Title: ...it's in debate. Got ideas?

Author: Jaded

Chapter: 5/?

Pairing: Sho/Kei

Rating: PG-15

Warnings: un-beta-ed, language, unusual situations and misuse of objects in some chapters.

Disclaimer: Gackt owns Moon Child right? (I guess that means he own Kei too huh? *wiggles eyebrows*)

Jaded's fore- words: This is the next chapter. I don't expect much from it. I know it's quite a bit shorter than usual. That's because I'm having trouble going somewhere with it so I'm going to post what I have and start a new chapter soon. All that's left to say now is uhm, enjoy I guess.

The next day the three males all woke to the same thing. A banging noise coming from the front room. Sho and David opened their bedroom doors at the same time just to see Kei walk by the end of the small hallway. They quickly followed him to the front door where the noise was coming from. The person on the other side seemed to take a split second break.

Kei yanked the door open just as Toshi, the person on the other side, was about to put everything he had into knocking on the door thus causing him to land flat on his face in front of the three half awake males. Sho just stared at the prone body on the floor in front of him, not awake enough to comprehend too much yet. Kei closed the door, kicking the pizza boy's feet out of the way as David chuckled sleepily.

From where Toshi was lying sprawled on the ground a mumbling noise rose into the air where not even the vampire was able to decipher its meaning. Instead the blonde stepped over the body and walked over to a chair in the living room and plopped down. David and Sho followed but instead took the couch.

Grumbling angrily Toshi heaved himself up and stomped to where everyone was sitting.

"Where the hell have you guys been? I've been trying to get a hold of you for more than a day!" The man yelled at the obviously unaffected others around him.

Sho yawned and David shifted so that he was lying down, curled up on the couch with his head in Sho's still pantsless lap. It was that movement that drew Toshi's attention to the strangeness of the whole situation.

"Why are you pantsless?" The pizza boy directed at Sho. "What smells like stale coffee and sugar? And what is that thing in Pinky's arms?!?"

It was this last question that had Sho and Kei startled into more awareness. They both simultaneously directed their gazes at the pinkette teen on the couch holding Bob, the Mitzsterfiffle. It was Kei who spoke first.

"That's his, uhm-

"Cat." Sho supplied when Kei seemed to have trouble with an adequate lie.

"Cat?" Toshi looked doubtful.

"Yes, his name is Bob Lobosoffolus Mitzsterfiffle. But just call him Bob for short." David provided while nuzzling his face into Bob's tie-dye fluff. The thing began purring and Toshi decided it would just be best for his health if he dismissed the . . . thing. If they said it was a cat, then it could be a cat.

"So why where you trying to contact us again?" Sho prompted Toshi after yawning. Toshi took the last remaining seat next to Kei before speaking again.

"You know that big job I had lined up? Well now I know when it's gonna happen. Be ready in four days."

When he really received nothing from Kei or Sho except a half nod, Toshi decided it was time to get out of there.

"I have to get back to work so I'll see you later." The pizza boy commented as he stood and headed for the door. "I don't care where you've been but next time you decided to leave at least tell me."

"Toshi," Sho called before the man could leave, getting his attention. "Take care."

The man with braids ran a finger down the side of his nose and gave what looked to be a half wave, two fingers slightly curled and the other two sticking up with his thumb. Toshi smiled at the gesture and returned it. Then he was gone with a yawn and David sniffled tiredly, rubbing his nose against Bob.

"Go put Bob back in your room David," Kei said quietly as everyone in the room began to feel the effects of the Mitzsterfiffle again.

Without a word the teen rolled off the couch into a standing position and stumbled back into his room, the door closing with a slight bang. Kei lit a cigarette from a random pack lying around after he left and chuckled a bit. Sho opened one of his eyes, which had closed when Toshi had left, and gave the blonde a look.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Us. We all need to shower. I smell like stale coffee, you probably do too from when you hugged me, and David's hair's a complete mess. And how did you come up with 'Cat?' What kind of cat has four inch long fur, that's pink, purple and blue tie-dyed, and has wings?"

Sho chuckled at that also.

"What I don't get is how Toshi even believed me with a description like that."

Kei smiled before placing the cigarette back to his lips.

The comfortable silence between the two was broken when David again stumbled out only to disappear with Bob into the bathroom across the hall. Seconds later though he was tripping out of the room, without Bob, and walking into the kitchen. Kei heard the freezer door open and the sound of ice clinking together in a container. Then David staggered out of the kitchen and Kei watched as he carried a bowl of ice into the bathroom, staring at it intently, before closing the door behind him.

"What the hell is he doing?" Sho asked. Kei looked over to see that the man hadn't even opened his eyes and was now fully resting against the back of the couch, arms spread out across the top and everything.

"No clue." Kei mumbled, standing up and tearing his eyes away from the sight his housemate and friend presented. His subconscious carefully filed the image away for reference later.

When he had gotten up Kei had fully intended to go to the kitchen and . . . well he really didn't know what but it felt like he should go in there. Instead though, his feet had taken him to stand in front of the bathroom door. There wasn't much noise coming from inside the room: only David's breathing and some shuffling.

Then David grunted a little in pain and there was a lack of sound, mainly air rushing out of one's lungs. Kei frowned as he reached for the doorknob and eased the door open.

The sight that greeted him was quite a strange one. Bob was dozing contentedly on the toilet seat and David was standing in front of the mirror with various odd supplies for something on the counter around the sink. They consisted of a bottle of rubbing alcohol, cotton balls, a small container, a lighter, and the bowl of ice. The teen himself had his head slightly turned so that Kei couldn't see what he was doing even with the aid of the mirror.

The pinkette let his held breath hiss out through clenched teeth as he fumbled with something that was on the side of his head. The side Kei couldn't see. And it was then that the blonde vampire realized he smelled a tinge of blood in the air and that David's stick-up-in-every-angle-imaginable hair was neatly pinned down around his ears with hair clips.

Kei watched as David took a deep breath, blinked, and then yanked his hand forward. Clutched between his thumb and two fingers was a large safety pin. The smell of blood grew slightly. Then as quick as the pinkette could he was dropping the pointy object carelessly onto the counter and wetting a cotton ball with the rubbing alcohol. He lifted it and rubbed the liquid over what Kei could only assume to be his ear.

"What are you doing?" Kei asked and stepped into the room, finally making his presence known. Bob cracked one eye open to glance at him before going back to sleep. Kei closed the door behind him.

Without answering, David reached into the container and pulled out an ear stud, which he swiftly raised to his ear and inserted.

"Piercing my ear." He replied with when he was done, wiping up his ear again with the cotton ball.

The pinkette turned then and it was that moment Kei saw the glittering dark-blue stud in the top of his ear, right through the cartilage.

"I never could understand how people could do those things." Kei commented with a shake of his head.

"Easy," David stated with a smartass grin. "You just stab something sharp and pointy through the skin you want pierced."

Kei gave him a look that didn't deter David even the slightest. A second passed and the blonde vampire became curious. He reached out toward the newly pierced ear but didn't even come close to touching it before the pinkette teen was ducking away and slapping his hand.

"Don't touch it! 'tstill tender." He cried as he cupped both of his hands around his mentioned ear. Kei just raised an eyebrow at the glare David was trying to inflict pain upon him with. But when Kei made no other move to mess with his piercing he dropped his hands and carefully studied the vampire's face.

"You'd look really hot with you ear pierced, you know."

Kei choked on nothing.

"You're not stabbing me in the ear David."

"But what if I want to?" The teen pouted at obvious rejection to his idea.

"Still no."

"Sho would like it." David smirked.

"What?" Kei asked, wondering if he heard right. Why would he care if Sho would like his ear pierced?

"Nothing. But seriously, it's fun. And I can make it so it doesn't hurt too bad."

"The answer's will always be no, no matter what you say, David."

Pinky pouted for a full two seconds before snatching the safety pin from the counter and lunging at Kei. Thus began David's quest to pierce Kei's ear.

Outside Sho had just been walking back to his bedroom to go back to sleep when he heard the scuffle taking place inside. Immediately he felt a suspicious curiosity bubble up from within. The man with braids stopped in his tracks and cast a sideways glance at the door. Feeling jealousy creep into his chest and make the muscles in his back and chest tighten Sho stomped into his room and slammed the door shut, the sound ignored by the two battling males in the bathroom.

Besides being jealous Sho was angry because he couldn't figure out whom he was more jealous of. Kei for being able to get so close to David without doing barely anything. Or David for getting Kei to open up more than he'd been able to.

That night (coughearlymorningcough) Kei lay on the day bed fingering the already healed piercing in his ear. After making a complete mess of the bathroom the blonde vampire had finally let the teen pierce his ear. Now a diamond-white stud glittered in the left lobe. David was going to give him more earrings when Kei got used to having one in his ear.

But lets get onto the subject of why the vampire was laying awake and staring at the ceiling. He was thinking about the dream he had had about . . . well he didn't know how long ago it really was considering the Urn completely fucked up his and Sho's sense of time. Really though, he couldn't stop thinking about it. As far as he could remember neither of them had had children before Luka died. Which didn't make sense because then why would the kid call him 'Daddy' and be with Luka.

It was annoying him because the more he thought about it the more Kei felt as though a part of his memory-his life-was missing. And the worst part was that he couldn't stop thinking about it. Asleep it was replacing the dreams of Luka's death. Awake it was hidden in the back of his mind to be pondered upon when alone. So basically whenever David wasn't doing something weird or Sho was out visiting his brother or buying cigarettes.

Frustrated Kei rolled over onto his side and glanced at the curtains hanging on the other side of the bars in the partition. They were already glowing slightly from the sun approaching the horizon. But there was still at least and hour and a half of blue-blackness that could give him cover.

With unsure incentive Kei sat up and slipped his feet into the worn boots he'd had for forever and stood up. Swiftly he grabbed his jacket from were it was hanging next to the door and left for a quick walk.

"We need to go to the store." David said as he walked out of the kitchen and into the living room where Kei and Sho were watching, but not really, TV.

"Why?" Sho asked and took a drink of the beer in his hand.

"Because I can't live off of beer, cigarettes, and ramen." David explained like the smart ass he was. "Well I probably could it just would suck a lot."

Sho glared at David who stuck out his tongue.

"Oh it's on ya little monkey!" Sho exclaimed and stood up, going for David who ran away with a fake scream.

"Yeah, and I'm so scared."

Kei just shook his head at them and leaned over the arm of his chair to carefully pull the curtain open a little. The sun had just set. He glanced at the clock on the wall next to the hallway to see the exact time. With a final drag from his cigarette he ground the thing out in an ashtray nearby and stood up.

"Go get ready children. The grocery store will be closing soon."

On the floor Sho was temporarily distracted from sitting like a dead weight on David's back to pin him down and was easily thrown off by a very wiggly pinkette teen. Once David was free he ran like a maniac into his room to change out of his pajamas, that he'd been wearing all day, and find a pair of shoes.

Twenty minutes later by car the three of them were in the eye of Mallepa. It was where everything was calm and the only area of town that gangs chose not to fight in. It was almost like a code actually and if you caused problems in this part of town the gangs would each come after you, one by one. So it was only fitting for this to be where the largest grocery store was and most of Mallepa's large commerce.

"So what are we getting?" Sho asked as he grabbed a cart to put the groceries in.

"Not much." David said in response and began his search for delicious food.

Jaded's after words: Yeah I know it sucks. Tell me so in a review though.