27. The Mind of a Villain

Word Count: 931

A/N: See the title? Yeah, prepare for a huge lack of actual 8027 and a boat load of 10051 interaction. I'm so sorry to those opposed to that couple.

"Ne, Shou-chan, what would you do if you were trying to destroy your most hated enemy?"

Shouichi nearly fell out of his chair at the sudden intrusion but still wound up squawking loudly as he turned toward his door, papers at his desk flying and fluttering in the air behind him.

"Bya-Byakuran-san!" Shouichi felt his face burn and stomach churn when Byakuran simply smiled at him, lilac eyes dancing amusedly.

"What would you do if you were trying to destroy your most hated enemy?" Byakuran inquired again, not even blinking as Shouichi glowered at him, lips set in a firm nervous line. Shouichi pushed up his glasses.

"You could have knocked first…"

"But then I wouldn't have gotten to see Shou-chan get startled really badly! You're face gets all red and cute~" The way Byakuran leered with an innocent smile made Shouichi's face almost as red as his hair, much to Byakuran's amusement.

"But that sort of digresses from the topic and question, Shou-chan~" Shouichi frowned at Byakuran and turned back to his desk.

"Isn't mind games and/or sadism your thing? Please leave me to my work, Byakuran-san. I have a lot of theories to work through."

"Aww…! Shou-chan's being all grumpy and stingy…" Shouichi yelped when he felt something heavy and hard gently plop itself on his head, and by the warmth that tingled his back, Shouichi assumed it was Byakuran resting his chin on his hair.

"B-Byakuran-san…"

"It's just a quick question, Shou-chan~" The proximity of his voice confirmed his assumption, "I promise to leave you to your work when I get an answer!"

Shouichi picked up a few sheets of his papers, pushing up his glasses, "You mean after you've gotten your answer and have teased me to your heart's content?"

"Shou-chan knows me too well~" Byakuran chuckled and it made Shouichi blush, slightly indignant. Shouichi leaned back in his chair faintly, looking up in the general direction of where Byakuran's face would be.

"Though honestly, Byakuran-san, why are you asking me this? I don't necessarily do, you know," Shouichi gestured vaguely, "the cruelty, sadism thing. That's up your alley, isn't it?"

"Hmm…" Byakuran's arms slid over Shouichi's shoulders, draping on them and a bag of marshmallows in one of his hands. He took a few marshmallows out, "I just wanted a genius opinion on this~ Surely Shou-chan's had one or two people he's wanted to chain to a wall and torture them slowly with slow, long cuts with a knife and words that'll rip apart someone's mind while you laugh at their misery~"

Shouichi shuddered and Byakuran laughed. "Th-then no, I have not, Byakuran-san." Shouichi gulped, "Um, why can't you do that? That whole…chained to the wall thing?"

"'Cause that's gotten boriiiing!" Byakuran huffed and Shouichi didn't have hard time imagining a pout on Byakuran's face that was surely there. Shouichi reached in the bag of marshmallows and pulled out two, ignoring how Byakuran made a pleased noise.

"Then what did you want to do?"

"Something…despicable~" Shouichi placed the marshmallows in his mouth, chewing slowly to hide the sudden nervousness in his churning gut.

"Then how about you go for the heart?" Shouichi idly wondered whose voice just spoke, wondered why it sounded kind of like his own, and felt mortified when he realized he was the one who said it.

Byakuran hummed, "Go on…"

"It's not like I've ever experienced it myself, but I've seen people lose their minds after someone close to them died," Seriously, why was he saying this? "Maybe if you kill that person's most important person brutally, not only will you get the satisfaction of knowing they broke, but in the end their life, because you know that they won't let you get away with that person's death so they'll come to you in a rage."

…What the hell did he just suggest?

"That sounds brilliant, Shou-chan!" Byakuran's arms wrapped around his neck, pulling Shouichi even closer to Byakuran, even through the chair. Shouichi yelled out as the arms tightened and Byakuran began to nuzzle his face in Shouichi's hair; Shouichi tried to swat him away.

"G-Get off of me, Byakuran-san!"

"Shou-chan's so smart~" Byakuran's nuzzling quickened.

"I answered your question! Get off me and let me do my homework!"

"Such a cute little sadist~"

"I'm not a sadist! Get off!"

"My cute little stingy sadist~"

"B-Byakuran-san!"

Byakuran laughed loudly, releasing a deep red Shouichi from his grasp. "Fine, fine. I know I've overstayed my welcome." Shouichi fixed him a disgruntled glare that brought out another chuckle from him. "I gotta go see a professor about some project anyway," Byakuran said as he started towards the door.

"I'll stop by tonight, Shou-chan~" Byakuran called out from over his shoulder as he walked out the door, laughing loud when Shouichi screamed, "Stay in your own dorm, Byakuran-san!"

And halfway down the hallway, Byakuran's contented mirth shifted darkly.

"Ah, so which parallel world were the ones Tsunayoshi-kun was happily dating Yamamoto Takeshi-kun?" Byakuran looked up in thought, pressing a finger under his lips pulled up in a contemplative smile.

"Ah, that's right!" Byakuran's smile stretched at the corners sharply, widely, and a cruel glint sparked in his eyes, "Most of them! Nearly all of them!"

Byakuran laughed, the dark ring echoing in the hall. "I'm going to have to come up with something nice for Shou-chan thinking that up for me~ I can almost see Tsunayoshi-kun's expression when he comes in, screaming at how I killed his 'Yamamoto'~"

He grinned, "Let the total control of all worlds begin~"