The room was warm, too warm maybe, but the scratchy sound of the air condition filling the room was a bit easier to deal with and the soft whirring of the fan in the kitchen was easy to hear. Mikuo Hatsune sat in his living room with the floor digging into the room from his position as his cheeks began to burn red and hot as he huffed out little breathes with his limbs trembling softly as his jaw clenched tightly with determination. He felt like he was being stretched too far as he trembled softly and he let out a weak little breath but was determined all the same as his lashes lowered a bit as he growled gently.
"Luki, I can't keep doing this, it's too hard." He gritted out as his teeth ground against one another tightly as he trembled again and Luki sighed out, his face utterly natural and rather relaxed as he stretched his own limbs a bit causing his mauscles to twitch and shiver a little bit, like the soft ripple of water in a cup when disturbed.
"I knew you couldn't do this. It's just to difficult for you." Luki sighed out as his own cheeks burned and sweatglistened on his skin and Mikuo growled out under his breath as he shivered but small beads of sweat welled on his forehead and body, rolling down causing his hair to stick to his forehead and his clothes to his body.
"Sh-Shut up! I can too do it!" Mikuo snapped as his eyes narrowed and he looked down with that narrowed gaze glaring hotly and angrily as he clenched his jaw with determination once again.
"Then get it done! Come on Mikuo, you can do it then, if it isn't that hard." Luki said crossing his arms behind his head casually as he looked at the flushed and cursing teen.
"It is hard! I'm not used to doing it is all!" Mikuo growled again as he hissed out a breath with anger as his head pounded and his hands ached, his arms trembling gently while his knees throbbed softly from putting so much of his weight into the floor.
"Come on, it's simple, just take a look at it and dive right in. Trust me, it's easy." Luki said as he looked at Mikuo who's cheeks flushed a little more and looked at Luki from under his very dark, long lashes causing his aqua eyes to burn with anger but still that same determination.
"...You'll help me though? Make sure I do it right?" Mikuo asked suddenly softer as he leaned forward and Luki nodded a bit enthusiastically as a smile twitched at his lips slightly and he rested back against the wall grinning a bit.
"Of course, now stop covering it up, look at it and dive right in." Luki purred out strangely as his blue eyes smirked and shined at Mikuo while the aqua haired teens cheeks flushed the darkest shade of humanly possible and he sighed softly his eyes averting to the wall as he reached a hand out moving the clothes sighing and he then determinedly snapped his eyes down only to have his head swim lightly and he gasped then groaned. "What's wrong?"
"I can't do it!" Mikuo groaned as he leaned back but Luki's narrowing, disapproving look made a spark of shame go through Mikuo.
"Yes you can! You've done it plenty of times one before!" Luki snapped making Mikuo growl gently and he stood up suddenly glaring at Luki intensely.
"I can't do freaking math! It's too damn hard!" Mikuo yelled making Luki sighed out tiredly.
The clock ticked on the wall insistently, counting down the hours of time they had to study, Luki's tank top stuck to his skin as he sweated profusely from the hot air despite the air conditioner blasting nad the fan whirring. Mikuo had his hair and clothes sticking to him, his hands clenched into tight fists looking down at the table which was littered with pages and books and worksheets of math, math, math and yes, more freaking math! Mikuo truly detested math of any kind, what the hell was he ever going to use it for? It's not like someone would walk up to him and ask him to do the Pythagorean theorem for them to adjust their later against a wall! It wasn't ever going to happen!
"Mikuo, you need to undersand this, or else you'll probably never get into a good college with you lacking in math." Luki sighed out shaking his head and he stretched softly lifting his arms high above his head and Mikuo averted his gaze out the window, where the sun set with determination to touch the horizon and let night come, the shrill noise of cicadas was like background noise. It was then, as Luki looked at Mikuo, he saw his sobered and rather sad look on his face as his aqua eyes seemed to focus on something else entirely as his lips pursed into a straight line.
"I can't concentrate on math or college right now." Mikuo softly said as he looked straight out the window at the sun and he lowered his head causing his bangs to fall into his face casting shadows over his eyes. "She's coming home tonight. Do you honestly expect me to concentrate on this shit right now when I'm thinking of her?"
"Mikuo. We can't concentrate on her right now, she'll come nad find us when she can, you know that. I only have about a a week or so of school left, you have final exams next week, you can't afford to do this Mikuo." Luki murmured gently as his pink brows pulled together, his own blue eyes flickering gently with a memory that scratched to the surface. The faint image of long blue hair and a bright smile flickered before his eyes making him clench his jaw tightly.
"I can't help it. Do you think she'll be the same? Will she look different? Or the same?" Mikuo mused softly to himself as he looked out the window barely paying attention and his feet carried him forward to his bedroom window.
"She'll most likely look the same." Luki murmured gently again as he looked up at Mikuo's back, which glistened softly with sweat that wasn't covered up by his own tank top that he wore and he pursed his lips lightly. He always had a feeling about her and Mikuo...
"You think she'll be close to us still?" Mikuo murmured softly once again as his gaze focused on nothing, his fingers twitching softly against his thigh softly like he was impatient or wanted to grab something. Mikuo was an only child, Luki an only child also, so it made sense that they bonded mutually over the years becoming more like brothers than like best friends they had been.
They were the brothers the other never had, something they were okay with, but when it came to her they seemed more desperate to be different yet better than the other strange as it was. Then Mikuo's phone chimed gently making his eyes widened briefly once and he scrambled to pull his phone out of his pocket and when he did he flipped it open quickly looking at the screen before opening the text that had been sent and he felt a smile twitch at his lips. He felt pleased, more so than he thought he'd be, that she had texted him first and not Luki, he quickly texted her back before walking quickly across the room grabbing his shoes and throwing Luki's at the pink haired teen who caught them easily.
"She here?" Luki asked casually but he sounded irritated, yet you could tell he was trying to cover it up well and the aqua haired teen heard the irritation and threw a smirk at Luki.
"Yep, she's here. No need to be all irritated." Mikuo cheerfully said then made a pouty face at Luki before dissolving into laughter as Luki grinned but he flipped him the bird and stood up pulling his shoes on.
"Hurry up and get downstairs, pretty boy. You take forever to get shoes on just like a girl takes to get ready, it's like you slid each individual toe into your shoe then slowly slide it on inch by inch." Luki sighed out shaking his head and he rested his hand on his hip looking at Mikuo now seriously, the facade that Luki sometimes wore melted revealing the six year old he'd been making Mikuo's heart skip at the look. "Please hurry though. I want to see her before she get's home." Then he disappeared leaving Mikuo alone and the aqua haired teen turned looking at his desk.
There was a picture of him, Luki and Kaiko. Luki and Mikuo of course had dirt and bruises on them from both rough housing and running through the dirt as boys did, but Kaiko stood between them equally as dirty as she bore a wide, sweet yet exhilarated grin that made her blue eyes shine beautifully, the wind had been blowing for her hair was half raised to the left like hair normally did when the wind blew and even his and Luki's hair had ruffled with the breeze and they both shared a wide, beautiful yet crooked grin of their own as all three of them had lifted their hands to flash peace signs at the camera which they managed to get in at just the last moment so their fingers looked only slightly blurred.
"Dude, are you coming or freaking not?" Luki shouted angrily from the bottom of the stairs and Mikuo was snapped from his little daze, not realizing he'd actually picked up the frame and he put it back down on his desk and he turned slamming the shoes onto his feet fast before running out of his room, down the hall and ran so fast he nearly stomped down the stairs to see a ticked off Luki standing there and Mikuo just rolled his eyes.
"Shut up, you priss." He snaps out knowing full well how much of a priss the other boy was walking past him to the back door, since it was easy to just go through there and out to the sidewalk and up the streets that lead to the train station where Kaiko was coming from. Then his mother got his attention, she was sitting at the table with his father and she stood up quickly when Mikuo sped walked to the door and she stood up walking to him quickly.
"Mikuo! Hang a second, sweetie. There's something we need to talk about." She said hesitantly wringing her hands together slightly but just as she was about to open her mouth against Mikuo dashed for the door not wanting to wait to see what his mother said and he yanked his back door open and just as he stepped out into the backyard and his eyes widened gently as he looked in front of him, didn't even react when Luki slammed into him.
Standing by the gate pushing and tapping it open with her fingers over and over again making it creak softly, her sneakers gave her a little boost in height, her black tights hugged her legs like a glove which led up to a short black dress that had a bow tied against the small of her back, her pale hand paused and her now short as all hell blue hair seemed to glow in the setting sun and she turned around quickly making her dress dance against her thighs softly and her large blue eyes widened even further making look like large, glistening blue moons. smile curved over her light pink, full lips making her eyes sparkle gently at the
"Kaiko." Mikuo whispered as his own eyes widened into large, twin aqua moons that shimmered gently with the reflection of Kaiko. A smile curved over her light pink, full lips making her eyes sparkle gently at the two boys and Mikuo felt the first twitching of a smile himself as he looked straight at Kaiko, feeling happier than he could remember being. At least, for the moment he felt incredibly happy but it was when he noticed Kaiko's eyes shift to Luki, was when he felt a sinking tightness in his stomach.