Pylorus

Chapter 3:

When Kagami woke up, he wasn't where he thought that he would be. Instead of being laid down on the cold hard floor of a court, he was on a soft, comfortable bed with warmth surrounding him. Felix was sitting in the seat next to the bed and he was looking at Kagami with amusement.

Kagami looked at him and remembered the conversation that had led to him having fainted. Looking up, he apprehensively gazed into Felix's eyes in order to receive the slightest indication that the man may be lying. He didn't really have to.

Felix had immediately burst into laughter, unable to hold it in when Kagami had looked at him as if he was a type of endangered species.

"I can't-I can't believe you thought that I was actually being serious!" Kagami's face fell at the comment. SO Felix had been lying to him after all. Catching the teen's expression, Felix became guilty.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to lie to you. Your reaction was just too hilarious." Kagami began to sulk further.

"Again, sorry. I was joking. I didn't think that you would actually faint." At this, Kagami instantly began to blush the same colour as his hair. The amusement that had previously left Felix's eyes slowly came back.

"Truthfully, I'm only a bit older than you. I'm eighteen, as you most likely thought." Kagami rapidly nodded his head, indication that yes, it was in fact the age group that he had thought that Felix's age group would have belonged to.

Felix looked at Kagami thoughtfully. "You still haven't given me your name." It wasn't until the older boy actually mentioned it that Kagami realised that no, he hadn't in fact given Felix his name.

"I'm Taiga. Kagami Taiga." He finally told the man, not finding any reason not to after all; Felix had given him his own name.

"Japanese, huh?" Felix pondered out loud.

"Yeah, my mum wanted to honour my father, whoever he was." This caused Felix to look at him in slight pity.

"You don't know your father?" Kagami looked at him with no expression. His voice was cold and his eyes were filled with resentment.

"I had too many 'father' candidates." The laugh that followed was colder than Felix thought that Kagami could have ever been. He kept his mouth shut and waited for Kagami to calm down. He didn't really have to wait that long.

"So, where am I?" Kagami asked, grinning at him. Felix looked around him.

"At my house." He replied. Kagami looked at him in shock. "You brought me to your house? Are you crazy?!" Felix looked at him curiously.

"Why are you angry? Shouldn't you be happy? It's not as if you have anywhere else to go, right?"

Kagami blushed in mortification. "W-well, yeah, but that doesn't mean you just take a stranger to your house!"

"Don't worry, I feel as if I can trust you. Or am I wrong?" Kagami shook his head.

"Wow, you're an idiot." Felix merely blinked twice and grinned in reply.

Xx

It had been a week since Felix had told him that he should live with him and Kagami had only ever gone out to the courts, and Felix had noticed.

"Why don't you head to head to the park Tiger?" He had formed a habit of calling the red-head 'Tiger' especially when he found out how much Kagami really did behave like an animal.

Kagami looked up from his meal at him.

"Really? I've been there once before but I've never stayed before." Felix looked at him in amazement. What type of kid had never gone to the park before?

"Go! Now!" Kagami didn't waste time. He was out of the door before Felix had even finished his sentence. Felix looked at the plate Kagami had been eating out of before he burst out laughing.

"He even took it with him."

Xx

It was true that Kagami had never really stayed in the park for long enough to really enjoy himself so he was interested to feel something new.

Sitting on one of the benches, he contemplated over his surroundings. It wasn't really a big park so it didn't have many people in it. In fact, Kagami could only count eight people in the park and most of them were all on monkey bars, grinning and looking as if they were having the most of fun. Kagami wanted to join them. But he couldn't. He was an outsider.

"You know, if you want to join them, you should." Kagami jumped of the bench in surprise and landed on his butt as a result. It hurt.

"OW! Ow, ow, ow…" He started chanting, already forgetting the reason that he was in pain anyways. His mantra was interrupted by a burst of laughter and Kagami looked up, glaring at the cause of his misery.

"Who are you?!" He shouted at the stranger.

"Me? I'm Akumu."

Xx

Pheww, ok. That was hard. Sorry for the shortness, but oh well, it'll have to do.

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