment on the conversation, not that he had any word to say.

"P-please don't fight…" Alibaba whimpered, he wasn't sure whether the brothers heard him or not. Probably he should ran to Kougyoku or Kouha, but he knew that he can't even move from this place.